SATURDAY MORNING.' DECETTCZIt" 13ri320 "
THE' OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM," OREGON.
Mi
It Pays To
Do Your
Shopping
at the
FARMERS'
CASH
STORE
C. Burton
Durdall
247 North
Commercial
Christmas
mixed Candy,
1-2 pound 10c
MILLIONS SPENT
ON HIGHWAYS IN
LAST TWO YEARS
More Than Three Hundred
Miles of Paving Complet
ed in Biennram
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN
rto ,i
SUMMARY FURNISHED
COOLPHT Think
OF flCCePTlNC IT. IT
To Thin nd
FtOTTCRs
;to much
Department Shows What
Part of Contracts Let Are
in Finished State
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Fancy Mixed
Candy, halt a
pound .. . .13c
Figs, per lb 14c
Walnuts, per
::;21c
Peanuts, per
pound '21
10 lbs. ot
Rice ......72c
Three pounds
Crisco ....84c
Six pounds ot
Crisco . .$1S7
Graham Crac
kers, lb. ...21c
Libby's Milk,
4 cans ... .47c
Caroline Milk,
4 cans . . . .44c
45c Pineapple,
per can . . .29c
Special Price
on Sugar
See otir toy
display
Cash
C. Burton
Durdall
247 North .
Commercial
Street
Three Busy Stores
An expenditure of $28,479,980.
94 Is represented in state high
way work that has been under
construction during the period ot
1919 and 1920, according to -a
tabulation prepared by the high
way department and embodied in
the biennial report. The state
ment covers projects awarded by
the state highway commission and
forest road projects handled by
the reaerai Dureau oi j puduc
roads. Embrace in the projects
are 419.3 miles of paring,
638.41 miles of macadam -and
1000.57 miles of grading.
Of all this mileage that has
been under conatrution there has
been ompleted 34.72 miles of pav
Ine. 369 miles of macadam and
761 miles of grading at a cost of XflJL
A summary of the work that
has been under construction follows:
Pacific highway Paring.
140.65 miles; macadam, 89.17
miles; grading, 133.89 smiles;
cost. $7,022,041.03.
Columbia River highway Pav-
ine. 106.78; macadam. 14 (.82;
grading, 173.25; cost, $6,614,311-
23.
West Side Pacific highway
Paring. 51.26; macadam. 18.84
grading, 46.53; cost, $1,969,842
42. ... i -
Salem - Dallas highway Par
ing. 13.07; grading, 13.07; cost,
$355,000.
McMinnrille-Tillamook highway
Paving, 8; macadam. 31.69; grad-
S Mtur 25.34? cost. S765.207.
John Day Rirer highway Ma
cadam. 51.72; grading, ,83.18;
cost, $1,606,896.97. .. '
LaGrande - Enterprise Highway
Grading. 17.75; cost, $222,611
26. Tualatin highway Paring,
31.95; macadam. 6.75; grading,
21.59; cost. $841,921.46. ,
Ashland-Klamath Falls ! high
way Macadam. 5.91; grading,
j 18.80; cost, $318,000. -t
Coos Bar-Roseburg highway
Grading, 14.17 r cost. $390,500.
La Pine-Lakeview highway
Macadam, 12.87; grading, 112-87;
cost. $154,000. i
- Oregon-Washington highway
Parinz. 26.74: macadam, l 0.4 8;
grading. 39.48; cost, $1,070,625.-
99. . : 7
Old ; . Oregon Trail Paring,
6.89: macadam. 41.71: grading.
42.05; cost, $891,342.48. !
- Baker-Cornucopia nlgnway-
Macadam. 19.05; grading. 27.86;
cost. S336.631.77.
Crooked Rirer highway uraa-
ing. 31.99; cost. $331,500.
McKenzie Rirer highway aia
cadam. 35.10: grading. 6a.98;
cost. $888,945.
Crater Lake highway Macaa
am. 7: eraaing. is.aa. ' cosi,
$597,200.
Flora -' Enterprise highway
Macadam. 6: grading. 13: cost.
$123,000.
Coast hichwar Paring, sz.ui;
macadam. .61; grading 26.79;
cost. $1,713,385.61.
Corrallis - Newport highway
Macadam. 8.86: grading, T9.30;
cost. $165,042.63.
