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 100 YEARS OF PROGRESS 
 
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 ANNA CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE 
 
 THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY 
 OF ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 
 ANNA CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE 
 
 Howard Lam, Chairman 
 
 George E. Parks Robert L. Rich 
 
 COMMITTEE ON CENTENNIAL PUBLICATION 
 
 Percy M. West, Chairman 
 
 Delias Buzbee Don Ostrich Elmer Chamness
 
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 ^"^ '^^ DEDICATION 
 
 This book is dedicated to the several people who have so 
 diligently worked as a committee and to the individuals who 
 graciously gave of their time, efforts, and money to contact 
 the many contributors whose names will be found throughout 
 this volume. 
 
 The volume was compiled by volunteers, who, seeing the 
 need of such a publication, banded together as a public serv- 
 ice, feeling it a privilege to work for the common good. Each 
 person or worker depended on the others for a certain por- 
 tion to be completed. When the fruits of their efforts were 
 assembled and published, the following pages were the result. 
 
 May we as citizens of this community, both past and 
 present, pause for just a moment in our thinking and try 
 to recall some of the people who have been in some small 
 way responsible for the privileges we now enjoy. As we think 
 back over the years, many memories will undoubtedly come 
 to our minds — some happy, others sad. But, regardless of 
 our concern at the present time, they all have a purpose in 
 this theme of life. As you know, many worlds are around us, 
 all framed by the same Divine artist, and we, as human be- 
 ings, are a part of that design. So, surely, the future holds 
 many new achievements for the human race. 
 
 As the knowledge of our times is imparted to you through- 
 out this volume, may it be a reminder to you never to lose 
 sight of the allegience due to your God, your Country, your 
 Family, your Neighbor, and Yourself! 
 
 HOWARD LAM, 
 Centennial Chairman. 
 
 ^
 
 FOREWORD 
 
 The richest heritage that shall ever come into our pos- 
 session is the simple story of the men and women, our fore- 
 fathers — who planted in this western wilderness the homes, 
 the schools, the churches, and the state. 
 
 We shall never know the story in its completeness, for 
 these brave men and women, who opened up the way for 
 civilization in the Illinois country of which the City of Anna, 
 County of Union, State of Illinois, is a part, have long since 
 gone to their reward, and they have left meager accounts. 
 
 It is the purpose of this little volume to reveal a portion 
 of that story to our people, from the territory in the making 
 down to the present time. 
 
 In celebration of the Centennial of Anna, it is the desire 
 of the Centennial Committee, in co-operation with all its 
 citizens, to give to this and future generations a brief history 
 of their beloved city. 
 
 The several sources of the history used in this survey 
 have been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this volume. 
 There are many individuals and places of business from the 
 earliest days until now in Anna, will not be mentioned in 
 this survey. They have not been omitted because of their 
 insignificance, but because it is impossible for us in the time 
 we have and the limited pages allotted to the volume to give 
 a complete detailed report on all of them. 
 
 Part 1 deals with the earliest beginnings and carries the 
 general history forward to the last quarter century. Part 2 
 includes the past twenty-five years of the city's history as 
 portrayed by the individual and organizational contributors 
 sponsoring the publication of the History of Anna. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS, the history 
 of Anna and her people, is now presented with the hope that 
 it may bring its readers to a higher appreciation of the char- 
 acter and worth of the men and women who conquered the 
 west and planted here the institutions which we enjoy today. 
 
 — ii —
 
 As the story of 100 years of growth and progress of the 
 City of Anna unfolds, may the achievements of its citizens 
 inspire the youth of this generation to write an even more 
 glorious history in the future ! 
 
 We wish to express our appreciation to the citizens of 
 Anna who so willingly aided in accumulating the materials 
 for this survey. Without their assistance this story could not 
 have been written. Their fine spirit of cooperation is ample 
 proof that the characteristics manifested by the early set- 
 tlers of this community are still dominant in this community 
 today. 
 
 April 11, 1954 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
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 WINSTEAD DAVIE 
 
 Founder of the City of Anna 
 
 -IV
 
 ANNA WILLARD DAVIE 
 (For whom the City of Anna was named) 
 
 Contributed by Geneva Davie Wiggs of Wiggs Studio. Jonesboro, 
 nois. Mrs. Wiggs is a great-great-granddaughter of Mr. and 
 Winstead Davie. 
 
 Illi- 
 Mrs.
 
 LOCATION 
 
 Cities are g-enerally founded with regard to some great 
 commercial advantage either as seaports, as manufacturing 
 depots, or as agricultural centers. It is probably the com- 
 ing of the railroad that prompted the founding of the City 
 of Anna, although, from the time of the George Rogers Clark 
 expedition into Southern Illinois country, emigrants recogniz- 
 ed its agricultural possibilities. 
 
 Anna, centrally located in Anna Precinct of Union Coun- 
 ty, was established by ordinance following the election of 
 Trustees in 1855, although the plot was recorded in the 
 county records on March 3, 1854. This precinct includes 
 within its boundaries some of the best hill lands in Union 
 County. They are not broken by steep ridges, but are gen- 
 erally broad and gently rolling, forming fine farming and 
 grazing lands. The surface varies from 600 to 900 feet above 
 sea level. The elevation along with the fertility of the soil 
 makes the fruit farming, which is one of the principal occupa- 
 tions of the area, more certain. For the purpose of farming, 
 fruit growing, gardening, and dairying, the lands in and 
 around Anna are not surpassed in Southern Illinois. 
 
 Years ago this area was densely wooded country, but 
 most of the forests have been cleared and the land put into 
 grain, pastures, and orchards. 
 
 The precinct in which Anna lies is situated on the divide 
 between the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and 
 is well drained by the Cache, Cypress, and Big Creeks. Many 
 cool springs of water aid materially in cattle farming in this 
 area. 
 
 Anna is just south of the true mountain range in Illinois, 
 the spur crossing the State from the Ozark Mountains and 
 traceable to Kentucky, a fact which makes it more suitable 
 for agriculture than the counties to the north of it. This 
 range of hills protects the area around Anna from the severe 
 part of the weather that hits the middle west each year, 
 
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 thus giving warmth to the soil that makes possible agricul- 
 tural products early in the spring of the year. 
 
 Anna is located in that part of the state known as "Little 
 Egypt." In 1818, the weather was unusually cold so that 
 crops failed all over Illinois and Indiana. Because this part 
 of the state is protected from the storms of the plains by the 
 spur of the Ozark Mountains, crops were abundant here. 
 The people living north of the range of hills came here to buy 
 food as the ancients went into the valley of the Nile in 
 Egypt on several occasions. For this reason this part of the 
 country became known as "Egypt." Also, for this reason, 
 many of the people who came to buy food liked the country 
 and stayed, while others returned later with their families 
 and friends. This not only increased the population but 
 stimulated the settlers to produce more than enough food 
 stuffs to meet their own needs. 
 
 Anna has grown to one of the outstanding communities 
 of Southern Illinois, having an immediate population of around 
 5,000, with a trade area in the surrounding territory which 
 includes most of Union County.
 
 BEFORE AND AFTER FOUR SCORE YEARS 
 
 S T WAR D 
 
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 Anna In 1872
 
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 
 
 The year 1818 was a notable one in the history of Ill- 
 inois as this was the year the State became of ag-e and was 
 admitted to the Union by the enabling Act sig-ned by the 
 President on April 18, 1818. The convention for the purpose 
 of forming- a constitution was held in Kaskaskia, August 3, 
 1818, and state officers were elected. Delegates from Union 
 County were William Echols and John Whittaker. Shaddrick 
 Bond was the first Governor of Illinois. The first capital was 
 located on the west side of the Kaskaskia River several miles 
 north of any settlements at that time. The town was named 
 Vandalia in memory of a powerful tribe of Indians known as 
 the Vandals. 
 
 The history of Illinois reached back to the discovery by 
 Marquette and Joliet, nearly 150 years. It had actually been 
 settled by white men for 118 years. 
 
 Its people had lived successively under three governments 
 — the French, the English, and the Americans. Immigration 
 had reached it from the north, the south, and the east. Each 
 brought its own peculiar people. 
 
 No other district of equal area created such wide spread 
 interest in Europe as the Illinois country. The fame of its 
 rich soil, its noble rivers, its wide stretching lakes, the abun- 
 dance of wild life, were spread abroad by every traveller who 
 crossed its boundless prairies or floated down its silvery 
 streams in their canoes. 
 
 For a century after the founding of the first settlement, 
 the growth of institutional life was very slow. The French 
 settlements on the Mississippi would never have lived through 
 the century had it not been for the strong arm of the royal 
 government and equally strong support of the church. 
 
 At the beginning of the 19th century there were probably 
 less than 5,000 persons in the territory. They were distribut- 
 ted chiefly along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash Rivers. 
 The chief lines of industrial life were farming, trading, lum-
 
 bering, and fishing. Schools were scarce and crude. The 
 Catholic Church was the only religious organization. 
 
 The Indians found in Illinois belonged to the Algonquin 
 family. The Illinois Indians formed a sort of loose confeder- 
 acy of six or more tribes including the Kaskaskias, Cahokias, 
 the Peorias, the Tamaroas, the Shawnees, and others. The 
 influence of the Indian is indelible upon the life in early Illinois 
 from the first settlement until it became a state. 
 
 The early vicissitudes of the State are demonstrated by 
 the changes in seats of government in the two decades fol- 
 lowing Illinois' admission as the 21st state in the Union and 
 by the movement of centers of population from the early set- 
 tlements at the south end of the state to the northern part. 
 
 The Union into which Illinois entered in 1818 was a Un- 
 ion already at the verge of sectional strife on the issue of 
 slavery. The session of congress in which the first Illinois 
 representatives took their seats saw the beginning of the 
 struggle over this issue. The last aftermath of the struggle 
 was not gleaned till in the summer of 1824 the people of Ill- 
 inois finally registered their resolution that their constitution 
 should not be altered to admit slavery. Few names will live 
 longer in history of Illinois than that of Rev. Elijah Paris Love- 
 joy, minister, publicist, friend of the slave, who finally gave 
 his life for his belief in civil liberties. 
 
 The name of Abraham Lincoln leads them all. He left 
 an imprint upon Illinois that is unequaled by any other in- 
 dividual in any State. All of his formative years were spent 
 in Illinois, and, from a raw-boned youngster, he developed in- 
 to one of the greatest national leaders the world has ever 
 known. 
 
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 A RETROSPECT 
 
 The French dominated the Illinois country from 1673 
 until the territory was wrested from them by the British in 
 1759. The Americans followed in 1778. 
 
 Recorded history of Illinois in 1818 began less than 300 
 years ago with the arrival of the French explorers, Father 
 Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, with five companions and 
 three Indian guides — the first white men to set foot on Ill- 
 inois soil in 1673. By way of Lake Michigan and the Wis- 
 consin River, they came to the Mississippi, exploring as far 
 south as the Arkansas River. They floated down the Mis- 
 sissippi and within the boundaries of the territory that is now 
 Union County. It is not probable that they actually explored 
 the soil of this county, but at least they claimed it for France 
 and Christianity. 
 
 In 1678 Robert de la Salle, Henry Tonti, and Father Hen- 
 nepin were commissioned by the King of France to explore 
 and colonize this western country. They followed the same 
 course as the previous explorers, but pushed on to the mouth 
 of the Mississippi River, which they reached in April of that 
 year. They took formal possession of the river and the ter- 
 ritory it drained. 
 
 In the course of these voyages of discovery, forts were 
 built and settlements took root. Some grew ; others flourished 
 for awhile and then died. At least half a dozen settlements 
 of the French explorers have lived — Kaskaskia, Fort Massac, 
 Vincennes, Fort Chartres, Prairie Du Rocher, Cahokia, Peoria, 
 and Chicago. 
 
 From 1673 until Quebec fell before General Wolf's Red 
 Coats in the middle of September, 1759, France dominated the 
 western country. By unfurling the banner of Great Britian 
 over Fort Chartres October, 1766, the civil and military au- 
 thority of the British Empire was extended to include all of 
 the continent east of the Mississippi River; their domination 
 continued until the period of the Revolutionary War. 
 
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 It was in the midst of this trying time that George 
 Rogers Clark, a Virginian, came to Kentucky. Clark was 
 sympathetic to the land companies who were disposing of the 
 land secured from the Indians to settlers. But at the same 
 time he tried to persuade the people to unite against the In- 
 dians, who were playing sad havoc among the settlers every- 
 where. In 1778, the Governor of Virginia gave Clark per- 
 mission to organize an army for the invasion and conquest of 
 the British posts in the northwest. Clark began his march 
 across Southern Illinois in that year. He left Fort Massac 
 on the Ohio June 29, 1778, and followed the buffalo trails 
 north and west. In July, 1778, he disarmed Kaskaskia. Ca- 
 hokia and Vincennes fell in rapid succession, and he claimed 
 the Illinois Territory for the Americans. 
 
 These highlights of recorded Illinois History bring us to 
 a more detailed account of the earliest settlers of Southern 
 Illinois and the subsequent organization of Union County and 
 Anna. 
 
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 PIONEER LIFE 
 
 There is much of romance in the story of the first set- 
 tlers in this southern part of Illinois. The spirit of adventure 
 lured the pioneers into this vast wilderness. The beauty of 
 the country gratified the eye, and its abundance of wild ani- 
 mals and sparkling streams filled their needs for food. They 
 were surrounded by an enemy of red men, subtle and wary. 
 The pioneers did not flinch from these conditions. Even their 
 women and children often performed deeds of heroism in this 
 land where "the sound of the war-whoop often woke the sleep 
 of the cradle." 
 
 They had no opportunity for the cultivation of the arts. 
 In their seculsion, amid danger, there arose a peculiar condi- 
 tion of society. The little Indian meal brought with them was 
 often exhausted too soon, and sometimes for months they 
 lived without bread. They taught themselves to call bread 
 the lean venison and breast of wild turkey. 
 
 They were in a wilderness, remote from any cultivated 
 region, and ammunition, food, clothing, and implements were 
 obtained with great difficulty. The merciless savage increased 
 the danger, toil, and sufferings for these few and widely sep- 
 arated settlers. The people "forted" when the Indians threat- 
 ened them. The stockades and cabins were furnished with 
 portholes and they would move into the blockhouses when an 
 alarm was given. During these early days each family was 
 its own tanner, weaver, shoe maker, tailor, carpenter, black- 
 smith and miller. 
 
 Table appointments consisted of a few pewter dishes, 
 plates, and sometimes spoons, wooden bowls, tranchers, nog- 
 gins, and gourds. "Hog and hominy," johnny cake, pone 
 bread, and mush and milk were standard dishes. 
 
 The hunting shirt was universally worn. This was a 
 loose frock, reaching half down the thighs. It generally had 
 a large cape of buckskin or cloth. Moccasins for the feet and 
 coonskin capes were the fashion. The linsey petticoat and 
 bedgown were the dress of the women in these early times.
 
 A Sunday dress was completed by a pair of home-made shoes 
 and handkerchief. 
 
 The inhabitants married young. A wedding- often en- 
 gaged the attention of the whole neighborhood ; the attendant 
 frolic was enjoyed by old and young alike. This was natural, 
 for most parties at the time were for the purpose of group- 
 ing together for log-rolling, building cabins, or planning some 
 scouting campaign. Sports were imitative of the exercises 
 and stratagems of hunting and war, imitating the birds, etc. 
 Boys were taught the use of the bow and arrow at an early age. 
 
 With all their crudeness, these settlers were hospitable, 
 freely dividing their rough fare with a neighbor or stranger. 
 In their settlements they worked, fought, feasted, and suffer- 
 ed together — were warm and constant in their friendships. 
 Thus they established a firm foundation for the building of 
 this territory. 
 
 It was more than one hundred and seventy-five years ago 
 that this portion of the Mississippi Valley passed nominally 
 from the dominion of the savages and the wild beasts to that 
 of the earliest American settlers. It is not probable that the 
 early French explorers placed their feet on the soil of Union 
 County, yet they were upon our waters, and, as they floated 
 down the "Fathers of Waters," they took possession by virtue 
 of discovery — Joliet in the name of France and Marquette in 
 the name of his church. This voyage resulted in the settle- 
 ments of Kaskaskia and, afterwards, of Cahokia on the Ill- 
 inois side of the Mississippi River. 
 
 The next nearest settlement of the white man was at 
 Fort Massac on the Ohio River, about 35 miles above Cairo. 
 This was founded in 1711, and, in course of time, became the 
 only trading point for the earliest settlers of the extreme 
 southern limits of Illinois. It was for many years called Fort 
 Massacre, receiving that name as a result of an Indian attack 
 in which every man in the fort was killed, and the fort burned 
 to the ground. A few years later the fort was rebuilt and was 
 again called Fort Massac, by which name it is presently known. 
 
 In the year 1797, a colony of Virginians, numbering 126 
 persons, landed at Fort Massac in search of a permanent 
 
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 home. They followed the trails to New Design. These imi- 
 grants may have touched the northwestern portion of the 
 county, and, if so, they were the first here after the long 
 lapse of years since Joliet and Marquette passed down the 
 Mississippi. 
 
 In 1803 the first white settlement was made in the terri- 
 tory now comprising Union County. This feeble colony con- 
 sisted of two families, Abram Hunsaker and George Wolf. 
 They had come down the Ohio River and up the Cache River 
 and finally by an overland route to strike the Mississippi. 
 They camped one night a short distance from where Jones- 
 boro now is, and the next morning the men found they had 
 to replenish the meat supply. In a short time they had bear 
 and turkey meat. They were so delighted with the land of 
 plenty, both the game and the excellent water, that they de- 
 cided to stay, build cabins, and make a permanent home. For 
 two years they were the only white settlers. 
 
 In 1805 Davis Green came with his little family and built 
 a cabin on the Mississippi bottom. He was a Virginian. It 
 was a long time before he knew the Hunsakers and Wolfs 
 were neighbors. James Conyer and his family came down 
 the river from Kentucky and camped above Cairo. 
 
 Jacob Lingle settled west of Cobden in 1807 and George 
 Evans and John Bradshaw on Bradshaw Creek. In 1808 John 
 McGinnis settled near Mt. Pleasant. 1809 John Stokes, Wil- 
 liam Gwinn and Thomas Standard came to live in what has 
 long been known as the Stokes settlement. Robert Hargrave, 
 Jessie Echols and Joseph and Ben Lawrence came the same 
 year. 
 
 In 1809 four families settled on what is Dogtooth Bend. 
 They were named Harrison, Crane, Wade, and Powers. They 
 built a schoolhouse, the first (it is presumed) in this section 
 of the state. In 1810 Thomas Clark and Soloman Hess set- 
 tled where Mound City is now. 
 
 In 1810 the hostility of the Indians toward the white man 
 grew, and the prospects of a general war came in 1812 when 
 the most shocking butchery of all the settlers in the lower 
 Cache region occurred. The War of 1812 stopped immigra- 
 
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 tion for a while, as the Indians became more troublesome. The 
 house of James Conyer was selected and converted into a fort. 
 The Indians had regular crossing about a mile away, and it was 
 here Tecumseh crossed the river when he went to incite the 
 Creek and other tribes to go to war. 
 
 About this time John Grammer, the extraordinary pio- 
 neer, came to Union County and settled a little south of Jones- 
 boro. He was one of the first officials of the county, repre- 
 senting the territory in the first territorial legislature as 
 early as 1812, when there were only five counties in the state. 
 Early Illinois produced many remarkable men, but none so 
 strongly original and interesting as John Grammer, Union 
 County's first statesman. 
 
 George James settled west of Jonesboro in 1811. Ex- 
 Lieutenant Governor, John Dougherty, also came in 1811. 
 He married the daughter of George James and lived his life 
 among the people of Southern Illinois, practicing law. He was 
 a state senator and circuit judge. 
 
 In 1812 Thomas D. Patterson, Phillip Shaver, Adam Clapp 
 and Edward Vancil settled. The arrivals in 1814 were John 
 Lawrence, John Harrison. John Whittaker, A. Cokenowen, 
 Giles Parmella, Samuel Butcher, Robert W. Crafton, Jacob 
 Wolf, Michael Lindbaugh, Alexander Boren, Hosea Boren, 
 Richard McBride, Thomas Green, Emanuel Penrod, George 
 Hunsaker, George Smiley, David Kimmel, David Cother, David 
 Brown, Alexander Brown, Alexander Boggs, David F. Cole- 
 man, Benjamin Menees and Jacob Littlejohn. These set- 
 tlers came from Virginia and the Carolinas. They came down 
 the Ohio River, some crossing at Shawneetown and some com- 
 ing by way of Fort Massac. 
 
 The period from 1814 to 1818, when Illinois was admitted 
 to the Union, was marked by increased settlement in the area, 
 but it is impossible on this brief survey to give a complete 
 account of the development. Suffice it to say that the early 
 settlers were of hardy stock and faced great hardships in 
 making and maintaining a home in the wilderness of this 
 county. 
 
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 BEGINNINGS OF UNION COUNTY 
 
 Edward G. Olsen once wrote, "Human beings need to 
 have roots, to feel they belong. Part of this satisfaction 
 comes from day-to-day group life of the community, part from 
 the pyschological identification with family and community 
 traditions. A community's present outlook, values, and ideals 
 are themselves outgrowths of tradition. It follows that a 
 community can be better understood when its essential history 
 is known: how long it existed; how it came into being; who 
 settled it; why they came; what institutions and enterprises 
 they established; what ideals they upheld; who their leaders 
 were; what common crises arose; and what adjustments to 
 those crises were made. To this knowledge should be added 
 understanding of the extent to which the community is con- 
 stantly keeping alive in popular thought the significant de- 
 velopments in its heroes." 
 
 It is with these thoughts in mind that we proceed with 
 a more detailed account of the early history of our own section 
 of the State. 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF UNION COUNTY 
 
 The Act creating Union County bears the date of January 
 2, 1818. It is entitled "An Act adding a part of Pope County 
 to Johnson County and forming a new County out of Johnson 
 County: Beginning on the range line between Range 1 and 2 
 East, at a corner of Townships 10 and 11 South, to the 
 Mississippi River, thence up the Mississippi River to the 
 mouth of the Big Muddy River, thence up the Big Muddy 
 River to where the Township line, between Townships 10 and 
 11 South, crosses the same, thence East along said Township 
 line to the place of beginning, shall constitute Union County: 
 Provided that all that tract of country lying South of Town- 
 ship 13 South shall, until the same be formed a separate coun- 
 ty, be attached to and be a part of Union County." 
 
 Other sections of the Act provided that the courts of 
 the county shall be held at the house of Jacob Hunsaker until 
 
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 a permanent seat of justice shall be established and a court 
 house built. J. Echols. George Wolf, and Thomas Cox were 
 the first commissioners appointed to fix the permanent seat 
 of justice. 
 
 "To the Honorable the Justices of the Court, County of 
 Union : 
 
 "The undersigned Commissioners, appointed by the Leg- 
 islature of Illinois Territory, for the purpose of designating a 
 seat of Justice for said County, reported as follows: That 
 they met at time and place mentioned in the law establishing 
 said county, and proceeded to examine and to take into view 
 the most central, convenient, and eligible spot for the same, 
 that they have chosen and designed to (your?) Honors, the 
 northwest quarters of Section No. 30 in Township 12, Range 
 1 West, and that they received a deed of conveyance for 20 
 years, the donation required by law, to which you are referred 
 in particulars. 
 
 "They also beg leave to designate and recommend the 
 center of said donation as the suitable place for the erection 
 of the public buildings. Given under our hands and seals 
 this 25th day of February, 1818." Signed J. Echols, George 
 Wolf, Thomas Cox. 
 
 This land donated was the property of John Grammar and 
 his wife, Juliet. The County Commissioners Court was 
 elected and consisted of Jesse Echlos, John Grammer, George 
 Hunsaker, Abner Field and Rice Sims. They organized and 
 held the first court at Hunsaker's house on March 2, 1818. 
 The court's first official act was to accept Grammer's donation 
 and name the town Jonesboro. Abner Field was the first 
 clerk of the County; Joseph Palmer, the first sheriff; Robert 
 Twidy, the first constable. 
 
 The county seal, when explained, tells how the county 
 came to be named Union. The figures upon the seal repre- 
 sent two men standing up and shaking hands. One of them 
 is dressed in the old-fashioned shadbellied coat and vest, 
 broad brimmed hat, and long hair. The other is dressed in 
 the conventional ministerial suit. It represents the meeting 
 of the Baptist minister, named Jones, and George Wolf, a 
 Dunkard preacher. Jones had been holding a remarkable 
 
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 series of meetings. Wolf and he met, shook hands, and agreed 
 to hold or continue the meetings— the two joining in the work 
 and calling it a Union meeting. This was held in what is the 
 southeast portion of the County. The seal illustrating this 
 historical incident in the county was designed and adopted by 
 the County Commissioners in 1850. It is said that it was 
 the suggestion of Lieutenant Governor Dougherty. 
 
 Public roads were declared and Davis Arnold, William 
 Pyle, George Hunsaker, Ephriam Rice, and Henry Larmer 
 were appointed overseers. The first court order ever issued 
 was one for $2.00 to Samuel Penrod for a wolf scalp. 
 
 The first marriage on the county records was John Mur- 
 ray and Elizabeth Latham by John Grammer on February 28, 
 1818. On July 5, 1818, Frances Parker and Catherine Clapp 
 were married by George Wolf, the Dunkard preacher; by the 
 records he was the first minister who performed the ceremony 
 in Union County. 
 
 A man named Griffith taught school near the spring south 
 of Jonesboro in a small log cabin ; afterward, Winstead Davie 
 taught the same school and then Willis Willard taught there 
 for a time. Col. John S. Hacker came to Jonesboro in 1817. 
 He served in the General Assembly and the Mexican War, 
 and was a warm friend of Lincoln. The history of Union 
 County included the names of many illustrious families, which 
 space will not permit us to mention. 
 
 Thus the young county was well started on her future 
 career. Courts and officers were functioning, and roads were 
 arranged for. The price of meat and drink were regulated, 
 and the people were pledged to support this first administration. 
 The population at this time was about 1800, one-third of them 
 freeholders — that is, people owning land. 
 
 In 1835 a census was taken and showed there were 4,417 
 persons in the county — 2,100 males and 2,317 females. This 
 included 47 negroes. An industrial survey showed five shoe- 
 makers and saddlers, one tailor, two wagon makers, two car- 
 penters, one cabinet maker, two hatters, eleven blacksmiths, 
 three tan-yards, twelve distilleries, two threshing machines, 
 one cotton gin, one horse and ox saw mill, eighteen horse and 
 ox grist mills, two water saw mills, and five water grist mills. 
 
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 THE PLANK ROAD 
 
 Instead of the rugged pioneer we first saw in Union Coun- 
 ty, who came with his family in a covered wagon in which 
 he lived until he could cut enough trees to build a log cabin 
 and plant cleared spaces with seeds which would yield some- 
 thing for his family to eat, making his family practically self- 
 sustaining, we see in 1850 a well developed little community 
 with homes, stores, mills, churches and schools. We see 
 them in the center of a farming community located near a 
 river where the settlers and traders exchanged their products 
 for the articles necessary for some comforts of life. These ar- 
 ticles, manufactured in the east, were shipped by boat to the 
 landings here. Instead of the handmill originally used for 
 grinding grain into meal or flour, horse and steam roller mills 
 had been established. Now the farmer took his grain to the 
 mill to be ground and paid for the work either in cash or by 
 giving the miller enough grain to pay for his services. Now, 
 instead of spinning and weaving the flax, wool or cotton into 
 material at home, these products of the farms were sold 
 to the river traders who took them east to be made into ma- 
 terial. Boots and shoes were still made locally by cobblers 
 who had established a small business of their own. They 
 bought the leather from the tanneries and sold their finished 
 product to the people. Most of the people still lived in log 
 cabins. After the saw mills had been established many houses 
 had been built of sawed lumber. 
 
 Business had changed from the small exchanges made by 
 the neighbors to the small stores whose owners bought their 
 wares from the farmers and from the traders on the river. 
 Trips were made to Fort Massac for supplies from the east. 
 Some of the storekeepers bought products from the farmers 
 and took them down the river themselves to New Orleans, 
 where they exchanged them for wares to sell in their stores. 
 
 The roads were usually trails over which one could ride 
 horseback comfortably and some could be used for wagon 
 travel. There was no machinery in those days to use in 
 grading and leveling the ground, so the roads were as level or 
 
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 as hilly as the country they traversed and as muddy or dry 
 as the weather permitted. In the Mississippi bottoms, due to 
 the swamps and overflow, the roads were frequently muddy. 
 Since it was necessary to travel over this part of the county 
 in order to take products to the river to be sold and bring 
 back the articles bought from the traders, the mud 
 caused great delay in transportation. A group of men de- 
 cided to build a road over which they could lay logs, split in 
 the middle with the flat surface up. Such a road was built 
 from the east bank of Clear Creek to Willard's Landing on the 
 Mississippi River. All the places were planked where mud 
 interfered with travel. This road became known as the Plank 
 Road. This road was a great improvement at the time, but 
 within a few years a new type of road was to be built, the 
 Illinois Central Railroad. 
 
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 COMING OF THE RAILROAD AND FOUNDING OF ANNA 
 
 With the coming of the Illinois Central came the develop- 
 ment of the "Egypt" country of Illinois. Recruited labor for 
 the railroad in the East brought workers with their families 
 into the territory. Towns grew rapidly, and by 1856 Anna 
 had both a passenger station and a freight depot. Today An- 
 na is served by such crack, streamlined trains as the City of 
 New Orleans affording high speed train service to Chicago and 
 New Orleans and the cities in between them. Anna has also 
 made a major contribution to railroading in John J. Pelley, 
 one-time Illinois Central Vice-President and later president 
 of two major railroads, and President of the Association of 
 American Railroads. 
 
 In the year 1850 the United States General Government 
 ceded a portion of the public lands within the State of Illinois 
 and extending 15 miles on each side of the proposed line of 
 railroad between Cairo and Chicago, to the State of Illinois 
 to aid in the construction of a railroad. In 1853 the engineers 
 passed through Union County, establishing and grading the 
 line of the road-bed as now located, the intention being to make 
 the shortest practicable route. 
 
 During the year 1853 Winstead Davie, who then owned 
 the most of the land which is now the site of the City of 
 Anna, and Col. Lewis T. Ashley, Division Engineer, who had 
 come into possession of a portion of the same tract, determin- 
 ed to lay out a town at this point. The proper surveys were 
 made by Francis H. Brown, the County Surveyor, and lots 
 were laid out on both sides of Main Street and the railroad. 
 Mr. Davie decided to name the town in honor of his beloved 
 wife, Anna. Under this name the plot was entered upon the 
 county records on March 3, 1854. 
 
 The story was told that there was much difference of 
 opinion in Union County regarding the railroad. There were 
 many who thought the scheme would fail and placed their 
 faith in the future prosperity of the county on the plank road 
 and water transportation. There were those who were for- 
 ward looking enough to plan their own enterprise so that they 
 could take advantage of the opportunities the new mode of 
 
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 transportation would afford. At a meeting of the Board of 
 Trustees at Jonesboro, it was decided that since Jonesboro was 
 the only town in Union County that the railroad could pass 
 through, it would not be necessary to comply with the re- 
 quest of the company to make a survey of the route and do- 
 nate their findings to the railroad company. 
 
 Winstead Davie seemed to think the request was import- 
 ant so he had the survey made at his own expense ($50.00). 
 But rather than having it made through Jonesboro, he had 
 it made through some of his farmland a mile east of Jones- 
 boro. Later when the Jonesboro Trustees decided that it 
 was necessary to comply with the company's request in order 
 to have the road laid through their town, the Illinois Central 
 had already accepted the survey presented to them by Mr. 
 Davie. Thus the nucleus for the present City of Anna was 
 formed. For many years the railroad company persisted in 
 calling this "Jonesboro Station," much to the chagrin and dis- 
 pleasure of the citizens. 
 
 In the spring of 1853 there were only four buildings on 
 the site of the town of Anna as first incorporated: the old 
 original log farmhouse occupied by Basil Craig and belonging 
 to the farm on which the city is located ; a log house on the 
 John Halpin place on Main Street, owned and occupied in 
 1853 by Levi Craver; a log store back of Lot 132, kept by 
 Charles Pardee, to which he added another building during the 
 fall and took boarders. (Mr. Pardee ran the first hack line 
 between here and Jonesboro.) 
 
 In the fall and winter of 1853 building was active. W. W. 
 Bennett built a brick and frame house on Main Street known 
 as the Lufkin place. S. C. Scott built a frame house on Lot 
 5. C. C. Leonard built the Corgin house on Lot 14. Isaac 
 Spence built the house on Lot 72. Dr. Love built the house 
 and store on Lot 124; D. L. Phillips built the European Hotel 
 on Lot 105. Dr. McVean built Walter Willard's house on Lot 
 56. Winstead Davie erected the famous "Column Store," a 
 large two story frame building on Lot 82, at the corner of 
 Main and West Railroad streets. In all about 19 buildings 
 were erected that year, including the schoolhouse on Lot 45, 
 at the corner of Franklin and Monroe Streets.
 
 In the fall of that year the first passenger train of the 
 Southern Division of the Illinois Central passed through Anna, 
 but the first through train over the main line of the railroad 
 did not come through till the fall of 1855 on August 7th. 
 
 During 1854, the first year in the history of the City of 
 Anna, there occurred the following marriages of persons who 
 have been more or less identified with the origin, growth, 
 and prosperity of the city: on March 18 Shalem E. Scott to 
 Lucy Anna Bennett by D. L. Phillips, Esq. (This was prob- 
 ably the first marriage that ever took place within the pres- 
 ent corporate city limits) ; on March 19 Isaac L. Spence to 
 Elizabeth Williams by W. G. Nimmo; also James K. Walton 
 to Mrs. Serena Walker by J. P. Edwards, Baptist minister; 
 on April 11, Moses Goodman to Amanda C. Peeler by Valen- 
 tine G. Kimber; on May 19 Benjamin F. Mangold to Piety C. 
 Cox by P. H. Kroh, minister of the German Reformed Church. 
 
 In 1855 the city progressed rapidly in population and 
 buildings, the principal structures consisting of several homes, 
 storehouses, and the Roman Catholic Church. The inhabit- 
 ants of the town were full of enterprise and hopeful for the 
 growth of their city. As yet they had been living without any 
 organized government, but on July 19, there was an election 
 held in pursuance of public notice, at which the following 
 persons each cast one vote for incorporating the town of An- 
 na with C. C. Leonard acting as Judge and J. L. Spence as 
 Clerk of the Election: John Cochran, W. W. Bennett, J. J. 
 Mangold, J. Halpin, E. C. Green, S. E. Scott, B. F. Mangold, 
 J. Hunter, J. F. Ashley, W. Leonard, J. W. Ingraham, T. A, 
 Brown, J. B. Jones, James L. Toler, A. W. Barnum, W. B. 
 Stuart, T. J. Green, D. Love, G. B. Harrison, W. N. Hamby, 
 J. T. Atkins, A. W. Robinson, C. W. Feeright, J. Keer, C. C. 
 Leonard, and J. L. Spence. 
 
 The first official document connected with the inception 
 and establishment of the City of Anna reads: "At an elec- 
 tion held in the town of Anna, County of Union, State of 
 Illinois, on Saturday, July 28, 1855, agreeably to public no- 
 tice given, for the purpose of electing five Trustees for said 
 town, the following persons having received a majority of all 
 votes cast, are declared duly elected Trustees for one year in- 
 
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 suing" from the date of their election, or until their successors 
 are elected: Davis L. Phillips, C. C. Leonard, W. W. Bennett, 
 W. N. Hamby, John Cochran. Attest: J. L. Spence, Clerk; 
 C. C. Leonard, Judge." 
 
 At the first meeting of the Trustees, W. W. Bennett was 
 elected President and John Halpin Clerk. The first step tak- 
 en by the first Trustees of the City of Anna at the first busi- 
 ness meetings was the passage of three ordinances. They first 
 restrained the sale and use of intoxicating liquors. Thus was 
 the City of Anna born a temperance town of the strictest type. 
 This ordinance continued in force for three years till its re- 
 peal August 21, 1858. Other ordinances to accomplish the 
 same purpose have been passed and repealed from time to 
 time throughout its history, as the preponderance of the 
 votes cast favored or disfavored the cause of temperance. 
 
 The second ordinance established the limits of the town 
 as extending "one-half mile from the northwest (400 block on 
 South Main — Andrews home today) corner of Lot 14 each 
 way." On September 5, 1858, the boundary lines were es- 
 tablished by ordinance as containing the east half of Section 
 19 and the west half of Section 20 in Township 12 Range 1 
 west of the 3rd Principal Meridian. On September 8, 1869, 
 an ordinance was passed extending the city limits so as to 
 include the south half of Section 17, the east half of Section 
 20, the north half of Section 29, and all of the northwest quar- 
 ter of Section 19 not included in the legally established boun- 
 daries of the City of Jonesboro. 
 
 The third ordinance called for taking of a census. D. L. 
 Phillips, B. L. Wiley, and J. M. Ingraham were appointed cen- 
 sus takers. This census, taken during August, 1855, the first 
 official numeration of the citizens of the City of Anna, showed 
 the following head of families and number of individuals be- 
 longing to each : M. C. Massey, 4 ; John Halpin, 4 ; M. Thorp, 
 5; W. W. Bennett, 10; Mrs. Bay, 4; S. E. Scott, 3; William 
 Melton, 12; J. E. Ingram, 4; R. Stubblefield, 4; B. F. Mangold, 
 3; C. Henderson, 2; Mrs. Blackstone, 4; J. Humpter, 4; E. C. 
 Green, 5; Zadoc Elms, 3; C. C. Leonard, 7; M. Freeman, 5; G. 
 B. Harrison, 8; T. Brown, 4; Mrs. Davis, 4; J. C. Hacker, 5; W. 
 N. Hamby, 8 ; D. Love, 6 ; James Musgraves, 12 ; James L Toler, 
 7; John Cochran, 9; James Faulkner, 9; J. B. Jones, 8; A. S. 
 
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 Jones, 2; I. L. Spence, 5; A. S. Barnum, 4; Thomas Green, 7; 
 J. Tripp, 6 ; John Keer, 4 ; G. Brown, 6 ; G. Elms, 3 ; G. Barn- 
 well, 6; D. L. Phillips, (hotel) 26; A. Bartlett, 7; Mrs. Hender- 
 son, 6; Total population 251. 
 
 This organization continued in force until a special char- 
 ter was passed by the General Assembly of the State of Ill- 
 inois which was approved February 16, 1865, and amended by 
 an act approved March 8, 1867. 
 
 The President and Trustees ordered an election to be held 
 July 18, 1872, when the qualified electors cast 70 votes for 
 dividing the town into wards and the election of a Mayor and 
 Aldermen; and 8 votes were cast against said proposition. 
 Upon the result of said election, the President and Trustees 
 did, by ordinance, divide the town into four wards and ordered 
 an election for a Mayor and one Alderman for each Ward. 
 The election was held on the 12th day of August, 1872, at 
 which time C. Kirkpatrick was elected Mayor; William M. 
 Brown, Alderman of First Ward; C. Nordling, Alderman of 
 Second Ward; A. D. Finch, Alderman of Third Ward; F. S. 
 Dodds, Alderman of Fourth Ward. 
 
 An election was held at the Council Chamber of Anna, 
 October 22, 1872, when there were 67 votes cast for city or- 
 ganization under the general law. On November 4, 1872, the 
 town Council of Anna declared that by virtue of the election, 
 the town of Anna became organized under the general law of 
 the State of Illinois, as provided by an act entitled, "An Act 
 for the incorporation of cities and villages, passed and ap- 
 proved April 10, 1872." 
 
 By ordinance passed and approved March 3, 1873, the 
 City of Anna was divided into three wards, limited as fol- 
 lows: Ward 1 shall contain all the territory lying within the 
 city limits north and northeast of the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road. Ward 2 shall contain that portion of the territory lying 
 west of the Illinois Central Railroad and south of Main Street. 
 Ward 3 shall contain all the remaining territory lying west 
 of the Illinois Central Railroad and north of Main Street. 
 
 As provided in Section 40 of the city and village act ap- 
 proved April 10, 1872, an election was held Tuesday. April 18, 
 1873, at which election C. Kirkpatrick was elected Mayor; Wil- 
 
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 liam M. Brown and J. G. Sublett, Alderman of the First Ward ; 
 T. W. Perrine and J. L. Inscore, Alderman of the Second Ward ; 
 P. P. Barlow and P. H. Kroh, Alderman of the Third Ward. 
 And as provided in said act, the annual election has been reg- 
 ularly held on the third Tuesday in April each year until 
 1883. 
 
 At the incorporation of the town in 1855 D. L. Phillips 
 secured the establishment of a post office here and was ap- 
 pointed the first Postmaster. 
 
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 WINSTEAD DAVIE 
 
 It seems appropriate at this time that we digress from 
 the regular report of this survey to pay tribute to Winstead 
 Davie, the "Father of Anna." Mr. Davie was a prosperous 
 business man of the county and owner of most of the land 
 which is now the site of Anna, Illinois. Born with physical 
 infirmities that rendered him a cripple for life, requiring the 
 constant use of two crutches, he commenced in poverty the 
 struggle for existence and worked out a career that points 
 him out as a child of destiny. He educated himself and later 
 became a school teacher. In 1817 he came to Illinois and 
 started a school a short distance from Jonesboro. Afterwards 
 he was put in possession of a small stock of goods to sell on 
 commission. For many years he was recorder, county and 
 circuit clerk, and Probate Judge. He was eventually able to 
 purchase this stock of goods to start his store, and to begin 
 his true career. So intimately had his life become interwoven 
 with the courts of the county, that when it came time to adopt 
 a design for the county seal, it appropriately was formed rep- 
 resenting Davie sitting at his desk writing, showing his crip- 
 pled lower limbs, with his two crutches, crossed, forming an 
 arch above the desk. The original seal was changed in 1850. 
 
 He soon extended, enlarged and pushed the business of 
 his little store, successfully fighting his way against any and 
 all competitors that came against him. In 1857 he trans- 
 ferred his business to Anna. He retired from public office, 
 giving his full time to his business, which soon grew to vast 
 proportions. He possessed energy, clear strong judgment 
 and a foresight in all business affairs. His physical defects 
 were more than compensated for in his active and powerful 
 intellect, and he amassed great wealth. His charity was ex- 
 pensive and just, and while he ruled with firm decision, 
 he scrupulously rewarded merit and never overlooked true 
 worth. He built the first steam mill in Anna, gave property 
 for church and school sites, and built business houses. 
 
 On September 19, 1824, he was married to Miss Anna 
 Willard (for whom he named the city), daughter of Jonathan 
 
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 and Nancy Willard. To this union ten children were born. 
 Mrs. Davie passed away on December 5, 1880. Mr. Davie 
 spent his declining years in retirement. He entered into 
 eternal rest on July 11, 1885. His surviving children included 
 Daniel S. Davie, Esq., Mrs. Col. Ben L. Wiley, Mrs. J. K. Wal- 
 ton, Mrs. T. M. Perrine and Mrs. D. W. Brown. 
 
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 GROWTH OF THE CITY 
 
 The progress of the city was steady, and the improve- 
 ments of a nature solid and lasting The Illinois Central Rail- 
 road became an immense corporation, doing a tremendous 
 amount of business. Anna was a constant gainer through 
 this channel, and by it and the enterprise of its citizens, has 
 grown to become the most populous and thrifty town in the 
 county. Judge John Cochran was the first railroad agent in 
 this station. 
 
 The mercantile business has kept pace with the growth of 
 the city. The one store of Bennett & Schott in 1853, was 
 followed in 1854 by the hardware store of B. L. Wiley, the 
 dry goods store of D. D. Cover and Moses Goodman, the gen- 
 eral merchandise store of Daniel Davie, and other stores in 
 rapid succession. (There are many places of business locat- 
 ed then and now in Anna, which will not be mentioned in this 
 survey. These places have not been omitted because of their 
 insignificance, but because it is impossible for us in the time 
 we have to give a complete detailed report on each place of 
 business.) 
 
 During the erection of the Illinois Southern Hospital for 
 the insane in Anna, the mercantile business so increased that 
 the establishment of some kind of a banking house and money 
 exchange became an absolute necessity. At this time, in 
 January, 1873, C. W. Willard opened the Union County Bank 
 in his store on Lot 129 at the corner of West Railroad and 
 Main Streets. C. Nordling was the first depositor. It was 
 destroyed by fire April 22, 1879, but was rebuilt in the fall 
 of that year. 
 
 The first hotel, the European, was followed by the erec- 
 tion of the Verble House and the St. Nicholas Hotel. In 1870, 
 Winstead Davie built the Winstead House, later the Otrich 
 House, a large three-story brick building costing $10,000. 
 The first pretentious mansion was that of Col. L. W. Ashley, 
 later owned by J. C. Peeler. Among other residences lending 
 charm to the city by their beauty of design may be mentioned 
 those of E. H. Finch, A. F. Finch, C. M. Willard, Walter Wil- 
 
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 lard, and L. P. Wilcox. The first brick building erected in 
 Anna was the small square dwelling on Lot 34 on South Street, 
 adjoining the Lutheran Church and built by John Stiner in 
 1856. (Present site of Ray Penrod residence.) 
 
 As was evidenced by the numerous springs of clear wa- 
 ter in many portions of the city, the surface overlaps streams 
 in greatest abundance. Nevertheless, the people largely pre- 
 ferred cisterns to wells. In 1854 and 1855, there was difficulty 
 in procuring water, which had to be carried in buckets long 
 distances. In 1856, the town authorities ordered the dig- 
 ging of the public well on Washington Street. It seemed to 
 be inexhaustible in quantity. In 1860, the public well at 
 the pottery of C. & W. Kirkpatrick added a new supply, which 
 was still further increased in 1880 by the public well on 
 Franklin Street. Several private wells and some on the 
 Southern Illinois Fairgrounds, furnished water without limit. 
 
 In 1870, the first 15 years in the history of the city, 
 there were but three brick business houses ; that of C. M. Wil- 
 lard on the corner of Main Street ; the Corgan Store on Lot 
 13 ; and that of Jesse Lentz on Lot 126, built in 1880. Brick 
 residences were those of Jesse Lentz, James M. Smith, Cyrus 
 Shick, Daniel Davie, C. Nordling, C. M. Willard, and J. Stiner. 
 The Winstead House added two more brick stores on the first 
 floor. From 1870 to 1876, several brick buildings were erect- 
 ed fronting on the railroad, including the post office building 
 by J. B. Miller; C. K. Park's Drug Store— the Alden Evaporat- 
 ing House. 
 
 On Feb. 28, 1876, occurred the first of the great fires 
 which devastated the business portion of Anna. In this fire 
 were consumed the store and warehouse of T. M. Perrine on 
 the corner of Main Street and the grocery store and ware- 
 house of J. E. Lufkin, besides other small buildings. After 
 this fire in 1877, a block of two story business houses were 
 built on the old site by J. E. Lufkin and L. P. Wilcox ; the 
 same year, the Brockman wagon shops, facing the depot, were 
 converted by M. V. Ussery into an opera house with two busi- 
 ness rooms on the first floor. The Alden Evaporator was al- 
 so changed into a business block with two stores below and 
 
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 offices on the second floor. J. C. Peeler erected his brick store 
 on Lot 130 with a hall on the second floor for societies. 
 
 On April 22, 1879, occurred the second memorable fire, 
 the worst in Anna's history. Ten buildings were destroyed, 
 including C. M. Willard's brick block on the corner of Main 
 Street; the three-story building belonging to C. H. Willford; 
 the stores of Mrs. S. E. McKinney, C. M. Willard, C. L. Otrich, 
 J. L. Inscore, Kirkman and Brown, Hertz and Graver, J. D. 
 Walters and A. D. Bohannon; the offices of Dr. A. D. Finch, Dr. 
 I. V. Hale, Dr. S. F. Dodds, and T. H. Phillips ; Mrs. D. Cover's 
 residence, and other property. 
 
 A general rebuilding followed. J. R. and J. M. Cover and 
 W. M. Brown erected a two-story block on the old site, and 
 C. M. Willard built a two-story banking house. R. Johnson, 
 J. E. Lentz, E. Babcock and C. Nordling built the Union Block 
 on Lots 130 and 131, uniting with J. C. Peeler's building. 
 Oliver Alden erected a two-story brick building, occupied since 
 as THE FARMER AND FRUIT GROWER, printing and pub- 
 lishing house, established in 1877 by H. C. Bouton. 
 
 Among the other notable events was the construction of 
 the sidewalk uniting Anna and Jonesboro in 1879. 
 
 ANNA PRECINCT 
 
 The organization of Anna Precinct was effected in 1866. 
 Until this year, the voters of Anna and Anna Precinct have 
 cast their ballots in Jonesboro at all county and state elec- 
 tions. 
 
 Anna Precinct, named from the city of Anna which it 
 included, comprised all Township 12 south and Range 1 west 
 of the 3rd principal meridian, except Sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 30, 
 31, the north half of 12 and west half of 19, the southeast 
 quarter of 18, and included a portion of Section 2 and 3 in 
 Township 13 south and Range 1 west. The area of this 
 precinct was about 17,280 acres with a population of about 
 1600 at this time. 
 
 The first settlement within the bounds of the precinct is 
 involved in doubt, but among the earliest were those formed 
 in 1818-19 by the following families: George Hartline, 1818; 
 
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 Peter Casper, 1818; Peter Dillow, 1818; John Hess, 1818; 
 Peter Sifford, 1819; John Treese, 1819; Conrad Sitter, 1819; 
 Christian Hileman, 1819 ; Peter Miller, 1821 ; Henry Barringer, 
 1820; John Menees, 1816; Abraham F. Hunsaker, 1820; Wil- 
 liam Holmes, 1820; Isaac Bissel, Sr., and Wesley G. Nimmo 
 were also early settlers. Rev. Daniel Spence came in 1819. 
 A majority of these settlers came from North Carolina. 
 
 The roads were mere wagon trails blazed through the 
 timber. With the organization of the county into precincts 
 the roads were soon greatly improved, population increased, 
 churches erected and schoolhouses multiplied . By 1883 there 
 were 8 public schoolhouses in the precinct, well supplied for 
 the times. 
 
 Of the country churches, the Baptists had a flourishing 
 society in a little church near Big Creek, four miles south of 
 Anna which was organized in 1852. The first pastor of "Big 
 Creek" was F. M. Brown. 
 
 Two miles north of Anna was the Casper Church, orig- 
 inally a log house, built in 1830. In 1847 a frame building 
 was erected for the joint use of the German Reformed and 
 Lutheran congregations; D. H. Rendleman, Peter Sifford, 
 David Miller Jr. and Samuel Dillow composed the building 
 committee. Near this church is the burial ground of many 
 of those who figured prominently in the early history of the 
 precinct and county. 
 
 The principal crops raised before the coming of the rail- 
 road in 1854 were such grains as could be profitably fed to 
 live stock or hauled to the river landing. Live stock, both 
 then and now, has been an important factor. After the rail- 
 road opened the markets, the fruits came largely into culti- 
 vation. Gardening and the growing of early vegetables were 
 found profitable. Other crops, also the subject of experi- 
 ment, were cotton, tobacco, barley, flax, and hemp. Ship- 
 ments of lumber in 1882 amounted to 62 car loads. Dairy- 
 ing was an important industry. The first dairy was started 
 in 1864 by C. L. Brooks, followed by W. G. Robinson in 1873 
 and Miss Sarah E. Davis in 1880. Bee-keeping was another 
 business in which the following engaged: D. S. Davie, H. T. 
 Eastman, Jacob Hileman, J. W. Fuller, and John B. Miller. 
 
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 One of the most memorable events in the history of the 
 precinct was the remarkable shower of ice which fell on May 
 6, 1869. Blocks of ice nearly the size of a man's fist fell in 
 such quantities as to batter the bark from the trees, destroy- 
 ing the fruit crop and pitting the ground with large holes, 
 visible for months afterward. 
 
 Citizens identified with this particular period include the 
 following: 
 
 Oliver Alden — Merchant, blacksmith. 
 
 F. P. Anderson — Jeweler. 
 
 Josiah Bean — Farmer. 
 
 Harvey Cady Bouton — proprietor, semi-weekly Farmer 
 & Fruit Grower. 
 
 S. D. Casper — Farmer. 
 
 H. M. Detrich — Steward at Southern Illinois Insane 
 Asylum, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 Capt. Hugh Andrews — Civil War Veteran, attorney. 
 
 Mames DeWitt — Blacksmith and implement dealer. 
 
 Peter Dillow — Farmer. 
 
 Horace T. Eastman — Farmer, dairyman, carpenter. - 
 
 E. H. Finch — Livery, blacksmith, lime business. 
 
 A. D. Finch — Dentist, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 E. A. Finch — Clerk, Asylum, Civil War Veteran, express 
 agent. 
 
 William Michael Eddleman — Physician. 
 
 M. V. Eaves — Merchant. 
 
 Rev. John H. Faris — Farmer. 
 
 Rev. William W. Faris — Editor The Talk, Presbyterian 
 Minister, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 James W. Fuller — Farmer. 
 
 D. Webster Goodman — Merchant. 
 
 Green W. Hall — Carpenter, fruit grower. 
 
 Frank H. Hall— Tin-smith, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 T. W. C. Hall — Tin-smith, furniture business. 
 
 J. I. Hale — Physician, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 Rev. Asa Harmon — Farmer, Christian minister. Civil War 
 Veteran. 
 
 John Hess — Farmer. 
 
 Jasper L. Bess — Farmer. 
 
 Jacob Hileman — Farmer. 
 
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 Hon. Matthew J. Inscore — Attorney. 
 
 C. Kirkpatrick — Anna pottery, Mayor of Anna five terms. 
 
 W. W. Kirkpatrick — Anna pottery. 
 
 C. E. Kirkpatrick — photographer, American Express 
 Agent. 
 
 Will Kratziner — Farmer, employee Illinois Central, con- 
 ductor. 
 
 Phillip H. Kroh — Minister and judge, Civil War Veteran. 
 
 Jesse E. Lentz — Agricultural implements, builder. 
 
 Samuel Martin — Farmer, Mexican War Veteran. 
 
 Maria Jane McKinnley — Proprietress St. Nicholas Hotel. 
 
 Archibald McNaughton — Merchant, tailor. 
 
 Joseph B. Miller — Postmaster 1870, book and stationery 
 store. 
 
 John B. Miller — Farmer, fruit growing. 
 
 Alexander J. Nesbit — Raised fine blooded stock, attorney. 
 
 C. L. Otrich — Druggist, carpenter. 
 
 Clarence K. Parks — Druggist. 
 
 Thomas H. Phillips — Attorney, 
 
 Rev. William Rhodes — Merchant, Christian minister. 
 
 J. H. Sanborn, M. D. — Editor Farmer & Fruit Grower. 
 
 Charles S. Simmerman — Farmer. 
 
 W. H. Smart— Clerk, Asylum. 
 
 John Spire — Painter, Mayor of Anna, Civil War Vet- 
 eran. 
 
 L. E. Stocking, M. D. — 1st Assistant physician at In- 
 sane Asylum. 
 
 Thomas G. Stokes — Farmer, tanner, cabinet maker, Civil 
 War Veteran. 
 
 William Watson Stokes — Blacksmith. 
 
 J. E. Terpinitz — Jewelry and Music Store. 
 
 John M. Toler — Fruit growing. 
 
 Horace Wardner, M. D. — Supt. Southern Illinois Insane 
 Asylum. 
 
 James K. Walton — Farmer, fine stock. 
 
 Charles M. Willard — Banker, mercantile business. 
 
 Walter H. Willard— Merchant. 
 
 John F. Williams — Farmer. 
 
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 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE 
 
 It was determined by the State Legislature of 1869 to 
 build a hospital for the insane in the southern part of the 
 State. Lt. Governor John Doughtery of Jonesboro, Col. Ben- 
 jamin Wiley of Jackson County, Dr. G. L. Owens of Marion, 
 Col. H. W. Hall of McLeansboro, and D. R. Kingsbury of Cen- 
 tralia were appointed to receive bids from towns desiring the 
 institution, select a location, and construct the building. The 
 commissioners finally decided upon the present site in Anna 
 as the most suitable and best location offered. The Legisla- 
 ture had appropriated $125,000 toward the purchase of the 
 necessary land and erection of the building. The City of 
 Anna voted the sum of $6885.00 toward purchasing the land. 
 Work began in 1870. In 1871 the Legislature appropriated 
 $65,000 to complete the north wing and $145,000 for the cen- 
 tral building. 
 
 The first Board of Trustees, Amos Clark of Centralia, C. 
 Kirkpatrick of Anna, W. N. Mitchell of Marion, J. C. Boyle 
 of Sparta, and W. R. Brown of Metropolis, on Aug. 22, 1873, 
 elected Dr. R. S. Dewey of the Elgin Asylum Superintendent. 
 On Dec. 15, 1873, the north wing was formally opened and 
 halls filled with 150 patients. The following year work was 
 begun on the central building. In 1877 the south wing was 
 completed. The necessary barns, stables, shops, and other 
 buildings were added as occasion required from special ap- 
 propriations. On April 19, 1881, the whole north wing and 
 eastern extension was burned with loss of only one life. Bar- 
 racks were built for the patients and were later used as a 
 permanent cottage, when the north wing was restored. The 
 water supply came from a large artificial lake. The drinking 
 water was obtained from 10 cisterns and a big spring by 
 means of a steam force pump. The grounds and farm belong- 
 ing to the hospital comprised 460 acres. The farm was man- 
 aged by D. R. Lewis. Charles M. Olmstead was the first 
 chief clerk, Capt. James B. Fulton the first hospital engineer. 
 At his death James Norris filled the post. Mrs. S, Douglas, 
 Mrs. L. R. Warder, and Mrs. Phoebe Hills acted as first 
 
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 matrons. T. A. Whitten, H. F. Warren, A. G. Miller, and 
 W. H. Smart were the first supervisors. 
 
 In 1875 a road was built from Anna to the hospital. In 
 1886 electric lights were installed. In 1890 the Annex build- 
 ing was erected. In 1894 the Woman's Cottage known as 
 Female Infirmary was completed. In 1895 a second disastrous 
 fire left only the walls of the center and south wing of the 
 main building. Building was restored in 1895-1896. In 1899 
 the Colonial Building or Male Cottage was built. In 1917 a 
 Nurses' Home was completed. In 1933 five cottages for doc- 
 tors and ofl[icers' families were completed. In 1937 an em- 
 ployees' building for the use of married couples was built, 
 and an expansion program of remodeling older buildings un- 
 dertaken. In 1940 a tubercular hospital was constructed. The 
 building program of the past decade has added two new wings 
 or sections and will be explained in a later chapter. 
 
 MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL EVENT 
 
 Lincoln-Douglas Debate Sept. 15, 1858 
 Perhaps the most noted political event that ever occurred 
 in Union County was the great Lincoln-Douglas Debate of 
 September 15, 1858. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln reached Anna from the north probably about 
 2 o'clock in the afternoon of September 14, 1858. (Douglas 
 named Jonesboro as the point where the joint discussion should 
 occur in the 9th Congressional District.) A. J. Phillips, cit- 
 izen of Anna, son of D. L. Phillips, who in 1858 was the can- 
 didate for the Republican party for Congress in the 9th Dis- 
 trict, said his father told him that Lincoln did not want to 
 come to Jonesboro to debate, as he thought there was no 
 chance to elect any of the Republican candidates from that 
 region to the general assembly. But D. L. Phillips and Mr. 
 Lincoln were great friends and the former prevailed on Mr. 
 Lincoln to come, 
 
 Mr. Lincoln was accompanied by Mr. Horace White, D. L. 
 Phillips of Anna, and probably Robert R. Hitt, the shorthand 
 reporter. A. J. Phillips, who was 11 years old at the time, 
 said his father entertained Mr. Lincoln, and he remembered 
 the occasion in all its details. The elder Phillips had an ofiice 
 
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 in a two story frame building about where the Miller Opera 
 House was (now site of the Anna National Bank Building) 
 and the party spent some time in the office. Later Mr. Lin- 
 coln went to the home of Mr. Phillips (Site of C. R. Walser 
 property on South Main today) on the north side of Main 
 Street from Anna to Jonesboro and remained the night. Mr. 
 Hitt and Mr. White went to Jonesboro and stayed at the Union 
 Hotel, which was located on the east side of the square. 
 
 In all probability Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Phillips were at 
 the hotel for some time in the evening for Mr. White, who 
 later moved to New York, wrote the historian as follows: 
 "The only things I recall at Jonesboro were not political and 
 not even terrestrial. It was the splendid appearance of Donti's 
 comet in the sky, the evening before the debate. Mr. Lin- 
 coln greatly admired this strange visitor, and he and I sat 
 for an hour or more in front of the hotel looking at it. The 
 country people came into the little town with ox teams mostly 
 and a very stunted breed of oxen, too. Their wagons were old- 
 fashioned and looked as though they were ready to fall to 
 pieces." 
 
 On the morning of the 15th Dr. McVean, a prominent 
 Democrat who lived near Mr. Phillips, offered to take Mr. 
 Lincoln and Mr. Phillips out driving. Mr. Lincoln consented. 
 Dr. McVean was quite a horse fancier and drove a fine span 
 of matched geldings. When they were ready to start, young 
 Phillips was asked to accompany them. The four drove over 
 to Jonesboro, around the town and westward along the pic- 
 turesque road leading to Willard Landing on the Mississippi 
 River. They returned and Mr. Lincoln made some calls, one 
 of them at the home of Mrs. Hacker, daughter-in-law of Col. 
 John Hacker. 
 
 Mr. A. J. Phillips said they returned to Anna for an 
 early dinner and within a short time the village was startled 
 by the roar of a cannon. Everybody rushed to the station and 
 a large crowd welcomed the Little Giant Douglas. 
 
 Slight preparations were made for the event due to po- 
 litical rivalry. The debate occurred half a mile north of the 
 square of Jonesboro, and is marked today by an inscribed stone 
 on the site. 
 
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 The debate was without incident. The audience was in- 
 deed very small. No one has estimated it more than 2,000, 
 while the reporters placed it at 1500. The correspondents for 
 the city papers spoke of a good delegation from the State Fair 
 at Centralia and a good sized crowd from Cairo. Mr. White 
 said: "My impression was that the audience at Jonesboro 
 was rather stolid, and took little interest in the questions dis- 
 cussed but that it was composed of honest, well meaning, old 
 fashioned folks. I do not think Lincoln made any converts at 
 Jonesboro ; I doubt if Douglas made any or even held his own." 
 
 Mr. Lincoln was described by Prof. Joseph E. Terpiniz, 
 band leader, as a "tall, odd-looking man walking along with 
 his hands behind him. He wore a tall plug hat, rather long- 
 tailed coat and was a person who would attract attention in a 
 crowd. He seemed in deep meditation, walking with his head 
 down." Douglas, on the other hand, was a model of the then 
 fashions for men. 
 
 EARLY INDUSTRIES 
 
 Milling was the earliest manufacturing done on a large 
 scale. As late as 1860 horse mills were in use and hand mills 
 not entirely discarded. In 1856 the Flora Temple mills were 
 built and put in operation by Daniel Davie and Daniel Good- 
 man. They were then the largest and most extensive mills in 
 this part of the state and were located a little south of the 
 depot in Anna. D. Goodman sold out his interest to W. Davie, 
 who with D. Davie, put the mill in fine order and made their 
 flour celebrated for its excellence. W. Davie then became sole 
 proprietor and transferred his title to D. W. Brown. The mill 
 then had six run capacity, was four stories high, with elevators 
 and the best machinery of the times and a capacity for turn- 
 ing out 100 barrels of flour per day, besides grinding 200 bush- 
 els of corn. This mill was burned in 1869 while owned by 
 D. W. Davie, but was rebuilt in 1871 by Daniel Davie and Caleb 
 Miller. Mr. Miller then became sole owner, later transferring 
 his title to A. J. Davie and V/. S. Meisenheimer. On the death 
 of Mr. Davie, Meisenheimer continued to operate the mill until 
 1883 when it was completely destroyed by fire. 
 
 In the spring of 1867 Joseph Treese built the frame mills 
 on the west side of the railroad on lot 122. The mill was aft- 
 
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 erward sold to E. H. Finch. In 1883 it was purchased by D. 
 R. Lewis and Henry Lence, and conducted its business in the 
 name of People's Mill. 
 
 In 1874 Jesse Lentz and James DeWitt built their exten- 
 sive wagon, plow, and repair shop on lot 123. W. E. Stokes 
 succeeded Mr. Lentz in the business, and the firm became De- 
 Witt and Stokes. The firm manufactured a superior style of 
 spring wagons especially adapted to the wants of fruit growers. 
 From 1865 to 1870 H. J. Brockrhan was also a large wagon 
 builder. Dr. Hugh McVeen was the first citizen in Anna to 
 own a buggy which he acquired in 1859. The first family car- 
 riage in the country is said to have been owned by Willis Wil- 
 lard of Jonesboro. 
 
 From 1862 to 1870 the manufacture of tobacco was car- 
 ried on by A. W. Robinson and J. T. Bohannon ; in 1879, J. W. 
 Davidson started a saddle and harness factory. 
 
 From 1860 to 1880 D. Cover and Son manufactured large 
 quantities of lumber at their sawmill near the Southern Ill- 
 inois Fairgrounds. B. F. Mangold was later the proprietor. 
 
 R. B. Stinson & Co. for several years carried on an ex- 
 tensive barrel factory near the railroad, manufacturing about 
 80,000 barrels annually. This establishment burned and, 
 when rebuilt, was controlled by Finch and Shick. Later names 
 connected with box factories were F. P. Anderson and James 
 Wood. 
 
 The manufacture of brick was an important business. 
 In 1879 Hunsaker, Rirchardson, Edwards & Carmack, and J. 
 E. Lufkin had kilns. The public school, the insane asylum, 
 and other buildings were built of bricks manufactured on the 
 site of the buildings. 
 
 In 1859 the Kirkpatrick Bros. (C. & W.) began the manu- 
 facture of all kinds of stone-ware, tiles, vases, and pottery, 
 bringing their clay from Grand Chain via Cairo. In 1860 some 
 beds of the finest kinds of clay were found in this vicinity and 
 purchased by them. In 1868 a bed of very fine white clay was 
 discovered, which was quarried and shipped in car lots to St. 
 Louis and Chicago. Included in the products from the Kirk- 
 patrick Potteries were stone pipes heads, goblets, fire brick, 
 and drain tile. 
 
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 M. M. Henderson & Son had a cotton gin in operation in 
 1866, which was laid aside in 1868 and a planing and dressing 
 machine started. In 1877 the firm began the manufacture of 
 fruit box material and boxes. 
 
 From 1865 to 1875 F. A. Childs and Bros, had a drain 
 tile factory in operation with a large kiln and drying sheds. 
 
 The progress of any community is much accelerated by 
 increasing its means of communication. In 1880 Anna was 
 united with Jonesboro, and St. Louis and Cairo Railroads by 
 means of a dime hack line started by Joseph Treese. The line 
 virtually gave Anna the benefit of another railroad north and 
 south. In 1883 there were three lines of hacks, carrying pas- 
 sengers between Jonesboro and Anna every hour and to the 
 asylum as required. 
 
 One of the most important industries in any community 
 is the provisioning of the inhabitants. The meat supply of 
 Anna was drawn from the surrounding country. In the year 
 1882, M. V. Ussery supplied the asylum with meats and main- 
 tained an extensive market and provision store, manufacturing 
 sausage and curing pork in large quantities. Within that 
 year he slaughtered for his own use and that of the asylum 
 542 beeves, 156 sheep and 90 hogs, and purchased 150 hogs 
 dressed. From this live stock he obtained 32,000 pounds of 
 hides and manufactured and sold 14,500 pounds of sausage. 
 
 J. P. Bohannon was proprietor of the Cape Girardeau 
 Hack Line. In 1869 his daily line of stages to the Mississippi 
 had been established a number of years. Comfortable double 
 carriages carried passengers daily to the Mississippi. 
 
 1900 tax lists show 139 people were taxed as manufacturers 
 of various products. Among these in the upper bracket were 
 the Defiance Box Company, Bruchhauser Bros., T. A. Carlile, 
 and St. Louis Stone and Lime Company. Modern manufactur- 
 ing has shown a change from individual ownership to that by 
 companies or corporations. By 1939 the small manufacturer 
 had almost disappeared. At this time the tax list in this 
 same bracket included Anna Quarries, Fruit Growers Package 
 Company, International Shoe Company, Phoenix Flour Mills, 
 Vulcan Heel Corporation, Lewis Brothers Bakery, Public Ice 
 Service Company, and Charles G. Gilmore Asphalt Plant. 
 
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 The largest industry in the community, owned and op- 
 erated by one individual was the W. H. Bishop Horse and Mule 
 Auction. He began in 1933 with one barn, where he carried 
 on a retail business in horses and mules. By 1939 he had add- 
 ed two retail barns and the large building housing the auction, 
 the office and lunch room. Every Tuesday buyers from all 
 parts of the country assembled to bid on the horses and mules 
 led into the auction ring. Animals were brought from every 
 state in the Union to be sold here. Mr. Bishop now owns and 
 operates a racing stable. 
 
 AGRICULTURE 
 
 Agriculture is the greatest source of our prosperity. All 
 important interests, all thriving industry, and all trades and 
 professions receive their means of support, directly or indirect- 
 ly, from this noble science. With the soil, timber, drainage, 
 and climate that cannot be excelled, this territory is capable of 
 sustaining a greater agricultural people than any other part 
 of the state. 
 
 The tools and implements with which the pioneer farmer 
 had to work were few in number and crude in material and 
 design. The plow was the old "bar-share" wooden mold board 
 and long beam handles. The hoes and axes were crudely 
 forged by blacksmiths. But the virgin soil was fruitful and 
 yielded bountiful crops, even under poor preparation and cul- 
 tivation. At first little crops consisted of a "patch" of corn, 
 potatoes, beans, and pumpkins. If possible a patch of flax 
 was grown from which the women spun and wove the family 
 clothing. 
 
 Step by step the hardy settlers made inroads into the 
 dense forests, enlarged their farms, set out orchards on the 
 rolling hills, and increased their flocks and herds, until they 
 found a surplus beyond their own wants. With this surplus 
 of farm products came the question of markets. The naviga- 
 tion of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers was the only means of 
 reaching better markets. New Orleans was the principal mar- 
 ket until the completion of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1855. 
 
 The material resources of this territory at that time 
 should be of interest to our readers. They included corn, 
 
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 wheat, oats, timothy, clover, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, 
 grapes, and other fruits as well as a variety of berries. Many 
 acres provided pasture for sheep, hogs, and cattle. Thou- 
 sands of gallons of milk, cream, and butter resulted. Later 
 watermelons, cantaloupes, leafy vegetables, sweet potatoes, 
 cucumbers, scallions. and peppers were produced. 
 
 By 1858 the shipments of fruit to Chicago first began 
 to assume importance and has continued steadily through the 
 years. As more farms came under cultivation, the smaller 
 fruits and early vegetables, especially berries and tomatoes, 
 took a prominent place in the agricultural picture. The great 
 markets of the Northwest looked to "Little Egypt" for their 
 main supplies. Strawberries became the most popular of 
 them all. 
 
 In 1872 evaporators were erected in Anna by Oliver Alden, 
 but two years' experience under the most careful management 
 proved that evaporated fruit cost more than it would sell 
 for in the market. Until the year 1880 berries and fruits 
 were shipped in fruit cars, especially constructed, and went by 
 fruit train express. In 1881 cooling houses were built in An- 
 na to store and cool the fruit preparatory to shipment and re- 
 frigerator cars safely transported these products to distant 
 markets. Early in 1900 the erection of an ice plant partly 
 solved the problem of getting products to the markets in good 
 shape. The Fasig-Perrine Company manufactured ice and 
 obtained contracts from the Illinois Central for icing their 
 refrigerator cars. In time modern scientific methods in hor- 
 ticulture and improved agricultural implements of every de- 
 scription brought a prosperity of the territory, undreamed of 
 by the pioneer. Hundreds of carloads of fruits and vegetables 
 were shipped annually to supply the great demands of the 
 markets of the middle west. 
 
 These vast shipments of produce brought another in- 
 dustry to the community. Packages used in shipping the 
 fruits and vegetables were demanded in huge quantities, and 
 were brought in from. Cobden and Grand Tower. About the 
 turn of the century the Union Fruit Package Company was 
 organized for the manufacture of fruit and vegetable pack- 
 ages. The new corporation listed among its Anna members 
 C. J. Boyd, T. A. Carlisle, D. H. Rendleman, J. L. Fuller, T. P. 
 
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 Sifford, and J. D. DeWitt. Later came the J. W. Wood Fac- 
 tory, F. P. Anderson, the Fruit Growers Refrigerator and 
 Power Company ; fruit broker, W. N. Corlis & Company, and 
 many others connected with the growing industry. The con- 
 struction of the Municipal Market, started in 1933, and the 
 many benefits derived from its operation, will be covered in 
 another chapter of this volume. 
 
 The reputation of this section as a fruit and vegetable 
 producing area has not been based wholly upon the immense 
 quantity of the products shipped from here, but largely upon 
 the excellent quality of the fruits and vegetables, the superior 
 character of the packages and the excellence of the packing. 
 
 Thus the cultivation of the fruits and vegetables in and 
 around Anna has progressed from the rudest beginnings to 
 its present great proportions. Agriculture has brought to the 
 City of Anna its great prosperity. 
 
 FAIRS 
 
 Union County has been well supplied with agricultural 
 fair associations, having had two excellent organizations dur- 
 ing this 100 year period. 
 
 The oldest of them was the Union County Agricultural 
 and Mechanical Society, which dates back to 1855. It was 
 organized and held under the auspices of the citizens of Jones- 
 boro and the county with Jacob Hunsaker as its first president. 
 It was later known as the Union County Agricultural Board, 
 reorganized under the State laws governing agricultural soci- 
 eties. Fairs were held annually on 10 acres of ground in 
 Jonesboro and it was here the famous Lincoln and Douglas 
 Debate was held September 15, 1855. The association was 
 discontinued many years ago. 
 
 The Southern Illinois Fair Association of Anna was or- 
 ganized under special act of Legislature, December 13, 1879, 
 with M. V. Ussery, first president; C. M. Willard, treasurer, 
 and E. R. Jinette, secretary, elected in 1880. The association 
 at that time was under the supervision of 21 directors elected 
 for three years, seven of whom were elected each year. They 
 bought 5 4 acres of land on the present site of Anna Fair- 
 grounds. Since its purchase, a portion was sold to the City 
 
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 of Anna for a cemetery. The Southern Illinois Fair Associa- 
 tion and Fairgrounds at Anna were a private enterprise and 
 owned by a joint stock company. Agricultural fairs have been 
 held annually since 1879. 
 
 Last year the outstanding stock holders relinquished their 
 shares and the City of Anna acquired the property. The City 
 of Anna is creating a city park and building a swimming pool 
 on the site. Fairs will continue to be held here in the future. 
 
 RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS 
 
 The home, the school, and the church are the three great 
 factors in the growth of our community. Our people have al- 
 ways been largely influenced by religious sentiment, and our 
 churches have molded the great moral fabric of the communi- 
 ity from the earliest settlements to the present time. The 
 earliest settlers were from North Carolina and were mostly 
 Lutherans. As early as 1819 a congregation at St. John was 
 organized, and in 1822 a log church was built by the Reformed 
 and Lutherans, the first church in the county. 
 
 St. Mary's Catholic Church, previously mentioned, was the 
 first church in Anna, being organized in 1855 by Col. L. T. 
 Ashley, and the church was built on its present site. Present 
 structure dated 1894. 
 
 Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church was organized in 1869 with 
 16 members. C. W. Sifford was its first pastor. In January, 
 1876, the Anna Congregation bought Lot 65 on South Street, 
 and on August 11 of that year the building was dedicated. 
 Present building was dedicated August 31, 1902. 
 
 On January 15, 1859, Elder J. H. Settlemoir formed the 
 Anna Presbytery of the Baptist Church. The first frame 
 church was built in 1865. H. H. Richardson was the first 
 pastor. Present building dated 1923. 
 
 The Methodist Church was organized in the fall of 1865 
 by Rev. Willoughby and a frame church built in 1857. Pres- 
 ent church was built in 1893. 
 
 There was a reformed Lutheran congregation organized 
 in Anna in 1859 with Rev. P. H. Kroh as pastor. A brick
 
 building- was erected in 1872. The Trinity Lutheran was or- 
 ganized in 1930. 
 
 The First Presbyterian Church was organized on April 
 29, 1866, with Rev. David Dimmon as its first pastor. The 
 first church building was dedicated June 28, 1866. Present 
 structure was completed in December, 1898. 
 
 Episcopal services were held as early as 1860. St. Anne's 
 Episcopal Church was erected in 1886. 
 
 In 1869 the Campbellites or Christians also held regular 
 services. The present Christian Church was organized Jan- 
 uary 15, 1903. 
 
 The Oneness Pentecostal Church was organized, and the 
 present building was erected in 1927. 
 
 From these beginnings we shall see the spiritual growth 
 of the community with the addition of other churches, whose 
 organization is not available, as portrayed in the histories 
 of the present churches in Anna which will follow in succeed- 
 ing chapters. 
 
 A ministerial alliance of Anna-Jonesboro, including twelve 
 ministers, sponsors a three-hour community service on Good 
 Friday and World Day of Prayer; it supervises the Chaplain- 
 cy at the Anna State Hospital and recently has made an ex- 
 tensive religious survey of the City of Anna. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 
 
 Through 100 years of development the City of Anna 
 has ever been justly proud of her public schools. The first 
 schoolhouse, built in 1854 on the corner of Franklin and 
 Monroe streets, was destroyed by fire. In 1860 the city then 
 built a frame schoolhouse on Lot 23, donated by Winstead 
 Davie. In this building the youth of the city was educated 
 from 1860 to 1870. In 1869 the city felt the need of a new 
 building and larger accommodations. The district directors 
 issued bonds as needed and erected a three-story edifice on the 
 site of the present Junior High School, on South Green street. 
 
 On January 5, 1870, the children were moved from the 
 small frame building to the new institution where the enroll- 
 
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 ment increased to 2'37 pupils. The school was thoroughly 
 graded and became well known in the educational circles of 
 Southern Illinois. On January 5, 1880, just 10 years from 
 the opening of the new building, the total enrollment had in- 
 creased to 350 pupils. This pressure was relieved by the open- 
 ing of an academy school known as Union Academy, under 
 the charge of W. W. Paris and C. W. Sifford. (Part of this 
 school's development is still in existence as part of the Anna- 
 Jonesboro Community High School.) A building for same 
 was constructed on South Main Street in 1884. Later on, 
 Benton Hall and Willard Hall, located on several acres of land 
 donated by C. W. Willard, became the school plant. Union 
 Academy and the Public High School on Green Street served 
 the youth of this community from 1883 to 1918, at which time 
 the present High School came into being. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Community High School is located on 
 the heights between the twin cities of Jonesboro and Anna and 
 has a campus of 20 acres. The grounds and buildings, includ- 
 ing Benton and Willard Halls of the present school, are those 
 which were used by Union Academy, having been donated, 
 along with endowment funds, to the newly formed high school. 
 Bar-San Hall and the new building on Main Street complete the 
 school plant today. 
 
 In 1900 the population had grown to such proportions 
 that the present Lincoln School was erected on Monroe Street 
 in the north part of town. In 1910 the needs for the public 
 school system brought about the present structure of the W. 
 Davie School on the site previously given by W. Davie in 1860. 
 With the addition of these two plants, the older building on 
 South Green Street was used exclusively for High School 
 classes. The new Junior High School was constructed on this 
 site in 1939. 
 
 The old Lincoln School has been replaced the past year by 
 an all modern, one story brick and stone building; additions 
 have been made to the Davie school building; and a new build- 
 ing has been recently added to the Community High School 
 plant. 
 
 This expanding building program together with the 
 modern methods of teaching that have kept pace with the 
 
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 times have g-iven to the youth of this community educational 
 facilities that rank among the finest in the state. 
 
 The Anna City Schools and the Community High School 
 are governed by their respective Boards of Education. The 
 members of these boards are motivated by one obligation to 
 provide the best educational system possible for the boys and 
 girls under their jurisdiction. They aim to equip the schools 
 with good teachers, curriculum, and equipment that will best 
 serve the interests to the community. 
 
 The Parent-Teacher's Association is perhaps the best or- 
 g-anized and most constructive unit working for the welfare of 
 the children in the school community. Each school has its 
 separate organization and each functions for the good of the 
 District as a unit. The most outstanding achievements of 
 these P. T. A.'s has been the underwriting of the school lunch 
 program. 
 
 Stinson Memorial Library was dedicated and opened on 
 August 14, 1914. Its many shelves of reference material have 
 been of immeasurable value to the students of the community 
 since that date. Captain Robert Burns Stinson, bequeathed to 
 the city of Anna $50,000 for the purpose of establishing and 
 maintaining a public library. 
 
 The State Library Bookmobile has left thousands of 
 books on deposit at the library here for the use of Union 
 County borrowers. 
 
 Part 2 of this volume gives detailed histories of these 
 institutions. 
 
 FRATERNITIES AND SOCIETIES 
 
 Membership in fraternities and societies included a large 
 proportion of the population of the City of Anna as early as 
 1856. 
 
 Egyptain Chapter No. 46, of Royal Arch Masons was in- 
 stituted October 5, 1858, with 18 charter members, 
 
 Anna Lodge of A. F. & A. M. No. 502 was instituted Oc- 
 tober 1, 1867, with 19 charter members. 
 
 Hiawatha Lodge No. 231 I. 0. 0. F. was established by 
 
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 the Grand Lodg'e of Illinois on October 11, 1880, with five char- 
 ter members. 
 
 Anna Encampment No. 69 I. O. O. F. was established Oc- 
 tober 10, 1876, with seven original members. 
 
 Lodge No. 5217 of the Modern Woodmen of America was 
 organized December 1, 1897, with 25 charter members. 
 
 lonette Lodge No. 315 of Knights and Ladies of Honor was 
 organized May 25, 1880. 
 
 Anna District Court of Honor was organized September 
 8, 1896, with 25 charter members. 
 
 The Anna Court of Tribe of Ben Hur No. 104 was organ- 
 ized December 19th, 1900. 
 
 Anna Star Chapter No. 522 was organized under dispensa- 
 tion granted pursuant to a petition dated No. 25, 1903, and 
 with 20 original members was instituted December 10, 1903. 
 
 A. G. A. R. Post was organized soon after the Civil War 
 about 1867. The decline of the Post began about 1890 and 
 would have died but for the efforts of Capt. R. B. Stinson, G. 
 W. Norris, W. W. McCoy, and B. Nash. Union County furn- 
 ished her full quota of soldiers in the war of the rebellion, the 
 109th Illinois Volunteer Infantry being made up of men from 
 this county. In addition many Union County men enlisted 
 in other regiments. A Union County Soldiers and Sailors As- 
 sociation was formed and annual reunions held at the Anna 
 Fairgrounds. 
 
 Other societies came into being the latter part of the 19th 
 centur3^ The People's Library Society was organized in 1879 
 with Rev, C. W. Sifford, President, and Walter Greer, Secre- 
 tary. 
 
 An organization of a "Reform Club" in the interest of 
 temperance was instituted November 20, 1877, which soon 
 had 150 members. Upon the eradication of saloons from the 
 city, the work of the Reform Club was gradually taken over 
 by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, organized in 
 1878, and the club ceased to exist. 
 
 The Anna Literary Society and Lyceum held debates 
 weekly and was organized as early as 1860. 
 
