Show TORES ARE TO KEEP OPEN BEGINNING NEXT WEEK CLERKS WILL BE RUSHED business houses will accommodate wish to shop in evening from thursdays standard christmas trade among the merchants of ogden has been the best in many years the season opened with a rush which ha increased in magnitude until the total trade up to the day before the holidays bids fair to be the largest in the history 0 all local merchants in not a few of the largo stores many special clerks have been put on to handle the increased trade to accommodate buyers who are in the habit of making their purchases in the late hours of the evening the stores will be opened all next week until ton thia arrangement is maddt with regret on the part of the obliging dry goods merchants so many come in tha stores between the hours of alx lx and ten that the rush and tear is distracting to the weary clerks that have been polite all day in serving the exacting public customers como in with an order that they wish filled in a hurry the clerks are busy and cannot immediately attend to the wants of the customer when he does get around to the waiting party he is met with a curt demand to procure the goods with dispatch the wrath of the customer is in the meantime nursed to keep it warm it finally breaks out in a deprecatory denunciation of the clerk which ends with the indignant party sweeping out of tha store partly supplied and wholly out of humor this performance may be repeated moie than once before the party is finally supplied with christmas goods to overcome this bad state people are advised to start their holiday shopping earlier in the day more satisfaction will be obtained both in attention and material gain |