Zahn Roeder

Lena Roeder Zahn with her girls Mabel and Florella. Blanche May Roeder.

--Photo from Daniel Flora.

Zahn

Lena Roeder Zahn and daughters Mabel and Florella in Roberts.

--Photo from Daniel Flora. 

Taylor Gullett Wedding

--Roberts Herald. 7 October 1926.

More Roberts Rakings . . .

ROBERTS RAKINGS

News of interest in our town is almost as scarce an article at present as the sometimes abused but muchly coveted greenback.
A series of evening meetings is now being held here by Rev. Mr. Wenge, pastor of the Congregational church of Thawville, assisted by Rev. Hart, pastor of the Methodist church, in Roberts.
James Gell, Esq, is building a banking office on his lot just east of Anderson & Campbell's....
H. Tinklepaugh is putting up some splendid farm wagons, every part warranted.
Ed. Newman has just returned from Chicago, where he has been after a fresh stock of winter goods, ready made clothing, etc.
Thompson & Lyman now have a practical tinsmith, and are ready to manufacture everything in their line.
Our grain merchants have plenty of greenbacks in exchange for corn, oats, and flax at the highest market prices.
Rice Bros. have opened their new meat market. With two meat markets we have meat enough to spare and potatoes to match.
Miss Montgomery has opened a millinery shop in the old post office building.
John Bunker has a new house nearly ready for occupancy, just north of the school house.
Ed. King is building a house for John McNish who has sold his farm and is coming to town to engage in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother.

--The Paxton Record. 18 November 1875.

Martin Dietterle Accident

 

 --The Pantagraph. Bloomington, IL. 5 September 1879. Page 3.

--Gibson City Courier.  5 September 1879.  Page 5.



The home of Elias Beighle

I think this may be in the country. I think that is Elias Beighle standing beside his home, and he owned property on the far north end of Lyman Township not too far from 115.  His bio says he lived on Section 3 in Lyman Township.  I was hoping it was a home in town, but I don't think it is. It's such a great photo.
Roberts, Illinois.  1906.  I found this photo on Ancestry.

Little Homer Newman dies.

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, IL. 27 March 1899. Page 2

Some Roberts news.

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, IL. 13 April 1899. Page 6.

Weaver Curtis Vows

WEAVER - CURTIS
--Melvin Motor. 19 April 1912.

Walter Talbot Accidental Death

 

 

--Roberts Herald.  10 August 1927.

 



 

 

Roberts High School, Class of 1906.  Top Row L to R:  Walter Talbot, Teacher? Harvey Wakelin.  Bottom Row L to R:  Bernard Wright, Hazel Kenward, Clarence Bayler, Albert Seng.

 

--"Lets' Talk About Roberts." by Larry Knilands and Jean Fox.    

--Newspaper Clipping. 1927.
Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.

Neiting Grove . . . never heard of that.

Neiting Grove. Just outside of Roberts. Looks like the road we took to the farm. Near the Musson's and Lloyd Flessner's place. Was the grove that we know so large that it extended several miles outside of Roberts?

A church in 1876 in Section 34.

I believe the middle small building is a church . . . located on section 34 in Lyman Township from this 1876 atlas.

The Lake Shore District

 

 

Many of the early articles in Roberts' history refer to this as "the Lake Shore District." And here is why. Looks like the Arnold Farm and Lester and Ida Weber are in the Lake Shore District. Our farm was surrounded by drainage ditches.

A new map I found today.

--ATLAS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 1876.

I found this map today at the library. Neiting Grove . . . don't think I have ever run across that name. Beeset [sic] Grove on this map is still a station. Which I think means a train station or depot is still located there in 1876. And the Lake Shore District in Section 8, 7 and 6 is a "Lake" in this atlas. At one time this must have been a very significant body of water. Lots of schools also. And a church in Section 27.

ROBERTS RAKINGS
 
--Paxton Record. 12 January 1871.

. . . Thompson and Dashiel of Onarga have built a store in our town, and filled it with Dry Goods and Groceries, and are doing a good business. Our R. R. is graded and bridged, and ties are contracted to be hauled. A water tank is also under way.  Most of our farmers, after keeping their hogs until the present time, -- and their value depreciating every week -- have at last concluded to sell, and quite a large amount of pork has been started Chicagoward in the past few days. I have been talking to our farmers about their corn crops and its average yield, and have found that exluding sod corn, the average is fully 43 bushels per acre, and this average, unlike others, is an under estimate, rather than over.

Officials of Lyman Township 1870

--Paxton Record. 14 April 1870.

LYMAN

E. S. Gose, Supervisor
A. B. Graham, Clerk
Jos. Hurst, Assessor
F. G. Atwood, Collector
T. Russell, Commissioner of Highways
J. S. Smith, Justice of the Peace
T. A. Ireland, School Trustee

Overseers of Highways:
John Davis
W. A. Conger
James B. Jones
John Hammill
Jas. Drummond
James Dycus
Horace Lester
G. G. Atwood
A. Shaffer
P.P. Russell

Top of the Class 1947

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 25 May 1947. Page 12.

Joyce Kief to wed Duane Metz

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 10 March 1951. Page 6.

Top of the Class 1944

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 2 May 1944. Page 5.

A New Coach at Roberts High School 1941

Wilfred Colteaux

--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 31 July 1941. Page 12.