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Bath Towels Bath towels should be selected with care. Absorbency depends on the amount of pile or looped surface a towel has. For the best wear and satisfactory use, loops about one eighth inch long are considered best. WEEK END Food Specials Pillsbury's Pancake Flour, 3%-lb. bag, plain . 3V 2 -lb. bag, buckwheat ... 25c 29c Pillsbury's Sno Sheen Cake Flour, per pkg.. 27c 21c 2-lb. pkg. Tasty Elbow Macaroni 69c Quart bottle Wax-Rite Floor Polish Monarch Ready-to-Serve Spaghetti, 2 15-oz. cans 27c 28c 1-lb. jar Grape Jam 28c Kdl's Coffee, 1-lb. jar Monarch Old Fashion Pickles, per jar 29c Every Day brand Grated Tuna, per can . 29c 25c Wave Kist Kipper Snacks R jyai Dutch Chop Suey Vegetables, per can ..... t .25c WE HAVE BILLINGS BEST AND GOLD MEDAL FLOUR Borden's Instantly Prepared Coffee, - 2V 2 -oz. jar . .45c s FOOD MART JOHN TUBMAN, Proprietor Phones 44 and 45 801 East Main Progress In Mechanization Machines are needed to handle the beet crop more efficiently. Definite progress through the war years in the development of these ma chines is graphically shown in the lat est edition of "Through The Leaves. This November-December issue, de layed by paper shortage, but now in the hands of Great Western beet growers, gives a comprehensive cover age of mechanization and harvesters in the field" at present. Further per fection of these machines is continu ing rapidly. In this new era of sugar beet pro duction, many growers are already depending on machines to help solve their labor problems. The outlook for adequate labor supply for 1946 is improving all the time. 4* an The Great Western Sugar Company | I j I Save and turn in all waste kitchen fat Forest Fires Deadly Scourge Besides the destruction of billions of trees, forest fires often render the soil sterile for further growth by burning away the rum us and min erals needed for good tree produc tion. /CALENDAR looming Events.. i Friday, Feb. 15, The four circles of the Woman's Society of Christian Service will I meet in the afternoon as follows: Loyalty, at 2 o'clock at the home I of Mrs. J. L. Childs. I Opportunity, at 2 with Mrs.. J George C. Paisley at her home. Valid, at 2 at Mrs. C. A. Crom well's home. Energetic, at 2:30 at the home Mrs. W. F. Price. Saint Ann's Episcopal Guild will meet at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Lee Hamlett. The Byam Parent-Teacher asso ciation will meet in the evening at the school. Founder's day will be observed. Saturday, Feb. 16. Announcement has been made that the Silesia P. T. A. will spon sor a dance at the school as a bene fit for the school lunch fund. The Laurel Rotana club will spon sor a civic benefit dance on this date at Riverside park. Monday, Feb. 18. Federated club will meet at the home of Mrs. Harold Collins with Mrs. Jack Mayes in charge of the program. Mrs. Mayes will assist Mrs. Collins in entertaining. Evergreen Rebekah lodge will meet at 7:30 p. m. Patriotic pro gram. Tuesday, Feb. 19. The Royal Neighbor card party will be held in the evening at the L. L. club. Eleven Days Late / . ■ i*:ai America's celebration of George Washington's birthday is just 11 days late, for the first President was born not on February 22 but on February 11, according to Dr. Louis Knott Koontz of the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles. This confusion in dates arises from the tardy British adoption of the Gregorian calendar, devised in 1582, but not accepted by the colonies until 1752. Wien the old Julian calendar was at last dis carded, II days had to be added to British dates. Washington, how ever, continued to celebrate his birthday on February 11. m m mm m % î < STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR . . . Things have really come to the i point where Los Angeles citizens j would appreciate pleasure-travelers ■ staying away from their doors for at least another six months. Do you believe in signs? -■■■ y:y : 1 V ■>yy \ I HEAR UAW CHARGES . . . Gerald Reilly of the National Labor Re lations board, who was appointed to hear charge that General Motors