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The officers of the Company are: William A. Potts, president and counsel; Forrest C. Nichols, vice-president, and James P. Fritze, secretary and treasurer. All are Peorians and men of the highest integrity, character and reputation.
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WARREN W. DAY
There is perhaps to-day no more important career open to a man than the profession of architecture. Upon the ability, education and artistic sense of the men who follow it depend the beauty of our cities, the efficiency of our office buildings, the comfort and luxuries of our homes. The most promising young man in this profession and one who already is successful in Peoria, is Warren W. Day with offices at 527 Main Street.
He was born at Peoria July 26, 1882, and is the son of John Day and Kate Moore. His grandfather on his paternal side was Larkin Day, of the old and well known firm Day Brothers, and on his maternal side, William Moore, one of the early residents of Peoria, who was the owner of one of the largest foundries in the city.
His preliminary edu- cation was obtained at Peoria in the Greely and Irving grade schools, and the Peoria High School, class of 1901. After leaving high school, he spent several years with Kingman & Co. and C. J. Off & Co., entering the architectural office of B. L. Hulsebus in 1905. He entered the engineering College of the University of Illinois in 1906, graduating in 1910 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture. While in college he was just as popular as he is in his profession, and was a member of the national college fraternity, Theta Delta Chi; the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs; the National Society of Scabbard and Blade; the Pen and Brush Club; the University Glee and Mandolin Club (manager one year and leader two years). He was also on the board of the Technograph, a technical and scientific magazine, being business manager of same during his last year in college, and was honored with a captaincy in the University Cadet regiment, re- ceiving upon graduation a commission from Governor Deneen as Brevet Captain in the Illinois National Guard.
In 1910 Mr. Day was made Superintendent of Construction for the State of Illinois, and was
given complete charge of all building construction at the Elgin State Hospital. Upon completing this work he took a trip around the world, spend- ing a great portion of the time in the far East studying Oriental architecture, and while in India was the guest of the famous Hindoo poet, Rabin- dranath Tagore, the Nobel prize winner. Upon his return to Peoria he entered the active practice of architecture, in which he has continued ever since. In addition to the trip around the world he has supplemented his study and observation of architecture and building methods by making four trips to Europe and also to the Levant and the Near East.
Some of the buildings designed by Mr. Day are the residences of Dr. C. G. Farnum, S. H. Tripp, F. T. Day, C. F. Weber, Dr. W. C. Williams, W. A. Rice, L. E. Rotter- man, etc .; the J. M. Nichols and G. L. Kat- zing store buildings; office building for the Detweiller Ice Co .; flat buildings for C. F. Weber and J. R. Giles; barn and garage for Oakford & Fahnestock; sound re- flector for the St. Paul's Church; the addition to the Illinois Valley Yacht Club; and has now in - hand the design and plans for the new rein- forced concrete fireproof wholesale grocery build- ing for Oakford & Fahne- stock, which when fully completed will be the largest building of its kind in Peoria and will cost over $350,000.
Mr. Day was married September 7th, 1910, to Miss Ethel Hollister of Champaign, Illinois, the daughter of Professor H. A. Hollister of the Uni- versity of Illinois. He is a member of the Peoria Illini Club, the Kickapoo Golf Club, the Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe Club, the Peoria Exe- cutive's Club, the Peoria Society of Allied Arts (of which he is secretary), the Illinois Society of Architects, the University Club of Peoria, the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, and the National Society of Scabbard and Blade.
WARREN W DAY
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A FEW OF PEORIA'S BEAUTIFUL HOMES
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HEWITT & EMERSON
Herbert Edmund Hewitt first opened his office for the practice of his pro- fession as architect in Peoria in April 1897, after completing his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois and the Univer- sity of Chicago, together with three years practical experience in the offices of Chicago architects.
Mr. Hewitt's practice having developed with the growth of the city, he took as a partner in 1908, Mr. Frank Nelson Emerson, the son of a prominent Peoria family, whose training for his work was obtained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and in the offices of Carrers & Hastings, New York.
