NOTES AND MEMORANDA.
Special line® at Morey’s are being offered for the Christmas Season. The auctioneers and merchants have a notice in this issue with respect to the closing of their Stratford offices and warehouses for the Christmas holidays. The Borough Council office®, as notified in this issue, will be closed from Tuesday, December 24tli, until Tuesday, January 7th. if you are looking for a ready-to-wear suit, straw or felt hat, ties, shirts, braces, handkerchiefs, travelling bags, rugs, umbrellas, or boots and shoes, you are invited by a replace advertisement in this issue to make straight for the H.B. Clothing Factory,
The saddlers of Stratford announce in another column that their shops will be closed from the 24th inst. for tlie remainder of Christmas week, and will re-open on Monday, 30th inst. Mr J. H. Thompson is offering some specially attractive town properties for sale just now on easy terms. They are really good propositions. Santa Claus had decided to make his headquarters at T. G. Grubb’s Music and Fancy Goods Stores, Broadway, this Christmastide, and brings with him an artistic selection of dainty goods, up-to-date literature, beautiful nic-nacs, fancy goods, and everything that will please and gladen the hearts of the little ones are to be disposed of at very moderate prices. The world’s best makes of pianos, sheet music, tho latest for songs and dance, will be found at Mr Grubb’s. An inset to this effect is circulated with this issue.
Messrs Collins Bros, publish a notice to tho public in another column. A married couple are wanted immediately to milk a few cows.
A smart boy to learn the plumbing and tinsnuthing trade is wanted. Mr Fred Edwards, the well-known chemist, of Broadway, is quite noted for the attractive, original, and very tolling window displays he makes from time to time. His Christmas window is an artistic display of specially imported perfumes from tlie famous Paris house of Piver. Tho whole window is devoted to a display of perfumes, soaps, and toilet powders bearing the Piver hall-mark of high quality, and the display is evidence of the big business in these lines Mr Edwards is doing. The perfume cases include bottles and boxes to suit everybody who wants to make a dainty present. x Every child is looking forward to Santa Claus at Christmas time, when stockings are found filled to the brim, and the best place to secure thoso stockings is- at C. E. James’. AM this week the shop lias been crowded with delighted buyers and we would strongly advise our friends not to wait till Xmas Eve, but those who can should shop early in order to avoid the crush that always occurs at this popular establishment. The shop will remain open every evening till 9 p.m. during the Xmas season.x
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 98, 20 December 1912, Page 6
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