100 Years
Brewers were active. Attorney General hears many complaints. Persons in various parts of the state have called the attention of the attorney-general's department to the fact that they have been convinced that certain brewery interests have spent several thousand dollars in their particular leguslature who oppose county option.
75 Years - Friday, December 15, 1933
New Tax Blamed In Hog Price Drop. Market suffers $2 break; near low spot. We know of no better reason for the steady decline in hog prices during the past six weeks than that reason given by the packers themselves...
The National Provisioner issued on November 4 this year, explaining the effects of the processing tax in an editorial...
50 Years - Thursday, December 11, 1958
New Rural Fire Truck Is Ready For Action. Jim Fix, Fire Chief, announced this week that the new fire truck for the department has been secured through the efforts of the community. One hundred area farmers donated and the balance was supplied from savings by the volunteer fire department itself.
25 Years - Tuesday, December 6, 1983
C-NW train derails - again. Early morning churchgoers got a surprise Sunday morning when they saw a 20 boxcar pileup on the Chicago-Northwestern railroad tracks between St. Charles and Dover. The derailment silently occured at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday night. Residents in two nearby farmhouses said they didn't hear the crash which left 18 boxcars full of wood chips and two more filled with wood pulp lying in heaps in the corn fields of Gorie Ferguson of Dover.
10 Years - Thursday, December 10, 1998
Community support sought for referendum. At a special school board meeting on Monday, November 30, the St. Charles Board of Education unanimously passed a motion to allow District residents to decide if a new K-6 elementary school is to be built along with the addition of six to eight rooms at the high school and the remodeling of the girls' locker room.
Editor's note: In this edition of the press, a photo of an un-named gas station shows regular unleaded gasoline priced at 83 cents per gallon.
5 Years - Thursday, December 11, 2003
Board hears call for equality in sports. Track update looks at priorities. Members of the St. Charles cheerleading squads addressed the Board of Education Monday afternoon as a matter of equality in sports. What the young athletes learned was that equality is a two-way street. Currently, two cheerleading squads exist, a boys basketball cheerleading squad and a wrestling squad.
Collected by Nathan Campbell
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