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25 years ago
Jan. 15, 1997
Calhoun was hit with its first accumulative snow on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, January 8 and 9. Snow totals ranged from four to six inches. Schools were closed on Thursday and Friday. The wind caused the snow to drift on Thursday and colder temperatures also blew in. Temperatures through the weekend stayed in the single digits with wind chills near -20 and -30. Schools resumed normal sessions on Monday morning. More snow is predicted for Wednesday and later this week. Due to the frigid cold, the local ferries also closed except for the Winfield Ferry which is still in operation.
50 years ago
Jan. 20, 1972
Miss Charlene Dean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Dean of Michael, and Flip Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Arnold of Hardin, have been selected on the basis of audition to membership in the IMEA All-State Band.
Charlene and Flip are both seniors at Calhoun High School and will perform with the 125-member All-State Band at the annual IMEA Convention at the Hotel Pere Marquette, Peoria, Illinois, on January 20-22. The conductor for this year’s All-State Band is Dr. Harry Begian of the University of Illinois.
The students will be accompanied to the convention by their director, Mrs. Sandra Lane, who will serve as state chairman to the All-State Band. Mrs. Lane was appointed to this position last summer and has been active in helping set up this year’s convention.
The All-State Band will perform at the annual IMEA Convention at the Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria on January 20-22.
75 years ago
Jan. 16, 1947
Robert Mortland is up for further recognition as the peripatetic photographer. One of his pictures is now on display at the Chicago Photographic Salon. His picture, “The Reading Lesson,” was chosen unanimously by a jury of five. It was selected on the first ballot as the winner. It was selected out of a large field of entries, including pictures from 15 foreign countries.
It was placed in the Art Gallery Catalog.
All these, and many more acclaims are being showered on Mr. Mortland’s pictures, as they are sent from city to city and salon to salon. He also has three on display in Los Angeles at this time. Plaudits cum laude.
100 years ago
Jan. 19, 1922
Averaging 49 bushels an acre, Illinois last year produced 6,566,000 bushels of potatoes as compared with the 8,775,000 bushels of 1920, it is announced by S.D. Fessenden, agricultural statistician for the federal bureau of crop estimates.
Offsetting this falling off in white potato production, the state gave an average yield of 110 bushels of sweet potatoes, and a total production of 990,000 bushels as compared with 873,000 bushels produced in 1920.
The quality of Illinois’ white potato crop is estimated at 70 percent of a high medium grade and at 84.9 percent in the United States.
Calhoun county ranked first in producing an average of 118 bushels of white potatoes per acre, with Fulton and Williamson counties following with an average of 90 bushels.
Most sweet potatoes per acre were produced in Gallatin County, which averaged 155 bushels.
Macon, White, Marion, Fayette and Henderson counties were next with an average each of 150 bushels an acre.
