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mM & • . . 'V" • v ' . •-• . ,„ .•--. v •"' <4. 7i »***V f • '*38?* / , ;V^ tii*MK»- yt x-. 'C^r*Hp'* NRY «£* ' JA ( , '•> NO. 4K VOLUME XT.I .McHKNRV. TT.LTXOTS. TTIU RSDAY". MARCH .30. 191G SHORT TALK ON SEWERAGE INFORMATION FROM CHICAGO ENGINEERS * T*IIa How Sewage In Small Com­ munity May Be Disposed of at Small Cost When a community is very small the problem of disposing of the waste products of human living is not a serious matter for the reason that the total amourft of waste is small and the individual habitations are nrifore or less scattered so that in whatever manner such waste is dis­ posed of it does not produce objec tionable conditions to the residents of the community. When, however, the community be­ gins to build up and the residences of the individuals begin to be more or less clustered closely together about the center, the disposing of the' wastes of human living becomes a more serious problem. The contami­ nation of air and water from the de­ composition of such wastes when pro­ miscuously disposed of soon becomes a menace to public health and the question of gathering these wastes and other refuses and conducting them to some point outside the zone of the community where they may be disposed of without detriment to the sensibilities and health of the com­ munity soon engages the attention of the officials directing the civic life of such a community. The first improvement along this line is usually the construction of a sewerage system. In this state, as in many others, laws have been passed requiring that the streams of the state shall not be polluted by the in­ discriminate discharge therein of raw sewage from any manufacturing plant or municipality and to comply with this law it is necessary to pro­ vide a sewage purification plant where the entire discharge of the sewer sys­ tem may be received and where the sewage may be treated or purified. A number of processes of a more or less mechanical nature have been de­ veloped for the treating of sewage, but these processes are applicable mainly to large municipalities where the cost of large intercepting sewers and pumping stations sufficient to carry the sewage beyond the limits of the municipality would be exces­ sive. For small municipalities, the treat­ ing plant usually consists of an espe­ cially designed receptacle in which the putresible matter in suspension may undergo decomposition and wherein the inorganic refuses of this decom­ position may be retained and stored for a certain length of time. The more or less clarified liquor or tank •fHuent is then passed thru some form of filter where oxidation of the very finely divided particles in suspen- sioh takes place and a comparatively inoxuous liquor is discharged into the outlet stream. The design of the receptacles „or tanks and the accompanying filter de­ pends entirely upon the topograph­ ical conditions surrounding the munic­ ipality in question and the size of the water course into which the final ef­ fluent is discharged. The rivers and lakes commission, to which the regulating and prevent­ ing of pQllution has been delegated, have seen fit to require only the pri­ mary or tank process of purification for municipalities using the Fox river for their outlet, but in any case it is desirable that the plant be designed in such a way that should a higher degree of purification be required to "preserve the water of this stream that such additional purification may be at­ tached to and become a part of the existing plant without excessive re­ construction. The construction of sewerage sys­ tems in this state is usually done un- der the local improvement act or by special assesment, as it is more fre­ quently called. This act provides that local improvements in any municipal­ ity shall be undertaken and be under the direction of a board of local im­ provements and the local improve­ ment act expressly states that any such local improvement shall orig­ inate with this board of local im­ provements., The first act of the board of local improvements is usually to have a survey made of the munic­ ipality and to have the sewer system and the necessary appurtenances thereto designed. Also to prepare a resolution outlining in a general way the character and extent of the pro­ posed improvement with the estimate thefeof. This resolution also is re­ tired to contain a date for the public hearing on the improvement To this public hearing all the tax - payers of the municipality are invited tkat they may express their views as to the