What Stocktonites Were Doing 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. He feels that this broadcast will be vital to Kansas women and help focus the women’s attention on the Better Housing program. The program will originate in Washington, and among the distinguished speakers will be Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, a member of Congress from New Jersey, and Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
A big rabbit drive for Sunday is being planned to take in a four-mile square, with the Jesse Keeran corner being the northwest corner, the Earl Fenton place being the northeast corner, the Vernon Sammons farm being the southwest corner, and the southeast corner being one mile north of Webster. The pen will be on the L. J. Dryden farm, eleven miles west and one mile north of Stockton. The drive starts at 1:30 p.m.
The date for the completion of the farm ponds under the KERC Program has been extended, according to Miss Pearl Rorabaugh, with April 25th now the new closing date. There are about 30 of the ponds under construction in Rooks County, and those in charge of this work will make a strenuous effort to finish them by the 25th. Farms ponds are now being built in Rooks County in the following townships: one in Logan, three in Paradise, one in Twin Mound, one in Medicine, one in Ash Rock, five in Lanark, three in Farmington, two in Sugar Loaf, three in Bow Creek, three in Rush, one in Alcona, one in Fairview, two in West Paradise, one in Hobart, one in Lowell, and one in Corning.
Merle Swank, the manager of the Nova Theatre, made arrangements last week for the installation of a sound system at the facility, which is as up-to-date and as nearly perfect as sound systems as made. It is an RCA high-fidelity system used in only about 15 of the larger theatres in Kansas. It is the same system being used in the Radio City Music Hall. The new equipment will be installed between Tuesday and Thursday. The opening show for the new system will be the much-talked-of, and the highly-highly praised music production, “One Night Of Love,” This is the picture that received the 1934 Motion Picture Academy Award for Best Recording.
Unless the governor of Missouri sees fit to pardon Walter McGee, confessed kidnapper of Miss Mary McElroy of Kansas City, he will receive the death sentence on May 10th, almost two years after the kidnapping in which he took the leading part. The Missouri Supreme Court decreed Saturday that his sentence should be death, and as there is no higher court of appeal, this former Stockton boy will hang unless the governor shows mercy. The unfortunate young man was born in Stockton 29 years ago and attended grade school at several of the rural schools near here.
As We Think It: Ain’t Nature Grand? Well, it used to be. * A friend tells us he doesn’t care how hot hell is but hopes the dirt doesn’t blow there. * March went out like a lamb, but it is pretty well chewed and scratched by the lion, which raged most of the month.
From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: We know people who get more kick out of the mistakes of others than out of the things they manage to accomplish themselves.
The Nova Theatre was showing “The Mighty Barnum,” starring Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce, and Rochelle Hudson.
Up And Down Main Street: Frank Sperry doesn’t think April Fool’s Day amounts to much. * While swinging down the hill to work Tuesday morning, Joe Thompson found he was on fire, some matches being ignited in his pocket. * Spin Garber is worried about that crack in the Main Street column regarding the businessman, which reminds one of a donkey. He can’t figure out whether they were talking about him on account of his ears or Carl Bray because of his name.
Alvin Revel Colburn passed away at his home on March 27th, in his sixty-third year. Mrs. L. C. Hopkins departed this life on March 28th at her home in Lenora. Mrs. Hattie Harris died at the Hays Protestant Hospital at the age of 63 years, ten months, and 13 days.
The Stockton seniors will present the three-act farce by Jay Tobias, “For Pete’s Sake,” on April 12th. The cast is composed of Neva Brown, Mabel Reed, Harold Anderson, Vance Wieland, Sari Miller, Paul Kewley, Adela Phillips, Dorothy Cox, Margaret Lambert, Helen Shaw, Frank Lytle, and Vester Maddy.
The Eades Cash Store had a pound of butter for 37¢, a 48-pound sack of flour for $1.59, a two-pound bag of raisins for 17¢, and plenty of good Jersey milk for sale.
