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Feb. 26, 1925
J.M. Curtis of near Belleview, was in to see us last Saturday, while in Hardin, accompanied by Delbert Webb, also of Belleview. Mr Curtis is the father of Roy Curtis, the young man who disappeared from his home in north Calhoun County, January 19, last year, and has not been heard of or seen since. His father is offering a $200 reward to anyone for information leading to the whereabouts of his son, either dead or alive. Young Curtis, who is 33 years of age, and has a wife and three children, is thought to be drowned, relatives fear that he met with foul play and that his body was either thrown into the Mississippi River or else it is being concealed by his murderers. On the morning of January 19th, he took his shotgun and after telling his wife that he was going out into the neighborhood to buy fur, and that he would not be gone long, departed. He went to the home of Frank Anderson, a neighbor from there, it is reported that he was seen walking along the top of the levee, since then his whereabouts has been a mystery. A searching party discovered footprints leading to a freshly made air hole in the ice a few hundred feet from shore and it is thought that he went through the ice and was drowned. The ice was dynamited and the river dragged at this point but no trace, as yet, has ever been found of the missing man.
Mar. 2, 1950
“How much is twenty three million kernels of corn?” a Hardin reporter asked Schulze Bros. at Deer Plain, when they showed him an order from a Kentucky Seed Corn Grower for that amount of foundation seed. The answer is that it takes about 1,600 kernels to make a pound, so we will just leave it to the reader to figure the total in bushels. Foundation seed is last season’s single cross yield. It comes from the female rows of corn that were carefully detasseled last summer.
Feb. 27, 1975
The County Commissioners approved the advertising for two-ton dump trucks for the Unit Road District. Gilbert Meyer, Supt. of Highways, appeared before the Board and said the district needed three dump beds and one without a bed on the four trucks. Bids will be received in the office of the Superintendent of Highways.
Mar. 1, 2000
Gov. George H. Ryan announced $725,000 in grants to assist 12 local governments in improving facilities for boat and canoe access to Illinois lakes, rivers and streams. The Village of Batchtown will receive $120,300 of this grant money. It will be used to construct a motorized boat ramp at the Cockrell Hollow access located at Mississippi River mile 243, pool 25. The development project will also include road improvements, harbor dredging, rip rap protection, tree planting and security lighting. The Village of Hamburg will receive $56,500 to develop a motorized boat access ramp and floating dock on the Mississippi River in the Village of Hamburg. A parking lot will also be developed across the road from the boat access site.
