Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-10
MERCHANTS SAY sUBURBAN
 DAY WAS BIG SUCCESS

Suburban Day, which was observed by the Norwich stores Saturday, brought 1 several thousand visitors to the city from all parts of Eastern Connecticut The special Suburban Day issue of The Bull letin, which was circusted extensively in the territop- in this end of the state | had prepared residents of the communi- ties to make their plans to get to Nor wich on Suburban Day, and, according to all reports, thousands must have car ried out their plans and made the city their trading center for the day The streets and the stores showed by l the crows in them that the city had many visitors, and among the expressions of ! satisfaction. at the day on the part of i Norwich merchants were the following:
 John Porteous president of The Por- teous G Mitchell company: eve have every reason to feel satisfied with the volume of business which we had on Su- burban Day. Some of the earliest shop 2ers were people who came from a dis tance, in fact one of the first customers of the day stated that she had left her home in El1onk at o'clock in the morning so as to be on hand for the opening of the stories, and as the day advanced the number of shoppers in- creased, so that in the early afternoon, LAlI NAOWu ldAGu our CdpaClIy TOT ser
 vice, although we had made every prep aration to. take care of exha business ! which we expected on this occasion. AL
 though Suburban Day as the name sndi- c2tes, was arranged primarily for the
 Out-of-town people, still we were agree
 ably surprised at the number of local peo- i2le who took advantage of the Surbur-
 ban Day special offerings. showing that they also appreciated Jhs opportunity
 for advantageous buying which this oc- : Icasion
 Altogether" said MT. Porteous, e
 think Norwich merchants have every req.
 son to feel satisfied with the success o-
 Suburban Day. The merchants are to bt especially congratulated upon the splen
 did spirit of cooperation which was be
 hind the movement, without which thu best laid plans that were wee. ever de vised will fail. And the contribution O
 The Norwich Bulletin to the success O the movement should not be overlooked
 The well directed and vigrous publicit,
 campaign planned and carried out b,
 The Bulletin was in a large measure re
 sponsible for bringing to Norwich tn thousands of shoppers from all over east I ern Connecticut. And best of all tn public is to be congratulated upon tn
 large numbers that availed themselves O the opportunity for thrSt in buying which was offered them, on Suburban Day.
 F. W. Cary of the Eaton-Chase Go.
 We certainly noticed an increase of bus mess for the day. The weather interfe1
 red soTnewhat, but our business was gain over an ordinary Saturday and W , could see we had number of new GUS
 toners from the outside towns. It va moi quite equal to Suburban Day in tn spring but the weather had something t
 do with that.
 f Richard L. 1ewis of the Reid = i Hughes Co., In spite of the rain Subul ii ban Day was a success. In the after f noon the city was filled with people froi
 out of town and the stores naturally ber
 eftted. The evening crowds were lars
 also and we are perfectly satisfied wit
 the day.
 Y Will L. Stearns of the P. A. Wells Go v. It was a good day for business and n consider Suburban Day was a very sa n isfactory experience for the Norwic merchants.
 l. D. T. Shea of Shea & Burks: Suburba Il Day for the city is surely a good thin J. It brings many people to the city WI t. would not come otherwise and we cou'
 see that in the people on the streets ar
 thu. people in the stores who were read to become customers of Jur NorwiC
 stores