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 NAPERVILLE 
 HOME COMING 
 
 NAPERVILLE, ILL. 
 
 MAY 29th TO JUNE 1st 
 
 1917
 
 NAPERVILLE 
 
 Prof. H. H. Rassweiler 
 
 To wKom tKis Souvenir is respectfully 
 
 dedicated by tke citizens of Naperville 
 
 in recognition of Kis effort and 
 
 enthusiasm for a successful 
 
 Home Coming
 
 Of-'-' 
 
 JOSEPH NAPEK 
 
 FOUNDER OF NAPERVILLE 
 1857 
 
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 THE JOHN KAPER HOME 
 
 FIRST FRAME HOUSE BUILT ix NAPERVILLE, 1830
 
 NAPERVILLE 
 
 NAPERVILLE HISTORIC SKETCH 
 
 By D. B. GIVLER 
 
 God made the country, man made 
 the town with all conveniences, al- 
 lurements and imperfections. 
 
 The Pilgrim immigrant landed on 
 a rock-bound coast ; the pioneer set- 
 tler followed the star of empire west- 
 ward over almost insurmountable 
 mountains, through deep swamps 
 and trailless forests until he emerged 
 therefrom and stood amazed at a sight unsur- 
 passed for grandeur, vast in extent the en- 
 chanting prairies of northern Illinois. 
 
 Having rested a night in Chicago, he pushed 
 his way westward along a trail leading to the 
 Naper Settlement. This trail in time became 
 known as the Oswego road, and that part pass- 
 ing through Naperville as Chicago Avenue. 
 This lone horseman arrived here on a perfect 
 summer evening. Riding horseback all day, 
 communing with nature and getting a firmer 
 grip on the meaning of the word "boundless," his 
 attention was attracted to the sun passing 
 slowly toward the western horizon. To quote 
 his own language in substance: "I stopped, 
 looked long at this indescribable manifestation of 
 
 Nature in its golden glory, and then and there 
 praised my Maker." 
 
 This was, in a greatly modified form, a dupli- 
 cation of Moses' experience as from Pisgha's 
 heights he viewed afar the Promised Land, for 
 have not the fertile prairies of DuPage and sur- 
 rounding counties proven a land of promise in 
 bountiful harvests to past and present gener- 
 ations, and been verified in the experience of one 
 of our distinguished citizens? 
 
 The first settlers in this locality became resi- 
 dents of an organized state with well defined 
 boundaries. Illinois was admitted into the 
 Union by act of Congress in the year 1818. Du 
 Page County was created out of Cook County 
 with its present boundary lines on February 9, 
 1839. 
 
 Naperville is the oldest town in the county. 
 The village of Xaperville was incorporated by 
 act of Legislature in the winter of 1857. 
 
 Although Captain Joseph Naper was the 
 founder of the village of Naperville, he was not 
 the first settler in the county, nor of this im-
 
 mediate vicinity. In the year 1825, Stephen J. 
 Scott removed from Maryland to this State and 
 settled near Gros Point, Cook County, which 
 
 7| embraced at that time the county of DuPage. 
 While on a hunting- tour, in the month of 
 August, 1830, with his son Willard, he dis- 
 covered the DuPage river near Plainfield. He 
 
 qj came up the river to "The Forks" and resolved 
 to make this region his future home. A log 
 cabin was built on what is now known as the 
 Sheldon farm, which was occupied by Mr. Scott 
 and family in the fall of 1830. Other families 
 soon settled in the vicinity. This "settlement" 
 was in Will County, the line being but a short 
 distance south of Naperville. The first actual 
 settler on the soil of DuPage County was Bailey 
 Hobson who established a permanent home 
 within half a mile of the present southern limit 
 of this city. 
 
 In June, 1831, Captain Joseph Naper and 
 family took possession of their new home near 
 the site of the old grist mill, around which 
 cluster pleasant memories and from which pro- 
 ceeded influences that were potent factors in the 
 development of the garden spot of the greatest 
 state in the Union. A brief review by decades 
 will suffice. A full account would be intensely 
 interesting. 
 
 1830-1840. History reveals the fact that in the 
 settlement of this part of the State, former resi- 
 dents of the New England States took the lead. 
 Their opportunity for securing information 
 from the far-away west was ample and the 
 source so trustworthy that they made the 
 venture. In a list of forty men who came here 
 prior to 1838, the name of but one German ap- 
 pears, that of George Strubler, father of the four 
 Strubler brothers, all deceased, and he didn't 
 come direct from Germany, but from Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 These pioneers endured the usual hardships 
 common among a people poorly fortified against 
 the rigors of severe winters. Scarcity of food, 
 discouragement on account of the gloomy pros- 
 pect and an occasional Indian scare were not 
 calculated to make them rejoice evermore and in 
 all things give thanks. 
 
 But there were also seasons of rejoicing and 
 social functions which made life worth living, 
 and which many looked back to with pleasure, 
 their experiences having taught them lessons in 
 endurance and thrift which proved to be valu- 
 able legacies for their descendants to this day. 
 They were a noble, brave, persevering people. 
 
 1840-1850. This decade is replete with 
 marvelous activity in the "settlements." Goodly
 
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 HOME OF WILLAK1) SCOTT
 
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 reports had crossed the ocean, inducing thou- 
 sands to sever home-ties and assume the risks 
 incident to a voyage across the stormy Atlantic 
 in sailing vessels, a few enjoying first cabin com- 
 forts, but most of them confined to very incon- 
 venient, unsanitary steerage accommodations, 
 a goodly number of which became permanent 
 residents of Naperville and immediate vicinity. 
 
 A great stir had taken place among residents 
 of Lancaster, Berks, Schuylkill and other coun- 
 ties in Pennsylvania, beyond the Alleghany 
 mountains. The more courageous banded to- 
 gether and set their faces westward in spite of 
 protests, tears and warnings of friends. Some 
 came by canal and lake boats, but most of them 
 covered the distance by means of horse-drawn 
 wagons. Other groups followed in rapid suc- 
 cession until at the close of the decade, the Ger- 
 mans, English, Scotch, Pennsylvania Dutch 
 equaled the number of New England settlers. 
 
 During this time the village of Naperville was 
 increasing in population. The most serious 
 obstacles had been surmounted. Town and 
 country were interdependent. Adjacent timber 
 tracts furnished fuel for warmth and lumber for 
 addition to log cabins. Saw-mills were kept 
 busy and grist-mills provided flour for daily 
 bread. The DuPage river was an important 
 factor in the development of the settlements. 
 
 But the mills, dams and ponds have disappeared, 
 and its waters flow untrammeled toward the 
 fathomless deep. 
 
 All classes of people brought some sort of re- 
 ligion with them and soon felt the need of 
 united effort in promoting spiritual matters, and 
 from this impulse societies were formed which 
 worshiped in private homes, halls, and school 
 houses until churches could be built, so that at 
 the close of the decade, the Baptists, Congre- 
 gationalists, Methodists, Evangelicals and 
 Catholics worshiped in dedicated buildings. The 
 Lutherans and Episcopalians were provided for 
 later. 
 
 Education was not neglected, and from the 
 arrival of the first settlers this important matter 
 received deserved attention in the way of pri- 
 vate instruction, and later through the medium 
 of the public school, by means of which some of 
 the scholars became men of usefulness and in- 
 fluence in their clay and generation. The resi- 
 dents of the village were especially active in pro- 
 viding school buildings and teachers, of which 
 fact our Academy building, unchanged as to ex- 
 terior, bears convincing testimony and may con- 
 tinue so to do for another century. 
 
 Surplus grain was hauled to Chicago by farm- 
 ers living far west and southwest from Naper-
 
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 ville. The Pre-Emption House and barns 
 afforded ample accommodations for man and 
 beast. It served as a half-way stopping place 
 for many years. A railroad was talked about 
 and efforts made to secure one, all of which 
 failed. Merchandise for local sale came as re- 
 turn loads. Several men made this a special 
 business for many years, using the plank road, 
 minus the planks. 
 
 Farmers kept pace with the spirit of the day. 
 The horse-drawn reaper and mower superseded 
 the grain cradle and scythe. Ox-teams were 
 few. The plow that scoured was an appreciated 
 blessing. It was a modifier of temper, a puri- 
 fier of thoughts, removed temptation and made 
 plowing a pleasant past-time. 
 
 The village also was abreast with the needs of 
 the day. There were stores and groceries carry- 
 ing a great variety of goods. Butter and eggs 
 were exchanged for luxuries and necessities. 
 Money was scarce and credit popular. Profes- 
 sional men put out signs, ready, willing and able 
 to heal the sick, cause the lame to walk and ad- 
 minister liberal doses of ipecac and calomel at 
 reduced prices. Lawyers, not a few, stood ready 
 to give safe advice, write deeds and mortgages, 
 or defend one in court whether innocent or 
 guilty. 
 
 The old court house stood near the site of the 
 soldiers monument. It was built in the year 
 1839. For thirty years Naperville was the 
 county seat of DuPage, by virtue of which it at- 
 'tracted a goodly number of citizens from other 
 parts of the County who became leading citi- 
 zens. Court sessions brought the Honorable 
 Judge and many legal lights having cases in 
 court. Important trials, with weighty verdicts, 
 were disposed of to the entire satisfaction of 
 winners. Failing to be forewarned by attempts 
 to remove the county seat, Naperville was not 
 forearmed when the last test of voting strength 
 was made in 1867. The election was contested, 
 but after much litigation, sharp controversy 
 and expenditure of large sums of money the con- 
 test ended, the removal effected and harmony 
 restored by a resolution of the Board of Super- 
 visors which donated the public square to the 
 village of Naperville for park purposes. Ac- 
 cording to tradition, removal would have been 
 prevented if an early-day election, held in the 
 towns of DuPage and Wheatland, had received 
 attention. The matter to be decided was: "Are 
 the voters of these two towns willing to be de- 
 tached from Will County and be joined to Du- 
 Page County"? One vote in the negative de- 
 cided that question. Truthfully, or otherwise,
 
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 HOME OF FRANCIS A. KENDALL
 
 HOME OF FRANCIS GRANGER
 
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 it was claimed many years afterward that John 
 Barleycorn cast the deciding vote. 
 
 1850-1860. The writer stands on familiar 
 ground, as sixty-six years ago he first caught a 
 glimpse of Naperville, snugly located on a low 
 tract of ground, crowding timber on the west, 
 several houses over the river, later swept away; 
 unpaved streets; sidewalks few and meander- 
 ing; residences small, unpretentious and un- 
 painted ; wooden bridge ; cows running at large ; 
 no street lamps candles and kerosene lamps in 
 general use, and matches almost a marvelous 
 discovery or invention. 
 
 Into this decade is crowded the bulk of 
 pioneer history. Immigration had practically 
 ceased. Land all pre-empted and most of it 
 owned by actual settlers. Within a radius of 
 seven miles resided a sturdy lot of men and wo- 
 men, engaged in agricultural pursuits and in- 
 terested in religion, education and politics. Not 
 much wealth, but a strong purpose to succeed 
 and make the prairie a real paradise. The hum 
 of the prairie fowl greeted the ears of early 
 risers; from the undrained sloughs came mo- 
 notonous croakings of myriads of frogs; the 
 barking night prowler the prairie wolf, had 
 disappeared, and the last deer converted into 
 venison. The people had settled down into quiet, 
 
 compact, contented neighborhoods, and few re- 
 movals or changes took place, although a visi- 
 tation of cholera and typhoid fever claimed some 
 victims. 
 
 Prairie fires were dreaded, but no great losses 
 were sustained thereby. The sight was grand 
 from a distance. The burning of straw was sus- 
 pended after farmers discovered that even the 
 black prairie soil was not exhaustless. 
 
 Early in the decade, two nurseries were estab- 
 lished which furnished shade, fruit and orna- 
 mental trees for prairie homes, for, be it remem- 
 bered that, outside the timber tracts, not a tree 
 appeared to obstruct the vision of the earliest 
 settlers. The manufacture of the famous Jones 
 plows began as early as 1840 and became so 
 popular that in the year 1856 two thousand five 
 hundred were turned out and sold at $15.00 each. 
 
 The Bank of Naperville went into operation 
 in 1854. The breweries afforded a local market 
 for barley and enjoyed a prosperous existence 
 until crowded out by grasping trusts. The I. O. 
 of O. F. was organized in 1850, the Masonic 
 Lodge established in 1848, lodge of Good 
 Templars instituted 1857. An artillery company 
 was organized in 1856, to which belonged a 
 number of men who rendered service in the civil 
 war. Independence day was observed en masse.
 
 HOME OF C. M. KUHN
 
 The Declaration was read, followed by an ad- 
 dress and dinner in an adjacent grove, punctu- 
 ated by salvos of artillery produced by anvils 
 properly charged and discharged. 
 
 High water in the river raised the ice, and the 
 two combined caused a destructive freshet 
 throughout the length of the usually placid Du- 
 Page. It came in the month of March, 1857. 
 Huge cakes of ice, borne along by a rapid cur- 
 rent, beat down dams, swept away bridges, de- 
 molished houses. Water and ice covered the 
 lower part of town, as well as the river's banks 
 many miles southward. It was an interesting 
 spectacle. Some of the mammoth cubes resisted 
 the sun's rays for several months. 
 
 The first history of DuPage County was pub- 
 lished in the year 1857. It contains a reliable 
 account of the varied activities of the residents 
 of the county from the arrival of the first pioneer 
 up to this date. It is a meritorious little volume 
 and every owner should highly prize it. 
 
 The first three newspapers arrived and de- 
 parted in 1850. The next attempt was made in 
 1851, and survived about three years. The next 
 failure occurred in 1857. Two other abortive 
 efforts were made, but finally The Press, estab- 
 lished in 1863, was purchased by the writer who 
 
 changed the name to The Clarion. The failure 
 of a newspaper man is usually credited to mis- 
 management; that of a banker to circumstances 
 over which he had no control. The local 
 journalist had a small bonus to work with and 
 soon failed ; the banker's deposits were larger 
 and held out longer. 
 
 Political affairs during this decade received 
 strict attention. The village majority was 
 usually captured by the Democrats, but the 
 county at large in 1856 polled 1,387 votes for 
 Fremont and 542 for Buchanan; 1860, Lincoln, 
 1,790; Douglas, 803. Even township elections 
 were vigorously contested and village elections 
 even more so. Candidates for constable and 
 Justice of the Peace put up a strong fight to win 
 and made use of every legitimate argument to 
 induce friends to vote early, if not often. 
 
