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In March, 1917, he applied for a commission in the Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army, and was sent to the officers' training school at Fort Sheridan. He was commissioned a Second Lieut. Inf., Aug. 15, 1917: was commissioned a First Lieut. Inf., Aug. 24, 1918. Discharged March 15, 1919, at Camp Devens, Mass. Resumed the practice of law with his former partner at Johnston City shortly after his discharge.
Henson & Kenshalo are very popular and active in all affairs pertaining to the upbuilding of their town and are winning a deserved success.
W. H. Lannon
0 NE of the real boosters for Johnston City and a man who is active in all affairs for the upbuilding of his city, is W. H. Lan- non, secretary of the Johnston City Commer- cial Club and manager of the Economy Va- riety Store, owned by the H. Lancaster Co., a corporation owning stores at Du Quoin, Marion, Christopher and Johnston City, of which Mr. Lannon is vice-president.
Mr. Lannon was born in 1892 at Creal Springs, the son of J. C. and Sarah Lannon.
He was graduated from high school in 1911 and taught school and then went to Cali- fornia, where he clerked in a store for three years, returning to Williamson County and engaging in the present business in 1916.
He was married in 1912 to Miss Bernice Odonnell, daughter of F. and Ellen Odonnell of Creal Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Lannon are the parents of three children, Marie, Kenneth
Mr. Lannon by his public spiritedness has won a host of friends in Johnston City.
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Automotive Sales Company
THE Automotive Sales Company are successors of the Frankfort Auto Company, which was organized in 1916 by Ralph Mitchell, Robert Medill, . Charles A. Newton and H. E. Kirkpatrick. Mr. Newton was in the service, but upon his discharge became the active manager. The firm was reorgan- ized and changed to the Automotive Sales Company, January, 1919, and the present officers are as fol- lows: Chas. A. Newton, president and treasurer;
H. E. Kirkpatrick, secretary; J. H. Newton, vice- president. Charles A. Newton before entering the automobile business was employed by the Johnston City State Bank and later by the Ernest Coal Com- pany. H. E. Kirkpatrick, formerly manager, was employed by the Ernest Coal Company and previous to that was in the insurance business. J. H. New- ton, father of Charles A. Newton, is the newest member of the firm acquiring an interest when re- organizing, is a retired farmer.
The Automotive Sales Company do a very extensive business and are among the largest dealers in automo- biles in southern illinois. They have the agency of several automobiles, de- pending at times on the ability of manufacturers to make deliveries, but always have cars that they can recom- mend and guarantee. They also sell trucks, tractors, and the famous Curtis aeroplanes.
The members of this firm are all well known business men and natives of the community, They are reliable, and are safe people to do business with and the automobile public is giving them extensive patronage,
Friedman's Department Store
THE large department store pictured here was established in 1904 by I. Friedman, who came to Johnston City from St. Louis. In 1910 it was necessary to increase the floor space by two additional rooms and in 1915 the third room was added. This large depart- ment store handles everything in the ladies' and gents' ready-to-wear apparel and also a large and varied as- sortment of dry goods of every description.
Mr. Friedman has associated with him his son, Isadore, age twenty years, who was in the service from August, 1918, until March, 1919, five months of which was spent in the navy and two months in the reserve officers' training school.
Mrs. Friedman is also very active in the business and is a
valued assistant to her husband. This large business has been created by giving the public big values for their money.
The citizens of Johnston City and vicinity have shown hteir appreciation of this large bargain center by extending a most liberal . patronage from which it has builded.
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Jones Drug Company
THIS drug store is one of the largest and most complete in Williamson county, and was pur- chased by John W. Jones and Ira E. Jones from Potter Bros., December, 1917.
The Jones brothers are progressive citizens-John W. was with the Central Illinois Public Service Co.
for about years, and Ira W. was formerly connected with the weekly "Progress," and mail carrier on the rural route. They are real business men and well qualified to conduct a business such as the Jones Drug Co. They employ an expert phar- macist for their pre- JONES Bros !! KODAKS | scription department.
The store is complete in every respect with handsome fixtures and modern soda fountain equipment. A com- plete stock of drugs for every purpose al- ways fresh and of the
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highest quality dispensed by an expert; the popular line of Pensular family remedies and all other pro- prietory remedies to meet the wishes of the public; a large assortment of books and all kinds of sta- tionery, toilet goods, candies and cigars, in fact every- thing found in a high class drug store.
