Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-16

of preserving kettles and pans, spoons ladies, strainers, presses-everything one can think of to make canning easy and successful. We country women will do well to make this de- partment headquarters for what we need to help us save our fruit, from jars to sugar-and if we have the good fortune to find our way to a certain office upstairs We will find a man who can tell us more about can ming foodstuffs than even the most experienced of us know all by our own experimenting.
 Some of Us who nave been out in big rains and showers right along for the past two weeks will find it hard to pass the window where the J. C.. Penny store have their display ot beautiful rain-coats at the most tempting prices. The beautiful qual- ity of the material and the practical yet stylish cut of these garments make them a delight even to look at through the window and many of them are suitable for dry weather use as the prettiest kind of utility coats. An elderly lady who looked at them with ne spoke of how charming some of them were for older ladies-such soft, attractive grays and made on such good lines, digni6ed and simple. The rain-coats are only one of many compelling attractions in this store, but of course the rainy weather makes them stand out above everything ex- cept umbrellas.
 Painters do say that rainy weather is not the best time for painting but it is surely the best for buying for down at the Yavapai Decorating Shop they have on sale sch line of paints at such low prices that it seems we are back before the war when linseed oil had not turned to liquid gold and scarce at that. We country women can write 10 this beautifl shop and have our house renewing needs all met promptly and the most reason able prices. bt it is more fun to drop in and talk it all over with the cordial proprietors who certainly make us feel at home even if we need only a new paint brush or can of varnish.
 There is going to be hay and grain enough in Yavapai county this fall to make new barns and grain houses a necessity instead of a luxury to the farmers and the Head Lumber Com pany is always ready to supply the materials. Whether it is new chick en coop Or hay barn that is needed ] they have the stuff to build it right at the right prices.
 Out at Orchard Ranch we have had some experiences this past week sup plying wrecked and rain-soaked auto travellers with dry clothing. More than once I have wished for the won derful stock of underwear which saw a few days earlier at Oscar w. Bruchman's up-to-the-minute store for men. When it came to outftting submerged travellers of all sizes that would be lot better place than a combined fruit and cattle ranch To- cated between two raging floods and idailv cloudbursts. Some of OUT shiv- ering enforced guests would have wei | Icomed the Wilson knitted garments, so soft and warm and well made, and the B. V. DIS which represent a new era in undergarments for men, They were heartily welcome to what the ranch had to offer-but for the rainy season at least it would be a mighty good plan for all travellers over Yav- apai county roads to go to Bruch- mans before they start out and take along about two extra suits. And having skirnished desperately for enough dry socks in a region where the home men had been up to their knees cutting flood water off the fields for week back it would seem that every man ought to live, at least while the rains last. with half a dozen pairs of Bruchman's specials in his coat pockets. Not, of course, the new lot of silk socks they are just show ing, prettier than anything we women are ever given a chance to buy, but at least plain,f life-saving socks to comfort a man who has done deep diving all afternoon trying to salvage a brand new car out of a succession of floods and a ottomless mud hole.
 The same kind of hood-stricken travellers ought to go around to the Bargain Store. up street from the St.
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