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See what the newest and prettiest garments can be
sold for when time yields to tlie necessity of sales with
large manufacturers." In every corner of the floor are the
handsomest, and newest things for less than the cost of
materials.
The Austin
Sale Has Ripened Into
a GycEone.
The sale includes ? thou?
sands of the newe.st and
prettiest garments. The
price chances are for just
about one-half their cus?
tomary values.
Lace Trimmed Underskirts.
So dozen, thnt cost $1.98 to
$2.25. for $1.25.
Underskirts, trimmed in lace
or embroider?, cost usually ?SI 50
to $1.83. for'08c.
Skirts, that cannot bo equalled
under $3.50, for $1.03.
70c. for Embroidered and Lace
Trimmed Underskirts, cost usu?
ally $1.00 and $1.25.
Gowns for 50c.
a lot that cost usually T5 and
88c.
98a. for the finest lot of Gowns
ever shown at, .$1.75 to $2.00.
69c. Goiaii?", in various styles,
made as well iis any $1.00 gar?
ment,
80c. Gowns, made to sell at
$1.3S.
Corset Covers for 25c.
trimmed in Torchon laco inser?
tions, 50c. ones.
50c. Corset Covers, various
BOTts, 79 to 98c, ones.
70c. Corset Covers, some of the
best $1.25 styles, made.
Drawers for 29c.
Several styles of the best 39
to 44c.
39c. for Drawers with the wide
embroidery frill, 50c. usual best
price.
50c. Drawers, in various styles,
trimmings. 73 and 79c. ones.
10c. for Children's Drawers,
made of goo?! muslin, hem nnd
tucks, worked button-holes.
Shepherd Plaid Ladies'
Si.irMI?aist Suits.
$4.00 braid trimmed ones are
marked $1.75.
Madras and Lawn Suits, em?
broidery trimmed, $2.48 and $2.75
Others were made to have sold
for $5.75 and $7.50, are $3.75 and
$5.00.
.Handsome White Dresses of
'"Linen .'-Sheeting, real tailor-made,
?ire'$0..r.t>.
Whito Persisn Mull. DrersseB.
made by one of the finest dress?
makers in New York, $8.98 and
$10.00.
Mnen Colored Suits, in newest
.def-igns, are $3.98.
While P. 1C Skirts, with deep
hem. for 25c.
Pure Linen Skirts, with trip
pie flounce, hr.i?d finished, $1.25.
Walking Skirts, of cheviot, for
$1.25.
Walking Skirts, of pure llner?,
full flam, hip trimming, $2.75.
Handsome Pure Linen Skirts,
trimme?) with rows of climy lnce
and bias folds, $0,50; others to
$10.00.
ing Skirts f?ir 75c.
$1.50 Oxford und "Black Walk?
$5.00 Melton Skirts for $2.08.
Handsomn Voile Rkirts, panel
front and braid trimmed ? $1.38.
Fine quality Brrmdcloth Skirts
in walking and ?Ires? lengths
$8.50.
Ladies' Puits of All-Silk Penn
d?* Soie, new nnd fashionably
tailored, for $12.50, pold to $22.50
Handsomely gotten up Suite of
India Silk, in white and black
instead of $24.00, ihey are $18,00,
Suitn of C'hantuncr Pongee, this
seaKon's newest effects, $15,00.
$37.00 All-Silk Robe Storta
over silk drop, for $19J>0.
$10 50 Allover Net Skirts for
$10.00.
Fine Lawn Kimonas and Dress?
ing Sacques, in every conceivable
strie and color, the $1.00 ones
for 00c.
Fine Lawn Wrappers, extra
sizes, 75c.
$1.00 Best Percale Wrappers
for 98c.
Sheer White Lawn nnd Linen
Canvas Shirt-Waists,. 10 dozen
manufacturers' sample/?, variety
of styles, $1.00 and $1.25 ones,
for 0.5c.
Fine O.vford Cloth Waists,
pleated, with large buttons, 150
Waists, nil sizes, for 79c.
$2.50 Beautiful Persian Lawn
and India Linon Waists, hem?
stitched tucked, trimmed with
faggoting or fine embroidery, for
$1.85.
Pure Linen Waists, three new
stylos, tailor fashioned, or em?
broidered, $3.50 kind, for $2.75.
