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sr. EIGHTEEN erywhere but In Ulster County, THE PANTAGRAPH. BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, NOV. lg. 1950.

11111 i mm -in, Tm-m nn N. where the people won't ac cept the almanac as genuine un Graymont Board Buys Projector for School GRAYMONT (PNS) The gchool board of the Graymont Community Consolidated School has purchased a projector which will show both 35 and 16 mm. motion pictures for use In the school with the pupils' studies will be shown each week. Farmer's Almanac In Its 133rd Year 4361 ITS less the front is decorated by a picture of a rooster. No one seems to know why this is so.

You can't buy the farmers almanac on a newsstand. Geiger Bros, sell it as an advertising medium to banks, insurance companies, feed companies, undertakers and a liquor store in Atlantic City. Geiger also mails out 1.000 copies a vear to people who write in that they can't find a copy anywhere, but are most anxious to read the almanac. Tftetg' 6ELtVEkv T6 all PAftTs 6f bl6qaain6ton and Same Cover, Type Style But Content Changes TURKEY TIME Yes, we have those Fairvlew Acres SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOV. 17th and 18th, Store Open Until 9 p.

m. Friday and Saturday Evenings. Telephone Orders Taken Friday Night for Early Delivery Saturday Morning Better Dressed 1875, when Berlin Hart Wright took over. The younger Wright continued the predictions until the 1930's. then yielded to his son-in-law, Roland E.

Hart. Now Hart's children are getting interested in the calculations which form the basis for the famous weather predictions. It appears Geiger Bros, will not lack for predictions for some time to come. Predicts Storms The weather predictions have been spectacularly accurate twice in recent years. This year's almanac correctly foretold the September storms which lashed the Atlantic coast.

A dozen years ago ORDER YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEYS BY EIP WATSON NEWARK, N. J. (AP) From a high-geared factory in this bustling industrial city soon will be coming forth a quiet reminder to America's rural population that it's time to begin thinking of next year's harvest. Now in preparation is the 1951 edition of the farmers' almanac, with its long range weather fore Poultry How! Quality Rex LARD 2 lbs. 35c SWIFT'S SWIFTNIKG 3 lb.

tin 85c Place your order early and let us select just the right size bird to fit your needs. Also fancy full dressed ducklings, geese, baking chickens, capons and fresh Baltimore oysters. Standard and selects. the almanac predicted the exact 7 dates of the famous 1938 hurri Strictly Fresh cane. The weather predictions are a GRAYMONT The Rev.

and Mrs. John Ray with their son and daughter from Detroit, spent the weekend here with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ray and daughter, Nancy. Saturday and Sunday guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Arnold Ide were Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Yoder and son of Washington. Iowa, and Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Akers of Taylorville. Miss Patricia Hindman of Pon-tiac spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Alltop and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Askew and family of Goshen, were weekend visitors of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Askew.

Miss Donna Pampel of Mom-ence spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pampel. Mr. and Mrs.

A. B. Scheeler and Mr. and Mrs. George Rork left Sunday night and returned home Tuesday from a trip to Chicago.

regular feature for almanac readers. Other features, such as jokes, poems, tips and homespun casts and how-to-do-it tips for the farm family. The 133 vear old publication reaches more than 700.000 of them. The edition "for the vear of our 1951" looks as much like iits predecessors as the publisher, Geiger can make it. The same woodcut of a thresh-iinz scene adorns the cover.

The Turkeys, Geese, trucks and Chickens All Fresh Dressed in Our Poultry Room Ready for Use. For Highest Quality and Lowest Price Be Sure Your Holiday Poultry Is Ordered at Lier man's. EGGS 2 doz. 85c axioms, are changed from year to year. Pure Pork Sausage Our Own Make.

Seasoned Just Right. Cudahy's Puritan SLICED BACON Oicar Mayer' Skinless Wieners BLUE' RIBBON MEATS The weatner predictions were dropped from 1852 until 1875. It was the considered opinion of Samuel Hart Wright that such predictions in almanacs "should Lb. Lb. GOOD LUCK OLEO 2 lbs.

