90 Years Ago

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.

As a result of a decision made by the board of county commissioners, the town of Damar has been incorporated. On Tuesday, an election will be held in the township hall, where the election will be held to choose a mayor, five councilmen, and a police judge.

If the grapevine system is operating among the rabbits and wolves in this vicinity this week, it is imagined their conversation might run something like this, “Brother, we had better find a darned good hiding place on February 26th, or better yet, get clear out of the country because the Stockton...

A wolf hunt is being arranged in this vicinity for all who like this kind of sport. It will be on February 11th, and all those who wish to take part are requested to meet at the Mt. Vernon Church at 12:30 p.m. Trucks will be furnished to haul the hunters.

A rural electrification survey will be made in Rooks County as a relief project under the direction of the Rooks County Relief Administration. This is in accordance with a bulletin received by Miss Pearl Rorabaugh.