Special Souvenir Supplement of the Woodstock Sentinel April 21, 1904
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SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED SOUVENIR SUPPLEMENT THE WOODSTOCK SENTINEL. AN INDUSTRIAL PROSPECTUS OF WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS With 50 Original Half-Tone Illustrations. WOODSTOCK, ILL., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904. Compiled by J. Manz Engraving Co., Chicago—New York.
WOODSTOCK'S GREAT PROGRESS AND WONDERFUL GROWTH
HOME OF THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY, THE LEADING INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD by Iverson C. Wells.
The Woodstock of today and the Woodstock of five years ago, yea, even of three years ago, are as far different from each other as one could imagine a little city could be that has enjoyed a substantial rather than a mushroom growth.
In 1890, the year of the last Government census, the population of Woodstock was 1,683. Until five years ago these figures were not materially changed. An awakening came, however. The people arose from their lethargy and the industrial and the commercial progress of the eity was assured.
Today it is conservatively estimated that there are 4,000 people in Woodstock, and the inability to supply homes for those that desire to come and live with us as fast as they are required has seriously retarded a still larger growth.
With the opening of the spring months, however, and the building season near at hand, contractors and carpenters will renew the building operations of last year when over one hundred residences were constructed. From indications and estimates furnished by those in a position to know these facts, the year 1904 will find more extensive building operations and there will be little or no complaint about lack of houses for those who wish to make Woodstock their home.
The congestion in houses is so great many people who are now employed in Woodstock live in adjoining towns and come and go to and from their day's labor each day by rail. From Harvard alone there are no less than sixty workmen whose homes are in that little city because they cannot find accommodations here, and who come to Woodstock on an early morning train and return on an evening train.
There can be but one conclusion to be drawn from such a condition of affairs: Woodstock is growing faster than the present facilities can provide for. The capitalists, however, are awakening to the necessity of the occasion and the congestion of the past year will not be known this year.
The wonderful growth of Woodstock is not only shown in the substantial increase in the population, but in the banking business of the city and in all commercial lines. The four banks that transact business in this city have more than doubled the amount of business done within the past five years. Deposits are greatly increased, one sure sign that a town is enjoying a substantial prosperity, and the merchants are all reporting a greater volume of trade.
Woodstock has every advantage for a successful trade and mart and industrial center, as well as an ideal home. Located only fifty miles northwest of Chicago, where all the markets are of easy access, surrounded by a country that leads the world in dairy interests, and with a climate that is healthy, there is everything in its favor and nothing against it.
Woodstock is the county seat. It is situated, geographically, in the center of MeHenry County and is easy of access to every town and hamlet in the county.
In the industrial line the Oliver Typewriter factory leads all others. It is the chief industry of the eity. Employing over 700, it gives profitable employment to a large portion of its population and a prospective increase in the working force at an early date promises employment for at least a hundred more.
There are two large pickle factories, a large condensing plant for Borden, and several minor industries. There is sufficient employment for all that come, the only drawback that has been being in the lack of houses for homes for those that are given employment.
In the rural districts dairy products are the chief interests, although the farmers are not confined to any one line, the soil being adapted to all the cereals and to hay. McHenry County is the center of the greatest dairy interests in the world. This is a pretty broad statement, but nevertheless the census reports and the State records prove it to be so. Statistics show that over one million more
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McHenry county court house officials [photos]
1. JUDGE GILLMORE. 2. MISS NETTIE M. BURGER 3. SHERIFF LAKE. 4. MISS MAUDE DONOVAN. 5. DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK HAMER. 6. COUNTY RECORDER RICHARDS. 7. DEPUTY COUNTY TREASURER STILL. 8. STATES ATTORNEY LOWELL. 9. DEPUTY COUNTY RECORDER RICHARDS. 10. DEPUTY SHERIFF WANDRACK. 11. MISS BEATRICE GAY. 12. COUNTY CLERK RUSHTON. 13. DEPUTY SHERIFF ECKERT. 14. COUNTY TREASURER JEWETT.
D. F. Quinlan, the original real estate broker of MeHenry county and one of Woodstock's broadest and most liberal promoters, is in many respects the most striking figure in the business life of our city. To him belongs the credit of having helped to start the growth and development of Woodstock in the right direction, and for ten years he has kept up a strenuous campaign of publicity, advertising the advantages of the city and county in scores of magazines and papers, and in many original ways turning on the limelight and bringing about marvelous results in the line of real estate activity. Mr. Quinlan is the "W. M. Ostrander" of Woodstock. He has been most successful in the handling of farm property and has negotiated the sale of a large majority of the city lots.
The result of his assiduous campaign of advertising and the liberal use of printer's ink has been the building up of a monumental real estate business. He has one of the most complete and valuable mailing lists in the State, acquired at great expense and pains and covering all of the surrounding counties. In this way he has his hands on the pulse of things and has been able to
promote many large undertakings.
Mr. Quinlan's office, which is headquarters for real estate, insurance, loans and investments of all kinds is one of the landmarks of Woodstock. Mr. Quinlan is a Woodstock man born and bred and takes a live interest at all times in the expansion of the city. His personality is of the strong, aggressive sort that attracts people and acts as a magnet for business. His career here, which started when he was a mere youth, is one of the glowing chapters in the county's history.
"THAT'S ALL HE DOES."
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BANKS OF WOODSTOCK.
Woodstock has the strongest banking representation of any town of its size in the state. In addition to the Farmers' Exchange Bank and the State Bank of Woodstock, mentioned in these pages, there are two other banks, making the total amount of capitalization in Woodstock $160,000, and the deposits a grand total of one million dollars.
FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK. M. D. Hoy & Sons, Proprietors.
The Farmers Exchange Bank is the oldest bank in Woodstock, and was organized in 1887 by M. D. Hoy and Geo. H. Hoy, with a capital of $35,000. In February, 1903, it was re-organized, with the following owners (all being actively engaged in the business): M. D. Hoy, Geo. H. Hoy, Fremont Hoy, John M. Hoy and William P. Hoy. The firm name at this time was changed to M. D. Hoy & Sons. The capital remained the same, viz.: $35,000.
In 1903 the bank was refitted, and equipped with the largest steel lined vault in the county. It has all the latest improvements, the offices being very handsome and attractive. There is a complete line of Safety Deposit Boxes for rent and all conveniences for a general line of banking business. The deposits on January 20, 1904, were $350,000, and the loans $300,000 on the same date.
INTERIOR OF FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK [photo]
ATTORNEY J. F. CASEY.
Attorney J. F. Casey was born in Huntly 111., on the 6th of March, 1861. He attended the Elgin Academy two years, gaining a diploma in practical sciences and a teacher's certificate from Springfield. Before entering Elgin Academy he graduated from the high school at Huntly. He graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the Union College of Law in 1885, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Attorney Casey's education has eminently fitted him for the position he now occupies as a leading attorney of Ilinois. In early life he taught school, and the success of many a hard won legal victory is the result perhaps of the strenuous life of the preceptor in the "little red schoolhouse." Attorney Casey is in love with his profession, and that is the secret of his success as a lawyer. He has figured in most of the prominent cases in the county and in the noted Flusky ease, he obtained a fee of $10,000, the largest fee in Illinois outside of Cook county. Attorney Casey has a general practice —civil, criminal and corporation. He is a member of the Masons and the Royal Arcanum, and several other leading societies.
At one time he was chairman of the County Central Republican Committee of MeHenry county, and during the last fifteen years has taken the stump whenever occasion required, his oratory being of an effective and telling character.
Mr. Casey has a large Chicago practice in addition to his practice in this county. He is essentially a man of many parts, a fine conversationalist, a brilliant speaker, and a convincing pleader.
ATTORNEY .T. F. CASEY[photo]
C. F. GAULKE & SON.
The builders of Woodstock are not necessarily the moneyed men of the community, but those merchants who practice the golden rule in business and who believe in dealing liberally with their brother merchants. Such a man is C. F. Gaulke of the firm of C. F. Gaulke & Son, proprietors of the South Side meat market. No man in Woodstock has a better word to say for his town than C. F. Gaulke. He has been in the meat business here for fifteen years, worked in the very store of which he is now proprietor for six years, and one year ago last October purchased the business from his predecessor, John R. Kellogg.
The South Side meat market has a high standard for cleanliness and sanitary conditions and always has an atmosphere of prosperity, its walls hung with fine carcases, denoting abundance and plenty. It is the model market of Woodstock. Mr. Gaulke was born in Germany, was married there, and landed at Baltimore on the 18th of April twenty-three years ago. He has always considered Woodstock one of the banner towns of Illinois and has always done his full share in promoting the city's interests. Mr. Gaulke's obliging disposition has won him many warm friends.
THE STATE BANK OF WOODSTOCK.
The State Bank of Woodstock was organized under the general banking laws of the State of Illinois in November, 1899. It has a capital of $25,000, and a surplus of $28,000. The following are the officers: E. E. Richards, President; William H. Stewart, Vice-President; E. C. Jewett, Cashier. Directors—E. E. Richards, A. R. Murphey, E. C. Jewett, A. K. Bunker, Geo. K. Bunker, W. H. Stewart, M. L. Joslyn, E. E. Bagley, Geo. MeConnell.
The official personnel of the "State," as it is popularly styled, is of great strength, and familiar to everyone in this section of Illinois, as well as all over the county.
The interior of the bank, as shown in the cut, is one of the finest and most elaborate in Northern Illinois.
INTERIOR OF STATE BANK OF WOODSTOCK.[photo]
F. H. OPFERGELT.
F. H. Opfergelt, to whose ability and skill in the construction of buildings is due the beauty of Woodstock's homes and the general architecture of the eity, was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, thirty miles from Cologne. He came to the United States when a mere youth, landed in Saginaw, Mich., and located in Chicago in 1868. Having studied architecture in his native country, he was well equipped to be one of the little army of men who built the city of Chicago. He became a partner of Tom Morse and later joined forces with the E. F. Gobel Construction Co. Among the buildings Mr. Opfergelt superintended might be mentioned the old Federal building, the Blackhawk Distillery, the Pontiac Reform School, the Hartfordbuilding, the Goose Island Elevator and the Hawthorne Cement Works. Mr. Opfergelt came to Woodstock sixteen years ago and owns a valuable farm near this city. In recent years he has given his time and attention to the construction of what might properly be termed "modern Woodstock." The homes of such men as Mr. C. P. Barnes, Mr. V. S. Lumley, Mr. F. B. Bennett and Mr. John M. Hoy are his work. He constructed the new Sentinel building and many other public buildings. Mr. Opfergelt leans to the colonial style. His son, E. H. Opfergelt, is about to graduate from Notre Dame University as an architect. Of Mr. Opfergelt's personality it can truly be said that he is a man of fine genial temperament and of strong convictions. True to his friends and generous in his treatment of all people, he commands respect by virtue of deserving it.
F. H. OPFERGELT[photo]
ATTORNEY C. S. NORTHROP.
Attorney C. S. Northrop was born in New York State and came to Woodstock with his parents in 1S62. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1878, commencing to read law that year. He was admitted to the bar in 1880. In 1882 he went to South Dakota to practice and in 1887 to California. In 1890 he came back to Woodstock. Attorney Northrop makes a specialty of chancery and probate law, in which important branches he has made a great success. Mr. Northrop is an active member of the board of education and has always interested himself in the intellectual development of the city. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Northrop is married and has four children.
ATTORNEY CHARLES S. NORTHROP.[photo]
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ATTORNEY VINCENT S. LUMLEY.
