Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 15

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1041 THE FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD PHONE 3100 Freeport High School Newi throM Vfttf half AT CLUB THIS WEEK OP CASf FOR SENIOR PLAY; SKITS GIVEN AT ASSEMBLIES The cast of the senior play Invited high school and faculty to dine at the Footllghfs club last Tuesday noon. The cafeteria was gaily decorated with reminders of the stage and screen. Including pictures of the favorite screen stars. Mrs. Orcutt, manager of the club, assisted by Mrs.

Alma Rucker and her staff, served a delicious luncheon, the menu being as follows: Boarding Mouse soup Bmltty'd Hamburgers with Onions Beef stew Mrs. Orcutt's scalloped Corn Hey Nonny, Nonny and a Swiss on Rye Chorus Girl Banana Salad Terry's Tapioca and Cream Theatrical Date Rolls In order-to provide mote merriment at this event, members of the cast ordered individuals, Including Miss Jeannette Lloyd, the director, to walk around the cast table in character. The group then serenaded the guestn with appropriate songs based on the tunes of "Shine On, Harvest Moon" and "Three Blind Mice." posing for For Children, Too! This Expert Truss Fitting Service Correct fitting of a truss is important to grown-up. Think how much more important it is in the case of child. And ruptures occur in young and old alike.

Our Expert Truss Fitter is trained in children's work, too. He knows the proper truss to use for the best results. Never neglect a in a child. Consult your physician and come to for correct truss fitting, Every Fitting VFORD' STEFHENSON ST picture, MM left club to return to it Friday evening at 8. for the wsncflt of thdtt could ftot attend the lunfthedh, Mtt OMutt (Dotls fttielMf) duced members of the group to the Student bddy at an afl-sehbol assembly held in the gym during seventh h6ur on Wednesday.

Severa skits from the play were presented This morning the entire cast presented an assembly at Junior hlgH school. PAGE WITH CHRISTMAS GARLANDS Students who have gone to the library lately have -studied In a festive atmosphere, for the room has been appropriately and gaily decorated for the Christmas season Brightly colored Christmas balls hang with the beautiful greens contributed by Mrs. Byram 8. Trueblood, while reproductions of Christmas carolers, copied by Bill Harn- Ish from an old English picture, aro placed above the stacks holding the books. In another corner of the room there Is a display of Ohrlatmas many of which have been copied from old Italian classical prints.

All of this serves to remind the that Santa Glaus and Christmas vacation soOn will be here. Main St. Market TENDER, EASY EATING STEAKS 4 E. Main St. Phone M.

760 SIRLOIN STEAK Lb. 19c SHORT STEAKS -17V2C Tender Round Steak Lb. Fancy T-Bone Steak 25c I.b. YOUR FAVORITE CUT BEEF CHUCK ROAST Lb. Center Cut PORK CHOPS Tenderloin PORK ROAST 21c I.b.

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CASING SAUSAGE Bulk Pork Sauiif 17c Lb. Younf Btif Quarters A No. 1 I Fancy Small Lean BUTTER I Slab Bacon 23c STUDENTS HEAR MESSAGEJO CONGRESS A Hpccial assembly was held last Monday to give high school stu dents the opportunity of listening to President Roosevelt's message to congress. A radio, loaned to the high school by the Freeport Hardware company, had been set up for that purpose. Students with first bell excuses were permitted to leave at the ringing of that bell and the rest were dismissed at the second bell.

The radio remained In operation over the noon hour and those who wished to listen to the news comments following the president's speech were permitted to do so. As a special courtesy for those who wished to stay, the cafeteria staff served dinner until 12:15. Miss Salaneus This is the week of big events for Freeport high school students senior play and basketball game with Dubuque an urgent plea for payment of junior dues was sent out by class officers the snow last Monday iced a slippery path between the main building and the gym and some of the less dlgihifled members of the school slid over to lunch evolution of a vocabulary: Freshman: See the bunny! Sophomore: Observe the rabbit I Junior: Perceive the animal! Senior: Visualize quadruped! Marilyn Chapman Is still bewailing the fact that she has to get dressed in only ten Marilyn! that thumping sound heard above the cafeteria Tuesday noon was made by some of our rustics who were enjoying a barn dance under the direction of Joe O. we heard some rumors about the possibility of a school dance in the main the more socially For Health eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. During the long winter months you need the vitamins in these.tasty, tempting foods.

