90 Years Ago

Stockton awoke Sunday morning to find one of the worst blizzards raging for several years. All day long the snow continued to pile up, drifting badly and putting business and traffic almost to a stand still.

The Missouri Pacific has been doing a fine freight business from this point for the past eight months according to a report by agent J. I. Wilkin. The raiload shipped out 550 loaded cars from Stockton during that time.

It was an enjoyable and enthusiastic meeting of the county Republicans held in the assembly room of the courthouse last Saturday afternoon, All but three of the twenty-two townships of the county were represented and the party spirit prevailed.

The following article was clipped from last week’s copy of the Topeka Daily Capital: “Few politicians have ever heard of E. Bartholomew. Few newspapermen have for that matter, yet it is a well known name among botanists around the world.

The editor accompanied Harry Eades on a drive to the Frank Fuller farm, northeast of town last Thursday evening on business. The Fullers have a nice, valuable farm with good improvements and well stocked. Frank has a nice bunch of cattle and hogs and with his other farm work keeps pretty busy.

The board of directors of the Rooks County Fair Association announced the dates of the 1924 Fair on August 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th.

Walter E. Fleming is the first to come forward to make known is intentions in county politics. Walter is seeking the office of country treasurer on the Republican ticket and if Walter should happen to land the job, we believe the County’s money would still be in capable hand.

The friends and neighbors of James R. Beckley proved themselves real Samaritans last Thursday when they assembled at the Beckley farm and harvested Mr. Beckley’s corn. Mr. Beckley was taken to the Concordia Hospital several week ago and is suffering with an attack of Bright’s disease.

The new high school came near going up in smoke last Saturday night. It was a great scare for the populace and while considerable damage was done everything was soon repaired. The fire started in the basement among some trash that had been dumped in a corner.

The Stockton Motor Company got in a carload of Chevrolets the first of the week, the shipment containing three cars and a truck. The Chevrolet has made a big growth as one of the popular medium-priced cars, the transportation averaging lower costs per mile than of other automobiles.