A nice music room in connection, with an entrance at 104 South Washington, is maintained. Here are the Edison and Co- lumbia graphophones, Kimball player pianos and other leading makes of pianos, sheet music, records, and everything for the lover of music.
The ever increasing business of the Jones Drug Co. is proof of their popularity and business ability. Don't forget to call No. 83 when they can be of service in any of their varied lines.
Ben L. Baiar
LOCATED at 109 S. Washington Street, Ben L. Baiar, the popular dealer in buggies, wagons and farm implements, has been in business since November 15, 1915.
Mr. Baiar is the son of J. A. Baiar, a prosperous farmer of Lake Creek Township. He is one of the most popular business men of Johnston City, and at present secretary of the Johnston City Red Cross Chapter. He took a very active interest in all war work and was the leader of the Johnston City drum corps which was active during the war and made special trips to Marion to escort the boys when they went away.
The stock of harness in his store is very complete and varied and one can find everything necessary for horse furnishings. Farm implements of every description are sold and kept in stock, and nothing but the best guaranteed buggies and wagons are sold here. Selling at small profits and the best of everything has won for Mr. Baiar a large and in- creasing patronage.
Charles Cazaleen
THE subject of this sketch is a native of Italy, born November 11, 1870, at Rivalba, province of Torine. He came to the United States in 1889 and first located at Coral City, where he worked in the mines and at railroad work for ten years, and later in Elkville and Braidwood, coming to Johnston City in 1899 and engaged in business until 1912 and for a time in the bakery business.
Mr. Cazaleen is at present and for about seven years engaged in real estate and insurance husiness. He is a notary public and represents the Italian consul in this district, besides a steamship agency where he obtains transportation for foreign travel on all lines.
He was very active in home work during the war and was chairman of the legal advisory board. A prominent Republican in politics, he has for a num- ber of years served as precinct committeeman. He is one of the directors of the Citizens State Bank.
Mr. Cazaleen's family consists of a wife and three children. He is a respected citizen, actively identified with all public activities.
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THE West Side Drug Company is a co-partnership of Dr. L. H. Green and J. L. Love, which was consum- mated May 15, 1919. Dr, Green came to Johnston City from Cambria about five years ago and in the short time built up a wonderful practice, but of course like most patriotic physicians, when possible, enlisted in the service of his country, being commissioned as first lieutenant, medical corps.
Mr. Love is well known in business circles of Williamson County having been for thirteen years traveling audi- tor for the Madison Coal Corporation.
This drug store is very modern in every respect and is equipped with a most modern soda fountain and up-to- date drug store fixtures of every kind. A specialty is made of the Red Cross and Dike's line of family remedies. This drug store also has the distinction of having the largest line of toilet preparations in southern Illinois besides the full line of family remedies and drugs, they are selling the Aeolian and Vocalion line of phonographs.
The persons shown in picture are: J. L. Love, Kile Morris, Jean Leigh and Chas. S. Ingham, from left to right.
D. H. Henson
THE D. H. llenson Grocery Company began busi- ness in its present location in 1901. The owner, Mr. D. H. Henson, was born on Jan. 17th, 1855,
near Vergennes in Jackson County, Illinois. He followed farming and the merchandise business in Jackson County until 1896, when he moved to Johns- ton City, Illinois. Here he was engaged in farming and mining until 1901.
His grandfather, Mr. Benjamin Hen- son, was a pioneer of Kentucky. He afterwards moved to Illinois and set- tled near Grand Tower. Here Mr. Ben- jamin Henson, Jr., who was the father of D. H. Henson, was born in 1819.
Mr. Henson and Carrie J. Campbell, a daughter of William Campbell, were united in marriage in July, 1877. To them were born five children, Mrs. William Pugh, Mrs. Ora Baiars, Mrs. Myrtle Crisenberry, Miss Sylvia and Ray D. Henson.
During the great war Mr. Henson was the ahle and efficient president of the Johnston City Chapter of the American Red Cross.
He contributed quite a little time and very generously in money in all war activities that were required to help win the war and none worked more unselfishly than he did.
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ELLES STORE CO. 1897-1919.
TN 1871, the first railroad was completed in Williamson County. In 1872, the first coal was shipped from the county. In 1877, the foundation of the Elles Store Company was laid. This company was not built on sand-that when the winds blew and the storms came it would totter and fall. For forty-two years it has weathered the storms of panics and business famine. Early in its history, it was called Elles Bros .- Edward A. and Albert K. Elles, the founders, and later Charles and Lewis joined with them, and in 1885 the present company was incor- porated.
The rules of the corporation, as well as the early organization, was to give everyone a square deal and thereby merit the confidence of the people of Williamson County.
Three of the Elles brothers have passed away since the organization-Louis, Charles and Edward; but so inculcating the prin- ciples of strict honesty and uprightness in their associates that the same rules prevail in the continued expansion of the company.
This corporation, like good citizens of the community, gave offsprings that it can justly
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be proud of-the Marion Supply Company of Marion and the Herrin Supply Company of Herrin. This war history of Williamson County would not be complete without the history of this company that has stood when others have fallen and stemmed the storms of forty-two of successful years. It is today as it has been in the past, here to serve you. Its management will always stand for the square deal for the young, the old, the rich and poor alike.
WE THANK YOU.
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Carterville Herald
THE CARTERVILLE HERALD was started in 1889 in one of the oldest towns in the county and has been published weekly ever since, with the exception of possibly a few issues, when it became necessary to halt publication temporarily for a change of ownership or manage- ment. The ownership of the paper changed frequently in the earlier days of its career be- cause those behind the project found difficulty in getting over the crooked and rock road of the publishing and printing business.
The Carterville Her- ald plant in later years became one of the sub- stantial businesses of the town and is now advancing rapidly. The Herald is becoming more and more a wel- come and greatly- looked-forward-to week- ly visitor in practically every home in the com- munity in which it circulates. Besides pub- lishing the Carterville paper, the office has undertaken to publish a paper for the city
of Hurst. The new paper is known as The Hurst Herald. It already has become firmly established in the community, and the com- munity is giving it its best support.
The Carterville Herald and The Hurst Herald are edited and published by C. S. Coddington, who came to Carterville from Wis- consin in the spring of 1917, after following newspaper work with some of the metropoli- tan papers. He received his education at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, completing his work there in 1911. He then took up newspaper work and has been engaged in it practically all the time since, working in Waterloo, Ia .; Peoria, Ill .; Green Bay, Wis .; Racine, Wis .; and Mil- waukee, Wis. His ex- perience in newspaper work has well equipped him for giving Carter- ville and entire commu- nity the kind of a newspaper and printing office it needs. Progressive and aggressive, the Herald fulfills the needs of Carterville.
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Holmes Garage
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H OLMES GARAGE OF CAR- terville, Inc .- This large business enterprise was organ- ized by G. H. and E. C. Holmes, Feb. 14, 1914. They opened for business in the Walker building on North Division Street, as the business grew they added the Thompson build- ing in November, 1916, giving them more room. The building being in two parts made it very inconvenient, so in the fall of 1917 they bought three lots on North Division Street, one of James Flynn and two of James Thompson, and in March, 1918, began the building of a modern brick garage, 100x100. In May, 1918, the business was incorporated under the present name with G. H. Holmes, Pres .; E. C. Holmes, Vice - Pres., and Stella Smith, Sec'y-Treas. The new building was completed in June, 1918, and occupied the same month.
E. C. Holmes was selected for special induction in the army and sent to the Lewis
Institute at Chicago, where he was given special technical train- ing for six weeks and then sent to Camp Mead, Md., and put in charge of the motor equipment for the Provost Guard, where he remained until he was mustered out, November, 1918. G. H. Holmes was classed in 1-I in the last draft but not called.
Stella Smith has been with the firm since August, 1916, and it is to her that the firm owes much of its success.
This garage is complete in every detail and will compare favorably with any garage. Accessories of every description are carried in stock, and a high class repair department with dependable mechanics is maintained. The service rendered by Holmes garage guaran- tees the steady growth occa- sioned by the in- creasing list of a u t o m o bilists who are satisfied customers.
Holmes garage is known all over Williamson and adjoining coun- ties by automo- bilists.
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Hayton Motor Sales Co.
