And So They Say: Elvin Keiswetter: “I don’t think most people had much trouble with Daylight Savings Time this year, but Raleigh Fenton set his clocks back and was two hours late.” Hazel Larson: “I think we’ll get a good rain one of these days since Pudy and Bill Votapka have sold their raft.” Ilah Suhr (Monday): “If I had known it was going to be such a nice day, I never would have come to work.”

* And So They Say: Eula Guthrie (to the person that took her garden hand tools): “I wasn’t through with them.” Wilma Johnston (Saturday): “I wish I could remember who it was who told me they would help me clean up the mud in the post office lobby if it rained.” Leta Bouchey: “I should never try to hurry. I hurry so slow.” George Riffel: “Last Thursday I used an ultimatum to the Record reporter that she have it rain or else be run out of town. It rained.”

* And So They Say: Dean King: “Sometimes, the less you know about your relatives, the better off you are.” Ira Hazen: “The pheasant hunters are getting thicker. I got nine beer bottles off my lawn early this morning—six Falstaff and three Coors.” Bill Gouldman: “I built my wife a nice sewing cabinet, and now I’m going to try to get her to take up sewing.” Lee Phelps: “So much of the really interesting stuff just isn’t for publication.”

* And So They Say: Floyd Lightfoot: “I always like to read the Record in the barber shop and save wear and tear on the one I get at home.” Lee Phelps: “There are really only 36 people in Stockton who will have the right to complain if they don’t like the way the City is run this year.” Rhada Hutton: “I think the wind blew all the fish away this weekend.” Pete Harding: “It won’t be long until my new grandson can say, ‘grandpa.’” * Over three hundred persons attended the annual Farmers Union Mercantile and Shipping Association meeting and barbecue at the Stockton City Auditorium. Governor Robert Docking was the principal speaker.

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “I wish I had some talent besides scrubbing.” Kenneth Currie: “March 28th was a red letter day. It was the first time Warren Harding ever had to buy the coffee.” Clark Stocking: “If you don’t believe I bowled a 200, I’ll never tell you anything again.” Stella Willis: “I’m afraid all the trash I hauled to the dump over the weekend has blown back into my yard.”

* And So They Say: Elton Smith: “They tell me the only way you could find a place to fish for walleye at the Webster Reservoir was to elbow someone out of the way.” Jim Riedel: “If they slap on any more taxes, I won’t have anything left of my paycheck.” Howard Webster: “It’s best never to take any chance of not staying on the good side of your wife.” Irene Holland: “Really am disappointed that Pat Paulsen did not get any votes in the New Hampshire primary.”

And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “I guess everyone thinks spring is here as we ran out of fishing licenses Saturday.” Bill Bedore: “Now that the ball games are over, there is nothing to do but listen to the politicians cuss each other.” Gary Schultz: “They say you shouldn’t change horses in the middle of the steam, but how about if the horse is downing?”

* And So They Say: Efford Lowe (Wednesday last week): “I thought maybe the Record would get out early today as it’s my birthday.” Dr. Harold Mauck: “If a person has to be sick, they are lucky to be in Stockton where people are so considerate and helpful.” June Arnold: “It doesn’t do much good to explain anything to me— you have to paint me a picture.”

* And So They Say: Bill Gouldman, with the help of Butch Jones and Rollin Stewart: “After six months of work, I’m about to get my gun cabinet finished.” Judge James H. Gilbert: “I own one thing that is in perfect running order— and that’s my nose.” Doris McMichael (the day after she retired): “I was going to sleep late this morning, but the latest I could make it was a quarter after seven.” Rip Poore: “Now that the basketball season is over, maybe I can get some work done.”

* And So They Say: George Riffel: “When I’m mad at someone, I cuss him out if he’s smaller than I am—and if he’s bigger, I run.” Leta Bouchey: “Would you believe it— the wind blew one of my earrings off Sunday.” B & B Lumber Company: “We sold every gallon of paint we had for our Washington Birthday Special.” Glenn Conn: “You can call me Grandpa now.” Lee Phelps: “When the Record gets out early, and it snows, and the basketball team loses a game all in one day, it makes you feel like the roof has caved in.”