Spring cleaning leads to historical discovery

Spring cleaning leads to historical discovery During a recent spring cleaning at the Joliet Police Department, some officers came across the oldest report in their archives. With everybody wearing so many hats their schedules must have been busy, but Blood and Kramer apparently still had time to socialize, as the documents show. Oh, another thing worth mentioning about Joliet's oldest police report: as opposed to the mayor, the police chief and fire chief aren't the investigators. They're the suspects. A plaque near the store's underground cellar, which still stands at Bicentennial Park, claims that occurred during the 1850s (just after the young man arrived from Wisconsin), while the fire department puts it at 1869 (long after the kid came from New York). Written in pencil, Paige's signature is the first one on the investigation report, as historians agree he was mayor in 1888. Paige already had Joliet Township assessor and township supervisor on his resume, but he'd also served as the city's first fire chief. Bicentennial Park claims he was 20 and walked here from Wisconsin. Both agree he was carrying a dollar in his pocket. Paige is credited with developing the process of bottling flavored beverages with pressurized gas, inventing "soda pop" in a store along Bluff Street's Merchants Row. , on Feb. 14, 1844, and served directly under General Philip Sheridan in the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. While attending school after the war, Blood married Miss Caroline Foncannon before coming to Joliet in 1872. After bottling soda and fighting fires for Paige, Blood also served as his deputy assessor where "he was found to be very useful in those positions, being energetic, fearless and accurate," according to a contemporary biography offered by the Joliet Area Historical Museum. Frank Kramer is a brilliant fire marshal. We could not get a better man. He is a soberer man than the last one," the R a County, N. " Mayor Paige's choice to succeed him at the police department was another firefighter who'd worked for him in the soda pop business - Charles F. Chief Blood (you have to love that name) was born in Aurora, N. Nearly 25,000 people lived here and worked in large plants, breweries and factories. Spring cleaning leads to historical discovery Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 08/05/2012