 Several homicides and suicides might be re- 
 corded, but the writer prefers to pass them by. 
 Tragic events were few in number and are 
 mostly forgotten. 
 
 A general cry went up for a railroad. Chi- 
 cago was the nearest market. Cattle and sheep 
 were driven thither in droves. The city could 
 be reached by stage direct or by way of Winfield 
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 on exchanges and New York papers for matter 
 to fill its columns. One publisher got married 
 and delayed publication three days. An 
 apology was accepted as the paper was not 
 missed. The editor put in his best licks to secure 
 a railway. It came long after his removal to an- 
 other city. The village could communicate with 
 the outside world by telegraph, a daguerreotype 
 gallery was installed, and the happiest days of 
 the writer's life were when he could wear a but- 
 toned shirt and Hapless trousers and exhibit his 
 "likeness" fresh from the camera obscura. 
 
 It would be an unpardonable oversight if 
 mention were not made of the many brave men 
 who went from here to California during this 
 decade. The lure of gold became universal and 
 irresistible all over the country. Parties, in- 
 cluding women and children, were formed in 
 other parts of the State, and overland, in "prairie 
 schooners," they ventured forth, some to suc- 
 ceed, others to perish by the way, and not a few 
 to spend a winter in the mountains and finally 
 be rescued by searching parties. 
 
 The less venturesome men went by way of the 
 isthmus of Panama, while others followed the 
 overland trails. Some of them returned with 
 enough "color" to start in business or buy a 
 
 farm, land being cheaper then than it is now. 
 Two weeks were required to transport a letter. 
 The "pony express" cut down the time; the rail- 
 road made it from 3 to 4 days. The returned 
 California!! was looked up to as a near hero with 
 dead-loads of coin, dust and nuggets. Every- 
 body had a right to guess, but nobody was wiser 
 for gruessing. Several men from Naperville died 
 on the way, but most of them returned safe and 
 found. 
 
 Farmers were somewhat discouraged. Prices 
 for grain were very low. Taxes were regularly 
 collected. The state levy must be paid in silver. 
 Bank bills were of doubtful value. "Wild cat" 
 currency predominated. "Detectives" were 
 issued, but their estimates were unreliable, grain 
 must be hauled to Chicago, potatoes also. One 
 farmer, it was reported, failed to find a pur- 
 chaser. He backed his wagon to the river's bank 
 and dumped his potatoes into the water. 
 Arrested and fined a larger sum than team, 
 waeron and 'taters were worth. This happened 
 so long ago that it may not be a true story. 
 
 The years 1858, '59 and '60 were crowded with 
 great events, affecting every State in the Union, 
 the slavery question being at the bottom of the 
 prevailing unrest. Kansas was the western 
 storm center. Here and then John Brown first
 
 came into prominence. A cable was laid be- 
 tween the United States and England. Senator 
 Douglas and Abraham Lincoln debated the po- 
 litical issues of the day; both became presi- 
 dential candidates; Lincoln was elected, and the 
 year 1860 closed with the secession movement 
 under full headway. 
 
 1861-1871. The climax of many years of agi- 
 tation came at last. A call for volunteers re- 
 ceived a hearty response, and Naperville was not 
 slow in responding. A complete record of the 
 part taken by the county is contained in a his- 
 tory published in 1876. 
 
 A war of any kind brings great changes. The 
 old order of things are disturbed. Family ties 
 are severed; solicitude for the fate of the boys 
 intensified, and moral restraints weakened if not 
 
 entirely removed, 
 last. 
 
 However, the end came at 
 
 After all hope of regaining the county seat 
 had been abandoned, internal improvements re- 
 ceived attention. The public square was planted 
 with trees. Streets and sidewalks were graded. 
 
 A fire company and hand engine superseded 
 the bucket-brigade. A steamer followed. The 
 fire cisterns went into disuse. They still exist, 
 but are forgotten. A brick and tile factory was 
 established, and the location of North-Western 
 College secured. A new iron and also a stone 
 bridge were built across the river. Village 
 streets and public highways were macadamized 
 and our apparent loss proved to be a real and 
 permanent blessing in disguise.
 
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 BUILT BY GEORGE LAIRD 
 1835
 
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 THE NAPERVILLE OF TODAY 
 
 Bj) W. R. GOODWIN, Oakhurst Farm, Naperville 
 
 Managing Editor The Breeder's Gazette, Chicago 
 
 FOREWORD 
 
 This materialistic age seeks a sign 
 the dollar sign. 
 
 This sign is measurably accurate, 
 nor is it a merely sordid index. Xot 
 all achievement is adequately valued 
 in cash, yet when the accumulations 
 of business thrift give form to those 
 aspirations which lift human life to 
 higher levels, and substance to the 
 dreams of beauty of an awakened soul, such ex- 
 penditure becomes the fixed reflection of the de- 
 velopment of the individual and the progress of 
 I lie community. It is the exact and indisputable 
 measure of that growth, the absence of which 
 inexorably spells decay. 
 
 The apparel oft and almost always proclaims 
 the man. When thrift fails to beget tidiness; 
 when affuence lacks outward expression in the 
 modern forms which visualize the apex of our 
 civilization ; when accumulation wants those evi- 
 dences which conspicuously mark individual 
 
 culture and civic ideals, a community is dead in 
 its indifference, recreant to its obligations to the 
 advancing world, and a blighting influence on its 
 young life pressing eagerly on toward the goals 
 of achieving endeavor. 
 
 Culture in the individual is essential to the 
 highest expression of community development. 
 The paths our fathers trod, resolute conquerors 
 of pioneer conditions, were circumscribed by 
 natural obstacles which yielded stubbornly and 
 slowly to the determined efforts of those 
 courageous men impelled by the Adamic com- 
 mand to dress and keep the garden. Their 
 heroic exploits will never be sufficiently cele- 
 brated in stirring song or eloquent story. They 
 served well their day and generation to the glory 
 of God and the gain of posterity. 
 
 But it was a wise philosopher of a former age 
 who thanked God that we were better than our 
 fathers. Xot greater in courage, devotion and 
 sacrifice, but richer in ideals, means and oppor-
 
 tunities. The cultural influences of the past half 
 century, the marvelous mastery of elemental 
 forces for greater comfort and higher efficien- 
 cy, have produced in Naperville, from our herit- 
 age from the fathers, a twentieth century people 
 measurably advanced in the arts of civilization 
 and its cultural manifestations; insistent on the 
 immunity afforded by sanitation ; demanding 
 avenues of comfortable transportation for that 
 easy intermingling which promotes fellowship 
 and lofty community ideals ; seeking the vision 
 of higher education ; and desiring the solace and 
 sustenance of worship in temples adequately ex- 
 pressive of man's fundamental beliefs and holiest 
 aspirations. 
 
 These betterments in community life ma- 
 terial, educational and religious keeping pace 
 with the forward movements of the age, are 
 based on an underlying industry and thrift in 
 business, and a manufacturing enterprise which 
 has made the name of Xaperville a matter of 
 national knowledge. 
 
 This is the Naperville of Today. 
 
 To home-comers, familiar with the Xaperville 
 of Yesterday, we offer the sign, the unimpeach- 
 able proof an exposition of community book- 
 keeping in its approximate footings. 
 
 MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 The introduction of public utilities about fif- 
 teen years ago affords sharp demarcation be- 
 tween the city of yesterday and today. The 
 dawning of the new morning came when electric 
 light banished the gloom of night. Naperville's 
 municipal light plant, now modern and supply- 
 ing night and day current for illumination and 
 power, was followed in the transition period by 
 the waterworks system, and these improve- 
 ments, with their common power plant, total in 
 cost around $150,000. To this is added $50,000 
 for sewers essential to the utilization of water- 
 works and a sanitary civic life. That the culture 
 and taste of a community no less than its pros- 
 perity find expression in the embellishment of its 
 utilities is revealed in the ornamental iron boule- 
 vard lights erected at a cost of $5,500, and the 
 cement posts in the park which cost $350. 
 
 The gas mains of the Western United Gas and 
 Electric Co. were laid through Xaperville streets 
 a few years ago, giving service both as luminant 
 and fuel, and adding the last of metropolitan con- 
 veniences to suburban life. Stores and homes 
 have been largely equipped at considerable ex- 
 pense for the utilization of this service. 
 
 Streets have already been paved at an expendi- 
 ture of nearly $187,000. Oiled macadam streets
 
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 "HEATHERTON" 
 HOME OF .T. S. GOODWIN
 
 HOME OF W. TCOKERT JOHNSTON
 
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 in the east residential districts account for nearly 
 $100,000 of this amount, brick paving in the busi- 
 ness center for nearly $74,000, and the begin- 
 ning of concrete paving in the west residential 
 section over $13,000. Plans contemplate the ex- 
 tension of the west side concrete paving and 
 drainage in 1917 at a cost of $117,000. The 
 foundation work has begun. 
 
 A Naperville lifted out of the mud, watered 
 and washed with an inexhaustible deep well sup- 
 ply, storm-drained and sewered into a septic 
 tank, and brilliantly lighted within and ablaze 
 without, invites with modest pride its former 
 residents to rejoice with it over accomplishments 
 which conclusively entitle Naperville to rank as 
 a modern city of the third class under the Illinois 
 statutes. 
 
 Logically conjoined with this company of 
 modern improvements stand the contributions of 
 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway to 
 the new city. A commodious station, of brick 
 and tile and impressive design, has replaced t! 1 " 
 depot of civil war vintage at a cost of $35,000. A 
 subway at the west end of town eliminates a 
 very dangerous grade crossing and leads north- 
 west traffic safely from the city. The cost was 
 $30,000. Plans are drawn for a subway under 
 the tracks in Washington Street at a cost of 
 $60,000. The railroad company has agreed to 
 move the freight house (the old depot) west of 
 
 Center Street, and to retire further in the back- 
 ground the unsightly elevator buildings on the 
 road's right of way. These changes will work 
 substantial improvement about the handsome 
 station on the north. Supplementing it on the 
 south side Burlington Square, the gift to 
 Naperville from the railroad, will charm with its 
 restful greenery of sward and shrub and tree, 
 provided by popular subscription, and proclaim 
 impressively to passers-by that the Naperville of 
 Today seeks outwardly to exemplify the beauty- 
 loving instincts of its cultured citizens. 
 
 Counting as certainties improvements now in 
 the making and in the maturity in plan, Naper- 
 ville challenges attention to a total of ap- 
 proximately $635,000 expended in the past fifteen 
 years in the way of modern community better- 
 ments, and Naperville has not one cent of bonded 
 indebtedness. 
 
 And Naperville has not one cent of bonded in- 
 debtedness. 
 
 In these substantial ways has the spirit of the 
 new Naperville taken form. However, it is a 
 dull student of community life who would not 
 look further, and deeper, and looking here he 
 would find : 
 
 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. 
 
 In the betterment of educational facilities in 
 recent years $232,000 has been spent in Naper-
 
 "KUMMEELOOS" 
 
 HOME OF CHARLES ALBERT NADELHOFFEK
 
 ville. The main item of around $105,000 pro- 
 vides a high school dedicated last fall which is 
 without equal in any city near Naperville's rank 
 in the state. The equipment of Northwestern 
 College, the educational home of the Evangelical 
 Church, has been extended by the addition of a 
 Carnegie Library and a Science Hall, each at a 
 cost of $30,000, and a heating plant at a cost of 
 $15,000. The new home of the Evangelical 
 Theological Seminary, maintained in affiliation 
 with the college, cost $32,000. Fire badly 
 damaged the parochial school of the Ss. Peter 
 and Paul Catholic church, and it was rebuilt at a 
 cost of $27,000. 
 
 HOUSES OF WORSHIP. 
 
 Rising yet higher in our survey we reach the 
 most significant clothing of a community spirit 
 its church building. A total of $133,000, spent 
 within ten years, measures the abiding faith of 
 our God-fearing people in the power of the 
 Gospel in life and in death. It embodies their 
 militant Christian spirit in erecting church 
 homes which typify in their architecture the 
 ecclesiastic ideals of the centuries; it emphasizes 
 their wisdom in equipping them for the utili- 
 zation of modern methods of church and Sunday 
 
 School work. The German Evangelical Congre- 
 gational Peoples Church cost $3,500. The First 
 Congregational Church was built and equipped 
 at a cost of over $27,000. The Grace United 
 Evangelical Church, with which the Salem 
 Evangelical Church joined, built a new edifice 
 which cost with the grounds $35,000. The Zion 
 Evangelical Church (the "old Brick Church") 
 drew unto itself the College Chapel Church, and 
 the twain became one under the name of the 
 First Evangelical Church with a new home that 
 cost $56,000. The Methodist Episcopal Church 
 was remodeled at an expenditure of about $4,500, 
 and the Church of the Brethren has been built 
 at a cost of about $3,000. Improvements on the 
 Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church have 
 amounted to at least $5,000. 
 
 Conspicuous among the evidences of modern- 
 ization, and most crucially revealing the soul of 
 the city, because of the object and union of effort 
 required for its accomplishment, stands the 
 Young Men's Christian Association building, 
 which cost with the grounds $43,000. Without 
 equal in its size and equipment among the cities 
 of the state materially exceeding Naperville in 
 population, it typifies an abiding and illuminat- 
 ing interest in the physical and spiritual welfare 
 of its young men.
 
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 BUSINESS ACTIVITIES. 
 
 All this superstructure of Naperville's im- 
 provements rests solidly on its commercial 
 activities and prosperity. Its barometers are the 
 banks. The First National Bank purchased the 
 Phillips building, and remodeled it at an expendi- 
 ture of $35,000. Some years ago the front of the 
 Reuss State Bank was rebuilt at a cost of $3,000, 
 and another room and a new vault have been 
 added at a cost of $10,000. The deposits in these 
 two banks total around $850,000. 
 
