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Most of the articles were submitted by Brenda Reeder, extracted from the Rooks County Record and Stockton Review.
A son was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Feleay, of this place.
John Maddy had bought the Stockton
house from J. C. Pulley.
The following township officers bonds were
approved: Trustee-- ...B. F. Shively, Sr., Logan Township ...W. H. Maddy, Hobart
Township Clerk ...Ira Hazen, Hobart Township Treasurer--
The resignation
of T. E. Dugan as Treasurer of Alcona Twp. accepted and A. S. Solomon appointed
to fill vacancy. ...Abe Schindler, Greenfield Township
The following
Deputy Assessors were appointed and their bonds approved, (except the bond of Z.
E. Smith and Val Stucky which were not on file.) ...B. F. Shively Sr., Logan
Township ...W. H. Maddy, Hobart Township
Stockton Has
One bakery
One laundry
One feed mill
One shoe shop
One Tailor shop
Four coal
yards
Two newspapers
Two drug stores
One flouring mill
Five stock
buyers
Two meat markets
Three feed stores
Six General stores
Two
lumber yards
Two harness shops
Three livery barns
Two machine shops
Three barber shops
Two jewelry stores
Two stocks harness
Four cream
stations
Two millinery stores
Two furniture stores
Two hardware stores
Two electric theaters
Two implement houses
Three blacksmith shops
Two
photograph galleries
Five rural mail deliveries
One hundred street lights
Three exclusive clothing stores
Two fine brick school buildings
Seven
miles of cement sidewalks
Three hotels - one a three story brick
One
undertaker and funeral director
Four restaurants and confectioneries
Two
poultry and egg establishments
Three garages with large storage capacity
Two grain elevators with large capacity
Finest municipal lighting plant in N.
W. Kansas
Three banks with ample capital and $350,000 deposits
Eight dray
and transfer wagons moving every day
Fifteen hundred live, energetic and
harmonious people
Both residences and business buildings in course of
construction
A public library with 2,000 volumes and property worth $8,000
Four churches --Methodist, Congregational, Christian and Catholic
Finest,
water system
The old library building was sold this week to Joseph
Feleay, who moved it to lots in the south part of town and will fit it up for a
neat small residence.
Thos. Harwood returned Saturday from a visit with
relatives in Illinois.
Thos. Reeder, of
Oregon who left here twenty years ago for a home on the Pacific Coast, is here
at present visiting relatives. He is a brother of H. G. and S. W. Reeder, of Elm
Creek, and Mrs. J. P. Feleay, of this city.
J. J. McComb, of Webster,
took the train here Sunday evening for Kansas City where he would attend the
Implement Dealers Association and return home via Topeka where he had some
business.
Mrs. O. Hazen of Hobart township is quite ill this week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Harwood, of this place.
Three automobiles
loaded with Stockton people went to Hill City last evening to attend the
Hamilton revival that is in progress there at this time. Those who went were Mr.
and Mrs. Al. Hockett, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Vallette, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Reeves, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Coldiron, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tanzey, Rev. and Mrs. Harding, Mrs.
Oscar Gibbs and Mrs. Chas. Hockett.
Death of
Mrs. Hazen
Mrs. Orlando Hazen, one of the pioneers of Rooks County, was
buried Sunday in the Stockton Cemetery, immediately following funeral services
at the Christian church, conducted by Rev. Harding. She had been sick about a
week at the home of her brother, Thomas Harwood, in this city. Early in this
month she and Mr. Harwood had gone to Illinois to attend the funeral of a sister
and Mrs. Hazen was quite sick when she returned, too sick to go to her home in
Hobart township. Mary E. Harwood was born Nov. 9, 1845, in Orange County, New
York. In early life she moved with her parents to Illinois, and later to Iowa,
where in 1870, she was united in marriage to Orlando Hazen. To this estimable
couple were born six children, two sons and four daughters, all of who are
married and have good homes in Rooks County, and all of who were present at the
death and burial of their beloved parent. This couple came to Rooks County in
1877, where they settled on the farm that has all these years been their home.
