56 Years Ago

* 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!

* 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.

* And So They Say: Ig Gross: “I guess the reason I cannot make any money is because I am so honest.” Eloise Webster: “Yes, I rode a motorbike while in Bermuda and I have got the scars to prove it.” Freddie Baughman: “Well, I can tell you one thing, a week off from work is certainly exhausting.”

* And So They Say: Harry Butler: “I could fill a book with what I do not know.” Ed Riffel: “I think I am the oldest man in Lanark Township.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I hope the people will make their fair entries early. It helps a lot.

* And So They Say: Chuck Reed: “If it rains, I hope I get the credit because I have one ordered.” Spec Dillingham: “You don’t know much about buying a watermelon if you plunk it to see if it is ripe. I read that in the Kansas City Star.

* 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. We got home just before the big rain that washed out some of the highways so we had no excuse to stay longer.

* 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.