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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for March · 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 March. Written by Jeff Farren Fashaw 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. March twenty twenty one, construction on
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  Speaker 1: the long awaited Eldamin Road Bridge and Extension project has
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  Speaker 1: finally begun, with county officials assembling for a groundbreaking event.
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  Speaker 1: March twenty eleven, Newark High School brought home the Class
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  Speaker 1: one A state basketball championship. March two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hitsman has been hired as the first full time
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  Speaker 1: chief of the Bristol Kendall Fire Protection District March two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and one. Kendall County is in the top three
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  Speaker 1: fastest growing counties in Illinois. The City of Yorkville count
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  Speaker 1: for the two thousand census with sixties one hundred and eighty,
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  Speaker 1: but city officials feel it is closer to sixty five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: with some new homes possibly not properly counted. They are
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  Speaker 1: considering a special census. March nineteen ninety six, with the
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  Speaker 1: building referendum pass to sign his back up on Game
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  Speaker 1: Farm Road, marking the site of the New Yorkville High School.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Gov Jim Edgar was in Yorkville to help with
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  Speaker 1: the groundbreaking ceremony for improvements at the Riverfront Park downtown.
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen ninety one, the Kendall County Board held its
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  Speaker 1: first night meeting in history. The board voted to break
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  Speaker 1: what is believed to be at one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: year tradition of daytime sessions and schedule night meetings so
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  Speaker 1: more citizens can attend. March nineteen eighty six, a costume
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  Speaker 1: ball will officially open the Yorkville Sessqua Centennial celebration. The
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Jacs are selling The Game of Yorkville, a Monopoly
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  Speaker 1: style board game. March nineteen eighty one, the Yorkville girls
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  Speaker 1: basketball team won the Hampshire Sectional, advancing to the Sweet sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: The Foxes bowed out in the Limit Supersectional, falling to
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  Speaker 1: eventual state champion Chicago Christian. They finished with a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight two record. March nineteen seventy six, the wrestling Foxes
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  Speaker 1: brought home the school's first ever state championship. A tornado
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  Speaker 1: touched down in Oswego Township, damaging eleven homes and several
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  Speaker 1: farm buildings March nineteen seventy one. Kendall County's official population
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventy census was twenty six per cents
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  Speaker 1: and three on seventy four, up fifty percent from the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty figure. The census was about even rural versus urban.
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  Speaker 1: Forty eight point one percent of Kendal County was classified
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  Speaker 1: as urban and fifty one point nine percent rural. March
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, the Kendall County Forests Preserve Commission has
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  Speaker 1: received a pledge for twenty eight thousand, four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty one dollars in federal funds to help purchase part
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  Speaker 1: of a farm near historic Merrimack Hill near Plano. The
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  Speaker 1: Commission is now working with the u S newly formed
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  Speaker 1: County Recreation Group to acquire another forest preserve on the
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  Speaker 1: Merrill G. Harris Farm south of Yorkville. March nineteen sixty one.
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  Speaker 1: Only some clean up remains, and the new Glendee Palmer
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  Speaker 1: Dam in the Fox River in Yorkville will be complete.
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen fifty six. The Yorkville High School Board of
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  Speaker 1: Education is seeking bids on an addition to the high
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  Speaker 1: school now Parkview School. The building will be west and
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  Speaker 1: north of the present Gymnasium and will provide quarters for
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  Speaker 1: home Economics, Agriculture, Industrial Arts and Science, as well as
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  Speaker 1: new dressing room space and offices. March nineteen fifty one
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  Speaker 1: may Wells is now the Clerk of Kendall County Selective
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  Speaker 1: Service Board No. More forty eight PLANO. Members of the
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  Speaker 1: board include Fredweer Plano, Ralph Whittie, Millbrook, Henry Gilbertson, Newark,
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  Speaker 1: Ell Earl Gilbertson, Newark, Eugene Campbell, Yorkville appeal agent, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Francis a Torre medical advisor. March nineteen forty six Laverne
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  Speaker 1: Moncamire has reopened the Yorkville Theater in the town Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Playing this week will be Tanks a Million. March nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty one, part of a caravan of cars being towed
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  Speaker 1: for a Northern Illinois finance company was involved in a
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  Speaker 1: collision with a westbound train in Yorkville. The driver from
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  Speaker 1: DECALB said he was headed north driving a nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: six Pontiac and towing another and was unable to stop.
