Looking back...Sept. 17

The Davenport Times has been serving the Lincoln County community for over a century. Below are some stories from our previous editions.

70 years ago

September 14th, 1950

The Davenport Safeway store is running an Anniversary Sale on the following items:

Roast Beef …12oz ...43 cents

Tomatoes 20oz…7/1.00

Margarine…1lb 2/49 cents

Jumbo bars….only .10 cents

Beet Sugar….100lbs. 9.25

Tomato Juice 4 ½ oz.. 13/1.00

Fleet biscuit mix .39 cents

Kitchen Craft Flour 50lbs..3.88…25lbs... 1.93… 10lbs..79 cents

Italian prunes…20lbs…1.59

Concord Grapes ..5lbs..59 cents

Bartlett Pears..28lb box. 2.79

50 years...