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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for August · 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 August. 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. August twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: the Kendall County Fair is back. There was no fair
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  Speaker 1: last year due to the COVID nineteen pandemic. August twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: filming of the Man of Steel movie began in downtown Plano.
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  Speaker 1: First few days included helicopters overhead and an a loud
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  Speaker 1: explosion on the set. The explosion rocked the downtown area,
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  Speaker 1: but was apparently a planned event. August two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkville City Council approved the plan for a huge
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  Speaker 1: shopping center on Route thirty four west of Cannonball Trail.
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  Speaker 1: Stores plan include Cohle's Super Target, Home Depot, Lennon's En Things, Michael's, PetSmart, OfficeMax.
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  Speaker 1: August two thousand and one, Lieutenant Harold Martin has been
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  Speaker 1: named the new chief of police in US Yorkville. August
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, over sixty Yorkville area residents showed up
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  Speaker 1: at a city meeting held at the Beacher Building to
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  Speaker 1: discuss lingerie shows being held at one local establishment. The
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  Speaker 1: council voted to ban such shows. August nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: The current city vehicle stickers will be the last one
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville residents will have to buy. Council members voted four
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  Speaker 1: to four to drop the stickers. Mayor Ken Kitto had
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  Speaker 1: to break the tie. August nineteen eighty six, nearly eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred Kendall County residents were on hand to greet Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Governor James Thompson at the annual GOP pig Roast at
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  Speaker 1: Harris Forest Preserve. August nineteen eighty one. Clarence Beecher's gift
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  Speaker 1: to the City of Yorkville, a community center is taking
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  Speaker 1: shape on Game Farm Road. Laminated beams were set in
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  Speaker 1: place for the roof last week, and brickwork is also underway.
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  Speaker 1: The late mister Beecher, a former city clerk, left the
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  Speaker 1: city about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in his
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  Speaker 1: will with the stipulation that it be used for construction
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  Speaker 1: of a community center. August nineteen seventy six, twelve members
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  Speaker 1: of the volunteer Bristol Kendall Fire Department are now trained
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  Speaker 1: as Emergency Medical Technicians EMT. They include Scott Lahey, Craig Riemenschneider,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Anderson, Scott Riemenschneider, Bill Weber, Steve Wooden, Daryl Riemenschneider,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hitzman, Dave Grider, Tom Lindblaum, Ron Morris, and Ken Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: August nineteen seventy one, plans were announced for the construction
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  Speaker 1: of a new bank and professional office building on Route
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  Speaker 1: thirty four. Farmers State Bank of Yorkville, located in downtown Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: announced the building will be located in the Countryside Shopping Center,
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  Speaker 1: which is to be constructed at Route thirty four and
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  Speaker 1: forty seven. August nineteen sixty six, a banner flew over
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  Speaker 1: downtown Yorkville briefly Yorkville is seeking the services of a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and the banner advertising such caught the attention of State
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  Speaker 1: highway officials, who said it was illegal. August nineteen sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: the Elmwood Cemetery Board issued a plea for help. About
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen elm tree in the cemetery are
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  Speaker 1: dead or dying due to the elm disease, and sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven should be removed this year. They are encouraging the
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  Speaker 1: sale of lots to help finance the cost of the
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  Speaker 1: tree removal, and are also seeking donations. August nineteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: about twenty five people have joined the new Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: Garden Club. Missus Carl Norgran was elected President pro tem
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  Speaker 1: at the organizational meeting and Missus Joyce Green as Secretary
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  Speaker 1: pro tem. One of their first acts was to participate
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  Speaker 1: in the Kendall County Flower Show hosted by the Oswego
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  Speaker 1: Women's Club. August nineteen fifty one, the Kendall County Farm
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  Speaker 1: Bureau will now be accepting the calls for the fire Department.
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  Speaker 1: The fire calls by phone to the Kendall County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: residents have proved too burdensome, and the sheriff has said
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  Speaker 1: he wishes to be relieved of the responsibility. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is that following a fire alarm, the office is deluged
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  Speaker 1: with calls by the curious desiring to know where the
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  Speaker 1: fire is. After hours, calls will still be handled by
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff. August nineteen forty one. Missus Jean Brady, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Marie Bazon and County Treasurer La Hanson have a nice
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  Speaker 1: new machine in their office that can compute anything at
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  Speaker 1: all except where the next meal comes from. It's like
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  Speaker 1: the old song. You push the button down and the
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  Speaker 1: figure goes round and round and comes out here. All
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  Speaker 1: kidding aside. It will be a big help in the
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  Speaker 1: treasurer's office, where a mistake can consume a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: August nineteen forty one, Bristol was the scene of much
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  Speaker 1: excitement because of a train wreck. One heavily loaded car
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  Speaker 1: was wrecked, throwing four others off the track just in
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  Speaker 1: front of the depot and road crossing. The tracks were
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  Speaker 1: bent in half just as though there were hairpins, splintering
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  Speaker 1: ties and road crossing planks and plowing up the roadbed
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  Speaker 1: for about one hundred feet. August nineteen thirty six. The
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  Speaker 1: underpass at Route forty seven and the Burlington Tracks near
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  Speaker 1: Bristol will be finished up in the next few days. Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the concrete for the road was being poured and traffic
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  Speaker 1: will soon be passing under the tracks without the usual
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  Speaker 1: railroad crossing hazard. August nineteen thirty one, the alleged Millington
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  Speaker 1: bank robbers were arraigned before a packed court in Kendall County.