Vincent S. Lumley, son of Thomas Lumley, was born at Ringwood, Illinois; he is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He came to Woodstock in 1888 and engaged in the general practice of law, since which time he has forced his way to the front, and as a lawyer stands at the head of his profession. He is accredited with being an orator without a peer in MeHenry County, and a hustler in the strongest sense of the word; genial and courteous to all his friends, he has the absolute confidence of his clientage. He has always been allied with every movement which has a tendency to the building up of his home city. He was elected State's Attorney of MeHenry County in 1896 and served a term of four years, and it is the universal opinion that as a prosecuting attorney his success has never been equaled in the county. He is also the senior member of the real estate firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey. Mr. Lumley has a well defined reputation as a criminal lawyer. As one instance out of many it might be mentioned that he won the celebrated Gillett case against the city of Chicago, in which the judgment was $11,000. Attorney Lumley is a member of all of the leading fraternal orders of his home city. He is Regent of the Royal Arcanum and a member in high standing of the I. 0. 0. F., the Knights of the Globe, the National Union, the Odd Fellows and the Rebeccas. Mr. Lumley's suite of offices is one of the handsomest in this section and his law library is the largest in the State outside of the large cities.
ATTORNEY V. S. LUMLEY.[photo]
ATTORNEY JOHN J. WHITESIDE. Attorney John J. Whiteside, the second member of the firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey, is a graduate of the Northwestern University Law School, and is one of the best educated young men of the MeHenry county bar. He is a man of strict integrity, and, while young in years, is making many friends for his firm.
JOHN J. WHITESIDE.[photo]
PERRY W. MURPHEY. Mr. Murphey, the third member of the popular firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey, is the son of A. W. Murphey. He has a very large acquaintance with the farmers of the county, being himself a retired farmer. He is known throughout the length and breadth of MeHenry and adjoining counties as a man of sterling quality and of high ideals of business honor. He became a member of the firm in 1902, and has shown great ability as a salesman, doing his full share in maintaining the prestige of his firm.
JOHN A. DUFIELD. John A. Dufield is probably the oldest newspaper man in McHenry County. He was born in Woodstock in 1851, and has been in active newspaper work for more than 40 years. He started the MeHenry County Democrat in 1877 and sold his plant some two years ago to the Woodstock Republican Company. Mr. Dufield is a life-long democrat, and ran his paper in the interests of sound democratic principles for a quarter of a century. He was appointed postmaster by Cleveland, holding that position for four years.
One year ago last January he put in a job printing plant in the Kellogg block, the most complete of its kind. He carries an up-to-date line of fine stationery and all the accessories of the stationery trade, including school supplies. He makes a specialty of souvenir advertising and has made a hit with the local merchants in this department, being very successful in the style and make up of his productions.
SCHOOLS OF WOODSTOCK. The Woodstock public schools are a credit to the eity. In no city the same size in the state of Illinois is there a better system, and it is doubtful if there is any other city near the size of Woodstock whose schools are honored by as many universities and colleges who accept the graduates of the high school department without further preparation as is the case in this city. At the present time the schools are in a rather crowded condition, the one building that houses the three departments, the primary, grammar and high school grades, being entirely inadequate, extra room being found in the city hall and in the basement of the First Baptist Church for certain classes. Just a week or so ago, at the opening of the spring term, ninety new pupils applied for entrance. Only forty of this number could be accommodated. They were scattered about in the different rooms. The remaining number had to be turned away. This crowded condition seriously handicaps the superintendent and the board of education in their work, but there is every likelihood that a new building will be erected before the fall term of school is begun. Petitions have been circulated within the past week or so asking the Board of Education to call a special election for the purpose of giving the people an opportunity to say whether they will construct a district school in the territory north of East Jackson street and northeast of the Chicago & Northwestern tracks.
C. W. Hart is the superintendent of the city schools and to his tireless work, his energy and progressive spirit is due, largely, the success of the schools. He has introduced many modern innovations in school work since he took charge of the schools, and has placed the work on a very high plane. He has gathered around him a very capable corps of teachers.
O. G. MEADE.[photo] W. T. CHARLES.[photo]
MEAD & CHARLES. "Goods well bought are half sold."
Emblazoned like the trade mark of truth on an imperishable coat of arms, this motto tells in simple language the secret of the success which has attended the operations of the grocery firm of Mead & Charles.
For six years the firm of Mead & Charles has proclaimed this motto. The labels on the goods carried by the house tell the story to an audience of customers representing the most appreciative public of Woodstock. On such world famous brands as the Monarch of Reid, Murdoch & Co. and the Heinz varieties the" reputation of the house has been built. The Mead & Charles grocery and china store has a superb location in the Sherman block, a stock of goods concentrated in convenient form, a prompt delivery service, an original and trade winning system of billing goods, an unrivaled exclusive line of plain and fancy bakery goods, a specially well organized vegetable department—all insuring a volume of business which entails fresh importations each day. Put in plain figures, the record of the house shows an increase of 41 per cent in volume of business over last year, and a like percentage over the year before. The machinery of the house consists of a force of five men and two delivery wagons. The personality of the men at the head, Mr. 0. G. Mead and Mr. W. T. Charles, is alive with ideas of building up business by the most liberal methods. Mr. Mead has been all his life in the commercial line. Mr. Charles was formerly in the railroad business. Both are natives of MeHenry county. They believe thoroughly in the need of constant study in order to solve commercial problems as they arise. They are the kind of men Woodstock wants as permanent leaders of trade.
H. B. MEDLAR Medlar's studio is probably the oldest in the State of Illinois. It is certainly the oldest and the most famous in this section, being founded by H. B. Medlar's father, John S. Medlar, half a century ago. H. B. Medlar, who must inherit his father's ability, is one of the best photographers in the country and recognized as such by this fraternity and the public. His gallery work is the equal of the best Chicago portraiture, the posing, retouching and general ensemble of his pictures being most artistic and magnetic. Mr. Medlar was born and raised in Woodstock, and one would think (to look at his work) that he had been a photographer all his life. But he has only been at the business six years. Mr. Medlar is a man of fine physique and an accomplished all round artist. He is one of the most popular men in Woodstock. The many fine portraits that appear in this edition are largely his work.
H. B. MEDLAR.[PHOTO]
ATTORNEY V. S. LUMLEY'S RESIDENCE.[photo]
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JOHN NORDLAND.[photo]
John Nordland purchased the Woodstock Steam Laundry December 21, 1903. He came to Woodstock from Racine, Wis., and is one the best and most practical laundrymen in this section of the state. His plant is well equipped with modern machinery and Mr. Nordland contemplates putting in more machines at an early date. The Woodstock Steam Laundry gives employment to 10 persons, and is one of the busy plants of Woodstock. Since Mr. Nordland came here he has built up a good business and has demonstrated that he can satisfy the most fastidious. Mr. Nordland was born in Sweden and came to America in 1885. If any one in Woodstock deserves success it is Mr. Nordland, and that he will continue in business here is the wish of his many friends and customers.
F. J. SCHEOEDER.[PHOTO]
More than one quarter of a century's experience in business, the first period being passed in Germany, is the foundation of the success of Woodstock's leading merchant tailor, who has just now reached his twenty-first year of active life, F. J. Sehroeder. Coming to the United States in 1882 from Schwerin, Mr. Sehroeder settled in Woodstock one year later, having had seven years of thorough training in the tailoring business. It only took seven years of earnest work in Woodstock to so establish Mr. Sehroeder in the confidence of our citizens as to enable him to start in business for himself, which he did in 1890. From this point he climbed upward, not only building up a business but building up a reputation all over McHenry county. Today sees him the proprietor of a handsome building—known as the Schroeder block, the headquarters of the leading tailoring concern in the city. Mr. Sehroeder sets the styles in Woodstock and the best dressed merchants, professional men and citizens are his patrons. Keeping from three to four men employed all the year round, Mr. Sehroeder nevertheless does all his own cutting, and is now, as he always has been, an enthusiastic worker at the bench. He believes in doing all the work at home and sends none of it away. He is always ready to help and foster any movement of a progressive nature and thus he has the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. His popularity rests on the surest of all foundations, honorable business principles, a liberal policy and loyalty to his home town.
M. N. WIEN. [PHOTO]
Ten years of constant study of the wants of his patrons, of honorable business dealings, and close attention to the markets—this is the record of M. N. Wien, the clothing, dry goods and shoe merchant. A description of Mr. Wien's Store shows an interior arranged with an eye to the artistic. Every foot of space is utilized to the best advantage, yet in such a manner that the large stock, representing in round figures some $15,000, does not overcrowd the premises, but shows off to splendid advantage all the fickle fads and fancies of the dry goods, the lingerie and the draperies, the furnishings and the trappings, representing the looms and factories of the world. The main floor is in fact a picture of modern storekeeping, while the basement carries the surplus. Economy of arrangement is one of the features of Mr. Wien's ability and shows him to be a graduate in the school of dry goods and clothing. His patrons are impressed with the fact that he is always on the "qui vive" for their interests and that they reap the benefit of the proprietor's ability to buy at close figures. Mr. Wien came to the United States at the age of 18. The capital he brought with him consisted in a large stock of energy and determination to win. He spent four years in Syracuse, N. Y., coming from there to Chicago, then to Burlington, Wis., and finally to Woodstock. In all he has had twelve years' experience in his line. Mr. Wien affiliates with the Oddfellows, and though modest in regard to his own accomplishments he is considered by his many patrons and customers as well as by his fellow merchants as a good man for Woodstock. Practical in the best sense of the word he is a type of the liberal self-made merchant.
C. L. REICHMUTH.
Those whom society delights to honor are the men who in making their own way in the world have lent a helping hand to those around them, and who refuse to bow down before the wooden juggernaut of the almighty dollar. This seems to us to be the working and business principle of C. L. Reichmuth, dealer in furniture and undertaking. Mr. Reiehmuth came to Woodstock five years ago last November from the garden of America, the state of Wisconsin. By taking hold of the business oar by the smooth handle he has been able to steer his commercial bark into prosperous waters and by skilful management has avoided the shoals on which many a man makes business shipwreck. Mr. Beichmuth carries an up-to-date and valuable stock of furniture, and was among the first of the licensed embalmers of the state. He studied embalming for a number of years, graduating in 1898 from the Champion College of Embalming.
Mr. Reichmuth had a very narrow escape in early youth from becoming a baker, as his father, grandfather and great grandfather followed that trade, our subject being the first in four generations to follow another calling. He was born in Belvidere, Ill., but spent his life in Ripon, Wis. Mr. Reichmuth has that valuable business quality, the gift of an even temperament. His civic ideals are on a high level. He affiliates with the Masons, and is a member of St. Mark's Lodge, No. 63, as well as the Maccabees, the National Union, and the Modern Union of America.
V. E. JONES.
To picture the business activity of a city properly it is but right to choose the leading representative firms in each line. In sending forth broadcast this industrial review of Woodstock the Sentinel may well point to the business of V. E. Jones as illustrating a higher type than can be usually found of the horseman. It is as a lover of horses that Mr. Jones is known. His livery stable, built by himself in a splendidly elevated location, is a natural home for horses. It is two stories and measures 32x100 feet in dimensions, is well ventilated and has all modern conveniences. Here eleven head of horses are kept, both boarders and livery stock. Mr. Jones has the oldest livery business in Woodstock and has a fine record of thirty-one years of active business life here. He was born twenty miles east of Buffalo, and came here fifty-one years ago. Though 57 years of age he carries his years like a man of 45, and is still as always, an enthusiastic whip. Mr. Jones has a reputation far and wide for his kindness and care of horses, and he has built up his business on this solid foundation. For twelve years he served as a public officer in the capacity of constable for the township of Dorr. His home is situated adjacent to his stables, where he enjoys life to the full, having in his eyes and features the health and vitality that are the heritage of a vigorous out-door life.