necessity, character and cost iof the proposed improvement. Sewers are usually constructed of hard vitrified tile pipe and laid in the ground to such a depth and grade 'that the waiter or sewage which they Are designrd to cffry will flow by gravity to the outlet. These grades .should have sufficient slope that the sewage will move rapidly enough to carry along all suspennded matter in its current and such grades are usu­ ally spoken of as self-cleaning vel­ ocity grades and, as is readily seen, the design of the system and its grades are dependent upon the topo­ graphical conditions thruout the mu­ nicipality and the purification and the design of the purification plant de­ pend upon the character of the out­ let or, in other words, upon the degree of purification which the local situa­ tion demands. As has been stated, the construction of a sewage system is usually done under the local improvement act and the cost thereof is paid by a special assessment levied against the prop­ erty holders within the sewer district in proportion to the benefits derived by such property on account of the sewer system. A commissioner of special assessment is usually appoint­ ed by the board of local improvements to prepare the assessment roll and to apportion the cost of the improve- -ment to the property receiving the benefits therefrcrm and probably no two commissioners proceed in exactly the same way to establish this propor­ tion. However, it is quite usual to arrive at the final result by determin­ ing a rate per foot of frontage there­ of, making the total charge against any piece of property a function of the amount of front such property- has along the street. A corner lot is usually considered the same*«s an in­ terior lot and is not assiessed for its frontage on the side street. It is not customary to tinake an ap­ proximation of what the cost per front foot for the construction of an improvement of this character will be without an estimate of the cost of the improvement, but from experi­ ence in the construction of similar improvements we are able to draw some conclusions regarding the prob­ able cost to afriy individual property owner. The two nearest municipalities where we were retained as engineers in the design and supervision of con­ struction of a sewer system are Har­ vard and Woodstock. At Harvard the cost per front foot of residence prop­ erty was 76 cents, and at Woodstock it was somewhere in the neighbor­ hood of a dollar. In this connection it should be remembered that this rate is usually divided over a period of ten years, so that the amount paid by property holders each year would be 7.6c per front foot per year in the case of Harvard and 10c per front foot per year in the case of Wood­ stock. At Galva, Illinois, a small munic­ ipality on the Burlington railraod, not far from Galesburg, the cost to the property owner was 45c per front foot or at the rate of 4l/sc per front foot per year. The conditions at McHenry are such as would tend to produce a rate lower than at Harvard, but higher than the Galva rate, as the requirements for a purification plant, located on the Fox river, would not be as exacting or as expensive as they were at Harvard, but on the other hand a possibility of several long main sewers might have the effect of increasing the cost, and we would estimate that the cost per front foot would be in the neighbor­ hood of 70c, certainly not greater than 76c, the rate at Harvard. The question as to whether there should be two plants, one each for the two sections of McHenry, can only be determined upon the making of the proper survey, and whether the cost of two systems with their respective small sewage treating plants would be cheaper than the cost of construct­ ing an outlet sewer to drain both parts of the municipality to one out­ let. Should the citizens of McHenry de­ cide to proceed with the construction of a sewer system we feel sure that they will feel that they are well re­ paid for the comparatively small ex­ pense which must be borne by each property holder in return for the ben­ efits derived. The cost of constructing the sewer system to each individual property owner usually is less than the cost of constructing a= private cess pool on his place. A cess pool generally re< quires more or less attention in the way of cleaning and repairs, While a sewer system, when properly con­ structed and connections properly made, seldom, if ever, entails an addi­ tional expense upon the property owner for repairs and maintenance. W. D. Gerber. With W. S. Schields Co. M. E. Church Services as follows