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 The Nineteenth Century Club was organized in the fall 
 of 1882 and held meetings every Sunday afternoon to discuss 
 religious topics and for free interchange of opinion. Oliver 
 Alden was first president. 
 
 The Anna Driving Club was organized in 1881, and held 
 annual races on the 4th of July. E. H. Finch was first presi- 
 dent. This club was auxiliary to the Southern Illinois Fair 
 Association. 
 
 On the completion of the brick schoolhouse in 1869, 
 classes in music were formed, glee clubs were formed, concerts 
 given by music pupils, and an organ purchased and placed in 
 the high school room. A taste for music rapidly developed and 
 church choirs were filled with young singers. 
 
 Under the leadership of J. E. Terpinitz, a fine brass band 
 was formed, which for years furnished music at all celebra- 
 tions and public meetings. 
 
 The Anna Dramatic Society was formed in 1870. Two 
 years later the Anna Choral Society was started. Both so- 
 cieties produced dramas, cantatas, and operettas in a very 
 creditable manner. 
 
 The first reed instrument used in town was a melodeon 
 belonging to Lewis W. Ashley in 1855. 
 
 The first piano in the city was a wedding present to Mrs. 
 Daniel Davie and brought from New York in 1859. 
 
 Many of these fraternities and societies filled a very def- 
 inite need at the time of their organization, played their part 
 in the city's history, and then gave way to newer organiza- 
 tions. Many of them have continued to this day and con- 
 tributed much to the progress and growth of the city. These 
 and many newer organizations are described in detail in fol- 
 lowing chapters. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS 
 
 The progress of newspapers parallels that of their trad- 
 ing areas. The history of the Gazette-Democrat, Anna's only 
 newspaper at this time, parallels the histories of the cities of 
 Anna and Jonesboro, Illinois. 
 
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 Few newspapers can boast of a history of more than a 
 century of progress in a community and of having instigated 
 progress of an area during a smaller period of time. Yet this 
 has been the privilege of the Jonesboro Gazette, which, com- 
 bined with the Democrat of Anna and later with the Anna 
 Talk, has given the combined newspapers the advantage of 
 100 years of service and experienced knowledge of this area. 
 
 The Jonesbroo Gazette was established in 1849 by John 
 Evan and Thomas J. Finley with Rev. H. Hempstead as the 
 first publisher. It was a Democratic weekly paper, and was 
 the first newspaper in the county. A copy, dated June 12, 
 1850, is still in existence and the property of Ira 0. Karraker 
 of Jonesboro. The paper continued publication until absorbed 
 by the Democrat of Anna in 1939-40 and became the Gazette- 
 Democrat. A. J. Tibbets was connected with the paper for 
 64 years, 40 years as editor, until his death in 1937. 
 
 The Union County Democrat was started in Jonesboro as 
 a Douglas paper in 1858 by a joint-stock company composed of 
 L. P. Wilcox, W. A. Hacker, Mr. Toler, and other leading 
 Democrats. After the election of 1858 the offices were moved 
 to Anna. As late as 1897 the paper was known as the Union 
 Democrat. A. Ney Seeions purchased the Democrat of Anna, 
 as it was known by this time, in 1902. Jackson Hammond be- 
 came associated with this paper in 1897, and was named edi- 
 tor in 1902. In 1917 Mr. Hammond and other prominent busi- 
 ness men of Anna purchased the Democrat as a company, and 
 he continued as manager and editor. By 1924 he had pur- 
 chased all the stock and was sole owner until his death in 1937. 
 Following his death his wife, Martha E. Hammond, his son, 
 Joe A. Hammond, and his daughter, Mary H. Kent, continued 
 publication until it was sold to H. Clay Reppert in 1939. 
 
 The Talk was started by Rev. W. W. Farris in the spring 
 of 1835. Edgar E. Davie was owner and editor of the Anna 
 Talk until his death on Oct. 26, 1945. Mr. Davie was the 
 great nephew of Winstead Davie, after whose wife the City of 
 Anna was named. Following his death the paper was com- 
 bined with the Gazette-Democrat in 1945, as will be shown 
 later in detail. 
 
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 Other Anna newspapers that flourished for a few months 
 or years and then died or moved to other localities include: 
 
 The Anna Union started in 1874 by A. J. Alden and pub- 
 lished less than a year. The Adverites as known then in 1870 
 and published by Dougherty and Galigher for about 2 years. 
 Farmer and Fruit Grower, H. C. Bouton's agricultural paper, 
 was started in 1877 with Dr. J. H. Sanborn in charge of the 
 horticultural department. It continued publication for a de- 
 cade or more (records not available). Union County News by 
 Hale, Wilson and Copau was first issued in 1880 and continued 
 publication for about two years. It was also known as the 
 Southern Illinois Advocate. The Missionary Sentinel by Rev, 
 S. P. Myers was published first in 1879 in the interests of the 
 German Reformed Church. It was moved to Dayton, Ohio, 
 about one year later. 
 
 All these publications, their founders, and editors have 
 written an indelible page in the history of Anna. Their con- 
 tributions have immeasurably promoted the growth of the 
 community. 
 
 Dedicated to produce newspapers to boost the city and 
 aid in the upbuilding of its financial, social, educational, and 
 moral resources, they have confidently and happily written 
 "30." 
 
 MILITARY HISTORY 
 
 Records from 1828 reveal the names of several early set- 
 tlers who served in the Revolutionary War, as they applied 
 for pensions in the Union County Circuit Court. Among them 
 were Elias Moiers, Joseph C. Edwards, Christopher Lyerle, 
 Jacob Frick, Peter Meisenheimer, and Travers Morris. A 
 marker in the Anna cemetery today shows the burial place 
 of some of the Revolutionary heroes. 
 
 On May 11, 1846, Congress declared a state of war with 
 the Republic of Mexico. Illinois was called on for three regi- 
 ments of infantry. Within ten days 35 full companies were 
 organized and reported. Union County furnished Co. F. of 
 the 2nd Regiment, Capt. John C. Hacker. The company was 
 discharged June 18, 1847, at Comargo, Mexico. On Feb. 23,
 
 1847, the battle of Buena Vista resulted in complete victory for 
 the American Forces; in this the 2nd Regiment, Co. F., in- 
 cluded, covered itself with glory. 
 
 From the best information gathered. Union County gave 
 3,000 men to the army during the Civil War. The records 
 show that in addition to the full 109th Regiment furnished 
 Capt. Mack's Company, there were a number of men in the 
 18th Regiment. The county also furnished a large number 
 of men to the 6th cavalry. The 60th Infantry Regiment was 
 organized at Anna, Feb. 17, 1862, Col. Silas C. Toler of Jones- 
 boro and Adjutant Thomas C. Barnes, Anna. The regiment 
 fought in eleven battles in the March on Atlanta to the sea. 
 The 109th Regiment was recruited from Union County. Col. 
 Alexander, J. Nimmo, Lt. Col. Elijah A. Willard, Major Thomas 
 A. Perrine, and Adjutant, James Evans, and others were mus- 
 tered in at Anna Sept. 11, 1862. It was armed with inferior 
 guns and later consolidated with the 11th infantry. About 
 1800 of the men were killed in action or died in hospitals or 
 prison camps. Barracks for soldiers were built on the present 
 site of the Anna State Hospital and a hospital unit erected. 
 The St. Nicholas Hotel in Anna was also converted into a 
 hospital for the wounded. Civil War veterans sleep in a 
 special memorial plot at the Anna Cemetery. 
 
 As a result of this great loss women began to appear in 
 the business world, replacing the men in industry. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM 
 
 Upon a stone statute at the entrance to the Anna Ceme- 
 tery there is this tablet, dedicated to the sacred memory of 
 these men who gave their lives in 
 
 World War I 
 
 Bean, Everett Hicks, Jesse Manning, Frank 
 
 Caveness, Frank Hunsaker, Dallas Mattingly, Randall 
 
 Dodd, Townsend F. James, George Rich, Charles 
 
 Freeman, Fred Jessen, Hubert Richardson, Oard 
 
 Gregoiy, Ernest Johnson, John Sitter, Troy 
 
 Hall, Dorris Kirby, Dennis Treece, Roscoe 
 
 "In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow" — 
 
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 IN MEMORIAM 
 
 Upon the wall at the American Legion Community Cen- 
 ter Townsend F. Dodd Post, there is a marble plaque which 
 bears these following names, consecrated to the memory of 
 these men who gave their lives in 
 
 World War II 
 
 Stanley Aldridge 
 Woodrow Aldridge 
 Oren M. C. Allen 
 Collan Appel 
 William J. Bass 
 Murrell L. Blaylock 
 Kelvie Bryant 
 Truman Claxton 
 Jack R. Crews 
 Donald E. Davis 
 Grover M. Davis 
 Leo D. Davis 
 Ross Dillow 
 Wayne I. Eaton 
 Gerald Eaves 
 Joseph Q. Edwards 
 Harold H. Ford 
 Carroll P. Foster 
 Carl N. Garrott 
 
 Roger C. Hancock 
 William A. Hansil 
 Thomas E. Hill 
 Clyde Keller 
 Ford Kelley 
 Francis Kimmel 
 William R. Ligon 
 William Mayberry 
 Fred P. Meisenheimer 
 Lloyd P. Menees 
 Ray Oliver Penrod 
 James L. Randies 
 George T. Sanders 
 Donald L. Standard 
 Robert Tolbert 
 Carl Tripp 
 Frank Weidlocher 
 David D. Williams 
 Charles B. Winn 
 
 "And be it resolved that these 
 Honored dead shall not have died in vain." 
 
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 KOREAN CONFLICT 
 
 Company "B", 135th Engfineer Combat Battalion, sta- 
 tioned at Anna, Illinois, was activated on January 27, 1948 
 with three officers and 37 enlisted men. Captain Aurel 
 Rendleman served as commanding officer until October of 
 that year. Lt. Hobart R. Clutts served as CO until Decem- 
 ber 2, 1949. At that time Captain Wm. L. Casper assumed 
 command and took the unit into Federal Service on Febru- 
 ary 15, 1952. The unit consisted of five officers, 1 warrant 
 officer and 76 enlisted men when it entered Federal Service. 
 
 The unit, as a part of the 45th Infantry Division trained 
 at Camp Cooke, California, for about five months, when in- 
 dividuals were ordered overseas. On late fall of 1952 the 
 Division was transferred to Fort Lewis, Washington, to com- 
 plete its Federal Service. More than 60 of the officers and 
 men saw duty in Korea, Japan, and Germany during the 
 period of February 1952-1954. 
 
 It is noteworthy that there were no reductions en grade 
 for any of the men of Company "B", and most of the men 
 received promotions during their service overseas. All of 
 the members were discharged by February 15, 1954. The 
 men from this community served their country well in a 
 time of critical need. All of these men were voluntary mem- 
 bers of the Unit and carried on the tradition of their found- 
 ers, the "Minute Men," who were first to fight to protect our 
 country. Our community can well be proud of these men. 
 In addition to Company "B" there were many other volun- 
 tary enlistments and drafted men serving during this period 
 from Anna, but that information is not available at this time. 
 
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 SIGNS OF PROGRESS — 1890 
 
 This era in municipal growth and prosperity begins in 
 the early nineties. As the city moved with progress, it gave 
 its citizens improved streets, all stone sidewalks, street cars 
 water works, and good lights. 
 
 1896 — Anna had needed an electric light system and ice 
 plant as well as motor driven transportation for many years. 
 The construction of these enterprises is traceable directly to 
 the pluck and business sagacity of Arnaud A. Fasig, who came 
 to Anna at the turn of the century. He married Sarah De 
 Bow Perrine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Perrine, (Mrs. 
 Fasig is a granddaughter of Winstead Davie) and establish- 
 ed a home here on its present site in 1893. 
 
 He saw these needs and in 1896 the Fasig-Perrine Com- 
 pany was organized for the purpose of erecting a plant in 
 Anna for the manufacture of ice. They soon erected distribu- 
 tion and ice storage houses in many of the surrounding towns. 
 In 1900, F. S. Peabody of Chicago bought the outstanding 
 stock of the company except for the holdings of Mr. Fasig 
 and a new corporation was organized, known as the Fruit 
 Grower's Refrigeration and Power Company. They acquired 
 the electric light plant here from E. A. Nordling. The com- 
 pany obtained a franchise from the city to furnish lights and 
 construct an electric railway, extending from Anna State Hos- 
 pital on the north, passing through Anna to Jonesboro on the 
 south. In June, 1903, the Union County Traction and Pow- 
 er Company was incorporated. 
 
 During the next two decades Mr. Fasig obtained contracts 
 from the Illinois Central for supplying them with ice and icing 
 their refrigerator cars, and built other plants for this purpose. 
 These properties were later sold to the Central Illinois Public 
 Sevice Company and were the foundation of the immense 
 structure of utilities operated by the company in Southern Ill- 
 inois. In 1908 he purchased an undeveloped clay property five 
 miles northwest of Anna and organized the Illinois Kavlin 
 Company, and became a major factor in the cement manufac- 
 turing industry. 
 
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 THE HALF-CENTURY MARK 
 
 "The Egyptian Hustler" 
 
 The Egyptian Hustler was an organization promoted by 
 traveling salesmen in this territory, perfected on May 19, 
 1903, in Anna, 111. In this organization all met on a common 
 ground — wholesaler, manufacturer, merchant, traveling and 
 retail clerk — for the purpose of exchanging ideas, presenting 
 grievances, compromising difficulties, as well as learning to 
 know each other better in order to work more harmoniously 
 together. 
 
 In tribute to the good will fostered by the organization 
 from which many benefits were derived, the women of Anna 
 published an edition of the Democrat on June 8, 1905, with 
 Mrs. C. H. Wiley, editor and Mrs. J. B. Alden, business man- 
 ager. The paper contained display advertising and profes- 
 sional cards showing the above mentioned groups functioning 
 in Anna at the time. It gave a representative picture of that 
 era in Anna's history. It and other newspaper files showed 
 the progress the community had made in the past few decades, 
 as new industry, new business places presented new lines of 
 merchandise for the citizens of Anna. 
 
 The loose frock reaching half way down to the knees with 
 its large cape, made of buckskin, the moccasins, the coonskin 
 cap of the pioneers were gone. There were tai'ors, shoemak- 
 ers, and stores of men's furnishings to outfit the well-dressed 
 man of this day. The linsey petticoat and the bedgown of the 
 pioneer women were replaced by the elegance of the dress of 
 the gay nineties. It was the period of the large plumed hat, 
 the tight waist, the long flowing skirts, and the pompadour. 
 Milliners, dressmakers, and a plentiful supply of materials on 
 many merchants' shelves gave milady a choice and variety of 
 costume. The few pewter dishes, wooden bowls, gourds, 
 trenches, and noggins of the early settlers had vanished as the 
 hardware and furniture stores supplied the home furnishings. 
 
 The citizens had leisure time to give to the arts and rec- 
 reation. Miller Opera House on the top floor of the present 
 Anna National Bank building was a favorite rendezvous. Stock 
 
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 companies presented road shows weekly during certain sea- 
 sons. Such productions as "DuBarry," "Peck's Bad Boy," 
 "Uncle Tom's Cabin,' and others were given. Many of the 
 citizens owned good fast driving horses, and the Driving 
 Clubs held races at the Fairgrounds. Dances were held at 
 the Anna State Hospital. Picnics to Cave Spring Park and 
 fishing expeditions to Goodman's Ditch were pleasant diver- 
 sions. 
 
 The youth of this period were encouraged in the arts. 
 Art exhibits were held frequently and some of the more ac- 
 complished artists were Amy Kirkpatrick and Daniel Perrine. 
 Dr. and Mrs. Sanborn deserve credit for much of Anna's mu- 
 sical development. Many fine voices were developed in the 
 church, school, and choral groups. Concerts, operas and op- 
 erettes were presented by local talent in the opera house, and 
 included such productions as "Pinafore," "Trial by Jury" and 
 others. Members of the Dodds and Kroh families were es- 
 pecially talented. John B. Miller, who was one of the finest 
 tenors of his time, went on to study in London and Paris and 
 later gave concerts all over America. He toured with the 
 Chicago Opera Company and Symphony orchestra. Helen 
 Brown will be remembered by many of our readers for her 
 excellent voice. W. H. Taylor came to Anna as the first paid 
 choral driector. 
 
 The "arc lights" were replaced by electric lighting, the 
 foot path, wooden sidewalks, and dirt roads by stone side 
 walks and graveled streets, the horse and buggy by the 
 street car. 
 
 Agricultural implements brought new prosperity to the 
 farmers by increasing production, and better transportation 
 gave access to larger markets. Trades and professions show- 
 ed a marked increase. The first half century of toil, priva- 
 tion, and sacrifice had given way to a new and different mode 
 of life. Instead of the log cabin with its dirt floors and crude 
 furniture, beautiful homes and gracious hearths stood over- 
 shadowed by graceful trees and surrounded by spacious lawns. 
 
 People no longer lived independently as the early settlers 
 did, when each family was its own carpenter, blacksmith, 
 weaver, shoemaker, and miller. After fifty years of progress 
 industry provided necessities as well as luxuries. 
 
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 The task for reconstructing- for our readers this period of 
 the history of the people of Anna is not an easy one. Printed 
 sources are few except for the newspapers of that day, which 
 reflect the life of business ; business reflects the growth and 
 prosperity of a community which in turn reflects the life and 
 times of the people who comprise the community in the trading- 
 area it serves. A representative picture of the times then can 
 be g-iven by listing the business establishments, professional 
 men, industries, etc., found in the newspapers during this era. 
 From the files of the Democrat of 1901-1902 and the Directory 
 of 1897 we submit such a list. 
 
 Agricultural Implements 
 
 Dewitt, James 
 Stokes, W. W. 
 
 Attorneys 
 
 Edwards, J. E. 
 Rich, Wm. 
 Phillips, A. J. 
 Sessions & Hileman 
 Dood & Pickrell 
 Ling-le, James 
 Crawford & Sons 
 Ware, Jesse 
 
 Bakers 
 
 Union Bakery 
 Brown, Warren T. 
 Shaddrick, J. D. 
 Osgood, Mrs. 
 Sperry, Ed 
 
 Banks 
 Anna National 
 First National 
 
 Barbers 
 Ellis, W. C. 
 Bellows, H. 
 Miller, J. N. 
 Morgan & Travis 
 Spence, E. R. 
 Cook & Hileman 
 Shaffer. Fred 
 
 Bright, Wm. 
 
 Blacksmiths 
 
 DeWitt, James 
 Bissell, A. J, 
 Ligon, John 
 Reagan, J. 
 McConnell & Fierke 
 Stokes, Sam 
 
 Boots & Shoes 
 
 Sifford, T. P. 
 Gam, B. 
 
 Carpenter, Builders, etc. 
 
 Lippard, T. C. 
 English, E. 
 Mangold & Shipley 
 Robinson, A, W. 
 Robinson, L. F. 
 
 Clothing 
 Johnson, R. 
 Hirschorn, H. 
 Kohn, H. H. 
 
 Coal, Lime, Cement 
 Hebenberger & Sims 
 Finch & Shick 
 Wiggins, W. L. 
 
 Confectionary 
 Finch's 
 
 Stephen, W. J. 
 Shaddrick, A. J. 
 
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 Dantists 
 
 Willard, F. W. 
 VValser, C. R. 
 Perrine, T. N. 
 Shafer, C. H. 
 
 Druggist 
 Webb Drug Co. 
 Opera House Drug Store 
 Bussey, H. F. 
 Parks, Geo. C. 
 Otrich, O. 0. 
 Dry Goods 
 Alden Store Co. 
 Singer Bros. 
 Mattheis, G. & Co. 
 Dickinson, J. N. 
 Grear, F. P. 
 
 Express & Drayage 
 American Express Co. 
 Southern Express 
 
 Flour & Feed 
 Boyce & Hunsaker 
 Phoenix Roller Mills 
 
 Boswell, J. H. 
 
 Anna Roller Mills 
 
 Edwards, W. A. 
 
 Eureka Rolling Mills 
 
 Union Roller Mills 
 Fruit Brokers 
 
 Corlis. N. W. & Co. 
 Furniture 
 
 Spire, J. & Co. 
 
 Williford, J. W. 
 
 Williford, C. H. 
 
 Bacon's 
 
 General Stores 
 
 Dickinson, J. N. 
 
 Alden Store Co. 
 
 Eaves & Miller 
 
 Willard, Walter 
 
 Moore, John W. 
 
 Otrich, C. L. 
 Grocers 
 
 Corzine, J. J. 
 Ussery, M. V. 
 Kelly, John 
 Grisham, L. D. 
 Bohannon, A. D. & Co. 
 Brown, S. A. 
 DeWitt, J. C. 
 Shaddrick. J. A. 
 Carlile, E. T. 
 Parks, C. K. 
 Lufkin, J. E. & Son 
 Dillow, B. W. 
 
 Hardware 
 Norris, James 
 Kerth, E. G. 
 Lingle, Nelson 
 Mangold-Alden 
 Baker, W. E. 
 
 Harnessmakers 
 Masska, W. 
 Matchleith 
 
 Hotels 
 Otrich House 
 Farmer's Hotel 
 Eureka House 
 St. Charles Hotel 
 Verble House 
 McLain House 
 Roberts House 
 Anna Hotel. R. L. Willis 
 
 Insurance 
 H. P. Tuthill 
 Otrich & Rhodes 
 Henderson. W. 
 
 Jewelers 
 Henderson, W. 
 Grear, John 
 G. A. Heidinger 
 F. P. Anderson 
 
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 Physicians 
 
 Keith, L. D. 
 
 Finch, A. D. & G. L. 
 
 Dodd. F. S. 
 
 Hale & Martin (S. C.) 
 
 Sabin, F. A. 
 
 Farris, R. E. 
 
 Eddleman, Wm. 
 
 Agnew, T. Lee 
 
 Hale, I. V. 
 
 Hale, E. Vincent 
 
 Stewart, J. C. 
 
 Printers & Publishers 
 Republican Union County 
 The Talk 
 The Democrat 
 Hammond & Detrich 
 Rushing, M. 
 
 Ladies Furnishings 
 Bouton, Mrs. A. D. 
 
 Laundries 
 Anna Steam Laundry 
 
 Liveries 
 
 Warren & Penninger 
 White & Co. 
 Kenilworth-R. Tuthill 
 
 Lumber 
 Anna Lumber Company 
 Grear, Walter 
 
 Meat Markets 
 Coleman Bros. 
 Coleman, F. M. 
 Mattheis. J. D. 
 
 Milliners 
 McKinney, Miss S. E. 
 Steers, Emma 
 Feuss, Miss Sophia 
 Crowell, Mrs. A. H. 
 
 Paints, Painters 
 Spire L. & Son 
 Metzger, Fred 
 
 Trades Building, Masons, etc. 
 
 Coffman, J. N. 
 Carlile, Robert 
 Chase, John 
 Davis, Geor. W. 
 Drummond, Wm. 
 Fowler, S. 
 Green, John 
 Hill, G. A. 
 Hunsaker, J. W. 
 Jenkins, B. J. 
 Johnson, Calvin 
 Mullins, J. N. 
 
 Photographers 
 Atkins & Albertson 
 Mattheis, J. D. 
 
 Restaurants 
 Bump, Joe 
 Eddleman, G. E. 
 
 Shoemakers 
 Ussery, John 
 Yarborough, W. T. 
 Britton & Son 
 Kinney, H. 
 
 Tailors 
 Duncan Bros. 
 Whipperman, Chas. 
 McNaughton, A. 
 
 Tinners 
 Sharp, J. A. 
 Cook, A. V. 
 
 Utilities 
 Fasig & Perrine 
 Union Co. Traction & Power 
 Co. 
 
 Veterinary 
 R. E. Brown 
 
 Undertakers 
 Norris, G. W. 
 
 Wagonmakers 
 Fierke, J. B. 
 
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 HIGHLIGHTS OF GROWTH SINCE 1900 
 
 The following high lights in the growth of the city were 
 taken from the files of the City Hall and Gazette-Democrat. 
 1901 — Main Street graded and macadamized with crushed 
 rock and topped with gravel. Citizens carried water from 
 troughs due to water shortage. Disastrous fire included loss 
 of following buildings: R. C. Kirkpatrick, R. Johnson, Joe 
 Bump, Brown & Edwards, Wesley Henderson, M. V. Brown, 
 E. C. Finch, Opera House Drug Store, and post office. 
 
 1903 — James Davis, who had a gasoline lamp on corner of 
 Main and Railroad Streets on exhibition, proposed the city 
 put up 20 lamps to light the streets for $60.00 per month; 
 business house and office rates 50 cents per month per light, 
 residences, 35 cents per month per light, and this would in- 
 clude all night service. Accepted by city. Ordinance passed 
 to restrict sale of cemetery lots to citizens of the City of Anna. 
 Congressman Geo. W. Smith helped secure establishment of 
 free rural delivery. Anna city light plant bought by A. A. 
 Fasig to supply lights and construct an electric street car from 
 Anna State Hospital through Anna to Jonesboro. Other main 
 village streets and those leading out of town gravelled. Old 
 wooden sidewalks replaced on leading streets by stone walks. 
 Proposal to establish a library considered. Organization of 
 Business Men's League to promote business welfare and gen- 
 eral interests. Flood of Mississippi River, highest water in 
 50 years, low lands from Alton to Cairo submerged reaching a 
 distance in some places of 10 miles ; Anna contributed 8647 to 
 flood sufferers. Captain R. B. Stinson, with the exception of 
 815,000, left his entire estate of $55,000 to the City of Anna 
 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a library, the 
 principal to be used as an endowment and building to be built 
 when sufficient amount shall have accrued from the income 
 of the trust. Accepted by the city Jan. 4, 1904. First Board 
 of Directors for the Stinson Memorial Library were John Spire, 
 president; H. L. McGill, vice-president; Oliver Alden, Secre- 
 tary; John B. Jackson, A. Ney Sessions, J. E. Lentz, C. L. 
 Otrich, H. F. Bussey, and E. E. McLaughlin. 
 
 1905 — First temporary street car tracks laid on Freeman 
 street to hold franchise to State Hospital. 
 
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 THE FIRST STREET CAR IN 1905 
 
 The first street car to turn a wheel in Anna started its 
 initial trip over the hill to Jonesboro in August,1905. Miss 
 Arnaud Fasig-, daughter of Mr. A. A. Fasig, turned the lever 
 to start the car on its first run. Those who were in the car 
 and took the first ride were Mr. and Mrs. Fasig and daughter, 
 Mrs. J. B. Alden, A. Ney Sessions, John B. Jackson, J. L. 
 Hammond and daughter, and E. A. Davie. Those who paid 
 the first fares were Millard Rushing, W. F. Neibauer, A. 
 Ney Sessions, William Treece, J. Will Laws, S. H. Frost, and 
 R. L. Hileman. The car was scheduled to make the trip from 
 Jonesboro to the Anna State Hospital every fifteen minutes. 
 Street car service was discontinued in 1922 and a bus line 
 served the same territory. The bus line was discontinued in 
 1953. 
 
 1907 — Resolution accepted creating first paving districts 
 — Main, Jackson, Washington, and W. Railroad Streets. Elec- 
 tric light plant erected near Phoenix Mills — Wesley Hender- 
 son and Bob Henderson, operators. First sewer district con- 
 structed in alley back of Anna Hotel. 
 
 1912 — First pound master appointed, W. J. Trammel, to 
 enforce ordinance providing it shall be unlawful for any horse, 
 cow, hog, pig, sheep, goat, or goose to run at large or go un- 
 restrained within corporate limits of city of Anna. Amuse- 
 ments of games or any activity causing disturbance on the 
 Sabbath were definitely forbidden, such as dance halls, pin and 
 ball alleys, or moving picture theaters or labor on Sunday 
 within the city limits. 
 
 1916 — Ordinance passed restricting location of livery 
 stables, blacksmiths, foundaries, machine shops, and garages 
 within city limits. Second Lewis Addition added to the city 
 of Anna. Designated certam members of the city council and 
 the mayor as a board of Local Improvements. Addition of 
 sidewalks on outlying streets north of railroad. 
 
 1917 — Ordinance passed regulating use of paved portions 
 of streets by motor trucks to protect streets from damage. 
 Ordinance creating the plumbing and sewer, providing for 
 
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 alterations, installation and supervision of plumbing and 
 drainage in city. Salaries of city employees: superintendent 
 of streets, $60.00 per month ; chief of police, $50.00 per 
 month ; sexton, $60.00 per month ; health officers, $25.00 per 
 month ; laborers 20 cents per hour. 
 
 1919 — Under consideration was the proposed route from 
 Anna to Cairo by Egyptian Hard Road Association. More 
 sidewalks were added to outlying streets on both sides of 
 the railroad. 
 
 1920 — Resolution adopted that the city purchase a motor- 
 cycle to be used in curbing reckless driving in the city. Also 
 public health ordinance providing quarrantine on premises 
 where there are contagious or infectious disease. 
 
 1921 — Change from aldermanic to commission form of 
 government. Petition from East Side Apartment Corpora- 
 tion signed by R. E. Brown asking permission to wreck old 
 brick building and erect three-story brick building on Lots 
 111-112 of original plot. Contract let for water supply be- 
 tween City of Anna and Central Illinois Public Service Com- 
 pany. Submission to Division of Waterways for District 2 
 to 7. Kohler addition to city of Anna. 
 
 1922-23— Sewer District No. 2, 3, 3, 5, submitted. Water- 
 works — Districts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Paving Districts — 5, 6, 7. 
 
 1924 — Plot known as the Daniel Sifford Heirs added to 
 the city. Plot known as the Gattinger's added to the city. 
 Sewer District 6 created. Agreement between C. I. P. S. 
 Company and city for discontinuing the street car service be- 
 tween Anna State Hospital and Jonesboro. Passenger busses 
 to be in operation within 90 days to replace cars. Ordinance 
 to establish present fire department system. Ordinance pro- 
 viding for the purchase of the Hale-Willard Sanitorium for 
 $13,000 from Dr. E. V. Hale, in accordance with the wishes 
 of his father, to be converted into Hale-Willard City Hospital. 
 First trustees of hospital: R. L. Shannon, C. H. Bruchhauser, 
 and H. C. Sifford, M. L. West appointed on resignation of Sif- 
 ford. Special election to approve 3 1-3 mills no dollar an- 
 nually for public hospital. Tax approved. 
 
 1925 — Fire Department organized — Elmer Stevens, Ray 
 
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 Penrod, Don Crabtree, Marry Brown, Ralph Mattheis, and 
 Russell Abernathy. Ordinance granting franchise to Southern 
 Illinois Telephone Company. 
 
 1930 — Special election provided for showing movies on 
 Sunday. 
 
 1931 — Resolution endorsing Forest Preserve advocated in 
 Southern Illinois. 
 
 1933-1937 — Plans made for the construction of Anna 
 Municipal Market, completed in 1935. Resolutions passed to 
 construct new water wells. Wells were to be drilled and neces- 
 sary electrical control equipment installed for filtering. 
 
 Under W.P.A. (formerly C.W.A.) the federal government 
 for the first time furnished men and money for public works. 
 These facilities were used by the city and the county in build- 
 ing the Anna City Market, country roads, Ravine Theater at 
 Community High School ; repairs on Anna City Hall and Coun- 
 ty Court House and paving on George and Douglas streets and 
 others. Also a cistern and filters program was undertaken 
 for rural sanitation. A C. C. C. camp was built at the Anna 
 Fairgrounds in 1937 and later moved to the forest preserve. 
 During the flood of that year the camp was used to house hun- 
 dreds of refugees from Cairo, Mounds, and Mound City; all 
 resources were turned over to the Red Cross for the emergen- 
 cy. Later a W. P. A. cannery was located here; W. P. A. 
 furnished cans and labor selected from the unemployed on the 
 relief rolls of the county. 
 
 1937-39 — Completed water works improvement from 3 
 deep wells. Addition of modern filtration and water soften- 
 ing plant. Erection of joint sewage disposal plant with the 
 State of Illinois with Clarence Mattheis, Supt. of disposal plant. 
 Removal of old street car tracks. Installation of crossing 
 gates at Main crossing of Illinois Central. 
 
 1942 — Franchise granted Truman Keller and Earl Carter 
 for operation of a bus line within the city of Anna. Later 
 became Anna Cab Company, operating from Anna State Hos- 
 pital to Jonesboro. 
 
 1943 — Ordinance providing for a local registrar of vital 
 statistics. 
 
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 1944 — City deeds 12 lots in cemetery to Townsend F. 
 Dodd Post of the American Legion for Memorial plot. Adopt- 
 ed resolution accepting provisions of the trust and bequest 
 created in City of Anna, contained in last will and testiment of 
 A. Ney Sessions. Funds to be used in construction of a City 
 Hospital. Board of Directors appointed was G. R. Corlis, C. 
 Parks, William Smith, and Ford Rendleman, attorney. 
 
 1945 — Kohler property on N. Main bought for city hos- 
 pital site. 
 
 1946 — Paul Miller addition to City of Anna accepted. 
 Ordinance passed providing for establishment, maintenance, 
 and conduct a playground and recreation system for city. 
 First Board of Directors: Hugh Pinkstaff, Robert Jean, and 
 L. H. Moore. Provision made for city garbage collections and 
 trucks purchased. 
 
 1947 — Police Department provided with car without cost 
 by Pearl Motor Co. 
 
 1950 — Resolution adopted authorizing lease with Southern 
 Illinois Fair Association for land to be used for park and play 
 ground purposes. Election carried for installation of park- 
 ing meters. 
 
 1951 — Anna City Hospital dedicated June 10, 1951. Elec- 
 tric signal gates installed at Main Street crossing of Illinois 
 Central. City Civil Defense ordinance passed. 
 
 1952 — Resolution adopted authorizing Anna City Park 
 Board to negotiate for purchase of Southern Illinois Fair As- 
 sociation land for playground and swimming pool. Property 
 conveyed to city for same with provision Fair Association 
 would continue to hold fairs each year and have use of barns. 
 City Council accepted bid as submitted by Anna-Jonesboro 
 Community High School Board, Dist. No. 18 ($10,000) for 
 Hale Willard Hospital site. 
 
 1953 — Paving Districts 13-15 and Sewer District 9 com- 
 pleted — Finch Addition, Miller Heights, Casey, and W. Davie 
 streets. City Civil Defense ordinance passed. Polio clean up 
 campaign — City sprayed. Resolution adopted providing for 
 eligible employees of city to secure social security effective 
 
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 June 1, 1954. Accepted proposal of Mid-West Security Com- 
 pany to make survey of water works improvements, 
 
 1925-1926 
 
 During- the past twenty-five years much advancement has 
 been made in the industrial and economic life of the commu- 
 nity. New industry, new business houses, new inventions, 
 new homes, new faces and new fashions, all combined to give 
 a new life to the community. Types of business had changed 
 to meet the times. Instead of the old general store there were 
 stores specializing in a particular type of merchandise. The 
 harness and wagon manufacturers had been replaced by gar- 
 ages, and automobile and farm implement sales companies. 
 Life had become more comfortable with the introduction of 
 modern conveniences. Modern lighting, waterworks, paving 
 and many other improvements followed in rapid succession. 
 
 Again the newspapers of that time gives a representative 
 picture of our modern civilization. Many new establishments 
 were serving the community, as the demands of the public 
 were supplied. Many older firms continued their business op- 
 erations. The files of the Democrat for the year 1926 showed 
 the prosperity of the "roaring twenties." The increasing de- 
 mands of a larger population in a progressive society were 
 met by these establishments, and by others that were not 
 available through this source. The following list identifies 
 the men and women of this period who were serving the peo- 
 ple, supplying their needs, and building a better community in 
 which to live: 
 
 Agricultural Implements Books and Stationery 
 
 Lee Implement Co. Wiley's 
 
 Attorneys Cleaners & Tailors 
 
 Chas. C. Crawford Royal Cleaners, G. E. Seibert 
 
 George W. Crawford Duncan & Boyce 
 
 Russell E. Townsend Coal & Building Material 
 
 Bakeries West & Ligon 
 
 R. P. Johnson & Son Confectionery 
 
 Banks Britton's 
 
 Anna National Bank Davis, formerly Anna Candy 
 
 State & Trust Bank Kitchen 
 
 First National Bank 
 
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 Dairy & Poultry Products 
 
 Anna Creamery — R. R. God- 
 
 ard 
 Drummond's Hatchery 
 
 Dentists 
 H. B. Shafer 
 E. C. Kimbro 
 O. E. Johnson 
 K. K. Kelley 
 
 Drug Stores 
 Park's Drug Store 
 Kimbro Drug Store, Arville 
 Owen's Drug Store, E. P. 
 Krack's, formerly Dillow 
 
 Flour & Feeds 
 Bruchhauser Bros. 
 Anna Flour & Feed Co. 
 Weidlocker & Sons 
 Phoenix Flour Mills 
 
 Furniture 
 Bacon's Furniture Store 
 Bennett Furniture Co. 
 W. H. Taylor — Furniture & 
 Music 
 
 Funeral Directors 
 Norris Funeral Home 
 H. R. McCarty 
 
 Groceries & Meats 
 C. L. Sitter & Son 
 Gold Band Store — Walter 
 
 Vaughn, Prop. 
 Krogers 
 Hileman's, H. C. — Groceries 
 
 & Seeds 
 Atlantic-Pacific Tea Co. 
 S. D. Joiner — Groceries, Dry 
 
 goods 
 The Daniel Grocery 
 C. B. Menees 
 
 General Merchandise 
 Matthes Bros. 
 
 Dougherty Variety Store 
 
 Alden's Store Co. 
 
 Sanford's 
 
 G. L. Sitter & Son 
 
 Appliances 
 
 J. A. Douglas — Easy Washer 
 
 A. J. Doughtery — Furnaces 
 
 Delford Walser — Fuller 
 Brushes 
 Heating & Plumbing 
 
 C. O. Halterman, Heating 
 
 Charles Slightom, Heating 
 
 John F. Norris, Plumbing 
 
 Dougherty & Grantham, 
 Heating 
 Insurance & Securities 
 
 Anna Mutual Relief Assn. 
 
 John H. Wood 
 
 Anna Loan & Improvement 
 Assn., J. H. Ligon, R. E. 
 Brown 
 
 John R. Gattinger, Securities 
 
 L. B. Tuthill 
 
 Anna Building & Loan Asso- 
 ciation 
 Jewelers 
 
 Jas. L. Wahl & Son 
 
 H. C. Lentz 
 Hardware 
 
 Kerth-Mangold Co. 
 
 John W. Moore & Co. 
 
 A. W. Walter Jr. & Co. 
 Ladies Furnishing-Milliners 
 
 The Style Shop 
 
 Seger's, lowna Seger, Milli- 
 ner 
 
 Mrs. S. E. McKinney, Milli- 
 ner 
 Men's Furnishings 
 
 Kohn's Clothing Co. 
 
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 Lumber 
 
 Ligon Lumber Co. 
 
 Union County Lumber Co. 
 
 Physicians 
 
 W. J. Benner 
 L. J. May 
 H. 0. Taylor 
 Glenn J. Tygett 
 Wm. R. Eddleman 
 
 C. A. Hunsaker 
 Roy Keith 
 
 D. B. Stewart 
 Printing & Publishing 
 
 Will English — Job Printing 
 The Democrat 
 The Talk 
 
 Radios 
 P. E. Avitt 
 Patterson & Cruse 
 
 Restaurants 
 Tut's— R. Tuthill 
 Pat's Place 
 
 Oil Companies, Car Dealers, 
 Etc. 
 McFadden Oil Co. 
 Hess & Penrod — Hudson 
 
 Dealers 
 Carey Jones Motor Co. — 
 Overland Dealers 
 
 Hal Bishop — Used Cars 
 Fred Roberts Motor Co. — 
 
 Chevrolet Dealer 
 Buford Motor Co. — Ford 
 
 Dealer 
 Van E. Crane — Buick Dealer 
 Penrod's Garage 
 Anna Auto Laundry — J. E. 
 
 Hill, Prop. 
 Auto Tires— Russell Tuthill 
 
 Theaters 
 
 Yale — H. H. Henderson, Mgr. 
 
 Utilities 
 
 Central Illinois Public Serv- 
 ice Co. 
 Bus Line 
 
 Wholesalers 
 
 Anna Products Corporation 
 
 Veterinary 
 R. H. Crowell 
 
 Optomitrist 
 James F. Wahl 
 
 Chiropractor 
 
 J. C. Kincaid 
 
 Fruit & Vegetable Packages 
 
 J. H. Wood 
 
 Union Fruit Package Co. — J. 
 C. DeWitt 
 
 CITY OFFICIALS 1871-1954 
 
 As a matter of interest to all and for the public record we 
 submit the list of city officials from 1871, under the first trus- 
 tees to the present time. The City of Anna has been fortu- 
 nate in its selection of men for public office, — (and this re- 
 flects on the good judgment of the citizens), men of wisdom, 
 deep integrity and vision. By their diligent application to the 
 duties of their respective offices and by their persistant ef- 
 forts for the advancement of the city, politically, financially, 
 morally and spiritually, their contributions to the city's 100 
 
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 years of progress are incalculable. Living ex-mayors as of 
 this date are Rad Burnett, J. K. Walton and Ben Green. 
 
 1871 — President, Joseph P. Bohannon; Trustees, C. Shick, 
 W. Kirkpatrick, J. G. Sublett, M. V. B. Harwood ; Clerk, E. A. 
 Freeman; town constable, T. W. Bowen; attorney, T. H. 
 Phillips ; street commissioner, M. M. Dougherty ; police magis- 
 trate, Joseph Levy; treasurer, J. F. Lentz. 
 
 1872 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; aldermen, William 
 M. Brown, Christian Nordling, Andrew D. Finch, Ford S. 
 Dodds; clerk, J. L. Meisenheimer ; constable, M. M. Inman; 
 treasurer, M. V. Eaves; street commissioner, J. E. Lentz; at- 
 torney, T. H. Phillips. 
 
 1873 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; treasurer, John 
 Blackburn; attorney, T. H. Phillips; clerk, Newt Meisenheim- 
 er; marshall, J. W. Coleman; superintendent of streets, Nich- 
 olas Kohler; aldermen, J. G. Sublett, William M. Brown, T. 
 M. Perrine, J. L. Inscore, P. H. Kroh, P. P. Barlow, J. P. Bo- 
 hannon (to fill vacancy, resignation P. H. Kroh). 
 
 1874 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; treasurer, C. M. 
 Willard ; attorney, T. H. Phillips ; clerk, M. V. Eaves ; marshal, 
 A. P. Rector (resigned, and vacancy filled by James L Toler) ; 
 street commissioner, P. M. Coleman ; police magistrate, Joseph 
 Levy; aldermen, James L Hale, William M. Brown, John E. 
 Lufkin, J. L. Inscore, W. H. Trent, J. P. Bohannon. 
 
 1875 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; treasurer, C. M. 
 Willard; attorney, John A. Treece; clerk, M. V. Eaves; mar- 
 shal, James I. Toler (removed, and vacancy filled by J. A. 
 Stults) ; superintendent of streets, P. M. Coleman; police mag- 
 istrate, Joseph Levy; aldermen, William M. Brown, J. G. Sub- 
 lett, J. E. Lentz, C. M. Willard, Jr., J. P. Bohannon. 
 
 1876 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; treasurer, T. M. 
 Perrine; attorney, John A, Treece; clerk, A. G. Britton; mar- 
 shall, M. M. Inman; superintendent of streets, M. M. Inman; 
 police magistrate, Joseph Levy ; aldermen, William M. Brown, 
 J. G. Sublett, J. E. Lentz, C. M. Willard, Jr., J. P. Bohannon, 
 William H. Trent. 
 
 1877 — Mayor, William M. Brown; treasurer, C. K. Parks; 
 
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 attorney, W. C. Rich elected, not eligible; T. H. Phillips ap- 
 pointed and resigned and James W. Coleman appointed ; clerk, 
 Con. O'Callaghan; marshal, M. M. Inman; superintendent of 
 streets, M. M. Inman; police magistrate, Joseph Levy; alder- 
 men, M. M. Henderson, J. G. Sublett, R. Johnson, C. M. Willard, 
 Jr., J. P. Bohannon, William H. Trent. 
 
 1878 — Mayor, William M. Brown ; treasurer, C. K. Parks ; 
 attorney, J. W. Coleman ; clerk. Con. O'Callaghan ; marshal and 
 superintendent of streets, James A. Wells; police magistrate, 
 Joseph Levy; aldermen, M. M. Henderson, R. W. Carlile, R. 
 H. Johnson, M. V. Ussery, J. P. Bohannon, E. H. Finch. 
 
 1879 — Mayor, John Spire; treasurer, H. F. Bussey; at- 
 torney, W. C. Moreland ; clerk, A. G. Britton ; marshal, M. M. 
 Inman ; superintendent of streets, P. M. Coleman ; police mag- 
 istrate, Joseph Levy ; aldermen, Charles L. Otrich, R. W. Car- 
 lile, Moses Goodman, M. V. Ussery, J. P. Bohannon, E. H. 
 Finch. 
 
 1880 — Mayor, John Spire ; treasurer, H. F. Bussey ; attor- 
 ney, W. C. Moreland; clerk, A. G. Britton; marshal, M. M. In- 
 man; superintendent of streets, Nicholas Kohler; police mag- 
 istrate, Joseph Levy; aldermen, J. W. Williford, Charles L. 
 Otrich, M. V. Ussery, Moses Goodman, E. D. Eddy, J. P. 
 Bohannon. 
 
 1881 — Mayor, John Spire; treasurer, C. K. Parks; attor- 
 ney, W. C. Moreland; clerk, A. G. Britton; marshal, Zadoc 
 Elms ; superintendent of streets, Nicholas Kohler ; police mag- 
 istrate, Joseph Levy; aldermen, J. W. Williford, James A. 
 Wells, M. V. Ussery, J. F. Williford, E. D. Eddy, M. V. Eaves. 
 
 1882 — Mayor, John Spire; treasurer, C. K. Parks; at- 
 torney, W. C. Moreland ; clerk, A. G. Britton ; marshal, Zadoc 
 Elms ; superintendent of streets, Nicholas Kohler ; police mag- 
 isrtate, Joseph Levy; aldermen, James A. Wells, J. W. Willi- 
 ford, James DeWitt, M. V. Eaves, J. I. Hale. 
 
 1883 — Mayor, Cornwell Kirkpatrick; treasurer, H. P. Tut- 
 hill; clerk. Will C. Ussery (resigned, vacancy filled by H. F. 
 Bussey) ; marshal, H. W. Henley ; superintendent of streets, 
 B. W. Pulley ; police magistrate, P. H. Kroh ; aldermen, J. W. 
 
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 Williford, D. W. Brown, James DeWitt; R. B. Stinson, J. I. 
 Hale, J. W. Hess. 
 
 1884 — Mayor, Cornwall Kirkpatrick; treasurer, H. P. 
 Tuthill ; attorney, T. H. Phillips, (resigned, vacancy filled by 
 A. J. Nisbet) ; clerk, H. F. Bussey; marshal, H. W. Henley; 
 superintendent of streets, B. W. Pulley ; police mapristrate, P. 
 H. Kroh ; aldermen, D. W. Brown, John Pickrell, R. B. Stinson, 
 A. G. Britton, John W. Hess, J. W. Dandridge. 
 
 1885 — Mayor, Daniel \V. Brown; treasurer, C. K. Parks; 
 attorney, J. E. N. Edwards ; clerk, H. F. Bussey ; marshal, Za- 
 doc Elms ; superintendent of streets, B. W. Menees ; police mag- 
 istrate, P. H. Kroh; aldermen, W. T. Boon, R. W. Carlile, 
 James M. Hileman, A. G. Britton, J. W. Hess, J. E. Dandridge 
 (resigned). 
 
 1886 — Mayor, Daniel W. Brown; treasurer, C. K. Parks; 
 attorney, J. E. N. Edwards ; clerk, H. F. Bussey ; marshal, John 
 S. Jones (resigned, and the vacancy filled by Calvin H. Davis) ; 
 superintendent of streets, C. F. Grace; police magistrate, P. 
 H. Kroh; aldermen, B. F. Mangold, W. T. Boon, R. B. Stin- 
 son, James M. Hileman, H. F. Richardson. 
 
 1887— Mayor, H. F. Bussey; treasurer, H. P. Tuthill; at- 
 torney, J. E. N. Edwards; clerk, A. W. Sims; marshal, Calvin 
 H. Davis ; superintendent of streets, James Gibson ; police 
 magistrate, Hugh Andrews; aldermen, James I. Toler, B. F. 
 Mangold, D. W. Goodman, R. B. Stinson, James Dickinson, H, 
 F. Richardson (resigned). 
 
 1888 — Mayor, H. F. Bussey (resigned and M. V. Eaves 
 elected to fill vacancy) ; treasurer, H. P. Tuthill ; attorney, J. 
 E. N. Edwards; clerk, A. W. Sims; marshal, C. F. Grace; po- 
 lice magistrate, Hugh Andrews ; aldermen, J. Will Hunsaker, 
 James I. Tolor, J. C. DeWitt; D. W. Goodman, T. B. Rhodes, 
 James Dickinson, 
 
 1889 — Mayor, M. V. Ussery; treasurer, Charles V. Nord- 
 ling; attorney, H. F. Bussey; clerk, S. E. Fowler; marshal, 
 Thomas R, Mullins ; superintendent of streets, B. W. Menees ; 
 sexton, Isom Aldrich ; police magistrate, Hugh Andrews ; al- 
 dermen, D. W. Brown, J. C. DeWitt, T. M. Perrine. J. Will 
 Hunsaker, A. J. Hunsaker, T. B. Rhodes. 
 
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 1890 — Mayor, M. V. Ussery; treasurer, C. V. Nordling; 
 attorney, H. F. Bussey; clerk, S. E. Fowler; marshal, Thos. R. 
 Mullins; superintendent of streets, B. W. Menees; sexton, 
 James Baldwin; police magistrate, Hugh Andrews; aldermen, 
 Wesley Henderson, D. W. Brown, I. C. Piersol, T. M. Perrine, 
 George L. Spire, A. J. Hunsaker. 
 
 1891_Mayor, J. Will Hunsaker; treasurer, J. C. DeWitt; 
 attorney, A. Ney Sessions; clerk, S. E. Fowler; marshal and 
 superintendent of streets, C. F. Grace; sexton, Henry Fritz; 
 police magistrate, James M. Hileman ; aldermen, Wesley Hen- 
 derson, J. I. Toler, I. C. Piersol, W. H. Treece, George L. Spire, 
 R. W. Rushing. 
 
 1892 — Mayor, J. Will Hunsaker; treasurer, J. C. DeWitt; 
 attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; clerk, S. E. Fowler; marshall, K. 
 F. Grace; superintendent of streets, Elijah Slankard; sexton, 
 Wesley Carlile; police magistrate, Hugh Andrews; aldermen, 
 James I. Toler, Daniel Sifford, J. F. Williford, W. H. Treece, 
 R. W. Rushing, W. C. Rich, Jr. 
 
 1893 — Mayor, M. V. Eaves; treasurer, George Spire; at- 
 torney, W. C. Moreland; clerk, George T. Hileman; marshal, 
 John I. Rooney; superintendent of streets, B. W. Menees; sex- 
 ton, James Lowery; police magistrate, Hugh Andrews; alder- 
 men, C. E. Kirkpatrick, R. A. Carlile, J. E. Lufkin, Walter 
 Grear, J. T. Moreland, G. Mattheis. 
 
 1895 — Mayor, Taylor Dodd; treasurer, F. H. Kroh ; at- 
 torney, W. C. Moreland; clerk, Thos. Piersol; marshal, A. T. 
 Thompson ; superintendent of streets, I. G. Dale ; sexton, Frank 
 Henry; police magistrate, Hugh Andrews; aldermen, R. A. 
 Carlile, D. W. Brown, A. Craver, John Brooks, G. Mattheis, 
 E. Babcock. 
 
 1896— Mayor, Taylor Dodd; treasurer, F. H. Kroh; at- 
 torney, W. C. Moreland; clerk, T. Piersol; marshal, A. T. 
 Thompson; superintendent of streets, B. W. Pulley; sexton, 
 Thos. Webster; police magistrate, A. J. Hunsaker; aldermen, 
 B. C. White, J. B. Fierke, George L. Spire, R. A. Carlile, John 
 Brooks, A. Craver. 
 
 1897 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, J. C. DeWitt; 
 attorney, W. C. Rich; clerk, J. C. Peeler; marshal, John Elms; 
 
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 superintendent of streets, E. F. McLafferty ; sexton, Cornelius 
 Pelley; police magistrate, A. J. Hunsaker; aldermen, J. B, 
 Fierke, James Green, D. W. Goodman, B. C. White, George 
 Spire, A. Seger. 
 
 1898 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, J. C. DeWitt; 
 attorney, W. C. Rich; clerk, J. C. Peeler; marshal, John Elms; 
 superintendent of streets, J. Will Hunsaker; sexton, M. P. 
 Webster; police magistrate, A. J. Hunsaker; aldermen, J. I. 
 Toler, S. F. Scott, G. L. Spire, A. W. Sims, D. W. Brown, A. 
 Seger, James Green, D. W. Goodman. 
 
 1899 — Mayor, A. W. Sims; treasurer, W. Bruchhauser; 
 attorney, A. J. Pickrell; clerk, S. E. Fowler; marshal, J. W. 
 Green; superintendent of streets, Henry Hertz; sexton, M. P. 
 Webster; police magistrate, A. J. Hunsaker; aldermen, D. W. 
 Brown, B. W. Dillow, J. I. Toler, J. N. Wood, J. B. Fierke, S. F. 
 Scott, James Coffman, Jerre Sabra. 
 
 1900 — Mayor, A. W. Sims; treasurer, W. Bruchhauser; 
 attorney, A. J. Pickrell, clerk, S. E. Fowler; Thos, Piersol ap- 
 pointed to fill vacancy, John W. Roy appointed to fill vacancy; 
 marshal, N. O. Colby ; superintendent of streets, Henry Hertz ; 
 sexton, M. P. Webster; police magistrate, A. J. Hunsaker; al- 
 dermen, George Sanford, D. W. Smith, B. L. Boyce, W. T. 
 Miller, J. N. Wood, Jerre Sabra, J. B. Fierke, B. W. Dillow. 
 
 1901 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, John Spire; 
 attorney, H. F. Bussey ; clerk, J. L. Hammond; marshal, 
 Thomas R. Mullins; W. H. Treece to fill vacancy; street com- 
 missioner, L. D. Massey, Henry Kohler to fill vacancy; sexton, 
 M. P. Webster; aldermen, Logan Boren, J. B. Fierke, T. A. 
 Carlile, J. M. Coffman to fill vacancy, B. W. Dillow, George 
 Sanford, D. W. Smith, W. T. Miller. (No police magistrate 
 listed in records for 1901). 
 
 1902 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, John Spire; 
 attorney, H. F. Bussey ; clerk, J. L. Hammond ; marshal, W. H. 
 Treece (to fill vacancy) ; street commissioner, Henry B. Hertz; 
 sexton, Jacob C. Wells ; aldermen, George Sanford, D. W. 
 Smith, George H. Huggins, Henry Kohler, Logen Boren, J. B. 
 Fierke, T. A. Carlile, B. W. Dillow. (No police magistrate 
 listed 1902). 
 
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 1903 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman ; treasurer, Frank H. Kroh ; 
 attorney, H. F. Bussey ; clerk, J. L. Hammond ; marshal, B. 
 W. Menees; street commissioner, Thomas Pelley; sexton, J. 
 W. Wheeler; police magistrate, J. D. Browning; aldermen, 
 J. N. Wood, John N. Mullins, John Bacon, Elmore Henley, 
 George Sanford, D. W. Smith, George H. Huggins, Henry Koh- 
 ler. 
 
 1904 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, Frank H. 
 Kroh; attorney, H. F. Bussey; clerk, J. L. Hammond; marshal, 
 B. W. Menees; superintendent of streets, Henry Hertz; sex- 
 ton, M. P. Webster; police magistrate, J. D. Browning; alder- 
 men, M. D. Harpending, Al Brady, A. Seger, A. W. Sims, J. 
 N. Wood, John N. Mullins, John Bacon, Elmore Henley. 
 
 1905 — Mayor, James N. Wood; treasurer, James K. Wal- 
 ton ; attorney, L. B. Tuthill ; clerk, J. L. Hammond ; marshal, 
 James W, Kimbro; superintendent of streets, Henry B. Hertz; 
 sexton, M. P. Webster; police magistrate, J. D. Browning; 
 aldermen, George Sanford, August F. Bruchhauser, James M. 
 Coffman, Henry L. Kohler, Al Brady, A. Seger, A. W. Sims. 
 
 1906 — Mayor, James N. Wood; treasurer, James K. Wal- 
 ton; attorney, L. B. Tuthill; clerk, J. L. Hammond; marshal, 
 James W. Kimbro; superintendent of streets, Henry Hertz; 
 sexton, M, P. Webster; police magistrate, J. D. Browning; al- 
 dermen, Logen Boren, J. B. Fierke, Russell Tuthill, B. W. Bil- 
 low, George Sanford, August F. Bruchhauser, James M. Coff- 
 man, Henry L. Kohler. 
 
 1907 — Mayor, E. S. Alden; treasurer, F. H. Kroh; clerk, 
 J. L. Hammond; attorney, L. P. Tuthill; marshal, Ben Green; 
 superintendent of streets, Thomas Pelley; sexton, M. P. Web- 
 ster; police magistrate, A. J. Phillips; oil inspector, Ben Green; 
 aldermen, Edward Boswell, August F. Bruchhauser, Charles 
 H. Wiley, John I. Rooney, Logen Boren, J. B. Fierke, Russell 
 Tuthill, B. W. Billow. 
 
 1908 — Mayor, E. S. Alden, treasurer, F. H. Kroh; clerk, 
 J. L. Hammond; attorney, L. P. Tuthill; superintendent of 
 streets, Thomas Pelley; marshal and oil inspector. Perry D. 
 Parker; sexton, M. P. Webster; police magistrate, A. J. Phil- 
 lips ; aldermen, Henry F. Yost, Al Brady, Allen Hargrave, Wil- 
 
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 liam A. Davis, Edward Boswell, A. F. Bruchhauser, Charles H. 
 Wiley, John I. Rooney. 
 
 1909 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman ; treasurer, Robert L, Wil- 
 lis ; clerk, J. L. Hammond ; attorney, Lewis P. Tuthill ; marshal 
 and oil inspector. Perry Parker; superintendent of streets, 
 Thomas Pelley, Henry Hertz to fill vacancy; sexton, C. C. 
 Bird ; police magistrate, A. J. Phillips ; aldermen, Logen Boren, 
 J. B. Fierke, T. A. Carlile, Henry Kohler, Henry F. Yost; Al 
 Brady, Allen Hargrave, Wm. A. Davis. 
 
 1910 — Mayor, W. M. Eddleman; treasurer, Robert L. Wil- 
 lis ; clerk, J. L. Hammond ; attorney, Lewis B. Tuthill ; marshal 
 and oil inspector, Perry Parker ; superintendent of streets, Hen- 
 ry Hertz; James Lynn to fill vacancy; sexton, C. C. Bird; po- 
 lice magistrate, A. J. Phillips ; aldermen, Ben Green, Al Brady, 
 J. M. Coffman, B. W. Dillow, Logen Boren, J. B. Fierke, T. A. 
 Carlile, Henry Kohler. 
 
 1911 — Mayor, E. S. Alden; treasurer, Rad Burnett; clerk, 
 J. L. Hammond; attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; marshal and oil 
 inspector. Perry Parker; superintendent of streets, James 
 Lynn ; sexton, J. C. McCuan ; police magistrate, A. J. Phillips ; 
 aldermen, Andrew M. Finch, W. L. Wiggins, L. C. Reese, John 
 L Rooney, Ben Green, Al Brady, J. M. Coffman, B. W. Dillow. 
 
 1912 — Mayor, E. S. Alden; clerk, J. L. Hammond; treasur- 
 er, R. Burnett; attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; marshal and oil 
 inspector, Thomas R. Mullins ; superintendent of streets, James 
 Lynn; sexton, 0. C. Campbell; poundmaster, W. J. Trammel; 
 police magistrate, A. J. Phillips; aldermen, A. M. Finch, L. 
 M. Boren, W. L. Wiggins, D. W. Green, W. C. Mangold, J. I. 
 Rooney, P. W. Baker, L. C. Reece. 
 
 1913 — Mayor, E. S. Alden; clerk, R. L. Shannon; treasur- 
 er, F. H. Kroh; attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; marshal and oil 
 inspector, C. G. Thornton, resigned, vacancy filled by H. H. 
 Woods; police magistrate, A. J. Phillips; superintendent of 
 streets, James Lynn; superintendent of water works, Ed 
 Ward; sexton, T. E. Treece, resigned, vacancy filled by John 
 Cooper; poundmaster, N. N. Curtin; aldermen, A. M. Finch, 
 W. L. Wiggins, Harry Cover, J. L Rooney, L. M. Boren, W. C. 
 Mangold, D. W. Green, P. W. Baker. 
 
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 1914 — Mayor, E. S. Alden; clerk, R. L. Shannon; treas- 
 urer, F. H. Kroh; attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; marshal and 
 oil inspector, H. H. Wood; police magistrate, A. J. Phillips; 
 superintendent of streets, James Lynn ; superintendent of wa- 
 ter works, Ed Ward ; sexton, John Cooper ; poundmaster, N. N. 
 Curtin ; aldermen, E. C. Lind, W. L. Wiggins, D. W. Leib, W. A. 
 Davis, James McFadden, George W. Davis, J. K. Walton, 
 George Sanford. 
 
 1916 — Mayor, James Norris ; clerk, F. H. Kroh; treasurer, 
 R. Burnett; attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; police magistrate, J. 
 M. Bolen ; marshal and oil inspector, James S. Mullins ; super- 
 intendent of streets, John Oliver; superintendent of water 
 works, Ed. Ward; sexton, J. C. McCuan; poundmaster, Wesley 
 Trammel; aldermen, E. P. Owen, G. W. Davis, John Bacon, C. 
 E. Kirkpatrick, E. C. Lind, W. L. Wiggins, D. W. Leib, W. A. 
 Davis. 
 
 1917 — Mayor, Rad Burnett; clerk, C. E. Watson; treas- 
 urer, L. G. Richardson ; attorney, George H. Grear ; police mag- 
 istrate, A. J. Phillips ; marshal and oil inspector, Harry Wood ; 
 superintendent of streets, W. C. Bishop; superintendent of wa- 
 ter works, Ed. Ward; pound master, Frank Womack; sexton. 
 J. C. McCuan; health officer. Dr. J. C. Stewart; aldermen, Fred 
 Roberts, C. C. Thomas, D. W. Leib, W. C. Rayburn, E. P. Owen, 
 G. W. Davis, John Bacon, C. E. Kirkpatrick. 
 
 1918 — Attorney, J. E. N. Edwards; poundmaster, N. N. 
 Curtain; superintendent of streets, M. D. Harpending; alder- 
 men, E. P. Owen, Edward Lehr, O. J. Carlock, Charles Mills, 
 Fred Roberts, C. C. Thomas, D. W. Leib, W. C. Rayburn. 
 (Other officers same as 1917). 
 
 1919 — Mayor, Rad Burnett; clerk, C. F. Watson; treas- 
 urer, J. W. Roy; attorney, Geo. W. Crawford; police magis- 
 trate, A. J. Phillips ; superintendent of streets, M. D. Harpend- 
 ing; marshal and oil inspector, H. H. Wood; superintendent 
 of water works, Ed. Ward ; sexton, J. C. McCuan ; pound mas- 
 ter, N. N. Curtain; aldermen, W. J. Corzine, Geo. W. Craver, 
 Robert Choate, Van E. Crane, E. P. Owen, Ed Lehr, 0. J. Car- 
 lock, Charles Mills. 
 
 1920 — Aldermen, J. H. Hodge, J. H. Leyerle, Gus Thomas, 
 
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 R. H. Sitter. C. G. Parkman. Geo. W. Graver, Robert Choate, 
 Van E, Crane, police magistrate, J. W. Worthington. (Other 
 officers same as 1919). 
 
 CHANGE TO COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT 
 
 1921 — Mayor, James K. Walton; Commissioners, Ernest S. 
 Alden, Robert M. Choate, Ben Green, R. L. Shannon; police 
 magistrate, John Worthington ; clerk, C. F. Watson ; attorney, 
 Geo. W. Crawford; treasurer, Geo. W. Davis; marshall and oil 
 inspector, Sam Kohler; sexton, J. C. McCuan; pound master, 
 N. N. Curtain; health officer, Dr. W. M, Eddleman; superin- 
 tendent of streets, Wm. A. Davis ; superintendent of water 
 works, Ed. Ward. 
 
 1922 — Treasurer, Lynn D. Sifford; attorney, Russell E. 
 Townsend ; marshal, T. F. Cox ; superintendent of water works, 
 Clifton A. Kimbro; commissioner, H. D. Lawrence (to replace 
 E. S. Alden, resigned). 
 
 1923-27 — Mayor, James K. Walton; commissioners. R. L. 
 Shannon, R. M. Choate, C. H. Bruchhauser, W. P. Tracy ; clerk, 
 C. F. Watson ; treasurer, R. L. Rich ; attorney, Russell E. Town- 
 send ; marshal and oil inspector, James S. Mullins ; sexton, Rob- 
 ert Walker; superintendent of streets, James Lynn; superin- 
 tendent of water works, C. A. Kimbro; health officer. Dr. W. 
 M. Eddleman; pound master, Rolla Miles, (Fred Baldwin re- 
 placed C. A. Kimbro; Dr. Glen J. Tygett replaced Dr. W. M. 
 Eddleman) ; fire chief, Elmer Stephens ; Ray Penrod, as- 
 sistant. 
 
 1927-1931 — Mayor, E. C. Kimbro; commissioners, Thorn- 
 ton Clark, S. M. Hults, E. G. Kerth, Ralph H. Sitter; police 
 magistrate, John W^orthington ; (Edgar I. Hartline) ; clerk, 
 C. F. Watson; treasurer, Lester C. Standard; attorney, Rus- 
 sell E. Townsend; marshal, Ben Green; oil inspector, Harry 
 Wood; superintendent of water works. Van E. Bizzel ; su- 
 perintendent of streets, W. P. Tracy; sexton, Robert Walker; 
 health officer. Dr. H. 0. Taylor; fire chief, Ben Green; Harry 
 Wood, assistant; (R. L. Shannon replaced Lester Standard 
 and Walter Grammer replaced Robert Walker) . 
 
 1931-1935 — Mayor, Thornton Clark; commissioners, Joe 
 A. Hammond, H. R. McCarty, G. H. Rippetoe, Claude C. Treece; 
 
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 clerk, C. F. Watson; treasurer, R. L. Shannon; (replaced by 
 Roy H. Rudolph) ; attorney, Charles C. Crawford (replaced by 
 Ford L. Rendleman) ; sexton, James K. Walton; collector of 
 special assessments, Robert W. Brown ; health officer, Dr. Roy 
 Keith; chief of police, H. H. Wood; police officer, Ben Green; 
 superintendent of water works, Van E. Bizzel ; superintendent 
 of streets, W. P. Tracy ; fire chief, Charles Henley. 
 
 1935-1939 — Mayor, R. L. Shannon; commissioners, W. J. 
 Benner, C. H. Bruchhauser, Guy A. Henry, Geo. H. Rippetoe; 
 treasurer, R. H. Rudolph; attorney, Ford Rendleman; clerk, 
 C. F. Watson ; sexton, J. K. Walton ; superintendent of streets. 
 Jack Manus; superintendent of water works. Van E. Bizzel; 
 chief of police, Floyd L. Gray ; police officer, Jasper Douglas ; 
 health officer, Dr. Roy Keith ; collector of special assessments, 
 Robert W. Brown; fire chief, Gibbs Chase; assistant, Don 
 Crabtree. 
 
 1939-1943 — Mayor, R. L. Shannon; commissioners, C. H. 
 Bruchhauser, Guy A. Henry, Rayburn Ice, Geo. H. Rippetoe; 
 clerk, C. J. Watson (John F. Norris and Elizabeth Walser) ; 
 attorney. Ford Rendleman; treasurer, Roy H. Rudolph; col- 
 lector of special assessments, John Wingate; marshal, Floyd 
 L. Gray (Earl C. Carter); police officer, Jasper Douglas; su- 
 perintendent of streets. Jack Manus; superintendent of wa- 
 ter works. Van E. Bizzell ; sexton, J. K. Walton; health of- 
 ficer. Dr. W. J. Benner (Dr. D. B. Stewart) ; superintendent of 
 water treatment plant, John S. Brown; superintendent of 
 sewage treatment plant, Clarence Matthews; fire chief, Gibbs 
 Chase, assistant, Robert Graham. 
 
 1943-1947 — Mayor, A. C. Lewis; commissioners, W. H. 
 Bishop, R. M. Choate, J. F. Keistler, John H. Wood; police 
 magistrate, Edgar I. Hartline; attorney. Ford Rendleman; 
 clerk, Elizabeth Walser; treasurer, W. P. Harper (E. E. Cur- 
 tis) ; collector of special assessments, John Wingate (E. E. 
 Curtis) ; chief of police, J. A. Douglas, police officer, William 
 Rayburn (Clarence Norris) ; superintendent of streets. Jack 
 Manus (Harrison Sadler) ; sexton, Jerome Lutz ; superinten- 
 dent of water works, Van E. Bizzell ; health officer. Dr. D. B. 
 Stewart; superintendent of water treatment plant, John 
 Bacon; (John Tripp) ; superintendent of sewage disposal plant, 
 
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 Clarence Mattheis; fire chief, Gibbs Chase; assistant, Robert 
 Graham. (Ben Green appointed mayor for unexpired term 
 of Lewis). 
 
 1947-1951 — Mayor, Ben Green; commissioners, R. INI. 
 Choate, Floyd L. Gary, J. Frank Keistler, John H. Wood; at- 
 torney, Ford Rendleman; clerk, Elizabeth Walser; treasurer, 
 E. E. Curtis (Amos Sanford) ; chief of police. J. A. Douglas 
 (Clyde Mcintosh); police officer, Clarence Norris; superin- 
 tendent of streets, Harrison Sadler ; sexton, Jerome Lutz ; su- 
 perintendent of water works, Van E. Bizzel ; health officer. Dr. 
 D. B. Stewart ; superintendent of water treatment plant, John 
 Tripp; superintendent of sewage disposal plant, Sam Hults 
 (Daryl Bishop) ; fire chief, Gibbs Chase, assistant, Robert Gra- 
 ham ; police magistrate, Paul Baker; Park Board, Normal Eahl, 
 Paul Fowler, Walter Cherrick, L. H. Moore, 0. E. Johnson; 
 Hospital Board, Dr. C. D. Nobles, George Rippetoe, Geo. A. 
 Hill, Russell Corlis, Kendall Willis. 
 
 PRESENT ADMINISTRATION 
 
 1951-1955 — Mayor, Dale Denny; Commissioners, Howard 
 Casper, finance; R. J. Lewis, health and safety; Roy Elam, 
 streets and water ; Walter Ashcraf t. Public Improvements and 
 Buildings. ( Ashcraf t resigned in Nov., 1954, and Roy Davis 
 was appointed to fill vacancy) ; clerk, Mary Whitney ; attorney, 
 John H. Carter; treasurer, A. F. Sanford; health officer, Dr. 
 D. B. Stewart; police force, chief of police, Clyde Mcintosh; 
 Moses M. Stokes, Fred Horn, Roy Hogue; fire department, 
 chief, Gibbs Chase ; H. E. Douglas, Paul Groner, Albert Groner, 
 George Whiting; maintenance fire equipment, John W^est (one 
 Mack and one GMC truck) ; superintendent of streets, water 
 department, Frank Mangold ; miaintenance, John Groves, Sam 
 Brimm, Vernie Proctor; night maintenance, Lester Pitts; 
 night watchman, Oliver Cruse ; water department, water plant 
 operator, John Tripp ; assistant, Fred Anderson ; maintenance, 
 Elbert Cash and Jess Brimm ; disposal plant, operator, Roy 
 Hogue ; assistant, Mark Keller ; cemetery, sexton, John Brown ; 
 assistants. Will St. John and Francis Morgan. 
 
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 /l^^L^*>^^i--LH^K^^^\^ 
 
 In seeking- someone locally who could, and would, assume 
 the task of compiling and editing the facts essential to this 
 volume of history, the committee recognized the talents of 
 Mrs. Mary Hammond Kent. 
 
 Mrs. Kent is a native daughter of our city, being born 
 and reared in Anna with her parents, the late Jackson and 
 Martha Aden Hammond. 
 
 She was educated in Anna City Schools, graduated in 1918 
 from Southern Illinois Normal University, and was a school 
 teacher in Anna for four years. 
 
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 In 1921 she was married to Mr. Gaylon C. Kent of Olney, 
 Illinois, and they resided here for twenty years, where Mr. 
 Kent was connected with the Norris Funeral Home. Follow- 
 ing his death in 1940, Mrs. Kent became actively associated 
 with the Norris Funeral Home. 
 
 Mrs. Kent has had a career of well rounded community 
 interests; she has given generously of her time and talents 
 to the several organizations and clubs of the city: viz: Past 
 President Anna Women's Club, Junior-High Parent Teacher's 
 Association, American Legion Auxiliary, Past President of 
 Illinois State American Legion Auxiliary, a patroness of Del- 
 ta-Theda-Tau and Anna Junior Women's Club; a Girl Scout 
 Councilor, and has been constantly active in Mount Moriah 
 Lutheran Church, 
 
 Following the death of her father, Jackson Hammond, in 
 1937, Mrs. Kent assumed active management of the Anna- 
 Democrat, our weekly newspaper, for two years, sustaining 
 the high standards of journalism always present in this pa- 
 per. 
 
 There are two children, Mrs. Donald E. Grinter (Barbara) 
 of Kansas City, Mo., and Gaylon Hammond Kent of Anna ; one 
 grandchild, Miss Barbara Jean Grinter. 
 
 For her tireless efforts in this hurried task of assembling 
 the materials and adapting the matter for this press, the 
 Committee takes this means of expressing thanks and ac- 
 knowledging a great indebtedness to Mrs. Mary Hammond 
 Kent. 
 
 Anna, Illinois. 
 April 9th, 1954. 
 Anna Centennial, Inc. 
 Book Committee. 
 
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 ANNA OF THE PRESENT 
 
 This survey has covered certain periods in the prrowth 
 and progrress of the City of Anna. It would have been an im- 
 possible task to record the complete history of the city in one 
 small volume. These periods have been recorded, briefly, and 
 with the full knowledge that much has been left unrecorded. 
 Our city was born of courage and hardship. It grew^ on the 
 fearless spirit of the pioneer and has become an outstanding 
 community in every respect. It is with great pride in the 
 accomplishments of our forefathers that we have recorded 
 this infinitesimal portion of their history. We ask the in- 
 dulgence of our readers, as many important dates, events, 
 places, improvements and personalities have been omitted for 
 lack of time, space, and access to material required for the sur- 
 vey. However, an attempt has been made to record a part of 
 each phase of development, discovery, settlement, and stages 
 of growth. 
 
 The following pages present a survey of the present 
 time in the history of our city by individual contributors. 
 These contributors, who are sponsoring this publication of 
 100 YEARS OF PROGRESS, portray more intimately the 
 last few decades in the personal and business histories which 
 they have submitted. It will be noted, as our readers follow 
 the listings, that three, and sometimes four, generations of the 
 same family have completed a century of progress and serv- 
 ice to the communitv. 
 
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 1954 _ OUR OFFICIAL FAMILY 
 
 In compiling the history of Anna for the past 100 years 
 much credit must be given, as previously recorded under city 
 officials, to the men whom the citizens have chosen to guide 
 the destiny of the city during the respective administrations. 
 Each has given to the city the best that opportunity afforded 
 in every field of endeavor. On this occasion, the celebration 
 of the centennial of the city, the citizenry points with pride 
 to its official family, to the men and women they have selected 
 to fill the halls of government, and those selected by them to 
 fill the many offices connected with the operation and mainte- 
 nance of its various agencies. It is with their consent and full 
 cooperation that the City of Anna prepares to celebrate 100 
 years of progress. With gratitude for and appreciation of 
 their fine support and encouragement we proudly present "our 
 official family," our friends and neighbors, good citizens all. 
 
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 ANNA CITY COUNCIL 
 
 Left to right: Roy Elam, Commissioner of Streets and 
 Waterworks; Roy Davis. Commissioner of Public Works and 
 Buildings; Mary B. Whitney, City Clerk; A. F. Sanford, City 
 Treasurer ; Dale Denny, Mayor ; John H. Carter, City Attorney ; 
 Howard H. Casper, Commissioner of Accounts and Finance; 
 R. J. Lewis, Commissioner of Public Health and Safety. 
 
 ANNA CITY POLICE 
 
 Left to right: Clyde Mcintosh, Chief of Police; Moses 
 M. Stokes, Policeman; Fred W. Horn, Policeman; Roy Hogue, 
 Policeman. 
 
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 ANNA FIRE DEPARTMENT 
 
 Left to right: John West, Driver and Operator; George 
 Whiting, Captain ; Paul Groner, Fireman ; Albert Groner, Fire- 
 man ; H. E. Douglas, Assistant Fire Chief; J. G. (Gibbs) 
 Chase, Fire Chief. 
 
 WATER PLANT 
 Left to right : John Tripp, Plant Operator ; Fred Ander- 
 son, Assistant Plant Operator; Frank (Red) Mangold, Supt. of 
 Waterworks; Elbert Cash, Maintenance; Jess Brimm, Mainte- 
 nance. 
 
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 STREET DEPARTMENT 
 
 Left to right : Manf ord Brimm, Foreman ; Johnie Graves, 
 Maintenance; Sam Brimm, Maintenance; Vernie Proctor, 
 Maintenance; Frank (Red) Mangold, Supt. of Streets. 
 
 DISPOSAL PLANT 
 
 Left to right: Mark Keller, Assistant Plant Operator; 
 Frank (Red) Mangold, Supt. of Waterworks; Roy Hogue, Plant 
 Operator. 
 
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 ANNA CEMETERY DEPARTMENT 
 
 Left to right: Francis Morgan, John Brown, Sexton 
 Will St. John. 
 
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 OFFICERS BOARD OF D1KECTOH3 
 REGULAR MEETING FiRST MONDAY OF 
 
 ADOtPH w. WAITER P...;J.». g^^CH MONTH PERCY w"f''s? 
 
 FRED BHOOZS. VlcoPieiid.nl PERCY WEil 
 
 C. EARL HUGHES, Tie««ui«t SAM DUTY 
 
 JOE L GOLLON.Exicvjllv. Seci.laty JOHN CARTER 
 
 MRS. MARY HARPER, lOE L. BBOWH 
 
 Coii.ipcsditgStc.el.i/ RAY L. LAHStN 
 
 C^lian/her of (commerce 
 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 19 5 4 
 
 C. EARL HUGH 
 ADOLPII W WALTER 
 ROY A. BHOWN 
 JOE L. GOLLOH 
 FRANCIS 1 WOKSTHAU3 
 GEORGE E. PARKS 
 
 The Anna-Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce is an out- 
 growth of the old "Union Club" organized April 11, 1906, which 
 was a semi-social-business organization functioning prior to 
 1925, and a merchant association organized about 1921 as a 
 purely business organization. While the Union Club, with its 
 club rooms, enjoyed a very pleasant and useful existence, it was 
 felt that a more aggressive organization was needed to serve 
 the business interests of Anna so the Union Club and the Mer- 
 chants Association were merged into the Chamber of Com- 
 merce on December 21, 1923. 
 
 From the date of organization the Chamber of Commerce 
 has been very actively engaged in projects to better the com- 
 munity. It is largely through its efforts that Anna has come 
 to be known as one of the outstanding communities of South- 
 ern Illinois. 
 
 The first major project attempted by this organization 
 was the construction of a factory for the Marx & Haas Cloth- 
 ing Company, which occupied the quarters now being used by 
 the International Shoe Factory. The Chamber of Commerce 
 raised approximately $34,000.00 locally to finance the con- 
 struction of this plant. The building was completed in 1925, 
 The Marx and Haas Company operated in Anna until 1930. 
 
 Upon the withdrawal of the Marx and Haas Company, An- 
 na and the Chamber of Commerce were confronted with the 
 task of interesting some other company to locate in the com- 
 munity. The Chamber of Commerce, through their commit- 
 tees, contacted the International Shoe Company and made an 
 agreement with them thereby making it possible for a factory 
 to come to Anna. At that time $20,000.00 was raised to as- 
 sist in building the addition to the factory building. The fac- 
 tory started operation in December 1931. 
 
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 OFFICEHS 
 ADOIPH \1. WAITER. Pi»«lJ«i>t 
 FRED BROOKS. Vle«-Pi«»ld«ot 
 C. EARL HUGHES. Ti..iui«i 
 JOE L. GOU.ON Ei«cativ. S«ci«!»n 
 MRS. MA'.Y HARPER, 
 
 CoiicipocdiQg S«cr«t«r/ 
 
 REGULAR MEETING FIRST MONDAY OF 
 EACH MONTH 
 
 (chamber of Commerce 
 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 19 5 4 
 
 tOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 G R. CORUS 
 PERCY WEST 
 SAM DUTY 
 lOHH CARTER 
 )Ot L. BROWN 
 RAY L LARSEH 
 C. EARL HUGHES 
 ADOLPH W. WALTER 
 ROY A. BROWN 
 lOE L. GOLLOH 
 PRANCIS I WOESTHAUS 
 GEORGE E. PARKS 
 
 ThroLig-hoLit its thirty years of existence the Chamber of 
 Commerce has been very active in securing more and better 
 roads in Union County. It played a major role in the location 
 of Route 146. 
 
 During the existence of the old Hale Willard City Hos- 
 pital the Chamber of Commerce helped that institution through 
 some of the financial difficulties usually prevailing in small hos- 
 pitals and now stands ready to assist our fine new hospital 
 should occasion arise. 
 
 The Chamber also took an active part in making the Mu- 
 nicipal Market a reality, subscribing some $2,500.00 toward its 
 construction. 
 
 The Anna Wood Heel Manufacturers, which supplies heels 
 for the International Shoe Company, is located in Anna in a 
 building which was constructed by funds raised by the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce. 
 
 Many retail promotion ideas have been planned and worked 
 out by the Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the mer- 
 chants of Anna-Jonesboro. One of these was a "Share the 
 Profit" project in which thousands of dollars in prizes were 
 given to the consumers of the surrounding area. 
 
 PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ANNA CHAMBER 
 OF COMMERCE 
 
 1921— Walter C. Mangold 
 1922— Walter C. Mangold 
 1923— L. B. Tuthill 
 1924— L. B. Tuthill 
 1925 — John B. Jackson 
 1926— Dr. C. R. Walser 
 1927— Dr. C. R. Walser 
 
 1928— Oliver Alden 
 1929— C. R. Ford 
 1930— G. R. Corlis 
 1931— J. F. Norris 
 1932— Lynn D. Sifford 
 1933— P. M. West 
 1934— W. P. Harper 
 
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 1935— L. G. Richardson 1945— Norman Wahl 
 
 1936 — Geo. E. Parks 1946 — Leonard Stearns 
 
 1937_Gaylon Kent 1947— R. J. Lewis 
 
 1938— Ford Rendleman 1948— E. A. Peters 
 
 1939— Robert L. Rich 1949— James Rich 
 
 1940 — A. W. Walter 1950 — Kenneth Jobe 
 
 1941 — Robt. Brown 1951 — Clarence Campbell 
 
 1942 — John Carter 1952— Clarence Campbell 
 
 1943— Ryland Pearl 1953— Glenn Mattheis 
 
 1944— Ryland Pearl 1954— Adolph W. Walter 
 
 In writing the History of Anna for the past twenty-five 
 years much credit must be given to the Men of the Anna Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, men who remain unsung in name, but who 
 have met the challenge of the times, the opportunities as they 
 arose, and the crises which have developed. To such Men we 
 dedicate this section of our History. They have been Good 
 Citizens, have done their work unselfishly and in character 
 with such situations. Their efforts are seldom rewarded and 
 often are pointed to with scathing criticism. Our town has 
 grown, our people have prospered, and lives have been made 
 happy because Men have co-operated in the common cause and 
 unselfishly. That the Future Years shall find a community 
 leadership and sincerity of purpose equal to, or better than that 
 of the Anna Chamber of Commerce, is our earnest wish in this 
 vear of 1954 ! 
 
