What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago contains a yy pic

Records and reports show that a large number of books are being read because of the presence of the library in Stockton. However, an analysis of the facts will show that a large percentage of books read are by the same people. There are those whose library cards show that they are seldom without at least one or two books checked to their credit. About 35 new books have been placed in the Stockton library within the previous ten days.

My Steno’s Gone to the Country!

My typist is on her vacation,

My typist’s swau for a week;

My tpudt us in hrs vscarion,

Wile thse dam keys play hide an ssej.

Oy, brung becj mung bsceck,

Breng boxk mi b’Onnie ti my tpur;

B%nk B ibxj, b6ng bicx,

Bjing Bozk b& belina—o mx, oh helk!

—United Telephone

The big mail order houses were unable to compete with houses nearer home for supplies for the various state institutions. Montgomery Ward & Co. was high bidder on everything but 27 barrels of oatmeal and two-dozen bath brushes. Local bidders beat them on all the big contracts. The immense overhead expense of advertising by catalogues has put them behind this year.

Our old time acquaintance Cal. Edelblute died at Plainville on January 15, at the age of 77. Mr. Edelblute came to Rooks County with the Pennsylvania colony in 1879 and for many years lived near Cresson in Northampton township. He received two wounds at Gettysburg from which he suffered all his life.

Rev. Hunter, at the earnest solicitation of his friends, has reluctantly consented to give the story of his early life as a part of several evening sermons. His earliest recollections are that he was a street wolf in New York City selling newspapers and shining shoes, without any home or relative, sleeping winter and summer under wharves on the river front or in dry goods boxes, feeding on hotel refuse, getting kicks and cuffs with never a kind word or help from anybody. It is quite a gripping story of deprivation and suffering. The act of a Methodist preacher in giving him a pair of boots finally changed the whole current of his life. Mr. Hunter dislikes to talk about himself, but his friends feel that the relation of experiences will be of surpassing interest and of great benefit to young people who think they are having a hard time.

The Webster High School basketball tossers won their first home game of the season from the Plainville H.S. boys by a score of 34-14. The game was fast, clean, hard fought and full of excellent floor work and guarding by the locals. Oyer (Capt.), Hart and Lorbeer registered the most goals for Webster. Geggey at center did most of the scoring for Plainville.

Mrs. Walter Silvers was quite sick for eight days with pleurisy, during which Walter had to take care of a six-week-old baby, cook the grub and nurse his wife, help being impossible to secure. The baby is very low, and may not recover. Walter has demonstrated that he can cook as well as anybody, fixing delicacies for his wife with rare skill for a mere man. Mrs. Silvers is recovering but is still very weak and emaciated.

All of Lanark township is hauling water and it is some job. The long drouth exhausted the ponds and cisterns, and people are wondering when another gully washer is due. There is a neighborly helping of ones-self whenever a full tank is found.

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