* And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “My wife knows all the gossip, but she never tells me anything.” Howard Wanamaker: “A man has a right to be in a bad humor if he spends half his Sunday working on a machine, and then can’t get it to operate.” Clarence Heiner: “I’m almost glad I don’t know anything, folks don’t expect so much of you that way.” Lucia Hamilton: “I don’t go to anyone’s house unless I have to.” Velma Bartlett: “I like my clothes to fit, but I don’t like to look like I’ve been stuffed into them.”

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Stockton’s opportunity for an oil well has gone “blooy.” Drilling at the Low Test stopped the first of the week. The drill had penetrated to a depth of 3,504 feet with no oil showing. It is expected by the latter part of the week that work will begin to pull casing. It could not be learned what motive the Marland Company has in mind—whether they contemplate a further development of the field at this time or withdraw from it. It is authentically reported that the Marlands and other companies have been turning back leases in that vicinity as fast as the leases become due. Whether that means the companies are quitting this field remains to be seen. The Minx Oil Test will not be completed to the proposed depth of 4,500 feet, according to Father Mattingly of Zurich, one of the trustees of the fund of $7,000.00 raised among residents of Zurich and Plainville who were eager to see the well drilled deeper in search of a lower producing stratum of sand. Water sand was encountered shortly after drilling was resumed, and the flow was so strong it was thought inadvisable to attempt to remove it. It is now planned to plug the hole back to approximately 3,400 feet where the ten-barrel showing of oil was found and shoot the well to create the flow.

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* And So They Say: Rev. James Williams: “Stockton people can be proud of the high school band and the football team, and the stadium is also extra fine.” Pudy Larson: “I can’t get excited over the World Series. I’m a football man.” Wilbur Doak: “I know it’s early, but I’m washing my windows so I can put my Christmas cards on display.” Dode Morrissey: “I had six good reasons for going to the circus on Sunday—five grandchildren and half the proceeds go to crippled children.”

A Retirement Open House was held for Sandi Rogers, who had served as the Stockton City Clerk since 1994. A Retirement Open House was held at the Rooks County Courthouse for Denzil McNeal, who had served as the County’s emergency management director for 13 years.

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