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 ANNA-IONESBORO ROTARY CLUB 
 
 SECOND CLUB 
 
 "HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES THE BEST" 
 The original charter from Rotary International was is- 
 sued to the Anna-Jonesboro Rotary Club under the sponsor- 
 ship of the Rotary Club of Cairo, Illinois, in the year 1923. 
 Its members and their classifications were : 
 
 President, Harris Schulze; Chief Clerk, State Hospital; 
 Vice President, Dr. H. B. Shafer, Dentist ; Guy Dillow, Drug- 
 gist; Bob Willis, Sr., Hotel owner; Al Tibbetts, Jonesboro 
 Gazette; J. L. Hammond, Anna Democrat; Frank Hess, lum- 
 ber retail; Oliver Alden, Department Store; H. C. Hileman, 
 grocery retail; G. R. Corlis, banking; L. G. Richardson, life 
 insurance; James L. W^ahl, jewelry; L. B. Tuthill, general in- 
 surance; A. W. Walter Jr., hardware; Charles C. Crawford, at- 
 torney; Emery H. Davis, men's clothing; Dan W. Leib, fruit 
 grower; H. R. McCarty, undertaker; John Robinson, con- 
 tractor; Dr. C. H. Anderson, Superintendent of State Hospi- 
 tal ; W. Davie Wiley, book store ; Dr. W. J. Benner, physician ; 
 M. L. West, coal retail; Rad Burnett, Illinois Central agent; 
 William Bruchauser, milling; and Rev. John H. Gardner, 
 protestant minister. 
 
 The Anna-Jonesboro Rotary Club was a well rounded or- 
 ganization from the start. It learned and followed the prin- 
 
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 ciples upon which Rotary International was founded. It could 
 play well together and work as well together. Fortunate in- 
 deed is a club which has a wealth of musical talent in its mem- 
 bership as it had. Several members played the piano but none 
 so well as "Trot" Alden who was a master. With him as a 
 sparkplug-, the Anna Club became known wherever it went for 
 its fine singing. Rarely did a visitor fail to comment upon 
 this fine club quality. 
 
 The fine harmony of club fellowship was evident through- 
 out its activities. Ladies Night at least once each year was 
 long to be remembered. Many an uninitiated member or vis- 
 itor can recall his effort to work on a rubber weiner or account 
 for the drippings from a dribble glass. 
 
 In Community service the club was outstanding for two 
 major fields of activity. Through its "Boys work" Commit- 
 tee, it sponsored the Boy Scout Organization in Anna and fur- 
 nished both leadership and guidance. It was noted through- 
 out Southern Illinois for its work with crippled children. Each 
 year during the big "Anna Fair" the Rotary booth for crip- 
 pled children was looked for and was always well patronized. 
 The entire membership worked by roster and each prided him- 
 self in doing his share without stinting. The club enjoyed 
 steady growth until its membership was above sixty. Then 
 started the dark days of the depression of the thirties. Many 
 of the work horses had departed our community, death and 
 political dissention parted us from other fine men and finally 
 the roster dropped too low for maintenance of a charter. Dark 
 indeed were those days. 
 
 A second Rotary Club of Anna-Jonesboro rose from the 
 ashes. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Herrin, Illinois, 
 sparked by George K. Critchton and his committee, it was 
 chartered in 1946 with Dr. James F. Wahl president, H. Clay 
 Reppart, vice president and members (picture — page 88) : 
 
 L. G. Richardson, abstractor; L. B. Tuthill, general insur- 
 ance; George Hall, fraternal orders; Howard Holtz, electric 
 repairs; Dr. C. D. Nobles, Supt. State Hospital; Leonard 
 Stearns, implements; A. W. Walter, 3rd., hardware retail; 
 Hugh Pinkstaff, public schools; Norman M. Wahl, jewelry; H. 
 Clay Reppart, Anna Gazette-Democrat; Albert Joiner, furni- 
 ture; Sam Duty, auto retail; Jack Lewis, bakery; E. A. 
 Peters, garage ; Dr. James F. Wahl, optometrist ; Bill Horrell, 
 
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 photographer ; Ira Spires, grocery ; Ebb Young, shoe repairs ; 
 James W. Rich, men's clothing; E. A. Bierbaum, farm ad- 
 visor; Paul Fowler, auto-implements; and Howard Hender- 
 son, theatres. 
 
 This club too has become well known as a "singing club." 
 It is fortunate in having Byron Koehn, another master of the 
 piano. "Boon Coon" has sparked, trained and produced sev- 
 eral of its annual minstrels. These are part of its Community 
 service work as the entire proceeds go into play ground equip- 
 ment, or more recently to the growth and development of the 
 swimming pool in the city park. This club too works well to- 
 gether, it maintains and staffs by roster its soft drink stand 
 in the city park near the soft ball diamond. The proceeds 
 from all its activities are dedicated to making Anna a most 
 healthy and harmonious place for youth of today to develop 
 into the citizenry of tomorrow. 
 
 The roster of members, (picture page 91), shows evidence 
 of the healthy growth which this club has enjoyed and hopes 
 to continue: 
 
 James W. Rich, men's clothing ; Stan Hoye, garage ; Rus- 
 sell D. Rendleman, County Supt. Schools ; Ray Larsen, depart- 
 ment store, (President elect) ; John Paul Davis, States At- 
 torney (President) ; James Dent, City Hospital administrator 
 (Secretary) ; Earl Lingle, banking (Treasurer) ; Ward Simp- 
 son, utilities Supt. ; John Carter, attorney ; Albert Marks, gro- 
 ceries retail ; Bryan Lovelace, administrator State Hospital ; 
 Dr. James F. Wahl, optometrist; Dr. R. C. Steck, Supt. State 
 Hospital ; Rev. Hugh Paton, protestant minister ; Donald Jones, 
 cleaning clothing; L. B. Tuthill, general insurance; Robert L. 
 Rich, shoes retail; Dr. C. D. Nobles, past active; F. G. Ander- 
 son, fruit inspector ; Owen Lloyd, variety store manager ; Nor- 
 man M. Wahl, Jewelry retail ; Everett H. Smith, ice sales and 
 manufacture; Dr. John Keith, oral surgeon; Sam Duty, auto 
 sales retail; Harry Curtis, visitor, Carbondale; Frank E. 
 Cochran, electric equipment ; Paul Fowler, implements ; Dr. 
 Russell Casper, dentist; Jack Lewis, bakery; Byron Koehn, 
 securities sales ; Glenn Mattheis, appliances ; Francis Woes- 
 thaus, auto accessories; Ira Spires, cafeteria; Harold Smith, 
 shoe manufacturer; Dr. M, S. Sloane, Asst. Supt. State Hos- 
 pital ; Howard Henderson, theatres ; Lawrence Smith, life in- 
 surance sales; Paul Houghton, High School Principal. 
 
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 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB 
 
 The Business and Professional Women's Club is an organ- 
 ization to promote the interests of women in the business and 
 professional world. On April 7, 1932, 35 of the business and 
 professional women of the Anna and Jonesboro community 
 met at the Stinson Memorial Library with Mrs. Myrtle Thet- 
 ford of Murphysboro, District Chairman, present to outline the 
 purpose and aims of the organization. On April 14, 1932, the 
 organization meeting was held at the M. E. church with Mrs. 
 Thetford and Miss Ruth Pulley of Marion in charge. Seven 
 members of the Carbondale club were present. They pre- 
 sented the Club with a beautiful gavel made of red cedar ob- 
 tained from a tree in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Carbondale. 
 Mrs. Helen Howenstein Haywood, the first president, presided 
 two terms. There were 55 charter members of the club and 
 seven of these are still active members, namely — Clara A. 
 Bartow, Elizabeth Coffman, Kate Coffman, Jennie Moore, 
 Georgia Norris, lowna Seger and Laura Yost. 
 
 The Club maintains an educational fund for aiding worthy 
 girls in obtaining a college degree and several girls have taken 
 advantage of this offer. Each year when the Educational and 
 Vocations Committee have charge of the program they ar- 
 range for the High School Senior girls to be our dinner guests. 
 
 At the State Convention of Business and Professional 
 Women's Clubs in 1949 a Celia Howard Scholarship Fund was 
 established to advance the education of women selected as 
 capable of policy making posts. 
 
 The Club sponsors an annual card party and the proceeds 
 are placed in the Educational Funds. Other activities include 
 commercial classes which were held for the Club in 1932 and 
 in 1942 study courses were conducted each month. In 1937 
 an instructor was appointed to conduct a Recreational Program 
 for girls between 8 and 20 years. They were taught knitting, 
 crocheting, block printing, plaque making and swimming. Our 
 members are always ready to help with all Civic affairs and 
 emergencies that may arise. 
 
 During World War II we had charge of the Surgical 
 Dressings, and also maintained the Honor Roll Board. 
 
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 The Club org-anized a Community council composed of a 
 representative and alternate from civic clubs, schools 
 churches, lodges, etc. The purpose of this Community Coun- 
 cil is to determine steps by which all organizations can act to- 
 gether for the betterment of Anna and Jonesboro. The Anna 
 Jonesboro Business and Professional Women's Club has a pres- 
 ent membership of 47 with the following officers: 
 
 President — Pauline Clark 
 
 Vice-President Opal Stephens 
 
 Recording Secretary — Helen Mangold 
 Treasurer — Doris Hoye 
 Corresponding Secretary — Ruth Esther Hill 
 Parliamentarian — Clara Bartow 
 
 THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF ANNA 
 
 The Woman's Club of Anna was organized in 1912 with 
 the following fifteen charter members: Mesdames George 
 Hess, A. L. Bruce, R. A. Carlile, Louie Cook, C. C. Crowell, 
 J. N. Dickinson, J. L. Hammond, C. E. Kirkpatrick, E. A. 
 Krause, Anna K. Marks, James Norris, George C. Parks, W. 
 L. Wiggins, Miss Amy Kirkpatrick and Miss Dona Samson. 
 
 The presidents have been: Mesdames George Hess, C. E. 
 Kirkpatrick, Anna K. Marks, Sam Stokes, J. N. Stokes, J. W. 
 Roy, H. L. Baggott, J. C. Stewart, Minnie Fink, George Spire, 
 J. L. Hammond, G. R. Corlis, S. C. Martin, Lynn Sifford, 
 George C Parks, S. F. Walton, Roy Keith, C. R. Walser, Gaylon 
 Kent, W. L. Wiggins, W. C. Mangold, E. A. Bierbaum, 0. E. 
 Mangum, Miss Bertha Heller, Mrs. Charles Kelley, Mrs. Frank 
 Ziegler and Mrs. R. C. Gurley. 
 
 The Club now has 80 members. Mrs. R. C. Gurley is 
 president and the others officers are Mrs. C. Earl Hughes, 
 Mrs. Witt Venerable, Mrs. Ralph Runge, Miss Blanche Britton, 
 Mrs. Berry Rife, Mrs. Lilly Rife and Mrs. Charles Kelley. Mrs. 
 John Boswell is the newly elected president for 1954-55. 
 
 Three 25th District Presidents have been members of the 
 Club: Mrs. George Hess, Mrs. Lilly Rife and Mrs. 0. E. Man- 
 gum. 
 
 The object of the Club is mutual help, intellectual im- 
 provement, social enjoyment and united effort for the welfare 
 of the community. All of these aims are incorporated in the 
 year's program. 
 
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 —94—
 
 KIWANIS CLUB 
 
 "KIWANIS" — Anna's newest service club was organized 
 in March, 1953, and received its charter in April, 1953. 
 
 The rapid progress of this organization has been wonder- 
 ful. Many inovations of this club have contributed directly 
 toward the betterment of the citizens of this community. 
 
 Anna had its first clean up and anti-poliomyelitis cam- 
 paign under the supervision of this club. More than $800.00 
 was contributed by the good people of Anna toward the eradi- 
 cation of this terrible scurge. 
 
 The club also purchased a Sno-Kone machine in the sum- 
 mer of 1953 and from the operations of this machine con- 
 tributed over $125.00 to the swimming pool fund as well as 
 pay $280.00 for the machine. 
 
 On Halloween of 1953, we established the precedent of 
 conducting an annual Pan Cake Supper. The results of this 
 project were amazing not only from the standpoint of an 
 enjoyable affair but profit-wise, it contributed greatly to our 
 budget. 
 
 The primary purpose of Kiwanis is to assist the youth 
 of this community and throughout the nation. Our secondary 
 purpose is to be of civic betterment to the community and 
 last, we have the fellowship and enjoyment of weekly meetings 
 which changes our daily routine and broadens our horizons of 
 the happiness and pitfalls of our fellow men. 
 
 Based upon these principles and the principles of Ki- 
 wanis International, we feel that Kiwanis of Anna, will be a 
 solid institution when we mark the 200th Anniversary. 
 
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 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (new building) 
 
 The First Baptist Church of Anna was organized on Jan- 
 uary 15, 1859. Rev. H. H. Richardson and Rev. J. L. Settle- 
 moir assisted in the organization. There were twenty-seven 
 charter members, who in December of 1858 had been granted 
 letters from the Jonesboro Baptist Church for the purpose of 
 "being organized into a Baptist Church at Anna, Union Coun- 
 ty, Illinois." These charter members were: Tolbert A. Brown, 
 John Hunter, Thon Mangold, Daniel Williams, M. W. Inman, 
 John Humphrey, Josiah Bean, E. C. Green, D. L. Phillips, 
 Charlotte Phillips, Martha Inman, J. W. Hunsaker, A. J. Read, 
 S. R. Brown, Rhoda Hunter, Mary E. Musgraves, Mary A. 
 Simonds, Mary A. Musgraves, Susan Mangold, Anna E. Man- 
 gold, Sara I. Maginnis, Nancy Williams, Barbara Mitchael, 
 Sophrona A. Brown, Eliza Humphrey, March C. Clary and Al- 
 my Boyd. These family names are still nearly a full century 
 later, common names on the register of our church. 
 
 From the time of its organization until 1865, the church 
 met in the schoolhouse which was located on the site of the 
 present Davie School. In 1868 the first house of worship, a 
 frame building, w^as constructed on the present site. The lot 
 was donated to the church by Mr. Winstead Davie. 
 
 By 1876 the congregation realized that the original build- 
 ing was inadequate to meet the needs of the growing church. 
 A building program on enlargement was begun and the re- 
 modeled frame building continued to serve the congregation 
 
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 until 1923 when the first unit of our present plant was built, 
 at a cost of $45,000.00. 
 
 This building served until 1949 when another building 
 program was inaugurated. This unit was designated the 
 'Educational Plant' and was built at a cost of approximately 
 $74,000.00. 
 
 In addition to the house of worship a commodious brick 
 parsonage was built in 1930. In 1947 additional ground ad- 
 jacent to the church and parsonage was acquired and is now 
 used for parking facilities. 
 
 During the 95 years the church has been served by twen- 
 ty-seven different pastors, each of whom must have served 
 well and laid carefully the foundations. These brethren with 
 the years of their pastorate are : 
 
 
 PASTORS 
 
 
 H. H. Richardson 
 
 1859-64 
 
 J. S. Johnson 
 
 1902-03 
 
 F. W. Carathers 
 
 1865 
 
 J. A. Carter 
 
 1904-05 
 
 S. L. Wisner 
 
 1866-68 
 
 No Pastor 
 
 1906 
 
 H. H. Richardson 
 
 1868-72 
 
 J. B. Webb 
 
 1907 
 
 J. W. Hunsacker 
 
 1872-74 
 
 J. W. Smith 
 
 1908-10 
 
 J. A. Rodman 
 
 1874-78 
 
 J. B. Webb 
 
 1911 
 
 J. M. Bennet 
 
 1878 
 
 C. W. Gulp 
 
 1912-14 
 
 D. R. Sanders 
 
 1879-88 
 
 L. J. Hill 
 
 1915-16 
 
 C. Allen 
 
 1889 
 
 R. H. Thorpe 
 
 1917-19 
 
 J. B. Weber 
 
 1890-92 
 
 John Ferrell 
 
 1920-23 
 
 M. Gulp 
 
 1893 
 
 R. A. Morris 
 
 1924-28 
 
 G. L. Talbot 
 
 1894 
 
 E. B. Abbington 
 
 1929-30 
 
 No Pastor 
 
 1895 
 
 W. K. Sisk 
 
 1930-36 
 
 L. L. Stierwalt 
 
 1897-98 
 
 J. L. Wells 
 
 1936-39 
 
 J. S. Johnson 
 
 1899-00 
 
 W. T. Waring 
 
 1940-44 
 
 C. W. Bebb 
 
 1900-01 
 
 L. H. Moore 
 
 1944-53 
 
 
 Bruce F. Wills 1953- 
 
 
 During these years the following have been called into 
 the ministry: James W. Hunsaker, W. W. Hunsaker, J. J. 
 Corzine, Floyd Lacy, Herman McGill, John Gorbitt, Alonzo 
 Parker, Allen E. Miller, Olan Nalley Jr., Donald Manus and 
 Louis Hickom. J. L. Corzine is State Sunday School Secre- 
 tary of South Carolina. 
 
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 Date Membership Av. S. S. Attend. Total Gifts 
 
 1859 27 -- No figures 
 
 1889 111 50 No figures 
 
 1899 187 115 443.50 
 
 1909 311 129 1,031.00 
 
 1919 344 145 2,234.00 
 
 1929 629 165 8,196.00 
 
 1939 843 265 6,098.00 
 
 1949 1259 461 44,848.86 
 
 1954 1493 575 43,695.20 
 
 DEACONS 
 The Deacons of our church are as follows: H. E. Doug- 
 las, Chairman; C. Earl Hughes, Secretary; K. L. Willis, Clar- 
 ence Whitnel, Mark Keller, W. A. Reeves, J. A. Corbitt, Clyde 
 Karraker, Oel L. Bean, Clarence F. Campbell, Orval D. Page, 
 Norman L. Gunn, Ralph R. Goddard, Charles Bean, John H. 
 Wood, Eugene Smick, Clyde Mclntire and Billy Peeler. 
 
 CHURCH OFFICERS 
 
 Lowell Eddleman, Clerk; Oel L. Bean, Treasurer; Lorene 
 Lainer, Office Secretary; Richard Mallams, caretaker; Dr. 
 George Earl Casper, Music Director ; Etoille Casper, organist ; 
 Mrs. Amos Baggott, Nursery Mother. 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 
 Roy G. Carlile, Roy Poole, John D. Rayburn, Orval D. 
 Page, Ralph R. Goddard and George Gray. 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL 
 
 General Superintendent, Kendall L. Willis ; Associate Gen- 
 eral Supt., Carl Williams ; General Secretary, Laura Yost ; As- 
 sociate Secretaries, Velma Roberts and Lorene Lainer. 
 
 Departments Superintendents Enrollment 
 
 Adult No. 2 Orval D. Page 383 
 
 Adult No, 1 Oel L. Bean 108 
 
 Young People Mrs. Mark Keller 86 
 
 Intermediate No. 2 Mrs. Edward Jenkins 67 
 
 Intermediate No. 1 Mrs. K. L. Willis 59 
 
 Junior No. 2 Mrs. Roy Glenn Dillow 71 
 
 Junior No. 1 Mrs. Harold S. Bauer 46 
 
 Primary No. 2 Mrs. E. Eugene Smick 54 
 
 Primary No. 1 Mrs. Claude A. Davis 37 
 
 Beginner No. 2 Mrs. Donald W. Casper 37 
 
 Beginner No. 1 Mrs. Ward Woodard 31 
 
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 Nursery Supervisor Mrs. Elbert Cash 
 
 Nursery No. 4 Mrs. Claude Mays 32 
 
 Nursery No. 3 Mrs. Clarence Gillespie, Jr 20 
 
 Nursery No. 2 Mrs. Glenn Hayes 11 
 
 Nursery No. 1 Mrs. Roy Pratt 6 
 
 Cradle Roll Mrs. Richard Mallams 137 
 
 Extension Mrs. Lewis Treece 72 
 
 Total 1263 
 
 TRAINING UNION OFFICERS 
 Director — Warner H. Hileman 
 Secretary — Miss Lorene Lainer 
 
 Nursery — Mrs. Richard A. Mallams and Mrs. Marvin Barnes 
 Beg-inners — Mrs. Warner H. Hileman and Mrs. Glenn Hayes 
 Primary — Mrs. Lloyd Fuller and Mrs. George E. Casper 
 Juniors — Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gillispie 
 Intermediate No. 1 — Mr. and Mrs. James G. Brown 
 Intermediate No. 2 — Mrs. Edward Jenkins 
 Young People — Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Keller 
 Adult No. 1 — Eugene Smick 
 Adult No. 2— W. A. Reeves 
 
 BROTHERHOOD 
 
 President, C. Earl Hughes ; Vice President, Glenn Dempsy. 
 
 Program Vice President, J. Lowell Eddleman ; Membership 
 Vice President, R. J. Lewis; Activities Vice President, Mark 
 Keller; Secretary-Treasurer, Carl W. Boyd; Social Chairmen, 
 Roy E. Poole and Norman Gunn ; Choister, Carl A. Williams ; 
 Pianist, George Earl Casper. Total Enrollment 93. 
 
 WOMEN'S MISSIONARY UNION OFFICERS FOR 1954 
 
 President, Mrs. C. Earl Hughes; Young People Director, 
 Mrs. Erlene Nicholson; First Vice President, Mrs. Roy E. 
 Poole ; Second Vice President, Mrs. C. 0. Halterman ; Secretary 
 and Treasurer, Mrs. W. A. Reeves ; Community Missions Chair- 
 man, Mrs. Carl Cunningham and Mrs. H. E. Douglas ; Mission 
 Study Chairman, Mrs. James Brown; Stewardship Chairman, 
 Mrs. D. H. Smith ; Margaret Fund and Training School Chair- 
 man, Mrs. Mildred Cunningham; Social Chairman, Mrs. Tom- 
 my Lawson; Co. Chairman, Mrs. Glenn Dempsey; B. W. C. 
 Advisor, Mrs. Bruce Wills; Publicity Chairman, Mrs. J. A. 
 Douglas; Chairman of Sunshine Committee, Mrs. Ethel Wil- 
 son. 
 
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 Circle Chairmen and Counselors — Carlock Circle, Mrs. 
 George Brown ; Craighead Circle, Mrs. J. A. Douglas ; Hatha- 
 way Circle, Mrs. Loren Hinkle; Ruth Ford Circle, Mrs. Eu- 
 gene Smick ; B. W. C, Miss Alma Wilson. Counselors — Y. W. 
 A., Mrs. D. H. Smith; Intermediate Girls Auxiliary, Mrs. Er- 
 lene Nicholson; Junior Girls Auxiliary, Mrs. Alma Sams and 
 Electa Hayse; Junior Royal Ambassadors, Mark Penninger; 
 Sunbeam, Mrs. Helen Rendleman. 
 
 PASTOR 
 
 On December 1, 1953, Bruce F. Wills came to be our pas- 
 tor and with him came his wife, Rachel, and sons, Michael, 
 Daniel and David. 
 
 The present generation is greatly indebted to the legions 
 of workers of the past ; but above and beyond all else, we give 
 all glory and praise to the Lord who has guided us and cared 
 for us and gave His Son to die for us. 
 
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 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ((^1<I building) 
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 ST. MARY'S CHURCH 
 
 The Catholic Church at its present site on Freeman St., was 
 the first church in Anna, 111. Before and during the Illinois 
 Central construction, priests from St. Vincent's at Cape Gi- 
 rardeau, Mo., ministered to the spiritual needs of Catholics in 
 Anna and vicinity. After railroad transportation became 
 available, priests from Cairo, III, came to Anna regularly and 
 offered Sunday Mass at the Michael Brady home on the Big 
 Creek farm. 
 
 The first church was built by Father Thomas Walsh with 
 the help and cooperation of such zealous workers as Col. L. 
 W. Ashley, Jeremiah O'Connor, John Halpin, Michael Brady 
 and others. A deed, dated March 27th, 1857, signed by Win- 
 stead and Anna Davie, gave title to the property on Freeman 
 St. to the Catholic Church, and made possible the erection of 
 a church edifice. St. Mary's was attended by priests from 
 Cairo and Mounds City for a time, but in 1861 Father Theo- 
 dore Elshoff became the first resident pastor. A comfortable 
 dwelling adjoining the church had been built by this time. 
 
 In 1877 the bell tower of St. Mary's was completed. As 
 early as 1879 a school was being conducted by Father John 
 Herlitz, assisted by Miss Mamie O'Connor. However, on 
 June 13, 1893, all these buildings were razed by a disasterous 
 fire. For thirteen years this mission was attached to the 
 monastery at Wetaug. The Rev. Alto Heer, O. S. B. rebuilt 
 the church, but moved his residence to Cobden. The new 
 church was dedicated upon the arrival of the new pastor, Rev. 
 Father Christopher Goelz, and continued as a mission of the 
 church at Cobden. 
 
 This frame structure, completed in 1894, still serves today 
 as the house of worship. In September 1948, upon the ap- 
 pointment of Father Fred H. Renschen as resident pastor, the 
 church was restored to its independent parochial status. A 
 comfortable brick dwelling was erected in 1949, adjoining 
 the church ; its large basement serving as a meeting hall for 
 social activities. 
 
 Throughout all these years an Altar and Rosary Society, 
 
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 now known as the Immaculate Conception Sodality, has func- 
 tioned continuously to care for the altar, vestments and linens 
 of the church. This society was organized in 1861 with nine- 
 teen members ; it now has over eighty members, characteristic 
 of the continuous growth of the parish. St. Mary's congratu- 
 lates Anna and this community! This has been a wonderful 
 place to live and grow. 
 
 Compliments of 
 
 JOINER FURNITURE STORE 
 
 Over fifty years of progress in Furniture Business. Serv- 
 ing the Fourth Generation. 
 
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 ANNA CHRISTIAN CHURCH 
 
 The First Christian Church, Anna, Illinois, was organized 
 in 1891, and met for about three years in Rhodes Hall, West 
 Vienna Street. The church then rented the building presentlj^ 
 used by the Trinity Lutherans on Jefferson Street and met 
 there for about three years. When the Presbyterian Church 
 vacated their old meeting house on South Street, that building 
 was used by the Christian congregation for about three years. 
 The house presently occupied by the Christian Church, 204 
 North Main Street, was purchased from the Congregational 
 Church in 1902. The building burned March 2, 1941, was 
 rebuilt, using the old masonery which was undamaged, and was 
 dedicated July 20, 1941. The parsonage, 211 Lincoln Street, 
 was purchased 1944. In 1951, the building adjoining the 
 church building was bought and is presently used for Bible 
 School class rooms. The present membership of the church 
 is 270. Average Bible School attendance for 1953 was 188. 
 On Sunday, April 4, 1954, a new Bible School record attend- 
 ance was set with 367 present. 
 
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 No name but the Divine 
 No creed but Christ 
 No book but the Bible 
 
 In Faith, Unity 
 In Opinions. Liberty 
 In all thing-s, Love. 
 We speak where the Bible speaks 
 We are silent where the Bible is silent. 
 
 Compliments 
 
 Bill Keller s Standard Service 
 
 Located South Main and Jefferson 
 
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 MT. MORIAH UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH 
 
 Rev. Hugh Paton, Pastor. 
 
 James West, Fin. Sec'y. — W. H. Lefler, Sec'y. & Treas. 
 
 Church Council: Lynn D. Sifford, Roy A. Brown, E. H. 
 
 Smith, Jas. W. Rich, Corlis West, C. 0. Boyd, Clayton Walser, 
 
 Leon Vincent, Clifton Hankla and Ollie B. Davis, Supt. Sun. 
 
 School. 
 
 Mt. Moriah Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized 
 February 9, 1869, by the Rev. John R. Schoffner, pastor of 
 the St. John charge, with twenty-two communicant members. 
 The meeting was held in a hall on East Davie street, and after- 
 ward services were held in the frame school building that stood 
 on the present site of the Davie school. 
 
 At a Congregational meeting, called for the purpose, a 
 constitution was adopted on February 19, 1869. By a vote 
 
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 of the congregations concerned, namely, St. John, Union and 
 Mt. Moriah, a charge was formed of these three churches and 
 the same was confirmed at next meeting of Synod. 
 
 In June, 1871, Rev. Schoffner resigned the St. John 
 charge and accepted a call to the Lutheran Church at Lion- 
 ville, Pa. The charge remained vacant until February 4. 1873, 
 when the Rev. L. C. Groseclose, of Mt. Pleasant, N. C, ac- 
 cepted a call to the charge and remained pastor until July 1, 
 
 1874, when he resigned because of ill health. 
 
 The charge was without pastoral oversight until May 8, 
 
 1875, when a call was extended to the Rev. C. W. Sifferd, at 
 that time a student in the Theological Seminary at Philadel- 
 phia, who accepted and entered upon his duties. 
 
 Mt. Moriah at this time numbered but eighteen communi- 
 cant members and was without a church home, holding its 
 services in the German Reformed Church when the building 
 was not occupied by that congregation. 
 
 In October, 1877, it was determined by this little band 
 of earnest workers to erect a House of Worship suitable to 
 their needs. The pastor, Joseph Trees, and Samuel Knupp 
 were appointed to superintend the building, and work on the 
 church began on May 1, 1878, and was completed and dedicated 
 the second week in August of the same year. 
 
 Thanksgiving and presentation services were held in the 
 completed building on Saturday evening, August 10, 1878, 
 with an address by the pastor in which he presented the 
 building to the Trustees. Dedicatory services were held Sun- 
 day, August 11, 1878. The sermon for the morning was de- 
 livered by the Rev. D. M. Henkel, of Nokomis, 111., and the 
 building was dedicated to the service of God by the pastor. 
 The Revs. W. Pruett, of Dongola, 111., E. Swartz, of DeSoto, 
 111., and A. L. Yount, of Murphysboro, 111., assisted in the 
 services. The total cost of the lot and building was $1,500. 
 
 On August 7, 1884, Mt. Moriah withdrew from the St. 
 John charge and extended a call to the Rev. Mr. Sifferd to be- 
 come its pastor. He resigned the St. John charge and ac- 
 cepted the call of Mt. Moriah and remained its pastor until 
 June, 1886, when he accepted a call to St. Paul's Lutheran 
 Church, of Newark, Ohio. 
 
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 Rev. T. Earnheart served the church as a supply from 
 January 1, 1887, to January 1, 1888. 
 
 The church then remained vacant until the calling of the 
 Rev. C. Baird, who entered upon his duties as pastor Novem- 
 ber 1, 1889. In September, 1890, application was made to the 
 Board of Home Missions to be received as a Mission Church. 
 The request was granted and $100.00 was contributed to the 
 support of the pastor. After one year the church again be- 
 came self-supporting. During the two year pastorate of the 
 Rev. Mr. Baird the Church building was remodeled at a cost 
 of $500.00. 
 
 After the resignation of Rev. Baird on November 1, 1891, 
 Mt. Moriah was without a pastor until May 1, 1892, when a call 
 was extended to the Rev. H. C. Grossman, of Columbus, Ohio. 
 Rev. Grossman left after two years to accept a call to the 
 German Lutheran Church of Cairo. 
 
 After a vacancy of six months a call was extended to 
 Rev. H. L. McGill, of Louisville, Ky., who accepted and held 
 his first service in the church on July 1, 1894. He was in- 
 stalled into office on Friday evening, November 16, 1894, by 
 the Rev. Charles T. McDaniel, of St. Louis, president of the 
 Southern Illinois Synod. The charge to the congregation was 
 made by the Rev. J. G. M. Hursh, of Jonesboro, Illinois. 
 
 During the next year the church building was wired for 
 electricity, the chancel was remodeled, and new worship books 
 and Bibles procured. Improvements were made upon the 
 parsonage to the amount of $500.00. 
 
 At a congregational meeting on January 1, 1899, Mr. and 
 Mrs. R. Johnson proposed to furnish funds for the erection 
 of a new church building, provided the congregation would 
 secure a suitable location and furnish the completed building. 
 Their offer was accepted and by January 21, 1900, the lot 
 fund had grown to $800.00. To this sum the congregation 
 pledged $1,500.00 additional. 
 
 On March 28, 1900, the residence property of Dr. J. I. 
 Hale, Main at Jefferson street, was purchased for $2,200.00 as 
 the site of the new church. The residence was moved to the 
 rear of the lot and altered at a cost of $300.00 to be used as a 
 residence for the church care-taker. 
 
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 The building- committee, R. Johnson, D. Sifford, J. M. 
 Shipley, and T. P. Sifford employed J. W. Gaddis, of Vincen- 
 nes, Ind., as architect. His plans were adopted January 6, 
 1901, and on April 28, 1901, the contract for the erection of 
 the building- was let to Mr. E. C. English, Sr., of Anna. 111. 
 
 The first part of the corner-stone laying ceremonies on 
 July 21, 1901, were held in the old Church on South street. 
 Rev. J. G. M. Hursh, of Cairo, 111., preached the sermon and 
 was assisted in the altar service and at the site of the new 
 church by the Revs. J. W. Breitenbach of Murphysboro, 111., 
 and T. Earnheart of Jonesboro. Dedication services for the 
 completed building were conducted on August 31, 1902, by 
 the pastor, assisted by the Rev. E. H. Kitch of DeSoto, 111., 
 and the Rev. M. L. Webb of Murphysboro. The dedication 
 sermon was preached by the Rev. M. Rhodes, D. D., pastor 
 of St. Mark's Lutheran Church of St. Louis. The feast of 
 dedication continued through the following Wednesday with 
 the Revs. J. G. M. Hursh of Cairo, T. Earnheart of Jonesboro, 
 and C. W. Sifferd, D. D., of Carthage taking part. 
 
 The new building of pressed brick with stone trimming 
 consisted of an auditorium, Sunday School room, two class 
 rooms and a pastor's study on the main floor and a complete- 
 ly furnished kitchen and dining room on the basement floor. 
 A handsome Moeller pipe organ was presented to the congre- 
 gation by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. 
 
 During the summer of 1907 the parsonage was complete- 
 ly remodeled and a full basement, steam heating plant, and 
 modern plumbing were added at a total cost of $2,200.00. 
 
 The seventy-fifth anniversary of the congregation and the 
 fiftieth anniversary of Dr. McGill's pastorate were celebrated 
 together in 1944. On January 7, 1945, Dr. McGill retired as 
 minister after 50 V2 years of service to the church. On this 
 date a call was extended to the Rev. William H. Swarbrik, then 
 a senior student at the Chicago Lutheran Theological semin- 
 ary, who began his pastoral duties at Mt. Moriah March 1, 
 1945. 
 
 During the first year of Rev. Swarbrick's pastorate 
 church societies were revived or organized and church activi- 
 ties placed on a departamental basis under the direction of 
 committees. 
 
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 In 1947 the basement and heating facilities were im- 
 proved at a cost of $3000.00. A new constitution was adopted 
 for church government. Other advancements under Rev. 
 Swarbrick's pastorate included reorganization of the Sunday 
 School, a system of planned benevolence, and a marked exten- 
 sion of missionary activities. On July 31, 1951, he resigned 
 the pastorate to accept a call to St. Mark's Lutheran Church 
 at Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Services were continued under the leadership of supply 
 and trial pastors and laymen of the church until November 
 4, 1951, when the congregation voted to call Pastor Hugh 
 Paton, assistant Pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in 
 Hillsboro, Illinois. Installation service was held on November 
 25 with Synod President Harmon McGuire conducting and de- 
 livering the sermon. 
 
 On March 16, 1953, Dr. McGill, Pastor Emeritus of Mt. 
 Moriah died after a long illness. Funeral services were held 
 at the church with Rev. Paton, Rev. Moore of the First Bap- 
 tist, and Rev. Louis F. Rodenbeck of Meradosa officiating. 
 
 The late summer and fall of 1953 were a period of build- 
 ing for Mt. Moriah. The parsonage was completely renovat- 
 ed and modernized during the month of July and on July 16 
 ground was broken at the rear of the old church for a new 
 addition. The unit consisting of assembly rooms and class- 
 rooms on three floors, second floor kitchen, offices, and the 
 McGill Memorial Library, and additional restrooms on two 
 floors was completed on Jan. 1, 1954, and first classes were 
 held in the building. 
 
 The present congregation of Mt. Moriah in looking back 
 over 85 years of their history as a church feels that God has 
 smiled upon them, has helped them with His guidance through 
 trials and disappointments to a place where they look toward 
 the future with bright confidence for the furtherance of His 
 work. 
 
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 TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 
 
 The congregation traces its origin to the efforts of Mr. 
 Karl Schlichting and Mr. William F. Bruchhauser to procure 
 the services of a Lutheran pastor of their persuasion in the 
 community of Anna. Upon their request the Rev. F. J. 
 Schneider of Murphysboro began to conduct divine services in 
 Anna in June, 1930, under the auspices of the Southern Ill- 
 inois District Mission Board of the Lutheran Church — Mis- 
 souri Synod. The services were held in the local Evangelical 
 church. 
 
 The congregation held its organizational meeting on July 
 6, 1930, and chose the name of Trinity Evangelical Luthrean 
 Church as its official title. Charter members were: Karl 
 Schlichting, Elmer O. Schneider, W. F. Bruchhauser, Arthur 
 Schlichting, and Walter Schlichting. The following officers 
 were elected : Karl Schlichting, chairman ; Elmer O. Schneider, 
 secretary ; and W. F. Bruchhauser, treasurer. The infant con- 
 gregation number 14 souls and 8 communicant members. 
 
 Trinity's house of worship was purchased from the Evan- 
 gelical Association during the early part of 1931. The build- 
 ing was dedicated on March 1, 1931. The parsonage was dedi- 
 cated March 2, 1942, on the tenth anniversary of the dedica- 
 tion of the church. On the fifteenth anniversary of the church 
 dedication, March 3, 1946, a project was launched to redecorate 
 the interior of the church. This was an extensive project 
 which took two years to complete. It included applying new 
 roofing, painting the exterior woodwork, redecoration of the 
 interior walls, the installation of art glass windows, sanding 
 and refinishing of the floor, and rebuilding the heating plant. 
 The renovated building was rededicated on February 8, 1949. 
 In 1949 the congregation purchased a new Baldwin Electronic 
 Organ to replace the old reed organ which had been in the 
 building for decades. 
 
 The first resident pastor of Trinity was the Rev. H. W. 
 Gockel, who was ordained and installed August 9, 1931. Pas- 
 tor Gockel served the congregation until the close of 1937. 
 Since that time Trinity has had four pastors : N. G. Schumm 
 
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 (1938-1942), L. F. Rodenbeck (1943-1944), G. K. Schmidt 
 (1945-1949), and L. M. Waechter, who was installed May 29, 
 1949. 
 
 The present officers of the- congregation are: Mr. Karl 
 Schlichting, chairman; Mr. Adolph Koelling, secretary; Mr. 
 Elbert Michels, treasurer; Mr. Kenneth Mueller, financial sec- 
 retary; Mr. Lawrence Hartsock, head usher. The elders are 
 Messrs. B. J. Meyer. E. C. Diefenbach, and A. Schlichting. 
 Serving the congregation as trustees are Messers. Emmett 
 Mueller, Melvin Schlichting, and Carl Eiselmeier. 
 
 The congregation has prospered in recent years. In 1953 
 it liquidated its debt and made extensive repairs and improve- 
 ments to its church property. At the beginning of this year 
 it became completely self-supporting. Trinity now numbers 
 160 baptized members and 94 active communicants. 
 
 — L. M. W. 
 
 WE ARE PROUD TO BE PART OF 
 ANNA'S CENTENNIAL 
 
 lANAS JEWELERS 
 
 Bill and Helen Janas 
 324 S. Main ANNA— 61 3R 
 
 Finest Watches — 
 
 Diamonds — 
 
 Silverware — 
 
 Haviland China — 
 
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 HISTORY OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 
 
 The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Anna, Illinois, 
 was organized in the year of 1857 by Reverend Willoughby, 
 and was composed of the following charter members : Mr. and 
 Mrs. James Homes, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sessions, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Daniel Spence, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Robertson Brown, Mrs. Nancy Nobles, Mrs. Isabell Brown, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Jones, Mrs. Lucinda Pullen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
 Blick and Mrs. Sarah Toler. 
 
 For the first year after this class was organized they wor- 
 shipped in a small two-room dwelling, situated on Franklin 
 Avenue. In 1858 a small frame church, 28 feet by 36 feet, 
 was erected at 111 West Monroe Street. Three years later be- 
 cause of the growing attendance it was necessary to add a 10 
 foot addition to the south side of this structure. The first 
 church bell was presented to the church by Mr, Willard, a 
 prominent business man of the city. 
 
 In the year of 1892-93 the frame church was torn away 
 and a new brick church was erected. In the erection of the 
 new church building there were many difficulties encountered. 
 Through many earnest prayers, tears and great self-denial, 
 the fears from within and the foes from without w^ere con- 
 quered. This beautiful temple of our God was brought to a 
 triumphant completion on the last day of January, 1894. The 
 first worship service was conducted on a very cold Sunday 
 morning, February 4, 1894. Just one month later, on March 
 4, 1894, the beautiful church was dedicated to the worship of 
 God, by Bishop Thomas Bowman. 
 
 Through almost a century now the Methodist Church has 
 made her stand for righteousness and for God's love in the 
 community. There have been many hundreds of souls con- 
 verted at her altar, many of whom have consecrated them- 
 selves for special service of preaching or teaching the w^onder- 
 ful story of Christ's redeeming love. 
 
 From a small beginning of 17 charter members the First 
 Methodist Church has grown to the present membership of 
 385 members. In this year of 1954 the spiritual guidance is 
 
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 under the leadership of Reverand LeRoy Pittman and the fol- 
 lowing members of the Official Board : 
 
 Trustees: Messrs: Samuel Hoffmeier, Ray Penrod, Glen 
 Richey, Ralph Bradley, William Thompson, A. W. Walter Jr., 
 Harold Smith, Larel Sitter and Willis Belcher. 
 
 Stewards: Messrs: Fred Alcorn, Ralph Basse, Lloyd Bal- 
 lard, Charles Bare Earl Penrod, Earl Steinkamp, Howard Lam, 
 Ira Spires, Edward Modglin, Levi Bledsoe, Joe Davidson, How- 
 ard Holtz, Adolph Walter HI, James Martin, E. Dean Ray, Roy 
 Craig, Lester Wiley, Carl Orr, Ebb Youngs; Mmes. Daisy 
 Wells, Ray Penrod, Samuel Hoffmeier, Andrew Manus, Earl 
 Penrod, Robert Duncan, Meffie Lingle, Amon Jackson, Willis 
 Belcher, Mary Harper, Gladys Hood, Robert Neeley, William 
 Wetherington ; Misses Georgia Norris and Mary Helen Bene- 
 fiel. 
 
 
 First Methodist Church 
 
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 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 
 CHURCH 
 
 Corner East Jefferson and 
 South Streets 
 
 The new church 
 
 1898-1954 
 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1866-1954 
 
 On April 29, 1866, sixteen determined men and women 
 began a church. They could not have foreseen the tremen- 
 dous changes that would occur within the life of their commu- 
 nity during the decades to follow, but the work of their hands 
 and their hearts was established in the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Anna. 
 
 The first services were held in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and later in a store-room converted into a chapel, but 
 before the year was out, a frame church building was erected 
 on South Street, costing nearly $4,000.00. 
 
 The Woman's Aid Society, predecessor of the Woman's 
 Association, was organized around 1880, followed by several 
 missionary societies within the same decade. Christian En- 
 deavor, the predecessor of the present Westminster Youth Fel- 
 lowship, was also begun in 1883. 
 
 Ten years later, the need for a new building more ade- 
 quate for the needs of a growing church was apparent. The 
 old frame church was torn down in 1897, and for a time the 
 congregation met for services in the city hall. The new build- 
 ing, built of native grey limestone, was completed in December, 
 1898, at a total cost of $16,500. 
 
 During the pastorate of Dr. J. R. Henry (1914-1920), the 
 Presbyterian Men's Club was organized, and has continued to 
 grow through the years, claiming an inter-denominational 
 membership of over 100 men. 
 
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 In these important years the church did more than grow 
 physically. From its bounds the Rev. and Mrs. Wallace S. 
 Paris departed for mission work in China, to mention only 
 two of the many persons for whom First Church, Anna, was 
 the gateway to full-time Christian service. 
 
 Recent years have witnessed a partial remodeling of the 
 church sanctuary, including installation of a new Moeller or- 
 gan, and a slow but steady growth in the program of church 
 and church school. 
 
 In an account such as this, however, we can only deal 
 with facts ; the real story of this church and its activity 
 through the years is written in the hearts and minds of those 
 thousands who have passed through its doors, and in the lives 
 of those generations yet to come. 
 
 "And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : 
 And establish Thou the work of our hands upon us ; 
 Yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it." 
 
 MINISTER 
 John F. Burhorn Jr. 
 
 ORGANIST 
 Mrs. A. T. Ayers 
 
 BOARD OF ELDERS 
 
 D. P. Miller, Clerk 
 Ford Rendleman 
 Russell Rendleman 
 Lester Davis 
 Donnell Treece 
 
 Ray Larsen 
 Robert Brown 
 Ralph Mattheis 
 Collin Penninger 
 L. B. Tuthill 
 
 Russell Corlis, President 
 Harry Wood Sr. 
 Dennis Hindman 
 Jerome Lutz 
 George W. Hill 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 Harry Bizzell 
 Paul Houghton 
 Berry V. Rife 
 Harry Shafer 
 Don R. Stewart 
 
 BOARD OF DEACONS 
 
 E. E. Chamness, President 
 James Jay 
 Donald Ferguson 
 Lawrence Smith 
 
 Tom Morgan 
 Robert High 
 Lee Toler 
 F. G. Anderson 
 
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 ONENESS PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 
 
 The Oneness Pentecostal Church, located at the corner of 
 W. Chestnut and Green Sts., Anna, 111., was built the fall of 
 1927. Willie Howell, now of Jonesboro, was the head carpen- 
 ter, and he and many others donated more than half of the 
 labor. The following charter mem,^ers are still active in the 
 church : Mrs. Lottie Jackson, Mr, Robert Brimm, Mrs. Samuel 
 Allen, Miss Jessie Allen, Mrs. Flora Hinkle, Mrs. Robert Wall, 
 Mrs. Lena Hinkle, Mrs. Ava Covict. 
 
 Former pastors of the church were: Rev. Elmer Cook, 
 Rev. Raymond Tripp; Rev. Tommy Stephens, Rev. Oscar San- 
 ders, Rev. Marion Hileman. Rev. Bennie Jones, the present 
 pastor, accepted the pastorate Nov. 18, 1940. The building 
 was remodeled inside in the spring of 1937. And again in 
 1943. All indebtedness of the church building was paid off 
 and special note burning services were held April 20, 1944. 
 The parsonage on the adjoining lot was purchased in 1944 and 
 has been completely remodeled. The new addition of five Sun- 
 day School rooms and other improvements were made in 1953. 
 
 The church is now debt free. 
 
 ONENESS PENTECOSTAL 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 1927 
 
 ONENESS PENTECOSTAL 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 1945 
 
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 ROY E. SMITH 
 SuDt. of Schools 
 
 Principals: Claude Davis, 
 R. Lee Williams, Collin Penninger 
 
 100 YEARS OF EDUCATION IN ANNA 
 
 From 1854, when the first public school was built in An- 
 na, until the present time, the citizens of our community have 
 had many reasons to be proud of their schools. The early 
 settlers realized the importance of good educational facilities 
 for their children, and a small one-room school was one of the 
 first buildings erected in this young community. 
 
 This first school was located on the corner of Franklin 
 and Monroe Streets, and it was here that the early children 
 of Anna learned their three R's for four or five years until the 
 school was destroyed by fire. When this catastrophe came, 
 Winstead Davie, the husband of the lady for whom Anna was 
 named, gave a lot on Freeman Street to the city of Anna for 
 the new school, and a small frame schoolhouse was built in 
 1860. 
 
 For nine years this building was adequate for the com- 
 munity, but Anna was growing, and soon there were too 
 many children for that small school. Then, as now, the far- 
 sighted citizens looked into the future and could foresee a 
 great demand for a better and larger school system, and plans 
 
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 were made for a new building. A fine, new, three-storied, 
 brick building was built on South Green Street at the pres- 
 ent site of the Junior High School. The total cost of the 
 building, including all of the furnishings, was $22,500.00, 
 which in those days was quite a sum. Today's Junior High 
 has an evaluation of twenty times that amount ! 
 
 On January 5, 1870, the 126 children were moved from 
 the small frame building on Freeman Street to this large new 
 school which was then one of the finest schools in Southern 
 Illinois. Anna was growing rapidly, and just ten years later, 
 the school enrollment was increased to 353 pupils, and it was 
 necessary to employ six teachers for the eight grades. This 
 school, which was so optimistically built for the future, was 
 now overcrowded, and once again the city's leaders had to 
 think of more adequate school facilities. 
 
 This pressure was lessened somewhat with the founding 
 of a school which became known as Union Academy, but by 
 1900, the population of Anna had grown to such proportions 
 that a large two-storied brick building was erected in the 
 
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 Closed Monday, March 14, 1938 
 
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 northern part of the city on Monroe Street and was called the 
 Lincoln School. From 1900 until 1953, the boys and girls 
 of Anna came to know and love this landmark, and during 
 that fifty year span more than 3,000 children started their 
 education in this building. 
 
 As Anna grew, the schools became more crowded, and 
 in 1910, a new school was built on Freeman Street and was 
 named the Winstead Davie School in honor of the man who 
 gave this plot of ground to the city in 1860. 
 
 At this time the children began to attend the school on 
 the side of town where they lived, and the three-story brick 
 building on South Green became a Junior High School and 
 was used exclusively for the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. 
 
 For many years then the school facilities were adequate 
 for the community, but time marched on, the city continued 
 to grow, the buildings grew older, and the old Junior High 
 Building was declared unsafe for occupancy, and on March 
 14, 1938, it was closed. The pupils moved to the gymnasium 
 just east of the old building where classes were held for the 
 remainder of the year and a wrecking crew started to dismantle 
 this well-known landmark which was to be replaced by a new 
 modern Junior High School. This new two-story modernistic 
 building was, and is, one of the beauty spots as well as the 
 outstanding educational center of Union County. 
 
 Lincoln tchool. Anna, III. 
 
 LINCOLN SCHOOL 
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 Because of the broader educational opportunities offered to 
 their children in the Anna City School System, many parents 
 outside the district be^^an to brinj^: their children to the Anna 
 schools. Soon the rooms were crowded once more, and a 
 decision had to be made. Should just the boys and trirls 
 within the city limits be permitted to attend the Anna schools, 
 or should the district become a consolidated one? After 
 much discussion pro and con, an election was held on July 
 28, 1951, as to whether the Ellis, Nimmo and Murphy Dis- 
 tricts w^ould consolidate with the Anna District. The proposi- 
 tion carried and the district became know^n as Community Con- 
 solidated District No. 37. With consolidation came the prob- 
 lem of transporting pupils to and from schools. Three large 
 yellow school busses were added to bring the boys and girls 
 from their homes to school and take them back in the after- 
 noon. 
 
 In September of 1951, Knupp also joined the district, and 
 due to the overcrowded conditions in the lower grades at both 
 the Lincoln and Davie Schools, the Board of Education decided 
 to have kindergarten, which was first started in 1946. at the 
 dwelling owned by the district and located just east of the 
 Junior High Building. 
 
 Realizing that the city of Anna could not progress if 
 their schools stood still, the residents of Community Consoli- 
 
 rvj 
 
 O.lvi' school. 
 
 WINSTEAD DAVIE SCHOOL 
 
 — Photograph by Wiggs 
 
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 dated District No. 37 went to the polls on February 9, 1952, and 
 approved a building program for the district. 
 
 A new Lincoln School building was completed on the 
 same lot as the old building; however, it was placed to the 
 east of the old building and facing on Warren Street. This 
 new structure was built to accommodate a minimum of 350 
 students. This school, one of the most modern in school de- 
 sign, has ten classrooms, a kindergarten, a large all-purpose 
 room, a cafeteria, special purpose rooms for speech correction 
 and the nurse's use, a teachers' lounge, administration offices, 
 storage rooms, a modern heating plant, and everything that 
 the model school could have. 
 
 At the same time that the new Lincoln School building 
 was constructed, the Davie School was completely modernized 
 and a new addition was added to the existing building. In 
 this addition there were two classrooms, a kindergarten, an all- 
 purpose room and cafeteria, special purpose rooms, and ad- 
 ministrative offices. The interior of this school, as well as 
 those of Lincoln and Junior High, has been decorated with 
 restful, pastel colors; new adjustable desks have been added; 
 and the buildings are just as beautiful on the inside as on the 
 outside. 
 
 PRESENT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 — Photograph by Wiggs 
 
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 These new buildings were ready for occupation in Sep- 
 tember of 1953, and the boys and girls of the Mackey Dis- 
 trict joined hands with the pupils of Community Consolidated 
 District No. 37 to increase the enrollment to 847. All three 
 of the grade schools have the most modern and up-to-date 
 equipment, and the boys and girls of this community receive 
 their education in pleasant, cheerful surroundings from friend- 
 ly, happy teachers who are well-trained for their positions. 
 
 The schools are governed by a Board of Education com- 
 posed of seven members — Glenn Dillf^w, Joe North, Orval 
 Page, Jim Smith, Ned Walton, Jim West and Lowell Williams 
 — and a superintendent of schools — Roy E. Smith. The citi- 
 zens of this community are indeed very fortunate to have a 
 Superintendent and School Board Members who take such 
 great interest in the welfare of pupils and teachers. These 
 Board Members give their time freely, without pay, because 
 they are primarily interested in the educational welfare of 
 the boys and girls of this area. At all times Mr. Smith and 
 his School Board are concerned with what will best serve 
 the interest of their community, and their actions are gov- 
 erned by these needs. 
 
 In tracing the history of the 
 schools of Anna, there are 
 many persons who should re- 
 ceive recognition for the con- 
 tributions they have made to 
 the educational progress of 
 this community. There have 
 been many teachers and sup- 
 erintendents who have given 
 long years of service, and 
 there have been many per- 
 sons who have served on the 
 board and spent tireless hours 
 in the long struggle our 
 schools have made to reach 
 the high standards they have 
 today. One of these persons 
 is Mr. Robert M. Choate. bet- 
 ter known as "Bob" Choate, 
 who, according to the infor- 
 ROBERT M. CHOATE mation we have been able 
 
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 to obtain, has served on the grade school board longer than 
 any other citizen of Anna, having been on the board for 
 thirty-two years. 
 
 The teachers and personnel for the three schools are as 
 follows : 
 
 Lincoln School — Principal: Claude Davis. Teachers: 
 Esther Mary Ayers, Juanita Crowell, Shirley Davis, Fayetta 
 Elkins, Teressa Horner, Edith Hunsaker, Fern Manninger, 
 Mabel Dry, Mildred Vicenzi and Mary Ann Willis. 
 
 Davie School — Principal, Collin Penninger. Teachers: 
 Margaret Booth, Virginia Blood, Mamie Hertz, Ruth Howerton, 
 Kathryn Loomis, Alice Mae McCree, Fred Pickles and Julia 
 Plemon. 
 
 Junior High School— Principal : R. Lee Williams. Teach- 
 ers: Juanita Angell, Mary Helen Benefiel, Dora Lence, Susan 
 Jobe, George Otrich, Luther Parr, Mildred Rendleman, Em- 
 ma Jane Weiss and Clifford Williams. 
 
 SPECIAL TEACHERS: 
 
 Music Teachers — Etoile Casper and John Gaal. 
 Speech Correctionist — Elizabeth Coffman. 
 School Nurse — Marie Belcher. 
 
 PERSONNEL: 
 
 Secretaries — Janet Choate and Kathy Gill. 
 
 Cooks — Mary Allen, Carrie Cross, Eva Dillow, Dovie Lacy, 
 Alline McCommons and Edna Williams. 
 
 Custodians — Leon Allen, Ira Dillow, John Fear, Charles 
 Miller, Elmer Rader, Melvin Smith and Bob Wall. 
 
 The schools of our community have no superiors in the 
 state of Illinois in educational opportunities offered to their 
 pupils. From the time a youngster of five enters kindergar- 
 ten until he graduates from the eighth grade, he is given a 
 well-rounded education where he is helped to grow and develop 
 mentally, socially and emotionally. 
 
 In co-operation with the high school, the grade schools 
 employ a full time nurse who supervises the health program 
 of the schools. She makes daily visits to the schools and 
 confers with parents, doctors and teachers in regard to the 
 health of each pupil in the school system. Under her super- 
 vision immunizations, vaccinations and physical examinations 
 
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 are g-iven regularly to pupils. As another phase of the health 
 program a speech correctionist has been employed to help 
 boys and girls to overcome their speech defects. 
 
 During the noon hour hot lunches with both eye and taste 
 appeal are served daily to an average of 560 pupils. In mod- 
 ern, up-to-date kitchens, the cooks prepare a nutritious Grade 
 A meal which assures the children of a balanced diet. Thus, 
 the children of all three schools are provided a warm lunch 
 which is eaten in a pleasant homey atmosphere. 
 
 Throughout the entire system the pupils of the Lincoln, 
 Davie and Junior High Schools are given adequate opportuni- 
 ties to develop their musical ability. Two talented music in- 
 structors — one vocal and one instrumental — are always em- 
 ployed to direct the musical activities of the schools. Under 
 their guidance the pupils have won many honors in this field. 
 
 The athletic program of the Anna Schools is a well- 
 rounded one. From the time a youngster enters kindergarten, 
 he learns to play with other children, and good sportsmanship 
 is stressed at all times. Each school has a gymnasium, and 
 each pupil has a chance to enjoy it in supervised play. When 
 the pupils reach Junior High age, there are competitive sports 
 
 PRESENT LINCOLN SCHOOL 
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 in which pupils participate — namely, softball, basketball, box- 
 ing and track. 
 
 All children are given an opportunity to express them- 
 selves in art from the kindergarten on through school. In 
 the Junior High art is an elective subject, and about one- 
 third of the Junior High pupils continue in their art work. 
 During the past several years many students have won dis- 
 tinction as a result of the work begun in the grade schools. 
 In the Junior High School there is a homemaking department 
 for the girls where they get experience in cooking, sewing and 
 social training, and an industrial arts department for the 
 boys, where they receive special training in handicraft, wood- 
 work, welding, metal work, drafting and finishing. 
 
 In regards to Visual Education no schools surpass those 
 of Community Consolidated District No. 37. All three schools 
 have a 16 MM projector with a regular schedule of films shown 
 to supplement and correlate the regular classroom work. Each 
 school has a slide and filmstrip projector and a tape recorder. 
 There are radios and phonographs in each room at Lincoln and 
 Davie Schools, and in the Junior High School there is a tele- 
 vision set, where pupils may view firsthand the important tele- 
 vised events of the day. 
 
 Each room at each school has its own library suited to 
 
 PRESENT DAVIE SCHOOL 
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 the age and grade level of the boys and girls who are in that 
 room, and there are ample maps, pictures, globes, newspapers, 
 and magazines throughout the school system. 
 
 The pupils of this district are receiving a well-rounded 
 education in the varied activities as offered by the teachers 
 of our schools. A systematic plan of giving standardized tests 
 to determine their mental development is in effect, and accord- 
 ing to these tests our pupils always rate very high on the na- 
 tional average. 
 
 As the city of Anna has grown, so have the schools of 
 Anna from that small one room building in 1854 with an as- 
 sessed evaluation of $1500.00 to our three beautiful new 
 buildings in 1954 valued at $800,000.00. An adequate school 
 system is essential to the growth and prosperity of a commu- 
 nity, and Anna is fortunate in having just that — A SCHOOL 
 SYSTEM EQUALLED BY FEW AND SURPASSED BY 
 NONE. — Written by Mary Helen Benefiel. 
 
 1953-1954 SCHOOL BOARD 
 
 Left to right: Superintendent Roy E. Smith, Lowell Wil- 
 liams, Ned Walton, Glenn Dillow, Orval Page, Jim Smith, Jim 
 West. Inset : Joe North. 
 
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 THE ANNA HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 In 1869 the three-story brick building: on Green Street, 
 the site of the new Junior High School, was erected for the 
 g-rade schools of Anna. About 1888 the high school was or- 
 ganized, and its classes were held on the upper floor. Several 
 small fires in that building are probably responsible for the 
 lack of school records — if not burned, they were presumably 
 lost in the confusion. 
 
 The first commencement exercises of the Anna High 
 School were held May 8, 1892, with a class of these seven peo- 
 ple : J. Caldwell Elrod, Emory A. Elrod, John A. Henly, Murphy 
 Inman, Carrie J. Walter, Mamie E. Walter Keith, Wiley J. 
 Webster. The school principal was Mr. F. C. Dever and the 
 teachers were: Mrs. Eva Worley Dever, S. D. Rogers, Leona 
 Andrews, Louise Sims, Miss Teeter, Mrs. Minnie English Sif- 
 ford. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Dever, Mrs. Dever, Miss Mary Feeley, Elnora 
 Davie, Leona Andrews, Louise Sims Wiley, S. D. Rogers com- 
 posed the faculty. Captain Hugh Andrews was the first 
 County Commissioner of Schools, elected that year. The 
 name of the office was changed to County Superintendent of 
 Schools during his administration. 
 
 The final commencement for the Anna High School was 
 in 1918, with these young people in the class: Louis Davis, 
 Lucille Blanchard Sitter, Carl Halterman, Ralph Mattheis, 
 Iverne Watson Peeler, Lillian Wheeler, George Wynn. 
 
 The number of graduates from 1892 to 1918 is 261. 
 
 The Anna High School became a part of the Anna-Jones- 
 boro Community High School in 1918. 
 
 THE JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 Records of the beginnings of the Jonesboro High School 
 have proved to be very elusive. Interviews with members of 
 the first graduating class reveal the following facts: 
 
 The grade school of Jonesboro held sessions in the old 
 hotel building on the square across from the present Norris 
 & Son Funeral Chapel. High school subjects were added to 
 the course of study, probably in 1888 or 1889, for the first an- 
 
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 nual commencement of the Jonesboro High School was held 
 March 26, 1892. The program on that occasion gives the 
 names of these graduates : Lena Baker Green, Georgia Brown 
 Davidson, George Crawford, Harry Dougherty, Kate Dougher- 
 ty Sarsfield, Lou Mozley Robinson, Clara Rendleman Sams, Au- 
 gusta Sams Perrine, and May Willard Jones. The faculty that 
 year was composed of Principal George W. Clendenin and Miss 
 Delia Chase, and the members of the school board were: Mon- 
 roe C. Crawford, Alvin Cook, W. C. Lence, J. H. Hilboldt, Al- 
 fred Lence, C. E. English and C. H. Chase. 
 
 In the fall of 1904 school opened in a new building on 
 what was known as the Frick site at the west edge of town. 
 There were seven teachers, to handle both grade and high 
 school work. In 1916-17 the 7th and 8th grades were organ- 
 ized with the high school under the 6-6 plan: 6 grades in the 
 elementary and 6 grades in the high school classes. 
 
 The members of the final class of the Jonesboro High 
 School were: Bryan Ballard, Clara Lence Smith, Frances Mor- 
 ris, Cecil Norris, and Paul Reese. The list of graduates 
 through the years from 1892 to 1918 numbers 114. 
 
 The Jonesboro High School was then united with the 
 Anna High School, thenceforth called the Anna-Jonesboro 
 Community High School. 
 
 THE ANNA-JONESBORO COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 Not often through the beginnings and development of pub- 
 lic schools are so many people concerned as is the case with 
 the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School. From the lit- 
 tle grade school house on Freeman Street in Anna and the 
 grade school on the square in Jonesboro, through the 35 years 
 of Union Academy (also beginning in the little house on Free- 
 man Street), and the years of the high schools in the two 
 towns, to the uniting of all the high schools in District No. 81, 
 the number of people who helped to make possible this im- 
 portant educational plant is beyond calculation. 
 
 When in 1917 the Directors of the Union Academy of 
 Southern Illinois realized that the high schools of Anna and 
 Jonesboro were now adequate for the care of the young people 
 of high school age, they turned over to the combining schools 
 Benton Hall and the campus of 20 acres, with Willard Memo- 
 rial Hall, willed to Union Academy by C. M. Willard. 
 
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 ENTRANCE ANNA-JONESBORO COMMUNITY HIGH 
 
 Entrance gates at A. - J. C. H. S., with Bar-San Hall on the left 
 and Benton Hall on the right. 
 
 The Board of Directors of the new Anna-Jonesboro Com- 
 munity Hig-h School, needing more room for the great increase 
 in the number of students, arranged in 1923 for the construc- 
 tion of Bar-San Hall, named in 1948 for Miss Clara Bartow 
 and Mrs. Ella Jane Pickles Sanders. With each year more 
 students came, again more room was needed, so in 1950 Union 
 Hall was built, west of Willard Memorial Hall, and facing Main 
 Street. This hall houses a large gymnasium, the cafeteria, 
 which serves 250 people, the Commercial and Music Depart- 
 ments and the Farm Shop rooms. 
 
 Since the founding of the Anna-Jonesboro Community 
 High School the campus has been greatly improved. Its 
 natural Ravine Theatre (a cherished dream of the Reverend 
 Mr. Craighead in Union Academy days), the many trees of 
 many varieties, the shrubs and the ornamental class gifts, 
 make this as beautiful a campus as can be found in Southern 
 Illinois. 
 
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 The first Board of Directors of the Anna-Jonesboro Com- 
 munity Hig-h school in 1918 was composed of these men: 
 President, A. Ney Sessions ; L. D. Keith, T. P. Sifford, Charles 
 C. Crawford, Ira 0. Karraker, 
 
 The faculty of the school in 1918 number 11 men and wom- 
 en, some of whom had been teaching in the Anna and Jonesboro 
 High Schools. Their names : Principal, Harry M. Thrasher ; 
 Miss Clara Bartow, Edith J. Anderson, Ella Jane Pickles San- 
 ders, Nora Harris, Genevieve Stillwell, G. R. McGhee, S. M. 
 Orr (the janitor), Karl J. Hopp, Ray J. Friant, Clara Drusch. 
 
 There were 19 members in the first graduating class in 
 1919: Mildred Alden Lies, Robert Brady, Pearl Chamberlain, 
 Leroy Cover, Tullie Davis, Forrest Dillow, Virginia Fulenwider 
 Baker, Estelle Mang-old McKibbon, Baxter Harter, Teressa 
 Horner, Zelma Karraker, Helen Lentz Young, Naomi Reese 
 Treece, Lurena Perrine Allen, George E. Parks, Carl Robinson, 
 Gladys Turner, Anna B. Wittman Bush, Pearl Zwahlen. 
 
 The classes of 1952 and 1953 numbered 104 and 106 re- 
 spectively. 
 
 The curriculum development of A-J has been from a 
 limited prog-ram of college preparatory subjects to a broad 
 inclusion of many vocational subjects, as well as to the retain- 
 ing of the traditional ones. 
 
 A look at the Annual Report on the Course of Study of 
 the Anna Public Schools of 1910 shows subjects in the follow- 
 ing fields: English, Science, foreign language, history, mathe- 
 matics, music and spelling (two lessons a week). 
 
 Moving to 1954, there are now given many commercial 
 courses, shop courses, vocational agriculture, extensive home 
 economics, foreign language, diversified sciences and mathe- 
 matics, speech and English, music, social studies, a good physi- 
 cal education program and driver education. 
 
 A g-uidance program was introduced a few years ago, and 
 A-J was one of the first high schools in this area to have a 
 full time guidance director. 
 
 A well-stocked library and a visual aid program help the 
 students to round out their academic life. 
 
 In 1910 the following extra-curricular activities were a 
 
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 part of the program: music and literary societies, drills and 
 a class in Indian club swinging. About $10.00 was spent on 
 playground equipment (swings and bars) for the high school 
 grounds. Twelve years later, in 1922, A-J's activities includ- 
 ed five clubs of which three were of a musical nature, and one 
 each in home economics and agriculture. 
 
 The present day extra-curricular program has been ex- 
 panded considerably to include many varied fields of interest. 
 Of the twenty clubs, there are two in the language field, two in 
 business, five in athletics, home economics is now Future 
 Homemakers ; agriculture is Future Farmers. There are also 
 three honor societies. New fields of interest include Future 
 Teachers. Foreign Relations, Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y, Library and 
 a dramatic club. National Thespians. 
 
 The National Honor Society and the Student Council were 
 organized in 1936-1937 and are still operating in an important 
 role today. The present annual publication, An-Jo-Co-Hi, has 
 been in existence since 1939. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Community High School was one of the 
 first high schools in Illinois to have Vocational Agriculture. A 
 large number of former students are now farming in the coun- 
 ty and their boys are in the present agriculture classes. "Ag" 
 students from A-J have won a large number honors, such as: 
 firsts in sectional judging, firsts in public speaking, firsts in 
 corn growing and other contests. The department is now 
 housed in the new building and contains a large modern school 
 shop and class room. 
 
 Some of the work of the department has included G. I. 
 training, adult courses, shows and fairs, and a great many 
 Future Farmer activities. 
 
 The vocational homemaking department includes three 
 years of home economics and a course in family living. 
 
 Closely associated with the department is the chapter 
 of Future Homemakers of America. Each year several girls 
 are sent to the State Leadership Training Camp at Blooming- 
 ton. In the past years, the club has had state officers, a state 
 chapter mother, and girls from the local chapter were elected 
 section presidents. 
 
 Physical education has become an integral part of the 
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 educational system today. Two fields have developed: first, 
 the athletic for those boys with exceptional ability, and sec- 
 ondly, the intramural that allows both boys and girls to com- 
 pete. 
 
 A well-rounded physical education and intramural pro- 
 g-ram has been in operation at A-J for a number of years. 
 Noon-hour competition runs high between homerooms in such 
 activities as: volley ball, basket ball, badminton, table tennis 
 and Softball. An inter-class tournament is played, followed 
 by a play-oflf of class winners. 
 
 A Girls' Athletic Association takes the place of varsity 
 athletics for the girls. They participate in a variety of sports, 
 attend playdays, workshops, clinics and camps. Friendship is 
 stressed more than competition. A week-end camping trip, in- 
 augurated last year, will continue to be a yearly event. 
 
 ANNA-JONESBORO COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 Union Hall, opened in Sept. 1952 and Willard Hall, part of 
 the original Union Academy. 
 
 The Science Department has promoted numerous campus 
 improvements, which center around conservation and beauti- 
 fication of the ravine area. This program was inaugurated 
 
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 during the depression years and has since been intensified to 
 include the planting of most native and many exotic species of 
 plants. Erosion control is practiced by actual project work. 
 
 The Science Club has maintained membership in the Ill- 
 inois State Junior Academy of Science, competing quite suc- 
 cessfully in both district and state science fairs and receiving 
 several first place awards. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro had the honor of organizing the first Fu- 
 ture Teachers' Club in the Southern Division in 1949. It is 
 affiliated with the Illinois Education Association and National 
 Education Association. The twenty charter members named 
 their chapter the Charles M. Willard Future Teachers' Asso- 
 ciation, in honor of the man whose endowment fund adds sev- 
 eral hundred dollars annually to our community for educa- 
 tional purposes. 
 
 For two years delegates have attended the state meeting. 
 This year the Future Teachers were very happy to have one 
 of their members elected to a state office. 
 
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 ANNA-JONESBORO RAVINE THEATRE 
 A-J's Ravine Theater with Benton Hall in the background. 
 
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 Since its organization Anna-Jonesboro Community High 
 School has participated in a well-rounded program of Inter- 
 scholastic sports. 
 
 From 1918 to 1954, A-J has been a member of at least 
 three different conferences: The Egyptian High School Con- 
 ference in the twenties, Big Eleven during the thirties, and at 
 present, the Southwest Egyptian Conference. Changes in af- 
 filiation were brought about largely by the growth and expan- 
 sion in the various systems. 
 
 A-J's teams have competed with others in intellectual 
 meets, football, basketball, baseball, track and field, tennis. 
 These teams have been very successful, as the many trophies, 
 banners and citations in possession of the school so well in- 
 dicate. 
 
 Invitation, district, regional, conference and sectional 
 championships have been won by teams representing A-J. 
 Several sportsmanship awards dot the shelves of A-J's trophy 
 cases. 
 
 During these years many of A-J's athletes have won All- 
 State, All-Conference and All-Area recognition and honors. 
 Anna-Jonesboro is justly proud of the accomplishments of the 
 teams and boys who have participated, for they have brought 
 honor and glory to the community. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro's musical activities were first recognized 
 in 1920-21. During those years the first Boys' and Girls' 
 Glee Clubs were organized, and also the first orchestra. How- 
 ever, it was not until 1930-31 that the first band, containing 25 
 members, made its appearance. This is quite a contrast to 
 the now 70 member band, both concert and marching. 
 
 Through the years the Music Department has been very 
 active. In 1939 it won a second place in the National School 
 Music Competition Festival, held in Indiana. The Girls' Glee 
 Club won first honors in the State Contest in 1947; and in 
 1951 there were three firsts again, all instrument ensembles. 
 
 In the last several years the Girls' Chorus has given a 
 yearly presentation of The Messiah, and the department gives 
 a concert by its combined organizations. 
 
 In 1918 the assessed valuation of the District schools was 
 $1,534,789. This included twelve districts, from District 34 
 to District 47. 
 
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 A. J. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR 1953-1954 
 Seated, left to right: Ralph Bradley, President Claude J. Boyd, 
 Ruel Hindman, Bill Mallams, Secretary Joe Brown, Carl Cun- 
 ningham, John Rayburn, and Principal Paul J. Houghton. 
 
 In 1954, with 20 Grade School districts added, the assessed 
 valuation was $17,249,054.-38% of the actual value. 
 
 The school bus has been in operation for three years and 
 the cafeteria in Union Hall for two years. 
 
 The Board of Directors of Anna-Jonesboro Community 
 High School in 1954 is composed of these men: Claud J. Boyd, 
 President; Joe L. Brown, secretary; Ruel Hindman, Carl Cun- 
 ningham, Bill Mallams, John D. Rayburn, Ralph Bradley. 
 
 The present faculty— 1954 : P. J. Houghton, Principal; 
 William Abernathy, Carl Blood, Emma Brickey, George E. 
 Casper, Mrs. Jewel Choate, Martha Crawford, Mrs. Kathryn 
 Davis, Mrs. Diana Dodd, Mrs. Mary L. Francis, Ruth Esther 
 Hill, Mrs. Lucille Howell, Ira Large, Robert Lewis, O. K. 
 Loomis, James Martin, Otto Ohmart, Mrs. Arsicel Reese, C. 
 B. Roels, Mrs. Ella Jane Pickles Sanders, Mrs. Frances Sitter, 
 
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 Mrs. Mary Evelyn Sivia, Jack Stephens, Mrs. Opal Stephens, 
 Richard Taber, Mrs. Inez Waechter. 
 
 Office: Mrs. Maxine King:, JoAnn Gollon; Nurse, Mrs. 
 Marie Belcher. Custodians: Fred Smick, Sam Weiss, Guy 
 Elkins, Lester Kaufman, Lester Simmerman. 
 
 Cafeteria: Frank E. Womick, Lucille Womick, Beulah 
 Earnhart, Iva Pierce. — Compiled by Mrs. Marion F. Wiley. 
 
 SENIOR CLASS 
 
 This class originated the Senior Trip — to points of interest 
 in the South — instead of the traditional Junior-Senior banquet 
 and prom. 
 
 First row, left to right : Larry Larsen, Russell Davis, Har- 
 old Hubbs, Randall Benson, Danny Gill, John Nicholas, Fred 
 Chamness, Carter Partridge, Paul Hileman, James Boomer, 
 Charles Daisy, Luther Fear, Larry Lam, Jim Norris, Jim Mc- 
 Intire, Dave Jay. 
 
 Second row: Joyce Page, Gene Brimm, Bob Brook, Tom 
 Brown, Irvin Harvey, James Rinehart, Kenny Winn, Gilbert 
 Dillow, Mary Lou Manus, Jaunita iviillis, Barbara Sue Modglin, 
 
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 Shirley Linson, Pat Robertson, Lucille Eddleman, Louise Hile- 
 man Ligon, Deans: Mrs. Arsicel Reese, Miss Emma Brickey. 
 
 Third row : Shirley Wall, Mary Ann Groner, James Honey, 
 Billy Hudgens, Richard Davis, Gene Seats, Jack Brimm, Billy 
 North, Donald Schlenker, Bobbie Avers, Lois Groves, Virginia 
 Davie, Mary Helen Ligon, Jane Lee Bauer, Wreatha Cruse, 
 Dorothy Glasford, Verna Crowell. 
 
 Fourth row : Joyous Jones, Dean Bittle, Dick Lyerla, Paul 
 Earnhart, Gene Rothschild, Leon Davis, Everett Ury, Delia 
 Elam, Beverly Sams, Martha Stephens, Shirley Womick, Va- 
 lerie Scrutchfield, Ladonna Boyd, Larry Swain, Jane Boyd, 
 Viola Eastman. 
 
 Fifth row: Jeanette Hoyle, Ronald Bean. Bill Jackson, 
 Carroll Mclntire, Glenn Heisner, Jack Hubbs, Carl Stanton, 
 Fawn Follis, Dareld Davis, Kathryn Orr, Carol Lee Holtz, Pam 
 Hindman, Annetta Dale, Mary Lou Stephens, Bud Brimm, 
 Deans : Mr. Jack Stephens, Mr. 0. K. Loomis. 
 
 Sixth row: Dick Isaacs, Alii Beth Nalley, Howard Hubbs, 
 Charles Ellis, Bob Pecord, Junior Clardy, Wayne Thomas, Carl 
 Cruse, Wayne Miller, Faye Fuller, Loretta Davis, Gayle Lirely, 
 Helen Evans, Pat Manninger, Dean : Mr. James Martin. 
 
 Seventh row: Barbara Basler, James Basse, Bobbie Cas- 
 per, Patti Lacy, Dixie Peeler, Delores Kelly, Shirley Romine, 
 Larry White, Wesley Boie, Bob Williams, Ceilia Kacanauskas, 
 Barbara Miller, Barbara Houseman, Shirley Treece, Nina New- 
 man. 
 
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 STINSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 Captain Robert Burns Stinson, Co. F, 60th Illinois Veteran 
 Volunteer Infantry, Civil War, was born in Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, Pa., December 6, 1930, and died in Anna, October 11, 
 1903, leaving in his will his estate (aside from some bequests 
 to relatives) to the City of Anna for the purpose of establish- 
 ing and maintaining a free public library. Only the income 
 of the principal (which amounted to $50,082.00) was to be used 
 for erecting the fire-proof building and for the expense of run- 
 ning the library. 
 
 The first Board of Directors of the Stinson Memorial 
 library was composed of the following business men of the 
 City of Anna: President, the Rev. Dr. H. L. McGill; John 
 Spire, Oliver Alden, H. F. Bussey, John B. Jackson, A. Ney 
 Sessions, E. E. McLaughlin, Jesse E. Lentz and C. L. Otrich. 
 
 In ten years suflPicient earnings had accumulated and the 
 library was then built and dedicated August 14, 1914, with 
 Dr. McGill delivering the dedicatory address. 
 
 The unique, attractive building, of native limestone and 
 concrete, was designed by Walter Burley Griffin, who was 
 born in Maywood, 111., in 1876, and after graduation from 
 the University of Illinois, became a pupil of Frank Lloyd 
 Wright in Chicago, working independently after 1905. Milli- 
 kin Place, Decatur, 111., was landscaped by Mr. Griffin. He won 
 the competition for plans for the new capital of Australia, 
 Canberra, and was placed in charge of the work in 1913. After 
 eight years he assumed the management of greater Sidney 
 Development Association, building new harbors and suburbs. 
 He died in 1937 while working on a great library in Luckow. 
 India. 
 
 Mr. Griffin's plan for Canberra was designed to make 
 full use of the natural beauty of the site and the materials 
 available and this was the idea he carried out in planning 
 the Stinson Memorial Library building. 
 
 The cost of the building was $25,000. The endowment 
 fund, still intact, is handled by the Finance Committee of 
 the Board of Directors. The personnel of the Board for 1953- 
 
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 54 is as follows: President, Russell Rendleman; Secretary, 
 P. M. West; Russell Corlis, L. B. Tuthill. Mrs. G. E. Parks, 
 Mrs. C. H. Wiley, Vesta Alden. Georpe E. Eager and W. H. 
 Lefler. The librian is Miss Mary Bacon and the custodian 
 Sam M. Hults. 
 
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 THE UNION ACADEMY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 
 
 The story of the Union Academy of Southern Illinois be- 
 gins in 1861 when William Wallace Faris taught in an 
 academy in Sacramento, California, gaining experience that 
 was to prove very valuable. Ten years later, after army, 
 college and seminary, he was pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Cape Girardeau and came often to Anna (once at 
 least on foot) to visit his father, the Reverend John M. Faris, 
 who owned Sunny Side Farm, a few miles southeast of Anna. 
 The town appealed to the young minister, as did the people 
 with whom he became acquainted. One day at the railroad 
 station he met Walter H. Willard, taking his daughter to the 
 Normal at Carbondale, because Anna had only the eight grades 
 in her school. 
 
 The men recognized the need of a school of higher edu- 
 cation in Anna, and, to state it briefly, that school. Union 
 Academy, was opened in September, 1883, on Freeman Street 
 in an outgrown school building of two rooms, that had been 
 used as a storage place for hay. 
 
 Union Academy had 47 students on its first day, with two 
 teachers — the Reverend Mr. Faris and the Reverend C. W. 
 Sifferd, pastor of the Anna Lutheran Church. In the spring 
 E. R. Jinnette joined that first group of teachers. The first 
 women teachers were Miss Mary Scott and Miss Gertrude 
 Whiteman. The attendance in the months following increased 
 and a new building was needed. John H. Spann gave 1 1-3 
 acres on the hill between Anna and Jonesboro, the site of the 
 present G. R. Corlis home ; money was contributed by the cit- 
 izens of the two towns; the contract was let to B. F. Man- 
 gold ($3,000.00 on foundations) and the building was ready 
 October 20, 1884. The women of Anna and Jonesboro gave 
 a dinner in the assembly room, clearing $185.00 for furnish- 
 ings. 
 
 Charles M. Willard died in 1893, leaving to Union Academy 
 his home on Main Street and the surrounding acres overlook- 
 ing the foothills of the Ozarks, and some other property, the 
 proceeds from the sale of which started an endowment fund 
 for Union Academy. 
 
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 In 1894 Union Academy took possession of the property 
 and used Mr. Willard's home as a ^irW dormitory. About this 
 time a large frame residence was built west of the then new 
 Academy building, and, as West Hall, became the boys' dormi- 
 tory. 
 
