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 CHILLICOTHE 
 
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 NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 AS OF THE YEAR 1936 
 
 Centennial 
 Edition 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF 
 
 ILLINOIS LIBRARY 
 
 AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
 
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 An Illustrated Review of 
 Chillicothe and North Chillicothe 
 
 OLDEST BUILDING IN CHILLICOTHE 
 
 The residence located on the corner of First and Walnut streets is the 
 oldest building in Chillicothe. It was erected in 1835 by James W. Brown from 
 Ross County, Ohio, to be used as a tavern for the benefit of travelers on the 
 Chicago to Peoria stage coach lines. The building was named the Dunlap House 
 but later was changed to the American House under which name it has been 
 remembered through the years. The exterior of the building has not been 
 changed from the original but the interior has been altered to suit the con- 
 venience of various tenants throughout the years. This building was undoubtedly 
 the first inn or tavern built in Chillicothe.
 
 HUNTER LUMBERC^ 
 
 HUNTER LUMBER COMPANY 
 Chillicothe, Illinois 
 
 In 1892, forty-four years ago, Elmer F. Hunter and his 
 father of Henry, Illinois, purchased the lumber and coal 
 business here in Chillicothe from Outright & Russell. 
 The firm name was changed to H. & E. F. Hunter. Mr. 
 E. F. Hunter moved here with his family and conducted 
 the business until his death in 1921. Since that time 
 it has been carried on by his son, R. F. Hunter and his 
 associates. In 1915 the firm name was changed from 
 H. & E. F. Hunter to Hunter Lumber Company. 
 Mr. Elmer F. Hunter was a very aggressive lumber mer- 
 chant and at the time of his death had interest in 25 
 retail lumber yards in central Illinois. The purchasing 
 headquarters for these yards was here in Chillicothe and 
 this service for the yards is still carried on here. 
 When Mr. Elmer Hunter purchased the business here, 
 Mr. Charles Daugherty was employed as yard foreman. 
 Mr. Daugherty has held this position since, and in July, 
 1936, ended his 50th year of continuous service in this 
 same yard.
 
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 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 GHILLICOTHE CITY HALL 
 
 CHILLICOTHE CITY COUNCIL 
 
 READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT BACK ROW: H. F. ATHERTON, PRANK E. BACON, 
 E. E. WEBB, J. E. CORCORAN : SITTING: OSCAR HARVEY, C. F. SCHWAGER, 
 TREASURER, ILION WAIT, CITY CLERK, EDWARD PENNINGTON, MAYOR AND 
 E. M. UDEH.
 
 SUNSET CLEANER — SUNSET THEATRE 
 SUNSET BARBER SHOP 
 
 Sunset Cleaners, owned and operated by Roger Mannering, gives 
 prompt service on cleaning and pressing with one of the most modern 
 equipped plants in central Illinois. Men's Suits and Overcoats Made 
 to Measure. Phone 11 IK. Free Delivery. 
 
 Frank J. Rolan, manager of the Sunset Theatre, has been operating 
 the present theatre for the past eight years. Always the latest and 
 finest in talking pictures. Mr. Rolan is also the owner of the Palace 
 Theatre, which is now under construction and when finished will be 
 one of the finest and best theatres of any city of like size in central 
 Illinois. 
 
 The Sunset Barber shop owned and operated by Fred Beaumont for 
 the past ten years. Your Business Appreciated. Leroy Evans 
 assistant.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 NOHTh CHILLICOTiiE 
 VILLAGE HALL 
 
 HORTH CHILLICOTHE FIBE DEPARfMEHT 
 
 BEAD ISO FHOM LEFT TO RIOHT; WALTER EVAHS, ARTHUR BROfH, JOHrHOUSSSHJO© , 
 CHARLES ADAMS, GLEKH ADAMS, HARVEY ADAMS, JAJIES LADD, RALM ADAMS, AKD 
 'V. L. STILES, PBESIDEKT OP HORTH CHIIJ-IGOTHE BOARD.
 
 WOODRUFF BROTHERS, INC. 
 
 Woodruff Brothers, Inc., have been operating an arti- 
 ficial ice plant at 910 Santa Fe avenue for the past nine 
 years. The plant at the present time is furnishing ice for 
 Chillicothe, Lacon, Dunlap, Rome, Princeville, Mossville 
 and Sparland. The company has nine employees and two 
 trucks in operation the greater part of the year. They 
 also handle all grades of quality coals and furnace oil 
 for oil burners. Woodruff Brothei-s furnish Eastern 
 Kentucky, West Virginia and Southern Illinois coal. Otto 
 Woodruff is the president of the Chillicothe Business 
 Men's Association, a member of the Kiwanis Club and 
 has two children in high school. The officers of the 
 corporation are as follows: Otto D. Woodruff, president; 
 V. A. Woodruff, vice president; L. M. Woodi^uff, secre- 
 tary; William Woodruff, treasurer.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY
 
 WEBB'S INN 
 
 Thirty-four years ago Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Webb started serving 
 chicken dinners on their farm, later moving into Chillicothe and for 
 the past seventeen years they have been serving chicken dinners in 
 their residence at the corner of Second and Walnut streets. They 
 specialize in Chicken Dinners, Special Dinners, Wedding Parties, 
 Banquets and Sorority Parties. Mr. Webb is a former justice of 
 the peace and is now vice president of the Kiwanis Club. Mrs. Webb 
 is a member of the Woman's Club of Chillicothe. The Kiwanis Club 
 has held its meetings in the dining room for the past twelve years. 
 
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 For the past forty-five years Kelly's has been the store of quality and 
 style. M. C. Kelly first opened a store at the present location of the 
 Carlisle Drug store, later moving to the building located on the pres- 
 ent site of the Sunset theatre and has been in the present location 
 the past twenty-three years selling men's and ladies' ready-to-wear 
 clothing. Mr. Kelly has been mayor of Chillicothe for three tei-ms, 
 presidential elector, served as supervisor for fourteen years, member 
 of Old Age Assistance Commission of Peoria County, a member of 
 the Catholic church, and has been a resident of Chillicothe for the 
 past 71 years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 fHE COMMIISITY HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 TliE HEY/ GRADE SCHOOL
 
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 McGRATH SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY, INC. 
 
 The McGrath Sand and Gravel Company, operating plants 
 at Chillicothe, Pekin, Forreston, Mackinaw and Duck Is- 
 land, was organized about thirty years ago with the first 
 pit being located at Mackinaw. A few years later the pres- 
 ent pit, located northwest of Chillicothe, was purchased 
 covering 300 acres. The deposit will average 125 feet in 
 depth and is produced with a 15-inch centrifugal pump. 
 The raw material is then elevated and conveyed to the 
 main screening plant and at this point the material is 
 washed and graded to meet all State and Federal specifi- 
 cations that may be required. In addition to the washing 
 plant, there is in operation a road gravel plant for the 
 production of pit run gravel for secondary roads. The 
 company's main office is located at Lincoln, Illinois, and 
 the officers are as follows: J. W. McGrath, president; 
 T. E. McGrath, vice president; Thomas McGrath, secre- 
 tary and treasurer,with the following resident officials: 
 F. J. Larcher, general manager; E. B. Sheets, superin- 
 tendent, and W. C. Carroll, foreman. The Chillicothe 
 plant at the present time has an output of one hundred 
 cars daily and employs approximately sixty men. The 
 company ships to all points in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa 
 territory.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 CPRjSTJAJSi Sg^HCE CHURCH 
 
 COHGKEGATIOHAL CHURCH
 
 HICKS ELECTRIC CO. 
 
 The Hicks Electric Company, owned and operated by Robert Hicks, 
 was established August 1, 1935, selling Zenith radios and accessories. 
 They have the agency for Norge refrigerators, washers, ironers and 
 circulating heaters. Mr. Hicks is a graduate of Chillicothe High 
 School, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Business Men's Association 
 and the Methodist Church. 
 
 ROSS PLACHER'S GROCERY 
 
 The present building has been used as a grocey store for the past 
 thirty years, having been operated by several persons prior to the 
 time W. S. Placher became owner. For the past six years Ross 
 Placher has been operating the store, selling a staple line of gro- 
 ceries and meats. Mr. Placher is a member of the Kiwanis Club and 
 has been a resident of Chillicothe the past ten years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
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 THE BACON BUILDING 
 
 DR. GREEN 
 
 and 
 DR. SUTTON 
 
 Physicians and Surgeons 
 
 DR. C. F. CASE 
 DENTIST 
 
 GALE & WEST 
 
 ATTORNEYS 
 
 Office Hours 
 
 Wednesday and Saturday 
 
 BETTY READ BEAUTY SHOP 
 
 Phone 122L 
 
 Permanent Satisfaction 
 
 CARROLL REALTY CO. 
 
