buggies for hire, but farmers took their horses to the feed barns if they drove to town in bad weather, or they left them there for care if they were making a journey out of town by train. Both the Campbell House and the Clifton Hotel maintained livery stables for many years. Ferguson, Tegard, Sachs, Welte, Mitchell, Patton, Colburn and many others operated livery stables at various times, though all did not provide both services named.
C. V. Patton built a two-story brick livery barn in 1908, located about where John Berg's garage stands now. This and the one now used as the Pierce furniture store were the final barns built, the automobile soon replacing the horse as a means of travel. The Utility Broom Company occupied the building in the 20's, but the growing of broom corn in our area was not very successful because of the labor involved in processing, and the factory discontinued in 1925. The Boyd Motor Company then used the big building for a garage and display room before it was dismantled.
CEMENT PRODUCTS. In April, 1917, Mathias Kammerer of Fairbury opened a cement plant on Front Street at Walnut for the manufacture of cement blocks. J. F. Schofield and Arthur Henning were associated with him for a time. Business was good, and the firm built a new factory south of the railroad on Route 51 in 1919-1920, and Mr. Kammerer's sons joined his company. Fire badly damaged the plant on November 11, 1937, and the business then moved to East Peoria because of better transportation.
OTHER INDUSTRIES. A stock company was formed about 1892 which erected a building south of the east Y where they manufactured butter with George Andrews supervising the business. Prices proved unsatisfactory and the business was discontinued after, a few years. The Journal occupied the building briefly after the 1894 fire, and in 1907 Arthur Marvin purchased it and for about twenty years operated the Marvin Manufacturing Company in it. Then it became his Chalmers garage and service station. I. J. Jenkins manufactured grain dump carriers and trucks, and later he and R. N. West had lawn swings made there. The S. K. & S. Co. owned by the Skaggs brothers of Danvers at one time manufactured tractor cultivators there, but discontinued sometime in the twenties.
T. E. Boyd had his Buick agency there before moving it to Front Street in 1926. Joe Lyons operated a junk yard there and sold Pontiacs with Sam Levine. Francis Fitzgerald finally took over the junk yard. The building fell into decay, and became a fire hazard, and was dismantled by C. C. Kingdon in 1933.
F. S. Larison bought the John Welte barn and the Burtis shop south of the railroad on Sycamore Street on March 28, 1903, and built a lumber yard on the site. He also operated the old Ellis elevator in the west end of El Paso and sold coal from bins west of his lumber yard. John W. Pleasants purchased the buildings in 1924, converting the lumber sheds into an icehouse, using artificial ice. He also oper-
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