They have had many privations to encounter, but through it all they built up an
elegant home, accumulated lands till their farm contained 1120 acres of the best
soil in Hobart Township. So familiar have our people become with these people
that the mention of the name of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Hazen carried with it the
idea of the simple, industrious and strictly honest life. The simple Christian
life of this lady was known wherever she had the slightest acquaintance. The six
children are Clarence and Ira Hazen, Mrs. R. W. Maddy, Mrs. I H. Kenworthy, of
Hobart Township, Mrs. Henry Russ, of Greenfield Township, and Mrs. Wm. Harris,
of Plainville. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of hosts of friends and the
assurance that the life that this beloved sister, wife and mother lived here on
earth has passed the way for a bright immortality beyond this vale of tears.
Card of Thanks
We desire to thank all who were so kind to us in our
recent deep affliction. Orlando Hazen and Family. Thos. Harwood and Family.
Chas. Harwood.
Bow Creek and Alcona
Doctor Brown and wife and two
brothers, and Abe Schindler and wife visited at Tom Dugan's Tuesday.
Council approved the following claims: Dec 8, 09 F. M. Barnes labor on road
$29.75
M. F. Maddy road work $24.90 Jan 31, 10 M. F. Maddy labor on road
$33.50 F. M. Barnes labor on road $93.75 Apr 27, 10 M. F. Maddy labor on road
$74.86 June 20, 10 M. F. Maddy labor on roads $33.00 Oct 27, 10 F. M. Barnes
labor on roads $24.25
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Crist, formerly of this place, but now of Osborne, spent the fore part of the
week here with Mrs. Crist's mother, Mrs. Myra Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Crist are
now located southeast of Osborne where they will engage in farming this season.
Mrs. E. M. Dack, of Stratton, Colo., and formerly a resident of this place,
has been confined in a Denver hospital for some time, suffering from a
complication of diseases. Her many Stockton friends will be pleased to hear of
her recovery.
Mrs. R. E. Meddles, sister of Mrs. W. T. Pfleiderer, of
this place, is quite sick at her home at Oconto, Nebr., and word was sent for
Mrs. Pfleiderer to come to see her, but we are sorry to say Mrs. Pfleiderer was
unable to go on account of the sickness of her own infant child.
Orlando
Hazen, of Hobart township, started Sunday evening via Plainville, for Lomax,
Ill., to visit his father who is in very poor health. He was accompanied by
Chas. Harwood, who is a brother of the late Mrs. Hazen and of Thos. Harwood, of
this place. Mr. Harwood's home is in Illinois.
One of the finest
souvenirs that we have noticed this year is the one being given out by our
popular druggist, G. R. Thomason. It is a neat and serviceable dish finely
ornamented with beautiful scenery in the center of which is a 1911 calendar. One
man who will be found heading the procession is his line is Thomason.
Jack Dryden went to Atchison and St. Joseph, Thursday evening to purchase new
goods, and was accompanied by Miss Anna Look who went to look after the
purchasing of the new spring suits and coats and make some substantial additions
to their dry goods department.
James Gross
was up from Woodston Monday on business.
J. B. Rodman went to Kansas city
on business Monday evening.
Attorney G. B. Lane was up from Woodston
Saturday on business.
Louis Craig was up from Woodston visiting his
parents and friends last Sunday
W. H. Coldiron went to Beloit Monday
evening where he visited his son, Jesse and family.
B. G. Scott and wife
started Thursday evening last for a visit at Concordia and Beloit.
A. A.
Elder, one of the pioneers of Ash Rock township, was in Stockton on business
Saturday.
Arthur Bedard has been on the sick list for some time, but is
gaining now. He is the night watch at the depot.
The ceiling in the
Crescent Store is being painted this week and the interior of the store is being
otherwise improved.
Miss Sadye Harn returned to her home at Scottsville
Sunday evening after a weeks visit here wit the family of her uncle, Hiram Harn.
J. W. Terwilliger is here from Denver, looking after Rooks County interests.
He was in Stockton Saturday shaking hands with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. F.
M. Gold and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rarick took dinner last Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. U. E. Hubble, of Farmington township.
Miss Maybelle Allen, of
Greenfield township returned Saturday from a trip to Beloit where, she had been
the guest of friends and relatives for the past two weeks.
J. W.
Callender went to Osborne Monday evening as a delegate from Stockton Lodge Sons
& Daughters of Justice to a meeting of that order.
N. F. Hill and wife
and two smaller children left Monday evening for Pleasanton, Kansas, where they
will visit for about a week with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wood, Mrs. Wood being Mr.
