Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
A Scrapbook Crop Event was planned for March 18 as a fundraiser for the Stockton Fire Department.
The Stockton Area Arts Council was holding open auditions for the Community Spring Play.
A 14-year-old girl from Plainville died when the 2000 Pontiac she was a passenger in overturned when the driver lost control of the vehicle, entered a ditch and flipped over. The driver and another teenage girl were injured. Killed at the scene was one of the passengers, Karlee Marissa Custenborder.
Lorin Trowbridge, Executive Director of High Plains Independence, a drop-in center for persons with special needs, spoke to the Foster Grandparents and Senior Companions from Rooks and Phillips counties at the In-Service meeting on Feb. 22, 2006.
The Stockton Tiger basketball teams both dropped their final regular season games against Hill City, as the girls lost 38-48 and the boys lost 30-62.
The Tiger basketball season ended in the first round of the Class 2A Sub-State Tournament played at Minneapolis. The Lady Tigers fell 36-65 while the boys lost by the score of 60-79.
The family of Edith McLaughlin requested a card shower for her 80th birthday on March 8.
And So They Say — Marvin Jackson: “I’m selling my golf cart and quitting.”
Showing at the Nova Theatre was a remake of “The Pink Panther,” starring Steve Martin.
Obituaries were published for Warren “Jim” Riffel (1921-2006), Charles C. Goetz (1935-2006), Olen Smrcka (1922-2006), Ruth Bridges (1932-2006), and Karlee Marissa Custenborder (1991-2006).
Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year...1992 — Fifty couples had been attending country dance lessons at City Hall. We had an inch and a half of rain. The junior high wrestlers were the first-place finishers following the MCEL Tournament in Ellis. Stand-outs were ThaneVanEaton, Brian Kaba, H. J. Colburn, Matt McShea, Brandon Towns and Chris Walker.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year...1950 — Pilots of VMF 212 dipped their planes low over the Atlantic between Cherry Point, N.C. and Norfolk, Va. to spread flowers in memory of their squadron mate, Lf. Loren Grover, who crashed into the ocean on Feb. 16. It was hoped that Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bartholomew, who went to Cherry Point to be with their daughter, Marie Grover, would all return to Stockton soon, bringing Marie and the children with them, and at that time a memorial service for Loren could be held.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year...1908 — Complaints were made to the city council of the awful braying of certain nondescript animals who disturb the slumbers of people living in their neighborhood. A delegation of ladies and gentlemen waited on the city fathers at their recent meeting and represented that the din was intolerable to the nervous folk of that section, arguing at some length and with much earnestness that it was the council’s duty to silence the brays, at least from bedtime till sun-up. Champions of the donkey’s right to bray as loud and long as he pleases, and at whenever the spirit may move him, presented their side of the case, asking that nothing be done to hamper and restrain the growth of an important local industry in which every public spirited citizen should take a just pride. The council found themselves up against a hard proposition, and devices for muffling, choking off and discouraging the blatant nocturnal howler were asked for. We have read somewhere that a brick tied to Mr. Jackus’ caudal appendage will shut off the voice at the other end of the beast. The experiment is certainly worth trying by some courageous person whose life insurance is safe, and if effective, it should be made the duty of the city marshal or the city clerk, or perhaps the mayor (if not too dangerous) to attach weights to the safety valves of all specimens of the long-eared tribe within the city limits at the ringing of the curfew. Next Monday night the council will meet again to consider the great question as to whether brays shall be allowed without licenses.