 Mrs. L. C. Carroll, Owner 
 
 All Kinds of Insurance 
 
 Telephone 249 
 
 COFFEE CUP 
 
 Under New 
 Management 
 
 Eunice V. Foster 
 
 PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY 
 of Northern Illinois 
 
 General Electric Refrigerators and Appliances 
 
 Frigidaire and Westinghouse Refrigerators 
 
 Hot Point - General Electric 
 
 Westinghouse Ranges 
 
 Thor - Conlon Washers and Ironers
 
 BACON ELECTRIC COMPANY 
 
 Distributors of 
 
 GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. 
 
 WORTHINGTON PUMP AND 
 
 MACHINERY COMPANY 
 
 LINK BELT COMPANY 
 
 CATERPILLAR TRACTOR 
 
 COMPANY POWER UNITS 
 
 MICRO-WESTCO CORP. 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 High grade electrical, steam, air, hydraulic and Diesel 
 
 equipment and supplies 
 
 Chillicothe, Illinois 
 
 CHILLICOTHE POST OFFICE 
 
 Postmaster — Walter T. McCanna 
 
 Clerks — George Leiner and Marie Stahl; Carriers — George Fleet- 
 wood and Joseph Stewart; Rural Carriers — Richard Large and Lon B. 
 Holman; Substitute clerk — Edward Keiser and substitute carrier — 
 Carl Emerick.
 
 LARKIN SERVICE STATION 
 
 The Larkin Service Station located on Walnut street to the rear of 
 the Bacon building sells Larkin Hammerless Gasoline, Larkin Stove 
 Gasoline, Larkolene Gasoline, Penn 100% pure Pennsylvania oil, 
 Larkin Kerosene, Naphtha, Gear Grease, Firestone Tires and Tubes, 
 Globe Batteries. The station is also equipped to repair tires and 
 tubes. George McLaughlin has been the manager for the past four 
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 SWEENEY'S BEAUTY PARLOR 
 
 Mrs. Lelia Sweeney, owner of Sweeney's Beauty Parlor, is a Mari- 
 nello operator having taken a course in the Marinello Beauty Cul- 
 ture School of Chicago. Mrs. Sweeney specializes in realistic and 
 machineless permanent waves and all beauty needs. She has been 
 a resident of Chillicothe her entire lifetime, has a daughter in high 
 school and is a member of the Catholic church. 

 
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 CLAYCOMB'S TEXACO STATION 
 
 L. J. Claycomb, a former employee of the Santa Fe railroad for 
 eleven years, has been operating the Texaco service station at the 
 corner of Fourth and Cedar streets the past fourteen months. The 
 station sells Texaco products, Goodrich Silvertown tires, Aviation 
 stove gas. Kerosene, Havoline Oils, check chart lubrication system 
 with modern equipment. Mr. Claycomb is a member of the Chilli- 
 cothe Business Men's Association, is married and has two children 
 and has been a resident of Chillicothe the past thirteen years. 
 
 SADIE'S BEAUTY PARLOR 
 
 Sadie's Beauty Parlor was established in 1930, having been located 
 in the Bacon Building, Sunset Barber Shop, in North Chillicothe for 
 three years and in the present location on Second street the past 
 year. Sadie's Beauty Parlor specializes in Eugene Permanent Waves, 
 finger waving and all kinds of beauty work. Mrs. Sadie Locke, the 
 present owner, received her training in the Liberty Beauty School of 
 Peoria and has had Maxine (Butts) Beaumont as her assistant the 
 past three years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE
 
 ROLAN AND ROOT GROCERY 
 
 In 1932 Kenneth Rolan opened a grocery store at 643 Chestnut 
 street and two years later, joining in partnership with Harold Root, 
 moved to the present location. The store is a member of the Royal 
 Blue Food Stores, selling a staple line of goceries and meats. Both 
 members of the firm belong to the Chillicothe Business Men's Asso- 
 ciation. Mr. Rolan has been a resident of Chillicothe for the past 
 twenty-five years and Mr. Root the past eight years. 
 
 WAIT BROTHERS 
 
 Wait Brothers were organized January 1, 1914, and for the past 
 twenty-two years they have been conducting a general Plumbing 
 and Heating business in the present location. They handle the Weir 
 Furnace, Crane Plumbing Fixtures and Williams Oil-0-matic Oil 
 Burners. G. W. Wait is a member of the school board, supervisor 
 of Chillicothe Township, an Odd Fellow, Mason and Kiwanis. Mr. 
 Wait is married and has two sons in school, is a member of the 
 Congregational Church and has resided in Chillicothe the past 23 
 years.
 
 CHILXICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 FRED BEAUMOHT 
 
 LOUIS BEAUMOMT
 
 PENNINGTON'S BARBER SHOP 
 
 E. L. Pennington has one of the leading barber shops of the city, 
 catering to men, women and children. Mr. Pennington is the present 
 mayor of Chillicothe and a member of the Chillicothe Business Men's 
 Association. Guy Camp is his assistant in the barber shop. In busi- 
 ness since 1919. 
 
 GUNTHER'S SKELGAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY 
 
 H. A. Gunther, the present owner of Gunther's Skelgas and Electric 
 Company, has been selling Skelgas ranges and Skelgas fuel for the 
 past four years. He is also dealer for Westinghouse Refrigerators 
 and Appliances, A. B. C. and American Beauty Washing Machines 
 and Stoker-ola Furnace Stokers. Mr. Gunther is a member of the 
 Odd Fellows, married, and has been a resident of Chillicothe the past 
 seven years.
 
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 DENNIS BUCKLEH
 
 Compliments of 
 
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 J. C. PENNEY COMPANY 
 
 Ready-to-Wear — Shoes 
 
 Clothing and Notions 
 
 We are striving to make Chillicothe a more desireable place to live 
 
 by offering merchandise of good quality and style at the lowest 
 
 possible prices. We invite you to shop at Penney's. 
 
 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK 
 
 The First National Bank of Chillicothe was founded in 1900 by 
 B. F. Zinser and associates. Mr. Zinser had previously carried on 
 a private banking business at Benson. In 1926 the People's Building 
 and Loan Association became affiliated with the First National. The 
 Zinser Agency, dealing in insurance and realty, has been associated 
 with the bank for many years. These three organizations form Chil- 
 licothe's largest financial institution with assets in excess of three 
 quarters of a million dollars.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 REV. H. A. BRfXFORD 
 
 T. C. BOYD
 
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 STUMBAUGH'S PHILLIPS "66" STATION 
 
 G. L. Stumbaugh has been operating the Phillips "66" Station at the 
 present location the past eight years, having been employed at the 
 station for the past fifteen years. The station sells Phillips "66" 
 products, Lee Tires and Specialized Lubrication. The motto of the 
 station is "Service with a Smile". 
 
 VraMAN*S BAKERY JJ 
 
 VEERMAN'S BAKERY 
 
 Veerman's Bakery has been supplying Chillicothe and community 
 with the well known Veerman's Bread and a full line of pastries for 
 the past eight years, having opened the bakery in January, 1928. Mr. 
 Veerman is a Mason, member of the Methodist Church and married 
 with two sons in the city schools. Mrs. Veerman is a member of the 
 P. T. A. and a member of the Grade School Board. They have re- 
 sided in the city the past eight years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 CHART F.". W. RRRKT:K 
 
 MRS. ELLEl^ COON 
 
 HEHRIETTA COLWELL
 
 THE BEN FRANKLIN STORE 
 
 The Ben Franklin Store, owned and operated by Edward L. Smith, 
 is another new and up-to-date store to come to Chillicothe. The 
 store deals in merchandise on the 5c to $1.00 and up plan. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Smith are members of the Baptist Church and have taken up 
 their residence in Chillicothe. 
 
 THE STOECKER TIRE AND BATTERY SERVICE 
 
 The Stoecker Tire and Battery Service, formerly known as the 
 Burkhardt Service, has been in operation the past fifteen years with 
 L. J. Stoecker, the present owner, operating the garage the past nine 
 years. Mr. Stoecker handles Goodyear Tires, Willard Batteries and 
 gives road service at all hours.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 MRS, LILLIAN CARHOLL 
 
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 L, M. CARROLL 
 
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 TRUITT-MATTHEWS BANKING COMPANY 
 General Banking Since 1868 
 
 Deposits Insured 
 
 by the 
 
 Federal Deposit Insurance 
 
 Corporation 
 
 Washin^on, D. C. 
 
