* And So They Say: Pat Reed: “It always cools off here the week I’m away on my vacation.” Madalyn Lambert: “I don’t have anything for you today, but I may have some around Christmas.” George Ostmeyer: “For the past two years, the Rooks County Free Fair has had about 100 motorcycle riders, and between 16 and 20 of them are the top riders in the nation.” Jo Carmichael: “Wouldn’t you know it. We are re-arranging our store already.”

The Rooks County Free Fair was marking its 132nd year with a full week of entertainment. Little Texas AND Restless Heart were set to perform.

Rooks County taxpayers will have to dig up about the same amount of money for the county’s operating expenses next year as they did in 1935, under tentative levies set by the county commissioners after preparing the 1936 budget, which is published in this issue of the Rooks County Record. The most significant reduction was made in the general fund. Its levy for the next year will be .0018 compared with .000255 for 1935.

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* And So They Say: Kenneth Currie: “It’s too bad that the fairgoers didn’t get to see Stan Krysl working on the Lions Club permanent shelter at the fairgrounds because that was some extra good entertainment.” Betty Harding: “My boss is just like my husband. Everything I tell him goes in one ear and out the other.” Ollie Ochampaugh (Monday): “Something we can do is take the weather as it comes and the kind that came today isn’t hard to take.” Dode Morrissey: “I’m planning to hug some of those Yellowstone Park bears when I go on my vacation.” R. J. Baker: “You could have a headline this week saying ‘Stockton visits Stockton.’ That’s my stepfather’s name and he was here.”

Former Stocktonite Philisene Probasco, 92, had moved to the St John’s Assisted Living Complex in Hays in 2009. Once she moved in she began walking inside the facility for exercise and kept track of her miles. In just 13 months she completed her first 100 miles and was challenging the other residents to get their exercise in!

Fire from an unknown cause raged at the Rooks County Fairgrounds on Thursday night, destroying the Stockton Sales Pavilion, a stock barn, and the racehorse barn. Lack of water at the Fairgrounds handicapped the firemen, as the stock barn would have undoubtedly been saved had there been sufficient water. L. O. Schoen, owner of the Stockton Sales Pavilion, could not say precisely what his loss would be, although it is estimated that the pavilion and equipment cost approximately $2,200.00. Miss Anna Garber, who lives about 100 yards from the scene, discovered the fire about midnight. The fire reflecting in her window awakened her, and she immediately turned on the alarm.

* And So They Say: Dean King: “This stupid idea of federal offices closing for a Moon Holiday is just about to make me change my politics.” Jess Jarrett: “Pudy Larson didn’t close his business on Monday because he’s a Democrat.” Joe Cadoret: “I couldn’t see the moon on Sunday night so I don’t know whether those men were really up there.” Dennis Kreller (Sunday): “Today’s a special day for me to remember on my seventh birthday. The astronauts landed on the moon. We should celebrate together.”

GrandChampionsofthe Rooks County 4-H Fashion Show were Nate Billinger, Madeline Towns, Tatum Hamilton, Cecelia Beck, Rebekah Niblock, Monica Towns, and Jacob Towns. Reserve Grand Champions were Mark Riley, Allison Dix, Amber Paramore, Rebekah Niblock, Caleigh Iwanski, Audrey Green, Nate Billinger, and Haven Hamilton.