The way it was 10/19

100 Years Ago -- October 19, 1903

Civil Engineer W.H. Wood has finished locating the line for the extension of the Nevada and El Dorado Railroad from El Dorado to Stockton. The line of extension is practically straight, running along the divide between two streams and having one bridge of a hundred foot span. The extension will be nineteen miles, the site being about three-quarters of a mile from Stockton. Stockton has rated a handsome bonus for the extension of this road and a road will be built at once.

75 Years Ago -- October 19, 1928

AD -- New Tire Store on North Main, just north of Moss and Urner Garage at the northwest corner of the Square. We have as good a tire as it is possible to make with some improvements that no other tire has and we allow you from $5 to $10 each for your old tires according to size. We give you a written guarantee against everything but fire or theft. We also have a thirteen-plate battery that is built to last and our tubes are mounded to fit the tires and are of pure gum and the price is right. Come in and see these tires, tubes and batteries. We will appreciate a visit from you. W.R. Zener. 50 Years Ago -- October 19, 1953

The 82nd Annual Session of the Missouri State Grange will convene here Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at the American Legion Hall for a three-day meeting. Two delegates from each of the approximately thirty-six Granges of the state and most of the twenty-nine state officers are expected to attend the sessions. Members of the Stotesbury Grange will be the hosts at a dinner Wednesday evening preceding the opening of the convention at the Grange Hall in Stotesbury. Guests will include all state officers and delegates to the state meeting. Earl Tyler of the Stotesbury Grange is state overseer and Hayden Horn of the Blue Mound Grange is state deputy of the organization. EDITORIAL -- By Hal Boyle: Tender Kissing Cues. How should a husband kiss a wife? The big trouble here is that nine out of ten husbands are sure they know how to kiss their wives and nine of ten wives think their husbands are wrong. The truth lies somewhere in between. A safe rule for husbands to follow is to assume that no wife really knows how she wants to be kissed. She just wants to brag afterward that she was.