BAR
THE
TOSEPH EDWARDS,
THE CHAMPION
OF LOW PRICES,
WILL ASTONISH THE PUBLIC
In the Way of Selling Goods
THIS SPRING AND SUMMER.
A Few Questions to the Public.
I loavo these for you to decide :
1. WHO can sell goods tbo cheapest, the merchant who buys his
goods for cash and gets 8 per cent, discount off, or the merchant who
peddles about from one place to another and procures a few goods on time ?
2. WHY is it, when you look in JOE EDWARDS' store all his
clerks aro busy selling and his store is crowded, while others are studying
where to buy a few goods on time ?
3. WHY does JOE EDWARDS' trade increase from year to year ?
Because he can sell his goods at whatever price he sees fit, and he is not
afraid that Northern creditors will come down and close him up. So hc
ucedn't "dance as his creditors fiddle."
4. "WHY IS JOE EDWARDS so popular among the people, because he keeps
no shelf-worn or second-hand goods, hut always keeps oa hand a nice, cleaa ami
new stock.
5. WHY does JOE EDWARDS' sell more ready-made Clothing
than any one in ths State ? Because this Spring he sells 610 Suits for
only $3.75, and furthermore he sells an elegant line of Cheviot Suits at
$3.50 ; and, still better, he sells a nice $1 Boy's Suit for only 61.35.
C. WHY is JOE EDWARDS' store so crowded with ladies that
they can scarcely be waited on ever since his new goods came in ?
BECAUSE he sells an elegant assortment of woolen Bedford Cords,
worth 35c. at only 13c.
BECAUSE ho sells the largest, handsomest line of While (Joods,
such as cross-bar Muslins, India and Linen Lawns, Piques, Marseilles, etc.
YOU CAN BUY THEM ELSEWIIEKE.
SPECIAL
AND
PARTICULAR NOTICE !
I have bought out, at a Northern Sheriffs Salo, the entire lines of a
wholesalo dealer, comprising Hamburg Edgings, Insertions, Flouncings,
etc., etc. These goods I bought at
Beiarsabli Lot Ffeires
and I invite you particularly to come and examine my Slock and you will
bo convinced that never, in all your experience, have you seen such a large
and varied stock of them and, furthermore, never havo you bought Ham
burgs at such remarkably lowT prices.
People desiring to
BUY GOODS ON TIME
AT CASH PRICES.
will find it to their advantage to come and see me as I guarantee to sell
goods on time at cash figures.
Country merchants can duplicate their Northern bills with me
and save freight.
If convenient, do not come on Saturday as it is impossible to give
you on that day the attention I dosire to give you.
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THE CHAMPION OF LOW PUICES,
GOLDSBORO, JT, C.
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THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
STOBlSS Tit AT AEE TOID BY THE
FUNNY HEN OF THE PRESS.
Settled at Last Looking Ahead In
Boston Still There In a Cale
A Sure Si?n, Etc., Htc.
She comes into the restaurant,
Hh sits down in a chair,
Sie tosses up her bangs an 1 thea
if he reads the bill of fare.
She reads it up she reals it down;
She reaus it crosswise, too;
She reads it near, she reads it far;
She reads it through and through.
She takes it up, she puts it down;
She looss around in doabt;
She hums, she drums, she sighs, she starts;
Her lips bgia to pout.
The waiter stands with sphinx-like stare
For hours, it saems to me.
Aud then she says she thinks she'll have
A cup of nice hot tea.
Tom llasooa, in Life.
IX A CAFE.
Swell Young Mau "I say, can you
give tae change for a fifty?"
Waiter (promptly) "Yes, sir; heres
two quarters.'' Detroit Free Press.
STILL THERE.
'There's gas escaping," said Bunting,
sniffing the air.
"No," replied Larkin, also taking a
sniff; 4;it seems 'to be here yet."
Judsre.
VALUABLE INFORMATION.
'I tell you, Trivvet," said Scadds,
"money is trouble."
"I'm glad you told me," replied Triv
vet. "I had no idea I was so wealthy."
Jude.
IN BOSTON.
Policeman "Here! Mini
youngster!"'
your eye,
Bobby Backbey "I beg your pardon;
but I do not see why the master should
obey the pupil." Puck.
UE WAS A STUMBLING BLOCK.
Young Man "Do you think your sis
ter would hate to marry and leave you?"
The Terror "Oh, jes. She said she
would have married long ago if it hadn't
beca for me." Life.
TWO WAYS.
Teacher "Don't you know what
s-u-g-a-r spells? What does your mother
give yu when you won't take your medicine-?"
Little Student "A 'paukiu'." Good
News.
WnAT HE WAS FITTED FOU. -
Weary Watkius "I've jii3t iiggcrcd
out what I'd ortcr been."
Hungry Higgins "Well, wot?"
Weary Watkins"I thiak I'd make a
first-class rich invalid." Judiauapolis
Journal.
LOOKING AHEAD.
