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Wednesday the Greatest Day
of Opportunities in this Great
Coat Clearance
is
A bigger sale, because the styles are so up-to-date that any woman would be able to choose just the model tha
most becoming and that which expresses best her particular ideas as to individuality.
A bigger sale, because all the desirable and popular materials are included light or heavy weight beautiful plain
models or luxurious fur trimmed ones. Coats to wear now or in the spring and summer in fact coats for every kind
of weather or any sort of occasion, and every one' reduced and a remarkable bargain whatever you pay.
Here Are The Reduced Prices
Note the Fine
Materials and
Styles
-The season's finest
and richest materials
are made into the coats
found in this sale. There
are coats or Normandy,
Bolivia, Panvelaine,
Marvella, Veldyne, Er
mine, Evora, Orlando
and other fine fabrics.
The same variety is
true of the models
whatever style is best
suited to anyspecial fig
ure or occasion will be
found included in tjiis
immense stock We need
not mention the dif
ferent styles in detail
simply say, come and see
if we have exaggerated
All the fashionable
colors are to be found'in
this collection of coats,
and you will be very dis
appointed if a friendj
shows you her wonder
ful bargain and . you
can't exhibit an equally
desirable find from such
a collection. -
WAS
NOW
39.50 26.34
42.50 .. 28.34
47.50 31.67
49.50 33.00
52.50 35.00
55.00 36.67
59.50 39.67
62.50 41.67
65.00 43.6
67.50 4o.00
69.50 46.34
72.50 48,34
,75.00 50.00
79.50 53.00
82.50 55.00
85.00 56-67
87.50 58.34
89.50 59.67
92.50 61.67
95.00 63.33
97.50 65.00
98.50 6o.67
100.00 ... 6J.67
105.00 70.00
110.00 73.37
115.00 , 76.67
120.00 80.00
125.00 83.33
127.50 85.00
128.50 8o.67
132.50 -r 88.34
135.00 90.00
137.50 91.67
139.50 93.00
142.50 95.00
145.00 .. 96.67
147.50 98.34
149.50 99.67
150.00 "... 100.00
152.50 .... 101.67
155.00 ......... 103.33
157.50 105.00
158.50 105.67
159.50 106.34
160.00 106.67
162.50 108.37
165.00 H0.00
167.50 111,67
168.00 112.00
175.00 116 67
176.50 ...... 117.67
178.50 ,., 11900
179.50 ...... 119.67
182.50 121 67
185.00 ...... jui. 123.33
189.50 126.34
190.00 126.67
195.00 130.00
197.50 131 67
198.50 132.34
200.00 133-33
202.50 135.00
205.00 . 136.2p
207.50 ..7. 138.34
210.00 140.00
215.00 H3.33
217.50 145.00
218.50 14o6
220.00 146.67
225.00 , 150.00
Very Special
Values in
Junior v
Misses' Fine
Coats
Material and workman
ship just as fine as in
the larger models.
The Reductions Are
$15.00 Coats $10.00
$19.50 Coats ... . . $13.00
$22.50 Coats , ... $15.00
$25.00 Coats .... $16.67
$27.50 Coats .... $18.34
$32.50 Coats' .... $21.67
$35.00 Coats .... $23.34
$39.50 Coats .... $26.34
$57.50 Coats ....$38.34
SALE STARTS
9 O'CLOCK
WEDNESDAY
MORNING
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SOVIET TRYING
TO GET MONEY
All Sorts of Schemes Put in
Effect in Effort to Meet
Expenses.
Moscow, Dec. 27. (By the Associated
Press). The Soviet government is de
vising all sorts of taxes in an effort to
meet its expenses. It is reducing the
number of employes and charging for
everything which used to be free. A
State bank has been opened to facilitate
foreign trade. Bills of exchange will be
handled. Deposits will be accepted and
interest paid on them. Loans will also
be made. The capital of the bank is
3,000;000,000,000 rubles and the total is
sue of paper money to date is said to be
5,750,000,000,000 rubles.
The ruble continues to fall, and the
government and public alike are scramb
ling all the time for foreign currency.
Chicherin's offer to recognize the pre
vrar foreign debts if the Entente Pow
ers will grant Soviet Russia recogni
tion had no stabilizing effect on Bolshe
vist money.
The American Relief Administration
child-feeding, and the announcement
Ihixt warehouses will be established bv
the Hoover organization to supply food j
packages on drafts sent . from abroad j
have not checked the rising price of
bread and economists say it will con
tinue to rise unfcil the next harvest and
the famine will be far worse next Spring
than it is now.
It is clear that the Soviet govern
ment is reverting to capitalisms s rap-
idiy as it can without losing its Com
: munistic support .But Lenine. Kalenia
' and other leaders frankly admit in their
j addresses that this is being done only
j after stores of manufactured articles
i and financial resources have been ex
! hausted. They also say the change is
'being made merely to get a breathing
i spell for another attack on world capi
' talism.
j - With this threat ringing in his ears,
j the American or British business man
i who is in Moscow trying to establish
i commercial relilions, does not have
much heart in his negotiations. So far
j foreign business men ore not permitted
to rent offices. Neither may they rent
I apartments. They must live in the guest
nouses conducted by the Government.
