The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-12-21

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Christmas time is an anxious one
for the shopper It h the season Of
the year when everyone loosens the
purse strings; the wealthy man in AN
endeavor 10 get the best and latest re
gardless Of cost; the poor 20 get as
much as possible far che money they
have to spare IT, fbs season Of the
year when the shopping problem is
paramount.
It's also the merchant harvest time
and he shares with the shopper the
anxieties of the season; the one to
please. the other 81 be pleased Crystal
Falls is no exception 70 the general
rule It's shoppers have their problems
and its merchants their trials during
the great strain of the holiday trade
In order TO be Of some assistance TO
the shopper and merchant alike repre-
sentative of this papes was sent the
rounds of the business places this week
TO find out what eperial article or ar
ticles each had to oiier mp with the idea
of placing the information before our
readers.
We find that Crystal Falls merchants
have strained every effort to place be-
fore their customers this year a selec-
tion that will at once please and fit
the purses of their customers. In no
other city, the size Of this one can
show better assortment of holiday
goods be found than is to be had in
the stores of this city
! The first place that we dropped into
was Buengers cigar factory where we
found Mr. Buenger and a couple Of men
hustling to fiji the orders which he had
received for holiday cigars put up in
the Emerson Series books, They
certainly make handsome and accept
able presents
We next dropped into the Parks Mer
camille company's store and in conver-
satiou with Mir EiSson learned that
this company will make an especial
effort to supply Gti customers with
the finest line Of poultry that has ever
been offered mere for the holiday trade
Orders were placed for this poultry
early and as they bought in large
quantities they got the cream Of the
market While the securing of fine
line If poultry is the especial aim Of
this firm they have other Christmas
goods TO offer one Of their especial
lines being some extra fine out glass
Its the genuine stuff and viii make
fine Christmas presents
Across the street we found T.. a.
Henry had added some excellent lines
of furniture specially tor the holiday
trade The iron beds that he has on
sale simply cannot be beaten either for
style or in price If you hve not seen
them you ought TO for they are certain
~ worth looking at. Re also has a
fine line of rockers on exhibition, the
prices on somo Of Which are noted in
another column tlat will make about
rs ire Christmas presents az we can
well imagine III addition he showed
US some excellent pictures and picture
frames just received for the Christmas
trade that will make handsome presents
In showing up his Christmas goods.
NJ j. Lindsay laid great stress upon
the fact that he will have garden stuff
for sale right in the dead of winter
Just think Of nice crisp lettuce. plump
raddishes and other garden stuff at
Christmas time housewives should
remember this when making plans for
their Christmas dinneres and leave an
order for their vegetables in time as no
more will be ordered than is sure TO
be sold
]. II. Flood pointed TO a heap Of pack
ages wrapped up and piled in the cor
ner of his store saying, lyon can see
that we have been doing something in
the sale OF Christmas goods and he GER
tainly had been doing stroke of bust
ness for there were great number Of
packages all sold and awaiting the
most convenient time for Santa to fill
his pack Mr.. Flood has az nice line
of toys and tree trimming as we have
seen in many day. He also has an
extra fine line of candies. Our readers
must not confuse the candies that Mr.
Flood handles with the cheap truck
that is to be found upon the market
He handles Gunther's goods and they
are the best made some OF the candieG
that he carries costing as high a. one
dollar per pound. OF course he carries
a lot Of the cheaper grades also
Mrs f. ~ Berg is selling ont her
stock Of goods. consisting Of toys, can
dies and other lines of Christmas goods
She certainly offers some fine induce
ments for bargain hunters TO buy their
Christmas goods of her All Of her