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Everything is in readiness for the formal opening of the big DeKalb Chautauqua tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock to be put on by the Redpath Bureau, and the indications are that the week will be an unqualified success. The grounds on the Everett playground field on Seventh Street have been put in condition and this location is ideal for the Chautauqua. DeKalb is to have a new enterprise. This time it is in the nature of a day nursery for children. Several people have wondered why such an attempt at this sort of work has not been made before and it is the opinion of many that such an institution is needed. In these days a good many mothers are under the necessity of working away from their homes and they would doubtless appreciate a good, safe place for their children during working hours. While J. A. Hines was drilling for water on the O. H. Warne farm purchased last year by W. H. Smith, he struck gas at a depth of 130 feet. This farm is half a mile west of Elburn. Smelling the strong gas fumes, Mr. Hines struck a match over the 4-inch pipe and immediately it ignited. At first it was quite red, but now the flame is nearly blue. Mr. Smith, owner of the farm, is quite enthusiastic over the discovery of this gas well, and is anxious to learn its capacity.
Photo provided by DeKalb County History Center Archives
Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, 1601 Pleasant St. in DeKalb, circa 1930.
1946 – 75 YEARS AGO
One of the educational wildlife exhibits of the Illinois Department of Conservation will be among the featured free attractions at the Sandwich Fair. Live, fur-bearing animals, all natives of Illinois, will include raccoon, red fox, skunks and badger. Live game birds, including ring neck pheasants, bob-white quail, Canada geese, and many species of migratory ducks, also will be shown.
when they heard a disturbance at the shoreline. Upon investigating, they discovered that a northern pike had jumped out of the water in an attempt to catch a fly and coming down had caught its fin in a fork of a small pine tree. It was still alive and flopping around when Mr. Lease arrived. So now he is telling everyone that he caught a fish using nothing for bait except a tree. Incidentally, the fish measured around 30 inches.
three-day evacuation of the entourage. Members of the DeKalb Classroom Teachers Association set up “truth booths” at several downtown and shopping center locations to tell the public their side of the teacher-board negotiations issues.
1996 – 25 YEARS AGO
Ominous storm clouds hung in the sky above the village of Kirkland last night as volunteers prepared their final meal for Warning to be ever on the alert for pulE. Niemenen has a force of men at work 1971 – 50 YEARS AGO local flood victims. Exactly five weeks monary tuberculosis was again stressed by about this store at Pleasant and Eleventh The officers, special committees, and the ago, the town had been cut off by a record streets making necessary repairs, and above Mrs. J. T. Masterson, office secretary of the DeKalb County Special Education Associarainfall which devastated the Congress all, a much needed addition to thestore build- DeKalb County Tuberculosis Association. tion for the Trainable Mentally Handicapped Lake Estates trailer park and swept through It pointed out that 55,000 Americans lose ing. The business has been increasing until Children have made the final preparations many other homes. Within a couple of days, their lives each year due to the ravages of the building became too small for the work for dedication of the Notre Dame Special volunteers began serving dinners in the and it was decided that an extra part should the disease and it ranks first as the cause of Education Complex and its future use with shelter house in Franklin Township Park. death among those who are from 15 to 35 be built on the west side. handicapped children and adults. Nearly 7,000 meals were prepared. years of age. This disease is stealthy in its approach and is painless in its early stages. As the train of which he was in charge, Illinois Secretary of State John W. Hundreds of the most powerful monster No. 272 on the Spring Valley line, broke this Lewis announced that a Mobile Service Unit trucks in the country will tear through the A minor blaze caused by a short in the afternoon, Conductor Ripley, known to a numTrailer will be on hand to serve fairgoers county Sept. 14-15 when the first 4-Wheel wiring of their auto caused a slight delay ber of railroad men and others, was thrown at the DeKalb County Fair at the Sandwich and Off-Road Magazine Four-By Fun Fest for some Iowa people who had stopped in against the stove in the way car and had fairgrounds. Visitors to the trailer will be comes to the DeKalb County Fairgrounds. DeKalb for breakfast. The car was parked several ribs fractured. Mr. Ripley thought he able to secure information concerning rebetween Third and Fourth streets on the could finish his trip but the pain became too newal of their driver’s license and observe a The DeKalb County government will severe and he called for the ambulance here highway when the fire was discovered. A demonstration of vision testing equipment. not enter into an agreement with Federal call was received by the fire department and was brought in to Dr. Ranklin’s office. Fairgoers may also obtain applications for Emergency Management Assistance to buy at 6:50 o’clock this morning but there was license plates. the Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park and Trouble of a peculiar nature has prevailed only a lot of smoke and little fire. Insulation move its residents into other housing. The was burned from a wire but damage was with the lighting system in the city and Noah was prepared, and the Boy Scouts county board considered the questions last workmen have been resorting to every means slight and after a short delay, the Iowa folks weren’t as the recent Typhoon No. 19 night, which ended with a 12-8 vote against to locate a short. The men are now in the east were able to continue their journey. caused the evacuation of 22,000 scouts buying the park. end of the city, have a foot of pavement for a from the camp site of their 13th World Scout A fish story to end all fish stories was block or more torn up, but thus far have been Jamboree on the slopes of Mt. Fiji, Japan. An instructor pilot and a trainee were unable to find the trouble. Those in charge of heard from R. A. Lease, superintendent of The three scouts from DeKalb were among killed early yesterday afternoon when their the work say that within the next day or two schools, who just returned with his family 7,800 American scouts and leaders present two-seat, single engine airplane crashed from a vacation in Minnesota. One evening as typhoon force winds and torrential rains into a cornfield in rural Hinckley. they hope to have the system repaired and the pavement replaced. Mr. Lease and his family were out rowing struck the camping area and caused a – Compiled by Sue Breese
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1921 – 100 YEARS AGO