All mail and telegrams for foreigners
not attached to some officiall mansion
must pass through the foreign office.
Odessa has appealed to the Moscow
government for permission to have in
'yurancc written in foreign companies
j so it can resume its export trade. After
j failure to get foreigners to operate the
iron industry in the Donetz Basin the
Government has organized a trust com
I bininer sevpral nf tho wnrtj nH
; will try to run them with the aid of
; leans from the State Bank. Shipping j
in the Black Sea has been even less;
j active than m the Baltic. Small craft
'thave taken flyers in the import and ex
jport trade but the turnover has been
almost negligible.
(GERMANY SELLS
RUSSIA ENGINES
111 General, However, Trade
Conditions Are Most Unsatisfactory.
Moscow. Dec. 27. (By the Associated
Press). Sixteen locomotives in all were
; delivered by Germany to Petrograd be
j fore the port was closed on account of
ice the middle ot" November. It had been
j promised by port officials that Pet rograd
jv .itai J v. i until lcct'lll'
ber 20. but the icebreakers failed to
function.
There are many rumors as to the
number of locomotives Russia has ac
tually contracted for in Germany. Best
(informed foreign commercial experts
say 000 is the actual number, and that
the deposits on these are not sufficient
to justify the Germans in starting a
large number of the railway engines.
Railway equipment is so essential to
moving raw materials which Russia
may assemble at interior points that
I foreigners are watching the efforts of
Russia to get railway supplies with unu
: sual interest. So far the foreign trade
agreement of the Bolshevist government
have been chiefly paper achievements
and the efforts of foreigners to do
.business in Russia have been so ham
(pered by conflicting decrees and bureau
j cracy that even the Germans, with
; their advantageous geographical posi
tion and superior knowledge of the Rus
sian markets, have been able to do but
little.
Other imports for the first nine
i months of 1921 totalled about 700.000
! tons. More than one-third of this was
foodstuffs, chiefly from Englnad. Fuel.
I which included coal from America, made
jup another third of the imports. Various
! metal articles made up one-fifth of the
j imports, and came chiefly from Ger
many. Machinery of various sorts, in
t eluding locomotives, steel rails, repairs
j for railway cars and engines and agri
I cultural impliments were included in
.the German shipments, which are the
, only considerable imports of such a
;cnaracter mat tney may pe said to give
evidence of the establishment of trade
on a permanent basis. England sent
chiefly grain and foodstuffs of a sort
which Russia would be exporting, rather
than importing, in normal years. Ger
many received chiefly flax, asbestos and
furs in payment for its machinery.
Without grain for exportation Russia
has kittle chance of buying extensively
abroad, and the pressing problem of the
Soviet government is how to get the
seed grain and farming implements nec-
esary to enable the peasants who sur
vive the famine to put in a crop next
spring.
Cold Weather
Winter is just around the corner Get
a pair nice warm boots and be ready
$5.00 to $9.85
We have some of the real nice ones
the kind you'll like Have a look.
Thompson's
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Since 1868
The Home of Good Shoes
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Bedroom Slippers
We have them for Mother, Sis
ter and Dad. A world of pretty styles
to choose from. So easy to giv3
such a pleasure to receive.
GILMER-MOORE CO.
Shoes, Hosiery, Luggage, Lingerie
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Piedmont Ma
301 East Second St.
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Our entire stock of ready
built Monuments being sold
at greatly reduced prices.
MaRe your selections early.
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Phone 694
FOR MEN f,
W. L. Douglas shoes are worn
bymen who show good taste
in selecting their wearing
apparel.
For Style, Cofnfort and Ser
vice W. L. Douglas Shoes
have been leaders for nearly half-a-century
and they are more popular today than
ever. You'll like the new styles this season.
NA TRANS
38 East Trade Street..
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DIAMONDS
Our many years of experi-
ence in selling precious atoriia
is your warranty against rnis
takes in judsrine quality is
value. See our showings of
gift suggestions in gems. ;
B. F. ROARK
i
Diamond Merchant, j
Jeweler, Silversmith
10 X. Trvon St.
Suggested Ways To Spend
That Christmas Check
Dinnerware One of those so beautiful open
stock patterns in fine American or
Imported China or Porcelain.
Pyrex Glass dishes for baking everything
from the smallest of custards to the
largest of baking dishes.
Rookwood The aristocrat of American Pottery,
in which we are showing all man
manner of handsome pieces.
Lamps Fire Goods Aluminum Percolators
and scores of other beautiful house wares on dis
play and sale in our Home Furnishings depart
ment, second floor.
SMITH-WADSWORTH
Hardware Company
, "The Quality Hardware Store" 'Jit
29 East Trade Street Phones. 64-6f '
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