TODD SEMINARY FOE BOYS.
"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." This was the motto I read in the tree fringed sky line above the romantic looking buildings of the Todd Seminary for Boys, as I turned to look at the place once more, after an inspection of it one cold February day.
Here in the most picturesque nook of McHenry county, far removed from the madding crowd, quarter of a mile from the town of Woodstock, Illinois, remote from noise and smoke, is a manufacturing plant for the production of chivalry. The principal of the Todd Seminary, Mr. Noble Hill, is the Sir Galahad, who furnishes the motive power. The boys themselves constitute the material and the product, the labor and the capital of the institution. This is not a collective aggregation of boys, but a careful selection of fifty individual youngsters—boys ranging from the ages of five and six to fourteen. The Todd standard or plan of educating boys is over half a century old. The seminary was founded by Dr. Todd fifty-six years ago. When Mr. Hill took charge he perfected the plan, and nowadays the Todd Standard is recognized as the "ultima thule" of education.
In the first place Mr. Hill selects his pupils by a process of elimination. Out of hundreds of applications he accepts only the best material. The adoption of a limit of 50 boys makes of the Seminary (what it is intended it should be) a united family, comprising teachers and pupils. There is a common esprit da corps, a common goal. The teachers and boys are fellow-workers toward that goal. Here home character is readily formed, because home ideals prevail throughout, studies and reading become a delight, because there is nothing stereotyped, and the rules and regulations governing work and play are rational. The Todd Seminary has six acres of beautiful ground, a baseball field, twenty acres of woodland, gymnasium, tennis lawns and other external aids to education. It has a staff of teachers who are young, vigorous, and athletic, fine examples of the manly life. In this ideal school no influence is neglected that contributes to the making of a perfect home as well. The presiding genius
TODD SEMINARY [PHOTO]
RESIDENCE OF NOBLE HILL [PHOTO]
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of the home, is Mrs. Hill, the wife of the principal, who is supported by a corps of efficient helpers in her department. This gracious little lady looks after the health and comfort of every member of her numerous family, giving to each all the mothering that is good for him and receiving in return a universal tribute of love and respect. But one must go there to find out what is the secret of the school's success. It is impossible to describe it. One thing is certain, one leaves the Seminary in a totally different state of being from that in which one enters it. A single visit is enough to recall the best in a man's past life, and his purest ideals. Face to face with Mr. Hill one must recognize in him a tremendous power for good, a magnetism like that of the late Professor Drummond, a magnetism which was able to draw out the very best that was in his companions. And Mr. Hill makes companions of all his pupils. Perchance there lies the secret of his success. He has certainly lifted the idea of
education out of its traditional mercenary rut and placed the "school" on a level with the highest ideals of "home" life. Alfred Gordon.
SOCIAL LIFE.
There is, probably, no city twice the size of Woodstock that has as many social and literary clubs as has this city. All have large memberships and are active in the work allotted each individual organization.
WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. Home of The Oliver Typewriter and of The Todd Seminary For Boys.
(Continued From Page 1.) pounds of-butter are produced annually than is produced in any county in the State of Ilinois; or, putting the statement in another way, there is three times as much butter produced here as in any other county and seven times as much as in any county in central or southern Illinois. There are more creameries in McHenry County than in any other county and no other county receives a higjier average price for dairy products. The county has 30,000 cows, from which 2,000,000 pounds of butter and over 200,000,000 pounds of milk are sold annually, bringing in to the farmers a revenue of between three and one-half and four million dollars annually from these two products alone. This comes to the farmer in monthly installments, so that he has ready money to use every month in the year. Notwithstanding the enormity of the above figures in comparison with other dairy sections, a careful study of an abstract of the assessors' returns show conclusively that not only 2,000,000 pounds, but over 4,000,000 pounds of butter are produced in McHenry County each year, which places the county far in advance of all other counties in the State in value and importance of dairy products. The live stock interests of the county are also of great importance and stand close to the dairy interests. The poultry and egg business is another industry that adds much to the wealth of the county. In the crops raised grain of all kinds are products, it being a natural hay and grain country. Corn is the staple crop, 100,000 acres being devoted to this crop alone. Oats is second in importance and some wheat is raised. It can be readily seen that Woodstock is situated in a rich section. Its advantages are manifest and with the spirit of the people as index to character there is no more ideal place in the land to reside. Situated on the highest point in the state, the climate is delightful in the heated summer months, there being no occasion to go to the mountains" or to a summer resort. As a fact summer resorts abound in large numbers at her very doors, the city being situated in a nest of lakes on whose banks are dotted handsome cottages and hotels. Woodstock might be properly called the Forest City, inasmuch as its streets are shaded with trees whose branches reach out and meet on either side and form, a perfect bower. One of the prides of the city is its schools. There are no better public schools in the state than here. Todd's Seminary, a select school for boys, is also located here. The churches, too, are all excellent buildings and reflect the public spirit of the people. In the residences there is doubtless no town twice or three times its size in the state that can boast of as many fine domiciles. There are not just two or three or even a score of fine residences, but there are hundreds of them. The residences of the city are always the subject for much commendation by strangers.
J. H. FORMAN.
The heroes of the twentieth century are the self-made men of the country. There is no phrase in all literature so inspiring and full of encouragement to the younger generation as the expression "a self-made man." With his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder, but with his eye ever on the top, and an iron will to succeed—this is a pen picture of the career of J. H. For-man of Woodstock.
Mr. Forman's business is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the most important in the city. He has the exclusive sale of the newspaper service and by prompt, efficient methods he has built the business up from very little to an enterprise of large scope. Mr. Forman's store is also the headquarters for the handling of railroad tickets. A specialty is also made of fine cigars, tobaccos and confectionery. The success of the business has come from the active, earnest application of brains and hands. Mr. Forman started the business over seven years ago and today he owns his building, besides other real estate in Woodstock. A year ago he erected a handsome residence, one of the substantial homes for which Woodstock is famous. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Knights of the Globe. He has earned a well deserved popularity among all classes. In his business, Mr. Forman is assisted by his son, G. T. Forman, who, by the way, is treasurer of the National Union.
THOMAS JACOBS.[photo]
Tobacco is one of God's gifts to man, and, when rightly used and manufactured into high grade stock, carries in
its train none of those evil effects that pessimists talk of. Poets, authors, philosophers and preachers of every age and every nation have sung the praises of the fragrant weed, and among the worshippers at the shrine of Lady Nicotine have been such men as Goethe, Carlyle and Henry Ward Beecher. In these times every up-to-date city has its representative tobacco manufacturer, and for the last five and one-half years Woodstock has had the advantage of the active presence of a cigar man with an experience of thirty years in the business. We refer to Thomas Jacobs, whose famous motto "smoke in this world, not in the next," is worthy of a place alike in halls of learning and marts of commerce. Thomas Jacobs has the distinction of being the only representative of his line in Woodstock. Take the Woodstock man, be he merchant, professional man or mechanic, and put him next to a Dilpoma, a Typewriter, a Turnpike, a Light Draft, or a Lucky Leaf, and his enjoyment is complete. These are Mr. Jacobs' special brands and they are also Woodstock's favorites.
It was a good day for Woodstock when Mr. Jacobs located here. He was born in Toronto, Canada. His long residence in Woodstock has given him a wide acquaintance, and he has been able to build up a valuable wholesale and retail trade. Mr. Jacobs affiliates with the Oddfellows, the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen, the National Union and the Rebeccas. His business is one that promotes sociability and good feeling among men, and he is himself genial, public spirited and a general favorite with his many patrons and customers.
MALTE SCHWABE. [photo]
Among the self-made business men of Woodstock, whose genius for hard work has brought him success and prosperity is the proprietor of the only exclusive jewelry store in the city, Malte Schwabe. When Malte Schwabe came to Woodstock seven years ago he had practically no capital. Today he is owner and proprietor of a substantial brick building 50x18 feet in dimensions and a stock of jewelry valued at several thousand dollars. He has built up one of the best jewelry trades in this part of Illinois, and has as his customers the leading business men of Woodstock. To find the reason of Mr. Schwabe's success and ability to gain business one must go back across the waters to the city of Stralsund, Germany, and reckon with the years of apprenticeship Mr. Schwabe spent fitting himself as a master jeweler. He could have no higher diploma than this four years' apprenticeship.
Mr. Schwabe has been an American citizen for eight years, he having worked one year in Chicago before coming to Woodstock. He is an honored member of the Royal Arcanum and the National Union and deservedly popular with all classes.
CHURCHES.
One of the first things that attracts the attention of the stranger in the city is the number of churches in Woodstock. Nearly every denomination is represented, and with but one or two exceptions every church is blessed with a large congregation and membership. Woodstock is a church-going town, which speaks well for the morality of the place.
J. H. FORMAN.
6 WOODSTOCK SENTINEL SUPPLEMENT.
WOODSTOCK DEY GOODS CO.
During the past few months the people of Woodstock have been treated to a delightful glimpse of modern store-keeping methods by the transformation that has taken place in the arrangements of the Woodstock Dry Goods Company, due to the advent of W. F. Weaver. The change, which is of course now familiar to everyone in Woodstock, was made in order to bring the store up to the standard required by a growing city. The Woodstock Dry Goods Company is one of a syndicate of stores owned by the Potter and McAllister syndicate, owners of 13 establishments in Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Unlike most combinations, which in these days are formed for the purpose of forcing higher values, this combination's chief asset consists in its ability to lower prices, and as it does a business of more than a quarter of a million annually, it is able to underbuy any single store in the country. This great chain or series of stores is under the supervision of 13 managing partners, who visit the markets every Monday and hold a conference that day in Chicago. They are naturally in close touch with the various heads of the wholesale houses, and have for example the largest retail account with Marshall Field & Co. of any concern in the west. In this way they are the first to get the newest importations. Mr. Weaver, who is one of the managing partners, has been with the syndicate many years, managing and developing some of their best stores. His up-to-date methods can be seen by the handsome interior display of the Woodstock Dry Goods Co. and the price tickets which appear on all goods offered for sale. The Sentinel has nothing but good wishes for this progressive concern. W. P. WEAVER.[photo]
THE OLIVER SHAVING PARLORS.
The Oliver Shaving Parlors of Woodstock opened for business on the 19th day of August, 1903, in the new Swamb Block on Benton street, and opened the eyes of every man in Woodstock to the fact that here was indeed a metropolitan barber shop the equal of any shop in Chicago and superior to anything in northern Illinois. The accompanying picture shows the handsome interior of the parlors with its fixtures of golden oak, its massive hydraulic leather chairs, three in number, its attractive and novel revolving cup case, its modern bathrooms, and its polished mirrors—all denoting a tonsorial establishment arranged regardless of expense.
The proprietor of this palatial barber shop is W. C. Black, one of the popular business men of our city. He has had fifteen years' experience in his business and has worked in Woodstock for six years. He was born in Bates county, Missouri, and wis raised in Pike county, Illinois.
Mr. Black has the reputation of paying the highest wages to his employes of any shop in the State. This fact, together with his popularity with the great army of men employed by the Oliver Typewriter Co. and also with the merchants of Woodstock, has built for him a valuable business, and one which sets the standard for cities five times the size of Woodstock. INTERIOR OF OLIVER SHAVING PARLORS.[photo]
HOY'S PHARMACY.
