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The school children were organized into War Sav- ings Societies to buy War Stamps. A surgical dressing department was set up in the Patten building (behind the band stand) and the Red Cross sewing room was located in the school house. J. A. Burlingame presided at the meeting in Seip's Auditorium at which a new Service Flag was dedicated.
Twenty-five deer will be put in Deer Grove Forest Preserve.
Palatine subscribes $102,750 in Fourth Liberty Loan Drive.
The Northwest Highway was planned in December of this year.
Herman Gielow built a garage on the west end of his lot, facing Chicago Ave.
1919
The telephone exchange was moved to the Starck building and Bill Schering's new store-now Sani- tary Market-opened.
In September Palatine gave a grand Welcome Home to 96 boys. A parade, speaker and dance added to the festivities.
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Enterprise Established
The story of the Palatine Enterprise since 1900 could be told by the sons, daughters and grandchildren of many descendants of those German immi- grants who came to America 100 years ago.
It was H. C. Paddock, father of the present publishers of the Enterprise, who 56 years ago came to Palatine, purchasing that newspaper for $175. He was possessed of an indomitable willpower and a desire to again own his own newspaper. A destructive fire at Libertyville, where he had founded the Liber- tyville Independent, had taken all of his life's savings.
Any success Paddock Publications may have attained is due to the news- paper knowhow of the founder. His sons have followed in his footsteps.
Enterprise Office 1870-1900 59 N. Bothwell
Mr. Paddock always did his best newspaper sales job working among the farmers around Liber- tyville, and other communities where he owned newspapers. It was to the farmers of Palatine and neighboring towns that he turned to secure the sub- scriptions that would mean increased advertising revenue and enable him to pay that $175 mortgage.
He travelled into the country with his horse and buggy, meeting the farmers, often trading newspa- per subscriptions for a sack of oats for the horse, or for a bag of potatoes for his family.
A competitor once published, "Paddock sits on a farmer's plow until he subscribes to his paper." The farmer was not always plowing when the news- paper man called. Mr. Paddock would find him in the field or barn and sometimes woke him up after lights were out.
German hospitality brought him into homes of farmers where wives were happy to feed him and frequently lodge him as a guest. It is not uncommon for descendants of these families to recount in- stances when their parents entertained the editor. After supper the editor and his hosts would discuss the affairs of the day, while the children seated around them on the floor would be listening.
More than one caller at the publication office has said, "When we saw Mr. Paddock drive into the yard, mother would immediately set an additional place at the table."
Mr. Paddock had a vision of a newspaper chain. He knew he would never become rich. He just want- ed to provide a newspaper for the areas that had none. From Palatine he drove into South Barring- ton, Hanover, Bartlett, and subsequently into North- ern Du Page County, but he found his most fertile field and he made his most friends among the farmers in Palatine, Schaumburg and Elk Grove townships.
In 1899 there were only five English daily pa- pers being read in Schaumburg. He made a club rate with the Staats-Zeitung and the Abendpost, sell- ing the Enterprise and the German dailies for the price of one. For those who desired an English daily, he made the same arrangement with the Inter Ocean and later with the Chicago Tribune.
Sometimes, if he had three or four subscriptions for a Chicago paper and he needed 1,000 envelopes on a printing order, he felt justified in making the trip to Chicago. The Chicago trip did not cost much. The conductors on the Barrington trains believed that editors, and Mr. Paddock in particular, should not be required to pay for transportation and Burkey and Milan restaurant on Clark street exchanged meal tickets for a standing advertisement in the paper.
Mr. Paddock had not been in Palatine long be- fore he made the acquaintance of Editor Bugbee at Arlington Heights, who owned the Cook County Her-
ald, which was really the parent paper of the Enter- prise. He bought it for $275, borrowing the money. He still had little printing equipment and, with a for- mer Libertyville employee investing $300, Mr. Pad- dock acquired a 12x18 jobber and some display type from Fred Helm, who was operating a job shop in the Helm lumber yard in Arlington.
For a few weeks Mr. Paddock printed his paper two pages at a time on a Washington hand press in the building shown on this page, which was located at 57 N. Bothwell street. It was tedious and back- breaking work. A number of years he carried the news type, set by hand, weighing 100 to 150 pounds, into Chicago, where the paper was printed in the of- fice of the Chicago Newspaper Union, using "boiler plate" to fill up the pages.
