The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-21

West, Northwest and Southwest, and
never yet have found place to please
me so well as this. need more room,
however. This is so limited that l will
have to abandon all plated goods and
confne myself to solid ware. This mar
ket demands the very best of all kinds"
MR.. j. E. DIcKERsoN.
"There is twice as much building doing
now as ever before, and consequently our
sales of builders hardware is utterly un-
precedented. hear that contractors are
generally declining contracts far ahead,
hoping to get better prices in the spring.
They are all so crowded now that they
can afford to decline new work"
Mr.. GEO. T. JONES,
The greatest Racket Store man OF the
world, said-but no matter what he said,
every one can see his advertisements, and
they are characterized by both truth and
modesty. He did tell US, however, that
during an experience Of two and a half
years no month nearly equaled the sue
cess OF the present December. We saw
that his force of clerks was largely in
creased, and everyone was busy In
short, Mr.. Jones was as happy and pros
porous as such wise advertiser deserves
to be and will ever be.
We were indeed rather embarrassed by
our next call; the tidings we received
were most extraordinary.
DR.. T. c. SMITH
Said: 81 carried on a wholesale business
in drugs and chemicals in -, and during
the past eighteen months in Asheville my
sales have equaled those of as many
years in my former home. Here is an
advertisement for THE CITIZEN" Of,
course we blushed and bowed our ac-
acknowledgements.
Pride always goes before fall, and we,
to be much puffed up with the
above reports, tackled a legal friend.
Perhaps as discretion is the better part
of valor, we had better say he was
Mr.. b,
A name which belongs to the whole hu-
man family and means nobody in partic-
ular. "Oh, thunder!" said our friend,
don't talk to me about business. Why,
we are doing absolutely nothing. Last
week some excellent people from the coun-
try kindly occupied the court with will
case. 1t promised to be worth something,
but bless you! all the lawyers in town
came in for a divide of the verdict, and
we couldn't charge our people more than
twice what they recovered, and so each
one did not get enough to buy drink
of water. Oh, hello, excuse me-"
Astonished at the sudden disappear
ance of our vis-a-vis, we turned and dis.
covered the cause. Two policemen, "the
best the world ever saw" were dragging
a poor drunken devil to the mayors
court. The attorney had spied the trio,
and quickly reappeared with mighty
tome under each arm, and with eyes glis-
tening, with sympathy, secured client.
We decided that onr luck with profess
sional men was not gratifying.
MEssRS. BALLARD, RICH & BoYcE
Showed very plainly that their extensive
business was still expanding. 1--WE have
this year sold more stoves than ever be-
fore in the same length of time. We do
an immense roofing business, for which
we use better class of plate tin than
we formerly did. This fact is very no.
ticeable. The outlook is splendid"
POWELL SNYDER,
While carrying good line of fine gro
ceries, are an authority on staples, and
do considerable wholesale trade. They
said I'VE have sold less bacon this year
than in 1888, probably because farmers
are raising their own supplies, but our
business generally is most fattering, and
the outlook is very encouraging"
MESSRS. ]. N. MORGAN Il co.
Said: "Our business in staple stationery,
books, ETC., is very large. Especial in
crease is noted in sales of school books,
both in country and town"
This we consider the best outlook yet.
MISS N. LABARBE
Has a very attractive little millinery
store, and we were surprised at her ap-
parent despondency. She said ut is
true my orders are very gratifying, but
had best not say anything of the future
that might induce other milliners to come
here, for fear they may be disappointed. 1"
At
MESSRS. BOsTIC BROS. & wRIGHT'S
We were SO happy as to meet their excel
lent man of business, Mr.. Morgan, who
we knew would be we'll qualified to give
an opinion, especially about the condi-
ton of the country. He said: II have
Travelled all over this and adjoining coun-
ties, and find the people in far better con-
dition than for the past six years. Their
tobacco sells well, they we nothing, they
deal for cash, and. best of all, are sowing
abundant crops of clover and grass"
MEssRs. PENNIMAN CO.
Have never known Asheville, as they con-
sidered, in so flourishing a condition as
now. Their business was asencouraging.
Mr.. J. o. HOWELL
Was rather despondent. Heavy winter