Hill's sister.
Two Special Services
There
will be two special services at the Congregational church this week, one tonight
and the other Friday night. Tonight the I.O.O.F. will attend in a body, and the
pastor will devote a part at least of his sermon to the special work of the
order. Friday night the M. W. A. will attend in a body and the pastor will
devote a part at least of his sermon to the special work of that order. It is
earnestly hoped that all the embers of these two worthy orders will be in
attendance and will by their attendance show the interest in Christian work that
every member of either order should have.
Estep-Moon
There was a
pretty home wedding at Ocean Park, Cal., when Mrs. Delia Estep and Mr. Herbert
Moon were united in marriage at the beautiful home of the groom, Rev. Skafte, of
the Methodist church officiating. The groom was formerly of Cassapiolis, Mich.,
but is now making his home at Ocean Park. The bride went to Ocean Park last fall
with her parents, Mr. And Mrs. John Maddy, from Stockton, to spend the winter
with her brother S. H. Maddy and his wife. The bridge was becomingly attired in
a handsome gown of old gold. The home was elegantly furnished and decorated with
calla lilies and ferns. The decorations were Chinese. The many friends of Mrs.
Estep in this vicinity will rejoice to hear that she is happily married, and
hope that she has married a good and worthy man. The Review extends
congratulations.
Meetings Still Going
We are please to announce that
the meetings at the Congregational church are still in progress, and that the
interest is great. Rev. Peterson is preaching some splendid sermons. the music
is good, and there is being a vast amount of good accomplished in the way of
enlightening people on the truths of the Gospel. Rev. Peterson is a quiet
student of the Bible and is getting many people to study the Bible in the spirit
in which he has always studied it, and, holding as we do, that genuine
Christianity comes from a quite and careful consideration of the plans of
salvation and the promises of God, we believe that a great amount of good is
being accomplished. Rev. Peterson is a man who lives his Christianity as well as
talking it, and his idea is to get the people to living it.
Anyone
wishing to talk to "Steve" call 13 on 9.
Mr. And Mrs. Geo. Klepper spent
Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. And Mrs. B. F. Shively.
B. F.
Shively J., is seen going east from home quite often lately. Wonder what
attracts his attention?
The boys about the west Plainville neighborhood
met in Val Stuckey's pasture last week, organized a club and spent the afternoon
in shooting blue rocks, Elmer Baumgartner providing to be the best "crack shot."
Those holding public sales in the near future will need sale bills and the
Review is prepared to handle them for you any time.
Home of W. G. Thomas
in Ash Rock Township
The elegant structure displayed above is the country
home of County Commissioner W. G. Thomas. Mr. Thomas came to Rooks County in
1878. moving with his parents, brothers, and sisters from Mahaska county, Iowa,
his father being a wagon maker by trade who had become tired of shop work as a
means of supporting his large family. The father brought no surplus wealth with
him, but arrived here and turned three sons out on the raw buffalo sod to delve
into it and prove what it contained in the way of wealth. Being the youngest of
the three sons, W. G. started out too young to homestead any land, and was
compelled to buy for himself. But today he has a farm of 1600 acres, and we are
told that there is not a tract that large in any farm in Rooks county that is
improved in better shape. Mr. Thomas is called the wheat king of that section of
the county and last years threshed out 14,000 bushels. He has erected lately
near this fine home a barn 64 by 100 feet, with 16 foot posts and forty feet to
the comb of the roof. His home is surrounded by all modern conveniences, such
as, heating and lighting plants, cold storage rooms, water systems, etc. He has
since 1878 furnished a good example of what can be accomplished on a Kansas
farm.
Sleepy Hollow..
Jesse Hunt is down with an attack of the
measles.
At this writing we are having genuine winter weather.
Scotty Kay and wife are visiting home folks this week.
That grass that
started on Medicine Creek has had a backset.
Rev. Perkins is holding
revival meetings at Sunny Hill, services commencing at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs.
Guy Coleman and three children from North Platte, Nebr., is visiting her parents
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Selbe.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Reed of Stockton attended the
box social at Sunny Hill and spent the night at the Webster's, returning to town
the next morning.
Sleepy Hollow
Mrs.
Will Selbe has been quite sick with the grip.
Albert Hance took his best
girl auto riding last Sunday.
