The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-02
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 Good line
advance in price from 10 to 40 per cent.
necessarily making my stock of goods
worth many thousands dollars more
than it is now. But / am not the man
to sit down, folding my hands and say
l will be Independent as TO price, and
let the government help me by putting
up a tariff on my goods. But l had
rather sell them, keep them in motion
and buy more when I need them at a
higher price. Goods 1 have got, n
goods 1 want to sell. / claim to be the
leading dry goods merchant of the city,
carrying the largest stock and the best
assortment, and last but not least 1
sell them at the lowest price. 1 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 nan
things to offer now. Prices talk and
dry goods count, and here they 90.
TABLE LINENS-Turkey Red Table
Linen in Remnants, worth from % to
40, I will sell for 20 C (from 1 to 2 yards
| pieces); Turkey Red "a inch wide at
Ice per yard; Turkey Red, better, 62
inch, guaranteed fast color, beautiful
| patterns at only 25c per yard; un-
bleached Table Linen, heavy weight "a
| inches wide, 25 c per yard; 81 inch 35c
per yard; ~ inch, very heavy, and
splendid quality strictly all linen at SO
| per yard; bleached Linen so inch wide,
| a special price Csc per yard, very pretty
patterns; fine goods and wider Csc and
up to slips per yard. We have all prices
| and kinds in Table Linens and Doylies
to match.
] DOYLIES-12 by II unhemmed nice
! goods 1T Coo a dozen; IA by IA unhem-
| med nice goods at 75c a dozen; 20 by 20
unhemmed nice goods at $1.25 and $1.50
a dozen. Fringe Doylies at Csc a dozen;
better, strictly all linen at 45c a dozen,
and finer and pretty white Doylies for
| 75c and $1.00 a dozen.
SHOES! SHOES!-In our shoe BUS
mess we have a splendid trade and to
accommodate h a trade we necessarily
nave 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 a lot Of good Shoes
| that we want to sell at the small price
of soc; Ladies Patent tip Button Shoes
| 3-8, CSC; a better genuine Dongola, S5c.
| Our dollar Shoe we guarantee to be
ALL SOLID, NICE AND STYLISH.
In our better lines from s1.25 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 Sc. Our
| s1.OO and s1.25 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 a single car