Evening journal., 1892-12-19
READY FOR kRISS.
Great Preparations
For The Festal Day.
XMAS BUSINESS BOOMING.
Grand Presents For Little Folks
and Big Folks.
XMAS BUSINESS BOOMING.

line Of Holiday Thought. and Holt
day Thought Sends Everybody to the
EnterprIsing Business Establishments
at Home. which Have Been Enlarged
and Restocked For Christmas and are
well worth visitingA Few Help
ful Things Suggested Little Time Need
be Lost This Year in Selecting Splendid
Christmas Things.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
New CASTLE, Dec. 10-Never in the
history Of this city have the merchants
so exerted themselves to present to the
public an elaborate Christmas display of
goods than they have this year. Every
thing necessary for Christmas Day in
cluding goods costly, rare and useful !;
material for the Christmas dinner table,
the Christmas evening feast and Santa
Claus pack can be found in the business
establishments here. It is therefore,
wholly unnecessary for any housewife or
resident of this city to 60 out of town to
purchase In years gone by they have
had some grounds for leaving the city
and getting their supply of Christmas
goods elsewhere. But this year there is
no excuse, the goods are here in abund
ance and only the honest retail prices
are asked Every enterprising merchant
has filed his store and beautifully dec.
Grated his show windows splendid
business can be built up in this city this
week If every family-and there is not a
family In town who will not celebrate
Christmas in some festive way-sends
representative around TO these stores
making their purchases here and there
as their purses will permit. On Satur.
day night nearly every store was
crowded and the merchants and clerks
went to their homes tired but very
happy. New Castle seems TO be grow
ing out Of itself and assuming a busy
aspect that means nothing but pros.
perity in the future. EVENING JOURNAL
reporters made a tour of the stores at a
late hour on Saturday night and found
that they not only offered goods at
greatly reduced prices, but that many
hours of profit aud entertainment could
be spent by visit TO the different es.
Establishments. Extra forces of clerks
have been engaged in all the
larger stores and rule has been made
by which goods will be either held at
the stores until an early hour Christmas
morning or delivered any hour the pur-
chaser may see fit. All the buyer needs
to dc Is TO visit the different places and
look at the wares offered, and seeing is
believing, and when they reach home
they viii find their purchases there.
Boyle's Big Grocery.
This establishment Is beautifully deco
rated for Christmas Everything can be
had here. If you want the earth, drop
in, you'll get a portion of It anyhow.
Choice butter can be found here for %
cents per pound. Coffees, 90 cents and
up. Pure Christmas spices-citron,
lemon and orange peel fine pastry, +. F.
+. Clifton, and all grades of the choicest
rolls Grand fancy patent nours; new
teas-fnest favor-lowest prices. Here
can be found fat, juicy mackerel mixed
candies, l0c per pound, better quality,
two pounds for 25c A quarter of a
a dollar win go a long way in this store
lt will buy four pounds of mince meat,
or four pounds of Jelly, or four pounds
apple butter, or eight pounds new buck
wheat. A crowded storeroom, a packed
basement, plenty of everything good that
can be found in Americas best grocery
stores Delivery wagon in constant readi-
iness.to haul out goods as soon as ordered.
Thompson's Christmas Store.
Every man and woman in New Castle
should call on this enterprising mer.
chant some time before next Saturday.
when the clerks will not have time to
eat. During the week the establishment
will be filed with Christmas poultry
splendid turkeys, large and small, ducks
chickens. aud even geese. Come around
soon aud order your Christmas fowl, and
be sure to get a fine one. Here's
the material for the Christmas cake
--citron, lemon peel, orange peel, raisins
Of all varieties, currants, chocolate
oocoanut. spices, baking powder, CHINA
mon Beside all these and what you
must not forget, is that here's where
you get the Christmas stocking filled
Choice mixtures, Florida oranges, white
grapes, bananas, almonds, and all kinds
Of nuts Something that few other
stores in Delaware has is sweet potatoes.
John Thompson has them and. in fact,
nearly everything you want.
Opera House Christmas bazaar.
The headquarters for Santa Claus in
New Castle is j. T. StoOpss Christmas
bazaar in the opera House. This
immense store, one of the largest IN the
State, is packed with Christmas goods.
Prices are all reduced for the holidays.
Useful presents are knives, forks carvers.
"Our prices cannot be beaten and our
goods have no superior, said Mr. Stoops
on Saturday night, waiting on ten
customers a. one time 1--WE will meet
all Wilmington prices no matter who
puts them up. Doll coaches, vel0cipedes
chairs, express wagons, drums, baskets
picture frames, skates, sleds, automat.
ical toys a speciality. Kestners famous
New York dolls. In our regular line we
have beautiful lamps, comfortable
blankets, mounted and plain harness
buggies, bicycles and cutlery.
Knause, The Favorite Baker.
Business places-Eighth and South
Streets-Orange and Harmony streets
Everything made under the persona
supervision Of ]. q. Knause. one Of tn,
most experienced and skillful bakers IN
the state of Delaware. He supplies The
state hospital at Farnhurst with the besi
bread the trustees ever saw, knocking
ont all the Wilmington men. Cakes
al. kinds Of cakes-fruit cakes l25c lbl
pound cakes (25c lb.) you cannot get any
better Confections are sold at boti
branch stores. Nuts Of all kinds. Plenty
of obliging clerks and deliverers. ID,