Mrs. Guy Coleman spent a couple of days at
Atwood last week.
James Webster made a business trip to Greenleaf this
week.
The snow that fell the fore part of the week will be fine on the
wheat.
Jesse Hunt who has been having a siege of the measles is now
getting better.
The Misses Louise and Emma Hance spent Sunday with Beulah
Fetterolf.
Mrs. Will Brown and Mrs. J. A. Hance are kept busy these cold
days knitting socks for little chickens.
The little child of Mrs. and
Mrs. Seabury Wells is quite sick with pneumonia fever. They are staying with
Mrs. Well's parents south of Plainville.
The revival meetings conducted
by Rev. Perkins at Sunny Hill are still in progress. All that can, are requested
to bring their Bibles and take part in the Bible reading and praise services,
commencing at 7:30 p. m. preaching begins at 8:00 p. m.
Sugarloaf
Mr. Miller has moved in his new house.
Roy Livingston made his regular
call Sunday.
There was a large crowd out to singing Thursday night.
J. T. Gartrell is to have some plumbing done in a few days.
Vance
Hollingsworth and family spent Sunday at Jim Gartrell's.
A large crowd
was out to church and Sunday school last Sunday.
Quite a number attended
the dance at Conn Griebel's Thursday night.
Mr. Sutton don't improve as
fast as he ought. Seems like he is having quite a time.
There will be a
program and pie social at Chris Reed school house on the 10th of March.
A
nice snow Tuesday which makes everyone feel good and makes a person think of
sleighing.
George Gravenhorst and wife, Jim Orr and wife and sons, of Ash
Rock township, spent Sunday with Pusey Smith's.
Mrs. Henry Buss is
getting ready to feed the preacher that is to preach at the new church.. She had
six hens to come off with chickens last week.
Miles Hindman went a
visiting Sunday and traveled by foot. Miles says they have got to get used to
walking as they are going to have an auto and they would probably have a little
walking to do.
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Spelling Contest
One of the keenly
interesting features of educational work was pulled off at the Elm Creek
schoolhouse last night. The pupils of the Elm Creek school which is taught by
Chas Dimon, and the pupils of the Lone Star school which is taught by Mrs. Alice
Tebo, were engaged in a spelling contest. There were five from each school who
participated. The county superintendent did the pronouncing. There were 720
words pronounced, and 119 missed. Of this number Elm Creek missed 66 and Lone
Star 53. Each pupil spelled 72 words. The lowest per cent made by any pupil was
66 2-3 percent. The highest average was 96 per cent plus. The best spellers were
Earl Hammond, Winnie Reeder and Henry Schindler, each of who graded above 90
percent. We are told the best of order prevailed and the interest was intense.
Elm Creek school had their banners there, and had their school yells worked out
to a state of perfection. While it is feared that they may have studied their
school yells when a study of Part 2 of Ratburn's speller would have done ore to
help them win out in the contest, it cannot be denied that Elm Creek did well
notwithstanding their defeat.
Conference Year Closes
The Methodist
Conference year closes in April, and Rev. J. F. Dennis, after spending six years
with the church here, is asking to go to another place, and will be given a good
charge. The progress made by the church here in the past six years has been a
noticeable thing to the Conference, and it is said the places are not plentiful
where such numeral and spiritual progress have been made in that length of time.
The discussion of a man to take his place here is already under discussion, and
it is agreed that a salary of $1600 per annum will have to be paid to supply the
place vacated by him.
New Laundry
Mr. L. H. Stark, of this place, who
operated the laundry, has secured a lot just west of the G. A. R. hall, and will
at once erect a building 20 X 40 feet, and place there in a complete laundry
outfit, that will be a credit to the town. He is a laundryman of experience, and
with the machinery he will install he will be able to do thoroughly up to date
work. We are glad to see improvements of that kind make here.
Notice
To Whom It May Concern
The electors of School District No. 69 are hereby
notified that the undersigned, and a number of other electors of School District
No. 69 in Rooks County, Kansas, aggregating not less than one-half of the number
of electors of this School District, intend to file an application wit the Board
of School Fund Commissioners of the State of Kansas, asking leave to issue bonds
to the full amount allowed by the statutes of the State of Kansas, including
Senate Bill 287 of the Session Laws of 1911. Dated at Plainville, this 28th day
of February, 1911. (signed) J. V. Burroughs; C. G. Cochran; W. F. Hughes; W. T.
