What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
Probate Judge Case reports that the New Year with the assistance of Dan Cupid has made things lively in weddings. Things had almost become so dull that the judge has about forgotten how to tie the knot. Joe J. Gorham and Mrs. Madge S. Cardill, both of Alton, were married on December 29th by the judge. A license was issued to Edward M. Desbien and August M. Clegg, both of Damar on January 2nd. A license was issued to Sylvio Thyfault and Claranda Burton of Zurich on January 6th. William Louis Montgomery and Sylvia Helen Young of Edmond were married on January 6th. Phil Henry Bedore and Melvina Thyfault of Zurich were granted a license on January 7th.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Stockton National Bank, E. W. Winters was elected to the board of Directors. Mr. Winters was identified with that institution for ten years as cashier, and has always proved himself popular with the public. The directorate of the past year will continue with W. F. Hughes as president, George Yoxall and P. G. Griebel as vice presidents, H. H. Snyder as cashier and Miss Edna Barr as assistant.
The county commissioners have approved the new cut-off on the Blue Line just east of Palco. The new construction will begin at the west end of the angling road, which now parallels the Union Pacific Railroad for a short distance of about one mile east of Palco, and will run parallel and just north of the right of way. This will make a slight turn to the north inside of the city limits to miss a group of section houses and thence into the present highway. This cut off will save considerable distance and will eliminate a sharp curve at the bottom of a hill just east of Palco. The county paid $60.00 per acre for the land taken for the highway.
The city commissioners at their meeting discussed the request of the officers of the Rooks County Fair Association that city water be furnished on the fairgrounds. For several years there has been considerable talk of piping the city water to the grounds as it now done to the cemetery and to the park. But this is the first official request that has been made. The city water would decrease the menace of fire to the property of the Association as well as giving accommodations to the people at fair time.
The young men and women of the city have organized basketball teams and secured the old opera house as a club room. They will play a series of games there, the first being Saturday evening against Webster with both the boys’ and girls’ teams contesting. Last week they played the high school teams with the boys losing 20 to 15 and the girls winning easily 24 to 10. Flossie Gager, Doris Gartrell, D. Stewart, Jessie Hammond, Fay Fitzpatrick and Clara McNulty are the regulars on the girls team. The town boys had runaway from the high school for about the first ten minutes and then endurance began to tell and the better-trained high school team started and won without difficulty. Evan Simpson, Charles Clark, Lester and Raymond Balderston, Dwight Hendricks, Philo Hammond, Irwin Wright, Harold Ives and Roy Martin are working out on the boys team.
The Stockton Patron-Teacher Association meeting in the high school auditorium was held on December 19th as planned even though the weather was very cold. The paper read by Mrs. Harry Butler should be heard by every Stockton parent. It is possible the article may be published in a later issue of the Review and Record. The second grade won the prize for having the most at the meeting. The competition among the grades will be more keen at the next meeting.
Deaths included Evelyn Madge Tucker, Raymond Crane, Henry Marcotte and Edgar Francis Marble.
Tickle your appetite for breakfast at Cooper’s Meat Market with a nice, thick slice of good, juicy ham. Nothing like the smell of frying ham.
W. J. Fleming, Earl Bartholomew, J. A. Marshall and L. W. Wells, members of the board of the Farmers Store, were assisting Manager Warren Marshall in the invoicing of the store the past week. The Board was pretty well satisfied with the business conditions for the past year, and exceptionally pleased with the careful and conservative management by Mr. Marshall. Warren has been manager for three years, and was asked to stay for another year, which he will do.
From The Woodston Argus…..Miss Lois Scott went to Downs last Thursday evening for a visit with relatives and friends at that place. She returned the first of the week…..George Guthrie of the Medicine Creek Country was operated on for appendicitis Sunday. We understand that he is getting along nicely….Ira Gager who has been running a tank station for the Sinclair Oil Company at Beloit, has resigned his position and returned to this neighborhood. Mrs. LeRoy Morrissey underwent an operation the first of the week. We haven’t seen Dode, but we understand she is getting along as well as could be expected.
