IRMVE1W nf UtfOlS LIBRARY AUG 13 1922 Hnnual IReview ]£6ttton East pcoria |post Hitgitst It, 1022 Cbe THolt “Caterpillar” flTlaktng the Caterpillar Crail WM. H. SCHELM Manufacturers= COMMERCIAL AUTOMOBILE BODIES of All Kinds. Standard or Made to Order. SPECIALTIES Hearses, Ambulances and Combination Service Cars For Undertakers and Furniture Dealers. “TRAVELERS’ HOME” on wheels. FACTORY EAST PEORIA, ILLIONIS 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 ( tX? 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 WIVESSlir up mBpij LIBWHT AUG 23 1922 ANNUAL RE MEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST RAPP CLAY PRODUCTS CO. (INCORPORATED! BARTHOL RAPP, President Manufacturers of HOLLOW BUILDING TILE 98 Office:- PEORIA LIFE BUILDING, PEORIA 88 YARDS AT EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS EAST PEORIA AND THE STREET CAR )f houses below the bluffs of Only a few years ago East Peoria consisted of a cluster Tazewell. Times have changed. Today, East Peoria factories look to Peoria for their employes, and Peoria, in a large measure, depends upon the East Peoria factories for manufactured products. East Peoria has her own banks, her own schools and real estate offices, her paved streets and other improvements which the majority of villages do not have. The Connecting Link Is The Street Car Building the East Peoria line in anticipation of the growth of East Peoria, and providing it with equipment to take care of increasing population and business activities, the vision has proven its soundness. Today the street car brings working people from Peoria to the East Peoria factories and takes them home again at night. It brings East Peorians to the railroad depots and gives them transfer connections to other street car lines in order that they may take advantage of Peoria as a retail shopping center. The street car company pays taxes in East Peoria. It is one of your essential industries. It’s aim is to give the best service possible and consistent with prevailing" conditions. The recent installation of the large cars on the East Peoria line has proven of great convenience during rush hours. The street car served East Peoria in its infancy, during the war. later in business depres- sion, and now it is once again caring for the needs of the people when industry is on the upward trend. PEORIA RAILWAY COMPANY zz Anp a sn. 1 - 552 . ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST VOL. XXI EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 11. 1922 No. 9 C. J. Rosebery, Former Secretary of Oliver J. Bailey, Deceased, Tells of Mr. Bailey’s Faith in East Peoria The late Oliver J. Bailey acquired title and posses- sion of the property lying in Foil du lac township of Tazewell County and known as the Yoris farm, in the fall of 1887, since which time the property has remained in the Bailey family. During the lifetime of Mr. Bailey, this property was known as the East Side harm and was operated by him as a dairy, it being under the manage- ment of Mr. Tom Widdop a well known citizen of East Peoria. Mr. Bailey had a vision of large developement for East Peoria and during his lifetime always took a leading part in suggesting developments and helping to promote them. One of the first improvements which he fathered and backed was the pavement of an old wagon road lead- ing from Peoria through East Peoria. I'his was accom- plished as a reality and the road was used for about twenty years before a new pavement was laid down by the present city authorities. That old pavement pulled East Peoria out of the mud and gave to its citizens and farmers in the nearby territory, access to Peoria. Mr. Bailey was instrumental in securing for blast Peoria the location of the Peoria Steel and lube Com- pany, the buildings of which are now known as the Uersehel Factory No. 2. Me also sold the land to the Colean Manufacturing Company which erected buildings thereon and which buildings are now a small part of the Holt Manufacturing Company. The site of the Uersehel plant was also purchased from Mr. Bailey and the three factories above mentioned were among the pioneer in- dustries to locate in East Peoria. The Herschels were driven out of Peoria because of unsatisfactory conditions then prevailing and Mr. Paul Herschel from the time of his decision to locate in East Peoria has been a constant booster for that city. As an evidence of Mr. Bailey’s faith in the future of East Peoria, he platted in 1902 what is known as (J. ). Bailey’s E'irst Addition to the Village of East Peoria and soon after followed this by opening up Bailey’s Second Addition, which is located on the heights overlooking the river and the city of Peoria. Prior to platting these additions, Mr. Bailey had taken a leading part in building the organization of the East Peoria Drainage District which changed the mean- dering course of Farm Creek and placed it in its present course. This was a great step in advance for all of the East Peoria territory as it confined the water of Farm Creek at flood time within its present channel. A\ hen East Peoria was looking for a site upon which to build a \ illage Hall, Mr. Bailey came to the rescue and donated a site 100 by 150 feet which the village is entitled to use as long as its City Ifall remains located upon that tract of ground. It was always the firm belief of Oliver J. Bailey that in time a railroad would skirt the water front of his property, leading in a northeasterly direction to Lacon and other points. 1 his project was very close to consum- mation, the financing had been agreed upon and French engineers representing a French Banking Syndicate had made a careful investigation of the proposed route and had reported favorably just prior to the breaking out of the \\ orld \\ ar in 191-1. That put an end to the use of brench money in this country and the road has never been built. Many of the projects which Mr. Bailey had in mind for East Peoria have been realized, but others will come only in the course of time. He had an abiding faith in the City of East Peoria and its favorable location on the Illinois river which it is hoped in time will be a deep waterway. 1 he executors of the Bailey estate since his death, have sold a large acreage and many lots to the Holt Manu- facturing' Company which were used in the extension and expansion of that plant to meet war needs. They have also sold lots to the foundry which has been built and developed in recent years. I lie executors have sold much property to Charles Messer, a well known citizen of East Peoria, who has probably built more homes in that city than any other one person. The estate continues to hold 350 acres of land lying between the river, the T. P. & W. Railroad and the Cater- pillar Trail and holds the belief that this property will soon come in demand in the greater development of the City of Peoria. 1 00277 I 1 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 88 PEORIA & PEKIN UNION RAILWAY ae ae The Heart of the TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM of PEORIA AND EAST PEORIA It Endeavors to Serve its Patrons Pleasantly and Satisfactorily. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 5 Deep Water — The Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico WATERWAY MEET PONDERS OVER 64 BLOCK- ADE MILES Short Stretch Keeps Canal Road Shut. By Arthur Evans in the Chicago Tribune Delegates to the lakes-to-gulf waterway congress pondered over the problem of what makes the “missing link” still missing. A gap of sixty-four miles between Lockport and La Salle separates two great water systems on which millions have been spent and keeps the middle west from a Chicago-to-New Orleans barge outlet. Men from cities in the Illinois river valley and from towns far from the stream mulled over again an analysis EUCtEN’B BROWN', Chairman of the Waterway Committee who presided. given a year ago by the state engineer, to the effect that if the link between Lockport and La Salle were built, three-fourths of the farmers of Illinois would be within one day truck distance of the navigable waters of the state. EVERYBODY NEAR WATER About 75 per cent of the area and 50 per cent of the population of Illinois, according to this compilation, lie within a zone not more than forty miles away from navigable waters. The use of trucks on the farms is growing at a phenomenal rate, and with one day’s travel products could be shipped from the farm to the seaboard without touching a rail. E. T. Harris of the Illinois Manufacturers’ associa- tion estimates that the saving each year in freight rates to the industrial and agricultural producers would more than pay the cost of the Lockport-La Salle project. Millions have been spent at both ends of a transpor tation artery but nothing in the middle. FINEST SHIP CANAL At the Lake Michigan end is the drainage canal, one of the finest ship canals in the world. It originally cost $27,440,000 and more than $10,000,000 has been spent by the district on the Chicago river. Thus from Lake Michi- gan to Lockport, Illinois, there now is what amounts to an inland harbor some thirty-six miles long - . Speakers at the meeting Monday night recalled that one argument that helped put the sanitary district bill through years ago was the fact that it would compose part of a lake to gulf transportation system. Down at the other end millions of dollars have been spent by the United States in improving the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois rivers. Years ago it built the Hennepin canal at a cost of $7,500,000 to link up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Thus, as far up as La Salle, is a great watercourse system with a minimum depth of seven feet. POLITICS HINDERED But between Lockport and La Salle is a sixty-four mile break. Barge commerce can move down from Chi- cago as far as Lockport. It can move up from New Ore- leans as far as La Salle. The systems miss contact by sixty-four miles. Back in 1908 the voters put through the constitutional amendment authorizing $20,000,000 of bonds to construct the missing link. In the 1909 legisla- tive session the project ran slap-bang into political con- flict. Politics handed it a Dempsey wallop that put it into a deep slumber from which it began to waken a few years ago, and now it is being urgently pushed by organizations in more than seventy-five cities, in the Illinois chamber of commerce and by many other kindred organizations. PLANS READY FOR YEARS •The engineering plans were all completed years ago under Gov. Lowden. Work has been in progress on the Marseilles locks for a year and a half under contract let during the Lowden regime. But dams and other locks have to be built at Starved Rock, Brandon Road, and Dresden Island. High prices during the peak period led Gov. Small to hold back contract letting, but the dele- gates to the Peoria waterway congress take the ground that precious time is being wasted now and that the pro- ject should be put fully under way at once. Experts say if all contracts were let it would take three or four years to complete the undertaking, and by that time industry and commerce will have revived and the rails will be experiencing their old time periodic con- gestion. (Continued on page 7) ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST PEORIA’S LARGEST VARIETY HARDWARE STORE How did we get this reputation. Ask the M ac h i n ist, th e Mill- right, the Carpenter, the Brick- layer, the Factory Purchasing Agent, ask anybody. By always keeping the best quality of goods and having everything called for. If you don’t believe it, try us. COUCH & HEYLE Wholesale and Retail 529-531 South Adams Street. W'NUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Deep Water — The Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico (Continued from page 5) SUPPLEMENT TO HARD ROADS Resides the delegates hold, the waterway link is a necessary supplement to the hard road building, which has been the most astonishing development in transpor- tation during the last five years. Concrete pavements now stretching over the state, they say. wi-11 vastly in- crease their commercial efficiency if they lead to a water haul to a seaboard as well as to the rails. All of which is to be set before the authorities at Springfield by a delegation which has a slogan. “Hustle It Along! The Time for Action Instead of Hot Air Has Arrived." A committee of eight, to represent the Illinois and Mississippi vallevs and the state of Illinois, will join a WII.I.IS KYANS, Rxecutive Secretary who promoted the conference. committee of seven recentlv named bv the Illinois Cham- ber of Commerce and wait upon Coventor Leu Small and Col. C. R. Miller, director of the state department of public works and buildings, and assure those officials that all Illinois is behind them in their publiclv expressed intention of carrying the Illinois river deep waterwav project to completion without delay. I his action was taken at the waterway conference under the auspices of the Association of Commerce as part ot the week of aquatic events. Appointment of the committee was left to President W arren Sutliff of the Peoria Association of Commerce. It was the general opinion of the large assemblage, that, with the governor’s trial ended, he and Col. Miller will be ready to push the work as they had previously promised, and that if they realize that a strong public sentiment is behind them, the waterway work will be given preference over other public construction work. All the speakers emphasized the fact that the time has come to take definite action and to quit arguing and mak- ing speeches. OFFICIALS ARE FAVORABLE Letters were read from Governor Small and Col. Miller, declaring the favorable attitude of those officials regarding the Illinois river waterway. T. R. Moss, Chi- cago. secretary of Illinois Chamber of Commerce, re- ported that in a long distance conversation with Col. Mil- ler last Saturday. The colonel stated that he and Gov- ernor Small planned to go over the entire route of the proposed waterway so that they might get first hand in- formation on what should be done. Plans, specifications, contracts, etc., are all prepared, said Mr. Moss, and action would have come before this if it had not been for the litigation brought against the governor, which ended at W aukegan recently. STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN Coupled with the plan to send the committee to Springfield, the waterway advocates also announced their intention of getting an