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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

yer. 81 wonder what I'll have to re-
sort to next time to get you back"
why, Jim, I never left you be-
fore" ~ I
"Yes you have, often in your
mind"
She shook her head emphatically.
"You never wrote letter before
but don't you remember the date
you had with Johnnie when ] feigned
illness? And the time you planned
to be marooned with Nelson King
and I circumvented it by hiring
that damned sailboat and almost
getting myself drowned?"
Darling, ! never realized"
You're devising little wanton,
Mona. That's why I've never felt
justified in taking poke at the men
involved"
"Jim dearest, how much you must
love me to have bothered!" Her
eyes were twin lights burning bright
ly.
He read their message and took
her roughly in his arms. eyes, ]
love you. But I'll always wonder
whether you're really worth all the
trouble I take to try and keep you. "
He kissed her-not tenderly. "And
now so help me, suppose I'll have
to learn to paradise you, whatever
that is"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
The Man of Straw

Long years ago, men could be
seen walking in Westminster hall
then the courts of justice-with a
straw in one of their shoes, to indi-
cate that they were prepared to act
as witnesses. The custom, however,
goes much farther back to ancient
Greek days, asserts a writer in Lon
don Tit-Bits Magazine. A lawyer
with, probably, weak case, would
approach one of these linen of
straw" show him fee, and ask:
Don't you remember so-and-so?"
Not always did the man of straw
remember-until the fee was in
creased when, strangely enough,
there was an access of memory, the
fee changed hands, and the "wit-
ness" went into court and took the
oath.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Cicada Falsely Accused
: Az DESTROYER of Crops

For centuries the cicada has been
falsely accused Of destroying field
crops. 1t was once considered poi
sonous in some mysterious way, a
forecaster of war, and bad omen
generally. Some confuse the peri
odical cicada with the locusts that
ate up Pharaoh's crops. Cicadas
are not locusts. The term locust
applies to grasshoppers, observes a
writer in the Chicago Tribune.
Cicadas do not cause any damage
by feeding on crops, but they injure
trees by puncturing the twigs and
laying masses of eggs inside, states
an entomologist. These punctures
often cause the tips of the branches
to die. Twigs from six inches to
two feet long will break off and fall
to the ground.
The sudden appearance of the
cicada often excites the gravest
fear for the safety of trees and
shrubs. There is some ground for
this, especially if they appear in
large numbers.
There are two races of cicadas-
the IL year and the Is year. When
broods of both races appear in the
same year the insects are especial
ly numerous. The biggest broods
of the two races-No. 10 of the IL
year race and No. IS of the Is year
race-appeared simultaneously in
1868. But scientists have figured it
out that they will not appear togeth-
er again until 221 years from that
date, or. to be specific, in 2089 A. D.
In describing the life history of
the cicada, entomologists say that
antlike larvae come from the eggs
a few weeks after they are laid with
in twigs of trees. The larvae fall
to the ground and quickly burrow
out of sight.
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very much thinner than the ones
they wear in winter. Wen, when
they did get them, Danny was more
puzzled than ever, for, Of course,
they looked more alike than ever.
But when he and Nanny decided
10 name the babies Danny studied
them very carefully, 80 that he
would know which was which. One
they named Teeny. Danny was sure
that he could remember Teeny by
the way IN which he kept his ears,
all the time wide open, 50 as not
to miss anything. Weeny was the
name Of another. and Danny hoped
he would be able to tell her when
he saw her by the. twinkle in her
eyes, for Weeny was very, very
merry. The, third was named Midg-
ct, and Danny was sure he could
tell her because she didn't have her
ears forever socked as did Teeny,
and her eyes were not merry as
were WeenyAs. The last one of all
was named Mite, and Danny was
absolutely sure of him, because his
tail was shorter than II really ought
to have been. Danny thought the
tails Of all Meadow Nice shorter
than they ought TO be, but this time
there was no doubt about it at all.
Mites tail was shorter than the tails
of his brother and sisters.
1t was the day on which the ba-
bies were named that Danny and
Nanny had their great fright and
were thrown into the deepest de-
spair. No one had found out their
secret yet, and they were hoping no
one would, anyway-not until the
children were old enough to take
care of themselves. Then without
any warning whatever something
terrible happened! Both Danny and
Nanny were home at the time. With
out the least warning the whole up
per halt Of that old pile of corn
stalks in which they had built their
home was lifted off, and there was
their home exposed to the view of
whoever happened alongl Can you
imagine anything more dreadful?
And Danny and Nanny feared some
thing even more dreadful, for, bend
ing over their little home was
whom do you think? Why, Farmer
Browns boy, to be sure! It was he
who had lifted off the upper half
of the old pile of cornstalks. He
was cleaning up, and, of course, he
hadn't known anything about that
nice home of Danny and Nanny
Meadow Mouse.
CT. w. Burgess.-WNU Service.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Study of Fossils Reveals
Facts About Earliest Ages

