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moving to Peoria in that year and opening his offices at 333 Woolner Building, where he has since engaged in the general practice of medicine, specializing in his wonderful discovery of intravenous medication, the benefits of which the people here soon learned. To-day he is being kept busy giving this treatment. Fraternally Dr. Chit- tick is a K. P. and a W. O. W., and is also a member of the Authors' Club, having written a book on Bio- chemistry and another one containing 1000 questions and answers on medicine which is used extensive- ly by students preparing for the State Board Examination. He is also the inventor of an Inhaler and in- troduced Ethyl Chloride as a general anaes- thetic. Dr. Chit- tick's inhaler is the most unique instrument ever offered to the profession, being adapt- ed to the administration of not only somnoforme but all other anaesthetics, and has many points of superiorty over other inhalers. The Anaesthetic is a mixture of Ehyl and Methyl Chloride with Ethyl Bromide. This anaesthetic when used in his inhaler, which is air tight, requires so small a quantity that there is no after effect whatever. Both have been received with great favor by the profession and are used extensively.
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PEORIA'S GENERAL HOSPITALS By DR. CLIFFORD U. COLLINS
Peoria is very fortunate in having three large hospitals with which to care for her people who may be sick or injured.
The John C. Proctor Hospital was ob- tained through the philanthropy of the late John C. Proctor. It is conveniently situated, being within walking distance of the Union Station, and easily reached by the street cars. It has one hundred beds. Besides the wards it has a large number of private rooms, four having a private bath attached. It has three operating rooms.
The Deaconess Hospital is situated on the Central Bluff and also overlooks the river and city. It is financed by the Metho- dist Church and was built by subscriptions from its members and friends. The new building, which was ready for occupancy April 1914, is the last word in hospital con- struction. It has fifty beds, including two large wards, and thirty private rooms, ten having private bath rooms. It has three operating rooms. The building is absolutely fireproof throughout.
The St. Francis Hospital is located on the East Bluff and commands a splendid view of the river and upper portion of the city. It was built by a community of Sisters
of the Third Order of St. Francis and is a splendid example of the benevolences of the Sisters of the Catholic Church. It has one hundred and fifty beds. There are several
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wards, and a large number of private rooms, eleven having private bath rooms. There are three operating rooms.
These hospitals have laboratories, drug-rooms, X-ray equipment, obstetrical departments, modern sterilizing plants, roof-gardens and porches for the fresh air treatment, and represent all that is modern and complete in hospital construction.
They not only care for the sick and suffering in Peoria, but receive a great many patients from surrounding towns. All three hospitals have training schools for nurses and require a course of study of three years. The Proctor and Deaconess Hospitals graduate a class of Registered Nurses each year. The Sisters of St. Francis do nct nurse patients outside of their hospitals, but the mother-house being in Peoria, the novitiates are trained here for the branch hospitals in other cities.
Each hospital has a staff composed of physicians and surgeons representing the various branches and specialties in medicine, and the reputation of those on the Staff is in keeping with the high standard of the equipment.
It will be seen from the foregoing that the character of Peoria's Hospitals guarantees to the patients the highest degree of skillful care.
THE CUMERFORD FUNERAL HOME
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The Ideal Funeral Establishment of Peoria
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PEORIA CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY
The laws of Illinois in the early forties did not prescribe who may and who shall not practice medicine. To protect themselves and the public against this evil and the inroads of a growing class of charlatans in the medical profession, and in the main loyal to their sense of personal dignity and traditionary principles of ethics, nineteen of the most prominent practitioners established a sort of a circle of defense and offense, and on the 15th of April, 1848, formed themselves into a medical society, which has been kept up to this day and known as Peoria City Medical Society.
Subsequently the society was incorporated and has grown to a present member- ship of one hundred and forty-four active practitioners. The officers are: Dr. C. D. Thomas, president; Dr. J. F. Cooper, vice-president; Dr. O. J. Roskoten, second vice-president; Dr. E. W. Oliver, secretary and treasurer. Their meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Jefferson Hotel.
