William Farner News Today

Visitors to the Carroll County Historical Society sites always can find new things to see, and that will be the case again for this year’s annual open house on Sunday,

PREPARE LUMBER CENTER SITE: Workmen from Leroy and Erv’s Dozer Service of Arcadia are preparing the site for the construction of the new Fullerton Home Building Center here this week.

PROCLAIMS MONTH: Mrs. Joe Pick, Carroll Toastmistress Club president and Esther Juergens, charter member, look on as Mayor William Farner signs a proclamation designating October as International Toastmistress Month in

Two new Lake County sheriff's canines were sworn in and over two dozen citizens and sheriff's employees were recognized at an awards ceremony in Waukegan Thursday afternoon.

Outdoor space at the Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa. Kate Berry/Thunderbird Hotel In 1929, a used-car salesman in Waco named Edgar Lee Torrance opened what would become the first motel chain in America. With its cheesy white-stucco wink to the Alamo’s facade, Torrance’s Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts featured individual carports for guests, telephones in each room, and “a Beautyrest mattress on every bed,” according to newspaper advertisements. The chain’s eventual expansion to twenty courts in...