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The exhibit of school work held in the Wilmot school, Friday, April 22. . Jt was not work done specially for exhibition purposes but just the evâ€" eryday work of the. children. under the instruction of their teachers. It showed splendid work on the part. of both teachers and pupils, espécially the posters made and books A word of commendation is due our teachers and pupils; and the parents, for the most part felt quite satisfied with all the work done. Refreshments were served by the Arbor Day was most fittingly obâ€" served at the school Friday, May 6, at two o‘clock, sponsored by the P. The children gave a playlet and sang songs suitable for the occasion under the direction of their teachers, Miss Knapp and Miss Courson. Mr. Jesse L. Smith of Highland Park gave a very interesting talk on flowers, birds and trees, illustrated wiéth stereopticon views. This both children and parents greatly enjoyed. The groups then passed out to the grounds where four beautiful everâ€" green trees were planted in front of the school building under direction of Mr. Elmer L. Clavey. Each child received a beautiful doubleâ€"flowering crab apple tree to be planted at home. The educatinal value of such Ar bor Day exercises cannot be over estimated. The next regular monthly meeting of the P.T.A. will be held at the school on Friday evening, May 20, at 8 o‘clock. This will be an important meetâ€" ing and perhaps the last regular one before summer vacation.. Everybody in the district should plan to be presâ€" ent at this time. ; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CO.\l-l MISSIONERS OF THE HIGHâ€": LAND PARK EAST PARK DISâ€": TRICT : SECTION 1: That the salaries of| the following Park Officers and emâ€"] ployes for the fiscaly ear beginning ; June 1st, 1927, and ending May 31st,| 1928, be fixed at such sum as is proâ€", vided for by this Ordinance for suchT officer or employee for the discharge| of the duties of such office, as reâ€" quired under the laws of the State of Illinois, and the ordinances of the East Park District of Highhndf Park, during the term of his oflice} or employment, and that such officer , or employe shall receive further comâ€"| pensation f,om the Highland ParkI East Park District for the duties of | such office during the term thereof.‘ That the salary of the Secretary and Superintendent of Parks be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) per annum. _ That the salary of the Clerk be; and the same is hereby fixed at the| sum of One Thousand Three Hunâ€"| dred Twenty Dollars ($1,320.00) per‘ annum. That the salary of the Corporation Counsel be and the same is hereby fixed at the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.0) per annum, and two per cent (25%%) of the total cost of all improvements made by the specâ€" ial assessment confirmed by the Court and two per cent (25,) of all deficiâ€" encies in improvements made by specâ€" ial assessment confirmed by the Court, the cost of which is defrayed by supâ€" plemental special assessment. . Sdid percentage to be paid out of the six per cent (6%) funds of said imâ€" provements. j That the salary of the Treasurer| Plate Glass Also be and the same is hereby fixed at| Plate glass is also made in Streator; the â€"sum of Fifty Doliars ($50.00) | wire glass and the fancy glass for ofâ€" per annum. | fice doors that you cannot see through. ‘That the salary of the Chief of Making a big pane of glass is someâ€" Police be and the same is hereby fixâ€" !hing like pouring a batterâ€"Cake. A ed at the sum of Three Hundred Dol. !On@â€"handled scoop, holding about a lore IS20000Y nat anmim. | mass. That the salary of the Chief of Police be and the same is hereby fixâ€" ed at the sum of Three Hundred Dolâ€" lars ($300.00) per annum. SBCTION 5: This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after SECTION 2: That the salaries provided for in Section One of this ordinance shall be due and payable in semiâ€"monthly installiments on the First and Fifteenth day of each month for the preceding half month of their services duririg the term of their office. ‘SECTION 3: That the salary of the Secretary and Superintendent, Clerk, Corporation Counsel, (except percentages on special assessments), and Treasur,> be paid out of the genâ€" eral fand. SECTION 4: â€" That all ordinances or parts of ordiftances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed its passage, approval and publicaâ€" EDW. M. LAING, AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE SALARY OF PARK OFFICERS AND CERTAIN EMPLOYES OF THE HIGHLAND PARK EAST PARK DISTRICT WILMOT SCHHOL ITEMS lt hnX ban Parr D EVERETT