 The history of the Naperville Lounge Factory 
 reads like a romance in manufacturing. Its 
 operation gives basis to the business prosperity 
 of Naperville. Established in 1881 in Fred 
 Long's little furniture shop, it finally came as an 
 incorporated company to the occupancy of the 
 old skating rink in 1893. The capital stock was 
 $4,000. P. E. Kroehler entered the service of the 
 company at that time as secretary, and finally be- 
 came the president, and the company was rein- 
 corporated in 1915 as the Kroehler Manufactur- 
 ing Co., with a capital of $1,150,000. Branch 
 factories are now maintained at Kankakee, 111., 
 Binghamton, N. Y., and Cleveland, O. This 
 company also operates the Kimbell Bed Co., with 
 factories at Grand Rapids, Mich., New York 
 City, and Stratford, Ont. About 20 years ago a 
 
 small frame building costing around $3,000 was 
 erected near the depot for the factory, and now a 
 brick building 666 feet long and 120 feet wide, 
 covering two city blocks, is utilized for the manu- 
 facture of davenports and chairs, the largest 
 factory in the world devoted to the production 
 of such furniture. The cost of its present plant 
 probably exceeds $250,000, including the equip- 
 ment of machinery. Full-handed the factory 
 gives occupation to 362 men and women, and its 
 pay roll distributes about $25,000 in Naperville 
 each month. Its annual output runs close 
 around $1,000,000 from the home plant. 
 
 The co-operative creamery of an earlier day 
 has given place to the butter-making, ice cream- 
 making and ice-making plant of the Naperville 
 Consumer's Co., which is capitalized at $27,000. 
 
 Five garages afford service to an ever-increas- 
 ing number of motor cars, and bring autos from 
 miles around for repairs and replenishments. 
 One was erected at a cost of $15,000 for building 
 and grounds, another at a cost of about $5,000. 
 A brick livery stable has been converted into a 
 garage, two store rooms have been remodeled 
 for similar use, and a fifth small garage is open. 
 
 New store buildings have been erected, and 
 many stores have been remodeled and made 
 modern in their exteriors and interiors, and the 
 cost of these betterments will easily reach
 
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 HOME OP E. J. T. MOYEK
 
 $45,000. The postoffice has found home in a new 
 building, especially constructed for it. The 
 Masonic Fraternity has completed a new temple 
 at a cost of $35,000, not included in the estimate 
 mentioned. Store rooms and a film theatre oc- 
 cupy the lower floor. 
 
 The stone quarries rest unworked, but strik- 
 ing growth in commercial specialities is evi- 
 denced in the material expansion of the Naper- 
 ville Nurseries, and the continued output of the 
 Martin and von Oven tile and brick yard. On 
 the site of the plow factory is a manufacturing 
 plant producing flynets, cotton gloves, woven 
 rugs and pillows, and leather ankle supports. 
 The old cheese factory is now devoted to the ex- 
 traction of casein from curd. 
 
 Linking the past with the present are the six 
 green houses which supply the ever-growing cut 
 flower and potted plant demand. From a small 
 house near the cemetery in olden times these 
 glass-enclosed plant propagation enterprises 
 have somewhat recently grown to six in number, 
 and the total investment runs to at least $35,000. 
 Among them is a house devoted exclusively to 
 the production of the rare and costly orchids. 
 
 THE CITY AND ITS GOVERNMENT. 
 
 The former home of the First National Bank 
 
 was erected jointly by the bank and the Masons 
 at a cost of over $8,000. It has been purchased 
 by the corporation as a City Office, and its sub- 
 stantial, dignified architecture and its con- 
 veniences of arrangement and location serve the 
 city much more adequately than the old hall, 
 over the fire engine house and jail. Having di- 
 vested itself in 1913 of the antiquated mode of 
 city government by substituting the more satis- 
 factory commission for the common council, the 
 city was well entitled to commemorate its ac- 
 quisition of more economical and effective ma- 
 chinery by the purchase of a City Office which 
 distinctly breathes the atmosphere of modern 
 type and equipment. 
 
 Lest home-comers fail to catch glimpses of ob- 
 jects of old-time familiarity the engine house will 
 send into the parade the famous old Joe Napier 
 hand-pump fire engine, survivor of the years of 
 the city's younger age, and reminiscent of the 
 period when the Naperville volunteer firemen re- 
 turned victorious from tournaments and hose- 
 coupling contests. 
 
 As guardians against the fire fiend stand water 
 plugs on all corners of the city streets, with a 
 hose reel in the engine house, along with an auto- 
 mobile chemical engine, the most effective of 
 modern fire-fighting apparatus. Three additional
 
 hose reel stations are also maintained one at 
 the lounge factory, and one in the residential 
 sections on the east and on the west side. 
 
 The original city included a little over 19 
 blocks. Additions taken into the city limits now 
 count up 16 blocks, and lying just adjacent on 
 the north is a subdivision of 9 blocks toward 
 which the city is growing. 
 
 Naperville's population was returned by the 
 1900 census as 2,600. In a decade it had reached 
 3,400, a gain of about one-third. A recent school 
 census indicates that the population at present is 
 about 4,300, to which may be added the college 
 enrollment of around 500 students. 
 
 The modern spirit of co-operation is best typi- 
 fied in the work of the Xaperville Association of 
 Commerce which has drawn together the busi- 
 ness men of the city in team-work as never be- 
 fore. With systematic division of effort a num- 
 ber of committees constantly strive to "Do It 
 For Naperville." No more significant exponent 
 of the spirit of the modern Naperville can be 
 found than in the Committee on the City Beauti- 
 ful. The home-coming celebration is the child 
 of the Naperville Association of Commerce. 
 
 Among the cultural influences which seek pub- 
 lic as well as private benefits the Naperville Wo- 
 
 man's Club stands conspicuous. Its active in- 
 terest in the public schools and in the Nichols 
 Library has annually found tangible expression 
 in substantial gifts. School rooms have been 
 embellished by pictures and mural decorations, 
 and over $500 has been pledged, and more than 
 half paid, for the equipment of the domestic 
 science department of the new high school. An- 
 nually the shelves of the public library have been 
 enriched by volumes from the club's treasury. 
 Aside from the financial assistance rendered, the 
 Naperville Woman's Club has proved itself a 
 vital influence in every movement, for the better- 
 ment of the community life in its material and 
 educational aspects. The new high school has 
 been the especial object of its endeavor. 
 
 HOME BUILDING AND THE 
 SANITORIUM. 
 
 If exact figures were available of the cost of 
 the new homes and remodeled residences in the 
 past fifteen years, they would total a sum which, 
 superimposed upon the startling figures gathered 
 from the books, would amaze those who have not 
 closely followed the swift course of present-day 
 improvement. A partial census, made by a 
 block-to-block count in a motor car, finds at 
 least 185 new homes erected at a cost ranging
 
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 from $2,000 to $35,000, and conservatively total- 
 ing- $750,000. Add to this a most moderate esti- 
 mate of $150,000 for repairs and remodeling and 
 we reach a total of $900,000. 
 
 The cost of the many blocks of cement side- 
 walks and parkways, garages and incidental im- 
 provements, and the liberal expenditures on 
 country places adjacent to the city, bring this 
 total considerably above the million mark. 
 
 Outside the city but an important part of it, 
 materially and in sympathetic support, is the 
 Edward Tuberculosis Sanitorium, one of the 
 most effective in the country. Its grounds and 
 buildings run in total close to $100,000. 
 
 "IS IT ANSWERED YET?" 
 
 Is this sign sufficient this total of $2,561,000? 
 Have Naperville people proved their faith by 
 their works? Have those who remained in the 
 old home, citizens of no mean city, met the obli- 
 
 gations of latter-day life, held pace with pro- 
 gress, fought the good fight, kept the faith? 
 
 These mile-stones of improvement mark the 
 evolution of Naperville, the country village, to 
 Naperville, the city suburb the Naperville of 
 Today. 
 
 THE SUM IN ADDITION. 
 
 Let us assemble this sum in addition, this ex- 
 position of a community's bookkeeping, striking- 
 ly on the page : 
 City and railroad improvements. ..-...$ 635,000 
 
 Educational buildings 232,000 
 
 Churches 134,000 
 
 Banks and business houses 175,000 
 
 Green houses 35,000 
 
 Lounge factory 250,000 
 
 Residences 1,000,000 
 
 Edward Sanitorium 100,000 
 
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 BRIEF STORY OF NAPERVILLE HOME COMING MOVEMENT 
 
 ITS ORIGIN, ITS OCCASION, ITS OBJECT, ITS HEARTY APPROVAL BY THE 
 CITIZENS AND ITS PLANS AND MEASURES FOR SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION 
 
 B>> PROF. H. H. RASSWEILER 
 
 The movement to appoint and pro- 
 mote a civic event of welcome to our 
 friends abroad, under the suggestive 
 name of a "Home Coming Cele- 
 bration," had its birth in the deliber- 
 ations of the Naperville Association 
 of Commerce. At the annual meet- 
 ing of that organization held October 
 15, 1915, one of its members moved 
 the adoption of the following resolution: 
 
 Resolved, that we appoint the first week in 
 June, 1917, for a Naperville Home Coming Cele- 
 bration, and that the Board of Directors of this 
 association are hereby requested to devise all 
 necessary plans and measures in preparation for 
 this undertaking. 
 
 The motion having been duly seconded, the 
 mover thereof presented in its behalf the follow- 
 ing facts and considerations: 
 
 Within recent years, the progressive trans- 
 formation of our city, along the various lines 
 of civic improvement, has been such as to 
 warrant the feeling of pride among the peo- 
 ple within and to challenge the attention 
 and admiration of the people without. 
 
 This new area of general municipal advance- 
 ment has developed scenes, conditions and 
 achievements in striking contrast with the 
 Naperville of its comparatively non-progres- 
 sive and self-satisfied earlier years. 
 
 Naperville, as a residence community of 
 long career, has given to the outside world 
 hundreds of its sons and daughters and 
 former residents, all of whom, who are liv- 
 ing, are still affectionately thoughtful of the 
 old home town and are watching with 
 friendly interest its growth and improve- 
 ment.
 
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 "THREE ELMS" 
 HOME OK HENRY H. RASSWEILEK
 
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 4. These facts of contrast between the old 
 Naperville and the new, as well as the ap- 
 propriateness of providing a public occasion 
 which will bring many of our outside friends 
 face to face with the evidences of 'our pro- 
 gress, suggest the fitness of an event such as 
 is proposed in the pending resolution. 
 
 The motion being put to vote was unani- 
 mously carried. 
 
 The Clarion, in reporting this annual meeting 
 of the Association of Commerce, contained the 
 following paragraph: "One of the special fea- 
 tures mentioned was a 'Home Coming Week' for 
 Naperville. This idea met with a hearty re- 
 sponse from the members present and a tenta- 
 tive date was fixed for the occasion, the first 
 week in June, 1917. It is expected that a work- 
 ing plan will be evolved shortly for a prelimin- 
 ary publicity campaign, and when our citizens 
 get a vision of the possibilities of such a Home 
 Coming, it is confidently believed that everyone 
 will enter heartily into the spirit of the idea." 
 
 The Board of Directors, without delay, as- 
 sumed the duty assigned them with reference to 
 the Home Coming event, the first preparatory 
 step taken being the appointment of a General 
 or Executive Committee to have general charge 
 of the celebration, with power to appoint all 
 
 special and sub-committees necessary for plan- 
 ning in detail and successfully promoting the 
 important undertaking. The following persons 
 were appointed as such General Committee, 
 namely: F. A. Kendall, G. E. Flemming, W. M. 
 Givler, George Keller, C. A. Nadelhoffer, H. H. 
 Rassweiler, J. A. Reuss, J. A. Schmidt, C. L. 
 Schwartz, Willard Scott, Theo. W. Smith and 
 Fred von Oven. The organization of this com- 
 mittee resulted in the appointment of Mayor F. 
 A. Kendall as Chairman, Theo. W. Smith, 
 Secretary, and C. L. Schwartz, Treasurer. 
 
 It was now in order to make a formal, initial 
 announcement of the undertaking to the people 
 of Naperville through the columns of the 
 Clarion. This was done by the Publicity Com- 
 mittee in the Clarion issue of January 5, 1916. 
 This announcement was met with hearty public 
 approval and such general commendation of the 
 provisional plan which it outlined as to appear 
 prophetic of general co-operation and conse- 
 quent success of the important event. 
 
 The anticipated query: Why project this in- 
 teresting community event so far in the future? 
 was wisely answered in the published "Fore- 
 word" as follows: To undertake it with a degree 
 of care and deliberation in keeping with its im- 
 portance; to proceed on the principle that
 
 thorough organization and preparation are 
 essential to thorough execution; to give the 
 project a fair chance to grip the thought and in- 
 terest of our people; to give plenty of oppor- 
 tunity for the designing of all sorts of festival 
 plans and features; to let generous schemes of 
 welcome and hospitality grow in the hearts and 
 minds of our citizens; to bring within the period 
 of preparation the completion of important 
 building construction and other important 
 decorative enterprises now in plan or in process ; 
 and, by no means least, to have ample time to 
 give the anticipated event the fullest possible 
 publicity, both at home and abroad. 
 
 In fixing the precise calendar dates for the 
 celebration, on finding that the College Com- 
 mencement would occur in the first week of 
 June, and it being decidedly advantageous to 
 bring the two important events to consecutive 
 occurrence, the three last days of May and the 
 first day of June, 1917, were named by the 
 General Committee as the four festival days of 
 the Home Coming week. 
 
 To insure a pleasing variety in the events of 
 the four days' program, it was decided to make 
 each celebration day distinct from the others as 
 to the nature of its festival plans and features; 
 in other words, to assign to each day some repre- 
 
 sentative element of our city life and interests 
 as hosts and entertainers. In accordance with 
 this purpose, the four days were denominated 
 as follows : 
 
 1. OLD CITIZENS' DAY. The sentiment of 
 this day and all its entertainment features to 
 be made to contribute to the honor and 
 pleasure of the "old folks" within and from 
 without our city gates. 
 
 2. PATRIOTIC DAY. This being Decor- 
 ation day, Naperville, with its visitors and 
 guests from without, to go to the limit of its 
 resources to honor our war time heroes. 
 Added to the usual memorial ceremonies of 
 the day, special patriotic events to be pro- 
 vided, making the day replete with scenes 
 appropriate and inspiring. 
 
 3. SCHOOL AND CHURCH DAY. Follow- 
 ing the first day of events "rapt in reminis- 
 cent reverie," and the second day of patriotic 
 sentiment and entertainment, this third day 
 was designed to bring to the fore the genius 
 of our schools and the spirit of our churches 
 in a program of events charged with the re- 
 sults and influences of "Education and Re- 
 ligion the two factors of a community's 
 life which underlie and make possible all 
 true progress."
 
