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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for June · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yesteryear looking back at stories that captured headlines in the
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  Speaker 1: Record for June. Written by Jeff Farren Forshaw Local News Network.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. June twenty twenty one, a ribbon
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  Speaker 1: cutting ceremony opened the new Pickerel Pigot Forest Preserve on
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  Speaker 1: Minkler Road south of Oswego. June twenty eleven, the city
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  Speaker 1: of Plano will host the filming of a movie tentatively
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  Speaker 1: titled Autumn Frost. Cinema officials confirm that this is a
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  Speaker 1: Superman reboot Man of Steel. A vintage restored B seventeen
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  Speaker 1: bomber landed on an Oswego farm and was engulfed in flames.
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  Speaker 1: The plane was coming from a show at the Aurora
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  Speaker 1: Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove, bound for Indianapolis. June two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six, two brothers drowned at the Glendee Palmer
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  Speaker 1: Dam on the Fox River in Yorkville, trying to save
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  Speaker 1: a third man, who also died in the incident. The
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  Speaker 1: third victim was a kayaker who went over the dam.
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  Speaker 1: June two thousand and one, workers installed the new shiny
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  Speaker 1: cupola atop the historic County Courthouse in Yorkville June nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one. The road to the new Kendall County Jail
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  Speaker 1: was named after the county's first sheriff, James Cornell. June
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. A costume ball officially kicked off the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Sesqui Centennial celebration June nineteen eighty one. The Larson
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  Speaker 1: Funeral Home will soon go out of the ambulance business.
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  Speaker 1: A committee has been working on plans to have the
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  Speaker 1: Bristol Kendall Fire District takeover. June nineteen seventy six. McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: has signed an agreement to build at Countryside Center, Routes
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  Speaker 1: thirty four and forty seven, Yorkville, June nineteen seventy one.
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  Speaker 1: A man made lake is beginning to fill on the
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  Speaker 1: former Ivan Anderson Farm, Yorkville. The farm is being developed
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  Speaker 1: into a large residential and commercial area named Countryside Center
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  Speaker 1: was recently annexed into the City of Yorkville. Developer is
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  Speaker 1: Turjack Construction Company, headed by Jack Purcell June nineteen sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: For fifty years, the Yorkville Women's Club has owned and
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  Speaker 1: staffed with volunteer members the Yorkville Library to better serve
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  Speaker 1: the growing community. The club has turned the library over
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  Speaker 1: to the city. Mayor Elden Madden appointed a Library board
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  Speaker 1: including Missus Ransom P. Fisher President, Missus Glenn Gable, Missus
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  Speaker 1: Ellsworth Wyndtt, Missus Carl Schobert, Robert Barkley, Missus Roger Burrows,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Lawrence Gardner, Martin Barons Junior, and doctor Robert Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: June nineteen sixty one. Now that the parking places are
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  Speaker 1: nicely painted in white on our main drag, nobody hardly
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  Speaker 1: seems to pay much attention to them. June nineteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: at a meeting of the Village Board, the project of
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  Speaker 1: cutting three feet from the sidewalks on each side of
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Street was discussed, along with the installation of new
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  Speaker 1: lighting standards, with lights of the type now illuminating the
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  Speaker 1: Fox River Bridge. It is contemplated cutting the walks back
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  Speaker 1: will make more space for the flow of the heavy
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  Speaker 1: traffic which is now our lot on Route forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned also was made of a planned commission for Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: in the face of contemplated expansion of the village. June
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, the faculty for the Yorkville Public Schools
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  Speaker 1: has been completed for the next school year. According to
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  Speaker 1: Superintendent James Talbot. New hires include Gordon Campbell eighth grade,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Louis Gable second grade. June nineteen forty six, two
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  Speaker 1: brothers died in a plane crash at the intersection of
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  Speaker 1: Routes forty seven and fifty two. Earl and Everett Dalton
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  Speaker 1: of Peeble, Ohio were killed in the crash. They were
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  Speaker 1: flying from Morris Airport, looking over the territory in which
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  Speaker 1: their father used to farm. Earle just received his diploma
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  Speaker 1: from Newark High School a few days before, and Everett
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  Speaker 1: had just been discharged from the Navy. June nineteen forty one,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Armbrust was selected as chairman of the committee for
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  Speaker 1: the Kendall County Centennial Celebration, to be held next month.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Governor Dwight Green has been invited. June nineteen thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois Highway Department is making a move to improve
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  Speaker 1: truck safety. Trucks will now be weighed and measured at
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  Speaker 1: points along the most used routes in the state. One
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  Speaker 1: of them is Route thirty four, and away station will
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  Speaker 1: be built about one mile east of Route forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: June nineteen thirty one, the largest and most successful Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Alumni banquet in the history of the association was enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: in the high school auditorium in the absence of the
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  Speaker 1: President of the Association, Ronald Clark. Sydney Tarbas acted as toastmaster.