DR. H. G. EICHHORN
Dr. H. G. Eichhorn, physician and surgeon, with offices at 309 Central National Bank Building, is engaged in the general practice of medicine since 1896. He was born in Springbay, Illinois, which is just across the river from Peoria, April 20th, 1872. Upon completing his preliminary education in the schools of his nativity, he entered the North Western University at Evanston, Illinios, taking the preparatory course and subsequently enrolled in the medical department of the same school, graduating in 1896 with the degree M. D. Immediately after his graduation he returned to Peoria and has practiced here since. By his professional skill, fertile resources and calmness in a crisis, he has won for himself a reputation and is enjoying a large and lucrative practice. In 1900 Dr. Eichhorn was married to Miss Louise Ehringer, a daughter of Albert E. Ehringer of Lacon, Illinois, and has four children. He is a Mason and a member in the Peoria City and Illinois State Medical Societies, and the American Medical Association, and was recently appointed as medical examiner of Wolf's Baths.
PEORIA COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY By DR. O. P. WILTZ
The Peoria County Dental Society, which is the outgrowth of the Peoria Dental Society, was reorganized in 1905 as a component society of the Illinois State Dental Society. Its object is to promote the public welfare by the advancement of the dental profession in education, science, mutual fellowship and good feeling, by union of effort with other local organizations as component parts of the Illinois State Dental Society, by the advocacy of proper legislation, and by co-operation with the medical profession in all matters of mutual interest and advantage to the people of the state.
The meetings are held in Peoria the first Monday of October, November, Dec- ember, January, February, March, April, May and June.
The present officers are: President, Dr. C. M. Smith, 609-11 Jefferson Building, phone Main 983, Peoria, Ill .; vice-president, Dr. C. E. Read, Citizen's phone, 47-A, Pekin, Ill .; secretary, Dr. O. P. Wiltz, suite 418 Jefferson Building, phone, Main 381, Peoria, Ill .; treasurer, Dr. J. P. Luthringer, 507 Jefferson Building phones Main 1616, Peoria, Ill .; librarian, Dr. M. Grace G. Atkinson, Havana, Ill.
Two infirmaries have been established in the city by the society; one at the
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Neighborhood House, 2000 S. Washington Street, which is open every Tuesday after- noon from 1 to 4 o'clock; the second at the Douglas School, Reed Avenue, which is open every Thursday and Friday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock of the school year, excepting holidays. These clinics are cared for by a volunteer staff of twenty-nine members of the Peoria County Dental Society. They are also establishing a course of lectures in the grade schools of this city, first course February 22nd, and continued for ten days. It is the purpose of the Oral Hygiene staff to give a course of illustrated lectures in each school in each semester in the future, and to establish additional infirmaries as conditions will allow.
CHURCHES
Peoria has eighty-one churches, fifteen denominations. Many of these church buildings add greatly to the architectural beauty of Peoria. All these organizations have large memberships and able pastors and priests.
Universalist
First Congregational
Second Presbyterian
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HEWITT & EMERSON ARENTS
First Methodist, now under construction
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FLOWERS
There is in every one a natural love of brightness and beauty. And more than anything the flower seems to meet that need. From the earliest and medieval times when the savage and most primitive races gathered flowers for offering to their Gods, until the present day when they are used for decorative purposes and symbols of expression, whether a social function, baptism. marriage or funeral, there is nothing that can fill the place of flowers. Our need and our demand for them are continual and un- questioned. To supply this want and particularly that of the person who lives in the large and congested city, where flower gardens are prohibitive, the green house came into existence. Tracing its origin to the old Romans, who were able to secure fresh fruits and vegetables for their banquets the year around, the greenhouse to-day and particularly the construction of it has become an art in itself. So careful and accurate must this work be in the grading, foundation, frame work, glazing and painting. plant tables, ventilation, heating and numerous other features, that special instruction is given in the various universities and colleges and the degree Horticultural Architect conferred. An uneven thick glass may cause a more or less distinct focusing of the sun's rays and burn the flowers: and when the different temperatures are taken into consideration, viz .: the night temperature for violets being 40-45°, carnations 50-55°, roses 60°. stove plants 70°, etc., one can readily see how strong a factor the heating system is: and all others are equally important. Each flower has its own season and the grower must make conditions as nearly normal as possible and imitate a natural day, having the full complement of continuous sun- light and periodity in temperature from the lowest temperature before dawn to the gradual rise mid-day or later. It must be watered properly and protected from becoming diseased or being attacked by insects. Each plant must be sowed, nursed and receive the same special attention and individual care that an infant receives. Possessed of this technical knowledge and thirty-six years of actual experience is