Mount Hood Loop highway
Grading, 14.40: cost. $260,000.
i Grants Pass-Crescent City high
way Macadam. 2.40; grading,
2.40; cost, $75,300.-
Central Oregon highway Mac
adam, 27.18; grading, 27.18; cost
$411,000
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word. . Not eren his iron will and
assurance could.,caxry tt through.
knowing as he did, what our
knowledge of htm must be. Neith
er couid decontrol the color that
blazed in his face. Yet. with all
my distrust and abhorrence of the
man's treatment of Lillian. I could
not bHi bettering his assertion
.that he'd had nothing to do with
the forged note.
And then I nw Lillian do the
ervr witnessed In her. .. She
straightened herself to her ' full
height and faced the man whose
nam- she still bore.
"Upon your honor!" she said
slowly, . bllsteringly. "Come,
Madge, let's get out or this!"
(To be continued)
PROUD HINT
REC03IMEXDED TO SCHOOL
CHILDREN
This is the season when chil
dren are subject to croup, colds
and. coughs. Rena C. Marchard.
36 Lawrence St.. Salem,, Mass..
writes: "I used Foley's Honey and
Tar with good results. I bad a
very bad cold and it gar me re
lief at once, so I recommend it to
every child that goes to school."
This standard, low priced medi
cine loosens and clears mucus and
phlegm, checks strangling cough
ing, makes easy breathing, soothes
and heals raw. Inflamed mem
branes, and stops tickling In
throat. Sold everywhere,
He was a very popular curat
d when he gained his esrthlr
rfcward of a pleasant living ano
left the country parish be was
vry much missed. His sueces-
nt to call on Mother UrowP
Mondar afternoon, who at
ofice took bis parochial education
It nana.
a-1 be main sorry t'other eur-.
kVs Kone." she said, "for this ,
trtll say that there eurlck. be allu
dw know when 'twas washing
dny."
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VIOLA DANA
"BLACKMAIL"
Start Sunday ,y LIBERTY
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You Can Do Better At
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cA2lcttiori'wiclc. Institution
BfTERNATIONAL CARTOON caN.V;,
macadam, 638.41 miles; grading,
1000.37 miles; cost, $28,479,-980.94.
SATS IT FIRST AXD SAYS IT
LAST
Carrie G. Harm. 319 Nicholson
St.. Norfolk, Va., writes: "I'll tell
anybody that Foley's Honey and
Tar is all right. It did me all the
gcod. I said it first and I'll say it
last. Thousands ot bottles of this
reliable remedy were bought last
week: by careful mothers so as to
be prepared to check coughs, colds
and croup at the beginning. It
acts almost instantly, cuts phlegm.
soothes raw. irritated membranes,
steps tickling in throat. Sold
everywhere.
REVELATIONS OF
AWIFE
The Story oi a Honeymoon
deeply for a moment. thn put out
her hand expectantly.
Shaken At Last.
"Let me see that note," she
said crisply. I obediently put the
note in her hand, and she turned
it over and over. Inspecting the
enrelope, paper and chlrography
with the greatest care.
And then I saw a terrible look
come into her eyes, a look of sus
picion and intolerable humiliation.
She turned her face toward the
man who was still legally her hus
band, and the pallor of it. the
glare of her eyes frightened me.
My eyes inroluntarlly followed
hers to the face or Harry unaer-
wood. - Upon it was written an ex
pression which I could only trans
late as one ot horrified amaze
ment. His air of boredom had
vanished completely, and I saw
his fist clenched so tightly upon
the head of his walking stick that
his fingers appeared bloodless.
"No. Lil. no!" he protested re-
i hemenMy. "Don't think that, for
zoodness sake! I know you r
justified in imagining I'm low
erough to forge notes upon your
note naper I re certainly been
the champion bad actor lately
but not that, Lil, upon my boh-
k Wonderful Romance- of Harried
Life Wonderfully Told by
ADEUB GARRISON
or:'
His voice faltered on the last
CHAPTER 774
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN LIL
LIAN FACED HARRY UNDER
WOOD. "Madge! Thank heaven!" Lil
lian ejaculated as she came up to
nre, and as she put out her hands
and grasped mine impulsively 1
felt them tremble. I realized
that her anxiety for me must hare
been something unusual, for risi
ble emotion is a rare thing with
her.
"What happened Quick!" she
demanded the next moment, all
her usual poise and briskness of
manner restored.
"Beg pardon. Harry, for inter
rupting, but I're got to get to
the bottom ot this, pronto, so I'll
know what to do."
