Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
An independent living complex was to become a reality with Wes Bainter of Bainter Construction of Hoxie to construct a facility in Stockton.
Genny Robben-Rahjes, with the help of her family, friends, co-workers, and others in support of building a new medical clinic in Stockton, prepared a buffet-style Italian lunch and raised over $7,000.00 toward the facility.
The Nex-Tech Cable TV crew did a super job of telecasting the Stockton Area United Fund Telethon live broadcast at the St. Thomas Parish Center. Over $4,000.00 had been raised.
The farmhouse of Richard (Tom) and Marsha Haines, located south and west of Stockton, had been burglarized. The robbers went through everything in the house, right down to all the drawers and even some boxes they had packed to transport to their new home in town.
Glenn E. “Buck” Keas (1927), Louis C. Becker (1921), Charlotte L “Charlie” Stithem (1948), Gordon R. Milam (1937), Loren Allison (1945), Kristin R. Rathbun (1973), Viola May Burton (1919), and Donald D. Albright (1927) passed away.
Stockton senior Dustin Kriley had qualified for the State Cross Country meet in Wamego after placing ninth at the Marysville Regional meet. Sophomore Hannah Lindsey finished 16th at the Regional Cross Country meet, which qualified her for State.
Looking Back 14 Years Ago (1996)—Ruth Ann Bigge was the recipient of the 1996 Rooks County Extension Council Appreciation Award. New stoplights were installed at the intersection of Highways 24 and 183.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting The Year 1954— Roger Riffel and Judy Peebles were Goblin’s Glory King and Queen. Mr. and Mrs. Oria Grover had announced the engagement of their daughter, Jean, to Robert L. Lindsey.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago in 1912—Herman Meyer and family arrived from Marshall County and will live on their farm five miles north of town again. Upon their return from the northwest, Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew stopped for a couple of days to visit I. N. Pepper at Montrose, Colo. They were impressed with the magnitude of his 800-acre tract of land holdings and operations as a producer of vegetables. The Tanzey building is enclosed, and the roof and cornice are complete. The corner entrance indicates how citified it will look when it is completed.
Robert Lindsey, a 1954 Kansas Wesleyan University basketball team member, had been inducted with his fellow team members into the KWU Athletic Hall of Fame. The 1954 squad had won the KCAC Championship with a 10-4 conference mark and 17-7 overall record.
The Nova Theatre was showing the movie, “Secretariat.”