Case.
Twins at Ray Feleay's
On Tuesday
there were born to Mrs. And Mrs. Ray Feleay, of this place, twins, a boy and a
girl. At the present writing the mother and children are doing well and it is
hoped and believed that all will get along in good shape. We home so at least.
Should the twins live we will feel like congratulating this young couple on the
number of their first born.
Orlando Hazen returned this week from
Illinois where he went some weeks ago to visit relatives.
Miss Minnie
Barnes, of Wellington, Kansas, arrived yesterday for a visit with her brother,
J. E. Barnes and family of this place.
Mrs. Ray Feleay is in quite poor
health at this writing, and her husband, parents and friends are somewhat uneasy
for her welfare.
Mrs. Ray Feleay, who has
been dangerously ill for about a week, has been better a part of the time since
our last issue, but we are sorry to say that today she is not quite so well, yet
we hope she will be better soon. Her twin babies are doing well, under the care
of Mrs. Charles Riseley, and all are hoping that the mother and children will
recover in good shape. Dr. Book, assisted by Drs. Callender and Oeshsli, is
doing all possible for the mother.
Mrs. R. W. Young is assisting in
caring for Mrs. Ray Feleay.
Miss Minnie Barnes arrived here Friday from
Wellington, Kansas, for a visit with her brother, Ed. Barnes and family. She was
expecting to stay for some time, and work in the Review office a part of the
time. She started in to work Monday morning, and that day a telegram came from a
and that day a telegram came from an asking her to come home at once and go to
work there as his linotype operator had left him. She felt under obligation to
him and on Tuesday evening she started back. She was an expert operator, and on
Monday she spent much of the day working on defects in our machine, but she set
three galleys and corrected one of them in just two and one half hours. We were
very sorry she couldn't have stayed a while longer as this office is in shape to
use some extra skilled labor at this time.
Mrs. Feleay Improving
We are glad to hear from the attending physician that
Mrs. Ray Feleay and her twin babies are improving in satisfactory manner, and
all have now reached the point where there are the brightest hopes for their
lives. It has been a long hard cast to handle, but the belief now is that she
will recover. We certainly hope so.
Col. U. S.
John Maddy and wife have returned from Ocean Park, Cal., where thy have been for
the past winter. Col. Looks well and says he and Mrs. Maddy had a good time out
there with their children. The climate there is fine and the scenery is grand,
and it makes a splendid place for a winter resort.
Miss Myrtle Reeder
started Sunday evening for Manhattan where she has secured a position. Miss
Reeder has been employed several years as a stenographer in the law office of S.
N. Hawkes, and is an expert stenographer as well as a splendid young woman in
all respects, and she had a host of friends here who disliked to have her leave,
but who wish her well wherever she may locate.
J. J. McComb, of Webster,
was in the Review Office the other day and while here was discussing the potato
question. He is planting 100 bushels of potatoes this spring. He discs his
ground deep both ways, then runs a lister row, having the lister followed by a
harrow that about half fills up the lister row. Then he drops the potatoes and
covers them with a cultivator. In this way the potato when it sprouts has soft,
fresh surface soil to grow in. He has had good success with potatoes and
believes every farmer should plant more potatoes.
Farmers Buy Elevator
On Saturday afternoon last there was another meeting of the committees
representing the Farmer�s Union and the trustees of the Stockton Elevator &
Shipping Association. At this meeting there was an agreement made on a price of
$10,500 for the elevator, the farmers committee agreeing to put up the money
between now and the first day of June, 1911. There are nine farmers
organizations interested in the movement, and there will be more unions admitted
at once. Representing the nine unions already interested in the deal were J. J.
Griebel, chairman, W. E. Ross, S. T. Roelfs, Abe Schindler, J. E. Watts, A. W.
Sterling, I. H. Kenworthy, W. F. Silvers and W. S. Southard. U. E. Hubble is
secretary for the committee. The present owners will dispose of all the grain
now on hand and the farmers committee will take the elevator and all connected
with in running order, but will get no stock on hand. A committee composed of U.
