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PRAIRIE FARMER'S RELIABLE DIRECTORY of ---- FARMERS and BREEDERS Mc HENRY and BOONE COUNTIES
SINCE ! 1841
Published By PRAIRIE FARMER-Chicago Illinois Oldest and Best Farm Paper
M. L.
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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
A new store in Rockford
N TOT NEW IN YEARS, but new in spirit; not trying to see how much we can get, but how much value we can give; carrying out the spirit of real service ; giving satisfaction in goods and prices.
Order by mail or telephone
A SPECIAL MAIL SALES SERVICE attends to such orders ; you can order by mail or tele- phone as easily as in person. Quick deliveries by parcel post ; and if the goods are not what you want when they come, send them back at our expense.
We have nearly everything a complete dry goods store sells and some things many of them don't have. If you order what we haven't got in stock, we'll get it for you.
W E HAVE A SERVICE BUREAU on the first floor ; you may check bags or parcels there ; get information about trains, cars or any other matters you wish to bring to us. We can look after buying railroad or theater tickets, make tele- phone calls for you ; in short, a bureau for being of service to you in any way you ask. A comfortable rest room has been installed where you may sit and read or rest or wait for friends. Consider yourself our guest, whether you buy any- thing or not; make Ashton's a meeting place; the store is conveniently located for such appointments. Bring the chil- dren, they are not in the way. We have a play space for them where they'll be happy while you are shopping.
Ashton Dry Goods Co. State and Main Streets
TELEPHONES Bell 170 Home 170 ROCKFORD, ILL.
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United State Bank of Crystal Lake CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS Capital Stock, $75,000.00
Align yourself with this bank of strength and character. We help our customers
OFFICERS DIRECTORS
FREMONT HOY. . President
Fremont Hoy, F. H. Schroeder, J. P.
CLARENCE F. HOY, V-Pres.
Kroeger, L. C. Stephens, Paul Rosen- thal, C. F. Hoy, W. H. Wilbur, F. B.
W. H. WILBUR . . Vice-Pres. Bennett, John Pearson, W. A. Good- win, Lynn Richards
LYNN RICHARDS ... Cashier
The Bank with the Big Clock
THE WOODSTOCK GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS
POND
Manufacturers and Dealers in all Kinds of Marble and Granite Monuments
We have every facility for producing the highest class work at the minimum price. In ordering from us you have twenty-eight years' experience as your reference for our in- tegrity and responsibility.
Our work is guaranteed as represented. Get our price before placing your order.
A. J. Zoia & Son Proprietors
Throop Street, North of Court House Phone 254-W WOODSTOCK, ILL.
Dr. T. G. HOYGARD-Chiropractor NERVE AND SPINE SPECIALIST Office: 406 Stewart Bldg., So. Main St., Rockford, III. Phone Main 2661
OFFER: 10% Discount 100% Service
Every ailing man, woman and child in Boone and McHenry Counties who wishes to enjoy better health, come and see me-you can't afford to let this offer pass you by. A call to duty. Your health is in danger.
If you wish to feel better, I will give you, free of charge, further information and a scientific examination, locating the cause of your trouble and 10 per cent discount for my service in adjusting the cause of your trouble. Think of it! No need being sick-no cause for delay. Your opportunity is now to get strong and healthy-Nature's way-removing . the cause, replacing every structure by the wonderful P. S. C. Chiropractic adjustments. Remember it will cost you nothing to find out. No matter what your trouble, phone, write or call for information. You owe it to yourself, your family and friends to give me a trial. Consult me now.
FARMERS AND BREEDERS, BOONE AND MCHENRY COUNTIES
Introduction
IN this directory we have endeavored to give McHenry and Boone county farmers a complete and reliable di- rectory of the farmers, breeders and merchants of the county, with such other information as will make the directory a valuable reference book.
The task of calling on every farmer in a county and collecting the information for such a directory is a tre- mendous one. We have received splendid co-operation from the farmers and business men of the county, without which the publication of such a directory would be impos- sible. In a very few cases we have found farmers unwilling to give the information requested, which accounts for a few names that do not appear.
A few mistakes are bound to occur in a directory that involves so large an amount of work, but we have spared no effort or expense to make the information complete and accurate, and we believe that the mistakes are very few.
