Saturday was bargain day, and printed lists of what could be obtained on that day at an absurdly cheap rate were widely distributed through the neighbouring towns.

People came in large numbers to those bargains.

Long rows of all sorts of odd vehicles were hitched up and down the street.

A man would drop in for some smoking tobacco and buy himself a good straw hat or winter cap.

A wife would call because soda was offered so cheaply and would end by buying a black silk dress, "worth one dollar a yard but selling for today only for fifty cents." Mr.Morton was perhaps the original pioneer in methods which have built up the great department stores of the present day.