Yesteryear

What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago

Body Last Friday night, the Woodston High School building was broken into, and the lower floor was completely ransacked. The prowlers entered the building by prying open a window in Miss Bowman’s room.
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56 Years Ago

Body * And So They Say: Christine Peterson: “I am so absent-minded that I wouldn’t have dared change my name when I got married. I never would have been able to remember it.” Pat Reed: “I guess I must be a kind of oddball as I’m getting a little bit tired of football on TV.
56 Years Ago

Looking Back

Body Stockton’s new set of wheels, the VanHool 56-passenger charter bus, had arrived with the tiger mascot and school logo painted on the front, rear, and both sides of the white vehicle.
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What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago

Body Sheriff Joyce F. Blackman found Clark W. Thuma, well-known businessman and merchant of Lenora, who disappeared from that town on October 26th, in Hill City as Thuma was on his way to Norton, riding the Midwest Stage.
94 years ago

56 Years Ago

Body * And So They Say: Cleo Baughman: “I think there ought to be something in the Record about Lucia getting picked up for speeding near Salina.” Margaret Kendall: “By the time Thanksgiving gets here, I don’t particularly enjoy turkey.
56 Years Ago

Looking Back

Body The Stockton Building Commission and the Rooks County Healthcare Foundation announced the contract to build the new health center in Stockton, which was awarded to local contractor Cornerstone Building and Design Inc. of Plainville.
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What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago

Body While trains on other railroadlinesinthissection were storm-blockaded yesterday and this morning, the Missouri Pacific north branch from Downs to Lenora was blocked by the derailment of the eastbound freight train one mile east of Edmond.
94 Years Ago

56 Years Ago

Body * And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “It used to be Asian Flu, now its Hong Kong Flu, but it’s the same old thing.” Dean King: “They seem to come from a long ways to hunt around here. There’s one fellow out here from Michigan in a camper.” John B.
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