We want to speak a word of appreciation for the ad- vertisers whose liberal support has helped materially to bear the heavy expense of publishing this directory, and ask that you favor them with your patronage whenever possible.
We hope and believe that the publication of this directory will be a real service to McHenry and Boone county farmers and in line with PRAIRIE FARMER's. policy of service to the farmers of Illinois. We hope that the increased circulation of PRAIRIE FARMER in McHenry and Boone counties which has resulted with help in the move- ment for better farming, better farm living, and more prosperity for the counties, and that our many new friends will become permanent members of the big PRAIRIE FARMER family.
BURRIDGE D. BUTLER, Publisher, Prairie Farmer.
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Physicians' and Surgeons' Professional Directory
N. L. SEELYE, M. D. Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Fitted Sunday and Monday by appointment only HARVARD, ILL. Office in Cottage Hospital
WOODSTOCK, ILL.
Office in Woodstock Hotel
Building
Hours-10 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Phones: Office 83; Res. 284
Hours:
2:00 to 9:30 P.M.
Phone 21
CHAS. C. PECK, M.D. Coroner McHenry County Hours: 1 to 3 P. M .; 7 to 8 P. M. Office in Harvard Bank Bldg. Phones: Office 80; Res. 80 Full X-Ray Equipment HARVARD ILLINOIS
C. F. BACCUS, M.D. Physician and Surgeon X-Ray and Electrical Treat- ment a Specialty Telephones: Office 50; Res. 60 Office in McHenry County State Bank Bldg. WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS
DR. A. B. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Hours: 11 to 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8 Sundays: 9 to 10 and by appointment Telephones: Office 21; Res. 71 Office in Woodstock Hotel Building WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS
Doctors
Windmueller & Treat
DR. WINDMUELLER
Hours :
2 to 4 P. M .; 7 to 9 P. M.
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DR. TREAT
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
WOODSTOCK
ILLINOIS
DR. E. P. WRIGHT Osteopathic Physician
Graduate of Kirksville School of Osteopathy 405 S. State St.
BELVIDERE ILLINOIS
HYDE WEST, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Office: State Bank Bldg. Hours: 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. Telephone 44 WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS
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Directory of the Legal Profession
ERNEST C. GRIDLEY
Lawyer
Telephone 117 406 South State Street
BELVIDERE ILLINOIS
David R. Joslyn David-R. Joslyn, Jr.
Lawyers Telephone 35
WOODSTOCK
ILLINOIS
Hendricks & Marshall
Lawyers
Calvin J. Hendricks Robert F. Marshall
Office, Harvard Bank Block
HARVARD ILLINOIS
Use Your Directory
every day in the year. The professional men and merchants listed here are boosting your interests
Give Them a Trial
Dentists Professional Directory
DR. F. H. SHANNON Dentist
Verer let your tooth ache. If you don't know why, ask your dentist.
Suite 212 Community Building Over First National Bank Office Phone 41 Home Phone 884
MARENGO ILLINOIS
Dr. Geo. A. Seegmiller
Dentist
Office Hours 8:30 A. M. to 5 P. M. Evenings by Appointment Phone 65
WOODSTOCK
ILLINOIS
Veterinarians Professional Directory
FRANK E. ALLEN
Assistant State Veterinarian
Dealer in Fancy Saddle Horses Phones: Office 128, Res. 430 Office, Corner Buchanan and Whitney Streets
BELVIDERE ILLINOIS
H. D. Chamberlain Veterinary Surgeon
Office Telephone Main 461 Residence Telephone 428 Office, Alley Stables BELVIDERE ILLINOIS
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FARM LOANS
If you want to borrow money on your farm, write or see
Shepherd & Huntley
Spurling Building ELGIN, ILL.
FRANK W. SHEPHERD THOMAS S. HUNTLEY
Meadow Lawn Holstens, C. W. Harrison & Sons, McHenry County, Ill.
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Prairie Farmers' Directory of McHenry and Boone Counties
Complete Directory of the Farmers of McHenry and Boone Counties, with valuable information about each farm.
Breeders' Directory, giving full classified list of ยท breeders of purebred livestock and poultry.
Business Directory, giving list of all business houses in McHenry and Boone Counties. 5
Valuable statistics and general information,
Copyright, 1917 By PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Compiled and Published by Prairie Farmer Publishing Co. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
PRAIRIE FARMER'S RELIABLE DIRECTORY
The Story of the Great Milk Strike.
