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Monthly board of Trustees Minutes of June 1959
These are the minutes from the monthly board meeting on June 5, 1959, the special meeting for consideration of the budget on June 11, 1959, and the Finance Committee meeting on June 19, 1959. Also included is a letter from Robert A. Grohne (Mayor)…
Photos of A. E. Staley Mfg. Co.
Post card of the Staley Office Building at night. Photograph of the Dust Collector. Photograph of man watching conveyor belt. Photograph of A. E. Staley baseball field. Photograph of the Staley Office building with flood lights. Photographs of…
Photo of Rev. Eugene M. Smith, pastor First Christian Church
Photograph of Rev. Eugene m. Smith (died 9/13/1923). Rev. Smith former pastor of the First Christian Church in Decatur. He came to Decatur in 1908 and remained until 1915, when to went to Carthage, IL. In 1910 he was elected president of the Northern…
Special meeting of Board of Trustees - November 1959
This is the minutes from the special called board meeting on November 16, 1959. At this meeting, the board discussed shelving bids for the Magic Carpet Room, a report on Civil Service, the Illinois Library Association meeing, and approval of the…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes of October 1959
This is the minutes from the Finance Committee meeting on October 21, 1959 and the monthly board meeting on October 30, 1959. Also included is a list of bills for October.
Monthly board of Trustees minutes of September 1959
This is the minutes of the September 25, 1959 monthly board meeting. Also included are the minutes from the Personnel Committee and Policy Committee meetings on September 18, 1959, the minutes from the Properties Committee meeting on September 21,…
Photo of Rev. Jerome H. Smart
Photograph of Rev. Jerome H. Smart, former Christian Church minister in Decatur, (died 11/6/1913). Veteran of the civil War and entered ministry about 1870. For several years associated with "The Christian," a paper published in St. Louis, later…
Photo of Rev. J. E. Story
Photograph of Rev. J. E. Story, he served at the 7th Street Christian Church now the Prairie Ave. Christian Church, left in 1935.
Photo of The Hour of Cheer Building
Photograph of the Building that housed The Hour of Cheer radio station W.H.O.W. Clinton, IL. Rev. A. F. Jenkins.
Photo of St. John's Episcopal Church Consecration 1912
Photograph of St. John's Episcopal Church Consecration in 1912. Photo shows procession leading into the church. Print from J. K. Stafford collection of negatives taken in the late 1890's and early 1900's which were in possession of Mr. and Mrs. Jack…