Fine P, .''K. and Mercerized
Waists, various kinds, white or
neat dotted and stripe effects,
this season's $1.50 and $2.00 ones,
for 08c.
Pongee Waists, silk finished,
new collar and sleeves, all sizes
and colors, for $1.50.
China Silk Waists, all of a
sample lot, variety of styles, $3.50
and $3.98 ones, for $2ff5.
$5.00 Unlined Pongee and Taf?
feta Waists, all colors and black,
for $3.76.
Infants' Gaps.
Hundreds of dainty styles,
plain or elaborately trimmed,
75c. and $1.00 ones, for 45o.
$2.00 Silk and Mull Hate,
tucked and shirred, with dainty
rosettes, all colors, for $1.00.
Children's White P. K. Reef?
ers, large collar, with embroidery
ruffle, $1.50 ones, for OSc.
Pretty P. K. Carriage Robes,
full embroidery ruffle, for 75c. ?
Others, elaborately trimmed
with insertion and milles, for
$1.00.
$1.25 Princess Dresses, sheer
muslin, tucked and trimmed,
sizes to 5 years, for 85o.
50c. Cambric Underskirts, with
borders and embroidery ruffles,
for 20c.
Boys' Glothing Departm't
75o. Perfect Made Wash Suits
for 20c.
Hundreds at 89 and 79o?, that
cost $1.25 and $1.60.
$2.50 Suits for $1.00 each.
$1.00 Boys' Blouse Waists for
61.0.
Well Mnde Worsted Pants for
17c.
50c. Boys' Straw Hats for 25c.
A lot of $1.00 Corduroy Pants
will be sold for 50c.
The Bathing Suits
have come. All new styles nnd
pretty ns the study of most- ar?
tistic tailors could produce?$2.00
to $12.50.
THE FIRST TO BRING
DOWN PRICES.
Wherever conditions for a break in values, Cohen's buyers
stand ready with their implements to gobble in all the advantages
for its Richmond public.
Every price as marked below is given with the most careful
accuracy, and represent prices that it will be a blunder not to
buy at once.
White Goods by the Thousands
of Yards.
All of them the very .same you have bought liere and else?
where at just double our Monday's prices. Plain and fancy
weaves, mercerized in American or imported. All belated stuffs
that had to be sold.
mercerized striped, various 1T to
25c. styles, for 12>/ac.
The 12% and 17c ?atin Striped
and Corded Madras, yard wide,, for
10c.
The New Crepe Weaves, in whit?
Madras, stripes nnd figures, for
9%c
Persian Lawns, the sheerest,
finest. 25 to 40c. grades, for 12?/,,?.
White French Organdy, always
25c, for 15c.
Linon Dedaoca, the finest 25 and
85c. grndes, are priced 16 2-3o.
English Long Cloth, special soft,
fine finish, a piece of 12 yards, for
79c.
Sheer 40-inc}i--wide White India
Linon, 1,000 yards for Monday's
Bale, 9'/Bc. .
The usual 10c grade India Lin?
ons are 6%c. . ,
White Pioue Weite, soft finish,
straight cords, a ytid, 12%c
The usual 25c. Piques are priced
10 2-3O.
Dotted Swisses, the fine pin-dots,
best prices 17 and 19c, these, per
yard, 12%o.
The usual best 12%c ones are
9i/;,o.
Beautiful New Satin Mercerized
Striped Shirting, yard wide, for 17c.
Fancy Weave Madras, with silk
^ggtggnmm-W?mmmSSUBimMBmm?aKamm?????mmmmaim??aa?i
672 Doz. 25c. Dress Pearl
Buttons for 10c. a Doz.
173 gross of 10c. Pearl Buttons,
shirt-waist sizes, per dozen, 5o.
Self-Shank Pearl Buttons, 75c
ones, for 42c
3c spools of Kin's Spool Cotton
for 5c.
Safety Pins, 21/20? dozen?
12 yards Tape, 5c
A lot of 5 and flc Beading for 8c
2 packs Hairpins for Ic
Ribbon Stock Collars. 5c
2 dozen Hump Hooks and Byes
for lc
Spool Silk, black and colors,
31-30.
4 boxes Assorted Pins for 5c.
Military Hose Supporters, 10c
Large Kid Curlers, 8c
WHITE TAR SOAP, 3%c
Floating Soap, 3c.
Pure Talcum Powder, 5o.