THE Hayton Motor Sales Co. is a partnership composed of J. W. Hayton and brother, Maurice Hayton. This company was established in 1914, and has been very successful from the start, as the Hay- ton brothers are Carterville boys, being born and reared on a farm near Carterville, the sons of Wm. and Cora Hayton.
J. W. Hayton, or "West," as he is usually called, was born July, 1885. He was married to Miss Zella West Oct. 12, 1910. He was very active in all the war work, serving as Chair- man of the Liherty Loan Committee,
and was also especially active in the Red Cross work. There was no drive or work to be done that was too arduous for "West"-he was on the job all the time and con- siderable is due for his unselfish ef- forts in such work.
Maurice Hayton was in the service during the world war and his biog- raphy will be found in the honor roll department of this history.
The Hayton Mo- tor Sales Company are agents for the Paige, Grant and Sayers, but desire to be known automobile dealers, as they sell the cars that they can get and recommend.
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R. H. H. Hampton
BORN February, 5, 1876, and reared in Auburn and Syracuse, New York state, where his father was superintendent of a rolling mill, the subject of this sketch, R. H. H. Hampton moved with his father to Michigan, where the father built a large rolling mill, later moving to Decatur, Ill., and was in charge of a rolling mill there and where the son, R. H. H., was employed in the office and later with the E. C. Bryden & Co., at Mt. Carbon, near Mur- playsboro, being transferred to Carterville in 1876. In a short time Mr. Hampton became interested in the future business prospects of Williamson County and entered partnership with A. K. Elles, which was known as A. K. Elles & Co., and later as Hampton & Elles. Mr. Hampton sold his interest to Ed A. Elles and went into the drug business, which he has continued since.
Mr. Hampton is the head of the Hampton Drug Co., a corporation composed of himself, his wife.
Mrs. Margaret Hampton, son C. T., and daughter Ruth.
Besides a fine retail store where everything known to a retail drug business is sold and a fine soda fountain maintained, the Hampton Drug Company are manufacturers of a large line of drug specialties such as Hampton's Poultry Remedy, Hampton's Cold Cream and Hampton's Sore Throat Remedy. These remedies and specialties have a very large sale and are very dependable, but the manufacturing was con- siderably lessened during the war period on account of the absence of the son C. T., who was in the service and was discharged June 1, 1919. But now that the son is again the able assistant of his father, the husiness is again booming.
Besides the varied interests represented above Mr. Hampton has for many years been the secretary of the Carterville Building and Loan Association, the first association to he organized in Carterville.
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First National Bank
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Carterville was organized in 1905 with a capital stock of $50,000. The following officers served until 1908: A. K. Elles, Pres .; H. V. Ferrell, Vice-Pres .; A. J. Guerrattaez, Cashier. Mr. Elles retired as president
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in 1908, and H. V. Ferrell was elected president, and J. V. Walker, vice-president. Mr. Guerrattaez, the cashier, left the bank May, 1910, and Mike Ferrell, son of the president, was chosen to fill the vacancy, and has been the cashier since that time.
Another change of officers took place in December, 1914, when Fred W. Richarts was elected president and Ed. A. Elles, vice-president. The present officers are: J. J. Hunter, Pres .; Fred W. Richarts, Vice-Pres .; Mike Ferrell, Cashier; Emma Tygett, Assistant Caslı- ier, and Mabel Brothertor, Bookkeeper. The directors are: D. B. James, John Ogden, J. C. B. Smith, Loyd C. Camp- bell, J. L. Gallimore, J. J. Hunter, and Fred W. Richarts.
The last financial report shows: Capital stock, $50,000; deposits, $360,- 000, and surplus, $9,500.
In August of this year the hank was moved from former location to Kelley Building, a more central location. which had been remodeled into a mod- ern banking institution. No account too large to handle, none too small to welcome.
Sullivan Bros. Garage
THE authorized distributors of the Ford car in Carterville and surrounding terri- tory are Sullivan Bros., who also maintain and operate a large Ford Agency in Carbon- dale.
The Sullivan Brothers are R. H. and E. W., who are efficient automobile men in every respect. R. H. Sullivan before entering partnership with his brother, was for two and one- half years sales manager for the King Motor Car of St. Louis. E. W. Sullivan previous to enter- ing the automobile business was in telephone promotion work in Alabama.