 In 1906 a new academy building was erected on the proper- 
 ty received from Mr. Willard, with the funds contributed by 
 citizens of Union County. This building was named Benton 
 Hall, in honor of Jacob Benton of Dongola, Illinois, who had 
 contributed $5,000.00 to the building fund, permitting this 
 building to be erected free of debt. 
 
 Many prominent men in Southern Illinois were active in 
 the affairs of Union Academy; among them were the Honor- 
 able D. W. Karraker of Jonesboro, Illinois, and the Reverend 
 James R. E. Craighead, one time pastor of the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Anna, Illinois. Additional endowment funds 
 were solicited to augment the endowment realized from Mr. 
 Willard's estate. 
 
 Through the years men and women of sterling character 
 and integrity served as teachers in Union Academy, and young 
 men and women (200 of them graduates) passed through its 
 halls to become worthy citizens of the developing world — 
 teachers, doctors, lawyers, bankers, ministers, business men 
 — not only in Illinois and other states, but beyond the sea. 
 
 When the public schools in Anna had enlarged to include 
 high school work, permission was granted to the High School 
 to use the Union Academy Property. In 1917 the Anna-Jones- 
 boro Community High School was organized and in 1921 re- 
 ceived all the property which Union Academy had been given 
 by Mr. Willard, including his residence, called Willard Memo- 
 rial Hall, and Benton Hall. 
 
 The endowment fund, other than the Willard endowment 
 fund, was returned to the donors on their request, many of 
 whom chose to leave their gifts with Union Academy. These 
 funds, together with the Willard endowment fund and over 
 $10,000.00 left to Union Academy by Mary Ann Sowers Scott, 
 constitute a fund in excess of $30,000.00, the income from 
 which is paid to Anna-Jonesboro Community High School an- 
 nually, making it one of the few endowed high schools in the 
 state of Illinois. 
 
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 The first Board of Directors of Union Academy in 1884 
 was composed of these men: J. I. Hale, W. H. Willard, W. W. 
 Faris, C. W. Sifferd, A. D. Finch, John B. :\Iiller Jacob Hile- 
 man, Oliver Alden, Wm. S. Day, John E. Lufkin, J. E. Lentz 
 and A B. Rohrbaug-h. 
 
 There were five g-raduates in the first class — 1886 — as fol- 
 lows : John A. Hale, John W. Hartline, Marg-aret Hubbard, W. 
 Frank Lingle, Harry E. Lufkin. 
 
 The last class of Union Academy — 1917: Dorothy Davie 
 Grant, Frederick Duschel, Jay W. Grear, George Keller, Mar- 
 jorie Mangold Griswold, Lee Earl Walker, Isabel Wiley Grear, 
 Zelma Rushing Lamer, Sidney Goodner, Lillian Lainer 
 Baushke. 
 
 The members of the Board of Directors in 1954 are as 
 follows: President, Lynn D. Sifford; Secretary, Sam M. Hults; 
 Collin J. Penninger, James L. Fuller, G. Russell Corlis, Mrs. 
 W. C. Mangold, Mrs. Charles H. Wiley, Mrs. W. A. Cooper, 
 Russell D. Rendleman. 
 1954. 
 
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 UNION ACADEMY 
 
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 TOWNSEND F. DODD POST NO. 344 THE 
 AMERICAN LEGION 
 
 Few organizations have reached such a high level of im- 
 portance in local and national affairs as has the American 
 Legion since its inception 35 years ago. 
 
 Townsend F. Dodd Post No. 344 was organized here in 
 1920 with the following charter members: Roy C. Parker, 
 Lester L. Lingle, Ralph H. Sitter Sr., R. Wallace Karraker, 
 William J. Benner, Russell W. Williford, Paul R. Green, Earl 
 C. Kimbro, A. M. Carter, Lynn D. Sifford, J. Francis Lentz, Dr. 
 J. H. Cody, Arthur R. Lewis, R. C. Walker, Elmer C. Campbell, 
 H. E. Randolph, G. E. Singleton, R. M. McDonald, Leland Ber- 
 ger, Robert R. Lence, Robert E. Hunsaker, Manley W. Cas- 
 per, Oscar L. Lippard, James K. Walton, Jr., Arthur L. Rees, 
 Robert L. Rich, Paul D. Reese. 
 
 Including the year of 1954, the following have been Com- 
 manders of the Post: Dr. J. H. Cody, Lynn D. Sifford, Al M. 
 Carter, Dr. W. J. Benner, Paul Green, Lester Standard, Harry 
 0. Davis, Conrad R. Casper, Melvin Snedeker, Dr. James F. 
 Wahl, C. 0. Halterman, Ralph G. Sitter, Sam Peeler, Amos 
 Johnson, Owen Holshouser, E. A. Bierbaum, Gaylon Kent, S. 
 A. Treece, Jess Boyd, D. F. Lamden, F. E. Davis, Royal Trees, 
 A. L. Cherrick, Paul Reese, Corlis West, 0. V. Huber, Glenn 
 Eddleman, Fred Cunningham, Clarence Boyce, Jerome Lutz, 
 F. W. Fink, Walter Cherrick, P. M. West, Dorris L. Hankla, 
 Hal McCarty, Amos Sanford, John H. Fuller. 
 
 The Post met at the Stinson Memorial Library, the third 
 floor of the Anna National Bank Building, the basement of 
 what is now the Elks Club, then on W. Jefferson Street, and 
 now the Modern Community Center at the corner of South 
 Main and Jefferson, where the entire community has access 
 to a meeting place large enough to accommodate any group 
 that meets in our County. 
 
 Truly a worthwhile organization striving to serve on the 
 highest level for "God and Country." 
 
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 AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY OFFICERS 
 
 Townsend F. Dodd Unit No. 344 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 1954 Officers: Mary Keith, installing officer; Lorene San- 
 ford, outgoing president ; Ruth Penrod, president ; Selma Cher- 
 rick, 2nd vice-president; Margaret Cauble, treasurer; Irene 
 West, recording secretary; Mary H. Kent, corresponding sec- 
 retary; Jean Ellen West, historian; (not shown, Mary Hoff- 
 meier, 1st vice-president; Kate Coffman, chaplain; Cecil Pen- 
 rod and Wanda Hartline, sergeant-at-arms.) 
 
 The organization meeting of the American Legion Aux- 
 iliary was called by the Post Adjutant, A. M. Carter, and was 
 held at the Stinson Memorial Library in Anna, March 17, 1920. 
 Fourteen members signed applications for membership and 
 the temporary Unit charter, which was issued April 2, 1920. 
 The first officers were : Mrs. Roy Walker, president ; Mrs. J. H. 
 Coady, vice-president; Mrs. L. D. Sifford, secretary; Mrs. Van 
 E. Crane, treasurer; Mrs. J. B. Alden, Mrs. C. H. Wiley and 
 Mrs. L. J. May, executive committee. The permanent char- 
 ter was dated July 31, 1920, and the charter roll included thir- 
 ty-three members. The Auxiliary held its meetings first in 
 the homes of members, moving to the Legion Home when it 
 was established. Today meetings are held at the new Legion 
 Home, and have been held on the second Tuesday of each 
 month since the inception of the organization. At the present 
 time the membership is 204 ; of these 84 are World War I and 
 120 World War eligibles, including 32 junior members and 12 
 Gold Star members. Last year honor guards for continuous 
 
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 membership were presented by the Unit: 30-year guards to 
 seven members, 25-year guards to twelve members and 20- 
 year guards to seven members. 
 
 The Auxiliary was formed for the purpose of aiding the 
 American Legion in carrying out the great program of peace 
 time service to America and promoting its work in serving 
 the disabled veteran and his family and the widows and 
 orphans of deceased veterans. To this great Rehabilitation 
 and Child Welfare the Unit has contributed thousands of dol- 
 lars in the past thirty-four years. The money derived from 
 the distribution of the Memorial Poppy has been used exclu- 
 sively for this work. As the organization grew such programs 
 as Americanism, Community Service, National Security and 
 many others were added. These many programs have given 
 opportunities for service in varied phases of the Auxiliary pro- 
 gram, one of which should interest every eligible wife, sister, 
 daughter or mother of men who served in World Wars 1 and 2 
 and the Korean conflict. Participation in the Legion's "Back 
 to God" movement is another important program. 
 
 Under its Americanism program the Unit presents School 
 Award Medals to outstanding graduates and essay contest 
 medals. Each year a Junior girl from the high school is sent 
 to Illinois Girls State, where they are taught the functions of 
 government. Three of these girls have represented the Unit 
 at Girls Nation, held each year in Washington, D. C, Jane 
 Rendleman, Charlotte Mattheis and Barbara Boyd. 
 
 The Unit has been privileged to give several of its mem- 
 bers to the District, Department and National Organizations in 
 various capacities: Department Hospital Chairman at the 
 Anna State Hospital have been Mabel E. Good, Ruby Russell, 
 Zella Davis, Mabel Cunningham and Mary Keith. Mrs. Keith 
 is now serving as Department vice-president of the 5th Divi- 
 sion. Mary H. Kent served as President of the Illinois De- 
 partment in 1933-34 and later as National Executive Commit- 
 teewoman and National Membership Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. Ray Penrod, 1954 Unit president, is the first Gold 
 Star Mother to honor the chair. Her son, Lt. Ray Oliver 
 Penrod, gave his life for his country in World War 2. 
 
 Past Unit Presidents in the order of their service are: 
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 Mrs. Roy Walker. 1920 ; Mrs. C. H. Wiley, 1921 ; Mrs. Lynn D. 
 Sifford, 1922 ; Miss Mabel E. Good, 1923 ; Mrs. Ford Rendleman, 
 1924; Mrs. Manley Casper, 1925-1943; Miss Ruby Russell, 
 1926; Mrs. James Ladd, 1927; Mrs. Oscar L. Lippard, 1928; 
 Mrs. Gaylor C. Kent, 1929-1946; Miss Helen Howenstein, 1930; 
 Mrs. Wallace L. Casper, 1931; Mrs. J. C. Boyd, 1932; Mrs. 
 Louis M. Davis, 1933; Mrs. A. A. Adams, 1934; Mrs. Roy 
 Keith, 1935; Mrs. Louis McDaniel, 1936; F. Everett Davis, 
 1937; Mrs. Percy M. West, 1938; Mrs. James Shepard, 1939; 
 Mrs. Fred Cunningham, 1940-1947; Mrs. Wilbert Eastman, 
 1941; Mrs. Claude Hill, 1942; Mrs. Paul Reese, 1944-1945; 
 Mrs. E. A. Bierbaum, 1948; Mrs. John R. Keith, 1949; Mrs. J. 
 Scott Grant, 1950; Mrs. Ralph Mattheis, 1951; Miss Bonnie 
 Rayburn, 1952; Mrs. Amos Sanford, 1953. The Past Unit 
 Presidents are organized as a Parley to contribute to the w^el- 
 fare of hospitalized ex-service women. 
 
 EMILY'S FLOWER SHOP 
 
 A. S. Kimbro, Ovv^ner 
 
 Flowers for All Occasions 
 
 215 West Vienna Street — Anna, 111. — Phone 835 
 
 —147—
 
 CARROLL P FOSTER Ho 3455 
 
 V.F.W. HALL 
 
 HISTORY OF CARROLL P. FOSTER POST 
 V. F. W. 
 
 A group of overseas veterans met at the City Hall in 
 Anna on January 10, 1946, for the purpose of organizing a 
 V. F. W. organization. Their first order of business was to 
 name the post, and immediately Carroll P. Foster was se- 
 lected as the name for the newly organized veterans. Foster 
 was the first Union County veteran killed in World War H and 
 was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll B. Foster of Anna. 
 
 The V. F. W. received their charter on March 14, 1946, 
 with 77 members. 
 
 In September of 1946, Fred Chamness donated one acre 
 of ground to the V. F. W. and then loaned the overseas vet- 
 erans the money to erect their present home. The building 
 was started in November, 1946, and was completed in April, 
 1947. 
 
 The consolidation of the Union County Post No. 3455 
 of Jonesboro and Carrol P. Foster Post No. 5149 was made 
 in 1948. With the consolidation, the post name, Carroll P. 
 
 —148—
 
 Foster was retained, and the post number 3455 was taken 
 from the Jonesboro Post. 
 
 With the mer^nng- of the Anna and Jonesboro post, a new 
 charter accounted for 342 members, the largest in the State 
 and possible in the United States. 
 
 A dedication ceremony of the post home was held in 
 1948 with one of the largest and most colorful parades ever 
 staged in Anna. 
 
 1949 was a year of improvements around the post home. 
 A new addition was added and two additional lots were pur- 
 chased, for future expansion, play-ground facilities and park- 
 ing area. 
 
 Since the beginning of the post in 1946, when only 77 
 members joined, the Carroll P. Foster has steadily grown 
 to a record total of 450 members in 1954. The V. F. W. 
 prestiege has grown with the membership and is now regarded 
 as one of the leading organizations in Union County. 
 
 The V. F. W. has contributed to hospitalized veterans, 
 charities and communiy service in the amount of approxi- 
 mately $20,000, in the immediate area. This was given in 
 true spirit, by the motto of our organization, "Honor the Dead 
 by Helping the Living." 
 
 The history of the Carrol P. Foster Post would not be 
 complete without mentioning two outstanding members who 
 have been given Lifetime Membership Cards by the post. 
 Clyde L. Choate, of Anna, was awarded the Congressional 
 Medal of Honor for outstanding heroism in France during 
 World War H. George Pengress holds the distinction of be- 
 ing the only blind commander in the history of the V. F. W. 
 Pengress was blinded by a land mine on the Rhine River while 
 fighting with the Engineers during World War H. 
 
 Post Commanders of the Carroll P. Foster Post, Veterans 
 of Foreign Wars include: Milas Grisham, Dorris L. Hankla, 
 Harold N. Lingle, Clarence E. Britton, Joe Dillow, Ted Womick, 
 Joe Moschenrose, George Pengress and Albert Lence. The 
 present commander is Gilbert Knupp. 
 
 If you are an overseas veteran, we invite you to join 
 the Carroll P. Foster Post. No. 3455, V. F. W. 
 
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 LADIES AUXILIARY 
 
 The following is a copy of the Charter of Ladies Auxiliary : 
 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of Amer- 
 
 ice. Be it Known that 
 
 Coretta Adams 
 Beulah Alcorn 
 Ethel Appel 
 Anna Aldridge 
 Ora Bass 
 Hulda Bowen 
 Clara Brimm 
 *Mary E. Boyd 
 Mildred Boyd 
 Zona Campbell 
 Isabel Cavender 
 Bertha Cealey 
 *Anna Cerney 
 Alice Chamness 
 Eva Chamness 
 Irene Chamness 
 Pauline Clark 
 Mabel Clutts 
 Mary Clutts 
 Mary Dale 
 
 Wanda Lee Dale 
 Fern Davis 
 Leona Davis 
 Ruby Davis 
 Rua Dillow 
 Jean Dirden 
 Agnes Eastman 
 Ruth Elam 
 Pauline Eubanks 
 Leora Ferguson 
 Helen File 
 Emma Foster 
 Lois Foster 
 Gussie Freeman 
 Ruth Grisham 
 Flora Haire 
 Nellie Hileman 
 Kate R. Hill 
 Kathleen A. Hoss 
 Viola Hoss 
 
 * Helen Jean 
 Maude Kinder 
 Agnes Lemons 
 Blanche Linson 
 Adah Martin 
 Berhta Mathis 
 Afton McCain 
 Verna Messamore 
 Nora Meyer 
 Rhoda Miller 
 *Wilberta Morrison 
 Mary Parker 
 Martha Pengress 
 Ruth Robinson 
 Esther Sadler 
 Margaret Sadler 
 Oma Terpinitz 
 Minnie Treece 
 Ina Winn 
 Anna Yerkes 
 
 *Now deceased 
 being the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of the men 
 of the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps whose 
 service created eligibles for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of 
 the United States and women members of the Armed Forces 
 of the United States who are American citizens and who have 
 had Foreign Service in time of war are hereby authorized to 
 organize and are constituted an Auxiliary to be known as 
 
 Carroll P. Foster Auxiliary of Post 3455 
 to be stationed at Anna, Illinois 
 
 In witness where we have hereunto set our hands and seal 
 this 14th day of June, 1936. 
 
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 Anna and Jonesboro Consolidated Sept. 15, 1948. 
 
 Grace H. Davis, Gladys Mooney, 
 
 National Secretary National President. 
 
 Carroll P. Foster Auxiliary of Post 5149 was first orp^an- 
 ized April 20, 1946, with Miss Louella Fraser of Carbondale, 
 President of Southern Illinois district, as installing officer. 
 Virginia Quinn was installed as president. In September Mrs. 
 Quinn moved from Anna, and Mrs. Beulah Alcorn, the Senior 
 Vice was made president. In 1947 the late Anna Cerney was 
 elected president. Early in her term as president Anna re- 
 signed because of ill health and Bertha Mathis, senior vice 
 president, acted as president for the remainder of the term. 
 
 The Jonesboro Auxiliary received a charter June 14, 1936, 
 and then consolidated with Anna Auxiliary on September 15, 
 1948. 
 
 After consolidating, the Carroll P. Foster Auxiliary of 
 Post 3455 took up residence at the new V. F. W. home north 
 of Anna. Wanda Lee Dale was elected as president for the 
 first year. In 1949, Fern Davis was elected president. Anna 
 Yerkes was next elected to serve in 1950. Helen Garner 
 served as president in 1951. Evelyn Moschenrose was 
 elected president in 1952, and when she moved from Anna, 
 Geneva Wilson took over the duties of president. Martha 
 Pengress was elected president for the year 1953, and served 
 till April 6, 1954, when Esther Sadler was installed as presi- 
 dent to serve in 1954. 
 
 Each year the Auxiliary does an average of $1,000.00 in 
 work for the Veterans of the Anna State Hospital. This work 
 consists of parties given for the veterans with entertainment, 
 refreshments and gifts. Another yearly project is the re- 
 freshment stand at the Anna Fair. This year the Auxiliary 
 sponsored an essay contest among the five high schools of the 
 area with cash prizes awarded to three winners. 
 
 Other than these yearly projects, the Auxiliary is always 
 ready with a helping hand for any community sponsored proj- 
 ect. One of the greatest aims of the Auxiliary is full co-opera- 
 tion with all civic organizations with the ultimate goal, a big- 
 ger and better community giving the best advantages avail- 
 able to its citizens. 
 
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 UNION COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT 
 
 The Union. County Soil Conservation District was organ- 
 ized by local farmers in 1947. The State of Illinois Certificate 
 of Organization was issued July 1, 1947. 
 
 The district, a local organization, is governed by a board 
 of directors consisting of five men, all landowners within the 
 district. The first board to serve the district included: Dan 
 R. Davie, M. D. Bottom, Ellis Penrod, P. D. Dillow, Ralph 
 Spring. 
 
 The present directors are: I. D. Hogue, Robert Nicolaides, 
 Adolphus Dillow, Elbert Miller, Tim Stokes. 
 
 The purpose of the district is to assist farmers to develop 
 good land use programs on their farms and to put into effect 
 needed conservation practices. Soil Survey maps are the basis 
 for helping determine conservation needs on each individual 
 farm. The district directors have developed a program and 
 work plan outlining conservation needs and ways of assisting 
 cooperating farmers in accomplishing the work. Coopera- 
 tion with the district is voluntary. To get the assistance avail- 
 able, farmers need only to make application to the district 
 board. 
 
 In order to have specialized assistance to aid local farm- 
 ers to "Farm the Conservation Way," the directors requested 
 the Soil Conservation Service of the U. S. D. A. to provide 
 technicians, especially trained in soil conservation work, to 
 aid them with their program. Cooperating in this request, 
 the SCS has assigned the following technicians to aid the 
 district: Fred B. Alcorn, Soil Conservationist; Ray H. House- 
 man, Conservation Aid; Bill Bullock, Conservation Aid. 
 
 Anna is also the location of an Area Office which provides 
 supervision of Soil Conservation Service operations in connec- 
 tion with nine soil conservation districts, covering eleven coun- 
 ties in the southern part of Illinois. The Area staff consists 
 of: George E. Eager, Area Conservationist; George 0. Wal- 
 ker, Soil Scientist; Robert L. Smith, Field Engineer; Ervin E. 
 Rogers, Engineering Aid; Sybl A. Thompson, Clerk-Typist; 
 Velma R. Beisswingert, Clerk-Typist. 
 
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 UNITED STATES POST OFFICE 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 The Anna Post Office was established in 1855 through the 
 efforts of D. L. Phillips, who was appointed the first postmas- 
 ter. Postmasters chronologically following Mr. Phillips are 
 John B. Jones, Rev. John McConnell. Nathan Dresser, Mrs. 
 Nathan Dresser, Thomas H. Phillips, John B. Miller, H. F. 
 Bussey, P. C. Willoughby, Andrew J. Pickrell, Thomas W. 
 Medlin, Mrs. Thomas W. Medlin, Charles A. Jean, L. B. Tut- 
 hill, Mrs. Sybil Walton, Raleigh C. Gurley and J. Frank Keist- 
 ler, Sr. 
 
 Prior to the completion of the Federal Post Office Building 
 at 201 North Main Street and occupancy on July 31, 1937, the 
 office at various times was located on South Main, East Davie, 
 and West Davie Streets. 
 
 Anna was without delivery service for 61 years after 
 the establishment of the post office. It was not until October 
 1, 1916, that city delivery service was started, with Paul R. 
 Green and Roy C. Parker as the first city carriers. Parcel 
 post delivery was begun in August, 1923, by push-cart with 
 Floyd L. (Rocky) Davis as the first parcel post carrier. At 
 one time there were four rural routes with the carriers 
 traveling 20 to 25 miles by horse and buggy ; but now two car- 
 riers serve the rural area on much longer all-weather routes 
 by automobiles. 
 
 The office has been first-class since July 1, 1946, with the 
 exception of the fiscal year 1948, and for the last few years 
 receipts from stamp sales have been between $55,000 and 
 $65,000. 
 
 PRESENT PERSONNEL 
 
 J. Frank Keistler, Sr., Acting Postmaster 
 
 Kendall L. Willis, Assistant Postmaster 
 
 Clerks — Floyd L. Davis, Ollie B. Davis, Charles E. Resch, 
 Raleigh C. Gurley, Clarence Gillespie, Jr., Substitute. 
 
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 City Carriers — William M. Thompson. Loel Vertle, Earl 
 E. Penrod, Oel L. Bean, Warner H. Hileman, Sub,; George F. 
 Lynn. Sub. ; Paul W. Womick, Sub. Spl. Del. Messenger. 
 
 Rural Carriers — Lawrence A. Cline, Everett S. Ury, Ivy 
 Russell, Sub; Will Dillow, Sub. 
 
 Custodial — William A. Caraker, George G. Ferguson. 
 
 H. H. Wood Insurance Agency 
 
 Lufkin Bldg., Anna. 111. 
 
 INSURANCE: That's Our Business for 32 Years 
 
 FIRE — CASUALTY — AUTOMOBILE — BONDS 
 
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 ANNA CITY HOSPITAL 
 
 The Anna City Hospital, completed and placed in opera- 
 tion March 1, 1951, is a modern 70-bed hospital, of fireproof 
 construction and functional design, furnished with the latest 
 equipment for the care and treatment of all types of illnesses 
 and injuries. Its surgeries, delivery room facilities, labora- 
 tory and X-ray equipment are outstanding. A 19-bassinet 
 nursery is provided. Hospital services include complete diag- 
 nostic service, with BMR and EKG laboratory tests; surgery; 
 medical service ; obstetrics and nursery ; contagion ; neuro- 
 psychiatry ; and therapeutic obstetrics. The hospital staff, 
 averaging about 50 employees, provides highly trained special- 
 ists as heads of the various departments. The medical staff 
 embraces 11 active staff physicians, four courtesy staff mem- 
 bers, and approximately 20 consulting staff specialists drawn 
 from the surrounding territory. 
 
 During its first year of operation, the hospital admitted 
 1,328 adult and child patients and 339 new-born babies, a 
 total of 1,667 admissions. Its 1,000th baby was born to Mrs. 
 Bruce McFadden on November 1, 1953. 
 
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 HOSPITAL PERSONNEL 
 
 Board of Trustees: 
 
 George Rippetoe President 
 
 Jeff G. Garrott Vice President 
 
 Kendall Willis Secretary 
 
 F. G. Anderson Member 
 
 Paul Fowler Member 
 
 Administrator : 
 
 James A. Dent 
 
 Department Heads: 
 
 Robert Casper Business Office 
 
 Mrs. Edith Murray, R.N. Chief of Nursing 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte Dent, A.D.A. Dietary Department 
 
 Clayton K. Walser Maintenance 
 
 Claude Johnston Laundry 
 
 Leo Brown, M.D. X-Ray Department 
 
 Thomas Lovinggood, M.D. Laboratory 
 
 Hart Foster, M.T. X-Ray and Laboratory 
 
 Technician 
 
 Medical Staff: 
 
 Berry Rife, M.D. Chief of Staff 
 
 Historical Sketch By 
 
 JOHN H. LIGON 
 
 Member First Hospital Board 
 
 Since the beginning of time, all life on Earth has been 
 ruled by the laws of nature, and violation of this law has been 
 punished accordingly. Man has tried many ways to establish 
 himself above these laws, but failed. As far back as history 
 goes, there has been need of help to ease the penalty for vio- 
 lations, so we find mention of Doctors down through the ages. 
 Much knowledge has resulted from many centuries of study 
 and experiments in surgery, medicine, and nursing care to 
 help nature bring the sick and injured back to health. 
 
 Dr. James L Hale was an M.D. in Anna as far back as my 
 memory goes. He was a man of good judgment and realized 
 that proper care of a patient was very important in treating 
 
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 disease. He also knew that very few homes were equipped 
 to give the kind of care needed, so he built the Hale Sanitor- 
 ium on S. Main Street in Anna a little more than 50 years ago. 
 It was operated by him for several years, and later on was sold 
 to the City of Anna by Dr. E. V. Hale, son of the founder, at 
 a very low price, with the understanding that it should be 
 used as a hospital and operated by the city of Anna. Funds 
 were provided by the C. M. Willard estate were used in the es- 
 tablishment of the hospital. In honor of Dr. J. I. Hale and 
 Charles M. Willard, it was named the Hale-Willard Hospital. 
 It was operated by a board of three members, appointed by 
 the Mayor and approved by the City Council. Due to limited 
 finances it had to be very careful in making obligations for 
 equipment much needed to keep up with standards set up i>y 
 the state board, which rules over all public hospitals. 
 
 A. Ney Sessions, a man much interested in his home 
 town's welfare, served many years on the local school board 
 and was very active in the establishment of the Anna-Jones- 
 boro Community High School. Mr. Sessions believed a com- 
 munity needed good schools, good churches, and a good hos- 
 pital to be a good place to live. In order to help provide the 
 good hospital, he provided in his will for most of his estate to 
 go to the city for a start toward a new hospital. The pro- 
 vision was that the city assume the management of the prop- 
 erty, and when the value should equal $100,000.00, the real 
 estate was to be sold and the proceeds used to start a hospital, 
 to be known as the Anna City Hospital. The will provided that 
 if the city did not carry out the provisions of the will, then the 
 bequest should go to the school district. The city officials ac- 
 cepted the offer, and after selling the property realized ap- 
 proximately $180,000. Under the Hill-Burton Act, the Federal 
 Government and the State each agreed to contribute an amount 
 equal to what the city would raise. So the City Council (Ben 
 Green, Mayor, John Woods, Robert Choate, Floyd Gray and 
 Frank Keistler) qualified under this act and held two elec- 
 tions for bond issues totaling $240,000. Both bond issues car- 
 ried, giving the city an available amount of $420,000. With 
 the Federal and State funds, a total $1,200,000 was provided 
 with which to build and equip the hospital. In 1950, the City 
 Council appointed a board of five members — George H. Rip- 
 petoe, G. R. Corlis, George A. Hill, Kendall Willis and John H. 
 
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 Ligon who were in charge of equipping and opening the new 
 Anna City Hospital at 517 N. Main Street. The hospital was 
 opened on March 1, 1951. The building was designed by 
 Charles Spencer, a St. Louis architect. Supervising the new 
 hospital's final construction details and selection of equip- 
 ment was Mr. E. A. Ryberg of Chicago, the first administra- 
 tor, who suffered a stroke on the opening day of the beautiful 
 building for which he was working so diligently, and passed 
 away within a few days. 
 
 Admiral Radio — Television — Refrigeration 
 
 H & W SKELGAS SERVICE 
 
 Bottle Gas Servcie 
 
 Skelgas Stoves — Appliances 
 
 Home Freezers 
 
 Phone 600 — 134 East Davie St. — Anna, 111. 
 
 Leon Walker 
 
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 HISTORY ANNA STATE HOSPITAL 
 R. C. STECK, M.D., Superintendent 
 
 Anna State is a modern, well-equipped, psychiatric hos- 
 pital dedicated to the care and treatmentt of the mentally ill 
 citizens of the twenty-five southern counties of the State. 
 It is located about two miles from the center of the City 
 of Anna, and consists of 827 acres of land, with 96 buildings. 
 Its 600 employees are paid approximately $136,000 per month 
 and this, together with what is spent for commodities neces- 
 sary to the operation of a 2,400 patient hospital, makes a siz- 
 able contribution to the well-being of the area. 
 
 In 1869, the Legislature passed an act approving the con- 
 struction of an: "Asylum for the Insane in Southern Illi- 
 nois" and authorized a Board, headed by Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor John Dougherty of Jonesboro, to determine the site. 
 In 1879, the Legislature appropriated $125,000 for the land 
 and buildings. The City of Anna voted $6,885 toward the 
 project. The original tract of land contained 290 acres. 
 
 Dr. R. H. Dewey was selected as the first Superintendent. 
 The initial group of patients were received in December, 
 1873, in the first structure erected, the North Wing of the 
 Main Building. 
 
 The Centre Building was occupied in 1875, and the South 
 Wing in 1877. In 1881, a fire consumed the North Wing with 
 the loss of one life. This wing was rebuilt and re-occupied 
 in 1882. In 1895, a disastrous fire destroyed the Centre 
 Building and the North Wing; however, no lives were lost. 
 These buildings were restored in 1895 and 1896, and are in 
 use today. 
 
 In 1874, there were fifty patients — 30 men and 20 
 women — representing 28 counties. Employees were paid $27 
 per month, and were expected to sleep on the wards. There 
 were no eight-hour shifts. Contracts were awarded in 1879 
 for meat: beef 5^2 to 6I/2 cents per pound; pork 3 cents; and 
 mutton SU cents per pound. Telephone service was installed 
 in 1880 and electric lights in 1886. 
 
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 An early problem faced by the Hospital was an adequate 
 and safe supply of water. In 1879, connection was made with 
 a "big spring" about 1 3 miles southeast of the building. 
 A severe drought in 1887 required the sinking of an artes- 
 ian well. Drought conditions in 1953-54 have recently neces- 
 sitated another deep well near Dug Hill in the Mississippi 
 basin to assure an adequate supply of water. 
 
 Transportation is not as great a problem now as in the 
 past. Early social workers frequently had to spend two days 
 on a trip to visit a patient's family only 22 miles from Anna. 
 In 1881, trustee W. B. Bruner resigned because of the difficul- 
 ties in getting to Anna. He usually made the trip by boat to 
 Cairo and then by train to Anna, but that year the Ohio 
 River was frozen and he telegraphed, "No boats running, 
 therefore, I cannot come." 
 
 The Annex Building, recently renamed Hamilton Hall in 
 honor of Dr. Angelina Hamilton, who devoted 39 years of her 
 life to the patients of the Hospital, was built in 1890. Wo- 
 men's Cottage was built in 1894, and Male Cottage in 1899. 
 In 1914, Dewey Building, which was known as Male Infirmary, 
 was dedicated. The Nurses' Home, (now Employees' Building 
 B), was built in 1920. 
 
 In 1923, the population was 1,174 patients and 300 em- 
 ployees. The institution consisted of a total of 35 buildings. 
 Physicians and nurses were hard to obtain, but then, (as 
 now), other help was plentiful. The fact that the patient 
 population was increasing rapidly was because many coun- 
 ties were abandoning their alms houses and transferring 
 their charges to state hospitals. 
 
 In 1933, five brick cottages for staff members were add- 
 ed. An expanded Hospital building program was begun in 
 1937, with the aid of federal funds. The Acute Hospital 
 building was completely rebuilt and enlarged. Athon and 
 Lence Cottages for infirm patients were built. Employees 
 Building A and Goodner Hall — a large recreation building 
 — were added in 1936-37. In 1940 the Tuberculosis Hospital 
 was occupied. 
 
 In January, 1937, Anna State Hospital stepped forward 
 to help care for flood refugees. The Hospital served an aver- 
 
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 age of 1200 meals per day to the refugees for about a week, 
 until United States Army units arrived. 
 
 As new techniques for the rehabilitation of mentally 
 ill patients have been developed, they have been instituted 
 at Anna State Hospital, some at an early date, some only re- 
 cently. Occupational therapy activities — arts and crafts, 
 weaving, woodworking, and the like — were begun early and 
 still are used to help a large number of patients. Recreation- 
 al activities were presented for many years as entertainment 
 for patients, but only recently have been accentuated to the 
 point where they are an importnat factor in the treatment 
 program. 
 
 Two very scenic outdoor recreation areas for patients have 
 been developed; the Starlight Bowl; and a large picnic area 
 west of Jonesboro at Wilson Spring. 
 
 Industrial activities have been used to help patients for 
 years, but only during recent times have they been planned 
 and organized to the point where the improvement of the 
 patient through his work assignment is a major hospital 
 goal. 
 
 Developments in recent years have generally been in 
 the direction of: (1) addition of more professionally trained 
 personnel, (2) extensive rehabilitation of existing build- 
 ings and construction of new ones, (3) expanded training 
 programs for personnel, and (4) inauguration of new services 
 for the people in the region. 
 
 The Hospital now has the services of two registered, 
 graduate dietitians who are responsible for ordering, pre- 
 paring, and serving approximately 8,000 meals every day. 
 They supervise the work of 50 employees. Patients' Cafe- 
 teria No. 1 was opened in 1936 and was recently redecorated 
 and soon will have all new furniture. Patients' Cafeteria No. 
 2 and the new Employees' Cafeteria, both completely modern 
 units, were opened this past Spring. The job of completely 
 renovating the central kitchen, which is located at the rear of 
 the main building, will soon be completed. All dietary employ- 
 ees are trained in sanitation and proper food handling. 
 
 A major step in recent years has been the elimination of 
 
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 two separate menus for patients and employees. Now, the 
 same basic food items are prepared together, although in- 
 dividual items like salads and desserts may be different. By 
 cooking in larger quantities much time is saved and less 
 food is wasted. 
 
 The Nursing program of the Hospital has been com- 
 pletely reorganized. Ward Attendants who show promise are 
 given advanced psychiatric aide training and promoted to 
 more responsible positions. The number of trained Hydro- 
 therapists has been doubled within the past two years, result- 
 ing in a large increase in the use of this form of therapy for 
 the patients. The Registered Nurses have been relieved of 
 much routine and clerical work, and five new Nurses have 
 been added, altogether making quite a significant contribu- 
 tion to better nursing care of the patients. 
 
 For many years Anna State Hospital had a training school 
 for Nurses, but it was discontinued in 1936. Plans are now 
 underway to establish an associate school of nursing at the 
 Hospital. 
 
 The medical staff of the Hospital has been dobuled with- 
 in the past three years. The consultant staff has been great- 
 ly expanded. As a result of the increased use of physical 
 therapy, insulin and electro-convulsive treatments, and other 
 newer modes of treating mental illnesses, a larger number of 
 patients go home as "improved" or as 'recovered," 
 
 Individual testing and counseling, psychotherapy, and 
 other psychological services are now available to the patients. 
 One complete ward is now being used as the site for sessions 
 in group psychotherapy. In 1951, an Intern program in 
 Psychology was arranged in cooperation with Southern Illi- 
 nois University. 
 
 Recent major changes in the physical plant include: 
 Veterans' Building completed in 1950; four new ward build- 
 ings at the side of the Main Building occupied in 1950 and 
 1952; new fire station in 1952; and four duplex apartments 
 for staff members and their families occupied in 1953. Ex- 
 tensive rehabilitation has been completed in the Bakery, 
 Cold Storage, Butcher Shop, Hamilton Hall (Annex), and 
 Women's Cottage. 
 
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 The institution employes tradesmen of almost every 
 description, in order to have all maintenance needs cared for 
 properly and promptly. 
 
 Attention has been given recently to improvement of the 
 clinic facilities offered in the Southern Illinois region by the 
 Hospital. Additional professionally trained social service 
 workers have helped make this possible. Steps are being 
 taken to expand the mental health clinic facilities so that per- 
 sons in need of counseling or other assistance can be refer- 
 red to a central clinic. Oftentimes if a person is seen early, 
 the period of later hospitalization can be avoided or shortened 
 Such a facility is nov^^ open at Carbondale on a limited basis. 
 
 A chaplaincy program has been istituted to provide full- 
 time counseling and other religious services for patients. 
 
 Efforts to interest the general public in what is being 
 done for patients at the hospital have been launched on a large 
 scale. Many women's clubs and other groups in the area 
 "sponsor" wards to which they bring gifts, parties, and other 
 favors, thereby contributing to the recovery of the patients 
 and also learning much about the Hospital and its work. 
 Many volunteer workers come regularly. Many groups of 
 visitors are shown through the institution during the year. 
 Open House of all facilities is held for the public each May, 
 but visitors are welcome at anv time. 
 
 
 
 ^^^Mjl 
 
 ANNA STATE HOSPITAL 
 
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 Throughout the years your State Hospital has worked 
 toward improving the care and treatment given the mentally 
 ill of this region. With proper public support, we can reason- 
 ably expect to see the following developments come to pass in 
 the next few years : 
 
 Better facilities for patient care. 
 More and better-trained professional staff. 
 A more dynamic attack on the problem of 
 emotional ill health in the whole region, with 
 special emphasis on prevention. 
 
 DENTISTS OF ANNA-JONESBORO 
 
 9. 
 10. 
 11. 
 1". 
 13. 
 14. 
 15. 
 16. 
 17. 
 
 Dr. Andrew D. Finch 
 Dr. George Finch 
 Dr. C. H. Shafer 
 Dr. Frank Willard 
 Dr. Thomas Perrine 
 Dr. C. R. Walser 
 Dr. T J. Brentlinger 
 Dr. \V. H. Lence 
 Dr. H. B. Shafer 
 Dr. E. C. Kimbro 
 Dr. Robert Hunsaker 
 Dr. K. K_ Kelley 
 Dr. 0. E. Johnson 
 Dr. John R. Keith 
 Dr. Robert Lence 
 Dr. H. R. Casper 
 Dr. Hilev Davis 
 
 
 Started 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 School Practice in Anna 
 
 Deceased 
 
 
 1867 
 
 
 
 1904 
 
 
 1898 
 
 
 
 1901 
 
 
 1881 
 
 
 
 1921 
 
 
 1891 
 
 
 
 1936 
 
 
 1899 
 
 
 
 1942 
 
 Louisville University 
 
 1898 
 
 
 
 1946 
 
 
 1895 
 
 Jonesboro 
 
 
 Washington University 
 
 1905 
 
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 1953 
 
 University of Illinois 
 
 1910 
 
 
 
 
 Washington University 
 
 1915 
 
 
 
 1946 
 
 Washington University 
 
 1916 
 
 
 
 
 Barnes Dental College 
 
 1923 
 
 
 
 
 Washington University 
 
 1924 
 
 
 
 
 Washington University 
 
 1934 
 1943 
 
 
 
 
 St. Louis University 
 
 1947 
 
 
 
 
 St. Louis University 
 
 1953 
 
 Jonesboro 
 
 
 Of the seventeen dentists practicing their profession 
 in Anna-Jonesboro, Dr. Andrew D. Finch was the first to 
 locate in Anna. Dr. Hiley Davis located in Jonesboro 1953. 
 Dr. H. R. Casper spent three and a half years in the navy, 
 his rank being Lieutenant Commander. Dr. Robert Hun- 
 saker served several years as a First Lieutenant and Dr. 
 John Keith served four years and was a captain in the Air 
 Corps. Dr. E. C. Kimbro was a Captain in the army. 
 
 Submitted by Anna-Jonesboro Dentists. 
 
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 100 YEARS OF MEDICINE 
 
 In 1854 the practice of medicine in Union County demand- 
 ed a combination of courage, stamina, and knowledge which 
 might well have discouraged any practictioner. The distances 
 which separated a doctor from his patients often meant 
 long rides on horseback over half-wild country with creek 
 beds as highways. Saddlebags slung across the doctor's horse 
 were the only drug stores. Often the pay was chickens, can- 
 ned vegetables, cords of wood or quilt tops. 
 
 Yet doctors' came to Anna, and many of their sons join- 
 ed them in practice. Such father-and-son relationships in- 
 cluded Ford L. Dodds, Sr., and his son, Sam ; James Hale and 
 his sons Vincent and John; William M. Eddleman and his 
 son, William Ralph; Leander Keith and his son, Roy; and 
 James C. Stewart and his son, Don. 
 
 In 1870 the State of Illinois constructed the first of many 
 buildings at Anna as a hospital for the insane. As this insti- 
 tution grew, the doctors who came to work there made their 
 homes in Anna. 
 
 To represent this area in the national organization of 
 their profession, the doctors in 1875 formed the Southern 
 Illinois Medical Association. The first meeting was held in 
 Dr. James Hale's office on Main Street in Anna. 
 
 Need for a local hospital led Dr. James Hale to build the 
 Hale Sanitorium in 1901. The thirty bed sanitorium was pur- 
 chased by the City of Anna in 1925 and re-named the Hale- 
 Willard Memorial Hospital. There were fourteen doctors on 
 the Staff, and a two year nursing course was offered under the 
 direction of Sara E. Allen, R.N. The old building was torn 
 down in 1952 to make room for an addition to the high school. 
 
 The Anna City Hospital was completed in 1952, and open- 
 ed with eighteen doctors on the Staff. It is a seventy bed 
 hospital, with nineteen bassinets to accommodate the young- 
 est patients. 
 
 THE PIONEERS— 1854-1880 
 Among the first doctors to practice in Anna were Sidney 
 
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 S. Condon, Van Harwood, and James I. Hale. These three 
 men did much to aid others in the study of medicine and phar- 
 macy. 
 
 Sidney Condon was a resident of Union County long be- 
 fore Anna was platted. In 1841 he served as county clerk 
 at Jonesboro. In the Mexican War, he went with the other 
 Union County men to Mexico in Company F, 2nd Regiment 
 of Illinois Riflemen, serving as first lieutenant from 1846 
 to 1848. He practiced medicine primarily in Anna, refus- 
 ing to ride in a buggy or wagon but making all his calls, 
 both business and professional, upon horseback. He encour- 
 aged James I. Hale to study medicine, and gave him the bene- 
 fit of his library and experience after the younger man's re- 
 turn from the Civil War. He also encouraged his namesake, 
 Sidney Condon Martin, in his struggles to become a doctor. 
 
 Luther Kitchell Parks was born in 1819 on a farm near 
 Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He made several trips from his 
 father's farm to New Orelans, flatboating farm produce and 
 earning twelve dollars a trip. After seeing the effects of the 
 great cholera epidemic of New Orleans in 1832-1833, he deter- 
 mined to study medicine and read with Dr. N. H. Torbet for 
 three years. He attended St. Louis Medical College, and 
 graduated from that institution. He did a post graduate course 
 in Philadelphia, and later took a special course in St. Louis to 
 learn tooth extraction. He married Amira Clay, a cousin of 
 Henry Clay, in Missouri, and came on one of her father's 
 steamboats to Willard Landing in 1846. He was practicing 
 medicine in Union County when Anna became a town; he 
 spent twenty-five years as a doctor in Anna. Both he and 
 his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 For a time he lived in Dr. Condon's house on South Street. 
 In his diary he records many trials of a pioneer doctor, the 
 greatest of which was a lack of ready cash. In July, 1868, 
 he wrote, "Cash receipts for practice amount to just 2 bits 
 today." Three of his sons became pharmacists, operating 
 Parks' Drug Store. His grandson, George Edwin Parks, is 
 the third generation of the family to serve Anna and the 
 medical profession in this eighty-two year old firm. 
 
 David Allison Parker was born in 1820 in North Caro- 
 lina. He attended medical school in Nashville, Tennessee, 
 
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 and began practice in Anna about 1856. He continued to 
 practice in Anna until his death in 1898 ; his son-in-law, Lean- 
 der Keith, joined him in Anna during his last two years. 
 
 Van Harwood practiced in Anna in the 1850's. He mar- 
 ried Flora Whiteman, whose sister was married to Dr. Stock- 
 ing of the State Hospital Staff. He not only practiced medi- 
 cine but also operated a drug store in a frame building near 
 the present site of Wiley's Book Store. The Parks boys 
 studied pharmacy under him. He was active in the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 Ford L. Dodds, Sr., practiced in Anna as a doctor and 
 pharmacist. During the Civil War he treated the soldiers 
 who camped on Lincoln Street, much to the delight of his 
 small son, Sam, who attempted to ride every troop train to 
 the big Army camp at Cairo. C. K. Parks studied pharmacy 
 with Dr. Dodds, and bought half interest in his drug store 
 in 1873. Dr. Dodds sold his remaining interest in the store 
 to the Parks family in 1877. 
 
 James I. Hale was born in a log cabin on Miller's 
 farm in 1844. He was a farm apprentice at the age 
 of six, receiving a common school education. He served as 
 an Army orderly during the Civil War, and was wounded at 
 the Battle of Vicksburg. After his discharge he determined 
 to study medicine. A short term of college work at Carbon- 
 dale was augmented by study with Dr. Sidney Condon. In 
 1868 he attended Chicago Medical College and returned there 
 in 1874 to complete his medical work. He was a partner of 
 Dr. Sidney Condon Martin from 1885 to 1910. Dr. Hale was 
 the first president of the Southern Illinois Medical Associa- 
 tion, the founder of Hale Sanitorium, and the father of two 
 sons who became doctors. Dr. John Hale practiced in Hurst- 
 bush ; Dr. Vincent Hale was taken into partnership with his 
 father and Dr. Martin. 
 
 Other doctors who practiced in Anna in its earliest days 
 were Walace E. Sabin, Thomas J. Rich, Francis William Wil- 
 lard, Almon K. Ives, Simon P. Ives, and John W. Parmely. 
 
 1880-1910 
 After the Civil War a larger group of young men went 
 into the practice of medicine in Union County. Many of 
 
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 them were from Anna. These men not only practiced medi- 
 cine, but took an active part in the economic and political 
 life of the community. 
 
 Dr. \Vm. EdcUeman 
 
 Dr. W. R. Eddleman 
 
 William M. Eddleman, a son of Eli and Mary Eddleman, 
 was born in 1858 near Dong:ola. After attending Union 
 School he entered Ewing College, and then in 1878 went to 
 Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, graduating in 1880. 
 After pre-medical work at the Kentucky School of Medicine 
 and the Hospital College at Louisville, he graduated from 
 the University of Tennessee in 1882. He moved to Anna, 
 where he practiced medicine from 1882 to 1925. He was elect- 
 ed mayor of Anna four times, and each term gave the city 
 a splendid business administration. He also served as Health 
 Officer, was county coroner for one term, and was active in 
 the Southern Illinois Fair Association, being president at one 
 time. 
 
 Sidney Condon Martin was born in 1851 on a farm east 
 of Anna. He was the eldest son of Samuel and Matilda Mc- 
 Elhaney Martin; his parents were from two of the first 
 families to settle in Union County. He was named for Dr. 
 Sidney Condon. Refusing to become a farmer as his father 
 wished, he worked at the Anna State Hospital and later taught 
 at the Nimmo School for a number of years in order to fin- 
 ance the years of study necessary to become a doctor. He was 
 
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 a graduate of Chicago Medical College, Northwestern Uni- 
 versity (1884). He returned to Anna to practice, and be- 
 came a partner of Dr. James I. Hale. He was extremely in- 
 terested in education and served as a member of the school 
 board for many years. For a time he was president of the 
 First National Bank; he was also president of the Union 
 County Lumber Company. He was a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church and of the Masonic Order. In 1898 he bought 
 the home of Dr. R. E. Farris, residing there with his wife, 
 Minna Boettner Martin, until his death in 1928. His daugh- 
 ter and granddaughter now live there. 
 
 Samuel Dodds, the son of Dr. Ford Dodds. was born and 
 reared in Anna. He graduated from Union Academy and 
 took his pre-medical work at Rutgers. He was a graduate of 
 Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1880. He prac- 
 ticed in Anna, and there married Ella Backus Wemple in 1900. 
 They had three children. He was made assistant superintend- 
 ent at the State Hospital in Anna, and later worked in several 
 similar institutions. He specialized in tuberculosis cases. 
 He died in 1928. 
 
 Dr. R. E. Farris moved to Anna from St. Louis in 1890. 
 He built a large home at 301 W. High Street, with a specially 
 built speaking tube so that patients might call from the front 
 porch to his bedroom without disturbing the rest of the 
 household. He moved to New Mexico, where he died. 
 
 David Watson Grear was born just south of Jonesboro 
 in 1862, the son of Jacob and Rebecca Grear. After a high 
 school education in the public schools of Union County, he 
 attended Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, graduating in 
 1890. He practiced in Anna and Jonesboro for thirty-three 
 years. He married Ethel Robinson of Anna; they had four 
 children, Norma, Jean, Jay and Joe. For sixteen years he 
 served as county coroner. Dr. Grear was very fond of music 
 and played in the deservedly noted Grear family band. 
 
 Frank A. Sambin was born in 1835 in Berkshire County, 
 Mass., the son of Dr. Millen Sabin. He was a graduate of the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1860. 
 He came to Anna in 1892, after years of service as an Army 
 doctor. He bought the home in which Dr. Condon and Dr. 
 Parks had lived. 
 
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 Leander Keith was born in Union County in 1865. After 
 attending country school and graduating from the Anna 
 Academy, he taught various schools in Union County for ten 
 years. He attended the Hospital College of Medicine at 
 Louisville, Kentucky, graduating in 1896. He returned to 
 Anna to begin medical practice in 1896 and continued for 
 thirty-eight years, until his death in 1934. He was the father 
 of three children, Roy Keith, M.D.; John R. Keith, D.D.S. ; 
 and May Keith Galloway, R.N., of St. Louis. 
 
 Esculapius Vincent Hale was born on a farm near Sara- 
 toga, the son of Dr. James L Hale. He attended Union 
 Academy in Anna and then took his medical training at Beau- 
 mont Medical School, St. Louis University. He did post- 
 graduate work at New York University. He returned to Anna 
 in 1897 to become a partner with his father and Dr. Martin. 
 He helped build and run Hale Sanitorium, remaining on its 
 staff throughout his life. He had one son, Norbert, who is 
 connected with Burroughs-Welcome Drug Company. Dr. Hale 
 was very active in the Presbyterian Church, serving as treas- 
 urer for fifty years. He died in 1950. 
 
 James C. Stewart was born in 1876, the son of T. B. and 
 Sarah Stewart. He graduated from high school and attend- 
 tended S.I.N.U., later teaching school for a short time. He 
 graduated from Medical school in 1893, and was married to 
 Ada Pearl May. They had one daughter and three sons, 
 all of whom died by the age of ten, except one son, Don. 
 Dr. Stewart began practicing medicine in Goreville in 1894. 
 A year and a half later he became ill and lived with his par- 
 ents in Carbondale until 1897. He then began to practice in 
 Anna, having his office over Park's Drug Store. He was local 
 surgeon for the Illinois Central Railroad. During the admini- 
 stration of Governor Emerson, Dr. Stewart was managing of- 
 ficer at the Alton State Hospital. He was a member of the 
 American Medical Association, the Illinois Medical Society and 
 the Union County Medical Society. He was also active in the 
 Moose Lodge, the Masonic Order and Shrine. After return- 
 ing from Alton, he re-entered practice with his son. Dr. Don 
 Stewart, using his original office until his death in 1938. 
 
 1910-1925 
 During this period The Democrat ran a series of articles 
 
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 by the Union County Medical Society concerning the advances 
 of medical science, mentioning- the recent discoveries concern- 
 ing malaria, smallpox, diptheria, and scarlet fever. Emphasis 
 on public health, vaccinations, pre-natal care, and the develop- 
 ing of specialists in particular fields of medicine brought doc- 
 tors into public notice. 
 
 Leon J. May was born in 1876. After finishing college 
 he taught in grade .schools in Indiana and later in high .school 
 in Terre Haute. He entered the Kentucky School of Medi- 
 cine, graduating after his internship. He located in Cobden, 
 where he practiced for three years. He married Stella May 
 Stout in 1908; they had one son, Robert Leon May, who is a 
 dentist in Peoria. Dr. May did eight months of post-gradu- 
 ate work in Chicago, and then moved to Anna in 1911, where 
 he spent thirty years in general practice. In 1941 he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Dwight Green as managing officer of the 
 Anna State Ho.spital; he died in office in 1944. 
 
 Samuel B. Norris was born 
 in 1882 in Anna, the son of 
 James and Emily Norris and 
 the great grand.son of Win- 
 stead and Anna Davie. He at- 
 tended the public schools, 
 graduating in 1904. He later 
 graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois Medical School, 
 where he became a member of 
 Sigma Phi Epsilon. He mar- 
 ried Gwendolyn Beaubein ; 
 they had one son, James Ed- 
 ward Norris, who was killed 
 in a Marine plane crash in 
 1931. Dr. Norris moved to 
 McClure, Illinois, for his first 
 five years of practice. He 
 practiced in Anna from 1913 
 to 1916. In 1916 he went to 
 Tuscon, Arizona, where he 
 was on the staff of a tubercu- 
 losis sanitarium, St. Luke'.s- 
 in-the-Desert. He died in Tus- 
 Dr. Norris son in 1930. 
 
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 William John Benner was born on a farm near Bunker 
 Hill, Illinois. After a public school education, he took his 
 pre-medical training- at Shurtleff College. He graduated from 
 Washington University, St. Louis, in 1903. He interned at 
 Missouri Baptist Hospital, where he met and married Etta 
 Peeler, R. N. They had three sons and three daughters. Dr. 
 Benner worked in Willow Lake, South Dakota, and was the 
 only doctor in the county until 1917. He was an officer in 
 World War I, and came to Anna to practice in 1919. He died 
 as a result of X-ray burns in 1941. 
 
 Curtis A. Hunsaker was born in 1887 in Union County. 
 After a public school education he attended St. Louis Medi- 
 cal School and the University of Illinois, where he graduated 
 in 1908. He worked for mnay years as a doctor on Indian 
 reservations, coming to Anna in 1923. He was coroner for 
 eight years. He moved to Danville, Illinois, to work at the 
 Veterans' Hospital. 
 
 Charles D. Nobles was born in a log cabin in Johnson 
 County in 1880. His grandfather, John B. Nobles, lived in 
 Anna durnig its earliest days; his father, William, was born 
 in Anna, but moved as a child to a farm in Johnson County. 
 After a rural school education, Charles attended Vienna High 
 School. From 1901 to 1905 he was a student at the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis. After graduation 
 he returned to practice for seventeen and a half years in 
 Vienna and Buncombe. In 1905 he married Hattie Milborn 
 of Mt. Vernon. He became a member of the staff of the 
 Anna State Hospital in 1923, and for twenty-eight years served 
 in this capacity. He was assistant superintendent for ten 
 years and superintendent for six years. He has one son, 
 Arthur, a social studies teacher in Calumet High School, 
 Michigan. He has two granddaughters and one great-grand- 
 daughter. Now enjoying so-called retirement, Dr. Nobles is 
 active in the Union County Medical Association, the Illinois 
 Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the 
 American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church, the Masonic Order, and the Shrine. 
 
 Glen J. Tygett was born five miles east of Cobden in 
 1897, and attended Anna High School. After his graduation 
 in 1917 he went to the University of Illinois Medical School, 
 
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 graduating in 1924. He practiced in Anna from 1924 to 
 1926. After special work in Chicago, he did post-graduate 
 work in opthamology at the University of Vienna, Austria. 
 He is now practicing in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. His two 
 sons, Joe and Tom, are studying medicine. 
 
 WilHam Ralph Eddleman was the son of Dr. William and 
 Dora Eddleman, and was born in 1888 in Anna. He attended 
 the city schools in Anna, entered medical school in Nashville, 
 Tennessee, and was graduated in 1911. After graduation he 
 practiced medicine in Tennessee. In 1917 he became a Gov- 
 ernment surgeon, working four years at the Rosebud, South 
 Dakota, Indian Reservation. In 1925, following the death of 
 his father, he returned to Anna and took over his father's 
 office, where he practiced until his death in 1934. 
 
 1925-1954 
 
 The decades after 1925 saw a great increase in the popu- 
 lation of Anna and of Union County. In proportion, the num- 
 ber of doctors has grown smaller, so that there has been little 
 time for the types of activities enjoyed by the doctors of the 
 past. The pressure of work can be lightened only by the 
 coming of more young doctors into Anna to practice. 
 
 Roy Keith was born in Anna in 1896. After attending 
 the Anna city schools, he took a B. S. degree at Northwestern 
 University in 1918 and an M. D. degree at the Northwestern 
 University Medical School in 1924. He joined Phi Chi medi- 
 cal fraternity. In 1921 he married Hazel Reed of St. Louis, 
 a medical technician; they have one daughter, Helen Keith 
 Metheny. Dr. Keith interned at Missouri Baptist Sanitarium 
 (1923), St. Louis Childrens' Hospital (1924-1925), and St. 
 Louis Maternity Hospital (1925-1926.) He began practice in 
 Anna in 1927. He is a member of the American Medical As- 
 sociation; the American Trudeau Society; the Illinois Medical 
 Society ; and the Union County Medical Society, having at one 
 time been president. Dr. Roy Keith, his father, Dr. L. D. 
 Keith, and his maternal grandfather. Dr. D. A. Parker, have 
 practiced medicine in Anna and Union County continuously 
 for the past ninety-eight years. 
 
 Don B. Stewart was born in Goreville, Illinois, in 1896. 
 His family moved to Anna when he was only a year old. He 
 
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 attended the Anna city schools and graduated from Union 
 Academy in 1912. He enrolled at Northwestern University, 
 joining Sigma Nu fraternity; and in 1919 he graduated from 
 Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago with B. 
 S. and M. D. degrees. He interned at the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road Hospital in Chicago in 1919, becoming resident physician 
 there from 1921 to 1923. In 1923 he moved to Ziegler, Ill- 
 inois, where he ran the Bell and Zoller Hospital. He did post- 
 graduate work at Tulane University in 1925. In 1926 he mar- 
 ried Helen Perry of Mt. Vernon. After a three month post- 
 graduate course in surgery at the Post Graduate Hospital in 
 Chicago, he came to Anna to go into partnership with his fa- 
 ther. He has been in practice in Anna for twenty-seven 
 years, with exception of five months in 1950 due to a gastrec- 
 tomy. He has two daughters. Dr. Stewart is a member of 
 the American Medical Association; the Southern Illinois and 
 Union County Medical Societies ; the Academy of General Prac- 
 titioners ; and the Railroad Surgeons Association. He has 
 been local surgeon for the Illinois Central Railroad since 1923. 
 He is a member of the Elks, the Masonic Lodge, and Ameri- 
 can Legion Post No. 344. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, serving as a trustee. He has been consultant sur- 
 geon at the Anna State Hospital since 1944 and has served 
 as president of the Union County Medical Society. He was 
 President of the Staff of the Anna City Hospital during its 
 first year. 
 
 Harry Phillips, who was born in Michigan, graduated from 
 the Chicago Medical College in 1930. He interned at St. 
 Luke's, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He came to the Anna State 
 Hospital Staff in 1931 ; he left the staff to establish a general 
 practice in Anna in 1937. He married Melba Magidson of 
 St. Louis in 1937, and they have three children. In 1952 he 
 relocated in East St. Louis. 
 
 Berry Valney Rife was born in 1897 at Villa Ridge, Ill- 
 inois. He was the eldest son of Dr. William C. and Lilly 
 Royall Rife. His father and maternal grandfather practiced 
 medicine in Pulaski County; his mother was a registered 
 pharmacist. After graduating from Mounds Township High 
 School, he attended S. I. N. U. at Carbondale, leaving his 
 schooling to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1918. Following his 
 
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 discharge he attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers Col- 
 lege at Cape Girardeau. He took his medical training at the 
 St. Louis University School of Medicine, graduating in 1927. 
 He is a member of Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. He in- 
 terned at Missouri Baptist Hospital in 1927-1928. He mar- 
 ried Charlotte L. Ledden of St. Louis in 1927 and has three 
 sons, Berry, Charles, and James. He practiced medicine in 
 Mounds, Illinois, for seven years and in San Mateo, California, 
 for one year. He came to Anna to establish a general practice 
 in 1937. He is a member of the Staff of the Anna City Hos- 
 pital and is President of the Staff for 1954. He served on the 
 Anna-Jonesboro Community High School Board of Education 
 for twelve years, and was president of the board for four 
 years. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a 
 trustee. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, the Elks Lodge, 
 the American Legion, and the Anna Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Walter A. Schroeder was born in Pinckneyville, Illinois, in 
 1911, attending grade and high school in that City. He grad- 
 uated from the University of Illinois in 1938 with a B. S. 
 in Education and from the University of Illinois College of 
 Medicine with an M. D. degree in 1942. He is a member of 
 Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. He interned at the U. S. 
 Naval Hospital in Quantico, Va., and spent four years in the 
 Medical Corps of the Navy during World War II (1942-1946.) 
 He saw overseas duty and action as a batallion surgeon with 
 the Fifth Marine Division in the South Pacific, and was award- 
 ed the Presidential Citation Ribbon for being a member of 
 the assault force on Iwo Jima. He started the practice of 
 medicine and surgery in Anna in 1947. He is married to the 
 former Jane Osburn, daughter of the late Dr. E. E. Osburn 
 of Broughton, Illinois. He has two children, Emily Jane and 
 Walter A. Schroeder, Jr. 
 
 Adrian L. Ashworth was born in West Virginia, and was 
 a graduate of Rush School of Medicine. He interned at Swed- 
 ish Covenant Hospital in Chicago. He practiced in Cobden 
 until World War II, when he entered Army service. He re- 
 turned to Cobden to live after his discharge, but had his of- 
 fice in Anna, where he practiced until 1954. He is now work- 
 ing in a mental hospital in West Virginia. 
 
 Waldo Jerome Houghton graduated in pharmacy and was 
 
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 reg-istered in 1910. He practiced pharmacy until he entered 
 medical school in 1919. He enli.sted in the Army Medical Corps 
 in World War I, returning to medical school and graduating- 
 with an M. D. degree in 1925. He opened an office in Chicago, 
 where he continued to practice for twenty-five years. He is 
 married and has a son who is now serving his fourth year in 
 the Navy. He is a member of the Oak Park Presbyterian 
 Church, Chicago. In his own words. Dr. Houghton explained 
 his move from Chicago to Anna in 1951 : "After looking over 
 all the towns from Urbana down to Cairo, we picked Anna be- 
 cause of the friendliness of its people, the civic pride shown in 
 their homes, and the scenic beauty of its rolling countryside." 
 
 John Ronald Boswell was born on a farm near Mt. Pleasant 
 in 1922, the son of Charles Lester and Jettie Boswell. His 
 father was named for a great uncle. Dr. Charles Boswell of 
 Mounds. John attended the Anna public schools and entered 
 S. I. U. at Carbondale in 1939. He served in the Army Medi- 
 cal Corps from 1941 to 1945. He was a laboratory technician at 
 Walter Reed Hospital, and with the 116th Hospital Division, 
 moving from England to France to Nurnburg, Germany. He re- 
 turned to S. I. U. to finish an interrupted education, graduating 
 in 1947. He entered the University of Illinois College of Medi- 
 cine in Chicago in 1947, and graduated in 1951. There he be- 
 came a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He 
 interned at Indianapolis General Hospital (1951-1952). He 
 married Patricia Anna Murrie of Vienna in 1951 ; they have 
 one daughter, Rebecca Lou. He is a member of the Baptist 
 Church ; the American Academy of General Practitioners ; The 
 American Medical Association; and the Illinois and Union 
 County medical societies, serving as secretary of the local 
 medical society. 
 
 Charles D. Nobles, M. D. 
 Esther Mary Ayers. 
 
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 OPTOMETRY IN ANNA 
 
 At the time of the passage of the Optometry Law in 
 Illinois, 1919, there were three optometrists then practicing. 
 
 H. C. Lentz, his son J. Fred Lentz and Thomas J. Glass- 
 cock. J. Fred Lentz moved to Texas in 1921. 
 
 In January, 1924, Dr. James F. Wahl moved his practice 
 from Abilene, Kansas, to Anna. Dr. Wahl had graduated 
 from Needles Institute of Optometry in Kansas City, Missouri. 
 During his practice in this community, he has had some of 
 Anna's sons return to associate with him. Dr. John C. Lock- 
 ard graduated from Northern Illinois College of Optometry 
 and joined Dr. Wahl in practice in 1934. He has since moved 
 to North Carolina. Dr. John D. Slightom graduated from 
 Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, was 
 associated with Dr. Wahl for a year and since 1949 has prac- 
 ticed in Harrisburg, Illinois. At present Dr. Don C. West a 
 graduate of Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, 
 Tennessee in 1949 is associated with Dr. Wahl in practice. 
 
 Dr. George E. Casper of Anna graduated from Southern 
 College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee in 1949. While 
 practicing in Tennessee he served as a faculty member of the 
 college until 1952 when he moved to Anna, where he now prac- 
 tices. 
 
 Dr. Jean Jones and Dr. John R. Pickrell also practice in 
 Anna. 
 
 At the time of this Centennial, Anna, Illinois is honored 
 in having one of its optometrists. Dr. James F. Wahl serving 
 as President of The American Optometric Association which 
 is the national organization. 
 
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 1895 CHIROPRACTIC HISTORY 1954 
 
 In the year of 1895 Chiropractic was founded by Dr. D. 
 D. Palmer at Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Chiropractic is a philosophy, Science, and Art of things 
 natural; A system of adjusting- the articulations of the spinal 
 column, by hand only, for the correction of the cause of dis- 
 ease. 
 
 Dr. B. J. Palmer, D.C., Ph. C, his Son, developed and fur- 
 thered Chiropractic by building- a collegre known as the Palm- 
 er School of Chiropractic, the fountain head of chiropractic, 
 which is located at the top of Brady Street Hill. 
 
 Hundreds of students from all parts of the world are 
 graduated and leave this school to better serve sick and suf- 
 fering humanity. 
 
 Dr. James C. Kincaid, D.C., brought Chiropractic to An- 
 na, Illinois, November 15th, 1921. Setting up office in the 
 Alden building at 3071 o South Main Street, at which place 
 he practiced Chiropractic until moving his office to Metropolis, 
 Illinois, about September 1st, 1948. Dr. Kincaid, being a pio- 
 neer in Illinois Chiropractic, is honored and respected through- 
 out the profession and will be remembered for years to come 
 for his strict adherence to Chiropractic principles. He is the 
 oldest practicing Chiropractor in this State, 
 
 Dr. Donald G. Odum, D.C., after serving in the U. S. Navy 
 and graduating from the Palmer School of Chiropractic and 
 attending the Missouri College of Chiropractic, came to Anna 
 and opened his first office at 105 West Chestnut Street, Octo- 
 ber 15th, 1948. 
 
 Dr. Fred. G. Odum D.C., father of Donald G. Odum, also 
 a graduate of Palmer School joined practice with Donald to 
 form what is known as ODUM & ODUM now located at 501 
 South Main Sreet, Anna, Illinois. 
 
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 DR. CHARLES SHAFER 
 
 Dr. Charles Shafer was born in Dayton, Ohio, January 28, 
 1857. He was the younja:est of nine children, three of whom 
 were practicing dentists. 
 
 Dr. Shafer was- married November 16. 1887 to Miss El- 
 len Jenette Burns of Anna. He is survived by one son, Dr. 
 Harry B. Shafer. 
 
 He came to Anna in 1881 and practiced forty years and 
 died in 1921. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 the Men's Club. Union Club, and served as a director in the 
 Anna Building and Loan Association. Other activities were 
 in the American Dental Association, The Illinois State Society 
 and The Southern Illinois Dental Society. 
 
 Dr. Harry B. Shafer was born December 16, 1888, at 
 Anna, Illinois. He graduated from Union Academy in 1906 
 and received his DDS Degree at the University of Illinois in 
 1910 in Chicago, Illinois. He practiced with his father for 
 ten years in the Alden Building. In the picture of their of- 
 fice (below) are shown the first Fountain Cuspidors and elec- 
 tric drills installed in Union County. 
 
 Dr. Shafer married Dr. Alma Schlosser June 8, 1915. 
 They have one son, Charles H. Shafer of Anna, and one daugh- 
 
 DR. CHARLES SHAFER 
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 ter, Mrs. Martha Ann Leifheit of DeKalb, Illinois, and there 
 are five grandchildren. 
 
 In 1940 Dr. Wahl and Dr. Shafer built the office on Main 
 Street, and Dr. Shafer is practicing in this location at this 
 time and is in his forty-fourth year. 
 
 He served as President of the Rotary Club, the Men's 
 Club, The Southern Illinois Dental Society and Past Master 
 of the Masonic Lodge. 
 
 His hobbies are numerous, including fishing, hunting, golf, 
 and for ten years flying. He gave 67 lectures and clinics on 
 children's dentistry in Illinois and neighboring states; and 
 published fourteen articles and gave seven radio talks. 
 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, served as a 
 deacon for vears and now is a trustee. 
 
 LARRY DILLOW GARAGE 
 
 Auto Repairing, Starter, Generator and Ignition Service 
 and Light Machine Work 
 
 Owned and Operated by Larry Dillow 
 
 42 Years of Mechanical Service. 
 
 Assisted by Joseph B. Dillow, Veteran of World War II and 
 8 years of Auto Repair Service 
 
 126 East Vienna St. Anna, Illinois 
 
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 HARRY P. STOUT 
 D. V. M. 
 
 105 North Main 
 
 Phone 36 
 
 Dr. Harry P. Stout, Veterinarian, was born in Cobden, 
 Illinois May 21, 1892. He attended Water Valley Grade 
 School and Cobden High School, and was graduated from 
 McKillips Veterinary College, Chicago, Illinois, in 1913. He 
 practiced in Cobden for four years, and served in World War 
 I as Lieutenant in Veterinary Corps, assigned to 2nd Division 
 and attached to Marines, served 3 years of which 29 months 
 was spent overseas. 
 
 In 1921 I spent one year with Dr. J. DeVine, Goshen, 
 N. Y., taking post graduate course in sterility work. 
 Re-entered government work as Milk Inspector for 
 one year at Rouses Point, N. Y., transferred to Meat 
 Inspection Division, Union Stock Yards, Chicago for 12 years. 
 
 In 1939 I came to Anna, entered general practice of Vet- 
 erinary Medicine with my wife, Matilda Clemens Stout, as my 
 assistant and office manager. 
 
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 "KRATZIXGER HOLLOW" 
 
 A familiar spot near Anna is Cave Spring, which is a 
 bountiful underground stream flowing out of a cave, about 
 one and a half miles north of Anna, and three fourths of a 
 mile west of the Illinois Central railroad. In an early history 
 of Alexander, Pulaski and Union counties, an account of the 
 building of the railroad states "water for the engines was ob- 
 tained from a large spring about a mile and a half north of 
 Anna." Thus it is reasonable to presume that this spring 
 was used as a source of water from about 1854 until its known 
 discontinuance in 1894. 
 
 A pump house, with a large brick chimney, and a tank 
 house covering a cistern-like reservoir, were situated a few 
 yards east of the cave. From here the water was pumped 
 across country to a tank on the right-of-way, opposite what 
 is now the Abernathy place. A second tank was built near 
 the old depot, to which the water flowed by gravity from the 
 first tank. When a plentiful supply of water was obtainable 
 from deep wells in Anna, the pumping station at the spring 
 was abandoned. 
 
 Mr. William Kratzinger was the engineer at the pumping 
 station for many years, and lived with his family in the two- 
 story house near the spring ; the valley roundabout came to be 
 called "Kratzinger Hollow," and is still designated this way. 
 
 Mr. Charles Otrich leased the spring area and set up a 
 picnic ground which he called "Vale of Avoca." Residents of 
 Anna reminisce about buggy rides to the "Hollow," and lead- 
 ing citizens tell of exploring as far back as the fifth and sixth 
 rooms of the cave, when they were small boys. 
 
 The spring area was sold in 1931, and, after several 
 changes, now forms the central part of Dr. Roy Keith's farm. 
 A dam has been built inside the mouth of the cave, raising 
 the water level, so that water flows by gravity to various pens 
 and buildings ; this water may be used for irrigation if needed. 
 Electric lights inside the cave and out play on the water as 
 it flows over the dam down to the creek, and a loud-speaker in- 
 
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 stalled in the cave gives intensified sound effects, as favorite 
 records are played on a near-by record changer. 
 
 Once again the old spring, beside being harnessed for 
 utilitarian purposes, serves as a source of relaxation and en- 
 joyment to its owners, and their friends. 
 
 ANNA KNITTING CLUB 
 
 At the beginning of World War Two, The American Red 
 Cross sent out an appeal to the women of this country to knit 
 sweaters, helmets and other garments for our boys in service. 
 In our town the late Mrs. Delia Walser was contacted to su- 
 pervise this work; so she and her daughter, Mrs. Edith Wells, 
 formerly of Anna, instructed a knitting class every Wednes- 
 day at the Library. From this class a social club organized, 
 and thus began the Knitting Club. 
 
 Among the charter members was the late Dora Treece, 
 "Miss Dora" as we all knew her. She was one of the out- 
 standing knitters and had more than seventy-five sweaters to 
 her credit. Several of the charter members have moved away 
 and new members have come into the Club from time to time. 
 We now have fourteen members who meet every two weeks for 
 a social get-together. At Christmas a special party is planned 
 with a dinner and gift exchange. 
 
 Present members are as follows: Mesdames Ruth Boyd, 
 Ann Bussey, Margaret Cauble, Mabel Davidson, Hilda Gol- 
 lon, Emma Lee, Jennie Moore, Ethel Richardson, Lillie Rife, 
 Laura Rudolph, Agnes Tripp, Fannie Walter, Evelyn Wied- 
 locher, Alberta Willis. 
 
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 THE HISTORY OF BETA SIGMA PHI 
 Zeta Sigma Chapter No. 2994, Anna, Illinois 
 
 In the spring of 1948 the Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma 
 Phi of Carbondale, Illinois, organized a new chapter in Anna, 
 through a friendly venture. The Chapter was given the name, 
 Zeta Sigma No. 2994 and held the first initiation in Anna, on 
 Tuesday, April 20th, 1948, in the Methodist Church with 
 twenty-three members being initiated. 
 
 Beta Sigma Phi is not exclusive, but is selective ; a pledge 
 is admitted into the organization by invitation only, and 
 qualifies her for the Ritual of Jewels in six months. 
 
 Zeta Sigma rushes once each year, and meets twice month- 
 ly from September through May. 
 
 Our annual social calendar usually provides for two or 
 three formal events and several seasonal parties and programs, 
 all of which are planned by members. Beta Sigma Phi ob- 
 serves Founders Day each year with a formal banquet. 
 
 There are three degrees in Beta Sigma Phi ; Pledge, Ritual 
 of Jewels, and Exemplar. Each degree is distinguished by 
 its own particular pin or badge. Our colors are black and 
 gold, our flower the yellow rose. 
 
 Beta Sigma Phi is a non-academic organization, social and 
 cultural in nature. 
 
 The past presidents of the Chapter are as follows: 
 
 Jane Schroeder . . . 1948-1949 
 LaWanda Hindman 1949-1950 
 Margraet Ann High 1950-1951 
 Marcella Sorrels . . 1951-1952 
 
 Doris Hoye 1952-1953 
 
 Adeline Best 1953-1954 
 
 Anna Novack 1954-1955 
 
 In the past years a number of the members have taken 
 a membership at large or inactive memberships, and many 
 have transferred into other chapters in various towns and 
 cities, having moved from Union County. 
 
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 The present oflficers are: 
 
 Adeline Best President 
 
 Pat Steck Vice-President 
 
 Alean Gale Treasurer 
 
 Audrey Coleman Secretary 
 
 Bernadine Cochran Recording- Secretary 
 
 Margaret Ann High Extension Officer 
 
 Edna Kimbro Sponsor 
 
 Edith Jarvis Sponsor 
 
 Margaret Harrelson Director 
 
 Additional active members are; 
 
 Helen Mangold 
 Doris Hoye 
 Feme Duncan 
 Ruth Robinson 
 Marie Odum 
 Eva Harris 
 Vertis Lam 
 
 Ann Novack 
 Marcella Sorrels 
 Tommie Huie 
 La Wanda Hindman 
 Helen Jones 
 Virginia Farmer 
 Wilma Rubel 
 
 Doris Long- 
 Virginia Blood 
 Madonna Choate 
 Christine Ladenheim 
 Betty Jacobson 
 Virginia Casper 
 
 Zeta Sigma is very active in service projects of a civic 
 and philanthropic nature. One of Zeta Sigma's projects has 
 been to furnish a room at the New City Hospital. When the 
 American Cancer Society organized in Union County they re- 
 quested Zeta Sigma Chapter to have charge of the service 
 program. This consists of making and distributing dress- 
 ings, etc of various forms for cancer patients of Union County. 
 
 The greatest contribution has been to help support two 
 scientists in Cancer Research at the University of Colorado. 
 This contribution is a living memorium to Mildred Hudgens, 
 deceased Honorary Member and Sponsor of the Zeta Sigma 
 Chapter. A placque also in honor of Mildred Hudgens has 
 been placed on the door of the hospital room furnished by 
 the Chapter. 
 
 Zeta Sigma has also been very generous in contributing 
 to the Red Cross, National Endowment Fund, Girl's Town 
 U. S. A., and many local projects. 
 
 Each year Zeta Sigma presents the Arion Award to the 
 
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 most talented music Senior at the Anna-Jonesboro Commun- 
 ity High School. The award offers a life time membership 
 in the Arion National Foundation and entitles the recipient 
 to participate in the Arion Club as a college student. 
 
 Zeta Sigma Chapter organized a Chapter in Dongola, 
 Illinois in March 1950 through a friendly venture. The Chap- 
 ter was given the name Eta Tau and nine members were in- 
 itiated. 
 
 WEST'S D-X SERVICE 
 
 Tires — Batteries — Greasing — Washing 
 
 Lubricating Motor Fuels 
 
 201 West Vienna St. Phone 292R 
 
 Bob West, Owner and Operator 
 
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 DELTA THETA TAU SORORITY— 25th ANNIVERSARY 
 
 Delta Kappa Chapter of Delta Theta Tau Sorority was in- 
 stalled in Anna on June 18, 1929. Charter members were 
 Jane Clark, Helen Frances Alden, Eloise Lamer, Estella Lamer 
 Davis, Julia Robinson, Lucille Taylor and '^ Alice Carita Vernon. 
 Jane Clark Brown is still an active member. 
 
 Delta Theta Tau, a national org-anization, is incorporated 
 as a philanthropic sorority. In addition to the national phil- 
 anthropic work in which they share, this chapter has furnished 
 a room at the old and the new city hospitals, purchased a frac- 
 ture bed and an operating table at the old hospital, equipment 
 for the new hospital, generous donations to the swimming pool, 
 Teen Town, Little Grassy campsite, and other local and nation- 
 al fund drives. 
 
 Active Membership: 
 
 Minnie Alcorn 
 Patricia Boswell 
 Louise Boj^d 
 *Jane Brown 
 Willadene Brown 
 Jeanne Butterfiield 
 *Jan Carter 
 Etoile Casper 
 Marge Coffman 
 Charlotte Dent 
 Mary Beth Diefenbach 
 Dorothy Dillow 
 Anita Ferguson 
 Catherine Fowler 
 * Betty Garrott 
 Joan Gollon 
 Mary Evelyn Hill 
 *Lewida Hoyle 
 *Ruth Anne Keistler 
 Imogene Koehn 
 *Maxine Larsen 
 Jo Lewis 
 
 *Kathleen Lutz 
 Judy Martin 
 Betty Mattheis 
 Helen Meyer 
 Frances Morgan 
 Sue Partrige 
 Janet Peters 
 Margaret A. Petty 
 Pauline Rich 
 * Christine Roe 
 Pat Shafer 
 '^Frances Sitter 
 *Mary Evelyn Sivia 
 Marge Smith 
 Nancy Sorrels 
 *Thelma Stearns 
 Jean Taber 
 ''Teggy Walter 
 Buena Walker 
 *Alice K. Williams 
 
 Associate Members; 
 Esther Mary Ayers 
 Eloise Bean 
 
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 Rosella Casper 
 Jane Coombs 
 Marge Grantham 
 Betty Gray 
 Billie Hancock 
 Maxine King 
 Mary Lou Pearl 
 ♦Betty Rich 
 
 Martha Riggs 
 Barbara Tripp 
 Lucille Wahl 
 Frances Winters 
 *Past Presidents 
 
 Patronesses : 
 Mary Kent 
 Mary Harper 
 
 PENNINGER PRODUCE 
 
 C. C. Penninger 
 
 Feed — Poultry — Coal 
 
 211 East Davie St. 
 
 Phone 671 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 I established this business location 25 years ago. 
 
