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 CITY OF LA SALLE, 
 
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 HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 
 
 On the 2d of March, 1827, a land grant was 
 made to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of 
 aiding in the building of the Illinois & Michigan 
 canal, whose western terminus was fixed at this 
 point in 1836. The grant comprised each alter- 
 nate section for five miles on both sides of the 
 line of the canal ; the selection to be made by 
 the commissioners of the land office. They chose 
 the odd sections, the even sections being retain- 
 ed by the Government. In 1829 the state crea- 
 ted a board of Canal Commissioners and the line 
 was surveyed in the fall of the following year, 
 1830. 
 
 The natural wealth of this part of Illinois how 
 began to attract the attention of pioneers, and it 
 is about this period that the first settlements on 
 or near the present site of the city are recorded. 
 Simon Crozier, an Indian trader, is supposed to 
 have had the honor of heralding the coming 
 man. lie built his house on the south side of 
 the river near Shippingsport. His descendants 
 are now residing near Utica. 
 
 In 1830 Samuel Lapsley came here from St. 
 Louis and built a log house which stood until a 
 
 few years ago between Fourth and Fifth streets, 
 noi'th of the Christian Brothers' Academy. He 
 cultivated a tract of land which extended as far 
 north as Fifth street and as far east as Joliet 
 street, bordered by the bluff south and by a ra- 
 vine on .the west. On this he raised corn and 
 wheat. When the State took possession of the 
 canal land he lost his improvements. His death 
 occurred in 1839. 
 
 In the spring of 1830 commissioners sent by 
 some young men in the east to select the site for 
 a colony which they wished to establish in Illi- 
 nois, fixed upon this point. Their choice was 
 determined by the richness of the land, the re- 
 ported existence of immense coal beds, and the 
 superior land and water communications prom- 
 ised by the early completion of the canal and 
 railroads. About this time Burton Ayres arriv- 
 ed from Ohio and built a cabin one-half mile 
 northwest of the spot now occupied by Matthies- 
 sen & Hegeler's rolling-mill, where he also 
 erected a blacksmith shop and made plows for 
 the Massachusetts colonists, who followed him 
 in the spring of 1831, Aaron Gunn, sr., being
 
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 among the number. The season proving a rainy 
 one, the young colonists became discouraged 
 and removed to Princeton and La Moille. The 
 war with the Indian chief Black Hawk break- 
 ing out in 1832, the white settlers were driven 
 from La Moille, Aaron Gunn going to Hennepin. 
 The latter returned to La Salle in 1835, Govern- 
 ment land being offered for sale in that year, 
 and purchased 400 acres north of the canal sec- 
 tion. 
 
 In 1835 D. Lathrop was sent by the Rockwell 
 Land Co. of Norwich, Conn., of which he was a 
 member, to purchase land for the purpose of 
 speculation. He selected the half section now 
 known as Rockwell, supposing that the city 
 which should arise at the crossing of the river 
 by the projected Illinois Central railroad and at 
 the terminus of the canal would probably be lo- 
 cated here, and made his choice accordingly. In 
 the winter of 1837-38 he returned to Connecti- 
 cut and started out with a colony of about one 
 hundred and thirty persons, many of whom 
 dropped off at points along the river. Among 
 those who reached this point were Mrs. George 
 Neu of Homer, D. Carr of Bachelor's Ridge ano 
 Miss Serls, now Mrs. Elisha Merritt. A num- 
 ber of this party died with the cholera, which 
 broke out shorly after their settlement. 
 
 iS the spring of 1837 the city was laid out on 
 section 15, canal land, leaving those who hac 
 previously purchased from the government lam 
 on which they anticipated the city would stand 
 entirely beyond its limits. The first sale of city 
 lots was made in 1838. The old Central rail- 
 road, which the State undertook to build, was 
 graded through La Salle in 1839-40, the subse- 
 quent bankruptcy of the State preventing its fi- 
 nal completion. The construction of the canal 
 was begun in 1836 but work was discontinued 
 in 1841. In 1845 the work was again resumed 
 and completed in 1848, the first boat which 
 passed through the locks at this place being the 
 Gen. Thornton built by Isaac Hardy. At this 
 time the total population of La Salle was only 
 200. The visitation of the Asiatic Cholera in 
 1849 and '52 proved a most terrible scourge, re- 
 tarding the growth not only of La Salle but of 
 
 all western towns, many of the settlers dying 
 while others fled the country. 
 
 It was a number of years before business re- 
 overed from the shock it received on the occa- 
 sion of the State going into bankruptcy in 1841. 
 But the development of the resources of Illinois 
 was not to be stopped by a single financial crisis. 
 Emigration still continued though for a while it 
 was very limited ; business in time however re- 
 eived a new impulse and the construction of 
 railroads was again undertaken. The Chicago 
 & Rock Island, now the Chicago, Rock Island & 
 Pacific railroad was built through here in 1853, 
 and the next year the Illinois Ceutral railroad 
 bi-idge across the river was finished, the two por- 
 tions of the road previously completed being 
 connected. 
 
 The first church within the limits of .La Salle 
 was a log structure built by Fathers Rowe and 
 Parodi, in the year 1838, on the present site of 
 the Brothers' Academy. In 1848 a building to 
 be used as a school house and a Baptist church 
 was constructed on the corner of Fifth and Mar- 
 quette streets. This was the first school house. 
 It was subsequently removed and is now used as 
 a dwelling. The present Catholic church was 
 begun in 1846 and finished in 1852. It has 
 since been enlarged anct improved, and now 
 forms one of the finest church edifices west of 
 Chicago. The old school building standing in 
 the northern part of the town was built about 
 the year 1855 by a stock company for the pur- 
 pose of a high school. Little success attended 
 the eflForts of those engaged in the enterprise and 
 the project was shortly afterwards abandoned. 
 Man proposes, but God disposes. The trouble 
 with man is that he can never make due allow- 
 ance for what ingenious contrivance his fellow- 
 man will be at next. It was so with the found- 
 er* of La Salle. It was laid out in the days 
 when railways were but little known in the 
 West and the opening up of water routes was 
 considered the only available means by which 
 to encourage and secure the settlement and de- 
 velopment of this region. The Illinois and 
 Michigan Canal was to be the making of the city 
 and when it was dug Chicago was the only city
 
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 in the State which it was believed could rival the 
 maratime metropolis that was destined to nour- 
 ish at the junction of this water course and the 
 Illinois River. The termination of the canal, it 
 may be remarked, was not fixed at this particu- 
 lar point because it was not possible for boats to 
 ascend further up the river, but because, while 
 the bill for its establishment was pending in the 
 State Legislature, there chanced to be, in order 
 to secure its passage, a necessity for another 
 vote in its favor, and this vote was only to be 
 obtained on condition that the proposed route of 
 the canal be changed so as to connect with the 
 river here instead of at the actual head of navi- 
 gation, old Utica, about five miles farther east. 
 However, founded and nourished through the in- 
 strumentality of the river and canal, La Salle 
 grew and prospered, but did not exactly develop 
 into a city second only to Chicago, for the reason 
 that before the anticipated accumulation of 
 wealth, business and population were attained, 
 a wide-reaching system of railways had spread 
 out over the country, and water transportation 
 lost its prestige as the grand requisite for com- 
 mercial wealth and extensive business transac- 
 tions. La Salle was not to become a commercial 
 city. It was to be a producer and not a trader, 
 and the railways so effectually superseding wat- 
 er-ways as avenues of intercommunication, while 
 they ruined prior hopes and expectations, opened 
 the way for the development of resources at first 
 little known and the real value of which had 
 not been before anticipated. The coal found 
 here, with the facilities by rail and water for 
 transportation in all directions, have been the 
 agencies which made possible the building up of 
 the extensive factories now in existence at this 
 point, and continually enlarging and increasing 
 in numbers. 
 
 The location of La Salle is-one of the most pic- 
 turesque on the Illinois River, and is in sight of 
 the historic "Starved Rock," on whose summit 
 was closed, about 1770, the final act in the great 
 tragedy commenced a hundred years before, 
 and only a few miles distant to the westward, 
 which resulted in the total destruction of the 
 
 once powerful Illinois Indians by their inveter- 
 ate enemies, the Iroquois. One of the most 
 beautiful views perhaps in the entire State can 
 be obtained from a summit near the eastei'n limit 
 of the city, the eye readily taking in an im- 
 mense stretch of wooded bluff, cultivated plain 
 and winding river, variegated with villages, 
 railway lines and bridges. One of the last men- 
 tioned, the Illinois Central, lacks only a little 
 of being a mile in length, an iron truss support- 
 ed on eighteen heavy piers, with a roadway al- 
 most a hundred feet above t]*e surface of the 
 river. 
 
 The population is about 10,000. More than a 
 thousand coal miners find regular employment, 
 and half as many men are engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of zinc, while the glass works and oth- 
 er manufacturing establishments give employ- 
 ment to many more. 
 
 The mineral products of the vicinity, though 
 not embracing precious metals to any alarming 
 extent, are numerous, consisting in coal in inex- 
 haustible quantities, the field extending over 
 about fifty square miles and being underlaid with 
 three veins varying in thickness from three feet 
 six inches to four feet eight inches ; fire clay, 
 much of which is manufactured into brick, tile, 
 sewer pipe, etc., here, and large amounts annu- 
 ally shipped to other points for use in furnaces 
 and for other purposes ; cement rock, from 
 which hydraulic cement is made ; glass sand, 
 said to be far superior to that found in the Pitts- 
 burg region ; very large yellow ochre deposits, 
 which have not thus far been utilized, with im- 
 mense ledges of marble, which has not yet 
 worked its way into popular favor. Large beds 
 of gravel also exist here and considerable quan- 
 tities have been used for macadamizing roads in 
 the surrounding country and the streets of the 
 city. 
 
 The coal, which has been the real foundation 
 of the wealth of the locality, was discovered by 
 the early explorers of the country. The first 
 mining was done by "drifting," as it is called, 
 or taking out the coal from the out-crops on the 
 hill-sides. The first boring for coal to deter-
 
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 mrhe its depth below the surface, quality, thick- 
 ness of vein, etc., was made by Dixwell Lathrop, 
 recently deceased, near the canal basin in the 
 winter of 1853-4. The following year what is 
 known as the Kentucky shaft was sunk and the 
 next year the La Salle shaft, both now the prop- 
 erty of the La Salle Coal Mining Company, 
 which also owns the Rockwell or Carbon shaft, 
 sunk about 1865. In the immediate vicinity 
 there are eleven shafts open, nine of which are 
 operated, the coal firms numbering seven. The 
 total capacity of these shafts combined aggregate 
 somewhat over 1,000,000 tpns annually. The 
 La Salle shaft, which is a leading and represen- 
 tative one, is 400 feet deep, extending to the 
 third vein. The first vein is in no case operated ; 
 the second is largely worked in this and many 
 of the other shafts, but the third furnishes by 
 far the best coal. Although coal has been mined 
 here continually for twenty-five years the sup- 
 ply is not perceptibly diminished, the fact being 
 that the mine is not yet adequately developed 
 for its most successful operation. The entries 
 radiate principally eastward from the bottom of 
 the shaft, many being over a mile in length. 
 From the distant parts the coal is hauled in cars 
 holding 3,000 pounds, by mules to the cage or 
 carriage on which they are elevated to the sur- 
 face by steam power. The shaft is about 10x20 
 feet square, lined with timbers with a partition 
 in the middle, each side equipped with a cage, 
 one of which is lowered while the other is being 
 raised, both being operated simultaneously by 
 means of wire cables wound on a drum. 
 
 Glass was first manufactured here about twenty 
 years ago, but the business was not very success- 
 ful financially until recently, or since the De 
 Steiger Glass Company was organized in 1878. 
 This company put up new factories, purchased 
 those formerly built, and entered largely into 
 the manufacture of both bottles and window 
 glass, with a determination to succeed if success 
 could be attained by pushing business. They 
 have always found sale for all the glass they 
 could make, and often experienced difficulty in 
 filling their orders. In methods and apparatus 
 
 they are now in advance of anything heretofore 
 known in the United States. Noticing that large 
 importations of bottles were being made from 
 Europe into this country, notwithstanding the 
 import duty of 30 per cent ad valorem, they re- 
 solved to make, in all necessary respects such 
 changes in their factory as would enable them 
 to put on the market as good a bottle as could 
 be imported. 
 
