Pages from the Past – May 2014 Posted: May 2, 2014 100 years ago 1914 Nineteen sailors were killed and 72 injured in a battle with Mexico. The USS battleships Utah, Florida and Prairie, and their auxiliaries bombarded Veracruz and Tampico, Mexico, over the dictatorship of General Huerta. The U.S. wants him to resign. Meanwhile, in one day in… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, November, 2014 Pages from the Past: Nov. 5, 2014 Oct. 30, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 St. Petersburg, Russia, has a new name: Petrograd. The John Watson farm at the intersection of North Lisbon Road and Hillside Road is nicknamed “Bonair Farm.” 50 years ago –… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, October, 2014 Page from the Past: Oct. 1, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 The George McKerrow farm on Highway K and Lyndale Road is 240 acres, the second largest farm in the town of Lisbon. The largest is the WP Condon farm, which is 260 acres…. Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, September, 2014 Pages from the Past 09/03/14 Posted: Aug. 28, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 August 1914 is labeled “Guns of August” as Germany attacks France and the British Expeditionary Forces. This is not stemmed until the First Battle of Marne on Sept. 6-9. Basically, Germany… Read more »
Posted: June 3, 2014 100 years ago 1914 In Merton, Ms. John Schlieker died from a ruptured blood vessel in her neck. She had been beating a rug for some time prior to her sudden death. The R. H. Gumm Quarry in Lannon has sold out to a firm in Alton, Illinois. 50 years ago 1964 Harry Haycock… Read more »
Posted: March 11, 2014 1914 100 years ago There is a huge ad in the local papers that caters to the ladies which reads, “Sick women made hall and hardy by Lydia E. Pinkman’s Vegetable Compound.” (I hear it had a base of alcohol in it.) C.G. Baer of Sussex is buying potatoes in car load lots. There is… Read more »
Pages from the Past – April 2014 Posted: April 14, 2014 100 years ago 1914 Miss Margaret Walsh of Lannon was married to Alvin Walters. The wedding was at St. James Catholic Church for the Lannon couple. The after-marriage reception and meal was at the parents’ home in Lannon. In the recent election Charles Malsch was again re-elected chairman… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, August 6, 2014 Pages from the Past 08/06/14 Posted: Aug. 1, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 Aug. 1, 1914: Germany declares war on Russia. Aug. 2: German troops occupy Luxembourg and invade Belgium on Aug. 3. The United States is having conversations of the question of… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, December, 2014 Pages from the past: Dec. 3, 2014 Nov. 26, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 The 78-acre farm that was once owned by Civil War veteran James Moyes, and is today the Sussex Village Park, is occupied by the Martkoph farm. This farm sells some… Read more »
Pages from the Past – February 2014 Posted: Feb. 11, 2014 1914 100 years ago Construction of the Canadian Grand Truck Railroad to the Pacific is completed. Mr. Walter Jones of Lannon married in late January in Iron Ridge, Ill. Wholesale prices for large live chickens varies between 12 and 15 cents. Roosters bring 9 cents a pound. Wholesale… Read more »
