56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Virgil Bird (paying his taxes): “I think they assessed all the taxes in Rooks County to me this year.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I wish I had a lot of things done already that I haven’t got done, and what is worrying me is when I am going to get time to do them.” Lloyd Hollern: “I was really praying that the weather would stay warm after I failed to get the storm windows put up for my wife last week.”

* Stockton was to have another drug store in town. Dean King of Hays had purchased the sundries stock and fixtures of Robinson’s Sundries from Lee Robinson, and had leased the building from the I.O.O.F. Lodge.

* Mrs. Leo Bird had received her private pilot’s license after several months of flying and passing a stiff written examination. Mrs. Bird had trained with Hays Aviation.

* The ESA Chapter was getting ready to sell sack lunches to the pheasant hunters at the intersection of Highways 183 and 24. The proceeds were to go to the Institute of Logopedics of Wichita.

* Rev. Clifford Hauxwell had grown some large turnips during the growing season and had one on display at the Midway Café. The turnip had tipped the scales at a little better than six pounds.

* In the twenty months that the Rooks County Nursing Home had been open, it appeared that the facility was quite successful and especially so in terms of occupancy. The Home employed 29 personnel and in the first three quarters of 1965 the employees had received $42,699.88 in wages.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: It is certainly disgusting how my last winter’s clothes have shrunk just hanging in the closet over the summer.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Mr. and Mrs. Joe McKenney of Colby had leased the Wyatt Service Station and Bus Station. The War Department had declared a brother of Eugene William dead in Korea. Mrs. Luther Pelt had won a prize in the Sixth District Authors Club Short Story Contest.

* Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Roskilly had entertained a number of children at the City Park to honor the seventh birth anniversary of their daughter, Tammy. Wieners and marshmallows were roasted an ice cream and cake served. The children had a wonderful time and the guest of honor received many nice gifts. Guest were Vicky Emory, Cheryl Thornburg, Tammy Atwill, Verna Johnston, Leesa Pulec, Linda Farr, Steven Farr and Dwight Seaman.

* Linda Dale Dibble became the bride of Malcolm James Herrick of Salina on October 16th at the Woodston Methodist Church. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a full-length gown of peau de soie styled with a fitted bodice and carried a cascade of pink baby roses intertwined with pink carnations on a white Bible.

* On October 29th, witches and ghosts of Den 3 had met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Kreller. After being greeted by Frankenstein, the Cubs were ushered into the Haunted Room filled with spiders, mummies and a ghost. Those present were Doug Maddox, Martin Bolt, Glen Byerly, Bobby and Brad Glendening, Herman and Stanley Hoffman, and Mark and Dennis Kreller.

* The wedding of Janese Dee Denio and Kent Wayne Townley had taken place on September 4th at the Methodist Church in Woodston. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of Organza and lace over bouquet taffeta. She carried a bouquet of white and blue-feathered mums.

* On sale at Webster’s Supermarket were a fivepound bag of oranges for 39¢, picnic hams for 39¢ a pound, three packages of Bixmix Flapstax for 25¢, and six tubes of Pillsbury or Ballard biscuits for 29¢.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre were the movies, “The World of Abbott and Costello,” and Walt Disney’s “Cinderella.”