Arthur Historical Society (Arthur, IL)

03/18/2025

Tuscola Journal, 4 May 1972.

03/15/2025

Bet many will recognize most of these names!

Found in the Douglas County Museum...

03/15/2025

Found in the Douglas County Museum...

03/09/2025

02/15/2025

Lemuel Jones of Bourbon was the first Douglas County man to be killed in WW I. He was the grandson of Malden Jones who laid out the town of Bourbon and was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. He is buried in an American military cemetery in Lorraine, France, but he has a cenotaph in the Bourbon Cemetery.

03/24/2024

A recent conversation about the origins of brick streets in Arthur, and their ultimate demise, led to the discovery of these two articles nearly fifty-two years apart. Vine Street was originally bricked in the fall of 1907. In 1936 WPA workers painstakingly flipped and restored all the bricks on Vine Street in an effort to maintain the thoroughfare for future generations. An editorial in a 1958 edition of the graphic (almost too faint to read) posited that the demise of the bricks on Vine Street would be the constant flow of extremely large and heavy gas transport trucks headed south from the USI Chemical Plant west of Tuscola. Almost exactly one year later, in the fall of 1959, all of the bricks on Vine Street were completely covered by asphalt.
Eric Alexander

12/16/2023

NOTICE FOR ARTHUR RESIDENTS OR FORMER RESIDENTS!!!!!! TIME CAPSULE
This note was on the back of our water bills this month. Note there are only a couple of weeks to get your items to the village offices where you will be given an envelope to place your items in. Beginning December 1, 2023, the Village of Arthur will start collecting items for the time capsule that will be reopened in 2073. A 10 X13 envelope will be provided for individuals and organizations to include letters, pictures, newspaper articles, memorabilia, or other items for someone 50 years from now. Bring your items to the Municipal Building during regular business hours. The envelopes will be marked and a list of those depositing envelopes and their future recipients will be recorded. Last chance to include something for the time capsule will be Sunday, December 31, 2023 from 1:00-3:00 PM at the Community Building. A brief time capsule closing ceremony will follow. So don't hesitate to get those items together and take them up to the village offices!

11/08/2023

The Wesley and Eva Schroeder Blaase family, circa 1917. Left to right, Esther Blaase Green, John Wesley Blaase, Wessel "Wesley" Blaase, Magdalena "Lena" Blaase Landgrebe, Elsabe "Eva" Schroeder Blaase, Fred William Blaase, and Charles R. Blaase.

10/04/2023

08/21/2023

This is the list of those who have envelopes in the time capsule which will be opened on Saturday, September 2 at the Founder's Day dinner. Keep in mind there may very well be name changes and those who are no longer with us from 50 years ago. Not too late to get your tickets for the Founder's Day dinner on Saturday, September 2. Call the village offices at 217-543-2927 for more information.

Rhonda (Winningham) Aikman
Jon Aschermann
Angela Baldwin
Thomas Baldwin
Francis Ballard
Janis Becker
Richard Bradford
Barb Brown (family)
Marilyn Sue (Eads) Canupp
Mary Collins
Kevin Conlin
Pat Conlin
Jake Chupp
Nancy Clark
Valerie (Bradford) Chancellor
Jack Corum
Carol (Hale) Crist
Kenneth & Jacqueline Curtis (family)
De Ann Daily
Jane Daily
Gay Davis
Brett Dillon
Calene Dillon
Todd Dukeman
Van Dukeman
Terry Ferchow
Joel Fitzjarrald
Matthew Fritz
Cindy Gingerich
Galen Gingerich
Jason Gingerich
Marcy Lynn Good
J C Graham
Mary Beth Graham
Cory Green
James Haney (descendants)
John & Sue Hansen (family)
Peggy Harmon
Gregory Heerdt
Richard Hein
Orva & Fern Helmuth (descendants)
Dean & Charlene Hendrickson (descendants)
Carol Herschberger
Larry Herschberger
Richard Herschberger
Eric & Karleen Hilligoss
David Hoke
Gene Hoke
Gordon Hoke
Justin Hood
Gale Hopkins
Ann Huffman
Jeff Hutchcraft
Mark Jones
Doug Jurgens (children)
Steve & Joyce Jurgens
Ron Jurgens (family)
Albert & Anna Kauffman (descendants)
Angela Kauffman
Debby Kauffman
Linda Keiss
C W Kinney
Danny Kuhns
Howard Kuhns
Paul Knobloch
Judy (Willoughby) Kondrup
Mr & Mrs Elmer Lash
Rebecca Laughead
Eric Lauterjung
Sally (Stock) McCarthy
Bill McCord
David McDonald
Doug McDonald
Becky Miller
Kim Miller
Lorene Miller
Chad B. Morris
Bruce Oye
Karen Oye
Lynnette Oye
Kerry Pate
Linda Perrine
Deanne Petty
Paul Petty
Robin Petty
James Plank
Kay Plummer
Larry Plummer
Floyd & Leta Reeves
Kelly Roberts
Kenneth Roberts
Jeff Rohrer
John Schrock
Jonas Schrock (family)
Michelle Schrock
Michelle (McDonald) Schrock
Omer Schrock
Christina Schultz
Mary Lisa Schultz
Sandy Snyder
Cheryl (Hale) Sweet
Geneva Taylor (family)
Robert Eugene Taylor, Jr
Tony Taylor
Dave Tiffan
Rhonda Trower
Leann Tulley
Melodi Walker
Tanya Walker
Marilyn Watkins (family)
Richard Wetherell
Virgil & Wileva Williams (family)
Steve Willoughby
Martha (Stock) Yeakel
Bernadine Yoder
Ervin Yoder
Kathy Yoder
Nathan Yutzy

Miscellaneous:
Arthur Church of Christ
Arthur Mennonite Church
Arthur United Methodist Church
Boy Scout Troop 74
First Baptist Church
Moultrie County Historical Society