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 4. COMMUNITY DAY. The last great day 
 of the feast, planned to include, in the fore- 
 noon, a complimentary automobile tour 
 through the delightful June dressed streets 
 and avenues of our city; in the afternoon, 
 one of the most elaborately planned pag- 
 eants that Naperville has ever produced ; in 
 the evening, fireworks, music and five 
 minute addresses by men and women from 
 at home and abroad all for Naperville as 
 an appropriate "round up" of the festival 
 events. 
 
 Quite early among the interesting features 
 planned for the occasion was the elegant . 
 souvenir volume, a few of whose pages are oc-"| 
 cupied by this "Brief Story." The preparation 
 of this charming memento, which, while costing 
 many hundreds of dollars, would prove to thou- 
 sands "a thing of beauty and a joy forever," was 
 committed to a strong committee representing 
 literary ability, typographical experience and 
 artistic skill. It is in the hands of the reader and 
 speaks for itself. 
 
 In the construction of a judicious line up of 
 special committees, the General Committee 
 aimed to combine breadth of representation, 
 variety of judgment, taste and experience, and 
 such numerical strength as would permit distri- 
 
 bution of duty to sub-committee service. As 
 showing with what care the manifold phases of 
 preparatory work have been differentiated, and 
 in justice to the faithful men and women who re- 
 sponded to the call to service, it is deemed proper 
 to give place herein to the following complete 
 roster of special committees. The first named of 
 each committee is its chairman. 
 
 PUBLICITY. 
 
 H. H. Rassweiler, Rev. A. E. Randell, E. H. 
 Stevens, Rev. F. W. Umbreit, John W. Collins, 
 J. A. Reuss and W. M. Givler. 
 
 INVITATION. 
 
 B. J. Slick, Mrs. Ada B. Collins, Mrs. W. C. 
 Simpson, Mrs. Ralph Ballou, Mrs. Idelle Rass- 
 weiler, Mrs. Calvin Steck, Miss Mary Yender, 
 W. W. Wickel, Prof. A. C. Gegenheimer and 
 Fred von Oven. 
 
 RECEPTION AND HOSPITALITY. 
 
 Willard Scott, Mrs. J. S. Goodwin, Mrs. W. C. 
 Simpson, Mrs. M. W. Coultrap, Mrs. Geo. 
 Wunder, Mrs. S. A. Ballou, Mrs. W. R. Good- 
 win, Mrs. Willard Scott, Mrs. J. A. Schmidt, 
 Mrs. J. A. Bell, Miss Emma Muerner, Carl 
 Broeker, E. F. Stark, Alexander Crush, Wm. 
 Knoch, H. J. Durran, Francis Granger, Jos. 
 Kochly and H. C. Williams.
 
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 HISTORICAL EXHIBIT AND 
 REST ROOM. 
 
 Mrs. W. B. Martin, Mrs. Alvin Scott, Mrs. 
 Francis Granger, Miss Matie Egermann, T. W. 
 Smith and H. H. Rassweiler. 
 
 FINANCE. 
 
 Alvin Scott, Y. A. Dieter, Prof. Nonnemaker, 
 H. H. Peaslee and George Keller. 
 
 PUBLIC DECORATION. 
 
 J. W. Egermann, Mrs. Allen Hoopes, Mrs. 
 Noel Alspaugh, W. W. Spiegler, Prof. G. B. 
 Kimmel, Samuel Mather, Herman Boecker, S. 
 F. Baumgartner, Julian Voss and Wilbur 
 Lehman. 
 
 PRIVATE DECORATION. 
 
 John A. Hertel, Mrs. B. C. Beckman, Mrs. J. 
 W. Bauer, Mrs. C. B. Bowman, Theo. W. 
 Smith, R. N. Givler and Noel Alspaugh. 
 
 SOUVENIR BOOK AND COLORS. 
 
 Prof. C. B. Bowman, Mrs. T- A. Hertel, Mrs. 
 J. A. Reuss, C. H. Koretke and R. N. Givler. 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 D. B. Givler, Mrs. John Alspaugh and Mrs. 
 H. H. Peaslee. 
 
 REGISTRATION. 
 
 Miss Mamie Thompson, Miss Ida Mottinger 
 and Miss Mary Vender. 
 
 COMPLIMENTARY AUTOMOBILE TOUR. 
 
 V. A. Dieter, W. J. Truitt, Alvin Scott, J. W. 
 Egermann and F. A. Kendall. 
 
 MESSENGER BOYS' SERVICE. 
 
 E. H. Stevens, Albert R. Morgan, Irwin P. 
 Cainan, Wm. R. Friedrich, Dore Ester and 
 Winfred Knoch. 
 
 PAGEANT. 
 
 W. M. Givler, Mrs. J. H. Clancy, Mrs. E. E. 
 Miller, Mrs. R. N. Givler, Mrs. T- G. Marshall, 
 Mrs. E. C. Mitchell, Miss Emma Keller, F. L. 
 Biester, Dr. E. S. Fry, C. E. Heydon, C. A. 
 Nadelhoffer, A. K. Spielberger, M. C. Van Nor- 
 man, B. C. Beckman, T. F. Boecker, Pr'of. M. 
 W. Coultrap, A. D. Miller, H. H. Peaslee, Dan 
 Stiefbold, Arthur Beidelman, W. C. Bomberger, 
 Julian Dieter, Arthur Green, E. J. T. Moyer, 
 Julian Royce, C. E. Stoos, O. H. Reiche, E. B. 
 Heaton, Wm. Sigmund, H. C. Litgens, Ed. T. 
 Kearns, Wm. Knoch, Carl Broeker and Philip 
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 TUESDAY COMMITTEE. 
 (Old Citizens' Day.) 
 
 John A. Schmidt, Mrs. B. Egermann, Mrs. Ida 
 Simpson, Mrs. Geo. Frost, Mrs. E. J. Kneip, 
 Mrs. Mamie Webster, Mrs. Josephine Kroehler, 
 Miss Emma von Oven, Miss Bertha Hammer- 
 schmidt, Francis Granger, W. C. Hiltenbrand. 
 C. W. Leffler, John Babel, B. H. Myers, Oliver 
 Strubler, B. C. Beckman, Irving Goodrich, O. E. 
 Higgins, Geo. Turner and Michael Schwartz. 
 
 WEDNESDAY COMMITTEE. 
 (Patriotic Day.) 
 
 Dr. J. A. Bell, Mrs. Phil Hammerschmidt, 
 Mrs. J. H. Clancy, Mrs. M. C. Andrus, Mrs. 
 E. C. Rickert, Mrs. Truman Myers, Mrs. A. W. 
 Glines, Mrs. H. Skelton, Mrs. W. M. Givler, 
 Mrs. Hattie Wagner, Mrs. E. Rariden, Willard 
 Scott, John Alspaugh, Levi Shafer, E. C. Rickert, 
 Monroe Christ, Jos. Weismantel, Walter Rick- 
 ert, Ralph Ballou and E. C. Shafer. 
 
 THURSDAY COMMITTEE. 
 (School and Church Day.) 
 
 Rev. A. E. Randell, Mrs. D. Stark, Miss Lena 
 Egermann, Miss Edith Neitz, Mrs. Gertrude 
 
 Mowry, Miss Edna Wunder, Dr. E. E. Rail, 
 Prof. Kirn, Prof. Waterman, Holt Sieber, W. 
 M. Givler, E. E. Miller, C. L. Schwartz, Prof. 
 H. C. Smith, W. H. Unger, Bernard Dieter, J. 
 A. Hertel, Truman Myers, Rev. A. J. Boelter, 
 Ira Sollenberger and George Unger. 
 
 FRIDAY COMMITTEE. 
 (Community Day.) 
 
 THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 On July 21, 1916, the committee working ma- 
 chinery having been constructed and publicly 
 announced, a grand meeting of all the commit- 
 tees was held in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. 
 In the call for this meeting it had been forecast 
 as a "ginger meeting," which prediction came 
 fully true, both in the "ginger talks" which ani- 
 mated the proceedings and in the manifest high 
 tension of purpose to make the proposed Home 
 Coming the most notable civic event in the his- 
 tory of Naperville. Under such a spell of en- 
 thusiasm the meeting adjourned. At the date of 
 this writing, each committee is at work, in 
 pleasant rivalry with all the others, determined 
 to perform its specially delegated committee 
 function faithfully and well.
 
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 COM'R. PUB. HEALTH & SAFETY
 
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 CITY ADMINISTRATION 
 
 Naperville became an incorporated Village in 
 the winter of 1857. In May 1858 at the first elec- 
 tion, the following officers were elected: Presi- 
 dent: Joseph Naper. Trustees: H. H. Cody, 
 George Martin, M. Hines and X. Egermann. 
 Police Justice: H. F. Vallete. Constable: A. C. 
 Graves. Assessor: A. W. Colt. Clerk: C. M. 
 Castle. 
 
 One hundred and seventy four votes were cast. 
 
 A petition, dated November 14, 1889, and 
 signed by 52 voters, the required one eighth of 
 the total number of voters, was presented to the 
 President and Trustees of the Village of Naper- 
 ville praying that the privilege be accorded the 
 citizens to vote on the question of the incorpora- 
 tion of the Village into a City according to Act 
 of Legislature. 
 
 A vote of 338 for and 61 against, taken March 
 17, 1890, established the City of Naperville. 
 
 The following April 15, 1890 the city officers 
 were elected: Mayor: J. J. Hunt, Clerk: T. W. 
 Saylor, Treas.: Alvin Scott, Jr., Attorney: H. H. 
 Goodrich. Aldermen, 1st Ward: Levi S. Shafer, 
 
 John Collins, 2nd Ward: Joseph Bapst, J. A. Bell, 
 3rd Ward: F. S. Goetsch, Holt Sieber. 
 
 By order of County Judge C. W. Clark the 
 question of Commission form of Government 
 was voted upon August 28, 1912, and carried by 
 260 for and 193 against. At the next general 
 election, April 15, 1913, the following were 
 elected : Mayor : F. A. Kendall, Commissioners : 
 C. B. Bowman, W. M. Givler, W. . Hiltenbrand 
 and C. L. Schwartz. 
 
 The City officers at present are the following: 
 Francis A. Kendall, Mayor; Charles B. Bowman, 
 Com'r. Accounts and Finances; Walter M. 
 Givler, Com'r. Streets and Public Improvements ; 
 Arthur R. Beidelman, Com'r. Public Health and 
 Safety; Charles F. Rohr, Com'r. Public Property; 
 Albert J. Ory, City Clerk; Joseph A. Reuss, City 
 Attorney; Loren W. Myers, City Treasurer; 
 Oliver W. Strubler, City Collector; George G. 
 Anderson, Chief of Police; Otto H. Reiche, Fire 
 Marshal; A. K. Spielberger, Plumbing Inspector; 
 Fred J. Postel, Electrical Engineer; Clifton A. 
 Ashley, Public Engineer; Winfred B. Martin, 
 M. D. Health Officer.
 
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 E.J.T. MOVER . C.E.HEYDON 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH 
 
 C. A. ASHLEY 
 PUB. ENGINEER 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 CAPTG&ANDERSON EDWARD FAIRBANKS- 
 CHIEF-OF-POLiCE POLICEMAN 
 
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 CHIEF ELECTRICIAN 
 
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 HEALTH OFFICER 
 
 LEE. CLARK 
 CHIEF ENGINEER 
 
 MI5S F BAUMGARTNER 
 DEfTY CITY COLLECTOR 
 
 O.W 5TRUBLER A K SPIEL6ERGER 
 
 CITY COLLECTOR PLUMBING INSPECTOR 
 
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 NAPERVILLE 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT 
 
 After the fire of July 6, 1874, when the New 
 York House burned, the need of some kind of 
 fire protection was recognized and on August 
 8, of that year the village council appointed C. 
 W. Richmond, Willarcl Scott, Jr., and Nicholas 
 Yack as "a committee to purchase a fire engine 
 and equipments for the use of the corporation," 
 and on December 12, this committee reported 
 to the council that they had purchased one hand 
 engine, one hose cart, 700 feet of hose and other 
 equipment at a cost of $1,752.50. Volunteer 
 companies had previously been organized to 
 operate the apparatus and on November 21st, 
 Willard Scott, Jr., was appointed fire marshal by 
 the council. 
 
 Then came the memorable fire of the early 
 morning of Friday, December 18, 1874, when 
 the post office, express office and other buildings 
 burned. The department did noble service at 
 this, its first fire, for which it was given a vote of 
 thanks by the village council at a special meeting 
 held the next day. 
 
 On December 26, B. B. Boecker was ap- 
 pointed assistant fire marshal. January 2, 1875, 
 
 an ordinance providing for the government of 
 the fire department was passed by the village 
 council and on February 13, the following 
 named persons were duly accepted by the coun- 
 cil as members of the department: 
 
 Engine Company No. 1 ("J e Naper"). 
 
 Daniel Garst, Foreman. 
 
 Nicholas Yack, 1st Ass't. Foreman. 
 
 Robert W. Sheldon, 2d Ass't. Foreman. 
 
 M. Weismantel, Secretary. 
 
 Xavier Adams, Theodore Beckman, Louis 
 Bapst, Sebastian Bauer, Benj. L. Beidelman, 
 John Beirsh, Adam Conrad, Geo. Daniels, 
 Walter Daniels, Jos. Egermann, John Fisher, 
 Fred Fuchs, Geo. Fortman, Henry Heim, Jacob 
 Heim, Jos. Hiltenbrand, Xavier Kreyder, John 
 Kreger, Christ Koepley, John Kropp, Martin 
 Lehman, D. F. Long, Daniel Miley, Ferdinand 
 Miller, Chas. Nadelhoffer, Horace Peaslee, John 
 Pfister, Louis Reich, Geo. Reuss, Samuel Yundt, 
 Sylvester Beidelman. 
 
 Hose Company No. 1 ("Naperville"). 
 A. McS. S. Riddler, Foreman. 
 Peter Bapst, Ass't. Foreman.
 
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 O. J. Wright, Secretary. 
 
 Geo. Potter, Treasurer. 
 
 Lewis Ellsworth, Jr., Jacob Keller, Jr., Geo. 
 Ehrhardt, Jr., Henry Germann, John Collins, 
 Augustus Schwein, Hoi. Sieber, Albert Yost, W. 
 G. Anthony, James Kenclig, Samuel Kendig, 
 Thos. Costello, Wm. Riddler. 
 