A piece OF stone you carelessly
kick as you wander along a beach
may have inside it the answer to an
hitherto unsolved problem. Prac-
tically everything we know about
the earliest ages of this earth has
been learned by studying fossils
which have been discovered. But
there are many missing links"
The reason why we know so little
about the beginning of life on this
earth, for instance, is because there
aren't any fossils representing it.
You see, soft stuff won't fossilize,
and the first animals didn't have
any bones. In very rare instances
their forms were pressed in soft
mud which was subsequently hard
ened. But if you ever find fos-
silized shape of jellyfish or slug,
you'll know you've got real rarity.
The fish first began to grow bones
hundreds of millions of years ago,
and it was very likely some such
fringe-finned fish, as was first found
in fossil form in Devon, that was the
forerunner of four-footed animals.
All we know about the ants of the
past has been gained from those
which were caught in the gum of
pine-trees and fossilized. In this
process the gum turns into amber.
And the whole development of the
horse from a funny little four-toed
mammal through three and two
toed forms can be traced from the
skeletons which have been pre-
served in rocks.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

Hearth fires are believed to be
sacred and are never allowed to die
among many Bantu tribes of South
Africa. Each fire is lighted in the
first place from that in the kraal
or home Of the chief. The flame is
carefully guarded day and night and
is so highly regarded by some tribes
that all food is laid before it and
so blessed before consumption.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Six Reasons Offered Why
Beached Whales Succumb

Whales are mammals, not fishes,
and they breathe oxygen direct
from the air only. They cannot
breathe the oxygen dissolved in wa
ter, as do the fishes. That being
the case, why is it that whales so
soon die when washed ashore?
Probably nobody positively knows.
In Nature (London), however, ap-
pears communication from w. A.
Osborne of the University of Mel
bourne, Australia, stating several
hypothesis:
when a school of whales was
stranded on an Australian coast,
much to the discontinue of local
health authorities, ! put to various
colleagues in the University of Mel
bourne the simple query, Why do
stranded whales die?' / received
the following answers:
1.-THE blood now being acted
on by gravity collects in the depend
ent parts and produces anemia OF
the brain.
"2-The weight of the body i'm
pedes breathing.
"3-Vital organs are crushed by
the great weight.
"4-The unaccustomed warmth,
especially if there is direct isola-
ton, induces heat stroke.
"51The unaccustomed tempera-
ture interval between night and day
gives rise to internal chills and
probably pneumonia.
"6-The whales do not die be-
cause they are stranded; they are
stranded because they are dying. p
Scientific American.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
DANNY AND NANNY MEADOW
MOUSE IN DESPAIR

THE four babies of Danny and
= Nanny Meadow Mouse grew
very fast, and four very lively ba-
bies they were. It was some time
before Danny could tell them apart.
You see, when they were very, very
little, before they had any clothes
at all, they looked exactly alike to
Danny. He didn't pretend to tell
them apart then. He said they were
as much alike as four blades OF
grass from one STEM. and for his
part he didn't believe that there was
the teeniest, weeniest difference.
Nanny was indignant. There is,
tool" she asserted. 'They are
wrinkled differently; so nowl"
Danny smiled. They were wrin-
killed.. There was no question about
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

