90 Years Ago

The best-looking well ever drilled in Rooks County, as far as it has been drilled, is the Kiskadden and Johndahl and the L.C.D. Drilling Company on the John Westhusin land. The hole was bottomed at 3,080 feet after encountering five good showings in the Topeka lime.

Despite the rain, there was quite a fair-sized crowd of women, includng a carload of Plainville and Woodston, as well as a number of men present in the courtroom at the courthouse on Tuesday morning to hear what Mrs. Ed Graham of Peabody, state president of the Kansas Women's Republican Club, and...

A hundred and fifty friends of W. J. Balderston, including the patrons of Route One from Stockton, local post office employees, and carriers from neighboring towns, gathered at Woodman Hall for a big dinner honoring Mr. Balderston, who retired as a route carrier.

Several Stockton citizens have been bitten by the home-building bug this summer, and two of them have already started the erection of new homes. The others will probably get their plans ready soon so that actual work can start.

Although the actual laying of mains probably will not begin before next week, excavation work has been started in Stockton for natural gas lines, and a large booster station is now being constructed about two miles west of here by the Kansas Pipeline and Gas Company.

Frank Cooley, for nearly ten years an efficient highway patrolman, has resigned his position and is going into the tourist camp business. Last week he purchased several lots from George Unger and Ira Scott on east Main Street and will soon start the erection of the cabins and a filling station.

Work on the east end of Highway 24 is progressing rapidly. It is hoped to have the section between Osborne and Portis open for travel by the end of this week.

Earl Zink, 30, of Palco, who was killed Saturday evening, was one of the victims of accidents in Ellis County that took the lives of two men and injured others during the weekend.

More than 600 warrants for delinquent personal taxes for 1935 have been turned over to the sheriff's office for collection. Rooks County ranked second in the state in the percentage of delinquent personal taxes collected by the sheriff's office.

Roy Ballard, who had been suffering from blood poisoning in his right arm for several weeks, was compelled to return to the hospital at Hays on Thursday, where he had his forefinger amputated.