Last week’s Stars Over the Chain advised air signs to open every window in the house at once, calling it hospitality. Several households complied and report drafts, one lost grocery list, and a door that has not slammed like that since 1998. Sigrid stands by the arithmetic and suggests the door was overdue.

Also, the Blotter’s Saturday item described the late fair entrant’s pie as “better” than the story. The extension office wishes it amplified that both were excellent and only one was against the rules. The Pilot-Independent is happy to oblige. Corrections remain rare, and cheerfully entertained.

25 years ago (2001). Movie in the Park concluded its first summer, the projector having failed only twice, both times, by coincidence, during previews. The rec department called the season “a success, mechanically speaking.”

50 years ago (1976). The county fair logged 401 open-class entries — the record, the Pilot-Independent wrote, “for the ages.” The ages, it can now be reported, ran out Saturday at noon, at 412. The 1976 fair board is owed a correction fifty years in the making: for the age, then.

75 years ago (1951). First State Bank placed the town’s first television set in its front window, tuned to whatever could be got. Crowds gathered nightly on the sidewalk. The bank reported no measurable increase in banking.