 September 17, 1875, the village council 
 authorized the purchase of a hook and ladder 
 truck and on September 29, an organization 
 was formed under the name of "Rescue" Hook 
 and Ladder Co. No. 1, the following named per- 
 sons being accepted by the council as members 
 of the same on October 1st: 
 
 Wm. Naper, Foreman. 
 
 V. A. Dieter, Assistant Foreman. 
 
 J. H. Alexander, Secretary. 
 
 M. B. Hosier, Treasurer. 
 
 Chas. Boettger, Danl. Strubler, Levi Gerberich, 
 Jos. Kochly, D. B. Givler, Ed. Stover, E. W. 
 Krimbal, Wm. Barber, Eli H. Ditzler. 
 
 October 22, additional members were ac- 
 cepted by the council as follows: Thos. W. 
 Saylor, Mathias Stevens, Alfred Shafer, Fred 
 Long, Al. J. Strouse, Frank Hunt, Henry 
 Youngheim.
 
 D. B. Givler, E. W. Krimbal and M. Stevens 
 having resigned, Ed. Arter, Dr. J. H. Chew and 
 Wm. P. Wright were accepted in their stead by 
 the council, January 5, 1876. 
 
 September, 1881, the Joe Naper Engine Co. 
 No. 1 was disbanded by the village council and 
 a new company organized, which in turn was 
 disbanded by the council in May, 1882, when a 
 company was formed which served until the vil- 
 lage purchased a steam engine in 1887. A com- 
 pany known as Enterprise Engine Co. No. 2 was 
 then organized to operate the steam engine and 
 another "Joe Naper Engine Co. No. 1" was 
 formed, but disbanded a year or two later. After 
 the city water system was installed in 1904, the 
 steam fire-engine was disposed of, Enterprise 
 Engine Co. No. 2 and Hose Co. No. 1 disbanded, 
 and four hose companies organized in their stead 
 with stations located in different parts of the 
 city, the companies being suitably equipped. 
 Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 is the only 
 company that has kept its organization intact 
 since the early days of the department and is 
 now known officially as Company No. 5. 
 
 The authorized number of members of the 
 various companies of the department as now con- 
 stituted is as follows: Co. No. 1, Central Station, 
 10 men; Co. No. 2, West Side Station, 4 men; 
 Co. No. 3, East Side Station, 4 men; Co. No. 4, 
 
 North Side Station, 7 men; Co. No. 5, Central 
 Station, 10 men. 
 
 In 1916, Company No. 1 was equipped with an 
 up-to-date combination hose and chemical auto 
 truck. The department is able and competent 
 and many of its members have been long in the 
 service, thus showing their devotion to the 
 cause and making for efficiency. 
 
 In the early nineties the department joined the 
 Illinois State Firemen's Association and pro- 
 ceeded to participate in the state tournaments 
 held under the auspices of that organization 
 which eventually resulted in the winning of the 
 state championship for hose team, single coupl- 
 ing (by C. Boettger), and novelty coupling (by 
 C. Boettger and W. Willis). The hose champion- 
 ship was won at Decatur in 1898, at Pekin in 
 1899 and at LaSalle in 1900. 
 
 Among those who have served as fire marshals 
 are the following: Willard Scott, B. B. Boecker, 
 James J. Hunt, A. McS. S. Riddler, Joseph Eger- 
 mann, Joseph Kochly, Wm. G. Sieber, Frank S. 
 Goetsch, Charles Boettger and Henry E. Saylor. 
 The present incumbent, Otto H. Reiche, has held 
 the office since 1907.
 
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 NAPERVILLE 
 
 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
 
 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
 
 REV. W. W. DIEHL, Pastor 
 
 Stephen R. Beggs was the first 
 Methodist preacher officially sta- 
 tioned at Naperville. He was ap- 
 pointed in the fall of 1833. His 
 circuit had twelve preaching places 
 and extended as far south as Joliet 
 and as far west as Ottawa. In 
 1836, the DuPage Circuit, embrac- 
 ing Naperville, was in charge of 
 one preacher. This circuit was bounded 
 on the north by the Wisconsin state line, 
 on the east by Lake Michigan, excepting 
 .Chicago, on the south by the DuPage River and 
 on the west by the Fox River. In 1846, a board 
 of trustees was appointed in Naperville. The 
 members of this board were Joel Ellis, John 
 Rahm, Hamilton Daniels, Alexander Under- 
 wood, Eli Rich, Samuel Anderson, Aylmer 
 Keith, Joseph Granger, and Hiram Bristol. The 
 same year the site of the present church structure 
 was bought at one hundred and twenty dol- 
 lars. A small frame structure was completed be- 
 fore fall. 
 
 The Methodist Church Society has been 
 served by fifty-seven different pastors. Two dif- 
 ferent church structures and two different par- 
 sonages have been erected. 
 
 GRACE UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH 
 
 REV. J. H. KEAGEL, Pastor 
 
 Grace Church was organized in 
 1890. Scott's Hall served as its 
 temporary place of worship until 
 the completion of its first church 
 building, at Loomis Street and 
 Benton Avenue, in March, 1891. 
 Flourishing from the beginnig, the 
 congregation outgrew its modest 
 first church home, and, under the 
 pastorate of Rev. E. S. Woodring, planned 
 and prepared for the erection of a more 
 commodious structure. In 1909, under the 
 oastorate of Rev. John Divan, the new edifice 
 was built at a site and building cost of $35,000. 
 A beautiful pipe organ was installed in 1916 at a 
 cost of $2,500. Grace Church is advantageously 
 situated in the center of the city, near Central 
 Park on the corner of Front and Liberty streets. 
 Its equipment for modern church work in all de- 
 partments is thoroughly up to date. The Sun- 
 day School is noted as a model in organization 
 and efficiency. Pastors who have served Grace 
 Church to date are: E. K. Yeakel, J. I- Klopp, 
 William Caton, S. F. Entorf, W. H. Fouke, E. S. 
 Woodring, John Divan, L. C. Schmidt, C. G. 
 Unangst and J. H. Keagle.
 
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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 
 
 REV. ALFRED E. RANDELL, Pastor 
 
 This Church, the second oldest 
 Congregational Church organized 
 in Illinois, came into being on July 
 13, 1833, under the leadership of 
 Rev. N. C. Clark. The minutes of 
 those early meetings disclose the 
 use of Presbyterian nomenclature 
 regarding polity, but in the second 
 year of its history, the Church com- 
 mitted itself to Congregationalism. 
 
 The first building, erected upon lots which 
 were the gift of Morris Sleight, was begun in 
 1846, completed in January 1847, and re- 
 modelled and enlarged in 1896. During the 
 pastorate of Dr. Peebles, this frame building 
 was replaced by the present stone structure of 
 Gothic architecture, erected in 1906 at a cost of 
 $27,000. The equipment is modern and com- 
 plete. The Austin pipe-organ was the gift of Mr. 
 T. P. Phillips. A new steam heating plant was 
 installed in 1916. 
 
 Rev. Alfred E. Randell is the twentieth Pastor 
 to serve this Church. To Rev. Hope Brown be- 
 longs the honor of the longest pastorate. Rev. 
 J. C. Myers comes next with nine years, Rev. H. 
 V. Tull, eight, and Rev. George Peebles, seven. 
 
 FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH 
 
 REV. A.'J. BOELTER, Pastor 
 
 The First Church, for many 
 years, known as Zion Evangelical 
 Church, is nearly if not quite the 
 oldest church in Naperville, having 
 been organized early in 1837. Rev. 
 Jacob Boas, from Ohio, preached 
 the first Evangelical sermon in 
 Naperville in June, 1837. In 1841, 
 the first church building was 
 erected on a lot donated by Captain Naper. In 
 1845, the congregation had grown so large that 
 they had to build a larger church. In 1858-59, 
 the famous "Brick Church" was erected and 
 dedicated by Rev. (afterwards Bishop) J. J. 
 Esher. 
 
 In 1870, when North-Western College was 
 located in Naperville, a second congregation 
 worshipping in the College building was or- 
 ganized. These two congregations were amal- 
 gamated in 1910, when the old "Brick" made way 
 for the present stately and commodious struc- 
 ture, erected at a cost of $56,000 under the 
 pastorate of the Rev. W. A. Schutte, and dedi- 
 cated in February, 1912, by Bishop S. P. Spreng, 
 D.D., assisted by President, now Bishop, L. H. 
 Seager, D.D.
 
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 S.S. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH 
 
 REV. B. J. SCHUETTE, Pastor 
 
 This congregation had its in- 
 ception in the early thirties of the 
 last century, when the spiritual 
 needs of the few scattered Catholic 
 families in this vicinity were at- 
 tended to at intervals by traveling 
 missionaries, sent by the Bishops 
 of St. Louis, Mo., and Vincennes, 
 Ind. Services during these early 
 times were held in the house of some Catholic 
 family. In 1846 it was found necessary to 
 build a church and a permanent congregation 
 with a resident priest was established, the Rev. 
 Raphael Rainaldi being its first pastor. It is the 
 oldest Catholic parish in DuPage County. 
 
 The present church edifice was begun in 1864 
 under the pastorate of the Rev. Father Fischer 
 and was re-constructed to its present condition in 
 1876 while the Rev. William De la Porte was 
 pastor. The total cost of the church, both origi- 
 nal and for its re-construction, was about $40,000, 
 exclusive of the cost of the organ, altars and in- 
 terior furnishings and decoration. 
 
 During the time the late Rev. August Wenker 
 was pastor from 1878 to his death in 1911, many 
 noticeable improvements were made in the 
 church and its property. The present altars and 
 alter rail were installed and the church received 
 its first stained glass windows. The magnificent 
 rectory was also added at a cost of $12.000. 
 
 The parish has besides its church edifice and 
 rectory, a Parochial school and a cemetery, 
 (briefly mentioned elsewhere herein), and a 
 brick residence occupied by the Sisters who act 
 as teachers in the school. 
 
 In 1911 the present pastor, the Rev. Bernard 
 J. Schuette, was appointed and the growth of the 
 parish made necessary the appointment of an 
 assistant in 1912. The Rev. Herman J. Ezell is 
 assistant at the present time. 
 
 The parish has a membership of about 330 
 families. About half of these live on farms in 
 the vicinity of the City; the others, residents of 
 Naperville, are merchants, artisans, professional 
 men, etc.
 
 
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 SISTRRS' RESIDENCE 
 
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 PARSONAGE
 
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 ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
 
 REV. A. E. COLE, Pastor 
 
 The first services of this church 
 were held in Naperville, on Friday, 
 November 16, 1838, when the Rev. 
 Andrew H. Cornish, rector of 
 Christ Church, Joliet, said evening 
 prayer and preached. The first 
 Episcopal visitation was made by 
 the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, 
 D. D., Bishop of the diocese, May 
 27, 1839. 
 
 A parish organization was officially effected on 
 January 22, 1850, under the name and title of the 
 Parish of St. John's Church. Capt. Morris 
 Sleight presented ground for a church building 
 in 1864; on June 1, of that year, the corner stone 
 was laid ; on January 1, 1865, the church was open 
 for the first service, and on April 24, of the same 
 year, the consecration services were held, 
 Bishop Whitehouse officiating. In 1867 Mrs. 
 Delcar Sleight donated a lot for a rectory, which 
 was built in 1870. The church was enlarged in 
 1878 to its present proportions. The women of 
 the parish at present maintain two societies, the 
 Women's Auxiliary and St. John's Guild. Rev. 
 W. H. Hyham is priest in charge and Rev. A. 
 Ellison Cole, assistant. 
 
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 CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 
 ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH GERMAN EVANGELICAL PEOPLE'S CHURCH
 
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 ST. JOHN'S EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH 
 
 REV. F. KLINGEBERGER, Pastor 
 
 Organized in 1858 with twenty 
 members this church has been 
 maintaining a flourishing congre- 
 gation, adding to its members and 
 usefullness. The original church 
 building was enlarged and im- 
 proved in 1871. It is located on 
 Van Buren Avenue. 
 
 GERMAN EVANGELICAL PEOPLE'S CHURCH 
 
 REV. A. HUELSTER, Pastor 
 
 Located on Washington Street 
 near Franklin Avenue, this church 
 was founded and organized Janu- 
 ary 3, 1898, the first pastor having 
 been Rev. Wm. Klar. Adjoining 
 the church edifice is the parsonage, 
 the entire property being worth 
 $10,000. 
 
 The membership has been well sustained. 
 Baptism, faith in the Holy Scriptures, acceptance 
 of the creed and the interpretation according to 
 
 Luther's Catechism, the Augustana confesssion 
 and the Heidelberg Catechism are the require- 
 ments for membership. 
 
 A Pastor is called by the congregation and 
 serves an indefinite length of time. A board of 
 trustees, also deacons, assist the administration. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN <Dunkark> 
 
 C. C. KINDY. Pastor 
 
 Organized about 1856 with some 
 fifteen members, the first church 
 was built on John Erb's farm lY? 
 miles north of Naperville. In 1908 
 the church on Benton Avenue was 
 built. 
 
 Some of the ministers were 
 Samuel Lehman, C. F. Martin, 
 Jacob Sollenberger, John Hollin- 
 ger, Simon Yundt, Doris Voorman and Harvey 
 Barkdoll. Since the church has been located in 
 Naperville, Aaron Sollenberger, I. C. Snavely, 
 and I. R. Beery have served. The present pastor 
 assumed charge Sept. 1915 and is assisted by 
 Elder H. B. Barkdoll and Rev. Ira Sollenberger.
 
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
 
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 THE NICHOLS LIBEAKY
 
 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 E. H. STEVEMS, General Secretar? 
 
 A representative group of men 
 from all denominations met at 
 Scott's Hall on March 27, 1909 and 
 resolved to make provision for the 
 social, physical, mental and spirit- 
 ual needs of its young men and boys 
 and to furnish an interdenomina- 
 tional field of service by organizing 
 a Y. M. C. A. and erecting a perma- 
 nent building. The corner stone for the $40,000 
 modern city association building, which now 
 houses a membership of 571, was laid on May 30, 
 1910 and the dedication service held Sunday, 
 March 26, 1911. 
 