E. Hubble, A. W. Sterling and I. H. Kenworthy was appointed to look after the
matter of closing up the deal with the trustees of the elevator. We are informed
that when the union gets hold of the elevator it will be run upon a strictly
co-operative plan, the details of which will be agreed upon later. This is a
good business and there is no reason why the business should not be increased
considerable by having the farmers more generally interested in it in a
financial way. But with the right kind of management there will be good money in
the business.
Mrs. Ray Feleay, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J. Q. Adams, who
has been quite poor in health for some time, and was very critically ill, has so
far recovered that she is now considered out of danger. Her twin children, how
about three weeks old, are also doing well. All of which will be welcome news to
the many friends of these families.
Elm
Creek Items
Ralph Reeder visited home folks Sunday.
Ira Hazen and
family spent Sunday at Henry Russ's.
Nellie Coldiron is staying with her
sister, Mrs. R. T. Reeder, this week.
Manley Smith and family spent
Sunday with S. W. Reeder and family.
Ben Gager was reported quite sick
last week, but is some better at this writing.
***This ends where I
stopped reading the weekly newspaper and started looking for the birth
announcement of William Russell Reeder son of Ray T. and Edna Coldiron Reeder
born June 12, 1912. The only mention was where Edna's parents had come to visit
and her sister Maude Coldiron was helping with the harvest.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Coldiron, of Beloit, returned home Monday
evening, after a few days visit at the home of their parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W.
H. Coldiron.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hall returned last Friday from Ocean park,
California, where they have been spending the winter with her brother Sol Maddy,
and family.
Miss Maude Coldiron went to Woodston Thursday evening to visit her cousin, R. T. Reeder and family. (Miss Maude was a cousin to Ray but also a sister to his wife. Their second son William Russell was born June 12.)
J. C.
Coldiron and family of Greenfield township, visited Monday and Tuesday with
their children Mr. And Mrs. Ray Reeder living just north of town. (This visit
was to probably see their new grandson William Russell born on June 12.)
Miss Maude Coldiron returned home from Woodston Saturday, where she had been
visiting relatives. (She was probably helping her sister for the week with the
birth of a new son.)
Miss Maude Coldiron, of Greenfield township, went to
Woodston Monday evening to assist her sister with the house work during harvest.
Graduates
Stockton, Kansas
Winifred Reeder, Louis McComb, Vernon C.
Maddy.
Submitted by Jan Reading
Children day service at the M. E.
church next Sunday a.m. regulars preaching in the evening by the pastor Rev.
Courter.
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Saturday was a cold day but the M. E. ladies had a good
success serving ice cream and cake and were satisfied with the result.
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The Brummitt-Atkin suit will be called in Justice Otis' Court on Friday of this
week at one o'clock p.m.
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The new library for the Baptist
Sunday School has arrived and placed in the Sunday school for its use. There are
50 volumes of them. Mrs. Emma Lamb is librarian and will have charge of same.
Another fifty volumes will soon be ordered for the primary department.
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Farmers are beginning to figure on harvest hands.
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Codell Page of the Plainville Times June (Date Unknown) 1913
Gilpin and
Romine left Monday on a trip to the southwest with a supply of their Packers.
They expect to go as far as Gar-City and will attend the Dry Farming Congress
which is to be held there this week..
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Rev. Millikan walked home from
Turkville Monday.
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Owing to no restaurant being in town both of our
merchants keep pop on sale.
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We are informed that J. W. Lamb is
bedfast in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Mrs. Lamb is there with him.
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The Rural Carriers both started out on their routes Tuesday
morning with their vehicles painted according to the Department order vermillion
red.
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Paradise Township was not represented in the Harmony
meeting in Topeka this week.
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Lawrence Hockett and family we hear
are on the road back from Arkansas.
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The Turkville team failed to
get over for the game scheduled for Saturday.
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Grandma King went
out to Fred Bemis Thursday afternoon.
Codell Page of the Plainville
Times June, (Date unknown) 1913
There were several in town Friday to
attend court but the case was rather tame one. Mr. Atkins having no attorney.
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The crowd at the corners Friday after the trial was trying to figure
out where Brummitt made anything on the case. They said his attorney bill was
$30 and the court gave him a judgment against Atkins for $18.06. It was decided
however that Dan would have the satisfaction of paying taxes on the judgment.
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S. R. Tucker received his auto tag from the Secretary of State
Sunday morning. It is No. 3897.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lamb returned
from Excelsior Springs Saturday evening.
