Coles County Fair Fine Art, Photography and Antiques Awards Announced | Agriculture
CHARLESTON – This year’s Coles County Fair fine arts, textiles and hobby winners have been announced.
Beaux-Arts – Teacher Painting-Oil / Acrylic Professional Class
- 1st – Emma K Edwards
- 2nd – Emma K Edwards
- 3rd – Phil Glosser
Fine Arts – Prof. Aquarelle Professional Class
Fine Arts – Professional Drawing Course
- 1st – Phil Glosser
- 2nd – Phil Glosser
Fine Arts – Amateur Class Painting-Oil / Acrylic Amateur
- 1st – Judy Meyer
- 2nd – Judy Meyer
- 3rd – Sarah Thomas
- 4th – Sarah Thomas
- 5th – Kelly Easton
- 6th – Kelly Easton
Fine Arts – Amateur Watercolor Amateur Course
- 1st – Judy Meyer
- 2nd – Judy Meyer
- 3rd – Ben Glosser
Fine Arts – Amateur Drawing Amateur Class
- 1st – Sarah Thomas
- 2nd – Sarah Thomas
Photography – Professional People / Animals Teacher
- 1st – Sarah Easter
- 2nd – Warren Thompson
- 3rd – Phil Glosser
- 4th – Phil Glosser
Photography – Professional Places / Things Teacher
- 1st – Warren Thompson
- 2nd – Phil Glosser
- 3rd – Phil Glosser
Photography – Professional Black and White Professional (Any Subject)
- 1st – Sarah Easter
- 2nd – Phil Glosser
- 3rd – Phil Glosser
Photography – Prof Collection (6) Related Objects – Professional
- 1st – Phil Glosser
- 2nd – Phil Glosser
Photography – Prof Collection (6) Unrelated Objects – Professional
- 1st – Phil Glosser
- 2nd – Phil Glosser
Photography – Amateur People / Animals Amateur
- 1st – Garrett M Porter
- 2nd – Kristi Brady
- 3rd – Holly Glosser
- 4th – Kelly Easton
- 5th – Suzanne Thomas
- 6th – Malaysia Brady
Photography – Amateur Places / Things Amateur
- 1st – Suzanne Thomas
- 2nd – Kelly Easton
- 3rd – Holly Glosser
- 4th – Alethe Vassay
- 5th – Benjamin Cummins
- 6th – Brenda Taber
Photography – Amateur Black & White Amateur (Any Subject)
- 1st – Kristi Brady
- 2nd – Jenni Passig
- 3rd – Alethe Vassay
Photography – Amateur Collection (6) Related Items – Amateur
- 1st – Holly Glosser
- 2nd – Suzanne Thomas
- 3rd – Alethe Vassay
- 4th – Malaysia Brady
- 5th – Kelly Easton
- 6th – Michael Brady
Photography – Amateur collection (6) Unrelated objects – Amateur
- 1st – Alethe Vassay
- 2nd – Suzanne Thomas
- 3rd – Holly Glosser
- 4th – Kelly Easton
- 5th – Michael Brady
Coles County Fair Junior Product Award Announcement
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of Old Glassware 3 – 6 Pieces
- 1st – Vivian Hallett
- 2nd – Brenda Taber
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Antique China Collection 3 – 6 Pieces
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of old books 3 – 6 pieces
- 1st – Vivian Hallett
- 2nd – Louise Vassay
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of Old Postcards 6 – 12 Pieces
- 1st – Louise Vassay
- 2nd – Louise Vassay
- 3rd – Vivian Hallett
- 4th – Brenda Taber
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of Ancient Jewelry 3 – 6 Pieces
- 1st – Vivian Hallett
- 2nd – Louise Vassay
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of Old Dolls 3 – 6 Pieces
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of Old Bottles 3 – 6 Pieces
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Coll of Antique Advertisements (Small) 3 – 6 Pieces
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Coll of Antique Kitchen Collectibles 3 – 6 Pieces
- 1st – Vivian Hallett
- 2nd – Brenda Taber
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Antique duvet – Written history over 50 years
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Most interesting antiquity with written history
- 1st – Joyce Lock
- 2nd – Vivian Hallett
Antiques – Collections / Hobbies – Collection of antiques; Any 3 – 6 pieces
Coles County Fair Culinary Awards Announcement
Charleston locations in 12 historical photos
Wilb Walker supermarket
1988: Dyalene Haworth demonstrates the ease of use of the EZ Shopper Grocery Cart at Wilb Walker Supermarket.
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Square
1980: Place Charleston.
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North Park house before renovation
1986: Jean Carpenter of Charleston received a grant to repair his house. A grant of $ 350,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs will be used to renovate approximately 40 homes in the North Park neighborhood.
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North Park house after renovation
1986: Jean Carpenter on the porch of the house after renovations.
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Mother
1988: At Mother’s in Charleston, grandmother winks at customers who come to wet their whistles. Mothers is a tavern known to almost every student at Eastern Illinois University.
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Hotel fire
1931: The Jefferies building is destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. On the left is the Winters clothing store with the Charleston hotel office next door to the north, then a vacant room recently vacated by the Huckleberry jewelry store, with the Rogers Pharmacy on the corner.
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Golf field
1986: Pat Kaiser plans to open his nine-hole golf course by Memorial Day weekend if Mother Nature would cooperate.
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Eastern Illinois Artists Guild
1941: A permanent exhibition of the work of Paul Turner Sargent was opened by the Eastern Illinois Artists’ Guild at 809 Jack St., built in 1831 by Dr. Aaron Ferguson. It is said to be the oldest house in Charleston.
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Downtown
1986: Downtown Charleston was designated as part of the district for funding that city’s tax increases in so-called dilapidated areas of their cities.
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Coles County National Bank
1992: Coles County National Bank is declared insolvent and sold to Eagle Bank and Trust Co. The Missouri-based trust company owns banks in three other Illinois cities, Sparta, Nashville and Highland.
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Charleston Square
1978: Osco Drug and Eisner grocery store soon opens in Charleston Plaza shopping center. The two stores will occupy 40,000 square feet in the center. A 2,000 square foot Radio Shack store is already open. Another 2,000 square foot store will be occupied by the Book Emporium and will open later this year. A total of 9,000 square feet remains for rent in the center.
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Celotex Corp.
1971: The estimated annual production for the new Celotex Corp. plant. north of Charleston is approximately 130 million square feet of insulation board.
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