56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Bill Dixon: “Those Big Chief tablets used to sell for 5¢— only then no one had 5¢.” Mary Cruts: “The patch over my eye is necessary because a bush attacked me.” Lucia Hamilton: “The five and a half inches of rain did some good. It washed the bug juice off of my car.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Fern McDonald: “I feel a little guilty—so many people compliment me on my beautiful flowers when they belong to Ralph Hornbrook.” Martha Cramer: “I think our Fair is wonderful and I’d certainly hate for a time to come when we couldn’t have it.”

* And So They Say: Mrs. Jo Stewart: “Those acts at the Fair Monday night were as good or better than any that I and the kids saw at the Barnum and Bailey Circus in Texas a few weeks ago.” Babe Noble: “I never saw Kansas so green in August.”

* And So They Say: Pat Reed: “It always cools off here the week I’m away on my vacation.” Madalyn Lambert: “I don’t have anything for you today, but I may have some around Christmas.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Currie: “It’s too bad that the fairgoers didn’t get to see Stan Krysl working on the Lions Club permanent shelter at the fairgrounds because that was some extra good entertainment.” Betty Harding: “My boss is just like my husband.

* And So They Say: Dean King: “This stupid idea of federal offices closing for a Moon Holiday is just about to make me change my politics.” Jess Jarrett: “Pudy Larson didn’t close his business on Monday because he’s a Democrat.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: W. McCaslin (reading And So They Say column): “I don’t ever want to see my name in that darn column.” Dode Morrissey: “Everyone knows I’m a sort of a pest.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Bessie Marsell: “I don’t know why it couldn’t have rained before I spent two evening watering my lawn.” Doyal Hrabe: “When you are camping out, I don’t know which is worse, the wind or the mosquitoes—but you are bound to have one or the other.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Betty Hunter: “I just wonder how many thousands of miles Ella Hock’s sewing machine has sewn. It really should be placed in a museum.” Pudy Larson: “The bank will be closed Saturday for my birthday.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Elmer Slansky: “The radishes out of my garden look more like turnips, but they taste like radishes.” Albert Richardson: “Record ads are really effective as I got my bee hive back the same day the paper came out.”