What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
Mrs. F. P. Hill, who has been physically declining for the past year reaped her reward last week when her earthly spirit took its flight to the Great Beyond. Orpha L. Timmons was born on June 2nd, 1841 in Ross County, Ohio. She passed from this life at her home on October 14, 1923 at the age of 82 years, four months and 12 days. She was married to Frank P. Hill at Macon, Illinois on January 18th, 1866 and to this union seven children were born. Mr. and Mrs. Hill came to Rooks County in 1879 and homesteaded near Zurich before moving to Stockton in 1886. Mrs. Hill was an active member in the Woman’s Relief Corps, and much of its splendid record was due to her untiring interest on its behalf and in behalf of the old soldiers. The smile that Roy Sny
der has been carrying since Tuesday morning was occasioned by a pair of sweet little girls coming to the Snyder home that morning. Roy was tickled enough to give Mr. Stork a vote of thanks for his liberality. The little tots have been christened Awyn Joyce and Margaret Phyllis.
J. A. Streater, who was one of the pioneer settlers and builders of Rooks County, died at his home in Clyde on September 27th. He homesteaded in Ash Rock Township in the latter seventies and will be remembered by the older residents of the county.
Frank Borin is getting ready to leave Stockton for his new home near Mountain Home, Arkansas. Frank says he has traded out slick and clean. The new owner of the Borin farm is F. D. Fagan, who by the way is a practicing physician. He was located in Ness County for four or five years before going to Arkansas.
Mrs. Flo Kenworthy, Mrs. Fae Ives-Zink, Miss Vera Kenworthy and Miss Freda Baxter gave a miscellaneous shower at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Maddy in honor of Mrs. Goldie Ives-Hrabe. Forty-two guests were present to partake of the good time. The afternoon was spent playing guessing games and writing poetry, after which a dainty lunch consisting of pink Bavarian cream, angel food and chocolate cake was served. Miss Goldie L. Ives and James Hrabe were united in marriage on October 8th, 1923.
Elam Bartholomew, our botanical man, returned from his Ozark collecting trip last Saturday being unusually successful in his work of bringing with him more than 3,500 specimens of fungus plants. In the work this year he has traveled 5,260 miles—an average of over 100 miles per week for the entire year—and brought home 10,200 specimens. This is surely some work with big results.
A new train schedule went into effect last Sunday and it is a very radical change at that. What few advantages this town has enjoyed from the Missouri Pacific has been taken away and the company has “rubbed it in” on the town. The passenger now arrives at 11:20 a.m. and departs at 3:10 p.m., leaving an hour and twenty minutes earlier. This gives a layover at Downs of two hours and forty-five minutes. The freight schedule is the most unreasonable change made. Heretofore, the freight has layed over here at night starting its schedule at near six in the morning and returning about 12 noon, thus affording the crew, who lives here and owns their homes, a half day and all night with their families. In the present change it is a night run, the freight leaving Downs at 1:00 a.m. and reaching Stockton at 5:00, giving forty-five minutes for unloading and switching. This is a severe jolt to Stockton for if the present freight schedule is kept in force, it will mean the removal of the entire crew from town.
You can’t always judge results by the amount of noise you hear. A bantam hen cackles for an hour after she has laid an egg. An ostrich says nothing.
A new bank—the Federal Trust Company—was launched in Kansas City last Monday and from a list of directors shows that two of our former citizens are interested in the institution. E. Lee Williams, who for sixteen years was cashier at the Stockton National Bank, is the active vice-president, and Harry LaRue, at one time owner of the Hicks Hotel, but now in the grocery and meat business of Kansas City is a member of the directorate. P. E. Laughlin, former assistant bank commissioner of Kansas who is known in Stockton, is also interested in the bank and holds the office of president. The banking quarters are located at 111 East Tenth Street and the new institution starts off with a capital surplus and profit of $250,000.00.
The sheriff and deputy were over southwest of Woodston Tuesday and picked up a couple of fellow, who were turning out moonshine.
H. C. Sweet was called over to Athol last Friday to adjust a fire loss on the Athol Record printing office. Mr. Sweet did not feel capable of making adjustments on something that he was not thoroughly familiar with, so he took the Review and Record man along to assist and for company. A very satisfactory settlement was reached with the former owner. On our way over an upon our return we stopped at Kensington for short chats with Ted Seavey. Mr. Seavey owns the Rexall Store in Kensington. It is a very nice store and he is enjoying a good business. He asked to be remembered to his old Stockton friends.
The Review and Record is always anxious to publish the good clean news of the neighborhood. We have a staff of country editors and local reporters, but they cannot hear all, nor see all. So we just want to remind you, whenever you know of any news you would like to publish—send it in. Remember there are five cardinal points in every news item to be considered— who, what, when, where and how. Yes, and names correctly spelled are the best news of all! One little point: many folks send in good news items but fail to sign them. Such items always find the waste basket. All news items to use must be signed, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith to the editor that the news item is genuine.
