The daily sentinel., 1906-12-22
SOME PRETTY WINDOWS
Never in the History of Grand june
tion Was There More beautiful
Window Displays than
at This Time of the
Year


oil Grand Junction or several times
larger, that can boast of more up to
date or beautiful window displays of
| holiday goods than this city. Remarks
along this line have been most gem
eral this week especially among the
visitors to the city
The window decorations and ar
rangements would do credit to stores
in Denver and other big cities. The
| local merchants have the modern
IDEAS and these employed with or
iginal plans result in some window
pictures that are hard to excel.
The Sentinel will call attention to
some of these windows in passing.
The Crown Furniture company al
ways has pretty windows and their
showing of handsome rockers and
bric-a-brac attracts the attention of
every passer by The centerpiece of
one of the windows is an exact coun-
terpart of President McKinley's fav-
orite chair.
Fred Mantey, the saddle man, max
es handsome and unique showing of
leather goods.
Ed Ryan, the clothing man. has his
windows filled with fine suits and
other articles of modish clothing.
The G. V. Stores miniature electric
railway and landscape scene stlll at
tracts the crowds
The big and attractive show Win
dow of the Primrose Jewelry house Is
a perfect blaze of beauty. An i'm
mense white arch as the centerpiece
of the window and placed around it
are assortments of the richest and
rarest things in the jewelry world.
The Grand Mercantile company's
Fourth street window is a handker-
chief show place. Pattern hats and
ladies coats fill up another win dow
while still another presents a hand
some collection of toys.
Cedar and holly decorations give
touch to the splendid displays of furn-
ishing goods in the monster windows
of the Red Trunk clothing house.
Chairs of the massive leather and
old Mission styles, beautiful table
holding a tea set, and a unique show
ing of fine chinaware and hand paint
ed goods. speak of the holidays, at
Bannister's furniture store.
There are no prettier window pic
turnes in town than those that act as
an index to the immense stock of the
Mesa Dry Goods store. ladies coats,
furs. handkerchiefs and novelties in
the dry goods line. are most taste
fully arranged. Gourley. the furni-
ture man. utilizing his three big
show windows to good advantage and
fascinates the passer by with the sight
of elegant pieces of furniture and
glass ware. and novelties in his line.
No firm gives more attention to
their displays then Sturtevant &
Quist, the druggists, and the arrange
ment of the large windows for the
Christmas holidays is most successful
Each window Is a scene of pronounced
beauty.
Vorbeck the Book and music store
man. hash failed in his window dec
orations and It takes a long time to
Iook over all the pretty things
in the windows Look at these win
dows and you cant resist the tempta-
tion 10 enter the store.
Heavy chairs of a late and unique
pattern. mahogony tables and lovely
pictures form criterion for the spec
ial holiday stock of Fleming e Lamb
the furniture men. have this year
There is a world of sweet candies
in one of the windows of the Cas-
sells grocery one big barrel is tilted
over and the goodies" confined there
in are flowing out. The other window
is holding great quantities of fresh
nuts. These windows certainly whet
the appetites of every child who looks
upon them.
The Progress grocery has its win
dows filled with the delicacies of the
/ holiday season.
The man or woman or child who
can pass along the southeast corner
of Fourth street without being at
| tracted by the lovely show windows
of the Sampliner store is not even
casual observer. Gentlemen's furn-
ishing goods of many classes are
shown and one window is set of with
/ an immense set piece.
Lohler, the clothing man. Is always
I right up to date with his windows and
generally has something novel in the
decorating line. A pretty Christmas
/ tree forms the center piece of one
| window filled with clothing novelties
and notions. while the unique winter
scene with the snow storm in prog
/ ress. is the center attraction in the
other.
The hardware store of Schmidt and
Sons gives many suggestions of yalu-
able and substantial Christmas pres
ents in their window display of silver
ware. cutlery etc,
The windows of the Fashion store
have a mysterious charm that holds
the attention of every lady that pass
es. These windows that are always
/ blossoming with the most delicate
and dainty creations of the dry goods