CHAS. LOVERIDGE
who has the largest greenhouse in Peoria , and the only one in Central Illinois growing orchids in any quantity. Mr. Loveridge is a native of Devonshire England and was born in 1860. From childhood
he was interested in the growth and cultivation of flowers and in 1889 came to Peoria and engaged in the florist business. By continuous hard work and strict application to busi- ness Mr. Loveridge built up an institution that to-day occupies over six acres of ground devoted exclusively to the cultiva- tion of cut flowers. He has a range of greenhouses consisting of fifteen build- ings, exclusive of the heat- ing plant, constructed and equipped in the most modern and scientific manner, with more than 75,000 square feet of glass, wherein the choicest cut flowers, shrubs, bulbs, plants, etc., are grown. He makes a specialty of roses, carnations, chrysanthymums, violets, lily of the valley, orchids, etc. Like walking through miles of perfumed bowers and all manner of wondrous floral luxuriance is a visit to this green- house, the main entrance being at Arcadia and Wisconsin Avenues, and from which flowers are shipped all over the central part of Illinois. For the accommodation of the retail trade Mr. Loveridge maintains a store at 127 S. Jefferson Avenue, where fresh cut flowers are kept daily. Any kind of a flower, any kind of a floral design, no matter what the occasion may be or the quantity desired, can be had at this store. As a financial factor Mr. Loveridge is vice-president in the Farmers Savings and Loan Association. Fraternally he is a Mason, and belongs to the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorasson, Modern Woodmen of America, Independent Order of Foresters, Knights of the Maccabees and the North American Union. Those who know him recognize his sterling worth as a man and citizen, and through his honorable and upright business dealings and living, commands the respect and appreciation of all.
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JOHN D. KENNEDY UNDERTAKER A View of the Office at 2027 South Adams Street
GAUSS UNDERTAKING CO.
Chapel at 708 Main Street. Established 1860. Wm. F. and J. GAUSS, Props.
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THE JEFFERSON HOTEL
The Jefferson Hotel is Peoria's leading hos- telry. This hotel was opened to the public in February, 1912, and the business from that time was such that in 1914, two additional floors were added. The hotel now has two hundred and fifty-five guest rooms, each with private bath, telephone service and furnished in the most modern and up-to-date manner. The house is operated on the European plan, with a cafe on the main floor in connection. Also, located on the premises is a tea room, palm room, Indian room, and a large banquet hall that will easily accommodate three hundred and fifty guests. The banquet hall can be trans- formed to a ball room when desired. The hotel furnishes employment to one hundred and forty people, and has a pay roll of $6,500 a month. The Jefferson is under the management of Horace Leland Wiggins, a gentleman of many years of practical experience in the hotel business. Officers of the Jefferson Hotel Co. are W. E. Hull, president, Arthur Lehmann, secretary and treasurer.
CENTRAL ELECTRIC CO.
The Central Electric Company of Peoria is an old established firm located at 238 S. Jefferson Street, that has made a specialty of electric work, wiring buildings and doing all kinds of electric work. In addition to the construction work, they main- tain a store in which are all the modern electric devices to lighten the labor in the house- hold-electric irons, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, fans and Mazda lamps. The fixtures for lighting a residence or store are now having more thought both as to design and to getting the maximum amount of light without an excessive cost for current. The Central Electric Company has a well selected line of fixtures suitable for all classes of buildings, and makes a specialty of residence work. They have equipped a special room for the display of the indirect lighting system and can show how a fixture will light up a room, so that one can tell just how it will look in the place it is intended for. The firm is composed of Chas. D. Brainard and Louis B. Van Nuys.
CHAS. JOHNSON HARDWARE CO.