The half German edition comprised four pages of home news printed in English and four pages of the "patent insides" printed in German by the Staatz-Zeitung and later by the Milwaukee Herald. The subscription price to the half German edition was $1.50 a year; all English $1.25. When World War I broke out, the editor thought, as a patriotic duty, the half German edition should be stopped.
The ambitious editor entered DuPage county by acquiring for a "song" a newspaper whose publica- tion office was at Montclare. Entry into Bensenville, Itasca and Roselle was a repeat of the expansion story in the Cook county area.
When faithful "Bonnie" became too old to pull the buggy, Mr. Paddock purchased a one-lunger high wheeled automobile from an Itasca mail carrier who was graduating to the more modern cars.
That horseless carriage was known everywhere on account of its mulish trait of refusing to run. More famous, however, were the series of Dodge cars the editor drove down through the years. His family never knew how the head of the house was able to get those cars. It seemed the Chicago Dodge distributor took pleasure in supplying cars to the newspaper editor, made possible by a sympathetic banker.
When the cars needed repairs, the garage own- ers were similarly interested in keeping the wheels a-rolling. It took a lot of coaxing at times and the editor sometimes spent the night in his car after it had landed in a ditch or snowbank.
That is the early history of Paddock Publica- tions. Today its publications, with a circulation ap- proaching 20,000, serve 36 communities.
The Palatine Herald, as an edition of the Cook County Herald, began publication in 1872; the Pala- tine Enterprise was started in 1878.
Officially, Paddock Publications is in the hands of the second generation with the third generation rapidly taking over operations.
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CHAPTER VII Palatine Organizations
PALATINE GARDEN CLUB
Charter members of the Palatine Garden Club, organized in March of 1931, were Miss Lottie Hart, Mrs. Lillian Bergman, Mrs. Cora Comfort, Mrs. Ly- cette Heide, Mrs. Mayme Mangels. Mrs. Mae Howes and Mrs. Elnora Foster, who was the club's first president. A civic project in which the members took great pride was the maintenance for many years of the old depot park areas, the east section of which was landscaped and donated by Mr. Knup- per and the west section of which was planted by Mr. Broadbent; the pine trees surrounding the stand- pipe were donated by Mr. Leise. The club encour- aged gardening interest in school children by giving them flower seeds and thereafter judging their gar- dens and awarding prizes to the winners. It not only has been a member of the Chicago Plant, Flow- er and Fruit Guild for many years but also has been a consistent and faithful sharer of its flowers with hospitalized patients in Palatine. In memory of each of its deceased members, it places a book in the Village Library. After the club's membership grew to around forty, it transferred its meetings from the members' homes to the Community Room of the High School.
INVERNESS GARDEN CLUB
The Garden Club of Inverness was organized October 29, 1940, at a meeting at the Four Silos. Eleven persons were present and Mrs. Way Thomp- son was elected president. The club became an af- filiate of the Garden Club of Illinois in 1941, during which year it planted the first triangles in Inverness as its project for the year. Subsequent projects in- cluded elimination of ragweed, caring for and plant- ing additional triangles, planting the fronts of the Palatine Consolidated School and the new Paddock School, and making substantial contributions to the plantings at the Inverness Community House. The club's first venture in flower arranging won a blue ribbon for a Bride's Table in the Annual Contest at Marshall Fields in 1943. Individual members of the club have gained local and national recognition in the fields of color use and flower arranging. Gar- den Walks have been held annually, culminating in flower shows which have won many special awards. Members contribute generously to the Plant Guild with flowers, fruit, and toys and filled stockings at Christmastime. Monies also have been contributed to buy flowers for veterans hospitalized at Christ- mas. To enable the club to carry on its projects and make substantial contributions to the community, annual money raising projects, starting with a Coun- try Fair Auction in 1943, have become an institution.
