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THK HCHENBT PLAINDEALXR, THURSDAY, MAT 12,1927 •• "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois C, hamber of Comment*" \ !±! One hundred and one years ago William Heath came out of the east and established the first pottery manufacturing plant in Illinois. It was the first of the White clay-working plants. William Heath's first product was a commonplace red pottery made of red clay and glased with red lead. , Seven years later, in 1833, a second plant was established in White Hall. Here the first genuine saltglazed pottery was made in Illinois by John N. Eby, another easterner. Others followed in and for 101 years the pottery business in White Hall has steadily moved on. it was in White Hall, Greene Co., 111., that A. D. Ruckel perfected the flash-wall kiln the influence of which was soon to be known through the pottery world. C. A. Ruckel, his son, now is head of the business. And it was here in White Hall that the White Hall Sewer Pipe A Pottery Works built the first 42-foot kilns, the largest in the world at the time. To this day it is claimed, none is larger though some of equal size have been built. White Hall is not a big place, only 2,954 population according to the records, but in clay-working it has made its name felt everywhere. The White Hall products have won prizes at international expositions and the Make Money! GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS ti 1 iVi 2-Ton James Morrow & Son Waukegaa AID West McHeary »»»••••••»»»»•• BUILD WITH AND SAVE MONBY Manufactured by 1 Frett Bros. & Freund ;i MASON CONTRACTORS West McHenry, ILL * Telephone 600-M-L or 86-R ••»»»»»••»•»»•»•»»»•»»•»•»»+»•••»»•»»»»»»»»»»••••»»»• Sixty-fire per cent of heat loss in ordinary houses is thru the roof You can prevent this needless fuel waste with! Thermofill, the Dry Fill Insulation. Installed sinfe Ely by pouring fdryj into the space to be inst||| ited. You can do the work yourself if you wislp Thermofilf is gypsum. It can't burn or decomposer and will not harbor vermin. It offers maximuit ; insulation because of the large number of dea# j ~ air cells and the excellence of gypsum as a non* conductor. The cost is low. THERMOFILL The Dry Fill Insulation McHenry Lumber Co. Phone 46 West McHenry 50 Paint experts showed us how varnish-stains differ They all say mahogany on tne can but Devoe says mahogany on the wood WE NEVER realised die cMerence between varniah ataina imtil we saw 50 paint experts teat 8 different makes and pick Devoe Mirrolac as the varnish stain which reproduced moat clearly their conception of the true hard wood tones. Use Mirrolac and be aure. It not only duplicate* die desired hard wood Cone, but at *** tame time adds a t touch, beautiful coat ot varniah. JOHN F. BRDA 161 McHenry, Hi name White Hall on stoneware has been recognized as something akin to Sterling on silver. Evolution, too, has come to the business in White Hall. .That first commonplace, plain red-ware has become art ware. Tasty bands and markings have come to make the stoneware more colorful. Wall pockets, flower pots, vases, bird fountains and doo-dads are more apparent. Prohibition has made its imprint, too. Fewer jugs are made because the rural dweller no longer returns from town with that historic container well filled with "spirits" under the buggy seat. To be sure there has been some impetus to the demand for "openmouthed" crocks of the kind the maker of home-brew is supposed to covet. They are made in all sizes up to forty gallons. And this can-opener age has interefered a bit with the manufacture of bean pots but earthern chicken fountains are wanted as never before. Farm papers suggest them because of absence of metals. I have often wondered just how jugs were made. They are molded in two parts, the top set on the lower half, the seam is made invisible by hand, the handle is put on while the day is still damp and pliable and the whole piece is kiln burnt. ... Great machines mix and knead the raw clays. Under pressure they are tfun through other automatic machinery. Making tile is practically the same operation as making macaroni, An earthen dough, under pressure, is run through a die which shapes it. Hie moist pipes are fetftomatically trimmed and set aside to dry. When the moisture is reduced to a proper degree the tiles are taken to the kilns for burning. Sewer pipe is made from three to twenty-seven inches in diameter and drain tile from four to thirty-six inches. Openware and crocks and mixing bowls for our kitchens that "nest" one inside the CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Council Room, May 2, 1927. The city aldermen met in regular meeting Monday evening with Mayor Frett presiding. Aldermen present: Doherty, Frisby, Kreutzer, Overton and Thennes. The minutes of the annual