L. MILLARD, AIWG, refined," they say. Perhaps a the Board of L,nfi:'&.""uuu of the Highâ€" | takes the off a Indy‘s nose puts Purk District _the polish on plate glass. _ â€" _ ~ Once upon a time there was a place called Hardscrabble. _ It was here that a wagon road crossed the Vermilâ€" ion river in the southern edge of La Salle county, IMlinois. It was/a hard scrabble up the river bank for horses after the fording. Finally a few In something of derision the peoâ€" ple began to call the place Hardscrabâ€" ble. ‘The name seemed appropriate. It stuck. People were confident that Hardscrabble would never amount to much. Many foresaw that coal mining ‘evemug)ly piddle away â€" peter out. It did. But long before it did a railâ€" irmd came, two, three, four, five. Toâ€" day five large systems, seven lines, serve the city. It is a crossing point} ‘for steel rails and steam traffic. Whyâ€" One of those accidents, perhaps. Or ’may because it just happened to be | a natural junction point. | Name Is Changed i Well, in the growing the name of Hardscrabble vanished. A more digâ€" ‘nified name was chosen â€" Streator. | The Plumbs and the Streators were among the first developers. They date back to Hardscrabble days. The city has 18,000 people now; eightyâ€" one per cent native born. houses were built. Finally a Tew on the prairie. It looked as if the setâ€" tlers would have a hard scrabble to make a living. Coal Is Found Not long before coal was found. The vein wasn‘t very thick; about three feet. It was a rather hard scrabble getting the coal. But minâ€" ing did start and about mining a city grew on the site of Hardscrabble. Miners were the first layer of the city‘s citizenship. l For many years Streator made beer | bottles; millions of beer bottles. Makâ€" |\ ing beer bottles has gone out of style | now: Whiskey ‘bottles are still made, ‘and malt extract bottles, pop bottles and milk bottles. ‘ Ever see a bottle made? | _ Used to be that bottles were blown !"by hand." .By hand means with huâ€"| man lungs. Men didn‘t last long at | !it‘ four to six years as a rule. . A | crew of three men would blow "twenâ€"| | ty gross" in eight-nnd-xâ€"half«hom.]‘ { Today it is all autnmnticâ€"muhinery.* : One machine can blow about twentyâ€" | five bottles a minute. I saw one plant ‘ | with thirteen machines in it. | } Glass Making . I i Glassmaking came to Streator beâ€"| |cause of nearby raw materials. Glass is a mixture of a certain kind of sand.i Tsodium carbonate known in the trade | |as soda ash, and ground limestone.| Streator‘s sand comes from uroundj Ottawa, just a few miles north; limeâ€" stone, ground to dust, from -roundi }Joliet. Soda ash is imported. Gas is | | the fuel used. _ Originally it was \made from native Streator coal. Toâ€" i day southern Illinois coal is used.! ICoal is distilled to produce gas. | | To make a bottle requires h.rge‘ | machinery. A sort of cup made of | {iron, dips into the molten glass, white | 1hot, 2600 degregs. Vacuum sucks | | an exact amount of this into the cup ! through a hole. A knife scrapes any ihnging mass off smooth. The cup |opens and drops away. Hanging down 1 {is the molten mass. ‘It reddens as | ‘it cools to 2300 degrees. [ 1 A mechanical mold, two exact | halves in the form of the desired botâ€" tle, now automatically closes about Jthe hanging molten glass. Air presâ€" , sure takes place of the vacuum: A ‘tbnbble of air grows inside the mass. | The mold opens and the bottle, glowâ€" | ing hot, is softly dropped into a padâ€" ; ded trough. An endless belt, of metal, picks it up and moves it slowly toâ€" rlwnrd the annealing chamber. The bottle stands upright as it moves. ‘The glow fades slowly, first from the top. Twenty feet away, the glow remains only at the base of the bottle. â€"Eight hours in the annealing chamber, cooling very slowly, and the bottle is done. press, glowing hot. It goes under the press and comes out the other side a flat, oval pancake. _A man runs a knife under it; a knife perhaps four feet long. The glass lifts as the m'mmmMmdm glass. A man throws sand upon the wheel, occasionally wetting the surâ€" face with a hose. . â€" Each side is ground down from ‘an cighth to a quarter of an inch. Then Krife moves, like â€"oft candy. _ Into the annealing oven it goes. A few hours later, cooled slowly, it comes out. _ Men With glass cutters trim the edges straight‘ and throw the waste into big vats to be remelted. Hours of grinding bring the smooth surface to plate glass. _ Pieces of of various sizes are laid on a fl; revolving table perhaps forty feet in diameter. Mr%:lfllil poured in at all joints. . table, for this. The workmen tell me it is a few wm.flihrnhn?-" on. . 