PALANOIS PARK GARDEN CLUB
In April of 1946, a group of men and women liv- ing in a new section of Palatine, at the invitation of Mrs. Kathryn Back, and her father, R. C. Mohr, met and organized a club which became known as the Palanois Park Garden Club. Mrs. Back was the first president. In 1947, when the club became af- filiated with the Garden Club of Illinois, under the
sponsorship of the Inverness Garden Club, the group of twenty-two members was composed of women only. This group, starting in 1947, pioneered the presentation of standard flower shows with accredit- ed judges. Its 1949 Harvest Festival, a community endeavor which drew over 700 entries, received the first prize Myrtle R. Walgreen Horticulture Award for its outstanding exhibit of specimen blooms. The presentation of later shows was shared by the In- verness and Plum Grove Clubs. The Community Outdoor Christmas Decoration Competition was sponsored by the club in 1947 and 1948, and in 1949, when the Christmas Festival was inaugurated by the Palatine Chamber of Commerce, the competition became a part of the festival. In 1950 the club was presented with an honorary membership in the Chamber of Commerce. Since 1949 the club has maintained a perennial and annual flower planting around the flag pole at the Oak Street Consolidated School, where it also made an evergreen planting. Other than its achievements in the flower arranging field, in which the club and its members have won many ribbons, including the purple and tri-color awards, in neighboring community and Garden Club of Illinois shows, the club has had a concentrat- ed educational program for horticulture, which has included an annual rose competition among its members, experimental plantings, and the compila- tion and annual revision of a monthly garden cal- endar.
PLUM GROVE GARDEN CLUB
The period between the meeting of thirteen wom- en in a chickenhouse in 1948 and the receipt of the coveted "Blue Ribbon Club" award, presented by the Illinois State Garden Club in 1955, is not long but it covers the history of Palatine's youngest gar- den group, the Plum Grove Garden Club. Their first president was Mrs. James Lowther. With charac- teristic Illinois enterprise, this club in 1952 staged the show "Invitation to the Dance," which received a purple ribbon for 'Show Theme and Entire Ar- ranging and Settings;" won first prize for an ar- rangement shown at a Garden Club of Illinois Christmas Show, a facsimile of which arrangement appeared as a cover on "Garden Glories" and there- by earned for the club a "Certificate of Merit;" made the table arrangements for the 1954 Presi- dent's Luncheon; won a tri-color and many first rib- bons in community shows and the Modern Living Expositions; had two of their members invited to exhibit arrangements to be staged in period rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1955 Na- tional Council of State Garden Clubs 26th Annual Meeting, the program reading, "Outstanding ar- rangements by thirty artists of national reputation in flower arrangement;" decorated all the lamp posts in the village for the 1953 Christmas parade; made contributions to the Chicago Plant Guild; worked with the Chamber of Commerce in various commun- ity projects; sponsored Brownie and Girl Scout groups each year; outfitted one Little League base- ball player; and for the pleasure of all the citizens of Palatine, developed and maintained the Railroad Park planting which provides a succession of bloom in the heart of Palatine.
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ORIGINAL LUTHERAN SCHOOL
When this school was originally erected in 1870 there were living quarters (not shown) in front of the above building for the preacher-school teacher. The original school was replaced by the present school in 1926.
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
The above church building was purchased from the Disciple church in 1870 by the newly formed Im- manuel Lutheran church congregation and used by them until 1914.
1846
MILLI
ST. JOHN EVANGELICAL & REFORMED CHURCH
The above church is the third erected by the congregations of St. John Evangelical and Reformed Church of Plum Grove. The first edifice, built in 1846, was replaced by a second building in 1876. It was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire nine years after it was built. The present church was erected in 1885 and was the scene of a centennial celebration in 1949, delayed two years to permit re- modeling of the building.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The compilers of this Centennial Book are in- debted to Miss Mercie Heise for much background material.
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JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB OF PALATINE
With the passing of a decade of happy friend- ships, abundant living and growth in culture, wis- dom and helpfulness the Woman's Club of Palatine believed that the time had come when a similar or- ganization should be made possible for the junior aged women of Palatine. Thus it came to be that on March 18, 1941, Mrs. Holton, the president of the 7th District of Woman's Clubs and Mrs. Schieman, the chairman of the Junior Woman's Clubs of the 7th District, came to Palatine to tell of the oppor- tunities and pleasures a Junior Woman's Club would give the young women of Palatine. It was on April 1, 1941, that the Woman's Club of Palatine voted to sponsor such a junior organization.
At the request of Mrs. George Butler the organ- ization meeting was held at her home. On the eve- ning of April 25, 1941, eleven young ladies - Virginia Helgeson, Vivian Koepp, Madeline Malcolm, Ruth Malcolm, Louise Wente, Elsa Mess, Anne Osbon, Isabel Wente, Nora Schering, Helen Schoppe and Katherine Zyc, under the guidance and nurture of Mrs. Greener the Senior President, prepared the blue print for the new club. Meetings were held in the Community Room of the Palatine Township High School.
