* And So They Say: Ted Brunson: “I’m just here by being careful.” Lester Maddy: “I’ve been uptown so long this morning that I can’t remember where I parked my pickup.” Cleo Baughman: “I’m watching my weight now because it’s got out to where I can see it.” Jo Stewart: “One never appreciates their school system fully until they have a kid at home a few days with the chicken pox.” Kenneth Currie: “Some people may not like to hear me say it, but I wish it would snow.”

The contents of the botanical laboratory of Dr. Elam Bartholomew, well known scientist and former Rooks County resident who died in Hays on November 18th, have been bequeathed to his son, Elbert T. Bartholomew, in trust for Dr. Bartholomew’s five children according to the Ellis County News. Dr. Bartholomew left his wife, Rachel, his real estate providing she has the income from it during her lifetime. At her death it is to go to the five children, share and share alike in value. The will provides, however, that the old Bartholomew homestead north of Stockton shall at the death of Mrs. Bartholomew descend to the son, Lee, on payment to each of the other four heirs a sum equal to one fifth of the appraisal value of the land.

The Stockton Tigers finished as the Mid-Continent League Basketball Tournament runners-up after losing to Plainville. Members of the team were Micha Moll, Chandler Nyp, Peter Sabell, Zach Lowry, Brady Page, Michael Dix, Kody Niblock, Chance Miller, Jon Bellerive, Jesse Prockish, Dustin Kriley, Koby Beougher, Austin Smith, Austin Widen, assistant coach Rick Bice and head coach Adam North.

* And So They Say: Milt Boethin: “I’m fixing up some of the rooms at the Owl Court so they will be the nicest between Kansas City and Denver.” Lee Phelps: “Ask Leo Bird about the skunk he shot in my yard Sunday. He got rid of the skunk, but not the smell.” Clark Stocking: “Warren Harding and I won the bowling tournament. It isn’t for publication, but there weren’t many against us.”

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THIS YESTERYEAR PICTURE appeared in the Stockton Sentinel 30 years ago and features four generations of the Wanamaker family. Howard and Grace Wanamaker owned Wanamaker Cleaners, which was located on the south side of the 500 block of Main Street. The business was housed in what is now the east part of the Blessed Beginnings Daycare. Pictured are Howard Wanamaker, Kerri (McKinnis) DeRosier holding her daughter Sarah, and Janice Elaine (Wanamaker) McKinnis.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Betty Cadoret: “I think the new drapes at the Midway Café should make headlines.” Jess Riffe: “When it comes to knowing news, I’m the dumbest person in town.” Bob Osborn: “I know more about washing dishes than most women do.” Clark Stocking: “I never do anything or make any decision unless my wife tells me to. That is the safest procedure.” Paul Ballinger: “The only things I now are what my wife tells me.” * Tragedy struck Stockton, taking the lives of two people, critically inuring three, and injuring another.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago The Stockton Tiger eighth-grade boys finished the 2010-2011 basketball season undefeated and winning the Mid-Continent Elementary League Basketball Championship. Members of the team were Casey Deutscher, Jaden Williams, Justin Wiltfong, Andrew Bellerive, Kale Kuhlmann, Richard Schleicher, Cayden Conyac, Tyler Williams, Erik Scott, Christian Hamel, assistant coach Ron Storz, and head coach Joe Weidenhaft.

The political turnover in the Rooks County Courthouse resulted in three new official faces. Leslie Wells will succeed Frank Montgomery, who has held the office of county clerk for the past four years. H. E. Lenhard is now occupying the chair vacated by probate judge W. T. Case, and the third Republican to succeed a Democrat is John Gregory of Woodston, who will begin his first four-year term as county commissioner from the first district, taking the place of J. E Watts. Other county offices were re-elected. Mrs. Edna Lambert is county treasurer, Louis Elliott is starting his second term as sheriff, Mrs. Mabel Russ Dix is in her third term as register of deeds, D. A. Hindman is the county attorney, and George Crane is the clerk of the district court.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Glen Buss: “I’ve got 32 clocks. They are all kinds, shapes and sizes, but I don’t let them all strike at once.