What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
The following statement was issued by the Collector of Internal Revenue, H. H. Motter, Wichita, for the district of Kansas: In response to numerous inquiries, taxpayers are advised that certain taxes among them, the so-called “nuisance” and “luxury” taxes, are repealed, effective January 1, 1922, by the Revenue Act of 1921. Patrons of soda-water fountains, ice cream parlors and “similar places of business” no longer are required to pay the tax of 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof on the amount expended for sodas, sundaes, “or similar articles of food or drink.” The small boy may rejoice in the fact that an ice-cream cone doesn’t cost an extra penny. The tax imposed by the Revenue Act of 1921 is on “beverages and the constituent parts thereof” and is paid by the manufacturer.
Jack Yoxall has written his mother from Berlin where he is now temporarily located. He sent a Christmas package to his little nephew Jack Eades, which contained a good fat roll of German marks, worth about a quarter of a cent each.
The meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the Opera House was poorly attended owing to the fact that so many business men were invoicing and straightening up business affairs of the year past.
Rooks County Holsteins are continuing to make good milk and butter production records as is indicated by the official tests reported from the office of Malcolm H. Gardner, Delavan, Wis., Superintendent of Advanced Registry of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. This week’s bulletin reports the purebred register Holstein-Friesian cow, Sunflower Inka Walker 2d, owned by O. E. Riffel of Stockton, Kans., as having made at the age of five years and three months, a record of 506.1 lbs. of milk and 29,295 lbs. of butter fat, in seven days, equivalent to 25.3 lbs. of butter.
The entire upper floor of the Farmers Bank building has been reconstructed for hospital purposes to provide comfortable quarters for numerous patients. The finishing touches are now being put on by E. R. Toepffer and Loss McCollum, who have made everything white and shining. The appartments are provided with toilets and basins, the drainage being into the new sewer system. The apartments consist of office, consulting room, nurses’ room, operating room, a ward with four beds, two large private rooms, for a total capacity of 12 beds, a supply room, and a complete kitchen with appliances. Everything about the place is first-class in every respect.
The freight crew that has been running between Stockton and Downs is now making the run on to Lenora instead of returning here the same night, while the Lenora crew comes here instead of returning back to Lenora.
Don’t look like all this talk of anti-tobacco and cigaret legislation is getting anywhere. Fifty-two Billion cigarets were smoked in this country in 1929. That’s four hundred and seventy-two for every man, woman and child. No wonder there is so much coughing! —Cappers Weekly
The receipts of the Stockton Post Office for 1921 were $9,800. If the $10,000 mark had been reached we would have been in line for a public building some day.
Wild reports are floating around of there being 200 cases of influenza at Plainville. They are having an epidemic over there, but the reports should be taken with many grains of allowance.
Somebody burning trash Friday afternoon during the high wind was responsible for a lot of excitement when it got away. Prompt work by the fire department prevented damage except the demolishing of Milton Clark’s chicken house. For a time the whole town was threatened. The first report was that the high school building was on fire.
A sharp-nosed, thin-lipped lady was in Stockton last Sunday. She informed us she was engaged in secret service work and didn’t want any item made about her visit—so we keep mum.
“Mary,” asked the teacher, “what is the function of the stomach?” “The function of the stomach,” glibly answered Mary, “is to hold up the petticoat.”
