Yesteryear

The Stockton Sentinel is always looking for pictures for our “Yesteryear” page.

M. Jepson, just east of town, harvested last week a pretty fair crop of oats from a field of 35 acres on which last fall he had sown wheat. Last year the field had produced oats and enough had rattled out to make a good even stand.

The names of suspects charged in the burglary at Home Cookin’ were made public. Brett Kreutzer and Nicholas Nix, both 18, both of Stockton, had been charged with identical counts of Burglary, Conspiracy, Theft and Criminal Damage To Property.

Last Saturday morning at two o’clock people living near the culvert bridge on east Main Street were aroused from their slumbers by a tremendous crash and then all was silent.

The new office building at Webster State Park was officially open as the staff had moved into the facility on June 19, 2006.

A RIBBON-CUTTING was held for Rockin’ K Shoe Repair in the early summer of 1997.

* And So They Say: John Towns: “Watch out what you say now that the Office Cat is home again.” Don Peebles: “If a person has nothing else to be glad for, he can be thankful he is still able to work.” Butch Marshall (age 7): “Well, I know this is Sunday morning because the wind blows every Sunday.”

The Stockton Sentinel is always looking for pictures for our “Yesteryear” page.

The funeral obsequies for Mr. John Shaw were held at the beautiful home on Second Street north and were attended by a large number of sorrowing friends who filled the house, the porches and the yard in front.