Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-08
COUNTY HAS BEEN COMBED
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 BEST AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITS

| but I was especially taken with the wealth of cunning things for little folks. It seemed to me it would be the greatest fun in the world to fit out a bunch of kiddies with these lovely little bonnets which look like fairy stories or Greenaway pictures.
 This is a shop where one can have old hats made over too, with excel lent results, and have old ribbons or velvets or trimmings renewed by the hands of an expert at very reasonable prices. Mrs. Hines has an eye to the needs of country women and has many good things just suited to our use.
 Prescott will be wide open to all of us country folks during the fair and already the atmosphere of welcome is felt One of the places that our men folks will find most interesting is the Biles-Lockhart Clothing store. There is not only everything that a man Can want to wear-unlesS 1t is a Hun helmet or a suit of chain armor but there is a very genuine wei come whether you want to buy any thing or not. And by the way I have been interested to find how much closer many of our merchants are in touch with country life than we ranchers are with town life. Mir. Biles, the head of the firm, IS a ranch CT as well as merchant, and full of all sorts of up-to-date information about our ranch problems.
 At another Prescott store l know a man who can talk seeds and plant ing and the latest farm management better than many farm demonstrat- ors. Some of our fair managers are practical stockmen-it's good to see such real interest in country life and problems-let us meet these people halfway and match experiences with them as we watch the sports on the fair grounds.
 I hape that everyone who comes to town fair week will drop in at the Bate Studio and see the gallery of paintings and also the beautiful, large photographs. of Arizona scenery which have made Tom Bate known wherever fine photography is known and valued. A Bate portrait or bit of scenery is an ideal gift at holiday time-as you will know if you take Q look at the pictures on display.
 One of my neighbors often asks me to get music and records for her, and while 1 don't know much about music I always find all she wants and more too at the Music Store in the Elks' building. 1 spent some time lately listening to the new phono- graphs there and was especially pleased with one of the smaller Vic tors, just suited to a country home both ill price and size, and as sweet and clear as the big and costly ma chimes.
 The new show window i'll the Bar gain Store is full of good things just now; this store has new line of mems goods of special interest to working men, particularly some of the most attractive Mackinaw coats 1 have seen. There are good, heavy shoes in great variety and overalls and all sorts of work clothes at greatly reduced prices. 1 noticed too some pretty comforterS and good blankets just right for cold weather. This is new store to many of our country people but one worth getting acquainted with.
 The new winter wall coverings shown at the Yavapai Decorating Shop are as pretty as the paintings ill the Art Department out at the fair. And the proprietors are per fectly willing to show them to us and tell us all about the latest ideas ill house decoration whether we have all order to give them or not.
 There is one store in town to which 1 have gone back a good many times to look at such a display of winter bedding as no housekeeper could re sist. 1 hadn't realized that mans clothing store would be showing such things till l happened to see Oscar Bruchman's window display which reminded me of the display of certain makers of bedding at the San Fran cisco Exposition. Inside the store l found such a variety of blankets and comforts as l had not seen for many a day-and at prices about third below the usual for such quality. There is line of camp blankets that ought to attract every cowboy and deer hunter just now, as well as other blankets almost too dainty for real use.