Hoy's Pharmacy is a "household word" in Woodstock, and has been for more than 30 years. F. A. Daniels has been the popular manager for a number of years, the proprietor, as is well known, being Mr. Luman T. Hoy, the president of the Woodstock Sentinel Company, and recently appointed by President Roosevelt as Appraiser for the Port of Chicago.
Hoy's Pharmacy is undoubtedly the leading drug store in Woodstock, and a familiar rendezvous and headquarters. The beautiful interior view here presented is the photographic work of M. G. Tripp.
INTERIOR OP EMIL ARNOLD'S OFFICE. [photo]
EMIL ARNOLD.
Emil Arnold was born in Cook county, Illinois, May 18, 1856, and moved to Woodstock, Ill., in 1861. He was a student at Todd's Saminary while a boy, and also attended the public school of this city. After completing a business course at college he entered the employ of Mr. E. E. Richards in the abstract office, in which firm he became a partner. His early training in this business made him familiar with the records of this county, and he is at the present time considered one of the best and most reliable business men in this part of the State. Mr. Arnold is progressive, reliable and thorough in his business affairs and has the confidence of those who trust their business to his judgment and ability. He is now serving his third term as President of the Board of Education of his city and was a member of the City Council for twelve years. He is considered an expert on special assessments for municipal improvements, having spread special assessments for water works in many of the cities in the adjoining counties. He is a member of almost all of the clubs and societies of the city and always interested in the welfare and prosperity of his home city, which he has done so much to improve. Mr. Arnold has one of the finest offices in the city and is doing a very prosperous business.
E. B. LOSEE.[photo]
One of the most recent recruits to enter the commercial ranks of Woodstock and to take his place at the head of a most important division of the business of our city is E. B. Losee. E. B. Losee, the successor to the important business of F. W. Street has long since won his epaulets as a captain of commerce, and the new responsibility he acquires in shouldering the management of the South Side Clothing & Furnishing Store will be no burden to him but will rest gracefully upon him. Mr. Losee has been left with high legacy, a great trust to maintain, the carrying out of those principles of sound business honor inaugurated by Mr. Street and followed by Mr. Losee himself during nine years. There is something fascinating about the atmosphere of Mr. Losee's store—whether it is the one price principle, or the fact that all prices are plainly marked, or the brisk, genial manner of the proprietor, sooth to say the store attracts custom and patronage from far and near. Mr. Losee belongs both by birthright and training to the strenuous body guard of young men who have, the making of modern present-day Woodstock in their hands. For he was born and raised in Woodstock, educated in Woodstock and has the Woodstock push and energy.
Send a copy of this Illustrated Industrial Prospectus of Woodstock to some of your friends. It may have the effect of interesting someone in locating here.
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INTERIOR OF A. D. OSBORN'S HARDWARE STORE.[photo]
A. DWIGHT OSBORN. The leading hardware store and most picturesquely arranged is that of A. Dwight Osborn. It consists of two floors and a basement, a total floor space of 4,400 square feet. This is the headquarters for all kinds of shelf and heavy hardware, the upper floor being devoted to chinaware and toys, which at Christmas time is the most popular bazaar in town. In the rear of the upper floor is a large tin shop and a plumbing shop is in the basement. These last two departments constitute the Woodstock Heating and Plumbing Company, of which Mr. Osborn is the head. The Woodstock Heating and Plumbing Company has been in operation for three years and employs some twelve mechanics. Mr. Osborn has the largest business of any house in Woodstock, and has been actively engaged in the hardware line for six years. His first business was that of a grocer, and for some time he was proprietor of the best and most exclusive grocery in Oak Park, at the corner of Oak Park avenue and South boulevard. Woodstock, however, is his old home. Mr. Osborn has always worked hard for his city and served in a public capacity with credit to himself and his town.
SCHUETT & SCHAAF. Schuett & Schaaf, dealers in agricultural implements, buggies, road wagons, etc., began business as a firm in November, 1902. Both members of the firm are live, progressive business men. They have built up a very substantial business all over the county. In addition to the articles already enumerated they carry a fine line of surreys and sell a number of automobiles each year.
The firm consists of P. G. Schuett and C. H. Schaaf. Mr. Schuett was affiliated with F. W. Buell in the feed business for eleven years, and has made his home in Woodstock since 1873. In March, 1899, he was elected alderman of the North ward, to fill a vacancy till 1900. Since then he was re-elected twice without any opposition, an evidence both of his popularity and ability. In the City Council he is chairman of the Finance Committee and a careful conserver of the city's rights. Mr. Schuett is president of the German Lutheran Church organization. Mr. Schaaf was born and brought up on a farm, and his large acquaintance with McHenry County farmers is a valuable asset to the firm.
F. G. SCHUETT. [photo]
M. G. TRIPP. M. G. Tripp, one of Woodstock's photographers, and to whose skill, many of the interior views in this edition must be credited, is one of the successful men of Woodstock. Mr. Tripp has given many years to the study of photography, and he has succeeded in building up a large business, having patrons all over McHenry county. Personally Mr. Tripp is obliging and courteous and has the knack of making and keeping friends.
A. S. WRIGHT. A. S. Wright is one of the pioneer druggists of McHenry county, and has been in the drug business here for thirty-eight years. His store is the largest in Woodstock and a popular head quarters with the public and the medical fraternity. Mr. Wright was born in New York state, and enlisted in the Twenty-second New York Cavalry at 15 years of age. He was penitentiary commissioner under Governor Fifer and on the board of trustees at the Elgin Insane Asylum under Governor Tanner. He is now a member of the State Board of Charities. Mr. Wright is a member of the council of administration of the G. A. R. of the department of Illinois. He was secretary of the McHenry County Fair Association for twelve years, and as such did a splendid service to his home county and city.
For a number of years Mr. Wright has been a trustee of the Congregational church. In every respect he is a man of solid integrity and firm purpose and one of Woodstock's best business men.
INTERIOR OF A. S. WRIGHT'S DRUG STORE. [photo]
G. W. CONN, JR. George W. Conn, Jr., County Superintendent of Schools, was born in Richmond, Illinois, May 31, 1870. His family moved to Hebron in 1872. After graduating from the high school in 1885 Mr. Conn taught in the district schools for two years, meanwhile taking a course in the Chicago Business College. He also attended a summer session of the Bushnell Normal School. He was principal of the Cary public schools for two years (1890-91), of the Hebron public schools for three years (1892-95), and then attended the University of Chicago for one year.
In conjunction with his father and F. N. Torrance, Mr. Conn established the Bank of Hebron, and was cashier of the same for three years. He was elected county superintendent of schools, McHenry county, in 1902, prior to which he had served as principal of the Richmond schools for two years.
C. F. THORNE & SON. C. F. Thorne & Son represent one of the time-honored business firms of Woodstock. It is the leading firm for fashionable clothing, gents' furnishings, hats and men's and ladies' fine shoes. C. F. Thorne purchased the business twenty years ago from E. C. Jewett. Mr. Thorne made his son, W. S., a partner on the 1st of March this year. C. F. Thorne was born in Vermont and came west twenty years ago. His son, W. S. Thorne, is also a product of the East, but grew up to manhood in Woodstock, coming here with his parents at the age of three. He is a member of the Masonic order, Mr. Thorne, senior, affiliating with the Odd Fellows. C. F. Thorne & Son occupy one of the finest locations in Woodstock, next door to the post office. They have the exclusive sale of the goods of Hart, Schaffner & Marx. They also take orders for merchant tailoring and are in every respect worthy of the large amount of confidence reposed in them.
PUBLIC SPIRIT RULES.
Woodstock is, pre-eminently, a city of culture and refinement. Its people are broad-minded, are liberal in their views, and, while polities play a prominent part in all state and national elections, there is no factionalism In municipal affairs and the city administration is invariably composed of men of both of the great political faiths, regardless of party, the main requirement being that a man must be selected for his eminent fitness for the place rather than. because he is a representative of any one party or faction. Public spirit dominates every channel of life in Woodstock. When it comes to a question of promoting the city's best interests all factions, can be seen harmoniously working together.
INTERIOR OF C. F. THORNE & SON'S STORE. [photo]
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WOODSTOCK SENTINEL SUPPLEMENT.
W. A. VOLTZ.[photo]
THE MODEL BARGAIN STORE. Rome was not built in a day, nor are such institutions as the Model Bargain Store the creation of an hour. They are the result of years of careful study. The people of Woodstock are indebted to Mr. W. A. Voltz, proprietor of the Model Bargain Store, for inaugurating a new era in the shopping methods of Woodstock—the cash system of selling. The Model Bargain Store is the only store of its kind in Woodstock.
A department store in the best sense, it is filled with a valuable stock of goods worth $8,000, representing dry goods, carpets, hardware, crockery, clothing, house furnishings and furniture of all kinds, and so displayed and arranged that everything is seen at a glance and shopping becomes a pleasure. Mr. Voltz has won success in Woodstock in one year's time. He is a Chicago business man and broad in his ideas; was born near Chicago, and for five years had a hardware and implement business in Nunda. Seeing an opening in Woodstock, he seized the opportunity.
It should be stated that the Model Bargain Store is the only store in town having a frontage on the two main streets of Woodstock. Mr. Voltz is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is popular with his many patrons.
M. SHERMAN & SONS. That life best lends itself to scrutiny and judgment which is lived not for self, but for humanity, which has regarded the benefit of the human race rather than the exploiting of the individual, and which has not ambition but aspiration for its motive. Such a life is that of M. Sherman, head and founder of the house of M. Sherman & Sons. Mr. Sherman was born in New York, came to Woodstock 52 years ago, founded his present business in 1866 and from small beginnings by thrift and good management erected in 1893 the most substantial business block in the city on the most valuable corner of the city's retail center. Mr. Sherman is the dean of the business men of Woodstock, and the business he presides over is a credit to the city, being the leading jewelry house, with a stock valued at $15,000, comprising diamonds, watches, clocks, jewelry, fine imported china ware, all kinds of musical instruments, cameras and the various articles usually found in metropolitan houses. In the early seventies Mr. Sherman invented the cable and exhibited at that time in his windows the device which years afterward was patented by another. Inventing and the collection of curios has been a lifelong hobby of Mr. Sherman's, and one corner of his store is a veritable Old Curiosity Shop, full of valuable curiosities from all parts of the world. In 1903 Mr. Sherman took into partnership his two sons, L. P. and C. V., young men of fine intellectual attainments, the former a graduate of the Johnston Optical Institute and the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology and the latter a graduate of the Elgin College of Horology, Engraving and Optics. This event marks a new era in the history of the house. Mr. Sherman, senior, though often urged to be a candidate for public office, has always successfully resisted all efforts of his friends in that direction, pursuing the even tenor of his way, making lasting and life-long friends in business and in social life. He has never made money making his goal, but has been rather a seeker after truth, and taken his pleasure in digging out the secrets of science and nature. Yet he has made a competence, owning the entire Sherman block, the finest in Woodstock, and building up a notable business known throughout the length and breadth of the county.
C. V. SHERMAN [photo] M. SHERMAN [photo] L. F. SHERMAN [photo].
S. W. PERKINS.[photo]. S. W. Perkins, proprietor of the Woodstock Tailoring Company, established his business here last March. He has made arrangements to occupy handsome quarters on the south side of the square in the Opera House block, measuring 60x18 feet, and with a handsome plate glass front. Mr. Perkins was born and raised in the tailoring business, his father and grandfather being tailors before him. He therefore inherits his ability for making clothes. Mr. Perkins has built up a valuable business here, many of our leading citizens being his patrons. He hails originally from London, England, but came to Woodstock from Chicago. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum of Woodstock, and has made a pronounced success in business and won popularity and favor.
