Yesteryear

Roy Wyant told the barber shop the other evening how he was able to capture a mysterious egg thief, who had for some time taken all the eggs from two hens’ nests.

This issue, dated December 21, 2006, featured the Sentinel’s gift to our readers: the Eleventh Annual Offering of Santa’s ‘Deer Ones, with 320 pictures inside! The Stockton Tigers hosted Norton on Saturday in Mid-Continent League basketball action.

* And So They Say: Leonard Dix: “I feel positively naked without that cast on my arm.” Bill Gouldman: “Right after Christmas, I have go to begin working on my annual birthday celebration.”

We were at the new school building on Monday afternoon and visited the auditorium. Here we found workmen installing the new moving picture apparatus and iron booth.

The Student Councils of Stockton High School and Grade School, under the supervision of their sponsors Jessica Billinger and Jana Griffin, had been very busy with several community projects, with the Angel Giving Tree their main focus for the Christmas season.

ROOKS COUNTY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DIRECTOR DENZIL MCNEAL (left), dispatcher Jo Phlieger (center) and Rooks County Sheriff Dave Denton (right) were pictured beside the County’s new 9-1-1 system, which was installed in December of 1994 at a total cost of $109,845.71.

* And So They Say: Nellie Kern: “I wasn’t afraid to shoot a gun, but Vera gave Bill Gouldman his Christmas gift early. It was a lovely scope for his gun, but he missed a prairie dog mound so far, I was ashamed to let him know how well I could shoot.”

The Stockton Sentinel is always looking for pictures for our “Yesteryear” page.

Some vandal shied a rock through the window of Frank Vardaman’s Chili Parlor on Monday evening, barely missing his boy who was sitting there reading. Frank immediately rushed out, but could not find the miscreant whereupon he got as hot as anything in the chili line.

GAYLYN ANDREWS (left) and Veda Miller (right) decorated Smith’s Christmas Tree in anticipation of the annual Parade of Christmas Trees at the Stockton Public Library in December of 1994..