The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-01
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 unsafe and so they just hide it away | just much taken out of busi-. ness
 ..No; we do not look for slow 1 Christmas. We are optimistic. Why should it be slow Christmas? There | is plenty of money in town. Look at the picture houses. Never so crowded in their history All kinds of sport crowded and people riding on trains. Yes, am sure that there is going to be good business this Christmas just there always has been.''
 Miss Bennett of the D. M Read Company said: am sure we are going to have good Christmas trade | have begun to buy. We have noticed | it in the toy department where we have a larger stock than we ever had any year before. People are buying automobiles and wagons and they are also buying many of the educational toys
 good Christmas demand for merchan- disc that the date of our annual fur niture sale, which usually occurs in January. is to be advanced to next week. I should think trade in this line would be very brisk for many of the prices will be cut in half''
 D. M. Jones of the same firm said: We expect a large Christmas trade. The Savings Banks are full of money and some Of it is going to be spent for Christmas and earned back again next spring. Don't you remember was on that people were restless be- spend their money? They will make the most of 1t now, and in my opinion the prices which they will pay are lower than they will be little later
 There has been such a propa- ganda against retailers that most of l much. I have talked with great many retailers and they all tell me
 that their profits for this year will , be very low and in some cases men are selling goods at loss. There l has not been the same amount o1
 propaganda against the manufactur- CT that there has against the retailer
 and as a result the manufacturer has
 not been obliged to cut his prices and
 profits to the same extent that the | retailer has,"
 Benjamin F. Morrison, manager o1
 the George B. Clark Furniture Go.
 saw mo reason why things should not go along and we have goo6
 Christmas business. There are some people out of work in the town jus at present and perhaps they are no . there is plenty of money in town ant
 there is no reason why busines l should be bad. Look at the auction
 of real estate which Joseph P. Da. $ conducted. He sold over a million l dollars worth. That shows that ther are people in town who have mean = and are confident of the future.
 expect that from about next Satur = day we will be very busy"
 James w. Connors, president o e the Connors Clothing Co.,, said: '' - think we are going to have goo
 Christmas. The prospect in tn
 mems furnishing line is especial1 good. But I think there will be thi Il difference from last year. I thin =. this year people will buy necessitie
 and useful articles where last yea t the purchases were mostly luxurie: There won't be as many pianos an l. diamonds bought this year but ther . will be a good trade in practice 70 things. Already ladies are coming i d and selecting scarfs and ties and sue
 things for presents
 n Thomas O'Donnell, manager of Bt v, dell Company, when asked his opinio y replied: Il am very optimistic for
 good Christmas trade. see no re;
 son for feeling any other way. It h: es already begun with us. We have ha a good day today. Of course we ( AI not expect to feel the increase " Christmas trade as much in our lin
 as we do not carry any of the thin;