THE STANDARD VISIBLE WRITER.
OLIVER Typewriter.
The Oliver Record Has Never Been Equaled
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THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY
Works: WOODSTOCK
General Offices: CHICAGO
WOODSTOCK'S GREAT PROGRESS AND WONDERFUL GROWTH
HOME OF THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY, THE LEADING INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD by Iverson C. Wells.
The Woodstock of today and the Woodstock of five years ago, yea, even of three years ago, are as far different from each other as one could imagine a little city could be that has enjoyed a substantial rather than a mushroom growth.
In 1890, the year of the last Government census, the population of Woodstock was 1,683. Until five years ago these figures were not materially changed. An awakening came, however. The people arose from their lethargy and the industrial and the commercial progress of the eity was assured.
Today it is conservatively estimated that there are 4,000 people in Woodstock, and the inability to supply homes for those that desire to come and live with us as fast as they are required has seriously retarded a still larger growth.
With the opening of the spring months, however, and the building season near at hand, contractors and carpenters will renew the building operations of last year when over one hundred residences were constructed. From indications and estimates furnished by those in a position to know these facts, the year 1904 will find more extensive building operations and there will be little or no complaint about lack of houses for those who wish to make Woodstock their home.
The congestion in houses is so great many people who are now employed in Woodstock live in adjoining towns and come and go to and from their day's labor each day by rail. From Harvard alone there are no less than sixty workmen whose homes are in that little city because they cannot find accommodations here, and who come to Woodstock on an early morning train and return on an evening train.
There can be but one conclusion to be drawn from such a condition of affairs: Woodstock is growing faster than the present facilities can provide for. The capitalists, however, are awakening to the necessity of the occasion and the congestion of the past year will not be known this year.
The wonderful growth of Woodstock is not only shown in the substantial increase in the population, but in the banking business of the city and in all commercial lines. The four banks that transact business in this city have more than doubled the amount of business done within the past five years. Deposits are greatly increased, one sure sign that a town is enjoying a substantial prosperity, and the merchants are all reporting a greater volume of trade.
Woodstock has every advantage for a successful trade and mart and industrial center, as well as an ideal home. Located only fifty miles northwest of Chicago, where all the markets are of easy access, surrounded by a country that leads the world in dairy interests, and with a climate that is healthy, there is everything in its favor and nothing against it.
Woodstock is the county seat. It is situated, geographically, in the center of MeHenry County and is easy of access to every town and hamlet in the county.
In the industrial line the Oliver Typewriter factory leads all others. It is the chief industry of the eity. Employing over 700, it gives profitable employment to a large portion of its population and a prospective increase in the working force at an early date promises employment for at least a hundred more.
There are two large pickle factories, a large condensing plant for Borden, and several minor industries. There is sufficient employment for all that come, the only drawback that has been being in the lack of houses for homes for those that are given employment.
In the rural districts dairy products are the chief interests, although the farmers are not confined to any one line, the soil being adapted to all the cereals and to hay. McHenry County is the center of the greatest dairy interests in the world. This is a pretty broad statement, but nevertheless the census reports and the State records prove it to be so. Statistics show that over one million more
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McHenry county court house officials [photos]
1. JUDGE GILLMORE. 2. MISS NETTIE M. BURGER 3. SHERIFF LAKE. 4. MISS MAUDE DONOVAN. 5. DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK HAMER. 6. COUNTY RECORDER RICHARDS. 7. DEPUTY COUNTY TREASURER STILL. 8. STATES ATTORNEY LOWELL. 9. DEPUTY COUNTY RECORDER RICHARDS. 10. DEPUTY SHERIFF WANDRACK. 11. MISS BEATRICE GAY. 12. COUNTY CLERK RUSHTON. 13. DEPUTY SHERIFF ECKERT. 14. COUNTY TREASURER JEWETT.
D. F. Quinlan, the original real estate broker of MeHenry county and one of Woodstock's broadest and most liberal promoters, is in many respects the most striking figure in the business life of our city. To him belongs the credit of having helped to start the growth and development of Woodstock in the right direction, and for ten years he has kept up a strenuous campaign of publicity, advertising the advantages of the city and county in scores of magazines and papers, and in many original ways turning on the limelight and bringing about marvelous results in the line of real estate activity. Mr. Quinlan is the "W. M. Ostrander" of Woodstock. He has been most successful in the handling of farm property and has negotiated the sale of a large majority of the city lots.
The result of his assiduous campaign of advertising and the liberal use of printer's ink has been the building up of a monumental real estate business. He has one of the most complete and valuable mailing lists in the State, acquired at great expense and pains and covering all of the surrounding counties. In this way he has his hands on the pulse of things and has been able to
promote many large undertakings.
Mr. Quinlan's office, which is headquarters for real estate, insurance, loans and investments of all kinds is one of the landmarks of Woodstock. Mr. Quinlan is a Woodstock man born and bred and takes a live interest at all times in the expansion of the city. His personality is of the strong, aggressive sort that attracts people and acts as a magnet for business. His career here, which started when he was a mere youth, is one of the glowing chapters in the county's history.
"THAT'S ALL HE DOES."
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BANKS OF WOODSTOCK.
Woodstock has the strongest banking representation of any town of its size in the state. In addition to the Farmers' Exchange Bank and the State Bank of Woodstock, mentioned in these pages, there are two other banks, making the total amount of capitalization in Woodstock $160,000, and the deposits a grand total of one million dollars.
FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK. M. D. Hoy & Sons, Proprietors.
The Farmers Exchange Bank is the oldest bank in Woodstock, and was organized in 1887 by M. D. Hoy and Geo. H. Hoy, with a capital of $35,000. In February, 1903, it was re-organized, with the following owners (all being actively engaged in the business): M. D. Hoy, Geo. H. Hoy, Fremont Hoy, John M. Hoy and William P. Hoy. The firm name at this time was changed to M. D. Hoy & Sons. The capital remained the same, viz.: $35,000.
In 1903 the bank was refitted, and equipped with the largest steel lined vault in the county. It has all the latest improvements, the offices being very handsome and attractive. There is a complete line of Safety Deposit Boxes for rent and all conveniences for a general line of banking business. The deposits on January 20, 1904, were $350,000, and the loans $300,000 on the same date.
INTERIOR OF FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK [photo]
ATTORNEY J. F. CASEY.
Attorney J. F. Casey was born in Huntly 111., on the 6th of March, 1861. He attended the Elgin Academy two years, gaining a diploma in practical sciences and a teacher's certificate from Springfield. Before entering Elgin Academy he graduated from the high school at Huntly. He graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the Union College of Law in 1885, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Attorney Casey's education has eminently fitted him for the position he now occupies as a leading attorney of Ilinois. In early life he taught school, and the success of many a hard won legal victory is the result perhaps of the strenuous life of the preceptor in the "little red schoolhouse." Attorney Casey is in love with his profession, and that is the secret of his success as a lawyer. He has figured in most of the prominent cases in the county and in the noted Flusky ease, he obtained a fee of $10,000, the largest fee in Illinois outside of Cook county. Attorney Casey has a general practice —civil, criminal and corporation. He is a member of the Masons and the Royal Arcanum, and several other leading societies.
At one time he was chairman of the County Central Republican Committee of MeHenry county, and during the last fifteen years has taken the stump whenever occasion required, his oratory being of an effective and telling character.
Mr. Casey has a large Chicago practice in addition to his practice in this county. He is essentially a man of many parts, a fine conversationalist, a brilliant speaker, and a convincing pleader.
ATTORNEY .T. F. CASEY[photo]
C. F. GAULKE & SON.
The builders of Woodstock are not necessarily the moneyed men of the community, but those merchants who practice the golden rule in business and who believe in dealing liberally with their brother merchants. Such a man is C. F. Gaulke of the firm of C. F. Gaulke & Son, proprietors of the South Side meat market. No man in Woodstock has a better word to say for his town than C. F. Gaulke. He has been in the meat business here for fifteen years, worked in the very store of which he is now proprietor for six years, and one year ago last October purchased the business from his predecessor, John R. Kellogg.
The South Side meat market has a high standard for cleanliness and sanitary conditions and always has an atmosphere of prosperity, its walls hung with fine carcases, denoting abundance and plenty. It is the model market of Woodstock. Mr. Gaulke was born in Germany, was married there, and landed at Baltimore on the 18th of April twenty-three years ago. He has always considered Woodstock one of the banner towns of Illinois and has always done his full share in promoting the city's interests. Mr. Gaulke's obliging disposition has won him many warm friends.
THE STATE BANK OF WOODSTOCK.
The State Bank of Woodstock was organized under the general banking laws of the State of Illinois in November, 1899. It has a capital of $25,000, and a surplus of $28,000. The following are the officers: E. E. Richards, President; William H. Stewart, Vice-President; E. C. Jewett, Cashier. Directors—E. E. Richards, A. R. Murphey, E. C. Jewett, A. K. Bunker, Geo. K. Bunker, W. H. Stewart, M. L. Joslyn, E. E. Bagley, Geo. MeConnell.
The official personnel of the "State," as it is popularly styled, is of great strength, and familiar to everyone in this section of Illinois, as well as all over the county.
The interior of the bank, as shown in the cut, is one of the finest and most elaborate in Northern Illinois.
INTERIOR OF STATE BANK OF WOODSTOCK.[photo]
F. H. OPFERGELT.
F. H. Opfergelt, to whose ability and skill in the construction of buildings is due the beauty of Woodstock's homes and the general architecture of the eity, was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, thirty miles from Cologne. He came to the United States when a mere youth, landed in Saginaw, Mich., and located in Chicago in 1868. Having studied architecture in his native country, he was well equipped to be one of the little army of men who built the city of Chicago. He became a partner of Tom Morse and later joined forces with the E. F. Gobel Construction Co. Among the buildings Mr. Opfergelt superintended might be mentioned the old Federal building, the Blackhawk Distillery, the Pontiac Reform School, the Hartfordbuilding, the Goose Island Elevator and the Hawthorne Cement Works. Mr. Opfergelt came to Woodstock sixteen years ago and owns a valuable farm near this city. In recent years he has given his time and attention to the construction of what might properly be termed "modern Woodstock." The homes of such men as Mr. C. P. Barnes, Mr. V. S. Lumley, Mr. F. B. Bennett and Mr. John M. Hoy are his work. He constructed the new Sentinel building and many other public buildings. Mr. Opfergelt leans to the colonial style. His son, E. H. Opfergelt, is about to graduate from Notre Dame University as an architect. Of Mr. Opfergelt's personality it can truly be said that he is a man of fine genial temperament and of strong convictions. True to his friends and generous in his treatment of all people, he commands respect by virtue of deserving it.
F. H. OPFERGELT[photo]
ATTORNEY C. S. NORTHROP.
Attorney C. S. Northrop was born in New York State and came to Woodstock with his parents in 1S62. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1878, commencing to read law that year. He was admitted to the bar in 1880. In 1882 he went to South Dakota to practice and in 1887 to California. In 1890 he came back to Woodstock. Attorney Northrop makes a specialty of chancery and probate law, in which important branches he has made a great success. Mr. Northrop is an active member of the board of education and has always interested himself in the intellectual development of the city. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Northrop is married and has four children.
ATTORNEY CHARLES S. NORTHROP.[photo]
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ATTORNEY VINCENT S. LUMLEY.