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 ANNA-JONESBORO LODGE NO. 1641 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Charter Members: 
 
 R. E. Pearl 
 R. L. Larsen 
 Sidney J. Rendleman 
 Joe A. Hammond 
 H. Clay Reppert 
 W. F. ivilhelm 
 
 E. G. Kerth 
 Fred Elmore 
 J. C. Kincaid 
 Robert M. Hagler 
 Charles C. Rawley 
 George H. Rippetoe 
 John F. Norris 
 
 O. L. Lippard 
 C. 0. Clark 
 Edwin Lingle 
 Emil H. Alden 
 Don B. Stewart 
 Harold Little John 
 Paul Sivia 
 Norvell Jean 
 H. L. Henderson 
 
 F. A. Hunsaker 
 R. E. Willis 
 John H. Carter 
 Lester E. Bishop 
 Frank S. Alden 
 J. Leon Roby 
 
 A. R. Abernathy 
 John W. Hill 
 A. C. Lewis 
 C. D. Boyce 
 A. L. Ashworth 
 James Karraker 
 0. M. Baggott 
 A. J. Daisy 
 Cecil Norris 
 Gus Helms 
 Alvin Adams 
 Oren Hinkle 
 G. R. Corlis 
 John L. Wingate 
 L G. Gittleman 
 Cecil Bradley 
 George W. Hill 
 Hollie Johnson 
 R. L. Shannon 
 C. W. Bromley 
 Dennis Hindman 
 Albert Joiner 
 Colen Orten 
 L. E. Foley 
 R. 0. Walker 
 J. P. Davis 
 George L. Hall 
 A. F. Sanford 
 
 Jerome A. Lutz 
 R. G. Parks 
 J. H. Wilkins 
 Oley Adams 
 J. H. Garvie 
 H. B. Knowles 
 D. L. Treece 
 Roy A. Brown 
 C. V. Bromley 
 Faris Carter 
 A. J. Bigler 
 John M. Coffman 
 T. V. Tunnel 
 Frank M. Chase 
 Fred Rexleben 
 J. Paul Cain 
 Ray Coffman 
 Lee Hartline 
 Frank Keistler, Jr. 
 Hubert Jacques 
 Roy Keith 
 William Sykes, Jr. 
 Joe L. Brown 
 John C. Tripp 
 Claude E. Lee 
 L. T. Stearns 
 Chas. G. Gilmore 
 Harold Jean 
 
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 R. P. Johnson 
 John Stockman 
 J. P. Morgan 
 Norman M. Wahl 
 Wayne Hess 
 
 E. E. Hamilton 
 Roy Allen 
 Frank Napier 
 
 F. G. Anderson 
 George E. Gray 
 Claude Elkins 
 Ira Clemon Spires 
 William M. Thompson 
 
 Thomas M. Goodman 
 Carl Wiedlocher 
 J. S. Grant 
 L. V. Griffith 
 Fount B. Griffith 
 H. Wendell Reed 
 Floyd Gray 
 Bernard PYieze 
 Kent Kelley 
 Roy Wilkins 
 L. W. Brown 
 Aurel W. Rendleman 
 
 Past Exalted Rulers; 
 
 Colon Orten 1941 
 
 L. E. Foley 1942 
 
 Jerome A. Lutz 1943 
 
 Ford Rendleman 1944 
 
 Geo. L. Hall 1944 
 
 R. L. Shannon 1945 
 
 Ruel Hindman 1946 
 
 L. B. Tuthill 1947 
 
 L. T. Stearns 1948 
 
 Claude Elkins 1949 
 
 Amos F. Sanford 1950 
 
 James W. Rich 1951 
 
 Claude Lee, Jr 1952 
 
 Hal R. McCarty 1953 
 
 Our Departed Brothers: 
 R. L. Shannon, P. E. R 1950 
 
 Lloyd Lingle 1941 
 
 J. H. Wilkins 1942 
 
 John L. Wingate 1944 
 
 S. J. Rendleman 1944 
 
 A. C. Lewis 1944 
 
 Fred H. Elmore 1944 
 
 William Masska 1944 
 
 John F. Norris 1946 
 
 C. Lester Boswell 1943 
 
 Fred Hammock 1948 
 
 Lester E. Bishop 1949 
 
 Murray Steagala 1950 
 
 William Smith 1950 
 
 L. G. Richardson 1950 
 
 Ernest Ryberg 1951 
 
 Homer Campbell 1951 
 
 Charles Joram 1951 
 
 Dr. T. W. Cogger 1951 
 
 H. Clay Reppert 1951 
 
 George A. Hill 1951 
 
 Walter A. Sinks 1952 
 
 O. L. Lippard 1952 
 
 Manley W. Casper 1953 
 
 Ernest Guy Martin 1954 
 
 The faults of our Brothers we write upon the sand 
 Their virtues upon the tablets of love and memory. 
 
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 History of the Lodge 
 
 The Anna-Jonesboro Benevolent & Protective Order of 
 Elks Lodge No. 1641 was granted a charter by the Grand 
 Lodge of Elks, July 17, 1941, with one hundred and nine 
 charter members duly installed. The lodge first had their 
 quarters upstairs at 310' -j S. Main Street and upon the con- 
 tinued growth and prosperity of the lodge, bought the old 
 Union Club Building from Miss Vesta Alden on October 5, 
 1947, for the sum of $35,000. The entire Elks quarters of this 
 building were completely remodeled with Past Exalted Ruler 
 R. L. Shannon supervising the entire program. R. L. Shan- 
 non was later honored by the lodge on April 5, 1949, when a 
 'Bob Shannon Night' was held, presenting him with a Life 
 Membership in the lodge and also giving him an Elk's ring. 
 The lodge has always been indebted to Mr. Shannon for his 
 untiring efforts in making the Anna-Jonesboro Lodge one for 
 everyone to be proud of. On this same night Mr. Shannon 
 was given the honor of burning the mortgage on the home. 
 The lodge has continued to grow and make improvements 
 through the years and recently they have completely remodel- 
 ed the dining room and air conditioned the Club Rooms. 
 
 The Anna-Jonesboro lodge has always had an enviable 
 record since the institution of the lodge and through the years 
 has given thousands of dollars for benevolence. More recent- 
 ly they donated $5,000 to the Anna Park Board towards a 
 swimming pool and $1,000 to the Little Grassy Lake Scout 
 project. Last year the Anna-Jonesboro Lodge was 2nd in 
 the State of Illinois for their benevolent gifts per capita mem- 
 ber. Elks have always been known for their generosity to 
 the less fortunate and especially for their work among Crip- 
 pled Children. 
 
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 HISTORY OF "EGYPTIAN CHAPTER NO. 45, ROYAL 
 ARCH MASONS," FROM MAY 26, 1858 
 
 At a regular meeting of Shawneetown Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter No, 6, located at Shawneetown, Illinois, on May 26, 1858, a 
 communication was received from ten Companions of Jones- 
 boro, Union County, Illinois, requesting that Chapter to rec- 
 ommend them to the Grand High Priest, and consent to their 
 petition to form a Chapter in Jonesboro, by name of Union 
 Chapter No. 45. On motion it was resolved "that the Chap- 
 ter recommend the Companions according to their request." 
 The Secretary, James H. Hart, was then ordered to make out 
 and forward the recommendations. In pursuance of this or- 
 der, on the 15th day of June, 1858, James A. Hibbard, then 
 Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Ill- 
 inois, issued his dispensation authorizing the following named 
 companions to open and hold a Royal Arch Chapter, under the 
 name of Jonesboro Chapter, U. D., to-wit: 
 
 Silas C. Toler M. E. H. P. Cyrus G. Simmons. . .R. A. C. 
 
 Jos. H. Samson E. K. Louis W. Ashley. .M. 3rd. V. 
 
 John Q. C. Searle E. S. J. Frank Smith. . .M. 2nd. V. 
 
 H. A. Sikes C. H. Wm. C. Gleason. . .M. 1st. V. 
 
 Murphy M. Inman P. S. Nathan 0. Gray 
 
 The first meeting was held in the Masonic Lodge room, 
 in Jonesboro, Illinois, on July 8th, 1858, in the name of Jones- 
 boro Royal Arch Chapter U. D., Companion S. C. Toler, E. H. 
 P., J. H. Samson, Secretary. At this meeting the By-Laws 
 copied by S. C. Toler, were adopted for the time being, and a 
 committee appointed to draft permanent By-Laws. The com- 
 mittee presented the permanent By-Laws at a meeting on 
 August 26, 1858, which were adopted. 
 
 On October first, 1858, a charter was granted by the 
 Grand Royal Arch Chapter, the same to be known and desig- 
 nated as "Egyptian Chapter No. 45, Royal Arch Masons," and 
 the following Companions are shown as "Charter Members:" 
 Silas C. Toler, J. Q. C. Searle, M. M. Inman, J. F. Smith, J. H. 
 Samson, H. A. Sikes, L. W. Ashley, W. C. Gleason, N. 0. Gray, 
 J. M. Spiller, W. H. Willard, A. F. W. Burmaster, J. V. Brooks, 
 
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 F. J. Chapman, Adam Harvic, W. M. Hamilton, L. W. Hogg, 
 Samuel Hess. 
 
 On September sixth, 1872, Egyptian Chapter No. 45 voted 
 to move their place of meeting from Jonesboro to Anna, Ill- 
 inois. Permission to do this was granted by the Grand Royal 
 Arch Chapter on November 2nd, 1872. The above Chapter 
 held its first regular meeting in Masonic Hall in Anna on De- 
 cember 27. 1872. 
 
 Past High Priests now living are: John W. Roy, E. E. 
 Conyer, Frank R. Penrod, Ray Penrod, A. J. Daisy, Everett H. 
 Smith, C. E. Penninger, Guy A. Henry, George H. Daisy, Larry 
 Dillow, Howard Lam, Paul Miller, Oscar Anderson. 
 
 Present officers of the Chapter are: Guy A. Henry E. H. 
 P., F. W. Fink, E. K. Larry Dillow E. S., C. E. Penninger C. H., 
 Oscar Anderson P. S., Floyd L. Davis Treas., Howard Lam 
 Sec'y., George H. Daisy R. A. C, Earl C. Butterfield M. 3rd. 
 v., Merrill Bottom M. 2nd, V., Frank Zeigler M. 1st. V., Everett 
 H. Smith Chap., A. J. Daisy Sent., Maynard Martin Steward. 
 
 Two members of Egyptian Chapter, John W, Roy and 
 Everett H. Smith, served a number of years as District In- 
 spectors of the 27th District. 
 
 The present membership of Egyptian Chapter No. 45, is 
 91. 
 
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 HISTORY OF ANNA LODGE NO. 520 A. F. AND A. MASONS 
 By E. E. Conyer 
 
 On the evening of October 10, 1866, when our City of 
 Anna was just a youngster of 12 years, twenty-two of its cit- 
 izens held a meeting under a dispensation from the Masonic 
 Grand Lodge of Illinois to organize Ariel Lodge A. F. and 
 A, Masons. Unfortunately they left no record of the location 
 of the meeting, however, prior to their death several of the 
 older members told me that it was somewhere on Railroad 
 Street, now Davie Street. Our records are also vague regard- 
 ing those twenty-two men, telling little more than their names, 
 but from other authoritative sources we have learned enough 
 about them to know that they were men of prominence in our 
 little town and that the group was truly a cross section of its 
 citizenry at that time. Here are the names of those men and 
 their occupations as far as we could determine. Dr. M. V. B. 
 Harwood, Druggist ; W. H. Willard, Dry Goods Merchant ; J. 
 P. Bohannon, General Store Owner; Nathan Dresser, later be- 
 came Post Master; Cyrus Shick, Quarry and Lime Kiln op- 
 erator; E. H. Finch Quarry and Lime Kiln operator; Cornwall 
 Kirkpatrick, owner of the old pottery and, incidently, elected 
 the first Mayor of Anna, when the City changed its form of 
 Government in 1872 ; Jas. I. Toler, Business Man ; John Har- 
 wood, Business Man; P. H. Kroh, Minister; J. Frank Ashley, 
 Surveyor; E. Day, Farmer; A. W. Robinson, Carpenter; E. A. 
 Freeman, Town Clerk ; M. M. Inman, Peace Officer ; C. M. Wil- 
 lard, Jr., Banker; L A. McKinney, J. D. Smith, F. E. Scars- 
 dale, F. M, Davidson, Jas. L Kiger and James Roberts. 
 
 At this meeting Dr. Harwood, having been appointed 
 Worshipful Master, appointed and installed the other officers, 
 and thus began the Anna Masonic Lodge, now the oldest Fra- 
 ternal organization, originating and still functioning in Anna. 
 An organization whose first requirement is a belief in God; 
 whose purpose is not to take the place of any man's church, 
 but to teach the moral and social virtues, which should lead 
 men to church. 
 
 On the evening of October 16, 1867, Mr. Joseph H. Samson 
 
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 of Jonesboro Lodge No. Ill met with the Masonic brethren 
 of Anna and, acting for the Grand Master of Illinois, presented 
 to them a Charter. He then installed Mr. Nathan Dresser as 
 Worshipful Master. The other officers were then installed, 
 thereby completing the organization of Anna Lodge No. 520, 
 A. F. and A. Masons, as a regular Lodge of Masons. 
 
 During the years Anna Lodge moved its meeting place 
 several times. It is difficult to determine from the records 
 the exact location of each. However, it continued in its first 
 location until April 1, 1872, when it moved to the C. H. Willi- 
 ford Hall, a two-story brick building, still standing on East 
 Davie Street. The annual rental was $50.00. On February 
 12, 1873, Egyptian Chapter Royal Arch Masons, which was 
 Chartered in Jonesboro in 1859, moved to Anna and paid Anna 
 Lodge $25.00 per year for the use of Williford Hall. In 1878 
 the Lodge sold to the Chapter such furniture as the Chapter 
 needed for $55.00 and moved to Peeler Hall. July 10, 1889, 
 was moving day again, this time to the Knights of Pythias 
 Hall. In 1891 it was moved to the hall of Egyptian Chapter, 
 R. A. Masons which, according to old timers, was in the old 
 Dry House on West Davie Street ; a three-story brick building 
 which stood where the Western Auto Store now stands, and 
 finally to 326 South Main Street, in the two story brick build- 
 ing, which was built by the late Judge E. S. Alden and Mr. 
 Geo. C. Parks expressly for the Masons. This has been its 
 home for the last 47 years or more. 
 
 Sixty-six years ago Anna Lodge built a comfortable cot- 
 tage on W. Monroe Street for one of its members. The cost 
 of lot, contractor's bill for material, labor, building cottage, 
 fence and digging and finishing cistern totaled $367.50. Con- 
 trast that with the present cost of a similar home, then go 
 back 88 years for a greater contrast and we can realize how 
 far we have come. 
 
 As Anna has grown. The Masonic Lodge has grown with 
 it. The names of many prominent and influential men have 
 been on its membership roll. Civic minded men, many serving 
 as City Officials, all interested in the community's welfare. 
 Many have served our nation as well, some giving their 
 lives; as did Lt. Ray Oliver Penrod, who in World War II, 
 bravely went down with his ship when it was sunk in the 
 
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 Pacific by Japanese bombers ; and Col. Townsend F. Dodd, who 
 was in the Air Corps in Europe in World War I, and died in 
 the service when his plane crashed in one of our Eastern 
 States. 
 
 The present 270 members are of the same caliber and 
 form a g-roup which is as much a cross section of our citizenry 
 today as was the group of 88 years ago. Two have been mem- 
 bers for 50 years, Mr. J. W. Roy and Mr. D. H. Atkins. 
 
 Anna Lodg-e has had 61 Worshipful Masters, as follows : — 
 31 deceased. M. V. B. Harwood, Druggist ; Nathan Dresser, 
 later Postmaster ; Cornwall Kirkpatrick, operator of pottery ; 
 W. H. Willard, Dry Goods Merchant ; John Spires, Furniture 
 Store owner and painting contractor; Asa Harmon, Farmer; 
 John B. Miller; Jas. I. Hale, Physician; J. F. Williford, Gen- 
 eral Store manager; Jas. Norris, Stationary Engineer; F. W. 
 Willard, Business Man; Geo. L. Spires, Painter; Wesley Hen- 
 derson, Jeweler; Jas. R. Hogue, Engineer; H. F. Bussey, At- 
 torney, L. E. Wheeler, Ry. Agent; Ed Samson, Banker; E. S. 
 Alden, Clothing Merchant and later County Judge; W. W. 
 Thomas, Plant Nursery owner; R. A. Carlile, Painting Con- 
 tractor; J. S. Perrine, Jeweler; R. L. Shannon, Telegrapher 
 and Ry. Passenger Agent ; H. A. Schultz, Bookkeeper and Ac- 
 countant; Oliver Alden, Dry Goods Merchant; D. W. Grear, 
 Physician and Surgeon; C. R. Walser, Dentist; Robert E. 
 Blaylock, Farmer; Edgar I. Hartline, Justice of the Peace; 
 Russell E. Townsend; Attorney; H. E. Corzine, Painter and 
 later Clothing Clerk ; C. E. Hertel, Florist. 
 
 Past Masters now living, 30. C. E. Halterman, Farmer; 
 W. L. Ashcraft, Mechanic; F. A. Benner, School Teacher; Rad 
 Burnett, Ry. Agent; Carl Boyd, Farmer; E. E. Conyer, Elec- 
 trician; G. R. Corlis, Banker; F. L. Davis, Postal Clerk; E. H. 
 Davis, Merchant, Men's Clothing; Joe B. Dillow, Garage 
 Mechanic; Wayne Dusch, Barber; F. W. Fink, Oil Dealer; 
 Inman Harrelson, Auto Parts Store manager; Guy A. Henry, 
 Telegrapher and Ry. Passenger Agent; Glendale Hudgens, 
 Traveling Salesman; Howard M. Lam, Insurance Salesman; 
 W. H. Lefler, Express Agent ; A. L. Manus, Service Station op- 
 erator, now Chiropractor; C. A. McGinnis, School Teacher; 
 C. E. Penninger, Men's Clothing Merchant; Ray Penrod Gar- 
 age Owner; J. L. Rader, Ry. Signalman; Earl Rader, Shoe Fac- 
 
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 tory Employee; J. \V. Roy, Sec'y. of Building and Loan Ass'n. ; 
 H. B. Shafer, Dentist; E. H. Smith, Refrigerating Engineer; 
 
 D. L. Treece, Cafe owner; Levi Ury, Blacksmith; Jas. F. Wahl, 
 Optometrist ; Walter H. Cherrick, owner and manager of Shoe 
 Store. 
 
 Fifteen Secretaries have served Anna Lodge. Those serv- 
 ing for long periods were: J. E. Terpinitz, a well known Mu- 
 sician, 12 years; J. F. Williford, 16 years; E. E. Conyer, 25 
 years. 
 
 The present officers are : Walter H. Cherrick, Worshipful 
 Master; Wilbur Grisham, S. W. ; Jas. R. Robins, J. W.; Floyd 
 L. Davis, Treas. ; Howard M. Lam, Sec'y- 5 Harlan Davis, S. D. ; 
 Leroy North, J. D. ; Don West, S. S. ; Robert High, J. S. ; Ray 
 Elliot, Chaplain ; Joe A. Maier, Marshal ; C. E. Penninger, Tyler. 
 
 Not only has the Lodge grown in membership, but it has 
 grown in proficiency. It has seven Grand Lecturers on its 
 membership roll. They are: Jas. F. Wahl, Floyd L. Davis, C. 
 
 E. Penninger, Paul F. Miller, Guy A. Henry, Levi F. Ury and 
 Walter L. Ashcraft. Three of its Grand Lecturers are de- 
 ceased, W. H. Peak, W. W. Thomas and Russell E. Townsend, 
 
 Many things have changed since that evening of October 
 10, 1866. The Lodge no longer convenes according to a cer- 
 tain phase of moon, but according to the calender; the mem- 
 bers no longer trudge down muddy streets or ride horseback 
 to a meeting, but come in streamlined autos ; the meetings are 
 no longer conducted in the dim light of kerosene lamps, but 
 in the brightness of modern electric fixtures ; but its princi- 
 ples and purpose have never changed. It continues to insist on 
 a belief in God, to promote harmony among men and encourage 
 righteous living. 
 
 So we close our story of Anna Lodge No. 520 A. F. and A. 
 Masons to now, knowing it will continue as hereotfore and re- 
 main an integral part of our City of Anna. 
 
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 ANNA STAR CHAPTER NO. 522. ORDER OF THE 
 EASTERN STAR OF ILLINOIS 
 
 In 1903 in the old Dry House Building on West Davie 
 Street, which stood where the Western Auto Store now stands, 
 the Anna Star Chapter under dispensation from the Grand 
 Chapter of Illinois with 20 charter members, was instituted by 
 the then Worthy Grand Patron of Illinois. In October of 
 1904 the Charter was received with the names of its charter 
 members who were: Nellie Spire, H. F. Bussey, Mary M. Roy, 
 Lizzie Batts, Ruth Dodd, Edna S. Hawk. Ella Grain, Emily 
 A. Norris, Mary M. Dickerson, Ella Rhodes, Cora Shannon, 
 Mary C. Andrews, Carita Alden, Taylor Dodd, J. W. Roy, L. 
 E. Wheeler, W. P. Miller, Wesley Henderson, John Spire and 
 George L. Spire. Thus came into being- Anna Star Chapter 
 No. 522 Order of the Eastern Star of Illinois. Of these char- 
 ter members Mary C. Andrews and J. W. Roy survive. 
 
 The first Worthy Matron was Nellie Spire with H. F. 
 Bussey Worthy Patron, who with Emily A. Norris attended 
 Grand Chapter Session and received the Charter. 
 
 In about 1907 the Masonic Lodge moved to 326 South 
 Main Street and it is here that the Eastern Star continues to 
 hold its meetings. 
 
 In the year of 1953 this Chapter celebrated its 50th an- 
 niversary with an Official Visit of the Worthy Grand Matron 
 and members of her official family. Although, Anna Star 
 started with 20 members it has grown through the years, and 
 now has a membership of 158. 
 
 The following is a list of the Past Matrons who have 
 served this Chapter since its institution. Nellie Spire, Mary 
 M. Ryo, Emily Norris, Jacob Ward, Mae B. Carlisle, Georgia 
 Norris, Maiy C. Andrews, Amy Kirkpatrick, Mary Dickenson, 
 Ellen Duncan, Gussie Perrine, Mary M. Sabine, Grace Medlin, 
 Marguerite Shipley, Hattie Barnhart, Edna Foehr, Lula Jean, 
 Mary Anderson, Ethel Bird, Mabel E. Good, Zella Davis, Lydia 
 Stout, Isabella Andrews, Belle Wooten, Essie Cherrick, Rose 
 Henry, Emma Hoffman, Emma Thompson. Lillian Boyce. Car- 
 rie Keller, Nell Powell, Zetta Horrell, Ruth Penrod, Minnie 
 
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 Boyd, Gladys Bizzel, Gretta Brasel, Margaret Harrelson, Juan- 
 ita Warren, Lola Kelly, Edith Graham, Alice Dusch, LaWan- 
 da Hindman, Verna Keller, Lillian Ziegler, Vertis Lam, Myrtle 
 Townsend and Selma Cherrick. Ann Gilliam is the present 
 Worthy Matron. 
 
 To be a member of the Eastern Star one must first be- 
 lieve in the existence of a Supreme Being. Those eligible are 
 Master Masons, their wives, daughters, mothers, widows and 
 sisters. The teachings of the Eastern Star are derived from 
 the Holy Bible and the lessons taught are to assist in building 
 our own individual character. 
 
 ECONOMY FURNITURE STORE 
 
 132 E. Davie St. Phone 1080 
 
 Owned and Operated by George Vernon 
 
 New in Anna — See us before you buy new or rebuilt furniture 
 
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 THE MEN'S CLUB, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 The Men's Club of the First Presbyterian Church of An- 
 na was organized in June, 1914, its object being "to promote 
 the growth and development of the Sunday School and Church, 
 for better acquaintance, entertainment and improvement of its 
 members, and to inaugurate and support those things which 
 stand for civic righteousness and the betterment of the com- 
 munity." These objectives are still the club's policy and 
 program, and through the fifty years of its existence the 
 church and community have been greatly benefitted by the 
 ideals and purposes set forth in its constitution. 
 
 Dr. J. R. Henry, then pastor of the church, was chairman 
 of the club's first meeting and the officers elected were : Har- 
 ris A. Schulze, president; W. C. Mangold, vice-president, and 
 Sam M. Hults, secretary-treasurer. Other charter members 
 included G. R. Corlis, A. L. Bruce, Dr. J. C. Stewart, R. H. 
 Alden, Rad Burnett, W. D. Wiley, J. S. Perrine, Oliver Alden, 
 E. A. Davie, W. H. Dowling, J. B. Alden, C. H. Wiley, Dan W. 
 Leib, Dr. L. J. May, Dr. H. B. Shafer 
 
 The first concern of the club's members was the welfare 
 of the boys of the church and town — a ball club was planned. 
 The first Father and Son banquet was held four years later 
 and before long became an annual affair. The attendance at 
 that first banquet was 130. 
 
 An early project of the club was the signing for a Lyceum 
 course of entertainments for the winter, the first of many 
 years, when musical and varied programs were presented by 
 concert groups and lecturers. There were 239 seasons tickets 
 sold the first year. Programs by the members enlivened many 
 of the regular meetings; one evening Dr. H. L. McGill made 
 a talk after the dinner, and was at once voted in as an hon- 
 orary member of the club, which procedure was followed with 
 other speakers. The dinners were prepared and served by 
 committees of the men 'n turn, with no help from the women 
 except on special occasions. 
 
 The speakers at the monthly meetings have come from 
 
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 the staff of the Southern Illinois University, and from all fields 
 of activity — ministers, physicians, judges, army officers, poli- 
 ticians, engineers, writers; and among the writers was Cyrus 
 W. Karraker, who in January, 1924, told the club members 
 of a trip he had made to England. Mr. Karraker is a profes- 
 sor of history in Bucknell University. 
 
 This club has assumed many responsibilities, and now 
 its program carries the annual banquet given in May to honor 
 the football squad and its coaches; the selection at a spring 
 banquet of members to WauWauTaug from the classes in the 
 Junior High and the Anna-Jonesboro Community High schools, 
 on the basis of scholarship, citizenship and school service; 
 Ladies' Night, and the Father and Son banquet. Contribu- 
 tions are made to Boy Scouts, the Red Cross and municipal ob- 
 jectives, such as the swimming pool, and the Christmas bas- 
 kets. 
 
 While the club is sponsored by the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Anna, the membership is made up of men from all 
 the various denominations in Anna and the vicinity. The 
 present membership is 128. 
 
 The officers for 1954 are: President, Guy A. Henry; Vice- 
 president, James W. Jay ; Secretary-treasurer, James C. Mar- 
 tin. 
 
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 Mooseheart's House of God 
 
 ANNA LODGE NO. 1346, LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE 
 
 The Loyal Order of Moose is one of the greatest of the 
 several organizations which fall within the general category 
 of fraternal societies which have helped so materially to make 
 the world a better place to live in for vast numbers of people. 
 With a membership numbering over one and one-quarter mil- 
 lion men and women in the United States and Canada, the 
 Moose fraternity is also well established in England and Wales. 
 The degree to which the nearly 1700 lodges in the United 
 States and Canada alone perform noteworthy public and com- 
 munity service is phenomenal, and extremely praiseworthy. 
 
 During the past year, the Loyal Order of Moose celebrated 
 four anniversaries, it was the 65th anniversary of the found- 
 ing of the Order, the 40th anniversary of the founding of 
 Mooseheart, the "Child City," the 30th anniversary of the 
 founding of Moosehaven, the "City of Contentment," and the 
 5th anniversary of the Anna Lodge No. 1346. 
 
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 Mooseheart Children 
 
 Mooseheart, Illinois, is a city unto itself, located on the 
 banks of the beautiful Fox River, 38 miles west of Chicago and 
 occupying 1200 acres of fertile Illinois prairie. 
 
 It is known all over the world as the "Child City." It has 
 its own homes, schools, church, fire department, hospital, bank, 
 post office, stores, farm, and stadium, representing an invest- 
 ment of more than six million dollars. 
 
 Mooseheart was founded upon the educational concept 
 that: "Every child is entitled to at least a High School edu- 
 cation and instruction in a trade." This concept of education 
 is accepted by the educative world as axiomatic. 
 
 Mooseheart's purpose is to provide a home and school for 
 the dependent children of deceased members of the Order. 
 Whenever possible, the mother is admitted to Mooseheart 
 along with her children. There are no uniforms, the children 
 being permitted free expression of their individual personalties 
 in the selection of clothing. Living conditions of the children 
 
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 Residents of Moosehaven 
 
 at Mooseheart are like those in a fine American Home. Small 
 groups live in modern, home-like surroundings, not in dormi- 
 tories. Two or more adults in each resident act as counselors 
 and home-makers. Training for citizenship includes a well- 
 rounded program of civic activities for both boys and girls. 
 
 A beautiful "Children's Cathedral," believed to be the on- 
 ly religious edifice in the world built for the use of children 
 primarily, graces the campus of the Moose "Child City." At 
 this House of God and in their daily lives, every student is 
 morally trained in the religious faith which prevailed in their 
 former homes. 
 
 On the beguiling banks of the St. John's River, fifteen 
 miles south of Jacksonville, Florida, the fraternity has estab- 
 lished a home for its aged dependent members and their wives. 
 For the newly admitted residents of Moosehaven life begins 
 anew, whether he is sixty-five, seventy-five or in his eighties. 
 Moosehaven is a self-contained community operated by its 
 residents and known as the "City of Contentment." Here in 
 this beautiful, happy and healthful background, many have 
 
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 OFFICERS OF ANNA MOOSE LODGE NO. 1346 
 From left to right : Jean Fulenwider, Trustee ; Don De- 
 Witt, Prelate; Earl W. Lingle, Secretary; Albert S. Harris, 
 Governor; John H. Fuller, Past Governor; Clarence Vaughn, 
 Trustees ; W. A. Cooper, Trustee ; Floyd Weiss, Jr., Governor ; 
 and Robert Stroehlein, Treasurer. 
 
 spent their declining years in a friendly, relaxed and secure 
 atmosphere. 
 
 The Anna Lodge No. 1346, Loyal Order of Moose, was or- 
 ganized December 19, 1948, and opened its Club in April, 
 1949, in the Wm. Smith building on South Main Street. It 
 has maintained a membership of approximately five hundred 
 members from Anna, Jonesboro and surrounding communities. 
 
 In addition to a full program of Lodge activities, the An- 
 na Moose have been very actively engaged in Community Serv- 
 ice Programs. Some of the various projects in which the An- 
 na Lodge has participated during the past few years were: 
 baseball and softball teams. Boy Scouts, Teen-Town, Red 
 Cross, Salvation Army, Tuberculosis, March of Dimes, Heart 
 
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 Fund, Cancer Fund, Christmas baskets, Christmas parties for 
 children, swimming pool, crippled children, blood donations, 
 City hospital. Halloween program for children and many oth- 
 ers. In recognition of its outstanding Civic Affairs work the 
 Supreme Lodge recently presented a Citation to the Anna 
 Lodge. 
 
 The Past Governors of the Anna Lodge are Louie Miles, 
 Rev. Louis F. Rodenbeck, Wayne Claxton, Vernis Deming and 
 James H. Fuller. 
 
 The Anna Chapter No. 1181, Women of the Moose, was 
 organized May 28, 1950. Its object is to carry Mooseheart 
 standards into the home and community. Officers are: Sen- 
 ior Regent, Mrs. Elmer Isaacs ; Jr. Graduate Regent, Mrs. 
 Frank Pitts; Jr. Regent, Mrs. Eli Eddleman; Chaplain, Mrs. 
 C. S. Whiting; Recorder, Mrs. Everett Westbrook; Treasurer, 
 Mrs. Perl Inman and Pianist, Mrs. W. A. Cooper. Past Senior 
 Regents are Mrs. Elmer Isaacs, Mrs. Jim Tygett and Mrs. 
 Frank Pitts. 
 
 ROY ELAM 
 
 114 Grove Avene 
 
 Phone 75R 
 
 Carpenter and contractor for the past 32 years. Mem- 
 ber of Local 2010. 
 
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 THE ANNA FAIR 
 
 Playing an important role in the agricultural, economic, 
 educational and social development of the City of Anna for 
 three quarters of the century of its existence, has been this 
 75-year old institution. Originally incorporated as the South- 
 ern Illinois Fair Association, it has always been known as 
 "The Anna Fair;" and since time before memory of all but 
 the very elder of the inhabitants of this community, its an- 
 nual exposition has been looked forward to by young and old 
 alike. 
 
 The Fair was incorporated in December, 1879, by a 
 group of prominent and influential citizens ; the Articles of 
 Incorporation setting forth the purpose for which it was 
 formed as, 'The advancement of Mechanical and Agricultural 
 Art and Science, the encouragement of home manufacture of 
 mechanical and Farm implements, to encourage stock raisers 
 to introduce finer breeds of stocks, to use the grounds as a 
 salesy and for the sale of all stock to which may be brought 
 there for that purpose." 
 
 Subscribers to the applicaton for charter were M. V. 
 Ussery, Oliver Alden, J. M. Perrine, R. B. Stinson, John E. 
 Lufkin, Jesse E. Lentz, and M. M. Inman; their signatures 
 were notarized by Thomas H. Phillips, Notary Public, and 
 the original subscribers for shares included most of the well- 
 known names among the early settlers, so that from the be- 
 ginning it has been truly a community project. 
 
 A site was acquired at the same location that the Fair 
 is now held upon; and the early Fairs appear to have been 
 held as a sort of celebration of the end, or nearing end, of 
 the harvest season ; with an exposition of farm products, 
 crafts, the culinary arts and domestic skill of the ladies, and 
 contests of speed and strength, A race track was constructed 
 early, and many fine horses were produced and trained in Un- 
 ion County. Among them were the harness horses of Dr. 
 Will Eddleman and those of the Walton clan, whose Walton 
 Boy set a track record on the old track which still stands to 
 the best of our knowledge, 
 
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 The history of the Fair, its exhibitions, premium state- 
 ments, and receipts from all sources, would record very acur- 
 ately the transition from the old agricultural practices to the 
 new; as it would record the effect of the coming of the mechan- 
 ical age to our economy. Where rows of stalks used to be 
 filled with draft animals and exhibits of horse-drawn machin- 
 ery, we now see the latest in farm mechanical equipment. The 
 space where horses and buggies, or farm wagons, used to be 
 hitched under the shade trees, now cannot provide room for 
 the automobiles of patrons of the Fair. 
 
 Closely identified for many years with the Fair was the 
 Norris family — Mr. James Norris having been secretary and 
 manager until his death, at which time his son, John F. Nor- 
 ris, took the offices which he retained until his death in 1946. 
 
 In 1952 an arrangement was entered into with the City 
 of Anna whereby the grounds, which had always been available 
 for any community recreational purpose, were transferred to 
 the City for a City Park. The City now maintains the grounds 
 and is completing the creation of a modern recreational park, 
 with a community swimming pool and supervised playground 
 facilities. The Fair maintains a perpetual lease of the grounds 
 for purposes of the annual Fair, in August of each year. 
 
 Officers of the Fair at the present time are E. P. Owen, 
 president, Robert W. Brown, secretary, and Floyd (Rocky) 
 Davis, treasurer. Directors include A. F. Bruchhauser, R. 
 M. Choate, Robert Kohler, L. E. Hinkle, Roy A. Brown, Rob- 
 ert L. Rich, James W. Rich, Ned Walton, James K. Walton, 
 Amos Sanford, L. B. Tuthill (who served several terms as 
 President), C. O. Clark, Glendale Hudgens, Arthur Bigler, 
 Lloyd Ballard, Ruel Hindman, and Charles A. Jean. 
 
 Approximately $30,000.00 in premiums is paid out each 
 year to exhibitors at the annual Fairs. 
 
 The Fair has always had as its motto "Bigger and Better 
 Every Year," and the management has striven to keep alive 
 this tradition. The 1953 Fair was no exception and much com- 
 ment was received that it was the best Fair on record. The 
 stock show, in particular is noteworthy, and it is a matter of 
 some pride that several of our Grand Champions also led their 
 
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 classes at the Illinois State Fair and at the DuQuoin State Fair 
 held one week following the Anna Fair. 
 
 Thus, with a record of seventy-four years of straight 
 Fairs, with all the memories of past fairs, of home-comings, 
 and meetings of old friends, family re-unions, and plain, sim- 
 ple, down-to-earth folk, it is no wonder that the stock farewell 
 at each Fair is, "See you next Fair." 
 
 MAIN STREET BARBER SHOP 
 In Operation 60 Years 
 
 A three-chair shop. Barbers at present: Wm. T. Mills, 
 Fred Ray, Joseph C. Sweitzer. 
 
 Proprietors: Wm. T. Mills and Joseph C. Sweitzer 
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 RODGERS THEATRE 
 
 HISTORY OF ANNA THEATRES 
 
 The I. W. Rodgers Theatres, Inc., are the pioneers of the- 
 atres in Anna. On July 1, 1923, Rodgers leased the Yale 
 Theatre on South Main St. The beautiful Rodgers Theatre on 
 West Vienna St., was built in 1937. Then, on July 1, 1953, 
 they opened the Anna Drive-In Theatre on Route 146, one 
 miles east of Anna. 
 
 After approximately 50 years of theatre business, Mr. 
 and Mrs. I. W. Rodgers (The founders of the I. W. Rodgers 
 Theatres, Inc.) have retired from active participation in the 
 
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 management of their theatres. Mr. C. W. Rodgers, their son, 
 is now the General Manager of the Rodgers chain of theatres. 
 
 THE YALE THEATRE. This theatre was built and 
 opened in 1914, and was known as the "Main Theatre." It was 
 operated by local stockholders until 1922, and was then leased 
 to the Illmo Amusement Company of Illmo, Missouri. The 
 name was changed by this company to the "Yale Theatre." 
 I. W. Rodgers leased the Yale in 1923, and continued its opera- 
 tion until 1933, when he bought it. At the time of pur- 
 chasing the Yale, Mr. Rodgers enlarged and completely re- 
 modeled the building, making it a modern theatre in every re- 
 spect. 
 
 THE RODGERS THEATRE. In 1923, Mr. Rodgers bought 
 the Lyric Theatre from Ed. Lind. The Lyric was torn down 
 in 1937, and the beautiful new Rodgers Theatre was built. 
 The Rodgers Theatre, with a seating capacity of 700, was 
 opened in February, 1938. At the time of construction, the 
 Rodgers Theatre was the finest in southern Illinois. 
 
 THE ANNA DRIVE-IN THEATRE. This Drive-In The- 
 atre was built by the Rodgers Theatres, Inc., and had its grand 
 opening July 1, 1953. The Anna Drive-In Theatre has speak- 
 ers for 452 cars on gently sloping ramps. Room has been 
 provided for 200 more cars to be parked in the rear, to wait 
 for the second show. A huge screen gives the theatre patrons 
 a large, clear picture, 44 feet high and 58 feet wide. The pro- 
 jection machinery is the finest obtainable for this type of out- 
 door theatre. For patrons who enjoy refreshments while 
 watching a movie, a modern clean concession stand is located 
 in the center of the theatre. Here hot dogs, popcorn, snow 
 cones, and an assortment of cold drinks may be purchased. 
 All entrance, exits, and ramps are clearly lighted and marked, 
 for the safety of the patrons. 
 
 LOCAL EMPLOYEES. Howard L. Henderson came to 
 Anna in 1923, as manager of the Rodgers interests. It is 
 his opinion that much of the success enjoyed by the local 
 theatres is due to the loyal service given by those who have 
 worked under his supervision. 
 
 Kenneth Sherrill, who is now house manager at the 
 Rodgers Theatre, is Henderson's first assistant. Sherrill 
 started to work for the organization in 1923 and, with the ex- 
 
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 ception of three years spent in Military Service during World 
 War II, has been continuously employed. 
 
 Sybl Thompson has been chief cashier and Henderson's 
 secretary since 1930. 
 
 Van Stokes has been Custodian since 1933, except three 
 years in military service. 
 
 Bea Moore has been assistant cashier since 1945. 
 
 Robert Neely has been chief projectionist since 1945. 
 
 Bill Navin has been second projectionist since 1951. 
 
 Other employees include: Clifford Williams, Drive-In 
 Manager; Joan Mueller, Shirley Linson, Carmen Cross, Shir- 
 ley Romine, Roberta Thome, Shirley Wall, Beverly Sams, 
 Kathryn Johnson, Judy Lutz, Pat Groves, Bob Murray, Jim 
 Linson, Billie Dee Hudgens, Tom Schaeffer, Tom Albright, 
 Richard Chamness, Phillip Boyd and Lee James. 
 
 STEAK HOUSE 
 
 Jumbo Hamburgers — Sandwiches 
 
 Chicken — Steaks — Chops — Fish — Shrimp 
 
 Owned and Operated by 
 
 Pete, Mildred and Rosann Mays 
 
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 Compliments of 
 
 THE BOOT & SHOE WORKERS UNION 
 
 Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor 
 
 246 Summer Street 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 John J. Mara 
 
 General President, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 SUMMARY OF THE BOOT & SHOE WORKERS UNION 
 LOCAL NO. 711 
 
 Greetings : 
 
 The Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Local No. 711 affiliated 
 with The American Federation of Labor was organized early 
 in 1941. A Charter was issued June 16, 1941. 
 
 Officers were as follows: President, Alva Duskey : Vice- 
 President, Walter Hill; Financial Secretary, Kert Jones; Re- 
 cording Secretary, Mae Stokes. Chairman of Executive Board, 
 Kent Jones; Vice-Chairman, Conrad Brown; Secretary, 
 Pauline Horn. Trustees & Auditors, Hal Scarsdale, Gene Lyerla 
 and Paul Dillow, 
 
 The purpose of this organization was to organize shoe 
 workers for better working conditions and promoting their 
 interests from time to time, keeping pace with industrial de- 
 velopment, 
 
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 We believe that organized labor has a developing future 
 in mind and is chiefly responsible for our high standards of 
 life. The hours, wages and working conditions are the cul- 
 mination of years of effort guided and controlled by the move- 
 ment of Labor. Our forty hour week average provided pro- 
 ductive efficiency plus more leisure to do the things we like to 
 do. These changes were brought about by unions working to- 
 gether with fair employers under the American system of pri- 
 vate enterprise, through collective bargaining. Through this 
 system unions have gained many objectives. Wage earners 
 who joined the union did so because they believed in the 
 union way of life, which enabled each worker, through his 
 union, to have a voice in determining the terms and conditions 
 under which he toiled. 
 
 Since the starting of this Local Union No. 711 many gains 
 have been won through Negotiations and arbitrations with 
 a number of grievances being settled from day to day. 
 
 The five major accomplishments are a seventy percent 
 wage increase, six paid holidays per year, one to three weeks 
 vacation per year with pay according to length of service, 
 time and one-half the rate of pay for all hours of work per- 
 formed over the daily basis of eight hours and all hours of 
 work performed on Saturday. A Health & Welfare Plan was 
 won in November, 1953, after three years of effort. We hope 
 to enlarge this program before the expiration of the contract. 
 
 Present officers for 1954 are as follows : President, Corlis 
 Davis; Vice-President, Ferdinand Sauerbrunn; Financial Sec- 
 retary, Elizabeth S. Lence ; Recording Secretary, Pauline Horn. 
 Chairman of Executive Board, Ferdinand Saurebunn, acting; 
 Trustees: Earl Brimm, George Schumacher and John Lott. 
 
 Officers and members of The Boot & Shoe Workers' Un- 
 ion Local No. 711 join together in "thanks giving" for our 
 above record of achievement and in the sincere hope that all 
 who celebrate this Great Anna Centennial will be blessed with 
 strength and courage to meet and successfully solve the many 
 problems which lie ahead. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 ELIZABETH LENCE, 
 
 Financial Secretary. 
 
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 ANNA MUNICIPAL PRODUCE MARKET 
 
 The Anna Municipal Produce Market is the result of wise, 
 long range planning by the City Council during the early thir- 
 ties. Union County being located in the center of the fruit 
 industry of Southern Illinois, and the City of Anna being 
 among the largest markets in the County, had been confronted 
 for some time with the lack of proper facilities to handle the 
 problem of marketing. It was the practice for the growers 
 of fruits and vegetables to bring their products to Anna, and 
 sell it to the buyers who would come here from all parts of the 
 United States. This marketing was done principally on West 
 Vienna Street, opposite the Illinois Central Depot, which was 
 also U. S. Highway No. 51. It was a common sight to see 
 wagons and trucks massed along the street for several blocks. 
 In view of the increasing traffic on the highway, this was a 
 hazardous practice. 
 
 In 1932, the City Council, consisting of Thornton E. Clark, 
 as Mayor, and Joe A. Hammond, H. R. McCarty, George H. 
 Rippetoe, and Claude C. Treece, as Commissioners, being cog- 
 nizant of the above situation, with its attending hazards to 
 our citizens, formulated preliminary plans for a Municipal 
 Produce Market, with proper facilities. It was apparent that 
 such a site should be carefully chosen. It would need to be 
 accessible to both the Highway and Illinois Central Railroad. 
 After due consideration, the present site of the Market was 
 tentatively selected. The Council employed Engineers to pre- 
 pare permanent plans and specifications for the market. 
 
 It will be recalled that during this period, we were in the 
 midst of the "depression," and the question of financing this 
 project was paramount. It was estimated the Market would 
 cost approximately $25,000.00. 
 
 In the month of March, 1933, the United States Govern- 
 ment set up what was then known as the "Civil Works Admin- 
 istration," which late became the "Works Progress Adminis- 
 tration." A meeting was called in the City of Chicago, at 
 which all municipalities in the State, who had any plans for 
 municipal projects were requested to bring them in, for the 
 purpose of examination by Government Engineers. If feasi- 
 
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 able, provision would be made for the immediate commence- 
 ment of work on the project, through absolute grants made by 
 the Government. As a result of this request, T. P. Sifford, 
 Chairman of the County Board of Union County, P. M. West 
 President of the Anna Chamber of Commerce, and Ford L, 
 Rendleman, City Attorney, went to Chicago, taking with them 
 the plans and specifications for the Market. They met with 
 the Government representatives, and the project was tenta- 
 tively approved. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Rendleman, again 
 went to Chicago, and the Government Engineers gave their 
 final approval, and an absolute grant of over $19,000.00 for the 
 construction of the Market was granted the City. The fact 
 that the Council had available the permanent plans and speci- 
 fications, played no small part in obtaining the immediate ap- 
 proval, and securing the grant. 
 
 The present site was acquired from John H. Ligon, by the 
 City, at a nominal cost. Since then additional land has been 
 acquired and the facilities of the market increased, due to the 
 growth of the market. It is located between U. S. Highway 
 51 and the Illinois Central Railroad, in the Eastern area of the 
 City. 
 
 The Market was constructed. On May 9th, 1934, the Coun- 
 cil passed and adopted the necessary ordinance establishing the 
 market, and providing for the operation thereof. A Market 
 Board was established to consist of three members. The Coun- 
 cil appointed James L. Fuller, Robert L. Shannon and Percy 
 M. West, as original members. Mr. Fuller and Mr. West are 
 presently members of the Board, having served continuously 
 since their original appointment. Mr. Harvey L. Ligon is 
 now the third member of the Board. 
 
 The Market has been a great asset to the City of Anna, 
 and benefit to the farmers of the area it serves ; it has provided 
 a place where the farmer may take his products and market 
 them for cash. In 1944 over a million dollars was paid at the 
 Market to the farmers for their products sold there. The An- 
 na Municipal Produce Market may be considered among the 
 important achievements of Anna's "100 Years of Progress." 
 
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 On October 19, 1917, ninety-five alert citizens who en- 
 visioned a real need for farmers to work together to improve 
 their status, organized the Union County Farm Improvement 
 Association. March 1, 1918, they changed the name to the 
 Union County Farm Bureau and declared their policy to be the 
 betterment of rural life by means of education, legislation, 
 extension and recreation. 
 
 The first officers were: Charles Ware, President; Claude 
 Rich, Vice-President; L. G. Richardson, Secretary, and R. 
 S. Dillow, Treasurer. The Board of Directors was composed 
 of Charles Ware, Claude Rich, W. W. Davie, L. L. Casper, 
 George J. Hailig, R. S. Dillow and T. P. Sifford. On the Exe- 
 cutive Board were : Charles Ware, Claude Rich, L. G. Richard- 
 son, R. S. Dillow, C. C. Crawford, C. H. Wiley and Ed Samson. 
 The first Farm Advisor was C. E. Durst. 
 
 Since those early days the Union County Farm Bureau has 
 become a strong vital organization with its roots firmly en- 
 twined in rural interests. In the thirty-seven years of its ex- 
 istence its membership has increased to 1263, a phenomenal 
 growth which can be accounted for by the fact that the Union 
 County Farm Bureau is always ready to help its members and 
 others with farm problems. 
 
 Not only does the Farm Bureau provide such advice and 
 counsel as complex, modern living makes necessary but it 
 also offers many other services such as notary service and 
 soil testing. It operates a creamery and sponsored locker plant 
 service in the county. An affiliate of the Farm Bureau is the 
 Fruit Belt Service Company, which deals in tires, batteries, 
 fuels and foods. It handles fertilizers. It offers cholera 
 serum, virus and Tru-Vac service. 
 
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 One of the most valuable of all the services given by Un- 
 ion County Farm Bureau is its insurance prog-ram. Con- 
 ceived of and planned to cover the interests of farm people 
 it issues at an attractive price policies covering loss of and by 
 auto and truck, general liability, fire and wind on build- 
 ings, life, polio, accident, hail crop and growing grain crops. 
 
 The present farm advisor is S. B. Pierson, who is the 
 fifth such person employed. His predecessors have been: R. 
 C. Broom, E. A. Bierbaum, J. J. Doerschuk and C. E. Durst. 
 
 The Board of Directors includes: Wayne Vaughn, Presi- 
 dent ; Vern Gurley, Vice-President ; Carlos Norton, Secretary- 
 Treas. ; Frank Kimber ; Orris Mosby ; Dorris Ballance ; John 
 Barringer; M. D. Bottom; Marvin Englehart; Edwin Flamm; 
 Dennis Hindman; Mark Otrich; Ellis Penrod; John Sullivan; 
 Ferdinand Sweitzer; James Treece. Other personnel is Carl 
 C. Orr, General Agent ; William Casper, Special Agent and 
 Fount B. Griffith, Organization Director. 
 
 LOCAL UNION 141, 
 PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 
 
 Local Union 141, Painters and Decorators of Anna, Ill- 
 inois, secured their charter from Painters Headquarters on 
 January 19, 1938. At that time the Local consisted of five 
 members. Our present membership consists of thirty-five 
 members. We have always pledged to give our full support to- 
 ward any worthy community enterprise and our past record 
 of civic activities may well show our loyalty to the community. 
 It is our utmost desire to continue, as an organization of well 
 trained painters, to bring to the people of this area the best 
 and most up-to-date in painting methods. 
 
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 BRICKLAYERS, MASONS AND 
 PLASTERS INTERNATIONAL UNION 
 
 Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters International Union Lo- 
 cal No. 62 of the city of Anna was organized April 10th, 1924. 
 
 The following officers were elected : President, A. J. Coff- 
 man ; Vice President, Calvin Johnson ; Fin. Secretary, John M. 
 Cof fman ; Rec. Secretary, W. A. Davis ; Deputy, Geo. W. Davis ; 
 Treasurer, Geo. E. Farrer; Cor. Secretary, W. H. Casey; Door 
 Keeper, Lawrence M. Boren. 
 
 The purpose of this local was to promote better working 
 conditions, better workmanship and a standard wage scale. 
 
 This local has jurisdiction over Union, Pulaski and Alex- 
 ander counties. John Coffman is the only surviving charter 
 member and he is also a gold card member, having served at 
 the trade for 50 consecutive years. 3 generations of the Coff- 
 mans have been members of this local. Local 62 at the present 
 time has 19 members with the following officers: President, 
 Ray Coffman; Fin. Secretary, John M. Coffman; Treasurer, 
 John Coffman; Recording Sec, Ernest Rosenthal; Deputy, 
 Peter J, Bernhard ; Door Keeper, Chas. Spurlock. 
 
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 Progress in Anna with 
 
 ERNEST S. ALDEN 
 
 Mayor 1907 thru 1915 
 
 County Judge 1922-1926-1934 
 
 ERNEST ALDEN 
 
 Ernest Sumner Alden was born in Jonesboro March 20, 
 1866, a son of Oliver Hayward Alden, merchant. He was 
 third in a family of six boys and five girls. The first son. 
 
 He was educated in the Jonesboro and Anna Schools and 
 Union Academy, with special training in higher subjects un- 
 der Mr. John Dean, School principal of that time. In later 
 years he took up the study of Law. 
 
 In January, 1887, he was made a partner with his father 
 in a merchandising store in Anna. The firm name was 0. 
 Alden and Son. Later as other brothers reached maturity a 
 corporation known as Alden Store Company, was formed. 
 
 Ernest Sumner Alden was elected Mayor of Anna for 
 two terms, 1907-1911. During these terms a comprehensive 
 water and sewerage system was executed and a brick paving 
 program was inaugurated. Many cement sidewalks were 
 built in these years. 
 
 In 1921 when the commission form of government was 
 adopted he was again elected, and become commissioner of 
 Streets and Public Improvements. 
 
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 In his administrations as Mayor of Anna Mr. Alden re- 
 planted trees, at his own expense — on the streets where trees 
 had been cut down to make way for street paving and new side 
 walks. Also he gave gratis a long term lease on land on 
 which to erect the water tower. 
 
 In 1922 Ernest Sumner Alden, a life-long Democrat, was 
 elected for his first term as County Judge, and in this year 
 he resigned as commissioner of Anna. He was re-elected 
 County Judge in 1926 and again in 1934, the term he was 
 serving at the time of his death. 
 
 Agriculture was one of his interests and he had many 
 farm holdings in the county. 
 
 On July 3, 1888, he was married to Miss Jennie Kroh, 
 a daughter of Reverend Phillip Henry and Diana Bowman Per- 
 ry Kroh. Mr. and Mrs. Alden had one daughter, Vesta Diana 
 Alden. 
 
 Judge Alden had been a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church since 1888, and was a member of the Masonic Blue 
 Lodge and Chapter, also he was a member of the Farm Bureau. 
 
 COLONIAL PACKAGE 
 LIQUOR STORE 
 
 Located on Highway 146 between Jonesboro and Anna 
 
 Owned and Operated by 
 Frank and Enola Alden 
 
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 Judge Alden saw many changes in Anna and he accounted 
 for a full share in her progress. He was a person of humanity 
 and integrity, and he had a great affection for his neighbors 
 and friends. 
 
 Death came suddenly, near midnight, June 6, 1936, and 
 a warm and friendly personality passed into the great beyond. 
 
 OLIVER ALDEN 
 
 A mercantile company which was to become one of the 
 largest department stores of Southern Illinois — "The Little 
 Marshall Field's of Southern Illinois" — as Field's own travel- 
 ing salesmen called it, was founded in 1863 by Oliver Alden. 
 
 Oliver Alden — of Pilgrim descent — was born near Brock- 
 ton, Massachusetts, August 7, 1828. His parents were na- 
 tives of Massachusetts; his father, a farmer, fought in the 
 War of 1812. At the age of 12, Oliver became a member of 
 the family of his half-brother, Sumner Hayward, in Brockton. 
 Young Alden's education was of the schools of that day. Un- 
 der the tutelage of his half-brother, he became a blacksmith 
 and wagonmaker. Possessed of his trade, he came west. The 
 winter of 1850 saw him conducting a blacksmith shop near 
 Willard's Landing, Union County, Illinois. He did work con- 
 nected with the building of the Illinois Central Railroad. In 
 1856, still following this trade, he moved to Jonesboro. After 
 three years, he decided to try a new field. He was a clerk in 
 the store of John E. Nail ; also, he worked for the C. M. Wil- 
 lard Company. In 1863, he bought out the stock of John E. 
 Nail and began business for himself. 
 
 Oliver Alden was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah Tripp, 
 daughter of William and Frankie Grammer Tripp, early set- 
 tlers of Revolutionary stock. Mr. and Mrs. Alden's family 
 consisted of six boys and five girls. In 1879, Mr. Alden moved 
 his store from Jonesboro to Anna. In January, 1887, he took 
 his oldest son, Ernest, as a partner; the firm was 0. Alden 
 and Son. In February, 1889, 0. Alden and Son became the 
 Alden Store Co. Members of the new firm were Oliver Al- 
 den, Ernest S., John B., Thomas S., Oliver Alden, Jr., Robert 
 M., and Everett H. Alden. Oliver Alden died May 7, 1893. In 
 the following years, the sons continued the business. In 1932, 
 
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 J. B. Alden bought the Alden Store Company's stock with the 
 exception of the shoes. He operated the store until he re- 
 tired in 1946. 
 
 Everett H. and his wife, Bess, bought the shoe depart- 
 ment, and today their business is known as the Alden Shoe 
 Company. It occupies the same building where the original 
 shoe department was begun. 
 
 Oliver Alden's family regarded him with love and respect. 
 In the evenings, "Pa" led the family in group singing and 
 read Dickens and other authors aloud. 
 
 Abby, the eldest child, helped her father in his first store 
 in Jonesboro, where she managed Ihe millinery department; 
 later, Allie (Alice) joined her father in his business. Then 
 much later, after Allie's husband, Harvey Bouton, died, her 
 father established her in a store of her own. 
 
 Mr. Alden, Abby, and Allie sang in the church choir and 
 at church entertainments. As the family grew, the other chil- 
 dren shared their father's love of music. Betsy, Mary, Trot 
 (Oliver Alden, Jr.) and Everett, all had musical ability. 
 
 Mary, the youngest child, studied in Massachusetts under 
 a teacher of the New England Conservatory of Music. How- 
 ever, she chose to return home rather than follow a career as 
 concert pianist. Later, she combined her career of homemak- 
 er with that of teaching music. Her music pupils presented 
 some of her compositions at programs in the community. 
 
 Trot was organist of the First Presbyterian Church for 
 forty years. 
 
 Oliver Alden was a recognized civic leader. He organized 
 a band, led community singing, and was president of the Nine- 
 teenth Century Club, an organization devoted to the discussion 
 of religious subjects. A notation in his diary, June, 1889, 
 shows he was active in philanthropic work: "Sent . . . $90.35 
 to the Governor of New York for sufferers of Johnstown Flood. 
 This was collected from the citizens of Anna." He was an 
 elder of the First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 His children followed his example as leaders in communi- 
 ty life. The Alden brothers founded the first Volunteer Fire 
 
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 Company with a large hand pump. Tim was the first captain. 
 The fire alarm was a lusty yell — "FIRE." 
 
 Mr. Alden's skill in crafts and design was perpetuated in 
 his son, Bob, who for many years decorated the windows of 
 the Alden Store Company. 
 
 In 1941, Oliver Alden, Jr., was employed in New York as 
 administrator of a Japanese silk firm, and had just received 
 an appointment in Washington with the Treasury Department 
 at the time of his death in 1942. 
 
 One daughter, Lora, died in early childhood. Abby mar- 
 ried Zachary Thomas Cook ; Allie married Harvey Bouton. 
 Two daughters are living: Betsy is Mrs. W. C. Mangold, and 
 Mary is Mrs. W. H. Lence. Of the sons, Robert H. and Everett 
 survive. 
 
 Oliver Alden's family are Mayflower descendants. Sev- 
 eral of them have verified their lineage and are members of the 
 National Massachusetts Mayflower Society. 
 
 One fifth of a century of 
 beautifying femininity in 
 Anna and vicinity. 
 
 From the Marcel wave of 
 yesterday to the very latest 
 in Coiffure design — Always 
 striving to keep in step with 
 the newest trends. 
 
 ALMA'S MILADY 
 BEAUTY SHOP 
 
 319 South Main Anna, 111. 
 Alma Cracker. Owner 
 
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 Anna Nursery 
 
 « 
 
 STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
 
 • PEACHES • 
 EVERGREENS • PEONIES 
 
 ACROSS TRACKS 
 
 F.G.ANDERSON, PROP. 
 
 ANNA TRACTOR SALES 
 
 On March 18th, 1954, Oscar Williams and Merritt Johns 
 purchased the Ford Tractor and Dearborn Farm Equipment 
 Agency from Ryland Pearl and Paul Barringer. 
 
 1953 was the Golden Jubilee for the Ford Tractor Busi- 
 ness and the Anna Tractor Sales are proud of the fact that 
 they are a part of Anna, and they hope that fifty years hence 
 they can celebrate their Golden Jubilee in business here in 
 Anna. 
 
 Grant Holt is parts man, and Bill Simmerman is the 
 mechanic. These men are qualified to handle any type of 
 farm equipment business. 
 
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 THE ANNA CAFE 
 
 Mr, and Mrs. Glenn Riley Hindman purchased the Anna 
 Cafe in 1945. It was owned and operated as a restaurant by 
 the Casper Brothers, Howard and Adolphus, for 30 years pre- 
 vious to that time. 
 
 Glenn tells of his grandfather, Riley Hindman, driving an 
 ox drawn cart through the streets of Anna 85 years ago. He 
 was born in 1847 and died at the age of 96 at his home in 
 Anna. His stock farm, with the three story red brick home, 
 is still a land mark six miles east of Anna. Glenn's maternal 
 grandfather, "Zac" Davis, also a native of Union County, was 
 born in 1850 and died at the age of 94. His grandmother, Mrs. 
 Annie Davis, still lives in Union County and has just cele- 
 brated her 93rd birthday. His mother, Mrs. Lottie Hindman, 
 lives in Anna and is only 73. Glenn's Dad, Frank, died at the 
 early age of 79. 
 
 The Glenn Hindmans have two children, Rebecca Jane, 
 age 7, and Michael William, age 10, who is the only great 
 grandson of the late Riley Hindman to carry on the family 
 name. 
 
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 HALF CENTURY OF PROGRESS 
 IN TAXI SERMCE 
 
 19U4 Taxi Service 
 
 1954 Taxi Service 
 
 Call on by telephone or two-way radio with which each 
 car is equipped. This gives instant pick-up of passengers. 
 
 Presently operated by Truman Keller, wife, Valda, and 
 daughter, Nancy Jo, and son, Mike. 
 
 Yellow Cab has been operated by Truman Keller for 
 twelve years. 
 
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 ANNA CLEANERS 
 
 Mf^^^!% 
 
 INfURID 
 
 MOTNPROOF 
 
 CIEANINC 
 
 Made to Measure Clothing Mothproofing 
 
 Tailors — Hatters 
 
 (A Complete Dry Cleaning Service) 
 
 This establishment has been serving the public for over 
 a quarter of a century. This business was started by Charles 
 Joram, and was known as the Joram Cleaners until 1941, 
 when Mr. Joram sold his interest in the business. 
 
 The business name was then changed to Anna Cleaners, 
 and is owned and operated by Robert A. Stroehlein and Troy 
 S. Winters. 
 
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 p. N. HIRSH & COMPANY 
 
 operating 
 
 THE ANNA DEPARTMENT STORE 
 
 This retail org-anization, today consisting of forty depart- 
 ment stores in four midwestern states, was founded July 15, 
 1930, in Jonesboro by Philip N. Hirsch. 
 
 This first store, known as "The Bargain Store," was man- 
 aged for Mr. Hirsch by William Hess. 
 
 In April, 1931, the Anna Department Store was opened in 
 The Anna State Bank Building. This store was under the 
 managership of Leo Caldwell. In 1932, it was moved to the 
 Hess Building and then in 1934 to its present location. As 
 additional stores were opened by the Hirsch company, Mr. 
 Caldwell was transferred to Metropolis, Illinois. 
 
 At this time, Irv Gittelman became manager of the Anna 
 store. Mr. Gittelman, now a vice-president of the company, 
 is the shoe, hosiery and glove buyer in the St. Louis office. 
 Following Mr. Gittelman as manager of the Anna Department 
 Store was the present incumbent, Ray Larsen. Mr. Larsen 
 has had charge of the store since 1942. 
 
 First sales clerk to be employed by the Anna store was 
 Mrs. Myrtle Craiglow, who remained with the company for 
 many years. Among the other loyal and valued employees 
 during the early years of the store were Mrs. Agatha Sitter, 
 Mrs. Lorene Henson, Mrs. Sadie H. Gray, Mrs. Maxine McGee 
 and Mr. Harry Corzine. 
 
 The P. N. Hirsch & Company organization is very proud 
 to be identified with the growth and progress of Anna for 
 the past twenty-four years and extends hearty congratulations 
 on the occasion of 
 
 THE ANNA CENTENNIAL — 1954 
 
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 ANNA FLOUR AND FEED COMPANY 
 
 Carl Wiedlocher, doing business as the Anna Flour & 
 Feed Company, is celebrating his thirtieth anniversary. Mr. 
 Wiedlocher came from a family of millers. His father started 
 in the milling business in 1881 near Springfield, Illinois, when 
 mills were powered by water wheel. 
 
 In 1924 Mr. Wiedlocher purchased a flour and feed busi- 
 ness from R. M. Choate of Anna, on the site now occupied by 
 Kroger Super Market, where he maintained his office and 
 warehouse until 1949. The increased volume of business, and 
 the modern methods of manufacturing commercial feed re- 
 quired the construction of a mill and elevator in 1940 on the 
 I. C. Railroad. The plant has grown extensively making sev- 
 eral tons of Union Feeds daily, which are distributed through- 
 out Southern Illinois. 
 
 Rolla Atherton, general superintendent of the plant, has 
 been with the firm for twenty-five years, Carl Wiedlocher Jr. 
 joined the business in 1951 as millwright and salesman. Mrs. 
 Winstead Tucker is cashier and bookkeeper, George Dangbar 
 assistant superintendent, Earl Dirden and Winstead Tucker 
 are in charge of trucks. 
 
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 ANNA HOTEL 
 
 Robert Lee Willis and Stella Alberta Willis at the turn 
 of the Century. 
 
 Robert Lee Willis, son of Nancy Agnes Willis and Nathan 
 Willis of McCracken County, Kentucky, and Stella Alberta 
 Dillow, daughter of Washington W. Dillow and Octavia Bil- 
 low of near Dongola, Illinois, were united in marriage, Sep- 
 tember, 22, 1898. In June, 1899, they opened the Anna Hotel 
 and operated same until the death of Mr. Willis in December, 
 1925. After this date the Hotel has been operated continu- 
 ously by Mrs. Willis. It is the second oldest business in Anna 
 operating at its original location. 
 
 The original Hotel had nine sleeping rooms, and a dining 
 room which seated fifteen. The property was leased from 
 Captain Stinson. In 1905 the property was purchased from 
 the Board of Directors of the Stinson Memorial Library. Over 
 the years numerous modernization and building programs 
 changed the Hotel, and at present it has sixty sleeping rooms, 
 and three rooms occupied by other business concerns. 
 
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 The Operation of a small hotel was not complicated. The 
 key to success was long- hours, and hard work. One "hired 
 girl" was the only help that was employed. All food in sea- 
 son was canned and prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Willis for win- 
 ter use. They baked all bread and pastries, prepared all meals, 
 purchased their meat locally and processed and carved the 
 meat. They were waiter, waitress, bell hop, room clerk, and 
 manager. Mr. Willis met all incoming trains with a hand 
 operated cart and transported the incoming guests' baggage 
 to the Hotel. Guests arrived by train. The salesman often 
 had as many as ten trucks which contained their samples 
 of merchandise. The samples were displayed in the Hotel 
 sample room for the local merchants. The salesman on his 
 trip to Anna would rent a team of horses and take their 
 samples to Dongola, Cobden, and to the stores which dotted 
 the rural sections. The Hotel was "American Plan" for 
 many years. The rate for three meals and room was $1.50. 
 Augmenting the income were lunches furnished to the Ill- 
 inois Central train crews for twenty five cents. A typical 
 lunch, fried chicken, potatoes, two vegetables, salad, straw- 
 berry short cake, and beverage. Mrs. Willis prepared the 
 lunches in baskets, and they were delivered by Mr. Willis. 
 The meals in the dining room were much more elaborate, 
 quite often there would be as many as fifty items awaiting 
 selection of the guests. You were at fault if you left the 
 table hungry. These meals were also twenty-five cents. 
 
 The Anna Hotel was known as one of the best small hotels 
 in the middle west. Many prominent people were guests and 
 friends of Mr. and Mrs. Willis. They visited Anna during 
 the hunting seasons. Officers of large corporations, big league 
 baseball players, and numerous others headquartered at the 
 Anna Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Willis were active members of 
 the American, and Illinois Hotel Associations, and Mr. Willis 
 was an officer in both. 
 
 It was always a source of pleasure to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 lis that when they opened the original hotel, their first local 
 guests for meals were people who continued as guests until 
 their death. They became prominent in many ways, to men- 
 tion a few, John Jackson, A. J. Pickrell, Dr. Walser, E. Samp- 
 son, A. Ney Sessions, and John Felly. 
 
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 The Hotel discontinued the servinpr of meals in 1942. 
 There are many things to be remembered prior to this time, 
 such as the serving of 900 meals a day for three consecutive 
 days during a convention of the Egyptian Hustlers, serving 
 500 meals at noon Thursday of the Anna Fair. During the 
 Fair all trains were met by the combined uniform band of 
 Anna-Jonesboro. One of the reasons for the wide popularity 
 of the hotel was Fulton Sherrill, who was known as the best 
 head waiter in the middle west. He had many lucrative of- 
 fers but declined them all, and worked at the Hotel until his 
 death. Fulton liked Anna. His widow, Addie, daughter, 
 Nellie, son, Kenneth, still reside in Anna. He has a daugh- 
 ter, Dortha Sherrill Carlson, who resides in Blue Island, Ill- 
 inois. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Willis purchased their first home from 
 Aunt Jo and Charlie Mangold, this was originally the Jo- 
 seph Treece residence, and is at present known as the Poole 
 home and apartments. In the early nineteen twenties they 
 built a new home at the corner of Kohler and North Main. 
 This property was purchased from an aunt of Mrs. Willis, 
 Mrs. Jacobi Dillow Lewis. This continues to be the home of 
 Mrs. Willis. 
 
 The only portion of the original Hotel property, purchased 
 in 1905, that was sold is the lot which was purchased by the 
 Norris Funeral Home, and is still occupied by this concern. 
 
 Before the marriage of Stella Alberta Willis, she attend- 
 ed the original Anna High School. The Junior High School 
 now occupies this sight. During these years she left her 
 farm home near Dongola and resided during the school term 
 with her aunt, Mrs. Jacobi Dillow Lewis in Anna. The Lewis 
 home is now occupied and owned by Dr. 0. E. Johnson. Dur- 
 ing the summer months she returned to the farm near Don- 
 gola. Mrs. Willis has one aunt, who still resides in Anna, Mrs. 
 Octavia Dillow Davis, who was ninetj'-three years of age in 
 February, 1954. 
 
 Stella Alberta Willis has always been a civic minded busi- 
 ness woman, and feels that Anna has been very good to her 
 and her family. She has been a member of many local or- 
 ganizations, and is particularly proud of her long and active 
 
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 membership in the Lutheran Church of Anna. She thanks 
 God for her many friends, and for a bountiful life. 
 
 Mrs. Willis' family consists of three children: R. E. 
 Willis of Spring-field, Illinois, Mrs. Helen Marie Thornton of 
 Elgin, Illinois, and Mrs. Alice Mae McCree of Anna. There are 
 seven grandchildren, Mrs. Jerry Penninger of Mansfield, Ill- 
 inois, Mrs. Arlynn McCree Rife of Hawaii, Linda McCree of 
 Auburn, Alabama, Martha and Sarah McCree of Anna, and 
 Pamela and Robert T. WMllis of Springfield, Illinois. There 
 are three great grandchildren, William, Craig, and Trina 
 Penninger of Mansfield. 
 
 The children of Robert Lee Willis, and Stella Alberta Wil- 
 lis, had a wonderful father, and still have the most loving 
 and understanding mother of all times. We thank God for 
 our lives with them. 
 
 THE ANNA BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 In 1885 the State of Illinois issued a license to nine men, 
 as Commissioners, to open books for subscription to the Cap- 
 ital Stock of the Anna Building and Loan Association, Incor- 
 porated. These Commissioners: H. C. Bouton, W. H. Simp- 
 son, James Norris, Edgar A. Finch, Wm. C. Rich, M. V. 
 Eaves, J. L. Coleman, A. J. Hunsaker, Wm. Roberts, met and 
 elected E. A. Finch, President; W. H. Simpson, Secretary; C. 
 E. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer. They started business at No. 1 
 Union Block, Anna, Illinois, where the business continued until 
 1913, when it was moved to a building erected by John W. 
 Roy at 117 West Vienna (which was the location of the for- 
 mer A. W. Sims Box Factory). 
 
 Mr. Finch remained President until 1894, when James 
 Norris succeeded him. 
 
 In 1930 George L. Spire was elected President, and in 
 1932 John W. Roy became President and is still in oflJice. 
 Simpson remained Secretary until 1905, when John W. Roy 
 was elected. In 1924 Lynn D. Sifford was elected Secretary, 
 and has served efficiently for thirty years and the Association 
 has enjoyed a steady growth through the years. Selma Bauer 
 has been a loyal employee of the Association since 1922. 
 
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 THE ANNA LOAN AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY 
 
 One of the oldest financial institutions in the City of 
 Anna, quietly but efficiently serving- the needs of her citizens 
 for some 63 years, is the Anna Loan and Improvement Com- 
 pany, a savings and loan association located for the past 25 
 years on the first floor of the Anna State Bank Building, 102 
 East Vienna Street. 
 
 This Company was incorporated April 27, 1891, under 
 the Building, Loan and Homestead Association laws of Ill- 
 inois. The "Company" part of the name is an oddity, since 
 it is the only such association in the State with "Company" 
 in its name ; all others using the word "Association" instead. 
 
 The incorporators were W. H. Simpson, M. V. Ussery, 
 W. C. McCarty, A. J. Phillips, and F. H. Kroh. The first 
 Board of Directors included Simpson, Phillips, Ussery, W. M. 
 Eddleman, J. C. DeWitt, and A. J. Nesbit; the last named 
 being also the attorney for the Company. The first office was 
 located in the Ussery Opera House, on the first floor, which 
 also housed several other business and professional enterprises. 
 
 The first officers were A. J. Phillips, president; W. H. 
 Simpson, Secretary-Treasurer, and M. V. Ussery, Vice-Presi- 
 dent. Later in the year 1891, F. H. Kroh replaced W. M. Ed- 
 dleman as Board member. In 1892, the late A. Ney Sessions, 
 then a young and promising attorney, replaced Mr. Nesbit as 
 lawyer for the Company. 
 
 Later in 1893, A. W. Sims was elected to the Board, and 
 J. W. Williford replaced J. C. DeWitt. F. M. Coleman took Mr. 
 Simpson's place in 1894. 
 
 By 1910 several changes in directorate had occurred be- 
 cause of death or resignation, and the Board was composed of 
 J. B. Fierke, J. I. Toler, H. L. Hess, John B. Jackson, A. Ney 
 Sessions, M. V. Ussery, and A. J. Phillips. At the annual 
 meeting of shareholders in May, 1911, J. H. Ligon was elected 
 director to fill a vacancy ; then because of the resignation of M. 
 V. Ussery as secretary, Mr. Ligon resigned as director and R. 
 E. Brown was appointed to fill his term and also appointed 
 
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 secretary and manager of the Company. This position he 
 filled until his death in 1939. 
 
 In 1913 the Company ofRce was moved from the Miller 
 Opera House Building, where it had been moved in 1911, to 
 the Keith Building on North Main Street, and in May, 1914, 
 J. H. Ligon was again elected to the Board of Directors ; being 
 named president in July of that year. At the same time, 
 Jas. K. Walton was elected to the Board to fill a vacancy, and 
 these two men have now served the Company in their respec- 
 tive ofl!ices as president and director continuously for 40 years. 
 
 Our prominent citizens who served long and distinctive 
 terms on the Board of Directors include Paul W. Baker, S. M. 
 Dillow, E. P. Owen, George A. Hill, Rad Burnett, and Fred 
 Roberts. 
 
 The Company office was moved to the Anna State and 
 Trust Bank Building in 1922, in the room which is now the 
 safety deposit booth room; and in 1926 was removed to its 
 present location on East Vienna Street. An interesting fea- 
 ture of this location was the fact that in it was displayed the 
 collection of fire-arms of R. E. Brown, secretary of the Com- 
 pany from 1911 to 1939. This collection was recognized as 
 one of the best private collections in this area, and visitors 
 from all over the United States frequently called to inspect 
 it with the owner. 
 
 Present management of the Company is vested in the 
 Board of Directors, including in addition to Messrs. Ligon 
 and Walton, Harvey L. Ligon, son of J. H. Ligon, John D. 
 Rayburn, local contractor, F. Wayne West, proprietor of Mow- 
 ery Electric Shop; George W. Hill, son of former director 
 George A. Hill, and distributor of Bakery Products ; and Rob- 
 ert W. Brown, secretary-treasurer, the son of R. E. Brown, 
 who became associated with the Company as a director in 
 1932, and who is acting manager for the Company. 
 
 The business of the East Side Apartments Building Cor- 
 poration, on North Main Street, and the Robert W. Brown 
 Insurance Agency, established in 1928, is conducted from the 
 same office; both businesses being directed by the proprietor 
 with the assistance of his secretary, Miss Farris Lee Bishop. 
 
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 ANNA SHEET METAL WORKS 
 
 The Anna Sheet Metal Works is owned and operated by 
 Mr. and Mrs. Merle O'Daniel, and was established on April 1, 
 1949. For eight years prior to this, Mr. O'Daniel had been 
 employed in heating and sheet metal work and had gained 
 valuable experience which qualified him to set up in business 
 for himself. He and his wife, Esther, decided to open a shop 
 in Anna, which they did at their present location, 128 E. Vien- 
 na Street. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. O'Daniel have one son, Leon, who is a Jun- 
 ior in the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School. He helps 
 in his father's shop during his summer vacation. They have 
 one full time employee, Mr. Floyd Landis, who has worked for 
 them for the past four and one-half years. Mrs. O'Daniel 
 takes care of all the office work. 
 
 Mr. O'Daniel is the exclusive dealer for Iron Fireman 
 Furnaces, Stokers and Air Conditioners in Union, Johnson, 
 Pulaski, Alexander, and Massac Counties. He also does any 
 kind of job requiring sheet metal work. 
 
 The business has been prosperous due to the expanding 
 growth of the City of Anna and the surrounding communities 
 in the building of new homes and the modernizing of old ones. 
 We are very grateful for having had the privilege of working 
 with such fine people who have made our business a growing 
 one. 
 
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 ANNA- lONESBORO 
 LUMBER COMPANY 
 
 1879 1954 
 
 The history of the Anna-Jonesboro Lumber Company ex- 
 tends back approximately to 1879, located on the corner of 
 East Vienna and North Main Streets. 
 
 The Anna Lumber and Manufacturing Company was in- 
 corporated in 1890 and soon after moved to buildings and 
 yards at the corner of North Main and Chestnut Street. 
 
 The Anna Lumber and Manufacturing Company was con- 
 solidated with the Jonesboro Lumber and Supply Company and 
 incorporated in 1924 as the Union County Lumber Company 
 with yards in Anna and Jonesboro. 
 
 The company sold the North Main and Chestnut Street 
 corner location in Anna to the United States Government in 
 1935 for construction of the present modern post office build- 
 ing, and moved to the present location which adjoins the post 
 office grounds at 104 West Chestnut Street. 
 
 The Union County Lumber Company's name was changed 
 to that of the Anna-Jonesboro Lumber Company and incorpo- 
 rated in 1941. 
 
 The policy of the Anna-Jonesboro Lumber Company 
 through the decades has been to give the best quality merchan- 
 dise and most courteous service to patrons and a service to- 
 ward the promotion of the community at all times. 
 
 The Anna-Jonesboro Lumber Company includes an im- 
 mense building which provides office space, work shops and 
 vast sheds. Also included is the large storage yard on the 
 opposite side of West Chestnut Street from the main buildings. 
 
 The company's motto is "Everything to build anything." 
 Phone 29 Phone 875 
 
 Lowell A. Young, Manager 
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 THE ANNA NATIONAL 
 BANK BUILDING 
 
 In 1853 there were only four buildings in what is now 
 the City of Anna, which was known at that time as "Jones- 
 boro Station." One of these buildings was located on the 
 lot now occupied by the Anna National Bank Building and 
 was erected by Winstead W. Davie, who moved his store from 
 Jonesboro to Anna. 
 
 After a few years he moved his store across the railroad 
 and sold his building to his son-in-law, Thomas M. Perrine. 
 The building was a large frame building covering most of the 
 lot between West Davie and Washington Streets. The West 
 part of the building had three stories, with an opera house on 
 the second floor and a dance hall on the third floor. The build- 
 ing had large porches along the first and second floors, and 
 there were several steps up to the first floor. This building 
 burned in 1876 and a large board fence was built around the 
 lot, which was used as a billboard. 
 
 The present Anna National Bank Building was erected 
 by the late Caleb M. Miller in 1892. The first floor was oc- 
 cupied by various business concerns, and an opera house 
 known as Miller's Opera House, used the second and third 
 floors. The Anna National Bank at that time occupied the 
 room on Main Street now being used by his bookkeeping de- 
 partment. 
 
 The Opera House was one of the finest in Southern Ill- 
 inois. Many home talent shows were given in it, as well as 
 excellent shows produced by stock companies. Many distin- 
 guished men appeared on its stage, among them the late John 
 Philip Sousa with his band, William Jennings Bryan — lecturer 
 and statesman, John B. Miller — a native son who became one 
 of Chicago's leading tenors, and many others. In its day the 
 opera house contributed much to the entertainment and edi- 
 fication of the residents of Union County. 
 
 The Anna National Bank Building was purchased by the 
 Anna National Bank from Mr. Miller's estate in 1911, and the 
 second floor was converted into offices, with a dance hall and 
 
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 offices on the third floor. The bank at that time moved into 
 its present quarters. 
 
 On July 24, 1900, the Anna National Bank received its 
 Charter and took over the business of the "Bank of Anna" 
 which started in 1899 as a private bank, being a partnership 
 of David W. Karraker, John B. Jackson, Dr. William C. Lence 
 and Pleasant T. Chapman. 
 
 The original paid-in capital of the Anna National Bank 
 was $25,000.00. The capital was increased in 1913 to $50,- 
 000.00 by a stock dividend and was again increased by a stock 
 dividend to $100,000.00 in 1950. The surplus is now $100,- 
 000.00 and the undivided profits reached $120,079.45 on March 
 31 of this year, both having been built up out of the earnings 
 of the bank. In every year of its existence the Anna Nation- 
 al Bank has paid a dividend to its stockholders. There have 
 been no assessments against the stockholders and no restric- 
 tions have ever been imposed by the bank on withdrawal of 
 deposits. 
 
 It has been the feeling of the management of the Anna 
 National Bank that a bank is a service institution. With that 
 policy in mind and due to the increase in business the bank- 
 ing quarters have been enlarged and the most modern equip- 
 ment has been provided for better service for our customers. 
 Air conditioning equipment has been installed for the comfort 
 of customers and employees. In 1950 the Anna National Bank 
 celebrated its 50th Anniversary, and in this Centennial Year 
 looks to the future with the utmost confidence in the progress 
 of the City of Anna and the Anna National Bank. 
 
 The following men have served as president of the Anna 
 National Bank: 
 
 David W. Karraker John B. Jackson L. Jasper Hess 
 
 George C. Parks G. R. Corlis 
 
 The office of cashier has been held by John B. Jackson, G. 
 R. Corlis, E. E. Curtis, and A. F. Sanford. 
 
 The following men have served as directors : 
 
 David W. Karraker William C. Lence 
 
 John B. Jackson Pleasant T. Chapman 
 
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 I 0. Karraker R- Wallace Karraker 
 
 James K. Walton John E. Lingle 
 
 L. Jasper Hess Harry H. Wood 
 
 A. Ney Sessions G. R. Corlis 
 
 Henry H. Kohn A. F. Sanford 
 
 George C. Parks 
 
 Below is a list of the present directors, officers and em- 
 ployees. A copy of our report of condition as of March 31, 
 1954, and comparative statements showing growth in capital 
 accounts and resources for the past thirty years follow. 
 
 Directors: G. C. Parks, R. W. Karraker, H. H. Wood. 
 G. R. Corlis, and A. F. Sanford. 
 
 Officers and Employees: 
 
 G C Parks Chairman of Board 
 
 G. R. Corlis President 
 
 R. W. Karraker Vice-President 
 
 A. F. Sanford Cashier 
 
 Monica Schumacher Asst. Cashier 
 
 Elmer E. Chamness Asst. Cashier 
 
 Earl W. Lingle Asst. Cashier 
 
 Deana Wiggs Teller 
 
 Katy Maloney Teller 
 
 Marcia Boyd Bookkeeper 
 
 Audrey Webb Bookkeeper 
 
 Jane Gore Clerk 
 
 Kenneth Sherrill Custodian 
 
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 GROWTH OF CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 
 
 April 28, 1921 $ 48,851.98 
 
 June 30, 1930 100,649.16 
 
 April 4, 1941 117,660.39 
 
 July 28, 1943 128,172.32 
 
 July 28, 1945 142,983.82 
 
 June 30, 1950 241,944.52 
 
 Oct. 27, 1951 280,694.73 
 
 March 31, 1954 320,079.45 
 
 GROWTH OF RESOURCES 
 
 April 28, 1921 $ 447,396.91 
 
 June 30, 1930 746,652.07 
 
 April 4, 1941 1,143,615.84 
 
 =^July 28, 1943 2.010,535.96 
 
 * July 28, 1945 3,016,153.17 
 
 June 30, 1950 3,344,652.90 
 
 =• Oct. 27, 1951 4,026,777.36 
 
 March 31, 1954 4,248,692.56 
 
 =^0n July 28, 1943, our resources reached the Two Million 
 Dollar mark. 
 
