The Times from Streator, Illinois • 1

1 1 -t i. --X. rW-i, -F i Or,) h- '-jsy (4 VN ty MjydL. XX11L NO. 6850.

STKEATOR, THURSDAY, APRIL L903. PHICE, TWO CENTS M. A. Ji JL 9 Fifty Ycsrs fho Slandcrtl 3 i 1 i nac" 9 he Old Reliable. .1 I Expired at the Family Residence in this City at 11:30 O'clock Last Night.

1 9 Table Potatoes, 50c bu. 1 I Vc have a very fine Early Rose Table Potato at 50c busheL These potatoes are sound, smooth and fine cookers, i 1 5 bushel lots, 45c bushel. Has Been 111 With the Grippe but a Few Days---Sketch of His Life -The Funeral Services Will be Held Saturday Afternoon at 2 Oclock. i i 1 Awarded Klghsst Honors Worlds Fair Highest tssts U.S. Govt Chsr.Isti PRIOK BAKING now DIN CO.

CHICAGO 5 4 a i i I i Gold Dust hashing Powder, large size, 20c. 7 cakes Santa Claus Soap for 25c. 8 cakes' Cld Mill Soap for 25c. 6 bars American Family Soap for 25c, Large 10c size White Cloud Soap for 5c. 6 cakes Fairbanks Glycerine Tar Soap for 25c.

-I 6 cakes Fairbanks Fairy Floating Soap for 25c. Miners' andPuddlers' Tobacco, 14b pails, 3 5c. All Leaf Tobacco, Mb palls, 35c. New Factory Tobacco, 1-lb pails, 35c. All of these tobaccos have the Union Stamp.

i 1 All kinds cf 10c packages Tobaccos, 3 for 25c, 4X cr Lion Coffee, per package 10c. Best Bulk Starch, large lumps, 6 lbs for 25c, Very fine Java Colfee, large bean, per lb 23c. Bst Scotch Green Peas, per quart 8c. Best hand picked Navy Beans, per quart 10c. i i Very good Navy Beans, new, good cookers, 4 quarts 25c.

2 packages Grapenuts for 25c, 2 packages MaltarVita fer 25c. 2 packages Force for 25c. 3 cans Earlyj une Peas for 25c. 3 cans fine' Sugar Corn for 25c. 3 cans cf baked beans for 25c.

3 cans Eluebrck Mackerel for 25c, i Gallon can New York Apples for 25c. 5 i i ft Ainers cipply (Jo. 'V V1! rp ft fa- Lor Foriy-Two Years The Behning Piano v'lft America, came to Wethersfield. Con- i neoticut, England, in 1635. Ho was one of the men in Captain.

Masons 1 I little army during the Pequot war, and received a grant of land for his services. Only one of his children was born in America, and" no record of -ajiy exists except that his son. Sam-, uel, lived with him in Bramlford when 4 he died, in 1648. It was from this John Plumb and another who came in I ICO) and loft descendants, that tiro American branch of the Plumb family sprang, and they have been prominent 1 in the civil ami military life of this country ever since. They have been a i ace of warriors and statesmen, and have been notable and forceful in all the emergeneb of their several generations.

There were forty Plumbs in naval and military service during the war of the Revolution. This family was also worthily represented in the War of the Rebellion, and in times of peace has served its country r.o less worthily. Its records are filled with the lives of great men and pure wo- 1 men." and of such stock the of this biography is an aide and worthy representative. 3 Ralph Plumb was horn March 29, i 1816. in Ilusti.

Chautaqua county. York. In 1820 his parents moved to Hartford, Ohio, where he attended tho common schools until he attained tho i age of fourteen jears, when he was obliged, to begin earning his own live- lihood. He obtained vvoil; a gard- enor, earning eighteen and three-' fourths cents a day. He filled this hum- lde position- so well and piade himself so generally useful that liis employer, Seth Haj-es, of the firm of Seth llayeq Company, appreciating the of the hoy.

gave him a position in his store. He remained in the employ of Seth Hayes Company, until he, was twenty-one years of age. In tin mean- time Im was taking every "means to acquire- an education, and spent most- of his spare 'time in stuly. After spending four veais in th mercantile i business, lie formed a partnership with his old employer under the name of Haves Plumb, and built up an ex- tensive country "business. He wajc a very energetic v-oung man and looked out for all business done, three strut si being under his personal snp-i In 1 Mr.

