North Liberty, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
11 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 11 dated mentions
1940s
- 19401940: shoes, clothing and beauty on one street
The 1940 telephone directory's North Liberty section, transcribed whole in the banks leg, shows the dress trades at their fullest documented spread.
- 1940The lunch-room town: the 1940 table
In 1940 a traveller could eat in North Liberty at the Chat En Chew Lunch Room, at Jay's Lunch Room, or at Gardner's Inn.
- 1940The street record: garages, agencies and gasoline
The 1940 directory transcribed in the banks leg fills in the trade at that date: the Bare & Heim Service Station, Hazelbaker's Phillips 66, and Poynter's Service Station — three fuel-and-service houses in a town of under a thousand, the gasoline street in miniature.
- 1941–1945The Second World War
A county page-image count of the Honor List was not completed and stands in the note as residue, with the St. Joseph County Public Library's Service Notes index (1941–1979) named as the name-level settler for this war above all others.
- 1942The Mother Congregation and Oak Grove, Disorganized 1942
Before there were separate Brethren congregations there was one — the Whitmer church, covering much of the county's southwest — and its remainder, Oak Grove, was disorganized in 1942.
- 1942–1945The war years, 1942–45: an honest small negative
The only 1942 Ford-garage advertising hit in the local newspaper record is the Walkerton Ford Garage (Walkerton Independent, 30 April 1942) — Walkerton's business, a boundary exclusion, not this town's.
- 1943–1987The bank item: Community State Bank
The Community State Bank of North Liberty was chartered in 1943 and merged into 1st Source Bank in 1987 — it did not fail, and it is not independent.
- 1943–1987The Community State Bank of North Liberty, 1943–1987: Certificate 15942
The FDIC's institution history for the Community State Bank of North Liberty (Certificate 15942, state charter, headquarters on Main Street) carries exactly two events: its establishment on 1 May 1943, and its merger — without assistance…
- 1943–2026The modern federal tail: no case
The Community State Bank traded from 1943 to 1987, and its successor branch trades still, with no robbery case in the record reached.
- 1947–1969The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force files
The modern era of reports opens in the summer of 1947; the Air Force investigated under successive projects — Sign (1948), Grudge (1949) and Blue Book (1952–1969) — headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, filing each report as a case with a disposition: identified, insufficient data, or unknown.
- 1949–2010The county centre founded: Madison Center, 1949
The community mental health centre that served this town for six decades was founded in 1949 and sat in South Bend.