56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Duffie Hindman: “It gives me a feeling of importance to have folks call me Mister.” Ray Bigge: ‘I know a lot of things, but you couldn’t put them in the paper.”

* 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.”

* 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.

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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!”