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 It's odd how well a woman remembers the day and month of her birth when she has such difficulty in remembering the year.

Doing nothing at the right time is something of an accomplishment.

Old Adam was the first bigamist—he married all the women in the world.

Nothing goes without saying with a woman.

We should think that some self-made men would try to blame it on someone else.

If there weren't a lot of suckers in the world, a lot of other persons would starve to death.

Sermons don't seem so bad when you read them in the paper.

Some persons cast their bread upon the waters expecting it to return buttered.

The girl who failed to take advantage of leap year may be as sorry as the one who did.

The Umpqua region of Umpqua being a great prune country, Bert G. Bates selected the title of his column horticulturally and indigenously, as did Arthur Perry down at Medford. He started it in the Roseburg News-Review soon after he returned from the war, and conducted it for about nine years.

He was born in Portland on May 2, 1897, and moved at the age of two to Roseburg, where his father published the News and later the News-Review. He worked on the latter paper, and was associate editor before he sold his interest in it. He went to Robbinsdale, Minnesota, to write squibs for Roscoe Fawcett's three humorous magazines. Later in California he composed "gags" for several motion picture studios, attracting some attention also as a humorous artist. In 1934 he returned to Roseburg and purchased the semi-weekly Times, in which he has again started "Prune Pickin's".