59c PARKAY OLEO 2 lbs. 55c End Cut Pork Loin Roast, Cut from Light, Lean Loins; Liermans Select Blend COFFEE 2 -Lb. Lb I upper left corner has a familiar punched hole so it can be hung by string to the walls of the nation's farmhouses. Homemaking Tips It has the same nostalgic appearance, but some of the material differs sharply from the 1818 almanac which is thought to have evolved from the famous poor 46c End Cut Pork Chops; 91c 63c 37c 59c Round or Sirloin Steak to Fry or Swiss; Beef Chuck Roast; Lb Plate Boilins; Beef and Shank Soup Bone; Fresh Ground Beef Chuck; Lb be regarded as mere guesswork, entitled to no confidence." The positions of the various planets for the forthcoming year, tide tables, postage rate tables and the chart of weights and measures are included every year. Drip or Reg.

Cudahy's Puritan Bacon; JQ. Sliced and Rind; Lb HuC Cudahy's Puritan Tendered Grind 1 lb. 72k Picnic Hams; Q7if 6 to 8-Lb. Of 2 Richard's almanac published by WAPELLA Mr. and Mrs.

Lloyd R. Belli Monday were attending the an- Beniamin Franklin before tne Special Prices on Whole Cuts, Quarters, of Beef for Your Locker. 35c American revolution. Woodcuts Wear Out The typography is almost exactly the same. The same pictures decorate the pages, except that they're now done from zinc plates instead of the old woodcuts.

The nual Illinois Agriculture Associ-! Brandied Mince Meat 2f 59c Cranberry Sauce 3 65c PUMPKINS 2 Cans 29c Mellow'd COFFEE Lb. 83c PEAS No. 3 Seive 2 Cans 49C Nowadays the almanac advises its readers how to shop for fab Cudahy's Rival Bacon; Sliced and Rind; Lb Armour's Star Slab 12-lb. y2 or Whole Slab, Lb. I rics, instead of telling housewives Millar's Magnet, Chase Sc ation Convention in Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Troxel re-! turned home Tuesday from how to weave them, ine laoi Bacon; 33c 37k cuts wore out some years ago almanac instructs the reader, with Sanborn, and reproduced Louis, where they visited and could not be SEA FOODS Best Quality Perch Fillets; Lb over the weekend with tneir faithfully, sam. nlri threshing scene daughter and family. Mr.

and Normal Dairy and Meadow Gold MILK Vi gal. 36c The Chicken Halibut Steaks, is used for the front cover ev- Mrs. Ogland Fought. Your Best Buy Every Day POULTRY From LIERMAN'S Spring Chickens; Full Dressed, Cut Up Free If You a So Desire; Lb 0 jC Stewing; and Baking Chickens, Full Dressed; Cut Up iQ Free If You So Desire; Lb. All Poultry Fresh and Completely Cleaned in Our Own Poultry Room.

59c 69c Center Cuts; Lb Oysters, Pint Tin For A Better Cup of Tea- benefit of pictures, the Drocer way to tie the "new Windsor knot." A new feature next vear will be a column of homemaking tips called wifesavers. These are given a careful once-over bv the wife of the editor, Ray Geiger. whose only farming is done in the garden in his suburban home. Geiger has been editor of the almanac since 1937. He edited the publication through World War IJ from various Pacific islands, to Also JUMBO SHRIMP.

LOBSTER TAILS and FROG LEGS SPICED FRUITS 55c Peaches, Apricots Figs TOP QUALITY VEAL 7QA I Top Quality Veal Buy the Tea-bags that give you more tea and finer quality tea. 65c Top Quality Veal Rib Chops; I IU Shoulder Roast; Lb. maintain unbroken a chain stretch Black Strap MOLASSES 16 oi. jar 37c Cross and Blackwell's puddings, fig, plum and date, brandied hard sauce, fruit cakes, rum cakes, Pralines fancy candies, etc Domestic Rabbits, RoU Mush, Roll Chill, Beef and Pork Tenderloin, Calves' Liver, Smoked Pork Butts, Canadian Bacon, Smoked and Fresh Beef Tongues. Etc.

ing back to David Young's first farmers' almanac in 1818. Traces Ownership Young, who described himself Folger's COFFEE 79C Lb. Liptons CHICKEN NOODLE TOMATO VEGETABLE SOUP MIX pkgs. 35c Heinz Fig DATE or PLUM PUDDING 14 oz. tin ECONOMY MEATS on tne cover oi nis aimcuicii; a philom lover of learning was Smoked Pork 27c FLAVOR-KIST GRAHAM CRACKERS Hocks: Lb 2 1 Economy Sliced Dried OQs Beef: Lb OOC 39c tFlavor-Kist gpj fe-27o wm an astronomer, poet and teacner in Morristown, N.

