What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago
Stockton will have a Fourth of July celebration this year, and the businessmen are inviting everyone to come to town on the evening of the Fourth and enjoy the celebration. There will be no speech-making and no milling around during a hot July afternoon. The entire entertainment will be in the evening at the fairgrounds, with the fireworks set for nine o’clock. The entertainment is free, the expenses having been contributed by about sixty Stockton businessmen. A fine display of rockets, bombs, set pieces, all sorts of wheels, and other fireworks has been ordered. Harvest will be on all over the county, but the farmers are asked to quit a few minutes before dark, load the family into the car, and come in for the fireworks display.
A man and woman, positively identified as Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hogan of Hill City, were instantly killed, and their bodies scattered for many feet in all directions on Sunday near Denver when the car in which they were riding was demolished by a blast believed to have been caused by the explosion of the gas tank. The two were positively identified by L. P. Hogan of Hill City, father of the dead man;. Hogan said the couple, for the last three or four years, had been in the habit of spending the winters in Kansas and the summers in Denver. The cause of the blast has not been determined and may never be known.
Dr. F. E. Stivers, well known in this community, was paroled last week from the Colorado penitentiary and is asking that the state issue him a new license for practice. Dr. Stivers was released after serving two years of a sentence of seven to eight years for manslaughter. He shot and killed Harry Griffith at Sterling in 1928, which caused a sensation in that community. He was in his office with Norma Akers, a divorcee, when Griffith demanded admittance. Stivers fired through the door, wounding Griffith fatally. When he was released from prison on parole this last March, it caused another sensation, for he had hardly served two years of his minimum term. An inquiry by Governor Adams revealed that he had been released under the rules of the Board of Corrections, which is empowered by the statutes to fix arbitrary regulations to govern parolees.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Schneider of the Webster vicinity were injured in a car accident near St. Marys on Tuesday of last week. They were fortunate to receive only minor injuries. The accident occurred when another car attempted to pass on a narrow bridge at the same time the Schneider car did. Both vehicles were damaged. Mr. Schneider was shaken up, while Mrs. Schneider suffered an injured leg and bruises.
Woodston, one of the splendid little towns of the county, has just recently completed the graveling of several streets. Over 25 blocks or better than a mile and a half of the roads have been graveled. On these streets were put 1,220 loads of gravel, 85 loads of rock, and 30 loads of ashes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Vallette are enjoying a visit from her sister, Mrs. Mat Casto, and daughter, Gertrude, who came in a few days ago from Grand Junction. Colorado. After their stay here, they go on to visit St. Louis.
Ralph L. Mason came in at the first of the week for a few days stay with home folks. Ralph is now located in New York City and has a lucrative position as a display manager with the Montgomery Ward Company. He has about 30 persons under his direction and enjoys his work. He made the trip from New York to Kansas City by airplane and then by railway, making the trip in about 30 hours. Ralph has made a rapid and wonderful climb in the business world and his many Stockton friends are mightily glad of it.
Mary Elizabeth Gingery English departed this life on June 2nd, 1930, at the age of 74 years, six months, and 21 days.
Mrs. H. Brummitt of Hays, a resident of the Plainville vicinity for 50 years, died at the home of her daughter last Wednesday in Idaho Springs, Colorado. Mrs. Brummitt was 79 years old.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bonebrake have their son, C. C. Bonebrake of Orange, California, as their guest this week. The week includes family dinners, picnics, and entertaining old friends and relatives at home.
The Hus Brothers report the sale of a Hebco Wind Electric Light Plant to E. G Hederhorst. M. J. Rich of Hutchinson came and helped install it last Friday. Mr. Hederhorst already has the lights connected and expects to install a Frigidaire, water system, and other city conveniences soon.
A number of relatives gathered at Will Westhin’s home on June 20th and helped him celebrate his birthday with ice cream and cake.
Alfred Johansen of Codell left by automobile on Friday for Davenport, Iowa, to visit his wife, who is being treated in a hospital there. It is reported that Mrs. Johansen is thought to be slowly improving in health. We hope she is and will soon be able to come home.
