At 480 feet, Jack Dryden quit drilling on the deep well, having demonstrated there is no deeper vein. Casing has been put down the whole depth and the water that flows in from the 240-foot vein will be used in fitting the swimming pool. Excavating for the pool has already commenced. Mr. Dryden wants to coat it with white or blue so the bottom will be visible. Mr. Dryden has had much experience in deep well boring.

Hon. Henry J. Allen, governor of Kansas, will be in Stockton on March 27th. He is on a three day speaking tour through northwestern Kansas under the auspices of the Fort Hays Normal School. His address will be strictly educational and everyone interested in education should hear this splendid address. Governor Allen is a very forcible speaker and will have many good things to say to us along educational lines.

A letter from A. L. Look of Dolores, Colorado, informs us that his son Alfred has resigned his position as advertising man of the Groden Mercantile Company of Durango, and has accepted the position of leading man for the Navajo Film Company. Al Look left for Farmington where he will begin to train for the strenuous life of the films. The only advice we have to give him is to beware the Ides of March. Look not upon the vamp in her allure and drink Animas river water when available.

The Keith Clevenger Address at the Opera House was heard by a mere handful of people, owing partly to the very short period of advertising, but mainly to the fact that there was sickness in nearly every Stockton home and the night was cold. It was a talk that would have electrified any crowd we might have furnished, notwithstanding the speaker made it brief and hit only the high places in his regular speech. Mr. Clevenger was for 20 years in Kansas newspaper work, during which he was one of its most widely quoted writers. He is secretary of the state Chamber of Commerce, and publicity man of the United Telephone Company. He has made a hobby of civic improvement and is remarkably well versed in all that makes for the welfare of communities, possesses the talent of presenting his thought with force and elegance of diction. It is a delight to sit under his spell. He says he will come again whenever we want him, and we trust it will not be long before he returns.

Our sister town, Woodston, recently had another disastrous conflagration. Tipton and Stewart’s Bakery, and three other buildings of frame construction on the north side of Main Street, were entirely destroyed by a fire within an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton, who were sleeping in one of the buildings, barely got out with their lives, being compelled to jump through a broken window. None of the contents of the bakery was saved. They had recently installed new bread mixing machinery and a new gasoline engine. They carried $1,800.00 of insurance on the property, and their loss will be considerable. We have not learned who owned the other houses. One of them was occupied by Will Tallman. A phone call for help was received at Stockton at 2:30 a.m. on Monday morning and in a very few moments George Beckley and A. L. Graham had got their cars out, which were loaded with citizens and made a quick trip, but upon their arrival everything was burned to the ground. The origin of the fire is still shrouded in mystery.

Mr. and Mrs. George Maddy arrived from Oklahoma City last Saturday. By Monday George had become the owner of the J. B. Graham property on Second Street south and at once commenced clearing the grounds preparatory to the erection of three $5,000.00 residences of different designs to face east. George is an expert stucco builder and has several forces of hands on construction in Oklahoma. Within three weeks he will have materials and workmen on the ground and will commence simultaneously of the three houses. They will be sold on the installment plan. He will engage in stucco building on a large scale in Stockton and no doubt many new homes will go up this season in Stockton. We confidently look for a large building program this year, in addition to the completion of the courthouse and the erection of the big high school building.

Records and reports show that a large number of books are being read because of the presence of the library in Stockton. However, an analysis of the facts will show

(Ed. note: A very long story is found on the front page of the Rooks County Record, dated January 12, 1922, in which the Supreme Court sustained the School Board

The following statement was issued by the Collector of Internal Revenue, H. H. Motter, Wichita, for the district of Kansas: In response to numerous inquiries, taxpayers are advised that certain

Miss Edna Berger, a school teacher in Nebraska, was happy in anticipation of the holidays and had arranged to spend time with her family at their home at Waldo. Her