CORRESPONDENCE
DAYTON
Basil Green spent Monday and Tuesday in Chicago.
The Q. bridge carpenters have been repairing the bridge here.
Jesse Green has been visiting old acquaintances here for the past few days.
Archie Fleming, now of DeKalb, is visiting his brother, Wm. Fleming, for a few days.
Mike Helffrich of Ottawa, dispenser of fresh meats, is now doing our town every Friday.
Ed McClary has just purchased some of the finest potatoes, shipped direct from New York.
Nothing billed on the boards here this week except the raffle of a watch on Saturday night.
Monday was a very agreeable day for the teamsters hauling props, ties and cord wood, it being pay day.
Deputy Sheriff Ole Benson was here on Saturday summoning witnesses in the Channel v. Merrifield suit.
Arthur Ladd who has been acting as operator for the Q. R. R. at Leonore is visiting his family for a few days.
Jennie Barends who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Winn Green, at Joliet for the past three weeks, returned home on Sunday.
Dr. Shaw of Ottawa was called by ‘phone on Sunday morning to attend Ed Emmons, who has been on the sick list for a few days past.
One of Uncle Sam’s Government Inspectors called on our postmaster and found everything in first class shape, after having edited all the accounts.
The weather here on Sunday was like a raffle, very uncertain. Rain in the morning, sunshine at noon, and a good old-fashioned snow storm in the afternoon.
Clarence Barnard, general relief agent for the Q road, came from Oswego on Monday, to fill the place made vacant by Mr. McBrearty being called to Ottawa on court business. Mr. McB. is now back attending to his duties again.
The good people of our little hamlet know a good paper when they read it. Another new subscriber handed in her name for the daily Free Trader and more to follow. Keep up the good work and you will be sure to get all the news in La Salle Co.
The Merrifield v. Channel controversy, which was called for trial in the circuit court on Monday afternoon, Nov. 25, was of short duration, the jury being out only twenty minutes. Verdict: No cause for action.
John Gibson, son-in-law of Basil Green, now a resident of Chicago, was stricken down on Monday with a paralytic stroke, and immediately taken to the hospital, where the doctors have no hope of his recovery.
Miss Maud and Ralph Green and G. G. Galloway, were initiated into the Mary E. Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, at the Masonic Temple, Ottawa, on Tuesday night, Nov. 26th. Mrs. G. G. Galloway, who has been a member for sometime, witnessed the ceremony.
Charles Burch, while handing down 12-inch tile from the top of one of the kilns at the tile mill, accidentally let one drop, striking George Wolf squarely on the foot, causing a painful though not serious injury. George was compelled to lay off for a couple of days and is limping around, but expects to be all right in a few days.
Will wonders never cease, and right in the midst of our little burg! A new five column “medical monthly paper,” known as “The Dayton Banner,” and published expressly for Ed McClary. It contains sure-cures for every ill known to the medical profession and has a two-column ad of Ed’s on the last page. That’s right, Ed, nothing like advertising your stock in trade.1
- The Ottawa Free Trader, November 29, 1901, p. 12, col. 1
Dayton and the Greens 