educative campaign under way throughout the state, so that citizens of territory outside the Illinois valley will realize the money saving effect that the deep channel would have on goods shipped in and out of their localities. Present at the conference last night were men who have dreamed of and worked for the waterway for 25 to 50 years, and at no stage of the movement were they as confident of results as at the close of the meeting. Eugene Brown, chairman of the Peoria Association of Commerce waterway committee, presided. No set speeches were made, but the impromptu talks were highly enlightening and effective. Those responding to the call of the chair were : DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS Albert F. Schock of the Illinois Chamber of Com- merce and chairman of the waterway committee of the Ottawa Association of Commerce; R. M. Faxon, St. Louis, secretary of the Mississippi Valley association; Sheldon Clark. Chicago, chairman of the waterway com- mittee of the Mississippi Valley Power Boat association; Senator Essington, Streator. chairman of the senate waterway committee; T. R. Moss, Chicago, secretary of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce ; E. T. 1 1 arris, Chicago, chairman of the waterway committee of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce; Senator Frank O. Hanson Bloomington, chairman of the legislative joint waterway (Continued on page 25) s ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST MANUFACTURERS OF Miners’ Tools, Drilling Machines and Miners’ Supplies of All Kinds 86 86 “ SEE OUR BALL BEARING COAL DRILL ” DuPONT BLASTING POWDER, DYNAMITE AND EXPLOSIVES 86 Blue Streak, Klingtite, Glide Transmission Belts; Garden Hose, Steam, Air and Water Hose; Steam and Water Packing, Sheet Packing. Klingtite Endless Thresher Belts carried in stock Service Station for Goodyear Mechanical Rubber Goods. DOOLEY BROTHERS, 1201 S. Washington St. Peoria, Illinois SB ANNUAL RE\'IEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 9 Ben L. Smith, Member of the Legislative $20,000,000 Waterway Committee Throws Some Light on the Subject The Illinois Waterway is the name given to the canal to be constructed from Lockport, about thirty-six miles southwest of Chicago, to Utica on the Illinois River. Utica is about four miles above LaSalle. If a canal of sufficient width and depth were built between these two places, a waterway will have been provided for modern barge navigation from New Orleans to Chi- cago via the Mississippi River, Illinois River. Illinois State Canal, Sanitary District canal to Chicago. The Chicago Sanitary District canal from Chicago southwest to Lockport was completed in 1900. This canal is 200 feet wide and 24 feet deep. In 1870 the makers of the Illinois Constitution in- cluded therein a provision that the credit of the state could not be given to canal or waterway construction. This operated to assist the railroads in their early de- velopment in Illinois and prevented competition by waterway transportation, built or in any way supported by the state. In 1908 the people of the state voted an amendment of the constitution and voted to authorize the issuance of $20,000,000.00 worth of bonds of the state to connect the Sanitary District canal with the Illinois River by a canal to be about sixty miles in length. Although the people have voted the authority and the money, the canal has not yet been constructed. A federal law provides that the plans and specifica- tions of the proposed canal shall meet the approval of the War Department before construction begins. Since 1908 the state has submitted through its waterway engi- neers two plans which have both been rejected by the federal government. The first plan contemplated a canal, and improvement of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to accommodate ocean going vessels. This plan was abandoned on the ground that the cost would be out of proportion to the prospective benefits. The next plan was proposed in 1915 and was rejected by the federal government on the ground that it pro- vided for a canal of too small proportions to satisfy the War Department. A third plan is now before Congress and the War Department for their approval. This plan briefly con- templates a nine foot waterway from Lockport to the Mississippi River, with Illinois providing the canal from Lockport to Utica, and the federal government deepening the Illinois River from Utica south to the Mississippi River. This depth of nine feet is planned to accommo- date fleets of barges tied together, drawing around six feet of water. The plan contemplates locks, at four dif- ferent places in the canal where locks will be required, of sufficient size to carry 9.000 tons or the equivalent of thirteen average trainloads due in no small part' to these two men. They work to- gether. There is still plenty to do and we may be right glad we have these two men at the head. They are hard to beat. The mills of the gods grind slow but they grind ex- ceedingly fine. So it would seem to be in the matter of public improvements. We remember how long it has JESSE HALL CHARLES MOOBERRY Mayor Supervisor taken us to get this bridge across Farm Creek on West Washington Street built but at last it stands done, a"- splendid improvement 44 feet wide, full street wide, so you don’t know there is any bridge here, and sidewalks ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Why Your Community Needs a “Caterpillar” As a year ’round producer of economical power the “Caterpillar”* Tractor appeals especial- ly to public officials who seek a means of handling public works with direct savings to tax- payers. Large cities operate these tractors in fleets. Hundreds of counties, townships and cities find a single “Caterpillar”* able to show big economies over other methods. The “Caterpillar”* Tractor meets every emergency of soil, grade and weather. In grading, widening, scarifying, ditching or maintaining streets and roads, removing snow, or hauling refuse disposal trains, the superior power and endurance of the “Caterpillar”* enables it to do the most work for the least money. Akron, Ohio, Bureau of Public Works, after comparing the performance of the ‘Caterpil- lar”* with teams on street grading, found the “Caterpillar”* method far more economical. Denison, Texas, did more grading in the first six months it owned a “Caterpillar”* than was done in six years with teams. It uses the “Caterpillar”* power pulley to crush rock for street repairs. Wyandotte Township, Kansas City, Kan., after an impartial test includ- ing the grading of some forty miles of dirt road, proved the “Caterpillar”* the most eco- nomical method. Because there are dozens of jobs the “Caterpillar”* will do better and cheaper than any other method, every county, city, town, and township — yours — should be “Caterpillar”* equipped. It is the best investment your officials can make. Our motion picture, “The Na- tion’s Road Maker,” is proving of great interest to highway engineers and good roads en- thusiasts. We will gladly arrange an exhibition on request. *There is but one “ Caterpillar ” — Holt builds it. THE HOLT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Inc. PEORIA, ILL. Branches and service stations all over the world. STOCKTON, CALIF. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST The Fort Creve Coeur State Park TIIK MARKER FOR TIIE PORT CREVE COEUR STATE PARK TO BE ERECTED BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mere is a picture of the Kt. Creve Coeur State Park — East Peoria. It is the marker that the State Historical Society has prepared as the initial movement of this great undertaking. I h is marker is a beautiful piece of art and when it is all duly erected and dedicated, it will be a wonderful day for this part of the world. The first building erected in all this great State of Illi- nois. The first man to get action as we say, on this was Repre- sentative Pen E. Smith, who started the ball a rolling, lie has an article herewith telling about it. It was just like anv election — they could not all be elected. There could be noth- ing fairer or more representative than leaving it to our State Historical Society. So the location was made on the Daughters of Revolu- tion site at Wesley, and the beautiful marker is on the ground and will soon he erected. C. II. Wagner has donated Id acres of land as a starter for this Park and Gov. Small and Col. Miller and the State Mighwav have their engineers on the field and there will soon be a paved highwav to the Park between East Peoria and Pekin. There i> no more beautiful countrv than this along the Illinois and if the State Historical Societv and Representa- tive Ben E. Smith are not mistaken, there will soon he one of the finest parks anywhere in this world. Et. Creve Coeur is a magic name and when it i- once started, there will he hardly anv stopping it. So we all feel very kindly to the State Historical Society, Representative Ben E. Smith and .Mr. Wagner for getting this great work started. In August 1679 Robert Cav- alier De LaSalle accompanied ,by Henry De Tonti, four Cath- olic priests and some workmen, sailed from the mouth of the Niagara river for the Illinois. They crossed from Lake Mich- igan by portgage to the Kan- kakee, and floated down that river to the Illinois. The party, consisting of about thir- ty persons, reached the narrows below Peoria Lake, near where the village of Creve Coeur (former Wesley City) now stands about January 4th, 1680. Somewhere in this territory LaSalle constructed a fort for the protection of his men from the attacks of savages while they could build a boat for the further exploration of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. He named this fort Creve Coeur. By some the name is supposed to suggest the dismay of LaSalle in the fact that his men were deserting him and the likelihood of his expedition being a failure. By others it is thought that it may have been given the same name as a Dutch fort taken by the French under Louis XIV in a military invasion of Holland. At any rate LaSalle's partv established the first white settlement in the Illinois country, and the fourth fort in that long- chain of forts projected to extend from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico. To LaSalle is due the credit for first proposing the union of New France, with the valley of the Mississippi, and connecting them with a line of military posts. Within a hundred years from that time the colonies established on the American con- tinent were substantially assisted by France in their at- tempt to throw off the yoke of England. The exact location of this fort built in 1680 has long been in doubt; but the historical importance of LaSallcE BEX L. SMITH ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Electric and Power WASHING MACHINES All Standard Types — DOLLY - OSCILLATOR - CYLINDER See the Haag Demonstrated Before Buging Your Machine. Write Us For Descriptive Literature. HAAG BROS. CO. Peoria, Illinois DEALERS W. O. Sommerfield, East Peoria, Ills. Pekin Hdw. Co., Pekin, Ills. August Weyrich, Pekin, Ills. B. F. Adams Co., 114 S. Washington St., Peoria, Ills. Clarke & Co., 102-108 S. Adams St., Peoria, Ills. F. Meyer Bro. & Co., 1311 S. Adams St., Peoria, Ills. Charles Johnson Hdw. Co., 223 S. Adams St., Peoria, Ills. O. C. Slane, 1801 N. Adams St., Peoria, Ills. 1 iMM ill: m fet $ 1 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST exploration is acknowledged by all. Several organiza- tions interested in historical matters have conducted in- vestigations, and diligently searched old French records in an effort to locate the Fort with accuracy. The Daughters of the American Revolution desig- nated a spot on the top of the bluff east of the Village of Creve Coeur as the location and placed a marker there about twenty years ago. Various sites have been designated in the last fifty years as the location of the fort, ranging from the Wood- ford County line down to Wesley City. Several years ago the County Superintendent of Woodford, Peoria and Tazewell Counties appointed a committee of nine con- sisting of three persons in each county, to make a study of the matter and give their report to the public. The committee did considerable reading and excavated in several places but were never able to make an agreed .report. The Tazewell County Historical Society took up the -subject a few years ago and after hearing the evidence presented for the various sites, voted the site near the river above the present depot in Wesley City. This is what is known as the Lagron site. The State Historical Society has had a committee at work on the matter for a number of years. The per- sonel of the committee changed during the time due to death of different members of the Committee, before completion of the work. In the 1919 session of the Legislature a resolution was passed directing the Department of Public Works and Buildings to erect a marker on the site of Fort Crevecoeur as designated by the State Historical Soci- ety. Fifteen hundred dollars was appropriated for the marker. It is generally understood that the report of the State Historical Society is soon to be made public : at any rate the marker has been delivered through the Department of Public Works and Buildings to a spot on the bluff above the village of Crevecoeur. This seems to indicate that the site has at last been officially located by the State of Illinois, and whether absolutely correct or not. it has the sanction of the highest his- torical authority in the State. Appropriate exercises are planned by the Society for the unveiling of the marker. Other fort sites of much later date have been parked by the State, and doubtless the State would have parked the territory about the site of Fort Crevecoeur long ago, if the exact location of the fort had not been in dispute. The State has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in parking the historic spots in Illinois and at Starved Rock the State has purchased nine hundred acres of land about the site of the Rock and owns improvements there valued at $350,000.00. The State Historical Society expects to support a measure in the next Legislature providing for the cam mcncement of the construction of a park about the site of Fort Crevecoeur, as a part of the comprehensive sys- tem of state parks being developed under the control and management of the Department of Public Works and Buildings. The scenic beauty and the grandeur of this territory is scarcely realized by the people of this community. With an appropriate State Park, having dimensions com- parable to the historical significance of the place, suit- ably connected with the Parks of Peoria and East Peoria, the beauty and majesty of the Illinois Valley may be viewed from the scenic drives on both sides of the river. Thousands of tourists who now annually visit Starved Rock and Deer Park will visit the site of Fort Creve- coeur, as the parks will be connected by a Federal ce- ment highway already constructed and known as Route No. 24 from Chicago to St. Louis via Peoria. Every citizen of Tazewell and Peoria Counties should lend his support toward the completion of the plans con- templated for the improvement of Fort Crevecoeur. Deep Waterway The Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico (Continued from page 7) commission; W. E. Hull. Peoria, republican candidate for congress; H. H. Baum, Morris, 111. A telegram of congratulations and wishes for suc- cess from Governor Parker of Louisiana was read and re- ceived with applause. WATERWAY GROUP IS NAMED BY SUTLIFF. Pursuant to authority given him at the dee]) water- wav conference held in Peoria Inly 3. President Warren ■ *• Sutliff of the Association of Commerce has named the following committee to act with a similar committee of seven of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce for the pur- pose of speeding up state work on the Illinois river channel : R. H. Green, Strea tor ; Eugene Brown, Peoria; bred W. Potter, Henry ; Louis Lowenstein, Whitehall ; Frank- lin L. Velde, Pekin; Lyman Lacey, Havana; Jesse Lowe, Jr., Beardstown ; J. E. Millard, East Peoria. A date will be set on which the joint committee will wait upon Governor Len Small and C. F. Miller, director of the state department of public works and buildings, to urge them to push the deep channel project as rapidly as feasible and assuring them of statewide support if they do so. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 26 Twenty-five Years of Success in JEWELRY an< ALLIED ARTS 86 We Carry the Most Complete Line in Watches, Diamonds, Silverware and Holloware IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS WM. WEISSER JEWELRY CO. US So utli Adams Street 13 ^ Till to n i o 2133 South Adams Street ICOrid, lllinOlS ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST William E. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST NIGHT AND DAY Night and day, so they say, guarding ’gainst the rainy day. Great men spent their lives in toil, burned up quarts of midnight oil, Leaving us their books and schools, to prove past doubt we'd just be fools. To think that we, a favored few, can have our cake and eat it too. — H. I\ S. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE BANK FIRST NATIONAL BANK EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS “The Bank Where You Feel at Home” ORGANIZED IN 1903 CHAS. P. SESTER A. B. CLAUDON DIRECTORS J. A. ELLIS GEORGE HARMS MILTON MOOBERRY HERBERT R. DENNIS MOSES ROTH HERBERT R. DENNIS, President A. B. CLAUDON, Vice-President J. A. ELLIS, Vice-President OFFICERS ETHEL M. McFARLAXE. Cashier ANNA M. FUHRER. Com. and Sav. Dept. MARGARET E. DALTON, Bookkeeping Dept. Representatives of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Loans. Your Banking Business is most welcome here. 3% Interest paid on Time Deposits. “ASK YOUR BANKER” — regarding your investments. We consider our greatest asset to he the good will of our patrons and of the com- munitv. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 29 Headquarters of the Superior Oil Co., 1100 W. Washington Street C. A. Anicker, Manager The Superior Oil Company, located at 1100 \Y. Washington Street, East Peoria, is a concern that is forg- ing ahead in the fast growing business of supplying the automobile and factory trade with high grade oils. C. A. Anicker is Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. Kelly of the Kelly Supply Company is president and E. J. Kahn is \ ice- President, as well as president of the National Cooper- age and Warehouse Company. This firm has been established four years and has a commodious warehouse and filling station conveniently located near the east end of the Washington Street bridge. For petroleum products, gasoline, lubricating oils or kerosene see the Superior Oil Co. Air. Anicker says, “No order is too large and the Superior is not in the trust.” Can You Afford a Real Home— One that will Last Forever-The Difference in the Cost is Small COST OF BRICK VS. FRAME Construction Compared By G. C. Mars of American Face Brick Ass’n. The past two months we have been busy in getting figures on house No. 627 as characteristic type, in Chicago as an average building center. These figures are not quite ready for publication but I can give you the preliminary results in which I know you arc all in- terested. W e were able to secure 5 bids, all of which run normal except one. which seems to be out of line on hol- low tile backing making it cost over 5.5 % more than solid brick. ( Mherwise than that, the figures run very much, in the matter of percentage difference, as they did in our tables previously issued, as shown in our booklets and in Comparative Building Costs. That is, starting with frame as zero, stucco on frame cost — . 22 ' , less; brick veneer, 4 . 7 '/ more; brick on tile, 7.04% more; and solid brick, 6 . 01 '/ more. The brick on tile figure evident- ly is influenced by the bid to which 1 have just referred. This house cubes 24,880 feet and shows that frame costs 34.76 per cubic foot and brick 36.85 per cubic foot. I he base of unit costs were as follows: Rough lumber, average $40 per thousand; siding and finish, average $53 per thousand board leet; face brick. $30 per thousand; common brick, $12 per thousand; tile, $33 per thousand pieces ; skilled labor. $1.10 per hour; common labor, 80c per hour. The upshot of the whole matte # r is that in actual figures, it costs about $1500 a room to build a good brick house of solid walks, while frame is not very much less. When we consider that the all commodities index number for January 1922 as reported by the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor is 148 or 48% above the pre-war level. and that $1500 a room is in the neighborhood of 50% above pre-war level prices for brick, I believe we are justified in feeling that the cost of brick construction has reached about a normal level, at any rate, so far as the Chicago district costs go. I believe also that economists generally have agreed that the post-war normal level will be somewhere between 50% to 60% higher than the pre- war normal level. That is, we have about reached the normal average of prices for a considerable period of years to come. There may be slight fluctuations this way or that for specific or occasional reasons, but there is no probability that prices will depart very much from this figure within 8 or 10 years and then only gradually. Of course, with a rush of building activity from time to time there will always be the tendency of prices to rise but that tendency will be overcome the moment that build- ing activities slacken, and then the common level will be resumed. In the meantime, our only business is to keep educat ing the American public to build the better class of house by invading the field of stucco and frame that now covers 90% of the field. Even if we cannot hope to occupy the entire field the winning of even 25% away from the less substantial. We ought, however, to aim to cover at least a half of this field. Don’t for one moment be mislead by supposing that it is a matter of cost that shuts you out. The matter of cost shuts you out from a lot of people, no doubt, but there are a lot of other people who build frame houses running into figures very much larger than the average small face brick house costs. It is into that field that your educational campaign may be carried in order to induce those people to spend their money for a better type of construction. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST .30 HERMAN ALBERS. Presidenl Member of the Building Association League of Illinois Annual Statement of the TAZEWELL BUILDING, LOAN AND HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS Authorized Capital $1,000,000.00 Officers Herman Albers President Chas. P. Sester... Vice-President Carl V . Dageforde Secretary Herbert R. Dennis Treasurer John '1'. Ellilt Counsel Directors George Harms Herman Albers Milton Mooberry Chas. P. Sester John Dean Carl V . Dageforde Dr. F. G. Hopkins Herbert R. Dennis Fred C. Heiden JANUARY 1st, 1922 CARL W. DAGEFORDE. SecSelbry Receipts Cash in Treasury January 1, 1921 $ 728.55 Installments during year 9,376.00 Interest received during year 3,178.50 Premium received during year 635.70 Transfer fees 25.25 Fines 13.90 Loans repaid 1,000.00 Bills payable 2,100.00 Paid up stock 9,975.00 Accrued interest on stock 42.84 Total $27,075.74 Disbursements Loans on real estate $23,600.00 Installments on stock withdrawn. 439.00 Profits on stock withdrawn 7.37 Bills payable 2,100.00 Interest on bills payable 37.26 General expense and salary 373.75 Cash in treasury January 1. 1922 518.36 Total .....$27,075.74 Assets Loans on real estate $62,600.00 Fixtures and stationery 125.00 Cash in treasury January 1, 1922 518.36 Total $63,243.36 Liabilities Installments on stock $17,838.00 Paid up stock 39,600.00 Installments paid in advance 53.00 Interest paid in advance 30.00 Premium paid in advance 6.00 Contingent fund 98.70 Profits, divided 5,617.66 Total ..$63,243.36 Invest some of your savings in our Monthly Pay- ment Stock. Sixth series now open. Address: C. W. Dageforde, Secretary, 210 W. Washington Street, East Peoria, Illinois. BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATIONS A COMMUN- ITY BUILDER. For many years these Associations have been a great help toward the development of communities. They have helped countless numbers of persons to buy bonus and pay for them like paying rent. They have helped to tide over times of panic and sickness and many a man has started in business thru its help. It will help you as much. Try it. \Yc promise to handle your money with the least possible expense, invest it in the best of mort- gages, and when you want it. return to you the principal with earnings. Start now, save regularly, keep it up and when you want it you will be surprised to know what a nice saying you will have. For further information call upon our Secretary at our office. The Builders Loan is like a snowball, the bigger it gets the more it gathers. The Tazewell has had a re- markable record — more than $75,000.00 loaned out to help build homes to more than half a hundred of our people. Can You Beat It? ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 31 The Municipal Waterworks Plant — An Abundance of the Best Water in the World THE WATERWORKS STANDPIPE THE WATERWORKS PARK FOR TOURISTS — A BEAUTIFUL SPOT ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST TEN YEARS OF FAIR DEALING WITH EAST PEORIANS GROCERIES FANCY CANDIES, MEATS ROSZELL’S ICE CREAM, PROVISIONS SOFT DRINKS 801 E. Washington Street 805 E. Washington Street Hill’s Service Station, 801 E. Washington Street Polarine Oils, Red Crown Gasoline A. D. HILL Cash Prices Only EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS YOUR PATRONAGE DESIRED AND APPRECIATED. GO m 88 88 88 * t BELT. PHONE MAIN 1246 CITIZENS PHONE 56 C. F. LILLY PHARMACIST * •I* 4 * I ! * t v DRUGS AND SUNDRIES 20 years of service in the interest of the health of East Peorians a t I i 108 E. WASHINGTON STREET :: :: :: EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS * i * i 4 1 t W. M. ALLEN SON & CO. GENERAL CONTRACTORS * * 4 * •F 4 * Jefferson Building Peoria, Illinois ♦ 4* f 4* i * * . T i t T 4* 4* — — j ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 33 The Beautiful New M. E. Church — An Improvement Every Citizen Is Proud Of — A Wonderful Piece of Building by the Doering Brothers NEW M. E. CHURCH DR. A. H. COLEMAN, PASTOR. One of the Strongest Societies of East Peoria is the Mine Workers Union LOCAL UNION NO. 563, UNITED MINE WORKERS, EAST PEORIA. Generally speaking the vicinity of East Peoria has been the scene of many bitter struggles in securing a foothold for the United Mine Workers of America, and the pioneers of East Peoria played a very important part in helping to organize what is known now as one of the best craft organizations that is in the United States of America working under the policy of collective bargain- ing. Like all the other local unions of the United Mine Workers organization, local union No. 563 of East Peoria has full and complete automony over their own affairs as they affect their particular local union, and a great deal of responsibility is attached to the officers, who at present are, Joe Cochran, President, John Osborne, Financial Secretary, and Ed Giebelhausen recording secretary. In the course of their duties, they handle any and all disputes that may arise at any of the mines within their jurisdic- tion, arising out of the joint agreement between the operators and miners, transact, and take care of the financial business of the local union, and attend to the great amount of correspondence that necessarily passes between the local union and the different branches of the organization. This business is being very successfully conducted which reflects a great deal of credit upon those holding these responsible positions, and local union No. 563, is now in a flourishing condition, their efforts are peaceful, but ever watchful in seeing that the rights of the membership is fully guarded, with the full knowledge that the membership of local union No. 563 will be among those that are ready to make sacrifice that is necessary to protect their rights as miners, and safeguard the integrity of organized labor, ready at all times to do any- thing they can to assist in bringing to the workers and their families, more of the comforts, and joys of life, which they so richly merit. 