 The principal difficulties to be overcome were 
 the obstacles placed in the way by the Bottle 
 Blowers' League, an organization which has per- 
 sistently stood in its own light for years, and 
 caused a great deal of trouble and immense loss 
 to the proprietors of glass factories by the strict 
 observance of arbitary rules adopted for the sup- 
 posed protection of the membership. During 
 the summer of '80 the old employes of the com- 
 pany were discharged, and a number of German 
 bottle blowers imported, despite the combined 
 efforts of the German Government and the League 
 to prevent it. These men work differently from 
 the Americans, particularly in turning the bot- 
 tle in the mold during the blowing process, a 
 straw or shaving being placed in it previous to 
 the insertion of the glass. This gives the bottle 
 a smooth or polished appearance, without seams, 
 and makes it compare with the ordinary Ameri- 
 can made bottle about as a plate-glass window 
 does with a skylight. In order to further facil- 
 itate and economize labor the company built, 
 during the summer and fall, a Sieman's contin- 
 uous tank, largely used by European glass man- 
 ufacturers, but, with the exception of one at 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., lately destroyed by fire, 
 never before constructed in this country. It is 
 a huge reservoir, eighteen feet wide, forty feet 
 long and four feet deep, made of blocks of fire- 
 clay. It is arched over with imported fire brick 
 and is round at one end. It is supported on 
 heavy masses of brick work. Adjacent to it are 
 furnaces for the production of gjis with which to 
 produce the requisite heat for its operation. 
 This passes from the generator down through 
 pipes below the tank and burns while passing 
 up through checkered brick work where it comes
 
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 in contact with the air, and subsequently 
 through flues at each side of the tank under the 
 arch, and over the molten glass. No heat is ap- 
 plied to the bottom. The tank holds 200 tons of 
 glass, is fed at one end and the glass is taken 
 from the other, or the circular end, for blowing. 
 The advantages claimed for this over the old 
 methods are that blowing will not have to be 
 discontinued from twelve to fourteen hours every 
 day to allow the pots to be recharged. Work 
 can go on continuously night and day. The 
 quality of the glass will be perfectly uniform as 
 also the color; no heat will be lost as in the case 
 of pots, the gas being admitted first from one side 
 of the tank and then from the other, alternating 
 about every fifteen or twenty minutes ; there is 
 no loss from the breaking of pots, while the ex- 
 pense of fuel is kept at a minimum. Probably 
 the principal reason why these tanks have not 
 heretofore been used in this country is that 
 the glass-blowers' organizations have forbidden 
 their members to do night work, with the view 
 of preventing over-production, and as the heat 
 must be maintained at all times for the preser- 
 vation of the tank the gain in other respects 
 would be more than counterbalanced by the en- 
 forced loss of time. Aiming to protect them- 
 selves, the glass-blowers have actually stood in 
 the way of progress in their own branch of art. 
 The members of the Bottle Blowers' League and 
 former employes have expressed great indigna- 
 tion at this action of the De Steiger Glass Com- 
 pany, but the step was taken in self-defense and 
 is a wide departure from the long established 
 practices of American glass makers, nevertheless 
 a departure which the public, as far as it is in- 
 terested, heartily indorses, and other glass man- 
 ufacturers will beyond any doubt soon follow in 
 the wake of the De Steiger Company. 
 
 The zinc industry, which is now by far the 
 largest in the United States, was begun in 1858 
 by Messrs. Mattheissen & Hegeler. For eight 
 years they confined themselves to the manufac- 
 ture of spelter only, but in 1866 erected their 
 rolling mill. They heretofore virtually con- 
 trolled the zinc trade of the country. Having no 
 
 competition worthy the name in the manufacture 
 of sheet zinc, they, of course, controlled the mar- 
 ket, and at the same time managed, by being large 
 purchasers as well as producers of spelter, to 
 govern the price of that article also. A wealthy 
 company, which has been for years operating 
 zinc furnaces in Peru, has in self-defense built a 
 rolling mill of its own of a capacity little infe- 
 rior, if not equal, to that of Mattheissen & Heg- 
 eler so that it shall no longer be at the mercy of 
 its competitors. 
 
 The ore, which is either the sulphate, silicate 
 or carbonate of zinc, is obtained principally 
 from Wisconsin and Missouri, and costs a little 
 less than $20 per ton besides freight. It is first 
 pulverized in a crusher and then thoroughly 
 washed, and, if the sulphate, roasted to drive off 
 the sulphur. After this it is mixed with slack 
 coal and put into retorts placed in an immense 
 furnace heated by the combustion of gas from a 
 Sieman's gas generator. The zinc comes out as 
 an impalpable powder und is melted and cast in- 
 to blocks, in which form it is known as spelter. 
 Tho product, of the factory is not far from 10,- 
 000 tons annually. The coal consumption 
 reaches 300 tons daily. 
 
 In order to utilize the sulphur from the ore 
 which has heretofore been wasted Mattheissen & 
 Hegeler have erected, and recently put into 
 operation, a factory for the manufacture of sul- 
 phuric acid. An immense building, 60x450 feet 
 in size, built of wood, thirty feet high, and sup- 
 ported on a series of timbers about fifteen feet 
 high, contains the leaden chambers which en- 
 tirely fill it, the weight of the lead used includ- 
 ing, besides the chambers, pipes, tubing, etc., is 
 2,000,000 pounds. Adjacent to this. building 
 stands the highest chimney in the State, it being 
 in perpendicular height, above the foundations, 
 256 feet six inches. It is built of brick and 
 stone, the inside diameter at the base being 
 twenty feet, but only a few feet at the top. It is 
 lined throughout with plaster of paris. The 
 cost of erecting this factory will be very close to 
 $200,000. The acid for the new glucose factory 
 In Chicago will be made here.
 
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 The Mattlieissen & Hegeler zinc rolling mills 
 occupy several buildings or rather one large 
 building in several parts. The spelter is melted 
 and cast in shallow pans perhaps 10x25 inches 
 in size, and then passed to the rollers, which are 
 huge cylinders of iron over two feet in diame- 
 ter. There are five sets of these operated by two 
 engines, the capacity of which combined is about 
 450 horse power. The zinc is passed through 
 two sets of rollers and then cut and weighed, 
 after which it is again rolled out still thinner, 
 and when it has passed the last set of rollers is 
 finally cut to the proper size for market and 
 boxed ready for shipping. 
 
 The most prominent artificial characteristic of 
 La Salle is Mattlieissen & Hegeler' s big chimney. 
 The last brick of the half million and more used 
 in the construction of it was laid and the 
 railing, promenade and iron work attached to 
 the upper extremity during the early part of 
 November. The exact diameter of the chimney 
 inside is 19 feet 8 inches at the bottom and 
 about 7 feet at. the top ; the thickness of the 
 wall, starting from the foundation, is 2 feet 8 
 inches and at the top is 17 inches. The founda- 
 tion walls extend 11 feet below the surface and 
 in the whole structure there are above 550 cubic 
 yards of solid masonry. Before the staging, 
 which was all inside, was taken down, a pulley 
 was attached to the railing surrounding the top 
 and over it depends a rope, by means of which 
 to draw up a man on an attached carriage, should 
 it be necessary at any time to ascend the chim- 
 ney. On the inside from the top to the bottom 
 the masonry is heavily coated with pure plaster 
 of Paris for the purpose of keeping the sulphur- 
 
 ic acid from attacking the walls and eventually 
 causing their ruin. The idea of dissolving up 
 the huge chimney may seem as preposterous as 
 the story of Hannibal dissolving the rocks that 
 impeded the march of his troops over the Alps : 
 but facts are facts, nevertheless, and the disin- 
 tegration of the chimney, though not very rapid, 
 would certainly follow the neglect to afford the 
 masonry complete protection from contact with 
 the powerful solvent. The acid fumes, of which 
 there are more or less in the chimney at all times, 
 would permeate the masonry and come in con- 
 tact with the iron and doubtless other substan- 
 ces contained in the brick and with them form 
 sulphates or other compounds of sulphur. It 
 would also attack the lime in the mortar 
 and stone and form sulphate of lime; and 
 these chemical reactions constantly going on 
 would have the effect in a good deal less than a" 
 hundred years to very materially endanger the 
 stability of the structure. Plaster o f Paris is 
 sulphate of lime, or lime that has taken up all 
 the sulphuric acid it can contain and is in con- 
 sequence no longer susceptible to the action of 
 the acid, and being thickly spread over the en- 
 tire inside, it thus forms a complete barrier 
 against acid depredations upon the brick and 
 stone work. 
 
 The chimney built in connection with the glu- 
 cose works in Chicago and which is now finish- 
 ed, is two feet lower than Matthiessen & Hege- 
 ler' s and is described as the most noticeable erec- 
 tion of the kind in the city. Such being the 
 case, La Salle can claim, without much chance 
 for refutation,, to have the highest chimney in 
 the West.
 
 BUSINESS. 
 
 The Telephone Exchange. 
 
 La Salle was among the very first to appreci- 
 ate and utilize the telephone, and long before Ex- 
 changes were thought of had several private 
 lines in successful operation which were quickly 
 followed by many others, when the "Exchange" 
 plan was developed. Outside of the larger cities 
 La Salle was among the first of the interior 
 towns of our state to take hold of this new and 
 novel invention. The general plan of operation 
 is a central office, with wires radiating in all di- 
 rections to the various subscribers, any of whom 
 desiring communication call up the central office, 
 giving the number or name of the party wanted ; 
 the connection is almost instantly given. 
 
 The Exchanges in La Salle and Ottawa are 
 controlled by the same company, and free con- 
 nection is given with each other to all subscrib- 
 ers. In good weather the transmission is as 
 distinct and satisfactory as though but a mile 
 apart. An Exchange at Princeton, recently 
 opened by the same Company, has also been con- 
 nected with La Salle, and a nominal fee is charg- 
 ed for use of this line. The Exchange here, 
 starting with 45 wires, has run up to 115 with 
 fair prospects for more. Mr. Wm. H. Allington, 
 manager of the W. U. Telegra-ph Co.'s main of- 
 fice here for the past nine years, was the prime 
 mover in the establishment of the system 
 and is Exchange manager. Under his manage- 
 ment the telephonic service has become highly 
 efficient, and with a keen perception of the 
 wants of the patrons, he secures the addition of 
 every new feature which tends towards improve- 
 ment in the practical workings of the service. 
 His place in charge of the Exchange interests 
 here and his position at the central office would 
 be difficult to fill, as no one could watch matters 
 more closely or more earnestly endeavor to study 
 and meet the wants of the subscribers. The work 
 of the central office is thoroughly systematized. 
 Every ''connection" is recorded, and between 10 
 
 p. M. and 6 A. M. the exact time of connection is 
 also noted. The daily average for the week, 
 month and year is ascertained. Last year (1881) 
 204,960 connections were made, a daily, weekly 
 and monthly average of 561, 3,941 and 17,080, 
 respectively. An operator is always on duty, 
 the central office never being closed. Subscrib- 
 ers and other interested are welcome to call at 
 any time after 3 o'clock p. M., and the practical 
 working details, etc., will be explained by the 
 manager or operator on duty. 
 
 The Schools. 
 
 It is impossible for us to give more than a 
 passing notice of our schools in a pamphlet such 
 as this ; but the few facts here given will not be 
 uninteresting. The public schools are well or- 
 ganized and conducted under the wise adminis- 
 tration of a prudent school board, aided by an 
 efficient staff" of teachers. At present there are 
 five gentlemen and sixteen ladies employed, and 
 the school work is acknowledged by all visitors 
 to be characterized more by substantial work 
 than showy pretensions. The High School de- 
 partment is a credit to a city of principally a 
 mining and manufacturing population as La. 
 Salle. The assistant principal, Prof. M. A. 
 O'Conor, A. M., one of the few graduates in the 
 schools of La Salle county, is acknowledged to 
 be a teacher of experience and high literary at- 
 tainments. He has been engaged for the past 
 eight yearsjin his present position an unprece- 
 dented length of time ; and though dealing with 
 the children of so many conflicting elements, his 
 bearing has been characterized by firmness and 
 impartiality deserving the public confidence 
 which he enjoys. The wisdom of the school 
 board is shown by the fact that when they have 
 a good teacher they recognize the fact and make 
 it an object for him or her to stay. There are a 
 few private schools which are also well patroa- 
 ized.
 
 8 
 
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 Geo. A. Wilson's Boot and Shoe Store. 
 
 Boots and shoes are a necessity certainly 
 where perpetual summer doesn't reign. Hotten- 
 tots, Ethiopians and Digger Indians may man- 
 age to get along well enough without them, as 
 their duties are not usually considered arduous 
 or particularly fatiguing from a pedestrian's 
 point of view ; but in civilized communities, 
 from infancy to old age, from the hod carrier 
 to the aesthete, all must have foot-covering. 
 Boots and shoes grew up with civilization. The 
 priisitive shoe was simply a piece of skin or 
 some other material fastened to the sole of the 
 foot to protect it from injury by coming in con- 
 tact with the ground. Then the article was 
 made a little wider and turned up around the 
 edges so as to afford some slight protection to the 
 sides of the foot, and in time it dawned on the 
 intellects of people that they might just as well 
 bring the opposite sides of the piece of skin to- 
 gether on the top of the foot and they had the 
 moccasin or original shoe. Then continuing the 
 skin further up on the ankle the primitive boot 
 was finally developed. Next the attention was 
 turned to the methods of manufacture and the 
 principles of tanning, and as leather became 
 known the form of boots and shoes gradually as- 
 sumed the shape in which we now find them. 
 Then later inventions brought forth the Standard 
 Screw Fastened Boot and Shoe, and about this 
 time George A. Wilson came to La Salle and 
 opened up a small stock of goods for which he 
 paid cash. Selling cheap soon had the effect to 
 bring him plenty of customers and he kept on 
 buying and selling, and after the lapse of six 
 years or about the present time, he finds him- 
 self in possession of a large store filled with ev- 
 ery kind of foot-covering made, leading among 
 which is the above mentioned standard screw 
 fastened goods. 
 
