The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14
OUR RETAIL STORES
CREDIT TO THE
Downtown Business District
Impresses Those Who Visit
the City.
BECAUSE OF ITS SIZE
Buildings Are Large and
Garry Heavy and Complete
Stocks.
BECAUSE OF ITS SIZE

the size of the city. However this ir-
regularity is easily discernable AMI
more notable when one takes a peep
into one of the busy business houses.
Economy begins with the storekeep-
er and hence the advantages of good
retail town are SO obvious that con-
siderable attention is being paid to
the city. To come down to hard facts
there is nothing quite so important,
that is other things being equal, than
that person with family should live
in city where there is sharp COM
| petition in the retail trade and where
the trade is conducted along progress
sive lines with the accompanying large
volume of business. Grand Forks Of
fers all these advantages to the family
man and the sharp demand for houses
shows how the family man feels about
the matter.
There is nothing limited as to the
trade field of the city. City buyers
are not the only ones to patronize the
large stores. Retail advertisements in
this issue of the Evening Times play
close attention to the wants of the out
of-town people and a large mail order
business results. Within 100 miles Of
Grand Forks $4,000 people are snugly
quartered the year round. The small
stores in the immediate vicinities are
generally able to supply the necessi-
ties of the people, but when these peo-
pie go shopping" in earnest, Grand
Forks is the only town on the map
The present prosperity of the people
and the wide variety of wealth scat
tered about preclude the possibility of
a poor season.
When the harvester is here there Is
ready money. When the harvester is
gone the thresher steps in and fills the
shoes. When the thresher disappears,
the lumber jack and the railroad la
borer besides the regular trade come
into view. During the winter months
the farmer is heavy buyer, while in
the spring the regular boom beings in
earnest. There is money in circula-
ton the year round and the retailer
and manufacturer know no dull monl-
ents. The storekeeper should be, and
is, entitled to considerable praise for
the progressive spirit shown, progress
siveness which prompts him to erect
and occupy immense buildings. A
knowledge of the facts in connection
with the retail trade therefore dis
sipates all thoughts which might have
gathered that the stores are too far
ahead of the city. Grand Forks is
populated by the most prosperous peo-
pie in the world and the retailers are
among the number. They are the ones
who had the foresight to develop their
institutions so as to maintain the name
devolving upon Grand Forks as the
chief business center Of the state.
There is justification in the occupancy
of hugh buildings as large as those in
Minneapolis and st. Paul when there
is patronage fully as large.
Strides in Past Hw0' Months.
Within the past two months a large
four-story pressed brick building has
been completed, this building being
now occupied by R. B. Griffith, and is,
even without the departments in ad-
Joining buildings, the largest store in
four states. 1t stands a silent momu-
ment to the perseverance and bust
ness ability of its owner who has been
a citizen of Grand Forks for twenty
five years. Within the past two
months a new retail store has opened
it's doors to the buying public. This
firm, N. C. Zuelsiorf & Co., occupies a
frontage on the principal street of
over 100 feet and carries all the latest
stocks of dry goods and wearing ap-
parel The Benner, Begg and Garvin
department stores form another gigan-
tic establishment. Within the past two
months this company completed a
large addition to its building on South
Third street The firm handles dry
goods, mems furnishings and the like,
including all about six distinct depart
ments. NJ. Stanchfield is another of
the progressive dealers of this pro-
gressive town. Mr.. Stanchfield also
has done things within the past two
months. OF course he has always
done things, but he is doing more than
ever. He doubled his floor space and
added line of children's furnishings.
The George H. Wilder stores are
growing daily not only in popularity,
but in size and Importance. George
Schwam looks happier as time goes by
and c. H. Opsahl has an extra force
at work from morning till night. The
Mammoth Wolff Department store is
another of the fingers of the hand of
enterprise which is reaching out over
the entire state. This shop is under
the watchful eye Of Sig Wolff and is
one of the solid ventures of the city.
The New York Outlet is prospecting
and will soon move into new quarters.
Within the past two months, The Hub,
large store on Third street with a
frontage on the sidewalk of over 100
feet has been established and Is doing
remarkable business for it's short ex-
istance.
The Volume Of Trade.
1t is hard matter to get at the year.
ly figures of the volume of trade done
in Grand Forks. These figures might
he available il one had only the larger
merchants tn doa1 with Inf with tho