56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Gardner Rogers: “If anyone should hear something barking in the trees, it is just my squirrels. I have been feeding them dog pellets lately.” Bill Gouldman: “If you want to get home from some place in a hurry, do not let Barbara Brown do the driving.

* And So They Say: Mrs. Willard Atwill: “Is there any news except flu?” Duffie Hindman: “I can tell you one thing about that flu, it does not get better until it gets worse.” Paul Bridwell (Monday morning): “I do not think I will go fishing this morning.

* And So They Say: Dan Stewart: “That thirty-yearold car we sold on Saturday is more valuable now than when it was new.” Doyle Cook: “Our town basketball team has good players, but it needs more followers.” Roy Nichols: “From now on, I’m only going to watch happy TV shows.

* And So They Say: Kenneth Medley: “You think you have got troubles! Well, we are breaking in a new cash register, and it is a mess.” Alan Stewart: “The kind of news I want to read is the kind you won’t print.” Stanley Krysl: “Can a lawyer do anything to make news during income tax time?”

* And So They Say: Lee Phelps (after Friday afternoon’s rain): “We looked it up in the dictionary to find out what that stuff was coming down from the sky. It is rain.” Milt Boethin: “I said I would not take my Santa Claus decorations down until it snowed, and I didn’t. I took it down on Saturday.

* And So They Say: Mary Fix: “Oh, yes, I entertained all right over the weekend—but it was a sore throat.” Henry Marcotte: “I do not know what all I ate at Bill Gouldman’s party, but I ate some of everything and it was all good.

* And So They Say: Chuck Hageman: “The only thing I know is that I fell on my you-know-what Sunday while skating with my kids.” Harold Copper: “That Hays TV station should be sued for broadcasting that Stockton lost their game Friday night.” Mary Mason: “Maybe this will be the week when it rains.

* And So They Say: Rae Hageman: “People are funny, Saturday in Stockton most of the stores were open, but the bank was closed; and in Plainville the bank was open, but the stores were closed.” Red Hagan: “I don’t know, but I am afraid we will have more accidents in Stockton this year.

* And So They Say: Cleo Baughman: My own mother won’t ride with me in my plane, but when I take my mother-in-law up, I always tell her ‘no back seat driving,’ and she obeys.

* And So They Say: Merton Van Eaton: “I never read my Christmas cards until after Christmas when I have time to enjoy them.” Ira Hazen: “When our daughter came home from Korea last week, she arrived in the States two hours before she left Korea.