Yesteryear Picture
THE B TEAM CHEERLEADERS for the 1974-1975 Stockton Tiger sports season were (from left) Torey Trarbach, Bonnie Drotts, Becky Jackson, and on top, Melanie McComb.
Yesteryear
What Stocktonites Were Doing 90 Years Ago
Over 100 spectators attended the park on Friday evening to see the youngsters from the FERC playground classes exhibit their pets and dolls. The children were out in full force, too, despite a threatened thunder shower. One worker estimated there were seventy girls and fifty boys present.
Looking Back
An article about the loss of the Kansas group of fallen heroes Army Chief Warrant officer 2 Bryan Nichols, Army Spec. Alexander Bennett, and Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, who were part of Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, during a rescue mission in Afghanistan was featured.
56 Years Ago
* 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.”
What Stocktonites Were Doing 90 Years Ago
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.
56 Years Ago
* 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.”
Looking Back
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.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 90 Years Ago
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.
