What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago
The preliminary returns of the 1930 census indicate that although Rooks County is still losing population, the rate of decrease is far less than in the previous decade. The Census Bureau reports a population of 9,534, while in 1920, the total was 9,966, and in 1910, it was 11,282. This is a total loss of 1,748 in twenty years, but only a decrease of 432 in the past ten years.
Wheat is moving out of Stockton at ten to fourteen carloads a day. The Missouri Pacific is running an extra daily in addition to the regular daily freight service to keep the crop moving. The price of around 65 cents, and very little was less than 62 cents at the the wheat needs to be satisfactory. Most of the wheat was sold at Stockton Market. The Kansas City price has remained within one or two of 80 cents.
Three boxing bouts were promoted under the auspices of the Stockton Fire Department on the Fourth of July. Two ended in knockouts, while the main event scheduled for ten rounds went the limit. In the first bout, Palmquist of Jamestown stopped Fronsecek for the long count in the third round of the bout, carded for six rounds. In the second bout, Butch McCausland met Don Gamber of Natoma, in a bout ticketed for six rounds, but after scoring about eight fast knockdowns, with Gamber showing a wonderful display of gameness, MaCausland landed a clean right cross to the jaw, which ended the bout after fighting a round and a half. In the main event, Rus Sanders of Concordia, welterweight, and Chas. Scott of Calgary, Canada, went the full route of ten rounds. Although the bout was somewhat slow to watch, and there was plenty of holding on both boys, they showed a willingness to get in and fight. Sanders has a good left, which he used to his advantage. He also has very good footwork, and being only 19 years of age, he shows promise of being a real boxfighter. Scott, who hails from Calgary, is a nice, clean fighter; he has a left jab that bothers his opponents and a right that he shoots straight from the shoulder. While it looks weak, men who have met him report that there is plenty of power behind it. A very poor crowd attended these matches, and it was very doubtful if they would be continued.
The fiftieth milestone is reached and passed in the wedded life of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McNutt of Woodston. They were married July 4th, 1880, in Ash Rock Township at the home of Jay Vanderlip, Mrs. McNutt’s parents, by Reverend R. S. Osborn. Mr. and Mrs. McNutt came to Kansas in 1878 from Wisconsin and settled in Ash Rock Township, where they lived until 1904 before they moved to Woodston, where they now reside. The day was celebrated by 70 relatives and friends who gathered at the home, where they were served a sumptuous two-course wedding dinner. The second course consisted of fruit salad and the same kind of cake served at the original wedding dinner. Five persons were present who attended the wedding 50 years ago. The guests were served ice cream and Angel food cake with gold frosting in the afternoon. In the evening, 75 other relatives and friends who could not attend on account of the harvest work gathered to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. McNutt and wish them many more happy anniversaries. They also were served ice cream and Angel food cake.
Roy Dodrill had a serious accident last Saturday afternoon when his left foot was caught in the moving parts of the tractor that was pulling his combine. The foot was crushed somewhat, a few bones broken, and the flesh torn. Dr. J. W. McMillan dressed the wound. He is reported to be recovering satisfactorily.
Representative Tom Hill of Logan was mixing political medicine in Stockton on Wednesday evening. He was returning from the meeting at Hays where Chairman Legge, head of the farm board, and Governor Clyde M. Reed had spent a hot afternoon discussing different points of view on the problem of low wheat prices. Frank Noel, Dane Hansen, and O. W, Holmes, all of Phillipsburg, accompanied Tom.
E. C. Hageman has installed a new refrigeration plant in his store. The new meat display case was set up on Monday. It has several times the capacity of the old plant and is modern in every detail. Hageman now plans to keep fresh meat all the time. All who have not had occasion to visit the store are invited to call and inspect this new case. While a plant of its kind runs into money, it is the last word in refrigeration for retail merchants. And will pay for itself through the better service to its customers made possible through its use.
Joan Marie Liebenau, daughter of Charles and Mattie Liebenau, was born at Webster on October 8th, 1928, and passed away on July 5th, 1930, age one year and nine months. Jessie Amelia Otis Hockett was born in Sylvan Grove on May 30th, 1886, and passed away on June 29th, 1930, at the age of 44 years and 29 days. Samuel J. McFarren passed from life at his home on South Fourth Street on Sunday afternoon, following a several months’ illness. Anna Stucky Davis was born in Plainville on July 26th, 1886, and died on June 25th, 1930, at the Newman Hospital in Emporia. He locked his barn door, marked his hives ready for bees, requested his wife to see that the clock for the town lights was wound, told his family and Buster, his dog, an affectionate goodbye, and went away to Speed on Friday, June 13th. He was operated on and died in Chicago on June 30th, 1930, at the age of 62 years.
