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dressed, genial, and affable as a man toler-
ably well fitted out with the good things of
this life, arid unhampered by ties and en-
cumbrances should be. But Mr. Philip
Penn, whose days were passed within the
oftice, regarded his wealthy and popular em-
ployer from a somewhat different point of
view. Mr. Penn had by his steadiness and
business knowledge in no small degree
helped Jonathan Greysark to his enviable
position in the commercial world; he had
served the house faithfully for upward of
twenty years, yet he was still simply a clerk,
in which position, despite frequent prayers
and petitions, Mr. Greysark was apparently
determined to keep him until the time came
for dispensing entirely with his services.
Altogether, poor Penn’s life was by no
means a happy one, for, in addition to his
commercial troubles he had an eternally
grinning domestic skeleton in the shape ofa
blackguard brother, who had stood in the
felon’s dock on a charge of forgery, had
passed many years in prison, and who now
could only be kept in the background by the
allowance which the unfortunate Penn made
him out of the exceedingly moderate salary
he drew from the office. Greysark knew
this and was also aware that a tarnished
name was an almost insuperable bar to his
clerk’s advance in any other line of life; so
he meanly took advantage of the fact by
getting a most unfair amount of work out
of Penn, and paying him a miserably inad-
quate salary for it.

Jonathan Greysark lived at Hyde Park,
and came up to town every morning by the
8:45 express. In this famous train he had
acquired from long usage a prescriptive
right to a particular seat in a particular part
of a particular coach, and the brakeman
suffered a considerable reduction in his in-
come if he allowed a stranger to usurp his
place.

But the old brakeman having been shunt-
ed elsewhere, and a strange official, who
knew not Jonathan, having been substitut-
ed, it so happened that one morning Grey-
sark, his rug on his. arm and his paper in
his hand, swaggered gravely and magister-
ially up the coach only to find his seat
occupied. Under ordinary circumstances
he would have resented this  unwar-
rantable intrusion in an unmistakable man-
ner; but upon this occasion, as the oceupant
was a pretty, modestly dressed girl of eigh-
teen or thereabouts, he could only vent his
feelings in grunts and scowls and betake
himself to another seat. But when the next
morning he found his place similarly oecu-
pied his position became somewhat embar-
rassing, and only the girl’s pleasant face
checked audible expression of his discon-
tent. The same thing occurred the morn-
ing after and the morning after that, andthe
young 8:45 bucks, who, of course, regarded
the affair as a capital joke, remarked that
the great man instead of ramping and rag-
ing away to another coach not only con-
tentedly went into the same one, but passed
a much greater part of the haf hour’s
journey in looking at the girl over the
top of his newspaper than in studying the
city article. In a fortnight’s time it was
observed that he handed her out, carried
her little parcels and saw her safely into an
omnibus and in three weeks’ time it was
noted that he chatted as easy and familiarly
with her as if he had known her for years.

In short, it became very evident that the
wealthy bachelor of South Waiter street was
enamored of the young lady. When his at-
tentions first beeame marked she assumed
the proper attitude of unprotected virtue,
and confined her answers to rather curt mon-
osyllables; but when her feminine perspi-
cuity assured her that her admirer’s behay-
ior was inspired by the most honorable of
intentions, she unbent and told him that her
name was Phyllis, that she wasa studentat
a certain scool of art, and that she resided
at Hyde Park with her aunt.

**Miss Phyllis,” said Greysark, one morn-
ing, as they walked along the platform, ‘‘as
some sort of assurance that I only entertain
the most genuine feelings of nespect and—
and admiration for you. [ think that I
should mention that my name is Greysark,
that Iam the head of one of the most re-
spected houses in Chicago, and that I am
quite aware that an acquaintance of this eas-
ual nature is apt to give rise to erron-
eous impressions in the minds of people who
only judge by appearances, with your per-
mission nothing would give me_ greater
pleasure than to call upon your aunt.”

At the mention of the name Greysark the

girl’s color deepened somewhat, and she

raised her eyes to his face for a few seconds.
Then she said:
“Tam sure that my aunt would be de-

lighted to make your acquaintance, Mr.