 The officers of the Association are: E. J. T. 
 Moyer, president; T. W. Smith, secretary; F. A. 
 Kendall, treasurer, and the following directors : 
 
 A. H. Beidelman, Prof. C. B. Bowman, W. M. 
 Givler, Irving Goodrich, Dr. G. J. Kirn, Dr. W. 
 
 B. Martin, B. J. Slick, and H. H. Strubler. 
 
 O. W. Foberg, the first general secretary, 
 served for two years, W. C. Taylor served for 
 four years and the present incumbent, E. H. 
 Stevens, came to Naperville in May 1916. Trwin 
 P. Cainan is the physical director. 
 
 THE NICHOLS LIBRARY 
 
 MARY BARBARA EGERMANN, Librarian and Secretary 
 
 The Nichols Library, one of the finest public 
 libraries in DuPage County, was made possible 
 by the beneficence of one of our towns-men, the 
 late Prof. J. L. Nichols. The bequest, amount- 
 ing to $10,000, was paid to the City of Naper- 
 ville, August, 1897. An appropriation from the 
 city secured the site, centrally located, with 
 spacious lawns, on Washington St., adjoining 
 the Y. M. C. A. and Central Park. 
 
 The building is constructed of Naperville stone 
 for basement and trimmings, with super- 
 structure of (yellow) pressed brick, and a slate 
 roof. Interior and furnishings in first grade 
 light oak. It comprises a reading room, lobby, 
 library with nineteen bookstacks and balcony, 
 one committee room, one reference room, two 
 lavatories, and a museum on the second floor. 
 
 The dedicatory exercises were held June 29, 
 1898. About September 1st, the building was 
 completed, and formally opened to the public on 
 Thursday evening, September 22nd. About 500 
 volumes had been purchased and 200 donated. 
 These, with a number of periodicals, formed the 
 nucleus of our public library, which today num- 
 bers 5,500 volumes, and 60 of the best periodicals 
 on its tables, and has an annual circulation of 
 more than 15,000 books.
 
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 In October, 1912, the librarian, Miss M. B. 
 Egermann, opened the museum department, 
 which, today, exhibits rare old treasures of 
 Naperville's pioneers and other specimens of his- 
 torical and general interest. 
 
 The library is maintained by public tax. The 
 management is vested in a Board of nine Direct- 
 ors, three being appointed each year by the City 
 Council. The first Board was appointed May 21, 
 1897: Pres. Dr. J. A. Bell, Vice-Pres., Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Nichols Simpson, Sec'y- D. C. Wallace, Prof. 
 H. H. Rassweiler, H. H. Goodrich, Sam'l. E. 
 Ranck, Holt. L. Sieber, C. L. Schwartz, Peter 
 Butler. Others who have served as di- 
 rectors: Jos. Bapst, V. A. Dieter, W. W. Wickel, 
 Thos. Betts, Sr., Prof. R. F. Bunnel, Mrs. Alice 
 Gibson, Prof. G. Nauman, Prof. F. A. Kendall, 
 Mrs. J. Niederhauser, S. E. Ranck, Prof. G. C. 
 Butler and Prof. F. W. Cole. The present board: 
 B. J. Slick. Pres., Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols Simp- 
 son, Vice-Pres., Miss M. B. Egermann, Sec'y. 
 
 and Librarian, Olive Kendall, Ass't., Willard 
 Scott, H. J. Durran, Theo. F. Boecker, Sr., Mrs. 
 Ruth Sheldon, Miss V. B. Graham, Prof. G. J. 
 Kirn and Prof. O. A. Watermann. 
 
 Miss E. Goss, of Morgan Park, as temporary 
 librarian, catalogued the first books according to 
 the Dewey system, with Mrs. H. D. Alspaugh, as 
 librarian, who served until August, 1905, to be 
 succeeded by Mrs. J. Niederhauser, who re- 
 signed in October, 1907, when Miss R. Barnard 
 took the place as secretary and librarian. Upon 
 her resignation, Miss M. B. Egermann received 
 the appointment, May 1, 1909, continuing in the 
 service since that date. 
 
 The beautiful building, bearing over its portals 
 the title in gold letters, "THE NICHOLS 
 LIBRARY," stands as a monument to the 
 donor, keeping his name and fame in perpetual 
 remembrance, adding honor to "our Naperville" 
 and prestige to DuPage County.
 
 BOARD ^DIRECTORS 
 
 MAI W. SCOTT 
 
 HENRY J.DURRAN 
 
 MRS. NICHOL5-5IMPSON 
 VICE-PRESIDENT 
 
 PROF: G.IKIRN 
 
 T.F. BOECKER 
 
 MISS M. B. EGERMANN 
 SEC'Y & LIBRARIAN 
 
 MISS OLIVE KENDALL 
 ASS'T LIBRARIAN 
 
 MRS, RUTH SHELDON
 
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 OFFICERS 
 
 FRED VON OVEN PRES 
 
 W.M.GIVLER 
 TREAS. 
 
 ALVIN SCOTT 
 SECY. 
 
 VADIETER V.PRES.
 
 FREDERICK W. vonOVEN, President 
 VALENTINE A. DIETER, Vice President 
 
 ALVIN SCOTT, Secretary 
 WALTER M. GIVLER, Treasurer 
 
 NAPERVILLE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 John A. Schmidt ................... Chairman 
 
 Theodore W. Smith ........ Francis A. Kendall 
 
 Joseph A. Reuss ............. George A. Keller 
 
 Henry H. Rassweiler ____ Charles A Nadelhoffer 
 
 George E. Flemming ...... Charles L. Schwartz 
 
 CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES. 
 Railroad .................. Francis A. Kendall 
 
 Streets and Highways. .Frederick W. von Oven 
 Location . .... ................... Alvin Scott 
 
 Employment ............... E. Harold Stevens 
 
 Advertising .............. Valentine A. Dieter 
 
 Statistics ............... . .Charles B. Bowman 
 
 Public Improvement ...... Bernard C. Beckman 
 
 Entertainment ............... Julian M. Dieter 
 
 Membership ................... Henry Litgins 
 
 City Beautiful ............ John W. Egermann 
 
 The Naperville Association of Commerce, with 
 barely fifty members, was formed July, 1913 for 
 the express purpose of encouraging enterprises, 
 
 resources and growth of Naperville. During the 
 past four years through its active contact with 
 the necessities of our community, and co-oper- 
 ation with the city and county authorities the 
 following notable results have been accom- 
 plished: 
 
 The location and development of state aid 
 roads and good roads movement in general; 
 
 The construction of sub-ways under the Chi- 
 cago Burlington & Qumcy Railroad tracks at 
 Mill and Washington streets ; 
 
 Procuring the site for Burlington Square as a 
 station park as well as other property for park 
 purposes and the beautification of same; 
 
 Extensions in permanent ornamental post 
 street lighting systems; better telephone, mail 
 anc j train service and improvements for indus- 
 trial developments ; 
 
 Originators and backers of the 1917 Home 
 Coming.
 
 MILL STHIOET SUWVAY
 
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 WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE 
 UNION 
 
 THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL 
 SEMINARY 
 
 On September the 20th 1883, at a Convention 
 of the temperance workers of Du Page County 
 held in the Congregational Church, the Naper- 
 ville Union was organized. 
 
 This organization is "a body of Christian 
 women, pledged total abstainers, banded to- 
 gether for the protection of the home, the pro- 
 motion of purity, the destruction of the liquor 
 traffic, and the final triumph of the principles of 
 Christ in the world. 
 
 Among its foremost activities have been the 
 Demerest Temperance Medal Contests; quarter- 
 ly union gospel temperance services addressed by 
 Francis E. Willard, Col. George G. Bain, and 
 others of national fame ; participation in the 
 "Temperance Parade" of 500 women and chil- 
 dren for a dry Naperville, April 20, 1908; a 
 $250.00 memorial room in the Y. M. C. A. to 
 Mrs. Nancy Knickerbocker; and a drinking foun- 
 tain in the city park. 
 
 Acting upon a statement of the General Con- 
 ference of the Evangelical Association in 1867 
 favorable to theological training, the Board of 
 Trustees of North-Western College in 1873 
 formally organized and incorporated Union 
 Bibical Institute and planned for an endowment 
 of $100,000.00. 
 
 Bishop J. J. Esher the first Principal was suc- 
 ceeded by Bishop Reuben Yeakel, who also oc- 
 cupied the chair of Doctrinal Theology. Fol- 
 lowing Bishop Yeakel, Bishop Thomas Bowman 
 was placed at the head of the institution for 17 
 years, while Prof. S. L. Unibach served as active 
 Principal. 
 
 In 1909 the Board of Trustees changed the 
 name to The Evangelical Theological Seminary, 
 and in 1912 created the title of President, calling 
 Rev. S. J. Gamertsfelder, D.D., Ph.D., to this 
 position. In 1912 a beautiful and substantial 
 building was erected at a cost of $32,000. 
 
 The benefits to the kingdom of Christ from 
 this institution extend far and wide. Annually 
 a goodly number of young men graduate and go 
 forth to preach the Gospel of the Son of God.
 
 EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
 
 NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE 
 
 Founded in 1861 
 
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 Inspired by a desire to provide a higher Christ- 
 ian education for their youth, four conferences of 
 the Evangelical Association, Illinois, Wisconsin, 
 Indiana and Iowa, established Plainfield College 
 at Plainfield, Illinois, in April, 1861. In 1864, the 
 name was changed to North-Western College 
 and an endowment fund of $50,000 was com- 
 pleted. The first class graduated in 1867. 
 
 In 1870, the college moved to Naperville on ac- 
 count of better railroad facilities and the very 
 generous donation of an 8-acre campus and 
 $25,000 in cash. An excellent building (part of 
 the present Main Building) was erected. The 
 first year the enrollment was 256, the fifth year, 
 416. ^ 
 
 The first president of North-Western College, 
 Augustine A. Smith, served from 1862-1884, a 
 notable administration of over 22 years. He was 
 followed by President H. H. Rassweiler, who 
 served very efficiently from 1884-1888. His suc- 
 cessor, Professor H. J. Kiekhoefer, was made 
 president in 1891. During his able administration 
 
 of 22 years, over $100,000 was spent in buildings, 
 including the south wing of the Main Building 
 in 1890, the Gymnasium, in 1901, the gift of an 
 honored alumnus, Professor J. L. Nichols, the 
 Carnegie Library in 1908, and Goldspohn Science 
 Hall in the same year, named after the donor, 
 the generous and distinguished alumnus, Dr. 
 Albert Goldspohn. President Kiekhoefer re- 
 signed in 1910 and after an interregnum of a 
 year and a half, ably filled by Bishop Thomas 
 Bowman and Acting-President L. M. Umbach, 
 the Rev. Lawrence H. Seager was called who 
 served with marked success from 1911-1916, 
 when he resigned to accept a Bishopric in his 
 Church, and the present incumbent, Dr. Edward 
 E. Rail was called to fill his place. 
 
 For 1916-17, North-Western College has en- 
 rolled over 440 from 20 states and 2 foreign 
 countries. About 300 are in the College, the re- 
 mainder in the Academy, Schools of Music, Com- 
 merce, and Art. The present faculty numbers 28. 
 The college has productive funds of over $250,000.
 
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 The Naperville Public Schools are housed in 
 three buildings. The modern new high school 
 building on Washington Street has 193 students 
 and twelve teachers including drawing and 
 music teachers, who teach in the grades also. 
 The grade building on Sleight Street has the first 
 eight grades with an enrollment of 255 pupils 
 and eight teachers. The grade building on 
 Eagle Street has six grades with an enrollment 
 of 193 pupils and six teachers. Total number of 
 pupils enrolled to date, 641. Superintendent and 
 teachers, 27. 
 
 Teachers are to be State normal school gradu- 
 ates for the grades and college or university 
 graduates for the high school. The course of 
 study and quality of the teaching force are 
 recognized, the high school being on the list of 
 schools approved by the North Central Asso- 
 ciation and by the University of Illinois, also re- 
 cently accredited for a period of three years, end- 
 ing June 30, 1920. 
 
 The Board of Education demonstrates its 
 efficiency by the splendidly equipped new high 
 school building and by the constantly improved 
 school conditions. Mr. O. A. Waterman is su- 
 perintendent. 
 
 SOCIETIES S.S. PETER AND PAUL 
 CHURCH. 
 
 S. S. Peter & Paul Catholic Parish has main- 
 tained a Parochial school since about 1850. The 
 present school building was erected in 1911 at a 
 cost of about $30,000. The average attendance 
 is 250 pupils and its course comprises eight 
 grades, taught by Sisters of the Order of St. 
 Francis. It is a free school and is maintained by 
 the parishoners out of the funds of the church. 
 
 HOLY NAME SOCIETY. 
 
 KNIGHTS O.F COLUMBUS, NAPERVILLE 
 COUNCIL No. 1369. 
 
 WESTERN CATHOLIC UNION. 
 
 CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS, 
 ST. JOSEPH'S COURT No. 291. 
 
 CAROLUS GUARDS. 
 
 ST, ALOYSIUS YOUNG MEN'S JUNIOR 
 HOLY NAME SOCIETY. 
 
 SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS. 
 
 WOMEN'S CATHOLIC ORDER OF FOR- 
 ESTERS, ST. MARY'S COURT No. 295. 
 
 ST. MARY'S YOUNG LADIES SODALITY. 
 WESTERN CATHOLIC UNION, ST. 
 
 CLARA BRANCH No. 198.
 
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 NAPBRVILLE. 
 
 WALTER BLANCHARD POST GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 
 
 Walter Blanchard Post G. A. R. of Naperville 
 was mustered as a Post in Scott's Hall, January 
 7, 1884, with twenty-two members. Willard 
 Scott, Commander. 
 
 The Post received its name from Captain 
 Walter Blanchard of Downers Grove, of the 
 13th Illinois Infantry, who received his death 
 wound at Ringold Gap, Georgia, November 27, 
 1863. 
 
 The Post and its friends erected the monu- 
 ment to the Soldiers and Sailors which graces 
 the City Park, and, assisted by the Ladies Auxil- 
 iary and the Sons of Veterans, has done much to 
 
 foster the spirit of loyalty to the flag, and devo- 
 tion to the country's cause. 
 
