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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for July · 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 July. Written by Jeff Farren for Shaw Local
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  Speaker 1: News Network. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. The Kendall County Health
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  Speaker 1: Department reported the death of a county resident from COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen that brings the death toll to one hundred since
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  Speaker 1: the onset of the pandemic in March twenty twenty. July
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, work on building sets for the Superman movie
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  Speaker 1: to be filmed in Plano continues. July two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: firefighters battle the blaze at the Precision Loop building on
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  Speaker 1: Route forty seven north of Route thirty four. Damage was
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  Speaker 1: estimated at five hundred thousand dollars. Cause was believed to
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  Speaker 1: be a faulty transfer pump used to siphon liquid from
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  Speaker 1: a drum. July two thousand and one, the state of
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  Speaker 1: Illinois has budgeted seven million dollars to purchase the Farnsworth
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  Speaker 1: House between Yorkville and Plano. July nineteen ninety six, the
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  Speaker 1: Riverfront Park was opened with a ribbon cutting as part
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  Speaker 1: of the fourth festivities. July nineteen ninety one, thousands of
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  Speaker 1: dead fish were cleaned up along about a mile of
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  Speaker 1: the Fox River. The cause of the kill remains unknown.
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  Speaker 1: July nineteen eighty six, the City of Yorkville began celebrating
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  Speaker 1: at Sesqui Centennial. As part of the celebration, a time
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  Speaker 1: vault was buried in the city Park to be opened
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirty six. July nineteen eighty one, two local
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  Speaker 1: men raised over twenty three thousand dollars for cystic fibrosis.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Avnarius and Robert Davidson had a bet that whoever
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  Speaker 1: raised the least would have their head shaved on July fourth.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, they both got their haircut when a
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  Speaker 1: spectator offered one thousand dollars. Donations even included a check
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred dollars from movie star Burt Reynolds. July
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, as part of the Kendal County by
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  Speaker 1: Centennial celebration, about twenty plaques were placed at historic sites
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  Speaker 1: throughout the county. July nineteen seventy one, the Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: Board officially divided the county into two districts, is now
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  Speaker 1: required by new state law on reapportionment. The County Board.
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  Speaker 1: In the past was made up of the nine township supervisors.
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  Speaker 1: It will now be a ten member board, five elected
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  Speaker 1: from each district. July nineteen sixty six, voters approved a
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  Speaker 1: new junior college district, District number five hundred and sixteen
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  Speaker 1: Wobbinsea Community College District. July nineteen sixty one, Oswego voters
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  Speaker 1: approved the formation of a new unit school district. Elected
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  Speaker 1: board president was George Akerlow. July nineteen fifty six, a
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  Speaker 1: group of Senior Girl Scouts originated the idea for a
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  Speaker 1: celebration of the Fourth of July in Yorkville. They presented
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  Speaker 1: their idea to the Bristol Kendall Fire Department and they
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  Speaker 1: agreed to sponsor the event and have called upon the
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  Speaker 1: Women's Club, Lions Club, the VFW, and the American Legion
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  Speaker 1: to help. During June, a group of the girls solicited
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  Speaker 1: funds for support of this patriotic and worthwhile program. Those
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  Speaker 1: girls included Linda Blake, Carrol Blake, Pat Caswell, Doris Dixon,
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  Speaker 1: Gen McKeever, and Joe Miller. Judy Kastner was elected queen
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  Speaker 1: of the celebration, which concluded with a fireworks show. July
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, through cooperation of the Kendall County Board
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  Speaker 1: of Supervisors, Sheriff William C. Johnson, and the Yorkville Village Board,
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  Speaker 1: a two way police radio is being installed in the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville squad car for use of Chief of Police Frank Martin.
