Looking Back… News items from the past pages of the Calhoun News-Herald
PROTECTED CONTENT
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above.
Username and Password Help
Please enter your email and we will send you a password reset link.
100 years ago
June 24, 1926
The H.J. Sellmeyer Produce Co., of St. Louis, who has furnished our readers with a report as to the number of barrels of apples shipped out of Calhoun County each season, during the past several years, writes us the following letter in regard to the shipments made from Calhoun during the year 1925: St. Louis, June 14, 1926. Calhoun News, Hardin, Ill. Dear Sirs: The total shipment of commercial apples out of Calhoun County for 1925 were 457,389 barrels. This includes shipments by rail, baskets and sacks also cider all of which are figured on a barrel basis. Please express our thanks to the landing men for their prompt attention in giving us the reports of shipments from their landing. Yours truly, H.J. Sellmeyer.
75 years ago
June 21, 1951
In a very light and quiet election Saturday, the voters of Hardin and community acted favorably on the proposition to establish a fire protection district. The unofficial count for the town was 80 for and 9 against. In the outside territory the vote was about two to one in favor of the proposed district.
50 years ago
June 24, 1976
Calhoun County will have a second full time doctor starting July 15. Dr. Vicente C. Zata Jr., a family practice specialist, will begin his duties at the Calhoun Medical Center in Hardin. Dr. Bernard Baalman has been the county’s only fulltime physician since Dr. C. Maxwell Brown left several years ago. Dana Lakatos has been assisting Dr. Baalman and Dr. Larry Plummer has spent some time at the Medical Center but no full-time physician has been in the county. Members of the doctor search committee who located Dr. Vic, as he likes to be called, included Bill Parkinson, Chairman, Raphael Snyders, Treasurer, Mrs. Ann Simon, Secretary, Mrs. Helen Leeds, Russell Wieneke, Dr. Baalman, Peer Patton and Paul H. Fiedler. “Dr. Zata is a graduate of a program fully accredited by the American Academy of Family Practice and the American Medical ASsociation’s Committee on Education. He is a well trained individual and should render quality medical care to people in Calhoun County,” Dr. Baalman said.
25 years ago
June 27, 2001
Brussels School Board members looked over the district’s monthly expenditures with a “fine tooth comb” at their June meeting in an attempt to make sure every effort was being made to keep the district financially conservative. Brussels School District is one of many small school districts that are struggling financially but Board President Scott Maag said he felt the school district’s financial shape was “getting better all the time.” Last year in July the school had to take out approximately $78,000 in tax anticipation warrants in order to pay payroll and other bills. A tax anticipation warrant is basically a loan that is taken against the school’s expected tax levy amounts. This year, Superintendent Mike Harris and Treasurer Louis Held have estimated that approximately $150,000 may be needed.
