It will be a dry week as we start the month of August. There is a good chance of rain Sunday and Monday. We are not suffering but a shot of rain won’t hurt us. The cool nights are refreshing and they help you get thru the eighty degree days.
On Tuesday, August 1, 1972, Louise and I purchased the Fulda Free Press. It is forty-five years as publisher of the Fulda Free Press, thirty-two years publishing the Tri County News, Heron Lake, thirty years for the Murray County News, Slayton, twenty-six years Nobles County Review, Adrian and twenty years with the Murray County Advantage. All of them are running today and will be tomorrow. We have some of the greatest employees that made it all possible. We have stumbled a few times and we have excelled some while growing to five different publications each week with four of them printing at the same time. We have had help along the way and an occasional barricade. I may sell it next week or go for fifty years, or both, time will tell.
August 1st is also our wedding anniversary which marked 52 years. It also had its trials and rewards. This marriage business takes a lot of work also but there are the rewards.
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Little Pete came home from the playground with a bloody nose, black eye, and torn clothing. It was obvious he’d been in a bad fight and lost. While his father was patching him up, he asked his son what happened.
“Well, Dad,” said Pete, “I challenged Larry to a duel. And, you know, I gave him his choice of weapons.”
“Uh-huh,” said the father, “that seems fair.”
“I know, but I never thought he’d choose his sister!”
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Have a good week!