The Chas. Johnson Hardware Co., at 2023 South Adams Street, was established in1885 by Chas. Johnson, who opened a small hardware store in the same block and two years later moved to the present location. By strict application to business and honest dealings, with the aid of his two brothers, William and P. A., he built up one of the largest hardware establishments in Peoria and extended his trade within a radius of one hundred miles outside of the city. Everything in the general line of hardware and mill supplies is carried at this store, as well as a complete line of paints, glass, ranges, gas stoves and refrigerators. They also handle and install all kinds of heating plants, such as steam, hot water heat and furnace, and do roofing and sheet metal work. In 1901 they incorporated under the present name, and the present officers and stockholders are Chas. Johnson, president; P. A. Johnson, vice-president, and Wm. Johnson, secretary and treasurer.
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PEORIA'S PRESS
Tracing its origin to 1834, when the first editor and printer came to Peoria, the Press as it exists to-day, is confined to three English newspapers-one morning and two evening papers-and one German newspaper, altho there have been a number of weekly and monthly publications started that had an ephemeral existence. The Peoria Transcript is issued in the morning and the Star, Journal and Die Sonne in the afternoon. They are all well and ably edited occupying the front rank in provincial journalism and hold their own against metropolitan competition. They represent the vital interests of this city and have done and are now doing all that is within their power to advance its interests.
The Peoria Transcript, which is the only morning newspaper in this city, first appeared December 17, 1855, and was published by William Rounseville, who also was a pastor of the Universalist faith, and Nathaniel C. Nason, who was a practical printer. Caleb Whittemore next succeeded to the management and entered into partnership with Sanford Moon. Subsequently, the Transcript was managed suc- cessively by James G. and Gilmore Merrill, Nathan Geer, Enoch Emery, Edward Andrews, Walter Givens, William Hoyne, Col. E. P. Brooks, Major S. Brackett and R. M. Hanna. In 1893 the property was placed on a modern basis, and in 1898 was merged with the Peoria Herald under the title of Herald-Transcript. In its hyphenated form it was published by Henry M. Pindell, who held the property until 1902, when it was sold to a stock company headed by P. G. Rennick. After a few years, Charles H. May acquired the property, retiring from its management a year ago. Fred A. Stowe, who came to Peoria in April, 1913, as editor of the Herald-Transcript, is now editor and manager of the Transcript. The Herald was dropped August 17, 1914.
The Peoria Star Company, operating the Peoria Evening Star and Sunday Morning Star was organized in 1897 by Mr. Eugene F. Baldwin and Mr. Chas. H. Powell, who had been former proprietors of The Peoria Journal. The first issue came from the press on September 27th of that year, and the total press run was in the neighborhood of 5,000 copies. The Star has steadily grown and has a circulation now of more than 21,000. Chas. H. Powell died in 1903 and Mr. Baldwin died November 18th, 1914. Harry M. Powell is now business manager of The Peoria Star Company and Mr. Seymour A. Oakley, the editor.
The Peoria Evening Journal is the oldest daily newspaper in the city of Peoria that has been published continuously under one title. The Journal was established in 1877 by Jacob B. Barnes and Eugene Baldwin, now both deceased. In 1902 the Journal was purchased by Henry M. Pindell, the present publisher, who up to that time had published successfully for a number of years the Peoria Herald-Transcript. During the last decade the Journal has made remarkable progress, and the paper now claims a larger paid circulation than any other Peoria newspaper. The Journal carries exclusively in the evening field the full Associated Press reports, and for several years has exceeded in volume of advertising any newspaper in the state outside of Chicago.
Die Sonne was first published in 1878 and is owned by the Peoria Sonne Pub- lishing Co., of which L. Ph. Wolf is president; Louis Herrmann, vice-president; Her- mann Goldberger, secretary and city editor, and Wm. C. Grebe, treasurer. It is the only German newspaper in Peoria, altho others have come and gone. Its influence is far reaching and is read extensively throughout Illinois and neighboring states, not only by the Germans, but a large number of other foreign speaking people. It is one of the livest newspapers in the state.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Providing the financial sinews for all this big business in the city of Peoria are eleven banks with a combined capital of over five million dollars. All are old established institutions and are a part of the Regional Bank Territory of which Chicago is the center. Each one carries a reserve in the government bank located there. The average daily banking business is more than a half million dollars, and the bank clearings for the year 1914 were $173,103,643.33.