(From Prairie Farmer, April 22, 1916)
Farmers over the Chicago dairy dis- trict are enjoying the happiest Easter season they have ever known. They will take up spring work with renewed hopes and with real joy in their hearts, for they have won the milk price fight. Ap- plied to Chicago's daily milk supply the 22 cents a hundred increase means that the 12.000 dairymen in the district will each day get over $8,000 more for their milk than at the price offered by the distributors-an average of 66 cents more per day for each farmer.
When it became clear on the first of April that the farmers meant business. the small companies began to fall into line one by one. They realized that there was little else to do, for with their supply cut off their trade would soon go to the large companies, who could hold out a few days longer. McBride Broth- ers & Knobbe, ice cream mnaufacturers, operating a plant at Walworth, Wis., was one of the first concerns to pay the association price. The Congress plant at Woodstock, owned by Senator Olson, stood out until April 3, when, after sev- eral unsuccessful attempts to get milk delivered with the aid of the sheriff, it came over to the farmers' side. Follow- ing this action, Mr. Olson is reported to have said that his sole reason for hesi- tating as long as he did was to see whether or not any of the large com- panies were going to pay the $1.55 also. There were many other companies in the same boat, but once they got started most of them were quick to climb into the farmers' bandwagon
Signs of an early settlement of the strike appeared Thursday, April 6, when the Ira J. Mix and Kee & Chapell com- panies, next largest dealers to the Bor- den and Bowman concerns, announced that they would pay the farmers' price. On the same day Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson invited the officials of the Milk Producers' Association to meet representatives of the milk com- panies in an arbitration meeting at his office. The secretary's office was busy arranging contracts between association members and buyers who had met the farmers' price, so word was sent that the association would not arbitrate in any way, but that it would gladly send representatives for a conference, pro- vided it could be held the day following.
Commissioner Robertson agreed to this plan and on Friday a conference took place between the Milk Producers' Asso- ciation, represented by President R. B. Swift and George Brown, and represen- tatives of the Borden, Bowman, Kce & Chapell, Wanzer and Ira J. Mix com- panics.
At the close of the conference, which lasted seven hours, it was announced that the Bowman company had agreed to pay the association price. The Bowman decision left only the Borden company standing out, and its representatives ten- tatively agreed to accept the farmers' price, announcing that their action would have to be ratified by the directors of the company in New York before the con- tracts could be signed. During the con- ference an attempt was made to settle the price by long distance telephone communication with the New York office, but as this was unsuccessful the Borden representatives in conference asked the association for a day or so of time to obtain the necessary instructions from New York. Saturday was a quiet one at the Borden plants, as the farmers had dealt with them so effectively that many of them were closed, while would- be patrons had given up trying to deliver milk to others. The Bowman and other plants operated on Saturday as if noth- ing had happened, and by Tuesday morning the Borden plants had resumed normal operation.
A very helpful ruling was that of the milk board, which permitted the sale of milk to companies meeting the associa- tion price irrespective of whether their competitors did so or not. In the milk producers' meeting at Chicago. March 27, there was considerable sentiment in favor of not signing up milk with one company until all had agreed to the association demands, but fortunately this plan was not adopted. Lack of suf- ficient competition for milk had been one of the chief faults of the Chicago milk market, and the effect of patronizing the buvers who were early willing to pay $1.55 a hundred was to re-establish the much needed competition. The plan used served to line up the small buyers early through fear of losing trade to the larger companies, while toward the end of the fight the large dealers became conscious of a feeling that the little fel-
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Shashles
Sharples Suction-
Feed Cream Separators
2050018
Sharples Mechanical Milkers
and Gasoline Engines
G. F. SAGER & SON
DEALER IN HIGH CLASS DAIRY COWS James Barn Equipment 107 First Street BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS
TEAT DISTENDER
WASVA
Exclusive Dealer "Sharples" Mechanical Milker. The only perfect and strictly sanitary milker, with the upward squeeze, thus insuring entire satisfaction. It increases the milk production 10% to 30%. A child 10 or 12 years can operate this machine.
Breeders of Big Type and Large Litters of Poland-China Hogs. Pure Bred Holstein Cattle. Fancy Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens.
