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Hope many give to this!  Even if you don't purchase a sign, you can call the number and get the info so you can mail a check to help this sweet little angel!  She is one of our own on here.  I feel like I know her just from seeing her photos and news from her grandma.

You can get ahold of me also if you want to make a donation to the family. I’m Faith Marie’s grandmother!! ❤️

Help support the Spicher Family. Signs are $20.00 each. All proceeds go to the Family to help cost of going to Pittsburgh. Faith Marie was born with Trisomy 18, Edward’s Syndrome. At 19 months she was diagnosed with Wilm’s Tumor or Kidney cancer. She has to go every week to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to have chemo. Thank you & God Bless!!
Please call Deb Kalgren Kramer @ 771-8459

Oh, what a little doll!   And look at her looking up at her proud father!  Precious.  I hope all goes well with her hearing now.  She looks so healthy.  I love chubby cheeks!

great news.....she looks great!!!

She just had her heart ultrasound & the dr said she could have her eye surgery as long as the anesthesiologist is ok with it. So she will no longer be cross eyed In a few weeks!! That is the best b-day news I could get!! Yea!! We have been waiting & 🙏🏻 for those words for 6 months!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻 😁☺️🥳

Faith got her Colear hearing aid this morning.

How is this dear little one doing these days?

In the 60's B.F.Goodrich was there , made golf balls.  Later on Believe it was Ideal from Sykesville made hunting clothes.  When Goodrich was there after Friday night football game would walk over to get a ride home with my mother when she got off a 11 PM.

I spent a couple hours going through the library's collection of DuBois city directories. I don't know if there are gaps in the collection because new directories came out "once in a while" or if the library just doesn't have a complete set. Either way, the  years listed below are the only directories available for the 1923 to 1948 period.
Note that the Harley shop lists its address as 101 W. DuBois Avenue
1923 Milliron Consruction Co. Wilson W Milliron, Pres.
     222-224 DuBois National Bank Building
[It would seem that the building was erected just in time to be recorded on the 1924 Sanborn map.]
1926 Milliron Construction Co. Inc. W. W. Milliron, Pres.
     corner 1st & W. DuBois Ave
AND  Milliron Garage general repairing and storage
     corner 1st & W. DuBois Ave
1929 same as 1926
     Also, an ad indicating Milliron was the
     dealer for Peerless Automobiles
1931 no entry for Milliron Construction, however three Millirons (but not W. W.) are listed as having responsible positions in
     Independent Construction Co. at 10 E. Washington St.
     at 101 W. Dubois Ave:
     Coyle, Denny H. service station
1933 at 101 W. DuBois Ave:
     Edwards Motor Transit Co. garage
     Zetlwanger, Herbert P. auto repair
1936 101 W. DuBois Ave, Milliron Building
     Dinsmoor, Martin W. restaurant
     Auto Aligning Co.
     Doc's Garage
     Moore, Wayne W. trucking
     U.S. Works Progress Administration
     State Emergency Relief Board
     Edwards Motor Transit garage
1939 101 W. DuBois Ave, Milliron Building
     Dinsmoor, Lula Mrs. restaurant
     Auto Aligning Co.
     Doc's Garage
     Moore, Wayne W. trucking
     U.S. Works Progress Administration
     Edwards Motor Transit garage
     Miller, Arthur P. service station
     Shaw's Truck Lines
1942 101 W. DuBois Ave, Milliron Building
     Edwards Motor Transit garage
     Shaw, William trucking
1944 101 W. DuBois Ave, Milliron Building
     B. F. Goodrich rubber goods
1946 and 1948 same as 1944
In all of that, I found no connection between the Vulcan Soot Cleaner/Blower Company and the Milliron Building. But I was distracted by trying to follow the ins and outs of the Vulcan Soot enterprise in its career in Dubois, so did not look to see when Ideal took over the building. That and recounting the adventures of Vulcan Soot must wait for another time.
 

I worked for Ideal the summer they installed and painted those murals. I don't remember artists name but he was from sykesville and friend of Calvin Beam (or Bean) owner at the time. Anyway, the large front doors of the building were replaced with cinder-block walls and stucco - like material. He then painted directly onto that. I doubt this could have been disassembled and saved.

