90 Years Ago

Ralph Imler, who took the petrified animal skull, which was recently found on Sand Creek, to Hays for identification by Professor Sternberg, reports that it has been identified as a prehistoric buffalo belonging to the species Bison Latifrons.

Thirty more men and six women went to work on Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Rooks County this week. Twenty additional laborers were assigned to the fairgrounds project here, and ten to the auditorium in Plainville.

Thirty-five men went to work Tuesday morning on the WPA project for rebuilding the Rooks County Fairgrounds. The men are now busy on the H. C. Sweet place quarrying rock to be used in the construction of various buildings.

The faculty of the Stockton School tried their hand at presenting a mystery play last Friday. They succeeded not only in pleasing two audiences with the production of 'The Black Derby,' but also in raising funds for lighting the athletic field.

The entire community was shocked last Friday morning when it became known that Art Miles had died suddenly at his home southeast of town, where he had spent his whole life. Death was due to a heart ailment, which it was not known that he suffered.

Stockton has many couples who have achieved the proud distinction of having lived together in marital bliss for over fifty years, and several of them have been married for a good many more than fifty years.

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.