34 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Doering Brothers BUILDERS OF HOMES East Peoria, Illinois 88 88 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST The Doering Brothers Here are some pictures of the three Doering boys, the well known East Peoria Contractors. They were brought up in the business and don’t know any better. They have never been able to keep up with their orders yet and probably never will be. They have built more of the fine homes in the City than any other firm and they lately completed the handsome new M. E. Church which is most remarkable for a City of this size. They are just now completing the biggest garage in the City. Whatever the Doerings’ do is substantial and can be depended upon. They always were known to give their customers their money’s worth — that is the secret of their success. East Peoria could hardly get along without the Doering Bros. COMMODIOUS BUNGALOW OF GEORGE G. DOERING S NEARLY COMPLETED. RARELY BEAUTIFUL HOME OF CITY TREASURER Wm. FREY. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Here’s $300,000 Trainload =Q f A.B.C. WASHERS If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the above Chicago & Northwestern train of thirty seven cars, carry- ing 2,500 A. P>. C. electric washing machines worth $300,000, which left Peoria Saturday morning for Los Angeles, is, in a sense, a g'ospel train. The machines, manufactured by the Altorfer Broth- ers company and comprising the largest single ship- ment of electric washers ever sent out by any concern anywhere, are consigned to A. A. Wilson of Los Angeles, who has large retail sales force of the company. The stores in eight southern California cities. So. if you hear folks from that part of the state talk about living in “God’s own country,” just tell ’em that Peoria-made cleanliness helps make it so. Now, if only some soap-and-water Moses would start bringing the A. B. C.’s of cleanliness over the line into Mexico by the trainload, how beautiful this world would be! The record-breaking train and cargo were bidden godspeed by the above officials of the company. The trip will take four days, and upon arrival in Los Angeles the train will be met by a band. At the stops enroute. toy balloons will be released, each bearing a message that the machines were made in Peoria. Each car also has banners of similar import. Recognizing the importance of the shipment. Mayor \ ictor P. Michel sent the following telegram to the mayor of Los Angeles : “I wish to extend official greetings and congratula- tions of the city of Peoria to the city of Los Angeles on the trainload of A. B. C. electric washers being shipped today by Altorfer Brothers company to "Washer" Wilson of your city. “This is the largest single shipment of electrical ap- pliances ever made and represents a value of $300,000. “This record-breaking purchase by one of your prom- inent merchants is a remarkable achievement and clearly evidences the progressive spirit of your city.” ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 37 A Train of Thirty-seven Cars Made Trip from Peoria to Los Angeles With $300,000.00 of A. B. C. Washers A train of 30 cars laden exclusively with 2.000 A. B. C. electric washing machines, the largest single ship- ment of electric washers ever made anywhere, started from Peoria, July 1. bound for Los Angeles, Cal. The cargo will lie worth $250,000 at retail prices and its journey will have all the accessories of a public tour. Each car will display large banners, representatives from the Altorfer Brothers Company, the manufacturers, will act as official escort and distribute souvenirs at stops in important cities and the train will be met by a brass band upon arriving in Los Angeles. The huge order was placed by A. A. Wilson, of Los Angeles, the largest dealer in electric washers in the country and known as “Washer” Wilson and the pioneer in this line on the Pacific Coast. After the consignment reaches its (Instillation Mr. Wilson will open a sales cam- paign throughout California, the drive centering in the following cities where he has stores: Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach, Huntington Park, Glendale, Pasa- dena. Bakersfield, and Fresno. “To fill this order the Altorfer Brothers Company worked its plant at maximum capacity,” said J. J. Keith, sales manager. “In connection with the trip and its ac- companying publicity features we shall take every op- portunity to bring the name of the City of Peoria in the foreground, so that it will share in the benefits of the public attention that the event will attract.” The Illinois Traction System has made another transportation record by the handling of a solid train- load of electric washing machines from Peoria to St. Louis, the first consignment of the kind ever shipped over an electric railway. This mammoth shipment of labor-saving devices was consigned to a St. Louis firm by the Altorfer Brothers Company, of Peoria, manufacturers of the well- known machine bearing the name of that company. It is said to be the third train-load shipment of electric washers in the history of the trade, both previous ship- ments having been made by the same company. The hundreds of machines making up the shipment were loaded into the standard freight cars used by the Illinois Traction Company and were pulled in a daylight run by one of the monster electric locomotives on a non-stop trip from Peoria to St. Louis. Brown Brothers Believe in East Peoria and Always Willing to do Their Part EAST PEORIA GOOD INVESTMENT FIELD THAT IS WHAT BROWN BROTHERS BELIEVE That Is What Brown Brothers Believe That East Peoria is a profitable field for investment is the belief of Eugene Brown, of Brown Brothers, Peoria real estate dealers. Citing the fact that no panics have ever struck this field and that the firm's local real estate holdings are large, Mr. Brown is ready to give advice and provide attractive inducements to prospective in- vestors in East Side property. This firm has handled forty, sub-divisions since 1893. in and around Peoria. At present they are engaged in opening four new sub-divi- sions on the West Bluff ; one is at Rome and one at Averyville. They were pioneers in urging saving and investment in this locality, as a long list of deed holders proves. Both have always lived in Peoria and are in an exceptionally favorable position to know real estate values. UNCLE SAM TRUSTS US TO SERVE YOUR POSTAL NEEDS— SO WHY NOT TRUST US TO PROVIDE YOUR FOODSTUFFS? CHAS. C. ARNOLD RELIABLE GENERAL MERCHANTS Weight and Quality Assured QUICK DELIVERY Groceries, Stock Food, Chicken Feed, Hardware, Paints, Oils. POSTAL BRANCH New Phone 59 213 EAST WASHINGTON ST., EAST PEORIA, ILL. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 39 East Peoria’s First Newspaper — It Was Called, The Pilot — Way Back In 1901 \\ . B. Hill has furnished us a copy of the East l’eoria Pilot under date of Sept. 13. 1901. and it is a very interest- ing relick of those times. The publisher was A. R Zimmer- man and the edition contained an elaborate account of the celebration of the brick pavement which made a road across to Peoria and it was a great day in little old East Peoria. John Kcil was Mayor, and O. J. Bailey. Dan Sheen and Contractor McAllister made addresses predicting a wonder- ful future for East Peoria. Automobiles were pretty scarce in those days and there were no street cars but the hack line run by W. Oliver made four trips to Peoria and back a day. One item was: the City is graveling block one East Washington Street. This is a good move on the part of the officials and the work should be continued to the Cole Bridge. Some little improvement in East Peoria since that time. eh ? Another item reads: Now hurry up the electric light scheme. Tom Malonev was clerk and Ed Keil was treasurer and the alderman were W. F. Thome, Ed Murray, Jacob Mausch- baugh. Michael Bort. Wm. Cruickshank and Joe Bowers. There was quite a list of advertising: J. C. Densberger, meat market. Peter Schertz, cash store, Ed Lange, meat market, M. Pfeifer, hardware, N. T. Fisher, contractor, L'rs. Wys, shoes. J. J. Amsler, grocer, Court's Sample Room. L Schmidt, confectionery, Dr. \\ . R. Bailey, \\ . (diver, hack line. C. F. Dainty, barber, J. P. Camming, well dig- ging. Lindel Hotel, W. D. Crawford, feed store. Martenas, ice cream. Mrs. C. L. Farrington, stationary, W. F. Thome, insurance. Paul Daenicke, school hooks. G. \\ . Warner, one price cash store. S. D. Adams, blacksmith. There's another little item: Ed Tucker the operator of the Progressive Mine had his right foot badly injured by a timber falling on it. City Clerk Tucker says it was not serious any way. STARTING OUR GRAND VI FW DRIVE. ‘ ‘ LI N( the finest of Lower In Price Than Ever I The Ford Motor Co. is producii yet cannot & Bui) a t ffifncC For mi VfclVCBfAl «A» and Bank the Difference THE unp ORDER YOUR CAR TODAY INVESTIGATE OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN ! $ 395 . 0 ( DINGELDEIi Sales \NN UAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 41 AL CAR 99 OLN automobiles gher In Quality e In History. r five thousand motors per dap, the demand. SOIY TRACTOR Mr. Farmer, reduce your cost of production by r jsing a Ford- son Tractor a T oj Power Farm- ing Equipment. DO THE WORK OF SIX HORSES AT THE PRICE OF TWO. Detroit. MOTOR CO. Service MODEL T CHASIS $285.00 With Starter and Demountable Rims, $380.00 F. (). B. Detroit. Phone 4-2288 \L CAR ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST SELECTED SANITARY DAIRY PRODUCTS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM OUR FOUR RETAIL STORES AND SEVENTEEN DELIVERY ROUTES. PASTEURIZED MILK ONLY PROTECT YOUR FAMILY BY USING THE PUREST DAIRY PRODUCTS. £ We Deliver Daily in Easi Peoria Washington Dairy Co. 109 GOODWIN STREET F. E. ZIMMERMAN, Manager Phone Main 1974 GO 88 88 m va5 88 PEORIA, ILLINOIS ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 44 Washington Dairy a Local Concern — East Peoria Interested In It THE FINEST DAIRY BARN IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. WASHINGTON DAIRY COMPANY FAST GROW- ING CORPORATION The Washington Dairy Company of Peoria, managed by E. E. Zimmerman, has made an enviable record in the past eighteen months, the business showing a triple increase. This firm serves a number of East Siders with milk and cream and specializes in nursery milk from tested cows and pasteurized. Fifteen thousand bottles of milk is the daily distribution. Four retail stores are operated: 109 Goodwin St.. 229 Main St., 514 Main St. and 922 ITulburt St. In addition this firm's dairy products are on sale at many grocery stores. Even though you do not buy the things we make and sell direct from us, you probably buy some of them from the man who buys them from us! 86 8ft 86 86 86 Our business is with the manufact- urers, but every loyal East Peorian can well feel interested in and proud of the VICTOR FOUNDRY 8ft 86 8e Our great growth is due to the de- mand for good castings — and the more we grow the more homes there will be in East Peoria ! The VICTOR FOUNDRY 8B ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 15 Victor Foundry One of the big and important industries of East Peoria is the Victor Foundry. Starting in a small wav they have been growing steadily each year and now they have one of the largest and most complete estab- lishments of this kind in Peoria. They are kept running to capacity in getting out the parts for the celebrated Weir furnace. Idle \ ictor Foundry own some five acres of groun ' at their location and it is understood that' the time mav come when the entire furnace, pipe and accessories plant may be located together here. George Harms is the active head of this great es- tablishment. GEORGE E. HARMS, MANAGER VICTOR FOUNDRY. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW VICTOR FOUNDRY. A POOR PICTURE OF THE RIG VICTOR FOUNDRY. 46 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Growth of East Peoria Depends Upon Its Telephone Development Every citizen of East Peoria and vicinity is a believer in, and a booster for the Greater Peoria which is to be. The prosperity of this community is based largely upon the future of Greater Peoria which East Peoria is a part. Every business firm is working to that end and among them none has Peoria’s future more clearly in mind, and more direct- ly connected with its present activities, than the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. The Telephone Company has already built in Peoria a plant valued at over two and a half million dollars. It has already appro- priated and started to spend here another million and a quarter as a practical demon- stration of its faith in Greater Peoria and the fair-mindedness of its people. No business firm, manufacturing concern or telephone company would consider further investment in Peoria except on the basis that the citizens intend to do everything* possible to make such investment a profitable one. Greater Peoria, if it is to come at all, must be built upon a series of business successes and not upon a record of business failures. Utilities are Essential Moreover, can anyone imagine any further growth of Peoria, or of any large modern city, if it were deprived of its modern util- ities, including the telephone? Without ade- quate telephone service, — not only now but in the years just ahead of us, — Peoria cannot grow as it should. But adequate service to a growing population means continual in- vestment of added capital. And new capital. like a timid child, does not continue to go where it is not invited and not well treated. Peoria has’ made, and will continue to make, strenuous efiforts to induce additional capital to locate and invest itself in Greater Peoria. But before they seriously consider settling in Peoria, two considerations are fundamental and two questions will be asked by those asked to make such an investment. First, will the Capital receive a proper and adequate return? Second, has Peoria ade- quate and good utility service, without which industrial growth is today impossible? Telephone the Nerve System Nothing* will be more vital to Greater Peoria than its telephone service, which is the nerve system of the modern city. This cannot be kept adequate for the city’s in- creasing* needs unless it is assured of a fair and reasonable return as additional capital cannot be secured for a losing* venture. Those who really have the best interests of the city at heart will uphold, and not oppose, the idea that the Telephone Company, as all other concerns which help Peoria grow into Greater Peoria, must be put and kept on a sound financial basis by being* granted a fair return on the capital invested in this city. Any other idea or policy is suicidal to the city* if it wishes to progress as a center of industry. (A) Under present rates during* 1921 the Illinois Bell Telephone Company’s net earn- ings in Peoria, amounted to $56,604.00, being onlv about 2 per cent on the propertv value of $2,600,000. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ANNUAL RE\IE\V EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 41 The W. H. Schelm Factory One of the fastest growing and most important in- stitutions is the W. H. Schelm Shops. They make motor bodies and every year sees wonderful advance. 'The motor hearses, the yellow busses, the big trucks they are a wonderful line. Mr. Schelm is the man who built the Blue Bird theatre, one of the handsomest and most complete then tres probably ever built in a city of the size of East Peoria, and of which everybody is verv proud. ONE <>F HIS JOBS ONE OF THE BIG TRUCKS A HOME ON WI-IEEI S 48 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST FOR SALE By Bailey Estate 5-Acre Factory Site. 350 Acres Fronting on North Main St., East Peoria Also Vacant Lots in Peoria IME SAVINGS & TRUST CO. 119 S. Jefferson Peoria, Illinois S8 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Here is a new way to build Hard Roads— Beats the State Highway The new hard road, for a section approximately half a mile, up Cole Hollow, will have been completed within the next week. With this beginning-, it is hoped that sufficient sen- timent will have been aroused, to continue the good work already started. The crying need for a road reasonably passable the year round has been evident for years. The Liberty' Coal Company, early this spring, lost no time in getting- the work under way. Mr. Will (1. Naas, an officer of the company, procured the services of John Smith, an ex- perienced road builder. With all preliminary details argeed upon, the work of actual construction was pushed rapidly forward. Already the splendid improve- ment has been noticed and it is bound to lead to further efforts, making one of the most important roads in Taze- well County, open to the public in all kinds of weather. The portion of the road improved with concrete at a width of nine feet, begins at the Liberty mine, around the bend in tbc direction of East Peoria as far as the concrete bridge. Heretofore this part of the road, was rendered unfit for travel after every hard rain. With the constant heavy travel done by the trucks hauling coal, it was frequently a sorry sight, to see the number of conveyances constantly stalled in the deep mud. W ith the paved road, this handicap has been re- moved and the worst part of the highway, will be in the future as easily travelled as a city thoroughfare. ( )ne good turn certainly calls for another and those in- terested in other industries in that locality, should see to it, that their portion of the road is put in good shape. For instance, there are the Carter brick yards, the Man liattan coal mine, and the Rapp Tile works, all depen- dent upon the road. It would require little effort and entail no great expenditure for others to boost the project, 'flic Liberty Coal Company has shown its pro- gressive spirit by individually standing an expense for road building, which should be and no doubt is appre- ciated by the farmers and residents up Cole Hollow. It merelv shows what determination can do and the im- provement so well begun will be a lasting tribute to the business sense of those responsible for its inception. ill Charles C. Arnold believes in East Peoria-Born here— and glad of it Chas. C. Arnold who conducts a grocery store and postal sub-station at 213 E. Washington St., East Peoria, twice mayor of East Peoria and one of the community’s influential citizens, believes in this city's future growth and beautification and thinks there are no better people than his neighbors and patrons of East Peoria, who, lie says, are never idle if there is anyone ‘able to point out work that needs doing. Bob Dingeldein The Ford Man Here is a picture of Bob Dingeldein, the Ford man. but it is hardly necessary as pretty nearly evervbodv knows him anyway. Bob is a native of old Eon du Lac, and in every way a product. He has been in the Ford game for many years now and what he doesn't know about it may be hardly worth knowing. They are now getting started in their new garage and will soon be ready for business right. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION' EAST EEORIA POST WHEN THEY STARTED THE EON DU LAC DRIVE. S] 1 ERM AN 13CKLEY. PRESIDENT NEWMAN, FATHER EENNEN, I. E. MILLARD GEKALD FRANKS, t LHTHY. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 51 PUBLIC Communities to be progressive must be attractive, and to be attractive they must keep pace with the spirit of the age and provide those things that are essential for the development of the religious, educational, com- mercial and social needs. One is just as necessary as the other, without either, any community would become lopsided and not be living up to the opportunity before it. Public parks properly supervised are one of the big- gest assets of a community, and the demand and neces- sitv for them has grown by leaps and bounds during the past few years and today parks like good roads and schools, mark a community as progressive, and the com munity that is not making some development in its schools, roads and parks is considered a dead one, and one that will not receive much consideration from those who are seeking a home or a place for investment. Every community that has any prospect of develop ing into a City of importance should plan at least two parks: One located close in, consisting of an acre or so. where the mothers and children can drop in for a little outing without being put to the trouble or expense of a conveyance to reach it, and where an hour or more could be spent daily during the hot summer days and secure a little rest from the cares of home duties and secure the recreation so necessary to offset the cares and worry o the daily humdrum of life. Then a larger park, just as large as can be afforded, and developed so as to make it a real drawing card for the community, and if it ha any natural advantages and with proper planning, made so attractive that folks will come for miles for picnic and outings. Such a park stamps any community as progressive, and will naturally attract a certain per cent of the people who enjoy the privilege to become resi- dents or investors in property or business in such a com- munity. The Cemetery used to be the greatest attraction the average community had to show its visitors, and it should always be kept as attractive as possible, but the cemetery is not a park and should not be so considered, due reverence should be shown the resting place of our forefathers, but at the same time we must not "orget the needs of the living. Parks are not expensive luxuries as some would have you believe, and for the small amount of taxes that are permitted for their maintenance, pay larger re- turns on the investment than anything else the same amount of money could be put into. No place on God’s green earth has any better or more natmal advantages for the development of a real park of natural beauty, than can be found in Fondulac Town- ship, with its beautiful hills overlooking the Lake and City, with its canyons rivaling those even of the Grand Canyon, and springs of water for the creating of pools and ponds, a park of wondrous beauty and scenery, will PARKS be developed at a small expense. A recent visitor from Chicago in looking over the new Driveway now being built and the land suitable for park purposes remarked. "If the community does not avail itself of the opportun ity of securing these attractive hills and valleys for a park of the greatest natural beauty 1 have ever seen it will miss the biggest asset it could possibly secure." With this in mind the Park Board is planning for the developing of a small park close in, and a larger tract, and begin the developing of the finest parks which in time will make the Fondulac Park district one of the beauty spots where thousands of people will be attracted annually and which will stamp East Peoria and Fondulac Township as one of the attractive progressive communi- ties of the state. Art Gossett has presented the Park Board with two acres of hillside in the Cole Creek valley the center of the city perhaps as near as can be determined and a soon as the farther details can be worked out they will in all probability become Gossett Park— a delight to every inhabitant. The Grand View Drive on this side of the river is taking shape as fast as possible and two and one-half miles of it to the upper Washington road will be com- pleted this year. The wondrous beauty of the drive can never be appreciated until at least the roadway has been prepared. This is to be a 100 foot park and even- tually will reach probably the length of the township. It will contain a 30-foot roadway and the other 70 feet will be parked. Of course, all this takes time for its full accomplishment but when once started, it becomes a reality almost before we know it. What this drive on top of the hills is going to mean to Fondulac can be but faintly appreciated at present — but it is on the way. Then the Sewell 100 acres has been opened and is fast becoming a favorite park. It is a rarely beautiful spot and as soon as transportation facilities arc further provided will be more popular yet — for the Sewell Park- lias hardly began yet. The Fondulac Park board of five members was elected* bv the people of this township by a large vote at a presidential election and are all old-time conservative citizens who love their home and are willing to do all they can for its improvement and advancement along the best lines. They all serve unselfishly without pay and do the best they know how. Thev say the angels can do no more than this. Their office is at 100 West Washington street, first floor of the Ansbaugh building and all their meetings are public and the board welcome visitors and any and all suggestions in the matter of the progress of our Fondulac Park system. The meetings are the last Monday of each month at 8 o’clock P. M. AW UAL, REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Springfield Hill Garage N. KOMMERS, Proprietor DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Springfield Hill Garage — Neil Kommers, Proprietor Auto Repairing and Accessories PHONE 14. 308 East Washington Street EAST PEORIA, ILL. SB ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 53 The Tazewell Hills— There are Several of Them— Will Soon be Beautiful Homes Dan R. Sheen and Oliver |. Bailey both expected East Peoria to grow taster than it lias. The best laid schemes of mice and men. 'Twenty-five years ago they expected it to be done in almost no time. Jacob Harmon, the engineer, made a survey for the Orand View drive on this side of the river, but it has taken a quarter of a century to get it started. Time goes on — it waits for no man. At last it is started. At last the Ft. Creve Coeur State Park is located. It took some time. At last the Caterpillar Trail is becoming a regular road. It all takes time. But it doesn’t take long when they once get started and it begins to look as if they had at last started. Dan R. Sheen built a summer home in the loveliest spot he could find— it was a beautiful place. Mrs. Stata B. Couch, a nature lover, finally bought this five acres from Mr. Sheen and has improved it and it has become one of the ideal spots of the country — headquarters sta- tion particularly for the bird lovers. Then her son. John \V. Hartz, of the Couch & Ileyle hardware store, bought five acres adjoining and built the beautiful home which they have called “Hartzwald”. This is one of the show places but it is not only that but all the comforts and conveniences for a charming home are here. Harry Bean of the Peoria Railway Co., built a beau tiful home adjoining and now Charles Correll of the \ al Jobst Co. has here all the delights of a real home place. A. S. Haggertv the well known millwright of Peoria, bought the Baldwin six acres one of the sightiest locations on the river and built a delightful California bungalow home here. 'The Haggerty family think they are the proud possessors of the finest home there is any- where on earth — and there is much to be said in it' favor. And so it goes. But it is only the beginning. It ha' hardly started yet. • HARTZWALD”— THE LOVELY JOHN W. IIARTZ RESIDENCE ON TIIE CATERPILLAR TRAIL One Twenty-fiifth of a Cent per Mile Each succeeding Chevrolet we hear of seems en- dowed with greater ability to make high mileage at a low- cost. Here is a 1918 model “Four-Ninety’’ touring car, owned by Mr. H. E. Dunn, of Oswego, Kansas, which has been driven 45,000 miles at a cost of less than $100— part of which was for a new battery. Repair expenses for the lirst 25.000 miles amounted to only $10. or just one twenty-fifth of a cent per mile. As an expression of confidence that Mr. Dunn has in his Chevrolet, he intends to drive to California this sum- mer. He says lie thinks the car is good for forty-five thousand miles more. RESIDENCE. FACTORY ANI) OARAC.E OWNIiH BY WM. II. SCHEI.M ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Blue Bird Theatre — A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever THE BEAUTIFUL HLl'E BIRD THEATRE Close to one thousand dollars was expended m equipping the projection room. This room is open to the inspection of anyone interested in the manner in which pictures are presented. It is quite a study, and the management invites those interested to visit that section of the theatre. The stage was installed with the idea in view of offering vaudeville attractions, being large enough to allow the proper presentation of such entertainment. With the assistance of East Peoria citizens, the Blue Bird Theatre will grow to be the leading theatre of its size in Illinois. East Peorians can be proud of its theatre. William Schelm — Builder. H. Stickelmaeier — Lessee and Proprietor. “A thing of beauty is a Joy forever” wrote one old sage, and someone in the East mentioned, just a few weeks ago, "A community expresses its progressiveness, its highmindedness, its civic interest by the character and style of its theatres.” He seemed to have spoken the truth. East Peoria has expressed its highmindedness, its progressiveness, its public interest in giving to its citizens the BLUE BIRD THEATRE. Nowhere in the Central West can a city, the size of our fair city, boast of a theatre so attractive in design, or so advanced in presentation of its attractions. With a capacity of over four hundred, it can comfortably ac- commodate its patrons. Equipped with the very latest method of projection, it affords the most pleasing presentation. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST .5(5 Y. W. C. A. Cottage at Recreation Camp is Completed (Continued from page 11) With Mr. Emerson is James M. Daily, son of Mrs. Drusilla Daily, president of the V Omen’s Civic Federa- tion and of the Recreation camp board. Mr. Daily is home for the summer from his studies at the Engineer- ing school in Paris and has drawn up plans for the road- way which is to wind its way up to the camp from the river road. Another picture shows A. 11. Kahler, treasurer of the recreation funds. Mr. Kahler says he can easily take care of more donations if anyone wants to make them — anything from a keg of nails to a sack of cement. Frederick Avery is general chairman of the Drive. The three women at the right are Miss Goldanna Cook, local secretary of the V. W. C. A.; Mrs. Martha Steinmetz of Pekin, Tazewell county representative on the board, and Mrs. Drusilla Daily, president of the board. Others equally as active in the Recreation camp work are Emil W. Bach, Henry Truitt of Chillieothe, Rev. J. Id. Creighton. Joseph Bartley, Mrs. R. S. Wal- lace and Mrs. Seymour Woolner. 'Tazewell county repre- sentatives include also George A. Kuhl, Frederick Beyer, A. A. Sipfle and H. R. Dennis. Each noon during the time that the men were at work erecting the cottage the V. W. C. A. sent food up to the men via truck. One of the pictures shows the “Y” girls getting ready to issue the “first call.” When the camp is completed the plans are that there w ill be a large and airy dining hall building, several smaller cottages adjoining the one now standing, a large and efficiently equipped athletic held and a swimming pool at the foot of the hill. The plan is to have a chap- erone or matron in charge of the camp and for any and all Peoria county and Tazewell county girls to feel free to spend their vacation days there at a very small cost. Business men of Peoria have been most generous in their donations to the work of erecting the Block cottage for the Y. W. C. A. Besides the carpenters who gave amounting to $1,000 there have been others who gave nails, cement, roofing and other building materials amounting to about $2,000. Thirty-seven firms in all furnished building materials. Many big firms loaned trucks to haul the materials to the camp. Ninety private individuals loaned trucks to haul the materials to over and back at night, and to take luncheons to the men at noon. The Y. W. C. A. is very grateful to all of these doners. 1 he following is the list of carpenters who gave their services free for two weeks’ time: Superintendent Brown, Onno .Seeba, Charles Eng- strom, B. D. Kimberlin, L. W. Schultz. E. W. Randall, lony McMurray, S. E. Shell. Max A. Holdan, J. Swine- hart, L. A. Van Drelzen, William 11. Dealy, Ed Skrollin, E. II. Knapp, Homer Garmar, N. IT. Garmar, Otto Kline, J. A. Krump, William Harmes, M. Wilt/., 1. Skeim, R. Morin and M. F. Raish. 1 — From left to right — Mrs. Martha Steinmetz, Pekin: Mrs. Drusilla Daily and Miss Goldanna Cook, of the committee. 2 — Grading the new road for the camp. 3 — Superintendent Brown, forman of the volunteer carpenters. 4 — James M. Daily, who laid out the road plans. 5 — Frank Emerson, architect for the camp. 6 — Y. W. girls preparing luncheon for the workmen. 7. — A. IT. Kahler, treasurer of recreation funds. 8 — The Y. W. Cottage, nearly completed. 9 — The workmen getting ready to wreck the cottage before it was moved. SANTIAGO AND GUILLEN Peoria Union Made W. H. SPRENGER, Mfg., Phone 7118 208 N. Adams St. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST The Dageforde Lumber Co., An Old Institution in Our City, That Has Always Done Its Share The Dageforde Lumber Co has played an important part in the development of East Peoria and is destined to play a more important part for it always aims to keep abreast of tbe times and is never wanting in doing its share. At the start it was the Knetzger Lumber Co. with Herman Albers in charge. I lerman is pretty near a native of East ERXliST C. DAGEFORDE Peoria and besides that lie says it was just IS years ago he started in the lumber business with a cue horse wagon and has been at it ever since, so he ought to know something about the lumber business. Eight years ago the Dageforde brothers Ernest and Carl, bought out Mr. Knetzger and since that time the business has been more active than ever. They don't make them anv better than the Dageforde boys — they are surely the salt of the earth. I f you can’t get a square deal here we don’t know where you can. Everything in the building line and they always meet prices and besides you patronize a home institution and the service is the best that our modern times affords. Square dealing and courtesy are the two words that mean the most to the Dagefordes. Why Pick On Us ? The woods are full of amateur economists who claim that prices of Groceries will shortly return to pre- war levels. Will they? Yes, they sure will W hen hard coal is back to $9.00 per ton ; When railroad fares are back to 2c per mile; When gasoline is back to 10c per gallon ; When house rent is back to $5.00 per month ; When a square meal can be had for a quarter; When farm labor is back to $15.00 per month ; When shaves are back to 10c ; When freight rate from New York, now $1.84, is back to 97c; When clothes are back to $15.00 a suit; When money is back to 5 per cent; When cooks are back at $5.00 per week ; When haircuts are back to a quarter; When movies are back to a nickel ; When a car-wash is back at a dollar; When ice cream is back at a dime; When a doctor’s call is back at two bucks; When a newspaper is back at a penny. For the love of Mike, why expect the manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of Groceries to go the route alone? Why expect us and no one else to go back to pre-war prices? Why pick on us. We are ahead — ’way ahead of the procession. Now- let the barbers and the movie houses and the Standard Oil and the soft drink parlors, and the landlords, and the hotels and restaurants and the draymen, and the bankers, cut their prices and catch up with us. It’s time for us to pick on somebody. We’ve been the goat long enough. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS The final total number of degrees conferred by the University of Illinois at its fifty-first annual commence- ment on June 14 reached the 1150 mark. Up to today, a total of 1128 had fulfilled all the re- quirements for graduation and others will be added from day to day. The graduating class this year is one of the largest in the history of the institution. C. R. ARNOLD General Merchandise i— n GROCERIES o HARDWARE 5r r A ^ J MEAT ESTIvR R. ARN'O I.D FEED Full Weight Reasonable Prices Phone 28 736 East Washington St ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 59 Moral Training In Our Schools America has a wonderful public school system, and the teachers deserve great credit for their efforts in train- ing American children, for they are a very independent race. ( )ur present courses do not, however, include teach- ing of any definite code of ethics or, code of morals, if you please, and it is a serious shortcoming. There is no country in the world where children are so free from religious influence as here, but neither is there any other country where they receive so little definite instruction in how to behave as they do here. The "Pen Commandments would serve as a mighty good code of morals and while it is true that these com- mandments are found in the Bible, it cannot be said that they refer to any particular religion or creed. They are a sound basis for conduct and arc well -worth teaching our young Americans. If this code is not satisfactory then let us formulate another code which we all can accept as fit to teach our children and let us incorporate that in the regular public school instruction. We can afford to devote a definite period in the regu- lar curriculum to giving them instruction in truthfulness and honesty, as well as other details of the moral code. We cannot too strongly impress upon the growing minds the abhorrence of lying- and stealing. As it is we only refer to these things when special cases come up. It is a fact that children pay more attention to in- struction given them in the school than they do to what their parents tell them. Of course our teachers every- where do teach them some ethics, but only through their personal conduct and an occasional lecture. If we taught grammar or arithmetic in that manner very few of our children would learn much about these branches, and since we acknowledge this fact by teach ing them diligently it seems logical to do the same with respect to morals and ethics. We all acknowledge the necessity for thorough training in any of the different studies such as mathe- matics, language, etc., in fact we know that unless our children attend school regularly covering all grades and the high school, they will not be equipped to take good care of themselves. If this is true concerning such things, is it not equally true concerning morals and does it not indicate the necessity for a more definite training- in a code of morals? There is plenty of evidence everywhere that wc feel the need for teaching our youth definitely along moral lines and this is shown by the fostering of such move- ments as the Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, Girl Reserves, Camp Eire Girls and other similar organizations, which all have for their purpose teaching boys and girls good morals. Phis is an important matter and merits the consid- eration of every good citizen, for when this is made a part of our regular public school instruction our youth will be better prepared to become good citizens and a smaller percentage will go wrong. Let us teach our children, in the public schools, a simple, straightforward, but definite code of morals, just as we now teach them mathematics or other subjects. Then they will become better citizens and will be able to promote a better civilization. CENTRAL GRADE SCHOOL Kinsey & Mahler Co. — Jobbers of — Iron Pipe and Supplies Brass Foundry and Copper Works 400 South Adams St., Peoria, Illinois ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST ill The Biggest Business of Its Kind in the State — Cappel, Garrard Co. PICTURE OP TIIE FINEST BUILDING OF ITS KIND IN Till-; UNITED STATES— TIIE C APPEL, GARRARD POULTRY HOME. Two more wide-awake progressive Peoria business men are interested in the development and the prosperity of East Peoria and the surrounding rural districts and want to show this interest by talking through this edition. Some fifteen years ago, Messrs. Cappel and Garrard started in business in Peoria in a very modest way — reaching out only to city trade. Through conscientious work, perseverance and sound business judgment, they have built up an enormous plant, doing a volume of busi- ness amounting to several million dollars a year. They found each year that their business was rapidly develop- ing and several years ago, they built their fine building which you see represented in the picture. Since that time it has had several additions and even now they need more space and expect within a few years to add several stories. They find a great deal of their business consists in shipping to Eastern Markets. Present shipping condi- tions are particularly annoying to them because of their perishable goods, but even so, they find it practically im- possible to keep up with the rush of business. They have the most modern and up-to-date building of this sort in the United States and carry on more busi ness of this nature in Peoria, than any other place in the State of Illinois. Farmers! Be sure and bring your poultry and eggs to Cappel-Garrard if you want fair weighing and best prices. Messrs. Cappel and Garrard have great faith in the fact of East Peoria becoming a live, modern city, and want to do their share in helping it to progress. A year ago the Cappel-Garrard Co. bought the im- mense tractor building on this side of the river next to the bridge on West Washington street and this already is a busy place, crowded to capacity for storage purposes Negotiations are on foot for further railroad facilities and the day seems not far distant when this location ma\ grow into a great plant. Bishop Manning Asks Obedience of Prohibition Bishop William T. Manning, addressing the Episco- pal diocese of New York, declared that while he did not hold that “to drink intoxicants in moderation is a sin." he believed, “no citizen has the right to evade or disobey the prohibition law.” "As to the principle of prohibition,” Bishop Manning asserted, “we have a full right to our different views. For my own part 1 have never been theoretically a prohibi- tionist. It is my belief, however, that prohibition proper ly enforced will make us healthier, a stronger and a bel- ter people. 1 believe that prohibition is already resulting in improved conditions. “But the question is not what you or I think about prohibition, but about the great principle of respect for the law. Prohibition is the law of our land.” WESTERN WESTERN MINING POWDER MINING POWDER Western Powder Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of Specialties in Mining, Blasting and Gun POWDERS 829-830 JEFFERSON BUILDING PEORIA, ILLINOIS Star Brand Mining Powder GETS THE MAXIMUM TONAGE BECAUSE IT S MADE HONEST AND UNIFORM-GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION PROMPT SERVICE TO ALL ORDERS, LARGE OR SMALL Jacob Syers, Joseph Lord, Representatives. W. A. Moberly, Gen. Mgr. ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 63 04 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 15he BANNER FURNITURE STORE LEADS IN QUALITY, VALUE AND LOW PRICES. COMPARISON WILL PROVE IT. 1411-13 S. ADAMS STREET 88 J. B. WILTON BRO. & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 1304 South Adams Street PEORIA, ILL. Phone Main 169 CHAPEL. 88 88 88 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 65 88 88 GRANITE BLOCK COMPANY EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS 88 88 88 88 88 88 Manufacturers of GRANITE FACE BUILDING BLOCKS MADE BY THE ZAGELMEYER CAST BLOCK SYSTEM Don ’t class these blocks with the ordinary dry tamped ones. Inspection will show the difference. 88 88 88 88 (i(i ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Ask Your Grocer for CERESOTA FLOUR Wonderful Quality — Wonderful Flour 98 INSIST UPON HAVING Clarke Royal Scratch Feed Jobbers and Feed Manufacturers HORACE CLARK MILLING CO. PEORIA. 