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lows might run away with their custom- ers while they stubbornly held out.
In order to decide promptly on the many questions arising each hour and to otherwise assist the members, the milk board was in daily session throughout the price fight. The members of this board are President R. B. Swift, Secre- tary W. J. Kittle, C. H. Potter, J. J. Murphy and R. W. Sherburne. Each day a bulletin, giving the gist of the situation and the most important news of the fight, was printed, and a copy of it sent at night to the chairman of each local, who had it posted where all the producers at his point might read it.
"We'll confer but not arbitrate," was the platform on which the milk board worked. On the first of April, Jolin W. Knobbe of McBride Brothers & Knobbe spent several hours at the association headquarters in an attempt to get the association to sanction his purchase of milk from its members at $1.55 with a provision; that provision being that the other companies also pay the price. The association would not agree, and that evening Knobbe informed Secretary Kit- tle that he would pay the $1.55 with no "ifs" or "ands" about the matter. The western manager of the Borden company also tried to get special privileges by offering to meet the April price de- manded by the association and leave the price for the other five months to arbi- tration. This, too, met with a flat re- fusal, after which the Borden company met the farmers demands in full. That the dealer gets the milk is the only pro- vision that the association allowed.
"If the milk board of which I am a member had sanctioned any price one iota less than that set by the associa- tion," says Mr. Potter, "I would never go back to Elgin. I would feel a great deal safer in the trenches of Europe than in the Fox River Valley."
Though very effective measures had been used to persuade the producers not to sign up before the first of April, the farmers were even more successful in keeping away from the plants milk signed at less than the association price. Perhaps a third of Chicago's normal sup- ply had been contracted before the strike actually began, yet practically the entire supply was tied up within a few days. Only a comparatively small amount of milk found its way into Chicago during the first week of April, most of this being milk that had been held by the dealers in anticipation of the strike, or milk that was shipped in from outlying
points. Some of this milk came from Iowa, New York, and from points in Wisconsin outside of the Chicago dairy district.
In addition to shutting off the home supply, the farmers were successful also in stopping much of the milk shipped in from outside the district, and in prevent- ing the transfer of whole milk from condensing bottling plants. An example of this occurred at Belvidere, where the Borden company operates a condensery. Several attempts were made to ship whole milk from this plant to the bot- tling plant at Marengo, with the result that three carloads of this milk was seized bv the farmers. A few days later, on April 6, about 300 McHenry and Boone county farmers gathered at the Belvidere plant and prevented the deliv- ery of a single pound of milk. After this experience the Belvidere plant closed until the strike ended.
Every milk shipping or buying point in the district had its share of excite- ment during the strike, althoughi cases of actual violence were very few. Pick- eters were out at nearly every plant some time during the strike. Sometimes they were obliged to use force in order to keep obdurate farmers from delivering milk, though moral persuasion was gen- erally sufficient. The earnestness of the striking farmers had really to be seen to be appreciated, but a few instances of what took place at a few points will perhaps serve to impress those outside of the district with the tenseness of the situation. At Dundee about 20 loads of milk were dumped one morning and a general scrap between farmers and deputies took place. Some of the depu- ties were reported to have drawn re- volvers but were forced into automobiles and driven away by the farmers. At Palatine another deputy had his revolver taken away by a picket.
Fifty auto loads of pickets guarded the Borden plant at West Chicago April 7, keeping all milk away from it ex- cept three cans, which were delivered before the farmers began their day's picketing. Usually one day's picketing was enough to convince the managers of a plant that they had better cease operations until after the strike, but if milk was afterwards reported to be coming in, the farmers were out in force again. On the fifth of April several hundred farmers were on hand at the Elgin plants of the Borden company and put a stop to the delivery of milk at that place.
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In McHenry county, Ill., Myron J. Wright, who is keeping open the office of the county soil and crop improvement association during the absence of a regular advisor, took much- the same part in the price war as did Mr. Craig. No county had more milk to hold back or held it back more effectively than McHenry, and a good part of this was due to Mr. Wright's generalship in keeping the plants well supplied with pickets. Tuesday morning picketing be- gan at the Borden plant in Woodstock and prevented the delivery of milk throughout the day. At night, however, a small amount of milk . was received there; the plant being so anxious for it that the superintendent had several pro- ducers' milk collected at a farmhouse near town and delivered to the plant by a drayman, who was protected by three deputy sheriffs. Picketing continued the next day, when not a pound was allowed to get to the plant. On this day, April 5, the Borden plant at Ringwood was also closed. At Chemung a minor fight oc- curred between picketers and deputies.