Plumb was circled t-n I the Ohio legislature, and after serving throe terms lm disposed of his busi- ness interests in Hartford and went to reside iir Olurlin, where ills children wore at college. October 15. 18.rfS, Mr. Plumb married 1 Manilla E. Borden, wh e-e father waft I a fanner, captain in the arnn.

ami postmaster at Hartford. Ohio Halj and Marrilla were children together. In 1858 there occurred one of the historic rescues (if a fugitive slave. Ills name was John Prlc and he cam, to Ohfvlin and secure vvoikf I. earn- I ing-thnt he was there, his master rit 1 a slave-catcher to capture him and take him back to Wellington, a nine miles awav.

where they osti nsi- Llv wanted to hhe in For fear tl at he might cognize the 1 slavc-ratf hers, two stiange Mfii w'-ic sent to fie Pti(p, v. ho was at ork' t.ui inlU away in the rhry told him a gentleman in Wellington 5 wanted to hire him to do some work 'j frir him. and being nrsuspieinus oT danger 1m acconipanie! them there. Upon his arrival tin r- h'- was irum- diately aricstrd by ofiirs who had a warrant for him. This caused thm greatest excitement in Oberlin; the citizens Mere up in arms at the out- rage and went five hundrel strong and rescue th- stave and snt him to Canada.

Plumb, with tldrtvsiv others of the party, was arrested thrown into jail. They were -kept in jail for eighty-four days, during whi'ji time Mr. Plumb eMahlPhed and edd- od. with the of hi fellow prKor rs. an janM slavery paper, even printing the snm in jail, where there happened to he printing facilities.

TMt paper had a ide circulation, an tlso arrest and imprisonment of thm-e thifi- 1 ty-seven men caused the wildest incitement in the county and They v'ere anxious for; and demanded, a -trial. The town, county, state and cv- en the federal government did mid know what to do with them; they wce a veritable white elephant on the' hands of the authorities. During tbe legislative career of Mr. Plumb he had Introduced and secured the passage nfi a bill defining the crime of kidnat pirg. and of this the citizens of OPyrlin took advantage at this tlrrie and had the two men who inveigled the slave into hands of the offerers arre'-ted for ki 1-'-napping him.

Thia was like a thunder-. clap out of a clear ky to the qt r-l- ities and brought them to time; atd they opened neeotfations with the prisoners for their reP-anf. being tm-repy1 g't i i 1 of them. They re, rf- i Continued. on Page 8 Col.

Ralph Plumb is of a company, most of whose membeis Pueli va3 the news which spread lived thd east, he purchased 4.000 rapidly over the city at an early hour jams of land here for his company of Has held its position Keforb the public as cme of the standard pianos of the liigdrost Only the finest ma-1 workmanship used in its construction and it is i built bv pert piano makers. If you get a Rehnlna you get value for your money. We will gladly show them to ou whether you are going to buy or nt. 917 Main Street, this morning, and there was a tinge of sadness in the voice of all jwho repeated the About a week ago Col. Plumb uas taken ill with the grippe, hut was not eon fined to his bed until last Fun lay.

In his enfeebled condition it soon be-ce me apparent that he ar not rally- capitalists and engaged in the work of (h velopirg the coal fields. Dr. Worthy S. Streatnr. of Cleveland, president of the company, and this city was named after him.

1 The first of ground was iceordod Feb ruarv 22, 1808. i In order to reach the cool market under the treatment given, 'and and the grow th of the town it was then believed that his days ere Col. Plumb engaged in the building numbered. For the past dayj or two and in a few years the he had lain in a kind of stupir. Oo-j place as-c onnrc ted with the outside (gsionally he would slowly open his wot Id hv the Fox River Valles, the ecs.

gaze around with a acgnt Look Chuato, Pekin Southwestern, the a few momenta, and again fall into a Clihago Paducah, and the Chicago HUPP. Piano Dealers, strSatoiu. of 1( thargy. As one wiio was at his lu-d-ide remarked, fie seems to le quietly sleeping lus lift awav. The end fame at 11:30 oolnrk la-t divi'im ff the aggregating ovt too miles of road built ly him.