Greysark.”
Accordingly, on the following Sunday,

Se : Mr. Greysark betook himself to the aunt’s
house, and was ushered into the presence of
a smiling, gray-hired lady, who might have
stepped from an ancestral picture frame, and
who received him with the stately urbanity

 

of a courtier of the old school.
of business, Jonathan Greysark lost no time
in beating about the bush, but plunged at
ones in medias res, described the origin of
his acquaintance with Phyllis, expressed
himself in such happy language, blew his

own trumpet in such a pleasant, unassum- |

ing manner, declared his devotion in such
fervid phrases, in fact, put matters before
the old lady in such an attractive light, that
she was completely won over.

“Of course, Mr. Greysark,” she said in
reply, ‘‘as Iam only the girl’s aunt, I have
no direct authority in the matter. But, if
Phyllis regards your suit as favorably as I
do, T could only recommend that you should
address a letter to her father in Chicago,
state the case as you have stated it to me,
and abide by his decision.”

“But it isan extraordinary phase of our
acquaintance,” said the merchant, ‘that I
do not know your niece’s surname yet.”

Perhaps the old lady was struck by the
strangeness of this avowal, but at any rate,
she hesitated a moment, seemed a little con-
fused, and then replied. ‘Her name is
Fleming, Mr. Greysark; a letter addressed
to Mr. Robert Fleming and given to me will
insure its safe dispatch.”

“But, would it not be better for me to eall
upon Mr. Fleming myself?” said Greysark.
*““My business experience has taught me that
one personal interview is worth a dozen let-
ters.”

‘So it is, asa general rule, Mr. Greysark,”
replied the old lady. ‘‘But My. Fleming’s
movements are so uncertain, his business
taking him so frequently away from home,
that the course I have suggested would, I
think, be the better.”

And, after a little general conversation,
Mr. Greysark took his leave, resolved that
he would without delay formally propose to
Phyllis, and if her answer should be favor-
able, as he had not the slightest reason to
doubt it would be, indite his letter to Mr.
Fieming.

Accordingly, the next morning, upon ar-
rival at Chicago, instead of handing Phyllis
into an omnibus, as usual, he insisted that
she should walk there with him. And, by
the time they came to the place of parting
he had poured out his soul to her, and re-
ceived her ready assent to his proposal,
conditional upon the approval of her father.

One or two little circumstanees connected
with his visit to theaunt on the previous di Ly
struck Jonathan Greysark as being curious,
as he satin his room at the oflice playing
listlessly with the heap of unopened letters
before him. Of course, he had observed the
old lady’s hesitation in giving the name of
Fleming; and her suggestion that the letter
should be forwarded through her instead of
to a direct address was rather unusual. Per-
haps Fleming was a strange sort of man—
under a cloud—or of eecentrie habits. At
any rate, Phyllis was a lady, as was her
aunt; the surroundings of the latter showed
refinement, if not opulence; and although
money with a wife was no object with him,
he preferred that the lady honored with his
choice should not be an utter stranger to the
style of life to which as Mrs. Greysark she
would be introduced. But his ardent affec-
tion for the simple-minded, bright-faced girl
overcame whatever little shades of doubt
or scruples the above strange circumstances
might have awakened within him, and, after
having hurriedly perused his business let-
ters, he called Mr. Penn in, gave him in-
structions to show nobody into the private
room for an hour, and settled himself down
to indite the epistle to Mr. Fleming. After
much destruction of best cream-laid note, he
produced the following:

DrAR Srr—It is with no little diffidence
that L address one who is a complete stran-
ser to me upon a subject of such importance
as that which now occupies my pen; but I
am sure I judge you rightly when I think
that you will pardon the liberty I am taking
by the time you arrive at the end of the let-
ter.

In short, I wish to obtain your consent to
my marriage with your ¢! rarming daughter,
Phyllis. . As this is to some extent a matter
of business, 1 may inform you that I made
the young lady’s acquaintance on the Hyde

ark train, by which we have been fellow

passengers daily for some weeks past; that
1 then obtained not only her consent to my
proposal, but the entire approbation of her
aunt, upon whom I had the pleasure of eall-
ing, with your daughter’s permission.

For your satisfaction I may add that, al-
though 1 ain not a very young man, I amin
the full vigor of health and strength; that I
am the sole and responsible head of one of
the best-known and most respected business
houses in Chicago and that L am in a posi-
tiod, which you may verify, if you please,
py the most minute investigation, to main-
tain your daughter in a fitting position as a
lady. : :

The entire happiness of my life, and I
dare add that of your daughter’s, rest upon
your decison as to whether she should be
my wife or not, and I implore you not to be
influenced in your opinion by the somewhat
peculiar circumstances under which our
meeting took place, and consequent acquain-
tance and intimacy were formed.

