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* And So They Say: Rev. James Williams: “Stockton people can be proud of the high school band and the football team, and the stadium is also extra fine.” Pudy Larson: “I can’t get excited over the World Series. I’m a football man.” Wilbur Doak: “I know it’s early, but I’m washing my windows so I can put my Christmas cards on display.” Dode Morrissey: “I had six good reasons for going to the circus on Sunday—five grandchildren and half the proceeds go to crippled children.”
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A Retirement Open House was held for Sandi Rogers, who had served as the Stockton City Clerk since 1994. A Retirement Open House was held at the Rooks County Courthouse for Denzil McNeal, who had served as the County’s emergency management director for 13 years.
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* And So They Say: Mary Locke: “There are more people from Stockton over at WaKeeney for the football game than there were local fans.” Beverly Hageman: “There is certainly something crazy happening around our place. Some of our lilacs bloomed again a few weeks ago, and now my Easter lily is blooming for the second time this season.” Judge James Gilbert: “People around here must be getting better. At least there haven’t been as many criminal cases in court recently.” Wilma Johnston: “Going to Parents Day at the college the fourth or fifth time isn’t as thrilling as the first time.”

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Hayley Strutt and Gabe Duncan were crowned the SHS Homecoming Queen and King.

Stockton High School Principal and Athletic Director Bob Becker had announced that the Kansas State High School Activities Association Classifications for the year had been posted. Stockton was to remain in Class 2A for volleyball, basketball, cross country, wrestling, track, and golf. The Tigers were classified as Division I 8-Man for the next football season.

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What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago

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Elam Bartholomew left last Friday via Phillipsburg for Denver to attend the funeral in that city of the late Professor Ellsworth Bethel, state botanist of Colorado. For the past 26 years, Mr. Bartholomew has been intimately associated with Professor Bethel in botanical work in Colorado and California, and the warm friendship existing between these two men was of the David and Jonathan type, and beautiful in its character. Professor Bethel passed over at the rather immature age of 62 years. He was a gentleman, a Christian, and a scholar, and one of the most thorough mycologists in America, and his fame was worldwide. Mr. Bartholomew sincerely mourns the loss of this true and tried friend.
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* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “If you think it’s easy to find anyone to do any work, just try it some time.” Ilah Suhr: “I couldn’t believe it when my sister called me from Wilcox, Nebraska on Sunday by dialing direct. She was experimenting to see how the new system worked.” Richard Pinnick: “Stockton and Osborne have the two nicest football fields and stadiums in the state.” Bump Arrington: “People either aren’t very patriotic or else they don’t read the Record. I only counted three flags out on Citizenship Day.”