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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for January · 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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  Record for January. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. January twenty sixteen.
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  Officials are mulling over the changes made in the state
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  DUI laws with the new year. One of the most
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  questioned provisions calls for the expansion of use of the
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  breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device or BAIID. The device locks
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  the vehicle's ignition if a breathalyzer test exceeds the prescribed limit.
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  January twenty eleven, classes began at the new Plano campus
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  of Wobense Community College. The new campus is about a
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  mile west of Eldemain Road. January two thousand and six,
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  Bristol Kendall Fire Department moved into a new firehouse on
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  Kennedy Road, just east of Route forty seven. January two
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  thousand and one, officials announced plans to develop up two
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  hundred acres of land between the current Yorkville and Oswego boundaries.
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  The development Grand Reserve, covers six farms roughly bounded by
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  Bristol Ridge Road, Route thirty four, Mill Road and Kennedy Road.
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  January nineteen ninety six, a new law requires sex offenders
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  to register with local police. Kendall County has registered three,
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  according to Illinois State Police, although one report estimates there
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  are thirty one currently living here. January nineteen ninety Yorkville
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  School Board voted to close Parkview School in June. It
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  was actually the second time it was closed. It was
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  not used by Yorkville in nineteen sixty eight, but Wabbinsee
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  Community College used it as an interim campus for a year.
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  It reopened for Yorkville students in nineteen seventy two. January
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  nineteen eighty six New Year's Day marked the start of
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  Yorkville's Sesqui centennial year. January nineteen eighty one, growing population
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  means Yorkville will now have a fourth ward in the city.
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  Two new aldermen will be elected to the newly formed district.
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  In April January nineteen seventy six, twenty three cars of
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  an eastbound Burlington Northern Freight train derailed in Bristol. Railroad
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  officials estimated total damage to cars, of the train, tracks
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  and signs at about three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars.
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  That includes about five thousand dollars damage to a nearby
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  seaboard seed building. January nineteen seventy one. City of Yorkville
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  officials are seeking control of a small island near the
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  south bank of the Fox River, just east of the
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  Route forty seven bridge. The island is an iesore, official say,
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  and they would like to remove it. January nineteen sixty six.
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  The abandoned way station east of Yorkville on Route thirty
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  four has been removed. January nineteen sixty The walks on
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  the bridge are in with a new beautiful orange colored
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  rail between the walk and falling in the river, and
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  there will be cyclone fencing installed to keep the young
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  ones from crawling through the spaces in the rails. January
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  nineteen fifty six. The Yorkville Bristol Sanitary District has purchased
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  the old fish hatchery site on the north side of
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  the river west of Route forty seven. The fish hatchery
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  has become obsolete because of siltation. The YBSD will build
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  a new sewage disposal plant there, which was authorized by
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  voters last fall. January nineteen fifty one, the new high
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  school gym in Oswego was used for the first time
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  with a crowd of nearly five hundred seeing basketball games
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  with Saint Charles. January nineteen forty six. The Platteville Armory
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  burned last Wednesday. The best efforts of the fire department
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  could not prevail against the flames, and the place was
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  a total loss. Included in the loss were arms and ammunition, uniforms,
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  and various other items kept there by the men. January
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  nineteen forty one, the State of Illinois has recorded deeds
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  from the Public Service Company and now holds title to
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  the Millhurst, Yorkville, and Oswego dam sites on the Fox.
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  A great many individuals have been interested in the construction
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  and maintenance of dams on the river for conservation and
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  recreational purposes, and it is hoped that the acquiring of
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  the property by the state will be a step in
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  this direction. January nineteen thirty six the Platteville Sportsmen's Club
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  is sponsoring a community fox hunt, which will start from
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  Herod's Garage at nine am. It is recommended that all
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  who attend carry shotguns and not rifles, as the plan
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  is to form a circle and then work slowly toward
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  the center. January nineteen thirty one, Judge John K. Newhall
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  sentenced an Aurora man for the murder of Cicero Bassett,
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  also of Aurora. Bassett's body was found early in the
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  morning of July tenth, laying on the concrete highway on
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  the east side of the river, just north of Oswego.