 Everything that any ordinary person could 
 ask for in the way of foot gear can be had in 
 Wilson's store. He has everything in the way 
 of mens' boots, from the finest calf to the coars- 
 est and heaviest brogans and plow shoes. Boys' 
 wear is one of his specialties, and parents will 
 do well to remember this, as there are no better 
 goods of the kind made than can be found on his 
 shelves. Childrens', misses' and ladies' shoes 
 and slippers, light and heavy, lace and button, 
 kid, pebble goat, calf, cloth, etc., etc., are in 
 large assortment. In rubber goods, boots of all 
 kinds can be found, as well as overshoes. 
 
 Mr. Wilson asks the attention of every careful 
 and economical buyer in the vicinity to the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 He has no old or undesirable goods to offer at 
 
 apparently low prices to catch the eye and look 
 cheap in print, but having largely increased his 
 facilities offers a large and complete stock of 
 standard goods, made on honor, that will give 
 service and satisfaction. 
 
 He makes a uniform bottom price on all goods ; 
 not bating a person on staples, such as plow 
 shoes, etc., and then gouging him on custom fine 
 goods. 
 
 If a merchant buys a large stock twice a year 
 on four months' time he pays enormous interest 
 to the jobber. He must sell apart of the goods 
 at or below cost in order to make his payments 
 at maturity, has left on hand the sizes that his 
 trade does not demand, which soon become shop, 
 worn and unsalable, and finds when he has tak- 
 en acoount of stock, that although he has made 
 a profit on a part of his goods he has gained 
 nothing by his year of hard labor. But Wilson 
 doesn't do business on that plan, and his paying 
 customers don't have to make good to him his 
 losses on bad debts. He buys for cash. 
 
 He asks a trial knowing that honest goods, 
 bottom prices, promptness in attending to cus- 
 tomers' wants, and a careful consideration of 
 their interests, will hold their trade. 
 
 A MYSTERY. 
 
 "I that rustic path was treading, when the sun 
 his rays were shedding beaming, gleaming, 
 fairly streaming thro' the trees ; and I watched 
 the streamlet glistening, as, entranced, I there 
 was listening to the melting, merry music on 
 the breeze, when, beneath a tree reclining, 
 where no ray of sun was shining, lo ! I saw a 
 fellow-being on the ground ! Though no other 
 feature shifted, quickly he his eyes uplifted 
 upward lifted as he wildly looked around. 'Good 
 friend,' said I, approaching, "do not charge me 
 with encroaching are you waiting for some 
 messenger of news ;' But no other word he ut- 
 tered, and no other sentence muttered, save 
 'You '11 find there's none like G. A. Wilson's 
 boots and shoes !' " 
 
 "That's a strange expression, surely," said I, 
 looking down demurely. "I trust, dear sir, that 
 you the question will excuse." But he only 
 looked the prouder, as he spoke the words the 
 louder, "There's always perfect comfort in G. A. 
 Wilson's shoes!" "Why bless rue. man, I shout- 
 ed, as his sanity I doubted, '"Tis surely naught 
 to me what people's goods you use!" But he 
 only cried the higher, with enthusiastic fire, 
 "You'll save your cash by wea/iue G. A. Wilson's 
 boots and shoes!" So I left him there reclining, 
 where no ray of sun was shining, and freqently 1 
 wondered at the words-tbe man did use; thinking 
 surely 'twas a mystery, and that some hidden his- 
 tory was weaving 'round myself and G. A. Wil- 
 eon'e boote and shoes. So then I resolved to buy 
 tbtm and hav* lince had ceute for gladnese.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 Hall & Allabcn, Attorneys. 
 
 Law is older than man ; it is as old at least as 
 matter, for matter has always obeyed law. Di- 
 vine law is said to be perfection itself; natural 
 law may not be divine, but it seems to work af- 
 ter a pretty regular system. The intervention 
 of man don't influence it very much, and he has 
 been principally engaged heretofore in endeav- 
 oring to find out something about it. Human 
 law man made himself, and of course he knows 
 a little about it, or ought to. It is recognized 
 as being somewhat imperfect and operating dif- 
 ferently on different occassions and subjects. It 
 has its_ uses and abuses. Its principal defect 
 lies in its inability to maintain justice on a par 
 with money, that is, with justice on one side 
 and money on the other, human law holding 
 the scale, justice is apt to fly up. As the world 
 progresses this defect will doubtless be wiped 
 out. Anyway law is necessary and not always 
 abused. The abuse of it in most cases lies with 
 the lawyer, though good, honest, intelligent and 
 upright lawyers are not by an means few. And 
 right here the attention -of this community is 
 called to the law firm of Hall & Allaben some 
 time since established in La Salle. They are 
 gentlemen in all that the term implies; men 
 who are thoroughly posted in law matters ; who 
 know right from wrong and are ever ready to 
 work in the cause of justice. They believe in 
 faithfully serving their clients and earning the 
 money they ask for their service*. They prac- 
 tice in all the courts, and have been retained on 
 a number of important cases now on the dockets 
 They will always be found reliable by those re- 
 quiring legal services of any kind, and are 
 worthy to be trusted with the management of 
 any case requiring adjudication. 
 
 John Martin's Grocery Store. 
 
 John Martin has been for years one of the 
 most popular of La Salle's grocers. He handles 
 reliable goods only and sells at bottom figures, 
 and customers always rely on getting what they 
 pay for when trading with him. He has all 
 kinds of staple and fancy groceries, dried and 
 canned fruit and other goods, fish, vegetables 
 of every kind in their season, hams, bacon, and 
 other dried meats, with pickled pork, etc. But- 
 ter, eggs, and other country produce always on 
 hand. The best brands of winter and spring 
 wheat, graham and buckwheat flour, with can- 
 dies, nuts, and all sorts of confectioneries, flav- 
 oring extracts and the like; syrups, oils, etc., 
 etc. Mankind, as well as all other animal crea- 
 tions must eat, or at least the opinion prevails 
 that eating is a necessity, and until somebody 
 proves that it is only a useless habit, eating will 
 be continued. But starvation science advances 
 slowly, and the head of the family and his better 
 half acknowledges the case settled, anyway for 
 their day and generation, and when they meet 
 in friendly conference to discuss the matter they 
 always resolve to trade hereafter with Martin 
 
 Philip Conlin's Livery Stable. 
 
 As man's strength is limited so is his ability 
 to get over ground or, in other words, to move 
 himself from place to place by walking. There 
 is consequently a necessity for his being carried 
 and no practicable automatic mechanical device 
 having been heretofore invented that would 
 pick a person up and carry him around, he has 
 to resort to the old method of riding by horse 
 power or else go on the cars. In cases then 
 where it becomes necessary or desirable to ride 
 La Salle people always go to Philip Oonlin for 
 . hvery rig, as he keeps the best and charges 
 e least. His horses are always safe and at the 
 same time as good travelers as can be found 
 ith carriages always in good shape, neat styl- 
 !6h and ready for service, Philip Conlin i 8 one 
 
 The La Salle House. 
 
 It was ordained from the beginning that man 
 must eat. Some have maintained that, eating is 
 only a habit contracted in earlier days when 
 primitive man roamed the forests with a caudal 
 appendage and shook from the boughs of trees 
 in showers the nuts they bore, and then in sport 
 gnawed the bitter shells and found the sweets 
 within. Such may have been the case, but the 
 habit, if such it may be called, served to encour- 
 age in animal organizations the growth of an 
 elaborate digestive apparatus that has never 
 been eliminated and which insists now on being 
 kept in operation, whether a fellow is a disciple 
 of Tanner, a gouty epicure, a millionaire, or a 
 tramp. But such is life, and as we find it pretty 
 much so we must let it remain. S. E. Foster de- 
 tected this feature of the case a number of years 
 ago, and it was this which primarily induced 
 him to open up the La Salle House and cater to 
 the famishing public. He regularly feeds the 
 hungry and gives drink (but not that which in- 
 toxicates) to the thirsty, and he shall have his 
 reward, though with his moderate charges it is 
 hard to understand how he manages to get it on 
 this side of the river. That is his affair howev- 
 er. Nevertheless, for a square meal, a "ood 
 bed or regular board, the La Salle House justly 
 olaimi th preference mty tint. And it gViit'
 
 10 
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 Solomon Rosenhaupt's Real Estate and 
 Insurance Agency. 
 
 The real estate and insurance business is well 
 represented in La Salle by Solomon Rosenhaupt. 
 He represents a number of insurance compa- 
 nies, among them the Royal, of Liverpool, rec- 
 ognized as the largest in the world ; the Queen's, 
 of London ; and the National, of Hartford. In- 
 surance is something that every man wants who 
 owns property. The security of perishable 
 property can really be attained in no other way 
 than by insurance^ and even here there is great 
 liability to loss unless the companies to whom 
 
 llaUlUkJ W ivaa " - i 
 
 the risk is given are perfectly sound "time 
 tried and fire tested/' Rosenhaupt's companies 
 ore all of the class on which complete reliance 
 can be placed, and a policy issued by him is 
 good for its face in case of loss. 
 
 The buyin" and selling of real estate is a 
 branch of bis business which receives a large 
 share of his time and attention. He has always 
 on hand a number of choice lots or other city 
 property, and frequently farms to sell or lease 
 and intending purchasers or parties desiring t 
 sell can always find it to their advantage to cal 
 
 I1 \s 1 Kent for steamship lines, Mr. Rosenhaupt 
 represents the Monarch, North German Lloyd, 
 Hamburg, and several other lines, running reg- 
 ularly to and from principal English and Conti- 
 nental points. Parties wishing to visit the old 
 world or bring their friends here can always be 
 supplied with tickets at the most reasonable 
 
 ^Mr Rosenhaupt is also a Justice of the Peace 
 and Notary Public, qualified to* take acknowl- 
 edaments, affidavits, etc., and attend to other 
 notarial business. He holds the scales of Jus- 
 tice and where the blind goddess is offended by 
 those with lax regard for law, he designates the 
 atonement due her, levies the assessment and 
 collects the tax. Conveyancing of all kinds 
 promptly attended to and deeds, mortgages and 
 other papers made out in proper form. Last, 
 but perhaps, not least, he is qualified to tie the 
 connubial knot when lovers call and so request, 
 and the opinion seems to prevail among many 
 that the work is better done by him than others 
 though this is probable a mistake. A divorce 
 can generally be obtained in court if the reasons 
 for asking it are good and sufficient. 
 
 By way of appendix, it may be added that 
 the Royal Ins. Co. is the only company doing 
 business in-this country that pays its losses in 
 cash on demand without asking time or discount, 
 and persons desiring insurance would do well to 
 remember this fact and call on Rosenhaupt. 
 
 Thomas Crotty's MarUe Works. 
 
 Thos. Crotty's Marble Shop m this city is an 
 attractive place, by reason of the many finely 
 finished monuments of various designs, sizes 
 and styles. They are works of art, of the 
 highest taste and skill, and of the finest grades 
 of marble and granite to be obtained in this 
 country. Extravagantly high priced work is 
 not to be found here, but fine quality of sone, 
 artistic excellence in finish and design are con- 
 spicuous features in every piece. Mr. Crotty 
 has long been engaged in the business, under- 
 stands it thoroughly and personally warrants 
 all contracts and guarantees satisfaction in every 
 case. Besides the finished stone-work on hand 
 there is always in stock a liberal supply of the 
 best material, with skilled marble cutters ready 
 to execute any job required by patrons. There 
 are a large number of monuments in every cem- 
 etery in this vicinity that have come from this 
 shop, and each one speaks highly to its credit. 
 Mr. Crotty gives his personal attention to the 
 setting up of each monument ordered from him 
 and never leaves one on an unstable foundation. 
 
 Those wishing good work at low figures cannot 
 find a better shop to patronize. Foreign and 
 domestic granites, marbles, etc., always in stock. 
 Mantles, and, in fact, all kinds of fine stone- 
 work executed with promptness and in a style 
 to suit the most fastidious. 
 
 George Orsinger's Pacific Bakery. 
 
 The man with an appetite agitating him asks 
 where to eat. If lie sojourns in Greenland his 
 best plan is to hunt for a seal ; but if he is in 
 La Salle he cannot do better than call at the Pa- 
 cific Bakery. All the delicacies of the season- 
 be it spring, summer, autumn or winter, are 
 promptly served on the shortest possible notice. 
 And not only are individuals served but parties 
 as well. As a baker Mr. Orsinger has no supe- 
 rior He has every facility for doing good work 
 and good work is the only kind that he does. 
 People in La Salle know this, and everybody 
 patronizes him. Those giving select parties and 
 wishing refreshments of any or all kinds inva- 
 riably obtain them here. Festivals, excursions, 
 pic-nics, etc., supplied with everything m the 
 way of refreshments at the most reasonable rates. 
 The dining- and sales-rooms have recently been 
 most beautifully fitted up ; and with ice cold 
 soda, excellent ice cream, cool and pleasant 
 rooms, everything contributes to make the Paci- 
 fic Bakery and Restaurant the most attractive 
 resort in the city. Mr. Orsinger first opened 
 here 25 years ago, and in saying that he has dis- 
 tanced every competitor, is, at least equivalent 
 to the statement that he has worn well.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 II 
 
 Breuning, Kilduff & Co, Dry Goods. 
 
