The Stockton High School Theater Department was presenting, “Is There A Doctor In The House?” on November 9 and 10, 2007 in the high school gymnasium. The play was a new kind of classic cowboy-country comedy with a wide variety of zany Western characters, which included: Marcus Moll, Chelsey Kriley, MaryLynn Griebel, Madison Reed, Macee Kellner, Lyndsey Gilmore, Josh Barnedt, Nathan Palmer, Ty Winters, Alex Henry, Jonathan Reed, Jordann Wiltfong, Brenna Schlaegel, Katy Carsten, Caleb Kriley, Sage Penner, Conrad Griebel, Jonathan Bellerive, Carlee Lindsey, Kyle Weiser, Billie Chesney, Stephen Bellerive, Jana Conger, Emily Barnett, Hayley Strutt, and Stephen Moll.

IN THE FALL OF 1994 Brad Turnbull was kept busy chipping loose concrete from the joints of the south retaining wall that surrounds the Rooks County Courthouse. Turnbull worked for a Nebraska company that had a contract to restore the wall to its original condition.

* And So They Say: Virgil Bird (paying his taxes): “I think they assessed all the taxes in Rooks County to me this year.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I wish I had a lot of things done already that I haven’t got done, and what is worrying me is when I am going to get time to do them.” Lloyd Hollern: “I was really praying that the weather would stay warm after I failed to get the storm windows put up for my wife last week.”

At the regular monthly meeting on Sept. 10, 2007 of the Stockton USD 271 Board of Education, after a lengthy discussion, a motion was made, seconded and voted upon favorably to go to 8-man football, beginning with the 2008 season. Tiger Homecoming

FIFTEEN-YEAR 4-H LEADERS recognized at the 4-H Achievement Celebration in October of 1997 were Janet Languein, Elaine Hrabe, B J Poore and Larry Poore..

Six people suffered broken bones, cuts and burns during Fair week. Auto race car driver, Richard Richardson, one of the contestants, lost control of his car and it shot from the track, through the barbed wire fence and landed in a deep gulley, turning over and pinning him to the ground. Richardson was badly injured when the wires struck him in the face and neck, inflicting a severe gash on the throat from jaw to jaw. Mrs. John Edwards was the unfortunate victim of a severe accident when she fell on the show grounds. She received a complete fracture of the right arm. Chas. Reed, the third baseman for Agra, got an ugly cut in his right ankle when a runner accidently struck Reed with his foot. The show plate cut quite a gash. Mrs. Quentona Keller fell through a showcase at the Floral hall and was cut about the foot. Mrs. Keller had been standing above the showcase arranging some exhibits and while doing so missed her footing and fell through the case. Mrs. Frank Hubble was the most unfortunate victim of any. She and Mr. Hubble were on their way to the T. A. Kincaid home where they with several others were to partake of a Sunday dinner. On the way Mr. Hubble stopped at a pasture to look after some cattle while Mrs. Hubble and the baby remained in the buggy. Something frightened the team and they started to run. Mrs. Hubble, with the baby on her lap, endeavored to brace herself in the buggy but was pulled or forcibly thrown from the vehicle. It is not fully known just how her injury happened, whether from a kick of the horse or a foot was caught in a wheel, but she received a compound fracture of the lower right leg. The baby was not injured beyond a few scratches. One of Boss Lambert’s boys had his right hand badly burned by the explosion of a lamp, which had been filled with gasoline.

THE 1994 SHS HOMECOMING CROWN BEARERS were Luke Kriley and Courtney Hrabe. Tara Hahn and Joe Gasper had been crowned queen and king that year with attendants Jean Baxter, Casey Maddy, Rich Bouchey and Todd Kriley.

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “It made me very happy when so many of the boys around town stopped by to tell me goodbye before leaving for college.” Rhada Hutton: “I can tell you one thing, the cooler weather has had no effect on the mosquitoes out at the dam.”

The Solomon Valley Antique Engine & Machinery Association, Inc. was proud to announce its 30th annual Antique Machinery Show, set for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15-16, 2007. For the first time in many years, the event was to take place back at the Rooks County Fairgrounds in Stockton, where it originally began 30 years ago.

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “My hands are beginning to lose their garden look and getting to look like city hands again.” Trooper Bob Norton: “The trouble is too many people think highway signs are something for other people to observe.” Summer Southard: “My dad is making jelly now out of guest what? Well, it’s prickly pears.”