^ ' - • —• * -rman and WifeBefore the Tower Leakeds .•* ,\y,y/.' .. ...•'• ■. -.■'■.V. .:■••■ lt;x$;/%•. • '•- ■ tl. ;V '• .* **.lt; *was recognized as this city's weatherman. His I. John Coal and Salt Works. His dea^h oc-His wife, the former Catherine Helen Potter, toOctober 16, 1900, died March 10, 1953*Constructed in 1897, Du Quoin's independent Order of Odd Fellows building at Main and Mulberry streets first sported a 25-foot tower in the southwest corner of the structure. In later years the tower became leaky and was removed. An earlier I OOF building, a frame structure, was moved from the corner location in (890 to a spot on South Oak street where Ritter Liquor Storo now stands* It was operated there at the Southern Hotel*ii