 *0n July 28, 1945, our resources reached the Three Million 
 Dollar mark. 
 
 *0n October 27, 1951, our resources reached the Four Million 
 Dollar mark. 
 
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 No. 5525 
 
 Condensed Report of the Condition of the 
 
 ANNA NATIONAL BANK 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 At the Close of Business March 31, 1954 
 
 RESOURCES 
 
 Loans and Discounts $1,404,810.21 
 
 United States Bonds 1,605,191.00 
 
 State and Municipal Bonds 408,037.05 
 
 Other Bonds and Securities 37,780.00 
 
 Banking- House and Fixtures 11,036.80 
 
 Other Real Estate 5,000.00 
 
 Cash and Due from Banks 776,837.50 
 
 4,248,692.56 
 
 LIABILITIES 
 
 Capital Stock $ 100,000.00 
 
 Surplus 100,000.00 
 
 Undivided Profits 120,079.45 
 
 Deposits 3,928,613.11 
 
 4,248,692.56 
 MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 
 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
 
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 ANNA QUARRIES, INC. 
 
 The Anna Quarries, Inc. had its inception about 1855, 
 when E. H. Finch and Cyrus Shick, as a partnership, began 
 to dig stone for Hme burning at a spot just north of the pres- 
 sent quarry pit. The children, then the grandchildren of these 
 two men who dug the rock by hand, inherited the property. 
 Robert Burns Stinson, a relative of one of the original owners, 
 finally came into possession of the pit, and at his death in 1903, 
 it, together with entire estate, was passed on to the City of 
 Anna. The city sold the quarry and over a period of eighteen 
 years it was under several different owners including Central 
 Illinois Public Service Company. In 1921 Geo. H. Rippetoe, 
 who had been working for C. I. P. S. in another capacity, 
 bought an interest in the quarry and became the manager. It 
 began to grow in value and importance to the surrounding ter- 
 ritory until 1936, when this firm known as the Anna Stone 
 Company was reorganized as the Anna Quarries, Inc. The 
 following are the present members of the firm: Geo. H. Rip- 
 petoe Manager; Ben Vallenga, President; Fred Person, Vice 
 President; Ben Vallenga, Jr., Secy., and John Benson, Treas. 
 
 Quarrying, like farming or any industry, has made great 
 improvements in this 100 years. The first stone was dug 
 and loaded by hand. Mules pulled cars from the pit to the 
 mill where the stone was crushed. Now, by the use of air 
 hammers, holes are drilled, sometimes as much as seventy 
 
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 feet deep in which tons of dynamite are placed for a "shot." 
 Next comes the breaking up process, where large man wield- 
 ing sledges are no longer used but secondary shots are used 
 to break up the large fragments of the "big shot" to where 
 they can be loaded into cars that are pulled by electrically 
 operated hoists that bring the large stone from the pit to the 
 mill. In the mill a giant gyratory crusher breaks the stone 
 into usable sizes. It is then carried over a series of screens, 
 sized and carried to different bins where it is then taken to 
 stock piles ready for use as rip-rap, concrete or building stone, 
 road stone or agricultural limestone. 
 
 No living person remembers the first stone being quar- 
 ried here, but all who have lived in Anna, associate the word 
 "Quarry" with the city for it is indeed a part of Anna. 
 
 When we walk on the sidewalks, drive on one of the 
 many paved streets, visit the Stinson Memorial Library or 
 view the beautiful structure of the Presbyterian Church, we 
 are reminded and can appreciate in a small way the part the 
 Anna Quarries has played in the building of a modern city 
 as we have. 
 
 The present capacity of the Quarry is over 3000 tons per 
 day, which is delivered throughout Southern Illinois, parts 
 of Kentucky, Tennessee and even states farther south. The 
 Gilmore Asphalt Products, Inc., adjacent to the Quarry, is a 
 large consumer of the limestone during construction season. 
 
 Many of the faithful, efficient and industrious employees, 
 including the Mill Foreman, Claude Treece ; and the Pit Fore- 
 man, Robert Treece, have virtually become fixtures at the 
 Quarry due to their many years of association with it. Be- 
 sides the Manager Geo. H. Rippetoe ; the office personnel are : 
 Clarence Campbell, Bookkeeper, secretaries, Afton Garrott 
 and Bernice Hileman. 
 
 Progress at the Anna Quarries has indeed been "A Cen- 
 tury of Progress." 
 
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 LEONARD C. BITTLE, CONTRACTOR 
 
 Excavating & Truck Hauling 
 
 152 E. Vienna St. 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 In the year of 1954 I began business in Anna as a Filling 
 Station Operator, on West Vienna Street. I was in this 
 business about three years and decided to go in trucking. 
 I operated in timber trucking for a couple years ; then started 
 hauling creek gravel. I had a '39 Chevrolet truck and fifth 
 interest in a Case High-Lift Dozer. 
 
 My brother-in-law, Ervin Emrick, and I bought the Case 
 to ourselves and within a few months traded it for a new 
 Crawler A-C. Then we began doing excavating work along 
 with our trucking. Within a year we had added three new 
 trucks and our business was steadily increasing. 
 
 In March, 1952, I bought Emrick's share and have been 
 operating myself ever since. During most this time my fam- 
 ily, which consists of my wife, Helen Friese Bittle, and son, 
 Lindell Larry Bittle, and myself, lived on our farm, located 
 about one mile southwest of Anna. 
 
 In April, 1953, we moved into Anna and live at the 
 present address, 152 E. Vienna Street. During this period 
 of years I have, by hard work and the cooperation of so 
 many people giving me work, added to my equipment until I 
 have the following: Two tandum trucks, three short base 
 trucks, pick-up, float trailer, two High-Lift dozers, and one T. 
 D. 14, with blade. I employ three truck drivers, two dozer 
 operators, and have extra help during the busy season. 
 
 I wish to express my appreciation to all the people of 
 Union County who have helped me to establish a successful 
 business. My slogan is: "Keep busy being honest and you 
 won't have time to be dishonest." 
 
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 ANNA-JONESBORO MOTOR CO. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Motor Co. was organized in 1945 by Clay 
 E. Tudor and Sam S. Duty, to sell Ford Cars, Trucks and 
 Parts. The Garage opened in the Russell Tuthill Building on 
 E. Vienna St. They also operated the City Service Station on 
 the corner of McKinley and E. Vienna St. Mr. Duty's Son-In- 
 Law, Leonard Hopkins, and Daughter, Bernadean Cochran, 
 was parts Mgr. and Bookkeeper. 
 
 After a one year period, Mr. Duty decided to expand his 
 business. In doing so he built a 60x160 ft. completely modern 
 brick building. He installed all new modernized equipment, 
 with a fully equipped Body Shop. They now have 19 em- 
 ployees. The location of this building is at the Corner of 
 Green & Davie Streets. 
 
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 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Duty have been racing horses for sev- 
 eral years. In the picture above is Mr. Duty with Trotter 
 Party Line and Pacer Allegro Lady. They are in training 
 at DuQuoin Fair grounds. They have also raced other horses, 
 A-B-C-D., Mary E. Dale, and Holly-Rood Janith, and several 
 others. Below is Mr. Duty with Trotter Guy Happy Thoughts. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Duty live north of Anna on Highway 51. 
 
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 ANNA STATE BANK 
 
 Officers, left to right: C. Earl Hughes, L. Oard Sitter, Carl W. 
 Boyd, P. M. West, B. J. Meyer, A. F. Bruchhauser, R. E. Pearl. 
 
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 As in the lives of men, so in the history of insti- 
 tutions and mioiicipalities, ceHain events and charac- 
 ten^tics stand out vividly in retrospect. 
 
 Herein are portrayed only a few milestones mark- 
 ing the career of the Anna State Bank. 
 
 To our many loyal stockholders, depositors, cus- 
 tomers (Did friends, these pages are gratefully dedi- 
 cated. We pledge ourselves ayiew to maintain the 
 ideals of co-operative service to you and to our com- 
 munity. 
 
 THE ANNA STATE BANK 
 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 
 Your strong- friendly bank owned and operated by home 
 people opened for business September 18, 1930, having a cap- 
 ital structure of $65,000.00 and total resources of $302,004.59 
 with the following officers and directors. 
 
 Officers : 
 
 President, A. W. Walter Vice President, Fred Roberts 
 
 Cashier, W. P. Harper Assistant Cashier, B. J. Meyer 
 
 Directors : 
 
 A. W. Walter Homer Boyd Hal H. Spann 
 
 P. H. Walter C. W. Mowery Fred Roberts 
 
 L. Oard Sitter D. F. Rendleman Oscar D. Williams 
 
 Steady progress of the new financial institution can be 
 traced through the early months and years with the first ma- 
 jor change in officers recorded in January, 1934, when P. M. 
 West succeeded A. W. Walter as president and Homer Boyd 
 succeeded Fred Roberts as vice president. The number of 
 the directors was reduced from nine to seven at that time. 
 
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 On January 4, 1934, the officers and directors elected were: 
 
 Officers : 
 
 President, P. M, West Vice President, Homer Boyd 
 
 Cashier, W. P. Harper Assistant Cashier, B. J. Meyer 
 
 Directors : 
 
 A. W. Walter L. Oard Sitter 
 
 C. W. Mowery B. J. Meyer 
 
 Homer Boyd Phil H. Walter 
 P. M. West 
 
 At this time the total resources were $320,556.47 and 
 the capital structure was $60,000.00. 
 
 W. P. Harper was elected to the board of directors in 
 January, 1938, replacing- A. W. Walter. 
 
 Ryland E. Pearl was elected to the board of directors in 
 January, 1944, in the place of Phil H. Walter. 
 
 The bank suffered a severe loss when its cashier, W. P. 
 Harper, passed away in July, 1944. 
 
 Mr. Harper had served the bank faithfully and well since 
 its organization. 
 
 Paul V. Schafer of Carlyle, Illinois, was elected cashier 
 by the Board of Directors to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 death of Mr. Harper, At that time the total resources were 
 $1,496,592.06 and the capital structure was $85,000.00. 
 
 Mr. Schafer was elected to the board of directors in Jan- 
 uary, 1945, and resigned as cashier and director in June, 1946. 
 
 C. Earl Hughes of Grayville, Illinois, was employed by the 
 Board of Directors as cashier July 9, 1946. At that time the 
 resources were $2,149,573.21 and the capital structure was 
 $90,000.00. 
 
 Mr. Hughes was elected a member of the board of di- 
 rectors in January, 1947. 
 
 At the organization meeting January 13, 1948, Mr. 
 Hughes was elected Executive Vice President and Cashier. 
 
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 The passing of directors Homer Boyd and C. W. Mowery 
 in 1951 was a great loss to the bank as both of these gentle- 
 men had been directors since the organization of the bank 
 and had been two of its strongest pillars through the years. 
 
 January 8, 1952, A. F. Bruchhuaser and Carl W. Boyd 
 were elected to the board of directors to fill the vacancies 
 caused by the death of directors Boyd and Mowery. 
 
 The passing of Phil H. Walter in 1950 was very regretta- 
 ble and his absence is sorely felt since he had been a promi- 
 nent figure with the bank since its organization. 
 
 Roy T. Carlisle was employed as Assistant Cashier Jan- 
 uary, 1946, which position he held until June, 1951, when he 
 resigned to accept the position of cashier of the Bank of Moroa, 
 Moroa, Illinois. 
 
 On May 1, 1947, H. Don Otrich was employed by the 
 Board of Directors and was elected Assistant Cashier in Jan- 
 uary, 1953. 
 
 Grace Bauer was employed by the Board of Directors in 
 May, 1948, and was elected Assistant Cashier in January, 1953. 
 
 President P. M. West has served the Bank faithfully and 
 well since he was elected president in January, 1934, for which 
 the Bank and the people of our community are most grateful. 
 
 B. J. Meyer, Active Vice President, is the only officer or 
 employee who has been with the Bank continuously since its 
 organization. The Bank has been Mr. Meyer's life as he has 
 placed it first during all of these years. 
 
 L. Card Sitter is the only director who has served con- 
 tinuously since the Bank's organization. This statement 
 speaks for itself as to his value to the Bank during these 
 many years. 
 
 During "Anna Centennial 1854-1954" we are wont to 
 reminisce and make comparisons. 
 
 Under the supervision and management of the officers and 
 directors previously mentioned the Bank has made steady 
 
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 growth in all phases of sound banking, particularly in its cap- 
 ital structure which is now over $200,000.00, with resources 
 of $2,500,000.00. 
 
 During the last few years the banking quarters have been 
 modernized and the safe deposit box vault enlarged and new 
 boxes added until we now have 522. 
 
 An attractive neon sign has been placed in front of the 
 bank building and an air conditioning unit has been installed 
 for the comfort of our customers and employees. 
 
 The second floor of our building has been reconditioned 
 and redecorated and the stairways leading thereto have been 
 rebuilt and recovered. Offices and rental units are occupied 
 by desirable tenants. 
 
 The services of this bank reach out like power lines into 
 every home and industry in this community, serving the farm- 
 er, the business man, the wage earner, the housewife — every 
 one. This bank has the facilities for serving everyone and 
 the strength to protect their interests. 
 
 The continued inflated era in which we operate has given 
 us unusual opportunities for growth but, as would be expect- 
 ed, has brought with it a more than normal complement of 
 operating problems. This growth provides an opportunity and 
 a challenge which the Bank is meeting progressively but con- 
 servatively by enlarging its existing facilities, thereby ex- 
 tending its services to an ever-increasing number of people. 
 
 The total amount of loans has steadily increased through 
 the years. This represents a sound increase based on the 
 needs of our customers to meet their legitimate requirements. 
 Our effort is to supply the credit needs of our customers in the 
 proper conduct of their business. At the same time we do 
 not hesitate to decline a credit which we feel represents an 
 over expansion or speculation and would, therefore, carry with 
 it danger of loss to our customers and stockholders. 
 
 We are fortunate to be living and working in the era 
 which our bank serves. Its growth and development in the 
 future will create, as it has in the past, unusual opportunities 
 
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 for those institutions which properly serve the needs of this 
 growing country. This places upon us a prreat responsibility 
 to recojrnize these opportunities to the end that our institution 
 will soundly but steadily and progressively grow with the com- 
 munity which we serve. In this way we shall firmly and 
 soundly build for the future. 
 
 The present officers and directors are: 
 
 Board of Directors: 
 
 P. M. West, Chairman 
 
 L. Oard Sitter Ryland E. Pearl 
 
 B. J. Meyer A. F. Bruchhauser 
 
 Carl W. Boyd C. Earl Hughes 
 
 Officers: 
 
 P. M. West, President 
 
 B. J. Meyer, Active Vice President 
 H. Don Otrich, Assistant Cashier 
 
 C. Earl Hughes, Cashier and 
 Executive Vice President 
 
 Ryland E. Pearl, Vice President 
 Grace E. Bauer, Assistant Cashier 
 
 Employees 
 
 Mamie DeWitt Florence Davis 
 
 Sarilda Jackson Helen Head 
 
 Betsy Bacon Betty Brimm 
 
 These are the present stockholders. Those marked with 
 an asterisk were among the original stockholders. 
 Andrew F. or Kathryn Barnett 
 
 Carl W. Boyd Robert W. Brown* 
 
 S. H. or Pauline Bear Roy A. or Ellen L. Brown* 
 
 Charles Boyd* A. F. Bruchhauser* 
 
 Earl A. Boyd Robert B. Porter 
 
 Glenn E. Boyd Mabel B. Poole 
 
 J. J. Boyd* Katie R. Hill 
 
 Delia P. Brown C. Earl Hughes 
 
 J. R. Brown Frank Highland 
 
 Florence A. Brown Earl J. Kesler* 
 
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 Henry J. Kesler* 
 
 Harvey Lig-on* 
 
 John Earl Ligon 
 
 C. W. Mowery* 
 
 Geraldine Williams Melton 
 
 Sarah McLafferty* 
 
 Theresa McLafferty* 
 
 E. P. Owen 
 
 Ryland E. or Blanche B. Pearl 
 
 Ryland E. Pearl 
 
 Ray Penrod* 
 
 H. A. Plott* 
 
 Velma Roberts 
 
 Paul D. Reese 
 
 Joseph Ransmeier* 
 
 Frank Rapsilber* 
 
 Laura Rapsilber* 
 
 Walter Ray* 
 
 Jane Mary Rendleman 
 
 Angella Ruth Rendleman 
 
 Georg-e Rendleman, Jr.* 
 
 Helen Rendleman Meyer* 
 Marie B. Hankla 
 Mildred P. Rendleman* 
 Russell D. Rendleman* 
 August Schmitt 
 L. Card Sitter* 
 Beulah R. Sitter 
 H. A. Spann* 
 J. V. Vernon 
 George Van Horn* 
 A. W. Walter* 
 Cora S. Walter 
 James E. West 
 James L. Wahl* 
 Mrs. Ellsworth William 
 Roy Glenn Williams 
 Mamie K. Walter* 
 Percy M. West* 
 Mrs. Pauline Wilkins 
 Mvrtle Womick 
 
 From Left to Right: C. Earl Hughes, Sarilda Jackson, 
 Mamie DeWitt, Betty Brimm. Helen Head, B. J. Meyer. Grace 
 E. Bauer, Betsy Bacon, H. Don Otrich 
 
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 Like all business institutions, the future growth and 
 success of our bank are largely dependent on the many men 
 and women who individually make their separate contribu- 
 tions and who combine as a working unit to make our insti- 
 tution the live, pulsating and sound but progressive bank which 
 it is today and which we must collectively strive to continue 
 into the future. 
 
 ANNA BEAUTY SALON 
 
 Serving the Beauty Needs of Anna, Union County, Women in 
 the Same Location Continuously Since 1926. 
 
 Adornment of the head by various arrangements of the 
 hair has been practiced by man from pre-historic man on down 
 through the present day. 
 
 With the entrance of women into the business world after 
 World War I, hairdressing became a more specialized art. 
 Salons became very popular and prices were so arranged that 
 almost every woman today finds the services offered by the 
 modern salon a necessity rather than a luxury. 
 
 The Anna Beauty Salon was opened in July of 1926 by 
 Mrs. H. R. Brown and Mrs. Ruth Emerson. In 1932 Mrs. 
 Brown moved to Chester and Mrs. Emerson purchased her 
 interest. 
 
 In 1936 Miss Plumba Hindman joined the salon as an op- 
 erator. 
 
 The salon has been in the same location in the Keith 
 Building since its opening. 
 
 Mrs. Emerson is a graduate of the Moler Beauty College 
 in St. Louis with the class of 1925. Miss Hindman was grad- 
 uated with the class of 1932 from Marinello Beauty School in 
 St. Louis. 
 
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 Pictured from left to right: Roella Miles, Janitor; Stan- 
 ley Boswell, Sr., Mrs. Stanley Boswell, Jr., Stanley Boswell, Jr., 
 Harold Menees, Bartender. Front Row : Karen Jean and Lou 
 Anne Boswell. 
 
 BOSWELL'S TAVERN 
 
 Boswell's Tavern was issued a license by the City of 
 Anna May 7, 1933. It was owned and operated by Stanley 
 Boswell, Sr., until the year of 1946, at which time Stanley 
 Boswell, Jr., was made a partner in the business upon his re- 
 turn from service in World War II. 
 
 We are now celebrating our 21st year in the Tavern busi- 
 ness. 
 
 To our knowledge we have the oldest set of bar fixtures 
 now being used in the entire United States. 
 
 Our best wishes to the City of Anna upon its 100th An- 
 niversary. 
 
 Stanley Boswell, Sr. 
 
 Stanley Boswell. Jr., and Family 
 
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 BROOK'S PAINT & 
 WALL PAPER STORE 
 
 322 S. Main Street 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Phone 603 
 
 Paints 
 
 
 Wallpaper 
 
 Enamels 
 
 
 Ladders 
 
 Varnishes 
 
 
 Brushes 
 
 Draperies & Drapery Hardware 
 
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 GREETINGS 
 from 
 
 BIB & TUCKER 
 
 Children's Wear 
 314 South Main 
 
 Charlene Simpson — Sada K. Lewis 
 
 Employees 
 
 Norvie and Batty Vaughn — Owner and Operators 
 
 COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO. 
 
 Country Life Insurance Company celebrates its Silver 
 Anniversary with over $600,000,000.00 of insurance in force 
 this 9th of April, 1954. Country Life has amazed the in- 
 surance world by its sensational growth, which is a reflection 
 of the confidence of the rural and urban population of Illinois. 
 
 The Country Life Agency Force congratulates the city of 
 Anna on its 100 years of progress. 
 
 Fount B. Griffith Carl C. Orr Wm. L. Casper 
 
 Special Agent General Agent Special Agent 
 
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 MR. AND MRS. C. J. BOYD & FAMILY 
 
 First Row: Mr. C. J. Boyd, Homer, Minnie, Mrs. Minerva Boyd 
 Second Row: Ernest, John J., Charles, Herbert, T. Van 
 
 Picture was made 65 years ago 
 
 Mr. Boyd came to Illinois from east Tennessee with his 
 parents before the Civil War, at the age of fifteen, by ox team 
 and covered wagon, crossing the Ohio River by ferry at Gal- 
 conda. They located on a farm near Anna, lived in a log house 
 with fire place, used grease lights, then candles and kerosene 
 lights. His father died while serving in the Army at Cairo, 
 leaving him, the oldest of four children, to care for the fam- 
 ily. He married Miss Minerva Hess. 
 
 He traveled by horseback through the woods to the grist 
 mill at Flaughtown to get corn ground into meal. He and his 
 sons hauled gravel to fill mud holes in the street near Gamm's 
 Shoe Store, in Anna. Planks were used to walk across street 
 to team and wagon. Rubber boots were needed if a plank 
 wasn't near. 
 
 He was one of the first to grow strawberries, fruits and 
 vegetables. Helped organize Anna Shipper's Association, Box 
 Factorj% Anna Fair Association, and he and Homer helped or- 
 ganize the Anna State Bank, Homer remained an active mem- 
 ber. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd helped build and were members of 
 the Anna Baptist Church. 
 
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 W. L. BISHOP 
 
 W. L. Bishop, one of Union County's oldest citizens at 
 this writing, came to Union County in 1906 in a survey, with 
 his wife, Ada R. Bishop, and his family. They came here 
 from Saline County to make this their home because they had 
 heard it was a good place to live. 
 
 He and his wife opened a grocery store in 1910 and stayed 
 in this business for close to 20 years before they sold out. Then 
 they went into the Dry Goods business and ran this business 
 for 5 years. 
 
 They, then sold this business in order to assist their son, 
 W. H. Bishop, who was by this time operating a Horse & Mule 
 Market at the out-skirts of Anna. 
 
 This turned into a very profitable business for W. H. 
 Bishop and he turned it into a Horse & Mule Auction in 1938, 
 which was the largest individually owned business of its kind 
 in the World. The Auction held every Tuesday attracted sev- 
 eral hundred people to Anna on that day and on many Tues- 
 days there were more than a thousand horses and mules sold 
 at these Auctions. 
 
 In 1945, W. H. Bishop sold out his Auction to enter a 
 much larger field, that of Horse Racing, which he now operates 
 full time. He has been Leading Trainer in Illinois each year 
 since he entered this field. He still maintains the retail barn 
 here which is operated by his Father, and keeps his offices 
 here, from which his bookkeeping, banking, etc. is done. 
 
 Also in this building, which is now known as the Bishop 
 Barn Building is housed the Bishop Furniutre Store (new and 
 used) owned and operated by Daryl Bishop. This business 
 was formerly started by N. D. Bishop in 1948 and sold to Daryl 
 in 1951. 
 
 The B. & B. Loan Co. owned and operated by Mamie B. 
 Biggs, was started in February of 1950 and is also in the 
 Bishop Barn Building. 
 
 So this place of business is always a very busy place in 
 Union County. 
 
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 COCHRAN APPLIANCES 
 
 TV and Appliance Headquarters 
 
 145 E. Vienna Street 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 We are proud to be a part of Anna since October 1st, 1952. 
 We believe that the next one hundred years in Anna will be 
 good. 
 
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 UTILITY HISTORY OF ANNA 
 
 The first plant for electric public utility service in Anna 
 was a direct current, 125 volt generator, installed about 1887 
 by Henderson and Son in a flour mill. A steam engine operat- 
 ed the mill during the day, and the generator at night. The 
 story is told how boys held hands in a semi-circle with the two 
 end boys grasping the terminals of the generator for the thrill 
 of the shock. 
 
 In 1892 a new building was erected and the plant modern- 
 ized with an alternating current, 2,200 volt generator and a 
 direct current arc machine for street lighting. Incandescent 
 lamps at that time were for operation at 50 volts. 
 
 A. A. Fasig, who had been in the ice business in the part- 
 nership of Fasig and Perrine, acquired the Anna Electric prop- 
 erty from the firm of Nordling and Henderson. Shortly after 
 the purchase, the plant burned down, and almost immediately 
 Francis S. Peabody purchased the ice interests of Mrs. Perrine. 
 
 In 1905 construction was started on an enlarged ice plant, 
 Fasig and Peabody organized the Fruit Growers Refrigeration 
 and Power Company and the Anna-Jonesboro Street Railroad 
 was built. The line went into operation December 15, 1905, 
 and had two cars which ran regularly between the Anna State 
 Hospital and the Jonesboro Courthouse. Power for the trolley 
 line and lighting service was generated at the new ice plant. 
 
 Fasig later sold his interest to Peabody, and after a time 
 the Peabody interest had gained control of the Anna Quarries, 
 Inc., Anna-Jonesboro Electric Railroad, ice plants at Anna and 
 Marion and electric light business at Anna, Jonesboro and 
 Mounds. The company previously had leased the Jonesboro 
 municipal plant. These properties were purchased in 1912 
 by the Central Illinois Public Service Company. 
 
 The generating plant at Anna was used as a principal 
 source of power until 1920 and from 1920 to 1927 as standby 
 power. The plant was shut down after construction of a 
 transmission line from Grand Tower Power Station to Anna, 
 because it was found that power could be generated at a large 
 
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 station such as Grand Tower Station with much greater ef- 
 ficiency, with greatly improved continuity of service and could 
 be delivered at substantially lower cost to customers. 
 
 Busses were substituted for electric cars by the transpor- 
 tation utility in 1925 and the line was abandoned in 1931 when 
 increased use of automobiles made it impossible to maintain 
 adequate service schedules. 
 
 WE SALUTE 
 ANNA 
 
 ^^ADE M^»^ 
 
 on her 
 
 C e n t e n n I a 
 A n n i V e r s a r 
 
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 Reddy is Ready NOW— with Plenty 
 Reddy will Keep AHEAD for the Future 
 
 MORE POWER TO and FOR YOU 
 
 Reddyis Ready NOW— with Plenty 
 Reddy will Keep AHEAD for theFuture 
 
 Central Illinois 
 Public Service ComDan 
 
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 Low Cost Essential Service To 
 Industry, Business, Farm and Home 
 
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 THE BEE LINE 
 
 In the year of 1936, on November 5, I, William J. Leader, 
 moved with my family, to the City of Anna, Illinois, with my 
 Model A Ford, and all our wordly possessions hooked on behind 
 in a little trailer. 
 
 I came to this locality to establish the first Bee-Line 
 equipped wheel-alignment shop. In the beginning, the people 
 were unacquainted with this type of service, and were slow 
 to respond. But, as time went on and automobiles were im- 
 proved, and a travel-safe automobile was required, my serv- 
 ices became more of a necessity to car owners in the vicin- 
 ity. 
 
 Due to the willingness of the townspeople to advance 
 and aid progress, my business grew and I was enabled to live 
 comfortably for the past eighteen years and rear my young 
 family into adulthood. 
 
 The encouragement I have received from this fair city 
 and surrounding community for these many years, has been 
 sufficient to cause me to remain in my original frontier. 
 
 During the past many years I have strived to gain and 
 retain the friendship of all my patrons and friends. 
 
 It is of a surety, that if the backing which was given to 
 me, is offered to all new ideas of advancement and progress 
 started in this city, the City of Anna, will be 100 years from 
 now, 100 times greater than at present. 
 
 William J. Leader 
 
 Owner and Operator of 
 
 The Bee-Line Garage 
 
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 CITIES SERVICE OIL CO. 
 
 Cities Service Products first became known to this and 
 surrounding communities in 1936. At that time Joe W. 
 Graves, Clayton K. Walser and Jess C. Boyd formed a part- 
 nership. They opened with two tank wayrons and one service 
 station at the corner of McKinley and E. Vienna. 
 
 Mr. Boyd passed away in 1937 and the agency continued 
 on as Walser and Graves till 1941, at which time Mr. Graves 
 bought Walsers' share; and has continued throughout the 
 years as agent for Cities Service. 
 
 Joe has represented major oil companies for over thirty- 
 five years. 
 
 Mr. Graves family consists of his wife, Lena, who is 
 bookkeeper at the plant office, Joan, his daughter, and H. L. 
 Wohlwend, son-in-law, also an employee of Cities Service in 
 Bloomington. His grandson, Louis Joe, who claims to be 
 Joe's right hand man in the oil business. 
 
 Mr. Graves wishes to express his appreciation for your 
 patronage throughout the years. 
 
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 T.lephon. 969 
 
 
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 D*t'm Str««l 
 
 The Cunningham Electric Company was organized by 
 Fred Cunningham in 1935. 
 
 Fred Cunningham, the son of T. E. and Laura Cunning- 
 ham, was born November 15, 1897, at Jackson, Missouri. His 
 childhood was spent in Blodgett, Missouri. At the close of 
 World War I he received his discharge from the U. S. Marine 
 Corps. On July 2, 1919, he was married to Mabel Norman. 
 They had two sons, Norman, who passed away in 1945 at the 
 age of 25, and Bill, who is a member of the Cunningham Elec- 
 tric Company. 
 
 The father, T. E. Cunningham, selected Anna from a list 
 of towns that did not have a battery station as a place to lo- 
 cate. They came to Anna August 12, 1919. Fred worked for 
 his father until the following spring when he and Emiel Erase 
 opened a garage in what is now the Anna Cleaners. In 1921 
 he went to work for the Murphysboro Telephone Company and 
 in 1923 was made Local Manager. It was during this time 
 that the Jonesboro Exchange was combined with Anna and 
 the telephone system was changed from the magneto or hand 
 crank system to the present common battery system. In 
 1928 he was transferred to Carbondale, where he continued to 
 work until 1935. He then returned to Anna and organized the 
 Cunningham Electric Company. In 1950 his son, Bill, joined 
 the Company. 
 
 During the past nineteen years, the Company has grown 
 to be one of the largest Electrical Contracting firms in South- 
 ern Illinois. The major contracts have been the Anna Junior 
 High School, Anna City Hospital, Anna-Jonesboro Community 
 High School, American Legion Community Center, Shawnee 
 High School at Wolf Lake, Illinois ; the Life Science, Library, 
 
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 Physical Education and Animal Buildings at the Southern 
 Illinois University in Carbondale; Texas-Illinois Natural Gas 
 Compressor Station near Jackson, Missouri, Additions to City 
 Power Plant at Metropolis, Illinois, and the State Office Build- 
 ing- at Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 The present key employees, left to right: B. H. Ferrell, Paul 
 
 Cunningham, Carl Hubbs, Bill Cunningham, William R. 
 
 Hartjie, Vance Peterson. Seated, Mary Moos, Fred 
 
 Cunningham, 
 
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 CAMPBELL AND DENNY 
 
 Business was started August, 1941, as a partnership, 
 composed of Dale Denney and Charles Campbell and the 
 equipment consisted of one 1941 Chevrolet Truck and Trailer, 
 and business was transacted from the Hamilton Oil Co. station 
 on West Vienna Street. 
 
 Dale Denny is now Mayor and family consists of wife, 
 Juanita, sons, Dale Jr., Donald Wayne and daughter, Evelyn 
 Mae. 
 
 Clarence Campbell's family consists of wife, Zelma, son, 
 Donald Lee, and daughter, Helen Ruth. 
 
 Today Campbell and Denny are located on East Lewis 
 St. Lime Kiln Road and Sycamore Ave., having recently pur- 
 chased the entire block No. 10 in Forrest Place Addition and 
 constructed a Concrete Block Garage 42 feet wide and 60 feet 
 long on the east end. 
 
 In 1952 we hauled in one day from the Charles G. Gilmore 
 Asphalt Products Inc. a total of 1600 tons of Asphalt Mixture 
 to Route 13 North of Murphysboro, and in which we hired 
 about 50 trucks to move this hot material. Then in 1953 we 
 hauled on one job to one contractor a total of 5004 tons of 
 stone in one day, also in 1953 we delivered to the Anna Drive 
 In Theatre in one day from the Anna Quarries Inc. a total 
 of 4200 ton of stone. These are records yet to be broken. 
 
 Our present fleet of trucks consists of one Tractor and 
 Low Boy, Eleven Ten Wheelers and two single Trucks. We 
 are equipped to haul Heavy equipment. Crushed Stone, Sand 
 and Hot Asphalt Mixes. 
 
 Of our Twelve employees, some have been with us since 
 we started and most of them shortly thereafter as additional 
 trucks were added. J. Guy (Brownie) Craft was driving when 
 we owned the 1941 Chevrolet and started business. Our Em- 
 ployees are as follows: Edward L. Briner, Ual King, Harold 
 F. Cross, Otis C. Dirden, Lawrence J. Boyer, Louie E. Willyerd, 
 Thurston Burris, James Boomer, Harry Lingle, J. Guy Craft, 
 Cecil W. Craft and Jack Mull. 
 
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 —277—
 
 FRANK CAVANESS 
 
 Frank Cavaness Tin Shop opened for business August 1st, 
 1937, located at 113 West Davie St., the business was operat- 
 ed at this location for one year, then it was moved to 106 La- 
 Fayette St., which is the present location. 
 
 Frank Cavaness, the owner, has been operating in Anna 
 18 years, I work at the roofing, heating and sheet metal trade 
 for 8 years previous to the date which I opened my own busi- 
 ness. 
 
 I have three employees, namely: Henry Tripp of Jones- 
 boro. 111.. Earl Tripp of Jonesboro, 111., Fred Merriman of 
 Anna, 111. When I opened the shop on Davie St. I started 
 with one employee, Bryan Lessar, who worked for me for a 
 period of 5 years, Fred Herriman and Henry Tripp have been 
 employed for the past 11 years. Earl Tripp has been employ- 
 ed for the past 5 years. Merle O'Danniel was a former em- 
 ployee of the Cavaness Tin Shop, for a period of 8 years. 
 
 I have been selling and installing for several years the 
 following heating equipment, Combustioneer Oil & Gas Fur- 
 naces, Combustioneer Stokers & Oil Burners. Manufactured 
 by the Steel Products Engineering Co., Springfield, Ohio, the 
 Weir-Meyer Coal, Oil & Gas Furnaces, Manufactured by The 
 Meyer Furnace Co., Peoria, 111. 
 
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 THE CAIRO 
 COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 
 
 The Cairo Coca-Cola Bottling Company was founded in 
 1906 by the late W. E. McCarty, known as Mac to his many 
 friends in Southern Illinois. The Early days of this little 
 business reads like many of the old romance with which we 
 are so familiar with today. The business just didn't start and 
 mushroom into the present day business. It took much hard 
 work, long days and many nights, perpetual faith in the prod- 
 uct and faith in the future of the little towns in which Mac did 
 business with. Constant improvement in the product, more 
 advertising, profits put back into the business were all factors 
 that contributed to the success of Coca-Cola in bottles. Early 
 in the progress of this company it was found that demand 
 made it advisable to establish warehouse facilities in the city 
 of Anna. This was done and as time passed larger quarters 
 were needed and the present block concrete building was erect- 
 ed. This building serves as office and warehouse with Mr. 
 Henry Don Dillow in charge of the Anna operations. The Coca- 
 Cola Bottling Company is proud to be a part of Anna and looks 
 forward to celebrating the centennial in a bang-up way. 
 
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 HALL FAMILY 
 
 Frank H. Hall, born in Commerce, Missouri, on February 
 4, 1840, came to Jonesboro in 1844. He was educated in 
 Jonesbo'ro and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Hall was associated 
 with A. C. Caldwell of Jonesboro as a tinsmith until 1861, at 
 which time he moved to Cairo to work on Federal Gunboats. 
 Shortly after he joined the 145th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 
 with whom he served at Vicksburg: and the lower Mississippi 
 until discharged in 1865. 
 
 Hall was married to Flora Ann Elkins of Vienna, Illinois, 
 on November 21, 1866. In 1868 he returned to Anna and 
 opened a general merchandise store and the town's first tin- 
 shop. Hall was actively engaged as a tinsmith and slater 
 until his death in 1909. Among his projects were roofing 
 the main building at the Anna State Hospital in 1869; the 
 Annex in 1890; and various city churches. Hall was among 
 the group to ride on the first train to pass through Anna. 
 
 Frank and Flora Hall were the parents of six daughters 
 and two sons. Surviving are two daughters : Margaret Hick- 
 cox of Cairo and Emma Carter of Anna, together with five 
 grandchildren. 
 
 Frank Hall was a member of the G. A. R.; the Vienna 
 Masonic Lodge and Oddfellows; the Republican Party; and 
 affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 CLAUDE E. LEE, 
 The Old Reliable 
 
 Grain Dealer Since 1907 
 
 We buy and sell grain at all times. Call us at 881. We 
 will call at your farm and pick up. If you want to buy, call 
 881. We will deliver. 
 
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 EMERY DAVIS 
 
 Our business was established, at this address, in March, 
 1936, by Emery Davis and wife, Josie Fulenwider Davis. 
 
 Our policy has always been "to give our customers cour- 
 teous service and sell only reputable merchandise at the low- 
 est possible prices, and to sell nothing that we cannot replace 
 without charge, if an item fails to give proper service." 
 
 This policy has been of very great help to us in develop- 
 ing our business. 
 
 We have made lots of fine friends and loyal customers, 
 to whom we are constantly grateful for their loyalty and 
 friendship. 
 
 It is our intention to continue serving our customers with 
 good service and good merchandise through our part of the 
 next hundred years, and may our town and community pros- 
 per in the future in proportion to the earnest effort put forth. 
 
 DAISYS BEAUTY SHOPPE 
 
 Following graduation from E. Burnham School of Beau- 
 ty Culture in Chicago in 1931, I was employed in the Haas 
 Beauty Salon in Evanston, Illinois, until I moved to Anna in 
 1933. I was employed by Jennie Dillinger, and later by Alma 
 Crocker, when she purchased the Anna Lee Beauty Shoppe 
 from Jennie. 
 
 Daisy's Beauty Shop came into being when I opened the 
 shop at 319 South Main under this name, and continued in 
 this location until I sold it to Alma Crocker in 1941. 
 
 Daisy's Beauty Shoppe was reopened in the Anna State 
 Bank Building in 1944, where it continued to operate until it 
 was moved to its present location in the Old Thompson resi- 
 dence, 105 W. Monroe Street, Anna. 
 
 Any one desiring an appointment for almost any type 
 of Beauty Culture may call 283, and may rest assured that 
 the results of these years of experience will be shared with the 
 patrons. 
 
 Daisy Alice Thompson 
 
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 Buick the Beautiful Buy 
 
 DICKERSON BUICK SALES 
 
 121 W. Davie 
 
 Phone 260 
 
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 THE CHOATE FAMILY 
 
 The Choate family were among the earliest settlers of 
 Southern Illinois. Green B. Choate, three times a volunteer 
 in General Georg-e Washington's Army and a direct descendant 
 of John Choate of Ipswich, Massachusetts (1642), passed away 
 in Gallatin County, near Equality in 1842. Squire Choate set- 
 tled near Vienna in 1808, when Illinois was still a territory, 
 and died in 1861 on his farm which is now the C. B. & Q. 
 station of Choate near Metropolis, Illinois. Isaac Choate, son 
 of Jesse and Elizabeth, came to Union County from Golconda 
 in 1868 and spent the remainder of his life in and about Anna. 
 In his own words, "I found two Republicans here beside my- 
 self— C. E. Kirkpatrick and Wilburn Smith. Little mention 
 was made of our politics!" 
 
 Isaac Choate was foreman of the Finch and Shick Lime 
 Kiln and Farms (now Anna Quarries) for 38 years. The fam- 
 ily of Isaac and Hannah were: Elizabeth, Luann, James L, 
 John and Bessie (Mrs. James T. Lokey), deceased; Ethel (Mrs. 
 Ed Hargrave), and Robert M. of Anna. 
 
 Robert M. Choate has been active in Civic and communi- 
 ty affairs of Anna, serving as Alderman and City Commis- 
 sioner for 24 years, as director of the Anna City School Board 
 for 32 years, 12 years as president, and as director on Anna 
 Fair Board for 35 years, as chairman and board member of the 
 First Christian Church for 26 years, and was on Anna's first 
 Factory Committee. In 1915, he established the firm of 
 Choate and Co. — Flour and Feeds (now Anna Flour and 
 Feed Co.), and in 1925 became Area Distributor for Sinclair 
 Oils. In 1902 he married Mary Ellen Coffman, daughter of 
 James M. and Margaret Simmons Coffman, both also early set- 
 tlers in Southern Illinois. J. M. Coffman, contractor, erected 
 most of the principal buildings in Anna, and at the Anna 
 State Hospital. 
 
 Children of Robert M. and Mary E. Choate are: H. La- 
 Verne, associated with International Shoe Co. of Anna ; Murray 
 M., employee of C. I. P. S. Co. of Anna; Dr. Rovelle C, offices 
 in Lexington, Kentucky; Dr. Robert A., formerly supervisor 
 
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 of Music of schools in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, 
 California, and member of faculties of California, Stanford, 
 and Northwestern Universities, and at present Dean of the 
 Boston University College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts; 
 M. Margaret, at present Supervisor of A-J Teen Town ; and two 
 foster daughters, Mrs. Bertha Corbitt Keller, wife of Lt. Cor- 
 liss D. Keller, U. S. N., retired, and Mrs. Evelyn Coffman Ber- 
 ry of Nashville, Illinois. There are sixteen grandchildren and 
 three great-grandchildren. 
 
 JOE DAVIDSON BARBER SHOP 
 
 Joe and Ruth Davidson moved to Anna from Carbondale 
 in 1946. Joe was manager for Ralph Gray Motor Company 
 until 1949. He then purchased interest in the Motor Com- 
 pany. In the year 1950 he sold his interest in the Motor 
 Company and remained as manager until 1951. 
 
 In May, 1951, he opened Davidson Motor Company at 
 150 E. Vienna Street. Joe's son. Bob, moved to Anna with his 
 wife, Myra Jean, and daughter, Shirley Ann, who joined Joe 
 in his automobile business. They enjoyed a profitable and 
 pleasant business until the summer of 1953. 
 
 At this time they leased the car lot to Camber Motor 
 Company which is still in operation. 
 
 Bob accepted a position as sales manager at Cochran Ap- 
 pliance and Joe built his all modern barber shop at 150 E. 
 Vienna Street and has resumed his regular trade as a barber. 
 Joe is a Union barber of 34 years. 
 
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 DAIRY QUEEN of ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 Homer C. Holland 
 Owner 
 
 -285—
 
 DAVIS SHELL SERVICE 
 
 S. Main & E. Davie St. 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 Phone 624 
 
 The Shell Oil Company opened this station in 1928 and 
 it was operated by Hershel Russell. The original station was 
 located midway of the E. Davie Street Parking Lot, operating 
 with two hand pumps. 
 
 Alvin W. Adams leased the station in. 1933 and sold 32 
 gallons of gas and two quarts of oil the first day. John Hubbs 
 took over in 1934 and Paul Elam in 1937. 
 
 Adams again took charge in 1938 and stayed until 1942. 
 His average monthly gas sales was 16,000 gallons — a far cry 
 from his opening day in 1933. Adams was benefitted by a 
 new, modern station built in 1942 by Shell Oil Co. 
 
 M. J. Ward operated the station from 1942 to 1944 and 
 sold out to Lester Davis, who stayed until 1950. Vern Deming 
 operated the station until October, 1953. 
 
 John C. and Bill Davis, brothers of a previous owner, Les- 
 ter Davis, are now in charge of the station. Others working 
 at the station include: Harvey O. Childers, Dareld E. Davis 
 and Clifton Hankla. 
 
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 THE DAVIS PASTRY SHOP 
 
 is proud to be a part of the Anna Centennial. 
 
 OUR SPECIALTIES 
 
 Wedding Cakes 
 
 Hot Breads 
 
 All kinds of Pastrv 
 
 Owned and operated by Ora L. Davis and Son. 
 
 312 South Main Street Phone 95 
 
 —287—
 
 Dale Denny, owner 
 Dale Denny Construction Co. 
 
 —288—
 
 DALE DENNY CONSTRUCTION CO. 
 
 Dale Denny Owner 
 
 Dale Denny started in the construction business in 1933 
 as a partner of J. D. Barter, naming- their company the Barter 
 and Denny Construction Co. with offices at Harrisbur^, Ill- 
 inois. The Barter and Denny Construction Co. operated a 
 large fleet of trucks as well as a large number of pieces of 
 earth moving equipment. 
 
 Dale Denny worked all over Southern Illinois and was in 
 and out of Anna, frequently and in 1941 purchased property 
 and moved with his wife, Juanita, and son, Dale Jr., Dale Jr. 
 having been born when they were living in Metropolis. Evelyn 
 Mae and Donald Wayne being born after they moved to Anna. 
 
 In 1945 the Dale Denny Construction Company was formed 
 and the Barter and Denny Construction company was dis- 
 solved and Mr. Denny has continued to increase his equip- 
 ment until now he has equipment for any size job of Earth 
 moving. His past work consisted of Building Roads, Levees, 
 Air Ports, digging ditches, ponds, and reclaiming farm land 
 by terracing and all kinds of Earth moving. The smallest 
 job done was V2 hour with D7 Tractor & Dozier and the larg- 
 est was $365,000.00. So no job is too large or to small. 
 
 In the Construction work it is necessary to hire many of 
 the employees in the territory where the work is being done, 
 but the Key employees, some of whom has been with the com- 
 pany from its inception and most of them for several years. 
 They are: Milton Roberts, Emmett Mueller, Joel Martin, Louie 
 Kelley and Carl Wright. 
 
 —289—
 
 H. E. DOUGLAS 
 
 H. E. Doug-las of Anna operates the only surviving black- 
 smith shop in the city of Anna on the date of the city's Cen- 
 tennial Celebration July, 1954. 
 
 The blacksmith shop, for many years referred to as the 
 Seger Shop, is located on the corner of Washington and Mor- 
 gan Streets, and was built in 1894 by A. Seger. 
 
 Homer Hartline purchased the business in 1921 and A. 
 Stadelbacher and son became the owners in 1926. Mr. Doug- 
 las was employed as manager in 1926, and in 1936 he and 
 Levi Ury purchased the shop. Douglas became sole owner 
 in 1944. He is assisted at this time by Herschel Landess. 
 
 Horse-shoeing, which was the main, business of the shop 
 during the early years, has become a business of the past as 
 Douglas states he has not shod a horse since 1950. However, 
 horse shoes are made in his shop for the few horses which are 
 now in use and the owners shoe their own horses. 
 
 The making of wagons was a good business many years 
 ago, but this work has been followed by the making of truck 
 bodies. However, the few wagons which are in use in the area 
 are repaired in the Douglas shop. 
 
 The open forge is still in use but the torch has been added 
 to the blacksmith equipment for welding. Work at this black- 
 smith shop, which is now approximately sixty-years old, in- 
 cludes sharpening plows, repairing farm machinery and gen- 
 eral blacksmithing. 
 
 There is "no spreading chestnut tree" under which Doug- 
 las and his assistant may carry on their work, as the trees of 
 the vicinity have long ago been cut down to make way for the 
 modern age of concrete walks and paved streets. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have two children, Mrs. Kenneth 
 Crawford of Frankfort, Germany, and Captain Darrell Dee 
 Douglas at Fort Richard, Maryland. Also two grandsons, 
 James D. Crawford and Darrell Dee Douglas Jr. 
 
 —290—
 
 HISTORY OF ELKINS APPLIANCE SALES 
 133 W. Vienna St. Anna, 111. 
 
 Elkins appliance sales was open for business for the first 
 time in November, 1939, on South Main St., Anna, 111. At that 
 time it was the only appliance store in Anna, selling only 
 Home Appliances. The exclusive franchise for all Philco 
 products was obtained at this time, and the first Philco re- 
 frigerator was sold in Union County. 
 
 The Bottle Gas part of our business was started in 1940 
 with 25 customers. This part of our business has grown 
 steadily through the years to 800 customers. 
 
 In 1946 the Bendix Automatic Washer and Dryer fran- 
 chise was acquired. This was the first Automatic washer and 
 dryer ever produced. 
 
 The year of 1949 opened a complete new field in our bot- 
 tle gas business by using Propane gas for home heating. This 
 part of our business has grown by leaps and bounds to a 
 record number of satisfied customers who heat their homes, 
 cook, and heat hot water with ELKINS PROPANE GAS. We 
 operate our own bulk plant and truck, and install large tanks 
 for home and commercial use. 
 
 U 
 
 -291—
 
 1935 
 
 F. W. FINK 
 
 1954 
 
 FARMER'S PRODUCE & SUPPLY 
 
 Buyers of Poultry, Eggs & Cream 
 Dixie Better Feeds 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Phone 243 
 
 144 E. Davie St. 
 
 Gerald Rion, Mgr. 
 
 —292—
 
 THE EGYPTIAN NASH CORPORATION 
 
 The first Nash automobile sales and service dealership ever 
 located in Anna was opened on August 13, 1951, at the tem- 
 porary location near the corner of South and Lafayette streets 
 in the building known as Fear's Garage. This business was 
 started under the name of The Egyptian Nash Company with 
 Charles J. Lewis as owner. Since Mr. Lewis was actively en- 
 gaged in the Lewis Bros.' Bakeries business at that time, Mr. 
 Glenn Dempsey was employed as general manager of the au- 
 tomobile business, with Lester Fear, Frank Blessing, and Clar- 
 ence Williams as the other initial employees. 
 
 On March 14, 1952, this business was moved to its perm- 
 anent location at 200 N. Main Street where a completely new 
 sales and service department had been built with all the 
 most modern equipment available to better serve their cus- 
 tomers. A very successful Grand Opening was held at that 
 time with over 3000 people in attendance during the 3 days of 
 March 14-16. 
 
 A new organization was formed on July 1, 1953, as the 
 business was incorporated under the name of The Egyptian 
 Nash Corporation with Charles J. Lewis as president, Lester 
 Fear as vice-president, and Mrs. Jewel K. Lewis as secretary. 
 Frank Blessing, Wellman Gunn, Dorothy Hileman, Lawrence 
 Hinkle, Jesse High, Lloyd Perkins and Virtus Wiggs were 
 other loyal employees at this writing. 
 
 —293—
 
 THE EASTMAN FAMILY 
 
 One of the oldest and best known truck gardeners and 
 dairymen in Southern Illinois was Mr. H. T. Eastman. He 
 was born in New York in 1819 and moved with his parents to 
 Michigan, then to Ohio. It was in Ohio that he learned the 
 carpenter's trade and also that of a millright. In 1847 he was 
 employed in the Mad River and Sandusky Railroad shops in 
 Sandusky, Ohio. It was in these shops that he invented the 
 first locomotive pilot from his own plans. This invention took 
 the place of what was used at that time and was called a "cow- 
 bunter." In recognition of his invention he was given a pass 
 for free transportation over many roads as well as a silver 
 pilot for his watch chain. 
 
 He was an ardent Republican, casting his first vote at 
 the age of twenty-one for William Henry Harrison in 1840, 
 and voting for every Republican candidate thereafter. His 
 proudest vote was his last. He expressed himself as being 
 proud he helped make Theodore Roosevelt presidnt. During 
 the rebellion he was one of the Union league's strongest sup- 
 porters in this hot-bed of opposition to the Union cause. 
 
 In 1856, Mr. Eastman moved to Anna, Illinois, and bought 
 a farm which is still known as the Eastman homestead. He 
 began to cultivate small fruits, and was among the first to 
 ship strawberries to Chicago and the very first to supply this 
 northern market with blackberries, raspberries, cantaloupes, 
 and green onions. He originated the system of starting 
 melons in boxes and transplanting them to the field by simply 
 cutting away the box. In 1878 he established a dairy known 
 as the Willow Springs Dairy. During his twelve years in the 
 dairy business he shipped more than 200,000 gallons of milk 
 to Cairo, supplying one of the leading hotels. 
 
 Mr. Eastman was a gifted poet. His productions in the 
 last few years were many and readable. He had prepared an 
 anniversary poem which he intended reading on his 87th birth- 
 day, but passed away just two hours before it. In his last 
 moments he expressed himself as being desirous of living just 
 one more day to round out his eighty-seven years. He never 
 wore glasses, could read the finest print, never used liquor or 
 tobacco and was noted for his charity and abstenious habits. 
 
 ^ —294—
 
 In 1896 upon the death of his devoted wife he j?ave up 
 his business and turned the management of his farms to his 
 sons, one of whom was the late Harmon Eastman. Harmon 
 was noted over a vast area for his \a.rge acreage of improved 
 watermelons and was known as the "King of Watermelons." 
 
 In 1920, he too, retired from farming and bought a home 
 in Anna. He had five children, Morton, Wilbert, Edith, Beu- 
 lah, and Velma. Wilbert was the first Anna boy drafted into 
 service in World War I in September, 1917. He, too, is a 
 staunch Republican and a carpenter. He has been precinct 
 committeeman for several years and is now head carpenter at 
 the Anna State Hospital and a member of the Anna Methodist 
 Church. 
 
 After the death of his father and mother he bought the 
 Eastman home where he now lives with his wife and daughter, 
 Viola. He has one son, Evan, who after serving some time 
 with the Eighth Air Force in England during World War II, 
 received his degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbon- 
 dale, Illinois, married, and moved with his wife to St. Charles, 
 Missouri, where he is now a tool designer at the McDonnell 
 Air Craft Corporation. 
 
 The latest addition to the Eastman family is Roger Evan, 
 the two-month-old son of Evan. He is named for the first 
 Eastman who came to the United States from Wales, Roger 
 Eastman, and for his father, Evan. 
 
 i\ 
 
 H. T. EASTMAN 
 —295—
 
 FOLEY'S DRUG STORE 
 
 started March, 1934, by 
 
 L. E. (Ned) Foley and A. S. Kimbro, R. Ph. 
 
 Personnel employed at the store through the years; 
 
 Anderson. Rodney 
 Barker. Candy 
 Boyd. Martha 
 Bean. Eloise Yates 
 Bohannan, Marcelline 
 Bolen, Al 
 Brooks, Lawrence 
 Coffman. Mary Ellen 
 Coftman, Roy 
 Davis. Fred 
 Dougherty, Noel 
 Eddleman, William 
 Eaves, Helen 
 Elam. Dimple 
 Evans, Bernita 
 English, Mary Brooks 
 Foley, Donald 
 Foley, Patricia 
 Freeze, Gladys 
 Ferrill, John 
 Flam, Helen 
 Fuller, Myron 
 Gray, Jack 
 Grammer, Virginia 
 Hamilton. Hilda 
 Hennard, Harold 
 Isom. Yvonne 
 
 Keller, Patricia 
 Keistler, Frank Jr. 
 Kimhro, Robert 
 Kohler, Mildred 
 Kaufman, Mable 
 Lingle, Lazelle 
 Murphy, Donald 
 McKinney. Lovella 
 Moye, Betty Emerson 
 McLane. Earl 
 Niblock. Charles 
 Navin. Mary Ann 
 Otten. Evelyn Boyd 
 Otrich, Susan 
 Rushing, Uba Gay 
 Rife, Berry L. 
 Rife, James B. 
 Raybon, Norma 
 Romine, William 
 Sivia, Paul 
 Stearns, Opal M. 
 Stroehlein, Eddie 
 Wadley, Vernon 
 Winters, Frances 
 Whitnell, Shelby 
 Wood, Dorothy 
 
 CONYER STUDIO 
 
 Portraits Schools 
 
 Commercial Groups 
 Weddings Reunions 
 
 Churches Restoring 
 
 Photofinishing Aerial 
 Copying 
 
 Anything Photographic 
 Phone 1037W 
 313 South Main Street 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 —296—
 
 E. W. FILE SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 This business was organized April, 1951, under the trade 
 style — E. W. File Supply Company. Operates as a co-part- 
 nership comprising- E. W. File, Byford L. Lowry and Mar- 
 tha Jean Riggs. 
 
 The premises in occupancy at R. F. D. 2, Anna, 111., com- 
 prise quarters in a one-story brick building — 60'xlOO'. The 
 plant is situated approximately one mile from the business dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Activities are confined to the distribution of plumbing 
 supplies, hot water heating, hot air heating, air conditioning, 
 pipe, fittings, and plumbing and heating specialties. 
 
 The company is at present serving Little Egypt, Southeast 
 Missouri, and Western Kentucky, employing Byford L. Lowry 
 and James Thomas as outside salesman; Edward Sauerbrunn 
 and Milf ord Davis as house salesman ; and Patsie Barringer as 
 bookkeeper and typist. Sales are made to well drillers, plumb- 
 ing and heating contractors, and industries. 
 
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 FASHION SHOP 
 
 108 N. Main Street Anna, Illinois 
 
 The Fashion Shop of Anna had its grand opening De- 
 cember 9, 1950. This shop was a branch of the Fashion Shop 
 of Benton, Illinois, which was established since 1924 by Mr. I. 
 Bass. Mr. Sam Bass, a son of I. Bass, took over his father's 
 business after his death in 1948. Several years later Mr. Sam 
 Bass opened the Anna branch store. In August, 1953, Mr, 
 Bass closed his Benton store so that he could devote his full 
 time to the Anna store. 
 
 The Fashion Shop of Anna caters to the most up-to-date 
 ladies apparel in Junior, Misses, and half-sizes. This shop 
 features nationally advertised merchandise seen in all the 
 leading fashion magazines, and is known for its quality mer- 
 chandise. 
 
 Mrs. Vida Mull, manager of the Fashion Shop, has been 
 employed with this shop since its opening. Other employees 
 are Mrs. Glenna Fox of Anna ; Billy Sue Norris of Jonesboro, 
 and Mrs. Madge Nalley of Anna. 
 
 ANNA NEWS COMPANY 
 
 In 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hagler purchased the 
 Anna News business from Fred Wells, which he has operated 
 for many years at 313 South Main Street. 
 
 In 1946 they moved to their new location at 116 North 
 Main Street. They are now operating a complete news serv- 
 ice handling all St. Louis and Chicago newspapers which are 
 delivered daily to homes in Anna. They also carry a com- 
 plete line of leading magazines and other interesting reading 
 material. 
 
 Many men in and around Anna, earned their first money 
 delivering papers for the Anna News Company. 
 
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 GODDARD STORAGE 
 
 Boxes and Baskets 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Entered business in 1922. Purchased the old Anna 
 Creamery from J. L. McFadden in 1922. Bought cream and 
 made butter until 1925, then went into the Cream Buying, 
 and Poultry, Egg and Feed Business. Also Stock Hauling to 
 St. Louis. Then went into Sweet Potato Business. 
 
 Employees through the thirty-two years of business : 
 
 George Litton 
 H. A. Russell 
 Raleigh Dover 
 Leasel Schlenker 
 Murvin Casper 
 Rufus Williams 
 Beryl Goddard 
 
 Claud Wright 
 Truman Williams 
 Clyde Goddard 
 Joe Goddard 
 Delbert Hood 
 Carl Cavitt 
 Clyde Hinkle 
 
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 GODDARD SEED & PRODUCE 
 
 Distributor of Asg-row Garden Seeds 
 Fescue & Red Clover Seed Cleaning a Specialty- 
 Buyers & Wholesalers of Field Seeds 
 Phone 96-R and 96-W Anna, Illinois 
 
 The Goddard Produce was formed in 1942 when R. R. 
 Goddard's interest in the produce and livestock hauling was 
 purchased by Clyde Goddard. Under the new management, 
 produce hauling was added along with the livestock hauling. 
 This business was active until 1946 when the livestock and 
 produce trucks were sold, and mill and seed processing ma- 
 chinery were bought to replace the hauling industry, thereby, 
 the trade name of Goddard Seed and Produce was adopted. 
 This business is still very active in seed processing and the 
 produce business. With seed processing and the produce 
 business. With seed processing machinery, we feel that we 
 have helped farmers of a thirty mile radius progress greatly. 
 To our business we have added Asgrow Garden Seed, which 
 we distribute in southern Illinois. Although this is far from 
 a century of progress, we feel that we have easily done our 
 share and will continue to do so. 
 
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 GAMM SHOE COMPANY 
 
 124 E. Davie St., Walter H. Cherrick, Prop. 
 
 The Gamm Shoe Co. was established in 1895 by Barney 
 Gamm, whose family consisted of his wife, Fannie, and daugh- 
 ters, Lena, Ollie and Annie. For a number of years this was 
 the only exclusive shoe store in the county. Mr. Gamm owned 
 and operated the store for 10 years and sold it to Louis Block, 
 a nephew. Mr. Block was assisted by Dave Sloan. These two 
 men managed the store for about 3 years and sold it to Ed 
 and Bess Lehr, they continued its operation for 9 years. Bess 
 Lehr was a niece of the original owner. The Lehr's had one 
 daughter, Mildred. 
 
 After having served in World War I, and upon receiving 
 his discharge, A. L. Cherrick, a nephew of the Gamm's, and 
 father of the present owner, purchased the store from the 
 Lehrs on July 18, 1919. After being in business about a year 
 Mr. Cherrick was married to Miss Essie Magidson of St. Louis, 
 Mo. They were the parents of two sons, Walter and Gilbert. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Cherrick were active in civic affairs in Anna. 
 Essie Cherrick passed away in 1938 and A. L. Cherrick con- 
 tinued to operate the store until his death in 1944. At this 
 time his son, Walter, was in service and Gilbert operated the 
 store until he was called to serve his country in 1945. Gilbert 
 was assisted by Daisy Wells. Upon Gilbert's leaving for 
 service, Mrs. Wells managed the store until Walter was dis- 
 charged from the army in 1946, after which he resumed man- 
 agement of the store. Prior to returning to Anna, Walter was 
 married to Selma Goldstein of New Brunswick, N. J. They 
 have one son, Alan Lee. 
 
 During the time that the Gamm Shoe Company has been 
 owned by the Cherricks the following have been employed by 
 them : Helen Brown, Laura Masska, Ruth Penrod, Kate Coff- 
 man, Maude Coleman, Mary Hileman and Daisy Wells. Mrs. 
 Wells has been a faithful employee from March, 1923, through, 
 the present time, making a total of 31 years to date. 
 
 The Gamm Shoe Company has been in continuous opera- 
 tion in the same location since it opened its doors 59 years ago. 
 It has always been, and will continue to be the policy of this 
 store, to present to the public quality merchandise at reason- 
 able prices. 
 
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 B HI 
 
 rresenl JJuiUliiiK Occupied by Thu Gazette-Democrat 
 
 4 
 1 
 
 The Gazette-Democrat Staff in 1954 
 
 Standing, left to right: John Vicenzi, plant superinten- 
 dent; James Mueller; James Hoyle, advertising manager; 
 Gideon Vivrett, Jr. ; Hobart Earnhart ; Lowell Cooley ; David 
 Boyd; Fred Fritzinger; (Inset), Lewida Reppert Hoyle, pub- 
 lisher. Seated, left to right : Clorene Rixleben, society editor 
 and bookkeeper ; Clyde Treece ; Mrs. Virgil Smith ; Irene Hart- 
 line, Deon Davis. 
 
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 THE GAZETTE-DEMOCRAT 
 
 The Gazette-Democrat of Anna, Union County's weekly 
 newspaper, has served the city of Anna and Union County for 
 the past ninety-six years. 
 
 The newspaper was established in Jonesboro in 1858, as 
 The Democrat, and was moved to Anna within a few weeks 
 when the name was chantred to The Anna Democrat, thus 
 joining- other progressive enterprises which were to promote 
 the expansion of the city and its trade territory. 
 
 The progress of the city is recorded on the pages of this 
 newspaper, as the various changes took place. Legal publica- 
 tions of all periods follow each other through the pages, pro- 
 viding a true history of the growth of the city. 
 
 A. N. Sessions, widely known for his political influence, 
 purchased The Anna Democrat in 1902. An able attorney at 
 law. Sessions was considered an authority on many questions 
 of the area and his editorials were anticipated with pleasure. 
 
 J. L. Hammond, politician, writer and editor, was associated 
 with the newspaper from 1897 until his death in 1937. The 
 Hammond family was in control of the newspaper until 1939 
 when it was sold to H. Clay Reppert, who had previously owned 
 and operated newspapers in Kansas and Michigan. 
 
 The name of the newspaper was changed to the Gazette- 
 Democrat and The Anna Talk after the purchase of The Jones- 
 boro Gazette and The Anna Talk. 
 
 Following the death of Mr. Reppert in 1951, his wife, 
 Lewida Reppert, has published the newspaper with the assist- 
 ance of John Vicenzi, who came to Anna from Michigan when 
 Reppert purchased the newspaper. 
 
 The Gazette-Democrat has been a major factor in the 
 promotion of many proposals for advancement in the city and 
 county, in consolidation of schools, construction of the Anna 
 City Hospital, establishing the Anna City Park and other ac- 
 tivities of the city and community, serving as an accurate 
 
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 source of information whereby readers might be advised of 
 current events in their communities. 
 
 A modern buildin^ir was constructed a few years ago on 
 ground adjoining the building which had been used for many 
 years to house The Anna Democrat and later, The Gazette- 
 Democrat. 
 
 The newspaper is at this time in the new and attractive 
 building which stands at the corner of LaFayette and South 
 Street. The building is the low, modern type, well suited to 
 the operation of a newspaper. 
 
 The general office is spacious and well lighted. The pri- 
 vate office for the editor is located at the rear of the general 
 office and adjacent to the newspaper plant. The plant of the 
 newspaper is equipped with the most modern and efficient 
 machinery available, making it the most modernly equipped 
 newspaper and job shops in southern Illinois. 
 
 o 
 
 rtS T«E ANNA TALK 
 
 COMPLE TE COVERAGE OF THIS TERRITORY 
 
 I r 
 
 iHiiii^ii 
 
 Former Gazette-Democrat Building 
 
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 LYNN D. SIFFORD 
 
 Lynn DeWitt Sifford Sr., a native of Anna, Illinois, was 
 born January 8th, 1896, the son of Thomas Peter and Minnie 
 English Sifford. His early life was spent on the farm one 
 mile East of Anna. His early schooling was received at the 
 Nimmo Country School, the Anna Public Schools and the Un- 
 ion Academy. 
 
 At the age of 16 he was enrolled in the Georgia Military 
 Academy at College Park Georgia, from which he graduated in 
 June, 1916. That fall he entered law school at Vanderbilt 
 University, Nashville, Tennessee. In April, 1917, one day aft- 
 er World War "I" was declared he enlisted in the armed serv- 
 ice, and was assigned to the 122nd Infantry of the 31st (Dixie) 
 Division, of the United States Army. He attended the First 
 Officers Training School held at Fort Ogletrorpe, Georgia, and 
 was commissioned a First Lieutenant, and at the close of the 
 Camp ordered to the Second Officers Training School at Camp 
 Wheeler, Macon Georgia, as an Instructor. 
 
 October, 1918, he left Fort Dix, N. J., on the "Saxonia" 
 for over seas duty in France, returning to the States in March, 
 1919, aboard the "Mauretina" and soon after returned to An- 
 na. On April 9th, 1919, he was married to Anna Roy, daugh- 
 ter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Roy, also of Anna, and in June 
 of that year he started in the Insurance business and continued 
 the agency known as "Insurance of All Kinds" for 35 years, 
 at the same location, 117 W. Vienna Street. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sifford have two children, a son. Major Lynn 
 DeWitt Sifford Jr., a graduate of West Point Military Acad- 
 emy, now serving on the Joint Brazilian United States Military 
 Commission of the United States Air Force in Sao Paulo 
 Brazil, and a daughter, Nancy, wife of D. J. McGarry, an at- 
 torney, located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Siffords are 
 members of Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church. Mr. Sifford is 
 now Vice-President of the Church Council, having served also 
 as financial Secretary for eight years, and teacher of the Men's 
 Class for five years. Mr. Sifford has been active in civic af- 
 
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 fairs, serving as Commander of the American Legion, The 
 Townsend F. Dodd Post, and on the President's Special Board 
 of Review of Veterans Claims, President of the Anna Chamber 
 of Commerce, President of the Board of Education of the 
 Anna Jonesboro-Community High School, was Co-Chairman of 
 Four of the Bond Drives during World War "2", and is now 
 serving his eighth year as a member of the State Rehabilita- 
 tion Commission. 
 
 MRS. MOORE'S 
 FLOWER SHOP-GREENHOUSE 
 
 206 E. High Street Phone— Anna 42 
 
 Mrs. Moore's Shop was established in Anna in 1928. Dur- 
 ing this time she has been a member of the Florist Telegraph 
 Delivery Association. This membership has enabled her to 
 deliver flowers world wide. 
 
 It has been a great pleasure to service the fine people of 
 Anna. 
 
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 CAMBER MOTOR CO. 
 
 "See Guv Before You Buy" 
 
 Chrysler — Plymouth 
 
 Parts — Sales — Servcie 
 
 346 South Main Phone 670 
 
 GUY GAMBER, Owner 
 
 William Hileman Fay Johnson Lester Darnell 
 
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 GILMORE ASPHALT PRODUCTS, Inc. 
 
 The beginning of the Chas. G. Gilmore Asphalt Products, 
 Inc., dates back to 1939, when Chas. G. Gilmore, Ben Vallenga 
 and George H. Rippetoe formed a partnership known as the 
 Chas. G. Gilmore Asphalt Products. They set up an asphalt 
 plant on ground adjacent to the Anna Quarries and began 
 the manufacture of asphaltic concrete, which they used in 
 paving municipal streets and state and federal highways. 
 
 Through the knowledge and past experience of the Man- 
 ager, Chas. G. Gilmore, in asphaltic products, and because of 
 the nearness to and availability of some of the raw products, 
 the business grew rather rapidly. Two of the major materials, 
 stone from the Anna Quarries, and fine sand from Dug Hill, 
 have been available in unlimited quantities. 
 
 Because of the growing business, it became necessary in 
 1947 to add a portable plant to the equipment. It is being 
 used on jobs which are located 50 or more miles from the 
 Anna plant. 
 
 In 1951 the partnership became a corporation and is now 
 known as Chas. G. Gilmore Asphalt Products, Inc. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Gilmore in 1951, the following 
 became the officers of the company: Geo. Rippetoe, Pres. ; 
 Ben Vallenga, Vice Pres.; Clarence Campbell, Sec. 
 
 In order to take care of the expanding business, it be- 
 came necessary in 1952 to set up another new and larger 
 plant along side the original plant. 
 
 Through the use of their three modern asphalt plants 
 and the latest and best equipment which the company now 
 owns, they are prepared and qualified to handle any size and 
 type of asphaltic work throughout Illinois and Missouri. 
 
 During construction season they maintain a force of 30 
 to 60 men, the annual payroll being from $75,000 to $150,000. 
 
 Besides the officers of the company, the managing person- 
 nel are: Dellis Buzbee, Office Manager, Hubert Steinhoff, En- 
 gineer, Clyde Casper, Plant Superintendent, and Herbert 
 Mathis, Road Superintendent. 
 
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 Some of the older employees in years of service with the 
 company who have contributed towards its success are : Clovis 
 Messamore, Leo Mann, Edward Henderson, Chas. Dover, Aquil- 
 la Nicholson, John Sims, Geo. Bell, Harry Bailey, Roscoe Schier- 
 baum, Owen Webb, Cecil Webb, Chas. Goodman, Carl Eddie- 
 man, Raleigh Peeler, Orvil Brown, Clyde Baggott, Ervil Spur- 
 lock, Vivian Jackson, Woodrow Gulley, Basil Roher, Frank 
 Phillips and Pete James. 
 
 The following were faithful employees for many years 
 but now deceased : Royal Mathis, deceased 1950. Fred Smith- 
 son, deceased 1953. Guy Martin, deceased 1954. 
 
 GILMORE ASPHALT PRODUCTS PLANT 
 
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 V'
 
 tying the nation together 
 
 General Telephone Company 
 of Illinois 
 
 A Member of One of the Great Telephone 
 Systems Sewing America. 
 
 General Telephone, serving 21 states, is one of 
 America's fastest-growing Utilities 
 
 We congratulate our community in celebrating one hundred 
 years of progress. 
 
 Shirley Betts 
 Dean Bittle 
 Marion R. Boswell 
 Shirley Brimm 
 Millie Brown 
 Shirley Gates 
 Nellie Clements 
 Imogene Cooley 
 Lanita Cross 
 
 Frank Shepard 
 
 Martha Dillow 
 Norma J. Dillow 
 Geraldine Fitch 
 Vae Ingram 
 Wanda Johnson 
 Thomas G. Lilley 
 Mable Mattheis 
 Jeanetta McClure 
 Jewell Miller 
 
 Bonita Moreland 
 Wilma Morris 
 Bette Norris 
 Opal Norris 
 Betty Rendleman 
 Hazel J. Sauerbrunn 
 Joy Spradlnig 
 Oma Treece 
 Elmer 0. Wilson 
 
 Employees of General Telephone Company of Illinois, Anna, 111. 
 
 —310—
 
 HILEMAN SEED STORE 
 
 Seed Specialists 
 115 N. Main St. — Phone 67 — 307 E. Davie St. 
 
 Hileman Seed Store, now operating at 115 N. Main Street 
 in Anna, was formerly owned and operated by Harry C. Hile- 
 man. Mr. Hileman left the employ of the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road in 1905 and bought half interest in a grocery store operat- 
 ed at the corner of North Main and West Vienna Streets, 
 known as Crane and Eddleman. He bought his interest from 
 his wife's grandfather, Adam Eddleman, and later bought the 
 other half interest from Van Crane, his brother-in-law. About 
 1911 the building was damaged by fire, and during the re- 
 building, the business was conducted at 111 W. Davie, then re- 
 turned to 105 W. Vienna Street, where he continued in busi- 
 ness until 1934. At that time, the grocery store was moved 
 to the present building, and Mr. Hileman started handling a 
 few field and garden seed. In 1940, the grocery part was 
 sold out, and Mr. Hileman continued in business, selling seeds 
 until his death Jan. 1, 1945. His niece, Betty Eagle Garrott, 
 who had worked for him in the store for a number of years, 
 continued to operate the seed business for Mrs. Hileman for 
 one year, then purchased the business. Jeff Garrott was in 
 service during World War II, and had been farming with 
 his father prior to entry in service. Jeff came into the seed 
 business in July, 1946. Betty and Jeff, now assisted by Owen 
 Miller and Dan Schlenker, have a store where they try to han- 
 dle everything for field and garden needs. They have pur- 
 chased and are remodeling the old "box mill" at 307 E. Davie 
 St., and will move into their new location late this fall. 
 
 Betty's grandfather, W. H. Crane, was sheriff of Union 
 County in 1898, and later operated a grocer}^ store in Anna. 
 Betty's parents are Helen Crane and Fred Eagle, and she is the 
 youngest of three girls. Jeff's family are farmers south of 
 Anna, and he is the youngest of the five children of Carrie 
 Sinks and George H. Garrott. Betty and Jeff have two chil- 
 dren, Carolyn, 12, and Freddie, 5. 
 
 —311—
 
 Hamilton Radio & TV Sales Service 
 
 Although not natives of Anna, Illinois, the name Hamil- 
 ton has been associated with this city since 1917 when C. E. 
 Hamilton opened the first gasoline service station in town. 
 This was managed for several years by E. J. Ingersoll, better 
 known as "Zeke," who continued to work at the station after 
 it was purchased by F. 0. Hamilton, a brother of C. E. Hamil- 
 ton. Upon the death of F. 0. Hamilton in 1934, the station 
 was operated by Miss Fern and Miss Crete Hamilton, daugh- 
 ters of F. 0. Hamilton. The Hamilton sisters sold the oil 
 business in 1947. In 1938 they opened a Radio Sales and Re- 
 pair Shop in the old station building. In 1949 they demon- 
 strated the first television in Union County and sold the first 
 television set. Associated with the Hamilton sisters is W. 
 E. Murrie, who is manager of the radio and television service 
 department. We deem it a great privilege to participate in 
 celebrating the 100th anniversary of this city. 
 
 ROBERT HALL - ATTORNEY 
 
 104 '/2 North Main Street 
 
 CONGRATULATIONS CITY OF ANNA 
 
 FOR 100 YEARS OF PROGRESS 
 
 May the City continue to grow and prosper 
 
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 Right's Texaco Service Station 
 
 153 E. Vienna Street 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 1935—1954 
 
 Right's Texaco Service Station was started in September, 
 1935 in the Bizzell Building-, located at 145 E. Vienna Street. 
 In 1941 there was a new station erected at 153 E. Vienna in 
 the most modern design for service stations, with sales room 
 and two bay service department. The new station was 
 equipped with the latest equipment to attract both the tourist 
 and local business. It has been and always will be my policy 
 to give full measure of service and to have many satisfied cus- 
 tomers. 
 
 Ervie Hight, Owner 
 
 /.<*!! 
 
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 HINKLE FOOD MARKET 
 
 128 E. Davie Anna, 111. 
 
 Since 1948 
 
 All Fresh Vegetables, Fruits and Meat 
 Owned and Operated by Clarence Hinkle 
 
 r^>-: 
 
 HOTEL BARBER SHOP 
 
 Opened for business July 29th, 1939 
 
 Louis Miles, owner, has been barbering since 1914. 
 George Simpson has worked at his trade since 1928. Came to 
 the Hotel Barber Shop in 1945. 
 
 Fred Halterman, shoe shiner for the past 44 years, is 
 the best in Anna. 
 
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 HOYE PONTIAC COMPANY 
 
 108 E. Vienna St. Phone 405 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Our firm began operating in October, 1948, as the Hoye- 
 Garrard Pontiac Company ; a partnership arrangement be- 
 tween Henry O. Garrard, Sr., and Stanford L. Hoye. In Au- 
 gust, 1949, Mr. Garrard sold his interest in the business to us 
 and we have continued, since that date, to operate as the 
 Hoye Pontiac Company. Our material blessings have 
 been many and we are very grateful ; however, the most re- 
 warding part of our experience has been the many fine 
 friendships and wonderful associations we have had with the 
 people of this community. We haven't lived here a hundred 
 years — I wish we had. I am confident that my parents would 
 have enjoyed living here as much as we do. 
 
 Robert Keenan and Homer Eddleman have worked with 
 us since our beginning. Philip Sadler has been associated with 
 us "in between vacations" for several years. 
 
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 Harold's Paint and Wallpaper Store 
 
 Among: the newcomers in the business field in Anna, there 
 is the Harold's Paint and Wallpaper Store, located at 318 South 
 Main Street. Gone are the days when Paints were handled 
 as a "side-line" by many stores. Harold handles an exclu- 
 sive line of Phelan's fine paint and wallpaper supply whereby 
 ample stocks are carried in all the new, popular lines of color, 
 size and designs of wallpaper. 
 
 This business, established in 1949 by Harold Meisenheim- 
 er and operated jointly by him and his wife. Pearl Rendleman 
 Meisenheimer, has taken an accepted place in the business 
 enterprise of the community. 
 
 Harold Meisenheimer, son of the late Jasper V. Meisenheim- 
 er of Mill Creek, and Pearl Rendleman Meisenheimer, daughter 
 of the late David F. Rendleman of R. F. D., Anna, devote their 
 time to this business. Mrs. Meisenheimer is a school-teacher 
 of many years experience in Union County, having completed 
 thirty-five years of active teaching. 
 
 This well known couple have two children, Mary Frances 
 Ray of Anna and J. D. Meisenheimer of Anna. Mary Frances 
 has two children, Donna Jean and David Harold, and J. D. 
 has one child, Judy Meisenheimer. 
 
 Visitors in the city will always find a warm and generous 
 welcome at Harold's, in this Centennial Year the Meisenheim- 
 ers invite visitors to call and talk over old times and old fam- 
 ily lines. 
 
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 Honey Heating and Air Conditioning 
 
 LeRoy and Felma Honey, Owner 
 
 This firm is in a position to supply heating: and air con- 
 ditioning units for large or small buildings and install and 
 maintain these units. 
 
 LeRoy Honey entered this field of business soon after dis- 
 charge from service with the armed forces, following the 
 close of World War U. He received technical training through 
 the educational program of the Veterans' Training Service, 
 and completed his practical training and experience while em- 
 ployed by A. J. Dougherty, who established the business, and 
 D. L. Treece, second owner of the business. 
 
 The Honey Heating and Air Conditioning Shop is a 
 "young" business from the viewpoint of Anna's Century of 
 Progress, having been in existence only a few years and oper- 
 ated by Honey since March, 1953. Yet this business has a 
 definite prospect of rapid development and expansion in the 
 increasing demand for modern and automatic heating and air 
 conditioning equipment in all homes and business buildings. 
 
 HELEN'S FABRICS 
 
 333 S. Main — Anna, Illinois — Phone 1035 
 
 Helen's Fabrics came into being when Roy Mangold de- 
 cided to come back and settle in his boyhood home, Anna. 
 
 He was the youngest of twelve children of Willis Man- 
 gold and Laura Blick Mangold, who were also born in Union 
 County. 
 
 Many of the homes built by Willis Mangold are still 
 standing and one of Roy's brothers, Fred, was one of the men 
 known for the advancement of the peach growing industry 
 that has made Union County famous. 
 
 After Roy finished high school, he moved to Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and from there to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a 
 roofing contractor. Then getting the urge to return to An- 
 na, he with his wife, Helen, opened a fabric shop at 333 South 
 Main Street in August, 1952. 
 
 This shop, Helen's Fabrics, has grown and prospered and 
 is now considered one of the permanent shops of Anna. 
 
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 iSg^K JOHN W. HILL 
 
 GUARANTEE 
 
 Plumbing-, Heating & Air Conditioning 
 
 by 
 
 Licensed, Bonded & Insured Plumbers 
 
 Phone 374-\V 
 
 301 W. Jefferson — Anna, Illinois 
 
 John W. Hill, a native of Anna, is a member of a family 
 of builders. Early in life he worked with his father, George 
 Allen Hill, Sr., in the construction of homes and other build- 
 ings, and later with his brother, George A. Hill, Jr., also a 
 building contractor. 
 
 Hill started his own business in 1930 and has constructed 
 many homes and buildings over a period of several years. 
 
 The field of plumbing, heating and air conditioning de- 
 manded an increase in the number of skilled men for this 
 service and Hill discontinued his work as a general contractor 
 several years ago and has, since 1940, specialized in this field. 
 
 Hill's work shop and storage department are located on 
 West Jefferson Street, adjacent to his home, and he operates a 
 truck which is fully equipped with tools, parts and other ma- 
 terials in anticipation of any type repair or installation need- 
 ed in this field. 
 
 Robert W. Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hill, represents the 
 third generation of this family to enter the building field. A 
 registered plumbers' apprentice, Robert has assisted his father 
 since his discharge from service in the Armed Forces in 1946. 
 
 Hill's policy is to serve the public in the repair or in- 
 stallation of an}' unit, from the smallest detail to a complete 
 installation. 
 