"How far back cau you remember?"
inquired Freddy's uncle.
"I don't want to remember back," an
swered Freddy, "It's hard enough re
memocriug lessons for to-morrow."
Truth.
THE WORST ALWAYS HAPPENS.
Mrs. Quarle3 "My husband was ruu
over and had h"i3 leg broken."
Mrs. Quidnuae "Why didn't he sue
for damages?"
Mrs. Quarle3 "Because it was his
own carriage." New York Suu.
A SURE SION.
"Papa, there's a gentleman down stairs
to sec you."
"How do you know that he'd a gentle
man?" asked papa.
"Because he said that he owed you
some money that he wanted to pay."
New York Sun.
VINDICATED.
Miss Minnie Bill "Miss Oldangiddy
was deathly sick of the grip, but recov
ered by sheer force of will."
Mrs. Wanter Nos "How was that?"
Miss Minnie Ball "The doctor told
her it wa3 only fatal to persons ia ad
vance 1 years. "--Puck.
NOT A FLATTERING PROSPECT.
Mamma "I don't know what I am
going to do with Hattie. She is per
fectly infatuated with young Saod grass.
She declares she will have him or no
body." Papa "It look3, then, as though she
is to have nobody ia any event.'' Bos
toa Transcriot.
A SEASONABLE EXPLANATION.
The Husband "So this is the garden
you'ye told me so much about! Where
are the dowers?"
The Wife "You see thoe laths stuck
in the grouad, with pieces of paper stuck
in them?"
The Uusbar.l "Uni."
The Wife "Those are the flowers."
New York Sun.
rNSOI.ICITED TESTIMONIAL.
Sirs. Chugwater "Josiah, I am afraid
Johnuy has been exposed to the measles.
He's been playing with those Smcddler
childten."
Mr. Chugwater "If the children are
anything liKe old Sme.ldlcr, Samantha,
they won't give Johirny ths measles or
anything else without a mortgage and
eight pv'i cent." Chicago Tribune.
A HARD qUKSTION.
"Mamma,'7 said Johnuy, "caa any
body hear -with their mouth?"
"No, child, I don't think they can,"
replied the mother.
"Then, mamma, what made Mr. Jonc3
tell sister he wanted to tell her some
thing and put his hps to her mouth in
stead of her ears?"
The mother didn't question Johnny,
but turned her attention to Mr. Jones,
but that worthy gentleman made it all
right by proper explanations, -Texas
ilOME TALENT
The local singer was resenting mildly
to the hostess the large amount of praise
which she wa3 bestowing upon the visit
ing vocalist.
"They didn't applaud me that way,"
he complained.
"Oh, well, you know," she said
apologetically and sympathetically, "he
is a visitor whom we don't hear often,
while we think of you, as the Bible suy3,
lThe poor we have with us always.' "
Then she wa3 very much hurt because
he refused to accept her apology and left
the house in a huff. Detroit Free Press.
A FRIEND IN NEED.
Jinks "Hello, howdy do, BliDks?
Say, old fellow, come home and take tea
with me."
Blinks "Really, 1 am scarcely pre
sentable in these "
Jinks "Bother the clothes! That's
all right. Come right along. My wife
and I value people at their true worth ;
we don't go by their tailors' bills. Come
right along."
Sam Jinks (half an hour later) "Ah,
here we are. My dear, allow me td pre
sent my friend, Mr. Blinks. Mr. Blinks,
Mrs. Jinks. By the way, my dear, those
tilings you told me to order I forgot all
about until too late to get into the
store."
J'rs. Jinks (aghast) "What! For
got? Um um er it's of no conse
quence nt all, my dear, not the least.
Happy to make your acquaintance, Mr.
Blinks. What delightful weather we
are having. Please excuse me one
moment."
Jinks (in a whisper, after Mr3. J. ha
disappeared) "Worked like a charm."
Blinks "What worked?"
Jinks "She didn't dare say a word
about my forgetting those things with
company present. That's why I
brought you." New York Weekly.
SELECT SITTINGS.
Carthage, Mo., has an undertakei
aa ued Knell.
Uauilly peop'e snore most when lying
upon their backs.
Orer2X wine growers from the Rhine
region will exhibit at the World's Fair.
There are forty women physicians ia
India, but only two in France, it is said.
Harvard University had its beginning
at Newtown, after Cambridge, Miss., iu
1C3G.
Monrovia, in Liberia, Africa, is named
after James Monroe, in whose presidency
it was founded, in 1822.
Asafcetida is said to be a favorite arti
cle of diet with the Hindoos, who use it
in all kind3 of puddings.
The largest hop yard in the world is in
Sacramento, California, 80,000 worth
having been sold from fifty acres.
A farmer near Philadelphia, Penn.,
has a hea which weighs eighteen pounds
and measures fourteen inches across the
broad of her back.
In former times it was esteemed highly
improper for single or unmarried womea,
to wear rings, "unless they were judge3,
doctors or senators."
