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Dec. 18, 1924
A delegation of citizens from Batchtown, came up to Hardin Monday and met the county commissioners. The Batchtown citizens, together with citizens along the west side of south Calhoun, were here to interest the commissioners in the location of a state aid road from Salt Spring, south of Gilead, to West Point, south of Batchtown. We learn that the commissioners granted the petition of these citizens.
Dec. 22, 1949
This week Calhoun County will pay off on 104 foxes that have been brought in to the county clerk in the past three months. During the last few weeks they have been coming in at the rate of about two a day. A bounty on one wolf will also be paid this time making a total of seven or eight wolves for the year. This quarter’s total of fox claims brings the number of bounties paid since last January to 272. In all probability the number will reach 200 by the end of the year, as fox hunting increases during the colder weather.
Dec. 19, 1974
Less ducks per hunter were killed this year than last year in the hunting areas surrounding Calhoun County. This year .64 ducks were shot per hunter while last year .65 ducks were bagged per shooter. A total of 16,416 hunters shot 10,542 ducks and 43 geese during the recently completed 50 day season, while the totals last year for a 45 day season were 14,632 hunters and 9,595 ducks and 141 geese.
Dec. 22, 1999
The Ainad El Kazam Shrine Club of Calhoun, Greene, and Jersey Counties held its installation of officers for the new millennium at Pere Marquette Logde in Grafton. The program was preceded by a family-style dinner for approximately 80 members and guests. Paul Edward Horn of Jerseyville was the Master of Ceremonies. Honored guest was Sergeant Russell Dunham of Jerseyville, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. Ainad Potentate Jack Taylor, of Granite City performed the installation of the four officers.
