The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 06, 1918, Image 3

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Grand Prize Offering Oping Sale JULY 9th These Prizes are Offered Simply to Get the Tobacco Growers Before Us in Order to Show That we are Giving All a Clean and Square Deal John W.Moore Ayini^lDtT RDfYF!-II70Q Proprietors and W. P. Moore MUUKL BKU 1 tttKO Managers of SUMTER TOBACCO WAREHOUSE H We enter the Eastern Carolina Tobacco Growing Belt with years of experience and success behind us as experienced .and successful Tobacco Warehousemen and Tobacco Buyers. We man? age the largest Tobacco Warehouse in Durham, North Carolina. We will have the Largest Corps of Tobacco Buyers on the Sumter Warehouse Floors ev?r g;een in this section?represent? ing all of the most important Tobacco Export and Manufacturing Concerns of the world. We will guarantee the most Honest, Bonafide. Legitimate Competition in the purchase of your Tobac? co?Competition excelled by no other Tobacco Market. We were at Lamar, S. C. last season. Ask any tobacco grower in that section who we are. We arc going to get for our customers, and we are financially prepared to guarantee, THE HIGHEST PRICES IN THIS TERRITORY. Our corps of buyers will compete on yrades of tobacco?nu combination or "Cut Throat" prices or methods?only legitimate business competition that will hold out during the season, based on the universal law of supply and demand. NO FAVORITES?A Square Deal to Every Tobacco Grow" er?Large or Small?White or Colored. As our References we offer any Bank or Business House in Durham. N. C. One of the strongest and leading banking institutions in this State has sent out hundreds of letters about us, as follows. And this is only a sample of what other Sumter Banks have written to the Tobacco Growers of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon Counties, about us. Read This Letter G. A. I.KMMON. Prcnidem I. C.STRAUSS. Vice-Pio-.ident GEO. L. RICK V.R. C??hicr The City National Bank \Wm? CA I HTAL, 81.:>(U)0< u K)j Sumter, S. C. July 2nd, i9is. i Dear Sir: The Opening Sale of Tobacco at the Suinter Tobacco Warehouse will be held on the 9th day of July, 1918. Messrs. Moore Bros., who have leased the Warehouse, will be in charge. These gentlemen come from Durham, N. C. with the very highest, recommendations as to character ability, and ju& dealings with their customers. They are not only Warehouse men, but they have foreign and domestic orders, and will purchase great quantities of tobacco for themselves, thereby guaranteeing high prices for tobacco. We request that you will give them the opportunity to prove their ability as to ob? taining the highest prices possible for your Tobacco. We believe they will please you and we invite you to come to Suinter. We will be glad to pay your Tobacco checks. Yours truly, THE CITY NATIONAL BANK, G. A. Lemmon, President, Moore Bros, ere offering the following prises on Opening Do-y, July ttth: I. 5. 6, 7. 8. ?. 10, II. Man Man Man Man Man Man Man Man Mai Man Man selling largest number of pounds.c selling second largest lot of pounds.t selling largest two-horse land of popndn.c selling nesM lurgesl two-horse load of pounds.t selling ?rd lurgesl two-horse load of pounds.< selling largest one-horse loud of pounds.< selling second lurgesl one-horse load of pounds.< selling Strd largeal one-horse load of pounds.< i Helling highest price pile over 200 pounds.c Meiling lilghesl price pile over UMI pounds.< selling loud weighing over 50H pounds furtherest distance from Knmenr .. . .< ash ash ash ash ash 'ash ash ash ash 'ash ash $25.00 15.00 15.00 lo.no 5.00 15.00 10.O0 5.00 I0.O0 5.00 15.00 (Man selling most pounds for 5 days after opening not including opening sale day 20.00 Lsn.no 20.00 lor Week hcglmiing July 22ud: Man sidling most pounds for the week.Cash Man selling second highest num l>cr of pounds.Cash Man selling third highest number of pound*. .cash Man selling l?ad weighing 500 II?*.. or over furtherest distance from Sumter Cash ... :i tfclllllg hlgltCSt price pile over 100 lbs.Cash 125.00 15.00 io.no 15.00 lo.oo 75.00 $225.no The MOORE BROTHERS, Lessees and Managers umter Tobacco Warehouse SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA