The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
You know it's summer when the Washington Street neighborhood holds their annual barbeque and pet parade on the school grounds. This is the nineteenth year for the annual party, begun all those years ago by Charles and Gloria Gardner. (That's their grandson Addison on the right, holding his new dog, Mr. Wiggles.)
Sixty-three persons attended this year's bash, topping the old record of sixty-one. Aletha Finchum brought her in-laws, Herbert and Ethel Rubaker, of Pulaski, Pennsylvania.
Festivities included a lawn mower race, horse flop fling (horse flop provided by Bullet, third from right), and a demolition derby, won by Rosemary Swift, who also won the pie contest with her delicious strawberry-rhubarb pie.
It's traditions like this one that make the American small town the vital center of democracy they are!
Notice to Subscribers
Many persons have phoned the Herald asking for a refund for the missed issues from this summer. It is the long-standing policy of the Herald not to grant refunds for circulation problems due to weather. The reverse platen warped because of our unusually hot weather. We predicted, in an editorial last August, that global warming would have unintended and severe consequences. It appears we were right.
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 The Bobservation Post
by Bob Miles
It's a beautiful summer morning here at the Herald. After two months, we finally found a reverse platen for our 1898 Linotype printing press, and are back in business. A special thank you to Harmony Friends Meeting for the use of their Gestetner Duplicator machine which enabled us to print a smaller edition of the Herald these past months. Now we're up and running, The Bobservation Post is manned, and running on all eight cylinders. God bless the First Amendment and God bless America!
Do my eyes deceive me, or was that Sam Gardner riding past on a bicycle? With these gas prices, folks are finding alternative transportation. We'll expect to see horses return to our town square any day now.
Bea Majors and Fern Hampton are visiting outside Kathy's Kut-n-Kurl. Probably discussing the upcoming Chicken Noodle Dinner. Yes, Corn and Sausage Days are right around the corner, so make your plans now. And let's not forget that contestants for the Sausage Queen Contest must register at the Odd Fellows Lodge by September 7th. After last year's inadvertent crowning of a vegetarian Sausage Queen, the Odd Fellows are asking each candidate for a two-page essay on the theme, Why Sausage Is Vital to the Health Conscious.
Speaking of good food and food that's good for you, Oscar and Livinia are having a sale at the Dairy Queen this week. Buy twelve Dilly Bars and get one free. So stock up for winter, and let's keep the wheels of prosperity turning for our town!
And that's today's view from The Bobservation Post.
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