90 Years Ago

Drilling on another oil well in Rooks County is scheduled to begin later this week. The well is located on the J. A. Marshall farm, about three miles northeast of Stockton. The Eldorado Refining Company is drilling it. Erection of the derrick was completed last Thursday.

Awakened at about 1:30 Saturday morning by footsteps in his home northwest of Stockton, Barney Rea started investigating and found a young man about 17 in the house attired only in a pair of trousers. The youth appeared to be a little strange so Mr. Rae called the sheriff’s office.

Rooks County has completed 18 wells, a garden pond, and several farm ponds under the extensive water conservation program initiated last summer by the KERC, according to a report on the program received by Miss Pearl Rorabaugh on Monday.

A reduction of $341,336.00 in the assessed valuation of personal property in Rooks County for 1935 is shown by the abstract of the assessor’s reports in the office of L. W. Wells, county clerk and assessor. The valuations for this year are $1,351,299.00 compared with $1,692,635.00 in 1934.

There was considerable excitement in town Thursday evening along about eight or nine o’clock caused by a chase participated in by a father and son from Hill City. The father, O. Trexler, had been looking for his son, Kenneth, a 20-year-old youth, for some time.

An enthusiastic group of North-40 road boosters determined to make a strong fight against changing their highway number to 24 decided at their last annual meeting in Beloit to send W. F.

A former Stockton boy foundoutonMondaywhat it means to look the gallows in the face and then hear the glad news that the fate had been changed to life imprisonment. That man is Walter McGee who was the first person in the United States to be given the extreme penalty for kidnapping.

The members of the largest class ever to graduate from Stockton High School received their diplomas last Friday evening at the high school auditorium in the presence of a large audience of relatives and friends.

A desire to enter business for himself led H. H. Snyder, 12 years cashier of the Stockton National Bank, to resign his position and purchase the Variety Store from R. E. Garland on Saturday. Although Mr.

An argument between twobrothers,whichstarted in Denver over a suitcase, finally culminated in Stockton last Thursday evening, with one of them taking a hatchet to the other’s truck and inflicting no minor damage. He is now in jail. According to the story told to D.