J. He had been calculator of the positions of the Dlanets for another almanac when 41c A-l Quality Wieners: Lb he decided to put out his own. 27c Lb. Pkg. Happy Hour WHEAT GERM 1 lb.

27c Through an old letter he found 79c 59c 19c 11c 31c 9c Economy Round Steak to Fry or Swiss; Lb Beef Chuck Roast; Lb Neck Bones; Lb Pigs' Feet; Lb Dry Salt Pork; Lb Beef Kidneys: Lb Fresh Liver Sausage, Bologna; Sliced or 41. in a desk in Morristown, Geiger has traced the almanac's trans i Piece: Lb I We Serve the Best to the Best fer from Young to a man named 35c Samuel Hart Wright after Young's Smoked Bacon Squares; Lb if death in 1852. The letter, written bv Berlin Smoked Bacon 07 Lb. 2 Hart Wright. Samuel's son, told how the elder Wright read of FKESII FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Young's death in a New YorK newspaper.

He went to the Young home, got from the widow a list Holiday Food Values Friday and Saturday Specials Quality Meat Fr Quality Market 49c 59c Florida Juice Oranges; 5 Lbs. Bakon YEAST 100 Dried brewers yeast Bacon like flavor of subscribers to Young's astro nomical calculations and set him- 314 NORTH MAIN STREET Iseir up as xounirs suctessw, Samnpl fiid the calculating for 32k Mushrooms, Pint Brussel Sprouts Quart 25c Fresh CRAN- I BERRIES 1 I 2 Lbs. 29c the almanac until his death in 25c Ocean Spray CRANBERRY SAUCE 1 lb. Tin 2 cans can 25c Celery Hearts, Bunch Medium Size Florida Seedless Grape- A OQn 10tta35c Yellow Globe Dry tfor gu fruit. 31c U.S.

No. 1 Pon 29c tiac Red Potatoes I lbs. 10 Cole Slaw, Tossed Salad, Soup Vegetables and 1 Spinach; Cello Pkg I 3 FRESH DRESSED FRYING CHICKENS Lb. 59c FRESH CHOICE GROUND BEEF 55c CUDAHY'S PURITAN SLICED ...1. 52c RATH'S PICNIC HAMS 6Ab: Lb.

43c 100 Lbs. 92.49 and Domino Pure Cane SUGAR 10 lbs. 95c 25 lbs. 2.29 416 N. MAIN ST.

PHONE 5387-0 Open Daily 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. 25c 69c b.

$2.49 A-l Quality Commercial Pack Jonathan Apples lbs. Pure Tarrgon Wino VINEGAR Qt. 15c PAN READY WHOLE MR. FARMER! We want your eggs and will pay you top prices! Bulk Pitted Dates 2 lbs. 75c ANY SIZE PIECE SLAB BACON Lb FRYING CHICKENS EACH Frozen Foods Snow Crop Diced Idaho Potatoes for hash browning with onion flavor 2 pkgs.

Place Your Order Now for a Fresh Dressed FAMOUS GEIDLBACH TURKEY and be assured of the size you want. Broad Breasted and Meatv. not a Din feather to worry about. When fed right, ilJ ftljjJ tS.M 1 29c Pillsbury PIE CRUST MIX pkrs. 35 Dole Sliced or Crushed PINEAPPLE No.

2 tin 2 cans Gj they taste right. Fresh Dressed Chickens, Ducks and Geese. 27c GRADE A BEEF CENTER CUT Tissue, 1000 31c Scottissue Toilet sheet rolls, 3 rolls Harliquin Diced Fruit Cake Mix ib. 45c Pecan Nut Meats li Ib. 38c lb.

75c 59c men Frozen Orange Juice Snow-Crop lge. 6-oz. cans 2 cans Swans Down 43c GglPC Cut Rite Wax Paper, 125 ft roll, 2 for 39c CAKE FLOUR Ire. pkgr. 35c Snow Crop Frozen Gift and Christmas Wrapping; cards; ribbon; seals; Box Xmas cards; cello ribbon, etc.