If you will kindly take a week to consider
this, to me, vital question, I shall be inex-
pressibly obliged; and, thanking you hearti-
ly in advance for the sanction which I feel
certain you will accord, I am, dear sir, your
very obedient servant,

JONATHAN GREYSARK,

Having read this two or three ‘times over
to assure himself that he had not said too
much or too little, Jonathan Greysark placed
it in an envelope addressed to Robert Flem-

‘ Si. ‘ : coe % S

Being a man)

 

3, 1886,

&

ing and that again in an envelope which he
purposed to hand to the old lady at Hyde
ark.

The Michigan Tradesma

The week seemed interminable to the en- |

amored Jonathan. Men remarked that he
appeared absent-minded and preoceupied,
but two or three of his fellow passengers by
the 8:45, who were in the same market, told
the story of his capture by the pretty girl in
the train, and so accounted for his peculiar-
ity. He himself, however, was ina state
of anxiety to which he had long been a
stranger. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
passed, and no answer from the mysterious
Mr. Fleming arrived. Perhaps the old lady
had forgotten to forward his missive. Old
ladies, so strangely mindful of long-past oe-
currences, were, he knew, often oblivious
about matters present. Perhaps—but he
shuddered at the thought, and cast it from
him—for Phyllis was too good, too honest,
too much of a lady, to be so base and eruel;:
on the other hand, possibly Mr. Fleming
was instituting inquires. It was natural
that an affectionate father should do so, and
every time Penn brought in a visitor’s name
the merchant expected to hear ‘“‘Mr. Robert
Fleming” announced. On Friday afternoon
he called in Mr. Penn.

‘Kindly shut the door,” he said; ‘I have
something of importance to speak to you
about.”

Mr. Penn obeyed, and anxiously inspeeted
his employer’s face.

“Mr. Penn,” began the merchant, with a
preliminary clearing of the throat, ‘‘you
have been in my service now forsome years,
and you have given me very general satis-
faction in the performance of your duties.”

Penn’s face brightened. Certainly a rise
in salary was coming, perhaps something
more substantial. But all was dashed to
the ground with the first word of the great
man’s next sentence.

‘‘But,” continued Greysark, ‘‘I have been
thinking the matter over very seriously
lately, and I have arrived at the painful
conclusion that I must dispense with your
services at the expiration of a month from
this date.”

The poor clerk gasped and elutehed the
table for support, and would have spoken,
but for a magisterial wave of Mr. Greysark’s
hand,

‘It is very evident to me,” continued his
employer, ‘‘that some fresh blood is needed
in this business. In fact, I propose to take
a partner, and§by so acting to do away with
the necessity of paying a handsome salary
to a head clerk.”

“Mr. Greysark!
Penn. ‘Do hear me.
to make this business. I have been in this
office for more than twenty years. You
have never once had cause to find fault with
me, and I may conscientiously say that I
have never given you oceasion to. For more
than one reason [ am precluded from the
possibility of getting another situation. My
name, as you know, is against me, and peo-
ple would object to me on the ground that I
had a brother who had been in prison; more-
over, [ am not fitted to occupy a clerk’s desk
in any other business. Think, sir, I im-
plore you to think. With one word you are
turning an honest man into the streets to
beg, for no fault of his own. Ido not wish
to push myself forward unduly, Mr. Grey-
sark, but at such a erisis as this I am foreed
to remind you that but for me you might
possibly not have found business matters
work so smoothly as they have. If you dis-
charge me with the notion of introducing
new blood into the house you will have
to—”

“Mr. Penn,” interrupted the merchant,
with a wave of his hand, ‘‘we must in this
world be men of business first and human-
itarians afterward. [have given your case my
fullest consideration, and in acknowledge-
ment of your services, as well as by way of
compensation, I propose to make you a
weekly allowance until you get employ-
ment. But that you must go I have made
up my mind. You will, please, make no
further observations upon the decision at
which I have arrived, or I shall be obliged
to request you to leave my presence. I think
it but fair to tell you, however, that the
principal reason for my deciding to take a
partner is that Iam going to be married—
that is when the consent of the young lady’s
father has been obtained.”

