90 Years Ago

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. Hughes to Chicago in June as a member of a committee to present their claims before the American Association of...

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.

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.

Crack athletes from all grade schools in Rooks County will be in Stockton this Saturday, making a supreme effort to outrun and outjump each other to be acclaimed winners of the annual track meet at the fairgrounds. The events will start at one o'clock.

George Winterscheidt began his duties here last Thursday as a certifying officer for this county. He takes the place of Rex Jennings who was transferred to Hays two weeks ago. Before coming to Stockton, Mr. Winterscheidt was a certifying officer for Cheyenne County.

A rather sensational tale of how two gypsies promised to interpret Mrs. Freeman Alexander’s dreams if she slept with a charm under her pillow and then stole over $2,500.00 in jewelry and money was unfolded in the Kansas City papers last week.

The list of Stockton attorneys was augmented last week when Wayne McCaslin arrived here to open a law office. He will be associated with his father, H. McCaslin, one of the best-known lawyers in this section of the state.