Vincent S. Lumley, son of Thomas Lumley, was born at Ringwood, Illinois; he is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He came to Woodstock in 1888 and engaged in the general practice of law, since which time he has forced his way to the front, and as a lawyer stands at the head of his profession. He is accredited with being an orator without a peer in MeHenry County, and a hustler in the strongest sense of the word; genial and courteous to all his friends, he has the absolute confidence of his clientage. He has always been allied with every movement which has a tendency to the building up of his home city. He was elected State's Attorney of MeHenry County in 1896 and served a term of four years, and it is the universal opinion that as a prosecuting attorney his success has never been equaled in the county. He is also the senior member of the real estate firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey. Mr. Lumley has a well defined reputation as a criminal lawyer. As one instance out of many it might be mentioned that he won the celebrated Gillett case against the city of Chicago, in which the judgment was $11,000. Attorney Lumley is a member of all of the leading fraternal orders of his home city. He is Regent of the Royal Arcanum and a member in high standing of the I. 0. 0. F., the Knights of the Globe, the National Union, the Odd Fellows and the Rebeccas. Mr. Lumley's suite of offices is one of the handsomest in this section and his law library is the largest in the State outside of the large cities.
ATTORNEY V. S. LUMLEY.[photo]
ATTORNEY JOHN J. WHITESIDE. Attorney John J. Whiteside, the second member of the firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey, is a graduate of the Northwestern University Law School, and is one of the best educated young men of the MeHenry county bar. He is a man of strict integrity, and, while young in years, is making many friends for his firm.
JOHN J. WHITESIDE.[photo]
PERRY W. MURPHEY. Mr. Murphey, the third member of the popular firm of Lumley, Whiteside & Murphey, is the son of A. W. Murphey. He has a very large acquaintance with the farmers of the county, being himself a retired farmer. He is known throughout the length and breadth of MeHenry and adjoining counties as a man of sterling quality and of high ideals of business honor. He became a member of the firm in 1902, and has shown great ability as a salesman, doing his full share in maintaining the prestige of his firm.
JOHN A. DUFIELD. John A. Dufield is probably the oldest newspaper man in McHenry County. He was born in Woodstock in 1851, and has been in active newspaper work for more than 40 years. He started the MeHenry County Democrat in 1877 and sold his plant some two years ago to the Woodstock Republican Company. Mr. Dufield is a life-long democrat, and ran his paper in the interests of sound democratic principles for a quarter of a century. He was appointed postmaster by Cleveland, holding that position for four years.
One year ago last January he put in a job printing plant in the Kellogg block, the most complete of its kind. He carries an up-to-date line of fine stationery and all the accessories of the stationery trade, including school supplies. He makes a specialty of souvenir advertising and has made a hit with the local merchants in this department, being very successful in the style and make up of his productions.
SCHOOLS OF WOODSTOCK. The Woodstock public schools are a credit to the eity. In no city the same size in the state of Illinois is there a better system, and it is doubtful if there is any other city near the size of Woodstock whose schools are honored by as many universities and colleges who accept the graduates of the high school department without further preparation as is the case in this city. At the present time the schools are in a rather crowded condition, the one building that houses the three departments, the primary, grammar and high school grades, being entirely inadequate, extra room being found in the city hall and in the basement of the First Baptist Church for certain classes. Just a week or so ago, at the opening of the spring term, ninety new pupils applied for entrance. Only forty of this number could be accommodated. They were scattered about in the different rooms. The remaining number had to be turned away. This crowded condition seriously handicaps the superintendent and the board of education in their work, but there is every likelihood that a new building will be erected before the fall term of school is begun. Petitions have been circulated within the past week or so asking the Board of Education to call a special election for the purpose of giving the people an opportunity to say whether they will construct a district school in the territory north of East Jackson street and northeast of the Chicago & Northwestern tracks.
C. W. Hart is the superintendent of the city schools and to his tireless work, his energy and progressive spirit is due, largely, the success of the schools. He has introduced many modern innovations in school work since he took charge of the schools, and has placed the work on a very high plane. He has gathered around him a very capable corps of teachers.
O. G. MEADE.[photo] W. T. CHARLES.[photo]
MEAD & CHARLES. "Goods well bought are half sold."
Emblazoned like the trade mark of truth on an imperishable coat of arms, this motto tells in simple language the secret of the success which has attended the operations of the grocery firm of Mead & Charles.
For six years the firm of Mead & Charles has proclaimed this motto. The labels on the goods carried by the house tell the story to an audience of customers representing the most appreciative public of Woodstock. On such world famous brands as the Monarch of Reid, Murdoch & Co. and the Heinz varieties the" reputation of the house has been built. The Mead & Charles grocery and china store has a superb location in the Sherman block, a stock of goods concentrated in convenient form, a prompt delivery service, an original and trade winning system of billing goods, an unrivaled exclusive line of plain and fancy bakery goods, a specially well organized vegetable department—all insuring a volume of business which entails fresh importations each day. Put in plain figures, the record of the house shows an increase of 41 per cent in volume of business over last year, and a like percentage over the year before. The machinery of the house consists of a force of five men and two delivery wagons. The personality of the men at the head, Mr. 0. G. Mead and Mr. W. T. Charles, is alive with ideas of building up business by the most liberal methods. Mr. Mead has been all his life in the commercial line. Mr. Charles was formerly in the railroad business. Both are natives of MeHenry county. They believe thoroughly in the need of constant study in order to solve commercial problems as they arise. They are the kind of men Woodstock wants as permanent leaders of trade.
H. B. MEDLAR Medlar's studio is probably the oldest in the State of Illinois. It is certainly the oldest and the most famous in this section, being founded by H. B. Medlar's father, John S. Medlar, half a century ago. H. B. Medlar, who must inherit his father's ability, is one of the best photographers in the country and recognized as such by this fraternity and the public. His gallery work is the equal of the best Chicago portraiture, the posing, retouching and general ensemble of his pictures being most artistic and magnetic. Mr. Medlar was born and raised in Woodstock, and one would think (to look at his work) that he had been a photographer all his life. But he has only been at the business six years. Mr. Medlar is a man of fine physique and an accomplished all round artist. He is one of the most popular men in Woodstock. The many fine portraits that appear in this edition are largely his work.
H. B. MEDLAR.[PHOTO]
ATTORNEY V. S. LUMLEY'S RESIDENCE.[photo]
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JOHN NORDLAND.[photo]
John Nordland purchased the Woodstock Steam Laundry December 21, 1903. He came to Woodstock from Racine, Wis., and is one the best and most practical laundrymen in this section of the state. His plant is well equipped with modern machinery and Mr. Nordland contemplates putting in more machines at an early date. The Woodstock Steam Laundry gives employment to 10 persons, and is one of the busy plants of Woodstock. Since Mr. Nordland came here he has built up a good business and has demonstrated that he can satisfy the most fastidious. Mr. Nordland was born in Sweden and came to America in 1885. If any one in Woodstock deserves success it is Mr. Nordland, and that he will continue in business here is the wish of his many friends and customers.
F. J. SCHEOEDER.[PHOTO]
More than one quarter of a century's experience in business, the first period being passed in Germany, is the foundation of the success of Woodstock's leading merchant tailor, who has just now reached his twenty-first year of active life, F. J. Sehroeder. Coming to the United States in 1882 from Schwerin, Mr. Sehroeder settled in Woodstock one year later, having had seven years of thorough training in the tailoring business. It only took seven years of earnest work in Woodstock to so establish Mr. Sehroeder in the confidence of our citizens as to enable him to start in business for himself, which he did in 1890. From this point he climbed upward, not only building up a business but building up a reputation all over McHenry county. Today sees him the proprietor of a handsome building—known as the Schroeder block, the headquarters of the leading tailoring concern in the city. Mr. Sehroeder sets the styles in Woodstock and the best dressed merchants, professional men and citizens are his patrons. Keeping from three to four men employed all the year round, Mr. Sehroeder nevertheless does all his own cutting, and is now, as he always has been, an enthusiastic worker at the bench. He believes in doing all the work at home and sends none of it away. He is always ready to help and foster any movement of a progressive nature and thus he has the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. His popularity rests on the surest of all foundations, honorable business principles, a liberal policy and loyalty to his home town.
M. N. WIEN. [PHOTO]
Ten years of constant study of the wants of his patrons, of honorable business dealings, and close attention to the markets—this is the record of M. N. Wien, the clothing, dry goods and shoe merchant. A description of Mr. Wien's Store shows an interior arranged with an eye to the artistic. Every foot of space is utilized to the best advantage, yet in such a manner that the large stock, representing in round figures some $15,000, does not overcrowd the premises, but shows off to splendid advantage all the fickle fads and fancies of the dry goods, the lingerie and the draperies, the furnishings and the trappings, representing the looms and factories of the world. The main floor is in fact a picture of modern storekeeping, while the basement carries the surplus. Economy of arrangement is one of the features of Mr. Wien's ability and shows him to be a graduate in the school of dry goods and clothing. His patrons are impressed with the fact that he is always on the "qui vive" for their interests and that they reap the benefit of the proprietor's ability to buy at close figures. Mr. Wien came to the United States at the age of 18. The capital he brought with him consisted in a large stock of energy and determination to win. He spent four years in Syracuse, N. Y., coming from there to Chicago, then to Burlington, Wis., and finally to Woodstock. In all he has had twelve years' experience in his line. Mr. Wien affiliates with the Oddfellows, and though modest in regard to his own accomplishments he is considered by his many patrons and customers as well as by his fellow merchants as a good man for Woodstock. Practical in the best sense of the word he is a type of the liberal self-made merchant.
C. L. REICHMUTH.
Those whom society delights to honor are the men who in making their own way in the world have lent a helping hand to those around them, and who refuse to bow down before the wooden juggernaut of the almighty dollar. This seems to us to be the working and business principle of C. L. Reichmuth, dealer in furniture and undertaking. Mr. Reiehmuth came to Woodstock five years ago last November from the garden of America, the state of Wisconsin. By taking hold of the business oar by the smooth handle he has been able to steer his commercial bark into prosperous waters and by skilful management has avoided the shoals on which many a man makes business shipwreck. Mr. Beichmuth carries an up-to-date and valuable stock of furniture, and was among the first of the licensed embalmers of the state. He studied embalming for a number of years, graduating in 1898 from the Champion College of Embalming.
Mr. Reichmuth had a very narrow escape in early youth from becoming a baker, as his father, grandfather and great grandfather followed that trade, our subject being the first in four generations to follow another calling. He was born in Belvidere, Ill., but spent his life in Ripon, Wis. Mr. Reichmuth has that valuable business quality, the gift of an even temperament. His civic ideals are on a high level. He affiliates with the Masons, and is a member of St. Mark's Lodge, No. 63, as well as the Maccabees, the National Union, and the Modern Union of America.
V. E. JONES.
To picture the business activity of a city properly it is but right to choose the leading representative firms in each line. In sending forth broadcast this industrial review of Woodstock the Sentinel may well point to the business of V. E. Jones as illustrating a higher type than can be usually found of the horseman. It is as a lover of horses that Mr. Jones is known. His livery stable, built by himself in a splendidly elevated location, is a natural home for horses. It is two stories and measures 32x100 feet in dimensions, is well ventilated and has all modern conveniences. Here eleven head of horses are kept, both boarders and livery stock. Mr. Jones has the oldest livery business in Woodstock and has a fine record of thirty-one years of active business life here. He was born twenty miles east of Buffalo, and came here fifty-one years ago. Though 57 years of age he carries his years like a man of 45, and is still as always, an enthusiastic whip. Mr. Jones has a reputation far and wide for his kindness and care of horses, and he has built up his business on this solid foundation. For twelve years he served as a public officer in the capacity of constable for the township of Dorr. His home is situated adjacent to his stables, where he enjoys life to the full, having in his eyes and features the health and vitality that are the heritage of a vigorous out-door life.
