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the Cornet, with scenes from Hornshole, the Tower Hotel, St. Mary's Kirk and Goldielands. An ideal gift and a wonderful memento from home to all Exiled Teries. We offer this headsquare in assorted colours in chiffon silk at the remarkably low price of 12/11 each. This headsquare

BROWN'S of BUCCLEUCH STREET Wish all their Customers and Friends A HapPy and Prosperous New Year AND ASSURES THEM THAT THEIR NEW FASHION WEAR STYLES FOR CORONATION YEAR WILL EXCEL ANYTHING THAT EVER BEEN SHOWN. -X * * HAS Our Clothes will make you feel HAPPY and our Moderate Pri

THE exceptional spurt being enjoyed in the local knitwear trade seems to be based on expectations of high retail sales during the period of the Coronation. The stores, in the South especially, are stocking up for that coming great occasion, and their demand at present can hardly

The fashions have not changed to any extent during the year. A very big business is still being done In classic jumpers, hut in the novelty lines for next spring there is a tendency towards greater, feminity of line, an distinct from the present very popular sportswear. The Amer

HAVING weathered with considerable dexterity and enterprise what undoubtedly has been its most difficult and testing year since the end of the war, the Scottish woollen trade is now embarking on a year of greater promise with order' books quite healthy and prospects " set fair."

Hawick Rotarians last night entertained about 120 old people—members of the Retired Men's Club and their friends—to supper and an entertainment in the Victoria Hotel, presided over by Mr A. Goidle, the Rotary president. Music, a film show by Mr Ernest Tait. and a puppet show by

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