The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-06
The Senate and Congress

are both in the heat OF debate Of the
High Tariff Law" which they are try
ing TO pass and which Will necessarily
make all goods in the Dry Goods line
advance in price from ~ 10 40 per cent
necessarily making my stock Of goods
worth many thousands dollars more
than ii is now. But / am not the man
to sit down, folding my hands ana say
| Will be independent as 10 price. and
let the government help me by putting
up a tariff on my goods. But | had
rather sell them. keep them in motion
and buy more when / need them at a
higher price. Goods | have got, and
goods l want to sell. / claim 10 be the
leading dry goods merchant Of the city,
carrying the largest stock and the best
assortment, and last but not least /
sell them at the lowest price. i have
many things to thank my customers
for, they read my advertisements and
they come to my store, and l trust that
they find goods as advertised ] am
having a splendid trade. Long hot
days in summer generally bring dull
times, but this year business has kept
good and has been very satisfactory.
We keep on them owe and have many
things to offer now. Prices talk and
dry goods count, and here they go.
TABLE LINENS-Turkey Red Table
Linen in Remnants, worth from % to
40, | Will sell for 20 C (frOm l TO , yards
| p~ieces): Turkey Red "a inch wide at
Ice per yard; Turkey Red, better. g.
inch, guaranteed fast color, beautiful
patterns at only 25c per yard; un-
bleached Table Linen, heavy weight 81
| inches wide, 20 c per yard; GO inch 3oc
/ per yard; - inch, very heavy, and
splendid quality strictly all inen at 30
| per yard; bleached Linen GO inch wide,
| a special price 25c per yard, very pretty
| patterns; finer goods and wider Soc ana
| up to $1.25 per yard. We nave all prices
and kinds in Table Linens and Doylies
to match.
| DOYLIES-12 by i unhemmed nice
| goods at Coo a dozen; IA by Il unhem-
| med nice goods at zoe a dozen; 20 by %
| nhemm nice goods at S1.25 and $1.50
a dozen. Fringe DOylies at 25c a dozen;
! better, strictly all linen at 45c a dozen,
| and finer and pretty white DOylics for
| zoe and $1.00 a dozen.
SHOES, SHOES,-Tn our shoe bus
mess we have a splendid trade and to
| accommodate hat rae We necessarily
have to carry a large stock. Our stock
| of Shoes number about 5000 pairs Of all
| styles. In Ladies Odds and Ends in
| small sizes, we have d lot or good SHOES
| that we want to sell at the small price
| of soc; Ladies Patent tip Button Shoes
3-S, 63c; a better genuine DongOla Soc.
Our dollar Shoe we guarantee to be
| ALL SOLID, NICE AND STYLISH.
! In our better lines from $1.25 to $3.50,
We guarantee to be as good as any
| body's Shoes and from 25c to 30c a pair
| less money. In Ladies Slippers WE
HAVE ALL STYLES, with patent tips
fairly made at 40 C a pair, better slip
pers, good, honest goods and pretty
styles at 75c a pair; better Soc. Our
S1.00 and $1.25 line, made of the best
| DongOla, with needle toes and nice styl-
ish goods. Our $500 Slippers are a
| THING OF BEAUTY and will suit the
most FASTIDIOUS CUSTOMER. In
Children Slippers, we have "a few pairs
to close out and we are not at all choice
about the price. Make US an offer and
we will sell you the Slippers.
MEMS SHOES-High cut Brogan,
nicely made, each pair in q single car