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  Speaker 1: June nineteen twenty six. We have been asked to say
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  Speaker 1: something about the manner in which some domestic animals are
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  Speaker 1: disposed of in and about Yorkville. The plea comes from
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  Speaker 1: the fact that some people, when they wish to rid
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  Speaker 1: themselves of a dog or a cat, take the animal
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  Speaker 1: to some remote part of the community and just let
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  Speaker 1: it out. Let's be more humane and treat the dog
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  Speaker 1: or cat which has been your pet with some consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Don't throw them onto an unkind world after you've brought
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  Speaker 1: them up to look to you for their existence. June
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one, the three young prisoners incarcerated in the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville jail escaped Wednesday and were captured by a strange
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  Speaker 1: trick of fate. They were going south to Morris to
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  Speaker 1: get to Chicago over the Rock Island. The boys were
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  Speaker 1: watching every automobile and hiding in the weeds when one
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  Speaker 1: came along. They had no idea of the proximity of
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff until his car stopped immediately in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Hextell grabbed two of the prisoners and turned them
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  Speaker 1: over to the two women in his car. He took
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  Speaker 1: out on foot for the third and captured him in
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  Speaker 1: short order. Sheriff Hextell had left the prisoners locked up
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  Speaker 1: about noon and went to Morris. They Somesow unlocked the door,
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  Speaker 1: entered the Sheriff's residence and took a gold watch belonging
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  Speaker 1: to Harold Hextell and a revolver belonging to the sheriff.
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  Speaker 1: Much calm has been made in Yorkville about the escape
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that there is no jailer. Sheriff Hextell
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  Speaker 1: said these three are as tough customers as have ever
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  Speaker 1: come under his charge. June nineteen sixteen, there will be
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  Speaker 1: an all day meeting of the township Road Commissioners of
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  Speaker 1: the County at the Courthouse. Topics to be discussed crushed gravel,
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  Speaker 1: the costs and benefits methods of grinding roads and culverts.
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  Speaker 1: June nineteen eleven. The bottom of the Fox River is
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  Speaker 1: very near the top of the water at this time.
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  Speaker 1: June nineteen oh six. Joe Hudson loaded his gasoline launch
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  Speaker 1: on trucks last week and had it hauled to Morris.
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  Speaker 1: He placed it in the canal, hence to Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: the Great Lakes. It is thirty two feet long, fitted
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  Speaker 1: out with a gasoline engine, and will be used for
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  Speaker 1: cruising purposes in vacation time. June nineteen oh one. The
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  Speaker 1: high brick crossings being put in by the village on
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  Speaker 1: the south side are a great improvement over the old planks.
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  Speaker 1: June eighteen ninety six. A class of ten graduated from
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville High School at Tarbax Grace Goddard, Fannyshaw, Mabel Whitney, Blanchechapel,
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  Speaker 1: Louis Villevin, Francis Hill, James Putney, John Curran, Williamshaw. June
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety one. Missus Robert Robertson has added a new
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  Speaker 1: attraction in Platteville in the shape of an ice cream parlor.
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  Speaker 1: June eighteen eighty six. Frank Leverich of Lisbon lost to
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  Speaker 1: cow last week, notwithstanding the efforts of sixteen amateur cow doctors.
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  Speaker 1: June eighteen eighty one. The Kellogg Hotel in Millington is
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  Speaker 1: filling up with summer boarders and the livery department is
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  Speaker 1: kept busy. June eighteen seventy six citizens of Lisbon are
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  Speaker 1: to have a big times at the Congregational Church Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 1: A good time is expected and everyone is cordially invited
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  Speaker 1: to be present with well filled pocketbooks. Strawberries, ice cream
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  Speaker 1: and soothing drinks will be the order of the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Proceeds to go to the Sidewalk Fund. June eighteen sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: Hydraulic Avenue, not a very pretty name, has been splendidly
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  Speaker 1: graded and now only waits the gravel to make it
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  Speaker 1: equal to any city street. The next improvement is to
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  Speaker 1: grade the hill running up by the Methodist Church to
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  Speaker 1: make the thing complete.