56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Lee Phelps: “I truly labored on Labor Day.” Chuck Waller: “Bill Gouldman isn’t the only person who doesn’t know anything about buying hogs. My hog died of the heat almost before I got him out of the pen.”

* And So They Say: Bill Gouldman: “I’m a poor hog buyer—and you can quote me on that.” Harold Snyder of Lyons; “I have twelve grandchildren now, but I don’t think they come cheaper by the dozen.” Frances Nichols (week after the Fair): “This is Exhaustion Week.”

* And So They Say: Clara Mullen: “Everyone in this area should be proud of the fine camping area out at the Webster Reservoir. Why, it even drew a honeymoon couple last week.” Clark Stocking: “Don’t you hear my bones creaking now that I’m a grandpa?”

* And So They Say: Chuck Waller: “It was almost unbelievable that the air conditioners had almost a week’s rest.” Dode Morrissey: “A fine vacation I get! I’m spending it in the store while my wife takes a vacation.” Homer McCauley: “I’m just living for the day that it rains.”

* And So They Say: Howard Wanamaker: “About the only green thing one sees around here anymore are the weeds one sees growing along the edges of Main Street.” Ray Bigge: “Montana finally got around to paying its World War I bonus after 45 years. I just got mine today.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1963 * And So They Say: Jess Riffe: “This weather keeps me hopping, from air-conditioner to air-conditioner.” Erma Jean Price: “If anyone were to try to put a water well down now, they would have to go clear to China.”

* And So They Say: Loyd Stice: “It rained three times on Sunday night and didn’t even wet the ground.” Mrs. Kenneth Roy: “The main souvenirs I brought home from the Worlds Fair were blisters on my heels.”

* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “If we had saved all the old stuff we carted out to the dump from the store over the years, we could probably sell it now for a small fortune to antique hunters.”

* And So They Say: Erma Jean Price: “When my husband goes fishing he always catches the same kind of fish—none.” Orville Livingston: “We came home with the same air in our tires, the same oil in the crankcase, and the same water in the radiator, but not the same gas in the tank.”

* And So They Say: Dave Oyer: “The only dirt I own is in my ears.” Lloyd Hollern: “I caught the biggest fish I ever caught in my life on the Fourth of July—a 9 1/2 pound channel cat.” L. D. Fuller: “My son, Lorenzo, and I are the same age—both, 4 and 5. He is 45 years old and I am 4 score and 5.”