 President O. E. Smith 
 
 Vice President - - - - J. D. Root 
 
 Vice President and Ass't Cashier 
 K. E. Mills 
 
 Cashier L. H. Yeck 
 
 Assistant Cashier - O. K. Mooney 
 
 Directors — Russell Hunter, chair- 
 man, O. E. Smith, K. E. Mills, J. 
 D. Root, E. A. Mitchell, Joseph 
 Stakely, James Miller, Fred Fer- 
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 LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
 
 Charles E. Williams, 
 
 Representative 
 
 Chillicothe, Illinois 
 
 Phone 72 P. O. Box 36 
 
 Mr. Charles E. Williams, who is 
 one of the newlyweds of Chilli- 
 cothe, now residing in his new 
 home at 809 Cutright street, is the 
 representative of the Metropoli- 
 tan Life Insurance Company, the largest insurance company in the 
 world owned by the policy holders. Mr. Williams was educated in the 
 public schools of Lawrenceville, attended the Indiana Business Col- 
 lege, later graduating from the University of Illinois. He is a member 
 of the Chillicothe Business Men's Association, Kiwanis Club and a 
 member of the Christian Church.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 HERRT CLE7ELAXD 
 
 SAMUEL CREW 
 
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 JARVIS CHEVROLET SALES 
 
 On January 15, 1936, R. L. Jarvis opened the Jarvis Chevrolet Sales 
 selling Chevrolet Cars and Service. This is the official service station 
 for the Chicago Motor Club in Chillicothe. The garage sells Skelly 
 Gas, Globe batteries, does welding work, general repairs and wrecker 
 service. Mr. Jarvis has been a resident of Chillicothe the past year, 
 having a son in the schools and is a member of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 MATTICE MOTOR SERVICE 
 
 The Mattice Motor Service has been in the pi-esent location the past 
 nineteen years furnishing ambulance and wrecking service. For the 
 past two years they have handled the Ford sales and service. Mr. 
 Mattice has served as alderman, is a member of the Masons, Consis- 
 tory, Shrine, Congregational Church, is married and has one daugh- 
 ter in the city schools and has been a resident of Chillicothe the past 
 forty-four years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 CELIA CALLAHAU 
 
 LOtJIS C AID WELL
 
 TUCKER'S GROCERY 
 
 P. M. Tucker has been operating Tucker's Grocery the past sixteen 
 years at the present location, having originally started the store in 
 his home prior to the time he built the present building. The store 
 handles a staple line of groceries and meats. Mr. Tucker is married 
 and has two daughters in the high school and has been a resident of 
 Chillicothe the past eighteen years. 
 
 CARLISLE DRUG STORE 
 
 Joseph K. Carlisle opened his present Rexall Drug Store April 15, 
 1933, having been with the Walgreen Stores for eight years. Mr. 
 Carlisle has an up-to-date Prescription department, Paints, Glass, 
 Wallpaper and carries Photo Films and Supplies. Mr. Carlisle is mar- 
 ried and has two girls in the school, is a member of the Methodist 
 Church and has resided here for the past eight years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 CHARLES DAUGHERTT
 
 F. E. LYNDS, JEWELER 
 
 F. E. Lynds, Jeweler, has been at the present location the past four 
 years having been established since 1912. Mr. Lynds has a complete 
 jewelry stock and Philco radios. He is a member of the Chillicothe 
 Business Men's Association, the Masonic Lodge, Plymouth Congrega- 
 tional Church. He is married, has one daughter in High School and 
 has resided in Chillicothe the past twenty-four years. 
 
 SCHWAGER HARDWARE COMPANY 
 
 The Schwager Hardware company has been at the present location 
 the past eight years having been organized in 1928, handling a com- 
 plete line of Hardware, Perfection Stoves, Paints, Varnish, Window 
 Glass, Sheet Metal Shop, Furnaces and Repairing. C. F. Schwager 
 is the present City Treasurer, a member of the Odd Fellows and has 
 been a resident of Chillicothe the past eight years.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 E. L. DUQAN
 
 ARTISTIC CLEANERS 
 
 C. T. Leighton, owner of the Artistic Cleaners, has been in the pres- 
 ent location the past seven years. Mr. Leighton has a completely 
 equipped plant for the cleaning and pressing of all kinds of clothing 
 and his motto is, "Satisfaction Guaranteed". 
 
 WEBER FUNERAL HOME 
 
 Est. 1852 
 
 Distinctive Funeral Service 
 
 Chillicothe, Illinois 
 
 Phone 2 - Lady Attendant
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 JOSEPH I. GULLET 
 
 C.C. OAISPORD
 
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 ANDERSON FUNERAL HOME 
 
 131 S. Fourth St. 
 Twenty-two years of funeral service 
 
 in CHILLICOTHE 
 Elma Aderson T. C. Anderson 
 
 Phone 26 
 
 THE KROGER GROCERY 
 
 The Kroger Grocery was established in Chillicothe in 1923, selling 
 a complete line of Groceries and Meats. C. A. Jones is manager of 
 the Grocery department and S. C. Hines has charge of the Meat 
 department. The store is a member of the Chillicothe Business Men's 
 Association.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 
 ROT PABMER
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 Chillicothe and North Chillicothe 
 
 The City of Chillicothe is beautifully located on the west bank of the 
 Illinois river, eighteen miles above Peoria, and on the line of the Bureau branch 
 of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad and the main line of the At- 
 chinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads. Think of a bustling mid-western city 
 whose whole existence had been a struggle against merging its identity with 
 a greater neighbor. Think of it as it comes down through years, ever watchful 
 of its own interests, finally to establish itself as a town that stands on its own 
 foundation and owes its position to its own efforts. That is Chillicothe. 
 
 Almost since the day when the first white settlers came to this garden 
 spot along the Illinois one hundred years ago, Chillicothe has labored to build 
 of itseli and for itself against its natural surge to older and larger cities that 
 has so often engulfed villages and towns with less stamina. First the down- 
 river villages of Allentown and Rome gave promise of reaching the size that 
 would have doomed Chillicothe to a minor place among Illinois municipalities. 
 They had their day and nave gone. Of the former nothing remains but history. 
 Of the latter — a few stores and summer colony. Greater than these clouds on 
 the horizon of Chillicothe's growth was the county seat, Peoria, where white 
 men — soldiers, traders, missionaries and settlers had lived in almost unbroken 
 succession since l<ather Maiquette and Louis Joliet beached their canoe there 
 in 1673 to go down in history as the first white men in this territory. Peoria 
 With its early beginnings and the political and financial advantages that fell to 
 it in later years might have swallowed up the more youthful Chillicothe or 
 sapped its vitality as big cities are wont to treat the smaller ones about them. 
 But this dire possibility never came to pass and now with a century of vigorous 
 growth behind it and although only a scant score of miles from Peoria as the 
 hard road winds, the city of Chillicothe stands out as a municipality in its own 
 right — the second city in the county in size and importance. One would no more 
 think of Chillicothe as a suburb or a satellite of Peoria than he would of re- 
 versing the order. A wealth of glorious past that finds its roots in the misty 
 ages of the mound-builders and the red men emblazons this thriving city on the 
 river. Within a few miles of its outskirts may be found unopened mounds, 
 built in geometric order, beneath whose coverings of trees iand farm crops lie 
 the bones of a race that lived on these lands long before the white man came. 
 Black Sand men, perhaps, or mound builders of long ago who scientists believe 
 roamed the Illinois river valley before the American Indian. Almost unexplored, 
 these ancient burial places still hold the secrets of a long vanished race. 
 
 Indian lore — Chillicothe is alive with it. Old timers can still point out 
 traces of the trails followed by the redskins at the break of the last century. 
 Diggers of wells and basements for Chillicothe homes still frequently find bones 
 and trinkets to recall the days when the Illini, the Pottawatomi and the fierce 
 Iroquois held sway over this fertile land. Arrow heads, spear heads and Indian 
 axes are still frequently found in the fields and wooded lands after brisk rains. 
 
 In this neighborhood Gomo, the fierce war chief of the Pottawatomi, 
 lived in one of the tribal villages and to his abode came the two U. S. army men. 
 Captains Samuel Levering and Herbert Henry Swearingen in 1811 at the re- 
 quest of Territorial Govenor Ninian Edwards to parley with the tribes in hopes 
 of enlisting them on the sides of the Americans in the second war with Great 
 Britain. Ostensibly seeking to arrest several Indian braves who had recently 
 slain white settlers in Missouri and stolen their horses, the soldiers spent weeks 
 in parley with Gomo and his sub-chiefs in an attempt to win their allegiance. 
 But the fugitive braves had fled to friendlier places and Gomo, rankling under 
 the injustices his people had suffered at the hands of the settlers, could not 
 be won. In a classic burst of oratory he recounted the evils that had been 
 visited upon his race by the whites and spurned their pleas to ally with the 
 Americans.
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 HRS. KATE FRIED RICH 
 
 CARL GIUFILLAM
 
 CHILLICOTHE AND NORTH CHILLICOTHE 
 
 In the massacre of the Fort Dearborn garrison on Lake Michigan the 
 Pottawatomi were in the assaulting force but Gomo redeemed himself and 
 went down as one of the noblemen in history when he furnished food and 
 canoes for the women and children at Peoria when the French village was 
 burned by U. S. militiamen and the men carried off in exile. 
 