We Buy The Best For The Best. U. S. NO. 1 PONTIAC POTATOES 100 $149 FLORIDA 80 SIZE SEEDLESS GRAPEFRUIT 2 13c CELERY HEARTS Quality Bunch 23c EMPEROR GRAPES Quality Lb.

10c Shipments Every Day. HEINZ Lb. Strawberries 1 Glaced Red Cherries lb. 38c lb. Calimyrna Layer Figs 12-oz.

Carton 39c Puerto 59c LEAN LAYER OSCAR MAYER Blue Diamond Brand Rican Pineapple Juice, No. 5 Tins, 2 for Dozen $3.49 Tree Top Broccoli Cuts LEAN SLICED BOILED HAM 10 oz. pkg. A-l Quality Red Alaska SALMON 1-Lb. Tin 543c SLICED BACON 1 lb.

pkg. 35c 75c None Such Condensed MINCE MEAT 2 Pkgs. 39c St Brandied MINCE MEAT 28 oz. jar 59c Hunt FRUIT COCKTAIL No. ZVx tin 3 cans Good Quality Sweet Pickles, Qt.

Jar 23c For and ideal gift, give a Lierman fruit box or basket! Lb. Lb. Large P-Bottle Z0C TOMATO CATSUP Columbus Kidney or Red Beans Del Monte Sliced No. 2 tin, doz. 3.99 3 cans Pineapple $1.00 tin, dozen 99c; 25 15 oz.

3 cans COLUMBUS HOMINY OR KRAUT No. Tin CENTER CUT C.A.C. Mandarin Orange Jumbo Roast Peanuts, lb Eatwell Bonita or Belle Isle Solid Pack TUNA 13 oz. tin 49c 39c Lemon Old Fashioned Drops, lb In syrup, 13 2 cans tub Washburn Tomato Juice, AO 46 oz. tin, 2 cans 'rUC Llvewell Bartlett Pear Halves No.

ty2 tin, 7Q 2 cans fuC HEINZ FRESH CUCUMBER PICKLES 21c A LARGE VARDSTY OF HOLIDAY FOODS. DE MET'S TURTLES AND BOX CANDD3S. FRUIT CAKES, FRUIT CAKE MIX, CANDD2D CHERRD3S, PINEAPPLE SLICES, MINCE MEAT, PLUM FIG PUDDINGS. See Happy Hour Ad for Additional Values Bunte Cinnamon Imperial Red Hots, 10 oz. pkg.

AO 2 for HOC 45c CHOP: 1.09 Royal Prince Yams, 43c Assorted Jelly Beans, 1 lb. bag 29c No. 2 tin, 2 cans Lb. raihmtre Jay Liqnld Boaqnet Del Monte PUMPKIN No. 2Vj tin 2 cans Super Suds If Sup for New Fab Pkgs.

Toilrt Soap Salad Bowl SALAD DRESSING Qt. Jar 49c Woshlnr OUhes 2 for 57c 3 Ban 23C I 23c s57cys57c 33c GRADE A FANCY TOM ORDER YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY DUCK GEESE CHICKENS OYSTERS NOW! lURKEY5.0) For Your Special Needs Korn Parchies, Mexican Pepitas, Pretzel Bitz Sticks, Minced Clams, Anchovy Stuffed Olives, Tiny Sweet Gherkin Pickles, Preserved Coconuts, Crystalized Ginger, Bar LeDue, Colored Tooth Picks, Plastic Tooth Picks, Preserved Kumquots, Watermelon Rind and Cantaloupe, Pudding Sauce, Puddings, Hard Sauce, Pure Maple Sugar, Salted Nuts. Complete Variety of Nut Meats and Nuts in the ShelL Cocktail Mushrooms, cocktail onions, spiced fruits, Pepperidge Farm Stuffing Bread, Mint Sauce, Cocktail Sausage, Cake Decorettes, "Peel-Away Milk Chocolate Novelties, Richelieu Tomato Preserves. 428-30 N. Main St.

1402-04 W. Market St. Phone 7901 Phone 5208 Phone Orders Taken Until 7 P.M. Friday For Saturday Morning Delivery. Free Prompt Deliver.