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MUTT AND JEFF

GEE, JEFF AWFUL? IT'S AIN'T THIS FIERCE! WE. HEAT AWFUL? OUGHTA GO SEE

WHO

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IF HE CAN'T DO SOMETHING 'ABOUT IT!!

LASTEN, YOU PEN-PUSHER! THIS HEAT IS KILLING US) WHY DON'T YOU SEND (US AWAY OR KEEP THE STRIPS COOLER?

IF YOU DON'T WE'LL DIE FROM THE HEAT

AND THEN YOU'LL STARVE

TO DEATH!!

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MUTIT OOK! IT! WORKED

By BUD FISHER

SNOW IN

THE MONTH. OF AUGUST! GOSH AIN'T GREAT?

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NO!

POPULAR FAVOURITES

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PATHE RECORDS

BC. 20075-Sleep my baby sleep.

In a little Dutch Kindergarten.

BC 20080 There's a new moon over the mill

Love walked in.

BC 20081-Little angel

Sweet Hawaiian chimes,

BC 20082-Ferdinand the bull

THE DAILY SHORT STORY

GENERAL STORE

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THATCHER'S - general and variety gerator had been installed in the meat

store is located on an arm of Lake department.

was proud. Let the chain Sunset, that protrudes into the woods Ezra BOBBIE BREEN. toward the base of Mount Baldy. The stores come. There wasn't a store any- entire southern slope of Baldy is now where in the State that was better a state forest preserve, hence the fish- equipped, more sanitary, more attrac ROY SMECK AND

ermen and hunters and campers who tively arranged than his. He was pre- SERENADERS.

used to stop at Thatcher's for supplies pared, he felt, to meet any competition. BING CROSBY,

have ceased doing so, and as the log- Folks came in and looked around and DICK ROBERTSON AND ORCH. ging operations in the vicinity have exclaimed, and Ezra, swelled up with long since been discontinued, the store pride. And then a curious thing be- gan happening. Trade dropped off. MR. WU. (Chinese Laundry Blues).

VICTOR YOUNG. AND ORCH: gets very little trade.

This didn't bother Old, Charlie That It dropped off alarmingly. Ezra couldn't. BC-20072-The man I love

THE SCHNICKELFRITZ BAND. cher much. He had been in business understand it. True, now that every- over fifty years, and made some money thing had a place and was labeled and and his and was now willing to sit around on attractively arranged, he I want to go back where the sweet daddies grow.

THE SCHNICKELFRITZ BAND.cracker boxes amid the helter-skelter clerks were having difficulty in locat BC 20069—I wannago back to Bali

of merchandise and chin with old cron- ing desired articles. It wasn't like the THE SCHNICKELFRITZ BAND. ies. The settlement that has grown old days, when the establishment was up. around Thatcher's is known as The a cluttered heap and you could put Landing, by virtue of the fact that the your finger on any article because you pleasure steamer Bluebird, cruising up remembered where you'd placed it. But the lake from Lakeport, stops there, he and his clerks would get used to the leaving mail and supplies and taking new way soon enough and give just as on any passengers who might wish to prompt service. No, it was something reach the railroad.

more than that.

Stardust.

BC 20071-Turkey in the straw

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The Latin Quarter,

BC 20070-Colonel Corn

The wild wild women.

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In 1980 Charlie Thatcher died; and Ezra's concern grew when in August his son Ezra took over the business, another chain store opened up across That same summer a real estate de- the street. It grew still more when velopment company bought some land he noticed this new chain store, was near The Landing and began. selling being well patronized. He didn't know lots to summer people. Three years what to make of it. He became des- later quite a colony was occupying.perate, thinking of his note at the

By Karl Grayson

newly erected cottages along the lake bank and all, He wished now he'd left- shore, and young Ezra found he had things the way they were. to get in more supplies to accommo- Then one day a reporter from a city date the demands,

newspaper dropped in, looked around, Another year passed, the summer po- asked Ezra a few questions, shrugged pulation doubled and there was talk of indifferently and went out. Ezra, star- making a winter sports resort out of ed after him, the words the reporter The Landing. Ezra had to hire two had spoken ringing in his ears: extra clerks to wait on trade. In Au-2 "Thought you had a real old-fashioned gust of that year a chain store opened general store here. I was going to a branch across the street, and Ezra, write about it. But this! Humph!"

The next year when the summer, looking at the gay red and white front through one of his dusty windows, folks arrived, they got another frowned and thought of all the inde prise. Thatcher's General store had re- pendent grocers the chains had put out verted back to its old-self. The worn

old sign was above the door. of business.

had been scraped off the outside. The inside had been painted a dingy brown. Windows were dirty. The refrigerator was missing, and everything was a cluttered heap.

But curiously enough, folks didn't patronize the chain store. When the next spring. came, the building across the street was empty. Still Ezra was worried. Old Charite hadn't left near- y as much money as folks thought and Ezra, though not poor, was ambitious to build up his business. If The Land ing grew the way it had the past three years, another chain store would soon make a try at opening a branch, and this time he bet they wouldn't quit.

That very afternoon Ezra was cast ing about in his mind for a means of preparing for the inevitable onslaught of chain stores. Two new customers were in the store, city folks, and Ezra heard one of them say, looking around at the clutter of things in an amused fashion:⠀⠀ “What a mess, of, Junk7, How do they find anything when they want it in a hurry?”

-- Which gave o Ezra and idea." "He turned the idea over in his mind for a} month, then went down to Lakeport to a bark and arranged for a loan.. When spring came the next year a amall army of painters, carpenters, designers, ar- chitects, plumbers and labourers set to work on Thatcher's old genera store, By the time folks arrived

place. The

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new sign

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Paint

Folks looked around and beamed.

He

standing behind the counter Ezra heard such words as "the real thing," "At- mosphere." "Charm." He shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. didn't understand city folks. Even when 'the new chain-store, had to move out because Thatcher's was getting all the business, he didn't understand. But what difference did it make, anyhow?

(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated Newspapers)."

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