19c. Tooth BntBhes for 10c
"Real Bristle Hair Brushes, 24c.
WIDE TIE FANCY RIBBONS,
50 to 75c Ladies' Belts (samples),
choice, 25c
Wash Cotton Fabrics in
Their Price Collapse.
road of price change. Goods
that were held as the pictures
of textile fabrics of the season
are one-half and less.
(Main Floor.)
07,000 yards of finest 12y?c Ba?
tiste, every conceivable color com?
bination and design mane", choice,
sy2c.
Fancy Printed Cannon Cloth and
Unen Finished Fabrio, light and
dark grounds, Bourette and other
effects, sold in the city for 10c, our
price 9%c.
Crepe Challies, cream grounds,
dainty and effective styles, instead
of 18c, per yard, 0%e.
Mercerized Mousselines nnd Foul?
ards, fancy printed, perfection of
style, Ihe 50 and 00c. kind, for 25c
"8 1-3e. Batiste, whito grounds, a
large assortment of desirable pat?
terns and colorings, for fi%o.
25c. Mercerized Siile Ginghams,
solid nnd fancy woven wash silk de?
signs, per yard, 12V*;C,
Silk Striped Gauze Linens, very
sheer, imported ? to retnil for 50c,
per yard, 23o.
The Approved Ribbons.
But their sale was too slow
for the maker, so that Cohen's
ofFer was accepted for the lot.
The stock was too large for
their accustomed corner, so
that 1he choosing will be in the
middle aisle Monday.
-WIDE ?G? FANCY RIBBONS,
3-INCH WIDTH, MONDAY, 5c.
A YARD, IN MANY COLORINGS.
6-inch Sash to bo sold for 25c.
In Blnck Ta lleta for 22c.
35c. Ribbons to be sold for 15c
40. 50 nnd 00c. Ribbons for 25c.
Hundreds of oilier sorta.
More Summer Silks
Than Buyers.
or how could the most desir?
able Silks for present season
be sold at such prices? The loss
is 33 to 50 per cent. All of, them
such Silks as you expect to find
at Cohen's store.
Three White HabutaiSpecials
%. ?
80-inch, soft, lustrous, 76c one, for
44c; 27-inch, 50c. one, for 20c; 05o.
one, in the embroidered effect, for
30c All three of these are the
genuine washable kind.
$10.00 Embroidered Waist Pat?
terns, "put up in boxes," white and
blnck, to close for $4.75 pattern.
These are the finest Japanese Silk.
18c. for Silk Moueselines, in white'
or pretty light colors, regular 50c
qualities.
25c. for Crepe de Chines, in pink,
light blue, navy and black, em?
broidered in neat designs, regular
50c. grades.
1 lot of White and Black Ground
Foulards, worth 09 to 85c, any for
39 nnd 49e, yard.
1,500 yards Handsome $1.00 Crepe
de Chine, in all the popular evening
and street shades, any for 00c. yam.
/Yanki Pongee" Wash Silk, in all
shades, including black nnd white,
regularly 50c, for Monday, 30c.
yard.
To close. 1 lot of Handsomn Taf?
feta, in such popular colors as navy,
brown, rimise, tan, cardinal; lots of
other good shades, worth 50 and
00c, nny for 30c. yard.
Yard * Wide Taffeta, soft finish, |
blnck nnd white, pure silk, 08c
vnlue, for fific. y arri.
Imported Black Taffeta, extra
loud rustle, usual 75c. one, for 59c.
yard, guarantee.) nil silk,
1 lot Washable Taffetas, heat
colors, suitable for shirt-waist suits.
S5e. values, for 45c yard.
The pennino "Ynma Mai" Silk,
sold nt ("'?.hen's, ench piece bears the
mnin distinctive nnme. Tt is an all
silk tnlTetn, used for lining skirts,
etc., nnd it wenrs cqunl to any 75c.
silk, conies in black, white nnd nil
colors, the price 30c.
Closing Lining Sale.
Black Moire. Percaline, Oo.
10 and 25c. Colored Mercerized
for 10,?.
25o. Neva Silk for 17c,
Lining .'iimbrics for 3'/??.
These Qoods Will Be Sold
on the 3rd Floor.
Take olovator.
25c. Curtain Swiss, in all colors,
of new striped effects, for 16 2-3c.