Many important buildings in Peoria and elsewhere have been designed and carried out by the firm, and by Mr. Hewitt prior to the formation of the partner- ship. Among those in Peoria are the Proctor Recreation Center, the Jefferson Hotel, the Shriner's Temple, the Orpheum Theatre, the Creve Coeur Club, the Country Club, the G. A. R. Memorial, the Y. W. C. A. Building, the Coliseum, the wholesale premises of the Jobst-Bethard Company, the Wilson Grocery Com- pany and the Clark-Smith Hardware Company, the new First Methodist Episcopal Church, etc., etc. Among the out-of-town buildings should be mentioned the Monmouth College Buildings, Monmouth, Ill., the Hotel Goldman, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, the High School, Lincoln School, German-American National Bank and the residence of Mr. C. G. Herget, all in Pekin, Ill., the Administration Building of the Boss Manufacturing Co., Kewanee, Ill., the residence of Mr. J. B. Brown, Monmouth, Ill., the residence of Mr. E. C. Craig, Mattoon, Ill., the residence of Herman Danforth, Washington, Ill.
Many public school buildings throughout the state and in the southern states and many of the handsome residences in Moss Avenue and other parts of the city were done by this firm.
Mr. Hewitt is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mr. Emerson of Princeton and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both are graduates of the Peoria High School. Their offices are at 321 Main Street.
F. J. KLEIN
F. J. Klein, architect, with offices at 127 South Jefferson Avenue, has been a resident of Peoria almost his entire life. Developing a desire for architecture he left school at an early age and became an apprentice in an architect's office. His natural talents soon developed and after serving his apprenticeship in several of the prominent architect's offices of this city, he branched out for himself. That success soon attended him is seen from the reputation he enjoys not only locally but outside of Peoria. At Champaign, Illinois, he designed the Theta Beta Pi Fraternity House. In Peoria, the First National Bank Building, the Peoria High School and the Washington School, the Hippodrome, Appollo and Duchess Theatres, the residences of Milton Newman, Chas. Wilson and A. W. Wilson, the J. W. McDowell apartments, the Stuber & Kuck and Carr & Johnston factory buildings, and the South Park Pavilion, are only a few of the many buildings that he designed.
A FEW OF PEORIA'S LARGE BUILDINGS
Jefferson Bidg.
Oakford and Fahnestock $350,000 Wholesale Grocery Building now under construction.
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Federal Warehouse now under construction. The largest warehouse in Illinois outside of Chicago. cost $200,000. Absolutely fire and vermin proof. Devoted to commercial and furniture storage and acts as forwarders and factory distributor.
Illinois Traction System Bldg. now under construction.
Proposed Lehmann Bldg.
Cent. Natl. Bank Bldg.
Block and Kuhl Bldg.
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JOHN F. KING, JR.
John F. King, Jr., architect, with offices at 903 Central National Bank Building, who has been as- sociated with building construction for the past thirty years, was born in Peoria in 1868. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers, his grand- father coming to Peoria in 1831, when the population was but fifty-five. As an architect Mr. King enjoys a country wide reputation, having designed the mechanical and structural equipment for the million dollar municipal building recently erected in Dallas, Texas, and numerous buildings of importance in Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas. He was also supervising architect for the State of Texas on several large buildings. Locally he points with pride to the Sandmeyer Apartments, Roberts Apartments, and his association in the construction of the White School in Peoria; also schools at La Salle, Morton, and many other places.' Although his work has taken him out of Peoria the greater part of the past ten years, he has always considered Peoria as his home, and is now permanently located here at the above address.
BUSH'S WALL PAPER STORE
Bush's Wall Paper Store, 236 South Jefferson Avenue, was established by John A. Bush in 1849. Edw. J. Bush, a native of Peoria, attended the grade and high school in this city and became associated with his father in 1885, serving his time as apprentice and then attending the New York Trade School, from which he graduated with high honors. This firm makes a specialty of Wall Paper, frescoing, house and sign painting, pictures and picture framing, either in or out of the city. No contract is too small or too large to receive the study which is needed to achieve a proper effect. Sixty-six years continuous busi- ness and still doing work for patrons for whom they worked back in the fifties, is a proof of ability and honesty. Especial attention is given to work done out of the city.
