Looking Back
What Was Going
On 14 Years Ago
La Feria Mexican Restaurant was hosting their Grand Opening on Dec. 31 at 425 Main Street in Stockton. The restaurant was housed in the former Gambino’s Pizza building.
The United States Postal Service’s new postage rate, 39¢ for First Class mail, was to go into effect on January 8, 2006.
Jon Voss was the winner of the last Olde Tyme Christmas Continues $100 Chamber Check drawing, sponsored by the Stockton Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Stockton.
Solomon Valley Manor was listed in the top 33 nursing homes in the state of Kansas, out of roughly 375, according to the Kansas Advocates for Better Care.
The New Year was almost here, and Stockton merchants were preparing to greet the first baby of 2006 with many fine gifts.
Showing at the Nova Theatre was “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.”
Obituaries were published for Buddy Lee Walker (1951-2005), Paul H. Williams (1913-2005), Blake Christopher Munsch (1989-2005), Dennis A. Fellers (1944-2005), and Robert McClay (1923-2005).
The Kansas beef industry received an early Christmas present when Japan announced it would again import American beef. The first shipment of American beef will leave Denver for Japan at the end of the week, and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius was doing all she could to ensure that many shipments of Kansas beef follow.
And So They Say — Jim Riffel: “In 1944-45, I was serving in Saipan in the Pacific. The Japs were killing us and we were trying to kill them. They would eat the most disgusting things! Now, 60 years later, they got every rancher and farmer writing down in a little black book, when every calf is born and where, so we can export them our beef! What nonsense!”
Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1991 — The Rooks County Country Club was planning a New Year’s Eve Gala, with dinner and dancing for $45 a couple.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1949 — The Stockton Post Office reported an unusually big Christmas season with 52,182 pieces of mail cancelled during the period from Dec. 13 to Dec. 24. Webster’s Peter Pan Food Store had a witty ad spelling out “Happy New Year,” with items they had on sale, from applesauce to extracts, and peaches to yeast.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1907 — The case of John Paxton of Woodston, charged with failure to provide for family composed of a wife and four small children, came up in probate court. The family members were all present and presented an appearance that did not indicate that their care had been the best. There were no witnesses summoned and only the testimony of the husband and wife and probation officer was taken. At the conclusion, the judge let the father and mother retain possession of the children for another month, and during that time will investigate the treatment accorded to them, and if it is not satisfactory, the children will be taken and placed where they can be properly cared for.
