Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-09-10
SPECIAL PREMIUMS
Offered bv E. Cit~s Bust
ness Men for Special
Exhibits.

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Our enterprising merchant, Mr.. M
| Weisel, heads the list with au offer O
S. 90 in gold to the lady having on ex
| hibition the handsomest dress made O
| foods purchased at his store. We be
speak this to be an interesting feature
OF the ladies department., as Mr.. Weise
has long since made ladies full dres:
goods a pecialty. Mr.. Weisel gener
ously offers another premium which |:
| a years subscription to the STANDARD
| Designer, for the best dress on exhi
bition, made from; Standard Patterns
for which patterns Mr.. Weisel is sole
agent.
Our mammoth store, The Fair, offer:
a handsome Marseills quilt for the bes
embroidered counterpiece.
Mr.. T C. Allen will give pount
box of French candy for the handsom
est dressed doll by a ~ girl under 1:
years of age. Now gills dc your best
Now gias here is ar otter one. Daw
/ son Bros, our Main street COufectlon
ers, offers a S pound box of crys:alizet
fruit to the one exhibiting the best dis
| play of home made candy.
Our leading tobacconists, {. w
Stevens & Co., will give l pound O
Yale Mixture smoking tobacco for the
best hand made tobacco pouch. Nov
girls, this is the best grade of smoking
| toba eco manufactured, and If your
| beau smokes, be industrious aud make
him present of this.
One of the attractive features of the
fair will be baby show. These baby
shows have been attended by marked
| interest and attraction elsewhere, ano
doubtless will be at our next fair. Mr.
N. R. Parker will donate 4 handsome
self-adjusting crib to the mother of the
handsonest baby. AS pretty babies is
| the boast of E. City, we all wait treat
in the baby show.
Mr.. 7. J. Jordan will give pound
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 success
full run on this popular powder, which
is manufactured by the W. c. King
Coffee Co., of Norfolk, Va.
Now here we have handsome and
| most valuable present. 1t is an Excel.
sior stove, donated by our enterprising
hardware dealers, Sawyer & Aydlett,
for the best display of bread cooked in
the Excelsior stove. This stove is man.
ufactured by I. A. Sheppard & Co., OF
Philadelphia, and has long since been
recognized as the leading cook stove
on the market.
Our none less enterprising hardware
merchants, Sharber & White, come up
with Boss Pillow, complete with at
tachments, for The best display of farm
products. This pillow is great favor
ite with our farmers, and therefore we
expect an extensive display of farm
products.
Mr.. F. f. Cohoon will give modern
rat prof chicken coop for best brood OF
fall Matched chickens.
Etheridge Bros. will give one-hal1
dozen cakes of extra quality butter
milk toilet soap tor best splasher exhi'
bited.
Our leading millers, Raper & hite,
will give one bushel of fine grade
bolted meal, for best pone bread made
from their meal.
Mr.. J. Walter Brothers offers two
bushels sweet potatoes to the lady who
exhibits the best potato biscuit.
Mr.. ". H. Zoeller will give life
cake exhibited, cake to be his after the
fair.
Mr.. w. J. Woodley, our popular
grocer, will give 80 gallons of pure
apple vinegar for the best display OF
pickles put up with his favorite vine
gar.
The Ice Factory will give coupon
book of 900 pounds of ice for the best
home made ice box or refrigerator.
Mr.. N. D. Pendleton will give one
pound Of Gravely's superior tobacco
for the best display of peas. This is
the best chewing tobacco on the mark
ct and one upon which Mr.. Pendleton
has built mp good tobacco trade.
The Fowler Net and Irvine Co. will
give a hammock for the best display
of hand-work made from their seine
Irvine
Mr.. E. F. Lamb, who is besides a
prominent lawyer, one of our most
enterprising farmers, offers premium
of 500 pounds of the best hay raised on
his excellent farm, for the best mich
COW on exhibition. The milk is to be
tested at the fair.
Messrs Nj. D. Gregory & Son will
give five dollars for the best calf on
exhibition, sired by their Holstein
bn1l.
Mr.. Ferebee also offers the services
of his famous stud Cannonade, for the
best colt on exhibition. sired by his
stud.
Mr.. N. G. Grandy will donate bar
rel of Early Rose seed potatoes for the
best display Of this variety.
Mr.. P. P. Cobb, agent for H. A.
Grip, artist, will give life-size cray
on portrait for the best cured country
ham exhibited, ham to be claimed by
him after the Fair. Portrait to be Of
any person desired.
There must be two or more contest
ants for all of the above special pre-
miuns. These premiums, together
with many others which are yet to be
added, will appear in each issue.
Never before in the history of Eliza
beth City fairs. have there been offered
so many special premiums as will be
offered at our next fair. Go to work
Immediately On your exhibits, and
show your appreciation of the marked
VI Jul
A. B. Seeley & Son will give barrel
of G. S. Bruce & Cos. Best Fancy Pat
ent Flour, to the lady exhibiting the
nicsSt loaf of bread made of it and pur
chased of them.
The Haynor Mfg. Co. will donate
through A. B Seeley s. Son, I quart of
their "Favoritc Brand" Of extracts, on
10 \
Ii biting the best pound cake favored
with their extract vanilla, receives one
pint Favoritc Brand Extract Vanilla,
AID the ladv eahiL iting the best jelly
cake, favored with their extract lemon
receives pint bottle of extruct lemon.
This firm also gives pound can OF
their celebrated Norfolk One Spoon
Baking Powder to the one exhibiting
the best Pan of home made biscuit, -
III which this yeast is used.