90 Years Ago

Crack athletes from all grade schools in Rooks County will be in Stockton this Saturday, making a supreme effort to outrun and outjump each other to be acclaimed winners of the annual track meet at the fairgrounds. The events will start at one o'clock.

George Winterscheidt began his duties here last Thursday as a certifying officer for this county. He takes the place of Rex Jennings who was transferred to Hays two weeks ago. Before coming to Stockton, Mr. Winterscheidt was a certifying officer for Cheyenne County.

A rather sensational tale of how two gypsies promised to interpret Mrs. Freeman Alexander’s dreams if she slept with a charm under her pillow and then stole over $2,500.00 in jewelry and money was unfolded in the Kansas City papers last week. Mrs.

The list of Stockton attorneys was augmented last week when Wayne McCaslin arrived here to open a law office. He will be associated with his father, H. McCaslin, one of the best-known lawyers in this section of the state.

Emmett Gallagher, Rooks County’s Better Housing Chairman, is anxious that the women listen to a special broadcast this Friday at 12:30 p.m. The program is coming over both networks in a national hook-up.

The air filter for the big engine, which generates the power at the city light plant, which was ordered by telephone from Massachusetts last Wednesday, was installed Sunday afternoon and tested until Tuesday morning when the smaller engines were again put in use.

All previous Rooks County dirt storms have paled into insignificance since the storms of Friday night and Wednesday morning. All the old-timers are unanimous in their opinion that they were the worst ever seen here.

One of the chief helmsmen at the Record Office, Cloyce Hamilton, is in the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Concordia, recovering from an appendix operation. He was taken there on Tuesday night and operated upon on Wednesday. He is getting along fine, according to all reports.

The Chamber of Commerce Wolf Hunt was just advertised too well. It seems there was so much talk and enthusiasm about this big event that even the wolves heard about it and the canny animals they are, gave the six-mile square territory a wide berth on Tuesday. Not one was seen, let alone killed.

A blizzard, a mixture of snow, dust, and sleet, making a strange combination, whose like has not been seen here since 1895, raged in Stockton on Sunday, causing traffic tie-ups and badly drifting roads. The storm subsided early Monday morning.