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Week of Nov. 12, 1956 Have you ever wondered what you would save in a year's time if you cashed in all the grocery, soap and other types of coupons you receive in packages and through the mail? Well, by talking to a checker in one of our supermarkets, we found out that one of the store's customers who uses coupons regularly told her that he kept an accurate check all during 1955 and that the coupons amounted to exactly $15. The prices of bread and rolls of at least one large bakery serving Hagerstown trade will be increased on Monday, it was announced today.

Hello! October seems to be winding down pretty fast. We just got a new addition to the family - a German shepherd puppy. Needless to say, I feel like I've just had another baby ... but so far, so good. Concert Attention all South High orchestra students from 1968 to 1971, parents, and friends of Marvin Hurley: There will be an alumni concert and dinner Saturday at North Hagerstown High School. A covered-dish dinner will begin at 5 p.m. and Hurley will take the podium at 8 p.m. If you are a former student wishing to play or attend, call Marianne Gooding at 301-733-8597.

Pen Mar Park The Dave Winter Group will be featured Sunday as the Pen Mar Park summer concert series continues. This will be the first time this trio from Dover, Pa., has performed at the park. The band will play from 2 to 5 p.m. Ice cream social The Smithsburg Historical Society will hold its annual ice cream social on Wednesday, Aug. 20. The festivities will begin at 6 p.m. at the museum at 20 E. Water St. in Smithsburg. There will be entertainment and peach ice cream will be featured.

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Smithsburg Senior Site 29 Blue Mountain Estates, 301-824-2183 Going walking -June 10, 13, 20 and 27, 10 a.m. Bingo - June 9 and 23, 10 a.m. Exercise - June 24 and 29, 10 a.m. Uno or dominoes - June 20, 24 and 29, 10:30 a.m. "National Dairy Month" and exercise with Helen House - today, 10 a.m. Lunch with Washington County Housing Authority Commissioners - June 9, 11:30 a.m. "Live All You Can, It's a Mistake Not...

School is just around the corner and summer has flown by so fast. But it's already time to think about going back to school. Got your supplies yet? How about new clothes? Do you have money saved up to get all your school needs? How should you prepare yourself to tackle this coming year without too much fuss and without breaking your budget? Once you get your supplies list from school, don't hesitate. Start checking things off the list by collecting items you already have lying around the house, like boxes of tissues, wet wipes, leftover spiral notebooks, even pens.

andrews@herald-mail.com The average wallet (or keychain) is loaded with discount cards - one for the grocery store, another for the gas station, one for the drug store. There may be other cards for airlines or hotels. Giant Food Stores spokesman Denny Hopkins and Weis Markets spokesman Dennis Curtin said that about 80 percent to 90 percent of their shoppers use discount cards when they buy groceries. Not everyone has conceded this new lifestyle, though. Some people reject loyalty cards as nothing but a way to gather personal information about them and monitor what they buy. One such activist group is called Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion And Numbering, or CASPIAN.

"I am a Republican who will vote Democrat the next election because of the tax cut. The working parent who qualifies for the $400 check must have an income of more than $27,000. So I guess Bill Gates qualifies, but those who can't afford a decent life, won't! So unfair!" "Will the person who called in about Bush signing a 10-year tax cut for $350 billion and working parents who qualify for Child Tax Credit are going to be receiving a check in the mail sometime in July.