Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
It hadn’t happened since 2000, but the Stockton Tigers finally got the monkey off their backs as they won a Homecoming football game, defeating the visiting Wilson Dragons by a score of 50-36.
Homecoming 2008 Royalty crowned the previous Friday night at Tiger Stadium were King Ty Winters and Queen Jennifer Nelson, who presided over the festivities that evening.
Rooks County Health Center’s “Official Opening” of Sept. 22, 2008, was documented in a 20-page insert in this week’s edition, with many of the photos in full color.
The Stockton Fire Department took delivery of a new tank truck on Sept. 12, 2008. The new truck, with a capacity of 3,500 gallons, has a portable tank that can hold another 3,500. This truck was replacing their current 6x6 tanker.
Magnus States was given a special gift from an American soldier. Specialist Franklin Tenorio of the United States Army sent Magnus a medal he had received for his service in Iraq from Sept. ‘06 to Nov. ‘07. This is the Army Commendation Medal given for meritorious service while serving as a track vehicle repairer during Operation Iraqi Freedom. SPC Frank Tenorio spent his leave in February here with SPC Andy Williams, son of Stephanie Pfeifer. Tenorio is stationed at Fort Riley.
Obituaries were published for Ila Dell Baker (1928); Joan Mack (1932) Eva Ruth Griebel (1909); and Kevin Dea Ault (1954).
Don and Connie Jenkins of Stockton proudly announced the arrival of their first grandchild, Tanner Dean Edwards, born on July 8, 2008, to parents Travis and Tessie Edwards of Castle Rock, Colo.
And So They Say — Wanda Kreller (Friday): “I’m staying home from the Homecoming parade today. For some reason they make me cry.”
Showing at the Nova Theatre was “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
Looking Back 14 Years Ago (1994) — A Rooks County grand jury brought indictments against K. P. Wright, Ruth Ann Wright, and Brian Mongeau, which included Aggravated Battery, Criminal Threat, Stalking, Harassment by Telephone, Official Misconduct, Obstructing Official Duty, Theft and Conspiracy. The Tiger football team’s win streak was ended, as Smith Center beat them in a seesaw battle 30-26. The Maris Store was having its annual Fall sale. Ben Franklin was having a Dollar Day Sale.
56 Years Ago (1952) — Barbara Nichols, who suffered a skull fracture in a pedestrian car accident was pronounced out of danger Saturday, but was to be hospitalized for another week. From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: Our dumbest friend thinks forbearance has something to do with going without clothes. Horace Pauley became ill and died suddenly at his home in Woodston at the age of 83 years. He was another of Rooks County’s long-time residents to pass away.
98 Years Ago (1910) — While Dr. Littlejohn of Codell was speeding in an auto over rough roads to reach a boy who had been dragged underneath a harrow and severely injured, the doctor was thrown from his auto a distance of about forty feet and his ankle broken and dislocated. The gritty little man caught his toes under a knot in a fencepost near where he landed, pulled his ankle back into place and bandaged it with a handkerchief or two, then went on to relieve the injured boy. Later he returned to Plainville and sought a physician to set his broken bones, but as all were out of town he gritted his teeth and said, “Physician, heal thyself,” so he set his own broken ankle and did a good job of it too, as time has proven. Instead of going to bed for at least two weeks as he has insisted on his patients doing, he has not lost a minute of his practice.
