Taten Pulec was the 2010 Kansas Kids State Champion in his 12 and Under Division for folkstyle wrestling at the Kansas Kid Championship Tournament in Topeka. Dr.

Even with the dates of the Rooks County Fair’s annual meeting five months away, J. Q. Adams, the association’s secretary, is a busy man. In the past month, he had contracted for a significant portion of the free acts and other entertainment. Again, Mr. Adams is pleased to secure the Kilties Band of Beaver City, Nebraska.

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Thomas and Ruth Ann Bigge were named as the 2009 Kansas Master Farmer/Master Farm Homemaker at a banquet held at the Courtyard By Marriott Hotel in Junction City. They were also to be honored at the Kansas State Fair in September.

And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “I guess everyone thinks spring is here as we ran out of fishing licenses Saturday.” Bill Bedore: “Now that the ball games are over, there is nothing to do but listen to the politicians cuss each other.” Gary Schultz: “They say you shouldn’t change horses in the middle of the steam, but how about if the horse is downing?”

C. D. Hobson of Downs, a veteran Missouri Pacific engineer, was crushed to death beneath his engine when the Lenora Branch passenger train ran into a herd of cattle on a curve a few miles west of Kirwin. The train was about three miles west of Kirwin when the engine crashed into the herd just as it came out of a small cut on a curve. In some way, one of the cows was pushed beneath the locomotive, causing it to jump the track and turn over into the ditch. Engineer Hobson was caught beneath the locomotive, only his head and chest projecting from the wreck. He was killed instantly, and the body was somewhat scalded by steam and hot water. The fireman, L.V. Harshey of Atchison, who was substituting on his first run on the Lenora Branch, was thrown clear of the wreck. The muscles of his arms and side were pulled loose, and he received some internal injuries. However, his condition is not believed to be critical. Mr. Hobson’s body rested beneath the weight of the 75-ton engine, and the light wrecker from Downs could not lift the wrecked locomotive. The section men finally managed to dig the body out after several hours before the heavy wreck had arrived from Atchison. Harold Hobson, son of the deceased, was working as a brakeman on the eastbound freight train. The trains passed in the Kirwin yards, and father and son waved at one another. Young Hobson’s train was still in the yards at Kirwin when the fact of the accident became known, and he rushed out to the wreck in an automobile and remained to direct the operations necessary to release the body of his father. The last fatal accident to an engine crew on the branch occurred about thirty years ago near Big Bend, also on the Lenora Branch. An engineer by the name of Wheeler and his fireman by the name of Gray were killed in that wreck. The Hobsons are known to most of the people of the Stockton community as both have been on the Stockton Branch run numerous times for many years.

* And So They Say: Efford Lowe (Wednesday last week): “I thought maybe the Record would get out early today as it’s my birthday.” Dr. Harold Mauck: “If a person has to be sick, they are lucky to be in Stockton where people are so considerate and helpful.” June Arnold: “It doesn’t do much good to explain anything to me— you have to paint me a picture.”

Betty Bedore was retiring from the Rooks County FSA Office. Miranda (Byfield) McCune had opened a quaint ice cream shop in the east part of town on Highway 36 called Cune’s Corner.

LOREN GOODHEART.

The basement of the Christian Church on Second and Broadway in Plainville was dedicated by Pastor C. A. Burris. Dr. John Booth, \\conducted the event. The Christian Church had burned nearly three years ago after a thunderstorm. Some thought after the fire that the church would have to be given up altogether, but the building committee had other ideas. The new structure is on the same grounds as the old one and is a fireproof building and a beauty to the city. With only the basement completed, the cost so far is around $33,000. The work on the upper rooms for Bible School will be commenced at once, and in the next two years, the Sanctuary will be completed. We are strong for this building committee in having the grit to keep going. More often, the darkest hours are just before day.