 It was on November 28, 1834, that County Surveyor Charles Ballance 
 laid off the townsite of the present day city under the direction of Samuel T. 
 McKean. The original plat, consisting of four blocks and a few extra lots, was 
 acknowledged before Justice of the Peace Andrew Hunt on December 18 of 
 the same year. Two years later Harrison H. Jameson and Joseph Hart caused 
 another plat to be made of 38 blocks of 10 lots each with each lot 66 feet wide 
 and 165 feet deep. They ignored the earlier plat and called their newly sur- 
 veyed district Chillicothe. 
 
 Growth of the early settlement was slow. Mahlon Lupin, who came in 
 1829, is credited with being the first white settler of the vicinity and Jeff 
 Rickson, a blacksmith, came soon after and erected a cabin and shop on the 
 river bank- — remembered as the first cabin in town. E. Jones, a trader, built 
 the second cabin and shared the honors of being Chillicothe's pioneer merchant 
 with those of being its first justice of the peace. 
 
 The first white child born in Chillicothe was James Root, on April 24, 
 1836, to Erastus and Barbara Root. A picture of him now hangs in the council 
 chamber of the City Hall. Later he went to live in Des Moines, Iowa, and died 
 there March 17, 1929, aged 93. 
 
 In 1835 a young bachelor, James M. Brown from Ross county, Ohio, had 
 an idea that suitable accomodations should be provided travelers on the Chi- 
 cago to Peoria stage coach line so he built a one and one-half story frame house 
 on First street and called it the Dunlap House, later changing the name to 
 American House. This was probably Chillicothe's first inn and tavern. The 
 next tavern is said to have been the Illinois, later changed to the Buckeye. The 
 Chillicothe House was a frame building of ten or fifteen rooms, erected and op- 
 erated for some years by John Hayes, being destroyed by fire in 1873. The 
 Transit Hotel was erected about 1850, Thomas Kitts being the first proprietor 
 and in 1900 was operated by J. H. Humes. In 1865 the Union Hotel was built 
 by O. G. Woods and was first named the Woods Hotel but later it also bore the 
 names of Union and Commercial Hotels. The present hotel is the Camp House 
 operated by R. L. Earl. 
 
 In the winter of 1838-39 the first school was taught in a vacant cabin 
 for the education of those who could find time off from their work to attend. 
 Six years later a frame building with one room was built on the public square 
 for school purposes. 
 
 A village form of government prevailed in the pioneer days with five 
 trustees acting as administrators. It was not until 1873 that a city charter was 
 obtained under which Henry Hosmer was elected first mayor with a board 
 of trustees. 
 
 Favorably loacted in the midst of rich farming country and with the 
 river — chief artery oi pioneer trade — at its door, Chillicothe soon moved to 
 the front as a grain center. Before the Civil War it was the largest grain ship- 
 ping point in the county and had seven large elevators in operation loading 
 barges and cars with corn, wheat and oats. Nestors recall seeing more than 
 a hundred grain wagons lined up on the streets awaiting their turns at the 
 elevator bins. The distilleries furnished a ready market and canal boats and 
 barges both from Peoria and Chicago eased under the loading spouts in endless 
 array. Many of the wealthier families in the city today built their prosperity 
 in the grain trade. 
 
 The river was Chillicothe's best friend in leaner years and even now in 
 the flush of its firm position, the Illinois remains an important asset. It brought 
 the steamboats that carried the early settlers and their goods, it brought the 
 barges that carried away the grain, and it brings the fishing, the hunting, the 
 ice harvest and the passenger travel that are denied to less favorably placed 
 inland cities.
 
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 The first steamboats began plying the Illinois about the time Chillicothe 
 was laid out and with them came the foundation for enterprise that was later 
 to be taken over in a large part by the railroads, wagons and trucks. From 
 freezing time in the fall until the spring thaws, the villagers were almost iso- 
 lated from other human habitations. There were no railroads through the dis- 
 trict until 1847 and roads were poor and often impassible in winter. After 
 months of living to themselves, the inhabitants joyfully greeted the first boats 
 to forge through the honeycombed ice on lower Peoria Lake — a natural barrier 
 that often delayed steamboat traffic in the upper river for weeks after the 
 stream below was open. 
 
 Pork, flour and grain would be piled on the river landing awaiting the 
 first steamboats to carry it away to market. Often the captains would race 
 their crafts for miles to gain favored positions at the landings to load the bulky 
 cargoes. The chanting of the colored stevedores and the bellowings of burly 
 mates were music to the ears of a populace longing for contact with the outside. 
 Too, the early boats brought the drummers with their samples of boughten 
 goods and factory merchandise. 
 
 With the opening of the Illinois-Michigan canal near the middle of the 
 century, Chillicothe was placed on a direct water route between Chicago and 
 St. Louis and canal boats and barges moved in and out laden with grain, lumber, 
 ice and merchandise. Travelers and immigrants came by steamboats, sailboats, 
 canoes and every known form of river transportation. Huge lumber rafts swept 
 downstream under the guidance of poles and sweeps. 
 
 Chillicothe became known far and wide for its fishing and hunting op- 
 portunities and the cork and worm angler shared his rich field with the com- 
 mercial fishermen whose nets snared thousands of pounds of finny food from 
 the stream. Ducks and geese were abundant and as they followed the Illinois 
 watercourse in their migrations to feed in the lush bottomlands they were 
 bagged in countless numbers. 
 
 Even today Chillicothe is known wherever sportsmen gather as a mecca 
 for rod and gun. Hundreds of acres of bottom lands under lease to duck hunt- 
 ing clubs bring their owners profit and yield their legal limits to hunters who 
 flock from all parts of the country to make their headquarters in this city 
 during the open season. Many river men take employment as guides or boat 
 pushers for the out-of-town sportsmen. 
 
 Another army — the fishermen — starts its trek to this favored spot early 
 in the spring and continues its probe of the bountiful depths until cold weather 
 sets in. Wielders of the rod find ample room to test their skill in the rice pond 
 directly across from the city where a broken drainage district dike has caused 
 a large acreage to be flooded. There black bass, sunfish, ring perch, catfish and 
 carp feed and may be taken in large numbers by the lucky angler. In the midst 
 of the season scores of fishermen's boats may be seen in this paradise. Beauti- 
 ful and rare lotus lilies grow here and fill the air with their rich fragrance 
 when in bloom. 
 
 The Railroads Come to Chillicothe 
 
 Chillicothe stepped out of the backwoods class when the Peoria & Bureau 
 Valley i-ailroad came through in 1847 to connect Peoria and Bureau Junction 
 and thence with Chicago. This road, now a part of the Chicago, Rock Island 
 and Pacific system, gave new outlets for shipment of grain and other produce. 
 A greater advantage was gained in 1873 when the main line of the Atchinson, 
 Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was opened one mile north of the city. The village 
 that grew up around its station took the name of North Chillicothe in 1890. 
 Other cities, including Peoria, had hoped to be on this route and subsequent 
 events showed they would have been richly repaid had they been able to secure 
 what became Chillicothe's good fortune. The railroad proved a great boon 
 through the employment of men and materials. Huge transcontinental trains 
 bearing celebrities of national and international fame all stop at Chillicothe 
 and it is here that crowds gather from miles around to hear and see the great 
 and near-sreat in rear platform appearances.
 
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 Chillicothe became the division point of the Santa Fe on May 1, 1903, 
 for the Illinois Division. This is the headquarters or terminal for most of the 
 freight crews both east and west bound and a large majority of the trainmen 
 are property owners either in Chillicothe or North Chillicothe. The company 
 operates eight passenger trains daily east bound and nine trains daily west 
 bound with locals each way. The two crack transcontinental trains from Chica- 
 go to California pass through Chillicothe. 
 
 There are approximately 75 employees engaged in the operations depart- 
 ment of the terminal. Superintendent G. H. Mmchin has been in Chillicothe 
 since November 1, 1922, and has an office force of eleven clerks; Trainmaster 
 Patrick O'SuUivan, two clerks; A. B. Enderlee, chief dispatcher, who has charge 
 of the operators on the division has seven trick dispatchers, four operators in 
 the local office; T. H. McKibben, division engineer, who has a field organiza- 
 tion of ten or more men depending on the time of year; General Foreman 
 Frank Root, bridges, building and water; C. B. Keers and Frank Hartzell, charge 
 of operation ana maintenance of all signals on the division; two roadmasters, 
 R. J. Yost and W. J. Jones; station force composed of C. R. Abernathy, agent 
 and a force of five clerks; mechanical department, Byron Aldridge, round house 
 foreman. In 1935, the payroll of the Santa Fe railroad in Chillicothe was the 
 large amount of $482,053.57 or an average of $40,169.46 per month while in 
 1934 the total payroll was $434,279.25 or an average of $36,189.94 per month, 
 making an increase in 1935 of $47,754.32, or approximately $4,000 per month. 
 Most of the employees are either property owners or renters and spend a large 
 portion of their salaries for the necessities, also for taxes, both real and personal. 
 In addition to the above payroll, there are employees not carried on the Chilli- 
 cothe payrolls who spend a great deal while here on layovers or for other 
 reasons. 
 