The nearest approach to violence in McHenry county was at Hartland, where a Bowman plant operates. At this point the farmers began to picket on the first of April and kept most of the milk away until the plant was closed on the fourth. This plant was literally closed by the farmers, for about noon Tuesday they took possession of the plant, turning the workmen out, and forced the superintendent to give up the key. Sheriff Wandrack of Woodstock and several deputies were rushed to the factory and order was restored late in the afternoon. Following this disturb- ance Bowman officials appeared before Judge Donnelly at Woodstock asking for an injunction against the farmers. Judge Donnelly granted a writ forbidding violence and interfering with Bowman property, but informed the company that he could not stop peaceful picketing by the farmers.
Many producers over the district adopted various means of disposing of their supply before the mik trade was restored to normal. Shipping cream was one of the most popular alternatives, and the railroad station platforms were piled with cream cans throughout the fight. At Harvard several separators were in- stalled in a barn and used to separate milk that could not be handled at home. Subscriptions were also started for a farmers' co-operative creamery there. On the evening before the milk strike
began a representative of the Chicago Milk Drivers' Union addressed an en- thusiastic meeting of farmers and towns- people in a Harvard church, urging the farmers to stand out for a fair price for their milk. The farmers about Hebron were also loyal through the thick and thin of the fight and little milk was delivered at that point. The Borden company at Hebron returned contracts to a few farmers who had signed for less than the association price, after which the farm- ers stopped picketing and no milk was delivered: Separators for handling the farmers' milk were installed in a mill near Hebron and action was also taken toward building a new creamery.
After the companies began to sign up at the association price the members then began to insist on all who signed becom- ing also members of the association. At several places threats to dump the milk were made unless the membership was forthcoming. As a result a number of the companies required their patrons to become members of the Milk Producers' Association before signing the contract. It is probable that nearly every producer in the Chicago district will become a member of the association before the last echoes of the price fight have passed.
Before the recent price campaign started some of the representatives of the large milk buying companies were reported as saying that the milk pro- ducers were as wandering Jews-that they were not even agreed between themselves and that they could not stick together. Perhaps, after the unprece- dented example of sticking together that these producers have just shown, the milk buyers will be glad to accord them as much consideration as they do a hundred milk wagon drivers when they ask for an advance in wages.
The victory of the milk producers is without a parallel in agricultural his- tory. Tangible results have already come in the form of an increased price for milk. But what of the future? It is fair to expect that the milk com- panies will at least give the producers more consideration in their dealings together than they have heretofore. The milk producers will have more cour- age to stand together. Probably the heroic methods used in the recent fight will be unnecessary in the future. We hope so. But if the farmers are again called to action for same cause they will rise as a victorious army only recently disbanded. A nation's army is never
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stronger than just following a victorious war. The milk producers are now ready for a greater fight. It would be a wise policy for the large milk companies not to tempt them too far. In their associa- tion the farmers' ammunition is safe and the men know how to use it. They have found their leaders, too, men like Swift and Kittle and the others who helped to hear the brunt of the fight.
Outside of the milk producing district the victory will also have a very encour- aging effect. Agriculture has never had such an example of farmers sticking to- gether for a cause, or winning so great a victory so quickly. Its lesson will not be lost. In many places farmers lack sufficient confidence in co-operation and organization. The success of the milk producers will give farmers everywhere more confidence in organized effort. This one victory is worth more than all the barrels of ink and hours of talk used to advance organization that were ever aimed at farmers' heads .- F. M. C.
WHEN THE BELT SLIPS From Prairie Farmer.
The slipping of belts is a great an- noyance, but it is not always remedied by tightening the belt. Ordinarily, if the proper-sized belts and pulleys are used and properly put in, there should be little or no slipping at all. Often the slipping of a belt is due to the overload carried by. it. There is economy in using wider belts than is the usual practice. Many a three-inch belt is made to do the work of a four- inch belt, much to the annoyance of the operator and the ruin of the belt.
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