----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda L. Willibey" <willibey@keynet.net> To: <ILFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 12:22 PM Subject: Herscher Newspaper > > There is reference in the Kankakee Newspapers of the later 1800's to a > Herscher Newspaper. In fact, there is reference to other small towns in > the western part of Kankakee County having their own weekly > newspapers. These were weekly editions. I have not located any of these > old newspapers. I assume they were probably only a couple of pages and no > one saved them. > > I did find a microfilm of a couple of years of The Herscher Pilot dating > around the years of 1918 to 1920, thereabouts. I don't remember the exact > year dates. It was a weekly paper dated on Thursdays of each week. I > last saw this microfilm in a back drawer in a filing cabinet near the > Kankakee Newspaper microfilms out at KCC. It is not listed on the file > cabinet's notation of what is in the drawer. I happened on it about two > years ago and used it. I don't know if it is still there. > >