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May 7, 1925
Andrew Kinder, a hustling young man of Gilead, has purchased the property in Hardin belonging to Pear Carpenter and being used by the latter as a residence and barber shop. We learn that the purchasing price was $4,000. Mr. Kinder, with his wife, will move to Hardin and Mr. Kinder will open an electric supply and radio shop and we learn will carry on a one chair barber shop in connection.
May 11, 1950
The question for daylight saving time carried at the special town election here Saturday afternoon, and residents of Hardin moved their clocks up one hour Sunday night to coincide with the change. The vote carried by 138 to 108 and the question of changing time was rather a hot issue with the voting being relatively close. Apparently the two camps of thought on the matter were divided between businessmen on one hand, who did not favor the change because they felt consideration should be given farmers and residents of the rest of the county who are still on standard time, and workers on the other hand who quit at 5 o’clock and will have more leisure time after working hours. Farmers say the cows come home to be milked the same time no matter what the clock says. Many were heard to remark that the question is really a countywide one and should be thus voted on, but with that comes the matter of municipal rule being overridden by a larger unit of government, the county. There was much confusion in town Monday morning as some workers did not know when to report for work. The Public Schools here reamined on old time Monday until the question could be ironed out. St. Norbert’s school, however, went on new time. Children at school were coming home an hour late for lunch and housewives were having to prepare two meals. One person thought the way to solve the matter would be for individual businesses to open and close an hour later if they wanted to remain on old time or stick with the new time if they wanted daylight time. All in all it was rather confusin’.
May 8, 1975
The Illinois State Police began using totally unmarked vehicles in its patrol fleet to help curb the increase in speeding by motorists. Each trooper assigned to an unmarked vehicle will also carry the new handheld radar guns. An undisclosed number of vehicles will be assigned to each of the 16 State Police Districts, according to Dwight E. Pitman, Superintendent. A uniformed trooper will be assigned to each new unmarked car. The autos in the new fleet, and they are not all autos, will bear no resemblance whatsoever to the conventional beige Dodge or Plymouth currently in use as the mainstay of the State Police auto fleet.
May 10, 2000
High School Principal Jim Roach explained about a survey he had distributed to the parents of band students. A number of years ago the school board set the number of times the pep band should play. It was set at five home basketball games each for the boys and for the girls. Roach wants the pep band to play at all of the home basketball games to showcase their talent. In the survey, parents had a choice of playing at all games or to leave it as it is now. Out of the 25 surveys sent to those with band students, 14 were returned. Ten wanted the band to play at all of the games and four wanted the schedule kept as is. One of those wanted two games a week.
“It’s my contention that all of the band kids are at all of the games every night. They come to the boys and girls games. If they’re going to be there, let’s let them play and excite the team and excite the crowd and show off what we really can do. These kids want to play and be involved,” Roach said.
