Jack Scherer News Today

Six restaurants will be serving ribs and five bands will be dishing up blues at the two-day Little Bear Ribfest in Vernon Hills this weekend.

With the exception of a lack of snow on the sled hill due to a recent thaw, Winterfest went on as planned at the Century Park Pavilion in Vernon Hills Saturday.

Aug. 3, 1921 The typhoid fever situation remained unchanged today except that City Manager George Johnston has instructed Inspector Bellman to notify all milk dealers to be particularly careful to observe the strict letter of the city ordinance and state rules. City officials say that if it is impossible to enforce the milk ordinance as now constituted that a pasteurization plant here is inevitable, whether it eliminates some smaller dealers or not. Sellers and Vanderjagt, the dairy farm east o...