Yesteryear

Body * And So They Say: Mrs. Jo Stewart: “Those acts at the Fair Monday night were as good or better than any that I and the kids saw at the Barnum and Bailey Circus in Texas a few weeks ago.” Babe Noble: “I never saw Kansas so green in August.” John B.

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Body Details of the new Works Progress Administration (WPA) were explained to representatives of several political subdivisions in Rooks County here on Thursday morning by Paul Jackson, the engineer of the new setup.

Body * 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.

Body 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.

Body 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...

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Body * 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.

Body 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.