CODELL PAGE JUNE (date unknown) 1913, PLAINVILLE TIMES)
Official statement of the financial condition of
the CODELL STATE BANK
At Codell, State of Kansas, at the close of business on
the 4th day of June, 1913.
Resources
Loans and discounts 50,441.77
Overdrafts 674.57
Bank building 1,800.00
Furniture and fixtures 1,200.00
Expense account 1,474.82
Guarantee fund with State
Treasurer, bonds 500.00
Cash and sight exchange,
legal reserve 8,652.47
Total $64,743.63
Liabilities
Capital stock paid in 10,000.00
Surplus fund 3,750.00
Undivided profits 612.12
Interest 1,988.04
Exchange 138.45
Individual
deposits 24,630.74
Certificates of deposit 18,061.05
Bills rediscounted
4,879.50
Cashier's checks 683.73
Total $64,743.63
State of Kansas,
County of Rooks, ss:
I, J. F. McReynolds, cashier of said bank, do solemnly
swear that the above
Statement is true; that said bank has no liabilities,
and is not endorser on any
note or obligation, other than shown on the above
statement, to the best of
my knowledge and belief. So help me God.
J. F.
McReynolds, Cashier
Subscribed to and sworn before me, 12th day of June,
1913.
Hans Nygaard, Notary Public
Commission expires on the 30th day
October, 1916.
Isaac Conger, S. R. Tucker, J. F. McReynolds, Directors.
submitted by Floyd badash55@directway.com
Two Killed, One Injured in Plane Crash
PLAINVILLE,
Kan.
An airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from a rural airport Saturday,
killing at least two passengers and injuring the pilot. One of the dead is
identified as Louise Hrabe of Plainville, mother of the pilot, Kelli Hrabe, who
is in guarded
condition in St. Anthony Hospital in Hays. The other passenger
has not been
identified. Authorities said the plane crashed about 3:35 p.m.
after taking off from a grass landing strip near Plainville. A witness said the
craft turned sharply
just after takeoff and crashed. It did not burn. The
airplane was on a local flight.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation
Administration will investigate the crash site today.
Officials Seeking Clue To Cause of Plane Crash
PLAINVILLE
--Federal authorities probed the wreckage of a light plane Sunday in hopes of
determining the cause of a weekend crash that killed a woman and her 10-year-old
son and injured her daughter.
The investigators were from the Federal
Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Authorities said Retha Louise Hrabe, 49, and her son, Vincent, were killed,
while her daughter, Kelli, 19, was critically injured
Saturday when their
single-engine Cessna 177 crashed after takeoff from the Plainville airport.
Kelli, the plane's pilot, remained in critical condition Sunday at St. Anthony
Hospital in Hays, Kan. She was taken there from the hospital in Plainville after
emergency treatment following the 3:45 p.m. crash.
Plainville, Kan. -- Retha Louise (Mrs. Vincent J., II) Hrabe, 49, and her son Vincent Joseph Hrabe, III, 10, were killed Saturday in a airplane crash south of Plainville. Service was Monday. She is survived by widower; daughters Krisit, Kelli, Madeline, all at home; mother Hazel Cokely of Palco, Kan.; brothers Russell Cokely of Salina, Kan., Clarence of Liberal, Kan., Glenn of Arkansas Pass, Texas; Ron of Wichita; sisters, Charlene Cokely of Liberal, JoAnn Phillips of WaKeeney, Kan., Ilda Balthazor of Palco. He is also survived by grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Hrabe of Plainville.
It Happened 100 Years Ago
John C.
Bomgardner of Northampton Township was the recipient on Tuesday of back pension
amounting to $917.
The picnic of the Slate Union Sunday School was a
success. Divine services were held every four weeks by the Free Methodists.
Alex Muir sold his fine mule team to John Murty who will take them to Saline
County where they will be used at a warehouse to elevate grain.
Mr.
Sherman D. Reeder and Miss Lula P. Hall were united in marriage by Elder John
Cole at the close of the service Sunday morning at the Reeder School house when
the congregation formed a procession and went to the home of Mr. Hall which was
filled to capacity for the ceremony for he happy couple.
We venture the
prediction that Rooks County will beat all other counties in Kansas in average
yield of wheat.
The Grand Army of the Republic is talking of finishing
off the second story of J. R. Hick's new building for a public hall. This would
make a room 50X80 feet in size.
