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«44 * t# g" Â¥ 46 4: t8jf tig W HeP tegipys {$ /4 Â¥4} i6 For days the packers in the district feared that you:would not be able to have that can of corn and if you could not have it their crops would be only waste, Two canning :companies in Hoopestown had ployed and tended during spring and summer about 15,â€" 000 acres of sweet corn. Farmers, who sell them corn, had [Nz anothâ€" er 5,000 acres. In this lesser yield this season is something else for us to think about, a story of the battle to give you that can of corn you had for dinner toâ€" night. It is a story of an army of workers fighting against difficult odds to win. For this year the fields were fooded by rains. that came in torâ€" Hoopeston is in the northern end of Vermilion county, near the Indiana state line. Something in the soil there somehow meant a better, sweetâ€" er sweetcorn, That was learned by the early growers and they bent thair backs to the opportunity. The seaâ€" son‘s pack in Hoopeston in 1925 was ;mfi.:%o eu;l”. "m:"mm cans. It e in 1 erop yielding only about 16,800,000 cans. _ + cans You una’yf n:'t o:w- u.% goopntow i.‘d” %, J,M, j Â¥* [Mp almost ~entirely around | mi:; industry. : You may not know it bat 17 moed i hhe entive Te and were. ry j vegeâ€" table canning m ‘the United States is manufactured in Hoopeston. 37 Carloads a Day ‘ It may surpise you vhqnu}tell \you that there is a can manufacturing plant in Hoopeston, making completed cans out of flat sheet tin, so marve!â€" lously equipped that its twelve autoâ€" matic canâ€"making machines can turn out, all soldiered and tested, 3,000 cans in a minute; 180,000 an hour or about 1,500,000 in a working dayâ€" which is 37 carloads of cans! That‘s ~That can of "sugar corn" which you bought at the corner nam and opâ€" ened for your dinner this evening had a romance of Illinois sealed between its unromantie covers. ~You â€"may not know it but the packing of sweetcorn, in the central west, was started in Hoopeston almost a half century ago. This year was the fortyâ€"ninth "pack." PAGE FOUR to beat and the arm# of pickers waded into the fields. All day they toiled in the water and soft mud. #The great cornâ€"canning industry in Hoopeston began a half century ago in a very small way. First only a farmer or two grew the corn and it was canned in mashift plants, For years all of the canning‘ equipment was made locallyâ€"because there was no place to buy it. Sprague Started It w ‘*Then about fortyâ€"five years ago a "down â€" east . Yankee," Welcome Sprague by name, came to Hoopeston froin Farnham, N. Y, He set out, in a small way, to manufacture canâ€" ning machinery. Today that plant has grown into the great Spragueâ€" Sells Corp. j & : «."Either one of the: two plants here packs more corn yearly than any othâ€" ¢r plant anywhere."‘" i x +.; ..~ # (;’na Enameled Inside If you look inside your can after the corn is .emptied, if the can comes from HAoppeston, you will find someâ€" thing elge. For this year, for the first time, the inside of the Hoopeston cans are enameled. That‘s toâ€"give you a prottier corn. Beauty in manuâ€" facture has extended even to corn. There is a trace of sulphur in sweet corn. | The action of sulphur on tin is chemical. It has meant a slight darkening of the goldenâ€"white meat of the corn. It does not hurt it at all, chemists say, but it is not so pretty, A f £ So after years of experiment a way has been found to keep the corn free of this a!?ht discoloration. The thin surface of grayish enamel, baked on under intense heat, means that the corn never touches the tin, And someâ€" thing more is done to please the buyâ€" er! © j It was a big job, One company opâ€" erated Y.fi) wagons to get the corn to the plant, And the packer added this bit of information: . ‘"Men who risked sickness, m ed long hours in distress, â€" roads and gasoline saved the cropâ€" or the most of it," said one of the packers to me. > "It cost us a heap of money but, wellâ€"I guess we were saved financially for the loss