56 Years Ago

* 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.”

* 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. Ruth Marshall: “I’m going on all six this week, and I only have four cylinders.”

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.”