Yesteryear

The Stockton Sentinel is always looking for pictures for our “Yesteryear” page. If you have a picture that you’d be willing to share with our readers (preferably at least 20 years old), send it to Stockton Sentinel, P.O. Box 521, Stockton, KS 67669, e-mail it to: stkpaper@ruraltel.

J.R. Combs, one of the early settlers of Alcona Township, died of heart failure as the result of a long affiction from tuberculosis of the bone. Mr. Combs homesteaded in 1878 and has lived on the place for 43 years.

Drs. Craig and Jessica Iwanski, DVM, have announced that Central Veterinary Services large animal facility, located one half mile east of Stockton, was open for business.

THE STOCKTON USD 271 LUNCHROOM LADIES had been honored during National School Lunch Week in October 1997. Pictured are Edna Mae Stithem, Carol Serefko, Karen LaBarge, LaMoyne Trarbach and Cheryl Atkisson.

* And So They Say: Barbara Riffe: “Anyone who writes an anonymous letter or a makes a phone call certainly lacks strength in his convictions and is obviously ashamed of his deed.” Ray Bigge: “Earl Lee thinks he is the only person in town who has a Confederate flag.

The Stockton Sentinel is always looking for pictures for our “Yesteryear” page. If you have a picture that you’d be willing to share with our readers (preferably at least 20 years old), send it to Stockton Sentinel, P.O. Box 521, Stockton, KS 67669, e-mail it to: stkpaper@ruraltel.

We visited the big Avery apple orchard some seven miles east of town Sunday afternoon. Notwithstanding, apple picking had been going on for about three weeks and many of the trees were stripped of the earlier varieties, it was a scene seldom if ever to be seen in central Kansas.

ENTERTAINMENT was at its best when Leta Bouchey, Betty Smith and Myrna Kincaid entertained the audiences during the Stockton United Fund Telethon with humorous commercials throughout the years.

* And So They Say: Chas. Baxter: “Lee Phelps had my electric watch running on a hearing aid battery.” Doc Mason: “It gave me a sort of startled feeling to almost step on two deer which were bedded down the other morning while I was out hunting.

Jake Prockish and Alicia Hrabe were crowned 2006 Goblin’s Glory King and Queen. Back by popular demand, the Haunted Barns were making a seventh annual ghostly appearance on Halloween Weekend.