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3 years ago By News Staff

WITH THE RECENT DEMOLITION.

WITH THE RECENT DEMOLITION WITH THE RECENT DEMOLITION of the Trading Post building in Stockton, LoraBelle Sander brought in a picture of Main Street (1940s?) showing when the building housed the Ray T. Jones Stores, Co. Notice that the Rooks County Record building and the Trading Post building are both standing back then, but the Mapes and Miller building, which was built between the two structures years later, is now the only one of the three standing. According to LoraBelle, the space between the two buil

Yesteryear Picture

3 years ago By News Staff

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AFTER OWNING AND OPERATING a successful clothing business in Stockton for over 31 years, Maxine and Ken Bates posed for one final picture in their store on Main Street before closing the doors for good in April 1989.

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3 years ago By News Staff

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THIS KODACHROME SLIDE is of Charles Reed. William Robert Skinner took the picture (the mid 1960s) of Charles standing down at the creek near his farmhouse. Bill Skinner sent this photo to the Sentinel and reminisced about their trips back to Stockton during the holidays because it always included visiting the Reed family.

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3 years ago By News Staff

THE STOCKTON VFW.

THE STOCKTON VFW held its second annual Cherry Pie Contest at the Post Home in March of 1991. Winners and members of the Stockton VFW posed for a picture. They are (front row, from left) Harold Ritchie, Kit McShea; (middle row) John Tucker, Montie Fischer, Tracy Iman, Chris Walker; (back row) Corky Hagan, John Berkley, and Everett Lowry.

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3 years ago By News Staff

BILL SKINNER.

BILL SKINNER sent the Sentinel this picture, and we would like to share it with our readers. Bill’s dad, William Robert Skinner, his sister, Sara Jane, and his grandfather, Judge W. K. Skinner, are pictured. The photo (1949/1950) is in the front yard of Judge Skinner’s residence at 521 North Cedar. Bill said his sister loves this picture because it is one of her with her dad and grandfather.

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3 years ago By News Staff

THE 1970 SHS WRESTLERS.

THE 1970 SHS WRESTLERS were (front row) coach Emery Hart, Jeff Morrissey, Terry McRae, Jerry Sanders, Sonny Clark, Shawn McCall, Ron McRae; (second row) David Baxter, Rick Sanders, Doug Iman, Gary Scott, Randy Baughman, Jack Gager, coach Don LaRue; (back row) Bob VanEaton, Don Jenkins, David Schneider, John Hageman, Lynn Hudson, Ron Williams, and Terry Eggers.

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3 years ago By News Staff

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RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR TEN YEARS OF SERVICE in March of 1989 were Rooks County employees (front row, from left): Normand Hrabe, Rick McLaughlin, Kenton Miller, Gerald McLaughlin; (back row) Clarence Hageman, Mrs. Florence Wallis, Eugene Breckenridge, Bill Peacock, and Frances Austin.

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3 years ago By News Staff

PICTURED IS TREE FARMER LEO BIRD.

PICTURED IS TREE FARMER LEO BIRD (center) in February of 1991 explaining the benefits of a thirteen-year-old windbreak on his Rooks County farm northwest of Stockton to KSU foresters Bill Louchs of Manhattan and Jim Strine of Hays. Bird was an authority on trees in west-central Kansas, planted numerous varieties, and even started his trees through stratification, which is the collecting and burying of nuts to grow in his nursery, where they would develop into seedlings for transplanting on his farm.

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3 years ago By News Staff

THE HAYS BIG BAND

Betty and Larry Lala

3 years ago By News Staff

BETTY AND LARRY LALA.

BETTY AND LARRY LALA received the 1990 Kansas Bankers Association Windbreak Award. The Lalas started the windbreak by planting twin rows of Eastern Red Cedar in 1957. They added another row along the north side of their property in 1971. The windbreak was designed to provide winter protection for the livestock and added defense for the entire farmstead area.

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