What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
The Keith Clevenger Address at the Opera House was heard by a mere handful of people, owing partly to the very short period of advertising, but mainly to the fact that there was sickness in nearly every Stockton home and the night was cold. It was a talk that would have electrified any crowd we might have furnished, notwithstanding the speaker made it brief and hit only the high places in his regular speech. Mr. Clevenger was for 20 years in Kansas newspaper work, during which he was one of its most widely quoted writers. He is secretary of the state Chamber of Commerce, and publicity man of the United Telephone Company. He has made a hobby of civic improvement and is remarkably well versed in all that makes for the welfare of communities, possesses the talent of presenting his thought with force and elegance of diction. It is a delight to sit under his spell. He says he will come again whenever we want him, and we trust it will not be long before he returns.
J. M. Garner has had to resign his position in the Maris Store because of poor health and will soon go to a hospital for treatment. Mr. E.C. Hageman of Edmund and Almena came Sunday and has taken charge of the Maris Grocery Department.
Conductor Walheiser will take a sixty-day layoff, starting this week, and going with his wife via St. Louis to Hot Springs, where he will endeavor to get braced up by the healing waters of the famous spa.
Simon Tarbell had a sudden attack of heart failure, greatly alarming his son and daughter-in-law, but rallied and is now out of danger.
C.W. Osborn and George St. Peter have purchased the Midway Café equipment and will open the restaurant again for business by another week. Both the gentlemen are very popular in Stockton and are bound to make a success of their venture.
Dan Harrison of Downs, a student at Kansas University, was killed near Lawrence by a Santa Fe passenger train. He was riding with Captain Gibbons, an army officer, when they approached a crossing, but on account of sleet and snow on the windows of the car they were unable to see the approaching rain in time to stop. Gibbons was badly injured and is in serious condition.
There are few in this vicinity who remember Enos J. Good in his prime. We can only think of him as an old man though when we knew him first he had not reached 50. At the time his gentle spirit passed to its Maker he had just passed his 91st year. His was a deeply pious nature and to him religion was the big thing in life. After the death of his companion some 16 years ago, and until a year ago, he lived entirely alone in the old stone house on the outskirts of town that was erected more than 40 years ago for the home of his bride who had come overseas to join him. We never heard him speak a hard word to anybody. He assumed that people were trying to do right in their own way, as he was indeed doing, and his life was always one of peace and goodwill. Enos was born in England in 1832. He followed farming as an occupation and married when a young man. His first wife died in England, and after which in 1870, Mr. Good and his son Walter came to America and settled in Cincinnati. They came to Stockton in 1875 and took up the homestead northwest of town, which has been the home of the father ever since. Mr. Good was married a second time in 1880 when he still lived in Cincinnati. Mr. Good was a carter member of the Congregational Church and assisted at laying the cornerstone of the first church edifice in April 1879 and the second corner stone laying in October 1906. He served as a deacon in the church during its entire existence until his death.
Mr. Frank Tarbell makes an announcement this week of his candidacy for sheriff. Frank is now a popular salesman in the Behrens Grocery but for a number of years conducted a successful dray business in Stockton before the work became too hard for him. He is one of our most highly esteemed citizens, being a man of great integrity, industry and intelligence.
L. H Cross has bought the interest of his partner, Clyde Kenworthy, in the Stockton Battery Shop. Clyde is associated with Mr. Tanzey in the radiator repair shop at the rear.
The mercury stood at one below on Tuesday morning with every aspect wintry. March may make up for what has been overlooked by old Boreas in the regular winter months and spring may be late in climbing off the lap of winter.