Regarding Vulcan Soot: I poked around a bit and turned up not much.
As to what Vulcan Soot did: Boilers tend to accumulate soot on the insides of the fire tubes. That insulates the tubes, impeding heat transfer from the fire into the water. Soot blowers are devices which use steam,  compressed air, or something else to dislodge the soot and let it go up the chimney.
The following is extracted from a history posted on the web site of SPX FLOW Products. The material in square brackets is interpolated from other sources, mainly archives of US patents.
1903    The Vulcan Soot Cleaner Company begins selling soot blowers for boiler cleaning. The company is located in Windber, Pennsylvania.
1904    William Eichelberger files patents for the boiler soot cleaner. The company moves its headquarters to DuBois, PA.
1905    The Vulcan Soot Cleaner Company is incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. Delos E. Hibner Sr. is both treasurer and manager.
1933    The Vulcan Soot Cleaner Company is reorganized as the Vulcan Soot Blower Company.
[Patents issued in 1934 and 1935 to De Los Hibner Jr and assigned to Vulcan Soot Blower Corp. "a Pennsylvania Corporation"]
1937    Fred Brown is named president of the Vulcan Soot Blower Company. Chief Engineer Delos “Dee” Hibner Jr. becomes a vice-president.
[Patents issued in 1940 and 1944 to Hibner and a Fred C. Arey. In 1940, Arey was said to be from Freeeport PA; in 1944, DuBois.]
1948    Continental Foundry and Machine Company acquires the Northern Equipment Company and the Vulcan Soot Blower Corporation. Each Company remains a division of Continental Foundry.
1952    Continental Foundry relocates the Copes product line and the Vulcan product line to a new location in Erie, Pennsylvania. The combined companies became known as the Copes-Vulcan division.
1955    Continental Foundry and Machine is purchased by the Blaw-Knox Company.
1968    White Consolidated Industries acquires the Blaw-Knox Company. Copes-Vulcan was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary.
1986    Swedish firm AB Electrolux Group acquires White Consolidated Industries. Copes-Vulcan is formally incorporated.
1994    AB Electrolux sells Copes-Vulcan to Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd.
1997    Copes-Vulcan sells its longtime soot blower operation (Vulcan). [But Copes-Vulcan continues in business making valves. I can't discover who bought the soot blower business.]
*** end quoted material
Nowhere in the available Sanborn maps can I find a reference to the Vulcan Soot Blower Company in DuBois. The only "V" entity is the Van Tassel Tannery. It appears, however, that they were active in DuBois from 1904 to 1952. Where in DuBois? Haven't a clue. Note that they arrived in DuBois 10 or more years before Milliron built what's now the Harley shop. Perhaps they rented space there once that building existed.
It could be that Vulcan had no production facilities of their own. That is, they may have farmed out actual production of soot blowers to job shops, needing only office space for sales and design activities.

Ideal Products. Main office and plant in Sykesville.

Thanks for the update!  She is sooooooo precious!

Today Faith Marie is 3 months old. She is 8# & wearing 0-3 mo clothing.

Precious little thing.  God's little gift to you all.

Precious little thing.  God's little gift to you all.

Precious little thing.  God's little gift to you all.

Today Faith Marie is 1 month old. ❤️ 🙏🏻 ❤️ We are told that her odds of making it to a yr old go up if she made it to a month old. I say she has the same odds as the rest of us. When God calls us home, we go.
 

This was her Valentine pics her mom sent us yesterday. ❤️❤️❤️

She's precious. Prayers for baby and her family. 

This is so tender and heartwarming ! We cannot comprehend how close our Lord watches over these little ones.  God bless to all in this family, and prayers for this tiny Youngster!!

God works in mysterious ways. How great it is for this little princess to get such a loving family and for this family to get such a special baby girl❤️  I know you will enjoy everyday with the little beauty.

I'm so glad she's doing well. I've been wondering. So cute!!

She's definitely a little princess!  Check out the crowns.