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Tue, 08/25/2020 - 20:11
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What Was Going On 14 Years Ago

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School enrollment figures were given for USD 271 showing the district down 21 overall from the previous year. The high school census showed an increase of seven while the grade school showed a decrease of 28.

The third-grade classes of Mary Miller and Diane McReynolds participated in the Bonnie Plant Farm’s 3rd-Grade Cabbage Program. The Bonnie Plant Farm from Union Springs, Ala., provided cabbage plants to third-grade classrooms throughout the United States. Each student in the participating classrooms was given a cabbage plant to plant, care for, and see if they could raise the biggest cabbage in their class. The student with the largest cabbage was then chosen and their name was sent to the Bonnie Plant Farm in Alabama. Bonnie Plant Farm was giving a $1,000.00 scholarship to one lucky third grader in each state participating in the program. Morgan Beougher, daughter of Greg and Marcy Beougher, was the local winner with a cabbage weighing 14 pounds, 6 ounces.

The Stockton High School volleyball team opened its season when the Lady Tigers traveled to Plainville for a triangular with Victoria and the host Lady Cardinals. Coach Jana Griffin and her assistant Jennifer Kesler had an 18-member squad consisting of three seniors, four juniors, three sophomores and eight freshmen.

The Stockton High School Class of 1966 gathered for a reunion with the following classmates present: Gary Byfield, Leneal and Kathryn (Bellerive) Locke, Dennis Bedore, Brock Krysl, Shirley (Jacobs) Terry, Peggy (Gibson) Williams, Cheryl (Carsten) Menzies, Bob Atkisson, Bonnie (Dix) Hull, Ronald Lynn Oliva, Connie (Dix) Rowe-Lincicum, Walter Eades, Ann (Dillingham) O’Neill, Richard Haines, Pat Desbien, Larry Sutton, Marvin Kriley, Peggy (Vielguth) Wise, Karol (Baxter) Rice, Delores (Walker) Schweitzer, Kenda (Hrabe) Ross, Sherry (Bobbitt) Gager, Gerald and Pat (Hrabe) Wehrli, and Jon Hauxwell.

Showing at the Nova Theatre was “Barnyard,” a lighthearted tale centering around Otis, a carefree party cow, who enjoys singing, dancing and playing tricks on humans.

The birth of Teagen Phillip Pfeifer, born July 31, 2006, son of Jason and Beth Pfeifer, was listed.

Deaths — Donald Arthur Clifford (1954) and Sara Jo Dinges (1954).

Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1992 — Plainville Rural Hospital Administrator Jim Turnbull approached the county commission about building a retirement living center west of the nursing home in Plainville. Gail Hoar was retiring after carrying mail for 33 1/2 years. The county purchased the Cikanek building for the Health Department. Lilly had entered a radio contest and won all the Sentinel employees a meal at Murphy’s in Hays.

56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1950 — Tragedy struck the community on August 25 when a fine boy just entering manhood drowned in a farm pond. Don, who was 18 years of age, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Odle, who lived northwest of Stockton. From The Feminine Slant by the Office Cat: “There are fairs in Indiana, There are fairs in Tennessee; But a better fair than Rooks County’s, No where will you see.”

What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1908 — It was decided by the surviving family of Mr. Joseph McNulty to preserve Stockton’s old landmark, the old log house which was the first edifice built upon the townsite of Stockton. Wouldn’t it be a fine plan for the women’s civic federation to fence in the little triangular plat of ground on which it stands, including the big trees, and beautify the premises with grass and flowers? Historic souvenirs could be preserved here, portraits of the old residents and antiquated furniture. The place could in this way be preserved and put to some practical use.