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  Speaker 1: The robbery of the First State Bank of Millington took
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  Speaker 1: place at ten a m. On July fourteenth. All available
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  Speaker 1: currency was taken and the three bandits sped away toward Newark,
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  Speaker 1: but were met by police outside of town in response
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  Speaker 1: to a warning telephone by a bank official. August nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, work on the new bridges at Yorkville is
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  Speaker 1: progressing as rapidly as the weather will permit. The old
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  Speaker 1: north side span is fast approaching the junk pile and
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  Speaker 1: will soon be a matter of history. A footbridge financed
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  Speaker 1: by businessmen assists people in crossing on foot while the
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  Speaker 1: detour bridge for vehicle traffic is underway. This bridge will
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  Speaker 1: extend from the street on which the Farmers Elevator stands,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Street, to the west side of the BlackBerry Creek.
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  Speaker 1: A Record columnist noted that an employee on the bridge
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  Speaker 1: force asked that the workers be labeled. He couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: who were workers and who were advisers. August nineteen teen
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, the fourth annual Yorkville Chotagua was a success,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the rain on the first two days.
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  Speaker 1: The last three days of entertainment were excellent and nothing
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  Speaker 1: but praise was heard. Wednesday offered a unique program with
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  Speaker 1: Daddy Grobecker and his Swiss Yodelers. August nineteen sixteen, the
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Midland Railroad has suspended operations. The railroad is financially
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  Speaker 1: unable at this time to complete road bed improvements ordered
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  Speaker 1: by the Railroad Commission. August nineteen eleven. The catching's muscles
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  Speaker 1: and the preparation of the shells for pearl buttons has
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  Speaker 1: been a growing industry along the Fox River for two
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  Speaker 1: of three years. The Rebin Brothers of Muscatine, Iowa, have
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  Speaker 1: established a factory for boring out button blanks about a
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  Speaker 1: mile down river from Yorkville. August nineteen oh six. The
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  Speaker 1: new steel water tank in Oswego is completed and being tested.
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  Speaker 1: August nineteen oh one. The Yorkville School's Open Monday attendance
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  Speaker 1: is large, with two hundred and three enrolled in the
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  Speaker 1: various rooms, sixty one of whom are in the high school.
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  Speaker 1: Eight eighteen ninety six. The river is being drained here
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  Speaker 1: of its fish and turtles by the many campers from
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  Speaker 1: the Big Cities. August eighteen ninety one. The Threshers have commenced.
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  Speaker 1: Operation Rye hereabouts is running forty bushels to the acre.
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  Speaker 1: August eighteen eighty six. The Lisbon Road Commissioners are putting
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  Speaker 1: in a large stone arch across the stream at Syloid's
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  Speaker 1: August eighteen eighty one. J. Moore of Lisbon is attracting
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  Speaker 1: considerable attention with a four hundred foot telephone. It works
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  Speaker 1: like a charm. August eighteen seventy six. When the present
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  Speaker 1: Board of Trustees in Yorkville went into office last spring,
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  Speaker 1: we all expected that the opinions of the anti saloon
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  Speaker 1: men in the village would be respected and as few
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  Speaker 1: rum holes be licensed as two at least. The board, however,
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  Speaker 1: licensed three, and the temperance men were pleased to have
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  Speaker 1: even one cut off. Last Monday, at a special meeting
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  Speaker 1: they considered the application by William P. Gray, one of
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  Speaker 1: the trustees. Mister Gray tendered his resignation from the board,
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  Speaker 1: then presented his application to our dismay. There are now
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  Speaker 1: four saloons in US Yorkville. August eighteen sixty six. Last
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, while mister James Greenfield and family were at
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday school concert in Oswego, his house was entered
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  Speaker 1: by some thieving rascal, and US bonds and money to
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  Speaker 1: the amount of one thousand, two hundred dollars or one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars was stolen. The loss is great to
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  Speaker 1: mister Greenfield as it was as all. The thief has
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  Speaker 1: not been arrested yet