TODD SEMINARY FOE BOYS.
"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." This was the motto I read in the tree fringed sky line above the romantic looking buildings of the Todd Seminary for Boys, as I turned to look at the place once more, after an inspection of it one cold February day.
Here in the most picturesque nook of McHenry county, far removed from the madding crowd, quarter of a mile from the town of Woodstock, Illinois, remote from noise and smoke, is a manufacturing plant for the production of chivalry. The principal of the Todd Seminary, Mr. Noble Hill, is the Sir Galahad, who furnishes the motive power. The boys themselves constitute the material and the product, the labor and the capital of the institution. This is not a collective aggregation of boys, but a careful selection of fifty individual youngsters—boys ranging from the ages of five and six to fourteen. The Todd standard or plan of educating boys is over half a century old. The seminary was founded by Dr. Todd fifty-six years ago. When Mr. Hill took charge he perfected the plan, and nowadays the Todd Standard is recognized as the "ultima thule" of education.
In the first place Mr. Hill selects his pupils by a process of elimination. Out of hundreds of applications he accepts only the best material. The adoption of a limit of 50 boys makes of the Seminary (what it is intended it should be) a united family, comprising teachers and pupils. There is a common esprit da corps, a common goal. The teachers and boys are fellow-workers toward that goal. Here home character is readily formed, because home ideals prevail throughout, studies and reading become a delight, because there is nothing stereotyped, and the rules and regulations governing work and play are rational. The Todd Seminary has six acres of beautiful ground, a baseball field, twenty acres of woodland, gymnasium, tennis lawns and other external aids to education. It has a staff of teachers who are young, vigorous, and athletic, fine examples of the manly life. In this ideal school no influence is neglected that contributes to the making of a perfect home as well. The presiding genius
TODD SEMINARY [PHOTO]
RESIDENCE OF NOBLE HILL [PHOTO]
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of the home, is Mrs. Hill, the wife of the principal, who is supported by a corps of efficient helpers in her department. This gracious little lady looks after the health and comfort of every member of her numerous family, giving to each all the mothering that is good for him and receiving in return a universal tribute of love and respect. But one must go there to find out what is the secret of the school's success. It is impossible to describe it. One thing is certain, one leaves the Seminary in a totally different state of being from that in which one enters it. A single visit is enough to recall the best in a man's past life, and his purest ideals. Face to face with Mr. Hill one must recognize in him a tremendous power for good, a magnetism like that of the late Professor Drummond, a magnetism which was able to draw out the very best that was in his companions. And Mr. Hill makes companions of all his pupils. Perchance there lies the secret of his success. He has certainly lifted the idea of
education out of its traditional mercenary rut and placed the "school" on a level with the highest ideals of "home" life. Alfred Gordon.
SOCIAL LIFE.
There is, probably, no city twice the size of Woodstock that has as many social and literary clubs as has this city. All have large memberships and are active in the work allotted each individual organization.
WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. Home of The Oliver Typewriter and of The Todd Seminary For Boys.
(Continued From Page 1.) pounds of-butter are produced annually than is produced in any county in the State of Ilinois; or, putting the statement in another way, there is three times as much butter produced here as in any other county and seven times as much as in any county in central or southern Illinois. There are more creameries in McHenry County than in any other county and no other county receives a higjier average price for dairy products. The county has 30,000 cows, from which 2,000,000 pounds of butter and over 200,000,000 pounds of milk are sold annually, bringing in to the farmers a revenue of between three and one-half and four million dollars annually from these two products alone. This comes to the farmer in monthly installments, so that he has ready money to use every month in the year. Notwithstanding the enormity of the above figures in comparison with other dairy sections, a careful study of an abstract of the assessors' returns show conclusively that not only 2,000,000 pounds, but over 4,000,000 pounds of butter are produced in McHenry County each year, which places the county far in advance of all other counties in the State in value and importance of dairy products. The live stock interests of the county are also of great importance and stand close to the dairy interests. The poultry and egg business is another industry that adds much to the wealth of the county. In the crops raised grain of all kinds are products, it being a natural hay and grain country. Corn is the staple crop, 100,000 acres being devoted to this crop alone. Oats is second in importance and some wheat is raised. It can be readily seen that Woodstock is situated in a rich section. Its advantages are manifest and with the spirit of the people as index to character there is no more ideal place in the land to reside. Situated on the highest point in the state, the climate is delightful in the heated summer months, there being no occasion to go to the mountains" or to a summer resort. As a fact summer resorts abound in large numbers at her very doors, the city being situated in a nest of lakes on whose banks are dotted handsome cottages and hotels. Woodstock might be properly called the Forest City, inasmuch as its streets are shaded with trees whose branches reach out and meet on either side and form, a perfect bower. One of the prides of the city is its schools. There are no better public schools in the state than here. Todd's Seminary, a select school for boys, is also located here. The churches, too, are all excellent buildings and reflect the public spirit of the people. In the residences there is doubtless no town twice or three times its size in the state that can boast of as many fine domiciles. There are not just two or three or even a score of fine residences, but there are hundreds of them. The residences of the city are always the subject for much commendation by strangers.
J. H. FORMAN.
The heroes of the twentieth century are the self-made men of the country. There is no phrase in all literature so inspiring and full of encouragement to the younger generation as the expression "a self-made man." With his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder, but with his eye ever on the top, and an iron will to succeed—this is a pen picture of the career of J. H. For-man of Woodstock.
Mr. Forman's business is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the most important in the city. He has the exclusive sale of the newspaper service and by prompt, efficient methods he has built the business up from very little to an enterprise of large scope. Mr. Forman's store is also the headquarters for the handling of railroad tickets. A specialty is also made of fine cigars, tobaccos and confectionery. The success of the business has come from the active, earnest application of brains and hands. Mr. Forman started the business over seven years ago and today he owns his building, besides other real estate in Woodstock. A year ago he erected a handsome residence, one of the substantial homes for which Woodstock is famous. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Knights of the Globe. He has earned a well deserved popularity among all classes. In his business, Mr. Forman is assisted by his son, G. T. Forman, who, by the way, is treasurer of the National Union.
THOMAS JACOBS.[photo]
Tobacco is one of God's gifts to man, and, when rightly used and manufactured into high grade stock, carries in
its train none of those evil effects that pessimists talk of. Poets, authors, philosophers and preachers of every age and every nation have sung the praises of the fragrant weed, and among the worshippers at the shrine of Lady Nicotine have been such men as Goethe, Carlyle and Henry Ward Beecher. In these times every up-to-date city has its representative tobacco manufacturer, and for the last five and one-half years Woodstock has had the advantage of the active presence of a cigar man with an experience of thirty years in the business. We refer to Thomas Jacobs, whose famous motto "smoke in this world, not in the next," is worthy of a place alike in halls of learning and marts of commerce. Thomas Jacobs has the distinction of being the only representative of his line in Woodstock. Take the Woodstock man, be he merchant, professional man or mechanic, and put him next to a Dilpoma, a Typewriter, a Turnpike, a Light Draft, or a Lucky Leaf, and his enjoyment is complete. These are Mr. Jacobs' special brands and they are also Woodstock's favorites.
It was a good day for Woodstock when Mr. Jacobs located here. He was born in Toronto, Canada. His long residence in Woodstock has given him a wide acquaintance, and he has been able to build up a valuable wholesale and retail trade. Mr. Jacobs affiliates with the Oddfellows, the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen, the National Union and the Rebeccas. His business is one that promotes sociability and good feeling among men, and he is himself genial, public spirited and a general favorite with his many patrons and customers.
MALTE SCHWABE. [photo]
Among the self-made business men of Woodstock, whose genius for hard work has brought him success and prosperity is the proprietor of the only exclusive jewelry store in the city, Malte Schwabe. When Malte Schwabe came to Woodstock seven years ago he had practically no capital. Today he is owner and proprietor of a substantial brick building 50x18 feet in dimensions and a stock of jewelry valued at several thousand dollars. He has built up one of the best jewelry trades in this part of Illinois, and has as his customers the leading business men of Woodstock. To find the reason of Mr. Schwabe's success and ability to gain business one must go back across the waters to the city of Stralsund, Germany, and reckon with the years of apprenticeship Mr. Schwabe spent fitting himself as a master jeweler. He could have no higher diploma than this four years' apprenticeship.
Mr. Schwabe has been an American citizen for eight years, he having worked one year in Chicago before coming to Woodstock. He is an honored member of the Royal Arcanum and the National Union and deservedly popular with all classes.
CHURCHES.
One of the first things that attracts the attention of the stranger in the city is the number of churches in Woodstock. Nearly every denomination is represented, and with but one or two exceptions every church is blessed with a large congregation and membership. Woodstock is a church-going town, which speaks well for the morality of the place.
J. H. FORMAN.
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WOODSTOCK DEY GOODS CO.
During the past few months the people of Woodstock have been treated to a delightful glimpse of modern store-keeping methods by the transformation that has taken place in the arrangements of the Woodstock Dry Goods Company, due to the advent of W. F. Weaver. The change, which is of course now familiar to everyone in Woodstock, was made in order to bring the store up to the standard required by a growing city. The Woodstock Dry Goods Company is one of a syndicate of stores owned by the Potter and McAllister syndicate, owners of 13 establishments in Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Unlike most combinations, which in these days are formed for the purpose of forcing higher values, this combination's chief asset consists in its ability to lower prices, and as it does a business of more than a quarter of a million annually, it is able to underbuy any single store in the country. This great chain or series of stores is under the supervision of 13 managing partners, who visit the markets every Monday and hold a conference that day in Chicago. They are naturally in close touch with the various heads of the wholesale houses, and have for example the largest retail account with Marshall Field & Co. of any concern in the west. In this way they are the first to get the newest importations. Mr. Weaver, who is one of the managing partners, has been with the syndicate many years, managing and developing some of their best stores. His up-to-date methods can be seen by the handsome interior display of the Woodstock Dry Goods Co. and the price tickets which appear on all goods offered for sale. The Sentinel has nothing but good wishes for this progressive concern. W. P. WEAVER.[photo]
THE OLIVER SHAVING PARLORS.
The Oliver Shaving Parlors of Woodstock opened for business on the 19th day of August, 1903, in the new Swamb Block on Benton street, and opened the eyes of every man in Woodstock to the fact that here was indeed a metropolitan barber shop the equal of any shop in Chicago and superior to anything in northern Illinois. The accompanying picture shows the handsome interior of the parlors with its fixtures of golden oak, its massive hydraulic leather chairs, three in number, its attractive and novel revolving cup case, its modern bathrooms, and its polished mirrors—all denoting a tonsorial establishment arranged regardless of expense.
The proprietor of this palatial barber shop is W. C. Black, one of the popular business men of our city. He has had fifteen years' experience in his business and has worked in Woodstock for six years. He was born in Bates county, Missouri, and wis raised in Pike county, Illinois.
Mr. Black has the reputation of paying the highest wages to his employes of any shop in the State. This fact, together with his popularity with the great army of men employed by the Oliver Typewriter Co. and also with the merchants of Woodstock, has built for him a valuable business, and one which sets the standard for cities five times the size of Woodstock. INTERIOR OF OLIVER SHAVING PARLORS.[photo]
HOY'S PHARMACY.
