98 Years Ago

A deal was completed last Friday between Walter Timmons and S. C. Bundil, whereby the latter becomes the owner of the former’s shoe shop in the rear room of the Stockton National Bank building. Walter established this business nearly a year ago and is said to have been doing good business. However, he wanted to get outdoors, and Mr. Bundil wanted to get into business. Consequently, they swapped the shoe shop and dollars. Mr. Bundil has been a resident of Plainville for many years and is fairly well known in Stockton, having been here a time or two. This paper asks the readers to notice his announcement on another page of this issue.

Mrs. J.C. McCormick celebrated her 77 birthday. A number of her children and grandchildren gathered at her home to make the day merry. Her little 13-year-old grandson, Joe McCormick, baked one of the birthday cakes, a chocolate caramel, and an angel food cake presented by Mrs. Chas. McCormick. It was a happy occasion for all concerned.

Dick Demaray returned Sunday from a week’s stay in St. Louis, where he had been attending a convention of Byars managers and buying new merchandise.

Mrs.MaryDowiecamea few days ago from Chicago and has decided again to make Stockton her home, probably for some time. Mrs. Dowie has considerable land interests in the county that demand her personal attention. Her many old friends will be pleased to know that she is again a resident here.

Harley Weyer, a young man of about 25 years of age and living at Webster, was arrested late Monday night for issuing and passing bad checks. Weyer’s start in bad checks dates back to November. His first few checks were detected and made good. In some way, he secured a book of checks on the Fairmount Creamery Company and lately has been putting them into circulation about as fast as he could write them. The checks were issued in sums of $5.00 to $19.00, and a great number of them were cashed at local stores. Things went along lovely until he attempted to cash a check at Ralph Griffin’s store. The checks were drawn on the Webster Station, and Mr. Griffin, being a partner of the Webster Store and Cream Station, readily suspected something wrong as the serial numbers were running high. Mr. Griffin immediately investigated the matter, and the arrest of the young man was brought about. It is said that Weyer had been in the employ of this creamery for a year or two until he quit the company. The total of bad checks amount to something over $400.00, and during his stay in jail, he will have time to reconsider matters. Even though the weather was inclement, the roads bad, and much sickness, there was good attendance to hear the men in the praise service of the Christian Church school and a splendid audience for the morning worship.

Thursday evening, the high school domestic science class hiked to the home of Katherine and Lillian Blacketer, south of Webster. Supper consisted of buns, weenies, apples, and marshmallows was prepared, and ice cream and cake were served by the hostesses. The girls spent the night at the Blacketer home, hiking back the next morning in time for school. Miss Susanna Whitten and Miss Elizabeth Curry accompanied the girls.

Mrs. Chas Alphin of Palco had returned home to Kansas City, where she was called by the illness of her mother, who is still very poorly, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Otto Kiefer.

Miss Freda Morrissey, who has been seriously ill with the flu, is reported some better at this printing.

Last Wednesday evening, both Webster girls and boys basketball teams played at Hill City, where two of the closest games this season were played. The boys game was a tie at the close of the allotted time, 12 to 12. In the playoff, the Webster boys won by two points. In the girls game, Webster took the lead and maintained this lead until the last half-minute of play. The final score was 28 to 29 in favor of Hill City. Both teams for Webster gave a very good account of themselves, as indicated by the scores of both games.

From The Woodston Argus…..Mrs. V. Brutton went to Downs on Tuesday evening to get some dental work done. She returned home Wednesday….. Hugh Avery was moving to Osborne in the latter part of last week. We hate to see Hugh leave this community, but we wish him success in his new home…..D. C. Worden had the misfortune of losing five heads of stock last Tuesday. He also broke his truck down on the same day.....The Woodston A. C. defeated the Alton All-Stars on the local court by a score of 27 to 17. The game was hard fought all the way, but the Woodston boys would have made a larger score, only they were off-formed in their goal shooting.