of the crop would have meant bankruptcy." R Whu»g: wagons were loaded it required #ix and eightâ€"mule teams to get ‘then out. The animals hzz::i those wagt to tha concrete roads. Twenty-z e mbbe?’wheeled tractors came to the rescue and the wagons were made up into fiveâ€"wagon trains on the hard highways. } j + vaniaoennnaeye akioae lc rita td N n k I had heard of this in an individual plant or‘ two but I had to go to Hoopenzdn to find : that the problem was general, For only at Hoopeston could I find men.who had their finâ€" gers on|the pulse of the nation‘s canâ€" ning industry. This is the center, the capital pfâ€"Canningdom. : The quality, texture |and taste, they tell me, as a result is the best ever known. A Big Business You may dsk if this canning indusâ€" try is really a big business. You may be convinced when I tell you that the other day the Spragueâ€"Sells Corp., of Hoopeston, gave one order for 250 tons of steelâ€"to go into canning maâ€" chines. Hoo n has made its imprint on the canning industry in other ways. Take the case of H. W. Phelps, presâ€" ident the American Can company with t plants scattered all over the country. He was a Hoopeston boy, his start here with the Union Can compzny, of Hoopeston, an imâ€" By experiments it was found that with the added moisture content the materials, no matter what, and whethâ€" er raised in Ohio or Illinois or Coloâ€" radio â€" for it has been a ‘wet year everywhereâ€"had to be cooked longer and under more heat. But it was bake ovens, per .minute. : Some prodâ€" ucts canned! at the rate of 120 cans a minute per machine. TA m med the heavy raing.. They told ~Athat ~the ays thig year created lanother problem. Heavy rains meant Rkeavy moisture content in all field crops.. Canning plants were quickly in trouble. â€" Early batches, at canneries: all over the country, did not "turnm "out "well. Some "of them spoiled. i , The company was st a few Fronths ago ‘when m§ ‘W'fi;@m ‘sign a machine for "filling" tins fruit cake dough." Here was a new idea. For tl;enfim ‘o{‘ fruit eakesé in large quantities, with citrus an raisins and nuts and all t!ufigou into fruit cakes, had become an industry of large proportions. | . . Fruit Cake In Cans % The manufacturers set about it After a time a machfne took form that today is filling from forty to fifty fruit. cake tins, ready for the bake ovens, per minute. : Some prodâ€" ucts are canned at the rate of 120 cans a minute per machine. (When a can moves into an oven or heating chamber it s going, slowâ€" ly the heat, and comes out cooked. The speed of moving parts regulates the time under heat. (And today gverything imaginable is canâ€" m cept oranges and lemons, perâ€" haps, for no way has been found to can satisfactorily these citrus fruits. I said werythin: is canned. I meant almost that: for even fertilizer, .they told me at the plant, is now being canned for certain special purposes. motion. ‘They never stop during the process, THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, i@r appeal; for this appeal is fundaâ€" mentally unrelated to that of any othâ€" er variety of fictional entertainment. What, then, constitutes the hold that the detective novel has on all classes of peopleâ€"even those who would not stoop to read any other kind of ‘popâ€" ular‘ fiction? Why do we find men DETECTIVE NOVEL LIKE WORD PUZZLE > The detective novel is a glorified crossâ€"word puzzle, asserts â€" Willard Huntington Wright in the November Scribner‘s Magazine, and therein lies the secret of <its papularity. â€" "Ifâ€"we are to understandâ€"the unique place held in modern letters by the detective novel," ‘se says, "we must first endeavor to determine its peeulâ€" ~~That name was applied in jocularâ€" ity in the beginning bectause. there never has been a galoon in Hoopeston. Those who Jlaid .out the town on prairie land saw to that and it is in the titles and deéds. Hoopeston bent the Rev. Mr. Volstead to it by a lifeâ€" time or two. And Hoopeston takes pride;in the fack .o â€" 15 . 