The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-15

Elizabeth City offers larger num-
ber of well-stocked, up-to-date
stores than towns three and four
times its population. There is hard
ly town in the country that can
offer its shoppers such a great
variety of standard merchandise at
the prices charged by Elizabeth City
merchants. And there arc few small
towns that can vie with this city as
a trade center.
Take radios, for instance. There
are half a dozen firms in Elizabeth
City that handle radios and there
is not a nationally advertised make
of radio that cannot be bought in
local store. And the local dealers
get new stock from Norfolk and
from the factories every week. EiZ-
abeth City can see new model radios
at the same time they arc displayed
in larger cities.
And no town of the size Of Ellz-
abeth City has greater variety Of
electric refrigeratorS, electric stoves
and equipment and heating plants
than local dealers handle. M. G.
MorriSette orders HeatrolaS by the
carload, every season. Quinn Fur
niture Company has been known
to order as many as five carloads OF
stoves at one time. And furniture!
Elizabeth City furniture stores carry
as complete stocks as most stores IL
Norfolk, Raleigh, or Charlotte. Local
furniture dealers place many OF
their orders by the carload and,
since most of the furniture is made
right here in North Carolina, Eliz-
abeth City merchants have q lower
freight rate than Norfolk dealers. A
suite of furniture can be bought
here at a price that is from $25 to
$50 less than the price the same suite
will sell for in a Norfolk store.
In the firm Of D. Walter Harris
Elizabeth City has one of the fines
mems clothing stores that can b,
found in small town. This stor
carries a stock Of 1900 to 1900 suit
of clothes at all times. IT handle.
slickers. raincoatS, knickcrS, riding
breecheS, hats, caps, overcoatS ana
topcoatS and luggage. ID. Walter
Harris has the good fortune OF be
ing able TO handle the best lines in
everything he sells because he has
no competition for these lines Of
goods. He handles Society Brand
and Lebow Brothers clothes, Leeds
coats, Joseph May overcoatS, DobbS
hats and Lilly luggage. Few small
town shops handle SO many good
lines.
M. Leigh Sheep is to the women Of
Elizabeth City and its trade terri
tory, what Walter Harris is to the
men. Young ladies and women can
get the very latest styles at Leigh
Sleeps and for less than they would
pay for the same goods in a larger
town. Cheaper rent and less over
head make this possible.
In jewellery, too, Elizabeth City
offers much. There are two good
.. jewelry stores here, both OF which
keep up-to-date stocks. Sclig's
store is said to be the most beauti-
full jewelry store in North Carolina.
A few years ago, when part went
bad on an automobile in this sec
ton, the mechanic who repaired it
had to send to Norfolk for the part
that was needed. Today, practically
any automobile part can be bough,
without any trouble right here ir
Elizabeth City. The chesapeake
Auto Supply Company, at Wate
Street and Colonial Avenue, tOda.
handles automobile parts that hith
erto been stocked not nearer thai
Norfolk or Charlotte.
And Elizabeth City has any man
ber of good places to cat at popu
lar prices. Persons coming to El'z
abeth City to shop usually eat thai
lunch here. And nothing pleases on
more than to find a place where
good meal can be had at little *
pense. The Coffee Shop of the V'r
ginia Dare Hotel is an eating placc
of distinction and its lunches are a.
cheap or cheaper than those Of the
so-called popular priced restaurants.
Many do not know this.
Many shoppers, after they have
made the rounds Of the stores. ike
to take in a moving picture. Eliz-
abeth City has two moving picture
theaters, one of which offers its
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