56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: C. R. Scott: “Well, we teachers start our education over again each September.” Red Conyac: “The women aren’t the only ones who watch the soap operas on TV.” Robert Osborn: “Fishing is alright, but it does lead to lying.

* And So They Say: Francis Eshler; “I don’t think I’m ever going to be a grandfather. My daughter, Darlene, just had another girl.” Jerry Jackson (after the big rain): “Well, this isn’t a very good day to put up hay, but it’s sure a fine day to fix fences.

* And So They Say: Rhada Hutton: “We’re getting awfully tired of those rumors that Quenzer’s is going to close out.” Nellie Kern: “My daughter sent me a package of candy from Japan, but it doesn’t taste much like candy to me.” Ruby Odle: “When it finally got to be summer, it really got to be summer.

* And So They Say: Gil Thyfault: “Nothing exciting has happened to me in a long time, except that I caught a fish Sunday.” Chet LeSage: “I saw a mosquito flying down Main Street wearing a pair of bifocals. I don’t know who they belong to.

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “Thirteen hours of plowing in one day is too much as it sure stretches a lot of muscles I don’t use in bowling.” Joe Bouchey, Sr.

* And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “They tell me someone caught a 19-pound channel cat in the Plainville Lake Sunday.” Mary Jo Robinson: “If you want to find anyone these days, you have to go out into the harvest fields.

* And So They Say: Ted Brunson: “All I did on my vacation was mow the lawn and fish. And the fish came hard and expensive.” Jim Reidel: “Our baby antelope is doing fine now. We’ve got it on calf starter and when we take him out to the farm he follows the kids around like a little dog.

* And So They Say: Kenneth Orr: “I farm for my recreation.” Doyle Cook: “I know I will never live in another place which is as friendly as Stockton.” Ed Baxter: “I don’t know what Bump Arrington does with his copy of the Record. He can’t read.

* And So They Say: Dean King: “I’m really in a bad way. I don’t even know any gossip.” C. R. Scott: “I’d better not say which of Lucille’s alumni reunion anniversaries we attended, as we are neither of us over 39.