What Stocktonites Were Doing 94 Years Ago
Chas. W. Coolbaugh was unanimously elected Stockton City School District Clerk at the annual school meeting. F. E Richmond, the present clerk, was not a candidate for re-election and could not be present at the meeting. Only forty voters were in attendance. The meeting voted a levy equal to 13 mills or approximately $21,000.00 for the expenses of the schools for the coming year. The wages of the teachers and janitors amount to about $2.600.00 a month or $130.00 for each school day.
Construction of the Federal Aid project east of Stockton was underway. While the changed plans for the drainage project have yet to be completed, the state engineers have at least approved the plans for the south of the John Reed farm, three miles east of Stockton, and the creek bed relocation work four miles east of town. The earthwork contract has been sublet to the Abilene Construction Company of Abilene and is under the immediate supervision of E. J. Goodlow, who has had a force of men at the camp for the past couple of weeks. He is now using about a dozen dump wagons and has already moved a lot of dirt from the creek to the roadway. The crew will build the mile west of the camp to the H. B. Look corner when this fill is completed. This will be the first mile to be brought to final grade. The following work will be the two miles east from the camp to the Lowell Township line. Two bridge construction crews are also at work, under the control of G. W. Riffel and D. C. Barr, foremen, both of Marion, Kansas. The R. K. Walters Construction Company of Marion is building the bridges. R. K. Walters, president of both subcontracting companies, is in Stockton this week and expects to stay until all three crews have started working smoothly. Five cars of material have already been received, and more have been shipped. The first major bridge project is the creek bridge just east of the camp. The other bridge crew is working on culverts north of the Joe Watts farm. About fifty men are now employed, and more will be hired as they can be fitted into the machine. The sand and gravel for the project have been subcontracted to George Mohr of Stockton, who will deliver the material to the job at a flat price. He expects to use local trucks as much as possible.
After the returns of the scholarship contest were tabulated, Webster High School ranked first place by a score of 102.5 points, with Woodston ranking second with 97.5 points. The students of Webster who ranked highest in the school in each subject were Elva Grover in English I, Edward Grover in English II, Amy Garringer in English Literature, Chester Lindsey in Algebra, Lawrence Bennett in Geometry, Celestine Graham in Physics, and Florence Blauer in American History.
The Star Theater has secured the Kumalae Family as additional entertainment for Thursday and Friday evenings. Mr. and Mrs. Kumalae and their four children are talented Hawaiian entertainers and will give a complete performance each evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Lytle gave a dinner on Sunday at their home for their son, Morris, and his bride. A host of relatives and friends partook of the wonderful dinner prepared by the mother and sisters of the groom. Games were played until late before the couple departed with the well wishes for a long and prosperous life.
On Saturday, Clyde L. Dutt of McCracken, Kansas, was a business caller in Stockton. Mr. Dutt was a music and English teacher at Woodston school and, for the past term, has been handling the same departments at the McCracken school. Sam Lovitt, a school student, accompanied him.
Mrs. Dorothy Marietta- Lytle’s schoolmates and friends gave her a linen and aluminum show at her sister’s home, Mrs. Paul Marshall. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. A bride’s book was made which Mrs. Lytle prizes highly. A dainty lunch of homemade ice cream and cake was served.
Having graduated from the Coyne Electrical School in Chicago, Illinois, and while waiting for work to open elsewhere, I will repair all kinds of electrical appliances, batteries, and radios. All work is guaranteed. Call 247, Rupert Case.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Finefrock moved last week to their new home in Norton, where Russell is in charge of the flying school at the Norton Municipal Airport. Mrs. Finefrock, formerly the deputy county clerk of Rooks County, has accepted a similar position in that county’s county clerk’s office.
Mrs. Junia Blank returned Sunday from Des Moines, Iowa, where she had been for two weeks, taking advanced work in permanents and purchasing new equipment for her shop.
Mrs. Catherine (Charles) Jones was born on January 27th, 1850, in New York City and passed away at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, Montana, on April 6th, 1930, after a short illness.
From The Woodston Argus….. E. L. Downing underwent an operation for appendicitis in the hospital at Osborne on Wednesday. We understand he is getting along nicely…..The telephone company unloaded a car of poles last Saturday….. The fishermen in this community report that fishing is good. Don Thogmartin and Harold Stull caught a ten-pound carp and a four-pound catfish on Wednesday.