The words were tossed at him
as casually as if the husband and
wife had just met after no longer
a separation than an hour or two,
I saw. a touch of scarlet come in
to Hirrr Underwood a - bronzed
Klamath Falls-Laekview high-1 cheeks, and rejoiced authough
way Macaaam, 13.91; grading.
13.91: cost. S166.000.
The Dalles - California high
way Paving. 2; macadam. 78.34,
grading. 74.9a; ost. xi,uus,.Ht.
Willamette Valley Florence
highway Grading, 1 1.2 9 ; ; cost,
$134,000. -
County road Cost, $48,000
Totals Paving. 419.3a miles;
SI
MISTLAtlD
PRUNES
The tart Sweet
The Full Meated Prunes
Packed by the -
Oregon Growers Co
ooerative Association
Send a carton of "Mist
land" Prunes as a Christ
mas present. Packed in
one and two pound fancy
cartons and in five pound
boxes.
Tor sale in Salem by
Roth Grocery
Ray Gilbert
Bert Eschelman
Foster & Baker
J. L. Busick & Son
surprised that his nerves were
sensitive enough to be thus
flicked upon the raw by Lillian's
casualness. Perhaps. I reflected.
he reallr had the grace - to be
ashamed of himself.
Either I was mistaken, however
or else he masked his real sent!
ments most cleverly, for the
drawl with which he answered
her was, I imagined, intentional
ly nrovocatlve.
"Oh. I'll forgire you." w said.
Always glad to do anything I
can for the ladies."
There wasn't even a quirer of
Lillian's eyelashes to indicate
that she had heard him. She had
turned to me expectantly eren as
he began speaking, and I hardly
waited for him to finish berore
beginning the tale ot the strange
chauffeur who had represented
himself to be her messenger
A Point Withheld.
I carefully related my story.
aroiding. howerer. any betrayal
of Lillian's secret serrice connec
tion. True, Harry Underwood
had told me he knew of it, but
discussion of that incident was
for Lillian's ear alone.
Lillian listened with concen
trated attention to my low. rapid
words in the recessed window of
lb1 corridor to which we had
walked. Mr. Underwood twirled
his walking stick and gazed into
space with an air ot infinite bore
dom. Yet I was sure that in real
ity h1 attention was as absorbed
as uitlian's. Although I wasn't
looking directly at him, yet I was
psychically conscious that his
carefully masked, shrewd gtances
shot rapier-like at both of us
whenerr he was sure he was un
observed. . ,
, It was characteristic of Lillian
that she should not Interrupt
with a stnrH question. When I
had finished with th iimle
words. "And then I met Mr. Un-
drwood and the wen wore fright
enad away. the looked me
squarely in the yrs. and I saw
that she knew I had purposely
omitted methtng from th nrr
ratire. But I could not tell the
Mory of Harry Underwood's Iml
tation secret service badge while
he was within etrshot.
She stood, evidently thinking
Where a Dollar Does Its .
Duty . I
McDowell
Market
Phone 1421. 173 S. Com'l St
Quality Meats For Less
Genuine Spring Lamb, ' ' !
legs.... 20c
Lamb to Roast 15c
Grain Fed Pork to Roast 23c
Pork Steak.. .......23c
Lamb Stew. ....... ..12 lie
Our Own Pure Lard... ,23c
Our Own Sugar Cured
Bacon 35c
Sirloin and Tenderloin
Steak. . . . 23c
Pure Pork Sausage, per
pound 20c
Open Until 8 p. m.
Quality Meat Quality Meats
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Christmas
Morning
tiWBVERS AL CAR
Place
Your
Order
Today
You can arrange now to have a Ford Sedan or Coupelet
delivered to your house Christmas morning as your cift to the
entire family. YouH enjoy your gift yourself every, day-
The factory price of the Ford Sedan Is lower cow than ever
before. It costs less now complete with starter and demountable
rims than before the war without starter. The present price is
below actual cost of production.
The Ford Sedan is, the comfort car for Oregon. It is the
economy car for everyone. The new gtzr ratio makes it possible
. to go anywhere a touring car can go.
When anjt commodity sells below all former quotations be
low cost of production it is' the time to buy and to buy quick.
So arrange today to have a new Ford Sedan delivered to your
home Christmas morning. It will bring greater happiness, sat
isfaction, and increased health than anything else you can give.
Your Christmas gift money may make ,he first payment and the
balance can be paid monthly in 1921.
We can make positnre deliTeries on all models for the
Holidays
Mo
Every Oregon Driver
should own a Closed" Car
Have a closed Car delivered at your door Christmas
Morning
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