EDW. J. BUSH
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O'CONNOR BROTHERS
In every city of any prominence there is no business that is as important and is more closely related to the welfare and sanitary condition of a community than the plumbing business. The question of sanitation and comfort, so essential to our well- being, is virtually controlled by this industry and it is for that reason that the plumber of to-day is no more a mere laborer, but must be possessed of technical knowledge and skill, and is under the supervision of the state, being compelled to pass an ex- amination and procure a license in the same manner that a doctor or lawyer must do. One of the leading plumbing firms of Peoria is that conducted under the firm name of O'Connor Brothers, at 126 South Washington Street, corner Fulton Street. This firm was established in 1890 by the two brothers, Daniel and Edward O'Connor, who are still the present owners and who have been continuously engaged therein, becoming thoroughly familiar with every phase and branch of the plumbing and heating business.
Their varied experience therein has developed their knowledge to the extent that the service they give is unexcelled. All work is carried out with a thoroughness, precision and accuracy characteristic of the most reputable and capable only. No contract is too small to receive their personal attention and supervision and the satis- faction they render their patrons is evidenced by the volume of their business. It is one of the largest and oldest plumbing institutions in Peoria. Their trade and reputation extends well over the entire state of Illinois, and has played an important part in the building up and dustributing the fame of Peoria.
DAILY & O'BRIEN CO.
Daily & O'Brien Co. are successfully engaged in the operation of a plumbing, heating and sewer contracting business at 322 South Jefferson Avenue, where they have been located since establishing their business in March 1910. The members of the firm are skilled mechanics and practical business men, whose general experience and thorough training in their line qualifies them to undertake the development of an enterprise of this nature. They make a specialty of installing plumbing, steam and hot water heat, and pneumatic water supply in country and suburban residences as well as the city, and are being favored with many orders of this nature. Altho engaged in business for only five years, it has been their fortune to be awarded some of the largest contracts in Peoria as well as outside, extending their business over the entire state of Illinois and doing one third of the entire plumbing business in Peoria. Reference to the numerous contracts is impossible for want of sufficient space. The few herewith submitted give an idea of the magnitude of their business and the satis- factory service: the State building at Watertown, four State buildings at St. Charles; two State buildings at Kankakee, nine State buildings at Dixon; a number of residences at Lacon and Keithsburg; three State buildings at Bartonville; one at Anna, and the water works at Springfield. In Peoria, the Jefferson Hotel, the Creve Coeur Club, Block and Kuhl Annex, Carr and Johnston plant and the Tyng Public School of the public and factory buildings; over one hundred apartments in flat buildings for one individual; the Laura-Smith, Victoria, Roanoke, Woodlawn, Hutchinson, Hansseler and Royal apartment buildings; the residences of H. H. Block, W. T. Wheeler, M. N. Pierson and Eugene Gauss; and hundreds of the smaller homes in the Uplands, the East Uplands, and in the city and country.
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JOSEPH E. DAILY
Joseph E. Daily, who has just completed a four year term as City Attorney of Peoria, and is now the Republican nominee for County Judge, is a graduate of the law department of the Yale University, where he received the degree L.L.B, He was born at Manito, Illinois, January 27th. 1888. His primary education was received in the public schools of Chillicothe, graduating from the high school in 1904. Mr. Daily served one year as manager for the Santa Fe R. R. Co. one year as manager for the Postal Telegraph Co., and later as telegraph operatpr for the Santa Fe R. R. Co. In 1905 he entered the University of Illinois, taking a two years course and enrolling in the law department of the Yale University, from which he graduated with honors. Immediately after his graduation and admission to practice, he located in Peoria, and since May 1st, 1911, has filled the office of City attorney until his election at the spring primaries as the Republican candidate for County Judge. On January 7, 1914 Mr. Daily was married to Miss Audrey Woodward and altho as yet a young man, gives promise of early becoming one of the prominent and successful members of the legal profession in this part of the state.
FRANK A. HALL
Frank A. Hall is a native of Peoria, where he spent his entire life and was born in 1882. His early education was acquired in the grammar and high schools of this city. For a period of three years he taught school in Peoria County, and later attended the University of Illinois. from which he graduated with the degree L.L.B. Shortly afterward, on passing the required ex- amination, he was admitted to the bar of Illinois. He returned to Peoria and took up the general practice of law meeting with remarkable suecess. Mr. Hall was elected to his present position of Justice of the Peace for Peoria County by an overwhelming majority in the spring of 1911. His politics are consistently Republican. He is affiliated with the Masonie Lodge and is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi fraternities. His offices are in the Majestic Theatre Building on South Jefferson Avenue, where he holds court and carries on a general law practice.