meeting were read and approved. The following bills were read and approved by the finance committee. McHenry Plaindealer, printing $119.10 Vanhoozen Bros., cleaning well 60.00 Henry Ahrens, sidewalks 18.20 John Brda, supplies .90 Crane Co., supplies 96.00 McHenry Lumber Co., coaL 4J>5 Public Service Co., mdse. JJ3 Public Service Co., power fbr sewer lift 46.00 Ambrose Schaefer, freight and drayage ......8.02 Public Service Co., mushroom lights 6.00 Public Service Co., street lights 118.83 Public Service Co., street lights 109.02 Public Service Co., traffic lights min. charge 50 Public Service Co., traffic lights March .60 Henry C. Kamholz, pails for fumigating 1.60 Western United Gas & Electric „ . Co., April gas bill .65 Motion by Overton, seconded by Thennes that the reports of the clerk and treasurer be accepted. Motion carried. Motion by Frisby, seconded by Overton that the Carey Electric shop be given the contract for installing two ornamental posts on the Boone Creek bridge. Motion carried. Motion by Thennes, seconded by Kreutzer, that a specia1 election be held the 31st day of May, to fill the vacancy of alderman in the second ward. Motion carried. The following persons were appointed to serve at the election Miay 31st. Charles Harmsen, judge, other, pour through the plant steadily.' Mayme Haijrison, clerk, Wm. Bacon, It is an economical necessity that aj judge; Laura Leach, clerk; Alfred pottery maker manufacture goods ofjPatzke, jadge; Mrs. Wm. Thurwell, many sizes. This Is because in the | clerk. burning one item of a slightly smaller | MJotion |by Frisby, seconded by size is placed inside a larger one and j Thennes that the city books be each smaller one, while being burned, j audited by a certified public auditor contains a smaller one down to the i at once. Motion t ried. smallest. Why? It means volume, j The mayor appointed Thennes, Waste space in the kilns must be Frisby and Overton on the auditing avoided. The output is in direct ratio to the ability of the makers to "nest" goods ebing made in the kilns. It cuts down the element of time and the cost in making and plays an important part in the extreme low cost of stoneware. If you have a large crock in your kitchen look at it The glaze, probably, will etxend up its sides. The bottom and the rim at the top will not be glazed. There is a reason for that. In burning crocks are placed one on top of „ another, filled with smaller crocks. If glazed parts touch in the burning they would fuse or weld together. Unglazed parts can touch. If the bottoms are. glazed you will probably find three little points. That is where the dish or bowl stood on«three little pyramids of clay while it was being burned. "They were there to prevent fusing. Pottery J How old is pottery ? Some say it is man's oldest manufacturing business. If you know your Bible you may recall in Jeremiah the words: "Then I went down to the potter's house and, behold, he was making a piece on the wheels." But if the oldest industry is in White HalJ so is one of the newe«t 0v Kreutzer and Frett. of industries. Here serum is made to tw.,-*.. - immunize hogs against cholera. To I make hogs well, hogs must first be made sick. A little distance out of White Hall is the Gregory Farm- Laboratory. Here healthy young hogs are brought and inoculated with the disease. The sickness must be severe. A nortion of them must die of the! cholera. But the sickness and death Moti;n by Frisby, seconded bv of the individual hop makes life and Qverton. that Phil Guinto be hired health sure for hundreds of thousands ag assistant city marshal for ten committee. The following apponitments were made by the msyor: City Attorney--William Carroll. City Marshal--John Wfclsh. Assistant Marshal--Phil Guinto. Collector--Mayme Buss. Superintendent of Waterworks and Sewer--W. J. Donavin. City Plumber--W. J. ffonavin. Fire Marshal--Wm. Bickler. Assistant Fire Mkrshal -- Louis Smith. Board of Hlealth--Dr. A. I. Froelich. Dr. D. G. Wells, Gilbert Howard. License Committee---Overton, Frisby an" Kreutzer. Finance Committee--Thennes, Doherty, and Kreutzer. Sidewalk Committee--? >, , Overton and Thennes. Public Property Commtttee--Doherty, Overton and . Waterworks Committee--Doberlty, -- , and Overton. Miscellaneous Committee--Kreutzer, Overton and Frisby. Ordinance Committee -- Doherty, Frisby and Thennes. Purchasing Committee -- Thennes, , Doherty. Street and Alley Committee-- Thennes, , Doherty Board of Local Improvements--> Motion by Doherty, seconded by Overton that the above appointments made by the Mayor be accepted as read. Motion carried. Motion by Frisby, secr-rced by Overton, that the chairm&n of the purchasing committee purchase ten gallons of marking paint for streets and 12 "no parking signs." Motion of hogs. The serum is now sold from this plant erenerally over