Ward gives Alma's phone number as "UNiversity 2-9804". A telephone exchange name or central office name was a distinguishing and memorable name assigned to a central office. It identified the switching system to which a telephone was connected.
Wally tells Alma that Lumpy went to Madison last summer with the school band for the state music festival to play for the governor.
Madison is the capital city of the state of Wisconsin.
When the family is eating breakfast, Ward reveals that June's middle name is Evelyn.