The first officers were Nora Schering, presi- dent; Dolores Meyers, vice president; Anne Osbon, recording secretary; Jean McMullen, corresponding secretary; and Elsa Mess, treasurer.
The 1955-1956 officers are: Mrs. Robert Green, president; Mrs. Robert Graham, vice president; Mrs. B. P. Finegan, treasurer; Mrs. C. R. Carlson, corresponding secretary; Mrs. M. J. Varde, record- ing secretary.
During World War II the club participated in Red Cross activities. Philanthropic in nature, the club's work has been widespread. Scouts, children, adults, aged and ill all know the good deeds of the Juniors. The community is better for their being as they have aided the park, schools, library or any other worthy organization in need. All money de- rived from projects is entirely returned to the com- munity. Its 141 members truly live by the Junior pledge of trying to accomplish something-not mere- ly to exist.
SENIOR WOMAN'S CLUB OF PALATINE
The Woman's Club of Palatine was organized on January 6, 1931, largely through the efforts of the late Mrs. George C. Butler. The first meeting was held at Mrs. Butler's home, and the following thir- teen women were present: Mrs. George C. Butler, Mrs. Stuart Paddock, Mrs. Edwin Converse, Miss Lottie Hart, Mrs. George Herrmann, Mrs. Erwin Orth, Mrs. Henry Pahlman, Mrs. Louise Reuse, Mrs. Thomas Sampson, Mrs. John Shierding, Mrs. Elvin Steinbrinck, Mrs. Nordal Thompson and Mrs. Theo- dore Helgeson. These women were filled with a de- sire to benefit themselves and to help make the com- munity in which they lived a better place. They chose as the object of the club-"The mutual im- provement of its members in Literature, Art, Sci- ence, and vital interests of the day."
The club met for many years in the community room of the Palatine Township High School, later used the Oak Street school, and now meets on the first Tuesday of each month in the Sunday School room of the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church, 144 E. Chicago ave. The membership has increased from the original thirteen to one hundred and fifty in the year 1955.
Through the years, the club has strived to serve the community in many ways, and has supported
all worthy causes on a State and National level. This club became affiliated with the District Federation in 1932 and joined the State Federation in 1933 and the General Federation of Woman's clubs in the year 1941. Through these affiliations, the club has access to many benefits for its members and is a part of a strong organization banded together for common good.
On a local level, members of this club have par- ticipated in such activities as the founding of the public library, the Lite-A-Bike campaign, TB Mobile unit, Red Cross war work, Cancer control. For the past several years the club has paid expenses for two girls from Palatine Township High School to at- tend a summer music camp downstate, and has sponsored art contests in all of the schools. At the present time we are active on the Safety Council, the proposed Northwest Hospital, Palatine Centen- nial celebration and other projects.
This club has always endeavored to extend a warm greeting to all newcomers to the community, should they desire to attend our meetings either as a guest or as a new member. Our programs are varied to cover the many topics of interest.
The club celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on Jan. 6, 1955, at which time the charter members and past presidents were honored. The following women have served their cub in the offices of presi- dent: Mrs. George C. Butler 1931-33; Mrs. Nordal C. Tohmpson 1933-1935; Mrs. Stuart Paddock 1935- 1937; Mrs. George Hermann 1937-1939; Mrs. Marvin Greener 1939-1941; Mrs. C. F. Iverson 1941-1942; Mrs. E. P. Steinbrinck 1942-1943; Mrs. Charles Mal- ody 1943-1945; Mrs. George Gschwindt 1945-1947; Mrs. Edward Davis 1947-1949; Mrs. Arthur C. Bergo 1949-1951; Mrs. Ernest Wiehrdt 1951-1953; Mrs. Carl Scharninghousen 1953-1955. Newly elected president of the club for the ensuing two years is Mrs. Frank Wiley.
TOWN AND COUNTRY CHORUS
The Town and Country Chorus was organized in the fall of 1952 so that avid music lovers from Palatine and all the nearby suburbs could actively participate in the presentation of choral concerts and musicals that would bring added pleasure and en- joyment to the entertainment program of this area. The Chorus includes among its members profession- al and busnessmen, schoolteachers, and many hus- band and wife teams. Although drawn principally from Palatine, the towns of Mount Prospect, Arling- ton Heights, Barrington and Wheeling are also rep- resented.
