Before Norris City had a Dairy Days celebration, there was Rooster Day and Farmers Institute; neither lasted very long.
In 1947, three months before my tenth birthday, Dairy Days was started in Norris City. A group of citizens who where [Read more…]
kaskaskia
From early times, the site of Kaskaskia was a meeting place for Indian tribes. It received it’s name from the Kaskaskia Indian tribe with it’s site being where the Kaskaskia River ran into the Mississippi River. [Read more…]
Norris City Barber shops of the past
Norris City often had at least four barbershops when I was growing up in the 1940s and early 1950s. Now Norris City no longer has a barber shop. [Read more…]
RECORD KEEPING AND COMMUNICATION
Communications and record keeping have drastically changed in our history with most of the changes taking place during my lifetime of eighty years. [Read more…]
Local Masonic Lodge Activities
May Lodge No. 718 at Norris City and Omaha Lodge No. 723 of Omaha merged in June 2009. Both Masonic lodges were charted in October 1874. May Lodge No. 718 now includes both the Norris City and Omaha communities. [Read more…]
