Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-21
CHRISTMAS DIREuroRY.

CHRISTMAS DIRECTORY.
The Places to Get Your Holiday Goods
Pstronize Those wh" Advertise.
Tim REPUBLICAN yesterday com
menced Christmas business director,
OF those who have made known to tn,
people through its columns that tbey
want liberal share of the public pa
tronage, and the fact that they are wild,
enough awake to advertise their ware
should be taken as evidence that theI
deserve TO be patronized. The directory
of to-day is continuation of that com
menced yesterday, and BY reading owe
the list OF advertisers the readers of thu
REPUBLICAN, will see where to max,
their holiday purchases:
Nobody in want Of o seal plush Goa
can 20 wrong by dropping into P. j
Walsh & Co. establishment, No. 5Ol
Market street, and while you are ther,
you might ms we'll take look ut thos,
seal plush beaver furtrimmed wraps
They would make splendid Christma o,
presents. But these are not all tha,
can bs seen at Wslsh's. Well, you need
hardly look farther for what you cannot
get there, and then don't forget that the
terms here are very accomm odating 70,
those who haven't just got all the ready
cash to plank down. You can pay &c
much month here on your bill until
It is all paid of. Anyhow, Just drop In
there and take look around.
As You are saunteriDg along Market
street looking In at the shop windows
when you como to Crosby & Hills, 22C
ha
just put your hand against their double
doors. They will fly open at touch
to let you in, and accommodate
ing and smiling clerks will show
you around. 1t Is useless to tell
you what you can get in first class
dry goods store like theirs. just step in
and look for yourselves.
Another excellent place to get Christ.
mas presents is at Danforth's, South.
east corner of Second and Market
streets. You will be surprised to see
what he keeps besides drugs.
o yes, don't forget when you get to
Second and Market streets that Millard
3. Davis has a splendidly equipped
clock, watch and jewelry store at No. 0
East Second street. 1t will cost you
nothing to step in. Millard will greet
you with gracious smile, and you may
see something you want.
While you are around about Third
and Market streets you will fiDd o very
finely equipped shoe store at 304 Mar
ket street, kept by Henry Pike. You
may want q pair Of rubbere, shoes
or gum boots. II you do, this is the
place to get them.
When you come out of Pixies store
just stop q moment right there and look
OF those photos at the entrance to West
colt q Cummings gallery. After all, q
good cabinet sized photograph is always
an acceptable present TO friend, esps-
cially II you are good looking, and II
you are not you will be surprised to see
how pretty you are after you have
passed before Westcott & Cummings
camera.
You want something to read. too, as
we'll as something to wear. You will
6nd great collection of books at sur.
prisingly low prices at Pyle g. Lichten-
STEMS, 226 Market street. Should you,
like Flora McFlimsey, want something
to wear, you oan act that in the same
store without leaving.
1t is scarcely worth while TO call your
attention to q James Belts establi sh
ment, at Sixth and Market streets. 1t
Ia SO well known as to need no com.
mendation, but while we have it In
mind we would just say that those Gel
)uloid dressing cases would make splen-
did Christmas presents.
Adams 81 Brother, 504 Market street;
why, they are household word in the
city, all down the Peninsula and all
around about. There is hardly o child
that doesn't know this IL Old Kriss'
headquarters. Those toys In one win
dow and those reindeers trudging
through the snow in the other isn't o
touch to what you will see II you will
go inside and upstairs This Ia one OF
the Oldest stores in the city, and yet
there is always something new about It,
Should you get cold and be minded
that your stock of coal in the cellar Ia
running sbort. you oan just etep in
where the nearest telephone Is kept ar d
call up George W. Bush & Sons, at foot
of French ST., w. p. Voshell, 608 King
street, John M. Solomon, No. 3 West
Thitd street, ana either of them will
soon have your cellar full of black dla-
monds If you don't tell them to stop.
Well, now while you are over on
King street. and you should just think
that you ought to have o shot gun, o
rifle or pistol you will get just what
you want by dropping into Edward
Melchior's establishment. 214 King
street.
After all, what would Christmas be
without turkey. All the 6ne dresses,
seal skin &C ats, fine suits, furniture or
N OF nal Int tn MI tue
nificance II there were no turkey to
grace tho table. Turkeys, who for
Christmas bled; turkeys who have lost
their head; turkeys who the crimson
shed, by the ton at Spicer, Allen &
Co.'s, northe asst corner Third and King
streets, commission merchants. Other
roultry In abundance. Christmas trees
TOO. The wise and grave-l0oking owls
in the window are not for sale.
It. won't take you long to run around
to b16 TAtnall street and see NJ. Megary
b Sons wonderful stock OF Christmas
house'furnishing goods. We have not
the space to use In telling you all they
have for sale, 80 please stop around
there, 1t isn't far.
II you are out on the hunt of clothing
don't pass by Diefendorf, the Wans
maker of Wilmington, at 416 Market
street. Go to our Wilmington Wana-
maker, and patronize home trade.
We don't know any better or more
place to get q nice travelling
bag, trunk or valise than ut j. A. Con.
ner's, No. 4 East Fourth street.
Why 60 to Philadelphia for Christ
mas cards, books, Bibles, hymn books,
and other novelties, when they
,an be got ss cheap at the Methodist
Book Store, corner Fourth and Shipley
Itreets, in this city?
You want "fxens" for plum pudding
md your fruit cake, don't you? What
would Christmas be without raisins and
,uch things? You can get all these at
Deverell's, East Fourth street.
There Is Cranor g Co., 621 Market
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