 In addition to the taxes paid by the employees, the Santa Fe in 1935 
 paid taxes totalling $9,685.44 which was divided as follows: Chillicothe High 
 bchool, $6,842.76 and Grade School No. 20, $2,842.68. This makes the com- 
 bined total of the salaries and taxes over a half million dollars paid annually to 
 Chillicothe and vicinity. In 1927 the company constructed a double track, rock 
 ballasted, steel bridge at the approximate cost of $4,000,000 and in 1936 con- 
 structed the building on company property known as the Santa Fe Club. 
 
 The Santa Fe Club was dedicated February 8, 1936, the building costing 
 an approximate $7,500. It contains 25 sleeping rooms, 30 beds, five showers, 
 a reading room with all the latest magazines and a lagre number of books which 
 are kept in large book cases on three sides of the room, a recreation room with 
 pool tables and tables for writing. There are two rooms used as living quarters 
 tor the steward and his wife. The club is a terminal rest room for employees 
 only and the charges are reasonable. The building is owned and operated on 
 a cost plus basis. The club at the present time is accomodating from thirty to 
 thrity-five persons daily. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lewis are the stewards of the club. 
 
 City Governments Have Been Progressive 
 
 The city of Chillicothe of today with a population of two thousand per- 
 sons has progressed remarkably in the last century. With its paved streets, 
 schools, parks and churches it is an up-to-date busy metropolis. In the early 
 days of the city there was a street railway from the Santa Fe railroad station 
 to Columbia Park operated by James Kinlock and Ryan, a two-mule team fur- 
 nishing the power when the driver was able to keep them from laying down on 
 the job. This has since passed into history. Electric lights came to Chillicothe 
 in 1891 and the telephone in 1898. The first pavement was started on Septem- 
 ber 17, 1906, and today the city has twenty-two blocks of paving, twenty-eight 
 blocks of tarvia surfaced roads and one hundred sixteen blocks of gravelled 
 roads and in addition to this there is a graveled road connecting with route 88, 
 of the the State aid road. There are hard roads running to Peoria and Sparland. 
 
 The present administration has made a good record for itself, having laid 
 three carload of tiles for drainage at street intersections, graveled most of the 
 alleys, placed curbing in the residential district and around Cutright Park, re- 
 l)aired all of the streets and in addition has added twenty-five new blocks of
 
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 MRS. FRANK HAYDEN
 
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 graveled streets. They have reduced the taxes of the city and have abolished 
 the wheel tax. They have purchased a new truck for city use and have one of 
 the most efficient fire departments to be found in any city of like size. There 
 are two fire trucks, one tor city use and one for the community, equipped with 
 a pump to be used where water is not available. Those at the helm of the city 
 affairs at the present time are E. L. Pennington, mayor; Ilion Wait, city clerk; 
 
 C. F. Schwager, city treasurer; Harry C. Heyl, city attorney; Frank Bacon, O. G. 
 Harvey, E. E. Webb, H. F. Atherton, E. M. Uhden and J. P. Corcoran, aldermen. 
 Cecil Beaumont is chief of the police department, T. C. Anderson, chief of the 
 fire department, and Alex Snediger is sexton of the cemetery. 
 
 The Fire Department of Chillicothe — In 1876 the first organization for the pro- 
 tection against tire was effected. The company, consisting of ten members, 
 was formed and named the Champion with G. P. Lester as fire marshal. It only 
 existed a few months and there was no further effort made until the fall of 
 1878, when another company, called the Rocket, was organized with James 
 Kenlock as captain; G. B. Temple, lieutenant; William Story, foreman; and twen- 
 ty members. The equipment of the fire company today consists of two complete 
 trucks, one for the city and the other for the adjacent community. The officers 
 of today's organization are T. C. Anderson fire chief; Harold Kennington, assis- 
 tant fire chief; Harry Camp, treasurer; Charles White, secretary. E. Thomp- 
 son, R. Graham, William Colwell, Glenn Buckingham, John Perry and Everett 
 White make up the roster of firemen. 
 
 The village of North Chillicothe was incorporated in 1888 and in reality, 
 while not a part of Chillicothe, the division of the two towns is not noticeable. 
 The village was first a neighborhood settlement of employees of the Santa Fe 
 railroad who, wishing to be near their work, built homes outside of the corporate 
 limits of Chillicothe and later the settlement was incorporated as a village. One 
 half of the taxes to the village is paid by the Santa Fe railroad and a large per- 
 centage of the remainder is paid by employees of the company. The village is 
 free from debt and plans are now under way to build a new town hall and fire 
 station early in 1937. The property owners on Santa Fe avenue and Logan 
 street have resurfaced the streets with tarvia finish and by the spring of 1937 
 the village will have about three miles of road covered with tarvia finish. The 
 children of the village attend the township schools located in Chillicothe. The 
 village board is composed of V. L. Stiles, president; Frank Burns, town clerk; 
 
 D. Veerman, treasurer; G. G. Linn, Harvey Gilbert, L. V. Ricketts, E. W. Merri- 
 hew, Martin Ladd and Gene Carroll, trustees. The present fire chief is Ralph 
 Adams and assistant fire chief, Charles Adams; W. F. Brown is town marshal. 
 
 Always a center of culture, Chillicothe may well boast of its fine schools, 
 its churches and its Carnegie library. The Baptists started the first church in 
 1837 and now virtually all denominations are represented. The fraternal spirit 
 is maintained by flourishing lodges and clubs. Business and finance as repre- 
 sented by banks and stores admit of no peers in cities of comparable size. The 
 first newspaper, the Chillicothe Sun, founded in 1854, was followed by a num- 
 er of weekly and monthly publications with varying degrees of success, that 
 field now being dominated by the influential Chillicothe Bulletin. 
 
 Schools of Chillicothe 
 
 As early as 1838 the people of this community had a public school 
 system for the education of their children. The first school in the village was 
 held in the winter of 1838-39 in a vacated log cabin which had been fitted up 
 for school use. In 1845 a frame building of one room was built on the public 
 square and this served its purpose until the adoption of the free school system 
 in 1855. As soon as public funds could, be raised by taxation, a commodious 
 brick building 30x56 feet, two stories high and containing four rooms was 
 erected and supplied with all the then up-to-date furniture and equipment. 
 This building was completed in 1856 and was located on the corner of Fourth 
 and Elm streets. In 1890 two rooms and a hall were added. In February 1891 
 this building was destroyed by fire. In the fall of 1891, a new building of 
 thirteen rooms was erected on N. Sixth street, between Cedar and Chestnut, 
 and was used until razed to make room for the present fireproof building. In
 
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 1900 the schools accommodated about 500 pupils and employed twelve teachers. 
 A Junior High School was erected in 1908 next to the grade school containing 
 one class room and three recitation rooms. 
 
 The present Chillicothe Township High School was erected in 1922 at an 
 approximate cost of $35,000. It contains 20 rooms in all, with 10 class rooms 
 and seating capacity for 200 pupils. There is an auditorium 51x70 feet which 
 will accommodate 700 people. The auditorium has a stage 16x28 feet and can 
 ,be used for community gatherings of all kinds and it also is used by the High 
 school as a gymnasium. The present school board consists of E. W. Sweetman, 
 president; D. J. Veerman, secretary; Frank M. Coon, George Shepard and Willis 
 Wear, directors, and the faculty are as follows: W. S. Adams, principal; Gena 
 Uhden, secretary; William Church, Marietta Alden, Dona Deames, Ethel Gerber, 
 Herman Hale, Pauline Hurt, Virgil Keithley, Opal McKray, Gladys Morrison, 
 Jean Parvin, J. B. Taylor, in charge of the agricultural department, and Mal- 
 colm Saxton, band instructor. 
 
 In 1935, the grade school building becoming unsafe, a new building was 
 started and on September 15, 1936, the building was dedicated with appro- 
 priate ceremonies. County Superintendent of Schools H. A. Hayes gave the 
 dedicatory address and the school band furnished the music for the evening. 
 The city of Chillicothe is to be complimented on this fine new, fireproof building 
 as it will compare favorably with any building in the state. The present board 
 is as follows: F. G. Carr, president; George Leiner, secretary; Mrs. Pauline 
 Shepard, Mrs. Marie Veerman. W. E. Stephenson, E. E. Webb, Nelson Israel- 
 son and Guy Wait. The faculty is as follows: L. L. Pearce, principal; Mrs. C. N. 
 Slinn, Jessie Goodwin, R. L. Cusack, Olivia Ahlenfeld, LaVona McDaniels, Neva 
 Zeiger, Vivian Kelly, Edna Runter, Gladys Carver, Ellen Davis and Lucille 
 Level. John Mullen is the janitor. 
 