During the war E. W. Sullivan was attached to the aviation sec- tion aerial school of gunnery at Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
The districts for which Sullivan Bros. dis- tribute the Ford automobile are Carterville, Blairsville, Grassy, Southern, and one-half of West Marion townships.
This firm enjoys a profitable business that is making rapid strides.
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Vick Drug Company
THIS most modern and complete drug store was started in 1903 by Snyder Vick, who in August, 1918, sold a half interest in the store to his brother, Jay Vick, Snyder moving to Johnston City, where he purchased a drug store, and Jay assuming the man- agement of the Carterville store.
This store houses everything to be found in a complete drug store, and besides all the proprietory remedies in general demand they have the famous Rexall line which is recognized as the most complete of any line of proprietary family remedies; a pre- scription department unexcelled and other departments such as soda foun- tain, delicacies, candies, cigars, etc., that makes this store the popular spe- cialty shopping place of Carterville. They sell the famous Columbia grapho- phones and Eastman kodaks. This store is the only regular news agency in Carterville and one can al- ways buy the latest newspapers and magazines. Jay Vick was born May 5, 1891, the son of Dr. J. W. Vick, who is still a practicing physician in Car- terville. Jay was educated in the Carterville public schools and a graduate of the Northwestern Univer- sity, where he took a special course in chemistry
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and pharmacy. His wife is deceased, leaving him two daughters, June, born July 3, 1915, and . Betty Lou. born April 25, 1916.
Previous to joining his brother in the Carterville store, Mr. Vick was for two years manager of the F. M. Hewitt drug store at Carbondale.
He is a popular member of the Elks and trustee of the Carterville Improvement Association.
C. W. Bishop
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ONE of the popular young business men of Carterville is C. W. Bishop, merchant tailor, who came from Anna in 1917.
Ar. Bishop was born near Vienna, June 29, 1890. He served an apprenticeship in the tailor- ing business during his school period and after graduating from high school attended the Union Academy, from which he graduated July 17, 1907. During that year his parents moved to Carterville and our subject conducted a picture show for his father about two years.
Always active in athletics, Mr. Bishop played professional ball for two years and then worked for awhile in the mines, but desiring to enter business for himself opened up a tailoring shop Jan. 16, 1911. His large business in custom tailoring, cleaning, pressing and repairing, attests to his ability and popularity.
Mr. Bishop has been an active' Republican in politics and was elected city clerk for the term 1915-1919. He-gives his fraternal preference to the Elks, Odd Fellows, K. of P. and Owls.
Mr. Bishop was married to Miss Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hutton. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are the parents of one son, Jack Hutton, born August 7, 1918.
Mr. Bishop was a very active worker in the county war activities and was especially a valu- able assistant in the exemption board work.
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John Mac Kellar
STARTING in a small way in 1908, John Mac- Kellar, the popular baker of Carterville, has built one of the largest and most complete bakeries in Southern Illinois.
Mr. MacKellar was born in Scotland in 1876, where he started his trade at the early age of fourteen. He came to the United States when thirty-five years of age and received his last natu- ralization papers in September, 1917.
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MacKellar's Bakery is equipped with every modern device for the making of high grade bread and pastries. He has one of the modern Berkenbasch ovens and has just installed the very latest electric oven. This year he also bought the present building and has remodeled and doubled the capacity of the plant.
MacKellar's malt bread is known in all the surrounding towns, as this high class dependable bread has won for Mr. MacKellar an enviable reputation. It is shipped to the neighboring towns by express and trucks every day.
Carterville State Bank
OF the present banks of Carterville, the first organized was the Carterville State & Savings Bank, organized 1904, with a capital stock of $50,000. The officers of the bank at this time were S. H. Bundy, presi- dent; J. B. Samuels, vice- president; and M. W. Size- more, cashier. Since organi- zation Mr. Sizemore has re- mained as the cashier. The other personnel has con- tinued with little change, Mr. Samuels of J. B. Samuels & Son is now president, and B. L. Washburn, postmaster of Carterville is vice-presi- dent. The assistant cashier is L. E. Watson, and the bookkeeper is W. B. Size- more. Directors other than the officers are T. J. Moake, of Moake-Impson ; Walter Rowatt, manager Elles Sup- ply Company, and Robert Dick, coal operator.
The last financial report of the bank shows: a surplus, $40,000, and deposits, $529,000.
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