The long extinct dodo-in many
ways the. most famous bid that
ever lived. although no ,colnplet6
specimen even Of Id skeleton Ire.
maina IN existenee-is Tie subject
Of an exhibit at the Field Museum
Of Natural History In Chicago. The
bird, whose name has become IN the
modern world almost universally .
symbol Of obsolescence and gro
tesqueness, is restored In D Life
size sculptured model. This mod
Ell represents the most nearly COM
plete, accurate and up-to-datei res
toration Of q dodo ever attempted
In the belief Of museum authorities.
In addition to the model. the mu-
scum displays a series Of drawings
and paintings which furnish supple
mentary data on the dodo.
Despite the fame of its name, few
people realize that the dodo IS any,
thing but fictitious, and fewer still
know that there were two species Of
dodos, and q third bird-the soli-
taire-which was much like the
dodo and fiourished in limited way
in the Seventeenth century. Al
though all that remains in the world
today Of the dodos consists Of one OF
two incomplete skeletons, a few mis-
cellaneous bones, a couple Of heads
and a couple of feet in European
museums, there are authentic rec
ords that at least two dodos were
brought to Europe alive and one Of
them was shown in London, in 1888.
The birds became completely ex-
tinct about 1881. They were all
large birds, about the size Of tur-
keys, and lived only on three of
the Mascarene islands, southeast
of Madagascar. A gray species Of
dodo lived on Mauritius, a white
dodo on Reunion, and the solitaire
on Rodriguez island. All three were
flightless, but no doubt their an
cestors used their wings for flight.
The family of birds to which. the
dodos belonged is closely related to
the pigeons. constituting with them
the order Columhiformes.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

Among the many gifts priced by
John B. Cough, The great temper.
ance orator of the Nineteenth cen.
fury, was a plain handkerchief CIV
en- him by poor English woman
who. presenting the handkerchief to
the orators wife, said, I'm poor-I
would give him a thousand pounds
if ] had it; but will you give this
handkerchief to him for me, and tell
him to use it If he will, and when
he wipes the sweat from his face
while speaking, tell him to remem-
Der he has wiped away a great
many tears while he has been in
this city"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Decorated Queen Anne

Early GeOrgian--not to be con-
fused with the late Georgian furni-
ture designs which included Chip
pendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite,
and Adam-was style develop
nent of Queen Anne and has been
called Decorated Queen Anne. This
period IN furniture designs ended
for q time the distinctly period de-
signs in English furniture; that is,
the name Of furniture from q def
mite time in history as represented
by the ruling power. Subsequent
furniture became more fanniliarly
known as styles and was named
for individuals who inspired them.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Meaning of Filter in Photography

A filter is transparent colored
medium interposed between the OBJ
ject and the film in the path of the
light rays reflected by the object.
It may be colored gelatin wafer
mounted in the barrel Of the lens,
or it may be a colored gelatin sheet
cemented between glass and mount
ed over the front or over the rear
element of the lens. A filter may
be of almost any color. Its func-
ton is either to screen completely
from the film one or more colored
light rays or to weaken the inten-
sity c. certain colored rays or to do
both.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Church Has Dungeon

The Great Salkeld church in Cum
berland, England, has a dungeon
that was built to hold those captured
in the Border wars, relates a writer
in Golfers Weekly. The houses Of
parliament in London have pink rib
bons hanging from the hooks in the
coatrooms for the checking Of
swords; and many old houses on
the island of Guernsey have seats
built on the sides of their chimneys
for weary witches.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

One of the oldest ways of catching
fish is to tickle them, says Golfers
Weekly. The most susceptible spe-
cies are those that bask IN shallow
water with their heads under rocks.
As the fisherman gently tickles their
sides, they slowly move backward
into his hand and then he seizes
their gills.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

that. He was quite willing to take
Nanny's word for it, that the wrin-
kles were different on the four dar-
lings, but, as he said, what was the
use of learning to tell them apart
by their wrinkles when they would
so soon have little fur coats to cover
all the wrinkles. What good would
they do then? He would have to learn
all over again to tell them apart.
But Danny didn't have to wait long
for them to get those little fur coats.
You see, like a great many little
people of the Green Meadows and
the Green Forest, Meadow Mice
have no underwear, and so they
wear fur coats even in hot weather;
only then the fur coats are very,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

Royalty Entombed in Cathedral
Roskilde cathedral is the West
minister abbey Of Denmark. In II
more than 100 kings and royal per-
sons are entombed in deliberately
carved scarophagi, resting in MEM
orial chapels. Here are lord high
admirals, statesmen, bishops, bur-
gomasters and their families; kings,
queens, princes and princesses,
chancellors, councillors, artists,
writers, astronomers, and sacred
has been the spot to the Danes
for nearly 1000 years.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
sFirewater' Appropriate Name

