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Nov. 6, 1924
Four different courts in Illinois have undertaken to solve the difficulties of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railroad, the railroad that “ran on its nerve.” Bondholders are seeking an order to compel the sale of the road by parcels,so that the terminals between Peroia and Pekin and between Alton and East St. Louis may be disposed of separately. Patrons along the line and the attorney general are seeking an order for sale of the road as a whole, so that its service may be perpetuated.
Nov. 3, 1949
A survey this week by the Conservation Department shows that ducks in the area are plentiful for the opening of the 1949 season. Hundreds of hunters have been busy for weeks constructing blinds and making other preparations in Calhoun. Above Meredosia in the Illinois River valley there has been a great influx of waterfowl. Over a half million ducks were reported in that area while last year at this time there were only 100,000. On the Mississippi side from Grafton north to Rock Island there are nearly 200,000 ducks as the season opens.
Oct. 31, 1974
A total of 2,808 hunters killed 2,557 ducks in the five access areas around Calhoun County during the first five days of the hunting season this year. Batchtown led the list with the most hunters and the most ducks killed. A total of 958 hunters killed 1,343 ducks.
Nov. 3, 1999
What once was Francis and Viola Strauch’s garden has taken on a new look. Instead of tomatoes, strawberries, and potatoes, the two lots on State Street in Hamburg now have a new post office building and a roomy parking lot. Postmaster Carol Hirschfield said they moved into this new facility on July 8 in two hours from the temporary facility housed in the Village Hall. The post office had been located there ever since the Great Flood of 1993, when the building on Water Street was overcome by floodwaters.
