Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-06-03
OVER THE
BACK FENCE
By MARGUERITE FINEFRoCK

By MARGUERITE FINEFROCK
HIYA NEIGHBOR-A goodly
number of folks took advantage
of the long holiday weekend to
get in some housekeeping, start
that redecorating job they'd been
planning to do all spring and few
of them even got around to begin
at least one of the remodeling
projects they've been wanting to
do for some time. And that leads
US to believe that for them, it
wasn't a "Lost Weekend" i.
Speaking of redecorating, we've
been looking over the back fence
and it seems as if coat of paint
wouldn't come amiss. And for
that matter, maybe we'd better
nail those couple of pickets back
in place, the ones that lean a
little drunkenly toward the lee
ward. On second thought, though,
guess well just plant petunias
along the fence and pray they'll
grow nice and tall to hide it's shah
biness. If this back fence should
turn up shiney bright and in good
repair someday, then we'd have to
begin using two syllable words in
stead of one to fit the occasion,
and our supply Of 'em is too linn
tied to start getting fancy at this
stage of the game. Anyway the
line Of least resistance is SO much
more comfortable! !
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Friday Was A Big Day for the
80 youngsters who completed the
kindergarten course this year, for
each one received a diploma stat
ing that he, or she, "is graduated
from the Port Clinton Kindergar-
ten and is now ready for first
grade" They were given out by
their teacher, Dorothy Mcdaniel,
and marked the first step up the
educational ladder for the moppets
who'll be grownup first graders
next year. A folder of their hand
work which they had made "es-
pecially for teacher" throughout
the term was also given them
along with the diploma.
Sometimes We Hear The Most
interesting things! Frinstance,
we didn't know that Mrs. Arthur
Rofkar had been baking her way
to fame along the orange bios
som trail with those toothsome
wedding cakes you've been samp-
ling at recent weddings. Mind you
We haven't seen one but we're told
they're a joy to behold when ready
to grace the bridal table, and that
her manner of decorating them
is a work of art. When the cake
is completed, and sometimes it
takes several days, Mrs. Rofkar
takes a picture of it to paste in
her scrap book along with an ac-
count of the wedding at which
her cake played prominent part.
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One Afternoon This Week a
woman and a young man came
into the News office carrying a
suitcase which they proceeded to
set down across the arms of the
chair directly in front of our desk.
We looked up expectantly wait
ing for them to state their busi-
ness but they were busily open
ing the suitcase and talking to-
,gether in low tones and paid no
attention to anyone. We watched
as they rummaged through the
clothes thinking they must be
about to sell us something which
we knew very we'll we We're going
to refuse to buy. At that the
woman came up with a handful
of ties and handing them toward
us said, 81 wonder if we could
have these drydeaned?" And
only then did she realize she was
in newspaper office and not Swan
Cleaners! She and the young man
had good laugh at their own ex-
pense as did their friends who had
been watching from a car parked
in front of the office.
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If You Hear a racket in the
of the American
Legion Hall, don't think it's bur
glars. It's merely Carl Alamo
and his committee knocking out
the walls to prepare for the new
bar and television cafe.
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Who'll Take Care of fire fight
ers fires while the firemen are busy
taking care of the Firemen's con-
vention June IS? Well, believe it
or not, there are nine young wom-
EN- who have agreed to replace