 The extensive dry goods house of Breuning, 
 Kilduff & Co. was opened in La Salle last Sep- 
 tember, though the members of the firm have 
 long been known as thorough business men in 
 this community. Opening with a complete stock 
 of dry goods, notions and fancy goods, and be- 
 lieving that in coming before the people and 
 soliciting a share of their patronage the success 
 attending business would be more securely at- 
 tained by a few rules well observed, they adopt- 
 ed the following platform to which they adhere 
 strictly in all cases : 
 . 1st. Polite and courteous attention to all. 
 
 2d. Keep a complete stock of desirable goods. 
 
 3d. All goods marked in plain figures and 
 strictly one price to all. 
 
 4th. No goods misrepresented, and all goods 
 taken back if not found as represented, and the 
 money refunded. 
 
 The stock they offer is entirely new. There 
 is not an old piece of goods in the house, and 
 hence customers need have no fears of having 
 forced on them unsalable or shop-worn articles. 
 In the dress goods department the assortment 
 is simply complete, comprising everything that 
 the trade demands. A special feature is black 
 and colored silks, many choice pieces being 
 found on their shelves. 
 
 A full line of dress trimmings and buttons in 
 all the latest styles form one of the principal 
 attractions for purchasers. 
 
 The stock of hosiery is unsurpassed and com- 
 prises a fine line, from ^he cheapest cotton to the 
 finest brilliant lisle. 
 
 Parasols, fans, etc., are exhibited in large and 
 fine assortment at all prices and in all styles. 
 
 The white goods department includes every- 
 thing that should be found here. Special atten- 
 tion is called to an elegant line of ladies' and 
 children's niuslin underwear, unsurpassed in 
 variety and excellence. Cloaks, dolmans, and 
 tolmas are kept in quantity, and made up from 
 the finest and best goods. 
 
 The firm are determined in all cases to be 
 leaders in the dry goods business and not fol- 
 lowers. They defy competition, and guarantee 
 the very lowest prices on every piece of goods 
 sold. They have one of the neatest and most 
 finely fitted up stores in the city, and the entire 
 force, proprietors and employees, know all the 
 ins and outs of the dry goods business, and 
 deem it a pleasure to wait on customers. Dur- 
 ing the short time since their store was opened 
 they have acquired A trade and reputation that 
 many old houses might well envy, ami their de-- 
 termination to merit prosperity has already giv- 
 en them a prestige guaranteeing the future. 
 
 J. Y. Thorp's Sewing Machine Depot. 
 
 The " Crown " comes into the market the last 
 of all but it has sprung to the front rank at 
 once because it has taken the good features of 
 all other machines and put them in one grand 
 combination, making the handsomest, largest, 
 most silent and lightest running machine yet 
 offered. All the "points" that twenty years' 
 experience with all kinds of family and light 
 manufacturing work have proved to be absolute- 
 ly good are found in the "Crown." Other ma- 
 chines may have one, or two, or three, of these 
 " points," but none has them all. Every device 
 really desirable is found in the " Crown." Ad- 
 vantage has been taken of the experiments and 
 experience with all machines ever, invented and 
 the "Crown "is a perfect embodiment of every- 
 thing good in them. It is the most powerful 
 and durable machine made. It is kept in sew- 
 ing order for five years free of cost. This is not 
 done on any other machine. 
 
 Next comes the Wilson OSCILLATORY SHUTTLE 
 Sewing Machine. "Perfection having been ob- 
 tained, further improvements are impossible." 
 The old style sewing machines are fading away, 
 and the Lightning Sewer stands solid as the 
 Rock of Ages. Its capacity for speed and a 
 large range of work is unlimited. It is made 
 from the best material known ; its shafts, needle 
 bar, presser bar, presser foot, heuimer, screws, 
 and all small parts, are made of the best steel. 
 Its " take-up" is automatic, flexible, adjustable 
 and positive, and gives satisfaction wherever 
 used. 
 
 Next is the New B Howe. It has the loose 
 pulley aud improved bobbin-winder above the 
 table ; new treadle motion ; light running in all 
 its parts ; improved stitch indicator ; and wood 
 work of -the best and latest styles. 
 
 Last comes the Improved Singer a Singer 
 that does n't sing, but sews admirably. It is 
 light running, has quick action, perfect work- 
 -ing. Its steel parts are accurately made by im- 
 proved machinery from the latest patterns and 
 models. It has loose balance wheel so con- 
 structed that the bobbin can be wound without 
 removing the work from the machine ; has self- 
 threading eyelet, check lever and needle clamp ; 
 nickle plated balance wheels, oil-polished cases 
 and Gothic covers. Every machine warranted. 
 Hie above machines have all the latest im- 
 provements ; are backed by the best companies, 
 and sold at bottom figures. Mr. Thorp has had 
 the widest experience in this line of any man in 
 the county : and you will always find him with 
 a full stock of machines, attachments, needles, 
 oil, etc. Repairing done promptly. Examine 
 and get his prices before buying.
 
 12 
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 W. F. Corbus' Drug Store. 
 
 Drugs arc among the essentials of a well reg- 
 ulated civilization. Tne use of them originated 
 with necessity and the science of chemistry ; 
 and chemistry was founded by the alchemists 
 who were seekers after the philopher's stone, that 
 imaginary something which had the power of 
 turning everything into gold. The stone was 
 never found, but the elements as we know them 
 now, of which matter is composed, were found, 
 and the practically numberless possible combi- 
 nations of these result in giving to mankind a 
 series of substances which were unknown in the 
 world's early history but to us are boons that 
 go far towards supplying the necessities of life 
 besides adding largely to its pleasures. 
 
 W. F. Corbus is a man who has made the com- 
 pounding of drugs and the preparations of med- 
 icines the study of his life, and in opening the 
 drug business in La Salle in 1876 the design 
 was formed of supplying everything which should 
 properly be found in such an establishment; 
 and an inspection of his store and goods will 
 show that that design has been carried out pret- 
 ty nearly to the letter. 
 
 In addition to the stock of regular drugs, 
 which always consists of the choicest, purest 
 and best the market affords, there is a large and 
 select assortment of all the leading and standard 
 patent medicines prepared for specific and other 
 diseases. Toilet articles of every kind are ex- 
 hibited in abundance, comprising the finest 
 soaps, brushes, sponges and the like. Wall pa- 
 per is one of the specialties of the business. The 
 assortment in this class of goods is one of the 
 most extensive to be found in the county, and 
 embraces all the choicest patterns and designs, 
 and the finest colored, tinted and finished papers 
 made. A convenient arrangement for the exhi- 
 bition of samples enables intending purchasers 
 to see each and every design without the least 
 trouble.- A large lot of toys, games, dolls, etc., 
 affords attraction for the children, while a show 
 case filled with the finest, cigars invariably catch- 
 es the attention of lovers of the fragrant weed 
 and courts their indulgence. Paints and oils are 
 staple articles in all drug stores, and the stock 
 here is very extensive, while the prices 
 arc absolutely the lowest. ,. A largo assortment 
 of vases is another of the (he attractions of the 
 store that immediately oak^e* *ho eye and in- 
 ritca a selection. 
 
 Dr. Gilmour's Dental Rooms. 
 
 The highly competent and leading dentist of 
 this city, Dr. J. T. Gilmour, has one of the best 
 supplied offices in the state. He has had large 
 experience, enjoys a good business, and calls the 
 attention of the public to the following : 
 
 The American people pay the most attention 
 to their teeth, for they have the poorest of any 
 nation. Whether from peculiar ways of living or 
 the race deteriorating is a question for the den- 
 tal profession. There are various ways of tak- 
 ing care of the teeth. First they should be 
 kept clean, brushing after every meal, which 
 will not only clean the teeth but make a sweet 
 breath and remove any foreign matter from be- 
 tween them. Meat, for instance, becomes pu- 
 trid ; chemical action takes place ; then comes 
 decay, and disease of the mouth and gums. 
 These can to a great extent be obviated by 
 cleansing the teeth, and if any are decayed, call 
 on your dentist and have them filled. Everyone 
 that cares for health should call on the dentist 
 at least once a year. Never crack nuts or bite 
 thread with the teeth. Refrain from taking 
 very warm food or drink, especially after taking 
 anything cold, as it cracks the enamel, causing 
 decay. Have your teeth cleaned once every year. 
 
 A word in regard to filling : Gold, silver, tin, 
 gutta-percha and various cement fillings are 
 used. Gold generally is the best on account of 
 its not discoloring, but silver can be used to a 
 much better advantage in weak teeth. Tin 
 without doubt is the best filling in existence if 
 it can be put in where there is no wear, as it 
 seems to agree perfectly with tooth structure ; 
 but it is unsightly and always turns black, 
 which leave gold at the head. The other fillings 
 are used principally to cap nerves, for tempo- 
 rary filling, etc. When the teeth become very 
 bad and the patient is suffering with dyspepsia, 
 neuralgia, etc., have them taken out at once and 
 an artificial set put in. Don't wait six months 
 or a year after having the teeth extracted as the 
 lower jaw straightens out and it is difficult to 
 learn to wear them. Rubber, celluloid, plati- 
 num, gold and silver are used for plates. The 
 best is gold ; the next celluloid. The rubber 
 plate poisons every mouth more or less. Cellu- 
 loid being composed largely of camphor is health- 
 ful to the mouth in any and every case. Pivot 
 teeth also inserted. Gold and porcelain crowns 
 adjusted on roots, etc. These operations are 
 quite expensive, but where there is a good root 
 it pays. No charge for examining teeth. Call 
 and make your appointment a few days in ad- 
 vance. Reasonable satisfaction guaranteed in 
 all ctiees.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE 
 
 T. L. 0' Conors Tile Factory and Brick 
 Yard. 
 
 The use of tile lias become an acknowledged 
 necessity in many places, and everywhere as 
 something very much to be desired by all farm- 
 ers. Its manufacture is receiving a great deal 
 of attention from scientific men, and capitalists 
 are investing large sums of money in factories 
 and machinery for its production. In this par- 
 ticular industrial branch, La Salle stands in tie 
 front rafrik with one of the best equipped factor- 
 ies in the state, which is presided over and oper- 
 ated by Mr. Thos. L. O'Conor, one of the enter- 
 prising young men of the city. His tile machine 
 is of the Tiffany pattern, cylindrical in shape, 
 built of cast iron one inch thick, somewhere 
 about two feet in diameter, and standing proba- 
 bly about four feet high. . In the center is a se- 
 ries of horizontal knives attached to an upright 
 shaft. The clay is fed into the machine at the 
 top by means of an endless elevator, and the 
 knives moving around cut and pulverize it and 
 at the same time carry it downwards upon a 
 large screw which forces it horizontally and in 
 a steady stream through a circular aperture, 
 the diameter of which is the same as the tile 
 produced. This aperture is supplied with a re- 
 volving core which shapes the interior of the 
 tile and leaves it perfectly smooth. It is cut as 
 it comes from the mill into foot lengths by means 
 of fine steel wires attached to a frame, operated 
 by hand. The tile is then set up on end in the 
 large drying room, where, after drying without 
 exposure to the extreme heat of the sun, which 
 would produce cracking, it is taken to the kiln 
 and burned. The clay used is of a superior 
 quality for the manufacture of both brick and 
 tile and was so pronounced by the late highly 
 competent geologist, Dixwell Lathrop, years ago. 
 
 In addition to the tile machine, Mr. O'Conor 
 is operating two brick machines. One is the 
 common style made by G. E. Sibley, New York, 
 with a capacity of 80,000 brick per day. The 
 other is a "Pentfield," with a capacity of 1,800 
 per hour. This is built somewhat similar to the 
 tile machine, only the screw is here replaced by 
 a plunger which forces the clay out in a stream 
 4x8 inches square under a pressure of 320,000 
 pounds or 160 tons. It is afterwards cut up in- 
 to brick 2J inches thick with wires the same as 
 the tile. An ingenious apparatus in the interior 
 of the machine takes out all stones, gravel, and 
 other objectionable material that may be present 
 in the clay. 
 
