| Show housewife would A shopping go local merchants greatly amused by story of woman who insisted in saving money by buying away from noma home merchants of park city have been wearing a grin on their faces during the past week the result of 0 a story being told of a local housewife house wife who was positive park city prices were too high according to the story one of the good housewives of the camp whose hubby Is employed at a local mine knew positive ly prices were too high in park city and following each pay payday lay she would crank yo ye jitney and sally I 1 orth forth to great metropolis each fortnight she ehe would come back laden with groceries wearing apparel and w what hat have you and each fortnight she would get the pencil and paper to figure out the profits derived from trading away from home being a clever shopper she saved from three to tour four dollars twice a month watch chichas chas as every one knows aids materially in iia paying local light billhi bills and other incidentals WHICH MUST JIUST BE PURCHASED LOCAL but ye godat the good woman always forgot to figure her gas and oil and when questioned about this slight expenditure of overhead she answered well I 1 was going to salt lake anyhow so that count whether it counts or whether it does not matter but little the main factor being she put out hard cash each trip tor for t the he privilege ot of hearing lizzie snort over the highway the climax was reached during the past week when this woman whose husband derives his bread and butter in p park rk city made a hurried trip to salt lake city and as she was coming right b back a c k she take the henry to a garage but parked on main street finishing her shopping ever mindful ot of the great 2 amount ot of money she had saved she tossed bundle alter after bundle into the car and taking her place at the wheel her eye spied oh horrors Horror sl some fool driver had bumped into her car smashing one of 0 the fenders and caving in part of the body if she could get a hold of the crazy driver shed ring his good tor for nothing neck but she and following the shedding of a few tears they dont cost anything she hied tor for a repair shop chop where the dam aged parts were cared tor for to the tune of 2790 what seems to thrill the local merchants most Is the fact that there la Is little difference in prices that this good woman save 2790 in one years shopping to say eay nothing of the time lost during these so called money saving caving pilgrimages oh hum we are supposed to uve live and learn and some of us only live |
