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Dec. 10, 1925
Sheriff Troutner of Pittsfield, Ill, Pike County, and a deputy U.S. Marshal, went over to Louisiana, Mo., one day last week and after visiting Gosline Island, on the Mississippi River where Bob Mansfield had a man hired to shuck corn by the name of Connour, arrested Connour for robbing the mails in Calhoun County, and he was brought back to Illinois to jail. The officers also found sugar and corn ready for a good ess of home brew. Connour’s wife is with him at Jacksonville, Ill., where he is in jail. It is stated that three sons of Connour are now in jail.
Dec. 14, 1950
Wealth buried by a Prehistoric Illinois Resident who may have lived several centuries before Christ now is at the University of Illinois. It consists of 55 pieces of flint, ranging from raw blocks to expertly-fashioned big spear points as finely formed as any ever found. The cache was uncovered recently at the Siemer Farm near Batchtown. In this area are many remains of the Prehistoric Hopewell or “Mound-Builder” Indians, whose culture recent radiocarbon research has tentatively dated at 200 to 600 B.C. The flint was obtained for the University’s Archeological collections from W.L. Wadlow, amateur archeologist of Dow, by the Illini Achievement Fund of the University of Illinois Foundation. Through his cooperation, the collection is being kept for research and teaching use in the state where it was found.
Dec. 11, 1975
All private line telephone customers in the Hardin exchange now have automatic number identification, Paul Devor, service manager for General Telephone Company in Jerseyville, told the News this week. This new service will automatically record the private line number when a long distance call is placed. Those who have private lines will no longer hear the operator ask for their telephone number when they make a long distance call. This new service will help greatly to reduce billing errors and allow the calls to be completed faster. Also, General Telephone has recently added switching equipment in the Hardin switching office to provide 100 additional customer lines. These two projects cost approximately $49,000.
Dec. 6, 2000
Calhoun Entertainment Company representatives Jerry Sievers, his wife Bonnie and Tina Pluester were in attendance at the Hardin Village Board meeting on Monday. Sievers asked what was going to happen to the grade school when it goes on the auction block after the new school is built. “Our group uses the building a lot. If it should happen to be torn down or sold to someone else, our group would be out of a place to do our musicals,”Sievers said. Basically, Sievers was talking about the gym. “We need your help. We have been invited to come to the new school. With the situation of going from two gyms to one gym, there’s no way to go in and do anything. It just wouldn’t work,” Sievers said. “We’re asking or hoping that the town would be interested in purchasing the school or the gym part and turning it into a community center.”
“We’ve talked a little bit about it. I don’t know if we can afford the upkeep on it,” Hardin Mayor Bill Horman said. Horman said that he heard the county was interested in the gym. Others said they had heard that the county would like to convert the gym into the county jail.
