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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 9

Publication:
The Beei
Location:
Danville, Virginia
Issue Date:
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9
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THE BEE DANVILLE VA RIDAY JULY 31 1931 Love Sure Is Grand! WIMM MM June Collyer OUR ENTIRE STOCK REDUCED OR QUICK CLEARANCE I Regular $195 I 200 CRAGHEAD ST NEAR PATTON 536 MAIN STREET OPP POSTOICE 98' i lour SUGAR Butter BULK CANE Of AVONDALE equivalent to grandmother Regular $295 24 lb Sack 10 lbs 9 Quality fast color Voile Dresses Sizes 36 to 48 only I $165 Hgh rentals Regular $375 Spagettee Dinner 3 3 1 Summer Sports rocks sizes 13 to 20 only $265 Main At Market Deluxe Regular $795 PINTO PET Certo BEANS Hosiery MILK BOTTLE 25 at 3 tall cans $369 pair Dixie Bells 25 Watermelons Regular $1295 dozen 29c Quality 4 lbs 25c Town In Bananas Lowest Priced $685 Grant's MEAT DEPARTMENT 5000 Lbs On Sale riday Saturday LB Dept Store ML 1 i are now rate SUMMER DRESSES i I i Because we buy this hosiery in such large quan tities and pay demand the best Gorgeous quality bloom ers panties vests stepins chemises Lace trimmed Regular sizes 61 50'i 25 Because you pay cash the manufac turers come to Grant's first with their special offer ings because we in turn pay cash JEWEL lb 19c COINTRY CU LB 39c RENCH lb 29c UNITED STATES REALTY AND IMPROVEMENT CO Alderson of Spinach Diet Leads to State Discovery 2 49c Quality Summer priced for Quick Clearance at I Rftctinn Wheat threshlns Is almost over ana tne wneat yieia is quiuc ana months Mtninff for the vear 1930 were 13975000 compared with $4436000 Summer Chiffon Dresses ideal for party wear Now 'BABSON PARK Massachusetts (Special) United States Realty and Tmprpvement Company was in cofpbrated In 'New Jersey In 1904 The company owns and operates many large office buildings and hotels with properties In New York Boston and Havana Cuba Among Its pro perties in New York are the Trinity uller United States 'Realty and Whitehall Buildings the Hotel Plaza and Savoy Plaza Hotel it also owns the Building In Boston and a large Interest in an Havana Hotel Through its subsidiary the George A uller Company It is active in building and constructing work It Is said to be financially Interested in the new Manhattan East River De velopment Company lend to raise 2512000 bushels spinach of the value of $1239000? Think of It be astounded! Two and a half million bushels of spinach selling for more 'than tl a million and a quarter dollars! "Only one state in the south pro duced more spinach than the Old Dominion and that distinction goes to the great state of Texas which produced nearly five and a half mll MATCHES 3 1g boxes 10c KROGER PEACHES 1g can 21c COI NTRY CLUB PORK BEANS 3 Cor 20c LAYER CAKE each 20c DEVIL OOD BAR BREAD single pan LOE DOUBLE LUAr 1OC A record of old and faithful serv ice which would make any manu facturer turn green with envy is pictured here on the 93 year old feet of Jacob Miller aged resident of Pleasant Hill Mo the boots you know that talk ing about Mr Miller bought them at Mifflinsburg Pa in 1858 and has worn them for 73 years They still have the original heels and buy a stout pair of Shoes The following' contribution from a Bee reader who wishes to be name less displays knowledge of not only his onions but his spinach "Popeye" the sailor knockout hero of one of the comic strips dally adorning TheBee has a large following of Juvenile admirers not to mention the grown ups who feel compelled to read the comics under the alibi that they do It to speak the language of the tribe when the chil dren are present "Well well and has recently stated to his gallery that his extraordinary pugnacious ability Is due to the fact that he "eats spinach" that lowly sand sprinkled herb or vegetable which fond moth ers force upon reluctant youngsters In the belief that it is good for the Inner works of the Intestinal tract "The claim has been made by doc tors veterinarians vegetarians or somebody that Spinach (with a capital contains vitamins PDQ or SOS or something or other calcu laed to Improve the disposition and distemper of the human animal And) now this technical statement here 1 tofore laughed at by the doubting Thomases has recently been fully endorsed by "Popeye And "Pop eye" must be believed for his Is no I ordinary endorsement to be confused I with some movie star's blah blah for "oam up" tooth paste and corn 1 plasters good word Is forj the good old fashioned garden variety of Spinach (still with an upper case And with this prelude where the "statlstistlcs" come in to their own "Did you know that