74 Streator has built growth, too, upon its shales and clays. The Streaâ€" bricks a day and is ing to douâ€" ble its capacity. Bxhh clay products made in Streator. Another notable industry in Streaâ€" tor is raising flowers and under glass. Streator has three i greenhouses producing flowers; specialiting in tomatoes, aspgragus and cucumbers. As I travel from city. to city in this work of "Reâ€"Discovering Iliâ€" nois" I seek stories of men who think. I am looking for men who do things in different ways â€" and prosper. I seek to pass these stories on for the good they will do. In Streator I found such a man. He is Edward C. Kline. He has invented a moveable greenhouse. It is a long, low building, very light in weight. He specializes in asparagus. He raises THE HIGHLAND PARK FRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINQIS â€"_â€" Early American y y An elegant, tailor made, durably constructed suite upholstered in beautiful linen frieze, reversible cushiohs, arizs and all outsides in high grade moâ€" kette, artistically set off with black welts. This suite embodies many high grade features, seldom seen in merchandise offered at such a low price. An amazing value for the discrimâ€" inatingbuyger,at $l"o§° A new and large selection of rag rugs just in which we will sell while they last for the very low price of . $. Rosenbaum Co. Quality Furniture â€"Unexcelled Service thew With glass base, green or amber., Comâ€" pletely wired. Also an assortment of printed Chintz shades all complete for Pieces of Solid Mahogany Upholstered in Linen Frieze °S$. ROSENBAUM CO. §$1.35 A Bargain in Rag Rugs 3120 Lincoln Avenue 7 it under these moveable marketing it in the win He is the first man to innoculste asâ€" paragus against .rust. He .puts as -fi-”mfld!â€"g}p a single acre in a single year. . His asparagus goes to a specialized epiâ€" curear market. 3 must grow very swiftly to be at its best. Mr. Kline says that he feels his asparagus beds are the richest land in the world. © Cucumber Specials In writing the story of Streator I must say something of Omar Fanning. He raises cucumbers. Another speâ€" cialist. _ At first his source of revâ€" enue was from the cucumbers he shipped. Then he got to expéerimentâ€" ing beginning, in ‘his kitchen. Out of that has grown a factory. He makes pickles and relishes. He is now preparing to double/the size of the plant. Streator is in the midst of considerable development. Sewer building under way will cost nearly $1,000,000. Proposed water developâ€" ments will come to about $300,000. The Streator Telephone Co. is comâ€" pleting a $180,000 expansion program. 810 Davis Street (INCORPORATED) getting factors. But Streator has a considerable variety of other products. Among them are auto bodies and bumpers, banana crates, canned goods, clothing, farm lighting plants, sign ‘That is a background of industries that guarantees for the future. Towns with few industries sometimes sufâ€" over. What is here has developed out of the region‘s natural resources since the 1860‘s. . | The city was named after Dr. W. L. Streator. He never lived here. His home was Cleveland, O. uum ed the Vermilion Coal company opened the mining development that wa‘s the active founder of the city. He saw to it that the city was named after his chief. The Plumbs still live in Streator, the family foremost in up a stone ball shot by a Roman catapult. Who knows? Maybe a thousand years hence some explorer from Marrs will dig up a baseball which was knocked out of the park by Babe Ruth. Excavators at Jerusalem have dug Beautifully upholstered chairs suitable for bedâ€" room, sun parlor or as a beautiful variety of chints covers, with spring seats and fluted legs. Chairs of this type have been selling as high as $25.00. Our special ‘147° Gayly Patterned Chintz Chair ART INSTHIUTE GETS_ _ _ VYERY CURIOUS LETTER day from an artist in uh-hh-w-fii stitute and thus sell his work offhand. ‘The writer says: "I take the liberty to enclose three original etching® on glass negatives. fl'w-lhd‘*- en into fragments.) very respectâ€" fully beg you will buy these for ten thousand dollars. Also please confer upon me the title of an American Doctor, honorisâ€"causs. . If these wishâ€" es be granted I pledge myself to work for you further for nothing. I also have three oil paintings which I shall send you after you have remitted the A curious letter was received at the Art Institute of Chicago the other The W.C.T.U. will hold a meeting at the Bungalow Evangelical church Tuesday, May 17, at two o‘clock. Three important questions must be decided at this meeting. Every member take notice and be present. Visitors invited. 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