 This school history would not be complete unless the story of the school 
 band was given. The band was organized in 1928 with George Thompson as the 
 director. The Kiwanis Club was the sponsor of the organization, furnishing 
 them with the snappy uniforms they wear. In 1930, M. M. Saxton became 
 director of the band, which is composed of forty pieces, students from the 
 grade and high school. Mr. Saxton is also instructor for the bands at the 
 Princeville, Eureka, Dunlap and Lacon schools. The members of the band are 
 Dale Ruck, Walt Stephenson, Robert Mcintosh, Harold Risen, Howard Risen, 
 Dan Daugherty, Rosemary Daugherty, Deloris Mullen, Marjorie Lynds, Bette 
 Stewart, Yola Blair, Norman Wilky, Harriet Gauwitz, Janet Stabb, Don Wood- 
 ruff, Genevieve Reffert, Lawrence Guyer, Dorothy, Leiner, Fred Brownfield, 
 Marjorie Mead, Louise Hart, Gene Behrens, Carl Hartzell, Betty Behrens, Gar- 
 win Shane, Jean Holmes, Norma Woodruff, Jack Weber, Bill Shepard, Sammy 
 ShepardV. Gauwitz, John Shane, M. Gasford, Jack Kelley, Jack Stabb, John 
 Holmes, Bernard Schmidt, Floyd Welch, Dean Adams, Mary Alice Coster, Fobert 
 Jones, Conrad Schwager, Helen Edwards, Billy Sheehan, Charles Cameron, Dale 
 Ruck, James Edwards, Wilma Seely, William Reed, George Burg and John 
 Thomas. 
 
 The Chillicothe Public Library 
 
 Through the untiring efforts of the Federation of Woman's Clubs of 
 Chillicothe, which was composed of the Woman's Club of Chillicothe and the 
 University Club, and the generosity of the Carnegie Foundation, who made a gift 
 of $10,000, the present building on the corner of Second and Walnut streets 
 was made possible. The first movement toward securing a building was started 
 in 1914 and in 1916 the building was completed with Gladys Carroll as the first 
 librarian. The first board members were Oscar E. Smith, Sarah D. Van 
 Dusen, H. C. Pettett, Lillian C. Carroll and O. S. Mills. With a total of 7,167 
 volumes and 1,582 borrowers the present library is comparable with that of any 
 city of like size in this part of the state. The present board are H. B. Forsythe, 
 Vivian Kelly, Maybelle Hettrick, Gladys B. Gallup, W. R. Babb and Edith M. 
 Westcott with Miss Helen Bromilow as librarian.
 
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 PRANK UARTZELL
 
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 Religious Groups of the Community 
 
 St. Edwards Church — Originally a mission served from Henry, St. Edward's 
 Church became a parish in 1901, with Father E. M. Hayden as first resident 
 pastor, who remained in charge until 1907, when he was succeeded by Jeremiah 
 Roch, who remained until 1912. In 1912 Father William W. Burke came to the 
 parish and remained in charge until 1923, when he was relieved by the present 
 pastor, Rev. Martin J. Spalding. In 1925, during the pastorate of Rev. Martin 
 Spalding, improvements to the extent of $20,000 were made on the church prop- 
 erty. Ihe church and parsonage have both been brick veneered, the interiors 
 of both buildings redecorated and an electric pipe organ installed in the church. 
 In 1935 a double brick veneer garage was added to the property. The St. Ed- 
 wards Church has a congregation of 400 souls and is free of all debt. The prop- 
 erty composed of the brick church, parsonage and brick garage with its 
 well kept lawns and shubbery is one of the show places of Chillicothe. 
 
 First Methodist Church — The Methodists first held meetings in the early 1830's 
 in a school house on the public square, not being officially organized until 1852, 
 when William Atchison and Jessie Craige were sent here by the Methodist cir- 
 cuit to conduct services, the circuit requiring two ministers at that time. The 
 first Methodist parsonage, since destroyed, was erected in 1853 at Third and 
 Beech streets and followed by the present structure in 1898. The present pastor 
 of the church is A. H. Nothdruft, aided by L. C. LaPlante, financial chairman; 
 E. W. Sweetman, treasurer; O. E. Smith, superintendent of Sunday schools; 
 W. R. Guyer, recording steward; Mrs. L. I. Carroll, president of the Ladies Aid; 
 Mrs. Lillian Carroll, president of the Missionary society. The trustees are O. E. 
 Smith, Fred Gilyeat, L. I. Carroll, E. W. Sweetman, O. B. Mullen and Julius D. 
 Root. 
 
 Christian Science Church — The Christian Science society of Chillicothe was 
 first officially organized on May 23, 1897, with Mrs. Sarah J. Beebe, president; 
 Mrs. Mollie Herzog, secretary; Mrs. Robert C. Gowdy, treasurer and Isaac T. 
 Kahn and Mrs. L. A. Rodgers as readers. The present church was erected in the 
 summer of 1926 and dedicated in April, 1935. The present board of directors 
 consist of Jessie Goodwin, Mrs. C. H. Mead, Mrs. T. J. Winchester, Mrs. Gilfillan, 
 Miss Ida Gullet, directors; Mrs. Mary Markwalder, clerk; Mrs. W. E. Van Dusen, 
 treasurer; Carl Gilfillan, first reader; Mrs. Mary Markwalder, second reader. 
 First Baptist Church — In the year of 1838 the first organization of a Baptist 
 church in Chillicothe was undertaken with 17 members, meetings being held in 
 private homes. Chillicothe had only 40 inhabitants at that date. Later in 1850 
 a re-organization took place and a church was erected at the corner of Second 
 and Elm streets. In 1907 the present structure on the corner of 7th and Pine 
 streets was erected. The present church officials are Rev. C. J. Alford, pastor; 
 Mrs. Frank Carr, secretary; Mrs. E. E. Merrihew, treasurer; John Raine, super- 
 intendent of Sunday schools; D. J. Veerman, assistant superintendent of Sunday 
 schools; Miss Grace Seebright, secretary of Sunday schools; E. E. Merrihew, 
 Frank Carr, Francis Dalton, Fred Grossenbacher and Joe Beebe, trustees; O. J. 
 Mullen, D. P. Bartlett, O. N. McLaughlin, Charles Koch and Joe Hart, deacons. 
 Plymouth Congregational Church — The Plymouth Congregational church was 
 organized on August 12, 1891, at North Chillicothe, in a gospel tent. The first 
 officers of the church were Rev. Elbert J. Collins, pastor; Miss Minnie Hill, clerk; 
 George Harbaugh, Joseph Lindemen, Elmer Hunter and L. A. Wood, deacons; 
 Henry Will, G. W. Harbaugh, Mrs. Henry Truitt, L. A. Wood, J. Moffitt, H. 
 Mead, J. L. Robertson, B. F. Warren and E. F. Hunter, trustees. Arthur Brooks, 
 Mrs. Easton Wood, Harrison Reed, George Field, were early treasurers. George 
 Field served as treasurer for 16 years. Russell Field Hunter, the present treas- 
 urer, is serving his 21st year. The present church building was completed in 
 August, 1893, and was dedicated two years later. A Sunday school addition 
 was erected in 1921. 
 
 The Chillicothe Woman's Club 
 
 In 1899 the Woman's Club of Chillicothe was organized and in April, 
 1927, consolidated with the Music Club and Study Club as the Chillicothe Wom- 
 an's Club. The first officers of the organization were Mrs. D. Earl Waddell,
 
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 president; Mrs. C. H. Carroll, first vice president; Mrs. A. S. Dean, second vice 
 president; Mrs. C. W. Hettrick, recording secretary; Mrs. Oscar Staley, corres- 
 ponding secretary and Mrs. William Todd, treasurer. At the time the three clubs 
 became affiliated there were five departments in the club — Music, Education, 
 American Home, Literature and Public Welfare. Many things have been ac- 
 complished in the community, such as installing beautiful light fixtures in the 
 city hall as well as chairs, tables and stove. 
 
 The Chillicothe Woman's Club is a member of the County, District and 
 State Federation of' Woman's Clubs of Illinois and Mrs. Grant Burdick, a mem- 
 ber of the local club, is the state chairman of the Club Women's World commit- 
 tee, which is the committee actively interested in the magazine of that name 
 published for the members of the Federation. The club at the present time is 
 composed of four departments. Literature Department, Mrs. Grant Burdick, 
 chairman, makes a study of the classics; Current Literature department, Mrs. 
 Gerald Harper, chairman, studying composers and current events; American 
 Home department, Mrs. O. D. Parrish, chairman, home economics and all phases 
 of the home; Public Welfare department, Mrs. Hattie Shepard, chairman. This 
 last department is responsible for the civic improvement work and while com- 
 posed of only about 30 members, the entire club is enthusiastically behind any 
 movement promoted by it. 
 
