Looking Back

What was supposed to have been a pleasant afternoon of horseback riding didn’t turn out that way for Victor Bird. The three-year-old colt he was riding did some crow hopping and bucking, and Victor fell and hit his left shoulder. The colt had nowhere to go, so he went back over Victor again, kicking him behind the left ear. He also dislocated his right ring finger.

Elaine Maddy and her son, David, went on an African adventure to Uganda on a Development in Gardening (DIG) project.

Lance Corporal Levi Earl, U.S. Marines, had been deployed to Afghanistan.

The Stockton School District was looking at a state budget cut of $126,000.00 for the school year.

Dixie and Bill Dibble celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at Cedar Links Country Club.

What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago in 1911—Fred Lawson says he never saw such a wave of mosquitoes as struck his neighborhood last Friday evening— the night before the cold wave. J. A. Maris provides the home market with every delicacy and necessity. His latest is a fresh lot of dill pickles, giving relish for the plainest meal. Thomas Craig has been suffering very much with lameness due to an old Army wound. He still carries a bullet in his thigh, and it is causing him so much pain he intends to have it located with an X-ray with a view to its removal.

56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year 1953—Work had begun on the interior decoration and remodeling at the Snyder-Robinson Drug Store. Edward E. Morgan Company, Inc. submitted the apparent low bid for the completion of the Webster Dam, their figure being $6,148,683.90.

Looking Back 14 Years Ago (1995)—The Stockton Tiger football team had captured their third state championship in four years by defeating the Frankfort Wildcats with a score of 26-6. A rash of deer accidents and snowy, icy roads had kept officers of the Rooks County Sheriff’s Department busy. Miss Kansas, Amy Keller, had talked to the students about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse.

Obituaries were published for Everett J. McKenna (1945), Lt. Col. Gordon K. Casad (1917), and Thomas J. Hrabe (1915).

Birth Announcements— Stephanie and Steve Pfeifer announced the birth of their first granddaughter, Teagann Sue Shamburg, on November 9th to parents Heather and Preston Shamburg. Andrew Michael Ziegler was born on September 15th to parents Gary and Michelle Ziegler.

Jamie Fenton and Adam Balthazor were married on July 18th at the St. Thomas Parish Center.