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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region. Click the links to visit the original story in our newspapers.com archives. 100 years ago
July 26, 1925: A reunion of the P. W. Smith family of this place was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Frank of Clinton. A six course dinner was enjoyed at the MaGill hotel in Clinton, 35 guests being served.
75 years ago
July 26, 1950: “Bloomington On Parade” has been chosen as the official slogan of the Bloomington Centennial. The seal of the event is a circle around a team pulling a covered wagon toward a horizon of Bloomington’s skyline. The artist is Martin Birch, an Illinois Wesleyan University senior, drawing on the idea of Ed Lebkuecher, head of the committee’s publicity division, who suggested blending the era of 100 years ago with present times.
People are also reading… Flick Fact: Closing ISU? Because it admitted two Black students? LeRoy brothers detained in the McLean County Jail, accused of burglarizing a residence Bloomington teen detained on murder charges, after prosecutors say he described fatal shooting Looking for something to do this weekend in Central Illinois? Here’s the list. Carlock teen identified two weeks after pedestrian crash Church building collapses overnight in Bloomington Flick: Legendary, with a 100% chance of Chuck ‘The public deserves to know’: DCFS withholds details in Illinois girl’s death John Rave’s homer thrilled his family. His thoughts were with one who wasn’t there. Michigan auto seating manufacturer to establish Normal facility, supply to Rivian 3 victims of serial killer identified by Illinois police and SIUE students Teen arrested, victim identified in Bloomington homicide Trinity Lutheran to break ground on new church site in Bloomington McLean County Fair food vendors ready to serve up delicious eats 1 dead in northern Illinois plane crash
50 years ago
July 26, 1975: Kenneth T. Benjamin of rural Bloomington has been appointed director of a new Grains, Oilseeds and Cotton Division of the USDA’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. In a major reorganization, the division is formed by combining into one unit all major commodities governed by market-oriented provisions of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1773. Benjamin, 63, had headed the Grain Division.
25 years ago
July 26, 2000: Work began last weekend on the restoration of Fairview Methodist Church, a 135-year-old church near Cropsey. Local volunteers and members of the Old House Society scraped, sanded and painted the church, which was established in 1865 and closed in 1946. It continues to attract visitors — and unfortunately, also vandals, who have littered and broken windows throughout the years.
A girl’s best friend: 35+ vintage Pantagraph ads for diamonds Elbe – Nov. 13, 1883 Miller-Ulbrucg Jewelry Co. – Dec. 11, 1914 Yocum Jeweler – April 14, 1917 L.F. Chadband – Nov. 8, 1918 Will H. Homuth Jewelry Co. – Oct. 8, 1923 Will H. Homuth – Feb. 29, 1924 Burklund’s – Aug. 6, 1924 Chadband’s – Nov. 11, 1932 Clyde V. Noble – Sept. 3, 1937 Shield’s – Nov. 20, 1942 Chadband’s – June 21, 1945 Shield’s – June 22, 1945 Chadband’s – Nov. 6, 1945 Chas L. Miller – Nov. 28, 1948 Shields – March 25, 1949 Shield’s – June 18, 1950 Shield’s – June 29, 1950 Vogel Jewelers – March 5, 1950 Chadband’s – Dec. 11, 1953 Kmart – Dec. 10, 1963 Sorg’s – Dec. 11, 1953 Chadband’s – July 4, 1960 Shield’s – March 14, 1963 Page’s Quality Diamonds – Aug. 13, 1964 Sorg’s Jewelers – Aug. 5, 1964 Shield’s – July 20, 1956 Shield Jewelers – July 25, 1965 Shield’s – Dec. 18, 1966 Longines – Dec. 7, 1969 Lowell Jewelry – Dec. 9, 1973 Bergner’s – Dec. 22, 1973 Sorg’s – Oct. 12, 1974 Bergner’s – Feb. 6, 1975 Bergner’s – June 19, 1975 JC Penney – Jan. 14, 1979 J.C. Penney – March 30, 1980 Armstrong’s – Dec. 4, 1981 Diamonds – Nov. 9, 1982 Sorg’s – June 22, 1986 Shield Jewelers – March 16, 1986 Jack Lewis – Oct. 5, 1994 Jack Lewis – Nov. 6, 1997 Love 0 Funny 0 Wow 0 Sad 0 Angry 0
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