 The following facts relating to tile drainage, 
 from farmers of wide experience, may not be 
 amiss here : It is a misfortune to farmers not 
 to know the advantages of tile draining. The 
 results are in all cases to increase the produc- 
 tive power of the land drained. All kinds of 
 grain and tame grasses, fruit trees and shrub- 
 bery yield always better, and in many cases sev- 
 eral hundred per cent, better, on well drained 
 soils, as experience has long since verified. Ofl 
 land that is not drained the water must soak 
 away by slow process or be taken up by evapo- 
 ration, which leaves the under soil cold, espe- 
 cially in the spring. On drained land it passes at 
 once to the drains, and in its course through the 
 soil carries with it the warmth of the sun and 
 the atmosphere, by this means making the time 
 of planting the spring crop several weeks earlier. 
 The water also passing quickly down carries 
 food to the roots of the plants. It prevents in- 
 jury by drouth, letting the air circulate to a 
 greater depth in the soil. On land not drained the 
 decayed animal and vegetable matter is taken up 
 by the atmosphere and produces malaria, while 
 on land that is drained this is carried down by 
 the rains and nourishes vegetation. All lands 
 need draining unless they have a gravelly or 
 sandy subsoil ; and drainage is not less useful 
 in making roads than in the raising of farm 
 crops. The distance between tile drains must 
 be determined by the nature of the soil, its 
 depth and the amount of fall. Some porous soil 
 will permit water to reach the drains for a long 
 distance, while a tough compact clay is almost 
 impervious to water and requires the drains to be 
 much closer together. In a black, loose soil 
 drains at the depth of four feet are sufficient at 
 a distance of ten rods apart; but if the land is a 
 hard-pan or a stiff clay, to drain it thoroughly 
 the distance apart should not be more than from 
 four to six rods. Deep drains have a great deal 
 of advantage over shallow ones. Farmers never 
 get any benefit from their land below the level 
 of their drains ; but they do get the benefit of 
 the soil above, even if the drain lies eight feet 
 below the surface. An orchard or vineyard 
 should not be drained less than that depth. Al- 
 ways secure a good outlet, if it is at all possible, 
 and make the fall as great as the contour of the 
 land will admit. The greater the fall the smaller 
 the tile that can be advantageously used, and 
 the deeper down they are laid the further apart 
 can be the drains. With a twelve-inch fnll in a 
 hundred feet a five-inch tile will carry off as 
 much water as a six-inch tile will if the fall is 
 but four inches to the hundred feet. Always aim 
 to get the greatest amount of water off in the 
 shortest possible time.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 W. E. Birkenbeuel's Jewelry Store. 
 
 The jewelry business of the city is entirely 
 led by W. E. Birkenbeuel. That only which is 
 actually necessary in life is not all that people 
 live for. The beautiful and artistic is also 
 sought as it should be and the more intelligent 
 the people become the more they seek to gratify 
 their inherent longing for that which pleases 
 the eye as well as serves a purpose of usefulness. 
 Mr. Birkenbeuel opened his store in this city in 
 1875 in partnership with H. Linnig, of Peru, 
 who some time ago withdrew, leaving the whole 
 business in his hands. Appreciating the de- 
 mands and wants of the community, he has 
 stocked his store with literally everything that 
 could be desired by the most fastidious, and in 
 soliciting trade he does it with the full confi- 
 dence that none will find it necessary to leave 
 his counters and showcases in order to make 
 satisfactory selections in the way of anything in 
 the jewelry line. To enumerate his goods would 
 be impossible. He has watches from all the 
 best American and foreign manufacturers in gold 
 and silver cases, and at all prices, from the 
 cheapest to the finest, including chronometers, 
 horse timers, etc. Diamonds in large variety 
 and of the finest quality. The stock of silver- 
 ware is something unusual, consisting of tea 
 sets, cake baskets, butter dishes, trays, water 
 pitchers, cups, goblets, castors, fruit stands, 
 knives, forks, spoons, etc., etc. Rings and pins 
 are plentiful in plain and ornamental, with gold, 
 pearls, rubies, amethysts, diamonds and other 
 precious stones. Chains, necklaces and brace- 
 lets in hundreds of different styles from the 
 plainest to the most ornamental and richly fin- 
 ished, glisten within the cases. In clocks the 
 wonder is that makers can design so many dif- 
 ferent styles and kinds in wood and metal. 
 There are large and small clocks, round and 
 square finished clocks, alarm clocks, those that 
 strike and those that don't strike, calendar 
 clocks, electric clocks, clocks with springs and 
 clocks with weights, and in short, the whole 
 clock family and all the relatives. Spectacles 
 lie in heaps, and the near sighted and the far 
 sighted, the young and the old, can all find just 
 
 the kind they need and in styled to suit their 
 tastes and purses, from the plainest steel frames 
 to the finest gold. Gold pens from the leading 
 manufacturers are plentiful and in such variety 
 as to afford something to suit the hand of every 
 person. 
 
 Pianos, grand, square, and upright, from all 
 leading manufacturers, can be purchased here ; 
 also organs from the plainest finished to the 
 most elaborate and finest toned. Violins in 
 choice assortment can also be found and always 
 of the best. Accordeons, guitars, banjos, drums, 
 flutes, clarinets, tamborines, etc., are always on 
 hand in abundance for musicians to select from. 
 Gtms and rifles, breech and muzzle loaders of 
 different patterns, including all the best, on ex- 
 hibition for the accommodation of sportsmen. 
 Powder, shot and shell are also for sale and any 
 hunter can here get a complete outfit any day. 
 Revolvers and pistols, wood and ivory handles, 
 plain, silver and nickle plated, with cartridges, 
 are always in stock.- 
 
 There are always on exhibition smokers' arti- 
 cles, such as meerschaum pipes and cigar hold- 
 ers ; microscopes, telescopes and opera glasses, 
 among them many very fine instruments : ther- 
 mometers of different kinds. Glass and porce- 
 lain vases, among them some of the finest and 
 most elaborately finished every offered for sale 
 in any city of the Union ; pocketbooks-in leath- 
 er, morocco, etc.; drafting instruments in brass '< 
 and German silver, both Swiss and American 
 make ; toilet articles, such as perfumeries, 
 brushes, combs, Japanese fancy boxes, jewelry j 
 cases and the like ; fancy baskets, Writing \ 
 desks, music cases, orginettes and sheet music ; i 
 ink stands, pen holders and fancy stationery ; ] 
 albums in large variety to adorn the tables of 
 the most wealthy ; pocket-knives, razors and 
 penknives of almost every style and kind man- 
 ufactured ; nut picks, single and in sets ; nap- 
 kin rings in many designs, both unique and 
 plain ; canes, light and heavy, long and short, 
 wood, gutta percha, etc., plain or fancy ; watch 
 charms of handsome designs, sleeve buttons 
 studs, collar buttons, and the like, bone, ivory 
 ebony, silver, gold, etc ; Swiss wood work 
 beautiful and useful patterns ; playing cards 
 dice, dominoes, chess, checkers and games 
 various kinds ; bird cages of all shapes and 
 sizes ; pictures, chromos, oil paintings, etc. 
 fishing tackle, poles, hooks, lines, fly-baits 
 etc. Always has first-class workmen in his 
 employ, and in watch, clock and jewelry repair- 
 ing he guarantees satisfaction. All silverware 
 | bought at his place engraved free of extra 
 : charges.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 Ancient Order United Workmen, Eureka 
 Lodge, No. 130. 
 
 Among the societies of La Salle Eureka Lodge \ 
 No. 130. A. 0. U. W., stands as one of the most 
 prominent, having a membership of nearly 100, 
 composed of the very best men in the city. The 
 Lodge room is on the corner of Gooding and 
 First streets. Meetings every Monday evening. 
 Geo. Wilson, M. AY. ; J. Y. Thovp, Rec. 
 
 The A. 0. U. W. is purely a benevolent and 
 business organization, cosmopolitan in its char- 
 acter, having in its membership all classes ; 
 men of every vocation working in every depart- 
 ment of labor ; men who toil with the head and 
 those who know how to use the brawny hand ; 
 employer and employee, differing, perhaps, in 
 political and religious beliefs, but all believing 
 in the existence of a God, the Creator and 
 Preserver of the Universe, and extending to- 
 wardg each other that charity taught in the 
 open Book which is found on the altar of every 
 Lodge. The most distinctive aim of the Order 
 is mutual life insurance, the cheapest, most ef- 
 fective and most rational plan known to busi- 
 ness men. It was sought among the various 
 systems of life insurance and co-operative aid 
 associations, and believes it has found the meth- 
 od of proving life insurance within the general 
 reach of the masses, as safe, if not safer, than 
 that obtained from the general life insurance 
 companies of the day. Its system or 
 method is as follows : The Supreme Lodge of 
 the Order has original and exclusive jurisdic- 
 tion over all subjects pertaining to the welfare 
 of the Order, and appellate jurisdiction from 
 the decision of Grand Lodges and of subordinate 
 lodges under its immediate jurisdiction, and its 
 enactments and decisions upon all questions are 
 the supreme law of the Order. It also issue 
 charters to Grand Lodges and to subordinate 
 lodges in territory not under the jurisdiction o1 
 Grand Lodges. Grand Lodges are only estab- 
 lished in States or Territories having within 
 their limits 2,000 members, Master Workmen 
 in good standing ; and when the membership 01 
 any Grand Lodge falls below that number .it 
 ceases to exist and the subordinate lodges with 
 in its limits revert to the jurisdiction of the Su 
 prerae Lodge. The various local lodges in r 
 
 State having a Grand Lodge are under its juris- 
 diction, and those in a State having no Grand 
 Lodge are under the jurisdiction of the Supreme 
 Lodge. Upon the death of a member under the 
 jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge, the assessments 
 for insurance are levied on the members under 
 that jurisdiction ; upon the death of a member 
 under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Lodge, 
 he assessments for insurance are on the mem- 
 ers of its jurisdiction. Assessments in juris- 
 lictions having only 2,OQO members will be $1 
 t the death of each member, never more. In 
 urisdictions having more than 2,000 members, 
 he assessments vary according to the number 
 if members ; in some, two assessments for every 
 hree deaths ; in another only two for every 
 ive deaths ; the overplus in each assessment is 
 applied on account of the next assessment. All 
 assessments arc made by Supreme or Grand 
 lodge officers, and are so arranged that the 
 unds to meet one assessment are always ready 
 n the hands of the Receivers of the various 
 subordinate lodges^ so that when an assessment 
 s made to pay the policy of a deceased member 
 he money is forwarded by the subordinate 
 odges to the Recorder of the Supreme or Grand 
 Lodge, and by the proper officials paid to the 
 proper person or persons to whose benefit the 
 .nsurance policy is issued. Upon the death of 
 a Master Workman, the subordinate lodge in 
 which his name is enrolled notifies the Recorder 
 of the Supreme or Grand Lodge, as the case 
 may be, when an assessment is made and the 
 various subordinate lodges notified. Within 20 
 days after notification the money must be sent 
 by the Receivers of the subordinate lodges to the 
 Recorder of the Supreme or Grand Lodge, $1 
 for each member, and the members of the vari- 
 ous lodges are then required to pay 1 each, 
 which is then placed in the hands of the Re- 
 ceivers to replace the money sent by them, so 
 as to be ready for the next assessment; and no 
 one to whom a policy has been made payable 
 has yet been heard to say that the A. 0. U. W. 
 has not faithfully, punctually and fully met 
 every obligation made to the widows and or- 
 phans of its'deceased brothers. 
 The regulations for' membership are, that the 
 person applying must be over 21 and under 50 1 
 years of age, of good moral character, able and 
 competent to earn a livelihood for himself and 
 family, and a believer in the Supreme Being,, 
 the Creator and Preserver of the Universe ; 
 must submit to a, medical examination as rigid 
 and complete as those of the most cautious in- 
 surance companies ; must undergo a rigid ex- 
 amination as to character, and pass a secrefc 
 ballot before being admitted.
 
 i6 
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 H. J. Barker's Grocery House. 
 
 Young men will get married. Adam was the 
 first man who objected to living alone, and his 
 sons all the way down to the present day have 
 raised the old man's objection, followed in his 
 footsteps, and sought out a woman for an every- 
 day companion. This is of course all well 
 enough, and everything is apt to run along 
 smoothly providing tnere is^io difficulty encoun- 
 tered in getting the provisions. Here is where 
 the rub may be expected. If the old folks hap- 
 pen to be millionaires the rub won't be very 
 hard, but otherwise look out for tough scratch- 
 ing. This can only be avoided in one way : by 
 purchasing the family supplies at H. J. Barker's. 
 The question what does he keep ? can be best 
 answered by the simple statement : everything 
 that regularly belongs to a well assorted stock 
 of groceries and provisions. Then, enlarging on 
 this a little, it may be added that his goods are 
 always the best, on which account they are natu- 
 rally the cheapest, and, as a rule, made still 
 cheaper by \a careful and judicious system of 
 purchasing in large quantities for cash, and at 
 the same time taking advantage of any good bar- 
 gains that may chance to be offered by the whole- 
 sale houses. 
 
