Full Text of HR0031 94th General Assembly
HR0031 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The official Sesquicentennial Celebration of the | 3 |
| Village of Bement will take place on July 29-31, 2005; Bement | 4 |
| was chartered on August 6, 1855; and
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| WHEREAS, Bement, population 1,784, is located in Piatt | 6 |
| County; Bement got its beginning due to the vision and | 7 |
| foresight of three men; Joseph Bodman, L.B. Wing, and Harry P. | 8 |
| Little; they knew that the Great Western Railroad was going | 9 |
| from Danville to Quincy, and the land they staked out was on | 10 |
| both sides of the tracks; they named Bement after the Treasurer | 11 |
| of the Great Western Railroad, with whom they had worked while | 12 |
| buying the land; and
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| WHEREAS, Bement was one of the earliest villages to have | 14 |
| telephone service and electricity; the community also saw the | 15 |
| need for such things as paved streets, sidewalks, a water | 16 |
| system, and a drainage system for the village, as well as for | 17 |
| the farm ground; a school was built as one of the first things | 18 |
| to improve the community; when the frame-structured school | 19 |
| burned down, it was replaced with a brick school that, after | 20 |
| over a hundred years of service, is still being used; and
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| WHEREAS, As times have changed, so has Bement; it has not | 22 |
| grown like some towns, but it has increased in population over | 23 |
| the last two censuses; it still has its school, two implement | 24 |
| dealers, five churches, two nice parks, a swimming pool, a | 25 |
| nursing home, an aerated sewage system, four restaurants, a | 26 |
| bowling alley, a nationally-rated library, and other things | 27 |
| that make for a great community; and
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| WHEREAS, Bement is also home to Central Illinois | 29 |
| Manufacturing Company, which is its largest employer; | 30 |
| Topflight Grain Company, which is the largest cooperative grain | 31 |
| company in Illinois; Historic Bryant Cottage; Lincoln-Douglas |
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| Memorial; a Veterans Memorial; and the award-winning Bement | 2 |
| Country Opry; and
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| WHEREAS, What Bement does have is a great group of | 4 |
| citizens; and in that group, there is one descendant of one of | 5 |
| the earliest settlers, Robert E. Bodman; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 8 |
| we congratulate the Village of Bement on the occasion of its | 9 |
| Sesquicentennial Celebration; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 |
| presented to the Village of Bement.
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