* And So They Say: Robert Sooby: “I was looking through some old newspaper files in the Courthouse and found an ad in one of the 50 Years Ago which advertised a patent medicine guaranteed to cure any pain. An advertisement to that effect would not be allowed today, which shows that the world is improving in some ways.” Winton Sheffer: “There is one thing for certain—the farmers just can’t work fast enough to keep up with the weeds.” Francis Eshler: “One good thing about the new math is that the parents won’t be expected to help their kids with their homework.”

* And So They Say: Nora Sander: “We are still working a team of 27-year-old horses and if anyone has an older team, I’d like to hear about it.” Red Hagan: “There were eight of us Hagan brothers in World War II and all of us came home. I only weighed 92 pounds though, and it was over three years before I walked again, so I didn’t look so good.”

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I don’t feel so good since my fivemile Boy Scout hike.” Don Grieve: “I was the first customer to go in the front door of the new bank building on Monday morning.” Mrs. Lloyd Baughman: “My grandson, Barney Chapel, was so excited about his new baby that when he sent the cable from Germany he forgot to say whether it was a boy or a girl.” Bob Norton: “I think every married couple needs one weekend a year away from their kids.”

* And So They Say: Opal Bonneau: “I made a first. I am the first certified AJBC Instructor. Sure wish they would hurry and get the lanes ready for bowling so I can help our kids.” Duffie Hindman: “I am getting confused. One farmer tells me the rain is ruining the wheat and the next one tells me it is wonderful.” Alvis Freemeyer: “I do not know much. That is why I read the newspapers— to try to find out something. Willis Bird: “We will have been glad to help the bank carry their money out when they move to the new building.”

* And So They Say: Frances Nichols: “I do not know why they do not make postage stamps with good tasting stick-um.” Clark Stocking, “We advertised the Rooks County Free Fair all the way to California and back.” Ruby Sanders: “I cannot go on a vacation trip. I have got to stay home and pick peas.” George Turnbull: “I have been taking the Record a long time and I do not intend to try getting along without it.”

* And So They Say: John Towns: “I think they should make a new calendar with 13 months and all holidays falling on weekends.” Pudy Larson: “My dad always told me to save some of my youth for my old age—but I did not do it. “Bob Osborn: “I think the walls of the new bank should be painted the color of money.” Lester Eckart: “If I had six kids I would not have any money at all.”

* And So They Say: Irma Renner: “I feel like I need a cane and a crutch after going to commencement and seeing those kids graduate, whose parents were graduating only a few years ago, it seems.” Paul Marshall: “The preachers tell us not to lie, then one of them brags about catching a 7 ½ pound fish.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall: “It has stormed four years straight when I have camped out with the Girl Scouts.” Jo Carmicheal: “Another Kansas landmark, which is going to be destroyed, is the Indian writings on the cliffs at the site of the Wilson reservoir, and it seems a pity.

* And So They Say: Leta Bouchey: “Marsha went all through high school with a perfect attendance record and then came down with the three-day measles Commencement Week.” Coke Gouldman: “I was in charge of the convoy which moved Herbert Hoover’s household goods back to Palo Alto after he left the White House.” Lionel Carter; “The only thing anyone every gives you is trouble or advice.” Irvin Turnbull: “Well we’ve run out of kids to graduate from high school.” Jack Berkley: “I’m afraid to say when we will get into our new bank building. Every time I express an opinion the time gets farther away.”

* And So They Say: Mrs. Ruth Marshall: “When my family asked me what I wanted for Mother’s Day, I told them I just wanted a day when I did not have to do anything—and that’s I what I got.” Norman Griebel: “They say everyone is good for something, but I don’t know.” Dan Stewart: “Every time I put on my summer clothes, it turns cold.” George Riffel: “According to the rain gauge out at my farm, we’ve had more rain in that area so far this year than we had all last year.”

* And So They Say: Jerry Riseley: “After working on income tax returns all these years, I don’t have many illusions about people.” Chuck Waller: “I am ready for hot weather now. I have my summer hair cut.’” Lee Phelps: “You realize you are beginning to get on in years when you have been out of high school nearly 25 years.”