0. .3 The salary of the mayor of Hoopesâ€" ton is fifty cents a year, by ordinancs, and the. aldermen get .twentyâ€"five cents a year. . The city has $50,000 in its treasury. At times it has even loaned its surplus money to its own business people at interest. â€", Writer In Scribner‘s Declares This Feature Makes This of Story : Yes, romance, adventure, prosperâ€" ity, development, important human eventsâ€"all these things and many moreâ€"can come out of a tin can, The next time you prod a tin can with a sharp point of a canâ€"opener think of Hoopeston, home "of 6;000 people, a city built on‘tin cans and canned foodâ€" stuffs, the Holy City in Vermilion county, Illinois. is portant plant in its beginning but a unit of gp‘:mm : “t:{ now. _ It is the plant I told you al that can make 3,000 completed cans ahead. Mr. Phelps lives in New York but often "comes back home." _ > u. * Holy City" : => / For fifty years or more certain wags have called Hoopeston the Holy City. Should you go to the Dearborn street railway station in Chicago toâ€" dayâ€"and: ask for a ticket to the Holy City the ticket agent, without hesiâ€" tation, probably would hand you a paste board â€"giving â€"passage to Hoopeston. f HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. C Linden Avenue...... A convenient and economical form 4 1 all Phie t otk Bm Lien Mileage books are good for trans fit;rtndon between any gfints on the es of this company, for bearer or bearer and party, within one year 500â€"Mile Books $13.75 1000â€"Mile Books 25.00 Mileage To see the West Point Cadets and Annapolis Midshipmen on parade in,E downtown Chicago, or at Soldier‘s Field, take North Shore Line trains. Operating directly into the Chicago Loop and stopping at five Loop staâ€"| tions, the North Shore Line delivers you close to the scene of all activities.. To reach Soldier‘s Field, the scene of the Armyâ€"Navy football game, hht North Shore Line trains to Roosevelt Road station. then walk east. vs . wl _ THE ROAD OF SERVICE Highland Park Ticket Office . §05. nary sepse, but belongs rather in the egory or riddles: it is, in fact, & complicated and extended puzszle cast in flefl«t-‘l form. Its widespread popâ€" ularity and interest are due, at botâ€" tom and in essence, to the same facâ€" tors that give popularity and interest to th3 crossâ€"word puzzle. Indeed, the structure and mechanism.0f the crossâ€" word puzzle and of the detective novel are ‘very similar. In each there is a problem to be solved; and the: solwâ€" tion dq*_tnds wholly on mental proâ€" cessesâ€"on analysis, on the fitting toâ€" W‘W%v Wilson, Rooseveltâ€"colâ€" lege professors, statesmen, sctientists, philosophers, and dther men concernâ€" ed with the graved, more advanced, more intelléctual problems of lifeâ€" passing by all other varieties of bestâ€" seller novels, and going to the detec,â€" tive story for diversion and relaxaâ€" tion ? a j & Wells, Madison & Wells, “"“oa‘z:i Wells, La Salle & Van Buren N made 4 ons engintee dn m etel _4 IN'$0LD weather, more than evet.iq appreciate North Shore Line m&mmhfimdh%&j North Shore Line commutation m}J unnecessary to walk long distances thedol:l;u:‘m district in order to rea LW' business, or other f m&mwdwm'-ddimfim downtown bus or taxi travel. U Southâ€"bound, all North Shore Line trains! stop downtown at Grand Ave..Lli".'.naz.u.i Telephone 140 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2%5, 1926 £, :E::: .l.|'.‘|l “a ssings | 10 show that dodging 3 iron m is one: of â€"the «t : of. Anjerican sports.â€"Boston seript. . . | Two is company, thtee a crowd, and four .is uwchi::d* candidate. to report a "large inlens ns ... esd Rep _ |â€" Boston Globe on a. knowledge of tmfl-. » Mh.m.fi' guessing. Each is series of overâ€" hppin:el-mun!w~m; and these clows '?!ll. fted ‘into place, blaze the path for futhre progress. In each, when the final sdiution is |achievâ€" ed, gllitl;: details‘ are foourcto be woven into a com F ted, and clostly kmmdpmu'r ‘ ~â€"Spain has never had a socicty of Daughters of the Regolution,> but it hakn‘t beeh for lack 6% revolutions.â€"