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  Speaker 1: The two way radio will be of great help in
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  Speaker 1: the suppression and detection of crime and in time of emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Johnson hopes to have other towns in the county
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  Speaker 1: similarly equipped in the future. Martin's car will be known
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  Speaker 1: as Car number three. July nineteen forty six. Yorkville's water
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  Speaker 1: supply is diminishing slowly, and users are asked to conserve
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  Speaker 1: every drop possible. If you have a sister in us,
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  Speaker 1: all the cistern water you can. If each one of
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  Speaker 1: us takes care of the use of water, we have
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  Speaker 1: no need to worry. If you waste water and someday
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  Speaker 1: find your faucets dry, you have no one to thank
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  Speaker 1: but yourself. July nineteen forty one, Little Kendall did herself
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  Speaker 1: proud with a huge celebration for the county centennial. In
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  Speaker 1: addition to the parade, the programs in the park were
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  Speaker 1: hugely attended. Those registering at the community house numbered three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: with many not availing themselves of the privilege to register.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands jammed the park on the north side for the
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  Speaker 1: crowning of Queen Josephine Koslman. The band, directed by Wilbur Cooman,
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  Speaker 1: had played a concert, and at the conclusion Jerry Groener
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  Speaker 1: played a fanfare and the ceremony of crowning the queen began.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Kozelman and her court, all clad in formal gowns,
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  Speaker 1: made a picture of beauty perhaps never matched in Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County history. July nineteen thirty six, three Aurora youths were
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  Speaker 1: surprised and two captured while attempting to burglarize Hextell's gas
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  Speaker 1: station on the south side of Yorkville. The three first
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  Speaker 1: attempted to break the locks on the gas pumps. The
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  Speaker 1: noise awakened Les Hextell, who was escaping the heat by
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  Speaker 1: sleeping on the lawn of his home nearby. July nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, there was considerable excitement in Millington Tuesday morning
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  Speaker 1: when the bank was robbed about ten to fifteen. Three
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  Speaker 1: bandits fled south to Newark with about one thy three
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars bank guards in Newark open fire, wounding two
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  Speaker 1: and capturing all three. The loot was recovered. A resident
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  Speaker 1: nearby watched the proceedings at the Millington Bank and got
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  Speaker 1: the car number of Big Packard Sedan. The Newark Bank
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  Speaker 1: was notified and bank guards Thorvogan and C. W. Nelson
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  Speaker 1: shot the suspects. The third was captured nearby. July nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, the Public Service Company has given permission to
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  Speaker 1: the state to use the Yorkville Dam and approaches over
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  Speaker 1: which to build a bridge to be used as a
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  Speaker 1: detour during the building of the new concrete bridge over
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  Speaker 1: the Fox River. July nineteen twenty one, the Yellow Taxi
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  Speaker 1: Company of Chicago has leased some property along the river,
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  Speaker 1: about three miles east of Yorkville, and planned to have
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  Speaker 1: a large camp there during the rest of the summer.
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  Speaker 1: It is estimated that upwards of two thousand families will
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  Speaker 1: camp here this summer. The drivers of the taxis having
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  Speaker 1: a very savory reputation in the community, and the people
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  Speaker 1: are looking forward to some interesting times. However, the management
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  Speaker 1: of the company assures the public that their camp will
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  Speaker 1: be thoroughly law abiding and that campers will cause no
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  Speaker 1: disturbance July nineteen sixteen. While J. McLoud of Platteville was
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  Speaker 1: hitching up his horse last week, his horse slipped on
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk, falling of mister McLeod's right leg and injuring
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  Speaker 1: him quite badly. He is improving but not able to
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  Speaker 1: get around. July nineteen eleven, the citizens of Bristol Village
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  Speaker 1: now the north side of Yorkville voted to issue bonds
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  Speaker 1: and raise money for cement walks. July nineteen oh six.
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  Speaker 1: Robert McClelland has lost a nice Meerscham pipe which he
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  Speaker 1: would like to have the opportunity to smoke again. July
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  Speaker 1: nineteen oh one, there was a fire at the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Courthouse. The floor joised over the steam heating boiler
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  Speaker 1: had taken fire and when discovered, had made some headway.
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  Speaker 1: An alarm was turned in and the hose company was
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  Speaker 1: soon on the fire. The floor to Judge Hudson's office
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  Speaker 1: was partly tore up up and the fire soon put out.
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  Speaker 1: The loss was not heavy, mostly from smoke and water.
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  Speaker 1: The Yorkville firemen deserve a lot of praise. July eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six, the Thomas Mack family of Bristol now ride
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  Speaker 1: a new double seated light buggy. July eighteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: The flag of the Union unfurled to the breeze on
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of July, with forty four stars in its
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  Speaker 1: field of blue. It has been enriched by two ere
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  Speaker 1: many years. We expect to see it carry an even
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  Speaker 1: half hundred. July eighteen eighty six, the Castle paper Mill
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  Speaker 1: was shut down due to low water in the Fox River.
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  Speaker 1: July eighteen eighty one. The sad news of the assassination
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  Speaker 1: of our President Garfield has cast a gloom over the
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  Speaker 1: whole community. A sad Fourth of July. Shirley July eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. The United States of America is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: years old. The only set celebration of any magnitude in
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  Speaker 1: the county took place at Newark. It included a procession
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  Speaker 1: lead by Marshall Fowler and the Newark Brass Band in
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  Speaker 1: Fox Station. There was a basket picnic and celebration in
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  Speaker 1: Van Cleeve Grove. A company of ragamuffins headed by the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall Cornet Band, made much sport for all. In Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: and Bristol. At midnight, the church bells were rung cannon
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  Speaker 1: fired and much jubilation, notwithstanding the rain that came down
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  Speaker 1: in a steady fall. July eighteen sixty six, the surveyors
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  Speaker 1: who are surveying the route for the Fox River Valley
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  Speaker 1: Railroad arrived in Yorkville. The gentleman in charge of the
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  Speaker 1: survey informed us he finds the route very favorable for
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  Speaker 1: the economic and rapid building of the road. The route
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  Speaker 1: commences at the Illinois River in Ottawa, crosses the Fox
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  Speaker 1: River at Mission Island, passes a little back of Milford,
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  Speaker 1: crosses Hollenbacks Creek just west of the Millbrook Church, runs
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  Speaker 1: a little north of Mister West, Matlocks and comes into
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville on Hydraulic Avenue