Buy economically here! Lettuce 2 Ig. Heads 19c Lemons 13c CHECK THESE VALUES Celery Hearts, Fancy Doi. Avocado Pears -9e Holly Wreaths 2- 25c Peppers, Green tc fca. Onions 10 ft 25c Buncnei 17c Radishes 5c Bunchfi Green -Onions 5c FOB VITAMINS Stark Apples. Ig.

10 25 89c Celery. Pascal 2 UM 9c Oranges, Calif. Mtd. Beans, Green. Snappy 2 15c Carrots 2 13c Egg Plant 5c SPECIAL Grapes Red or White Oranges.

Texas ftfed. Grapefruit, Tex. Seedless 12 25c MAIN n.i MARKET "PIN-POINT 1 IN INDIANA CENTER OF U. S. POPULATION Directed by County Surveyor W.

C. Smith, tenant farmer Roscoe Car- ritherg drives a stake In a clover field on the Carlisle, farm of California Stale Senator Charles Garrison. The stake marks the exact Icr of population tit the United; Stales. "Pin" marks the spol on map at right. By NEA Service Carlisle, Dec.

the next 10 years the center of U. S. population will nestle ankle-deep in a 30-acre clover field once owned by President William Henry Harrison. On land where the Potawatamle Indians made their last stand before moving across the Mississippi river, It's in the center Of a unique tract. The French originally surveyed the tract so that all the farm buildings would be located where the sun would strike each side at least once during the day.

The new center Is part of one of the most productive farms the Wabash river valley, only 10 miles inclined members of the girls' gym classes are learning how to conga while those of the athletic type spend their gym periods playing aerial darts "I shall now illustrate what I have in my mind," said Mr. L. to his history class aS he erased the blackboard reservations in the first balcony were snatched off by a certain adventurous pair who stayed up all night to do the deed. Hints to the lovelorn girls (No. 6): If you want the boys to be Interested in you, you must first' be Interested in them.

Poem (this is not original so don't blame us): Early to bed, early to rise And your girls go out with other guys; Late to bed. late to rise And the football victory's the other guys'. Moral: Be a basketball hero! The typing room Is again filled with eager students trying to get their work in on time well, as the egg said to the ox, "I've got to scram-bull." PAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY BUILOSSCHOOL IN JUNGLE Quito, Ecuador, Dec. Pan-American Society of Quito has built a school In the heart of the jungles of Ecuador Is believed to be the first of Its school of tropical research, exploration, ethnology and botanical Investigation. The society 'believes students can gain much by living in the jungles and studying at first hand, under experienced instructors, the fauna and flora of the tropics, STEPHENSON COUNTY GETS TAX Springfield, 111., Dec.

Illinois counties' share of the state gasoline tax collections for November totaled $974,187, State Finance Director George B. McKlbben announced today. Largest award to a single county was $325,637, to Cook. Allotments to other various counties included: Carroll Stephenson $7,650. 'BIG ME'Of FINED J15JOO fft to athtr efiHlJan meMtwea, ffltny Wolflrteti being stored afairat possible need, About minion of small dtaut pox TRCCnrer Bro On ot diphthtrtu tcxoid, cftte arid ftntNtoxIrr caned "ampte HMefc an utfusull from the Illinois State line, and it's by Hoosiers as have been the "Centers" for the last 50 by State Senator Charles Garrison of California.

The exact spot, located by Sulll- von County Surveyor W. C. Smith, IB two miles southeast by east of Carlisle, Ind. The town was founded in 1815, and Its 35 blocks of paved streets for its 872 population, said to be one of the highest ratios in the country. Scattered through the topsoll of the cloverfleld are hundreds of relics of' the Indian wars.

Roscoe Carrithers, who has tentanted the farm for more than 21 years, does' not even bother to pick them up any more. It took the bureau of census a year and a half to determine where the new center should be. The result is this: If you had a map Just the size of the United States which weighed nothing at If you could place every man woman and child atop it And if you could place a pinpoint under the center of Garrison's cloverfield The map and its occupants would balance perfectly. "Boy, will the senator be happy about this!" Carrithers exclaimed. And he joined Mrs.

