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Show And It Happened In S H He was only a man in overalls and as he climbed out of an old ialloppy saying to his wife and children in the car 'you wait here and I'll take a look around." As he walked away the woman in the car took a pile of pay roll checks from her purse and counting she, divided them in two piles saying to the oldest child, "we'll ;pend t hunrirprl for furniture for the house and clothes for all of us and put the rest in the bank to buy War Bonds with. Pa standing on the curb looking over the situation, saw the proprietor pro-prietor of a local furnishing store from who he had made purchases in the past approaching, greeted ihim with a cheery "hello how is .things going," on being hailed he stopped, shook hands, said he was in a hurry, had more business j than he could take care of, and jwent on his way. The next man up. jwas the head boss of one of the many furniture stores of Sugar j House, Pa who had also made a jfew purchases at his store in the .past, greeted him with a smile and cheery "hello,' getting a slight nod in return as the big man hur-1 ried on his way. The carpenter scatching his head, walked over to the window of one of the lead- ing shoe emporiums where the boss was standing in the door watching the school children go by, received the carpenters pleasant pleas-ant smile with a stony stare and went inside the store. With this to think about, the prospective purchaser slowly lit his pipe and going back to the familv in the car said to his wife, "I think we had better go up town, where they ain't so busy and got more variety." |