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* And So They Say: Ruth Phelps: “I get my daughter’s clothes after she outgrows them.” Daisy LeSage: “The East was awfully pretty this time of year, particularly the mountains in Pennsylvania, but Rooks County looked awfully pretty to me when I got back.” Tom Shaw (at bowling alley grand opening): “This is certainly a nice place. I wish they had something like it when I was a kid.”
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* And So They Say: Joe Morgan: “People don’t steal the pens from the café. They just take them home and forget to bring them back.” Les Eckart: “I’m not saying anything. I’ve noticed you can get into trouble by talking too much.” Bill Bedore: “My wife certainly treats me mean. She makes me get breakfast while she goes out and does the chores.”
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* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “If we can hang onto Coach Becker long enough, we really ought to have some fine football in this town.” Lionel Carter: “I saw two planes out at the airport the other night. I wonder if I couldn’t get a job as traffic director.” Mrs. Ernest Trible: “We found the autumn foliage down around Leavenworth a lot prettier than it was in Missouri.”
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* And So They Say: Irene Holland: “Any hunter I find trespassing on my land without permission, I will shoot to kill.” Dick Findeiss: “The first time I go back to my old college for a ball game in 25 years and they get beat. I am never going again.” Clifford Hauxwell: “I’m harvesting my fine big turnips now. Harry Truman and I always plant our turnips on the 24th of July.”
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* And So They Say: Lester Eckart: “You’d never think the farmers in Kansas would be wanting it to stop raining.” Rada Hutton: “We weren’t the only crazy people out fishing in the rain and cold on Sunday.” Bill Nichol: “The reason I’m wearing my good clothes in because my old ones wore out and I can’t afford to buy any more.”
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* And So They Say: Bill Bedore: “I do not like to dress up when I come to town because nobody knows me.” Alma Maddy: “I think it would be nice if everyone who takes their favorite dish to a potluck dinner would attach the recipe.” Bruce Smith (after passing the bar exam): “All I have to do now is be sworn in and hardly anyone fails that.”
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* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “It made me very happy when so many of the boys around town stopped by to tell me goodbye before leaving for college.” Rhada Hutton: “I can tell you one thing, the cooler weather has had no effect on the mosquitoes out at the dam.”
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* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “My hands are beginning to lose their garden look and getting to look like city hands again.” Trooper Bob Norton: “The trouble is too many people think highway signs are something for other people to observe.” Summer Southard: “My dad is making jelly now out of guest what? Well, it’s prickly pears.”
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* And So They Say: Gene Miller: The worst thing about the Fair is getting caught up the next week.” Char Ostmeyer (washing big fair picture off the Implement Company window): “And this is what I get a college degree for!” Everybody: “Butch Ostmeyer certainly deserves a lot of credit for this year’s wonderful fair.”
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* And So They Say: Judge at the Fair: “ I KNOW now that this is the biggest county fair in Kansas.” Lee Phelps: “Butch Ostmeyer got most of the rain he wanted before the Fair. I guess some folks just pray better than others.” Viola Paulson: “I got my fishing license and right away caught a five-pound fish.”
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