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Show SHOW YOUR LOYALTY Citizens of Gunnison have reached the season when they will have an excellent opportunity to demonstrate their loyalty to their home town. By this we mean the approach of the holiday season, and the unusual number of tempting offers that are going to come to them by way of mail order publications and through the ads in big daily papers. Then," too, there are still a few who yet believe that a gift to be appreciated must come from a "big town." And they never made a worse mistake. Do you imagine that the person to whom you are going to make a gift wants you to be disloyal enough to take the money you spend for it out of the town wherein you made that money, the town you depend upon for a living at Christmas time the same as you do all the balance of the year? Do you suppose that the men who run the mail order houses are going to buy presents for their families in your town? Look at it in a sensible light, and ask yourself if it is really a true Christmas spirit to take your trade during the holidays to people who will never be present to wish you a "Merry Christmas" and who don't care a rap whether you do or not so long as you answer their tempting offers and send or carry your money to them. Possibly the stocks carried here are not as gigantic as in the big city stores you're not so hard to satisfy but you can find something some-thing to meet your requirements, to satisfy the person to whom you wish to present a gift. And, too, if you will show your home merchants mer-chants the ad from the mail order house or the big city paper they will get the same thing for you, and at just as reasonable a figure. They'll be here to wish you a "Merry Christmas" and to help you and yours out if you get to a point where you need help, as some of us often do. Take all these things into consideration, and then ask yourself if you are really starting in to make Christmas happy for yourself and your neighbors if you do your Christmas buying out of town. |