90 Years Ago

According to Miss Pearl Rorabaugh, commissioner, there will be but two more chances for young men to enroll in the CCC Camps. The dates are August 23rd and August 30th. Only one young man from this county entered a camp this week. He was John Conger.

Over 100 spectators attended the park on Friday evening to see the youngsters from the FERC playground classes exhibit their pets and dolls. The children were out in full force, too, despite a threatened thunder shower. One worker estimated there were seventy girls and fifty boys present.

Details of the new Works Progress Administration (WPA) were explained to representatives of several political subdivisions in Rooks County here on Thursday morning by Paul Jackson, the engineer of the new setup.

Rooks County taxpayers will have to dig up about the same amount of money for the county’s operating expenses next year as they did in 1935, under tentative levies set by the county commissioners after preparing the 1936 budget, which is published in this issue of the Rooks County Record.

Fire from an unknown cause raged at the Rooks County Fairgrounds on Thursday night, destroying the Stockton Sales Pavilion, a stock barn, and the racehorse barn.

The harvesting of Rooks County’s wheat crop is now underway, but so small are the yields that farmers are evidently not bothering to take the grain to the elevators. Reports from Stockton show that only two or three loads have been marketed.

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.