90 Years Ago

The agricultural progress train of the Missouri Pacific proved of considerable benefit and amusement to the people of the county last Thursday. Hundreds of the citizens attended. The visitors were much interested in the exhibit and took time to study them.

The baccalaureate services of the Stockton High School will be held at the M. E. Church on May 25 at 8:00 p.m. Reverend Marlatt will give the address and Professor Osborn has charge of the musical program.

The residence known as the Aunt Milly Taylor property, in the southwest part of town, was the scene of a disastrous fire. The fire occurred when a small gasoline stove exploded.

H. G. Eades of this city has a bunch of chickens, which he keeps as a little sideline to break the grind of the inside work at the store. He says the chickens are not only profitable but that he gets a lot of enjoyment and recreation in caring for them.

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.

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.

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.

After two or three attempts to take his life, P.P. Grindstaff, an inmate at the county farm, was adjudged insane before a commission of Drs. E. E. Colby and R. B. Osborn at the courthouse. It is not a settled fact at this time which state institution Grindstaff will be placed.

Probate Judge Case reports that marriage licenses have gone begging over the past week. Too much snow, he says, yet one couple came in on the train to have the knot tied. Ezra George Herman of Harlan and Laura R. Harsh of Downs were married in the Judge’s office last Saturday.

Walter H. Brown, son of Riley Brown of Stockton, is one of the charter members of a new national fraternity recently organized on the Washburn Campus, Phi Phi Phi. This fraternity was first organized in Chicago at Northwestern in 1908.