Yesteryear

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.

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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.

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.

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.

* 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.

GrandChampionsofthe Rooks County 4-H Fashion Show were Nate Billinger, Madeline Towns, Tatum Hamilton, Cecelia Beck, Rebekah Niblock, Monica Towns, and Jacob Towns.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: W. McCaslin (reading And So They Say column): “I don’t ever want to see my name in that darn column.” Dode Morrissey: “Everyone knows I’m a sort of a pest.