five states. At times it has been shipped even to the Philippines and the Orient. * Another industrv is the White Hall Pant & Overall Co.. which manufacweeks at a salary of $25.00 per week. Motion carried. Motion by Overton, .seconded by Frisby, that a tile be laid across the. r'ght of way on Route 20. Motion carried. Motion by Doherty, seconded by tures the "Maiden White Hall brand. Frisby, to recess the meeting to hold White Hall also has a bottline works a pUb]jc hearing on Richmond Road and a milk condensery. But clay r(?wer Motion carried. products are the main thine. And J Motion by Doherty, seconded by then there are the McClays ^ ^ ! Frisby, that the ordinance entitled That's the story of how a bite into J "^n ordinance for a cbnnected system an apple made an industry. The Mc-i0f sanitary sewers in a portion of Clay family operates an eighteen Ringwood Road in the city of Mchundred acre apple orchard a few Henry, McHenry county, 111!" be pasmiles out of town. A. L. McClay aed as read. manages it. Legend has it that his, Motion by Doherty, seconded by father. many years ago, passing thru ( Frisby to adiourn. Motion carried here one day nicked up an apple and bit into it. "Um-m-m," he said. f"A fine flavor. Best I ircer tasted." Experienced as an orchardist, he bought land and the orchard now •hips out as many as 500 carloads of apples in a season. I am not endeavoring to write his story. I am interested in the future not the past. But sometimes history Insists that it be written. Ever hear of-Josiah Lamborn? Down here in White Hall they tell me that if Josiah Lamborn hadn't been "taken in early •manhood" he would have gone down in history along with Lincoln and Douglas. Before his taking off he was the third, they say, of a triumverate of Illinois statesmen who ranked above all others. Douglas and Lincoln were the other two. He was a man of remarkable genius, a statesmanship and and an oraorical ability in a time when these things marked a man as great. His grave is in White Hall. . Here also lies sleening the Rev. Thomas Carney.'a Universalis pastor of,, the early day. Mrs. Carney was the autohr of those immortal lines' "Little drops of water, little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and tiie golden- strand." PETER W. FRETT. Mayor R. F. CONWAY, Clerk. - Huge Station Scotland's greatest station, Waver ley, Edinburgh, covers 20 acres, ao4 deals with over 1,000 trains a day Its largest platform is nearly one mil* In length. <•••»••»»»»»•< ••••••••••Mi* Witched Meeting Place Brorken. the • traditional meeting fdace <>f the witches on Walpurgis Sight, April 30, is in the Hartz mountains in the proving of Saxony, and Is the hiirhest peak in northern Ger- Its height is 3,745 feet. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE In the matter of the petition of the City of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois, to levy a special assessment for an improvement in said city consisting of a connected system of sanitary sewers, providing for all necessary manholes, etc., in and along a portion of Ringwood Road in said City of McHenry, MjcHenry County Illinois. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons interested that the city council of the City of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois, having ordered that a locai improvement be made consisting of the construction of a connected syste mof sewers for sanitary purposes, providing for all necessary manholes, house junction branches and vitrified stoppers, all connected and completely installed in place, including excavations and back filling in and along a portion of Ringwood Road in said City, as provided for in and by an ordinance passed by the City Council of the said Citjj on the 2nd day of May, A. D. 1972, and approved by its mayor on May 2nd, A. D. 1927, entitled "An. Ordinance for a Connected System of Sanitary- Sewers in a Portion of Ringwood Road, in the City of McHenry, McHenry County. Illinois" the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of McHenry, and having applied to the County Court of McHenry County for an assessment of the costs of said improvement according to benefits, and an assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, which assessment is divided into ten per cent per annum; the final hearing thereon will be had on the 31st day of May, A. D. 1927, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will permit. All persons desiring may file objections in said Court before said day and may appear at the hearing and make their defense. Dated at McHenry, Illinois, this 12th day of Iflay, A. D. 1927. CHRISTINA YOUNG, Person appointed by the President of the Board of Local Improvements of the City of McHenry, Illinois, to spread said assessment. 49.2. 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