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

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  Speaker 1: EASTERO year. Looking back at stories that captured headlines in
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  the Record for February. Written by Jeff Farren and for
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  Shaw Local News Network. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. February twenty
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  twenty one, Kendall County Health Department officials used the Yorkville
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  High School gym for two mass vaccination events and estimated
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  forty one hundred people were inoculated to fight the COVID
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  nineteen virus. Total cases reported so far in Kendall County
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  are ten thousand, seven hundred and thirteen with eighty one deaths.
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  February twenty six, Yorkville Public Library officials marked the one
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  hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the library with a
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  birthday bash event. February twenty eleven, Somewhere between twelve and
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  twenty inches of snow fell on Kendall County as high
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  winds brought blizzard conditions. February two thousand and six. Figures
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  are now in and two thousand, nine hundred and fifty
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  new home building permits were issued in Kendall County. Last
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  year far and away the busiest year yet for new
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  home starts. February two thousand and one. Jewelusco will be
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  the main tenant in a new shopping center proposed on
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  the north side of Yorkville. February nineteen ninety six, a
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  smoke Scaret Circle Center School sent forty four students to
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  area hospitals. A power surge caused a motor to overheat
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  in the boiler room. The resulting smoke was contained to
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  a small area of the building. Ambulances from eleven area
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  fire departments helped Bristol Kendall paramedics. No serious injuries were reported,
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  with most problems stemming from hyperventilation and stress, officials said.
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  February nineteen ninety The Kendall County Board celebrated the county's
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  one hundred and fiftieth birthday with a cake at this
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  month's board meeting. February nineteen eighty six. Government officials overestimated
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  the effects of radium and water, but the standards are
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  not likely to be relaxed, according to an expert who
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  spoke to about fifty people in Yorkville. Yorkville City water
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  has been cited for radium content above the EPA limit.
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  February nineteen eighty one. Raymond Lett, former Plano resident is
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  the executive assistant to US Department of Agriculture Director John Block.
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  February nineteen seventy six, Republican dubernatorial candidate James Thompson visited
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  Kendall County, saying his first priority would be to get
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  state finances under control. February nineteen seventy one that listens
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  to The Yorkville School Board approved a feasibility study on
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  the expansion of the Bristol Grade School. February nineteen sixty six,
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  a committee has been formed to try and find a
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  new doctor for Yorkville. Currently, no doctors have offices here.
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  February nineteen fifty six, the Millbrook School reopened after having
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  been closed this past week because of an epidemic of measles.
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  February nineteen fifty one, a meeting was held at the
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  Yorfhill School to organize a group of traffic patrol boys.
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  Patrol Boys will assist at crossings near the school. The
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  boys are organized like a regular police force. Vehicular violations
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  will be reported to Chief Martin and student violations to
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  mister Maynard. Captain of the squad is Charles Stating. Lieutenants
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  are Bob Prickett and Richard Schick. Other members are Frank McKeever,
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  William Horton, Babe Miller, Dave Reppie, Donald Olsen, Bob Beecher,
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  David Gardner, Jim Pilney, Ronnie Laifheit, Kenny Marshall, Harlan Wilson,
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  Richard Henning, Dale Reppie, and Dave Gowens. February nineteen forty six,
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  but Dick Houke, chief of the Bristol Kendall Fire Department
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  for twenty five years, and Bert Almy assistant chief for
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  twenty three years, have announced their retirements. Officers who will
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  take over are Winifred Prickett Chief, Ralph Blake, first assistant Chief,
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  and Walter Schick, second assistant Chief. February nineteen forty one.
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  Manners Week is being observed at Yorkville High School. The
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  girls in the clothing class presented the program to highlight
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  the proper behavior on the bus, in the halls and
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  while walking down the street. February nineteen thirty six. There
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  was a serious wreck in Bristol Station last Thursday morning
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  when a fast freight train on the CB and damp
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  Q tracks left the rail and scattered five freight cars
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  about in the vicinity of the depot. It was a
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  miracle that the depot wasn't wrecked too, for a string
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  of cars was derailed right alongside the platform. The cause
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  of the wreck is said to be a broken drawbar.
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  There were no injuries. February nineteen thirty one. The Farmers
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  State Bank of Millbrook was robbed of two hundred dollars
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  cash on Tuesday noon by two young men who drove
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  up to the bank in a new car, entered and
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  drew guns, ordering mister Ralph Whitti, the treasurer of the
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  bank and the only occupant at that time, to lie
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  on the floor while they helped themselves to the money
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  and made their escape. February nineteen twenty six. The law
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  authorizing the building of a bridge across the Fox River
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  at Yorkville by the State has been passed by Congress.
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  The bill starting this on its way was presented by
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  Senator McKinley, who hurried it through the Senate and now
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  through the House. Nothing now prevents the building of the
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  new bridge at the count seat. February nineteen sixty To
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  fill in order, R. Scheidecker of Millington hauledwood all night
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  Wednesday and filled a car rather strenuous on the helpers.
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  February nineteen eleven, in honor of Lincoln's birthday, mister C. E.
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  Sleezer presented each of the teachers and pupils at Millington
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  School with a bright new Lincoln penny. It helped to
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  commemorate the day, and all appreciated his thoughtfulness. February nineteen
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  o six. Clinton Hawke, the new proprietor of the Brick
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  Shop in Yorkville, is showing a fine display of horses
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  shoes made by himself, and the collection are shoes for
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  all kinds of horses, from the high stepping racer to
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  the heavyweight farm animal, with shoes of peculiar construction to
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  remedy the various defects in trotting. February nineteen oh one
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  the Methodist Church and Sheridan burned Sunday night just after services.
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  A lamp exploded and set the building on fire. February
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  eighteen ninety six, the Kendall Cornet Band, under the leadership
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  of Angus Carter, looked fine in their trim uniforms for
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  their concert. The Mandolin Club, consisting of Men's Newton, Halleck,
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  Miss Ferris and Mesers Boomer poll and Hallock contributed two numbers.
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  February eighteen ninety one. A young man with a phonograph
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  was in Shaver's office in Oswego. The phonograph would speak, sing,
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  and play to all who had a few nickels to invest.
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  February eighteen eighty six. The warm weather of the past
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  four days as thawed the snow rapidly and spoiled the slaying.
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  February eighteen eighty one, Millington, We have just passed through
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  the most disagreeable storm of the winter, the snow drifting
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  so as to make the roads almost impassable. Bridge and
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  ice both safer in sound. As yet snow was twenty
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  nine inches deep in Hollendeck's grove. February eighteen seventy six.
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  A new well has been bored on the grounds of
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  the Yorkville Schoolhouse. Mister Carter has put in a good pump,
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  and now the pupils can have clean hands and faces,
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  and plenty to drink. February eighteen sixty six. The Road
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  Commission will hear the pros and cons on the subject
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  of a new road from Yorkville running southeast to Section
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  three at the point where the Blacksmith shop stands on
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  mister van Emmon's land. This road is much needed as
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  it will open the way into the towns of na
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  Abuse and seward, saving a roundabout journey to the resident
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  of these towns. In reaching the county seat,