 Probably the outstanding accomplishment of the Welfare department 
 was the beautifying of Cutright Community Park and their participation in the 
 party given each year by Mrs. Webb at Christmas time for all of the under- 
 privileged children of the community, ranging in ages from small infants to 12 
 years. Through the co-operation of F. J. Rolan, owner of the Sunset and Palace 
 theatres, who donates one afternoon for the toy matinee, toys are obtained to be 
 given out as Christmas presents to the children. Mrs. Webb, who is the origna- 
 tor and sponsor of the party, each year furnishes candies, nuts and cookies and 
 entertainment for the children. Santa Claus is also in attendance to present 
 the little ones with their gifts and it is one of the pleasant memories of the Yule- 
 tide season to those who are actively engaged in the project. The Public Wel- 
 fare department has also taken a great interest in the school band, assisting 
 them in the purchase of music. 
 
 Cutright Community Park was the former site of a canning factory lo- 
 cated at the foot of Walnut street on the bank of the Illinois river. Through 
 the benevolence of N. S. Cutright, who donated the land to the city in his will, 
 and the efforts of the Public Welfare department of the club this ground, which 
 had become a rubbish heap, was transfornmed into one of the show places of 
 Chillicothe. The club dedicated Cutright Paik June 27, 1935, with an outdoor 
 dinner held in the park. They have had constructed in the park a brick fireplace 
 or stove and chairs and benches. Shade trees have been planted on two sides 
 and with the park facing the river it will be a spot of beauty in a few years 
 when the trees have gained some height. Mrs. Wilsey was chairman of the de- 
 partment at this time. A great deal of credit should be given Mayors Charles 
 Daugherty and Edward Pennington, who, through their co-operation, made it 
 possible for the dreams of the department to come true. 
 
 The Chillicothe Woman's Club is always willing to assist in anything 
 that will make Chillicothe a better place in which to live and they are always 
 striving to work for the best interests of the community. The present officers 
 of the club are Mrs. Eva M. Cooper, president; Mrs. Esther Meier, first vice 
 president; Mrs. Blanche Williamson, second vice president; Mrs. Emily Root, 
 recording secretary; Mrs. Edith Gaisford, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mary 
 Anderson, treasurer. 
 
 The publishers of this book wish to th?nk the members of the Chilli- 
 cothe Woman's Club for their co-operation in aiding in compiling this "Illustrat- 
 ed History of Chillicothe," and to the following members of the committee who 
 have given so unsparingly of their time : Mrs. Eva M. Cooper, Mrs. Hattie Shep- 
 ard, Mrs. Lillian Carroll and Miss Emma Meixner. 
 
 Many Active Organizations in Chillicothe 
 
 The Chillicothe Business Men's Association — Feeling the need of an organiza- 
 tion in Chillicothe of the city's business men for the accomplishment of worth- 
 while projects through group action, about fifty of Chillicothe's leading business
 
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 and professional men met and organized the Chillicothe Business Men's Asso- 
 ciation April 1, 1936. Beginning with twenty-lour charter members, the Associ- 
 ation has grown so rapidly during the past six months that its present member- 
 ship now totals fifty-seven of the city's leading business and professional men 
 and women. The Association was incorporated as a non-profit organization 
 under the laws of the State of Illinois in June, 1936. The officers in charge of 
 this active organization are Otto Woodruff, president; E. T. Russell, vice presi- 
 dent; E. J. Harper, managing secretary and treasure; C. B. Zinser, Oscar Smith, 
 Otto Woodruff, E. T. Russell, Walter McCanna, E. L. Pennington, Dr. S. A. 
 Smith, William Steadman, J. K. Carlisle, Ray Bender and Fred Kelly, directors. 
 The publicity and promotional committee is composed of R. H. Zinser, chairman, 
 Harold Root, G. P. Scott, C. H. Mead and T. E. Tippetts. 
 
 Kiwanis Club — In May 1923 the Kiwanis Club of Chillicothe was organized 
 with the following officers guiding the destiny of the organization : L. A. Rider, 
 president; L. L. Pearce, vice president; James Ingles, secretary, and H. V. 
 Thomas, district trustee. The Kiwanis Club with the combined efforts of the 
 St. Edwards Catholic Church built the imposing entrance gates of the city at 
 a cost of over $5,000. The club also has purchased uniforms for the city band 
 and aided crippled children by contributing generously to various funds. The 
 present officers of the organization are H. C. Bonta, president; E. T. Russell, 
 immediate past president; G. E. Webb, vice president; T. C. Anderson, secre- 
 tary-treasurer. The directors consist of C. H. Mead, C. B. Zinser, D. S. Risen, 
 L. L. Pearce, O. E. Smith, S. A. Smith and H. V. Thomas. 
 
 The Parent Teachers' Association — On December 17, 1929, a Parent Teachers' 
 Association was organized in Chillicothe with L. A. Rider, president; H. H. 
 Baumgardner, vice president; Miss Jane Steele, secretary; Mrs. C. L. Witham, 
 treasurer. It has been through the efforts of this organization that the present 
 Pre-School Clinic was made possible under the direction of Mrs. Leona Ringen- 
 berger and Drs. Smith, Thomas and Green as physical examiners. The past 
 summer the association has had the distinction of having its president and sec- 
 retary, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Church, invited to participate in the State P. T. A. 
 radio program broadcast over station WILL at the University of Illinois. The 
 present officers are Mrs. W. T. Church, president; Mrs. Fred Harvey, vice presi- 
 dent; W. T. Church, secretary, and Ernest Webb, treasurer. 
 
 The American Legion of Chillicothe — One of the earliest American Legion posts 
 in the state to receive their charter was Chillicothe Post No. 9, organized in 
 1919 with Fred Kelly as first commander. The Post has been very active in 
 civic affairs. The present officers are T. C. Anderson, commander; John Hub- 
 bell, vice commander; A. R. Sweeney, adjutant; Nelson Isrealson, finance offi- 
 cer; Dr. S. B. LaDue, service officer; Dr. S. A. Smith, historian; E. E. Webb, 
 chaplain; Ed Droll, sergeant-at-arms. The officers elect for 1936 and 1937 are 
 John Hubbell, commander; T. C. Anderson, past commander; C. C. Edwards, 
 vice commander; Dr. S. B. LaDue, adjutant; Nelson Isrealson, finance officer; 
 E. E. Webb, chaplain; J. B. Taylor, sergeant-at-arms. 
 
 The American Legion Auxiliary — Organized June 24, 1922, the Auxiliary Unit 
 of American Legion Post No. 9 was one of the first Auxiliaries in Illinois. The 
 first officers of the unit were Mrs. Mildred LaDue, president; Mrs. S. E. Smith, 
 first vice president; Marie Kelly, second vice president; Mrs. M. L. Wilkey, 
 secretary; Mrs. A. D. Wenker, treasurer; Ida Carroll, sergeant-at-arms. The 
 unit has aided materially various charitable organizations and contributed lib- 
 erally to clinics. Eva M. Cooper is the retiring president; Cecil Stewart, the 
 president elect; Nell Archard, secretary; Nell Hershey, treasurer. 
 
 The following men are Spanish-American War veterans: Charles Brown, Frank 
 Simons, James Carver, Elmer Sturms, Albert Rogers, William Allington, Howard 
 Pettett and Hoyt Clifford. There are no G. A. R. veterans living in Chillicothe 
 township. 
 
 University Club of Chillicothe — The University Club of Chillicothe was organ- 
 ized in 1896 with Mrs. Isabelle Easton Wood the first president. During the 
 earlier years of its organization the Club was composed of both men and women. 
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 tainments, the money obtained being used for the purpose of establishing sewing 
 classes in the schools of the city. They have contributed generously toward the 
 Parkridge School for girls. The furnished rest rooms in the new city hall were 
 also made possible through the efforts of this organization. There are two beau- 
 tiful Plaques hanging in the new High School placed there by the Club. The 
 present officers are Mrs. W. W. Mercer, president; Mrs. J. D. Root, vice presi- 
 dent; Mrs. E. B. Sheets, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. F. C. Green, assistant 
 secretary and treasurer. 
 
 Woman's Benefit Association — In 1899 the Woman's Benefit Association was 
 organized with Lillian Rice, president; Kate Rice, chaplain; Kate Harbaugh, 
 collector. The present officers constitute the following: Frieda Underwood, 
 president; Lydia Scott, vice president; Selma Howard, past president; Eva 
 Mullen, financial secretary; Gladys Gallop, Irene Bellsly, recording secretary; 
 Selma Howard, junior supervisor; Leone Ringenberger, nurse; Mrs. Lena Her- 
 rick, chaplain. 
 
 George Washington Lodge No. 222, A. F. & A. M. — Organized January 12, 
 1856, the lodge received its charter October 7, 1856. The lodge will celebrate 
 its 80th anniversary this year. The lodge rooms are located in the Masonic 
 building which is owned by the organization. The charter officers of the lodge 
 were William McLean, W. M.; H. A. Raney, S. W.; L. A. Wood, J. W. ; Orin 
 Booth, S. D. ; Samuel Aylwin, J. D.; S. C. Jack, secretary, and E. H. Jack, trea- 
 surer. With a present membership of 208 the Masonic lodge in Chillicothe is one 
 of the active organizations of the city. The officers for the current year are 
 C. B. Wissen, W. M.; Joseph B. Taylor, S. W. ; Everett E. Swift, J. W.; Oscar E. 
 Smith, treasurer; Henry G. Friedrich, secretary; John F. Hubbell, S. D. ; Roy 
 C. Rankin, J. D. ; William M. Glasford, chaplain; Edwin T. Russell, marshal; 
 Joseph K. Carlisle, S. S. ; Julius D. Root, J. S. ; Charles W. Hettrick, Tyler. 
 