Dr. Gray reports a girl at Geo.
Benedicts, standard weight, born the 9th. Father and mother and child doing
well.
We would like to know what has become of the mail route to Sugar
Loaf and other northwestern parts.
The first intimations the citizens got
that the Fourth of July was here was at about 1 a. m. The juveniles opened with
an anvil.
Callender and Dewey have disposed of 50 harvesting machines
this season and Smith & Bigge have sold 32.
Our citizens were startled
Wednesday afternoon with news that Harry C. Bartlett was dead. With the fact
that he had been upon our streets within an hour of his death the report seemed
impossible. He was taken ill near his home while returning from town. Physicians
were called and to them and everybody he made the statement that he had been
poisoned. He held to this assertion to the moment of his death. It is probable
that a postmortem will take place under the circumstances there is a suspicion
of foul play.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Reeder and Justin of Stanton, Calif., wish to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Aschlee Nicole, born April 5 in Stanton. She weighed 9 pounds and 1 ounce. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder of Galt, Calif., and Mrs. Heddy Herrerra of Anaheim, Calif. Great-grandmother is Maisie Reeder of Stockton.
What Stocktonites Were
Doing 98 Years Ago
John Q. Adams is building a 20-foot two-story extension to
the stone store building to accommodate his rapidly increasing business.
Miss Sadie Bishop died on Wednesday evening at 5:30. the funeral will be held at
the house Friday morning at 10 o'clock. An obituary notice of the deceased will
appear next week.
J. E. Young writes from Hayes that he and two other men
have put up $100 each for a race between Fleet, a pacer, Jake, a trotter, and
his pacing horse, Oliver M. on the Stockton track. May 18, the winning horse to
take the entire purse. It's to be three best in five mile heats.
Mac
Wilson has sold his farm to Geo. Purdy but has not decided yet as to where he
will go.
What Stocktonites were Doing 98 Years Ago
On Monday, while putting a blade on a corn sled, Cephas
McComb had the first two fingers of his left hand cut off. He was screwing up a
tap when his wrench slipped off and let his hand slip along the edge.
Date and paper unknown Controlled by Fourth Generation
Mrs. Hariette Reeder,
a widow, came from Missouri by covered wagon to Rooks County in 1878. she
homesteaded on Elm Creek in Greenfield Township.
Five of her children came
with her using two covered wagons to carry their possessions. There were three
sons, Hud, Scott, and Sherman, and two daughters, Addie and Sally. Addie later
married Joe Fealey, and Sally married Abe Schindler, who had taken a claim.
In 1890, Scott bought his mother's land. He was married to Louisa Pulley. Their
family consisted of three daughters, Crystal Shively, Winifred Stevens, and
Hariett Cassett, and two sons, Bryan and Melvin. In 1946, Melvin took over the
farm.. All his life was spent on that place, except one year.
His children,
Alys Veal of Denver, Colo., and Jack Reeder, living in California, are the
fourth generation which lived on and control this farm, as it is now rented.
The Homestead Certificate was signed by President Grover Cleveland in 1889.
98 Years Ago
Another distressing
accident happened on Tuesday, which cost a life and filled the whole community
with honor. Charles and Lee Hall, W. W. Johnston, and G. D. Miles were working
on a big stock well on Lee Hall's school quarter in Greenfield Township, 9 miles
southeast of Stockton. the well was being sunk in solid rock and was 17 feet
deep. It was made 6 feet wide at the top. Miles and Charley Hall were about to
go down in the bucket. Miles stepped in first, but did not get hold of the rope.
Instantly the bucket turned to one side with his weight and he was pitched head
foremost to the bottom, which he struck with terrific force. As soon as
possible, he was brought out unconscious, but breathing faintly. Miles' home was
two miles distant, but before half the distance was covered he had expired.
60 Years Ago
With tire rationing a
definite factor in transportation, the City Dairy has started a horse delivery
cart service in Plainville. The high narrow cab on low wheels with obsolete
tires hitched to a recently broken horse may be seen every day in all parts of
town.
Sheriff Everett Van Horn has named Raymond Balderson as deputy
sheriff. A. D. Steve, former deputy, resigned last week to accept a civil
service job as rationing administrator of Rooks County. Mr. Stevens' office is
on the second floor of the courthouse.
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