Ila.. Art Denims for 10c.
Muslin Ruffled Curtaine, with
lace inserting,?, and edge, 3*,4
yards long, the best $3.00 ones,
for $1.09 a pair.
Complete Mosquito Canopies,
new patterns, for $1.50.
Sewing Maohlnes.
Che most superior and complete
made, $60.00 was the standard
price, for $17.00.
Others, with equal merits and
warranted for five years, at $0.50
and $14.60.
Canvas Covered Trunks for
$1.59.
Pvoller-Tray Trunks for $4.00.
Leather Tipped Telescopes for
85c
Dress Suit Cases for $1.25.
I5c. China Matting for 8o?
Heaviest 25c. grado for T0 2-3c
30c Linen Warp, fancy, for 15c
Floor Oil Cloth, 19c a yard.
?Moquette Rugs, 3x6 feet, for
$2.75.
Wilton Rugs for $1.10.
$1.75 Fiber Rugs for $1.00.
3x0 feet Matting Rugs for flOc
50c Ingrain Rugs for lflc
Enamel Beds
complete with woven-wire springs,
and mattress, for $4.89.
Linen Window Shades, mount?
ed on epring rollers, for 15c
All Last Season's Carpets
a full third under price.
More Lances and Em?
broideries Have
Come.
The attraction aroused here?
tofore is laid in the shade by
these lots. It's late in the sea?
son and you can expect them
at almost any price now.
?' Embroidery.
flouncings. wide margins, showy
styles, special Monday, \2y2a.
EMBROIDERIES AT 9c, the wide
cambric, in the showy, open pat?
tens.
French Embroideries, the finest
hand-loom Swiss and Nainsook
Edges and Insertions.
25c yard for the usual 37 fo 45o.
Embroideries.
16 2-3c. for the usual 25 to 35o.
ones.
38c, for 00 to 75e. sorts.
59n..for 85c. to $1.00 Embroid?
eries.
Manufacturers' Lengths, 3 to ?
yard lengths, tiysc yard.
Manufacturers' Lengths nt 0, 12J^
and 10c for the best 10 to 25c. Em?
broideries.
Laces.
The Wide Duchess and Point de
Paris Insertions nnd Edges, hun?
dreds of pieces, 10 and 12%'c. ones,
for 6c.
LACES FOR roc.
Insertions and Edges, 3 to ?
inches wide, usual best, price 10 to
20c, choice of an immense lot, a
yard. 10c,
Cluny Insertions, ecru or white,
wide, showy styles, a yard, 12?/??c
Black Laoe Galoons, a lot. of 10
to 25c ones to bo sold for 10c.
Wash Torchon and Medi?is Laces,
200 pieces in the lot, a yard, 3c.
Valenciennes Lace Beading, a
dozen yards for 10c.
HUNDREDS OF FRENCH VAL.
LACES AT SPECIAL MONDAY
PRICES.
All goods that are as reliable as if you paid full prices.
Any article you buy that's unsatisfactory can be returned.
It's the half-price store at all times and now.
370 Doz. Ladles' Ribbed Vests
regularly 12*/?,??,
6,387 yards Best Merrlmao
Shirting Calicoes, in an almost
endless variety of styles, for 3%c
Printed Bourette Cloth, for
ehirt-wnist dresses, tho best 10c
quality, 914c
The 81-3c. Batiete, 6,000 yard*
to be sold for 4%o.
8 l-3c. Seersucker Ginghams
for 4%o.
Fine Unbleached Cotton, the
4a. grade, for 2%c
Best 5c. Apron Ginghams, all
colors nnd checks, for 3%o.
l?2*3c. Fancy Printed Pique
Welts, dark grounds, for 7c
014c. Scotch Batiete, light and
dark effects, for 3%?.
Yard Wide Long Cloth, 0*4o.
19 nnd 25e. Imported Ginghams,
solid and fnncv woven effects, for
0%c.
12*/ao. Mercerized Striped and
Corded Madras, shirting and suit?
ing styles, for 7VcO.
Yard Wide 614c. Unbleached
Cotton for 4%c.
Sale of Bleached Sheeting and
Pillow-Case Cottons,
than usual price,
8c; 45-inch, 10c?;
18c. ; 10-4, 20c;
one-third less
42 inches, for
8-4, Hie?; 9-4,
11-4, 22c.
