STORE INVENTORY A list of items that the Jot 'Em Down Store sells... Naturally, we assume there was much more. These are just a few of the items heard mentioned in various episodes.

CANNED GOODS

apricots (whole, peeled)

apricots (unpeeled)

asparagus

cherries

corn, cream style

corned beef

dog food (which Lum once mistook for corned beef in the dark!)

hominy

kidney beans

lima beans

olives, jumbo ripe

peaches

pears

pineapple juice

pineapple

plums

pork 'n' beans (10 cents a can, 8 cents at Abner's half of the store)

salmon

sardines

saurkraut

spinach

string beans

tomaters

OTHER GROCERIES

apples

bacon

baking powder

baking soda

bananers

banana flavoring

block of sody

bread

cocoa

corn meal

eggs

flour ($1.15 for a 48-pound sack, also available in a 24-pound sack)

candy

--gum drops (10 cents a pound)

--jawbreakers (5 cents a dozen)

--licorice

--mixed candy

--peanut brittle (15 cents a pound)

carrots

coffee

dried apricots

dried peaches

ham, peanut cured, from Georgia

ketchup

lard (by the bucket)

lemon flavoring

lemons (380 the case)

lettuce

oranges (176 to the case - used to be 225 to the case)

peanut butter, chunk style (Cedric's preferred product!)

peanut butter, plain style

pickles (in the barrell)

potaters

prunes

rice (5 cents a pound or 6 pounds for a quarter)

salt

sody crackers (in the barrell or by the box)

sorghum (by the gallon bucket)

sugar (18 pounds for a dollar)

syrup (might be the same thing as sorghum, not sure)

tobacco (not exactly groceries, but I wasn't sure where else to put it!)

vanilla extract

vinegar

DRY GOODS

bolt goods

--ginghams

--percales

--calicos (yeller or green polky dot)

--silk

cotton lisle stockin's (plain or ribbed)

darnin' cotton - black

dress patterns

gingham dresses

hair ribbons

lady's hat with ostrich feather (special price, $1.00)

overalls

shirts

shoes

sunbonnets

thread - black, #60

thread - white, #50

HARDWARE & HOUSEHOLD GOODS

axle grease

brooms

buggy harness

can openers

churns

coal oil

colored Crayolas

comic books

clothes pins

dolls

electric irons

feed

--bales of hay

--sacks of chop ($1.19 for 100 pound sack)

--sacks of bran foldin' cot

fruit jars

horse blankets

horse collars

horseshoe nails

lamp wicks

lanterns

mouse traps

nail kegs

paper plates

pencils (1 cent or 5 cents)

stick bluein'

#2 washtubs (reg'lar price, 50 cents; special price, 48 cents)

water buckets

World's Wonder Soap (10 cases - sold to Squire Skimp)

DISCUSSING THE INVENTORY
February 18, 1935:
Lum: Jest look at that shelf there. There's pork'n'beans and apricots and axle grease. There's a can of tomaters and bakin' powder... all stacked in there together. And most of that's upside down!

September 23, 1935:
Lum: What's this item here? Toters?
Abner: Oh! Taters! That's a 'A' there. Taters... eatin' taters.
Lum: What's this? Rise? R-I-S-E. Rise?
Abner: Yeah, we're plum outta rice.
Lum: Rice! Sech spellin'. Look at this. Flour. F-L-O-U-R. You mean flour to bake bread with?
Abner: Yeah, eatin' flour!
Lum: Fer goodness sakes. F-L-O-W-E-R!
Abner: Well, I never thought that looked right. I figgered they'd made a mistake.
Lum: Figgered who'd made a mistake?
Abner: Why, whoever it was that put that printin' on the sack. I copied it off the sack.
Lum: This next item you got down here. S-P-I-N-I-T-C-H.
Abner: Yeah! Spinach!
Lum: That ain't... err... didja copy that down off'n the can?
Abner: No. We was outta that.
Lum: I never thought that looked right. You spell that S-P-I-N... spin... spin-nitch... I guess that's right.
Abner: Did I put down lard on that list there, Lum?
Lum: Lard? No, there ain't but one more item here and it's, uh...
Abner: I guess I musta fergot it. You better put down a case of that, 'cause we're smack-dab out of it.
Lum: Wait a minute. What is this other item here? G-R-E-S-E.
Abner: Oh, well, that's it! Grease! Lard!

September 24, 1935:
Abner: That reminds me, too, Lum, you know I told you 'bout that vanella extract's been disappearin' down at the store. I found out where it's been goin' to. Cedric's been gettin' it. He's usin' it for pre-fume!
Lum: Vanilla extract fer perfumery?
Abner: Yes, sir! Every time we get on that store I get hongry. Smells like somebody's bakin' a cake in there.
Lum: Hmph! I swan to goodness. That boy is a sight.
Abner: No tellin' how much of that stuff he's usin'. Just pours it all over hisself. Got the whole store to smellin' like vaneller. We oughta just stop handlin' that vanella flavorin'.
Lum: Well, you better speak to him before he starts in on the bananer or lemon or some of them other flavorin's.

January 26, 1940:
Abner: Well, fer the lands' sakes! What'n the world happened, Lum?
Lum: Don't ask a bunch of silly questions. Get me a shirt and a pair of over-halls from over there and bring 'em back here. On back in the feed room.
Abner: Why, you're wringin' wet! Did ya have a accident?
Lum: You don't think I'd do somethin' like that a-purpose, do ya? Hurry up and get some dry clothes fer me!
Cedric: You're li'ble to catch the pneumoany, Mister Lum, cold as it 'tis.
Lum: I know it! I grannies, if it ain't one thang happenin' ta me, it's six dozen of somethin' else.
Abner: Didja fall in the mill pond?
Lum: No! I never fell in no mill pond! And stop askin' a batch of questions. I don't wanna talk about it.
Abner: Here's some 34/38 over-hauls. But we ain't got your size in a shirt.
Lum: I don't care what size it is, just so it's dry! Get that'n there on top.