* And So They Say: Les Eckart: “I’ll buy someone a t-bone steak if they’ll tell me what friend I loaned my battery charger to.” Judge Gilbert: “Even with plastic over all of the north windows, all we are able to do is try to keep the dust from sandblasting us out of the courthouse.” Iva Roskilly: “They’ve got cards for about everything, but I don’t know whether they have any saying, ‘Sorry to hear you are in the penitentiary.’”

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “The Stockton kids are sure lucky to have such a good swimming pool these hot days, and I hope they appreciate it.” Mabel Bartlett: “I do an awful lot of things, but don’t do anything very well.” Merton Van Eaton: “I didn’t catch any fish, and it didn’t rain, so I don’t have any news.” O. T. Meador: “Planting our garden in the right time of the moon isn’t of as much importance as giving it the right amount of good old city water.”

* And So They Say: Susan Hamilton (age 4 after her first year at Bible School): “Mommy, how do you wash up God? I’ve heard this a dozen times at Bible School.” Leo McCue: “What does a man have to do to get his name in the paper? I cut my finger and had to have stitches in it last week—but didn’t read a thing about it in the paper.” Florence Coolbaugh (Nevada, Mo.): “The Record prints more local news than any weekly paper I know of.”

* And So They Say: Tony Kreller: “I’m the kind of guy who will sneak in any place where they leave the gate open.” Harry Brewer: “Why doesn’t someone do something about this lack of rain business? It seems they don’t listen to me.” Irma Renner: “I wish I knew just half as much as I thought I knew when I graduate from high school.”

* And So They Say: Nolan Harper: “I went fishing yesterday, but all I got was a boat ride.” Stella Willis: “You water, and water and water, and nothing comes up but weeds.” Leighton Marshall: “Friday the 13th isn’t always unlucky. My oldest son was born on Friday the 13th, was married on that day and his daughter was also born on Friday the 13th.”

* And So They Say: Maxine Kenworthy: “Thirteen is not an unlucky number. I now have 13 grandchildren.” Lee Phelps: “The thing kids like best about a party is the food.” John Wells: “I hate to have to eat all this ice cream, but they want me to gain weight. But I don’t know what they’re fattening me up for.”

* And So They Say: Vernie Degenhardt: “It’s a nice day, but it would be a lot nicer out on the bank at the lake.” Robert Osborn: “I resemble my late grandfather quite a bit, except that he wore a beard and I don’t, and he was short and I am tall.” Howard Wanamaker: “Nothing has happened to me this past week except that I’ve gotten to be a week older.” Jess Riffe: “It doesn’t hurt to try to make people think you do all the housework.”

* And So They Say: Floyd Fix: “Doesn’t it always rain on the day of the junior/ senior banquet?” Twila Strutt: “At the secretarial seminar we went to on Saturday, we didn’t really learn anything new, but were reminded of what we already knew and weren’t putting into practice.” Lloyd Hollern: “I got some smart pills in Hays on Sunday.” Clark Stocking: “Well, this is the big week—the week that Batman comes to local television screens.”

* And So They Say: Virgil Bird: “I went bowling and made a strike, and I think it should be in the paper.” Kenneth Medley: “I’d get into trouble if I told you what I know.” Erma Jean Price: “We have fewer little pigs now than we’ve had anytime since the first of the year. We only have 180 now.” Jessie Hammond: “Believe it or not, but I gained this weight on my own cooking.”

* And So They Say: Clark Stocking: “When I came here eight years ago, I planned to make a thorough inspection trip of the Webster Dam area that summer, and I haven’t done it yet.” Mary Alice Boethin: “This summer I’d like to play golf all morning, get a crew cut so I can swim all afternoon, and a wig so I can play bridge all night.” Elmer Kern: “All I’m doing now is waiting for it to rain.” Judge James Gilbert: “It seems to me the law is favoring the criminals more and more all the time.”