What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
High class music and readings combined with sparkling humor and miscellaneous numbers are promised us in the concert to be given for the benefit of the Stockton Public Library at the Opera House. From press notices this will be an enjoyable entertainment, and your financial support of this worthy institution will be greatly appreciated.
Main street connections with the sewer are being made rapidly to conform to the ordinance regulations requiring the removal of all surface closets. The business part of Stockton will be made clean and sanitary before the hot weather comes.
By next fall Stockton will have two large public buildings vacated— the courthouse and the old high school building. What will be done with them? We want to start a symposium with suggestions as to what disposition should be made of them. If you have any ideas on the subject, please make them known through the columns of the Record.
Why sleep on a board when you can get feathers for ten cents a pound at Harn & Harn?
The American Legion is trying to get a date for the great war film, “Powder River.” It shows the 35th Division in action in the Argonne and it is said some of the boys we know are in the picture.
One thermometer registered 88 degrees in the shade on Wednesday at noon, which is a reminder that the good old summertime is close at hand.
C. W. Osborn’s interests in the Midland Café were bought by his partner, Geo. St. Peter. Mr. Osborn found he could not spare the time from his musical pursuits to look after the restaurant, and retires so that he may give his whole time to his classes and the band. The Midland is doing a fine business and Mr. St. Peter informs us that a second cook is coming next week to assist in the culinary preparations.
Harry Wyatt sold his residence last week to Fred Bedker, who will move into town.
Two carloads of cement have arrived for the new schoolhouse and the cement laying will commence before the end of the week.
Groups of little girls gayly togged all the homes of Stockton with May baskets according to the time-honored customs.
L. E. Keeton has just installed a new oil station at Downs. He now has three stations located in Stockton, Osborne and Downs. He has the lots purchased for another station at Plainville, which will be built in the near future. He also has a fine lubricating plant in Stockton.
Mrs. Rose Barrington of Agra, second cook at the Hicks Hotel, was taken suddenly with appendicitis on Sunday morning and was operated on successfully at the Stockton hospital. She has three small children and is earning her own living. She and her family are being looked after and cared for.
Solomon Sinclair left on Tuesday for Rochester, Minn., where he will go through the Mayo Clinic and possibly have an operation for a liver trouble he has had for some years. Mrs. Sinclair and the children will remain in Stockton during his absence.
H. V. Wyatt has taken the agency for the northern half of Kansas of the Pennsylvania Petroleum Company of Kansas City. He has a very large territory to cover and we hear he will make his headquarters at Concordia. The removal of Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt will be regretted by their many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Maris had been visiting in Philadelphia with their son, Clyde. They are on their way home now and expect to arrive about the first of June.
Mrs. Anna Reed and daughter, Mrs. Lee Watts, left via Phillipsburg for Whittier, California where they will visit relatives for a time. They expect to make their home at Long Beach. Both of these ladies have made their homes in Rooks County practically all their lives and it is with sadness that their many friends part with them.
How to tell the pullet chicks from the rooster chicks is a question that puzzles a number of Brown County poultry raisers, so a Hiawatha World reader submitted the Arizona plan: Dig fish worms and feed them to the chicks. The roosters will eat the male worms and the pullets will eat the female worms.
