Will Fill A Long Felt Want

WILL FILL A LONG FELT WANT

E. F. Mills to Open Up a "Ready-to-Wear" Store

STRICTLY UP-TO-DATE

In Fact the Stock will Not be Surpassed by Anything in Detroit

Ann Arbor is to have a ladies' garment store will rank as un equal to any in the state.

E. F. Mills, with Warren W. Wadhams, as special partner, has taken propressive step and his name alone is a sufficient guarantee that it will be first class in every particular.

The stock to be carried will consist of wraps, suits, furs, skirts, waists, etc., with the addition of the finest millinery line Ann Arbor has ever seen. Only reliable and up-to-date goods will be carried and every effort made to keep in Ann Arbor the trade in these lines. The firm has ample capital, enabling them to buy every dollar's worth of goods for spot cash, thus placing them on a par with the best houses in the country and making it possible to give equally it styles, fully as exclusive designs and more reasonable prices than Detroit stores.

Mr. Mills has selected the best assistants obtainable. Miss Belle Fashbaugh, for several years in Detroit and Chicago, and for three season in Ann Arbor will have charge of the millinery department. She will be assisted by Miss Escher as head trimmer. Both of these ladies are well known to Ann Arbor people.

Miss Nona O'Brien, for many years at the head of the largest cloak department in Ann Arbor, will have charge of the ladles' "ready-to-wear" department.

The firm will open about March 20 in the store, No. 118 S. Main street, now occupied by Wm. Goodyear & Co. The store will be entirely remodeled. The floor will be lowered to the level of the sidewalk and a tiled vestibule put in. Steam heating will be installed. The stairs at the rear of the store will be changed to those of easy ascent with a landing. The entire first and second floors will be repainted and repapered. The fixtures for the stock will be of rich dark oak and bevel plate glass and will be equal to anything in Detroit.

The "E. F. Mills & Co." will be a welcome addition to Ann Arbor's business enterprises.