Carrithers tn preparing the neat, little farm house for the influx of visitors its new fame may be expected to attract. ONE AHD mm- TEEN EXECUTIVES ALSO Of TRUST Lexington, Dec. Federal Judge H. Church Ford today Imposed fines of $15,000 each against the "big three" of American tobacco companies, one subsidiary and 13 tobacco executives convicted of violating federal anti-trust laws. Judge Ford assessed each defendant company and individual $5,000 on each of three counts charging conspiracy and monopoly to control the billion-dollar tobacco Industry.

The possible maximum sentence for each count WM $5,000 fine and one year in prison. The defendants, convicted by a federal district court Jury on Oct. 27, were: The American Tobacco company, Liggett and Myers Tobacco company; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company; American Supplies, leaf-buying subsidiary of American Tobacco.

George Washington Hill president; Paul M. Hahn and Vincent Riggio, vice presidents, all of American Tobacco; James Andrews, president; William A. Blount, George Whitaker and Edward Thurston, vice presidents, all of Liggett and Myers; s. Clay Williams, board chairman; William N. Reynolds, executive board chairman; James A.

Gray, president; Edward Darr and James Glenn, vice presidents, all of R. J. Reynolds; James E. Llpscomb, president of American Supplies, Inc. TIN PAN ALLEY ALREADY GRINDINGNIT WAR SON6S New York, Dec.

Pan Alley got Into the war today. Four new songs are: "They Asked For It." "The Sun Will Soon Be Setting For The Land Of The Rising Sun," "You're A Sap Mr. Jap," and "The Japs Haven't A Chinaman's Chance." NOTICE MEETING OF BURGESS EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION MEMBERS And PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS ST. JOSEPH'S HALL P. FRIDAY, DEC 12 NEW YORK CITY FILLS ITS MDICINE CHEST New York, Dec.

H. New York city will not be caught without medicine in case of an emer- to ihow detail. Prices Svbjecl lo Federal Tax 12 CAST STEPHENSON STREET FREE DESK TEST! Let at put new Royal in your office on free trial. No high prej- lure. We'll let ttu nuoAmt 'y thit.

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Pure Cane Fine Granulated Sugar in cloth bag Powdered Sugar, 3 one pound packages 25c Hills Bros, or Maxwell House Coffee, 2 pound can Oxydol, Chipso, Ivory Flakes or Snow, or American Family Flakes, Large pkg. Crisco or Spry, Large 3 pound can 63c Kitchen Queen Milk, 3 large cans 25c Fancy Chocolate Covered Cherries, one pound boi 29c SAW Fancy Seedless Raisins, 2 packages 25c Fancy Large Santa Clara Prunes, 2 pounds 27c Fresh Salted Blanched Jumbo Peanuts, pound Fancy Jumbo Pecan Meats, (halves), pound pkg. 31c Libby's Fancy Custard Pumpkin, 2 No. 2 cans 19c Fancy Golden Bantam Corn, whole kernel or cream style, 2 cans 25e Fancy Imported Crabmeat, can 27e Fancy Country Gentleman Corn or Wisconsin Sweet Peas, 3 cant Libby's Fancy Tomato Juice, 3 cans 20c Libby's Fancy Pineapple Juice, 2 No. 2 cans Bordo Fancy Grapefruit Juice, 2 No.

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can. Large Florida Oranges, Full of juice, doz. 33e Fancy Large California Navel Oranges, doz. 35c Large Texas Seedless Grapefruit, Each 5c Fancy Michigan Celery, Large bunch 15c Fresh Green Stringless Beans, Pound 15c Fancy Idaho Baking Potatoes, 15 pound sack "frlr JC RollH 1 BM( Bib Rout 32c SW OUL-OhoiN Lamb Loin Rout. 32c SPECIAL-Milk Fod Veal Shoulder Road 27o SPECIAL-Fresh md Cure! Bcel Tongues 25c Fresh Boston Style Pork Butti, MiUFed (or Stew), pound 18c Shank Picnic Hams, Pound 27e Smoked Braunschweiger, Pound 32e Pound Ham Shanks.

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