Hoy's Pharmacy is a "household word" in Woodstock, and has been for more than 30 years. F. A. Daniels has been the popular manager for a number of years, the proprietor, as is well known, being Mr. Luman T. Hoy, the president of the Woodstock Sentinel Company, and recently appointed by President Roosevelt as Appraiser for the Port of Chicago.
Hoy's Pharmacy is undoubtedly the leading drug store in Woodstock, and a familiar rendezvous and headquarters. The beautiful interior view here presented is the photographic work of M. G. Tripp.
INTERIOR OP EMIL ARNOLD'S OFFICE. [photo]
EMIL ARNOLD.
Emil Arnold was born in Cook county, Illinois, May 18, 1856, and moved to Woodstock, Ill., in 1861. He was a student at Todd's Saminary while a boy, and also attended the public school of this city. After completing a business course at college he entered the employ of Mr. E. E. Richards in the abstract office, in which firm he became a partner. His early training in this business made him familiar with the records of this county, and he is at the present time considered one of the best and most reliable business men in this part of the State. Mr. Arnold is progressive, reliable and thorough in his business affairs and has the confidence of those who trust their business to his judgment and ability. He is now serving his third term as President of the Board of Education of his city and was a member of the City Council for twelve years. He is considered an expert on special assessments for municipal improvements, having spread special assessments for water works in many of the cities in the adjoining counties. He is a member of almost all of the clubs and societies of the city and always interested in the welfare and prosperity of his home city, which he has done so much to improve. Mr. Arnold has one of the finest offices in the city and is doing a very prosperous business.
E. B. LOSEE.[photo]
One of the most recent recruits to enter the commercial ranks of Woodstock and to take his place at the head of a most important division of the business of our city is E. B. Losee. E. B. Losee, the successor to the important business of F. W. Street has long since won his epaulets as a captain of commerce, and the new responsibility he acquires in shouldering the management of the South Side Clothing & Furnishing Store will be no burden to him but will rest gracefully upon him. Mr. Losee has been left with high legacy, a great trust to maintain, the carrying out of those principles of sound business honor inaugurated by Mr. Street and followed by Mr. Losee himself during nine years. There is something fascinating about the atmosphere of Mr. Losee's store—whether it is the one price principle, or the fact that all prices are plainly marked, or the brisk, genial manner of the proprietor, sooth to say the store attracts custom and patronage from far and near. Mr. Losee belongs both by birthright and training to the strenuous body guard of young men who have, the making of modern present-day Woodstock in their hands. For he was born and raised in Woodstock, educated in Woodstock and has the Woodstock push and energy.
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INTERIOR OF A. D. OSBORN'S HARDWARE STORE.[photo]
A. DWIGHT OSBORN. The leading hardware store and most picturesquely arranged is that of A. Dwight Osborn. It consists of two floors and a basement, a total floor space of 4,400 square feet. This is the headquarters for all kinds of shelf and heavy hardware, the upper floor being devoted to chinaware and toys, which at Christmas time is the most popular bazaar in town. In the rear of the upper floor is a large tin shop and a plumbing shop is in the basement. These last two departments constitute the Woodstock Heating and Plumbing Company, of which Mr. Osborn is the head. The Woodstock Heating and Plumbing Company has been in operation for three years and employs some twelve mechanics. Mr. Osborn has the largest business of any house in Woodstock, and has been actively engaged in the hardware line for six years. His first business was that of a grocer, and for some time he was proprietor of the best and most exclusive grocery in Oak Park, at the corner of Oak Park avenue and South boulevard. Woodstock, however, is his old home. Mr. Osborn has always worked hard for his city and served in a public capacity with credit to himself and his town.
SCHUETT & SCHAAF. Schuett & Schaaf, dealers in agricultural implements, buggies, road wagons, etc., began business as a firm in November, 1902. Both members of the firm are live, progressive business men. They have built up a very substantial business all over the county. In addition to the articles already enumerated they carry a fine line of surreys and sell a number of automobiles each year.
The firm consists of P. G. Schuett and C. H. Schaaf. Mr. Schuett was affiliated with F. W. Buell in the feed business for eleven years, and has made his home in Woodstock since 1873. In March, 1899, he was elected alderman of the North ward, to fill a vacancy till 1900. Since then he was re-elected twice without any opposition, an evidence both of his popularity and ability. In the City Council he is chairman of the Finance Committee and a careful conserver of the city's rights. Mr. Schuett is president of the German Lutheran Church organization. Mr. Schaaf was born and brought up on a farm, and his large acquaintance with McHenry County farmers is a valuable asset to the firm.
F. G. SCHUETT. [photo]
M. G. TRIPP. M. G. Tripp, one of Woodstock's photographers, and to whose skill, many of the interior views in this edition must be credited, is one of the successful men of Woodstock. Mr. Tripp has given many years to the study of photography, and he has succeeded in building up a large business, having patrons all over McHenry county. Personally Mr. Tripp is obliging and courteous and has the knack of making and keeping friends.
A. S. WRIGHT. A. S. Wright is one of the pioneer druggists of McHenry county, and has been in the drug business here for thirty-eight years. His store is the largest in Woodstock and a popular head quarters with the public and the medical fraternity. Mr. Wright was born in New York state, and enlisted in the Twenty-second New York Cavalry at 15 years of age. He was penitentiary commissioner under Governor Fifer and on the board of trustees at the Elgin Insane Asylum under Governor Tanner. He is now a member of the State Board of Charities. Mr. Wright is a member of the council of administration of the G. A. R. of the department of Illinois. He was secretary of the McHenry County Fair Association for twelve years, and as such did a splendid service to his home county and city.
For a number of years Mr. Wright has been a trustee of the Congregational church. In every respect he is a man of solid integrity and firm purpose and one of Woodstock's best business men.
INTERIOR OF A. S. WRIGHT'S DRUG STORE. [photo]
G. W. CONN, JR. George W. Conn, Jr., County Superintendent of Schools, was born in Richmond, Illinois, May 31, 1870. His family moved to Hebron in 1872. After graduating from the high school in 1885 Mr. Conn taught in the district schools for two years, meanwhile taking a course in the Chicago Business College. He also attended a summer session of the Bushnell Normal School. He was principal of the Cary public schools for two years (1890-91), of the Hebron public schools for three years (1892-95), and then attended the University of Chicago for one year.
In conjunction with his father and F. N. Torrance, Mr. Conn established the Bank of Hebron, and was cashier of the same for three years. He was elected county superintendent of schools, McHenry county, in 1902, prior to which he had served as principal of the Richmond schools for two years.
C. F. THORNE & SON. C. F. Thorne & Son represent one of the time-honored business firms of Woodstock. It is the leading firm for fashionable clothing, gents' furnishings, hats and men's and ladies' fine shoes. C. F. Thorne purchased the business twenty years ago from E. C. Jewett. Mr. Thorne made his son, W. S., a partner on the 1st of March this year. C. F. Thorne was born in Vermont and came west twenty years ago. His son, W. S. Thorne, is also a product of the East, but grew up to manhood in Woodstock, coming here with his parents at the age of three. He is a member of the Masonic order, Mr. Thorne, senior, affiliating with the Odd Fellows. C. F. Thorne & Son occupy one of the finest locations in Woodstock, next door to the post office. They have the exclusive sale of the goods of Hart, Schaffner & Marx. They also take orders for merchant tailoring and are in every respect worthy of the large amount of confidence reposed in them.
PUBLIC SPIRIT RULES.
Woodstock is, pre-eminently, a city of culture and refinement. Its people are broad-minded, are liberal in their views, and, while polities play a prominent part in all state and national elections, there is no factionalism In municipal affairs and the city administration is invariably composed of men of both of the great political faiths, regardless of party, the main requirement being that a man must be selected for his eminent fitness for the place rather than. because he is a representative of any one party or faction. Public spirit dominates every channel of life in Woodstock. When it comes to a question of promoting the city's best interests all factions, can be seen harmoniously working together.
INTERIOR OF C. F. THORNE & SON'S STORE. [photo]
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WOODSTOCK SENTINEL SUPPLEMENT.
W. A. VOLTZ.[photo]
THE MODEL BARGAIN STORE. Rome was not built in a day, nor are such institutions as the Model Bargain Store the creation of an hour. They are the result of years of careful study. The people of Woodstock are indebted to Mr. W. A. Voltz, proprietor of the Model Bargain Store, for inaugurating a new era in the shopping methods of Woodstock—the cash system of selling. The Model Bargain Store is the only store of its kind in Woodstock.
A department store in the best sense, it is filled with a valuable stock of goods worth $8,000, representing dry goods, carpets, hardware, crockery, clothing, house furnishings and furniture of all kinds, and so displayed and arranged that everything is seen at a glance and shopping becomes a pleasure. Mr. Voltz has won success in Woodstock in one year's time. He is a Chicago business man and broad in his ideas; was born near Chicago, and for five years had a hardware and implement business in Nunda. Seeing an opening in Woodstock, he seized the opportunity.
It should be stated that the Model Bargain Store is the only store in town having a frontage on the two main streets of Woodstock. Mr. Voltz is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is popular with his many patrons.
M. SHERMAN & SONS. That life best lends itself to scrutiny and judgment which is lived not for self, but for humanity, which has regarded the benefit of the human race rather than the exploiting of the individual, and which has not ambition but aspiration for its motive. Such a life is that of M. Sherman, head and founder of the house of M. Sherman & Sons. Mr. Sherman was born in New York, came to Woodstock 52 years ago, founded his present business in 1866 and from small beginnings by thrift and good management erected in 1893 the most substantial business block in the city on the most valuable corner of the city's retail center. Mr. Sherman is the dean of the business men of Woodstock, and the business he presides over is a credit to the city, being the leading jewelry house, with a stock valued at $15,000, comprising diamonds, watches, clocks, jewelry, fine imported china ware, all kinds of musical instruments, cameras and the various articles usually found in metropolitan houses. In the early seventies Mr. Sherman invented the cable and exhibited at that time in his windows the device which years afterward was patented by another. Inventing and the collection of curios has been a lifelong hobby of Mr. Sherman's, and one corner of his store is a veritable Old Curiosity Shop, full of valuable curiosities from all parts of the world. In 1903 Mr. Sherman took into partnership his two sons, L. P. and C. V., young men of fine intellectual attainments, the former a graduate of the Johnston Optical Institute and the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology and the latter a graduate of the Elgin College of Horology, Engraving and Optics. This event marks a new era in the history of the house. Mr. Sherman, senior, though often urged to be a candidate for public office, has always successfully resisted all efforts of his friends in that direction, pursuing the even tenor of his way, making lasting and life-long friends in business and in social life. He has never made money making his goal, but has been rather a seeker after truth, and taken his pleasure in digging out the secrets of science and nature. Yet he has made a competence, owning the entire Sherman block, the finest in Woodstock, and building up a notable business known throughout the length and breadth of the county.
C. V. SHERMAN [photo] M. SHERMAN [photo] L. F. SHERMAN [photo].
S. W. PERKINS.[photo]. S. W. Perkins, proprietor of the Woodstock Tailoring Company, established his business here last March. He has made arrangements to occupy handsome quarters on the south side of the square in the Opera House block, measuring 60x18 feet, and with a handsome plate glass front. Mr. Perkins was born and raised in the tailoring business, his father and grandfather being tailors before him. He therefore inherits his ability for making clothes. Mr. Perkins has built up a valuable business here, many of our leading citizens being his patrons. He hails originally from London, England, but came to Woodstock from Chicago. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum of Woodstock, and has made a pronounced success in business and won popularity and favor.
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Woodstock Sentinel, “Special Souvenir Supplement of the Woodstock Sentinel April 21, 1904,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed May 18, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/12.
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