 The officers for the year 1917 are: 
 
 Commander E. C. Rickert 
 
 Senior Vice H. C. Skelton 
 
 Junior Vice G. K. Turner 
 
 Surgeon J. A. Bell 
 
 Chaplain I). B. Givler 
 
 Quarter-Master M. L. Houser 
 
 Officer of the day Jos. Kochly 
 
 Officer of the Guard E. V. Powell 
 
 Adjutant L. S. Shafer 
 
 Patriotic Instructor J. I. Vogelsang
 
 NAPERVILLE WOMAN'S CLUB 
 
 EUCLID LODGE NO. 65, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 Dating its origin from 1898, the Woman's Club 
 looks back to the gathering of women at the 
 home of Mrs. Willard Scott when the organiza- 
 tion was effected, and Mrs. A. R. FYeeman was 
 elected President. 
 
 In connection with its purely literary study, 
 the Club has become one of the foremost sup- 
 porters of the Nichols Library, and through its 
 committees is active in public school matters, 
 having pledged, in 1916, over $500.00 to equip 
 the Domestic Science Department of the new 
 High School. 
 
 The aim of the Club is to be a helping hand 
 wherever possible to Naperville in civic, social 
 and educational matters, to its high-minded, 
 strictly modern commissioners, its enterprising 
 Association of Commerce, its remarkable Y. M. 
 C. A., its excellent schools and churches; in all 
 working harmoniously for a better, cleaner, 
 safer and more beautiful city. 
 
 NIaperville, Illinois 
 
 Euclid Lodge No. 65 Ancient, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, was chartered October 9, 1849, 
 by the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois. 
 
 The charter members were Lewis Ellsworth, 
 John Kimball, Nathan Loring, C. C. Barnes, 
 Aylmer Keith, Joseph Naper, and Nathan Allen. 
 
 Joseph Naper, founder of Naperville, was the 
 second Worshipful Master of Euclid Lodge. 
 
 The Lodge now has a membership of 175 and 
 is growing rapidly, having doubled its member- 
 ship within the last five years. 
 
 There has been completed this year the new 
 Masonic Temple costing $30,000.00. The new 
 building is located' on Jefferson Avenue near 
 Main Street. 
 
 Coan H. Wright is its present Worshipful 
 Master. C. A. Ashley, Secretary.
 
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 THE NAPERVILLE BAND 
 
 THE CAROLUS GUARDS 
 
 Naperville's musical birth dates back to the 
 forming of her first band, the old Light Guard 
 Band, in which William Knoch, Joseph Kochly 
 and George Keller were the star performers. 
 This charter organization was dissolved early in 
 1900. The Lounge Factory Band became its suc- 
 cessor in 1906 under the management of Frank 
 Hawbecker, Frank Babel, and Harry Emmel. 
 
 Mr. Charles Horn, of Chicago, was the first di- 
 rector of the Lounge Factory Band. His suc- 
 cessors were Mr. Holmes, Mr. J. Arden Waters 
 and Mr. W. M. Givler. This organization en- 
 joyed the co-operation of Mr. P. E. Kroehler who 
 furnished uniforms and gave financial assistance. 
 
 Mr. J. Fred Fehr, the present director, re- 
 ceived his musical education in the. School of 
 Music of North-Western College and the Ameri- 
 can Violin School. Under his able leadership the 
 Band is producing most excellent results. There 
 are 22 members, and the name now is The Naper- 
 ville Band. Sixteen Saturday evening concerts 
 in the business section last summer were enjoyed 
 and financed by many friends and admirers. 
 
 The Carolus Guards, a military body affiliated 
 with St. Joseph's Court No. 291 C. O. F., was or- 
 ganized March 25, 1906, with Julian Dieter, 
 Albert. Ory, George Dieter, Leo Rechenmacher, 
 and Edward Getz as its officers. 
 
 Capt. Edw. Getz, a veteran of the Spanish- 
 American War, through his firm belief in disci- 
 pline and his unwearied enthusiasm, has been 
 largely responsible for the rapid advancement of 
 the Guards to their present state of efficiency. 
 
 The executive ability of the first president and 
 present lieutenant, Julian Dieter, has also been 
 a strong factor in the upbuilding of the organiz- 
 ation. 
 
 Unlike most private military organizations, 
 the Carolus Guards have not been trained merely 
 for dress parades, but have expressed their will- 
 ingness through a petition to the governor to 
 fight for their country's honor, should it ever be 
 placed in jeopardy. 
 
 To the delight of our citizens and for their 
 own military development, the guards have al- 
 ways taken an active part in all civic demon- 
 strations and on numerous occasions have par- 
 ticipated in military maneuvers and exibition 
 drills in other cities, Ottawa, Elgin, and Chicago.
 
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 ITHE EDWARD SANATORIUM 
 
 The Edward Sanatorium at Naperville, Illi- 
 nois, opened January 15, 1907. (Possible by the 
 munificence of Mrs. Keith Spaulding). Under 
 the direction of Dr. Theodore B. Sachs, the 
 Edward Sanatorium grew from an institution of 
 14 beds to its present capacity of 100 beds. The 
 approximate present cost of the plant is about 
 $100,000. 
 
 The Sanatorium is a department of the Chi- 
 cago Tuberculosis Institute. It is an institution 
 for people in moderate circumstances, most of the 
 patients being of the clerical and professional 
 class. 
 
 The institution has an adequate medical and 
 nursing personnel, the medical department being 
 under the supervision of Dr. O. W. McMichael.
 
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 ST. PROCOPIUS COLLEGE 
 
 St. Procopius College was founded by the Rt. 
 Rev. Abbot Nepomucene Jaeger, O. S. B., of St. 
 Procopius Abbey of Chicago, in the year 1886. 
 By an Act of the State Legislature the Institu- 
 tion was incorporated and empowered to confer 
 all Academic Degrees. 
 
 The first building was at Chicago, and was 
 used only as a day-school. When the question of 
 providing more adequate buildings for the in- 
 creasing number of students became pressing, 
 the Fathers determined to remove the Institution 
 from the turmoil of city life and seek out a quiet 
 place in the country. Such a place was found 
 two miles east of Naperville, on the Burlington 
 Route. 
 
 What with the handsomeness of its buildings, 
 the thoroughness of its equipment and modern 
 accommodations, the healthy and pleasing locali- 
 ty, the College stands second to none of its kind. 
 With the Abbey is connected the Bohemian 
 Benedictine Press of Chicago, publishing a daily, 
 semi-weekly, weekly, and a monthly paper. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH'S BOHEMIAN ORPHANAGE 
 
 This Institution was built in the year 1910- 
 1911 on a forty acre tract of land, bought from 
 Mr. Ferdinand Schwartz, in Lisle Township, 
 near Naperville, on the C. B. & Q. R. R. It has 
 been built by the Bohemian Catholic people 
 chiefly from Cook County, at the expense of 
 $100,000.00. The furnishing of the institution 
 cost over $15,000.00. Two hundred orphaned or 
 dependent children can be comfortably housed 
 within its spacious rooms and dormitories. 
 
 The institution is intended not only to give a 
 good, warm home to children, but also education 
 schooling and practical training in every line 
 of work that awaits the inmates after they leave. 
 
 The Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict from 
 the neighboring convent take the place of 
 mothers, nurses and teachers at the same time 
 and take general care of the Institution. Besides 
 this, regular licensed industrial and manual 
 training teachers come from the City of Chicago 
 once every week to instruct the larger children 
 in manual and industrial work. 
 
 Very Rev. Procopius Neuzil, O.S.B., is the 
 superintendent of the Institution.
 
 
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 NAPERVILLE 
 
 
 ST. JOSEPH'S BOHEMIAN ORPHANAGE
 
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 S. S. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CEME- 
 TERY is the last resting place of the remains of 
 the ancestors of many who read this. It dates 
 back to 1846 when the first land for it was pur- 
 chased, containing about an acre. At present it 
 comprises seven acres. Handsome ornamental 
 monuments adorn the burial plots and an im- 
 posing statuary group, representing the crucific- 
 tion of Our Lord, imbues an air of sanctity and 
 reverence and instills into the sorrowing mourner 
 that Hope which can be his only consolation. It 
 is maintained most beautifully. S. S. Peter & 
 Paul Cemetry Association, an incorporated as- 
 sociation, has charge of its care, and by virtue 
 of its charter may receive bequests and donations 
 for the perpetual care of lots. Through this as- 
 sociation the continued beautification of the 
 cemetery is assured. The cemetry is inclosed by 
 an ornamental iron fence. It is located just ad- 
 joining the east end of the .city. 
 
 NAPERVILLE CEMETERY. 
 
 The Naperville Cemetery is under the care of 
 a Board of Trustees of three members, one of 
 
 whom is elected annually at an election held on 
 the first Monday in April. The first trustees, 
 elected March 12, 1843, were Joseph Naper, 
 Lewis Ellsworth and John Granger. At this 
 time Mr. George Martin donated 2 acres of land, 
 and the old cemetery at Washington Street and 
 Benton Avenue was moved to its present loca- 
 tion. Among the names that are conspicuous on 
 the records of the Association are especially 
 Lewis Ellsworth and Moses B. Hosier. Mr. 
 Ellsworth's name occurs as Trustee the greater 
 part of the time between the years 1843 until 
 1885. Mr. Hosier was elected as Trustee in 1881 
 and served continuously as Secretary up to the 
 time of his death in 1915. 
 
 The present Board of Trustees of Naperville 
 cemetery are: G. A. Yost, Pres. ; B. J. Slick, 
 Treas.; L. M. Umbach, Sec. 
 
 Located on the western slopes of the DuPage 
 River, the cemetery has one of the most beauti- 
 ful sites to be found in the State.
 
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 REUSS STATE BANK 
 
 Ruess State Bank was founded in 1866 when 
 George Reuss opened a private bank on May 1st 
 of that year. The private bank became merged 
 in a corporation April 12, 1897 under the above 
 title with a capital stock of $25,000 with George 
 Reuss as its President and V. A. Dieter, Cashier. 
 The capital stock was raised from time to time to 
 meet the growing condition of its business and 
 the bank now has a capital of $100,000 and a sur- 
 plus of $25,000 with deposits of about $400,000. 
 A modern steel lined burglar proof vault has re- 
 cently been completed and safetly deposit boxes 
 installed for the security of the bank's patrons. 
 
 The officers and directors are: 
 
 Joseph A. Reuss President 
 
 Charles L. Schwartz Vice- President 
 
 Valentine A. Dieter Cashier 
 
 Albert J. Ory Ass't. Cashier 
 
 Loren W. Myers Ass't. Cashier 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 Andrew A. Schwartz, George J. Zahringer, 
 Monroe E. Christ, Alvin Scott, Charles L. 
 Schwartz, Valentine A Dieter and Joseph A. 
 Reuss. 
 
 THE FIRST NAT'L BANK OF NAPERVILLE 
 
 The First National Bank of Naperville was in- 
 corporated in April, 1891, with a capital stock of 
 $50,000.00. The first Board of Directors was 
 composed of Thomas P. Phillips, Martin Brown, 
 William King, Charles F. Rassweiler and 
 Francis Granger. Officers: T. P. Phillips, 
 President; Martin Brown, Vice-President; A. 
 McS. S. Riddler, Cashier; Walter M. Givler, 
 Assistant Cashier. James L. Nichols, George W. 
 Sindlinger and H. H. Goodrich served as di- 
 rectors, the latter also as President, until their 
 demise. Assistant Cashiers were Ralph N. 
 Ballou, Frank G. Keller and Earl E. Leffler. 
 
 The present capital, surplus and undivided 
 profits aggregate $115,000.00 and deposits over 
 $500,000.00. The bank is now occupying its 
 modernly equipped quarters, corner Washington 
 Street and Jefferson Avenue. 
 
 The present Directors are: Francis Granger, 
 Ezra E. Miller, Irving Goodrich, John A. 
 Schmidt, Calvin Steck, Francis A. Kendall and 
 Bernard C. Beckman. Officers: President, 
 Francis Granger; Vice-President, Ezra E. 
 Miller; Cashier, Walter M. Givler; Assistant 
 Cashiers, Elbert H. Kailer and Edward L. Steck.
 
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 CHAS. F. ROHR 
 FLOEIST 
 
 CUT FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS 
 
 120 South Washington St. 
 
 Naperville, 111. 
 
 EDSON CROSBY 
 
 PIANO TUNING 
 
 102 Columbia Avenue 
 
 Naperville. 111. 
 
 COLLEGE INN 
 
 THOS. J. GREEN, Proprietor 
 RESTAURANT AND LUNCH ROOM 
 
 BEST THINGS TO EAT 
 17 Jefferson Avenue Naperville, 111. 
 
 INSURANCE 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
 JOHN RICE 
 
 ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA AND MICHIGAN LANDh 
 45 Washington St., Naperville, 111. 
 
 THE MODEL VARIETY STORE 
 
 Extends to You a Hearty Welcome 
 
 THE PLACE WHERE YOUR DIMES DO DOUBLE 
 
 DUTY 
 
 Up-to-date 5 and lOc Department Store 
 Pure Fresh Candies, lOc a Pound and up. 
 
 E. A. KELLOGG, Prop. 
 
 Naperville, 
 
 Illinois 
 
 C. B. MOORE LUMBER CO 
 
 BUILDING MATERIAL. 
 LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC. 
 Main and So. Water Sts. Naperville, 111.
 
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 Scott, Egermann & Royce, Reliable Real Estate and Insurance Agency, ;,:;';;:::,, l ,' h ;:,:,,:. 1 
 
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 NAPBRVILLE 
 
 MEN'S AND LADIES' 
 OUTER GARMENTS 
 
 Made to Your Individual Measure 
 
 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 
 
 /. 8. Phone 4272 
 
 E. O. RIFE 
 
 Naperville, Illinois. 
 
 153 North St. 
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES 
 
 G. J. KELLER 
 
 Soft Coal of All Sizes 
 
 POCAHONTAS ANTHRACITE 
 
 COKE 
 
 PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO YOUR ORDER 
 
 Yard Near Depot Naperville, 111. 
 
 W. E. HAZEL WOOD 
 POULTRY FEED 
 
 Washington and Water Streets 
 Naperville, 111. 
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES 
 
 M. L. HOWSER 
 
 Groceries and Canned Goods 
 
 Fresh Bread and Rolls 
 
 Confectionery and Fruits 
 
 87 Sleight St. 
 
 Naperville, 111.
 