 Entering somewhat further into particulars, 
 mention may be made of his fruits, which either 
 green, dried or canned are absolutely the best in 
 the market. The impression prevails with some 
 that buying canned goods is like "buying a pig 
 in a bag." However correct the impression 
 may be as applied to others, it don't fit Barker 
 at all. He warrants every can, and if not found 
 as represented may be returned. His prices on 
 this class of goods are so low that no woman un- 
 der the circumstance can afford to can her own 
 fruit. Leading fruits, such as California pears, 
 apricots and peaches, are sold by the case at 
 about the same price at which common goods are 
 sold elsewhere. Teas, coffees and syrups are 
 among Barker's specialties, and he has lots of 
 splendid bargains to offer in these goods. He is 
 also the leading commission merchant in the city. 
 
 Barker's teas are leading all others in quality 
 and price. Those that have not bought tea of 
 him don't know what bargains they are losing 
 every time they buy elsewhere. 
 
 Anderson's Furniture Store. 
 
 An attractive home is one of the most desira- 
 ble acquisitions of life. While the Bedouin Arab 
 may be perfectly satisfied with his tent, in which 
 he keeps his wife, children and horses housed 
 together, the race which has passed the nomadic 
 stage of its existence and finds the possession 
 of a local habitation one of the leading objects of 
 an inherent ambition naturally wants its interior, 
 if not its exterior, fitted up in such a way as to 
 gratify a sense of the beautiful, as well as to 
 serve the purposes of the useful. And therefore 
 the representative of that advanced race, which 
 is the intelligent man or woman of the present 
 day, always goes to K. Anderson for furniture. 
 The stock he keeps comprehends everything that 
 naturally should be found in a well regulated 
 household in the shape of furniture. Chairs are 
 comfortable things to sit on, and Anderson has 
 them in all possible varieties ; the plain wooden 
 chair, made strong and substantial ; the wooden 
 arm chair and wood rocking chairs for children 
 and adults. Then he has a better grade, con- 
 sisting of caned chairs, including rockers, arm 
 chairs, etc., finished up in the neatest and most 
 tasteful style. In the finest grade of chairs he 
 takes the lead, in these parts at least. His easy 
 rockers and others are simply superb, finished 
 in rep, raw silk, velvet, hair, cloth, etc., with 
 spring bottoms, adjustable backs, and every 
 other feature which can in any way add to 
 their real usefulness and beauty. In tables the 
 variety is large, ranging from the plainest stand 
 to the finest walnut marble-top center table. 
 Bedsteads are abundant and embrace the cheap- 
 er articles in stained wood, the better finished 
 ones, though plain, in walnut, ash, etc., and 
 those handsome and stylishly finished, which go 
 with the finest bed-room sets. The stock of bu- 
 reaus could not well be more attractive ; and 
 from the convenient and nobby little bureau to 
 the best finished marble-top, all are excellent. 
 Hair, wool, husk and spring mattresses of all 
 the leading kinds are constantly in stock, as al- 
 so picture frames of all kinds. 
 
 Undertaking is a leading feature in Mr. An- 
 derson's business, and receives the most prompt 
 attention. He keeps everything in this line, so 
 that patrons can always find just what will suit 
 them. A handsome hearse, the finest absolutely 
 in the Twin Cities, is free to patrons. He is the 
 only undertaker in this vicinity who embalms 
 and preserves bodies without the use of ice, hav- 
 ing made a special study of this branch of the 
 business and practiced it for years. 
 
 All kinds of furniture repairing and uphol- 
 stering done in the best manner, and all goods 
 sold at the very lowest rates.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 W. A. Locke's Fine Art Studio, 99 First 
 Street. 
 
 Photography, as a branch of the fine arts, re- 
 ceives its due share of attention in this city. 
 The gallery long and favorably kwown under the 
 management of George Syphers, has for a num- 
 ber of years been operated by W. A. Locke, who 
 is a man of fine talent and thoroughly posted in 
 all branches of the art. Mr. Locke has added 
 very largely to its facilities and popularity and 
 brought it to the highest standard of excellence. 
 
 S. D. Brown & Co.'s Dry Goods House. 
 
 The dry goods house of II. I). Brown is one of 
 the oldest establishments in the county, twenty- 
 five yeni's ago having been under the manage- 
 ment of Adams & Hatch. The present firm, in 
 which Mr. Frank Longworth figures as the 
 "Co.," acceptably to the public, occupies the 
 old field to-day, prepared to^how the people of 
 this vicinity a most extensive and complete 
 Stock of dry goods, carpets, hosiery, curtains, 
 
 Rotios, furnishing goods, etc., and a cordial in- 
 Ihe success of any business depends on the sat- ... 
 
 isfaction afforded its patrons, and judging frsnv^ 1 ^ 1011 is ** to " t examine the same, 
 the reputation of the gallery its patrons can '^ e character of the stock is constantly being 
 safely depend on obtaining the very best work improved by placing on the counters at all times 
 in every case and securing the full value of their | fa all detriments the best goods the market, af- 
 niouey. The photographic art is ranked among j^.j^ T]li8 give persons in .search of fine 
 
 the finest, and one requiring a great deal of 
 experience and skill in order to attain any ap- 
 proximation towards perfection. The apparatus 
 ibr successful work is ivery expensive and the 
 most delicate and sensitive work is required 
 in every detail. Mr. Locke's gallery and oper- 
 ating returns occupy two floors of one of the 
 large brick store buildings on First street. One 
 floor is used nly for printing and finishing, 
 while on the other arc the operating rooms, the 
 reception rooms, parlors, etc. The display of 
 pictures and specimens of fine art is truly beau- 
 tiful and consists of photographs in all the latest 
 styles ; also portraits finished in oil, India ink, 
 crayon, etc. The walls of the art parlor are 
 adorned with fine steel engravings, artotypes, 
 albertypes, oleographs and many other fine speo- 
 niens of the fine art; also a magnificent dis- 
 
 goods an opportunity 'to purchase without going 
 sut of town to find them. It would be impossi- 
 ble here to give an adequate idea of the extent 
 and variety of the goods comprised in this 
 stock, but all should see it for themselves. 
 
 The advantage in having a n!:i:nm<i;!i 
 stosk to select from is obvious, and prices 
 are the lowest in every instance. H. D. Bivwn 
 & Co. keep regularly on hand a superb stc 
 silks, black and plain, colors and faucj^, from 
 the cheapest to the very best ; also the latest 
 novelties in black and colored dress goods in 
 the finest fabrics, together with aa elegant line 
 of ladies', children's and men's hosiery and 
 glores, parasols, ribbons, laces, fanes 
 every description, and suits -for children in 
 many elegant styles. They have a fine stock ri' 
 ladies' cloth and silk wraps, such as jackets, 
 
 play of fine silk, plush, velvet and gold pictui* ] ulgters> dolman*, etc. Better bargains than are 
 frames. In addition to the taking of fine pic- I () (V C1 . C(1 hl lhi , hou8e are hard to find , ^ the 
 turos, Mr. Locke carries the most extensive line aisn hns l)oeil aml a i w . iys w m be to satisfy in 
 of elegant picture frames to be found, from the , CYel Beuf<0 of thc W01 . a cvery cusloiner j u O ' ve rv 
 plainest grades to the most delicate gold frames, purchase !>e it. hu-x- or small "Brown's" is a 
 
 all of which are of the newest and latest pat- 
 terns. 
 
 Photography is one of the arts chemistry ha* 
 made possible and practicable. If is the com- 
 pelling of the sunlight to perform the work of 
 the painter and it does it in a manner vastly 
 superior to anything that the hand of man has 
 attained to. It has also brought within reach 
 of the poor*as well as the rich tire power to in- 
 dulge in the love for the beautiful, which is one 
 of the inherent characteristics of human nature. 
 Its use is not strictly confined to the formation 
 of pictures ; ii is used for other purposes, prin- 
 cipal among which it that of making stereotype 
 and electrotype plates for printing. 
 
 household word in scores of families, and many 
 never think of going elsewhere to purchase dry 
 goods. They have always traded there, always 
 knew that they got full value for their money, 
 and will continue to patronize the house as long 
 as they buy and the firm sell goods. With bus- 
 iness tact, judgment and foresight to grasp new 
 ideas in the line of their trade, thc ability to 
 anticipate and prepare for supplying at all sea- 
 
 sons the numerous wants of t 
 Messrs. Brown and Longwort 
 
 ommunity, 
 ve a Ions 
 
 lease of business prosperity before them and at 
 the beginning of the next century will doubtless 
 be found still in the field selling good geods at 
 the lowest possible prices.
 
 i8 
 
 J. J. King, Merchant Tailor. 
 
 To trace tailoring back to its origin would be 
 almost equal to tracing up the origin of man. 
 If, as Darwin claims, men originated from 
 the monkey, then tailoring began early in 
 the transition stage when the hirsute cov- 
 ering began to grow too thin to afford protec- 
 tion from the inclemency of the weather. If 
 the story of Adam's creation be the true version 
 of man's first appearance on the earth, then 
 tailoring first began in his family. Man's tastes 
 coupled with his requirements in the matter of 
 dress have called for many modifications in th'e 
 forms* of garments and all these had to be 
 studied and worked out by the industrious and 
 indefatigable tailor. The human form may be 
 divine, and all that, but the tailor's skill brings 
 out that divinity. 
 
 Among the tailors of La Salle deserving of a 
 generous notice may be mentioned Mr. J. J. 
 King, who has for a period of 25 years been en- 
 gaged in clothing the leading citizens of this 
 city and Peru. Long experience in the busi- 
 ness has enabled him to become acquainted with 
 the wants of the community and the fact of his 
 long stay here is conclusive evidence that he 
 suits his customers and gives satisfaction in all 
 cases. It would not be doing him justice to say 
 less than that he is the best judge of cloth to be 
 scared up in this county. If possibly he has an 
 equal in this respect he certainly has no superi- 
 ors. Customers can always depend on what he 
 tells them in relation to the quality of goods. 
 The quality of cloth varies so greatly that ordi- 
 nary people or those who have never had oppor- 
 tunity to learn in what a good article consists, 
 find it necessary to learn in each particular in- 
 stance from one who knows. Mr, King is the 
 man in this city who knows, and his skill and 
 ability are appreciated. 
 
 With a good stock of cloth regularly on hand 
 he is prepared to furnish suits or single gar- 
 ments at low prices. If he should chance to 
 have no patterns that please a customer he 
 shows him a high pile of samples among which 
 he cannot fail to find something that exactly 
 suits him, and which is always obtained within 
 a day or two afterwards from some leading 
 Chicago house. With every facility for doing ! 
 good work and with the ability and sound judg- j 
 ment which long years of practical experience 
 alone can produce, he asks for the continuance 
 of that trade which has been so generously ten- 
 dered him in the past, and guaranteeing satisfac- 
 tion in the highest degree both as to quality of 
 goods and workmanship, his business is steadily 
 maintained and customers remain long with him. 
 
 Mrs. J. J. King's Dyeing and Scouring 
 Establishment. 
 
 A person's first impression in regard to color- 
 ing fabrics is that it is a very simple operation 
 requiring no more skill than is necesaary in 
 the production of the required shade in the 
 liquid and the dipping into it of the article to 
 be colored. Such however is not the case for 
 there are few arts in which experience, aptness 
 and actual skill are -more called for in order to 
 attain even tolerably good results than in dye- 
 ing. If each piece of cloth were made entirely 
 of the same material cotton, wool, or whatever 
 it might be and each thread were twisted the 
 same there would be little difficulty then in ob- 
 taining any desired color. The same piece of 
 cloth may contain cotton, wool and silk and the 
 warp be tightly twisted like a spool of cotton 
 'thread while the woof is perfectly loose, and 
 while the one part would entirely take up the 
 coloring matter the other would absorb it very 
 slowly and thus when removed from the dye 
 the^ article instead of being of a uniform 
 color would be greatly variegated. The skill is 
 in knowing just how to operate with both cloth 
 and color so as to make all parts of the fabric 
 receive its proper share of the coloring matter. 
 Very often uniformity in the final result is a 
 matter of absolute impossibility and an approxi- 
 mation to the desired result is all that can be 
 hoped for. Mrs. King has had many years of 
 experience in the business and what sjie does 
 not know about the practical work of dyeing is 
 very little. She seldom failg to produce good 
 results for she knows the boundaries beyond 
 which the impossible lies. With the best of dyes, 
 those imported from France being the only kind 
 she uses, she succeeds where with ordinary 
 dyers, success is impossible. The establishment 
 of this business was something long needed in 
 La Salle. There are few persons, be they rich 
 or poor, that do not often find it desirable to 
 have goods dyed that are not half worn out but 
 which it would be the most unpardonable ex- 
 travagance to throw away simply because they 
 are faded and not suitable to wear on that ac- 
 count. Almost everything of this nature can 
 be made nearly as good as new by dyeing and 
 should such be necessary, cleaning and repairing, 
 which Mrs. King promptly attends to. She 
 colors all kinds of fabrics, be they cotton, wool 
 or silk. Felt hats cleaned and dyed and silk 
 hats cleaned and blocked. It may be added to 
 the above that the Mrs. King's dye works are in 
 La Salle to stay ; they are one of the permanent 
 fixtures of the place.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 M. J. Bungart Stoves, Tin and Hard- 
 ware. 
 
