Yesteryear

Eight-year-old Thelma Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark of Hoxie, suffered three pelvic fractures and severe lacerations on her body when a Ford sedan, which her father was driving, overturned in a ditch at a railroad crossing six miles west of Hays. Mr.

PICTURED is Shelly Steeples when she was a 1991 Stockton High School senior long jumping at the MCL meeting held at Stockton. She placed fourth with a jump of 14’10”

Mrs. Anna Eades and her mother, Mrs. Josephine Gick of Plainville, were spending several weeks in Europe. They went to Quebec, Canada, by train and left on the ship “Empress of Scotland” with the landing place at Cherbourg, France.

To kick off National Nursing Home Week during the first part of May, each resident released a balloon in the air with their names and the Solomon Valley Manor’s address on it.

* And So They Say: Grace Williams: “It’s real service when the restaurant staff looks after your baby while you eat.” Florence Coolbaugh (Nevada, Mo.): “I think the Record has more local news than any paper I ever saw.

The farmhouse on the old L. Hulse place on the county line just south of the State Highway to Phillipsburg was destroyed by fire last Tuesday afternoon. Ed Forssberg and his wife and his brother, John, who purchased the farm from Fred Baxter some months ago, occupied the farm. Mr. and Mrs.

An organizational meeting of the Capital Campaign Committee was held for the new Stockton Health Clinic. Dr. Mike Oller and Dr. Beth Loney were interested in starting their rural practice in Stockton, and they had plans to come to the town by the following summer.

* And So They Say: R. J. Baker: “We’ve lived here since February and think it’s the finest place we’ve ever been.” Maxine Bates: “Everyone is going to be wearing lace or embroidered ruffles on everything this fall.

AN OAK TREE.

A series of robberies were committed here Monday night. Three business houses were entered and all in the same manner. At the Tripp Motor Company and Bray Hardware Store, a pane of glass was broken out of the rear window, and the thief or thieves reached inside and unbolted the door or window.