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DeWalt to match Walworth mural donations DAVE CLARKE The Star Courier There was a time when if you lived in Kewanee and didn t work at Walworth, you knew someone who did. In the early 1900s, over 4,000 people worked at the sprawling plant northeast of the business district and remained one of the city s major employers for decades. Many former employees who worked there before Walworth closed in 1978 are still alive. Anyone with a connection to Walworth, or who would just like to see it memorialized in a mural to be painted here this summer, might like to accept Mike DeWalt s personal challenge to match, dollar for dollar up to $2,500 any donation to the mural fund. DeWalt issued a similar challenge two years ago to help raise funds to make the Black Knights mural a reality. ....
Kewanee barber makes mammoth find Fred Keller put Kewanee on the paleontology Map in 1933 Dean Karau Kewanee barber Fred Keller went a-fishin’ on July 29, 1933, a sunny, warm Saturday morning which would reach the low 90s before clouds would move in that evening. He drove up Highway 78 to near its intersection with the Green River in north Alba Township. Afterward, Keller never said whether he had any luck catching fish. But he did hook into a mammoth catch – literally! Keller’s pole bent as he struggled to pull up something from the bottom of the water. When he got it to the surface, he initially thought he had hooked an odd-looking log. But he quickly saw it resembled a big – very big – bone. Keller stripped down to his shorts and repeatedly dove into the water and soon brought up all manner of bones. Over the next weeks, Keller and friends kept at work looking for and finding more bones. ....