WHAT STOCKTONITES WERE DOING 98 YEARS AGO
Hon. Henry J. Allen, governor of Kansas, will be in Stockton on March 27th. He is on a three day speaking tour through northwestern Kansas under the auspices of the Fort Hays Normal School. His address will be strictly educational and everyone interested in education should hear this splendid address. Governor Allen is a very forcible speaker and will have many good things to say to us along educational lines.
Last week, R. M. Kerr resigned his position as instructor in the high school and as athletic director and Mrs. Kerr, teacher of domestic science and junior English, also resigned to take effect this week The Board has engaged Mr. Dewey Russell of Summerfield to take Mr. Kerr’s place and Mrs. Kerr’s place will be filled in a few days.
George Crane has undertaken the task of assorting and classifying under their proper case numbers a vast mass of court documents accumulated in the early days of Rooks County. Hitherto it has been impossible to find any of these papers, many of which are valuable in establishing property adjudications of the distant past. Forty or more years ago the present system of filing papers of this sort was not in use, and they were pigeonholed indiscriminately. George has a big job on his hands, but hopes to get through in the course of time and have everything where he can lay his hands on it.
Quite a number were out to the City caucus. Mayor Smith had a large chart on the wall showing where the department’s money was expended and the condition of the treasury. Frank Schruben’s name was the only one presented for commissioner and he was placed in nomination by a unanimous vote.
A spelling contest was held in the high school. A list of 100 words was sent out to the students of 30 high schools over the state. The contest was held without any previous student being put upon the words and the classes ranked in the following order: Senior, Junior, Sophomore and Freshman. Next week the same group of words will be given again after the pupils have had an opportunity to study the list and another ranking of classes will be made. The object of the contest is to see whether the list is really representative of the words most frequently misspelled, and also to determine the value of study of these woes as will be shown by the ranking next week
J. M. Garner has moved to Nickerson and asks to have his paper sent there. The many Stockton friends of the Garners regret to lose them from Stockton.
The big stones with the carved lion heads are being placed on the courthouse. After that comes the roof and the fire wall. It is astonishing how the heavy pieces diminish in apparent size when they are raised fifty feet in the air.
C.C. Randle sold his residence, known as the McKinnis property, this week to Fred Lawson, and purchased the Caylor residence property, known to old timers as the John G. Smith place.
Just about the time we in Stockton get ready to listen in on the radio concerts they will commence to charge a good round price for them. Nothing is free for long, not even ether waves or the sounds that pass with them.
At the meeting of the city commissioners Omar Goodrich was made city manager and superintendent of the powerhouse, and E.E. Fisher city marshal and street commissioner. These are good appointments and will meet with general approbation.
Jack Dryden concluded to go deeper with his week and on Monday resumed boring. He had been in blue clay for a long way and became somewhat discouraged, but he is now through it and the drill is passing through soapstone. Wednesday afternoon the well was down 460 feet. He expects to strike the flowing vein he is after in a very short time. Rev. Moore and wife have moved into the Cora Jones house north of the M. E. Church.
The Coolbaugh Ford Agency sold J. E. Watts a new Ford touring car this week
Miss Grace Towner of Osborne, the missionary who taught in Woodston last winter and who returned to Armenia last fall to resume her work of education among the Armenians, has been lost sight of and the state department is asked by Governor Allen to find her. She went into dangerous territory, overrun by the Turks and her people are getting very anxious about her safety.