 The day is not long passed since the old fire- 
 place, occupying nearly the entire end of the 
 family residence, with chimney filling up a large 
 portion of the adjacent out-doors, was abandon- 
 ed with its numerous adjuncts in the way of 
 andirons, cranes, hooks, pots, tin ovens and a 
 dozen or so et ceteras. It had its day and 
 though some may lament its departure and sigh 
 for the return of the good old times, the present 
 generation has something better and is therefore 
 disposed to look upon the picture so vividly 
 drawn by those who entered the world when 
 the last century was still unfinished as that of 
 a relic of barbarism or at least of semi-civiliza- 
 tion. 
 
 Stoves as they are now made by the leading 
 manufacturers in all their varied forms evince 
 the most wonderful progress since a few decades 
 ago in the devices for cooking and heating. An 
 illustration of this can best be seen by a visit to 
 M. J. Bungart's commodious store well filled 
 with a full stock of the best and most improved 
 styles the market affords. As a leader among 
 leaders in the line of cooking stoves may be 
 mentioned the " Crown Prince." The highest 
 compliment that can be paid it is to note the 
 fact that more of the Crown Prince stoves are 
 sold in this community than of any two other 
 styles offered to the trade. It possesses every 
 commendable feature found in cook stoves, and 
 further than this nothing need be said in regard 
 to it. The Vapor Oil Stove is one of Bungart's 
 specialties, and its desirability for summer use 
 cannot be questioned. It is safe, convenient, 
 clean and cheap, and does not heat up a room 
 to an intolerable temperature every time it is 
 necessary in mid summer to boil the tea-kettle 
 or heat a flat iron. The prices range from $4 
 up, and no housekeeper once using it would 
 think it possible afterwards to do without it. 
 
 The supply of heating stoves in this store is 
 always large, comprising the best irtade either 
 for hard or soft coal. Ruby and other furnaces 
 are also furnished when parties desire to heat 
 with hot air. A general assortment of shelf 
 hardware, cutlery, nails, etc., is always in stock, 
 and also a large lot of garden and form imple- 
 ments, such as shovels, hoes, forks, rakes, 
 scythes, and the like. In tinware Mr. Bungart 
 does a large business, having abundant facilities 
 for doing everything in the tin manufacturing 
 line except the making of pressed Ware :unl of 
 this he always keeps a large quantity on hand. 
 H'e does all kinds of general jobbing, roofing, 
 'guttering, etc., and gives his patrons sattefaction 
 time. . 
 
 Williamson & Holmes Cash Grocers. 
 
 The inhabitants of this world are nearly all 
 after cash. This is the end and aim of all en- 
 deavors the main object of life. How to obtain 
 this boon is something that has exercised the 
 human mind ever since a medium of exchange 
 was first devised away back in the early ages, 
 when man learned that he could not with his 
 own hands make each and every article that his 
 necessities and comforts required, and he dis- 
 covered that it was convenient to trade with his 
 neighboi-s. A few only, up to the present day, 
 have discovered the great secret that the best 
 way to get and accumulate cash is to trade on a 
 cash basis. Williamson & Holmes made the dis- 
 covery a few years since and reorganized their 
 grocery house, which they had been conducting 
 in the customary way for along time with rather 
 indifferent success, on a strictly cash basis. They 
 launched out anew with the intention of making 
 money themselves and at the same time giving 
 their customers lower rates than ever on all 
 kinds of goods in the grocery line, thus giving 
 them a chance to save a little of their own hard 
 earned money. And the plan of the firm has 
 worked successfully, and they and their cus- 
 tomers are satisfied that true economy consists in 
 paying as you go, contracting no debts, but 
 owning what you possess. 
 
 The stock carried by this firm is very compre- 
 hensive and embraces everything in the grocery 
 line. Among the leading articles here may be 
 mentioned teas and canned fruits. Of the former 
 they always carry the best and largest assort- 
 ment in the county, while the latter includes all 
 the best and most reliable brands of fruits, vege- 
 tables and meats. In crockery, lamps and glass- 
 ware the stock is immense, embracing all kinds 
 of plain and fancy ware, common, china, ma- 
 jolica, etc., with lamps of about every kind 
 made, from the cheapest to the very finest, and 
 glassware of. every conceivable kind, style and 
 pattern, not considered out of date. 
 
 Green fruits, such as berries of all kinds, 
 peaches, pears, plums, grapes, apples, etc., al- 
 ways on hand in their season in abundance and 
 at the very lowest market rates. 
 
 Country produce butter, eggs, vegetables and 
 poultry, can alway be disposed of here on the 
 most advantageous terms. 
 
 Such things as nuts, confectioneries, jellies and 
 similar goods are always fresh and of t he very best. 
 Tobacco, cigars, pipes liiul other smokers' articles 
 always ready for use. Hporting goods powder, 
 shot, shells, fishing tackle and about everything 
 el*o desired by the sp'tfH'aman always forsale.
 
 2O 
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 Gco. Raymond Lumber, Cffal and Paint. 
 
 l,::i:iln-r is <;ne ',f the necessities of our exi<t- 
 
 It was not always made as now by means 
 of expensive and elaborate sawing machinery, 
 but it was made and used nevertheless when the 
 ax was the only tool in the hands of the artisan. 
 It is used not only in all building construction, 
 but, in the manufacture of so any different ar- 
 ticles in every day use that it may properly be 
 said to be universal in all its applications to the 
 \v. -ints of man. 
 
 For a period of three years past Geo. Ray- 
 mond has been engaged in supplying the wants 
 of the people of this city and vicinity with this 
 very necessary commodity, and so well has lie 
 satisfied the public in his system of dealing that 
 he has now a large number of firm friends on 
 whose patronage he can always depead. 
 
 ITis stock comprises everytking that should 
 be found in a well arranged lumber yard, in- 
 cluding common lumber, fencing, flooring, 
 plank, studding, siding, lath, shingles and the 
 like. Dressed lumber is on band at ail times in 
 large quantities as also an extensive assortment 
 of seasoned lumber, including mouldings of doz- 
 ens of different designs, with matched lumber 
 for wainscotings, ceilings, and the like. He has 
 a fine stock regularly on hand of sash, doors, 
 blinds and other factory made articles for 
 builders, everything being of the very best ma- 
 terial and workmanship, well seasoned and 
 guaranteed to give satisfaction in all cases. 
 
 When any commodity is purchased at a higk 
 
 price it must of necessity be sold at a high price 
 
 to Afford the dealer a margin for profit, but Mr. 
 
 Raymond don't buy lumber in that way. He is 
 
 in ii position to secure fully as low rntes as the 
 
 Favored dealer in the State and is, conse- 
 
 quently, abb.- to sell at figures which are in 
 
 j sense tin very lowest, and purchasers of 
 
 lumber will save money by keeping this fact 
 
 constantly in mind. 
 
 In addition to lumber Mr. Raymond keeps 
 
 regularly in his warehouse a full suppl}' of the 
 
 lime the market affords, both for masonry 
 
 and j'las! hydraulic cement, stucco, 
 
 ring hair and other materials required in 
 
 buildj 
 
 Anthracite coal is another article in which 
 Mr. Raymond d,^ls, and has always enough on 
 hand rruind that may be made 
 
 upon him. The superiority of hftrd coal over 
 our ordinary soft coal for domestic 'heaikig pur- 
 poses is r&ognized by all who have had oppor- 
 tunity to coiupare the two. Hart! coal wil 1 
 burn aH.enst three t" ng as d'ft coal 
 
 and hence the same quantity will last three 
 times as long, produce less than one-half the 
 quantity of ashes, make no smoke or gas, no 
 dust to render rooms unpleasant or unhealthy, 
 while the heat produced with hard coal is at all 
 times by far the most intense. The celebrated 
 Cumberland Blossburg coal, the best known tor 
 blacksmithing is also regularly kept on hand. 
 
 Mr. Raymond also keeps regularly on hand a 
 full supply of Rubber Paint, the best in use, 
 manufactured in 100 shades, colors and tints, 
 from pure white to .jet black, by the Rubber 
 Paint Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. For many 
 years chemists and others have experimented 
 in mixing India rubber with oil, lead, etc., in 
 order to produce a perfectly icatfr-/>ror>f paint, 
 and at last, successful in the effort, have formed 
 a chemical combination of rubber with oil paints 
 which, when applied, becomes hard and elastic 
 enough not to crack or peal from the action of 
 the atmosphere, with a gloss equal to work fin- 
 ished with varnish. The company own all the 
 patents covering perfect combinations like the 
 above, known and sold as "Rubber Paint.'' 
 
 After several years' trial and the severest 
 tests, they confidently assert that 32 worth of 
 paint will cover more surface, and do it better, 
 than 3 worth of white lead and oil, and will 
 last three times as long. Two coats of the Rub- 
 ber Paint are better than three coats of ordinary 
 paint. The particular point of superiority es- 
 tablished for this paint may be summed up as 
 follows : It is the most economical paint, cost- 
 Jug one-quarter to one-third less than any other, 
 while one-third more can be accomplished with 
 a given quantity. Its durability surpasses that 
 of any other paint,for the reason that in whatev- 
 weather or condition of climate used,-it is not 
 effected ; while its greater body forms a coat 
 remarkably firm and strong, and at the .-ami- 
 time so adhesive and elastic that it will imt 
 crack or peel off. H retains color better than 
 any other paint, and brings out colors with more 
 brilliancy and effect. It is available for all 
 kinds of piinting, and especially for fine inside 
 work, and may be used with equal advantage on 
 iron, wood, brick or plaster. No paint manu- 
 factured will resist water equal to it, making it 
 unequaled tor painting vessels, boats or roofs. 
 In all requisites of a first class paint, the Rubber 
 Paint is unequalled, and, it is believed, must 
 supersede all other paints now in use. The 
 Rubber Paint is prepared in pure white, and in 
 all cottage and other colors, comprising any 
 number of different shades. and put up ready for 
 use, being a great advantage, as it can be spread 
 by any one. One gallon of this paint will cover 
 to thirty yards, two
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 21 
 
 Jacob Knapp's Harness Store. 
 
 La Salle has at least one really fine harness 
 store that of Jacob Knapp. He has been in 
 the harness business here for many years, is a 
 practical workman himself, understands every 
 detail of the trade and the business and is a 
 popular man in the community. His stock com- 
 prises a large assortment of the different kinds 
 of harness in genei'al use, grading from the 
 finest, best made, and most stylishly finished 
 buggy harness to the lower priced though sub- 
 stantial and durable article. Following these 
 comes all kinds of harness for draft horses from 
 that, suitable for the heaviest truck harness to 
 the light team, of the express driver, all made in 
 the best manner and of the best material. A 
 stock of saddles which includes about every 
 kind in use, from the most common to the finest 
 is always on hand. There is a large lot of col- 
 lars regularly in stock for customers to select 
 from just what they want. Whips by the hun- 
 dred afford an ample assortment for every one 
 to find something to suit him. Fly nets, horse 
 covers, blankets, and in fact all kinds of articles 
 used by horsemen can always be found in this 
 store, atid to the general stock is added a lot of 
 trunks, valises, traveling bags and the like. All 
 kinds of repairing neatly and promptly done. 
 
 The City Police Force. 
 
 La Salle has generally had an efficient police 
 force. The order, as a rule, maintained in the 
 city, has been as good, if not a little superior 
 to that maintained in other places where the 
 population is the same in number and character. 
 And it can be properly and truthfully remarked 
 here that the thanks of the citizens for the peace 
 and quiet of the place are largely due to the 
 efforts of the efficient Chief of Police, Mr. Jas. 
 Murtha. He is one of those who are natural 
 born detectives, if there are such, and has long ago 
 made for himself a most creditable record. He 
 has been engaged in a number of very important 
 -, and his success in ferreting out criminals 
 and securing evidence against them has been by 
 no means meager. He lias served as an officer in La 
 Salle for many years, and though he did not at 
 first he has of late years given his whole time 
 and attention to police and detective work. He 
 is now supported by an efficient and competent 
 body of men, who act in the capacity of police- 
 men: Messrs. Lnrney, Doyle, Micbach and Mc- 
 Guire, and the city is probably as free from 
 hoodlums and thugs as any set of men could 
 make it. 
 
 Cummings & Nink, Cigar Manufacturers. 
 
 Since the day when Sir Walter Raleigh got a 
 pail of water clashed over him by a servant, who, 
 seeing the smoke emanating from his mouth, 
 thought lie had caught fire and was burning up, 
 men have persisted in smoking. As to whether 
 the practice is hurtful or otherwise is a matter 
 for those to discuss who are qualified to say 
 something on the subject. The substance of 
 this paragraph is to set forth the good qualities 
 of the cigars manufactured by Messrs. Cum- 
 mings & Nink. They have had seventeen years 
 experience in the business and claim not with- 
 out the best of reasons that there is no better 
 cigar in the market than they make. The fol- 
 lowing are a part of the brands they have on 
 Sale : La Cosmopolitana, 4 1 , -, Clear Havana ; 
 Aurora, 4}, Clear Havana Filler ; Morning 
 Dawn. 4j, Half Havana Filler ; El Clarino, 3;], 
 Part Havana Filler ; Revolution, 4J, Clear Con- 
 necticut Seed. The public is recommended to 
 try these cigars and they are offered with the 
 full confidence that they will be found yood in 
 every sense of the word. They are in all cases 
 just exactly what they are represented to be. 
 
