Farm Days Gone By

April 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Alfred, Roy, Clarence and Ralph Sangmeister are building their tool shed at their home place on Offner Road around 1958-59. Franklin Christensen helped.

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Farm Days Gone By

March 28, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Kathy Forsythe of Manhattan shares this photo of David Forsythe riding his pony, “Dandy,” on the farm around 1909. The farm was in Elwood and…

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Farm Days Gone By

March 21, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Jeff Brandau, whose Mom was a Sangmeister, shared some old pictures of his grandfather and uncles. Here, John Wille and Clarence Sangmeister are shelling corn…

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Farm Days Gone By

March 14, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Diane Oestreich sent along this photo of the 1931-32 baseball team in Symerton where she grew up. Her Dad was a member of the team,…

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Farm Days Gone By

March 7, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Loretta Sartore popped into the office recently to share this picture taken around 1948 of her sisters and her at the Union County Fair. At…

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Farm Days Gone By

February 29, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Raymond Tewes driving a brand new 1950 Farmall M tractor in Frankfort in 1950. The tractor is now owned by his nephew, Kurt Tewes.

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Farm Days Gone By

February 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Gary Jurres from Peotone shares this photo of shelling and unloading corn in 1949 by William Pooley and his son, Rich.

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Farm Days Gone By

February 15, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Denise Issert shares this 1949 photo of her Dad, Victor, at 16, with his prize-winning Chester Whites. His hogs won many ribbons from 4H, Kankakee…

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Farm Days Gone By

January 25, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

Willard A. Rowley showing cabs are for sissies while plowing on the Rowley farm in Homer Township in the early 1960s with his 1931 Case…

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Farm Days Gone By

January 18, 2024 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By

David and Laurel Rowley share this photo of three exited children preparing to go “dashing through the snow” in their “one horse open sleigh” in…

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