56 Years Ago

Body * And So They Say: C. R. Scott: “Did my wife tell you I washed all the dishes after her party the other night?” Vernie Degenhardt: “We were just unlucky on our Colorado trip.

Body * And So They Say: Lionel Carter: “I will tell you what they ought to have here—a streetcar line out to the Webster Reservoir.” Pudy Larson: “This is sure a nice, calm day, but if I were setting out to go fishing, the darn wind would come up and blow like the devil.

Body * And So They Say: Kerry McCue: “You guessed wrong. You said in the paper I’m nine years old and I’m seven.” Virgil Olson: “We flew from Los Angeles to Denver in one hour and forty minutes. Doesn’t seem possible.” Mrs.

Body * And So They Say: Robert Sooby: “I was looking through some old newspaper files in the Courthouse and found an ad in one of the 50 Years Ago which advertised a patent medicine guaranteed to cure any pain.

Body * And So They Say: Nora Sander: “We are still working a team of 27-year-old horses and if anyone has an older team, I’d like to hear about it.” Red Hagan: “There were eight of us Hagan brothers in World War II and all of us came home.

Body * And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I don’t feel so good since my fivemile Boy Scout hike.” Don Grieve: “I was the first customer to go in the front door of the new bank building on Monday morning.” Mrs.

Body * And So They Say: Opal Bonneau: “I made a first. I am the first certified AJBC Instructor. Sure wish they would hurry and get the lanes ready for bowling so I can help our kids.” Duffie Hindman: “I am getting confused.

Body * And So They Say: Frances Nichols: “I do not know why they do not make postage stamps with good tasting stick-um.” Clark Stocking, “We advertised the Rooks County Free Fair all the way to California and back.” Ruby Sanders: “I cannot go on a vacation trip.

Body * And So They Say: John Towns: “I think they should make a new calendar with 13 months and all holidays falling on weekends.” Pudy Larson: “My dad always told me to save some of my youth for my old age—but I did not do it.

Body * And So They Say: Irma Renner: “I feel like I need a cane and a crutch after going to commencement and seeing those kids graduate, whose parents were graduating only a few years ago, it seems.