88 98 88 88 88 98 98 98 88 98 98 ' 98 4- 4 * * * 4 » 4* 4 - 4 - * 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 - GO TO CHAS. ANTHONY Cash Grocer FANCY MEATS Phone Main 8938 FOR PROVISIONS FRESH PRODUCE Delivered Anywhere GROCERIES 439 W. Washington Street 4 - 4 * 4 - 4 - 4 * 4 - 4 * * 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 « 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 , 4 » 4 » 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 » 4 * 4 * 4 » 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 » 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 " 4 * 4 * 4 » 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 " 4 ' 4 « 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * | I LIGHT AND POWER WIRING PHONE MAIN 4164 * 4 » 4 » 4 * 4 - 4 - 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 * I 4 - 4 * 4 * | t 1602 Millman Street 4 * 4 * J. C. SCHAEFER Electrical Contractor Peoria, Illinois | t ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST BULK ICE CREAM In Package Form SPECIAL ROLLS QUART SIZE PINT SIZE - 50c. 30c. Sold by All Leading Dealers in PEORIA AND EAST PEORIA / REMEMBER \ \OH CHARLEY !-5cJ (iS ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 30 Years of Popularity McKENZIE’S THIRST PARLOR To Please Customers Is Our Ambition. Isaac McKenzie, 401 E. Washington St East Peoria, Illinois FRED SIEFERT & SON Plumbing , Heating and Sewer Contractors 205-207 GLENDALE AVENUE PHONE MAIN 1560 PEORIA, ILLINOIS 8R ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST 69 88 The Eyes of the World are on CHEVROLET For Economical Transportation The World’s Lowest Priced FULLY EOUIPPED AUTOMOBILE $525 f. o. b. Flmt, Mich, CHEVROLET is now the fastest selling, standard, fully equipped automobile in the world. Spring sales have given it this premier position. SALES FOR APRIL, 1922, were nearly double those for April, 1920, our best previous spring month, and were more Ilian seven times as much as in the same month one year ago. SALES FOR the four big months so far recorded are more than seven times the sales for the first four months of last year. And they have exceeded those for the same period of 1920, when the after-the-war boom was at its height. THE BEST PREVIOUS monthly record was in July, 1920. But Chevrolet sales in April, 1922 smashed all previous records by several thousand cars. This best previous month was exceeded bv 29y — a mag- nificent expression of the public's appreciation of the great value we offer. WHY CHEVROLET LEADS THIS LEADERSHIP is the result of building cars, both passenger and commercial, which will provide efficient operation and economical transportation at a price everyone can afford to pay. MORE THAN three-quarters of a million Chevrolets have now been sold. This month, this vear, more and better Chevrolets will be sold than in any previous month or year in Chevrolet history. BECAUSE Economical Transportation has become so vital in business and in everyday life, C hevrolet has gained its rightful recognition. And it has gained this enviable position without forcing its sale through advertising. It is simply due to motor car owners' appreciation of merit and value. Investigate the “Difference” Before You Buy. MALONE BROTHERS, CB Sixth and Franklin Sts. PEORIA, ILLINOIS 83 88 88 88 88 We Believe IN EAST PEORIA LARGE HOLDINGS OF EAST PEORIA PROPERTY TESTIFY TO THIS Gome To Us FOR HOMES, LOTS OR ACRES ON PAYMENTS OR FOR CASH IN PEORIA OR EAST PEORIA This firm has established a life-long reputation for fair and square dealing in city and suburban property BROWN BROS. ESTABLISHED 1893 JEFFERSON AND FULTON STS. PEORIA, ILLINOIS ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST Distribution of Charity There are many things about the way we now dis- tribute our contributions to charity that tend towards waste and inefficiency, and generally speaking there is a stigma attached to acceptance of charity, whether the recipient is to blame for his condition or not. There is a sense of benevolence on the one hand and shame on the other; the giver feels that he is acting benevolently toward the recipient and the one who re- ceives the charity feels ashamed of the plight which makes the acceptance of charity a necessity. The methods under which most of our charity is dis- tributed are such that there is no organized center to which one in need can apply, without involving con- siderable delay to allow for investigation before an appli- cation will be acted upon, and in the meantime private individuals are frequently appealed to for the immediate necessities or the suffering becomes unendurable. It is rather degrading to give alms to a needy person, unless one is very careful to analyze his own thoughts. W hen a poor, hungry individual comes to your back door and asks for a meal, and you let him come in out of the cold, you are very likely to feel that you are quite benev- olent. and you are. You see that his teeth stop chatter- ing; he eats greedily what you give him; he is grateful, and it is but natural to recall that Christ said : “Inas- much as you have done it unto one of these, you have done it unto me.” The facts are that we fall far short, for all we give him is one meal out of our abundance. W r e can’t share what we have with him for that will not do. We have not solved the problem of where he will eat his next meal or next week. Consequently we arc only drugging our conscience by saying to ourselves that we have done all that is customary and about all anyone would ask of us. W e are making ourselves more callous, for we know, when w/ stop to think, that within a few hours he will be knocking at some other door, asking for other gifts. W e kno\V.that if he continues he will soon forget the shame and will come to expect gifts for the asking, and soon he accepts these as if they were due as his rights. To correct these conditions we must do more than arrange for proper distribution of charity. W'e must safeguard in every possible manner those who may fall into need of charity, and we can only do that by enacting and enforcing some laws which make it practically im- possible for old and incapacitated individuals to become objects of charity. W’e must arrange to keep all who can work emploved so they can earn a living. This is not going to be am easy task, but certainly it can be done for even as it is. Society as a whole pays the bill and supplies food and clothing for everybody. The cost would be no greater under a more thorough system of control, and would involve less suffering. W e must provide for general insurance which can be in the form of old age pensions, pensions for incapacitated persons, sick benefits and similar provisions, so that the average individual can approach old age without am real fear of actual want when no longer able to earn a living. W’e must provide for adequate medical and surgical aid for the relief of physical suffering without specific cost to the patient. All these things could be handled in the form of insurance against want or suffering and the premiums could be taken from the earnings of each individual, making self-protection compulsorv and reliev- ing Society of that burden. Perhaps we could organize a department of our government whose business it would be to see that these things, and others, were carried out; which could educate us so that when the next generation grew up thev would be familiar with all these safeguards, and make them more complete and efficient. There are plenty of arguments which can be raised against these provisions, but they all can be met if we bear in mind that we are now and always will be responsible for the well-being or suffering of our fellow- men. W r e are unquestionably “our brother’s keeper.” W’e must see that he is fed, clothed and housed decently or we are not doing our duty. ( )f course there are some who would find opportun- ity to take advantage of the means provided, but that need not discourage us, for the same thing happens in every walk of life now and still we keep going. W e must meet these conditions as they arise. W'e know that un- less such provisions are made as referred to above the individuals affected will either beg or steal — they will get the necessities of life somehow. Through it all let us remember that these provisions should be made in such a way that we ourselves would be willing to be cared for under them. Only in that manner can we claim that we love our neighbor as we love our- selves. ANNUAL REMEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST East Peoria Shoe Store 123 East Washington St., East Peoria, 111. F. GRAF AND J. MOSER, Proprietors SOLID LEA THER SHOES First Class Shoe Repairing “WEATHERBIRD" SCHOOL A Specialty CALL AND GET ACQUAINTED PROPOSED MAIN SANITARY SEWER EAST PEORIA ILLINOIS 1912 ANNUAL REY1KW EDITION EAST I'EORIA POST THE EAST PEORIA POST PUHUSHED WEEKLY By W. W. GODDARD Entered at the postoffice at \\ ashington, Illinois, class matter. as second TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One 't ear, in advance, Si nirle l omes . . . .$2.90 . . . . 05 I- R 1 DAY, AUGUST 11, 1922 THE CHAMP. ON C W lllini Dulcina DeKol, a five year old Holstein cow owned by the University of Illinois, now holds the state- record for production of milk and butterfat for cows of any breed as the result of a vear’s test just completed. The cow gave 24,312.7 pounds of milk. Her butterfat production was 998,367 pounds, which is equivalent to 1247.96 pounds of butter. She is the only cow in Illinois which has a production of over 1200 pounds of butter in one year, according to M. H. Campbell, associate in dairy husbandry at the University. With this production she displaces her stable mate, lllini Homestead Beechwood, who formerly held the state record for Holsteins with the production of 23333.7 pounds of milk and 901.68 pounds of butter fat. or 1127.1 pounds of butter. lllini Dulcina DeKol was bred and developed by the University. With this new record, the Universitv has the distinction of having produced the first Holstein cow in this state to make 1000 pounds of butter: the first Holstein in this state to make 1100 pounds of butter: and the first cow of any breed to make 1200 pounds of butter in Illinois. ST. PETER'S LU HI ERAS' CHURCH AXI) PARSONAGE— REV. EDWARD C. E. PAUTSCH. PASTOR ONE OP THE CITY'S RAPIDLY GROWING CHURCHES ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST WARREX SUTUI'F, PRESIDEXT FOX DU I.AC STATE BAXK. Mr. Sutliff is the well known member of the great Mr. Sutliff was this year elected SutlilT & Case drug- firm which has been a part of Peoria Peoria Association of Commerce, so it for so man)- years. a busy man. He is a director of the First National Bank and also president of the new South Side Bank. president of the will be seen he is YNNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAS'I' PEORIA POST Deep Water-way for Peoria and the Sixteenth Congressional District Since I have be- come a candidate for Congress, subject t o the voters of the 16th Congressional, I have been trying to deter- mine how I could be most useful to my constituents, if elected. And 1 have decided "That to make the Illi- nois River a navigable stream from the Lakes to the Dull', and to rid it of polution. so that we may not be infected with disease, and to have a return to the fish industry, would mean as much, or more to our people as any other project. Therefore 1 have already begun and will continue, a study of the situation so that my mind may be clear on the subject, and that I may not be following a pipe- dream.” First of all, think of it from an angle of transporta- tion. If the St. Lawrence River (a subject I will speak of later) should be developed into a ship canal, so as to allow the ocean steamers to sail to the docks at Chicago. And if we could have the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers canalized a distance of sixty miles between Loekport and Utica, to make a navigable channel eight feet deep and then by dredging the Illinois River to the Mississippi, we could accomodate the largest lake boats, which would give water transportation through the 16th Congression- al District to South America. Pacific Coast and would save our farmers 5 to 10 cents a bushel on transportation. It would give our mines at Spring Valley, Granville, Marks, Standard and Peoria a great opportunity to es- tablish a large coal business in Chicago, on account of cheap transportation, and would give them an advantage over all other mines not located on the River. It would build up factories in nearly every city and town in the district, and would make the banks of the old Illinois sing with enterprise from Spring Valley on the North to Pekin on the South. Cheap transportation and cli.ap electric power would make a brilliant future for this valley. Second — 'The cost of the canal and the dredging of the river would, in time, pay for itself, with the power plants that would be established. It would develop /a.OOO electrical horsepower to net the State one and one- half million dollars per year, and would, within a few years, pay for the canal. Third — 1 liink of the power that could be furnished to all the towns in the district. It would have a tendenev to increase the value of the towns all over the 16th Dis- trict. because- it would be distributed so as to give ail towns equal opportunity — even Stark Countv would not be out of reach of this power, although not on the River. After a trip through the St. Lawrence River and after a competent engineer who accompanied me, explained tile- project, I became convinced that it would not only be a great thing- for the world, but could be made a self-sus- taining proposition by the electric power it would develop. Beginning at Prescott, Canada, you would In- obliged to build a canal 135 miles long, but by building this canal and the locks, you pass through many rapids, some of which have a fall of 22 feet. They are well dis- tanced apart, the first Rapids Galope ten miles, Rapids De Plaza, ten miles. Long Sault Rapids: for thirty or forty miles clear river, then about five miles apart are Coteau. Cedar, Split Rock Canades. and Lachine Rapid.'