56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Robert Sooby: “I was looking through some old newspaper files in the Courthouse and found an ad in one of the 50 Years Ago which advertised a patent medicine guaranteed to cure any pain. An advertisement to that effect would not be allowed today, which shows that the world is improving in some ways.” Winton Sheffer: “There is one thing for certain—the farmers just can’t work fast enough to keep up with the weeds.” Francis Eshler: “One good thing about the new math is that the parents won’t be expected to help their kids with their homework.”

* Charlie Hess, the twenty-two year-old letterman Jayhawk quarterback, was set to visit Stockton to outline the University of Kansas football prospects for the 1965 season. He was to give a brief talk and show the K. U. 1964 football highlights film to the general public at the City Hall.

* Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Muir were the parents of a boy, Todd Eugene, born on June 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Cary Barry were the parents of a son, Jeffrey Lee, born on June 19th.

* Nine-year-old Kerry McCue had almost lost a little finger when he was helping his mother in the garden. He got under the spade, just as his mother started to dig. Five stitches were required.

* According to city manager C. N. Harper, the pipeline for the four new city wells located southwest of town had been installed. The pumps had been ordered and were to arrive later in the week.

* The building contractor for the Stockton Bowling Alley and the manager, Adolph Laska of Omaha, had met to go over the final plans and work on the building was in full swing. It was hoped that the alley would be open by September.

* L. B. Waller had recently found an odd contraption stored away in the basement of the Waller Motor Company. It was an old slide machine, evidently used years before to show business ads. The disks inside the box were full of slides from businesses in other hands or gone entirely with the exception of Smith’s. The other slides included the B. L. Tudor Hardware Store, Wizard Garage, Wyatt Oil Company, Eades Brothers Grocery, Delmonico Bakery and Carl Bray’s hardware store.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: Unpleasant things must be more easily forgotten than the nice things, else so many people wouldn’t be longing for the “Good Old Days.”

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: The county had suffered property damage estimated at about $75,000.00 as the result of a tornado traveling on a path about twelve miles wide and 30 miles long. There were no injuries, but several buildings were destroyed and many were unroofed. The date was July 1. The area had also received heavy rains and streams were out of their banks.

* The Larson Retail Liquor Store had gotten a facelift with a fresh coat of charcoal paint on the outside with white trim. On the inside a new celotex ceiling had been installed.

* Dr. and Mrs. Erwin Peterson and family had moved from Hill City to Stockton and had rented the house on the corner of Main and Elm. Dr. Peterson had recently opened his dental office in Stockton.

* Miss Dianne Lavern Waters had married Mr. Larry Wayne Dix on May 22nd in the Congregational Church with Rev. O. T. Meador performing the ceremony.

* A family picnic had been held at the city park to honor Tim Miller, who was to leave to serve in the Marines.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In was the movie “Spencer’s Mountain,” starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara.

* On sale at Webster’s Supermarket were picnic hams for 39¢ a pound, four cans of tuna for $1.00, two loaves of bread for 35¢ and four cantaloupe for $1.00.