56 Years Ago

* 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.”

* And So They Say: Leonard Dix: “I feel positively naked without that cast on my arm.” Bill Gouldman: “Right after Christmas, I have go to begin working on my annual birthday celebration.”

* And So They Say: Nellie Kern: “I wasn’t afraid to shoot a gun, but Vera gave Bill Gouldman his Christmas gift early. It was a lovely scope for his gun, but he missed a prairie dog mound so far, I was ashamed to let him know how well I could shoot.”

* And So They Say: Doyal Cook: “It seems to me that Christmas comes too early nowadays.” Ethel Elliott: “I won a turkey out at Hoxie the other day, but I brought it back to Stockton to eat it.” Unknown voice over the telephone: “Oh, I must have the wrong channel.”

* And So They Say: Ira Smith: “I was 25 years old before I ever saw a stoplight.” Red Hagan: “I may be a little late in saying it, but I certainly did appreciate the nice way the teenagers behaved on Halloween night. There was scarcely any trouble.”