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  Another man involved in the murder will be tried at
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  the courthouse after a new jury is chosen. Many members
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  of Yorkville High School decided to skip school and attend
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  the murder trial. These students are now coming to school
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  at eight ten instead of nine to make up for
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  lost time. January ninth, teen twenty six. Since Plano, Earlville, Geneva,
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  Saint Charles, big Rock, and numerous other neighbors of Yorkville
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  have either voted to build or already built new high schools, recently,
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  many people of Yorkville are beginning to wonder why these
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  towns can afford to provide adequate quarters and facility for
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  the education of their children and Yorkville fails to do so.
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  Another referendum is planned this spring. Said school supped h Dixon.
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  January nineteen twenty one, members of the Kendall County Farm
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  Bureau celebrated the completion of the first year of organization.
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  When the Bureau was organized a year ago, there were
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  skeptical people who gave but a short time for this
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  band of farmers to last. Those doubters have all disappeared.
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  January nineteen sixteen. There are a few cases of scarlet
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  fever about Yorkville. This fact should, in no manner frighten
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  the public with thoughts of an epidemic. The prompt action
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  of the school board to fumigate the school and the
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  efforts of the local doctors are commendable. Watch the children,
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  and if so ymptoms persist, call the doctor. Do not
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  rely on home remedies. January nineteen eleven. On Saturday, the
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  Yorkville High school basketball team went to Evanston where they
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  played the Academy, which is one of the strongest high
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  schooler academy teams in the state. Tremendous odds were against
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  the Yorkville team from the start. The Yorkville boys fought
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  the game to a finish and won the admiration not
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  only of the crowd but also the Evanston coach, who
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  said there is some mighty good timber in the Yorkville Fellows.
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  Those on the team were Coogler, Naden, Muwerder, McGowan, Simpson
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  and Hopkins. Score was twenty nine to six in favor
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  of Evanston. January nineteen oh six. A gasoline lighting plant
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  was installed in Frank Ernst's store at Bristol Station last week,
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  and Frank had it so brilliant that the folks of
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  the town were wonderfully pleased. January nineteen oh one. A
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  special train car will be run to Yorkville after the
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  performance of Rip van Winkel at the Aurora Opera House House.
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  January eighteen ninety six. The following persons have positions in
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  the Fox post Office. F. C. Bean Postmaster, F. Ahmett,
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  Assistant Postmaster, Bertha Currin Postal Clerk. January eight ninety one.
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  There was a shooting march in Platteville and the successful
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  contestant was Fred Attley. January eighteen eighty six. The ice
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  went out of the river Sunday and the water is
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  quite high. The icemen are looking anxiously for zero weather
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  so that the big houses of Yorkville and Oswego may
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  be filled. January eighteen eighty one. The tile factory in
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  Millington was forced to suspend operations last week on account
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  of the extreme cold and scarcity of coal. January eighteen
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  seventy six, Holland's Restaurant in the basement under Hubbard's Store
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  offered the following dinner special during court week, a good
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  dinner for thirty five cents, a good oyster stew for
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  twenty five cents, ported cigar for five cents, and a
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  dish of raw oysters for twenty cents. January eighteen sixty six,
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  Clerk of the County Court, Jeremiah Evarts, summarized the assessment
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  and taxes of Kendall County horses seven thousand, three hundred
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  and eighty one neat cattle thirteen thousand, two hundred and
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  thirty six sheep, sixteen thousand, five tis one five tons
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  eight five tons in one, carriages and wagons two point
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  thie erages and wagons two one thirty seven, clocks and watches,
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  bumpin sixty eight six pianos five to four. Total value
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  of personal property including goods and manufactured articles four seven, four, seven,
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  four seven, railroad property nine six thousand, four lands one thousand,
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  three one one three four town lots eight six thousand,
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  one five six acres in cultivation wheet thirteen nine twenty
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  corn four seven four four four others seven tins sixty
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  nine eight