A Floiida fish story tells of a shad,
some twenty inches long, which leaped
from one stream to another, over a con
siderablc space of ground, in search of
food.
The Ancient Order of Foresters is one
of the most important beneficial secret
societies in the world, its English mem
bership covering 701,000 male adult
members.
James Madison was a Congressman at
twenty-eight, and John Randolph at
tweaty-six, while John QuiDcy Adams
was appointed Minister to England and
the Nether lauas at twenty-seven.
The smell and hearing of the fish are
acute, and it can be douiesticatod so as
to come at call; they are usually long
lived. A pike was put into a pond with
a ring and found seventeen years after
ward. The average number of letters written
per head of the population is: England
and Wales, forty; Scotland, thirty;
Ireland, sixteen; United States, twenty
one; France, fifteen, Germany, thirteen,
nud Italy, seven.
The publication of a biography of the
Duchess d'Angoulerae recalls the fact
that this famous French court beauty ia
best remembered nowadays by the pear
named after her, which is popularly
called the "Duchy-dangle-um."
Eben Blazo, of Porter, Me., was ap
pointed Postmaster of that town by
President Jackson in 1829. He held
the office until Cleveland's administra
tion, and now, at the age of ninety, he
sits around and watches his son Amos
sort mail in the same office.
Both the giraffes at the London (Eng
land) Zoological Gardens are dead, and
it is almost impossible to replace them.
Of late years none have been imported,
owing to the closure of the Soudan by
the Mahdi. Tiiere i3 only one now in
the market, and a prohibitive price is
asked for it.
PJatlnnni a Popular Metal.
The great ueuiaud for platinum for
electrical apparatus has caused such ex
traordinary advance in the price o:' the
metal, which has doubled in value in the
last three years, and is now worth three
fourths as much as gold. For certain
scientific instruments this metal is indis
pensible. It is found only in small
quantities in a few localities as platinum
ore in Peru, Columbia and Brazil, and in
small steel-gray grains in California,
Oregon, B irueo aud the Ural Mountains.
The pr.ncipal soarc-J of supply is the
Urals. The total ye:irly production has
never exceeded four ton?, and at present
is not more thau three ton3. Trenton
CN. J.) American.
Throughout the States west o!. th
Mississippi River there are evidences of
improvement in mining, lumber, small
manufacturing, sod ia agricultural pur,
KUita,
THE TALK OF
IS OUR
Large and Handsome Stock
1892.
OR
SPRIH6 ME! SIHER GOODS
They are the Pick of the Market
and every single piece has been carefully selected with reference to thtf
LADIES' TRADE of this city and section. I have just returned from
the Northern fashion centres where I secured
Unprecedented ' Bargains
-in the
Dress Goods, White Goods, Flounc
ings, Laces, Embroideries, Ham
burgs, Lawns, Challies, Trim
mings, Silks and Satins.
All these goods have been-
BOUGHT FOR THE SPOT CASH
and as I received a remunerative discount on the transaction, we are able
to sell our customers every single A ard of goods at the exact wholesale
figures, that means at the same figures as they were billed to me.
IN CLOTHING AND SHOES
WE HAVE GOT THE DROP
On our competitors' this season.
We have Clothing to fit and suit most everybody and anybody. Iu
quantity, quality, variety and cheapness, they cannot be surpassed by any
leading house in the Slate.
Our Stock of Shoes
for LADIES, MEN, MISSES and CHILDREN is something of which
we arc proud of. Every pair was made especially for us and fully war
ranted. In style and cheapness they can't be beat.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
in tho latest styles and novelties. In this line wo can offer special induce
ments, as we have secured real and jrcnuinc bargains.
Straw a
in the latest shapes and in endless variety at prices never before heard of
It will do your heart good to look at them, no matter if you want to buy
or not.
If you only will visit our vast establishment you will readily confer,
if you take a look on the overloaded shelves, that wo keep the largest ;;nl
best selected stock of goods in the city and perhaps in the State, and will
sell them as low or lower than any house who docs an
Honest, Straightforward Business.
We don't mislead the public by promising to sell goods at half their
value, any person with common sense knows that can't be done, bui wc
do promise to sell them at
WHOLESALE PRICES,
and will guarantee satisfaction in every respect.
WE WANT YOU TO READ
every advertisement in this paper. Wc want you to visit every reputable
dealer in our line, get their prices, examine their goods, then come to
before you buy.
You will then be posted, and can better appreciate the
Genuine and Rare Bargains
we are offering to all alike. Afraid of losing customers by this liberal
advice ? Bless you no ! It is just as natural for you to drift back inf'
the safest harbor as it is for rivers to seek the sea.
It Will Be of Merest
to dealers to call and examine our stock. In variety and prices we art.
able to offer better inducements than ever before.
KSOrders by mail will receive Prompt and
Careful Attention.
The Original Leader of Low Prices,
GOLDSBORO, N. G.
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1892.
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