Saturday, April 4, 2015

Looking Back to 1915, 1940 and 1964 in DeKalb County, Illinois

Dec. 30, 1915, 100 Years Ago

**  25-30 additional men were hired to disinfect farms to prevent the spread of hoof and mouth disease.  300 applied for the jobs.

**  The land of the late John Gibson sold for $250.50 an acre, one of the highest prices ever paid for farmland in DeKalb County, Illinois.

January 3, 1940, 75 Years Ago

**  Mary Bimbo, 50, the self-styled "Queen of the Gypsies" was ordered out of DeKalb County in 1938, escaped from the Kankakee State Hospital last week.

**  18 people were killed in auto accidents in DeKalb County in 1939.  Three of these died Christmas week.

**  Emil E. Johnson's building in Sycamore was leased Friday to Montgomery Ward & Co. for a period of years.

December 30, 1964, 50 Years Ago

**  204 people died on DeKalb County roads in the last 14 years.  In 1951, only 4; in 1957-- 27; 1964-- 29.

Ah, the Good Old Days.  --Cooter

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