had failed to bargain in good faith. The charges were made by UAW officials. Day by Day in Laurel Mrs. Laura Carter of Laurel, has I been discharged from the army at I Fort Douglas, Utah separation | center. His wife lives at Bridger. j He was overseas four and a half (months as a guard with the 424th j infantry regiment and is author-j Jized to wear several ribbons. Be fore going to the army he was a meat cutter here. j T/5 Hamid O. Timmons, son of j Mr. an d Mrs. Oliver Timmons of of Laurel was discharged from ther army Feb. 8 at the Fort Douglas, Utah, separation center. He was engaged in farming near Laurel before he entered the service. He served six months overseas as a driver with the Headquarters 1158th E. C. group. The public relations office at Fort Lewis, Wash., reported Feb. 10 that Thomas J. Hartley had been discharged from the Entertaining for the Laurmont club members, Mrs. B. A. Sherrow, Mrs. J. G. Early guests, Mrs. John Alexander was hostess Tuesday afternoon. Bridge honors went to Mrs. H. T. Gehrett and Mrs. Sherrow, Jacob Knoll is a patient at the St. Vincent hospital in Billings where he was taken after he suffer ed a broken hip in a fall on the side walk. Harry Gomon of Reed Point was a guest this week of his sister, Mrs. Lester Boylan and family Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Weber's daughter Sandra has returned home from a visit of a few days with the Jacob Michael family. service. Smart, Mrs. Joseph TREWIN Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Shay spent Tuesday at the Grubs home. Mrs. Grace Frv left last week for her home at Glasgow after hav ing spent a couple of months visit ing relatives here and in Columbus and Laurel. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs, Mr. | and Mrs. Amos Flood. Mr. and Mrs. | Kenneth Shay, Mr. and Mrs. George j Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frank, 1 and Godfred Hardunp attended the |, funeral services for Mrs. E. E. Peck in Park City Saturday afternoon. I The Trewin P. T. A. held a meet ing at the Trewin school house Fri day evening. There was a good at- ! tendance. Bingo furnished the eve- j ning's entertainment. Lunch was I served at the close of the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Beslanowitch, i Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Cunningham, j Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs and Mr. j and Mrs. Charles Grubs attended j the International Harvester show nut on by the O. M. Wold company Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sloate of Billings called at the Amos Flood home Friday evening. Norman Shay of Hawthorne spent the week end with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs. ; K ► n I ► : K\ y 4? - / V-£/ f : ► ; pt-jH Al • - _ L 't Ate« L.sk .<• * V h hl I Here's the cotton suit you've sighed for.by fashion-wise June Bentley.of Dan River's Crosscord.and it just can't be beat. Sweet little bows at chin and cuffs.and fits like a dream Brown, Green or Blue. , < V Sizes 9 to If : ► \ / / : I if"'*"*-— » » > V - A : :. I V : / fi C S y u . In Red, : 7 i >: ■■f-i ♦ ) y / ■4-M ♦ « ♦-H Hri jd'ttir t f ■r*'! é i •rj f ■•f'i J ii » +-t yw' ' 2* * f 1 .rt't'iH : A Host of Xew •liiBiiors S5. IO to «13.71 (4 ; I / î : : - ! JORIOIt /j ' ) ■ \ ■ ► Hi » V i I Û Fresh Cheese A good way to keep cheese fresh is to store it in the refrigerator in a cloth dipped in weak vinegar and then wrung dry. Sheep Twins Sheepmen believe more twins will be produced if the ewes put on flesh for 10 days or 2 weeks before being bred. £***************************** , | ( | M < I i j, ] ' 1 : mm. y V 1 * - V » ». - . / - * r * '4 ■ B I ii m Mm v i » h V i H ûâ j* ' si Just Unpacked ! This new model— and dozens of oth ers—Choose Now! - ; • . I Æ : ■ $18-40 % % ■ to $29so : * i * ■ > Wm ■y ' y à kMÊM ■ <»] ÏM. ► Bluing Camouflage Bluing does not whiten clothes but makes them look white by camou flaging the yellow or dinginess left by poor washing. Sugar Substitute For baking, you can use molasses, and cane, maple and sorghum a substitute for white syrups as sugar.