Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . Were Worked Out — How the Leading Designs Were Worked Out. CLASS I. FIRST PRIZE—Window dressed byHarry Young, with Fred. Came, Vic-toria, SECOND PRIZE—Window dressedby J. H. Connal, of P. Connal & Son,Peterboro. CLASS II. FIRST PRIZE—Window dressed byJ. McDermid, Georgetown. almost every day saw a new bunch ofphotos on the editors desk and in thelast few days, after the grocers hadgotten through with the Christmas rushand had time to devote to something elsethan serving customers, they came inshoals. And they came from all over Canada, from Nova Scotia
Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . Were Worked Out — How the Leading Designs Were Worked Out. CLASS I. FIRST PRIZE—Window dressed byHarry Young, with Fred. Came, Vic-toria, SECOND PRIZE—Window dressedby J. H. Connal, of P. Connal & Son,Peterboro. CLASS II. FIRST PRIZE—Window dressed byJ. McDermid, Georgetown. almost every day saw a new bunch ofphotos on the editors desk and in thelast few days, after the grocers hadgotten through with the Christmas rushand had time to devote to something elsethan serving customers, they came inshoals. And they came from all over Canada, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, one of the latter a prize-winner by the dogs tail when they came to be ex-amined. There were windows withChristmas trees and windows withSanta Clauses, some with dolls and somewith pictures. There were fruit win-dows and candy windows, biscuit win-dows and canned goods windows, plainwindows and luxurious windows, and soon, almost ad plan inaugurated last year, of f * P f f .9 r *m f f. WINDOW DRESSING COMPETITION—FIRST PRIZE WINDOW CLASS I. SECOND PRIZE—Window dressedby E. J. Kirk, with Kirk Bros., Brace-bridge. Such is the result of The GrocersChristmas WindAw Dressing Competi-tion, as announced by the judges thisweek. It was a bigger task than ever. Fortwo or three weeks previous to the lastday of the year when the contest closed, way, and from nearly every city in eachof the Provinces. The interest in thisannual contest is certainly growing, andis very gratifying to- the publishers ofthe paper. A pleasing feature was thenumber of entries from Western Can-ada. There were big windows and littlewindows, some splendidly mounted onlarge mounts, and others that came inrolled up and that curled up like a pug dividing the entries into two classes,with the idea of giving a more just op-portunity to the grocers in the smallertowns and country districts, who arepresumed to have less facilities for win-dow dressing than their confreres in
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