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THE PEORIA BAR ASSOCIATION By L. E. SUTHERLAND
The first organization of a Bar Association in Peoria was effected in 1879, David McCulloch being the first president. After an uncertain existence for a number of years, the present Peoria Bar Association was organized on November 20, 1905. The purpose of the Association is "to advance the science of jurisprudence; to promote the administration of justice; to secure proper legislation; to encourage a thorough legal education; to uphold the honor and dignity of the Bar; to cultivate cordial inter- course among the lawyers of Peoria, Illinois, and to perpetuate the history of the profession and the memory of its members." Mr. Wm. L. Ellwood was the first president of this Association.
The Peoria Bar Association at the present time is a very active organization. During the course of the year several meetings are held, at which time different topics of interest to the profession are discussed by able speakers. The Association has adopted a Code of Ethics governing the practice of law, which requires all its members to adhere to in their contact with each other and with the public. The Association also lends its support to the passage of proper laws, especially for the reform of the present Practice Act, in order to procure the administration of the law with less delay, and with less expense to the litigant. The chief purpose of the Association is, of course, to secure a closer bond of fellowship among its members, but it never loses sight of its more serious purpose.
The present officers of the Association are as follows: Frank T. Miller, president; L. O. Eagleton, first vice-president; George W. Burton, second vice-president; L. E. Sutherland, secretary; G. F. D. Zimmerman, treasurer.
The board of directors consists of: W. G. MeRoberts, O. P. Westervelt, W. I. Slemmons, I. J. Covey, C. C. Dutch, Hiram Todd and Paul Dalwig.
The Association consists, at the present time, of one hundred and fifteen members, all of whom are actively engaged in the practice of their profession in Peoria.
VICTOR P. MICHEL
Victor P. Michel, who at the spring election was elected Police Magistrate, is a native of Peoria. He left school while quite young on account of the death of his father, so that he might help support his widowed mother. Later on he was appointed as keeper at the Joliet Penitentiary, then as deputy sheriff and subse- quently as supervisor. He displayed such executive ability, honesty and efforts to serve the public and tax payers that when the office Probation Officer Mothers' Pension Fund was created, it appeared to everybody concerned that Mr. Michel was the man for the place. Realizing that to better fill his various public duties a 377 legal education was essential, he commenced the study of law several years ago and continued to do so while serving as probation officer, studying at home under the tuition of several local attorneys until admitted to the bar. Such devotion to duty is rarely overlooked, and at the spring election Peorians paid their tribute to Mr. Michel in electing him Police Magistrate by an overwhelming majority.
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OCULIST OPTOMETRIST OPTICIAN
(Differentiated)
No profession or occupation is more confused than those above mentioned. Altho the human eye is one of the most sensitive and important parts of the human body, it is given the least care and attention and the most abuse: and not until absolute necessity arises is it given any consideration. A keen eyeis as essential, if not more so, as a keen mind and an active body. It is as important to exercise the eye daily as it is the mind and body, and neglect or abuse will of necessity compel correction by medical or mechanical science defined as follows:
An Oculist is any physician or doctor of medicine, duly licensed and practicing medicine who has made a special study of the treatment of the diseased eye and is specializing therein.
An Optometrist is a person engaged in the practice of Optometry. This is the science of exam- ining and testing eyes and fitting glasses without the use of drops, drugs or medicine; entirely mechanical. It is recognized by thirty-four states of the United States of America, four provinces of Canada, by Australia, and other foreign countries, as a distinct mechanical science. The University of New York and Ohio is teaching this course in the Departments of Science and a two-year course is the legal re- quirement. Illinois has for eighteen years sought to obtain a law governing the practice of Optometry, but has so far only succeeded in obtaining a Supreme Court decision, which holds, "that the testing of eyes and fitting of glasses is not the practice of medicine, and to so contend would only bring the practice of medicine into disrepute."
An Optician is any person engaged in the business of grinding lenses, making spectacles, eye glasses, cameras, telescopes and other optical instruments.
