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Show pCHANTS OF LOGAN I ENJOY UNPRECEDENTED HOLIDAY BUSINESS A banner holiday business was enjoyed en-joyed by tho morchnnts of the city. A representative of tho Republican jnado a call on tho merchants Wednesday Wed-nesday morning to find out tho exact status of the holiday business, and In the Interviews had, tho facts (leaned were, that never beforo in the history of tho city was there inch a volume of holiday trade. December De-cember will, without doubt, go own on tho records of Logan merchants mer-chants ns tho biggest month's business busi-ness In their entire history. This highly desirable and prosperous pros-perous condition Is duo to a number of things. Logan's over growing loportanco as the shopping center tt tho valloy together with tho fact that tho merchants aro each year enlarging nnd carrying stock of merchandise mer-chandise as comploto In kinds, and is high In quality as aro to bo found to the larger cities of tho stato. Tho modern methods In decoration decora-tion nnd display of their lines of aerchandlso, making tho storos in-rltlng in-rltlng nnd cheerful, and their ser-vlco, ser-vlco, which Is truly of big city order. or-der. Tho Incoming and outgoing trains every two hours enablo tho peoplo from out of town to come In to do their "shopping nnd get homo again with the minimum loss of time. Tho Ideal Christmas weather aided aid-ed much In tho wny of checrlness and good fellowship as all seemed to revel In this bounteous fall of I enow. I Expressions from merchants In tho different lines wero such ns those pressed below: Clothing mcrch-pTants, mcrch-pTants, "the biggest decomber over." T "Ono thousand dollars ahead of last I year." "Wo sot a mark to reach and I passed It " Furnlturo dealers, "had to turn down business." "Tho best business we over find." Dry goods merchants, "A forty per cent increase increa-se over last year." "Delighted; beyond be-yond our expectations." "Every now ono creates business; the biggest business we ever had; tho moro tho merrier." Hardware dealers, "Tho biggest ever." "Saturday, Dec. 23rd, was also the biggest day wq ever had In the history of our business." "Better than last year; a dandy business." Grocery merchants, "Tho biggest business we ever had; almost al-most cleaned us out." "A big Increase In-crease over December ono year ago." "Highly delighted and n pleasant surprise." "A fine trade and much larger than last year." Produce merchants, "Moro than wo could expect," ex-pect," "A fine holiday business." Several merchandise dealers, "This Decomber broke all records." "I don't understand this continuous growth, tho biggest ever." Confectionery Confec-tionery merchants, "Almost moro than wo could handle." "A big Increase, In-crease, far beyond our expectations." "I don't think wo could havo handled handl-ed more; tho best in our history." These expressions will convlnco tho doubtful of tho truth of tho stntemont mado in tho beginning of this article and to tho Logan Republican Repub-lican tho results of this Inquiry are truly pleasing as wo feel that tho nowspapors of Logan nro very potent factors In this business Increase. They, too, have enjoyed a flno fall and feel to take part of tho credit for this highly satisfactory condition condi-tion In tho business of Logan, as tho gospel of "Iluy nt homo" Is tho i only ono they believe In. Wo rejoice re-joice with you and hope to bo of sor-vlco sor-vlco In the campaign for further growth and continued prosperity. |