The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-01
Buy Your Goods At Home.


Our merchants, anticipating the de
sircs and demands of the citizens of
Mankato and of the surrounding coun-
try, have gone to the expense of placing
in stock an unusually large selection of
choice goods, all appropriate for
Christmas presents or New Years gifts.
A hurried detour through several of
our leading dry goods establishments
reveals an elegant line of dress goods.
notions and fancy articles never before
observed in this market, and present
selected from the vast array will prove
not only beautiful and useful, but al.
together acceptable.
The clothiers have also comprehend
ed the fact that n new Overcoat, new
suit of clothes, or fine seal skin cap
would be among the choicest gifts that
the wife could make her husband or
the father his son, have supplied them
selves with an elegant line of these va
riOus articles of wearing apparel, and
they should he the recipients of Il boom
ing trade.
Not to be behind the times, and
knowing full well that an empty stom-
ach and craving appetite lily BELTS
one to appreciate the goodness of God
and man, at a time wlen the heart
should overflow with gratitude for the
kindly remembrance of Christmas and
its accompanying beautiful gifts, the
grOcers and butchers have everything
that the heart of man could ask for, or
the worst type of epicure wish for. So
kind friends, if you would have your
lovely wife dOubly agreeable, be sure
that you arrange to provide the Christ
mas table with all the substantials and
delicacics of the season. Our fruit
dealers will supply you with the latter,
and give you all you are willing to pay
for at reasonable figures.
After having gone thus far, it will be
necessary, as a matter of course, to in
dulge in the purchase of books, music.
al instruments, pictures, toys, or some
thing of the sort, and in this line you
will need to bring in your neighbor ia
assist IN the selection. So vast and
dazzling Is the array of this miscellan-
eous assortment, that it matters little
how level-headed you may be in Ordi.
nary business transactions, you will be
completely befuddlcd when confronted
with the inexhaustible and inconceiv.
able display that is now on exhibi.
ton at our Drug and Book Stores, and
the longer you study over what you
want the more certain you are to be.
come convinced that you don't know
Therefore bring your neighbor's wife
along to help you out, and in turn you
can repay the favor by paying fol
what she may think proper to TAKE
home for herself.
Going down in the line of fancy fix
ings and neccssaries, the dainty fee
must receive proper recognition, and
our. boot and shoe dealers are equal t.
all demands that may be made upOr
them. From the tiny baby shoe to ,
no. 12 brogan can be secured at an!
price to suit the purchaser. Ladies
gay slippers are on exhibition and j
yon would complete your wife's happi
ness or satisfy your handsome daugh
ter's vanity don't go home until yo'
have made selection at some of on
first class shoe dealers establishments
And this put us in mind of the Othe
extremity. There Is the milliner, who's
devices for making the head look pref
ty is beyond the comprehension of man
Give her a call and she will fix yo
+ out without asking questions.
Hold! Before untieing your horse,
there is the jeweler, and Mankato ca
boast of fine establishments in this line
An endless variety of solid or plate
gold and silverware unsurpassed b
T. any town or city west of the Mississippi
: river. The gentlemanly proprietor
l will sell you gold watch at the low
: est price, or silver tea set that wi
= tickle your palate every time You s
r down to eat, and it always comes
"play." Don't fail to give the jewe
ers call.