The Stockton Sentinel appreciates the information Larry Stamper of Plainville brought into the office about the steam thresher picture featured on our November 14th Yesteryear page. Here is the story behind the picture, which was taken around 1909.

Mrs. Emmett Gallagher and Miss Grace Skenyon were two lucky women considering the minor injuries received in an automobile accident on Tuesday evening. Returning home from Hays, where they had attended an Armistice Celebration, the right rear tire blew out, and the car swerved and rolled over three times. Mrs. Gallagher was thrown out through the top of the vehicle. Miss Skenyon remained in the car, which finally righted itself. T. J. O’Brien happened along a few minutes after the accident and brought the women to Miss Skenyon’s home in Plainville. Mrs. Gallagher was brought home, and her companion returned to the Hays hospital for an examination of her injuries. Still, finding nothing more than torn ligaments in the left shoulder and severe bruises, she was taken to her Plainville home. Mrs. Gallagher seems to be injured; likewise, only her right shoulder is affected. The Gallagher Chevrolet Coupe is a total wreck and was brought to Stockton.

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* And So They Say: Martha Cramer: “I just don’t see how anyone can bowl a 200 game and then in the next game only bowl a 104.” Vernon Sammons: “I didn’t get a pheasant. I didn’t even look for one and it’s for sure they didn’t look for me.” Gene Miller: “When hunting becomes work, it isn’t fun any more.” Robert Osborn: “Our granddaughter still can’t talk and she is over two months old!”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Martha Cramer: “I just don’t see how anyone can bowl a 200 game and then in the next game only bowl a 104.” Vernon Sammons: “I didn’t get a pheasant. I didn’t even look for one and it’s for sure they didn’t look for me.” Gene Miller: “When hunting becomes work, it isn’t fun any more.” Robert Osborn: “Our granddaughter still can’t talk and she is over two months old!” * Mr.

Vernon Hutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Hutton, was critically hurt Monday at Smith Center. Vernon, who is employed by the Kansas Power Company, was on his way to work and, while crossing a street, dodged a motorcar only to be hit by another car. A hole was made in the skull above his ear, and the broken glass of the car door caused a cut across the throat. His condition is regarded as serious, although word came yesterday that he had a slight chance of recovery. Upon hearing the news of their son’s injury, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton immediately went to Smith Center.

were the Stockton seventh-grade boys basketball team. Pictured are (front row, from left) Evan Lowe, HJ Colburn, Brian Kaba, CJ Hagan, Tom Bennett; (middle row) Scott Wagner, Matthew McShea, Peter Braasch, Ryan Lewin, Israel Jirak; (back row) Coach Lonnie Weiser, Brandon Towns, James Mongeau, Troy Paulson, Matthew Moll, Craig Sammons and assistant coach Jon Voss.

* And So They Say: Judge James Gilbert: “If anyone of us had done half the things all the presidential candidates claimed the other had done, we’d be in jail most of the time.” Bill Gouldman: “I went hunting but the ducks proved they were smarter than I was.” Keith Dryden: “Do you want to print what I said when I went in to pay my taxes?” Dave Oyer: “Why is it that there is never any room to park downtown in Phillipsburg, but there are never any more people in the stores than there are here?”

The Rooks County Commission was set to turn over the first shovels of dirt for the groundbreaking construction of the first new airport in Kansas in more than ten years. The Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Fund funded the $4 million airport through a grant. The grant covered 95 percent of the construction.

Seven-year-old Keith Dix, son of Mabel Russ Dix, left last evening for the Bell Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, where he will enter for a cleft palate operation. Miss Floyd, principal of the grade school, is to be highly commended for the part she has played. She took his case in hand last spring and, by her untiring efforts, succeeded in engaging the Capper Fund for crippled children. While different from the cases they usually handle, they consented to help and have engaged an excellent plastic surgeon to perform the operation. Our commissioners and the Red Cross are doing their part too, so that Keith might have a big chance. Mrs. Dix highly appreciates the kindness to her boy since, owing to her circumstances, she might never have been able to give him the opportunity he so badly needed and deserved.