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

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  Yesteryear. Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the record for
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  October. Written by Jeff Farron for Shaw Local News Network. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  October 2021 the City of Yorkville is studying a proposal to alter
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  the sharp curve on Cannonball Trail west of Route forty seven. October
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  twenty eleven The T shirts sold by the Kendall County Association of
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  Chiefs of Police, as part of the recent Superman movie filming in
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  Plano, flew off the shelves faster than, well, you know, October two
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  thousand six? 139 years after his death and burial, a Civil War
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  veteran was reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Yorkville. Clark Smith died December
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  10, 1867, October 2001. Ground was broken for the new one hundred
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  sixty five thousand square foot menards store at Route forty seven near
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  Countryside Parkway. October nineteen ninety six Ground was broken for the New
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  Yorkville High School building on Game Farm Road across from the present
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  school. October nineteen ninety one It was a packed house for the
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  Fox Valley South YMCA grand opening at their new building at RT34
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  and El Domain Road. Special guests were Johnny Redker, Chicago Bulls announcer,
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  and Trace Armstrong of the Chicago Bears, October
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  1976
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  City of Yorkville officials were kept busy with ceremonies. The Yorkville Public
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  Library was dedicated and ground was broken for a new water tower
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  project on the south edge of Yorkville. October 1981 Dan Reedy, a
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  native of Lovington Ill, has been appointed the new manager of the
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  Kendall County Farm Bureau office. October 1966
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  The old Yorkville Public Library building on Bridge Street was torn down
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  as part of the Yorkville National Bank Expansion Project. Also being demolished
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  is the laundromat across from the Farm Bureau on Van Emmon Street.
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  October nineteen seventy one. Construction on the development at Route thirty four
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  and forty seven. Ground was broken for The new home of the
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  Farmers State Bank of Yorkville. October nineteen sixty six. Leroy Bud Somme
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  of Aurora is the New Yorkville Chief of Police. He takes over
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  after Frank Martin retired October 1. Martin, who came from Chicago PD,
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  was chief here for 26 years. October 1961. If you stop to
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  get a drink of water at any fountain in Yorkville, you may
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  have got a faceful. The new water tower near the high school
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  was put into use finally after months of frustration. Public Works Director
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  James E. Price cautioned residents that the increase in pressure may cause
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  some plumbing leaks in their homes. The tower construction was plagued by
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  funding problems when a bondbroker was indicted for misdealings. October nineteen fifty
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  six. Yorkville's Dave Walker, senior guard of the University of Illinois Fighting
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  Ilani football team, saw a lot of playing time in the home
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  opening win over California. He was later voted most valuable player for
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  the 1956 Ilani. October 1951 Work on the new firehouse at Route
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  forty seven and Fox Road is going on rapidly now that the
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  steel for the structure has arrived. October nineteen forty six Dr. L.A.
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  Wunsch will open his office over Webster's Rexel drugs on Bridge Street
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  in downtown Yorkville, October
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  1941. A group of representatives from several community organizations in and about
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  Yorkville met for the purpose of drawing up a calendar to help
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  avoid conflicts. After the hearing it was agreed that the nights of
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  the week should be designated somewhat as follows Monday, City and Community
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  Activities and Adult Education, Tuesday, Community and School, Wednesday's A Eastern Star,
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  Boards of Education otherwise open generally, Thursday, choir practice and church activities,
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  Friday, School Activities, Saturdays open Sunday Church Activities. October
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  nineteen thirty six. Due to the intense heat and dry weather of
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  this summer in this area, most of the people gave up hope
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  on
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  the corn crops. But with the rain and more favorable weather this
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  fall, a great many of our farmers are agreeably surprised to find
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  out how much really good corn the did raise. October nineteen thirty
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  one. Mr. J. Gordon Smythe has written a new pep song for
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  Yorkville High School to the tune of a familiar college song from
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  the University of Cincinnati. October nineteen twenty six The sixty second annual
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  convention of the Kendall County Sunday School Association is expected to be
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  the best best yet. A strong program is being prepared. The ladies
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  of the Naosei Church will provide sandwiches and coffee. October nineteen twenty
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  one One of the veteran mail carriers on the Fox River branch
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  of the Burlington Railroad fell from his mail car as it was
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  crossing the river just outside of Montgomery. He fell some thirty five
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  feet from the car into the river and was fortunately not badly
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  enough hurt to prevent his getting to shore. He walked to Montgomery
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  where he received first aid and was then taken to St. Charles
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  Hospital in Aurora. He only suffered some fractured ribs. October nineteen sixteen.
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  Kendall County is represented on the East Aurora football team. William Mayer
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  of Newark is 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 220 pounds. October
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  1911 Charles Stewart is experimenting with a corn picker. October nineteen oh
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  six Jake Armbruster likes a good ball game, and he tried to
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  get a corner on the box tickets for this week's World Series,
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  Cubs vs. White Sox, but the management would let him only get
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  24 worth. October 1901 Fred Young is running the Yorkville Electric Light
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  Plant on accommodating principles. Lights up early on gloomy days. October eighteen
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  ninety six The Mush and Milk Festival will be held Thursday in
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  Newark. It will be at Mrs. Rood's, and your
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  cane have a bowl of nice mush and milk or Johnny Cake
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  and Milk for ten cents, and it is worth it to our
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  taste. October 1891. James Heap of Seward had ten teams hauling Lumber
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  Thursday for his new house. October eighteen eighty six Master Baron McCoan
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  was the glad receiver of a magnificent eighteen dollars baby carriage. October
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  eighteen eighty one John Cooper sold seven sets of harnesses this week.
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  October eighteen seventy six. There is a call for more houses in
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  Yorkville and Bristol. Good, comfortable cottages that will rent for one hundred
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  to one hundred and twenty five dollars a year. It is now
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  impossible to rent a house, and families coming here to live have
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  to double up in one dwelling. Uh capital invested in a few
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  small houses would pay a good percent on the money. October eighteen
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  sixty six. If you want good molasses for the winter, take your
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  cane to Morgan's Mills at Pavilion, as they have every facility for
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  manufacturing the best.