Middletown transcript., 1896-12-05
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chants and shoppers tell the rest The shop
windows and counters are bright with
pretty things and the Christmas boom is
on. Everybody is a Christmas shopper, The
, close-isted skinfint becomes generous,
the generous become lavish. and prudence
and economy SO necessary with many Of us
during eleven months of the year, have no
show at ALL because tits Christmas time,
the gift-making, gift-buying time, and the
TRANSCRIPT is prepared to help both buy
ers and sellers in this Christmas trade. what
to buy, where to buy and how much to pay
being some of the important queries con-
fronting the vast army of shoppers, queries
that will all be answered in these columns.
Now there are some people who only make
useful presents, and some who never make
any that are useful. Others care nothing
about usefulness or non-usefulness. but
want things that are high priced, while a
i few, mere remnant are considering the
question of cheapness, and are wondering
if there is any place where half dozen
presents can be bought with one dollar.
Now read every issue of the TRANSCRIPT
between Christmas and to-day and you'll
find an answer to all your queries. Well
begin at once, by telling of the large and
handsome Christmas stock just in at
| MEss1cKs.
Here's where everybody comes with his
wife and family looking for Christmas, and
they find it too, for no matter what is
wanted, dress, a coat, Ia cape,a snit. dishes.
lamps, rugs. towels, shoes. slippers, and
anything in the long list of useful house
hold Of toilet articles, just mention it, and
those pleasant, affable and always SO po-
lite and obliging sales ladies and gentle
men at Messick's will be sure to find just
| the thing you want There is long counter
| down the centre of the aisle full of notions,
| fancy articles, and pretty trifies at small
cost, and others at higher prices, and at the
rear you'd think old Santa Claus himself
reigned, seeing the quantity of toys. dolls
and confection. 1t is Christmas already at
Messick's, and it is not wise to delay your
shopping.
MRS. MASSEY.
| Pretty things are often as useful as they
are ornamental. that is the kind Mrs.
Massey has. She has been in the city this
week making q careful selection Of new
goods to please the Christmas shopper.
Jewellery, silver ware, cut glass and orna-
ments, clocks and watches, and great va.
riety of stick pins, rings, brooches, etc. are
among her display. Her window is one of
| the handsomest things Middletown boasts
| of.
vAUGHAN's.
For fine toilet accessories, perfumery, ex-
| tracts, sachets, soaps, cosmetics. and all the
too numerous-to me sntion fancies for mi
lady and her lord. go to Vaughan's the old
pharmacy of Middletown.
BRocKsoN's.
It it is something substantial you want.
here's your place. Mr.. Brockson is one of
| the substantial sort that accounts for his |
goods being that way too, the-all-wool-and- |
| a-yard- wide kind, you know. He has a |
nice lot of Christmas goods too. and you
can fit out the family in presents. high or
low priced. for big or little.
BERKEMAN.
Now there's our good fiiend, Joe Berke- |
doing but his customers say good deal. |
They say his goods are right and so are his |
prices and if you've country produce to |
sell, he's the man you want to see before |
Christmas, sure.
KATEs.
Can anybody imagine such thing as |
Christmas in Middletown without some-
thing from Col Billy Hates? No matter |
whether it's ice cream or oysters, candy, |
nuts, fruit or raisins, or all of them. He's |
been supplying the Middletown children
and their elders with Christmas sweets a
much longer time than the most of us can
remember, and the best Off is, he's just as
good at it now as he ever was. Here's to
him!
PRETTYMAN's.
"Old Kris' would just as leave carry
hats and shoes on his back as anything
else and rather. if they are what the good
little girls and boys want. Prettyman's
shoes are the kind to send by the little fat
fellow who drives the"eight tiny reindeer"
because Prettymans shoes are good. So
are his slippers, top boots and over shoes.
coNNELLEE's.
The Christmas fruit cake. oh yes, and the
plum pudding too, are to be provided forl
Go to Connellee's and he'll fix you right
up in all of that hundred and one things
you want. It's a real pleasure to deal with
Mr.. Connellee, he's so courteous aud OBJ
liging, and as one lady says has such
southern manners"
If you have the idea that the big stores
do all the business and are the only places
to do your Christmas buying. then you are
much mistaken. for instance,
sATTERFIELDs.
You can get almost anything in the
grocery line you want there, and the same
is true of his opposite neighbor
oRRELL.
Who besides green and dry groceries, has
all kinds Of meats and po ultry, and is get
ing fine stock of Christ mas goods, toys
candies. etc., so that not only your market
basket can be well filled but the Christmas
tree ana stockings as well. Further up the
street you'll find
BLoME.
Another little store. Mr.. Blome will
make or mend your shoes while his wife or
daughter will supply the needs Of the inner
man, from their well-selected stock.
Next to advertising in the TRANSCRIPT
the small how is the best medium out If
you don't believe it just hear one of them
rave over those sweaters at
BURsTANs.
and you'll be convinced. Among the boys
requests for Christmas ara already num-
erous demands, for Burstan's sweaters, but
that's not all Burstan has, not by good
deal. He can fit you out in whole suit,
from tip to toe, for it's mems furnishing
store he keeps. Next door to him on one