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almost shrieked poor
I have helped you

‘Well, sir,” said the clerk, ‘‘of all periods
in life, surely the eve of marriage should most
naturally inspire kind actions. You are
about to make yourself as happy as a human
being can possibly be, yet you wish to in-
augurate that period by reducing to want
and ruin an old and tried servant. I know
you too well, sir—or, rather, I think too
well of you—not to be sure that if you carry
out this latter intention your conscience
must prick you in after life.”

“Mr. Penn,” said Greysark severely, ‘‘I
told you not to bandy words with me, so let
me hear no more. Iam now going to Hyde

ark. Do not omit to forward all letters to
my address there. You will please be par-
ticular in this. I must say, Mr. Penn, that
I am not a little astonished that, remember-
ing, as you must, what I havedone for you,
and how with your tarnished name you
might long ere this have been begging your
bread but for me, you should presume to of-

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NO. 124,

But I

fer me at¥ice on my own affairs.
will say no%nore.”

The clerk lingered on in the room, as if
in hopes that some straw might still be left
to clutch at. Then he said: “Mr. Grey-
sark, you observed just now that the fact of
your marriage depends upon the consent of
the young lady’s father.”

‘*Those were
the merchant.

“Tf he
Penn.

‘Refuse, Mr. Penn! exclaimed
Greysark. ‘‘Suchathing is simply impossi-
ble, simply too ridiculous to be entertained
fora moment. The head of the house of
Jonathan Greysark & Co., [should imagine,
was a fit match for any one.”

*So may think, sir,” said Penn,
quietly; ‘‘but fathers sometimes hold strange
opinions.”

“Mr. Penn, you are insolvent, sit
most roared the merehant, rising
chair, and glaring at his elerk with furious
eyes.

my words, Penn,” replied

should refuse his consent?” said

”

Refuse!

you

al-

in his

Penn fumbled in his
tinued, still quietly, ‘““Well,
the father’s opinion does happen to differ
from yours, and he refuses his
his daughter’s marriage.”

pockets, and con-
sir, in this ease
sanction to
Jonathan Greysark started from his ehair,
his face perfectly livid, and mouth
wide opened. Penn a letter
from his pocket, unfolded it, and as if ut-
terly unconscious of the storm he had rais-
ed, resumed:

‘**You have addressed this letter to Mr.
Robert Fleming, the father of Phyllis, the
young lady to whom you have been paying
yotr addresses. I, for fan lily reasons, with
which your are quite familiar, prefer to be
known in my circle of acquaintance as Rob-
ert Fleming. Phyllis is my daughter, and]
re’ ”

**No, no! don’t go on!” shouted Greysark
in a voice of supplication.

% * % % * % #

his eyes

drew forth

In the course of a few weeks Phyllis Penn
became Mrs. Jonathan Greysark, and the
style of the firm on South Water street was
altered to Greysark, Penn & Co.

-& 9 -oa-
‘Two Dollars a Day and No Pie.”’

A well-known hotel keeper tells the fol-
lowing good farmer who took
breakfast at his house not long ago:

When the
bill of fare,
marked:

‘Johnny, just bring ’em all in.
durned hungry.”

The waiter grinned, and, after being gone
for a few minutes, returned with dishes that
made a great semi-circle around the stran-
ger’s plate. He counted them all
and then, with a doubtful look, remarked:

‘Looky here, waiter, I don’t see any pie,
and ’m mighty fond of pie, too.”

“Say, mister, we don’t set no pie for
breakfast at this hotel. Only have pie for
dinner.”

The country gentleman,
disgust, turned to a guest
and said:

‘*Neighbor,

“Why??

‘“Two dollars a day and no pie.”

i

story of a

handed the rustie the
it and re-

Ww aiter r

he glanced over

I’m gosh

over,

with a look of
at another table

this is a —— of a hotel.”

The Peppermint King.
From the Buffalo Courier.

Hiram G. Hotchkiss, Wayne
county, is the peppermint. king of the world,
and his name has been for many years kept
standing in the e market journals of all
lands. He is 75 years old and a native of
Oneida county. About 1873 he began buying
peppermint oil of the farmers about Lyons
and in 1841 he abandoned a general store in
Phelps, Ontario county, which he had been
keeping, and thenceforth devoted himself te
the peppermint oil business.
three other dealers in Wayne county,
which controls the market in this specialty,
but Mr. Hotchkiss handles the bulk of the
crop. The mint acreage the country is
about four thousand acres, and the total pro-
duct last year was worth about $120,000.
But it was a bad season; ina fairly good one
the crop is worth $250,000, which figure
may perhaps be put down as the expense ta
the world of the eolie.