fiexi Sunday: Sunday school, 10:00 a. m.; preach­ ing services, 11:00 a. m.; evening services, 7:45 p. m. W. C. Evers, Pa tor. Expert welding done at Stilling's garage. Bring in your broken ma­ chine parts and have them wehffed. All work guaranteed. Save one-half the cost of new paper by having your old paper cleaned. Jesse Wormley, McHenry, 111. Phone 81-M. FOR SALE--House and four lots. Excellent building sites. Mrs. Mary Schreiner, West McHenry, 111. SENATOR m TOURING STATE Candidate lor Attorney General Called on Us Today. GREETEO BY MANY FRIENDS SEEKS CONVENTION SEAT AS UNPLEDGED DELEGATE Kiiliard J. Barr, Staty Senator and candidate for the Republican nomi­ nation for Attorney-Gru, ral of Il l i­ nois, was here today in ti ie l irst of a series of campaign tours iu winch lu- plans to moot personally the Repub licau votirs in every cit> and town of importance iu the slate. Mr. Barr says he is going to see as many people between now and the date of the primaries as possible. He believes the people should have aa op­ portunity to see and become ac­ quainted with the men they are going to be asked to vote tor. Mr. Barr has served the public for a number of years, in different capaci­ ties and has many friends and sup­ porters throughout the state. "I want to meet my old friends and make new ones," says Mr. Barr. Well Qualified for Ollice. With ikn experience of fourteen years in the State Senate, he has been instrumental In placing many of the existing laws on the statute books. As an experienced and capable lawyer, with an extensive jtractice. l ie knows how to interpret the laws he has helped to enact. As a citizen born and brought up on a farm in Ill inois, he understands the needs of the farmer and the residentsin rural com­ munities, as well as he does the needs of the city. In public life Senator Barr has made an enviable record. The 6tate owes some of i ts most progressive laws to his work in the Senate, for "Dick" Barr is known as an inde­ fatigable worker. His whole life rec­ ord proves that, for he started work- on a farm at an e;»ily and he has never i 'orgotteii the habit . As a sen­ ator Mr. Hair intfoiiuced and se­ cured the passage of the act which gave Ill inois the" commission form of government. He was (lutirman ot the committee on railroads when the 2-cent-a-mile law was passed for the regulation of railroads. Secured Track nictation in JolIeU One of Senator Barr 's most impor­ tant achievements lie accomplished while acting as mayor of his home city of Jolit t , a position he occupied for two tonus, follow^ .a term a§ city attorney to which he was elected previous to being elevated to the posi­ tion of mayor. 11a? compelled the railroads to elevate their tracks and stop the slaughter of cit izens at grade crossings. Not ouly did ho bring about that reform in Joliet, but he established in the Supreme Court of Il l inois the principal that-, cit ies have a right to compel the ele-1 vation of railroad tracks. Senator Barr starts his campaign for Attorney General backed by the support of all the civic organizations in Joliet and vicinity. He has the unanimous support of the Will County Bar Association, as well as the various precinct clubs and other political organizations in his home city. He is a member of various fra­ ternal organizations, among them the Masonic Fraternity, the Modern Woodmen, Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Eagles, and the White Cross. Worked Way Through CoJIege. Mr. Barr was born on a farm in Will County, Il l inois, in 1865. Ha attended the country school and the Joliet high school, and for four years taught school in his home township of Manhattan. Working on a farm, digging ditches and milking cows, he earned the money which enabled )iim ta attain a higher education. He entered the University of Il l inois and worked on a farnf during vacation periods. After leaving the Univer­ sity of Il l inois he entered the Uni­ versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from the law school of that noted institution in 1895. At the present t ime he is senior member of the law firm of Barr. McNaughton & Barr. Although engaged in an entensive law practice. Senator Barr has never lost his interest in the farm. He owns a farm near Joliet, and he showed his knowledge of the needs of the farmer in the recent hoof and mouth disease epidemic. He was one of the most active members of the General Assembly in urging lib­ eral compensation to the farmers for the losses they sustained through the slaughter of their herds of cattle. Spring opening of Miss Thelen' s millinery, Saturday, April 1. $ ft" w' * V* .