Show Looking Looking- LookingBack Back at Christmas Y Major Amos Hoople's friend Ashton W TV brought his sister laws s 's gift sm smoking jacket jacke over to Our Boarding II louse use on a swapping expedition a little scene was enacted enacted en en- acted that is characteristic of the da lay day after Christmas Christinas To the casual observer in the thc shopping district Wednesday it may have appeared ap ap- ap that the stores were about as bus busy as us in inthe inthe the he last rush hours before the great 1101 holiday The marked do down n sales attracted big throngs of thrifty buyers but a large part 0 of the crowds con consisted isted of both givers and receivers of f presents bent on making exchanges exchange A veteran merchant ventured the opinion that not less than exchanges would be he made in b the two days das following Santa Claus Claus' annual calling day He also remarked about a a. a aman man who said he lie had received eighteen neckties for Christmas and who tried to trade five of them in on a shirt He lIe Ie still has the eighteen ties tics Christmas trade generally showed manifest improvement over a year car ago and set a seven- seven year rear record for early sellout of holiday goods Jobbers' Jobbers stocks locally were exhausted before the Monday 7 rush set set in While no consolidated consoli consoli- dated tabulation has been made every indication indication indication indica indica- tion is that t sales volume both in dollar value nd and in number far outstripped that of any year since 1929 An increase of 60 per cent in women's wear ready and a pronounced gain for jewelers are arc taken as significant in in- Postoffice figures show a marked increase Df of business over that of a year rear ago Mailings were up over 13 per p cent with packages pack pack- ack- ack ages comin coming in for Salt Lakers and aud going out A L Ly y very yi-y ry practical mind might possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly figure that townspeople benefited in this exchange by exactly packages But if he did someone might quote Acts 20 2035 35 to him A 4 total tofal of letters and cards were mailed in the holida holiday rush So it seems the I postman did his part in making Christmas a success as is usual the thc load d deliveries de dc- de- de liveries were made without delay There were O extra on the special payroll pa roll and was earned b by them as Santa Clausi Claus Claus' i Helpers elpers The community and its merchants should be abundantly py cheered er d by the undoubted fact that freer spending this year ear is is' is a definite sign of the return of confidence |