 Order of Eastern Star — The Installation of the first officers of the Eastern 
 Star at Chillicothe was in 1891 with the following filling offices: Mrs. Emiline 
 Thomas, worthy matron; H. C. Pettett, patron; F. W. Mitchell, associate patron; 
 Mrs. Ella Keith, conductress; Mrs. R. Bledsoe, social conductress; Mrs. F. D. 
 Fenn, secretary. The following constituted the points of the star at that time: 
 Miss Noe, Ada; Miss Anna Lester, Ruth; Mrs. Kate Friedrich, Ester; Mrs. J. E. 
 Dunwell, Martha; Mrs. C. W. Carroll, Electa. The present officers consist of 
 Ruby Kilmer, worthy matron; Joseph R. Stewart, worthy patron; Mrs. Rose 
 Carroll, associate matron; William Carroll, associate patron; Mrs. Caroline Slinn 
 secretary; Mrs. Mary Anderson, treasurer; Mrs. Helen White, conductress; Mrs. 
 Ida Harvey, associate conductress; Mrs. Lillian Harvey, marshal; Mrs. Lucille 
 Evan, organist; Mrs. Ada Webb, Miss Marjorie Schmidt, Mrs. Aletha Beaumont, 
 Mrs. Marie Veerman and Edith Shepard making up the star of the organization; 
 Madeline McLaughlin, warder; Charles Hettrick, sentinel. 
 
 Order of Railway Conductors — The Order of Railway Conductors, Division 222, 
 of Chillicothe received their charter on February 5, 1887, with the following as 
 charter members: F. L. Chase, F. W. Kimball, J. W. Moreland, James Fitzgerald, 
 L. N. Turpin, J. B. Potter, W. E. Cass, William Kress, T. E. Coster, R. H. 
 Mitchell, P. Apgar. Present officials are G. G. Linn, chief conductor, since 
 1929; James D. Carroll, secretary and treasurer, since 1921; C. H. Dalton, local 
 chairman, since 1915. 
 
 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen — The Santa Fe Lodge No. 285 of the Broth- 
 erhood of Railroad Trainmen was organized in 1889 with the following charter 
 members: G. W. Bereford, J. L. Casey, Lewis Wiles, Thomas Howe, W. C. 
 Howard, Mathias M. Mahone, William Marsden. S. B. Morrison, J. N. Negris, 
 C. B. Sperry. The present officials are Fred Meir, president; J. D. Scott, jr., 
 secretary, O. B. Mullen, local chairman. 
 
 Calumet Lodge No. 196, I. O. O. F. — The Calumet Lodge No. 196, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, received their charter March 12, 1856 with D. B. Mc- 
 Master, noble grand, J. C. Folliot, vice grand; J. H. Batchalder, recording sec- 
 retary; Thomas S. McNanamy treasurer; Levi Booth, R. S. V. G.; G. L. Marlett, 
 conductor; Samuel Barger, outside guardian; C. C. Allen, L. S. V. G.; Hiram 
 Bliss, warden; C. H. Batchelder, inside guardian; William Oakford, R. S. S. ;
 
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 J. L. Renner, R. S. V. G.; G. H. Pifen, L. S. V. G. Contributions are made to 
 charitable organizations. The present officers are J. W. Edwards, noble grand ; 
 Clyde Grady, vice grand; E. I. Nurse, secretary; Adolph Sweeney, treasurer; 
 O. D. Woodruff, R. S. N. G.; L. E. Clark, L. S. N. G.; warden; Albert M. Goel- 
 nitz, R.S. S. ; J. H. Ames, O. G. ; Sanford L. Gunter, conductor; Charles R. Hicks, 
 L. S. S. ; Harry A. Baer, inside guardian; George S. Johns, chaplain; R. E. 
 Grahan, R. S. V. G. ; Carl Seebright, L. S. V. G. There are at present eighty- 
 five members in the organization. 
 
 Chillicothe Rebekah Lodge No. 545 — The Rebekah lodge of Chillicothe was or- 
 ganized May 24, 1899, with the following constituent officers: Kate Garver, 
 noble grand; Eva E. Weaver, vice grand; Edith C. Thomas, secretary; C. C. 
 Westcott, treasurer; H. C. Pettett, R. S. N. G. ; C. O. Garver, L. S. N. G. ; 
 William Donath, warder; Clara Mattice, conductress; Sister Hakes, inside guar- 
 dian; C. H. Naylor, outside guardian; Brother Weaver, R. S. V. G.; Sister Pet- 
 tett, L. S. V. G. ; Sister Naylor, chaplain. Kate Garver, charter noble grand, 
 passed away in July, 1936. There were 16 brothers and 18 sisters as charter 
 members. The present officers are Effie Dowdall, noble grand; Ruth Huckins, 
 vice grand; Hulda Sweeney, secretary; Pearl Graham, treasurer; Veda Wood- 
 ruff, warden; Lena Wilson, conductress; Asma Saad, inner guard; Eva Baer, out- 
 side guard; Alice Wilsey, R. S. N. G. ; Mary Anderson, L. S. N. G. ; Mary Wilson, 
 R. S. V. G. ; Stella Clark, L. S. V. G. ; Lizzie Summers, chaplain. There is at the 
 present time a membership of 76. 
 
 Has Spent Entire Lifetime in Chillicothe 
 
 Oldest Resident — Milton Allen Brown was born July 4, 1855, at the corner of 
 First and Elm streets in Chillicothe to James W. and Margaret Dunlap Brown. 
 Mr. Brown received his early education in the schools of Chillicothe, later at- 
 tending Cole College of Peoria, Dlinois, from which school he graduated in 1875. 
 During the earlier years of his life he was engaged in farming, later taking- 
 over the rural distribution of the Peoria Journal which occupation he followed 
 for eighteen years. On February 1, 1905, he was united in marriage to Rosi- 
 Holler of Lacon and to this union was born one child, Roscoe, now deceased. 
 For the past 81 years Mr. Brown has been a resident of Chillicothe, living hi.« 
 entire life in his present home. Mr. Brown has been active in civic affairs, hav- 
 ing served on the school board, two terms as supervisor, alderman, town clerk, 
 assessor and tax collector. It is fitting at this time, a presidential year, to men- 
 tion that he has voted at the same precinct in Chillicothe for the past 60 years 
 and for 15 presidents of the United States. Mr. Brown has also been honored 
 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows with the presentation of a fifty-yea) 
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 IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
 
 To the follonving firms and individuals Mrho haye financially helped 
 to make possible this "Pictorial History of Chillicothe and North 
 Chillicothe," the publishers and the members of the Chillicothe Wom- 
 an's Club extend their sincere appreciation: 
 
 Dr. S. A. Smith 
 
 Drs. Green and Sutton 
 
 Gale and West 
 
 Mrs. Lillian Carroll 
 
 Public Service Company of 
 
 Northern Illinois 
 Bacon Electric Company 
 Walter T. McCanna, Postmaster 
 Sadie's Beauty Shop 
 Mattice Motor Company 
 Charles E. Williams 
 Kelly's Quality Store 
 Rolan and Root Grocery 
 Sweeney Beauty Parlor 
 McGrath Sand and Gravel Co. 
 Gunther's Skelgas and Electric 
 Sunset Theatre 
 Kroger's Grocery 
 Stumbaugh's Filling Station 
 Anderson Funeral Home 
 Truitt-Matthe-MTs Banking Co. 
 Carlisle Drug Store 
 Pennington's Barber Shop 
 Ben Franklin Store 
 
 Dr. S. B. LaDue 
 
 Dr. C. F. Case 
 
 Betty Read Beauty Shop 
 
 The Coffee Cup 
 
 Larkin Filling Station 
 
 Webb's Inn 
 
 Jarvis Chevrolet Garage 
 
 Ross Placher's Grocery 
 
 First National Bank 
 
 F. E. Lynd, Jeweler 
 
 Hicks Electric Company 
 
 Hunter Lumber Company 
 
 Woodruff Brothers 
 
 Texaco Filling station 
 
 Sunset Barber Shop 
 
 J. C. Penny and Co. 
 
 Tucker's Grocery 
 
 Sunset Cleaners 
 
 Veerman's Bakery 
 
 Wait Brothers 
 
 Schwager Hardware Company 
 
 Artistic Cleaners 
 
 Weber Funeral Home 
 
 Stoecker Tire and Battery 
 
 We also w^ish to thank L. E. Clark for the use of a great many of 
 the pictures reproduced in this book
 
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