Sale of White Quilts.
Extra Large Cro.-het, Marseilles
designs, the $1.?50 ones, for $1.19.
Some $1.00 ones are 76c.
$3.60 Heavy Embossed Mar?
seilles, fringeti and plain hemmed,
for $2.50.
Summer - Weight Honeycomb
Quilts, full double-bed size, for
75c
The 50c Crochet ones for 29c
Sale of Cottage Curtains.
end fancy,
up to $2.00
Muslin, in plein
with ruffled edges,
ones, choice, 59e.
$2.00 Lnce Curtains, variety of
styles, choice. 09c
12ytc White Curtain Muslin
for 80. a yard.
Yard Wide Best 12i/ac. Silko
Ilne for 7yso.
$4.00 Roman Striped Madra*
Curtains for $1.75.
Ladies' Lawn Wrappers,? with
deep ruffled t?kfrt. for 75c
Ladies' Shirt-Waists, all sizes,
with large buttons, for COc.
3,050 yards Best Dressmaker's
Cambrics, colors and black, for
3y,c
Men's Linen Collars, manufac?
turers' accumulations, for, each,
lc.
Boys' All-Wool Pants, to 14
years of age, for 25c.
ICc Parchment Linen Paper for
8c a pound.
573 Cloth-Bound 25c' Books for
10c each.
30c Writincr Paner, in tints or
white, for 20c.
lace or plain,
these, each, 7o.
Another lot, all sizes and kinds,
choice, 4c.
216 Do*. Ladles' Solid Fast
Black Seamless Hose,
a Pair, 5o.
Misses' and Boys' Ribbed Hose,
in sizes 8Vi to 10, for lOo.
Mill Ends of Whlto Linons,
the finest and best made at
10 2-3 to 26c, pick any for 0c
Piques, MaArae and Oxford
Weaves, 12% to 19c ones, for 8c
3,100 yards Sheer India Linon,
best at 12V2c, for 7%c.
Another lot of about 1,200 yards
to be sold, a yard, 6%c.
White Victoria Lawn, ?'/??.
grade, 3%o.
Manufacturers' Ends of
* Towels.
A lot of all sorta, pick any for
3c.
Bleached Turkish Bath Towels,
slightly imperfect in weave here
and there, 25e. Towels, for 16c
Kitchen Crash Towelling for
3%o.
Trimmed 25o. Corset Covers,
Several Styles, 17?.
Muslin Drawers, with hem and
tucks, for ladies. 12Vi>c
Lace Trimmed $1.00 Under?
skirts for ???.
Night Gowns for 39c,
trimmed In lace or embroidery.
Night Gowns for 26c, with
tucked -yokes, trimmed with cam?
bric ruffle.
Porcelain Lined Teapots, 4
quarts, for 40c
Venetian Porcelain Saucepans
for SOe.
14-quart Preserving Kettle for
89c
3-plece Jap. Toilet Seta, $1.28
ones, for 85c
Block Tin Copper Bottom
Steam Cookers, 98c.
2-gallon Onlvnnlzed Oil Cans,
29c '
All Size Water Coolers, best at
under price, 81.49 to $5.25.
The Diamond Egg Whip le 2o,
100-piece Handsome, Decorated
Dinner Sets for $8.08.
Another. In various color, deco?
rations. 100 pieces, for $5,08.
A lot of Tea Sets, thnt cost
$7.80, wiB be sold for $5.00.
A large lot of 50c Salad Bowls
to be sold for 25c.
] crate of White Covered Dishes
for 30c.
Cut-Pnttem Water Bottles,
.Tugs and Vinegar Bottles, 15 to
23c.
10-piece Hand?om? Decorate
Toilet Sets for $2.25.
?gangBaaBantHmniama^^
The Picture of the Linen Prices
Cries for Quick Buying.
Never again such Linens: never again such prices for the
finest Linens made in all Ireland. Napkins, Dress Linens,
Table Linens and Towels by the cases.
1,000 yards 2-yard-wide Table
Damusk, silver bleached, regularly
60c. sales price 39c.
Full Bleached All-Linen Table
Damasks, best 75 to 85c grades,
for 50c
Barnsley Damasks, thn finest
heavy satin finish, $1.25 grade, a
yard', 85c.
$2.50 and $2.25 Damasks, in the
handsomest large, open designs, for
$1.25.