OSCAR V. BERRY
Oscar V. Berry, optometrist, who has been actively engaged in the practice of testing eyes and fitting and grinding lenses for the past twenty years, dates his residence in Peoria from 1905. After graduating from the grammar and high school in the place of his nativity in 1887, he entered the Chicago Institute of Horology, and subsequently enrolled in the Ferguson Institute, being in the King clinical class of 1895 when he entered the Philadelphia College of Optometry and graduated in 1898. Until 1903 he spent at New York, and then continued his practice at Ypsilanti Michigan, until 1905, when he moved to Peoria. His professional ability and the keen interest that he takes in each individual's case was soon ap- preciated, and to-day he is enjoying a very lucra- tive practice. He has a well appointed office at 125 S. Adams Street, and also one of the most modern and fully equipped lense grinding depart- ments in the city. The recognition that the members of his own profession accord him was evidenced by his election as the first president of the Illinois State Society of Optometrists. He keeps in touch with all advanced ideas of his pro- fession by continuous study, and writes on the subject of Optometry for the Keystone, Opto- metrist and Optician, Optical Journal and Review, and Optometry, all being considered the best maga- zines on the subject. Fraternally he is a Mason and is also a member in the Eastern Star.
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DR. WALTER WYATT
Walter Wyatt, physician and oculist, with offices at 311 Central National Bank Building, was born at Culter, Indiana. November 9th, 1864. Receiving his preliminary education in the schools of his native city, the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, and the Indiana University at Bloomington, he taught for three years at Patton, Ind., and came to Peoria in 1890, becoming the proprietor of an optical store which he conducted until 1904, and in the interim attended the Illinois Medical College at Chicago, graduating in 1903 with the degree M. D. Since then he has specialized in the Opthalmological branch of medicine, and limits his practice to eye surgery, eye diseases and fitting of lenses. Dr. Wyatt married Miss Jessie Eury, October 7th. 1891, and has four children. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Creve Coeur Club, Peoria City and Illinois State Medical Societies, and the American Medical Association. He is a trustee and member of the Medical Staff of the Deaconess Home and Hospital, a director of the Farmers Loan and Homestead Association, and a member of the Hale Memorial, the Methodist Church and Board of Education of the Public Schools of the City of Peoria.
CHAS. DE MOURE
Chas. De Moure, secretary, treasurer and general manager of Wyatt-De Moure Co., 103 S. Adams Street, has spent eighteen years in the study of the eye and fitting glasses exclusively. After completing his course at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute with the degree O.D. and the Northern Illinois College at Chicago with the degree Oph. D., he spent one year with the celebrated Dr. Dombroski, three years at Free- port, Illinois, and then became associated with Dr. Walter Wyatt, with whom he has now been for more than twelve years. In 1914 their business grew to such proportions that in order to render their patrons their usual satisfactory service it became necessary for them to incor- porate, and the present firm Wyatt-De Moure Co. was incorporated. While the store is situated at the above address, a grinding department is located at 120 S. Adams Street, which is in charge of W. L. Haslet, who has been connected with Dr. Wyatt for nineteen years, and wherein seven people are continuously kept busy. Dr. De Moure is a Mason, being a Shriner, Eastern Star, and president of the Ionic Club. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Illinois State Society of Optometrists, and belongs to the Natoinal Association of Opto- metrists and the Peoria Association of Commerce. His professional ability and upright life has gained for him the respect and good will of the general public and a very large clientele for his firm.
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DR. ALEXANDER CHITTICK
Dr. Alexander Chittick, the dis- coverer of intravenous medication, is a native of Lincoln, Illinois. After grad- uating from the Beason High School in 1890 he entered the Northern Illinois Normal School, graduating in 1892. From that time until 1900, he taught school, spending three years in the Peoria County schools and two years in the Chicago public schools. He then enrolled in the National Medical Uni- versity, from which he grad- uated in 1904 with the degree M. D., and in addition was honored by the University in being retained as one of the instructors, and was offered the chair on Hygenic and Sanitary Science. Not being obliged to devote his en- tire attention to teaching, Dr. Chittick en- gaged in the active practice of medicine. It was at this time that he commenced the experiment of injecting medicine direct into the blood, pursuing the theory that all diseases being traceable to the condition of the blood, that if the blood can be restored normal, the patient will be likewise, and has the distinction of being the first physician to successfully give this treatment. From 1910 to 1913, Dr. Chittick held the chair of Nervous Diseases in the Northern College of Ophtalmology, re-
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