Miss Leigha Marie Balthazor was the Sentinel’s New Year’s Baby winner, born on February 3rd to parents Jamie and Adam Balthazor. The Rooks County Boom MAYB Basketball team was the runner-up at the Minden Optimist Basketball Tournament.

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* And So They Say: Dale Couch: “I quit smoking two weeks ago, but now I’m hooked on candy.” James H. Gilbert: “There is so much wrong with everything that I don’t know what to start complaining about.” Hazel Larson: “I lived through the flu—but I complained a lot.”

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* And So They Say: Faye Harwood: “I still don’t think it makes any difference whether the groundhog sees his shadow or not.” Jess Jarrett: “If that Pudy Larson tells you anything, you better put it down just opposite from what he said.” Lee Phelps: “Everyone had a wonderful time skating out at the spillway Sunday after we cleaned the snow off the ice. John Roy even had an old Ford pulling kids on sleds.”

A wolf hunt is being arranged in this vicinity for all who like this kind of sport. It will be on February 11th, and all those who wish to take part are requested to meet at the Mt. Vernon Church at 12:30 p.m. Trucks will be furnished to haul the hunters. This hunt is a little different in one respect than most of them. If you shoot a coyote, it’s yours to do whatever you wish. Heretofore, in most cases, the coyote went to the truck driver as his reimbursement.

Sparks from cutting torches were the cause of two small grass fires during the week. The first was at the Jack Kollman residence at Woodston when a cutting torch was being used in the garage and sparks ignited the tall grass near it. The Woodston Fire Department quickly had the fire out. The second was at the Tom Bigge residence west of Stockton when sparks from a cutting torch again ignited dry grass. The Stockton Fire Department quickly extinguished the flames.

School was cancelled on Monday and Tuesday of the week and paralyzed many normal operations with a wind chill of -27 and the wind blowing up to 38 mph. Harry and Willardene Purdum were appointed the Rooks County representatives to the Northwest Kansas Area Agency on Aging, which encompasses 18 counties.

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A rural electrification survey will be made in Rooks County as a relief project under the direction of the Rooks County Relief Administration. This is in accordance with a bulletin received by Miss Pearl Rorabaugh. It is desirable to obtain the approximate correct location of every rural home, church, school, store and shop using electricity or the possible user of electricity. The survey calls for the location and capacity of existing generating plants and transmission lines, private plants, and telephone and telegraph lines. The scope of the survey is to extend outside of incorporated cities. From the findings of the potential demand, records are to be kept to aid any projected future method of supplying electricity in the county.