$1.00 yanl for the Best $1.75 to
$2.00 Irish Damasks that have ever
been imported to this country.
08c. ynrd for the usual best 89c.
to $1.00 grades.
210 dozen Extra Fine _8/, size All
Linen Dinner Napkin's, in the most
beautiful designs, costing ordinnrily
$4.00 to $4.50 dozen, theso $2.85.
Another lot of Dinner Napkins,
full bloachel, pure linen, heavy
weight, a dozen, $1.00,
Silver Bl.'ached All-Linen $1.25
Napkins for 83e.
310 dozen Pure Linon Einest
Bamsley Huck Towels, hemstitched,
with damask borders, usual best
price $4.50 dozen, these, each, 25c
All-Linen Tied Fringe Damask
Towels, best price $2.00 dozen, each,
-2'/*,c.
Damask Tea Doylies, piue linen,
300 dozen to be sold, each, 4c.
Linen ITuck Towels, largo slues,
hemmed and bordered, each, 10c
Hemstitched Linen Damask Tray
Cloths for 29c
Another lot 26c Tray Cloths
priced 19c.
The Finest Satin Dnmask Table
Covers. 45-inch size, cost $12.00
dozen to import, the sales prico,
each, 69c.
10 pieces White Suiting Linen,
yard wide, special, soft finish, 19o.
Barnsley Linen Crash Towelling,
soft finished, a yard, l2*/ac
' Blenched Buck Towelling, regu?
larly I21/3C, here Oo.
Furniture Linen, 50 Inches wide,
in solid or striped, best made, a
yard, 39c
Yard Wide Slip Covering, in tlie
linen stripes, /or 19c
* fe* fe? fe* fe* A SPECIAL SALE OF MANUFACTURERS'
fe? fe?
PEANUTS
They MaKeMucl? of Prosperity
of the Town o? Suffolk,
(Special from a Bt<iff Corm*xmdent.)
fiVVFOLK, NANhSEMONI' CO.; VA.,
Sunt 1.?The sceptre 1ms departed from
Judah, ?tctordlng? to the Vt-.ot?i oi Biirfcilk
t>nd Binlthdeld. is not the- gj *,gt j.eaiiut
iiiarkertt in thi world.
claim ? lue ? Hi
hU the- til
? ??? ?.??? ?*?,
vorld. Th/
l-l-A'JI l.l/
t.'nction /?
k people
moud
more.
p: ? ht "ii*)-i'i,fcib ' thai/ _ *>*?**},
fU-ugb the/ mUi yieif IS (JOOd, the
distinction of having tha larp^iet peanut
factory in thi? world, I am 'not In a
position to settle tho mutier us between
the two town?, tent 1 ari' nain that
there are enough, peanuts handled in Suf?
folk in tim conree ot a year it* make one
woneler unceasingly ns lo where they all
Ko to. A gallon of peanuts Is as many
as the ordinary man eats In the course of
h(g natural Ili", and there aro thousands
who never think of cracking one, so thai
some must get very much meer,? ihan their
ialr share, , -,
However that may he, Ihe four peanut
cleaning factories of Suffolk handle over*,'
day an average of about $,"?00 bags, or
10,01)0 bushels. About four hundred women
are employed In the factories here, and
probably ilfty men, perhaps more. Tha
peanuts are rais<-.d in 'the counties of
Nans'-mond, Surry, Sussex imi Prince
George. Some of the mi|s cerno from Isle
of Wight ami (Southampton, but there aro
factories in each or those counties,
Fortunes heve be?n accumulated by th*?
men who operate the (act or les, Of lato
I ??ears tiit-re bava Leen *-ood j-roata real
Ized, and there Is no likelihood of n. de?
cease ,n the demand. The whole world
is eating peanuts', and more are now go?
ing to foreign countries tlntji ever before.
Thousands of bushels are consumed even*
year In the manufacture of breakfast and
health fooeis. Several brands of the flaky
stuff which we eat and really enjoy when
we are In doubt whether to attempi a
liisi meal In ilio day have as their basis
the festivo nut, which' for so long occu?
pied such a lowly position in ? lie vege?
table kingdom. oil ls made from the
nuts nnd has long been a staple of com?
merce. Peanut butter, closely akin to
the oil, nnel which Is put In many uses,
culinary and otherwise?, is a compara?
tively recent discovery. ?
