There are no Rooks County Record newspapers for the last few weeks of 1925, so there will not be a “98 Years Ago” column for the remainder of the year. We hope to start up again in January..

Tom McCue had a little experience with a misbehaving car last Friday that gave him a thrill, with plenty of fright. Mr. McCue, who had other passengers in the car, his wife and three grandchildren, were returning home from Stockton, and at the Ustel Hubbel corner, the car skidded due to the snowy conditions of the road, and it overturned in a ditch. Oscar and Albert Albright, who were nearby, assisted in rescuing the passengers from the car and getting the machine back to the roadway. Neither the McCues nor their grandchildren were injured save being badly shocked. The windshield suffered destruction, as did the car top.

* And So They Say: Doc Mason: “No kidding, I feel like a grandpa today.” Howard Wanamaker (Monday): “I got my first Christmas card today and I think that’s plenty early.” Don Riffel: “The day after my wreck, I found out I had joints I never knew about before.” Dode Morrissey: “I just spent the busiest weekend of my life. Charlie Baxter lost November 31st and I spent three days trying to help him find it.” Cole McClellan: “I know why the United States is so anxious to land a man on the moon. We want to see if they need any foreign aid.”

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Superintendent L. H. Brewster of the Plainville schools and his entire faculty of teachers were in Stockton last Saturday attending the county teachers meeting. Mr. Brewster is a strong educator, a likeable gentleman and is giving his school pleasing satisfaction.

The David Reed family was named one of the ten Kansas Farm Bureau Families of the Year at the KFB annual meeting in Manhattan. The cast and crew of the Stockton High School play, “Kokonut Island” included Brooke Kee, Hannah Lindsey, Alyssa Conyac, Macee Kellner, Amber Kriley, Hayley Strutt, Nolan Weiser, Phoenix Hobdell, Taylor Morgan, Jordann Wiltfong, Delilah Griebel, Maggie Spires, MaryLynn Griebel, Brenna Schlaegel, Audrey Green, Chrissie Cox, Paige Kriley, Amanda Rubottom, Billie Chesney, Jon Reed, Stephen Moll, Chandler Nyp, Dustin Kriley, Jameson Nyp, Alex Henry, Franklin Brown, Austin Wieden, and Sage Penner.

* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “The world is certainly getting smaller. I had a letter from Vietnam and one from Holland in the same mail. And neither had been on the way more than four days.” Harold Maddy: “I was pretty old when I had my first baby, but she was worth waiting for.” Myrna Kincaid: “Sometimes, after trying all the nationally advertised cleaners, you find that just plain old elbow grease works better than anything else.” Erma Jean Price: “There was no one at our house Thanksgiving except me and the turkey.”

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Mrs. Noah Myers of this city recently received a clipping from the Colorado Springs newspaper, giving a description and photo of a large boa constrictor in which her son, Harry Laird, had a part in the story. Harry is the head baker in the Federal Baker, and on October 1st the janitor of the building went into the basement and discovered the constrictor had taken charge of the room. He immediately called for assistance from the owner and employees and, in time, had the snake in their control. The monster was six inches in diameter and escaped from a show company, which had quartered in the building during the winter.