Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-15
AdeIe's Shopping Cart
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home. What Christmas present
that would make.
While / was in Damascus, !
paid a call on the new Zems
store, and picked up the informa-
tion that until Christmas they're
sellings boys winter coats, up to
size 8, and all girls coats, at 25
percent off. If you've been put.
ting off getting a new coat for
the offspring, you probably won't
have an opportunity like this
{ again.
There's an anniversary celebra-
ton going on in Damascus now
Mrs. Marian w. MacNab is
celebrating her first year in her
real estate offices there. She's
an attorney, SO doing real estate
business with her makes every
Z thing handy, because she can
{ handle all the legal details.
9 On the way down-county from
Damascus 1 stopped off at Cal
thersburg to do two errands.
First, wanted to check with Jim
: Spring, at Paint and Hardware,
about what time Friday I'm sup
posed to help judge his children's
photo contest. BY the way, l hope
you've gotten your junior Bach
rach's entry in.
Then / went to see what
Thomas & Co. have to offer for
Christmas. l can't begin to name
all the things, but they have just
about any kind of houseware or
big-toy gift you could possibly
want. It's nice place to shop,
too, even if Bill Chisholm is a
Sig Ep.
Gude'S is right on the way, so
/ stopped in there to admire the
flowers and greens and was
told that everyone else is invited
to come in and do just that. The
people there will give you new
ideas, if you want them, on how
to decorate your house or club
hall for the holiday festivities.
They also have everything there
is 10 decorate with.
The old reliable gift, of course,
is a ceramic ashtray, cigarette
box, or candy dish. And there's
a tremendous opportunity to get
such things at practically-nothing
prices now, because Jacmars fur
niture store, in Rockville, is clos
ing out their ceramics and pot
terry department on their second
floor.
Maurice Blanko, owner of Jac-
mars, says he wants to clear out
all of these things and doesn't
care about making profit on
them. Reason is that he's going
to put in whole line of juvenile
furniture in that space.
Hanson Watkins, of the A. c..
Watkins Co. in Rockville, tells me
that he has some kind of gizmo
that you can put in a well that's
gone bad, to make it ,drinkable
and raise it to health department
standards. Being a total blank in
chemistry, l don't understand it
at all, but Mr.. Watkins does and
he'll explain it to you if you need
something of the sort.
Now, If you'll hang on tight,
I'll deliver in rapid-fire success
sion a couple of Christmas gift
ideas.
First of all, there's Singer sew
ing machines. For anyone who
sews at all, you can get a really
appreciated gift at any one of
the Singer centers. And the
beauty part is that they have
attachments, trimmers and even
whole machines at almost any
price you want to spend for a
particular gift.
Then there's the fruitcake de-
partment. (Reminds me of the
time couple of weeks ago when
my friend Dot called me up and
in a voice of panic asked If we
had any empty coffee cans in the
house. / found two, and she said
bring them over right away,
which / did. On my way into her
house l met two other friends,
each bearing two empty coffee
cans. Seems she started to make
fruitcake for Christmas presents
and when she got halfway
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