In sixty years, the city of Peoria has gone through every phase of banking; from the lowest, most primitive and most unstable finance up through the grades to the soundest and most excellent banking
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that the country knows. As an example, Peoria points with pride to the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PEORIA
which is chronologically considered the oldest existing banking institution in the city. In 1851, Nathaniel B. Curtiss and his brother, Pliny Curtiss (under the name of N. B. Curtiss & Co.), opened a private banking business, and after a varied career with numerous changes that business was succeeded by M. P. Stone & Co., who were succeeded by the First National Bank of Peoria in 1863, opening for business January 6th, 1863, and continuing since with a most marked success. To-day the bank occupies its own building which was erected in 1911, at 210-12 S. Adams Street, and in addition to conducting a general banking business is a depositary of the United States, also a Postal Savings Depositary and a depositary of the city of Peoria and the Board of School inspectors of the city of Peoria.
Affiliated with it and occupying the same premises is the Savings Bank of Peoria, the oldest and largest savings bank in the city, which in addition to paying interest on savings and time deposits, makes loans on real estate and collateral; buys and sells foreign exchange, and is authorized by the State of Illinois to accept and execute trusts,act as guardian, executor, and take charge of real and personal estates. A specially equipped steel safe deposit vault, is maintained, which is guaranteed to be fire, burglar and mob proof, and contains 1000 boxes for the safe keeping of papers, etc. Combined assets over $8,000,000.
J. B. WILTON, BRO. & CO.
Mr. John B. Wilton, president of the firm of J. B. Wilton, Bro. & Co., was born in Beachville, Ontario, on the 26th day of - December, 1862, and came to Peoria on the first day of May, 1884. He entered the employ of the late Mr. James Bennett, as his assistant in the under- taking business, in the same location that is now occupied by the present firm. In the same year, 1891, he bought the business from Mr. Bennett, and about the same time sent for his younger brother, Richard, to come to Peoria and learn the business. Several years later Mr. Wilfred G. Barthel also entered Mr. Wilton's employ as an as- sistant. On January 1st, 1913, the business was incorporated under the name of J. B. Wilton, Bro. & Co. The officers are: John B. Wilton, president; Richard S. Wilton, vice-president; James B. Wilton, secretary and Wilfred G. Barthel, treasurer.
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RUNNELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC H. D. Runnells, Director
Harry D. Runnells, director of the Runnells School of Music, 527 Main St., was born and educated at Chicago, Ill. At the age of ten years he displayed a great inclination for music and his par- ents concluded to give him instruction on the violin. So devoted did he become to his violin that everybody soon realized him to be possessed of extraordinary talent, and he was permitted to follow this study exclusively, developing his musical educa- tion under some of the world's famous instruc- tors, such as Carl Becker, Ernst Schmidt and Theodore Spiering of Ber- lin. After study- ing every branch of music and becoming thor- oughly profici-
ent therein, he came to Peoria fourteen years ago and engaged in teaching and concert work. His abilities were soon dis- covered and after many efforts the Gray's College of Music in Bloomington induced him to become Director of their violin depart- ment, where he remained for two years. He then became affiliated in a similar capacity at the Eureka College, where he remained for three years, building up the largest music department that the college ever had. Finally Mr. Runnells was pursuaded by his many friends to establish a school at Peroia, so
that those seeking a good musical educa- tion might take advantage of his ability, and in consequence the Runnells School of Music was opened several years ago. This institution as it stands to-day, portrays the wonderful knowledge, de- velopment and many years of practical experience of its founder and director, who is supported by a staff of teachers of unusual ability and wide experience. It offers a complete course in every branch of music, vocal, all instru -- ments, harmony, musical history, elocution, andi also dramatic art, from the kindergarten department, which includes the color system, chart work, no -- tation, audition, rhythm exer -- cises, table technic, circle harmony, key- board drills, etc .. to concert work .. By his original ! and unique methods, child -- ren as young as three years of age may commence the study of music. With the school as a nucleus, a dozen branch studies are now operating in various towns in the vicinity of Peoria, and all pupils, whether they are studying music for their own pleasure or for a professional career, acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. Runnells as an instructor and director. The fame of his school has been of material assistance to Peoria's publicity.
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