. Every one of these rapids could be developed into mo^t wonderful horsepower. I am informed that New York, and even Quebec are both very jealous of this project for fear it would give the West a decided advantage. In conclusion, from what limited knowledge 1 have of this canal, it seems feasible, and I should think profit- able. The one great proposition that surely must interest all of us is to make Chicago and its sanitary district clean up the Illinois River, and it looks now that with the great influence of the District has. with its wonderful array of lawyers, that it will take the Congress of the United States to bring the District to time. I am for a deep water-way and for the non-polution of the Illinois Rivei Yours very truly, \VM. E. HULL. W.M. K. IIUI.I, ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST New Community High School (From the Peoria Star.) J AX I TO R ' S R ESI I)E A C Iv. Students in th e East Peoria high school will be over- joyed to move from their crowded conditions of former years to the beautiful community high school building. The building was accepted finally by the board on July 29. although it has been practically completed for a month. Work was begun just a year ago, on the building. Cost $150,000. “The cost of the building was somewhat over $150,- 000. The tax levy for last year amounted to $1.45 and covers all expenditures for building and educational pur- poses. The new tax levy will be about the same, but next year the initial costs will be completed and the levy will be much lower,” said James Millard, township treas- urer. “The cost of the grounds amounted to $15,000 and included the janitor’s residence which was already on the lots. A number of improvements have been made to the residence, which contains six or seven rooms and is semi-modern. We hope to make it completely mod- ern, too,” added Mr. Millard. “The school has a capacity for at least 250 students without any possibility of crowding.” Will Make School Accredited. “The school will carry the usual academic courses and enough additional courses to help the students train for employment and advancement in their chosen lines of work,” said W. N. Brown, who is to be superintendent of the school. Mr. Brown spent fifteen years at Manual Training High School as principal there, and before that, was prin- cipal at the Roseville school. East Peoria high school has been registered at Springfield, but so far has not been accredited at the University of Illinois. Mr. Brown will bring the school to the accredited list during this first year. The sidewalks are now in. Next year attention will be paid to beautifying the grounds with landscape gar- dening. The possibilities here are extensive. The wooded hills directly behind the grounds and surrounding the acres on either side add much to the natural beautv of the site. The athletic grounds are to be laid out this fall. Football, field, baseball grounds, and tennis grounds will be provided for now. The track will not be laid out until next spring. Warren Suti.iff, President R. Y. Ulrich, Vice-President J. M. .Speers, Cashier Fon Du Lac State Bank Capital, $50,000.00 Surplus, $12,500.00 East Peoria, Illinois DIRECTORS X. Pries, Louis Stahl, John Spring, J. E. Millard R. V. Ulrich, Samuel Waglrr Dr. F. I.. Stiers, Fred Opper Jesse Antsler, Mrs Anna Schert/ Warren Sntliff, M. Endres L8 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST The Proposed Revised Constitution of Illinois By CHAR LES E. WOODWARD. I ’resident of the Constitutional Convention. After sessions covering a period of two years and one-half, with frequent adjournments, the constitutional convention of Illinois adopted, onfjune 28, 1922. a re- vised constitution. The proposed revised constitution will he submitted to a vote of the people for ratification at a special election to be held December 12, 1922. The proposed revision consists of two hundred thirty-three sections. On the whole the sections are short. Attempt was made to have each section cover a specific, definite thought. Not only are the sections short but the sentences within sections are short and concise. Lucidity of expression was aimed at and, it is believed, accomplished. Ponderous legal verbiage is omitted. It results, therefore, that the proposed revision is much shorter than the present constitution. “Ancient Landmarks’ Preserved In revising and in rewriting the constitution th ■ framers did not depart from the past. No ancient hind- marks were effaced. The makers preserved as well as improved. Their work is now before the people either for approval or condemnation. In judging the work of a constitutional convention, the theory and purpose of a constitution must always be borne in mind. Roughly speaking, a constitution should do three things : (1) Outline a form of government. ( 2 ) (Juarantee the individual historic rights so that the government may not enroaeh upon his individual freedom ; and (3) Limit and restrict political power so as to pre- serve the proper checks and balances in government. It is not the function of a constitution to deal with social and economic questions. The solution of these questions changes as social and economic forces take on new form. Happily the constitution which is submitted for consideration contains a minimum of matters of this kind which are purely legislative. The document is submitted as a whole. Serious con- sideration was given to submission by separate articles and sections. Separate submission was rejected— almost unanimously. A constitution is a single document. One clause depends upon another clause — one policy upon an- other policy. It was found impracticable if not impos- sible to separate the sections. Because it is submitted as a whole, objection may be found to individual parts. Objection was found in the convention to many sections. They were debated and discussed at great length. ( )n the whole they represent concession and compromise for the public good. That, the whole document was satis- factory to the convention is evidenced bv the fact that upon the final vote for its adoption no negative votes are recorded. The test as to whether it should receive the appro- bation of the people is not as to whether or not the docu- ment is theoretically perfect. This, in the nature of things, is impossible. No doubt each member of the con- vention feels that he could have written a better docu- ment. But constitutions, like statutes, must be the aver- age opinion of a body b\- which they are adopted. The true test. then, is as to whether or not the proposed docu- ment is better adapted to the conditions of Illinois as they now exist than the constitution of 1870. If. in view of conditions, it is better than that of 1870 it should re- ceive approval. Down State Senate Control Assured \\ herein are some of the essential improvements? To the people down state the apportionment of members in the general assembly is of prime importance. The down state feels very keenly that it is inimical to the best interests of Illinois that any one city or county should be in position to dominate and control the policies of the state. Under the present constitution, if an ap- portionment should now be made, Cook county would control forty-seven per cent of the membership of both houses of the general assembly. Within a few years it would control absolutely- both houses. Under the pro- posed plan under no circumstances can Cook county con- trol more than one-third of the members of the Senate. A just and equitable balance of power is preserved as between the sections. If this provision is not now ac- cepted the down state may confidently look forward to the time when Cook county will be the dominating force, both in the executive and in the legislative departments. The restriction of Cook county’s representation has its compensating - features tor the city of Chicago. 1 hat city is given a large measure of self government. So far as its local administrative and economic affairs are con- cerned it may act upon its own initiative. It may frame its own charter of local self government. The wide and extensive powers given to the city of Chicago are to the interest both of the city and of the down state. 1 he city of Chicago may, unhampered, work out its own destiny. The down state will not be called upon to take sides, in matters peculiarly local to that city. The time of the legislature may be devoted to matters of more general concern. Revenue and Court Reforms The judiciary reform the foundation for which is laid in the constitution, should have the earnest consid- eration of business men. 1 his reform was not initiated for AXXUAL REMEW EDITION EAST PEORIA POST lawyers primarily. The Supreme Court is made ac- tually as well as theoretically au independent branch of the government. It is vested with power to prescribe rules of pleading", practice and procedure. Heretofore such rules have been prescribed by the general assembly. Under the power thus delegated to the Supreme Court practical and common sense rules may be prescribed, greatly simplifying procedure and facilitating the trial and disposition of causes. In line with this reform the Appellate Court is strengthened. A unified court system for Cook County should prove a boon to that part of the state. Under the present revenue system, taxation must be by value. The legilative has little discretion as to the theory of a tax law. ( )ur taxation scheme is un- satisfactory and is gradually casting the burden oi tax- ation upon real estate. The proposed constitution marks a great step in advance. The general assembly is vested with power to pas an income tax law and to tax fran- chises. privileges and occupations, thus equalizing, more than can be done under the present law, the burden of taxation. A tax upon the income from intangible prop- erty may be substituted for a tax by value upon such property. In imposing these several taxes, power and discretion are vested in the general assembly to provide for such deductions and setoffs as may be necessary to prevent double taxation. The revenue article marks a distinct step in advance. No More Appropriation Scandals Less spectacular are other changes made. Appro- priation methods wil be revolutionized. The scandals biennially growing out of the passage of appropriation bills will be a thing of the past. They cannot be writ- ten in secret. In their final form they must be printed and upon desks of the members three days before filial vote is taken. Every clause and every sentence of the present con- stitution was considered, discussed and debated. It was either adopted or rewritten in the light of history and experience. The decisions of the Supreme Court, m many instances, pointed the way. It is difficult for the ordinary business man to make a scientific study of constitutions. It is a duty, however, which he owes to the state to compare the proposed document with that now in force and to inform himself of the advantages of the proposed over that now in force. In view of the fact that the convention was made up of representative men from various walks of life selected from all over the state the members are entitled to the presumption that their work was done with patriotism and with care. 7V t f I I * 4 * * ❖ 4 * 4 * 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 * 4 - 4 * 4 - * Make Your Home Complete Good music completes the modern home. 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TANNER A meeting of fifty officials of the Modern Woodman of America held at the Jefferson hotel to make plans to increase the membership of the organization in the state, developed into an unofficial meeting to boost S. S. 'ban- ner, national director of the organization, of Minier, 111., ior the republican nomination for governor at the next election. Mr. Fanner was assured by all the officials present of their support if he decided to make the race. He was told by a large number that the sentiment in their local- ities was strongly in his favor and that he would carrv those localities with ease. Delay Resolution. A movement was on foot to pass a resolution en- dorsing Mr. Tanner for the nomination, but it was decided not to take any official action at the present time as the meeting had been called for the purpose of increas- ing the membership of the lodge. 'File conference divided the state into eleven districts for the purpose of the membership campaign. It is the intention to secure 12.000 new members for the organiza- tion before January, at which time the lodge will cel- ebrate its fortieth anniversary. State Divided. ( ). E. Aleshire, head banker, was placed in charge of the drive in the Chicago district; John F. Harris, editor of the Modern Woodmen, of the Joliet district; Truman Plantz, general attorney, of the Galesburg district; Joseph Ray, head banker, of the Rock Island district;. Peter Werner, special auditor, of the Peoria district; S. S. Fan- ner, national director, of the Decatur district: George Hatzenbuhler, chief inspector, of the Bloomington dis- trict; Grant Taylor, of the Danville district; W. F. Gilroy, state lecturer, of the East St. Louis district; C. II. Townley. state deputy, of the Macomb district, and M. E. Bray, special auditor of the Centralia district. ^8888^^^S08688S8888B888888^88S8S888888888888888888868888B888BS88888^88888888888888 88 88 83 A Big New Factory That Is a Beauty and Credit to Any City. 88 A Good Picture of the Beautiful New Haag Bros. Factory. HAAG BROS. WASHING MACHINE FACTORY. The Haag Bros. Washing Machine Factory is an addition to the many factories now located in East Peoria. Haag Bros, have rive acres of ground 3(J(J feet front, 70U feet deep. Their factory covers 50.00U feet of floor space. The facto- ry is modern throughout and one of the best examples of what a factory should be. On the second floor are the offices with soft tan walls of hard red oak wood work. All over the building are found drinking fountains, for the comfort of the workers. The spacious general ofHce measures 40x100 feet. Directly off from this to the left is a big stock room where the office supplies are stored. At the right is a large manager’s office comfortably furnished. In front is quite a stretch of green lawn which is to be beautified by landscape gardening. Altogether, as Mr. Haag says, this factory is easily one of finest and busiest in this part of the country. to | Hitchcock Sprinkler I 1 and Heating Co. I 88 88 88 88 88 “Service Before Self * 88 I AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEMS 88 I Steam Heating, Power and Process Piping 83 I RESIDENCE HEATING. 88 88 88 gg 633 Peoria Life Buildin 88 88 iiSIVaSiTY OF Illinois LIBRARY East Peoria's Growth Brought Ours / Real [state & Insurance Service PHONE MMN 14 . ELCHE FIRST NATL BANK BUILDING. EAST PEORIA, ILL. Both Will Continue To Grow