Yesteryear

* And So They Say: Robert Sooby: “I was looking through some old newspaper files in the Courthouse and found an ad in one of the 50 Years Ago which advertised a patent medicine guaranteed to cure any pain.

The “Know Your Neighbor” column, written by Linda Roy Cross, featured Pat Ballard, age 81. Having been born in a town called Paradise must have affected her outlook on life, because Pat found joy everywhere.

Jack Glynn of the Glynn Detective Agency of Leavenworth with one of his assistants, county attorney Farrish and county sheriff Gilbert held an investigation in Plainville in which sixteen parties were questioned concerning the death of George Bedard.

IT’S HARVEST TIME IN KANSAS and this picture, taken 75 years ago in 1946, brings back memories from years gone by. Ivan Burgess, father of Eleanor (Burgess) Buss, was 31 years old at the time.

The Rooks County oil valuation for 2007 had been published at $38,829,518, still high when you consider the previous year’s $41.3 million valuation was the highest recorded since 1984. The 2007 figure is down $2,513,993 from 2006, or down 6%.

The forty-sixth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Perrine Kincaid was celebrated by a good number of friends and neighbors coming to their home bringing well-filled baskets. Dinner was served under the old apple trees in the front of their home.

THE WHEAT TRUCKS were lined up at the Coop Elevator in the middle of June 1994, with the crop looking very promising for the area farmers..

Scheduled for completion in the summer of 2008, the new hospital was progressing despite bouts of wet weather. A Home and Garden Tour in and around Stockton was planned for July 1st, sponsored by the Sigma Phi ESA.

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I don’t feel so good since my fivemile Boy Scout hike.” Don Grieve: “I was the first customer to go in the front door of the new bank building on Monday morning.” Mrs.

The Standard Filling Station was robbed sometime during Saturday night. The thieves gained entrance through a window in one of the side rooms giving access to the safe in the office proper. The combination of the safe was worked and the thieves helped themselves to $23.