90 Years Ago

Phillip Morin, 23, of Damar, was almost instantly killed yesterday morning when his car, stalled on the Union Pacific tracks, was struck by a freight train about two miles from Damar. The automobile was carried for a distance of 200 feet and demolished.

The latest oil test to be made in Rooks County is the well being drilled in the exact center of NE1/4 of 21-8-19 on land owned by Dick Silvers. The drilling is progressing rapidly, and reports state that the hole is down by 925 feet. This well is being drilled by A. E. Creeley of Russell and H. K.

The preliminary returns of the 1930 census indicate that although Rooks County is still losing population, the rate of decrease is far less than in the previous decade. The Census Bureau reports a population of 9,534, while in 1920, the total was 9,966, and in 1910, it was 11,282.

The engineers from the Fairbanks-Morse plant at Beloit, Wisc., are here this week installing the new 360 horsepower modern diesel engine at the municipal power plant. The installation work will be completed within the next week.

Stockton will have a Fourth of July celebration this year, and the businessmen are inviting everyone to come to town on the evening of the Fourth and enjoy the celebration. There will be no speech-making and no milling around during a hot July afternoon.

The Winstead Brothers of Wichita will launch an air circus next Sunday, staging the event at the Alex Low farm in northeast Stockton. C.H. Crawford, advance agent for the Winstead Brothers, was in Stockton for a couple of days this week, completing plans for the circus.

Eight-year-old Thelma Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark of Hoxie, suffered three pelvic fractures and severe lacerations on her body when a Ford sedan, which her father was driving, overturned in a ditch at a railroad crossing six miles west of Hays. Mr.

Mrs. Anna Eades and her mother, Mrs. Josephine Gick of Plainville, were spending several weeks in Europe. They went to Quebec, Canada, by train and left on the ship “Empress of Scotland” with the landing place at Cherbourg, France.

The farmhouse on the old L. Hulse place on the county line just south of the State Highway to Phillipsburg was destroyed by fire last Tuesday afternoon. Ed Forssberg and his wife and his brother, John, who purchased the farm from Fred Baxter some months ago, occupied the farm. Mr. and Mrs.

A series of robberies were committed here Monday night. Three business houses were entered and all in the same manner. At the Tripp Motor Company and Bray Hardware Store, a pane of glass was broken out of the rear window, and the thief or thieves reached inside and unbolted the door or window.