Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-09-03
SPECIAL PREMIUMS
Offered bu E. Cit~s Bust
ness Men for Special
Exhibits.

LODeI ~, ~, %i' 80 49,
marie Park
Our enterprising merchant, Mr. M
Weisel, heads the list with an offer OF
s.. 90 in gold to the lady having on ex-
hibition the handsomest dress MADE OF
goods purchased at his store. we De-
sneak this to be an interesting feature
Of the ladies department, as Mr.. Weisel
has long since made ladies full dress |
goods a specially. Mr.. Welsel gener-
ously offers another premium when IS
years subscription to the SfdHaara
| Designer, for the best dress on exhi- |
bition, made from. Standard Patterns,
| for whic patterns Mr.. Welsel Is sole
agent.
| Our mammoth store, The Fair, offers
a handsome Marseills quilt for the best
embroidered counterplece.
| Mr.. T. c.. Allen will give pound
box of French candy for the handSonl-
est dressed doll by a ~ girl under IL
wears of age. Now gi1lS dc your best
Now girls here is arot-er one. Daw-
son Bros, our Main street coltectlon-
ers, offers a pound box of crystallzed
fruit to the one exhibiting the best dis
play of home made candy.
Our leading tobacconists, {. W
Stevens & Co., will give I pound OF
Yale Mixture smoking tobacco for the
best handmade tobacco pouch. Now
} girls. this is the best grade of smoking
tobacco manufactured, and II your
beau smokes, be industrious and make
him present OF this.
One of the attractive features OF the
fair will be baby show. These oaDy
shows have been attended by marked
interest and attraction elsewhere, ana
doubtless will be at our next talr. MI.
N. R. Parker will donate handsome
self-adj usting crib to the mother OF the
handsomest baby. AS pretty babies IS
the boast of E, City, we all wait treat
. i'll the baby show,
A. B. Seeley & Son will give Darrel
of Patapsco Superlative Flour to the
, lady exhibiting the best bread made OF
this brand of flour. These gentlemen;
are the leaders of this favorlte brand
of flour, which is recognized as one OF
the best brands on the market.
| Mr.. T. ]. Jordan will give a. 5 pound
3D.. can of Kings One Spoon Baking Pow
der, to the lady exhibiting the best
bread in which she used this powder.
Mr.. Jordan has recently made a success
full run on this popular powder, which
| is manufactured by the W. {. KING
: Coffee Co., of Norfolk, Va.
Now here we have a handsome and
most valuable present 1t is an Excel
sior stove, donated by Our enterprlslng
hardware dealers, Sawyer & Aydlett,
. for the best display of bread cooked III
j the Excelsior stove. This stove is man
4 ufactured by l. A. Sheppard & Co., OF
Philadelphia, and has long since been
RECOGNIZED as the leading cook stove
: on the market.
q Our none less cnterprlslng hardware
merchants, Sharber & White, come uE
a with a Boss Pillow, complete with at
tachments, for The best display of farm
lproducts This pillow is great FAVOR
e tie with our farmers, and therefore we
! lexpect an extensive display of farm
products.
Mr.. F. +. Cohoou will give moder1
rat prof chicken coop tor best BROOD o
fall Matched chickens.
u Etheridge Bros. will give one-hal
It dozen cakes of extra quality butter
< milk toilet soap for best sp!asher eXh1
bited.
Our leading millers, Raper & " hite
C will give one bushel of fine grad
Il bolted meal, for best pone bread mad
IL from their meal,
r &r. J. Walter Brothers offers tw'
bushels sweet potatoes to the lady wl'
exhibits the best potato biscuit.
l. Mr.. W. II. Zoeller Will give life
! size crayon portrait for the best frul
cake exhibited, cake to be his after tn
a fair.
Y. Mr.. w. J. Woodley, our popula
grocer, will give 80 gallons of pur
apple vinegar for the best display o
} pickles put up with his favorite vine
e gar.
l. The Ice Factory will give coupe
book of 200 pounds of ice for the bes
n home made ice box or refrigerator.
ii Mr.. N. D. Pendleton will give on
pound Of Gravely's superior Tobacco
y for the best display of peas. This
e, the best chewing tobacco on the mari
ct and one upon which Mr.. Pendleto
has built mp good tobacco trade.
ii The Fowler Net and Irvine Co. Wi
Is give a hammock for the best dlspla
!. Of hand-work made from their sein
y Irvine
'N Mr.. E. +. Lamb, who is besides
prominent lawyer, one of our mo:
enterprising farmers, offers premiu
" of 500 pounds of the best hay raised Q
tn his excellent farm, for the best mile
, COW on exhibition. The milk is to |
tested at the fair.
r Messrs. NJ. D. Gregory & Son wi
give five dollars for the best calf {
,e exhibition, sired by their Ho1ste
bnll.
Mr.. Ferebee also offers the servic
ne of his famous stud Cannonade, for II
l. l>xy1 |,
stud.
Mr.. n. G. Grandv will donate a ba
ll> rel of Early Rose seed potatoes for Il
nv best display of this variety.
is Mr.. P. P. Cobb, agent for II.
Gripp, artist, will give q life-size era
"a on portrait for the best cured count
o ham exhibited, ham to be claimed
av him after the Fair. Portrait to be
any person desired.
There must be two or more conte:
av ants for all of the above special pr
- minus. These premiums, togeth
81 with many others which are yet to
he added, will appear. i'll each lssu
Never before in the history of Ellz
:, beth City fairs. have there been offert
lie so many special premiums as will
-e< offered at our next fair. Go to wo
-, Immediately on your exhibits, al
LII show your appreciation of the nlark'
liberality of our nlerChrnts.
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IS HErE's A QUAINT IDEA.-G
on an Italian vase made of red cls
III soak it III water for a coup
". of DAYS Then SDrink1e tim OF