The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-12-09
HOLIDAY SPIRIT
INSPIRES.EARLY
BUYING OF GIFT
Shoppers Already Overflow
Stores Viewing The
Gift Wares.
Prices Below Previous Few
Years Enticing Many
Early Buyers.
Stores Now Keeping Even
ing House Until After
The Holidays.

Holiday spirit fills the air in
Paris. Early shopping encouraged
by the local merchants, has been
abetted by the clemency of the
weather man this week, and hun
dreds of buyers have been taking
thoughtful advantage of the pretty
days to pursue Christmas prepara-
tions. The usual first Monday crowd
was increased by numerous Christ
mas shoppers from different parts
of the county, and the buying for
Yuletide has begun in earnest here
Any skepticism that the Christmas
spirit is manifest will be speedily
dispelled by the unusual evidence
of young America parked in store
aisles near toy counters, or in front
of shop windows, where enticing
dollie things, and drums, and erector
toys, and horns with wonderful
toots, and rubo-a-dub drums, and
games in variety and other Sanity
delights are shown. Even the grown
ups are most suspiciously nosing
nosing around among the Christmas
elegance of the stores in their holi-
day attire.
Exactly two weeks from Sunday
will be Christmas, the day of all
the year. The interim will be
rushed one for the merchants and
for everyone in general. 1t may
prove necessary to keep additional
stores open at night, although sew
eral merchants have begun this al
ready. and night shopping will prove
more popular as Christmas ap-
proaches.
Shoppers are pleased with this
years prices. There is no gruTffp-
ling that they are exhorbitant, but
a general popular sentiment prevails
that Paris merchants have made an
extra effort this year to present for
selection moderately priced goods.
There Is marked distinction between
the cost of numerous things this
year and the last few years, and the
buying public is expressing its graft
fication of the merchants eonsidera-
ton by starting the actual Christ
mas shopping in a very satisfactory
way.
Merchants preparatory to the usual
Christmas rush, and because they are
desirous of facilitating buying as
conveniently and practically as is
possible have engaged additional
sales forces for the pre-holiday bust
ness. Those stores particularly cater
ing to the Christmas trade have made
every possible preparation to care
for it. Polite and obliging clerks
are at hand to offer gift suggestions,
and to give lad in present selection.
The personnel in various of the
stores has been supplemented as fol-
lows: Mrs. George Dumas is at
Murrays as cashier; Trevathan's
sales force is increased for the holi-
days by Miss Winnie Bomar and
Fisher Crutchfield; added Christmas
clerks at Cooper's are, Miss Bern1ce
Price, Miss Lottie Hedges, Miss AL
berta Gray, Mrs Fannie Blackwood;
at McGehee's Variety Store are, Nat
McGehee, George Douglass, Aubrey
McGehee, and Misses Fannie White,
Treva Sparks, Hinda McFadden and
Margaret Brockwell at McElroy's s
Five and Ten Cent Store, Misses
Love Brandon and Myrtle Jobe;
Miss Minnie Miller will assist at
McSwains during Christmas; j. F..
Anderson at STAMINA Greensboro s.;
Tom Brown at Luckey & Jones';
James Frank Porter at Howard q
Jobe's; Miss Thelma Ivie. at Hol-
lands; Mr.. Will Morris, formerly
OF Stamm & Greenstone's is now
permanently at Hollands, and Prem
tiss Eaker formerly with Blanton's
grocery has accepted a permanent
yrvifinp at Fla lxa,S prOnprV