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NORRIS CITY CELEBRATES ITS SESQUICENTENNIAL IN 2021

January 19, 2021 by Ed and Tullyne Oliver

Village of Norris City’s first fire truck, a 1917 Model T Ford, as it looked when purchased from McLeansboro. Photo provided by Ed Oliver.

By Edward Oliver

It does not seem like it has been fifty years since Norris City celebrated its Centennial in 1971.  We had a year long celebration starting with Dairy Days in 1970 until the final celebration on Dairy Days in 1971.  Because of the Coronavirus during most of 2020, we did not have Dairy Days in September, so that has shortened our time to celebrate our Sesquicentennial. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Page, Remembering Our History Tagged With: Norris City, sesquicentennial

JOHNSON’S GROVE AND JOHNSON’S POND

June 29, 2020 by Edward Oliver

By Edward Oliver

My dad, Charles Oliver, and Norris Bruce, father of Carolyn Bruce and Betty Bruce McKenzie, always talked about swimming in Johnson’s Pond.  Dad and Norris were just a few months apart in age (Dad was born in December 1902 and Norris a few months later in 1903).  They were good friends and used to play together and get into mischief together when they were young boys.  One trick they played on Norris Bruce’s dad, Anderson Bruce, got Anderson so mad that Norris went home with Dad and stayed for two weeks, but that is another story. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Remembering Our History Tagged With: 4th of July, History, Norris City

Ed Oliver – Folding of the American Flag

June 18, 2020 by Kathy Sands

Folded American Flag

By Edward Oliver

 Our American flag stands as a symbol representing the United States of America and it also is a symbol of liberty and freedom. Have you ever wondered why the American flag is folded a certain way at military funerals? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Remembering Our History Tagged With: flag

Remembering Our History – Constitutional Law

May 28, 2020 by Edward Oliver

By Ed Oliver

The supreme law in the United States is the U. S. Constitution.  Next in each state is the constitution of that state.  Therefore the constitution of Illinois is the supreme law in Illinois secondary to the constitution of the United States. There is no provision in either constitution for anyone to “interpret” the words written in these constitutions, not even a Supreme Court Judge on either the Federal or State level. Also, there is no provision for anyone to say “I believe what was written is a mask of what the author or authors really meant, and what they really meant is so and so.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Remembering Our History Tagged With: Constitution, Illinois

EPIDEMICS SINCE 1900 AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

May 20, 2020 by Edward Oliver

By Edward Oliver

Our nation and the world are going through another virus, flu, or whatever you want to call this current health epidemic (threat). What is different this time is that both some government officials and some people have gone into a stage of panic instead of using common reasons (sense) or just using “horse sense” as we used to say when I was growing up. [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Remembering Our History Tagged With: epidemics, pandemics

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