> +2 <— —-
A Hint to the Ladies.
From the Baltimorean.

Save the tea leaves for a few days, then
steep them in a tin pail or pan for half an
hour, strain through a sieve, and use the tea
for all varnished paint. It requires very
little elbow polish, as the tea acts as a strong
detergent, cleansing the paint from all its
impurities, and making the varnish equal to
new. It cleans window sashes and oileloths
—indeed, any varnished surface is improved
by its application. It washes the window
panes and mirrors much better than water,
and is excellent for cleansing black walnut
picture and looking-glass frames. It will
not do to wash unvarnished paint with it.

_-o- <a

In St. Pe tersbe rg, there aremen who take
about hot tea ‘in large metal pots covered
with felt, and sell it to hack drivers and
coachmen, who have to wait for long hours
in the cold when there is a party.

Gypsum, in paying quantities, and a ledge
of slate fit for roofing purposes, have been
found near Phoenix, A. T.

of Lyons,

ohtet

There are two

or

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The Michican Tradesmal.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Horcantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

 

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1886.

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.

 

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.

Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.

Treasurer—Geo. B. Dunton.

Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening
of October.

Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even-
ing of each month.

 

Traverse City Business Men's Association,

President, Frank Hamilton; Secretary, C. T.
Lockwood; Treasurer, J. 'T. Beadle.

 

Business Men’s Protective Union of
Chehoygan.

President, A. M. Wesgate; Vice-President,
H. Chambers; Secretary, A. J. Paddock.

 

("Subscribers and others, when writing
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub-
lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver-
tisement in the columns of this paper.

 

MICHIGAN HARD-
WOODS.

It is a very common thing to find in the
eolumns of the contemporary press, e@X-
haustive articles deprecating the rapid
destruction of the pine timber in Northern
Michigan, accompanied by startling statis-
ties showing that, at the present rate of de-
nudation, the supply of pine will be practi-
cally exhausted in a few years. While in
many instances these statistics and con-
clusions are very wide of the mark, there is
pith in the main idea underlying them, and
ample material for reflection. But the apos-
tles of forestry, in their eagerness to in-
veigh against the wholesale conversion of
pine forests into lumber, too often overlook
a species of waste which is infinitely more
mischievous than the operations of the pine
industry, viz, the waste of hardwoods by
the logging operations of settlers. If this
destruction were confined to legitimate lum-
bering processes the case would at least
have mitigating features. But in many in-
stances the waste is purely wanton; and
wanton waste is under all circumstances to
be deplored. The soil which grows hard-
wood timber is well known to be richer, and
more perfectly suited for agricultural pur-
poses than that on which pine is commonly
found. For this reason the hardwood lands
suffer most severely from the axe of the set-
tler. The fact that the ultimate value of
Michigan hardwoods is but imperfectly,
and not generally, understood, also favors
the destruction. The average settler knows
that the immediate revenue to be derived
from his hardwood lands will be greater if
he brings them under cultivation than if he
leaves the forests inviolate; hence he pro-
ceeds to get rid of the timber as quickly as
possible, by gathering into log-heaps and
reducing it to ashes.

The exigencies of agriculture, of course,
are not to be ignored. It is absolutely re-
quisite that a certain proportion of the land
shall be cleared and placed under cultiva-
tion. But American farmers too often
labor under the mistake that the measure of
successful husbandry is in the area of land
under tillage. Many of them have yet to
learn that a small farm well cultivated may
be made more profitable than a large farm
carelessly cultivated; and that it would be
true economy to clear a much smaller pro-
portion of their hardwood lands than is cus-
tomary, leaving the timber on the remain-
der to increase in value, as it will inevitably
do, in the near future.

Northern Michigan possesses magnificent
possibilities (which can be realized if she
husbands her resources) for the manufac-
ture of hardwood products. Situated in the
central portion of the vast Northwest, be-
tween two great inland seas which afford
easy and cheap transportion to the markets
both of the East and the West, her facilities
for the profitable disposal of her wares are
all that can be desired. Her forests abound
in an excellent variety of woods suitable for
manufacture, and her numerous streams,
flowing through the heart of the hardwood
regions, afford cheap and abundant power
for manufacturing purposes. In short, the
natural advantages of Northern Michigan

for wood manufacture are unsurpassed, and
only await the enlistment of extensive cap-
ital and enterprise to raise them to an im-
portant position. Already the good work
has begun. Handle factories, bow] mills,
spoke and- hub factories, basket factories,
ete., have been established at various points,
with favorable results. But the develop-
ment of these industries is yet in an incip-
ient stage. For the full realization of the
manufacturing possibilities of Northern
Michigan, we must look to the future. A
large proportion of the smaller class of arti-
eles manufactured from hardwoods, now
eomes from Maine and other New England
states. There is no good reason why the
markets of the West and Northwest should
not be supplied from the vast reserve of raw
materials lying at their very thresholds; and

