The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-05-23
Over 400 New. Customer. Come
to city's Frat Big y.
Market Day |
MERCHANTS ENTHI p !.
BY sATURDAY'sS LES
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Boys Band Plays .Nam!1bere
Selections Before En-
thu,iastic Crowd

Market Day, Saturday, May 81,
was a big success, if the opinions of
the merchants may be taken as an
index. In the first place the Market
Day committee placed an order with
the weather mar for fine day and
the weather man delivered the goods.
The outstanding features Of the
day was the large number OF GUS
toners who came from long distances
to get their share of:the bargains, and
apparently they were satisfied. A
few of the remarks made to a rep
resentative Of The Pioneer this, morn
ing serve as guide as to the mer-
chants opinions Of the day: 4ss 81, !
eve couldn't get our store swept
out in the morning; the people were
waiting to get in as soon as the doors
opened''-from q shoe store. :: =. ~. :.
eve didn't have enough clerks; we
could have kept two more clerks busy
all day"-from another shoe store.
"The best day since the Christmas
holidays another store. This
merchant was busy counting up mis-
Saturday sales when The Pioneer
representative called. He hadn't had
time to add them up Saturday. :
. AT 7:45 a man was waiting at 2
hardware store to get in to buy q
specially advertised potato planter.
He bought it. Cream separators
were the leaders at another hardware
store and they went quick. A new
cashier at q clothing and drygoods
store, when asked how many bargain
DAYS q week she would like, replied
that bargain days such as saturday
were not popular with her. The at
ternoon was q hdmmer,' was the YER
dict of the store management. One
grocery store reported 200 new GUS
toners. ~
Thirty per cent increase over pre-
vious Saturdays sales was the expert
ence of a department store. Res
taurants, ice cream parlors, shoe shin
ing establishments, in fact, practically
every line of business reports having
profited greatly. Business came from
towns as far north as Gemmell, from
beyond Laporte on the south, Wilton.
Solway, Bagley, Shevlin, Pinewood,
Clearbrook, Leonard, Gonvick, Gully,
Oklee, and towns beyond, were rep
resented in large numbers by the Gus
toners at the various stores in town.
"They were the finest kind of Gus
toners, too" said one merchant.
"They were well satisfied with the
goods and the prices" 80.
The unanimous verdict was that
the Market Day feature should be
continued. The only criticism heard
was the fact that the day set aside
for the special Market Day was; Sat
urday. A number expressed the onin-
ion that the next Market Day should
be held about the middle Of the week
owing to the fact that Saturdays are
usually busy days under ordinary
conditions and it would make it pos
sible to take care of the extra bust
ness without SO much additional help
and instead of having one big day IN
the week it would mean two days.
tt is estimated that four to five
hundred new customers visited Be.
midi Saturday, and this fact OF itself
will give an idea Of the additional
business brought to the CITY,.
10 IQdhc ItlS Iue1y q SOtAtHASSS.
cess, the Juvenile band apgeaEed IN
their neat white Unfit forms and played
generously at various places on the
streets. A travelling man in front q
the Markham hotel was heard, to. re.
mark "If Bemidji didn't have another
thing to boast Of, that band would
put her on the map Big :.5: .s5,:,
s"That Is the best disciplined boys
band I ever saw" was the remark
heard of representative Of a large
Minneapolis wholesale house. ...s.:a.
.'You ought to be proud OF your
band" was the opinion expressed by
a tohrist, sitting in his car listening
to the boys playing on Third street.
Considering the fact that a mum.
Der Of the members Of the band have
recently been promoted, and that they
have been in training less than siS
months, the music was most credltabie
and was deserving Of the many COM
pliments heard on all sides. :
Tie boys were treated after tnell
playing by p. W. Hannah ~-..'.
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