FIRST-PLACE WINNERS.

Last week, B. C. Slason made a trade for a hotel property at Ness City, giving in exchange for his residence property in Stockton. The hotel is a new structure, not yet completed. It will be three stories with 20 guest rooms, and the first floor includes a lobby, office, kitchen, dining room, and others. The hotel will be called “The Max.” J. V. McMahan, railway station agent at Ness, became the owner of the Slason home here and rented the property to Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Coolbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Slason will take charge of the hotel on March 1st. Their many friends regret their leaving Stockton but wish them well in their new location and venture.

The Bluegrass trio Two Bits A Gander was set to perform at the Nova Theatre in March. Josh Price, a former Stocktonite, was one-third of the group.

* And So They Say: George Riffel: “You don’t have to believe it but I got this skinned nose when I followed my hunting dogs down over a little hill and ran right into a currant thicket.” Frank Mitchell: “My geranium is five feet tall now and when it gets to the top of the window, I’m going to give it to Dillingham.” Kenneth Cooper: “Well, I just ate my first meal in the old folks home—but it probably won’t be the last.” Clark Stocking: “I was in our bowling alley for the first time on Saturday, and it was the first time I had bowled in nine years—but I broke a hundred.”

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Stockton Utilities is adding a new 360-horsepower Fairbanks Morse engine to the power plant’s equipment. The new engine was purchased a couple of weeks ago and will replace the old De LaVerne engine that occupies the south portion of the engine room. This week, the city commissioners passed a resolution authorizing the appropriation of certain public utility earnings to make payments on this new equipment. It is understood that the cost of this machinery is not to become a general obligation for the taxpayers but will be paid for out of funds saved to the patrons of the utilities through the efficient use of the engine. The engine will be upright and approximately twice as powerful as the Fairbanks Morse engine, which the City purchased about three years ago. The order also calls for a new 300 KW generator for additional equipment. City manager O. M. Goodrich believes that the savings resulting from the power plant’s modernization will cover the equipment’s cost.

Scoutmaster Misty Higdon received the Boy Scout Wheatland District Award of Merit, the highest award given in Scouting at the annual Baden Powell Banquet held in Hays. The Stockton Wrestling Club had three champions at the Plainville Open Tournament, with winners Joel Green, Kian Coffey, and Braden Higdon.

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* And So They Say: Ira Hazen: “The pheasant hunters must be in town again. I found three empty beer cans on my lawn last week. Surely, no one in Stockton would do that.” Curley Walker: “It only has to warm up a little more until I can go fishing.” Gilbert Thyfault: “Everyone else hears all the gossip I hear, so I guess it isn’t even gossip.” Gisela Eckart: “I do hope no one is this country will ever have to see a war being fought in the streets of our towns.” Myrna Kincaid: “I don’t like to cook very well, but I can’t get anyone to believe it because Don looks so healthy and well fed.”