The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-14
Everything Ready for Begin
ming of Work of Groceries.
Meats and kitchenware
Departments
Opportunity For
Saving Presented
Cleanest. Brightest and Coolest
Place In City. and Promise
Is That 1t viii Become Most
Popular Shopping Place.
Discount First Five Days

Arran genents are completed ana.
with few exceptions, all stock haS been
placed on beautiful white, clean and
sanitary shelves and counters for the
opening Tuesday morning Of the
Union Stores. cooperative. The
Union Stores on that day will open
three of It's great departments for
business. These are the groceries and
meats departments and the glass
ware china and kitchenware depart
ments. located in the basement of the
large building formerly occupied az
the postoffice at the corner of Seventh
and Franklin streets.
The last few days have been busy
one for General Manager Roberts. OF
the stores, and Manager Bennett, Of the
departments to be found in the base
ment. and for their forces. While
carpenters and fnisbers have been at
work on the upper floors mechanics
installing the refrigerating system In
the basement. and the office STAFF mail
ing out announce ments of the OPEN
ing to the more than twenty-five hun
bred Richmond stockholders, the men
who XIII hs. employed In the first de-
partments 10 he opened, have been en-
gagged in placing stock.
Bright, Healthful, Cool.
New, with enough yet TO be done TO
keep the clerks and statesmen busy
during tomorrow in setting the re-
mainder of the stock to rights, many
Of the articles In bulk or In the pack
ages in which they will be sold, are
already on the shelves or behind the
glass show fronts of the opalite glass
topped counters with which the food
departments are equipped. The base
ment departments are finished
throughout in white enamel, the floors
are of cement and the place Is we'll
mt tnI ~ al
Cleanliness and airiness are carried
through in the scheme of things In q
degree so marked that the Union
stores in opening Tuesday will pre-
sent to the housewives of Richmond
the coolest, cIeanest, prettiest and
most sanitary place in the city.
The basement departments are 30
cool that buying at the Union stores
will be real pleasure. One of the
coolest spots in Richmond yeste rday
was this basement.
The prices of all goods in the Union
Stores will ne found to be considerably
below the regular prices But in adj
dition TO this, in order to get people
of Richmond fully acquainted with
the merits Of the stores. the stock and
the service, the anagement has
been authorized by the stockholders
10 make a further inducement. Thte
inducement is presented in the form
of souvenir discount card. which Is
to he good for the first FIVE days only
of the business of the stores,
Discount Gard Saves More.
The discount card, which may be
obtained from any of the stockholders
OF the institution or at the ONCE o.
Manager Bennett In the basement, OIL
application, is redeema BILE at the Of
fee of the stores on the second floor
for per cent of the total OF the
amount OF purchases made during the
first five days. from Tuesday to Sat-
urday. inclusive. provided the amount
of the purchases is three dolla~s or
more The suggestion given with the
discount card is Use this discount,
and the savings of your purchases
for the purchase of stock in Union
Stores"
There are already more than 2.600
stock oiders, OF whom more than
2.200 live In the city, AS soon as tha
retail portion of the business has
been placed in operation the Union
Stores will enter into the mail order
field II is the intention of the stock
holders to have the stores. so far 81
posS ible, handle Richmondmade goods,
Many such will be found in the stores
at the beginning Of their operation.
and others will be added as the new
departments to which they properly
belong are opened
The entire plant will be In opera
ton 1t is expected. by the latter part
of the summer.