There is money lu the culture of the
peanut. It Is salii thst ninety pe-r pent.
of the crop of the entire world Is grown
In a dozen counties of Eastern Virginia
and North Carolina. This estimate Is. per?
haps, too high, but there Is probably as
much as three-fourths or the peanut crop
of Die world grown In the section men?
tioned.
iHoro peanuts are grown In Naneemocd
county than In any one county In Vir?
ginia, and more in that county than In
any section of ei?ual slae in the world,
it is said. It Is the staple, though the
farmers of the county have for years
been engaged In trucking to a great ex?
tent.
The Nansemtfnd sweet potato Is the fa?
vorite variety all over \he world, nnd ls
to tlie potato kind what the Alhemarle
pippin Is among the apples of th,* world.
1 am inclined to think that Nanseniond
county stands about as high In tlie list
of sweet potato producing counties as
It doe-s In the matter of the production
of peanuts.
Ifi.-h potatoes are cultivated on a very
large scale l was Informed that Mr. Vf,
J. Lee, a trucker whose farm Is In the
eastern pan of the county, near the mouth
of tbe Nansi'iuond Blver, planted about
live hundred bushels of potatoes this sea?
son. Oabba-ges and spinach and hale ara
extensively cultivated; and the -s'a"se"
momI watermelon J? noted all over the
North for'its iucines-i and sweetness.
? Tli6 lumber industry cuts nn Important
figure la the business o? gu?tol??, but It
appears to me that the timber In the
county had pretty well disappeared.
There are three lumber companies here?
the Qay Manufacturing Company, the A.
B. Cramer Company and the Nansemond
Lumber Company. The last named com?
pany does not manufacture, but does a
large brokerage business.
After all, the most remarkable Insti?
tution In Suffolk, one of the most re?
markable In the world of its kind, ls
the Farmers Bank of Nansemond. It ls
not generally known In Virginia that this
stands third among the banking Institu?
tions of the United States in point of
amount of surplus as compared to the
capital stock. The Chemical of New York
Is iirst and the Wells Fargo Bank of San
Francisco, second.
The capital stock of this bank is only
$20,000, yet the deposits amounted to $i.
0S9.373.83 at tho close of business April 9th.
of this year, tbe surplus and undivided
profits amounted.to $376,122.98. The loans
amounted to $934,445.68, and the bank held
bonds to the amount ot $165,213.75.
I was toll that tho ?took was worth
$3 000 a share, but It is hard to estimate
Its value, for the reason that .none of It
Is on the market.
The bank was founded in 1869, Mr. W.
II. Jones, the cashier, has occupied that po?
sition something c?!-or twenty years,
though he Is only about forty-two years
of age. I asked him bow lift accounted
for the abnormal prosperity of the bank.
"We hustled." was hi.?? laconic explana?
tion. "Tlie business was In the country,
and we turned out to get It, and got It."
"I have not the sllghtost doubt of the.
correctness of the explanation given by
Mr. Jones, but It Is hardly full enough.
The fact Is that when the bank was
foundf:d there were very few In the ad?
jacent country, and tlie institution was
the bank for a large area of prosperous
country. In this way It got a start that
has put It where It ls to-day.
The Bank of Suffolk is not yet four
years old, but It is coming on after the
older Institution, which has become such
e. phenomenal success. The stock is far
abo vu par, and Is not easily obtained. Ih?
hank Is about to move Into handBomt
new*'quart era.
Suffolk has ono of tha best hotels In
this section of country, and the people
are perfectly Justified in the pride which
they take In It. The Hotel Nansemond,
owned and run by Mr. L. P. UHI, a
Richmond man Is not a very large house,
but is practically new, and appointments,
furnishings, service and cuisine, are the
equals of almost any encountered In Vir?
ginia or North Carolina, and far superior
to tho average.
The transportation facilities of Suffolk
are unusually ? good, Tie Nanstmond,
which omptiep into the James only a
short distane* away, is naei'lgable for
large vessels, )and there are also tlie Nor?
folk; and Western, the Seaboard, the'
Coast J-,lne, land tho Southern runnip'4
through the town, I do not recall that
any town of (five or six thousand people
In Virginia lias better railro'ad facilities.
Suffolk is nil old town, but unless all
signs fall It (has not yet seen Its beut
days. ) ' '
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