CORRESPONDENCE
DAYTON
The 14th was pay day on the Q.
Mrs. Martha Bagley is having one of her houses reshingled.
Farmers are paying three cents per bushel and board for husking.
There is hardly enough water in the river to make a good sized creek.
The crowns on the kilns at the brick mill have been given a coat of paint.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Earlville.
Miss Susie Galloway of Utica spent Saturday with Mrs. Geo. G. Galloway.
The entertainment at Woodmen hall last Friday evening was very poorly attended.
Props and cordwood are being loaded on the cars here, for different points on the Q.
Ralph Green attended the banquet of Occidental Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Monday night.
Miss Jennie Barnes spent a few days last week with her sister, Mrs. Winn Green, of Joliet.
Geo. G. Galloway has had the phone at his residence connected with the Central at Ottawa.
A number of our wells here are dry, and water has to be carried quite a distance for household use.
Mrs. Wm. Lohr presented her daughter Anna with a beautiful bible, it being a birthday present.
Lyle Green received by express on Tuesday night, from Buffalo, a fine young bull, valued at $250.
Mrs. Edw. McClary, who has been visiting friends at Joliet and Chicago, returned home on Friday night.
James Timmons has his “goo goo” eyes on the boys just at present. He is about to raffle off a silver watch valued at $20.
G. H. Green, of Seneca, contractor for the props and cord wood now being shipped from here, made a business call here Monday.
With the beautiful weather of the past two weeks, corn picking goes merrily on, and most of the boys will finish up this week.
Second bets have been made here among the sporting fraternity on the Jeffries-Rhulin fight, to take place on Friday night.
Stephen Koenig, who has been sick with malaria and typhoid fever for the past two weeks, is rapidly gaining and expects to be out in a few days.
George Timmons, a former resident of this village, and now operator for the C. B. & Q. at Maywood, is now laid up with the rheumatism at the home of his parents in Marseilles.
Some of the old plank on the Feeder bridge have been taken up and replaced with new ones. The bridge should all be newly planked, as it is in very poor condition at present.
Mrs. Emma O’Neill and three children, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Timmons, started for San Francisco, Cal., on Thursday, which place they will make their future home.
G. G. Galloway, foreman of the Northern Illinois Telephone Co., now operating at La Salle, spent Sunday at home, and returned to La Salle on Sunday night. The line is practically finished from Ottawa to La Salle.
Ed. McClary, our genial store keeper, is doing a nice business. He has his store stocked, equal to that of towns twice this size. Ed is a hustler, and that’s what counts in the grocery business.
Several saloon keepers of Ottawa have visited here to secure turtles for their five cent lunch counters. Alas, the poor turtle has gone down deep in the mud, and pulled the mud in after him, and will not be seen until the robins nest again.
The young Indians were out in full force of Sunday morning, the event being the moving of the boiler from the old paper mill to the saw mill, at the organ and piano factory at Ottawa. It proved to be quite a task, but Bert Holmes and his little Eugene proved equal to the emergency. Mr. Lou Merrifield was in charge.
A party of about a dozen men will hunt the ‘coon to a finish. The time of starting is not made public at this writing. The start will be made from the Fox river bridge north. Any person or persons wishing some of the aforesaid “‘coon meat” will kindly leave their order at the store.1
- The Ottawa Free Trader, November 15, 1901, p. 12, col. 1
Dayton and the Greens 