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 BUSINESS INTERESTS 
 
 Auctioneer; William Eichman, F. E. Shimp. 
 Bakery; Joseph Bapst, C. E. Heydon, Home 
 
 Bakery. 
 Barber; E. C. Shafer, R. F. High, H. J. Fuss, 
 
 H. J. Gillhoover, O. W. Conner. 
 Blacksmithing; G. C. Duel, Heim and Stoner, 
 
 F. S. Goetsch & Son, A. Kochly, J. Hauser. 
 Carpet Weaving; August Kersting. 
 Cigars; William Knoch, Sanders & Plasterer. 
 City Auto Service. 
 Clothier; Yender & Brossman, Mickenbecker 
 
 Store, H. J. Durran. 
 
 Coal; G. J. Keller, H. H. Zaininger, Enck & 
 Drendel, T. F. Boecker. 
 
 Contractors; A. H. Beidelman, Oscar Goehring, 
 John Bentz, Oliver Fry, Henry Miley, Sieber 
 Bros., Walter Weigard, Lauer Bros., J. 
 Schifferle, Charles Shiffler, Frank McCorkel, 
 Frank Witt, A. R. Miller. 
 
 Concrete; J. J. Arends, John Hedinger. 
 
 Dairy; H. Otterpohl, E. O. Drendel, F. A. Fey, 
 Ira Sollenberger, J. Wagner. 
 
 Dentist; Thos. White, O. A. Getz, A. B. Slick, 
 W. E. Becker, L. A. Brazelton. 
 
 Druggist; L. W. Oswald, C. C. Coleman. 
 
 Electric Supplies; Dieter & Getz, A. G. Herbert. 
 
 Electric Theatre. 
 
 Feed Store; W. E. Hazlewood. 
 
 Feed Mill; T. F. Boecker, Enck & Drendel. 
 
 Florist; C. Rohr, J. Falkenstein, W. Miller, J. A. 
 
 Kenyon, John Bauer, Orchids-Charles Bond. 
 Furniture and Undertaking; O. J. Beidelman, 
 
 A. R. Beidelman, Yender & Kraushar. 
 
 Garage, Auto Repairing; Naperville Garage, 
 Fountain Garage, DuPage Garage, Cromer 
 Bros., Nichols-Cadman, E. S. Fry, E. L. 
 Perry. 
 
 German Cheese Co. 
 
 Groceries; W. C. Bomberger & Co., M. L. 
 
 Houser, C. E. Heydon, Mrs. Anna B. 
 
 Kreger, G. C. Kirchgasser, A. Felling, J. 
 
 Bapst. 
 
 Hardware; Hillegas Hardware Co., Reiche Bros., 
 C. Sherer & Son. 
 
 Hotels; Burlington Hotel, Preemption House. 
 Harness; Flemming Harness Shop, J. Herbert. 
 
 Insurance; H. H. Rassweiler & Son, W. S. 
 
 Garman, G. A. Rapp, F. W. Umbreit. 
 Illinois Pupils Reading Circle: F. A. Kendall. 
 Insurance and Real Estate: Scott, Egermann &
 
 NAPERVILLE 
 
 Royce, M. E. Christ, John Rice, R. M. 
 Sheldon. 
 
 Ice Cream and Conf. ; L. V. Kreger, H. C. 
 
 Williams, F. Mistici, A. Felling, F. H. 
 
 Latshaw, G. C. Kirchgasser. 
 Jewelry; H. P. Fehrenkamp, A. D. Miller, H. J. 
 
 Durran. 
 
 Kroehler Mfg. Co. 
 
 Ladies Furnishings; M. Herbert Co. 
 Laundry ; Sam Lung. 
 Lawyer: ]. A. Reuss, Benjamin & Reed, Bunge 
 
 Harbour & Schmidt, J. S. Goodwin, Wm. 
 
 Frederick, W. Knoch, J. R. Haight, B. Piper. 
 Livery ; A. M. Sherwood. 
 Lumber; C. L. Schwartz, C. B. Moore Lumber 
 
 Co. 
 
 Martin & von Oven Brick & Tile Works. 
 Meat Market; Grush & Faulhaber, Boettger 
 
 Bros., Banner Meat Market, A. Baum- 
 
 gartner, W. H. Hartrunft. 
 Merchandise; Slick & Kochly, Broeker & 
 
 Spiegler, E. F. Stark, W. C." Hiltenbrand. 
 Millinery; Mrs. W. E. Becker, Miss Lolla T. 
 
 Allen, Meisinger Sisters. 
 Model Variety Store. 
 Monuments ; A. R. Beidelman, E. Wunderlich. 
 
 Naperville Mushroom Farming Co. 
 Naperville Nurseries. 
 Osteopath; E. S. Moser, R. N. Bautsch. 
 Painter; S. F. Baumgartner, R. A. Unger, F. 
 
 Grimes, E. W. Hey, Saylor Bros., J. 
 
 Widclers, W. Ross, H. Garman, A. Prignitz, 
 
 Fritch & Knecht, Costello & Stoos. 
 Photographer; C. H. Koretke. 
 Phvsicians; W. [ Truitt, E. G. Simpson, A. B. 
 ' Rikli, W. "B. Martin, R. Truitt, J. H. 
 
 Clancey, W. L. Migley. 
 Plumber; J. Kieserg, Dieter & Getz, T. J. 
 
 Steffes. 
 
 Printer; R. N. Givler. 
 Publisher; J. L. Nichols Co. 
 
 Restaurant ; College Inn, Fountain Lunch Room. 
 Shoes; A. Muench. 
 Shoe Repairing; Stanley's Electric Shoe Shop, 
 
 Jacob Zimmerman. 
 Surveyor; C. A. Ashley. 
 Transfer and Hauling: Forest Harter, J. A. 
 
 Schnibben, F. Kirk. 
 Tailor; C. E. Rosenau, J. Vender Sr., H. Micken- 
 
 becker Sr. 
 
 Veterinary; [. E. Stiles, A. M. Sherwood. 
 Wagon Shop; J. Hiltenbrand, A. W. Miller.
 
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 Joseph Yender, Jr. 
 Jacob Brossman. 
 
 54-56 WASHINGTON STREET 
 
 Yender and Brossman 
 
 CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS 
 FOOTWEAR 
 
 NAPERVILLE, ILL. 
 
 C. SCHERER & SON 
 
 HARDWARE 
 
 STOVES, RANGES, FURNACES, GRANITE WARK, 
 CUTLERY AND ALUMINUM WARK 
 
 REPAIRING A SPECIALTY 
 Washington St. and Jefferson Ave. Naperville, 111. 
 
 Irrii Job I'rintiiiy HotJt Tele 
 
 THE NAPERVILLE CLARION 
 
 ROLLO N. GIVLER, Publisher 
 
 The Home I'ajter Issued Kadi Week for More 
 Than Half a Century. 
 
 60 Washington St. 
 
 Naperville, 111.
 
 NAPERVILLE 
 
 Metropolitan Telephone Service 
 For Naperville 
 
 Naperville telephone service is to be made thoroughly 
 Metropolitan and initial steps to this end will be taken about 
 April 1, and the work pushed to completion as rapidly as 
 possible. 
 
 A new building of attractive design is to be erected on 
 Van Buren Street, between Main and Washington Streets, 
 for the sole occupancy of the Telephone Company. 
 
 Upon completion of the structure, a common Battery 
 Switchboard and appurtenances will be installed. This type 
 of equipment obviates the method of turning a crank by the 
 subscriber when signalling the operator; lifting the receiver 
 from the hook causes a light to flash on the switchboard 
 which attracts the operator's attention. This new system 
 will be used in town only; the farmer line service will be 
 of the Magneto type as heretofore. 
 
 The new building will have modern lighting, plumbing 
 and heating facilities and contain, in addition to commer- 
 cial and operating rooms, a pleasant reading and rest room 
 for the operators' use during rest periods. 
 
 Xaperville's present and future telephone needs have 
 been carefully studied and it is believed that the new and 
 improved service will meet all requirements in a manner en- 
 tirely satisfactory to the Company's patrons. 
 
 Chicago Telephone Co.
 
 j/ NAPERVILLE 
 
 Home of the Sittyton Grove Short Horn Herd 
 
 THOMAS STANTON, Prop. 
 
 NAPERVILLE, ILL.
 
 LISLE FARMS COMPANY Inc. 
 
 Lisle, Illinois 
 
 Maplecrest King De Kol 91584, a bull of excellent individ- 
 uality and faultless breeding is at the head of our herd. He is 
 a son of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy, who sired 
 Banostine Belle De Kol with 1322.92 pounds of butter (world's 
 record when made.) He also produced four other cows exceeding 
 the 1000 pound mark, three of them producing over 1200 pounds. 
 His dam is a 24 pound daughter of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke 
 with 51 A.R.O. daughters, 12 of which are above 30 pounds, 17 
 above 25 pounds, and 37 above 20 pounds. She is out of High- 
 
 lawn Hartog De Kol, a 30.91-pound daughter of Friend Hen- 
 gerveld De Kol Butter Boy. 
 
 Our herd combines individuality and production. The bulls 
 we have to offer are the kind that will increase the production 
 and improve the individuality of your herd. 
 
 When you are wanting pure bred Duroc Jersey gilts or a 
 boar, see us. Our herd has size and early maturity they are 
 the kind that will make you money.
 
 I NAPblRVILLF. V'. v , 
 
 THE NAPERVILLE CONSUMERS CO. 
 
 HIGHLAND ICE CREAM AND PURE ICE 
 
 Quality our Slogan Delivered to any part of our city 
 
 SOCIETIES AND CLUBS 
 
 A. F. and A. M. Euclid Lodge No. 65. 
 
 Court of Honor. 
 
 R. A. M. Euclid Chapter No. 13. 
 
 F. R. L. A. Naperville Lodge No. 78. 
 
 G. A. R., Walter Blanchard Post No. 386. 
 I. O. O. F., Naperville Lodge No. 81. 
 Ladies Auxiliary of Sons of Veterans. 
 
 M. W. A., Napier Camp No. 908. 
 
 Royal League, Naperville Council No. 261. 
 
 Royal Neighbors, Martha Washington Camp. 
 
 Womans Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 Sons of Veterans, Naperville Camp No. 261. 
 
 Mystic Workers of the World. 
 
 Alphea Chapter, Order Eastern Star of 111. 
 
 The Maccabbees Tent No. 90. 
 
 Woodmen of World. 
 
 Fraternal Reserve Life Ass'n., Esther Lodge. 
 
 Association of Commerce. 
 
 Naperville Business Men's Association. 
 
 Community Club. Hi-Y Club. Womans Club. 
 
 Fortnightly Club. Naperville Gun Club.
 
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 CHARLES L. SCHWARTZ LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL 
 
 Fine Interior Finish a Specialty Argotile Shingles Prepared Roofings Best Quality Lowest Prices 
 
 Prompt Service We Solicit Your Patronage.
 
 HERMAN OTTERPOHL 
 MILK DEPOT 
 
 PURE MILK AND CREAM PASTEURIZED 
 
 86 Front St. 
 
 Naperville, 111. 
 
 H. C. WILLIAMS 
 
 THE CANDY MAN 
 
 ICE CREAM RETAIL AND WHOLESALE 
 SODAS AND SOFT DRINKS 
 
 QUENCH YOUR THIRST HERE 
 
 18 Jefferson Ave. Naperville, 111. 
 
 JOSEPH KIESERG 
 
 PLUMBER 
 
 Heating Systems and Sanitary Plumbing Installed. 
 
 Estimates Furnished. Fixtures and Supplies. 
 
 Washington St. and Van Buren Ave., Naperville, 111. 
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES 
 
 CRUSH & FAULHABER 
 
 FRESH AND SALT MEATS 
 
 23 Jefferson Avenue 
 
 Naperville, 111. 
 
 C. E. HEYDON 
 
 BAKER AND GROCER 
 
 Maker of HEYDON'S QUALITY BREAD. All Kinds of 
 Baked Goods. Vegetables, Canned Goods and Groceries. 
 
 19 Jefferson Ave., Naperville, 111. 
 
 Northwestern College 
 Photoghapher 
 
 Best Equipped Studio 
 In Du Page County 
 
 C. H. KORETKE 
 
 PHOTOGRAPHER 
 
 Staff Photographer of the Home Coming Book 
 Best Photographs
 
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 MONUMENTS 
 
 Eternal Cement Burial. Vaults 
 
 Arthur R. Beidelman 
 
 UNDERTAKING 
 
 Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer No. 3240
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES 
 
 W. C. Bomberger & Co. 
 
 Staple and Fancy Groceries 
 Crockery and Queensware 
 Teas, Coffees and Spices 
 
 52 WASHINGTON STREET 
 
 NAPERVILLE, ILL. 
 
 The Naperville Garage 
 
 H. P. THOMPSON, Proprietor 
 
 The Famous "OVERLAND" Line of 
 Automobiles 
 
 EXPEKT REPAIK WORK 
 VULCANIZING AND SUPPLIES 
 
 32 Washington Street 
 
 Naperville, 111. 
 
 THE BUSINESS GUIDE 
 
 OR SAFE METHODS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH 
 
 OR GERMAN 
 By PROF. J. L. NICHOLS, A. M. 
 
 Over three million copic sold ot former edition*. Whether or not you have one 
 
 you cannot afford to be without the 1917 edition. Revised and corrected right 
 
 up to date by J..L. Nichols. A. B. 
 
 Containing over 500 lessons in Business. 
 
 A complete Legal Adviser and Home Lawyer. A complete Hand-Book of Legal 
 
 and Business Forms. 
 
 "A volume for the home, the farm, the office and the shop. Wherever it has gone 
 
 it has blessed mankind." Bishop L. H. Seager, former Pres. N. W. C. 
 
 Sent postpaid upon receipt of only $1.25. We also own and publish many other 
 
 good books for the home. "The Parents Guide" bv Rev. Ozora Davis and Dr. 
 
 Emma F. Drake is our latest publication, price $1 25. 
 
 Our books are sold on the guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. 
 
 Are you looking for profitable employment? We will pay you a liberal salary 
 
 and bigtcommission to represent us. Call or write us for particulars. 
 
 J. L. NICHOLS C& CO., 
 
 Branch Office, Atlanta, Ga. Home Office, Naperville, 111. 
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES 
 
 KREGER'S GROCERY 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES 
 
 FLOUR, FRUITS, CONFECTIONERY 
 
 71 Washington Street 
 
 Naperville, 111.
 
 HAMMERSMITH 
 KORTMEYER CO. 
 
 ENGRAVERS - PRINTERS 
 M I LWA U KE E. W I S .