"Firewater" was an appropriate
name for some of the liquor once
sold to the American Indians. Often,
says writer in Golfers Weekly,
it was boiled concoction consisting
of alcohol, ginger, molasses, tobac-
co and red pepper that made real
whisky seem mild.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

The bright-colored canyons and
formations in Zicn National park,
Utah, were originally named Zion
by religious-minded Mormons.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Many Have AK to Grind

Don't complain said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, when you find
that someone has an ak to grind.
After you have turned the grind
stone you are fortunate if he doesn't
expect you to chop the wood"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

The worlds largest underground
canal flows from the port Of Mar
settles in France to the Port de
Bono, and is 4ls miles long, and
has a width of u feet
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
treasures IN Indian Chapel

Among the treasures to be seen
IN the Indian chapel at Caugna-
waga, opposite Lachine, Que, are
two-century old wampum belt and
an ostensorium dating back to 1869.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Colors of Sfars

Some stars appear of reddish
hue, some are yellow, and others
of a blush tinge. Many sparkle like
diamonds in the sky.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

When the moon is full the sun,
earth and moon are nearly in line
and we have the greatest tides,
called the spring tides.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Name Give Means Cliff Dweller'

The name Give of old English orr
gin, means ."cliff dweller." The
name was made illustrious by Lord
Give I'd. l774) English general and
statesman, founder of the British
empire in India.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

venlent to nave on hand 70 serve
with afternoon tea or to make a
dessert sandwich for the school
luncheon. Cream cheese, jelly and
marmalade are the favorite ILL
ings. 81.
Banana Bran Bread.
"a cup shortening DC
" cup sugar II
l egg, well beaten
cup bran
liz cups -four
2 teaspoons baking powder
" teaspoon salt
" teaspoon soda
" cup chopped nuts
liz cups mashed bananas
2 tablespoons water
/ teaspoon vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar well.
Add egg and bran. Sift -four with
baking powder, salt and soda. Mix
nuts with -four and add alternately
with mashed bananas to which the
water has been added. Stir in vanil-
la. Pour into a CREASED bread pan.
Bake in a moderate oven (375 de-
grees Fahrenheit) one hour. Let
cool before cutting.
Apricot Bread
X cup dried apricots
/ egg
/ cup sugar
tablespoons melted butter
2 cups -four
teaspoons baking powder
"a teaspoon soda
"a teaspoon salt
" cup orange juice
"a cup water
cup chopped nuts
Soak apricots one-haf hour, drain
and grind. Beat egg until light, stir
in sugar and mix well. Stir in but
ter. Sift flour with baking powder,
soda and salt and add alternately
with orange juice and water. Add
nuts and apricots and mix well.
Pour batter into well creased loaf
pan and bake in a moderate oven
$3.50 degrees Fahrenheit) one and
one-quarter hours.
Standard Rolls.
cakes compressed yeast
! cup milk, scalded and cooled to
lukewarm
IA cup sugar
" teaspoon salt
egg
cups -four
u cup melted shortening
Crumble yeast into a bowl, add
milk slowly and stir to dissolve
yeast. Stir in sugar, salt, beaten
egg and half the -four. Stir in rest
of flour and melted shortening and
mix WELL Turn out on Toured board
and knead two or three minutes un-
til you have smooth dough. Put
in a bowl, cover and let rise over
hot, not boiling, water, until double
in, bulk. Cut down, toss on Toured
board and knead until smooth.
Shape, place on baking pans; cover
and let rise over hot water until
double in bulk. Bake in a hot oven
(400 degrees Fahrenheit) Is to 20
minutes until a light brown.
Popovers.
cup flour
"a teaspoon salt 4,
" cup milk
eggs
"a teaspoon melted butter
Mix flour and salt. Stir in milk
gradually to make a smooth batter.
Beat eggs until light and add to first
mixture. Add butter. Beat mix
ture two minutes with an egg beat
er. Turn batter into hot creased
gem pans or custard cups. Bake 80
minutes in a very hot oven (450
degrees Fahrenheit). II they are
brown at the end of 80 minutes, re-
duce heat to $50 degrees Fahren-
heit, and continue baking 10 to
Is minutes. As soon as the pop
overs are taken from the oven,
make a small slit on the side to
permit the escape of steam. When
filing the gem pans or custard cups,
only I'LL them half full.
Griddle Cakes.
"a cups -four
teaspoons baking powder
a teaspoon salt
tablespoon sugar
egg
cups milk
VI cup melted shortening
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Beat
egg, mix with milk and stir into dry,
ingredients. Stir in melted shorten
ing. Bake on both sides on q hot,
INCREASED griddle.
Q Bell Syndicate. -wNu Service.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Many Varieties of
Bread Available