last year the state of Virginia used 7900 acres of ATK1 rSLildrL ILlv ill TTlULiUXl UlLlUrC lUiiililcXiiLs WilQ WCrt married recently at Yuma Ariz have returned home to Hollywood They have gone to home to live but after a few months will begin house hunting The happy pair with Stuart looking a bit du bious spent their honeymoon at Del Mar near San Diego Calif COUNTRY CLUB lb 28' 1 Worn 73 Years cash we can rench heels picot tops rein forced toes heels and tops chiffon and service weights GUARAiYTEED IRST QUALITY now 5O PICKLES 2 jars 25c COUNTRY HOME STALE SALT COUNTRY PLAIN OR PEACHES ancy Bushel MvrnNS Hnnev Ball Each LEMONS California TOMATOES ancy Home Grown IG BARS 21bs25c HEALTHll DELICIOUS daughter Miss Alexandru are) LB JQC OR 27C ully lined ox fords with leather uppers rubber heels and sturdy soles Black and tan Grant's for Values! Last $100 Rayon Undies Palmolive SOAP 3 for 20c PKG PALMOLIVE BEADS REE 2 pkgs 15c IOUZEI) on At a current It is yielding 1929 for approxl Tomorrow we 1 2 times 1830 earnings I Elevator company VINEGAR gal 35c BULK ORGET ITS HOT IN THESE COOL Redi Paks save you a pretty penny! Sanitary napkins which 'give perfect protection deodorized comfortable rounded corners super absorbent BoX of 12 19c Grant's for Values! Women's Slips only 29 Muslin slips 1 with 7 inch hems lace a hem i I tops bizes 3141 ns 4 75 36 ending April 30 1929 8 months ending December 31 analyse Otlsj Quality fast color Summer Voile Dresses sizes 14 to 42 only of i Hon bushels or twice as much as Vir ginia but look at the difference in the size of the two states "At any rate all the other southWn states combined other than Virginia and Texas raised the mere bagatelle of only eight hundred thousand bushels so that it would appear that the Old Dominion and the Lone Star State are doing their full duty by the i spinach eaters and then some! RUIT JARS pts doz 75c BALL QUARTS DOZ S5c materially remain fairly 1 1928 Hninrr nalfk at 1 1 ft9ft i cf $1 having Just 11930 1 1941 the New Ya Capitalization consists of a funded debt and mortgages of $419350000: 97982 shares of subsidiary preferred stock: and 983578 shares of non par common stock According to its last balance sheet as of March 31 1 total assets were $118555000 which 280000 1 A Government securities were 8455000 satisfactory Total current liabilities were $4874 A school training school king capital oi will begln at whltmell this Sunday afternoon continuing through next The Sunday school workers are jfai 4 jnir win i in mi i ii i nn nir WHITMELL 0 WHITMELL July The recent rains have made the farmers more aim crk aaa Af oXruf £klr prnns In this oavw? WV4V VJ7 property accounts was $81 Total current 'assets were! of which cash Miss Bernice Scarce Is visiting heri mts ueiinj Whltmell Mr and Mrs Bennie Elllotte and children spent last Sunday with Mrs Elllotte's father Keeling Mrs Brown and Katherine Brown of guests of Mrs Tarpley RANGE ON COMMON Low Share Earnings $570 $352 349 289 leaving a net worl $8450851 compared with $14053829 th enri of mao: Ratio of current assets to current liabilities was 2 3 4 wkeek to 1 compared with 4 to 1 three anticipating good results Blair had the misfortune to lose his grain located at Stony for the eight months ended December Mill by fire last Saturday nigit 31 1929 Thls was equal to $349 Miss Jamie Elllotte Is spending the I per In 1930 In addition lo week with Miss Gladys Thompson of these net earnings the company re Sandy River' 1 I cr lved non recurring Income $915000 which was about $093 a share more or the first six months of this year only $0 66 per share was earned compared with $345 earned In the first six months of 1930 The sharp decline in building construction and the pre sent slackness In the hotel business largely accounted for this reduction in earnings Prospects are that they will not increase materially until these conditions have come from steady Dividends the annual been reduced from $2 The stock Is listed York Stock Exchange price of around 1(1 1 2 6 per cent and selling Grant customers get first chance at bargains! RIB SIDE MEAT STREAKED 1T1CA 1 SLcffif VEAL CHOPS RINDLESS A CAM BREAKAST DntVll DRESSED RYERS A Xi linn 8lW 'X ft MHMk xA 4 iB fi I 'Vix' till tII I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 UN III II I Mh ci rrk I III I I I ill I I "71 I Illi I l' lllll lIII wm matelv 4 lllll lllll lllll iiii Illi 1 I I 1 1 II 1411 i 1 i I 4 I i I iiii I 'I i 4 lbs 15c 11 I I Illi 1 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 I 4 1 I I I I ill I a ls 'i TiV 1 38 ft vfey iiX REALTY NET PROITS yn lowmani if fflzflt IE he 2 I It 4.

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