Yesteryear

The members of the largest class ever to graduate from Stockton High School received their diplomas last Friday evening at the high school auditorium in the presence of a large audience of relatives and friends.

Zoe Hrabe had won the flat screen TV at the Nex-Tech Customer Appreciation Picnic held at the American Legion Hall. Jean Lindsey, Becky Hrabe, and Tricia Dunlap each won a $25.00 gift certificate for Nex-Tech services.

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A desire to enter business for himself led H. H. Snyder, 12 years cashier of the Stockton National Bank, to resign his position and purchase the Variety Store from R. E. Garland on Saturday.

* And So They Say: Jo Stewart: “I lived through the winter with a monkey in the house most of the time, and now that he is out of doors most of the time, I guess I can live through the summer.”

Restless Heart AND Little Texas were headlining the Rooks Country Free Fair. Valedictorians for the SHS Class of 2011 were MaryLynn Griebel and Dustin Kriley.

a Mr. Homemaker contest was held with ten young men taking up the gauntlet or putting on the apron to demonstrate their homemaking skills for this event at Stockton High School.

An argument between twobrothers,whichstarted in Denver over a suitcase, finally culminated in Stockton last Thursday evening, with one of them taking a hatchet to the other’s truck and inflicting no minor damage. He is now in jail.

* And So They Say: Bob Scoby: “My ear feels worse after my surgery—but then, the doctor said it would.” Bill Gouldman: “If I put all I know in a book, it certainly wouldn’t have very many pages.” Freddie Baughman: “I don’t know who invented daughters.”

Diplomas were going to twenty-two Stockton High School seniors. Twenty- five-year-old Douglas Albert Pfeifer was in critical condition at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita following a one-vehicle accident located two and a half miles south and west of Woodston on J Road.