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  Speaker 1: He was not injured. March nineteen thirty six, an election
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  Speaker 1: for proposed fire districts in Yorkville and Oswego was held
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  Speaker 1: with both proposals approved. The Oswego district was okayed two
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine to three and the Bristol Kendall district vote
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  Speaker 1: was two forty three four and four to four against.
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen thirty one, two men from southern Illinois were
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  Speaker 1: arrested downstate for robbing the Farmers State Bank of Millbrook
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  Speaker 1: last month. They escaped with about two hundred dollars currency.
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  Speaker 1: They were arrested in Charleston, Illinois. Both confessed to the
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  Speaker 1: robbery and admitted that the Cadillac automobile they drove had
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  Speaker 1: been stolen from a real estate dealer in Mattoon. One
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  Speaker 1: of the suspects had apparently been employed as a day
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  Speaker 1: labor on a farm in the vicinity of Millbrook. March
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty six, Yorkville and Bristol are to have the
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  Speaker 1: first of the game and fish farms which have been
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  Speaker 1: planned by the State Commission. Last year saw the completion
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  Speaker 1: of the fish hatchery on the BlackBerry Creek at the
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  Speaker 1: Old Mill near the river. This year, the deal is closed,
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  Speaker 1: whereby the state takes over a fifty five acre platte
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  Speaker 1: on the northwest side to be used as a game farm,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be stocked immediately. March nineteen twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: M and Missus L. H. Britt of Millbrook are very
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  Speaker 1: happy over the arrival of a little son in their home.
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  Speaker 1: Lemuel could never run the farm without a boy to
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  Speaker 1: help him. March nineteen sixteen, the Olympian Literary Society of
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville High School will present Macbeth a la mode, a
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  Speaker 1: burlesque of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Admission will be ten cents, proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to go for the payment of the curtain used in
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  Speaker 1: the performance. March nineteen eleven, after after fifteen years of
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  Speaker 1: continuous operation, the Bristol Creamery was closed. March nineteen oh six.
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  Speaker 1: William Reingart and Charlie Hardakoff have had carpenters and painters
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  Speaker 1: at work in the store building vacated by Peterson and
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  Speaker 1: Brettauer's dry goods department, getting it ready for their occupancy.
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen oh one. If one would look into our
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  Speaker 1: three churches on a Sunday morning and see how few
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  Speaker 1: men were present, he would wonder if the same proportion
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  Speaker 1: of women to men would exist in the congregation in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: March eighteen ninety six. The White Metal Company has now
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  Speaker 1: been declared defunct and the property sold to J. S. Healy,
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  Speaker 1: who will use the plant for the manufacture of evaporated cream.
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  Speaker 1: Sale was for fourteen hundred and fifty dollars. March eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, the Fine plant at the White Sand Bank
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  Speaker 1: in Millington burned completely wiped out. The The money loss
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  Speaker 1: was way up in the thousands. March eighteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: the Mattress Factory in Oswego has been bought by the
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  Speaker 1: Shoga Brothers and moved to the corner of Maine and
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Streets. It will be turned into a farm machinery warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: March eighteen eighty one. Al Van Emmon has been on
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  Speaker 1: the sick list for the past few days. March eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. Yorkville needs a new railroad depot and passenger room.
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  Speaker 1: The present station house is not adequate to the wants
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  Speaker 1: of the traveling public or for the accommodation of freight.
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  Speaker 1: Often the passenger room is filled with men and boys,
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  Speaker 1: and it is difficult for ladies to find a place
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  Speaker 1: to sit or even stand in court time. The room
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  Speaker 1: is crowded to suffocation with waiting passengers, and in cold
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  Speaker 1: weather the atmosphere is foul, while in rainy or damp
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  Speaker 1: weather the steam from wet clothing is of a bad odour. Often,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least the fault is the lack of room.
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  Speaker 1: There should be a room for ladies. March eighteen sixty six,
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  Speaker 1: those persons in the habit of riding their horses on
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  Speaker 1: the gravel sidewalks in Bristol, north side of President Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: should stop it at once. Those walks are for the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of pedestrians and not equestrians.