90 Years Ago

If there is such a thing as a million-dollar rain, and there is no question but what there is, Rooks County got one on Tuesday. The official rain gauge recorded 1.36 inches of moisture. It was more like a spring than a fall rain.

One hundred and ninety- eight farm families in Rooks County who no longer have resources or borrowing power will benefit from a new program worked out by rural resettlement officials, according to words received here by Norris Nelson, county rehabilitation agent.

Needy and distressed farm families of Rooks County are due for some relief soon, according to the bulletin received this week by Miss Pearl Rorabaugh, poor commissioner. The County will be given a quota, and subsistence grants will be made to those selected for this type of assistance.

Although there doesn't seem to be any lines forming at the county treasurer's office by Rooks County residents in a grand rush to pay their taxes, which became due on November 1st, Mrs. Edna Lambert reports that more tax money was taken in on the first day this year than in 1934.

A tusk and part of the skull, evidently belonging to some prehistoric monster, were found on Sand Creek the first of the week and were on exhibit at the W. H. Keilhotz Shoe Shop. The tusk was about eight inches in diameter and a couple of feet long.

A Phillipsburg powerhouse, taking advantage of the breaks, thundered through the Stockton High School grid machine for a 19 to 6 victory last Friday evening. Stockton residents who drove to Manhattan on Saturday for the Kansas State-Nebraska football game were rewarded with a thrilling battle.

Work started this week on a new, modern duplex apartment house for Stockton. It is being built by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hageman just west of their residence on South Second Street. It will be made of stucco, and the size is 28x40. The building will face west.

That Stockton has a very good chance to obtain a Freshman college was learned Monday evening when a meeting was held here to discuss the project.

Rooks County went along with the rest of the counties in Kansas in taking it “on the chin” as the result of the drought of 1934, according to figures obtained in the recent farm census by the Department of Commerce which was released this week.

A large and enthusiastic crowd of members of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce turned out Thursday evening for the first regular meeting of this group since the summer heat was turned on. The session washed at the Hicks Hotel, with dinner being served.