Yesteryear
A Half Century Later—1976
* One of the saddle broncs, Copenhagen, that was to be featured by the McComb Rodeo Company at the Plainville Saddle Club Rodeo was destined for national stardom according to the saddle club president Harold Boller.
Reflections
* The Rooks County Sheriff's Department hired Travis Bacon. It was his first assignment as an officer after working in Corrections in Kearney, Nebraska.
Looking Back
It was a four-way tie for the Anita Gale Simons Memorial Award for the eighth-grade students with the highest GPA. Claiming the title were Donny Riffel, Andrea Buss, Allison Dix, and Lexi Winklepleck.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 90 Years Ago
Shoemaker and Hess, on the Stebbins land about six miles southeast of Stockton, have set the big pipe and are drilling below 500 feet. Rooks County now has eight active drilling tests at two locations, with one location having the rig up.
56 Years Ago
* And So They Say: R. J. Baker: 'It just better not rain on Friday. That is when the Farm Bureau has its annual fish fry.
A Century In Review
* Word was received in this city on Sunday morning that C. G Cochran, president of the First National Bank and an old-time resident of Plainville, had died at Hays at 7:30 a.m.
A Half Century Later—1976
* The upcoming sale of 720 acres of Smith County farmland was of interest to many Rooks County students who were planning to attend Fort Hays Kansas State College. All of the proceeds from the sale were to go into the Ross Scholarship Fund, recently established by the estate of Fred and Dovie Ross.