The great versatility of the chorus has been proved in its many concerts given for churches, hos- pitals and civic organizations. The repertoire of the Town and Country Chorus is highly varied so that the chorus is prepared to perform with great artistic finesse whenever and wherever it is called upon to do so.
The people of Palatine were greatly impressed and are indeed grateful for the past performances of "The Messiah" which were presented by the cho- rus in Cutting Hall during the Christmas seasons of 1953 and 1954. Until 1953, this well-known ora- torio had not been given in our town. The vocal soloists for these concerts and all others staged by the group are regular members of Town and Coun- try Chorus.
In the short space of only three years, the Town and Country Chorus, under the direction of Lorraine Dean, has become an important factor in bringing good music within the reach of all the residents of the Village of Palatine.
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These carts could be two "floats" in a high school homecoming. It is appearing in the Centennial book because it is the only picture that could be found which shows the liv- ery stable at 55 North Bothwell, originally operated by Ira Frye and his son, Fred Frye. The small building at the left was the Enter- prise office in 1900 and later the shoe store of Mr. Burkhardt.
A grading job fifty years ago was hard work for both the men and the horses. The above project covered the area west of Plum Grove road and south of Washington street, on land owned by Louis Schrader.
Palatine business men rejoiced when Bowman Dairy Co. built a bottling plant in Palatine. Prev- iously all milk was shipped in cans on a milk train. The above bottling plant brought many farmers to Pal- atine every morning. The bottled product was shipped to Chicago by train. The P.L.Z.&W. hauled a car daily from Wauconda to Palatine.
When the Bowman Dairy Com- pany consolidated all bottling of milk in one Chicago plant the Pala- tine building was purchased by Economy Fuse and Manufacturing company.
DAIRY COMPAN
BOWMAN
PALATINE ILL.
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NORTHWEST CANNON BALL MODEL RAILROAD CLUB
This new organization in the Palatine area was organized in 1955 to service the needs of boys of all ages. Membership of the club includes residents of Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect as well as Palatine.
The club has been chartered by the State of Illi- nois. Plans are in progress for the acquisition of club rooms and for the construction of a model rail- road system (in club parlance called a "pike") to be owned by the club and operated by the members. It is expected that the entire track system as well as the locomotive power and rolling stock will be built by the members.
The purposes of the club, as stated in the ap- proved constitution are to provide,
1. Opportunity and incentive for gathering to- gether socially
2. Opportunity for model railroad operation
3. Aid and instruction in model building.
To fulfill these purposes, meetings of the club are held regularly on the first and third Wednesdays of each month except during July and August.
Junior membership is provided for boys under the age of 16 years who are admitted to member- ship through sponsorship of one of the older mem- bers.
The club encourages improvement of individual techniques of construction by offering competitive events with prizes for excellence of construction and performance. Clinics are held with a view to assist- ing in correcting the mistakes made in construction as well as solving the problems encountered in building models. The programs of this organization also include motion pictures, slides and lectures by professional railroad operators from the railroads of the Chicago area. Apart from the general areas of interest in railroad operations these pictures and lec- tures are of great value in showing to the members the small details of construction and variations in the prototypes which they are attempting to model correctly.
The club welcomes applications for membership from men and boys in the Palatine area who may be interested in developing this hobby for their own interests.
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
On January 31, 1921, a group of women eligible to membership in the American Legion Auxiliary by reason of their relationship to veterans of World War I, met to form their organization in Palatine. There were seventy-nine charter members.
Officrs chosen were: Mrs. Victoria Perry, president; Mrs. Ethel Kessler, vice president; Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbs, treasurer; and Mrs. Anna Wallace, secretary. Meetings were to be held twice monthly at th Odd Fellows Hall and in the homes of mem- bers. Later, mothers, wives and sisters of veterans of World War II and of the Korean War were admit- ted to membership.
The Auxiliary was formed to aid the Legion in all ways. These women help in the veterans' hos- pitals, doing rehabilitation work. They work for Child Welfare everywhere. They help their com- munity. They foster the spirit of Americanism and help to keep alive the observance of Memorial Day each year.
In the early days, the Auxiliary started a me- morial fund, looking forward to helping the veterans to establish a home. Money was raised by giving dinners at the county fair. The site of the present
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