<* •* ,vr v. ~v\ ** .x, lU-ibsiui I L candi­ date for delenute lo the republican national convention from the Eleventh district is pledged to no candidate for president. He seeks to go ulinstructed that he may use hi < best judgment to "nominal.• i • • Wilson ' His poMtuir. 'Thin is the year ol all years when selfish longings for the nomination should be given no consideration what e\er. lo send- delegates who are tied hand and foot to any one candidate 1: to destroy the spirit that should pn vail at the convention. The very strongest man at the command of the party should be It* nominee, and to name such a man, the delegates should be free to weigh carefully nil the factors in the case. "My personal choice at this t ime. Mr. Herbster explains, "is Justice Hughes, but I ar, i mt committed ti him." Mr. Herbster is comptroller of th< Elgin National Watch company and i a native Ill inoisan. T. and T. galvanized steel fence posts. Wm. Simes, agent, McHenry, 111. DR. F. J. AICHER DENTIST Office'In*Telephone F.xchnnge Bldy Centerville McHenry, Illinois Telephone No. 70-\V My select lino of Spring To«, rs for the drossy younjr man lias arrived. Without doubt, the lino .is the very host that I have ever handled and it #rives mo great pleas­ ure to show same. My stock ofliats, which in­ cludes all the very lat est ideas, is the very best ever shown in Mc Henry, while nothing has been overlooked in the gents' furnishing department. Have you placed that order for your new Easter suity I f not, bettor do so sit once while the selection is complete. :: :: J. D. LODTZ Wall Paper Spring House (Meaning is not far off and per I m p s s o m e o f y o u r rooms need new paper. Now is a good lime to make your selection here, as we carry a pretty good assortment in stock, besides sam­ ple books from which you can order. Johrv Stoffel 4 How's Tliis? We offer O n e Hundred Dollars Re­ ward for any cast oi Catarrh that can­ not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Hall 's C a t a r r h Cure has been taken by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty-tlve yt-ura, and has become known as the most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall 's Catarrh Cure acts thru the Blood on the Mucous surfaces, ex­ pelling the Poison from the Blood and healing the diseased portions. After you have taken Hall 's Catarrh Cure for a short time you will see a great improvement in your general health. Start taking Hall 's Catarrh Cure at once and get rid o£ catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. | Office in Spaul t f ing Bids. > No. PLUMBING AND --»v-- ALFORD H. POUSE Experienced Workmen Attomey-at-Law donavin & reihanspf.rger McHenry, - - III, Telephone No. 108-R SIMON STOFFEL Insurance ao-em .for all classes of property in the l>est companies. WEST McHKNRY. :. ILLINOIS. Office Hours Ml to 12£t a. m. l:4t to 4:31 p. m. 7*»to 8:M p. m. Telephones Office 17 _ . . R Midene* A. I. FROEHLICH Physician and Surgeon FREUND BLDG. Over McAllister's WEST McHENRY Specimen Ballot O (AllflJS TKKfl OBV PETITION For Town Clerk ' V o t e Tor One' • Chas. B. Harmsen • . For Assessor iV'rtle For One I • John W. Kimball For Collector (Vote For One) • Math. Miller • For Collector (Vote For Oi»e> For Highway Commissioner (Vote For One) I I Wm. B. Tonyan • [^) John Niesen • For Highway Commissioner (Vote For One) • c . W. Harrison • For Constable To Fill Vacancy (Vote For One) D W. H. Kclley • \ . Shall this town become Anti- YES Saloon Territory? NO TOR THE PROPOSITION Or ABOLISHING POLL TAX AGAINST THE PROPOSITION OF ABOLISHING POLL TAX 1 hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct speci­ men ballot to be voted in the coming Township Election, April 4, 1916. Jet lilt [IfdCK fiOTART! RELIANCE A 7-Jewl, Thin Model Watch --and now Ingersoll is turnihg out a 7-jewel, very, very thin model watch for $3. We have them here for you to look at; and they're inter­ esting enough to look at, even if you haven't to#| the least idea you need # <c "Jf a watch. Xhe price is JUST PRESS THE PEDAL and the motor does the eliminates all work from sewing. It does away wi aches and that draggy, tired feeling. It occupies amount of space and is conveniently used on any t When not in use it may be placed out of the joining room or closet. Electricity applied to household duties and domestic science lessens work and increases health and happiness. Manufactured! by the National Sewing Machine Co. Come in and see it N. A. HUEMANN West McHenry* Illinois 2m M" ' J 4 , J j \ ; vJ-JHi 3