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Jan. 8, 1925
Mr. Theen, manager of the A.B.C. Bakter of Alton, came up one day last week to make arrangements with the Inman store here to send them fresh bread, cakes and doughnuts every day. This bakery has been sending bread to Hardin for several years, but only in small lots to be sure that it all would be sold and this left customers without bread about half of the time. The bakery is now going to see that fresh bread and cakes are here at all times and going after the bread trade of Hardin by selling a first class loaf of bread, wrapped in nice sanitary paper, with a wrapping machine.
Jan. 5, 1950
Corn growers in Calhoun County were urged recently to cooperate fully with PMA community committeemen who are now conducting surveys of farms throughout the county. Albert Friedel, Chairman of the County PMA Committee, said that the committeemen are already at work gathering reports of corn acreage during the past three years. These reports will be used to establish individual farm acreage allotments for 1950 if corn allotments should be announced by the Secretary of Agriculture. The allotments would be based generally on the farm’s corn acreage history of 1947, 1948 and 1949.
Jan. 2, 1975
One of the most important meetings for the newly formed Calhoun County Historical-Museum Society will be held at the Circuit Room. Plans and ideas for collecting and storing historic objects, books, pictures, and small articles for the museum will be discussed. A set of bylaws or a brief constitution will be presented and discussed. 1975 and 1976 should be big years for the new organization because of the Sesquicentennial for Calhoun and the National Bicentennial.
Jan. 5, 2000
After many, many years of waiting, Illinois State Route 100 from Hardin to Kampsville is finally going to be improved. However, the improvements will not include what most people were wanting. At this particular time, the Illinois Department of Transportation has no plans to elevate any portion of the road. According to Heneghan and Associates, IDOT is having the road widened by overlaying it with asphalt 18 to 24 inches on each side and increasing the shoulder width another couple of feet.
