90 Years Ago

The latest rumor regarding a hospital for Stockton is that such an enterprise will be headed by Dr. Colby, now of Woodston, and a Kansas City surgeon. Dr. Colby has a large practice and does considerable surgical work.

This week the firm of Snyder Brothers is dissolved, Roy Snyder purchasing the interest of his brother Harold.

Home for Christmas: Delbert Crowell, who is enlisted in the Navy, is home on furlough from Honolulu. Walter Brown and Duffie Hindman, who are attending Washburn College, are spending Christmas vacation at home.

(The following article is taken from the December 14th, 1922 edition of the Rooks County Record) Removing Landmarks Old Academy building to be razed/Stockton’s first house to stay The meeting that was called for Friday afternoon at the school auditorium for the purpose of disposing of the old...

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.

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.

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.

The Midland Café will serve a fine chicken dinner on Thanksgiving.

The Central Branch passenger train crashed into a Ford coupe at the crossing just west of the Woodston Depot. Mrs. Roy Tipton received injuries about the head from which she died three days later.

The Stockton Mill, one of the oldest landmarks of this locality, burned down over the weekend after closing for the day, while the owners were uptown getting their supper.