The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-11
Office of LEVI BROTHERS,
Dealers III General Merchandise.
SUMTER, S. c., Feb. 3, 1891.

SUMTER, S. c., Feb. 3, 1891.
Editor Manning Times:--In few
days we propose having a grand open
ing of spring goods of every descrip-
ton, and we can safely say that it will
be the handsomest display ever placed
on exhibition in the city of Sumter.
The goods are arriving on every train,
and our clerks are busy opening them
up. They have been instructed to
mark each piece of goods in plain
figures, so that when our grand open
ing takes place every person that hon
ors our establishment with visit can
see for themselves how extremely low
our goods will be sold.
While these goods are coming in we
wish our friends to know that we still
have a great many inducements to Of
fer them in the way of heavy or wool
en- goods, and these must be sold re-
gardless of price, because we have
adopted rule to clear our shelves OF
all goods that are about going out Of
season. This rule we will stick to, for
it pays better to sell off than to carry
over old stock. As the winter season
draws to a close in order to unload
what winter goods might be on hand,
we mark down everything, thus CIV
ing our many patrons an excellent op-
portunity Of buying very cheap,
cheaper in fact than they can be re-
placed for.
Every reader of the Times is aware
of the fact that since the passage of
the Mckinley bill everything in wool
en- goods advanced in price, but for
tunately for ourselves and also for the
people that entrusted us with their
confidence and patronage, we watched
the congressional proceedings, and as
soon as we saw that Mr.. Mckinley
was about to be successful, we at
once began making contracts for tu-
ture delivery with the largest dry
goods, clothing, carpet, and hat fac
tories, and some of our future deliv-
cry contracts were not completed un-
til last month.
By doing this We had the advantage
of every other merchant, and avoided
the sudden advance in price. We did
the same with our shoe contracts, and
we can now sell shoes right from our
shelves as cheap as some merchants
can buy them at wholesale. Hence
the Mckinley bill has not hurt us, but
gave those who are buying from us
decided advantage over their neigh
bors that buy elsewhere.
In our last letter we spoke OF our
business in fertilizers, and we believe
we have doubled all the other houses
in Sumter in this line. When car af-
ter car came into Sumter loaded with
guano last fall it was great surprise
to merchants as we'll as farmers, but
they now see that we knew what we
were doing by placing our contracts
far in advance of everybody else. AS
a consequence We are selling cotton
seed meal seventy-fve cents a ton
cheaper than it can be bought to-day
at the factories, and we are doing the
same with guanos and all other fer
tilizers.
We realize the fact that cur patrons
are principally farmers, and it be-
hooves US to look out for their inter-
ests, because by beneftting the farmer
we are beneftting the mainstay to the
immense business conducted by US,
and we advance as the farmer ad-
vances.
We have everything in the grocery
line that a well regulated household
can desire Or a plantation may use,
and we ask your readers to come to
Sumter and give our establishment a
call. After examining our goods and
getting our prices we are satisfied that
we can sell to the closest buyer, be-
cause we are close buyers ourselves
and in the center of close competl-
ton, hence our small profits and quick
sales. Respectfully,
LEVI BROTHERS.