 Something Worth Reading. 
 
 No matter how good or how poor the times 
 j are it is Always beneficial to know where the 
 best articles can be had for the least money. 
 Should you wish to purchase anything in the 
 clothing line you are referred to B. Lachmann 
 & Co. They are the oldest, and most reliable 
 Clothing firm in La Salle. Having had many 
 years' experience in the business, and being 
 very close buyers, they come right to the front 
 rank as leaders in low prices. Headquarters for 
 well made and well fitting garments for Men, 
 Boys and Children, and everything else that, is 
 usually kept in a first, class Clothing establish- 
 ment. This enterprising firm has lately estab- 
 lished, in connection with their extensive busi- 
 ness, a Merchant Tailoring Department, where 
 none but first class garments are turned out, 
 from 15 to 20 per cent, less than tailors will 
 furnish the same. From 200 to 300 seasonable 
 patterns always in stock to select from. 
 Good suits range from $18.00 to $25.00, and ;t 
 perfect fit gurranteed. A full line of North 
 Western Hats, in all* colors and styles, manufac- 
 tured expressly for B. Lachmann & Co. Every 
 Hat is warranted to give satisfaction. Also a 
 full line of Sweet's Overalls on hand. Farmers 
 and mechanics will please take notice that this is 
 j the best fitting Overall made and will never rip. 
 \ For further particulars call at the Golden Eagle 
 j Clothing House of B. Lachmann & Co.
 
 22 
 
 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 L. Stone's Clothing Store. 
 
 As everyone must have clouung, the question 
 of where to buy comes to every family at one 
 time or another. La Salic people have solved 
 this question as a general thing, find have pro- 
 nounced in favor of Stone's clothing house as 
 about the best place in the county to procure 
 ready-made garments. The stock of men' s ready- 
 made clothing for young and old is one of the 
 largest in the county. He keeps not only goods 
 of the finest grade, but carries a full assortment 
 adapted to the wants of the farmer, mechanic, la- 
 borer and all classes of young men, middle-aged 
 .men and old men, or large or small men, as well 
 as every size between, with prices in all cases 
 graded down to common sense figures. In the 
 low priced grades there is nothing but good, 
 honest goods, such as will wear well and look 
 well and are worth every cent asked for them. 
 In the higher grades are suits made from the 
 best imported and domestic fabrics and in the 
 latest styles. 
 
 Mr. Stone's goods are of a far better quality 
 of cloth and of superior workmanship, sewing, 
 etc., than ready-made clothing generally. He is 
 a close and careful buyer, and workmanship is 
 considered by him with the same importance as 
 texture and quality of goods. He warrants every 
 article sold to be exactly as represented. It is 
 impossible to get cheated here, as everything is 
 strictly one price, and each article is marked in 
 plain figures so that all may read them, a child 
 as well as a man. Boys' suits, suitable for all 
 ages and for parents whose pocket books arc 
 poorly supplied with money as well as the pros- 
 perous merchant or mechanic. 
 
 The stock of gents' furnishing goods is im- 
 mense, and comprises mens' and boys' white 
 shirts, with working shirts of cheviot, flannel, 
 cassimere, etc.; witji collars, cuffs, ties; under- 
 wear, cotton, flannel, etc.; gloves and everything 
 desirable in a gentleman's wardrobe. 
 
 All the late styles of hats and caps are kept 
 regularly in stock, and the aim is to make this 
 the place where a person can tind any style of 
 hat or cap for men's or boys' wear that may be 
 desired. 
 
 There is a fine line of trunks and valises of all 
 kinds, sizes and qualities, and at all prices, ele- 
 gantly finished or plain ; also n lot of excellent 
 traveling bogs for ladies or gents, many of them 
 perfect marvels of convenience, in cloth, rubber, 
 split leather and alligator skin, with shawl and 
 trunk straps, and the like. A large Sot of rubber 
 goods, such as coats, legging, hats, blankets, etc., 
 is also regularly in stock. 
 
 Remember the place, one door east of P. 0., 
 old stand. 
 
 Geo. A. Elliott Agricultural Implements. 
 
 Geo. A. Elliott is one of the oldest and best 
 known merchants in the city of La Salle, hav- 
 ing been engaged in his present business for a 
 period of over twenty years. He keeps the best 
 farm machinery the market supplies, and is al- 
 ways ready to meet the demands of the farming 
 community for anything in this line. He has 
 an assortment of old ground plows from leading 
 manufacturers, such as the Furst & Bradley, 
 Peru City, Buford, Grand Detour and others, 
 including the Hapgood sulky plow which is 
 warranted to run lighter on the team than any 
 walking plow made ; the Corbin disc harrow, 
 something that is rapidly coming into popular 
 favor and entirely supersedes the old style ; 
 also the Acme harrow, a very effective imple- 
 ment ; the celebrated Challenge and Farmer's 
 Friend corn planters with the Hay worth and 
 Joliet wire check rowers ; Union seeders, the 
 very best known ; Furst & Bradley, Buford, 
 Grand Detour, Hapgood and other leading walk- 
 ing spring cultivators with the Buford tongue- 
 less cultivator, embracing all the latest and best 
 improvements and devices in this class of ma- 
 chinery ; different styles of mowers, including 
 the Empire, D. S. Morgan and Hopkins, which 
 perhaps have no superiors anywhere ; the Furst 
 & Bradley horse hay rake ; also the celebrated 
 Thomas self-dump rake, which is discharged by 
 the power of the horse, steel tooth, very strong 
 and durable ; also the Eagle sulky rake, which 
 can be dumped either by hand or foot. 
 
 Leading among the machines in stock is the 
 Empire twine binder which stands at the head 
 in the way of harvesting machinery. It does 
 its work automatically and to perfection, draws 
 the band tight, ties it firmly and binds only 
 when the bundle has reached the proper size, 
 and is the lightest draft machine in the market. 
 Mr. Elliott also takes orders for Aultman & Co.'s 
 threshing machines, horse powers, portable 
 steam engines, etc. He is also agent for Russell 
 & Co., Massilon, 0., manufacturers of threshing 
 machinery, portable and traction steam engines, 
 saw-mills, and the like. 
 
 Corn shellers of various kinds, among them 
 the Eureka, made ai .Joliet, including hand and 
 horse power, promptly : r;.;,iie<l to the trade. 
 The celebrated Studebakvi- WM^OUS, buggies and 
 carriages, and Oshkosh buck's and carriages. 
 
 To enumerate everything kept in the ware- 
 house would be a heavy task, but enough arti- 
 cles have been mentioned to show that he keeps 
 the best of everything and the supply is never 
 exhausted.
 
 THE CITY OF LA SAL,L,E. 
 
 2 3 
 
 J. G. Feldes' Grocery and Crockery Store. 
 
 When a person has been successfully engaged 
 in business for a long period of years it is evi- 
 dence that, he knows the wants of his patrons 
 and supplies them. John G. Feldes' grocery 
 and crockery house is the oldest German estab- 
 lishment of the kind in the city and' was first 
 opened up thirteen years ago. The large busi- 
 ness now being done points conclusively to the 
 fact that the proprietor has the tact and good 
 judgment to discern just what the people in this 
 community demand in the line of his business 
 and keeps the purpose constantly in view to 
 supply that demand. His mammoth emporium, 
 for such it is in reality, is stocked with every- 
 thing in the way of groceries, provisions, fruits, 
 crockery, china, cutlery, glass, wood and willow 
 ware. He is actually the largest dealer in 
 crockery, china, glass And decorated ware, 
 lamps, etc., in this county and as a natural con- 
 sequence sells cheaper than any other house. 
 He also imports and deals in wines, liquors, 
 champaign, fine Kentucky whiskies, etc., and 
 handles none but first class goods. 
 
 Entering a little more into particulars it may 
 be mentioned that his grocery stock comprises 
 selected goods in all the different branches. 
 Among his specialties may be mentioned canned 
 goods, which include fruits, meats and vegeta- 
 bles of every kind put up in tin, always of the 
 leading and best brands and guaranteed to prove 
 satisfactory. Teas, coffees and spices he keeps 
 in very large assortments and can suit the 
 most fastidious in these goods. Green fruits are 
 always to be found here in their proper season 
 and sold at the lowest market rates. 
 
 Tobaccos, cigars, pipes and smokers' articles 
 generally are in largo supply and variety and 
 no one can fail to find here what will suit him 
 in this class of goods. The display of crockery 
 is something fine and there is nothing made in 
 this line that any ordinary person has occasion 
 to use which is not to be found on the shelves 
 in Feldes' store. In majolica ware there is an 
 . assortment which is not equaled for variety and 
 excellence in any other store in the county. In 
 the glassware line may be seen nearly every 
 style of lamp now in domestic use, from the 
 plainest and cheapest to the most ornamental 
 and finely finished. 
 
 In addition to the stock abo^e specially men- 
 tioned there is always on exhibition a large and 
 lino lot of vases, toilet sets, work baskets and 
 fancy goods in almost endless variety, all of 
 which like everything else in the store, is sold 
 at the very lowest rock bottom prices. 
 
 Litcey & Theiss' Dry Goods Store. 
 
 The Dry Goods firm of Luccy & Theiss, suc- 
 cessors to Scott Bros. & Co., has been recog- 
 nized since its first opening as one of the stand- 
 ard business firms of the city, always alive to 
 the interest of iheir customers, and knowing 
 how to do business they deal in what their cus- 
 tomers want to buy. They believe fhat the men 
 who would build up an honorable and successful 
 business, must see that the foundations are well 
 laid. In this respect integrity and honor are- 
 principles which cannot be ignored. They prac- 
 tice close attention to their business, economy 
 in expense, fair judgment, no misrepresentations, 
 give fair prices, and are always ready, if possi- 
 ble, to do better for their customers than others 
 in the same business. In addition to these prin- 
 , which form the foundation of their busi- 
 ness, Messrs.' Luccy & Theiss are never sleeping 
 when the interests of their customers are at 
 stake. In every department in their store the 
 stock is ample and well selected, they being al- 
 ways ready and in a position to take advantage 
 of any bargains that are offered by the wholesale 
 trade and giving their patrons the benefits de- 
 rived therefrom. 
 
 There has not been a year, within the recol- 
 lection of the oldest inhabitant, where cash buyers 
 have had advantages such as have been offered 
 this year. Many goods, especially Dress Goods 
 and all imported goods, can be bought at their 
 counters for less money than the same goods were 
 offered at wholesale in the early part of the 
 season, and this means is taken of suggesting to 
 buyers of Dry Goods that have not yet called on 
 Messrs. Luccy & Theiss to go there, examine 
 their stock, learn their prices and manner of 
 doing business, and you will be sure to receive 
 courteous treatment, whether you purchase any- 
 thing or not, as the firm are always pleased to 
 show customers through their stock. Their 
 Dress Goods Department is second to none, and 
 in it may be found full lines in black and col- 
 ored of the celebrated Black Crow and Golden 
 Cross Cashmeres, Nun's Veilings, Buntings, 
 Stripes and Plaids, besides many novelties that 
 arc shown for the first time this season. Their 
 Silk Department embraces all the standard 
 brands of imported and American Silks, both 
 black and colored, and the best line of Summer 
 Silks in the county, witli prices guaranteed as 
 low as any house in America. Samples and 
 prices of Dress Goods and Silks will be mailed 
 free by request. Their stock of Lawns, Ging- 
 hams and Prints was never as well selected as
 
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 THE CITY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 now, and they are showing many novelties. In 
 Housekeeping Goods they make a specialty, 
 selling Table Linens, Nakins, Towels, Crashes, 
 etc., fully 10 per cent, below competitors. They 
 have the best line of Parasols and Fans in the 
 county and fully 25 per cent, below last season's 
 prices. See their Silk Parasols for $1.00, arid 
 
 Cambric Parasols for 10 cents. They beat them 
 all. Ladies' Cloaks, Wraps, Dolmans, Ulsters, 
 Shawls and Skirts are a specialty. 
 
 Space forbids any more enumeration of this 
 stock, but all arc advised to call and sec .Messrs. 
 Lucey & Theiss. They will be pleased with yom- 
 visit, and save you money in your purchases.
 
 RO3ENHAUPT & CO., 
 
 Always Ready for trade with the Finest Assortment of 
 
 Seasonable Clothing 
 
 Ever Shown in La Salle. 
 
 HATS, CAPS, FURNISHING GOODS, ETC., 
 
 In Large Supply. All New (ioods, bought at Lowest Cash Prices and 
 SOLD AT RATES BELOW THOSE OF ANY COMPETITOR. 
 
 E2TA lare-e portion of the stock has been made to order and Satisfaction is 
 Guaranteed in all cases. Call and be convinced. 
 
 ROSENHAUPT & CO.