90 Years Ago

Chas. W. Coolbaugh was unanimously elected Stockton City School District Clerk at the annual school meeting. F. E Richmond, the present clerk, was not a candidate for re-election and could not be present at the meeting. Only forty voters were in attendance.

Last week’s paper mentioned the fine concert staged by our local citizens, L. D. Fuller. It was Mr. Fuller’s opening number for the season before he and his company started on their tour. The concert was held at the high school auditorium, and the room was nearly filled to capacity.

Construction work will be started soon on the Federal highway east of Stockton. The camp has been located on the north side of the new location, half a mile east of the John Reed farmstead, and is situated at the center of the project for convenience.

Next Tuesday, the local United Telephone Exchange will be host to the managers and owners of independent exchanges of this district. The district comprises all the counties west of Jewell and Mitchell Counties.

Even with the dates of the Rooks County Fair’s annual meeting five months away, J. Q. Adams, the association’s secretary, is a busy man. In the past month, he had contracted for a significant portion of the free acts and other entertainment.

C. D. Hobson of Downs, a veteran Missouri Pacific engineer, was crushed to death beneath his engine when the Lenora Branch passenger train ran into a herd of cattle on a curve a few miles west of Kirwin.

The basement of the Christian Church on Second and Broadway in Plainville was dedicated by Pastor C. A. Burris. Dr. John Booth, \\conducted the event. The Christian Church had burned nearly three years ago after a thunderstorm.

Another fatal accident occurred late Sunday afternoon on the Dean Hill, south of the Saline River on the Hays/Plainville sector of State Highway No 1. John Drawbridge of Alma, Nebraska, was thrown from a runaway truck and died a few hours later at the Protestant Hospital in Hays.

F. J. O’Brien, the proprietor of the Palace Café of Phillipsburg, attempted to commit suicide in one of the rooms above his place of business at about midnight on Sunday.

Last week, B. C. Slason made a trade for a hotel property at Ness City, giving in exchange for his residence property in Stockton. The hotel is a new structure, not yet completed.