Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-07
For chatting or any skin trouble, DIR. Gerbe,
of Boston, uses and recommends
0111f;Ort powder

receipts are the causes for the weak
ness On the local market corn has been
selling at AZ to Az cents for old and As to
451h cents for new. Shippers Saturday
offered corn to arrive at AZ cents for old
Chicago No. 2 yellow and new at 451a
cents for No. yellow and IS cents for
country yellow.
There is a steady and fairly active
market for oats, with little change in
the general situation. AT Chicago
May closed at 2S1k to 2SA cnts, COM
pared with 2S1A cents on Friday. The
local market for oats is steady, with
small supplies offering, and good clipped
selling at S61A to 8 cents, and fancy
at 371s to SO cents, while shippers offer
to sell to arrive at 36 to 361a cents for So
to 3S pounds.
Millfeed is firm and quiet. Bran at
STATS for spring and $15.75 for winter
Middlings range from $14.50 to $16.T5, and
mixed feed from S15.75 to SIT. Red dog
-four at S17.75, and cottonseed meal at
$21.75 per ton.
The business situation is satisfac-
tory. Reports from all sections of the
country are favorable, with financial
conditions good and the general ten
dency of buyers to enlarge their pur-
chases, they looking more to the future
and anticipating their wants than has
been customary during the year that has
just closed. Prices of most staple ar
ticleS of merchandise are firm, and in
several Instances, where they have been
for some time on an Improbable basis,
there is an improving tendency. Bust
ness sentiment is generally in favor Of
future of prosperous times.
The holiday trade with retailers held
out pretty well during the week, and
there has been a good cleaning up in
nearly all lines. The months business
has been large and satisfactory in most
kinds of dry goods, and several of the
leading stores had the largest Deem
ber's trade they ever had.
With jobbers and agents the closing
week OF the year is always inactive in
the way of receiving orders, but all have
been actively engaged in taking stock
and in other ways preparing for the com
ing year, which promises to be the be-
ginning of a new era of prosperity. Cot
tons have already taken a strong turn,
and several makes have established an
advance. This is particularly noticeable
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bleached goods. Woolens are in more
satisfactory position, and orders are
steadily increasing.
In boots and shoes a firm and conf
dent tone is maintained. and manufac-
turers are looking for steady increase
of business after the turn of the year.
The shipments from Boston show fair
increase over last year, but not as much
as was indicated few months ago. 1t
has been a very close year for profits,
and the results are not altogether salts
factory.
Leather holds steady position, with
prospects of more activity in the year
to come. Hides have held a full degree
of strength during the week, with light
offerings at all points in the interior.
Stocks of wool here and at all the lead
ing markets of the country, as well as in
manufacturers and grocers' hands, are
large, but the demand for the staple,
stagnant during the greater portion of
the past year, has been more active dur
ing the past few weeks than for some
time previous, and there is a hopeful
feeling in the trade that better and more
profitable times are ahead. Prices are
low, but are steadier just now than they
have been for several weeks.