Yesteryear

* And So They Say: Vernie Degenhardt: “It’s a nice day, but it would be a lot nicer out on the bank at the lake.” Robert Osborn: “I resemble my late grandfather quite a bit, except that he wore a beard and I don’t, and he was short and I am tall.

Continued increases in the volume of freight handled by the Missouri Pacific are recorded in the regular monthly statement issued by President L.W. Baldwin of that railroad.

RALPH KEILHOTZ (circa 1910) is pictured with what he deemed to be the “First Motorcycle west of the Mississippi.”.

* And So They Say: Floyd Fix: “Doesn’t it always rain on the day of the junior/ senior banquet?” Twila Strutt: “At the secretarial seminar we went to on Saturday, we didn’t really learn anything new, but were reminded of what we already knew and weren’t putting into practice.

Darrell Sammons and Mike Heenan were sworn in as city commissioners at the April 1st, 2008 meeting, joining other commissioners Reesa Brown, Twila Sander and Wayne Madison, as well as city manager Connie Conyac, and clerk Sandi Rogers.

Scotty Muir is no more! The announcement of his death last week cast a cloudy of gloom that saddens every heart. Possibly no death in this community has caused the pall of sorrow to rest over the entire community as the passing of Andrew G. Muir.

The Board of Education of Stockton USD 2761 was pleased to announce that a contract for Superintendent of Schools had been offered and accepted by Mr. W. Luis Cass of Wallace, Nebr. This action was taken at a special meeting of the board on April 7, 2008.

THIS PICTURE is of the business shingle of Judge William K. Skinner, who practiced law in Stockton as the city attorney as well as being appointed district judge in the early 1900s. He served in that capacity until 1952.

* And So They Say: Virgil Bird: “I went bowling and made a strike, and I think it should be in the paper.” Kenneth Medley: “I’d get into trouble if I told you what I know.” Erma Jean Price: “We have fewer little pigs now than we’ve had anytime since the first of the year. We only have 180 now.

You paid $68.00 to run the local, state and federal government in 1922. Directly or indirectly it came out of your pocket. The people earned $65,000,000,000.00, but the government took away $7,000,000,000.00. The cost of the federal government to each man, woman and child was $29.00 last year.