Yesteryear

Scores of employees at the Schult Homes manufacturing plant in Plainville were shocked to receive a note terminating their employment along with their lunch on January 21, 2008, served up by a corporate spokesperson.

The new high school came near going up in smoke last Saturday night. It was a great scare for the populace and while considerable damage was done everything was soon repaired. The fire started in the basement among some trash that had been dumped in a corner.

SPC Kristen Dinkel, who was serving a tour of duty in Iraq as a ground ambulance medic for the Army Reserves, never told her parents, Vicki and Allen Dinkel of Plainville, a lot about what goes on over there because she didn’t want her parents to worry.

THE WILKENS SITE south of Stockton had been a hub of activity during the first of the year in 1994 when five loads of structural steel had been unloaded to begin the construction of the building. Roger Roy of Roy Construction had supervised the project.

* And So They Say: Butch Ostmeyer: “I made the women happy at last year’s Fair by bringing them Myron Floren, so I’m going to make the men happy this year with Joann Cassel.” A. L. Pettijohn (Monday): “It is this kind of weather which makes me glad I moved in from the farm.”

The Stockton Motor Company got in a carload of Chevrolets the first of the week, the shipment containing three cars and a truck. The Chevrolet has made a big growth as one of the popular medium-priced cars, the transportation averaging lower costs per mile than of other automobiles.

* And So They Say: Pat Langley: “People will steal anything—even Beatles records.” Judge Gilbert: “The next time they have a bunch of robberies in the county, I hope they choose any other day except Sunday, as it disturbs my day off.

THE MEMBERS OF THE 1994 STOCKTON JUNIOR HIGH seventh-grade girls basketball team were (bottom row, from left) Tiffany LeSage, Whitney Muir, Tisha Kibbee, Shannon Lowry; (middle row) Karen Iman, Kayla Muir, Jenny Poore, Brandi Ray; (back row) coach Dave Steeples, Tara Cikanek, Amber Glover, Sara...

A fiery plane crash Saturday night, Dec. 15, near Phillipsburg Municipal Airport, injured two New York men. The pilot of the plane, Darren H. Mesibov, 32, Potsdam, N.Y., was in critical condition at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus in Wichita.

Reading an item in one of the Kansas City papers that a woman of that city picked violets on Christmas day inspired a couple of Stockton girls to hunt for violets in Stockton. Sylvia Munn and Edit Douglas made a bet that they could find violets and they started a search.