A Forms; 1 vatya firm began the work cf constituting the Fox River Valley night. At his were his dcct- road lrit wjs unequal to the task, and biogiaphy ofia man who has been so prominent in the civil and military affairs of the hation as has. the subject cf this sketch. This country has brought forth many heroes, statesmen, financiers and brilliant men in all spheres of life. Its annals tc-cm with the records of good lives and noble Most of our noblest and host men are self-made.

and among the of the prominent self-made and Inilliantlv successful mm -that of Colonel Plumb deserves a higlg place, ly reason of liia broad mpiithk s. chailties, and public spirit." lie has left the Imprint of his individuality on each place in which, for any length of time, he ever resided, and 1m has almost made the busy, prosperous city of SM-eator what it is today. Ills patriotism Is clearly shown by his 'quick response to tlm call to arms when his, country was in need, and he served biavely and well in the defense of the nation. 1 He Is a brilliant financier, and somewhat of a pioneer as well, and has seen the west grow from its sparsely settled infancy into a populous and prosperous middle age; for when Crdonol Plumb tame to Illinois, Htre-ator and adjacent toiyns were but barren hamlets just beginning to struggle into life and prominence. He is a man of strong will and steadfast nature, whose life is characterize-d by many benevolent deeds; he has ever shown his detestation of wrong and oppression and the public offices to which he has been called he has filled with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of hi3 party and The Plumb genealogy is one of most complete of all works of the kind In this country, the time covered by it in America extending from lf.35 to 1800, and in England five generations In regular line from father to son -from about, 1300 down to the first representative! of tho family who came to America in 1635, and to the second who came and left descendants In 1660.

Back of these records Plumbs are found mostly through ihe-lr wills through all the centuries r-f 1180 D. In the great rolls of Normandy, thus showing Norman ancestry in the time of HenryVII, the great grandsem of William the Conqueror. Thus this family can be traced bae-k In Normandy to the year 1180 at ast, and in England to 1240. John Plumb, the first known in fd wife, herself an invalid. Fawcett Plumb and wife, an 1 Mrs.

Ik lie plumb and Cih-n Plumb of Dixon. Mrjn Plumb piostiated with grief wjhen -her life-companion breathed his last. FeV-( ral we-ks ago she was sow rely in-jui't by a ard is not aldq to walk (ion now. tut not iu a wheeled chair. Tlu- sympathy of the entire (ommfmity goes out to h'r in this hour of great bereavement.

Col Ralph Plumb had been a prominent thaiatir in this city and vicinity for the rast 37 ars. At the lose of the ar, in which he took a prominent part, he came to Illinois, reaching this section of the county 1 January 24, isr.o, the site of Btreator at that time being a thicket. As acting secretary, treasurer and resident manager I IS IT YOU 0 Are you one of the sufferers from headache, or more seiious i de-ordcis due to (o strain and base yet Imard of what cor- 1 j-irily fitted glasses are doing for surh Road the fol- lowiiig letter: 9 Albert R. Mills, Ftreator, 111. i in rcfvtenco to the effect your 'glasses had on me would say 9 that feel like another person sinde wnating them.

I have not 'had any more of those dread- ful headaches or dizzy spells; the double vision has passed away and I can see everything clear and perfect. I am now able to read or work by lamp light without Its distressing me, no drawing sensation or sharp pains In eyes since wearing your prismatic lenses. I cannot praise your glasses too much for the relief they have given me. I will recommend you to all 1 see suffering as I have for the last three A vears Yours truly, Mrs. I.

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Col. PlumLpwas akf'l tn take up the wofk and c-arrv it through, and, though he but liitle in i ail- road n-attf'is, lie pushed the road to uV i 1 completion. 1 Plumb w.r.s alo interested in various taring institutions and barking, ai.d was for jears president f-f the s-tnator National hank. One of his no! lest deeda was in erecting a high sthonl holding at a cost of $4V in and pt-f nting it to th city of Sfrcator. He was also instrumental in farming, the gift of from Mr.

Andrew Carnegie for the splendid new public library building now owned by the c-jty. ar.d In many other ways he manifested his Interest In the material growth- of the city. Streator was organized as a city in 1882. 'and Col. Plumb was elected its first mayor.

InllSSl he was elected to congress from this district, known at that time as the eighth district, and composed of the counties of Igt Salle, Will, Grundy, Kendall and Dupage. He served two terms, and at the close he retired to private life, and had taken no active part in politics or business since that time, but he never allowed an opportunity to pass to advance the interests of Streator and Its citizens. following sketch of Col. Plumb was published in The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Mon of the United States" in 1820; RALPH' PLJJMB, STREATOR. It is pleasing indulgence to tv rite the lioh veu i-vt through cleaning krd are in reed of any Fur 5 00me an i sc 'u line.

Save a fine lie of Iron Beds in price from S.i.50 to 15 00. Pin want a IVseketknife, Razor, Revolver, or anythirg in shirg Tackle such as Foies, LiDes, nooks and Reels, we have them. Nails, lb i sawyer Phone 376 307 Alain St A wonderful powder of -raro merit and unrivaled strength. if 5.