 Winstead, second son of the Hill family, is a high school 
 Freshman, and anticipates joining his father and brother 
 within a few years. 
 
 The Hills have a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Longo, a reg- 
 istered nurse, of Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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 ^h> 
 
 John W. Hill 
 
 "Holsum Bread ' 
 
 An old established industry sends its newest branch to 
 Anna in the year of the Anna Centennial to add to Anna's 
 Historical Memos. 
 
 MASTER BAKING COMPANY 
 
 Introduces 
 
 John Crawford — District Manager 
 Lena C. Keller— Office 
 
 Salesmen 
 George (Bud) Hill Ernest (Friction) Coffman 
 
 George Sitter Ralph Creath 
 
 Frank Ziegler Audry Loryder 
 
 Phil Ziegler 
 
 'BE HOLSUM, LOOK HOLSUM, BUY HOLSUM BREAD" 
 
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 JACKSON L. HAMMOND 
 
 "Jack" Hammond, owner and publisher of the Democrat 
 of Anna, wrote "30" to his career as politician, writer and edi- 
 tor on December 30, 1937. He was born in Hagerstown, Mary- 
 land, November 30, 1865, the son of Rev. J. L. and Mary Sum- 
 mers Hammond. He was two years old when his family 
 moved to Illinois. Mr. Hammond received his education in 
 the public schools and Carthage College, Illinois, He taught 
 school several years in Iowa. When his father received a 
 call to the Lutheran Church in Murphysboro, Illinois, in 1891, 
 he worked there on the Independent, which was his first news- 
 paper experience. In 1893, he was appointed Chief Clerk 
 at the Anna State Hospital and served four years. 
 
 In 1897 he became associated with the Democrat of An- 
 na as editor, a position he held until 1913 when he accepted a 
 position in the office of the Secretary of State in Springfield. 
 He returned to Anna in 1917 and edited and published the 
 Democrat until his death. He was elected to the General As- 
 sembly of the State of Illinois from the 50th District on the 
 Democratic ticket in 1918 and re-elected in 1920. He served 
 six consecutive years as clerk of the City of Anna prior to 
 1913. 
 
 On September 11, 1894, he was married to Miss Martha 
 Aden of Dongola, Illinois, by his father in Mt. Moriah Luthern 
 Church in Anna. They had three children: Grace Elizabeth, 
 who died in 1899; Mary Hammond Kent, co-partner of Norris 
 Funeral Home in Anna; Joe A. Hammond, who is associated 
 with a publishing firm in San Francisco, California. Other 
 members of his family include three grandchildren: Mrs. Bet- 
 ty Hammond Brewer of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Barbara Kent 
 Grinter of Kansas City, Mo.; Gaylon H. Kent of Anna and 
 four great grandchildren. 
 
 Mr. Hammond was active in all civic affairs and the pol- 
 icy of the paper he edited for almost forty years was reflected 
 in his every day living. "The policy of the paper will be to 
 boost the City of Anna and Union County, generally, and aid 
 in the upbuilding of its financial, social, educational and moral 
 resources. Politically the paper will be Democratic. Local 
 matters will be given first consideration and will be treated 
 independently of political preference or prejudice." 
 
 —320—
 
 Jackson L. Hammond 
 
 JOHNSON'S FEED AND PRODUCE 
 
 I established my business at 130 East Vienna Street in 
 May, 1943; buying- poultry, cream and eggs and selling feeds. 
 I first started selling Critic feed but later changed to the Nu- 
 trena line. 
 
 In 1949 I installed a poultry dressing plant, dressing all 
 types of wild and domestic fouls. 
 
 My help has been principally, my wife, Etta; two daugh- 
 ters, Virginia and Dora; three sons, Logan Jr., now serving 
 our country in the U. S. Army, and David Lee and Dorris 
 Gene. 
 
 W. 0. Bird now operates the cream station. 
 
 We have enjoyed serving our many customers the past 
 years and hope to be of greater service in the coming years. 
 
 Nutrena Feeds for all Poultry and Livestock Needs 
 Dressed Poultry at All Times 
 
 Logan Johnson, Owner and Operator 
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 HINDMAN HOMESTEAD 
 
 Homestead of Mr. and Mrs, Dennis Hindman, located 2 
 miles east of Anna, Illinois, on Route 146. This home was 
 purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Hindman in 1908; the farm is 
 noted for the raising of pure bred Polled Hereford cattle. 
 
 BESSIE'S BEAUTY SHOP 
 
 403 S. Main 
 
 Anna, 111. Phone 143 for Appointment 
 
 Patronize the shop that display N. H. C. A. Emblem. 
 Member of Little Egypt Guild No. 34. 
 
 Our Specialty — Cold Waving, Shaping and Hair Coloring. 
 
 Our Motto— "Look Your Best at All Times." 
 
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 ANNA ICE PLANT 
 
 The Anna Ice Plant at 153' 2 E. Vienna Street was built 
 in 1896 by Mr. A. A. Fasiy: and associate and operated as The 
 Fruit Growers Refrigeration & Power Co. This plant was 
 steam driven, using distilled water. It had a capacity of 
 twenty-five tons and storage space for one thousand tons. 
 
 About 1916 this plant was sold to the Central Illinois Pub- 
 lic Service Company and operated by steam power until 1928. 
 Due to increased demand for ice for railroad car icing and 
 domestic use, the Hamilton Ice Company on West Vienna 
 Street was purchased. This plant was operated while the first 
 one was being rebuilt, after which the Hamilton Plant was 
 shut down. This new plant used electricity instead of steam 
 and treated city water. It had a fifty ton capacity and a 
 storage room for seventeen hundred ton. 
 
 In 1948 this plant was purchased by Mr. Everett H. 
 Smith of Anna, Mr. John T. Purcell of Muphysboro, Mr. A. 
 J. Borchers and Mr. Don T. Lacey of Springfield. It is now 
 being operated as The Public Ice Service Company with Mr. 
 Smith as general manager. 
 
 Due to the increased demand for icing trucks, transport- 
 ing fresh fruits and vegetables from this community and 
 southern states, an ice crushing machine and blower was in- 
 stalled in 1949. In 1952 a self-service vending station was 
 built to give twenty-four hour service for block and crushed 
 ice. 
 
 As the car icing decreased in 1948, the storage room was 
 converted into an apple storage capable of holding seventeen 
 thousand bushels for the fruit growers and wholesale houses 
 of this area. 
 
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 S. D. JOINERS GROCERY 
 Red & White 
 
 Been in Business 34 Years 
 
 Employees and years service: 
 
 Everett Lingle, 33 years, Butcher 
 
 Carl Williams, 18 years 
 
 Keller Joiner, Grew up with Business 
 
 William Sivally, 14 years 
 
 Dixon Day, 10 years 
 
 Edmond Davidson, 1 year 
 
 Ruth Tweedy, 5 years 
 
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 Clyde Karraker James C. Karraker 
 
 KARRAKER OIL CO. 
 
 Mobilgas — Mobilheat — Mobiloil 
 
 115 East Vienna St. 
 
 Anna, 111, 
 
 The KARRAKER OIL CO. was established Jan. 1st, 1934, 
 at 115 E. Vienna St. by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Karraker and 
 James C. Karraker, their son, as distributors for Socony-Vacu- 
 um Oil Co. 
 
 All have been active in the business from the beginning* 
 except James C, who entered the military service Nov. 23, 
 1943, and was discharged March 14th, 1946. He served in 
 the South Pacific and Japan. 
 
 James C. and Moneada Karraker now have three chil- 
 dren, James Larry 6, Wesley Eugene 3, and Sandra Kay 1 
 year old, and live at 209 Lincoln St. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Karraker also have one daughter, 
 Carol Frances, who married Walter G. Kimmel, and they have 
 three children. Walter James 13, Carol Ann 10, and Ralph 
 Grear 6 years old, and live at 1715 25th St., Rock Island, 111. 
 
 Walter G. Kimmel is superintendent of the heating and 
 ventilating department for Deere & Company, Moline, 111. 
 
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 ^ 
 
 INTERNATIONAL 
 
 ANNA SH' 
 
 INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY 
 
 The International Shoe Company was organized in 1911 by 
 the merger of the Roberts, Johnson & Rand and the Peters 
 Shoe Companies. 
 
 For this original merger it has grown and developed until 
 today it leads the industry in production and sales, operating 
 fifty-eight shoe factories having a capacity based upon operat- 
 ing experience of approximately 225,000 pairs per day. In 
 addition the company has six tanneries and twenty-three other 
 plants producing soles, heels, rubber, boxes, chemicals and 
 other materials used in the manufacture of shoes. They also 
 operate eight large warehouses. Shoes are distributed 
 through seventeen separate sales branches. 
 
 About 34,000 men and women are employed in the plants 
 and departments of the company. 
 
 International makes shoes for the entire family. Its 
 manufacturing department is divided into three divisions, 
 each operating under a general superintendent. 
 
 MANUFACTURING DIVISIONS 
 
 The Juvenile Division makes infants' and children's shoes 
 in practically all accepted constructions, namely : Goodyear 
 
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 ;hoe company 
 
 'ACTORY 
 
 welts, Stitchdowns, ISCO, Pre Welt, Cements, Slip Lasted, 
 Turned Soft Soles, and Cement and Soft Sole house slippers. 
 
 The Men's Division makes Men's shoes, each plant special- 
 izes in a certain type of grade of shoe. It not only makes 
 men's fine dress shoes and leisure shoes, but heavy boots, 
 steel capped safety shoes and heavy nailed work shoes as 
 well as hand sewn moccasins. 
 
 The Women's Division uses three constructions in the 
 making of women's shoes — Goodyear Welts, Cements and 
 Slip Lasted. 
 
 SALES DIVISIONS 
 
 International shoes are sold through the following 
 branches : Accent, Conformal, Continental Shoe Makers, Dor- 
 othy Dodd, Friedman Shelby, Florsheim, Great Northern Shoe 
 Company, The Hampshire Shoe Company, Pennant, Peters, 
 Queen Quality, Roberts, Johnson & Rand, Sundial Shoe Com- 
 pany, Vitality, Winthrop, Hy-Test, Sentinel and Export. 
 
 Two manufacturing plants of International Shoe Com- 
 pany are located in Anna; a shoe factory making women's 
 novelty type shoes of medium grade, and a women's wood heel 
 -covering plant. International employs approximately 550 
 
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 citizens of the Anna trading area. More than $1,200,000 was 
 paid in wages to employees of the two plants in 1953. Nearly 
 $14,000,000 have been paid Anna employees since the shoe 
 factory was opened in 1931. 
 
 Both the shoe factory and the Wood Heel Plant are organ- 
 ized under the Women's Manufacturing Division of the com- 
 pany under the supervision of Virgil Jeffers, General Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 SHOE PLANT 
 
 The Shoe Plant employs 471 men and women with an an- 
 nual payroll of more than one million dollars. In 1953 
 690,406 pairs of women's novelty shoes were produced for 
 the sales branches. In early 1931, the Industrial Committee 
 of the Anna Chamber of Commerce began negotiations with 
 International Shoe Company to locate a plant in Anna. The 
 Industrial Committee and the Company reached an agi^eement, 
 and construction of an addition to the former Marx and Haas 
 garment factory building began in the mid-summer of 1931. 
 Construction of the addition was under the supervision of Mr. 
 Walter L. Ashcraft, who remained in Anna as Chief engineer 
 of the plant until transferred in 1953 to a similar position at 
 Bryan, Texas. 
 
 Actual production of shoes began in November, 1931, 
 under the supervision of Mr. John L. Stockman, superinten- 
 dent and with the arrival of a supervisory force from other 
 ISCO plants. 
 
 Mr, Stockman began work with International Shoe Com- 
 pany in November, 1911, at Belleville, Illinois, in the Lasting 
 and Stock Fitting Department. He remained at Belleville 
 until the latter part of 1918, at which time he was transferred 
 to St. Louis and worked at the 13th and Mullanphy Street Fac- 
 tory for approximately 10 months in the Lasting and Stock 
 Fitting Department. 
 
 In 1919 he was transferred to the Paducah, Kentucky. 
 Factory as foreman of the Stock Fitting and Lasting Depart- 
 ments. In 1922 Paducah started making Stitch Down shoes, 
 along with their Welt construction and he was put in charge of 
 the Stitch Down Lasting and Bottoming Departments and also 
 Welt Stock Fitting Department. He remained in this capacity 
 
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 until the latter part of 1924, at which time he was appointed as- 
 sistant superintendent of Paducah Factory. 
 
 In the early part of 1929 he was transferred from Paducah 
 Factory to Steelville, Illinois, Factory as superintendent, where 
 he remained until the latter part of 1931, when he was trans- 
 ferred to Anna, Illinois, to start operations at that factory. 
 
 While in Anna, he was a member of the Chaml>er of 
 Commerce and was an active member of the new Industries 
 Committee of this organization. 
 
 Mr. Stockman remained at the Anna Factory until Septem- 
 ber, 1946, when he was transferred to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, 
 as superintendent. 
 
 Mr. Joe L. Gollon, present superintendent, who came to 
 Anna as the original supervisor in the cutting department, 
 started with International Shoe Company in 1917 at Chester, 
 Illinois, Transferring to Perryville, Missouri, as Assistant 
 Foreman of the cutting department in 1924. In 1931 he 
 transferred to Anna as cutting room foreman and served in 
 that capacity until 1946, when he was promoted to superin- 
 tendent of the Anna Plant. 
 
 Mr. Harold S. Smith, assistant superintendent, began his 
 career with the International Shoe Company at Flora, Illinois, 
 in 1928, as an edge setter. He was promoted to assistant 
 Packing Room Foreman at Flora in 1932. He was transferred 
 to the Anna Factory as Packing Room Foreman in 1934, and 
 was promoted to assistant superintendent in 1953. 
 
 Mr. Ernest C. Diefenbach, Office Manager, started with 
 the International Shoe Company in 1924 in the Stock Fitting 
 Department at the Chester, Illinois, factory. In 1926 he trans- 
 ferred to the office at the Chester, Illinois factory as an Office 
 Manager Trainee. In 1927 he was promoted to Office Man- 
 ager at the Steelville, Illinois, factory. He was transferred 
 to the Anna factory as Office Manager in 1931. 
 
 Mr. Paul D. Sivia, Personnel Manager, came with the 
 company as an inspector in the Bottoming Department in 
 1934 and left the company in 1935. He returned to Interna- 
 tional Shoe Company in 1943, when due to the pressure of war 
 and the tremendous turn-over of employees, the company es- 
 
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 tablished a Personnel Office at the shoe plant to employ work- 
 ers for both the Anna factories. 
 
 The present supervisory personnel consists of the follow- 
 
 ing; 
 
 Mr. Francis P. Miller — Cutting Room Foreman with ^Ir. 
 Arthur Stohlmann as Assistant. 
 
 Mr. W. Ivan Troutman — Fitting Room Foreman with Mr. 
 Homer Henderson as Assistant and Miss Ruth Lowrance, Mrs. 
 Bessie Swain, Mrs. Bea Ferguson, Mrs. Hassie Lingle and Mrs. 
 Maude Miller as Instructors. 
 
 Mr. Dean Draper — Stock Fitting Foreman with Mr. Clif- 
 ford Coleman as Assistant. 
 
 Mr. Clarence A. Tweedy — Lasting Room Foreman with 
 Mr. Ben Koonce and Mr. Truman Reagan as Assistants. 
 
 Mr. Otie McGee — Bottoming Room Foreman with Mr. 
 Harry Boyd as Assistant. 
 
 Mr. Clarence C. Speck — Packing Room Foreman with I\Ir. 
 LeRoy Lasley as Assistant. 
 
 Mr. Earl Steinkamp, Jr. — Chief Engineer with Mr. Leon- 
 ard Wiley as Assistant. 
 
 Mrs. Lorraine Little — Nurse. 
 
 The Anna Shoe Plant now employs 471 people — 152 male 
 and 319 female, producing 3060 pairs of shoes daily, with a 
 weekly payroll of $18,000 based on a 5 day week. 
 
 ^ 
 
 WOOD HEEL PLANT 
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 WOOD HEEL PLANT 
 
 In 1938 International Shoe Company and Mr. John L. 
 Stockman were instrumental in influencing: Vulcan Heel cor- 
 poration, from whom the company purchased wood heels, to 
 open a branch plant in Anna. Negotiations were handled by 
 the industrial committee of the Anna Chamber of Commerce 
 and a building was erected by the Chamber in 1939. 
 
 In 1943, with the heavy pressure of the war, Vulcan Heel 
 Corporation closed its Anna Plant. At this time ISCO leased 
 the building from the city of Anna and used it in the manu- 
 facturing of gloves for the Army and Navy and boot collars 
 for Army combat boots. Immediately following V-J day in 
 1945 ISCO converted this plant into a wood heel covering 
 plant to supply Anna and Jackson, Missouri, and other plants 
 with heels. 
 
 ]\Ir, Charles Thomas was transferred from St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, to Anna as superintendent in 1945. In February, 1946, 
 Mr. J. E. Henderson was transferred to Anna Wood Heel as 
 superintendent relieving Mr. Thomas to accept another posi- 
 tion. Mr. J. E. Henderson was superintendent until Novem- 
 ber, 1950, at which time he accepted another position. 
 
 Anna Wood Heel plant produces 6500 pairs per day, em- 
 ploying 65 people with a payroll of approximately $13,000 per 
 month. 
 
 Mr. Everett E. Smick is Superintendent of the plant at 
 the present time. Mr. Smick was born in Union County on 
 August 5, 1919, and has been a life-long resident of Anna and 
 vicinity. 
 
 In 1938 he accepted a position with Vulcan Wood Heel 
 Corporation in Anna and worked there until he was called into 
 service in 1941. He served four years in the U. S. Airforce. 
 
 Upon his discharge in 1945 he went to work for Interna- 
 tional Shoe Company in the Anna Wood Heel Plant as color 
 matcher. Also, he was united in marriage this same year 
 to Miss Bernice Brown of Jonesboro, Illinois. They have two 
 children, namely, Beverly Ann and Kent Wayne. 
 
 In 1946 he was made supervisor of the Spray and Dip 
 
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 Department, where he remained until 1948. At this time 
 he received a transfer to the Belleville Shoe Factory as Wood 
 Heel Foreman, where he worked for two years. 
 
 In November, 1950, Mr. Smick was promoted to Superin- 
 tendent of the Anna Wood Heel Factory and was transferred 
 back to Anna, where he is now employed. 
 
 Mr. Carol Belcher is General Foreman. Mr. Belcher was 
 born in Union County and has been a life long resident of 
 Jonesboro and vicinity. He accepted employment with ISCO 
 in 1946 as a color matcher, was made supervisor of Spray 
 and Dipping Dept. in 1951. He was promoted to General 
 Foreman in 1953. 
 
 Miss Ann Coffman is office manager. She was educated 
 in the public schools of Anna, Illinois, and is a graduate of 
 Southern Illinois University. Miss Coffman is a native of 
 Anna. She accepted employment with ISCO in 1932 and 
 transferred to office work at the Shoe Factory. In 1943, she 
 was made Office Manager in the Wood Heel Factory during 
 the time Boot Collars were being made. 
 
 Mr. Floyd Powell is Engineer of the Plant. Mr. Powell 
 was born in Smithland, Kentucky, in 1894, moved to Anna 
 in 1932, and accepted employment with International Shoe 
 Co. as electrician. In 1933 he was made assistant Engineer 
 of the Shoe Factory. In 1945 he was transferred to the Anna 
 Wood Heel Factory as engineer. 
 
 Mrs. Henry LaVerne Choate is Supervisor of Sanding 
 and Final Inspection Dept. Mrs. Choate is a native of Anna, 
 accepted employment with ISCO in 1943 as top stitcher during 
 the time Boot Collars were being made. In 1948 she was made 
 Supervisor of Sanding and Final Inspection Dept. 
 
 Mrs. Benjamin Miller is Supervisor of the Covering and 
 Top Lift Department. Being born in Union County, she has 
 lived in Anna and vicinity all her life. She accepted work with 
 International Shoe Co. in 1939 in the Fitting Department of 
 the Shoe Factory. In 1943 she was transferred to the Wood 
 Heel Plant as supervisor of packing during the time gloves 
 were being made. In 1945 she worked in the Wood Heel 
 Covering Department as embossing operator, and in 1952 
 was made Supervisor of covering and top lift Department. 
 
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 when you want outstanding value 
 look for these names ... ■ 
 
 FAMOUJ-BA«« CO 
 
 »>k t OlIVI 
 
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 D^ca^ndd- 
 
 SCRUCCS-VANDERVOORT-BARNEY 
 
 «'h ( OUVI 
 
 INTERNATIONAL 
 SHOE COMPANY 
 
 your guide to 
 
 dependable style, 
 
 quality, 
 
 workmanship 
 
 64 
 
 /shoes 
 
 SCRUGCS-VANDERVOORT-BARNEY 
 
 »th & OlIVI 
 
 Poll^rrot 
 
 SN«S 
 JTII, ItCR I ruilER ■ (th t WithlnilM 
 
 FAMOUS-BARR CO. . 4>k 4 oiivi 
 
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 phone book for nrigbborhood stores. 
 
 INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY 
 ST. LOUIS 3 ..MjO^ 
 
 •J/u 
 
 Rand 
 
 STIX. BAER « FULLER 
 
 tik 1 WAIHINCION 
 
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 Mr. Harold Bass is Supervisor of the Spray & Dipping 
 Department. He was born in Union County, living in Jones- 
 boro most of his life, and he accepted work with ISCO in 
 1947 in the Spray Department. In 1953 he was made Super- 
 visor of the Spray and Dipping Departments. 
 
 International Shoe Company counts as its most valuable 
 asset the loyalty, cooperation, and craftsmanship of employees 
 who are engaged in the various tasks incident to the manu- 
 facturing and sale of shoes. The majority of men and women 
 in high positions in the Company have come through the ranks 
 step by step and by loyalty to an ideal, the development of 
 their ability, and hard work, they have risen to the manage- 
 ment of this great company. 
 
 The strength and stability of International Shoe Com- 
 pany lies in the honesty of its purpose, sound judgment, fair 
 dealing, and the loyalty and craftsmanship of its workmen. 
 
 JEAN INSURANCE AGENCY 
 
 Anna National Bank Building 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 It has been our pleasure to serve the good people of this 
 community since 1940. 
 
 On this, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the 
 City of Anna, we are proud of any small contribution we 
 may have made to the welfare and progress of the community. 
 
 We extend to our friends our sincere good wishes, our 
 gratitude for their support of our own business, and our pro- 
 found appreciation for their important share in the develop- 
 ment of this community. 
 
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 ■jj^H! ^'1 ..." 
 
 JO -ANN CLEANERS 
 
 We are very proud to be a part of this great era of 
 growth of our fair city of Anna, Illinois, even though we 
 were but a small part of this one hundred year mile stone. 
 
 Our business can be summed up pretty well by a brief 
 analysis of our name and trade mark. 
 
 The Jo of the Jo-An signifies that our establishment really 
 originated in Jonesboro and originated from what was 
 known as the H. A. Mohler Cleaners. After the purchase of 
 this plant by Francis E. Sorrels it was moved to Anna, Ill- 
 inois, and at that time we completed the name to what 
 was known as the Jo- Ann Cleaners, located at 111 No. Main. 
 
 The business was carried on at this location by Francis 
 E. Sorrels but a short time, when he was called into the serv- 
 ice at the beginning of World War II, at which time his wife, 
 Marcella, took over complete operation. 
 
 Through the grand supervision of Marcella Sorrels and 
 a great and still faithful employee Mrs. Helen Cundiff this 
 business had grown to the point where a larger building was 
 necessary, so upon the return of Francis E. Sorrels from the 
 service of his country, this great project was undertaken and 
 a new and most modern building was completed. 
 
 It was at this time that another partner was accepted, 
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 he being Billy Dean Sorrels, a brother of Frances E. Sorrels, 
 also was added a new and most modern laundry department. 
 The name was then changed to the Jo-An Laundry & Cleaners. 
 
 The business continued to grow by leaps and bounds, and 
 it was necessary to hire more employees, which now has a to- 
 tal of twenty-three with a weekly payroll of well over one thou- 
 sand dollars a week. 
 
 The Jo-An Laundry & Cleaners also has brought under 
 its wing many sister and brother offices and plants, the Jo-An 
 Laundry & Cleaners of Cairo, 111., located on the corner of 
 10th and Poplar St., The New Charleston Cleaners, located 
 114-116 No. Main in Charleston, Mo., and will soon be proud 
 to announce the opening of the new and most modern White 
 Swan Laundry & Cleaners of Carbondale, 111., which is a Cor- 
 poration. 
 
 THE HOTEL NEWSTAND 
 
 Compliments of The Hotel Newsstand, located in the 
 Anna Hotel, is Anna's oldest, most reliable, with a complete 
 line of magazines, books, daily and Sunday newspapers. Also 
 subscriptions accepted for all leading magazines. 
 Open Monday thru Saturday from 6:45 a. m. until 7:30 p. m. 
 
 Open on Sunday from 5:45 a. m. until 6 p. m. 
 
 Now owned and operated by Ann Henard Ryan. 
 
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 THE KROGER COMPANY 
 
 The history of the Kroger Company in Anna dates back 
 to the early 1920's, during which period one small store was 
 operated and directed from St. Louis, Missouri. In 1929, 
 the Kroger Company, known then as the Kroger Grocery and 
 Baking Company, purchased two Thrift Stores in Anna — 
 closed one and operated the other one under the Kroger name. 
 During that year, 1929, branch headquarters of Kroger South- 
 ern Illinois stores was moved to Herrin, and then a few years 
 later to Carbondale, where there is now a modern distribut- 
 ing warehouse, employing over 175 people, several of which 
 reside in the Cobden-Anna-Jonesboro area. 
 
 The Kroger Company operated two stores in Anna and 
 one in Jonesboro until the present modern store was opened 
 in August, 1950. 
 
 The Kroger store is presently operated under the leader- 
 ship of Roy Marks, Manager, with the capable aid of Gilbert 
 Knupp, head meat cutter ; Walter Menees, head clerk ; Walter 
 Dillow, head clerk; Neal Gilliam; head clerk; Ruth Corbitt, 
 cashier; Marie Davie, dairy clerk; Billy Dillow% clerk, and 
 Ralph Isom, apprentice meatcutter. In addition to this reg- 
 ular staff, Mr. Marks is assisted by three part-time clerks, 
 Donald Schlenker, Violet Foreman, and Larry Lam. 
 
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 RUEL A. LINGLE 
 
 I came to Anna in 1931 and purchased a Sinclair Service 
 Station on the corner of S. Main and E. Jefferson, and operat- 
 ed it until October, 1949. 
 
 In 1944, while operating the service station I bought out 
 Anna Parker's coal business, and then in 1946 I purchased a 
 lot at 146 E. Davie St. and erected a building. I am now at 
 this present location selling coal and also a dealer for Willys 
 and Kaiser. 
 
 RUEL A. LINGLE 
 
 146 E. Davie St. 
 
 Anna. Illinois 
 
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 CONSUMER CREDIT 
 
 key to progress 
 
 The economic future of our country is in the hands of tiie 
 consumer. Only hy buying and consuming can our economy 
 be sustained and new higher levels attained in our standard 
 of living. 
 
 The high level of consumption can not be sui)i)orted hy 
 cash purchases alone. To provide the necessary buying 
 power for the products of our mass production is the 
 dynamic function of consumer credit. Thus CONSUMER 
 CREDIT is the . . . 
 
 . . . Key To Progress 
 
 Limerick Finance Corp. 
 
 211 S. Main St. — Anna, 111. 
 Tom Morgan, Mgr. 
 
 MOWERY ELECTRIC SHOP 
 
 115 W. Davie St. Anna, 111. 
 
 Established 1926 — Glenn L. Mowery 
 
 One of the oldest established Electric Shops in Southern 
 Illinois still offering the best in Electric Motors and Auto Elec- 
 tric Service. 
 
 Employees: Earl Coleman and Claude Tucker. 
 Owners Since 1948: Edward D. Modglin and F. Wayne West 
 
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 LIGON LUMBER COMPANY 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 The old saying that "Time changes things" is true in 
 the lumber business, just as it is in other things. 
 
 John H. Ligon has been on the job and has seen many 
 changes in the retail lumber business here in Anna during the 
 last fifty-five years. 
 
 He was born in Kentucky, near Marion, on December 10, 
 1877, and moved to this section of Illinois with his father, 
 mother, and three sisters in 1880. He has lived in this com- 
 munity since then. After spending a few years in box fac- 
 tory work, he started in the lumber business in 1899 with the 
 Anna Lumber and Manufacturing Company, where Walter 
 Grear was manager. He worked his way up from extra help 
 around the yard to position of manager, which he held for six 
 years. Leaving this company in 1923, he organized the Ligon 
 Lumber Company, a corporation, where he served as manager 
 for the twenty years of its existence. Then he bought out 
 the other stockholders and operated the yard as an individual 
 business until 1946 when his two sons, Harvey and John Earl, 
 took over the operation of the yard as a partnership. Harvey 
 started work in the yard in 1924, and John Earl in 1928. John 
 H. Ligon is still on the job every day, but is active in affairs 
 of the business only as the spirit moves him. His time is fully 
 occupied looking after his rent property and visiting with his 
 many friends. Meeting his friends and visiting with them 
 brings him much joy and pleasure. He and Birdie West were 
 married on September 2, 1903, and celebrated their golden 
 wedding anniversary last year. They look forward to each 
 new day and the things that it brings, not letting the thoughts 
 about old age spoil their joy of today; for, with them, old 
 age is still in the future. 
 
 There have been many changes in the lumber business 
 in the last fifty-five years. Then, much of the lumber used 
 was native wood, cut by the local saw mills and hauled to the 
 yard by wagons. At the yard it was put on sticks, dried, 
 graded; then, practically all the lumber for finish lumber and 
 
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 siding was taken to Abernathie's Planing Mill (located on the 
 corner of Morgan and Washington Streets) where it was 
 worked into the type of lumber needed. Gradually Yellow 
 Pine from the South replaced the native lumber, and now the 
 West Coast woods have replaced most of the Yellow Pine. 
 
 Delivery in the early days was by team and wagon, and 
 delivery was confined to a very small area. Now, with trucks, 
 lumber is sent all over the county. In 1899, lumber, sash and 
 doors, mouldings, and wood shingles comprised the merchan- 
 dise carried for sale. Now the retail lumber yards carry prac- 
 tically everything that goes into a house, with many addi- 
 tional sidelines that seemingly have very little connection 
 with a lumber yard. 
 
 In the early days most of the homes were built on piers, 
 with no sub floors, storm boxing, plumbing, heating, electrical 
 conveniences, closets, cabinets, basements, and many other 
 things that we now think of as absolute necessities. Quite a 
 change, and no wonder the homes of today cost so much more 
 than those of 1899. 
 
 In the operation of the lumber yard today, we have with 
 us Ernest F. Tripp, who has been with us nearly fifteen years, 
 and who has charge of the glass shop, where he specializes in 
 installation of windshields and door glass in cars. Artemus 
 Hoffner has been here with us for twelve years helping with 
 whatever needs to be done. John J. Ligon has been with us 
 two years, doing most of the delivery work and helping around 
 the yard and office, Mary Ligon does the book work. Pres- 
 ent owners, Harvey and John Earl Ligon, have had many 
 years service in the lumber business, helping their friends to 
 solve their building problems, and look forward to many more 
 years. They appreciate the opportunity of serving you. 
 
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 Loomis Brothers Equipment Co. 
 
 BURTON P. LOOMIS C. H. LOOMIS 
 
 Loomis Brothers Equipment Company was organized in 
 1950. It is operated by Burton & Charles Loomis, along with 
 five employees. We are distributors for the leading manu- 
 facturers of Laundry & Drycleaning Machinery. We cover 
 the Southern half of Illinois, Southeast Missouri, and Western 
 Kentucky. 
 
 In November, 1952, and September, 1953, we held demon- 
 strations here. The demonstrations were conducted by fac- 
 tory representatives and enabled the plant owners and their 
 employees to see the latest equipment in operation. 
 
 Exhibitors were: Detrex Corp. of Detroit, Michigan; R. 
 R. Street & Co., of Chicago; Kisco Boiler & Engr. Co. of St. 
 Louis; Wichita Precision Tool Co. of Wichita. Kans. ; Cis- 
 sell Mfg. Co. of Louisville Ky.; Spix Products Co. of Pitts- 
 burg, Penn.; Dow Chemical Co. of Midland Michigan; Olson 
 Filtration Engrs. of Chicago and Killebrew Engineering Corp. 
 of St. Louis. 
 
 Jack Lewis owner of the Bunny Bread Co., discussed ad- 
 vertisement methods at our 1953 Clinic. 
 
 "Congratulations to the numerous organizations, com- 
 mittees, and individuals who have worked so tireless so that 
 our Centenniel Celebration could be the success that it is." 
 
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 HISTORY OF MAC'S SHELL SERVICE 
 
 Mclntire's Shell Service, located on East Vienna Street, 
 was purchased from Ernest Lence on September 15, 1949. 
 
 The history of my service station work goes back to 
 1930. While a student at the Anna-Jonesboro Community 
 High School, I started work for M. H. Penninger at the 
 Standard Oil Service Station. 
 
 In 1931, I accepted employment with the Tuthill Oil 
 Co., where I spent seventeen and one-half years until I pur- 
 chased my present business. 
 
 The picture above shows the station as it stands today. 
 The employees standing from left to right are: My son, Jim- 
 mie Mclntire; 0. R. Nalley; myself; Carl Northern, who has 
 had twelve years experience; Glenn Woods. 
 
 Jo Ann Mclntire, my daughter, assists with the book- 
 keeping, but at present she is attending college at Southern 
 Illinois University. 
 
 During my twenty-four years at the gas pump, I have 
 serviced most every make and model of car, including the 
 Model T Ford. 
 
 My friends and customers have made my business a suc- 
 cess, and I want to express my appreciation to all. 
 
 Glenn D. Mclntire 
 
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 THE McCARTY FUNERAL HOME 
 
 The McCarty Funeral Home, located at 301 W. Spring 
 Street, has been serving the community here for over 40 
 years ; from the Horse Drawn Hearse days of McCarty, Cash, 
 and Jackson, until 1916, when H. R. McCarty bought out his 
 partners and continued the business under his name until 
 his passing on May 31, 1949. Since then the business has 
 been under the direction of Mrs. H. R. McCarty and Hal R. 
 McCarty, Jr. 
 
 H. R. McCarty came to Anna in January of 1914, from 
 Lawrenceville, Illinois, and started the firm of McCarty, Cash, 
 and Jackson. On September 15, 1915, Mr. McCarty was 
 married to Pearl Roberts, who has assisted with the business 
 since their marriage. Two children were born to this couple, 
 namely, Margaret McCarty Lutz and Hal R. McCarty, Jr. 
 
 The present funeral home on Spring Street has been used 
 by our firm for twenty years now and through the years, add- 
 ed improvements have been continually made to offer the pub- 
 lic the finest in a residential type of funeral home, away from 
 the congestion of the down-town area. Our funeral home of- 
 fers an electric organ and a skilled organist for those desiring 
 the use of our home for their services. Last year the entire 
 funeral home was Air Conditioned for the comfort of our 
 patrons and friends. The very finest of motor equipment has 
 always been maintained and instant Ambulance Service is of- 
 fered by merely calling us at anytime, day or night. 
 
 The members of this firm have always been active in 
 Civic, Church, and Charitable organizations, never denying 
 anyone the use of our services for lack of means. 
 
 Through the years this firm has always offered the finest 
 in funeral service, ever conscious of the need to serve the liv- 
 ing as well as caring for the deceased. 
 
 The present staff of the funeral home consists of Mrs. 
 H. R. McCarty, Mr. and Mrs. Hal R. McCarty, Jr., and Lloyd 
 E. Sitter. 
 
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 1914 
 
 1954 
 
 OUR 40TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY 
 Funeral Home Completely Air Conditioned 
 
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 MARTIN OIL COMPANY 
 
 The Martin Oil Company Service Station in Anna is No. 
 2 in a chain of stations extending- into the six states of 
 Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Arkan- 
 sas. The station located at the Corner of Grove & Vienna 
 Streets in Anna was opened in 1928, which was about one 
 year after the Martin Oil Company was formed by T. W. 
 Martin and his son, Harold. This station has undergone some 
 face lifting down through the years, but is substantially the 
 same as the original construction. 
 
 The personnel employed at this station, down through 
 the years, have mostly been local Anna men. The Martin Oil 
 Company is very proud of this fact because it shows a very 
 fine relationship between company, employee, and consumer. 
 Many of the old time employees, and even some still employed, 
 well remember the frequent visits from Mr. T. W. Martin. 
 The station in Anna was Mr. Martin's favorite, consequently 
 he took every available opportunity to inspect it. On many 
 Sunday afternoons, during the summer months particularly, 
 Mr. Martin, could be seen driving into Anna for a look at his 
 favorite station. His day was complete when he made sure 
 the station and its personnel were clean, and he had talked 
 to his many fine customers. 
 
 The Anna Station has had the usual amount of break- 
 ins and hold-ups, but none were too successful in gaining the 
 object of their intent, and in most instances were caught and 
 suffered the penalty of their crime. 
 
 Gasoline and Kerosene were, for many years, shipped into 
 Anna by railroad tank car and unloaded by pipeline from a 
 spur of the I. C. Tracks. Motor oil and greases are still de- 
 livered to this station from the Carbondale Bulk Plant. Gaso- 
 line and Kerosene now however are received by transport di- 
 rect from the Cairo Modern River Terminal on the banks of 
 the Ohio River just North of Cairo, Illinois, on U. S. Route 51. 
 
 Gasoline, Fuel Oils and Kerosene are transported up the 
 rivers from the largest and finest refineries in the Southwest 
 
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 in the Martin Oil Company's own bargres for distribution from 
 this modern river terminal. This has been proven to be the 
 most economic means of transportation and distribution of 
 petroleum products. The savinjrs effected by the Martin Oil 
 Company's system is passed on to its many fine customers in 
 the form of hiprhest quality petroleum products at a lower cost. 
 
 The Martin Oil Company has enjoyed these many fine 
 years of business and cooperation in the City of Anna. We 
 hope to move forward with Anna toward another Century of 
 Progress. 
 
 MAC'S BARBER SHOP 
 
 The barber shop now located under E. P. Owen's 
 Drug Store, is known to all the people of this commu- 
 nity as Mac's Barber Shop, owned and operated by Ray Mc- 
 Intire. This three chair barber shop has given service to 
 several thousand people in good old Anna, Illinois, of Union 
 County. 
 
 I purchased the three chair shop from Fred Ray in Sep- 
 tember, 1928, and I moved to the location where it is now 
 July 8, 1931. During those twenty-six years I have worked 
 with sixteen different barbers. I learned the trade under 
 Milas Grisham. I worked about seventeen years with him. 
 
 During these twenty-six years I have had over one hun- 
 dred different shoe shine boys. The two that worked the 
 longest periods were my brother, Don Mclntire — four years, 
 and none other than Bobby Hall — seven years. 
 
 I have really appreciated all of your patronage, and I 
 have had a lot of fun with all the good people of this commu- 
 nity who have made my barber shop a success. I could name 
 several people who have traded at my shop ever since I start- 
 ed. Thanks to everyone. 
 
 MAC'S BARBER SHOP 
 Ray Mclntire 
 
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 MIDWAY BARBEQUE 
 
 Since 1937 to 1954 
 
 In the Spring of 1937 Mr. Emery Gates constructed this 
 building and began operation of a "Barbecue Stand" known 
 as the Midway Barbecue. Mr. Gates continued operation of 
 this business until he sold it to Mrs. Anna Novak, who operat- 
 ed it until March, 1952. 
 
 On April 1, 1952, after extensive re-modeling and redec- 
 orating, Mr. Jamie McFadden re-opened this business, featur- 
 ing Hickory Smoked Barbecued Pork. In May, 1953, in ad- 
 dition to the Barbecue business, Mr. McFadden enlarged this 
 building fifty percent and took in the Bus Station for Dixie 
 Greyhound Lines and The Gulf Transport Gompany, who op- 
 erate 5 busses daily North and South. At about this time 
 the place was completely Air-Gonditioned and later the in- 
 terior of the restaurant was completely lined from the floor 
 to the ceiling with Stainless Steel, for cleanliness and a more 
 cheery atmosphere for the customers. 
 
 Prior to this Mr. McFadden was associated with his two 
 Brothers in the operation of McFadden's Gafe. This partner- 
 ship lasted from 1949 to 1952. While serving in World War 
 2 in Michigan, McFadden met and married Miss Vivienne Gis- 
 ler of Niles, Michigan, and this couple have three children, 
 James LeRoy (Nick) 7 years old, Michael Joseph (Mike), 6 
 years old, and Mary Martha (Molly), 4 years old. 
 
 McFadden is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 
 Post of Anna-Jonesboro, Anna-Jonesboro Elks, and is No. 1 
 Member of the Anna-Jonesboro Moose Lodge. McFadden and 
 his family are all members of St. Mary's Gatholic Ghurch in 
 Anna. 
 
 We have been striving for two years to improve our 
 equipment and to help our customers be more pleased. It is 
 our belief we now operate one of the most up to date, clean 
 and pleasant Drive-In Restaurants in the country. It is thru 
 the loyalty of our customers that we have been able to make 
 all these things possible and we sincerely thank everyone for 
 
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 their business and will never stop trying" to make all things 
 we have, even better. 
 
 James L. McFadden, his wife, Lola Bagg-ott McFadden, 
 and one-year-old daughter, Ruth Margaret, moved from Ullin, 
 Illinois, to Anna in the spring of 1908. 
 
 On December 12, 1909, a son, Noel Fulton, was born, and 
 at this time "Jim" was employed at the Anna Rock Crusher 
 as a laborer, earning $1.25 a day. 
 
 Another son, James Bagg-ott, was born on March 3, 1913, 
 and his father was working for Herman Jean and Wade Med- 
 lin, who were the proprietors of the Anna Poultry Co. This 
 same year Mr. McFadden bought the Poultry Co. 
 
 A daughter, Bonnie Louise, was born on December 11, 
 1915, and "Jim" had added to his business, dealing in junk, 
 coal, fur and roots of all kinds. 
 
 Another son, Bruce Leroy Wade, was born August 13, 
 1920. "Jim" had become engaged in the creamery business, 
 which he later sold to Ralph Goddard. 
 
 In 1921 "Jim" began the operation of an oil company and 
 sold it to the Shell Petroleum Corp. in 1929. In the same year 
 he entered the mercantile business, with stores in Jonesboro, 
 Grand Tower, Nashville, Hayti, Mo., and Anna, which was 
 located on West Davie St. 
 
 During the next few years "Jim" was employed by the 
 State of Illinois and the U. S. Government. 
 
 At the present, Mr. McFadden is Police Magistrate of 
 the city of Anna, and is assisting his youngest son, Bruce, 
 who is the proprietor of McFadden's Cafe on W. Vienna St. 
 In 1947, Noel F. joined his brother, Bruce, forming a partner- 
 ship in this business, which continued until 1949, when James 
 B. joined the two brothers, this partnership lasting until 
 1952. At this time James B. started the operation of the 
 Midway Barbecue, and Noel F. resumed his work as a printer. 
 
 Mrs. McFadden passed away March 28, 1951, leaving her 
 husband and five children, all of whom survive. There are al- 
 so fifteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren, namely: 
 
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 By Ruth and Guy Casey : Robert Leroy, Paul Elam, John 
 Paul and Charles James Elam. 
 
 By Noel and Anna (nee Stearns) : Gerald David. 
 
 By James B. and Vivienne (nee Cisler) : James Leroy, 
 Michael David and Mary Martha. 
 
 By Bonnie and Ed Rich: Patricia Delves, Sandra and 
 Bruce. 
 
 By Bruce and Frances (nee Kirkpatrick) : Margaret 
 Montez, Harriet Wade, Frances Isabel, Kirk and Bruce, Jr. 
 
 By Robert Casey and Nicki (nee Kahn Casey) : Sandra 
 and Shawn. 
 
 MALLAMS BROS. MARKET 
 
 Mallams Bros. Market dates back to the early days of gro- 
 cery business in Anna. One of the first owners was John W. 
 Moore. The store has been operated in its present site for 
 more than 60 years. 
 
 R. C. Mallams and Bill Mallams purchased the market in 
 November, 1947. At the time of the purchase by Mallams 
 Bros, long counters, running the length of the store, were 
 used to display merchandise and wait on customers. Since 
 that time, the store has been remodeled and modernized for 
 self service. 
 
 One of the oldest clerks in Anna, Ora Dillow, is employed 
 at Mallams Bros. He has been associated with the grocery 
 business since 1917. In his younger days, Mr. Dillow deliver- 
 ed groceries with a horse and buggy. 
 
 Mallams Bros, carries a complete line of groceries, meats, 
 vegetables and frozen foods. Mallams Bros, has a credit and 
 delivery service. 
 
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 MOORE'S FOOD CENTER 
 
 Reading from left to right : Robert Emmerson, meat Dept. 
 Mgr. ; Jimmy Page, Future Manager ; James M. Moore, Owner ; 
 Tommie Moore, Cashier; Oley Hines, Produce Dept. Mgr.; 
 Harold Page, Assistant Manager; Mattiline Page, Cashier. 
 
 Moore's Food Center was founded in March, 1952, by Jim 
 and Tommie Moore. Our policy from the beginning was to 
 give the public the very best in merchandise, plus the con- 
 venience of shopping and parking. We like for our custom- 
 ers to feel that this is a friendly place, dedicated to your food 
 needs, plus a pleasant experience in shopping. 
 
 With the dedication of service, we feel that Moore's Food 
 Center will always be known as the friendly economical place 
 to shop. 
 
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 Our Grandfather, Dr. Luther K. Parks came to E^ypt in 
 1845, moved from Jonesboro to Anna in 1861 and practiced 
 medicine in Anna until his death in 1872. His diary rebounds 
 with interesting tales of years when Medical practice was a 
 poor venture financially, one day his cash receipts were 25c. 
 He watched the village grow, accumulated some property, 
 passed away in 1872 leaving three sons, George, age 4 — John 
 age 6 ; and Clarence K. who was older, started the first Parks' 
 Drug Store in 1872. All three sons became Registered Pharm- 
 acists. 
 
 JOHN WATSON PARKS 1866-1953, who 
 loved the drug business well. Never mar- 
 ried, he devoted his years happily to the 
 family drug store, associated with his 
 Brothers, and later with his Nephews. 
 Passed away in 1953 at 87 years of age, 
 was active in "coming to the store" till his 
 final months. 
 
 GEORGE CLAY PARKS, 1868- a drug- 
 gist of Anna for 43 years, built the busi- 
 ness from 1891. Had two sons who are 
 also druggists, Guy C. Parks and Geo. E. 
 Parks. In 1928 entered into retirement, 
 has travelled widely, interested in Bank- 
 ing and Building & Loan circles, mostly 
 enjoys knowing and meeting people. 
 
 / CEO. E. PARKS 
 
 YOUR. 
 
 ORUGGIS' 
 
 S.MAIN ST. ANNAJU.- PH. 122 
 
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 GEORGE EDWIN PARKS, 1902— grad- 
 uate of U. of I., 1922, married Ruth 
 Barringer of Jonesboro. Junior part- 
 ner with Father 1922 to 1928, operated 
 business since. Mrs. Parks as.sociated 
 herself in store during the War Years 
 and liked it so well she stays on. This 
 couple resida at 405 So. Main since 1926. 
 
 J. LESTER DAVIS with us since 1922, 
 the man with the steady, friendly di.s- 
 position. Married Estella Lamer 1929. 
 One son — Richard, student S.LU. 
 
 AFTON GURLEY with us since 1943. 
 Our efficient Bookkeeper and Office 
 Manager. Married Hollie Gurlev in 
 1931. One son: Ronell, student S.LU. 
 presently in U.S. Army, Signal Corps. 
 
 VIRGINIA BAKER with us since 1945. 
 The girl with the smile! Handles custo- 
 mers smoothly. Married 1936 to Joe 
 Baker (deceased 1954). One son Larry- 
 Joe, Freshman A.J.C.H.S. 
 
 LOIS PENNINGER with us since 1951. 
 Lois Boyd Penninger knows everyone! 
 Specializes in sale of toiletries-cosmet- 
 ics. Married: 1938 to Clarence Pen- 
 ninger, one daughter: Susan of A.J.C.H. 
 S., one son: "C. E." of Junior High. 
 
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 PARKS' DRUGS operates an up-to-date, well stocked merchandising 
 Pharmacy. Here the field of Medicine and Prescription work is car- 
 ried on with diiigeot care, the success of this business has been the 
 policy of either having what the customers want, or being willing to 
 get it very promptly. The REXALL system of merchandising has 
 been used since 1914 in this store. 
 
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 "When I started in the drug store, the common sale was 
 5c worth of Epsom Salts, sometimes they asked for 2c worth 
 and a 15c package was plain extravagance! 
 
 "I grew up under the tutelage of my Father, whose cardi- 
 nal principles were: the necessity of always being on time, 
 and that a good clerk can always find something to do. Good 
 training for any generation. 
 
 "The depression years were rough, the forces of compe- 
 tition were savage, all rules of trade conduct were pushed 
 aside and the drug store became variety or small-style de- 
 partment stores. Hours were long, full days, including eve- 
 nings and Sundays. 
 
 "The War Years exerted a refining influence upon 
 Pharmacy, science developed anti-biotics and many new med- 
 icines, the dispensing of drugs took on a renewed pride, boys 
 became interested in going to College and getting the degree. 
 In my own thirty-odd years of business I have only sent two 
 apprentices to Pharmacy College, and these in the past four 
 years. It appears that with shortened hours, better pay and 
 specialized service, the Pharmacist of tomorrow will have bet- 
 ter working conditions. 
 
 "There will never be anyone who has enjoyed the privi- 
 lege of working in a drug store more than have I. this is 
 truthfully said after these years at 206 So. Main St., Anna. 
 To have worked a lifetime among kindly, gentle people is a 
 pleasure not accorded to every man. We are grateful for ev- 
 ery year of it." April 6th, 1954. 
 
 George E. Parks 
 
 / CEO. E. PARKS 
 
 YOUR 
 
 DRUGGIST 
 
 S.MAIN ST. ANNA.IU.- PH. 122 
 
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 Congratulations — 
 
 CITY OF ANNA! 
 
 We are happy to congratulate you on your 100th Birth- 
 day! We are happy, too, to know that we have played a 
 small part in the progress and growth of this fine American 
 community. We shall strive to continue that progress and 
 to provide a shopping service to the people of Anna and vicinity 
 that is a credit to the community and to the Morris store. 
 
 Anna's Friendly Store 
 
 SUBSIDIARY OF G. C. MURPHY COMPANY 
 
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 MOWELL STORES 
 
 130 E. Davie Street Phone 509 
 
 Since 1932 
 
 We Deliver 
 
 Operated by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bohannon 
 
 M. R. T. SIGN SERVICE 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 The M. R. T. Sign Service, the name under which it is 
 now operating, was originally begun by Mr. E. A. Ryan in 
 1931, at which time it was called the Anna Sign Service. It 
 was operated by Mr. Ryan until the beginning of World War 
 II. Mr. Thomas of Cobden, Illinois, then bought half interest 
 in the shop. At the close of the war, Maurice D. Metzger, 
 upon his discharge from the armed forces, also bought an in- 
 terest. The shop was then composed of three partners, hence 
 the name M. R. T. Sign Service originated. It has functioned 
 under this title to the present date. Its primary purpose in 
 the community has been to offer the local merchants the best 
 and most-up-to-date in out door advertising and sign displays. 
 Twenty-three years of continued service to the community at- 
 test its value. 
 
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 THE FABULOUS STORY 
 OF BUNNY BREAD 
 
 Lewis Brothers Bakery was established Feb. 1, 1925, in a 
 log building: at the rear of property on West Chestnut Street. 
 
 At that time, all the kneading and moulding of bread was 
 done by hand. The only machinery consisted of a dough mix- 
 er and a dough brake. The oven was home made brick, fired 
 by wood. The work was done by the Lewis family. 
 
 Our business grew and in 1926, was moved to 111 North 
 Main Street, as shown in the picture below. 
 
 The bakery operated four trucks, three of them driven 
 by the Lewis Brothers, A. C, A. S. and Jack. 
 
 New equipment was installed in the bake shop, bringing 
 production up to 400 loaves per hour. The new oven was coke 
 fired and the bread was put in and out of the oven with a long 
 peel. 
 
 At that time the bread was named "Milk Maid" and was 
 baked in twin loaves, unsliced and wrapped by hand. Buns 
 were made in sheet pans, five dozen to the pan, and were un- 
 wrapped. Beside the Lewis Brothers there were five employ- 
 ees. 
 
 In June, 1929, Lewis Brothers moved to 200 North Main 
 Street. The following picture shows the new location and also 
 the new name "Sunlit Bakery." The name was changed to 
 Butternut. 
 
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 More new equipment was installed in this plant. It con- 
 sisted of two peel ovens, one new mixer, new flour equipment 
 and an automatic bread wrapper which wrapped unsliced 
 bread. 
 
 In 1930, sliced bread came into the picture, and bread 
 was sliced on an old type meat slicer packed in trays and 
 then wrapped in wax paper. 
 
 In 1933, our first bread slicer was installed to an auto- 
 matic wrapper, which gave us the combination of slicing- and 
 wrapping bread, as we find it in the grocery stores today. 
 
 In 1937, a new loaf of bread was added to the Lewis 
 Brothers production, and was called "Big Boy." More trucks 
 w^ere added and the number of employees were increased. In 
 
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 1941 the building was purchased from A. A. Crowell and 
 considerable remodeling was done. 
 
 On May 8, 1944, A. C. Lewis, general manager, died after 
 a long illness. The business was reorganized with Jewel and 
 Charles Lewis owning the building and brother, Jack Lewis, 
 becoming owner and operator of the bakery. In 1947, the 
 business was incorporated with R. Jack Lewis, President ; 
 Charles Lewis, Vice President; Josephine Lewis, Secretary and 
 Treasurer. New equipment was added and we were operating 
 twelve I: read routes, fifty people were employed, and weekly 
 production of 75,000 loaves of bread had been reached. 
 
 To avail our good customers of the most modern techni- 
 que in fine bread baking, we employed the services of the C. 
 J. Patterson Laboratories of Kansas City, Mo, and also bought 
 the picture of the rabbit to go on the bread wrapper, calling 
 our loaf "Butternut." 
 
 With the new equipment we had purchased we decided 
 we were ready to go into new territory and in 1950 purchased 
 a site and built a building in Harrisburg, 111., opening five new 
 routes, making a total of 17 routes in Southern Illinois. 
 
 "Bunny" become so popular and well known throughout 
 the entire territory that, consumers begin calling for "Bunny 
 Bread," and the decision was reached that the trade name 
 "Bunny Bread" should be used on all Lewis Brothers Bakery 
 products. 
 
 During the year we found that we had outgrown the ca- 
 pacity of our location and plans were instituted to build. We 
 
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 purchased a site for our new building at the intersection of 
 highways 146 and 51 at the eastern city limits. Work begin 
 on our new building April 1, 1951, and was completed for us 
 to move in Feb. of 1952, 
 
 Probably the greatest public tribute to our initiative and 
 perserverance was accorded us during the Gala opening of the 
 new Bunny Bread Bakery, when an estimated 35,000 good 
 people from Southern, 111., attended a 3 day celebration. 
 
 During the year 1952 several new routes were opened 
 and production was the highest ever. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1953, w^e purchased the distribution Dept. of Kirsch- 
 hoff' s Bakery, Paducah, Ky., and opened our Kentucky terri- 
 tory consisting of 12 routes. 
 
 We purchased the oven shown above, baking 80 loaves per 
 minute or nearly 5000 loaves per hour. Our automatic wrap- 
 per is now geared to wrap 120 loaves per minute. 
 
 At the present time we are able to give employment to 116 
 employees and have 40 bread routes in Southern Illinois and 
 Western Kentucky. 
 
 We feel like only our constant endeavor to bake the finest 
 in "Bunny Bread" and the loyalty of our customers. All make 
 this fabulous story of "Bunny Bread." 
 
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 MARIAN SHOP 
 
 "The Shop of Individuality" is the trade-mark used by 
 the Marian Shop on South Main Street. This popular center 
 for the ladies' accessories is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Louis O. 
 Lien and managed by Mrs. Lien, nee Marian Lsbel Green. Mar- 
 ian was born in Cobden, the daughter of Robert F. and Susan 
 M. Green. Her grandmother, Belle Crowell, and her grandfa- 
 ther, Silas R. Green, were pioneers of Union County. They 
 were born south of Jonesboro, Illinois, and after their marriage 
 they established their home in Cobden and Mr. Green owned a 
 general merchandise store at South Pass between Anna and 
 Cobden. Later opened another store in Cobden, 
 
 In 1911 Marian was married to Louis 0. Lien, a man of 
 Norwegian birth but a citizen of America for many years. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lien traveled all over the world and then came back 
 to Anna, Illinois, in 1951. Mr. Lien has often stated that the 
 beauty of these Anna surroundings reminds him of his birth- 
 place in Norway, 
 
 "It was good to be back home again," says Marian, "so 
 we decided to move our shop from Richland, Washington, 
 home of the atomic bomb, to Anna and on Feb. 25 we rented 
 the building at 335 South Main Street from William Cerny." 
 The Liens remodeled the building for a Lingerie and Corset 
 Shop, later expanding it for Ready to Wear clientele, and on 
 January 17, 1953, purchased the building from Mr. Cerny. 
 "And do you know" added Mrs. Lien, "it was exactly three 
 years ago todaj' — April 7th — that I formally opened my shop. 
 We are very happy here, back among friends, and we are look- 
 ing forward to our city's future success and prosperity. 
 
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 Twentv-four 
 Years Ago . . 
 
 DOTTY'S VOGUE SHOP CAME TO ANNA 
 And Happy We Did!! 
 
 Having started our enterprise at Cairo in 1924 we always eyed 
 
 Union County as one of the best in the state and our 
 
 faith has been warranted since 1931 . . . We have 
 
 been in the same location serving our hundreds 
 
 of valued and loyal customers thru the years 
 
 and hope to continue for ages to come. 
 
 ONWARD ALWAYS —ANNA ! ! 
 THE SANOFSKY'S 
 
 Although we haven't been in business one hundred years, 
 we hope that our service will be available to you for the 
 next century. 
 
 Our best wishes to the community for another ten de- 
 cades of progress. 
 
 Flowers From 
 
 RODMAN & ROBINSON 
 
 331 South Main 
 Anna, 111. Phone 889 
 
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 NORRIS AND SON, FUNERAL DIRECTORS 
 (Jonesboro) 
 
 Norris and Son, Funeral Directors, Jonesboro, has been 
 an established business in this area more than a half-century, 
 serving- the Anna-Jonesloro area and much of the rural areas 
 of Union County, including the western section of the county 
 which lies along the Mississippi valley. 
 
 The business of "undertaking," as it was termed in the 
 early days, was actually established in Jonesboro in 1846 by 
 Henry Clayburn Williford, who, being a cabinet maker, manu- 
 factured "coffins" entirely by hand from the rather crudely 
 finished lumber which was obtainable at that period. 
 
 The coffins were completed with an interior which was 
 a sharp contrast with the shirred silken linings and nylon lace 
 of the present day, and the rectangular coffin resembled not 
 at all the polished metal caskets of today. 
 
 Tom Norris purchased the business in 1898, following 
 the death of Mr. Williford, and continued the business of 
 "undertaking," adding a line of furniture in order to be in a 
 position to serve families of the county with home necessities 
 during their normal, every-day lives, as well as to serve them 
 when death entered their homes. 
 
 A funeral service in the early 1900's was a sharp contrast 
 with that of today. This was an era preceding the motorized 
 vehicle when all vehicles were drawn by horses or mules. 
 
 This firm, at that time, kept two teams of handsome, high- 
 stepping horses, a white and a black team. The pure white 
 hearse, drawn by the white team, was placed into service for 
 
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 fHOMAS NORRIS 
 
 ^Coffins 
 
 iiHOE RTA K ER8^EMBALM€ R 
 
 IMfUMtS 
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 Caskets 
 
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 the funeral of a child, and the black hearse, drawn by mag-nifi- 
 cient black horses, was used for the funeral service of an adult. 
 
 "The simple contacts with customers in handling their 
 daily needs, as well as more serious needs, brought about a 
 relationship with the people which has been far-reaching and 
 long-lasting," states Cecil Norris, who has managed the busi- 
 ness since the death of his father, Tom Norris, several years 
 ago. "Business requirements of the early part of the cen- 
 tury were based upon two things — being on hand to take of 
 
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 folks, and, having- somethinj^r to sell them for daily needs," 
 concluded Norris, pointing- out that it continues the policy of 
 this firm to serve patrons to the best of their ability. 
 
 Changes in this field of business advanced with the pro- 
 gress of the community and, in 1917, the motor hearse re- 
 placed the horse-drawn hearse, and at the present time this 
 firm includes in its service the most modern ambulance avail- 
 able, which is equipped in a manner best suited for the convey- 
 ing of the sick or injured, or for funeral services. 
 
 Prosperity followed the close of World War I and, upon 
 the increased demand for an improved line of furniture, this 
 firm increased its stock to include approximately any article 
 of household furnishings demanded by the public, and at the 
 same time, made extensive improvements to the Funeral Home, 
 including an improved Chapel. 
 
 The Norris and Son Funeral Home underwent extensive 
 remodeling during the early months of 1953 which converted 
 the former building- into a spacious structure which includes 
 sufficient space for the handling of a funeral service in a 
 manner required of the present era. 
 
 The entire building was almost replaced, wall by wall, 
 floor by floor, until nothing but the original outline remained 
 to remind the public of the former building. 
 
 Entrance to the Funeral Home is through a beautiful 
 reception room with tiled floors, pastel tinted walls and at- 
 tractive draperies. The spacious chapel is just beyond the 
 reception room, a beautiful, restful chapel with wall-to-wall 
 carpeting, attractive furniture, pastel-tinted walls and soft 
 draperies. 
 
 The Chapel has a seating capacity for an estimated three 
 hundred persons, and, by the use of folding doors, three serv- 
 ices may be in progress simultaneously. 
 
 A covered driveway is included in the building which 
 permits the loading and unloading of caskets without hinder- 
 ance from inclement weather. 
 
 A spacious hallway connects the Chapel with modern rest 
 rooms, two or three lounges and the business ofltices, and 
 
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 basement areas provide storage space for equipment, caskets, 
 and laboratories and preparation rooms. 
 
 The furniture business was discontinued early in 1953, 
 with the exception of a complete stock of floor coverings, wall 
 paper, Venetian blinds and paints. These are offered to the 
 buying- public with the same courteous service as that given 
 when the firm carried the full line of household furnishings. 
 
 Norris and Son, Funeral Directors, continue the pledge 
 of a simple, kindly service to all people, and the hope that they 
 may continue to serve their patrons through the coming years. 
 
 Members of the staff are Earl Weiss, George Bauman and 
 Harvey Knupp. 
 
 NORRIS FUNERAL HOME 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 In few professions have more changes or greater progress 
 been made than in mortuary science. From the old days of 
 home built coffins and lumber wagons used to convey them to 
 the cemetery to the modern funeral home with its sanitary, 
 scientific methods and its modern equipment is a long step; 
 as was the change from the old days to that of the later popular 
 combination of livery barns and "Undertaking establish- 
 ments." It was here the Norris Funeral Home had its origin. 
 
 About 1890 George M. Norris, father of Miss Georgia 
 Norris, established and operated in connection with his two 
 story brick livery barn, "The George W. Norris Livery, Under- 
 taking and Embalming Establishment," which was one of the 
 most modern in Southern Illinois. He was the first person in 
 this territory to receive an embalmer's license. In those days 
 the correct dress for undertakers was the Prince Albert coat, 
 silk hat, black bow tie and always black kid gloves. 
 The rolling stock consisted of a white hearse for the young; 
 a black country hearse, which was built high and light to en- 
 able it to get through the hub-deep mud on the country roads ; 
 the black "town" hearse, massive and ornate and equipped 
 with rubber tires ; a pall bearer's coach, which had two seats 
 
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 running the full length, with steps in the rear, and a horse 
 drawn ambulance which was used primarily to take stretcher 
 patients from the Illinois Central station to the State Hospital. 
 The perfectly matched teams of both black and white horses 
 were covered with nets lavishly trimmed with tassels. On 
 each funeral the pall bearers were given white gloves and 
 fancy arm badges, either black or white, depending on the 
 age of the deceased. 
 
 In 1920 Miss Georgia Norris, one of the present owners, 
 purchased the funeral business from her brother, Robert M. 
 Norris, and employed Gaylon C. Kent of Olney, Illinois as fu- 
 neral director and embalmer with Mancil Keistler as assistant, 
 the present day needs. The modern funeral home has quiet 
 equipment. In 1922 the present modern funeral home was 
 built and the firm became known as the Norris Funeral Home. 
 Many improvements were made and customs changed. The 
 drab cold colors were removed from the funeral furnishings, 
 until today they are warm and colorful. The modernly 
 equipped preparation roomi, display rooms and chapel meet 
 the present day needs. The modern funeral home has quiet 
 dignity and provides every comfort for the bereaved with a 
 
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 staff trained by experience to render a sincere service to the 
 community. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Kent in 1940, Mrs. Kent assumed 
 his interest in the firm. Funeral directors associated with the 
 firm since that time have been Harley Queen, who conducts 
 his own establishment now in Centralia, 111. ; Mark Miller, who 
 has his own funeral home in Vandalia, Illinois, and Joseph B. 
 Moos, who resigned recently on account of ill health. Besides 
 Miss Norris and Mrs. Kent, the present staff consists of fu- 
 neral directors, Mancil Keistler and Gaylon H. Kent. While 
 the City of Anna prepares to celebrate a century of progress, 
 Norris Funeral Home, growing with the city, goes into its 
 sixty-fifth year of service in the community. 
 
 0. K. BARBER SHOP 
 
 Clifton (Tip) Williams, owner and manager of the 0. 
 K. Barber Shop, 109 North Main, has served his patrons al- 
 most a quarter-century. He married Daisy Winebarger in 
 1910. 
 
 Many youngsters of Anna, who received their first hair- 
 cuts at "Tip's" have continued their patronage through the 
 years. 
 
 Tip's Shop is often the first place visited by patrons 
 when returning to their home city; where friends meet and 
 exchange ideas and latest news. 
 
 The Shop was purchased by the present owner in 1933, 
 a two chair Shop, and a third chair was added when Walter 
 Arbuckle returned from service and joined the forces in 1947. 
 Prior to this, Williams was assisted by W. A. Caraker, who con- 
 tinues his work with the Shop. 
 
 Tip's most popular "helper" has been his grandson, Ron- 
 ell Gene Gurley, son of Hollie and Afton Gurley. Ronell be- 
 gan his career in his grandfather's shop at the age of nine, 
 when he helped with chores about the shop. He graduated 
 from High School, and Southern Illinois University, Carbon- 
 dale. He is now giving a bit of time to the service of his 
 country as a member of the Signal Corps at Camp Gordon, 
 Georgia. 
 
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 MYRTLE NIMMO 
 
 Mrs. Myrtle Nimmo, is owner of the historical Morgan 
 farm, four miles west of Jonesboro, on Highway 146. 
 
 The farm was bought by Thomas Nimmo when it sold at 
 Master-in-Chancery sale, and was owned by Mrs. Nimmo's 
 grandfather, James Morgan. 
 
 There was at one time a grist mill on Dutch Creek, where 
 Mr. Morgan ground grain for people miles away. He also 
 ground grain for the Cherokee Indians while they were camped 
 on this farm en route to Indian Territory, waiting to cross 
 the Mississippi River, as it was full of floating ice. This was 
 about 1838. 
 
 Mrs. Nimmo has three children, George, Robert Nimmo, 
 and Mrs. Mary K. Forsythe. She lives at 159 East Vienna 
 Street. 
 
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 E. P. OWEN, DRUGGIST 
 
 E. P. Owen, druggist of Anna, has served his patrons in 
 Anna and Union County during almost half of the city's Cen- 
 tury of Progress. 
 
 A graduate of the University of Illinois School of Phar- 
 macy in Chicago in 1912, he opened his business at his pres- 
 ent location upon returning to Anna and has continued to 
 serve the public from this same location since that time. 
 
 Prior to enrollment at the University, Mr. Owen was as- 
 sociated with Frank Kroh in the Opera House Drug Store 
 (present location of the Anna National Bank). He is a na- 
 tive of Union County, education in the county schools, and 
 taught in the schools before entering the field as a druggist. 
 
 Mr. Owen opened his business when the city of Anna was 
 only beginning to expand, attracting many people to the city 
 with its increasing prosperity and improved living conditions. 
 
 As the city entered its second half-century, Owen was 
 filling prescriptions and providing other druggist's services 
 with the same accuracy as he offers today. He has increased 
 his supplies to include every available drug or medical supply 
 of this modern age, in order to give to his patrons a service 
 which equals that of any community, either large or small. 
 
 E. P. Owen has been active in many civic and county pro- 
 grams which include his service as a member of the Anna 
 City Council, a director of the Anna State Bank, and president 
 of the Anna Fair Association. He has served three terms as 
 president of this organization and is holding this office at the 
 present time. 
 
 He has extensive farming interest in the eastern section 
 of Union County, owning a large farm on which he raises and 
 maintains a large herd of registered Hereford cattle. 
 
 Supervision of his farm and cattle occupies much of his 
 time when he is outside his store. 
 
 Mr. Owen's staff in the store includes several efficient 
 persons throughout the year. James Pickrell of Anna has 
 been associated with the store over a period of twenty years, 
 with exception of four years which were spent in the service 
 of the armed forces. Pickrell is well known in Anna and Union 
 County and, as in the case of his employer, is capable of 
 giving his patrons the best of service possible. 
 
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 PAGE AUTO & HOME SUPPLY 
 
 Coming- to Anna in 1928, Orval Page beg-an an illustrious 
 career in the business world which has spanned more than a 
 quarter of a century. Then he was manager of the Thrift 
 Store which was located on South Main Street. At that time 
 everyone came to town on Saturday to do their **tradin'," and 
 the Thrift Store with its genial manager was not only a good 
 place to get the weekly groceries but also to get the weekly 
 news. It was here that Page began to make his wide 
 circle of friends which have followed him from business to 
 business. 
 
 A couple of years later, the Kroger Stores bought the 
 Thrift Stores and the Page family moved from Anna to Har- 
 risburg, where Mr. Page operated a Variety Store ; however, 
 the pleasant memories and warm friends made in their short 
 stay here, caused them to want to return and in 1933, Mr. 
 Page did return as manager of a Daniel Store on South Main, 
 a position he held until 1946. 
 
 Wishing to be on his own, Mr. Page left the Daniel organ- 
 ization and bought the Bill Smith Grocery Store which he op- 
 erated until the fall of 1947, when he opened the Auto and 
 Home Supply Store on West Davie, which specializes in Hot- 
 point electrical appliances, paints, and auto supplies. 
 
 The Page family — including Mr. and Mrs. Page, their son, 
 Donald, and their daughter, Joyce, who is graduating from 
 high school this year — is a very devoted family group which 
 enjoy doing things together and their Auto and Home Supply 
 is a family enterprise with each member doing his part. Dur- 
 ing his son's absence while in the armed forces, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Page carried on the business by themselves, but as soon as 
 Donald returned, he went into the business also, and the store 
 was enlarged to include the building next door. 
 
 The Pages are active in the Baptist Church, where Mr. 
 Page has been a Deacon of the Church for about fifteen 
 years. Mr. Page has also served on the Grade School Board 
 for seven years as he has always been interested in the wel- 
 fare of the community. When any community project is un- 
 dertaken, a firm always willing to cooperate and do its part 
 has been the PAGE AUTO AND HOME SUPPLY. 
 
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 COMPLIMENTS OF 
 
 HARRY PARTRIDGE 
 
 PAUL PEARCE BARBER SHOP 
 
 Anna National Bank Building 
 
 101 West Davie Street 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 I came to Anna September, 1894, opened my Tailor Shop 
 in the present Keith Building. Married an Anna girl, Miss El- 
 len Robinson, on October 30, 1901. I have seen the town 
 grow into a very fine city amidst the wonderful fruit farms 
 of Southern Illinois. A wonderful place to live. 
 
 ROBERT B. DUNCAN 
 
 Tailor 
 Anna National Bank Building 
 
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 Pyg-ett's Superette was constructed at the corner of 
 Spring and Green streets in the year 1950. The building was 
 designed from a plan to incorporate the services of a super 
 market on a scale suited to the needs and operation of a 
 neighborhood store. This resulted in the establishment of 
 the first "superette" in the city of Anna. The store was of- 
 ficially opened to the public in October, 1950, under the owner- 
 ship and management of Avat and Velma Pygett with Floyd 
 Miller in charge of the meat department and with Miss Millie 
 McMahan, cashier. Mr. Miller was succeeded by Verne Proc- 
 tor, now employed by the city. Due to the wonderful accept- 
 ance of the superette by the people of Anna an addition to 
 the original building was constructed to facilitate handling 
 the increased volume of business. This was completed in 
 1952 with enlargement of the parking area for further con- 
 venience of our patrons. 
 
 With Don Roe now employed as assistant manager, Py- 
 gett's Superette will continue to contribute to the high stand- 
 ards of the city of Anna and offer only those products which 
 we know to be of the best quality and a credit to our reputa- 
 tion which we strive constantly to maintain. 
 
 PYGETT S SUPERETTE 
 
 Spring and Green Streets Phone 907 
 
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 PHOENIX FLOUR MILLS, Inc. 
 
 1885 - 1954 - 69 Years 
 
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 THE FIRST MILL 
 
 The orig-inal mill of the Bruchhauser Family was pur- 
 chased by the Senior William Bruchhauser in 1885. This 
 plant was operated as the Anna Roller Mills, first by Mr. Wil- 
 liam Bruchhauser himself and later in conjunction with his 
 three sons. Grinding- or milling in the plant at the time of its 
 purchase by the family was done on heavy stone burs im- 
 ported from France. Very soon after the purchase of the 
 plant, it was remodeled and the new Roller Process type of 
 equipment was installed. Other improvements were made 
 from time to time to keep pace with modern developments as 
 they were introduced. From this plant fiour and meal prod- 
 
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 ucts were shipped over all the South, as well as to an ever in- 
 creasing list of dealers in Southern Illinois, 
 
 The history of Pheonix 
 Flour Mills is entirely a his- 
 tory of the Bruchhauser Fam- 
 ily in America. It must neces- 
 sarily begin with the life of 
 the father of the present 
 owners whose active life and 
 vision were responsible for 
 the founding of the business. 
 William Bruchhauser was 
 born August 15. 1838, in the 
 Province of Waldeck, Ger- 
 |^H|^ >■ many. At the age of thirty-one 
 
 ^^^^^ years the driving ambition 
 
 ^^^ ■ " which was the guiding force 
 
 of his life induced him to 
 leave his homeland for the 
 wider opportunities which 
 he foresaw in the develop- 
 ment of the United States. 
 
 Settling first in St. Louis, 
 Missouri, he later moved to 
 Red Bud, Illinois. Shortly af- 
 terwards he became associated with a Mr. Melzer at Worden, 
 Illinois. During this partnership Mr. Bruchhauser moved to 
 Jonesboro, Illinois. There in 1885 the association was dis- 
 solved and Mr. Bruchhauser located in Anna, establishing the 
 Anna Roller Mills at 216 East Davie Street, where the Pearl 
 Motor Company is now located. Thus began the history of 
 the Bruchhauser Family in the milling business. 
 
 Three sons had, in the meantime, been born to the fam- 
 ily, — William F. in St. Louis, Missouri, 1873; August F. in 
 Red Bud, Illinois, 1875; and C. H. in Worden. Illinois. 1878. 
 Much of the success of the Family-Company has been due to 
 the entry of these young men into their father's business at 
 the time of the establishment of the first mill. Though young, 
 the three junior Bruchhausers soon showed that they had in- 
 herited the characteristic thrift and industry of the Senior 
 
 Wm. Bruchhauser 
 
 Founder of 
 Phoenix Flour Mill 
 
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 W. F. BRUCHHAUSER 
 A. F. BRUCHHAUSER C. H. BRUCHHAUSER 
 
 member of the firm and dedicated themselves wholly to the 
 conduct and expansion of the business. It may be truly said 
 that they were associated with their father from the first day 
 of his business experience in Anna. 
 
 William Bruchhauser was a charter member of the South- 
 ern Illinois Millers' Association. 
 
 Between the time of the establishment of the business in 
 1885 and the death of the father in 1911 the three sons had 
 received a thorough training in their chosen field. With their 
 father's guidance they shared the wealth of his knowledge and 
 
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 experience, which had grown rich with the passing- of the 
 years. The problems of the mill were the problems of the 
 family, and those of the family were the problems of the 
 business. They worked toj>rether. planned together, and 
 learned together. Absorbed by their close contact with the 
 industry and encouraged by their father's faith and indomita- 
 ble zeal, as well as by his splendid example of honesty and 
 fair play, they were prepared to assume important roles not 
 only in the conduct of their private business but also in the 
 commercial and industrial development of the community as 
 a whole. 
 
 It was therefore a most fortunate circumstance and 
 an equally unusual one when all three sons joined their father 
 in the building and expansion of the Anna Roller Mills. The 
 plant and equipment were steadily improved and enlarged, no 
 opportunity being missed to introduce modern methods as 
 soon as they had been proven practical. An increasing num- 
 ber of merchants and farmers learned that good equipment 
 plus good management insured them products of the finest 
 quality at the rapidly growing mill. 
 
 In 1906 the three sons— W. F., A. F., and C. H.— pur- 
 chased the plant of the Phoenix Flour Mills at 140 East Vien- 
 
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 na Street, from the Union County Milling Company, operating- 
 it as Bruchhauser Brothers until 1933, when the business was 
 incorporated as Phoenix Flour Mills, Inc. Thus, thoug-h the 
 business name has been changed and the scene of activity 
 has shifted, the history of the Bruchhauser Family, as millers, 
 — with its record of progress and achievement — continues to 
 unfold; and another name is added to that growing list of 
 those who came to America seeking opportunity, whose initia- 
 tive and industry found that opportunity, and whose lives of 
 honest toil and labor remain as monuments of faith and cour- 
 age and pioneering enterprise. 
 
 In the meantine the business and its owners had been 
 active in the civic affairs of the community. The Bruchhauser 
 Brothers were active as promoters and stockholders of the 
 Southern Illinois Fair Association, the Anna Fair becoming 
 one of the best known and best attended fairs in this section 
 of the state. 
 
 They were among the principal organizers of the East 
 Side Apartment Corporation and the Anna State Bank. 
 
 The three brothers have at various times served as mem- 
 bers of the city council — W. F. Bruchhauser as city treasurer, 
 A. F. Bruchhauser as city alderman, and C. H. Bruchhauser, 
 city commissioner. 
 
 By their active interest and intelligent participation in 
 all projects which rebounded to the public good they strove 
 to emulate the example of their father in serving others as 
 well as themselves. 
 
 A. F. Bruchhauser is the only survivor of the brothers as 
 W. F. passed away November 5, 1941, and C. H. June 24, 1945. 
 
 A. F. Bruchhauser is President of Phoenix Flour Mills, 
 Inc., President of East Side Apartments Corporation, a Di- 
 rector in the Anna State Bank and an Elder and Charter Mem- 
 ber of the Trinity Lutheran Church of Anna. 
 
 Since the passing of W, F. and C. H. Bruchhauser, W. A. 
 Bruchhauser, son, and Elbert 0. Michels, son-in-law of A. F. 
 Bruchhauser, have become part of the corporation. 
 
 Today the Phoenix Flour Mills, Inc., are better prepared 
 than ever before to serve an ever increasing list of customers. 
 
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 W. A. Bruchhauser Elbert 0. r^Iichels A. F. Bruchhau.ser 
 
 Considering- its modest beginning in 1885, its many years of 
 service, this organization has every reason to feel justly proud. 
 It may also take legitimate pride in the fact that its friends 
 and customers today still receive the same quality of service 
 and merchandise that built the business and carried it suc- 
 cessfully through more than half a century. 
 
 Today the Phoenix Flour Mills, Inc., covers very inten- 
 sively a trade territory within a fifty mile radius around the 
 City of Anna. Besides its original line of merchandise it car- 
 ries a complete line of hig-h quality wholesale g-roceries and all 
 kinds of seeds. Salesmen contact its customers regularly and 
 trucks make weekly deliveries in this area direct to retail and 
 wholesale trade. 
 
 A branch elevator located at Ullin, Illinois, serves to in- 
 crease the facilities of the company for the buying of grain 
 within their local territory. This policy of purchasing all 
 kind of grains from the farmers in this area is now, as it 
 has been in the past, a cardinal principle of the operation of 
 the business. 
 
 The Phoenix Flour Mills, Inc., and the Bruchhauser Fam- 
 ily pause at the milestone of Sixty-nine years of their milling" 
 career, — pause to reflect upon over a half century of effort 
 completed, upon the many trials and vicissitudes of almost 
 seven decades, so crowded with achievements and reverses, 
 
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 joys and sorrows and rewards, — and active and intensely busy 
 Sixty-nine years. 
 
 As the swiftly sweeping panorama of seven decades of 
 service passes in retrospect, we wish to grasp this opportunity 
 to express our gratitude for the friendships and loyalties these 
 many years have brought. It is with a sense of deepest grati- 
 tude to Almighty God that we dedicate these pages as a token 
 of our appreciation of having been privileged to work and 
 live and triumph in the most eventful period the world has 
 ever known. 
 
 Standing upon the threshold of another span of opportu- 
 nity and service, we pledge to our many friends and customers 
 everywhere our utmost effort to maintain the high standards 
 of former years and to improve upon these standards in the 
 years to come through the determined efforts of the youngest 
 members of the corporation, W. A. Bruchhauser and Elbert 
 O. Michels. 
 
 GULP OIL COMPANY 
 
 In February, 1953, Woodrow Gulp established an oil com- 
 pany, known as the Gulp Oil Gompany, selling and distribut- 
 ing Phillips 66 Products on E. Vienna Street at the location 
 formerly known as Hindman Filling Station. The station op- 
 erator, Bill Stout, is assisted by Wesley Boie. Woodrow is 
 the exclusive dealer for Phillips 66 Products in Union Gounty. 
 He resides at 310 E. Vienna Street with wife, Wanda Penninger 
 Gulp, and son, Quentin Delaine. Business phone 933 ; residence 
 phone 972-W. 
 
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 IN MEMORIAM 
 JOHN JEREMIAH PELLEY 
 
 "Track-hand to railroad president" 
 
 One of many of our native sons who have contributed 
 much to the American picture. As head of the Association 
 of American Railroads, John Pelley held the biggest job — 
 the most significant — in the history of U. S. Railroading; he 
 was the first man to hold this position of Super-Director of 
 all of the great systems of railroads. 
 
 Born in Anna, Illinois, in 1878, captain of Anna High 
 School football team, he began his railroad career as a bag- 
 gage-buster at the little Anna Station. Up through most 
 divisions of two railroads and landed as President of the New 
 York, New Haven and Hartford after having been president 
 of the Illinois Central's largest subsidiary, the Central of 
 Georgia. 
 
 John Pelley was feted upon his return visit to Anna; a 
 memorable event was the Banquet given at the gymnasium 
 of the A. J. C. H. S. in 1937, a capacity crowd of citizenry, of- 
 ficials of railroading and relatives of John Pelley made a never- 
 to-be-forgotten occasion. 
 
