Hardware merchandising October-December 1910 . window devoted to fire-place accessories in brass. Not only isthe appearance of the store brightened,but Mr. Gardner reports that the artlines serve as effective trade getters forother lines. The fall season has been quite busy inWoodstock, but the lack of heavy build-ing operations, both in city and country,has made the demand for builders hard-ware lighter than usual. It is expectedthat the new industries secured duringthe past season will mean busy build-ing operations next year. LAMPS IN HOLIDAY DISPLAY. Orangeville.—Adamson & Sproule, inone o
Hardware merchandising October-December 1910 . window devoted to fire-place accessories in brass. Not only isthe appearance of the store brightened,but Mr. Gardner reports that the artlines serve as effective trade getters forother lines. The fall season has been quite busy inWoodstock, but the lack of heavy build-ing operations, both in city and country,has made the demand for builders hard-ware lighter than usual. It is expectedthat the new industries secured duringthe past season will mean busy build-ing operations next year. LAMPS IN HOLIDAY DISPLAY. Orangeville.—Adamson & Sproule, inone of their holiday windows a year ago,featured electric table lamps, and foundthat it helped to draw trade. The accompanying picture shows thearrangement of their window, and theirmethod of shading the light from ped-estrians eyes, while throwing it uponthe goods on display. The shield ofcutlery, the trimming of the shelves withspoons, and the arrangement of the hol-lowware on the pyramid and in the baseof the window, is effectively Lamp- Used iii Holiday Window by A damson & Sproule, Orangeville. 39 HARDWARE AND METAL A SHORT CUT NEEDED. London. A customer walked into aLondon hardware the other day andlor a bill for a screen door orsuch article purchased about sixweeks previous, and which he wished tocharge Ins landlord with. The price was„oi known, and the date uncertain. Theyoung lady bookkeeper hunted up thecheck-book copies for the month in ques-tion, and began to look through themEor the name. After a quarter of anthe customer began to squirm, andB clerk, grasping the situation, wrote out. check-book slip for amount to be approximately cor-,„d sent the customer away rejoic-,„„ Of course, this might have beendone in the first place, provided the pro-prietor or clerk was assured that thetransaction was bouafide, but is thereany short cut to the finding of such rec-ords? - It is probable that the majority ofhardware dealers in London use a sys-tem e
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