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I could not find a copy of the entire story dated July 16, 2014, but found the draft for the original, you might enjoy reading it. I you like this story I have plenty more. Know your local history ...  A front-page comparison article in a recent Morton Times News compared real estate taxes to surrounding communities and behold Morton was listed with the lowest rate per assessed value.  No wonder so many people migrate to Morton.  Naturally, it fired up my curiosity gene and required follow up.  I found one of the reason but certainly not all and a subject affecting the community just like South Carolina's congressman Trey Gawdy's  IRS investigation,  cannot be brushed aside and forgotten,  I intent to touch on it again.   From immediate information obtained from reliable sources I discovered that 115 homes had been sold in Morton thus far this year of which 14 were new construction for 4.5 million dollars or...
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OK.  Let’s get back into the swing of things and talk about an individual who paid lots of taxes, created countless jobs and bestowed honor on the community of Morton.  He was born in Wolcott, Indiana and married a Morton girl in 1941.  Two of their four children reside in the Morton area, one resides in a neighboring state and a fourth deceased at an early age.  My first personal encounter with our mystery man was in the late 1960ties when he met me in his shop wearing a welder’s uniform covered with black soot.   It seems that his shop was the only one in town that could fabricate a beam we at Morton Buildings needed for an airplane hangar we were building in Lacon, Illinois. Our hero was born in Wolcott, Indiana on March 10, 1910.  He moved via Cissna Park and Fairbury to Morton and married a Morton girl on October 18, 1941.   They had four Children of which the oldest passed away at a very early age. ...
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Am I, or am I not a Christian?

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