"WHEN one is hungry, Murray
w for breadl" so goes an old
proverb of Caucases. Doubtless tia
refers to the staple yeast bread sf
the country. In general, when We
use the word, we refer to bread for
which yeast has furnished the
"risin'." 3
There are, however, some COM
paratively new recipes for loaf
breads which depend upon either
baking powder or soda and sour
milk or buttermilk to tighten them.
Perhaps nut bread was the first of
this group. To the list have
been added bran, prune, date, fg,
apricot and orange marmalade
loaves. For these nuts are oftan
used as well. Instead of the latter
or in combination, bran Is often
used. One of the most popular
loaves of this sort makes use Of
bananas to furnish special flavor. :
Breads of this sort are easy to
mix and to bake. They are gen.
orally allowed to cool before they
are sliced and are especially APP
propriate for serving with a salad
luncheon or for picnic or tea sand
witches. They are all slightly moist
and for this reason remain fresh for
q week or more. They are con-
venient to have on hand to serve
with afternoon tea or to make a
dessert sandwich for the school
luncheon. Cream cheese, jelly and
marmalade are the favorite ILL
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-10

SLIDING TROMBONE, case and
stand. In use about years. Bar
gain. Also sheet iron heater, with
pipe and mat, $1.50. 583 Brigh-
ton. 1873
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KITCHEN UTENSILS, pressure
cooker, steam cooker heating
stove, electric washer, meat grind-
er, tools. 704 No. 9Th. 1873
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SMALL NEAT 1920 house. May
be moved to any place. $500.
L. j. Thomas, Imperial. 1918
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WANTED - Tractor work, land
leveling. Also 12-ft. Gier land
leveler for rent j. E. Pichetti.
Phone 972. 12-12
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27 Wanfed-HiSceiianeOuS

NEW HIGHER PRICES on junk.
RELIABLE SALVAGE
584 Broadway Phone 1871
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COMFORTABLE ROOM. Hot and
cold water. Shower and tub. Heat
furnished. $50 Commercial st.
12-9tf
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III instruction
I3 Business OPPORTUNITIES

SERVICE STATION for lease on
Main ST., Ell Centro. Now doing
good business. Fully equipped
S25O.O0 will handle. Write Post
Press box 264. 12-11
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ID Apartments for Rent

HOMES AND LOTS. You can buy
on small down payments.
HENRY UPHOLT
113 No. 9Th st. Phone 556
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Lost, Found, Estr0D

LOST-Ladies Waltham wrist watch
between Olive and Main on 9Th
street. Return to Verna Ruggles,
NeW-Cal Electric Co.
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HOMEMADE TRAILER, stream
lined, 7Xl7, VT. 1880, $l85.00. IL
miles north on Dogwood, 4 east.
1912
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SEE US FOR NEW AND USED
Lumber, Windows, Doors, Wall
Board, Brick, Pipe and Fittings
Also Cement, Plaster, Fencing, H-
rigation Boxes, Paints and Hard
ware. We will gladly figure your
building material list.
Ell CENTRIC LUMBER
g. TRADING co.
1909 Adams st. Phone 1902
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SPECIAL OFFER
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ped in packages of 500 sheets,
only 40c per package. Post-Press.
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20 Poultry
30 Farm implements

ELECTRIC FENCER
COST 1-CENT PER MONTH to
operate Safe. Guaranteed. 1H
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Press Box n. 12-l1
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5 ORNAMENTAL light fixtures,
suitable for office or storeroom.
Reasonable. Call at Post-PreSs
office.
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WANTED-Old Horses and Mules,
one cent per pound. Call Braw-
ley 642-W. 1873
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Miscellaneous For Sale

FOR SALE practically new Mar
chant Calculator in Al condi-
ton. A real bargain. Womack's,
$50 Main st. 12-4tf
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81 Farm Products

BARLEY HAY for Sale. 4 mile
north of Jasper Arthur Johnson,
Rt. 2, Box 216, Heber. 12-l