Show A ROUSING CHRISTMAS merchants arc doing an immense business holiday goods and the best quality are sold as fast as they can be handled evidence of prosperity that there Is a most prosperous condition ot affairs in ogden and vicinity Is evidenced by the immense business which the merchants arc doing every day and especially in the line of holiday goods for years the holl oay trade in ogden has been fair and it has been improving every year oter taco previous one but the demonstration of this past week is a greater one in support ot the contention that financial matters are improving than ever before every merchant in the city has a chance and they are taking it they felt all through the fall that the conditions were improving rapidly and they one and all put in abarge stock of good goods tor holiday trade as well as for their regu lir lines and the result Is that they find that they have bought none too liberally it they expect to handle all the business which cornea to them aliey are as busy as they can be and have been made to every force of clerks in the city in to handle the business the stores aro crowded with purchasers and some of them wait by the hour before they can be attended to even with the increased force of attendants it is certainly a good omen when the people become to a certain sense extravagant in their purchases of holiday goods and it means that there Is a permanent condition of prosperity in ogden there is going to be a rushing bis christmas in ogden and everybody almost will be in it and when you look at the little ones and the larger ones too who are enjoying the bene ats and pleasures of holiday christmas cheer it will be not amiss to think of those few who perhaps will not be subject to the same prosperous conditions there are some people in ogden who will not see a great and gior lous christmas unless they are permitted to look at it through the efforts of some of their more fortunate brothers and sisters remember ne member these they are worthy of it and they should he taken care of in this week of celebration of the birth of the king of kings the life and love of the world he came upon earth to teach love and love means everything love means that you should take care of ahe poor and especially are the children to be cared for thore will bo many homos in ogden where santa claus will not unless there are inducements offered and it is for the more prosperous and fortunate to offer those inducements du there are many ways in which to aid the poor and each man or woman has at band a through the church some relief society or charitable association or by personal investigation and the a should not bo a family in ogden who not enjoy the goods of chri chrie E roas and new years days |