Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-16
Heavy Stocks and Beautiful Dis
 plays of Holiday Goods.
BIRMINGHAM's MERCHANTS
Who Are Made Distributing Agents for Santa Claus.
 What a Reporter Saw.

| ureu uappy over bu6 BllLS Ol Cduba Niouo' | There is no day in the year that brings | more joy to as many hearts as does Christ
 mas. Every one for weeks before is
 thinking, "What shall give So and So?" | To some it is great bore. They never
 know what to give, but that is useless.
 visit to the many places in Birmingham | where you can get anything on earth that
 fertile mind can think of will solve the | problem.
 For instance, walk up Second avenue to | The Fair. There you can find anything
 and everything. MT. J. W. O'Neil, the
 proprietor, has busted himself for the past
 month filling his enormous houses with
 everything in the way of lovely presents and every kind of toy that is manufactured. Also an immense stock of glassware, crockery and silverware. The Fair is | place of beauty and is constantly filled with
 a throng of ladies and gentlemen selecting | presents from the unlimited ass ortment. | They also havea separate depart ment for
 their toys-the Wilson building on the l corner of Second avenue and Twenty first | street. That spacious place IS completely | filled with myriads of toys.
 | There is another place down Second l avenue, between Eighteenth and Nine- | teenth streets, that will also call for visit. | It is the StoWers Furniture company, where | is kept everything and anything in the fur l niture line. They receive all their goods in | car load lots, and one car of especially
 beautiful goods in cane, etc. you want 1 to make useful and beautiful gift be sure | and examine their goods.
 | Some are going to give pipe for Christi | mas, and would like to have large lot to | select from. And the place to find this l large and assorted stock is at k. A. Jones | & Go, $. They are at 210 Nineteenth street, | and have the most beautiful stock Of pipes l one ever looked upon. Go look at them If | you are contemplating making that kind of | present.
 | W. B. Sawyer & Co. invite you to call | and look over their beautiful stock of
 "everything." Yes, everything; that l will come near expressing what they have | in few words. But the special feature of | their goods is the beautiful wedgwood. It | is a new article in this country, and has | history of over 400 years attached to it. Go | and examine it, and also ask to see the | lovely glass bells they have in stock. They | are quite new here.
 The old reliables, Smith & Montgomery l Book and Stationery company, are not out | of ranks. They are still at their old place, l 2222 First avenue, and have most elegant | assortment of Christmas gifts, in every | thing almost. So if you are going to buy l anything for Christmas go and see them. | They have been here for years, and are
 leaders in the book business.
 l There is another place that you can get | almost anything in the line of books, toys, | gifts, etc., Lyman & Stone. They are on | Second avenue and have almost everything
 in the Christmas line, and an extra large l stock of toys-every kind of toy you can | enumerate they have.
 l The Birmngham Carpet and Drapery | company, at 2022 Second avenue, are doing | rushing business in their line, as they
 have split their prices half in two, as you
 will see by their advertisement in this
 issue, which will pay you to carefully
 read, then go and examine their stock, | which is the prettiest in the city.
 Just across the way at 2O19 your eye is | attracted by the neatest grocery store you | ever saw. This is T. F. rhornton's. He, 1 as you well know, has always on hand | full line of fancy and family groceries; but | now his stock is perfect, everything fresh | and the best the market affords. He has
 an extra large stock of everything in the l grocery line.
 | At 20O7 Second avenue, the Malone Boot | and Shoe company is found. They too
 have Q beautiful line of goods and the
 latest style. If you want to keep in the | fashion examine their line of boots and | shoes. They also keep full line of | trunks and valises which are sold remark
 ably cheap. A visit there is worth your | while.
 | You fathers can have no excuse for not | getting that bicycle for your boy who is so 1 very anxious for it, for the Birmingham l Cycle company are selling them so cheap l that it will astonish you. Besides that they keep everything in the sporting line, | guns, pistols, ammunition, etc. There is l nothing that you need in the sporting line | that they do not keep.
 | Around the corner from them is Gus | Menutis. His place is No. 2018 First ave. | nue, where you can buy delightful can- | dies, cakes, nuts and fruits cheaper than
 any other place in the city. All of his 1 cakes and candies are made fresh every day | at his place, and before you send your or | ders in get his prices.
 l h,a low dano annf of fa
 wonderland, and their prices are in any | oue's reach. Take the little ones there to
 leave their notes for Santa Claus. He will
 receive it quicker, and has larger assort- l ment of toys to select from than elseW here.
 Don't go there without calling on the 1 Santa Claus department. Nothing is made
 that cannot be found there.
 | If you are thinking of buying anything
 in the clothing line during the week you
 should pay NJ. Well & Bro., on First ave-
 nue, visit. They have their spacious
 building crowded to it's fullest extent with 1 all the latest style mems and boys cloth
 ing that they arc selling very cheap in or l der to go out of the clothing business and
 into tho merchant tailoring business. | Hence the reason they are selling every | thing so cheap.
 1 The Sommer Tailoring company, at 1882 | First avenue, are also in position to fur
 nish you with the very best goods at low | est prices, and a look at their stock of | goods wfll be great advantage to you in
 buying.
 Back again to the chiidren's department 1 you are invited, and this time down on | Twentieth street, between Third and l Fourth avenues, and into Moore 6 Ander- son's novelty store, where you will find i toys of every description from cents up to | almost any price. They have crowded
 their store with all sorts of beautiful toys | and Christmas gifts.
 | Brazer's book store is another place at | which you can be satisfied in a present. | They have a beautiful collection of Christi 1 mas goods that selling very cheap.
 They are at 1905 Second avenue. Don't | ,toreel the place.
 There is another place on First avenue | that will be the center of attraction during l the holidays. 1t is the artistically ar
 ranged gro;ery ore of Young d Gage. | Their place is one here everything that is | good in the way of edibles is kept. Their l store is always the neatest place of the l kind in the city and their goods of the i very best quality. Before buying your