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* And So They Say: Jo Carmichael: “If you are going to hit a cow, don’t do it in Trego County. I think the sheriff over there favors the cows.” Ruth Phelps: “I can tell this is going to be a most unusual year. Our old cat had kittens three days apart last week.” Clark Stocking: “I hear that Stockton people were pretty mad at Johnny Locke fourteen years ago, but today he is the most popular man in town.”
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* And So They Say: George Riffel: “Every time I open my mouth I get in trouble, so I have practically stopped talking.” Stella Willis: “If someone isn’t off work on account of the flu—that’s news.” Howard Wanamaker: “Quinter had a clever sign at the tournament the other night, but it didn’t do much good. It read: ‘Let’s unLocke Stockton.’”
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* And So They Say: Ray Bigge: “I don’t now whether I am the only person around here still rolling his own cigarettes, but I do think I am the only one still using Bull Durhum.” Kenneth Medley: “The trouble is that people take the wrong attitude toward me.” Chuck Waller (Monday morning): “Things sure are quiet today. I haven’t even sold one car this morning.”
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* And So They Say: Joke Venekamp (Holland): “I would give anything if I could be watching a basketball game back in Stockton and rooting for the Tigers.” Bump Arrington: “I want the law to keep Bob Jarrett from picking on me all the time.”
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*And So They Say: Dorothea Lytle: “Saturday was the first time we ever ran out of everything in the bakery.” Rupert Dryden: “I used to have long golden curls—and still have them put away in a box somewhere.” Iva Roskilly: “Glen had a birthday Saturday, but I’m not telling how old he is.”
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* And So They Say: Dean King: “I was certainly more than pleased with my grand opening— all those lovely flowers and everything.” Marilyn Freemeyer; “It is certainly a tragedy when on your only day off, your car won’t start.” Lester Maddy: “We had to come home from Texas—it takes money to live down there.”
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* And So They Say: Harold Copper: “I’d like to shoot those people who were so anxious for cold weather to get here.” Butch Ostmeyer: “After having my picture in the Record last week I thoughg I’d be getting lots of fan mail by this time.”
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* And So They Say: Butch Ostmeyer: “I made the women happy at last year’s Fair by bringing them Myron Floren, so I’m going to make the men happy this year with Joann Cassel.” A. L. Pettijohn (Monday): “It is this kind of weather which makes me glad I moved in from the farm.”
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* And So They Say: Pat Langley: “People will steal anything—even Beatles records.” Judge Gilbert: “The next time they have a bunch of robberies in the county, I hope they choose any other day except Sunday, as it disturbs my day off.” Lloyd Hollern: “You’re not the only one who wishes I knew something. I’ve wished it for a long time.”
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* And So They Say: Lucia Hamilton (Friday afternoon): “I’m going to shoot myself. I thought it was Saturday so I didn’t turn the soap opera on at noon.” Freddy Baughman: “It’s certainly getting so that no news is good news.” Betty Bobbitt: “I made a New Year’s Resolution to never say anything in front of a reporter again.”
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