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Sept. 17, 1925
The Kampsville ball team motored over to Gilead Sunday and met the Kroeschel Stars on their home diamond. The game was certainly worth seeing as it was a very good exhibition of fast ball playing by both teams. McGuire was on the mound for Kampsville, allowing only six scattered hits and struck out 15 men. This makes Mcguire two shut outs in a row as he blanked the fast Clarksville, Mo. team the Sunday before. He now has a record of 21 consecutive scoreless innings, a record that few pitchers have attained.
Sept. 21, 1950
Calhoun County’s number one product, apples, attracted a lot of attention at the Alton Exposition last week. The apples were donated by Franke Bros., Otto Klaas and William Bell, Ringhausen Bros., Waris Packing Plant, Lorsbach and McBride, Jesse Ringhausen, and H.L. Whitworth.
Sept. 11, 1975
All is in a state of readiness for the surge of horses and people which will descend upon the Calhoun County hills this weekend. Trails have been chosen and checked for safety. The fairgrounds at Hardin have been surveyed for the proper places to house an estimated 700 people and 500 horses. Mosquitoes have been exterminated, country entertainers lined up for the dancing, flags and trail boss shirts ironed, and all the things necessary for a successful trail ride are packed and ready. What it is all about, of course, is the annual Congressman Findley Trail Ride. It is not only being held in one of the most beautiful counties in Illinois, thus attracting more riders than ever before, but in addition it is the 10th anniversary ride. All this comes, too, in the year of our Nation’s Bicentennial.
Sept. 20, 2000
Progress is beginning to be seen on the new Calhoun 40 pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school now that the ground has dried sufficiently to have rock hauled in place. Footings have been poured on the wing in the foreground and for half of the gym. A sign now stands to identify the side of the new Calhoun 40 pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school on Poor Farm Hollow Road.
