Christmas Presents! IT is no easy job to choose presents for the different friends you wish to remember. We can help you; we have useful things; we have a store full of bargains—dress gloves, hats, caps, shoes, men’s and ladies’ collars, hosiery, dry goods, fancy foulards, cali coes, ribbons, fascinators, woolen dress goods, pocket knives, raz ors, razor strops, scissors. Candy and nuts, etc; we invite the churches and Sunday schools to look over the candy and nuts, our line is complete and we make special prices in quantities. Say, we have a lot of sleds and no snow—what shall we do about it? WE BUY: Corn Wheat Oats I Hogs Cattle Sheep ;; Saturday, Dec. 19th 25 lbs sugar. $1.00 5 lbs navy beans.25c 14 bars laundry soap, 25c 9 lbs 15c coffee.$1.00 5 lbs 25c coffee .... $1.00 4 boxes 10c Quaker corn flakes.25c Calicoes, per yd.4c English walnuts and almonds, per lb.18c Fresh roasted pea nuts, per lb.lie Sheep head mince meat, per lb. 7c Raisins and currants, 3 pkgs. 25c Butter, per lb. 28c Eggs, per doz. 28c WE SELL: Groceries Dry Goods Shoes Lumber Fresh Meat Hardware We have a complete stock of Lumber, and it is selling all the time. Wo handle good clean-burning coal. We sell cement, tile, crushed rock, etc. We sell nails at $3.00 per keg. We buy close and sell close. Our mottos: "Small profits and a big business." and “a square deal or no deal." We have only one price. We sell automobiies—The Maxwell. See Santa Claus on the first page of this paper, with his new machine, delivering Christmas presents purchased of the Preston Mercantile Company. We are here for business and want your business. Our business is good but we are trying to make it better. -THE Preston Mercantile Co. PRESTON, NEBRASKA ' /