 He died in 1946 at the age of 68 years and takes his 
 place as an honored son of the community, a man of example 
 and unforgotten character, a man for the youth of the to- 
 morrow to follow! 
 
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 ANNA PRODUCERS DAIRY 
 
 December 15, 1929, a fine springlike day and the only one 
 that entire winter, saw Roy Brown and associate, Loel Verble, 
 take over the Leonard Dairy, composed of 6 cows, a milking" 
 machine, and some bottles and cases. Late that afternoon the 
 first delivery to customers was made by the so-called "Home 
 Dairy," and so an operation was started that for nearly 25 
 years has never missed a scheduled delivery. On January 15, 
 1930, the Ed Tripp Dairy of Jonesboro, composed of 7 cows 
 and some bottles and cases, was added to the going business. 
 
 A few months operation convinced the management that 
 milk should be pasteurized, so after many months of discus- 
 sion arrangements were made for the opening of a pasteuriz- 
 ing plant. 
 
 In May, 1931, a new firm headed by H. E. Grundman, a 
 Dairy Supply salesman, and Roy Brown, opened a small mod- 
 ern plant in the Goddard Building on E. Vienna St., process- 
 ing and delivering milk formerly delivered by Walton's Dairy, 
 Bizzel's Dairy and the Home Dairy. The new firm operated 
 under the name Producers Dairy. In the arrangement L. A. 
 "Friday" Boyer, who had delivered for Walton's for many 
 years came with the new firm, and has been continually em- 
 ployed as deliveryman all these years. 
 
 Acceptance of pasteurized milk was slow in coming and 
 the firm had a real struggle for existence. Grundman went 
 back on the road and Brown assumed active management, final- 
 ly buying out Grundman in January, 1933. At this time there 
 
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 were three employees, namely L. A. Boyer, Frank P. Shepard 
 and Jesse Bizzell, Jr. In late 1933 the State started buying 
 milk for the State Hospital and the C C C Camps came into 
 being, also buying milk. Producers Dairy was able to get 
 a good part of this business, and it was a timely boost. Added 
 business called for more employees, among whom was Wil- 
 bert Page, who has continued with the Dairy for 21 years. 
 
 By 1936 the building on East Vienna St. had become too 
 small, so a new plant was planned and built on the Brown 
 farm north of the State Hospital — a spot labeled by the em- 
 ployees, as the coldest in winter and the hottest in summer. 
 
 In the spring of 1937 the business of Hindman's Dairy 
 was bought and added to the now respectable volume enjoyed 
 by the firm. 
 
 More or less normal, dairy operations were carried on 
 until World War II, when shortages and rationing forced a 
 change in deliveries which until that time had been on a 7 
 day a week basis. It was found 6-day wholesale and 4 day 
 retail deliveries were practical, and how those Sundays off 
 were enjoyed! 
 
 Business increased — more room was needed — but war- 
 time restrictions prevented building until 1946 when a new 
 plant was built at 131 W. Chestnut and occupied on December 
 18th of that year. Down through these 20 odd years, equip- 
 ment has been added, or replaced as needed, to keep the 
 Dairy modern and efficient. 
 
 As we approach the quarter century mark in service to 
 our fellowmen, we try to feel we have been of some small 
 benefit to our community, and do pledge our continued sup- 
 port of all worthy causes for civic betterment as we have 
 supported all such causes in the past. 
 
 We pay high tribute to all the fine employees we have had 
 without whom there could not have been a Producers Dairy, 
 and herewith list the fine group now working: L. A. Boyer, 
 Wilbert Page, Earl Lacy, Tullie Dillow, Roy Powell. Paul 
 Treece, Carroll Mclntire, Jewell Henderson, Lester Manus, 
 Elizabeth Walser, Roy A. Brown, R. E. Lence, Roy Stark, 
 Gene Brimm. 
 
 Another 25 years? Who knows? 
 
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 THE DRIVE-INN 
 
 March 19, 1948, Robert M. Williams and his wife, Jane 
 West Williams, opened a Drive Inn restaurant, calling it 
 "The Williams Drive Inn." Located on West Chestnut, in the 
 Producers Dairy building, the Williams Drive Inn specialized 
 in Toasted Sandwiches, Thick Malts and Shakes, and delicious 
 Sodas and Sundaes. 
 
 December 24, 1950, The Williams Drive Inn closed down so 
 Mr. Williams might continue his army training. 
 
 April 19, 1951, The Williams Drive Inn re-opened under 
 the name "The Drive Inn," the new owner being the Anna 
 Producers Dairy, Inc., and a Dairy Employee, Chales H. Shafer, 
 named manager of the enterprise. Sandwiches, Ice Cream and 
 Fountain Service continued to be t^e /iiain items offered. Con- 
 tinued and featured at all times are ten to sixteen flavors of 
 quality "Producers" Ice Cream and Sherbets produced under 
 the supervision of Wilbert Page. 
 
 December 20, 1953, The Drive Inn closed for remodeling, 
 an addition being built which more than doubled the size and 
 seating capacity, and called for a complete re-arrangement of 
 equipment. Re-opened January 18, 1954, the Drive Inn con- 
 tinues to feature Sandwiches, Shakes, Malts and Sodas and 
 Sundaes. 
 
 The growth of this business can largely be attributed to 
 the friendliness and grooming of the operators, as well as 
 to quality products. 
 
 Present Employees : Brooksy Stidham, James B. Woodard, 
 Helen Evans, Pat Robertson, Raymond Sweet, Charles H. 
 Shafer, Betty Baggot, Doris Rodgers, Kenny Wilkerson, Paul 
 Carnell. 
 
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 FORI) L. RENDLEiMAN 
 
 JOHN S. RENDLEIMAN 
 
 RendlcMiian c*^ Rnullcinaii 
 
 Attorneys- A t-Law 
 
 Hale Buildinj[> 
 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 
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 TAN D A ft D i 
 
 oil products 
 
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 Compliments of 
 
 RENDLEMAN'S STANDARD SERVICE 
 
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 RICH'S SHOE STORE 
 
 The name RICH is not new to the community of Anna 
 of Union County. However, as a business name. RICH'S had 
 its inception in the year 1934 when R. L. "Bob" Rich opened 
 his first business venture under the name of "RICH'S SHOE 
 STORE." This store located on South Main Street brought 
 to Anna the finest quaUty merchandise obtainable and con- 
 tinued to grow and serve the people of the community. 
 
 At the close of World War II, after new fronts and com- 
 plete new interior were installed, RICH'S SHOE STORE moved 
 to its present location at the corner of South Main and Lafay- 
 ette Streets. 
 
 RICH'S SHOE STORE 
 
 200 So. Main St. Phone 138 
 
 TWO GOOD STORES 
 
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 RICHS CLOTHING STORK 
 
 At the close of World War II, a second store, operating- 
 under the trade name R & W for a period of two years and 
 then changed to RICH'S CLOTHING STORE, was opened as 
 a partnership. This operation brought to Anna one of the 
 most modern completely stocked men's store in Southern Ill- 
 inois, featuring brand names of quality clothing and furnish- 
 ings for men and boys. 
 
 The continued prosperity of both these fine stores has 
 been perpetrated by the generous purchases and continued 
 patronage of the people of the community. 
 
 RICHS CLOTHING STORE 
 
 214 So. Main St. Phone 673 
 
 TWO GOOD STORES 
 
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 SOUTHERN BARBECUE 
 
 147 E. Vienna St., Anna, 111. 
 
 Phone 458-W 
 
 Southern Barbecue built in 1923, by "Nip" Bowen, hotel 
 operator, Duquoin, Illinois. He built 13 Southern Barbecue 
 establishments in Southern Illinois, and operated them all 
 successfully. The above being one of the few originals still 
 in operation. 
 
 PREVIOUS OWNERS 
 
 1923, "Nip" Bowen; 1926, John Sligrhtom; 1940, Aurel 
 "Pug" Rendleman; 1941, Louise Rendleman; 1945, Clyde 
 Choate, Melvin Walker, Bill Rayburn; 1946, John Davis, Corn- 
 nie West. 
 
 Southern Barbecue purchased in 1951 by present ov.-ners 
 Harold and Joan Bartruff, Courtney and Zoe Ann Bartruff. 
 Employees working now or recently are: Mrs. Lela Bartruff, 
 Mrs. Christine Adams, Miss Peggy Brimm, Donald White 
 and Earl Milton. 
 
 "WE ENJOY SERVING YOU 
 THE ORIGINAL SOUTHERN BARBECUE" 
 
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 John W. Rov 
 
 .Mrs. .lohn W. Rov 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM ROY 
 
 Born December 4th, 1857, on a farm midway between 
 Grand Chain and the Ohio River in Pulaski County, Illinois. 
 He lived here until he was 14 years of a^e, at which time his 
 father, Robert J. Roy, sold his farm and moved to Grand Chain 
 for better school facilities. After completing High School, he 
 attended college in the Teachers' College at Carbondale. He 
 taught school from 1875 until 1881, resigning to accept a po- 
 sition as Station Agent and Telegraph Operator for the Cairo 
 and Vincennes Railroad Company. Soon he transferred to 
 the Illinois Central R. R. Company and served as Station Agent 
 and Telegraph operator in several towns, coming to Anna in 
 1895. Later he was made General Manager for the W. W. 
 Stokes Implement Company, remaining with that company un- 
 til 1905, when he was elected Secretary of the Anna Building 
 and Loan Association. In 1924 he was made President of this 
 association, a position he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Roy was married to Mary Missouri Gaunt June 23rd, 
 1880, and to this union five children were born : R. O. Roy, 
 Shreveport, Louisiana ; J. L. Roy, Long Beach, California ; H. 
 M. Roy, deceased ; Rose Roy Myers, El Paso, Texas ; Anna Roy 
 Sifford, Anna, Illinois. 
 
 Mr. Roy is a faithful member of St. Anne's Episcopal 
 
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 Church, having served as treasurer through the years. He 
 is a Mason and a member of Knights Templar. He served on 
 the Board of Education for many years and maintains a 
 vital interest in Anna's progress. 
 
 MRS. JOHN W. ROY 
 
 Mrs. Roy was also a loyal member of St. Anne's Episco- 
 pal Church, active in the Eastern Star and White Shrine, also 
 is a past president of the Anna Woman's Club. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Roy celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1930, 
 with all of their children and grandchildren present. Mrs. 
 Roy passed away July 9th, 1931. 
 
 BELCHER ELECTRIC SERVICE 
 
 Willis L. Belcher, Prop. 
 
 127 Lafayette Street 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Started business Jan. 10, 1949, at 115 Lafayette St. 
 Moved to larger building at 127 Lafayette St., January, 1954. 
 Present employees: 
 
 William Thomas, started working as motor repairman in 
 February, 1952. 
 
 Clifford A. Kimbro Jr., started working as Electrician's 
 helper in September, 1953. 
 
 Past employees : 
 
 John Warren, August, 1949, to August, 1951. 
 Roy B. Belcher, May, 1952, to Sept., 1952. 
 Carroll G. Belcher, May, 1953, to Sept., 1953. 
 Patricia Woodard 
 Lela May Watkins 
 
 Our work consists of repairing and rewinding all kinds 
 of Electric Motors, wiring residences, industrial buildings and 
 automatic controls. 
 
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 Anna, Illinois 
 
 The name of SANFORD'S is one of the best known of the 
 several business houses in Anna, in fact it is the oldest home- 
 owned "Ready-to-Wear" store in the city. 
 
 Originally formed in 1903, and occupying the double store 
 room on South Main Street (now occupied by the Davis Hard- 
 ware and Brook's Paint Store) the firm began a merchandis- 
 ing career under the operation of the late Amos Sanford, Sr. 
 The signature style of name-plate was adopted early and the 
 slogan "Where Quality Counts" has always been appended to 
 the firm's trade-name. 
 
 In June, 1914, the business was expanded and a partner 
 was added, this was Mr. J. Fred Corzine and wife, Mary Nor- 
 ris Corzine. To this new association came a period of growth 
 and increase, the business was moved to the present location, 
 
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 having purchased the mercantile stock and clothing stock of 
 the old established J. N. Dickinson & Co. and for almost forty 
 years the business has been a prominent establishment of 
 the city. Mr. Fred Corzine died in 1933 and Mrs. Corzine 
 stayed with the store. 
 
 In 1952 the business was modernized with new fixtures, 
 air-conditioning and improved show-windows. Following the 
 death of Mr. Sanford in 1942 the management was assumed 
 by Mrs. Mary Norris Corzine. The success of the business is 
 due to the complete merchandise lines of nationally known 
 goods, and especially for the personal service and attentive 
 care given to every customer. 
 
 Already three generations of patrons have passed thru 
 the doors of this establishment, Anna is justly proud of this 
 business which reflects well the general type of stores to 
 which people, from miles around, like to come to shop and look. 
 
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 SEGERS HAT AND GIFT SHOP 
 
 This shop was started by Miss Sophia Feuss in the year 
 1899 — Miss Seger having purchased the stock June 15, 1912. 
 Now, forty-two years under the name of Segers Hat Shop — 
 The oldest in retail merchandising in Anna. 
 
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 -392—
 
 TUTHILL -INSURANCE AGENCY 
 
 During the year 1880, H. P. Tuthill, father of the present 
 owner, became the first fire insurance agent in Union County, 
 Illinois. This agency has been in continuous and active ex- 
 istence since that date and now has become a general insur- 
 ance agency, taking care of all the insurance needs of its cus- 
 tomers and having paid more than two million dollars in 
 claims. 
 
 In 1905, the son, L. B. Tuthill, entered the firm and since 
 the death of his father in 1909, became the sole owner of this 
 agency. 
 
 During the tenure of this agency the personnel of this 
 firm has changed but little. 
 
 John L. Wingate, son-in-law of the owner, served for 
 about ten years as solicitor. The same was terminated by 
 his death in 1944. 
 
 This agency is now composed of L. B. Tuthill, owner, 
 Laura Yost as assistant and head of the Office, and Howard 
 Lam, solicitor for the agency. 
 
 We strive to take care of the needs of our insurance cus- 
 tomers and see that the losses are settled satisfactory. 
 
 This is the largest general insurance agency in Union 
 County. 
 
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 PEARL MOTOR COMPANY 
 
 R. E. Pearl left 
 
 H. E. Pearl, right, 
 
 Pearl Motor Co., 
 
 Mexico, Mo. 
 
 Ryland E. Pearl began his career in the automobile business in 
 Mexico. Missouri. He attended Mexico School and Westminster Col- 
 lege. Fulton. Missouri, being associated with his father, H. E. Pearl, 
 in 19 22. as the Pearl Motor Company. Chevrolet. Cadillac and Buick 
 Dealership. After fourteen years in that organization. Ryland Pearl 
 purchased the Pontiac. Cadillac and CMC Truck franchise, operating 
 as the Ryland Motor Company until June. 19 39, at which time he pur- 
 chased the Chevrolet. Oldsmobile and Cadillac franchise at Anna, Illi- 
 nois. Mr. Pearl began operation in a building located at 204 East 
 Davie, remaining in that location until 1941, at which time he moved 
 to the present location. 
 
 Chevrolet 
 Under New 
 Management 
 
 Ryland E. Pearl 
 Purchases Agency 
 And Equipment 
 
 ■rta 
 
 last 
 
 mortiinR. -M: Pe:irl. who 
 
 in the auiomobile basineM 
 
 {(ir ihe pasi fourteen years, plans an 
 
 early expansion of tht sales and ««•''- 
 
 vj«« departnipois under tl>e direction 
 
 of the pre«etii shop and sales person- 
 
 elle. 
 
 'While a resident of Mexico. Mr. 
 Pearl was a in-'trtii.-! vf t!ie Clianxber 
 or Comn riuh, 
 
 Pearl arrive.s in Anna 
 
 Ryland Motor Co., 
 Mexico, Mo.— 1936 
 
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 -i^^ i 
 
 TODAYS SPECIAL 
 
 Pearl Motor Co. Organization — June 1, 1939 
 
 -♦--♦--♦- 
 
 Annual Organization Christmas Party 
 —395—
 
 PEARL'S ORGANIZATION— 1954 
 
 .:?:t^"-il£- 
 
 Present location of Pearl Motor Company, 216 East Davie 
 Street, Anna, showing new car sales showroom and service 
 department at right, with used car lot, body shop and lubrica- 
 tion department at left. 18,396 square feet, total square 
 feet. 
 
 Pearl's Present Organization of 27 Employees 
 —396—
 
 THREE GENERATIONS OF PEARLS IN THE GENERAL 
 MOTORS ORGANIZATION 
 
 The above picture showing' Jim Pearl with his father, Ry- 
 land E. Pearl and grandfather, H. E. Pearl, is being congrat- 
 ulated by Mr. T. J. Hart, Zone Manager, St. Louis Division, 
 Chevrolet Motor Company, as one of the youngest Chevrolet 
 Dealers, his dealership being located in Vienna, Illinois, and 
 also being one representing these generations of active Chev- 
 rolet Dealers and to our knowledge it is the only combination 
 of this kind with General Motors today. Recognition was giv- 
 en the Pearls in several nation wide publications and special 
 recognition from General Motors. Mr. H. E. Pearl is Chev- 
 rolet, Buick and Cadillac Dealer in Mexico, Missouri. Mr. Jim 
 Pearl is Chevrolet and Oldsmobile Dealer in Vienna, Illinois. 
 Mr. Marion Pearl, younger brother of Ryland Pearl, is asso- 
 ciated with his father in Mexico, Missouri, with the young- 
 est brother, Jack Pearl, located in Paris, Missouri, as the Chev- 
 rolet and Oldsmobile Dealer. 
 
 Ryland Pearl has made famous the slogan "PEARL 
 TRADES WILD," using it consistently in his advertising 
 since first coming to Anna in 1939, with people from distant 
 states calling for the WILD TRADER at Anna. Jim Pearl is 
 known as the KING OF TRADERS. 
 
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 TREECE'S CAFETERIA 
 
 DON & ELOISE TREECE, Owners 
 
 Assisted by daughters Carol Lee & Donna 
 
 Originally operated as "Treece's Sweet Shoppe" 
 
 In Business since 1928 — Operate under the slogan 
 
 "THE BEST IN FOUNTAIN AND FAST FOOD SERVICE" 
 
 — Air Conditioned — 
 
 322 S. Main St. Phone 83 Anna. 111. 
 
 TWIN CITY CLEANERS 
 
 Don & Billie Jones, Owners 
 
 Phone 735 
 
 111 North Main St. Anna, Illinois 
 
 The Twin City Cleaners was started in 1926 by Mr. Har- 
 vey Mohler and Charley Schumacher. And has been in con- 
 tinuous operation since that time. 
 
 It was purchased in May of 1953 by Don and Billie Jones. 
 New equipment has been added until it is one of the most 
 modern cleaning plants in Southern Illinois. 
 
 Donald C. Jones, who has had twelve years cleaning expe- 
 rience, moved to Anna in 1938, and married Billie Rippetoe, 
 youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rippetoe. 
 
 The Jones' reside at 103 Sanburn Drive, and have one 
 daughter, Donna Kay Jones. 
 
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 Harlan P. 
 
 Emma Russell 
 
 Lewis Sophronia 
 
 THE TUTHILL FAMILY— 1897 
 
 The Tiithill Fainilv 
 
 One of the earlier settlers in this county was Harlan P. 
 Tuthill, who served for four years in the Armed forces of the 
 United States Government during the Civil War in the eighteen 
 sixties. 
 
 Soon after the Civil War he came to this city working for 
 Charles M. Willard, his 1 rother-in-law, who at that time owned 
 a general store in this city. His marriage to Emma Sophia 
 Hubbard took place in this city during the eighteen seventies 
 and to this union five children were born, two were deceased 
 in the earlier years of their lives and three now living. Rus- 
 sell, Lewis B. and Sophronia Smith. 
 
 Mr. Harlan P. Tuthill was a leader in this community for 
 his entire life and was elder in the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Anna, Illinois, for a great number of years. He was the 
 prime factor in building the stone edifice of the First Presby- 
 terian Church which now stands as a monument to the archi- 
 tecture of that day. 
 
 In 1909, Harlan P. Tuthill passed away leaving surviving 
 his widow who lived for some years and three children, Rus- 
 sell, Lewis and Sophronia. In the year of his passing Rus- 
 sell and Lewis had established themselves in business and 
 later Sophronia was married. 
 
 During the career of these sons Russell was owner of a 
 large farm near Tamms, Illinois, and after the sale of this 
 farm entered the business of selling automobile tires and ac- 
 
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 cessories. At that time this was an entirely new business as 
 automobiles were a rarity on the road and business was 
 good in repairing and selling the same. 
 
 His business acumen along this line and real estate deals 
 provided him with enough capital that he might retire some 
 years ago and now is residing as a bachelor in his own home 
 in Miami, Florida. 
 
 Lewis B. Tuthill was married in 1904 to Leeta DeWolf 
 and to this union three children were born. The son, Harlan 
 Page Tuthill, passed away in his infancy and Mary DeWolf 
 Grant and Ruth Tuthill survive. Mary DeWolf Grant has 
 three children, Merridee, Lewis and Paula. 
 
 During the life of Lewis B. Tuthill he was admitted to 
 the bar and was married in 1904. Practiced law for about 
 six years and on the death of his father became the owner of 
 a general insurance agency and is still conducting the same. 
 He has had many honors conferred on him by the people of 
 this city and county. The voters of this community have 
 elected him to the office of city attorney for three terms 
 and have twice elected him County Judge which honor made 
 him the only Republican Judge ever elected Judge in Union 
 County, Illinois. 
 
 He served as Postmaster of the City of Anna, Illinois, for 
 1314 years and belongs to the Masons, Elks, Moose, and Rotary 
 Club an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in this city. 
 
 Miss Sophronia Smith of this city now lives in the old 
 home place on South Main Street and is employed as a nurse 
 at Anna City Hospital. 
 
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 Union County Implement Co. 
 
 The Union County Implement Company, 350 S. Main St., 
 Anna. Illinois, was established August 2nd, 1939, by Mr. and 
 Mrs. Leonard T. Stearns, for the purpose of retailing all the 
 products manufactured by the International Harvester Co. 
 
 Mr. L. T. Stearns, the son of Samuel and Martha Stearns, 
 was a native of Marion, Illinois. He was raised just west of 
 Marion on a farm. A part of the original Stearns farm is 
 now the site of the Veterans Hospital and a part of it the site 
 of the Crisp estate. His higher education was received from 
 the Marion Township High School and the University of Ill- 
 inois. 
 
 We had been associated with the International Har- 
 vester Company in St. Louis, Mo., for several years prior to 
 contracting with said company to purchase their Dealership 
 in Anna, Illinois. 
 
 Mrs. L. T. Stearns (Thelma) was also a native of Wil- 
 liamson County, being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. 
 Fowler, and was born at Herrin, Illinois. She, also, had been 
 employed in St. Louis, Mo., by the Chrysler Corporation, which 
 position she left to become a partner in the Union County Im- 
 plement Company. 
 
 —401—
 
 In January, 1942, Mr. Paul Fowler, brother of Mrs. 
 Stearns, who up until that time had been associated with Web- 
 er Implement & Automobile Company in St. Louis, Mo., left 
 that firm's employ and with his wife, Catherine, and daugh- 
 ter, Sharon Ann, joined the firm of Union County Implement 
 Company. April 25th of that year their second child, Paula 
 Kay Fowler, was born. In 1943, Mr. Fowler purchased a 
 partnership in the firm and has continued as a partner since 
 that time. Mr. Fowler was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. 
 E. Fowler. He and Mrs. Stearns were both grandchildren 
 of Mr. Silas and Mrs. Amanda Fowler, of the Wolf Creek set- 
 tlement, which borders on the line of Union and Williamson 
 counties. The Silas Fowler family, with their children, of 
 whom H. E. Fowler was the eldest, migrated to Herrin, Ill- 
 inois, and Mr. Paul Fowler was born there. Paul's wife, Cath- 
 erine, was also a native of Williamson County, being born at 
 Herrin, Illinois, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hale. 
 
 In 1946, the members of the firm. Union County Imple- 
 ment Company, established the Anna Automobile Company, 
 located in the Penrod Bldg., 346 S. Main St., next door to the 
 implement and Tractor Agency, and there operated a Sales 
 and Service Agency for Chrysler and Plymouth Automobiles 
 until August of 1950. The Automobile Agency was managed 
 by Mr. Paul Fowler during that time and the Implement Com- 
 pany was managed by Mr. L. T. Stearns. Due to ill health on 
 the part of Mr. Stearns in 1950, the partners sold the Automo- 
 bile Agency to Mr. Raymond Huie, and Mr. Fowler came back 
 into the active management of the Union County Implement 
 Company. 
 
 During the fifteen years of continuous service to the com- 
 munity the firm has always operated at the same location, 
 known as the "Tuttle Bldg." 350 S. Main St. The members of 
 the firm, the Stearns and Fowler families, each and every 
 one, including the children have always taken a very active 
 part in all community and civic projects. 
 
 During the years the firm has been fortunate in having 
 some very loyal and capable employees, many of whom are 
 now the company and have been associated with it almost from 
 its inception. 
 
 —402—
 
 The employees now with the company are: L. T. Stearns, 
 Paul Fowler, Thelma Stearns, the owners and management, 
 and Raymond Gates Sr., Geraldine Kohler, Don Corzine, Lee 
 Hartline, Ammon Lacy, Herman Penninger, Walter Truman 
 Lence, Everett Modglin, Thomas Kinder and Lowell Hileman. 
 
 A HALF CENTURY OF MUSIC IN ANNA 
 
 The name of W. H. Taylor has been associated with music 
 in Anna for the past fifty years. 
 
 "Prof" Taylor arrived in Anna in June, 1904, to teach 
 music and direct the orchestra, chorus, and cantatas for Union 
 Academy. In 1920 he organized and taught in the music de- 
 partment of the Anna High School. Meanwhile, having sold 
 pianos in this area. Mr, Taylor opened a music store in Anna 
 in 1909, which has been in continuous existence since that 
 time. 
 
 As a young boy on a farm in northern Missouri, Bill Tay- 
 lor early showed a talent for music and had his first pupils 
 when he was only 16 years old. 
 
 After attending Maryville, Mo., Teachers' College and do- 
 ing graduate work at Valparaiso College, he taught at Black- 
 well, Oklahoma State Baptist College before coming to Union 
 County — but once here he decided he liked it and stayed. He 
 married Bertha M. Alden in 1908 and had one daughter, Mar- 
 garet Aldythe. 
 
 Mr. Taylor has given private music lessons for almost 
 50 years (including riding horseback through the county to 
 his pupils' houses) and there are few old Union County families 
 who have not had at least one member that was once a pupil 
 of "Prof" Taylor. 
 
 A bit of digression — A "Fruit Packer" for ring packing 
 fruit in bushel baskets — a Peach grader and an Apple grader 
 invented and patented 1922. 
 
 —403-
 
 
 SPIRES SUPER MARKET 
 
 SPIRES CAFETERIA 
 
 120 West Davie Street 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 
 -404—
 
 NORTH S JEWELRY 
 
 114 N. Main St. Phone 761 
 
 North's Jewelry started in business Sept. 1947. 
 
 Pete being- disabled in World War II, decided to take 
 advantage of the G.I. Bill of Rights, left Anna for school to 
 prepare himself for the Jewelry Profession. 
 
 Mildred and Pete were born and raised in Anna. Gradu- 
 ated in the same Class at A.J.C.H.S.. Little then did they 
 realize that some day they would be in business together 
 in their home town. Through the help of God and the 
 good people of this city they have gone forward in the 
 little time they have been in business. 
 
 Pete has installed the latest of w^atch repairing equip- 
 ment that modern science has to offer so as to give faster 
 service and make his w^ork easier. 
 
 Beside studying through the "Gemology Institute of 
 America" he finds it a pleasure being in the Jewelry busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Mildred and Pete are "on the ball" when it comes to 
 selling a diamond or a watch. They feel that what effort they 
 have spent in studying has paid off the short time they have 
 been serving the public. 
 
 North's Jewelry carries a complete line of fine Jewelry. 
 
 Their "Hats" are off to Anna on its "One Hundredth An- 
 niversary" and may many more blessings be Anna's in the 
 coming- years. 
 
 —405—
 
 History of the Union Tire Service 
 
 In the midst of the depression a blue Ford roadster rolled 
 into Anna with three boys, John H. and George W. Whiting, 
 and their brother-in-law, J. L. (Doc) Newberry. They were 
 prospecting for a location to start a tire business. They had 
 been granted a franchise from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 
 Company. The search ended with a frame building at 130 
 East Vienna Street. 
 
 The boys organized an equal partnership and the Union 
 Tire Service was born. The Ford roadster was overhauled in- 
 to a pickup truck ; with a few tires in stock, some batteries on 
 consignment, plus a shingle which read, "We Fix Flats — 25c." 
 They opened for business on January 1st, 1932. 
 
 Word was passed along that the Union Tire Service vul- 
 canized the patch on tubes instead of using a cold patch. Busi- 
 ness was placed on a twenty-four hour basis. The boys did 
 road service, which helped to bring in customers. 
 
 During the first year it became increasingly dangerous, 
 due to traffic, to change tires in the street. The building next 
 door was rented to enable cars to drive in to be serviced. In 
 1934, the boys became agents for the Harley Davidson Motor- 
 cycle Company. They organized the Little Egypt Motorcycle 
 Club. The Union Tire Service offered the people quality mer- 
 chandise, plus service at all times and they were able gradual- 
 ly to add more stock to their shelves. 
 
 Then came the never to be forgotten night in January, 
 1940. The Anna Products building, two doors up the street, 
 burned. The tireless efforts of the fire department and vol- 
 unteer help in sub-zero weather helped to save the Union Tire 
 Service from being razed also. 
 
 In less than a month the ruins from the fire on a sixty- 
 five foot lot was offered for sale. The Goodyear boys, with the 
 support of the Anna State Bank, bought the lot. The filling 
 of the lot was done by Cerny and Dickerson's Truck Company 
 hauling dirt from Anna's Rock Quarry. A blueprint was 
 drawn for a new brick building and the contract was awarded 
 
 —406—
 
 to Edgar Stephens and Sons. The construction began at 
 once. In the early spring of 1941 the white porcelain brick 
 front building was completed and the Union Tire Service 
 moved into their new and present location at 124 East Vienna 
 Street. 
 
 They now have modern, up-to-date equipment, three 
 trucks, and a car which belongs to the company. In 1952, 
 the Union Tire Service purchased the old Woods' Building. 
 This frame building has been a landmark around Anna for 
 sixty-six years. The removal of the building will enable them 
 to have a large parking lot for cars and trucks being serviced. 
 
 This has been only the first phase in the life of this 
 company. In the next twenty-two years, with the continua- 
 tion of quality merchandise and outstanding service, the Union 
 Tire Service shall continue to serve its customers as it has 
 done in the past. 
 
 VERA'S BEAUTY SHOPPE 
 
 Vera Fae Casper, Operator 
 113 Lafayette St. Anna, Illinois 
 
 Opened Faye's Beauty Shoppe September 8th, 1953. 
 
 Graduated from Baker's Beauty Culture School, Carbon- 
 dale, Illinois, in 1946. 
 
 In the past seven years I have worked for Groves Beauty 
 Shoppe, Carbondale ; Marian's Beauty Shop, Dongola ; Pauline's 
 Beauty Shop, Anna; Fain Stone Beauty Salon, Kankakee, Ill- 
 inois. 
 
 I am an active member of National Hairdressers and 
 Cosmetologists Association. Also have had advanced hair 
 styling and hair shaping at the American Studio of Hair 
 Fashion School in Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 —407—
 
 WRIGHT GRAIN CO. 
 
 Grove Avenue and Sheridan Road 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Wright Grain Co. was founded by Charles E. Wright, 
 whose family came to Union County in 1928. In 1931 he and 
 Wilma Irene Arnold of Jonesboro, Illinois, were married. To 
 them six children were born: Jewel in 1933, Delmus in 1936, 
 Lula Belle in 1938, James in 1940, Mitchell in 1943 and Louis 
 Merle in 1951. At this date two of the children were married. 
 Jewel to Mary Evalane Berry in 1952 and Delmus to Shirley 
 L. Pippins in 1954. In June, 1953, a son, Gary Lance, was 
 born to Jewel and Mary Wright. 
 
 From 1931 to 1942 C. E. Wright was engaged at various 
 times in trucking, in the coal business, in the timber business, 
 as a car dealer, and farming. From 1942 to 1944, while 
 hauling Government Supplies he began buying grain in South- 
 east Missouri as a return load for his trucks. In 1944, after 
 moving back to Union County from Kennett, Missouri, he be- 
 gan farming and buying grain each fall until 1949, when he 
 established in Anna the business known today as Wright 
 Grain Company. Each year since 1949 additions have been 
 made until the original 50 ft. building has now been extended 
 to a length of 400 ft. It contains nearly 10,000 sq. ft. of 
 floor area and is equipped for any operation, including grain 
 loading, or unloadnig truck or rail, corn shelling and corn cob 
 loading, the grinding, crushing, and mixing of grains into live- 
 stock feeds, and storage space for stocks to operate a complete 
 farm service company. In 1953 a new fifty foot platform 
 scale with a capacity of 100,000 pounds was installed. 
 
 Personnel at this date are Chas. E. Wright, owner, gen- 
 eral manager, and in charge of grain purchases and sales. J. 
 L. Wright, as manager of feed, seed and fertilizer departments. 
 Henry Grundman, as Field Supervisor for farm service de- 
 partments. Delmus Wright, in charge of farm supplies and 
 trucking, and Raymond Treece in charge of equipment opera- 
 tion and feed mixing department. From six to as many as 
 fifteen persons are employed at various seasons of the year. 
 
 —408^
 
 Some of the products sold at this date are: Staley, Pills- 
 bury and Enterprise feeds, Swift and V. C. Fertilizers, Swift 
 and Black Leaf Spray Products, DeKalb and Funk's Seed Corn, 
 American Fencing Supplies, J. I. Case equipment, Wards 
 Riverside Tires, etc. 
 
 This Company was founded and has prospered and grown 
 through the trust and business given it by the citizens of Un- 
 ion County. The citizens may depend on receiving the same 
 honest and courteous attention to any farm problems in the 
 future that they have justly expected and received in the past. 
 
 E. R. JONES 
 
 Auto Painting and Dent Work 
 300 East Vienna Street Telephone 550 
 
 For twenty-five years the Jones Body Shop has been in 
 the auto repair and painting business. They are now located 
 at 300 East Vienna Street. 
 
 They appreciate the opportunity they have had of serv- 
 ing the people in this area over these years. They hope to 
 be serving and pleasing you for another twenty years. 
 
 —409—
 
 W. E. Wommick, General Transfer & Coal 
 
 107 W. Chestnut— Phone 855 
 
 In 1905, F. E. Womick began the transfer and coal busi- 
 ness in Anna, 111., with a horse and wagon, progressing stead- 
 ily, buying his first truck in 1922. In 1936, his son, W. E. 
 Womick, purchased a half interest and they expanded the 
 business to local and long distant movers, as F. E. Womick and 
 Son. Due to ill health, F. E. Womick was retired in 1949, sell- 
 ing his interest to W. E. In 1951 a half interest was sold to 
 his brother-in-law, Leroy Fox. In 1954, they are operating 
 as W. E. Womick, General Transfer and Coal, a successful 
 transfer and coal business with ten (10) trucks, operating in 
 Anna and traveling throughout Illinois and other areas. They 
 have 6 experienced employees, Russell Walters, Bill Kelley, 
 Frank Millis, Jr., Robert Murray, Leon Randolph and Earl 
 Verble, Mr. Verble being a Womick employee since March 4, 
 1922. They specialize in moving furniture, local and long dis- 
 tant hauling. Their trucks include three closed, modern mov- 
 ing vans, one refrigerated, three dump, one winch or "A" 
 frame, and two smaller trucks for city deliveries. They are 
 operating under the authority of the Illinois Commerce Com- 
 mission, 111. Permit No. 4506, 111. S. No. 18776, and Interstate 
 Commerce Commission permit No. 98896. 
 
 —410—
 
 WAHL and SON 
 Jewelers 
 
 JAMES 
 
 NORM A \ 
 
 Established in Anna, June of 1922, this institution has 
 continuously furnished the community and Southern Illinois 
 the finest in jewelry merchandise and superior service in 
 watch and jewelry repairs. 
 
 Jas. L. Wahl, senior partner, was born in Elkton, Ken- 
 tucky, September 1, 1856. He was engaged in the jewelry 
 business in Kentucky and New Orleans, La., prior to coming 
 to Anna in 1922. 
 
 Norman M. Wahl was born March 27, 1903, in New Or- 
 leans, La., and came with his father from Princeton, Ken- 
 tucky, to establish this firm, at its present location, in 1922. 
 
 On the passing of Jas. L. Wahl in 1936, his interest was 
 assumed by Dora L. Wahl, his widow, and continued until her 
 retirement from business in 1946. 
 
 The store was remodeled in 1948 into the present mod- 
 ern, air-conditioned establishment, which is pictured below. 
 Lucille Shelton Wahl, wife of Norman M., has been active 
 with her husband in the business since 1946. The Norman 
 Wahls have two children, Nancy, age 13, and Edward, age 9. 
 
 —411-
 
 LEON WHITNEY 
 AND COMPANY 
 
 Accountants — Auditors 
 
 Anna State Bank Building 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 Leon Whitney and Company was organized in April, 1949. 
 The purpose of this organization is to assist business enter- 
 prises with their bookkeeping and tax problems. Today it 
 is our distinction to maintain the books and records of many 
 many Union County business houses as well as many busi- 
 ness organizations in adjacent counties. 
 
 Ours has been a pleasant experience. Mrs. Mary B. Whit- 
 ney assisted greatly in the establishment of this business and 
 Mrs. Vera Toler Cook and Miss Faye Tucker, have all played 
 a great part in the continued growth of this company. Their 
 loyalty has been a gratifying experience and through this won- 
 derful co-operation and the co-operation of our clients, we are 
 proud of our associations. 
 
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 Anna State Bank lUiilding 
 
 Telephone Anna One Tliousand 
 
 LEON WHITNEY INSURANCE AGENCY 
 
 Reading from left to right: Leon Wiiitney, Mary B. Whitney, 
 Faye Tucker, Joe Kupferer, Vera Cook. 
 
 Leon Whitney Insurance Agency was established in 1951. 
 At our inception, we adopted a policy of offering the best pos- 
 sible insurance protection to our clients. We represent only 
 old line stock companies and today we are proud of our as- 
 sociation with some of the oldest and largest insurance com- 
 panies in the United States. Mr. Joe Kupferer, became asso- 
 ciated with this agency in July, 1953. Through Joe's dili- 
 gent efforts and sincerity of purpose, we are happy to state 
 that our list of satisfied customers is constantly growing. We 
 advertise with the slogan, "We Protect You," and we shall 
 continue to abide by the foundation of that slogan through the 
 years remaining. 
 
 —413—
 
 f. *' "^ MATTHEIS 
 
 Ralph Glenn 
 
 MATTHEIS AND GENERAL ELECTRIC HAVE BEEN 
 TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-SIX YEARS 
 
 The first General Electric refrigerator for domestic use 
 was produced by the G. E. Company in 1927, and Ralph Mat- 
 theis was selling General Electric appliances with the Cen- 
 tral Illinois Public Service Co. in 1928. The first electric wa- 
 ter heater to be installed in the city of Anna was sold by Ralph 
 Mattheis. Yes, it is very true that Ralph Mattheis and Gen- 
 eral Electric are old, old friends. 
 
 From 1928 to 1933, Ralph was selling G. E. appliances at 
 the C. I. P. S. Company. 
 
 From 1933 to 1945, Ralph had the supervision of the 
 sales and service on General Electric appliances as Group 
 Superintendent of the C. I. P. S. Company. 
 
 On December the eighth, 1945, General Electric moved 
 with Ralph Mattheis and established their own business, 
 known as MATTHEIS GENERAL ELECTRIC at 108 Davie 
 Street. In May of 1946, Glenn Mattheis, after returning from 
 Naval Service, joined with his Father and General Electric 
 in the appliance business. 
 
 During the month of September, 1952, Mattheis General 
 Electric moved from 108 Davie Street to 307 South Main 
 Street, where they are still operating the G. E. Appliance 
 Store. 
 
 Anna is the birth place of Glenn & Ralph Mattheis ; Glenn 
 is one of five generations all living in Anna. 
 
 Mattheis' say, "Thanks" to the people of this area, and 
 we hope to serve them for many years to come. 
 
 —414—
 
 WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE 
 
 "Everything for the Automobile" 
 
 Tires, Tubes, Batteries, Accessories 
 
 Francis Woesthaus, Owner 
 
 124-26 West Davie Street Anna, Illinois 
 
 In March of 1939, fifteen years ago, my wife, Mary 
 Edythe, and I moved to Anna from East St. Louis, Illinois. I 
 had been in the automobile business there for several years 
 with my father and two brothers. This background was help- 
 ful to me in opening my Western Auto Associate Store here. 
 
 My store is an individually owned and operated business, 
 and the greater part of the merchandise is purchased from 
 Western Auto Supply Company. 
 
 I opened my store in March of 1939 in the Alden Build- 
 ing, 325 S. Main Street, Anna, and occupied that location 
 until September of 1944. Due to the need of more room and 
 wishing to expand my business, I moved to my present loca- 
 tion at 124-126 West Davie Street in Anna. At the present 
 time I have two employees, Sam Harvey, and his son, Irvin 
 Harvey. 
 
 With the growth and continued success of my business, 
 I purchased a home at 617 South Main Street in Anna, where 
 1 reside with my family, which consists of my wife, Mary 
 Edythe, and three daughters, Rita Ann, Mary Edythe, and 
 Joan Woethaus. We are all proud to have been a part of this 
 community for the past fifteen years, and hope to be for some 
 time to come. 
 
 We wish to extend our heartiest congratulations to this 
 community on the celebration of its one hundred years of pro- 
 gress, and hope that it will continue to flourish in the future. 
 
 Best Wishes and Thanks to All. 
 
 —415-
 
 BOB'S TAVERN 
 
 SINCE 1932 
 
 Owned and Operated by Bob Hepburn 
 
 122 E. Davie 
 
 John Navin — Grover Speaer 
 
 C. O. BOYD 
 
 Painting & Papering 
 
 30 Years Experience 
 408 Morgan St. Phone 47R 
 
 —416—
 
 Lett to Right: Jess Jenkins, Fred Hurst. Uan Hurst. Charlie Dillow. 
 Ernest Dillow, Percy West, Jim West, Matt Stanish, Carl Cain, George 
 Barker. 
 
 WEST BROTHERS 
 
 Its excellent location has made West Brothers known per- 
 haps to everyone in the area — whether customers or not. The 
 small oflfice building facing one of Anna's large free parking 
 lots; its warehouse extends behind the office to the Illinois 
 Central Railroad's freight depot; on the West, across Davie 
 Street is the City Hall and several of Anna's thriving busi- 
 nesses; to the East are the Illinois Central tracks that play 
 such a vital part in the company's business. 
 
 The business now known as West Brothers, was originally 
 known as West and Ligon: When in 1913 Mike L. West and J. 
 H. Ligon bought the Vancil Coal and Building Supply Com- 
 pany, this business was progressing. When in 1920 Percy 
 M. West returned from service in World War I, he bought Mr. 
 Ligon's interest and joined his brother in the newly named 
 firm of West Brothers. This partnership continued through 
 the years, until the death of Mike in 1950 following two years 
 of illness. Following his brother's death, Percy bought from 
 Mrs. M. L. West his brothers one-half interest in the busi- 
 ness. 
 
 In 1951 James E. West joined his father in the busi- 
 ness. Before entering the business Jim served four years in 
 World War Two. As a member of the Eighth Air Force 
 
 —417—
 
 he was awarded the distinguished flying cross and other 
 medals. He also taught two years in the Dongola public 
 schools. 
 
 Each year sees the business expand and new equipment 
 added. In 1952 the Anna Ready-Mix Concrete Plant was 
 purchased in order to give customers a more complete hard 
 material service. At this time Matt Stanish joined the firm 
 as manager of the Ready-Mix Concrete Plant. 
 
 West Brothers was begun primarily as a retail and 
 wholesale coal and building supply company, but in 1924 the 
 Niagara Sprayer & Chemical Company of Middleport, N. Y., 
 selected the firm as area distributors for their products. The 
 addition of these orchard supplies brought new business and 
 new friends to the firm. The Niagara Company sent J. W. 
 Vernon to Anna to aid in sales and promotional work. After 
 14 years as mid-west sales manager, Mr. Vernon was called 
 into the home ofl^ce and made assistant to the general sales 
 manager. He is now president of the company. S. H. Bear 
 was sent to Anna as the new district manager. After twelve 
 years he was called back to the home office as assistant to the 
 general sales manager. Mr. Bear is now sales manager. 
 
 Following Mr. Bear's departure, Mr. Ray A. Williams, a lo- 
 cal resident, was appointed as Niagara representative. He 
 remains in this position today. West Brothers are now the 
 second oldest distributor of Niagara products in the United 
 States. Knowing that Servcie to God and Service to the 
 community go hand in hand — with service to self, the men in 
 the organization have always been active in civic affairs and 
 in the work of their Church. They have been active in such 
 organizations as the American Legion, the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, are serving as board members for the Stinson Memo- 
 rial Library Board, the Anna Produce Market, the City School 
 Board and have always tried to support every worthwhile 
 cause. 
 
 Much credit for West Brothers continued success through 
 the years is due to the faithfulness of their employees, their 
 devotion to their work, their dependability and their ability 
 to do their work well. Without such men West Brothers' his- 
 tory might be a different story. One of these employees, 
 Ernest Dillow, has been with the company 32 years, another, 
 
 —418—
 
 Charley Dillow, 22 years, Fred and Dan Hurst 15 years each; 
 Jess Jenkins, Marvin Howell, Matt Stanisha 3 years each; 
 a former employee, Ira Dillow was with the company for 36 
 years before leaving in 1953 to accept lighter work. These 
 men along with the founder of the company, Mike L. West, 
 all play an important part in West Brothers past and in their 
 future. 
 
 Compared to the City of Anna, whose Centennial year 
 we are celebrating. West Brothers seem young, but it is the 
 hope of the firm that we may grow and prosper together — 
 for what would our business be without the fine folks that 
 make up the City of Anna, and what would the City of Anna 
 be without firms like ours that strive to grow day by day. 
 
 — Submitted by Allegra West Nash. 
 
 JEAN & COMPANY for 11 years 
 
 icinciise 
 
 If vlercki 
 
 uOroh 
 
 Anna, 111. 
 
 Extend congratulations to the citizens of Anna, now cele- 
 brating the 100th anniversary of a city that has been a won- 
 derful place in which to live and to do business. 
 
 —419—
 
 Walter Hardware Store in 1916 
 
 1916 - WALTER HARDWARE - 1954 
 
 The hardware firm of A. W. Walter Jr. & Co., Inc., oldest 
 in Anna, was founded February 7, 1916, by Adolph William 
 Walter, Jr., when he and Mrs. Walter came to this city from 
 Golconda, Illinois, and brought the hardware stock of Mrs. 
 Festus Dillow which was located in part of what is now the 
 Morris Store building. Mr. Walter, known generally now as 
 A. W., is the son of A. W. Walter, Sr., who established and op- 
 erated for forty-four years a general store in the village of 
 Waltersburg not far from Golconda. In this store, which 
 stocked everything from sewing needles to threshing machines, 
 A. W. got his first experience in merchandising, and there he 
 got the love of hardware in his veins. 
 
 The early days of Walter Hardware were not auspic- 
 ious. "The sum total of the first month's sales," says Mr. 
 Walter, "was less than a good half day's business today." The 
 future looked dark. Then the building was rented 'from 
 under' the business, necessitating a miove. The second loca- 
 tion of Walter Hardware was in the Northern Building at 330 
 North Main Street. It was there that the business began to 
 prosper. 
 
 ^-420—
 
 In 1917, Mr. Walter purchased the stock and building of 
 Mr. James Norris at 207 South Main Street. At that location 
 the two stocks were combined; and there, after thirty-eight 
 years, the store still operates. It has, of course, been en- 
 larged and modernized several times. In 1927, after the de- 
 struction of the First National Bank building by fire, the 
 store front was completely remodeled as it was badly dam- 
 aged by the fire. Later the Davie Street entrance was im- 
 proved. In 1947, the adjoining Sessions building was pur- 
 chased and a complete display of Frigidaire and major home 
 appliances was installed. The store as it now stands, oc- 
 cupies some ten-thousand square feet of floor space and 
 fronts on three streets — a far cry from the days when quar- 
 ters were so cramped that screen wire had to be carried out 
 on the sidewalk to be measured and cut. 
 
 The continuous growth of Walter Hardware is due to a 
 number of factors. First on the list is the loyalty of its 
 patrons, for which the owners are truly grateful. Next is 
 the fact that Walter Hardware has always accented quality 
 merchandise; third, the unceasing effort on the part of the 
 management to live up to the well known saying, "You can 
 always find what you want at Walter's." 
 
 Through the years, the progress of Walter Hardware has 
 been aided immeasurably by many loyal employees. The first 
 of these, being Fred Williford and Jesse Bizzell, who are still 
 residents of anna. Clifford Hileman has been with Walter 
 Hardware for twenty-seven years, Mrs. Ed. (Blanche) Cerny 
 for nearly twelve, and Arthur Karsteter fo six years. More 
 recent employees are Mrs. Frank (Sula) Lingle, Miss Vir- 
 ginia Rinehart, and Floyd Hinkle. 
 
 Closely associated with the success of the store, is the 
 dean of hardware salesmen, Mr. Warren Moore of Belknap 
 Hardware and Manufacturing Co. Mr. Moore has been calling 
 on the store for thirty-eight years and has never missed a 
 bi-weekly order! 
 
 No account of Walter Hardware would be complete with- 
 out mention of the late Mr. Philip Walter, brother of A. W., 
 who served in the store from 1920 until 1948, when ill health 
 forced his retirement. His courtesy and patience, and his 
 wonderful ability to comprehend and solve the problems of 
 
 —421—
 
 his customers, will be long remembered. Also beloved and 
 equally loyal, was Miss Berenice Sauerbrunn, who, in 1927 
 entered the service of the store as secretary and remained 
 there until her untimely, accidental death in 1947. 
 
 In 1946, Adolph Walter III and James A. Smith, son-in-law 
 of Mr. Walter, were released from the Armed Services, and 
 they joined Walter Hardware, later becoming co-partners in 
 the business. The firm was incorporated in 1953 and is now 
 A. W. Walter, Jr. & Co., Incorporated. 
 
 Thirty-eight years have wrought many changes in hard- 
 ware, from wood or coal ranges to electric stoves, from bac- 
 teria laden, wooden ice boxes to porcelain, fully automatic 
 Frigidaires; from palm leaf fans to air-conditioners; from 
 hand saws and cross cuts to gasoline and electric driven saws ; 
 from tubs and wash boards to automatic washers; from 
 straight edge razors to electric razors, from the old oaken 
 bucket to water on tap at the kitchen sink with its disposal 
 and dish washer. The cast iron wares of those early years 
 have been supplimented by the introduction of housewares 
 in aluminum, copper, silver, and plastics. 
 
 Mr. A. W. has had the distinction of serving as president 
 of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association. He was one of 
 
 ■ rm ar^" ^....L Ir 
 
 iMiJlii A II II 
 
 From Lett to Right: A. W. Walter, Jr., Adolph W. Halter III, James A. 
 Smith, Clifford Hileman, Floyd Hinkle, Arthur Karsteter, Mrs. Ed. 
 Cerny, Miss Virginia Rinehart, and Mrs. Frank Lingle. 
 
 __422—
 
 the organizers of the Anna State Bank and served as its 
 first president. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. Adolph 
 W. Walter III also is a thirty-second degree Mason and is 
 now president of the Chamber of Commerce. James A. Smith 
 is serving on the school board. The three, with their fam- 
 ilies are active in the Methodist Church and in civic affairs. 
 
 Walter Hardware has served this community for more 
 than a third of Anna's century. The management expresses 
 its appreciation of the loyalty and confidence its patrons have 
 shown throughout the years. They of the firm say, "Hats 
 off to a fine town in a wonderful community ; may Anna's sec- 
 ond hundred years be as successful as its first !" 
 
 A. W. Walter Jr. & Co., Inc. 
 
 KIMMEL AUTO SUPPLY 
 
 Wholesale Auto Parts Jobber 
 104 East Vienna Anna, Illinois 
 
 Inman Harrelson, Mgr. 
 Established 1937 Phone No. 309 
 
 —423—
 
 1935 1954 
 
 UNION HOUSE 
 FURNISHING COMPANY 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 Centralia, Illinois 
 
 We Deliver 
 
 —424—
 
 A NOlTMARt 
 
 AD HONOREM 
 
 to the native son 
 
 Frank Henry Willard 
 
 Born Anna, Illinois, Sept. 21, 1893, to Dr. Frances William 
 and Laura (Kirkham) Willard. Entered Union Academy, 
 Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1913, Cartoonist Chi- 
 cago-Herald 1914-1918. 
 
 Entered U. S. Army 1917, served with American Ex- 
 peditionary Force in France 1918-19. With King-Features 
 Syndicate 1919-1923. Joined Chicago-Tribune News Syndic 
 cate 1923. Creator "Moon Mullins" and "Kitty Higgins" 
 Comic Strips. Member National Cartoonist Society. Two 
 children, Priscilla and Frank Henry Jr. Home: Los An- 
 geles, California. 
 
 In honor of Frank "Doc" Willard, who by his clever car- 
 toons during the past thirty-odd years, has brought smiles 
 and cheer to the lives of untold millions of people, this page is 
 affectionately dedicated. 
 
 These four cartoons represent the fruits of "Doc" Wil- 
 liard's earliest efforts. They are reproduced from the Union 
 Academy Year Book "Reflector" of 1912. 
 
 FACULTY 
 
 CfrtlLETlCJ^ ' 
 
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 —425—
 
 WILEY'S BOOK STORE 
 
 The Wiley Book Store has for over 60 years kept pace 
 with the growth of the City of Anna, being one of the few 
 present local businesses that was started by a direct descend- 
 ant of the original settlers of Union County. It has continued 
 to the present day, 64 years later, in the hands of the same 
 family. 
 
 William W. Wiley, son of Ben. L. Wiley and Emily Davie 
 Wiley, was born in 1851, and lost his sight in early life as the 
 result of caring for a civil war soldier whose infected eye he 
 tended. Five years at the Jacksonville Institution for the 
 Blind, taught him the trade of broom making, and he eventual- 
 ly came to Anna from his farm home near Makanda and open- 
 ed a small broom factory, to which he soon added candy, to- 
 bacco and cigars ; and later included books and school supplies. 
 His ability to find every item in his store and to tell the prices 
 was a source of wonder to his customers, who seldom took ad- 
 vantage of his lack of sight. The store became one of the 
 most successful in Anna. 
 
 Mr. Wiley married Mrs. Mary Grear Glasco in 1881, and 
 his son, Winstead Davie Wiley, helped his father in the 
 store until the latter's death in 1917, when he became sole 
 owner. In 1935 the store, located on Main Street, was badly 
 damaged by fire. It was rebuilt into two store rooms, one 
 for the book store, the other for the millinery stock of Miss 
 lowna Seger. 
 
 W. D. Wiley died in 1941 and the business of the Book 
 Store was continued by his wife, Mrs. Floyd Halstead Wiley, 
 until 1945, when it was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. 
 Griffith. Mrs. Griffith is a daughter of W. D. Wiley and a 
 great-great granddaughter of Winstead Davie. 
 
 —426—
 
 The A. J. West Family 
 
 By 1854 some West family ancestors had been in Union 
 County half a century; Peter Sifford coming from Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1804. Others, including the Sitters, Billows and 
 Treeces, came here from Rowan County, N. C. 
 
 At the time the City of Anna was founded, Benjamin 
 West and wife, Mary, were living near Covington, Indiana, and 
 there Andrew Jackson West was born December 18, 1855. 
 They migrated to Verona, Mo., in 1872, and from there to Un- 
 ion County, Illinois, in 1873. 
 
 In 1879 A. J. West married Lucinda Treece, a member of 
 third generation Union County settlers. To them were born 
 nine children: Harry, not married; Mayme m. — R. E. Brown; 
 Birdie m. — J. H. Ligon; Sarah m. — J. 0. Plemon; Mike m. — 
 Cecile L. Baggott; Ben m. — Marie Thompson; Percy m. — Lona 
 Rainer ; Corlis m — Ferbia Waller ; Cornie m. — Maude Murphy. 
 All the children were born and reared on the family farm 
 north of Anna, which farm is still operated by two of the 
 grandchildren as Westrees Farm, a combination of the fam- 
 ily names. 
 
 There were 19 grandchildren: Roy and Robert Brown, 
 Harvey, Eugene, John E. and William R. Ligon, Doris Otrich, 
 Martha Page and Joseph Plemon, Jane Williams, Wayne West, 
 James West, Allegra Nash, Don, Jack and Lynn West, Shirley 
 Davis, Norma Lee and Cornelia West. Thirty great-grand- 
 children include Patricia Brown Shafer, Michael, Marianna, 
 Beverly Brown; Barbara, Mary, Jane, John J., Jeanie, William 
 Ligon ; Harold, Richard, Dannie Page ; Janice, Mary Lynn, Jo- 
 seph Plemon; David Williams; Jennifer and Alice K. West; 
 Deborah and David Nash; James, Andrew and Betsy West; 
 Andrea, Jacqueline and Douglas West ; John, Thomas and Don 
 Davis. Three great-great-grandchildren are Steven and Su- 
 san Shafer and James Page. 
 
 A. J. West was of a family of eight children, his wife one 
 of 11 children. She had 90 first cousins, most of whom lived 
 in Union County. 
 
 —427—
 
 Descendants of the A. J. West family have had an active 
 part in the building of the community, and retain a deep inter- 
 est in its affairs. Many of the children and grandchildren are 
 now engaged in occupations, trades and professions in Anna. 
 They work, not only in business and civic affairs, but also 
 in the Churches of the City — for the betterment of the Com- 
 munity both materially and spiritually. 
 
 WEST - TREE 
 
 There are trees that groiv in gardens 
 There are those that stand by the sea. 
 But the one I cherish most 
 Is my own family tree. 
 
 It grows and groivs throughout the years 
 
 yiourished by God above. 
 Happiness, heartaches, smile and tears, 
 
 hope, laughter and love. 
 
 If I had one wish to be granted, 
 It's that God will always bless, 
 This tree that he has planted 
 
 and given the name of West. 
 
 Allegra West Nash 
 
 —428—
 
 LINCOLN MOTEL 
 
 While visiting or passing- through our twin cities, stay 
 at the New AAA Approved Lincoln Motel located on Route 
 146 between Anna and Jonesboro. 
 
 We opened our doors to the public on September 15th, 
 1952. Sanitary tile used on the floors and in baths, complete 
 with tub and shower. Mengel furniture, Beautyrest mat- 
 tresses, lounge chairs, reading lamps, luggage racks, and 
 radios. Air conditioned and thermostat controlled hot water 
 heat for your winter and summer comfort. 
 
 We hope your stay may be a pleasant one to remember. 
 
 Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Novack. 
 
 —429—
 
 A Good Store In A Good Community 
 That's 
 
 HERB COLES' QUALITY MARKET 
 
 154 E. Vienna Street Anna, Illinois 
 
 Phone 554 
 
 Good meats have built our business. Also fine food and 
 veg'etables. 
 
 Home owned by Herb Coles, and run by Herb and his wife, 
 the former Betty Ledbetter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 
 Ledbetter. Also assisted by two very fine children, Mike and 
 Eugenia. 
 
 WILLIAMS REPAIR SERVICE 
 
 Phone 521-W 
 Lowell Williams, Mgr. 113 Grove Ave. 
 
 Lowell Williams, owner and manager of the Williams 
 Repair Service, has been in the automobile repair business 
 for twenty five years. He now has his own business establish- 
 ed at 113 Grand Avenue, where he specializes in any type of 
 automotive repair. He is assisted in the shop by his son, 
 Bobby J., and in the office by his wife, Verna V. 
 
 This industrious family firm appreciates all the busi- 
 ness which they have had from people of this trade territory 
 and are optimistic about the future of the City of Anna. 
 
 -430—
 
 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 
 Clarence D. Boyce entered business in Anna Illinois in 
 the year of 1923. He purchased one-half interest of the Rob- 
 ert B, Duncan Tailoring business, with whom he had been 
 employed as a tailor for a number of years. They cut and 
 made, in their shop, suits and overcoats for a good many Union 
 County citizens ; employing one and two journeymen tailors 
 each season. The firm was known as Duncan and Boyce. 
 They decided to devote more time to their dry cleaning part 
 of their business, so in 1925 they erected a building in the 
 rear of 3071/2 South Main Street and a modern dry cleaning 
 plant for that time was installed. As the years passed, less 
 time was devoted to their tailoring and more time devoted to 
 their dry cleaning. About 1930 they discontinued making 
 garments in their own shop, having them made in the cities, 
 their dry cleaning business had grown so that it required 
 all their time. 
 
 They remained in partnership until 1945 when Duncan 
 sold his interest to Boyce. The business taking the present 
 name of Boyce Cleaners. 
 
 The dry cleaning business still growing, a fire proof build- 
 ing was erected in the rear of 307 South Main Street and a 
 modern cleaning plant suitable for future years was installed, 
 making it one of the most up-to-date plants in Southern Illinois. 
 
 The business since 1945 has been conducted solely for dry 
 cleaning and the basic services expected of an establishment 
 of that kind including a free pick-up and delivery service for 
 Anna, Jonesboro and the State Hospital. 
 
 Since 1945 Boyce has been assisted by his wife, Lillian, 
 and with five to six loyal employees, each one skilled in their 
 particular line of duties. The present personnel consists of 
 
 —431—
 
 the following: Claude E. Davis, presser of wool garments; 
 Frank Merlin Dillow, in charge of cleaning plant; Eva Miles 
 Pickel, in charge of silk garments ; Bonnie Eudy, in charge of 
 checking in and out of garments ; Ron Bittle, maintenance man. 
 
 The main office and finishing department of the business 
 is located at 102 Lafayette Street. A tailoring and cleaning 
 business has been operated at the same location since 1909. 
 
 SWAIN'S SHOE SERVICE 
 
 334 South Main Anna 
 
 Owned and operated by 
 Mr. and Mrs. James Swain 
 
 —432—
 
 
 
 n. 
 
 In 1877 Harvey Cady Bouton established the Farmer and 
 Fruit Grower, in Anna, Illinois. It was the first agricultural 
 and horticultural journal published in Southern Illinois. Mr. 
 Bouton received his early newspaper training in the office 
 of his father, Thomas F. Bouton, owner of the Jonesboro 
 Gazette. The first home of the Farmer and Fruit Grower 
 was in the Lufkin Building on Railroad Street, but in 1879 his 
 father-in-law, Mr. Oliver Alden, erected a two-story brick 
 building and the business was moved to this building, Mr. 
 Bouton and his family living upstairs above the printing es- 
 tablishment. Later it was in its own building, the present 
 site of Foley's Drug Store. Quoting from Union County His- 
 tory, published in 1883, "Mr. Bouton's agricultural and horti- 
 cultural paper was started in March, 1877, as a modest little 
 experiment, issued semi-monthly. A four-column, eight page 
 paper devoted exclusively to agricultural and horticultural 
 interests of Union County and Southern Illinois. In the 
 fall of 1877 it was changed into a five column quarto and was 
 then published as a weekly, and then again the demands upon 
 its columns were such that its size was increased to a six- 
 column quarto. Started as an experiment and rather a dar- 
 ing venture, its success has been great and the good influence 
 it has exerted upon this entire Southern part of Illinois has 
 been wide and lasting. Farmers and fruit growers all over 
 the country deeply appreciate this as their friend and organ, 
 and all over the State it is already well known and highly val- 
 ued. The horticultural department is in charge of Dr. J. H. 
 Sanborn, who renders his department valuable to the horticul- 
 tural and fruit growing interest." 
 
 —433—
 
 other contributors were Dr. F. M. Agnew ("Uncle Ful- 
 ler") of Makanda, Mr. Thomas Holcomb and Mr. Parker Earle 
 of Cobden, Dr. Condon, J. W. Fuller, H. R. Buckingham to 
 name a few. Mr. Earle may be remembered as the man who 
 made the first refrigerated shipment of strawberries to Chi- 
 cago on the Illinois Central. The first telephone in Anna was 
 in the office of the Farmer and Fruit Grower and was con- 
 nected with the office of the State Hospital ! Mr. Bouton died 
 in 1886. 
 
 Harvey Cady Bouton was married to Allie D. Allen in 
 1877 and to them were born three daughters. Susan Sarah, 
 Mrs. Charles V. Seastone of Madison, Wisconsin; Winifred, 
 Mrs. Edward L. Karraker of Jonesboro, Illinois, and Ada 
 Frances, Mrs. Willis A. Hartline of Anna, Illinois, deceased. 
 
 When widowed Mrs. Bouton with the aid of her father 
 and brothers established a successful business known as 
 "Mrs. A. D. Bouton's Ladies' Furnishings," which continued 
 until 1909, at which time she sold the Alden Store Company 
 but continued to work for them. Mrs. Bouton died in 1917. 
 
 —434—
 
 GASPERS OF UNION COUNTY 
 
 The original Casper family to settle in Union County 
 was that of Peter Casper who came to the county in 1818, 
 driving his team and wagon from Rowan County, North 
 Carolina. Some of the land which he held was originally 
 granted to him by the government. To this he added a 
 considerable acreage lying north of Anna and Jonesboro. 
 A part of this tract was what is now the site of the Anna 
 State Hospital. The land was heavily wooded with mag- 
 nificent timber. Peter Casper was married to Esther Fullen- 
 wider on September 17, 1803, and to this union nine children 
 were born. Of this group Peter Houston Casper was born, 
 November 25, 1822 after the family had settled on the home 
 farm which later was known as the Appel farm and which 
 lies about one mile west of the old Ellis school site. 
 
 Peter H. Casper grew up in the original log cabin built 
 by his father and later became the owner of the home farm 
 and several tracts adjacent. He was married to Elizabeth 
 Henderson in 1848. Her family came from Tennessee and 
 she was the daughter of Rev. Rollins Henderson, who was a 
 cousin of General Thomas Henderson, and a close friend 
 of Abraham Lincoln. To this union seven children were 
 born who lived to adult life. These were Walter J. Gasper 
 who later farmed in Johnson County, America Josephine 
 Casper who later married John T. Ussery, and Stephen 
 Douglas Casper, known as Doug and who was associated with 
 the Horticultural Industry in Union County, Addie L. who 
 became the wife of Dr. J. H. Appel, Lincoln Lester who became 
 one of Union County's best known Horticulturists, and who 
 lived on one of the original Casper tracts of land half way 
 between Anna and Cobden, John Rollin, and Oscar H. Casper 
 who lived on the farm adjoining the L. L. Casper farm on 
 the east and also pioneered in Horticulture. 
 
 The first Peter Casper donated the land for a Commun- 
 ity cemetery and a site for a school and church now known 
 as the Gasper Church and Cemetery. He was one of the 
 pioneer Horticulturists of the County and was one of the 
 first to ship strawberries to the Chicago market from this 
 
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 area. His interests in his vocation was deep and left a 
 heritage of interests in this vocation which endures to the 
 present time. In fact the fourth generation of Casper fruit 
 growers are still engaged in this profession and are recognized 
 as leaders in the field of quality production of apples, peaches, 
 and nuts. Two of the original tracts of Casper land are still 
 in fruit production and operated by the fourth generation of 
 Caspers. These farms are Conrad R. Casper and son farm, 
 originally the Oscar H. Casper farm. Orchard Home, now 
 operated by Wallace L. Casper, along with Donald W. Casper 
 who lives on an adjoining farm. This farm is known as the 
 L. L. Casper and sons, and until recently was owned and op- 
 erated by Wallace L. and Manley W. who passed away in 
 1953. Ralph Casper is also engaged in Horticulture in the 
 eastern part of the county. 
 
 L. L. Casper married Blanche Waite, and to them were 
 born a family of seven children, Helen, now Mrs. R. C. Walk- 
 er, Wallace, Mildred, now Mrs. Collan Walker, Manley, Don- 
 ald, Ralph, and Elizabeth, now deceased. 
 
 O. H. Casper married Ida Hartline and to them were 
 born three children, Cecil, now Mrs. Floyd Davis, Conrad R., 
 and Glen D., all of whom still reside in the county. 
 
 The original Peter Casper was known as a hunter and 
 lover of the woods and streams. This devotion to the rod 
 and gun has persisted to the present. The Casper family has 
 always been known for its interest and participation in pub- 
 lic affairs. The family has been influential in the develop- 
 ment of the Union County Farm Bureau, and The Illinois 
 Horticultural Society. The name "Casper" is a symbol of 
 quality in the production of fruits. 
 
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 CLEMENTS WELDING SERVICE 
 
 Acetylene and Electric 
 
 Ornamental Iron Work and Steel Clothes Line Posts 
 
 168 East Vienna Street — Anna, 111. — Phone 404 
 
 UNION COUNTY OIL CO. 
 
 The Union County Oil Co. was organized on July 30, 1930 
 after purchasing the Lane Oil Company of Cobden. The 
 newly established company was a partnership between Law- 
 rence Randall and Claude Lee, the latter selling his interest 
 to Everett Randall the following year. Everett Randall pur- 
 chased his father's interest in the business in October, 1938, 
 and has continued to operate under the firm name of Union 
 County Oil Co. 
 
 The company first began selling Barnsdall products and 
 represented this supplier until Mr. Randall purchased the 
 bulk plant of the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation of 
 Anna, in April, 1941. 
 
 The Tuthill Oil Co. was purchased by the Union County 
 Oil Co. on November 16, 1949. This business was organized 
 by Russell Tuthill, and was incorporated with Ben Green, 
 Dr. E. C. Kimbro, and W. H. Bishop as stockholders. The sta- 
 tion was opened to the public on Feb. 16, 1932. Since Mr. 
 Randall became the sole owner he has built a modern sta- 
 tion in 1950 and the name of Tuthill Oil Company was changed 
 in favor of Union County Oil Station. The station is present- 
 ly leased to Harold Fink. 
 
 Union County Oil Co., Everett Randall, Owner 
 Bulk Plants: Anna & Cobden 
 
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 CARTER'S CAFE 
 
 Ernest Carter and wife, Beulah, own and operate "Car- 
 ter's Cafe" at 126 E. Davie St., Anna, 111. We strive to please 
 the public with our home cooked meals, which are served to 
 you by efficient and friendly waitresses daily except Sunday 
 and Holidays. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carter have operated this thriving busi- 
 ness since December 7, 1951. Mr. Carter formerly operated 
 a cafe at the same location, intermittently between the years 
 1918 and 1928. We are always glad to meet old friends and 
 make new ones. 
 
 Our plates are 50c, short orders 40c, delicious home made 
 pies 15c and believe it or not a large cup of coffee, 5c. 
 
 Employees include the following: Head Cook, Mrs. (Earl) 
 Pearl Verble, Anna; Short Order Cook, Mrs. Jessie Webb, 
 Anna ; Waitress, Mrs. Ruth Pearl, Anna. Other help includes 
 Mrs. (Phillip) Lona Karraker, Jonesboro, 111., and extra help, 
 Mrs. Beulah Earnhart.. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carter and employees will appreciate your 
 continued patronage and support. Thank you. 
 
 Compliments Of 
 
 JOHN H. CARTER 
 
 Attorney at Law 
 ANNA, ILLINOIS 
 
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 FLOYD L. GRAY 
 
 Chief of Police of Anna, from 
 1935 to 1943. 
 
 Member of City Council, 
 1947 to 1951. 
 
 Member of Anna City Board 
 
 of Education from 1936 to 
 
 1951 incl. 
 
 Floyd L. Gray, 
 
 We, the same as our forefathers, believe that Union Coun- 
 ty Real Estate is a sound investment. 
 
 RAYBURN ICE 
 
 Licensed Real Estate Broker 
 
 Anna, Illinois 
 
 See me when you want to buj^ or sell Real Estate 
 
 —439—
 
 SOURCE OF AUTHORITIES 
 
 Perrin, William — History of Alexander, Union, and Pul- 
 aski County, 1883. 
 
 Smith, Prof. G. W.— History of Southern Illinois, 1912. 
 
 Smith, Prof. G. W. — History of Illinois and Her People, 
 1927. 
 
 Alverd, Clarence W. — Centennial History of Illinois, 1918. 
 
 Leonard, Lulu — History of Union County, Gazette-Demo- 
 crat Press, 1939. 
 
 Wiley, Mrs. C. H. — Egyptian Hustlers-Democrat Press, 
 1905 
 
 Jobe, Kenneth — Graduate Thesis, Survey of Anna, 1949. 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Directory — Democrat Press, 1897. 
 
 Files Gazette-Democrat— 1901-1908-1926. 
 
 Files of City Hall— 1871-1954 (Research by Lona M. West, 
 Clyde Treece, and Mary Whitney) . 
 
 Index 
 
 Page 
 
 A Retrospect 6 
 
 Agriculture 37 
 
 Ernest Alden 221 
 
 Oliver Alden 223 
 
 Alma's Beauty Shop 225 
 
 American Legion 143 
 
 American Legion Auxiliary 145 
 
 Anna Beauty Salon 261 
 
 Anna Building & Loan 235 
 
 Anna Cafe 227 
 
 Anna City Hospital 155 
 
 Anna Cleaners 229 
 
 Anna Fair 208 
 
 Anna Flour & Feed Co 231 
 
 Anna High School 127 
 
 Anna Hotel 232 
 
 Anna Ice Plant 323 
 
 40—
 
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 Anna-Jonesboro Community High School 128 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Lumber Co 239 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Motor Co 252 
 
 Anna-Jonesboro Rotary Club 88 
 
 Anna Knitting Club 183 
 
 Anna Loan and Improvement Co 236 
 
 Anna National Bank 241 
 
 Anna News Co 298 
 
 Anna Nursery 226 
 
 Anna Precinct 27 
 
 Anna Producers Dairy 382 
 
 Anna Quarries 249 
 
 Anna Sheet Metal Works 238 
 
 Anna State Bank 255 
 
 Anna State Hospital 159 
 
 Anna Theatres 211 
 
 Anna Tractor Sales 226 
 
 100 Years of Education in Anna 117 
 
 Bee-Line Garage 272 
 
 Beginnings of Union County 12 
 
 Belcher Electric Service 390 
 
 Bessie's Beauty Shop 322 
 
 Beta Sigma Phi 184 
 
 Bib & Tucker 264 
 
 W. L. Bishop 267 
 
 Leonard C. Bittle 251 
 
 Bob's Tavern 416 
 
 Boot & Shoe Workers Union 214 
 
 Boswell's Tavern 262 
 
 Harvey C. Bouton 433 
 
 Bovce Cleaners 431 
 
 C. 0. Boyd 416 
 
 C. J. Boyd Family 265 
 
 Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters Union 220 
 
 Brook's Paint & Wallpaper Store 263 
 
 Business and Professional Women's Club 92 
 
 Campbell and Denny 276 
 
 Carter's Cafe 438 
 
 John H. Carter 438 
 
 Caspers of Union County 435 
 
 Frank Cavaness 278 
 
 Central Illinois Public Service Co 270 
 
 Chamber of Commerce 84 
 
 Chiropractic History 178 
 
 Choate Family 283 
 
 Christian Church 103 
 
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 Pag-e 
 
 Cities Service Oil Co 273 
 
 City Officials 1871-1954 64 
 
 Clements Welding Service 437 
 
 Coca Cola Bottling- Co 279 
 
 Cochran Appliances 269 
 
 Colonial Package Liquor Store 222 
 
 Conyer Studio 296 
 
 Country Life Insurance Co 264 
 
 Culp Oil Co 380 
 
 Cunningham Electric Co 274 
 
 Dairy Queen 285 
 
 Daisy's Beauty Shoppe 281 
 
 Daniel Food Stores 285 
 
 Davidson Barber Shop 284 
 
 Winstead Davie 23 
 
 Emory Davis 281 
 
 Davis Pastry Shop 287 
 
 Davis Shell Service 286 
 
 Dale Denny Construction Co 289 
 
 Delta Theta Tau 187 
 
 Dentists of Anna-Jonesboro 164 
 
 Dickerson Buick Sales 282 
 
 Dillow Garage 180 
 
 Dotty's Vogue Shop 362 
 
 H. E. Douglas 290 
 
 Robert B. Duncan 372 
 
 Eastern Star 199 
 
 Eastman Family 294 
 
 Early Industries 34 
 
 Economy Furniture Store 200 
 
 Educational Institutions 41 
 
 Egyptian Nash Corp 293 
 
 Roy Elam 207 
 
 Elkins Appliance Sales 291 
 
 Elks Lodge 189 
 
 Emily's Flower Shop 147 
 
 Fairs 39 
 
 Farmers Produce & Supply 292 
 
 Fashion Shop ' 298 
 
 E. W. File Supply Co 297 
 
 F. W. Fink 292 
 
 First Baptist Church 96 
 
 First Methodist Church 112 
 
 First Presbyterian Church 114 
 
 First Streetcar 58 
 
 Foley's Drug Store 296 
 
 —442—
 
 Page 
 
 Founding- of Anna 17 
 
 Fraternities and Societies 43 
 
 Gamber Motor Co 307 
 
 Gamm Shoe Co 301 
 
 Gazette-Democrat 303 
 
 General Telephone Co 310 
 
 Gilmore Asphalt Products Inc 308 
 
 Goddard Seed & Produce 300 
 
 Goddard Storage 299 
 
 Floyd L. Gray 439 
 
 Growth of the City 25 
 
 Growth Since 1900 57 
 
 H & W Skelgas Service 158 
 
 Half Century Mark 52 
 
 Hall Family 280 
 
 Robert Hall 312 
 
 Hamilton Radio & TV Sales 312 
 
 Jackson L. Hammond 320 
 
 Harold's Paint & Wallpaper Store 316 
 
 Helen's Fabrics 317 
 
 Herb Coles Quality Market 430 
 
 Hight's Texaco Service 313 
 
 Hileman Seed Store 311 
 
 John W. Hill 318 
 
 Hindman Homestead 322 
 
 Hinkle Food Market 314 
 
 P. M. Hirsch & Co 230 
 
 Historical Background 4 
 
 Honey Heating & Air Conditioning 317 
 
 Hospital for the Insane 31 
 
 Hotel Barber Shop 314 
 
 Hotel Newstand 336 
 
 Hoye Pontiac Co 315 
 
 Rayburn Ice 439 
 
 International Shoe Co 326 
 
 Janas Jewelers Ill 
 
 Jean & Co 419 
 
 Jean Insurance Agency 334 
 
 Jo-An Cleaners 335 
 
 Joiner Furniture Store 102 
 
 S. D. Joiner's Grocery 324 
 
 E. R. Jones 409 
 
 Johnson's Feed & Produce 321 
 
 Jonesboro High School 127 
 
 Karraker Oil Co 325 
 
 —443—
 
 Page 
 
 Keller's Standard Service 104 
 
 Mary H. Kent 76 
 
 Kimmel Auto Supply 423 
 
 Kiwanis Club 95 
 
 Korean Conflict 50 
 
 Kratzinger Hollow 182 
 
 Kroger Co 337 
 
 Claude E. Lee 280 
 
 Leon Whitney & Co 412 
 
 Leon Whitney Insurance Agency 413 
 
 Lewis Bros. Bakery 357 
 
 Ligon Lumber Co 340 
 
 Limerick Finance Corp 339 
 
 Lincoln Motel 429 
 
 Ruel A. Lingle 338 
 
 Location 1 
 
 Loomis Bros. Equipment Co 342 
 
 McCartv Funeral Home 344 
 
 M. R. f. Sign Service 356 
 
 Mt. Moriah United Lutheran Church 105 
 
 Mac's Barber Shop 347 
 
 Mac's Shell Service 343 
 
 Main Street Barber Shop 210 
 
 Mallams Bros. Market 350 
 
 Marian Shop 361 
 
 Martin Oil Co 346 
 
 Masonic Lodge 195 
 
 Master Baking Co 319 
 
 Mattheis General Electric 414 
 
 100 Years of Medicine 165 
 
 Midway Barbecue 348 
 
 Military History 47 
 
 Moore's Food Center 351 
 
 Mrs. Moore's Flower Shop — Greenhouse 306 
 
 Moose Lodge 203 
 
 Morris Stores 355 
 
 Most Important Political Event 32 
 
 Mowell Stores 356 
 
 Mowery Electric Shop 339 
 
 Municipal Produce Market 216 
 
 Music in Anna 403 
 
 Newspapers 45 
 
 Myrtle Nimmo 369- 
 
 Norris & Son Funeral Home, Jonesboro 363 
 
 Norris Funeral Home, Anna 366 
 
 North's Jewelry 405 
 
 —444—
 
 Page 
 
 0. K. Barber Shop 368 
 
 Official Family 79 
 
 Oneness Pentecostal Church 116 
 
 Optometry in Anna 177 
 
 Organization of Union County 12 
 
 E. P. Owen 370 
 
 Page Auto & Home Supply 371 
 
 Painters & Decorators Union 219 
 
 Park's Drug Store 352 
 
 Partridge Service Station 372 
 
 Pearce Barber Shop 372 
 
 Pearl Motor Co 394 
 
 John J. Pelley 381 
 
 Penninger Produce 188 
 
 Phoenix Flour Mills 374 
 
 Pioneer Life 8 
 
 Presbyterian Men's Club 201 
 
 Pygett's Superette 373 
 
 Religious Organizations 40 
 
 Rendleman & Rendleman 385 
 
 Rendleman's Standard Service 385 
 
 Rich's Clothing Store 387 
 
 Rich's Shoe Store 386 
 
 Rodman & Robinson 362 
 
 John William Roy 389 
 
 Royal Arch Masons 193 
 
 St. Mary's Church 101 
 
 Sanford's 391 
 
 Segers Hat & Gift Shop 392 
 
 Senior Class 136 
 
 Dr. Charles Shaf er 179 
 
 Lynn D. Sifford 305 
 
 Signs of Progress 51 
 
 Southern Barbecue 388 
 
 Spires Super Market : 404 
 
 Steak House 213 
 
 Stinson Memorial Library 138 
 
 Harry P. Stout 181 
 
 Swain's Shoe Service 432 
 
 The Plank Road 15 
 
 Treece's Cafeteria 398 
 
 Trinity Lutheran Church 110 
 
 Tuthill & Family 359 
 
 Tuthill Insurance Agency 393 
 
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 Twin City Cleaners ^98 
 
 U. S. Post Office 153 
 
 Union Academy 140 
 
 Union County Farm Bureau 218 
 
 Union County Implement Co 401 
 
 Union County Oil Co 437 
 
 Union County Soil Conservation District 152 
 
 Union House Furnishing Co 424 
 
 Union Tire Service 406 
 
 VFW Auxiliary 150 
 
 VFW Post 148 
 
 Vera's Beauty Shoppe 407 
 
 Wahl and Son, Jewelers 411 
 
 Walter Hardware 420 
 
 A. J. West Family 427 
 
 West Brothers 417 
 
 West's D-X Service 186 
 
 Western Auto Associate Store 415 
 
 Wiley's Book Store 426 
 
 Frank Henry Willard 425 
 
 William's Repair Service 430 
 
 Woman's Club of Anna 93 
 
 W. E. Wommick 410 
 
 Wood Insurance Agency 154 
 
 Wright Grain Co 408 
 
 Yellow Cab 228 
 
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