NORTHERN

they certainly will be so supplied in the not |

distant future, if the settlers of Northern
Michigan do not, in the mean time, render
such a result impracticable, by the wanton
destruction of the vast tracts of forest wealth
which are indispensable to the establish-
ment of an extensive manufacturing system
in the line of hardwood products.
preentenintnmemmniaaaeiaentane

.

Rose Bros. have purchased the general

The Bureau of Labor Statistics in New
York makes a report on the collision be-
tween capital and labor which is enough to
justify the existence of such a body. It has
been asking the representatives of the great
labor organizations their views as to strikes,
and it may surprise some persons to find that
they are invariably opposed to and regard
them as a lamentable necessity, for which
they gladly would substitute arbitration.
The truth is that our industrial organization
is still in that rudimentary state in which
differences must be fought out, because we
have no more peaceful ‘means of adjusting
them. In life at large we have setaside the
duel as a barbarous mode of settling such
differences. In industry we have not even
the social force at hand to compel any refer-
ence of such disputes to an impartial author-
ity. In more than one case within the last
five years, the working classes have offered
to submit to arbitration, and the offer has
been refused by their employers and vice
versa. We hope for the day when no state
will incorporate a company without making
arbitration obligatory upon it in its relations
to labor.

I OT ER NOL ARN ENE

Western Pennsylvania is having a taste
of the quality of Coolie labor. A mining
company in that region having ordered its
agent in New York to hire Hungarians to
take the place of striking miners, the Hun-
garians thus secured are now in conflict with
the owners of the mine and the local author-
ities at Scotdale, the trouble growing out of
a strike between the Coolies and their em-
ployers. These Hungarians are distinetly
more unmanageable than American, German
or Irish workmen, as was seen in the trou-
bles at Cleveland, and their use of a lan-
guage known to few besides themselves
makes them at once more clannish and sus-
picious, and more able to plot without giv-
ing warning.

eee Sar ENTE EY OTE EAS

Jobbers and manufacturers who have Up-
per Peninsula shipments and travelers
whose business calls them in that direction
will be pleased to learn that the report re-
cently circulated relative to the closing of
the Straits is without foundation; that the
Algomah is making regular trips every day;
and that the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette
Railway—contrary to the custom of pre-
vious winter seasons—is running through
passenger trains between St. Ignace and
Marquette, in addition to the freight trains.
Such accommodations involve a consider-
able extra expense, but they are bound to be
appreciated at their full worth by the busi-

ness public.
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The New York Retail Grocers’ Union,
after a full and careful consideration of the
subject, has decided that hereafter all veg-
etables forwarded by producers to the New
York market must be sold by weight, in-
stead of the present unsatisfactory system,
in which there is no uniformity. This is
an important step, and speaks well for the
future of the movement.

TT ORT

The bank clearings for last week
gated $434,619.04, an increase of
cent. over the previous week.

aggre-
99 per

wed

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

IN THE CITY.
Goossen & Daane sueceed T. B. & M. C.

street.

added a line of drugs.
Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock.

gage, is offering 25 per ¢

ment.

tion.
grocery stock.

AROUND THE STATE.

Paw.
sold out.

Chas.
Niles, has sold out.
business at Fennville.
dry goods store at Hastings.
has assigned to Harris Ball.
in generat trade at Kingsley.

G. W. Smith succeeds Horning & Smitl
in the grocery business at Clare.

Davy & Co. sueceed Howard & Davy it
the dry goods business at Evart.
of McWilliams & Co., at Lowell.

City, had been closed on execution.

John Hellesvig
Nickle’s grocery stock at Manistee.
ing stock from Corunna to Owosso.
Co., grocers at Muskegon, is dead.
Douglass in general trade at Ashley.
City, have dissolved, each continuing.
stock of G. W. Francis, at Nashville.
firm of Martin & Boyland, at Jackson.

Neinhuis Bros. succeed Posthumus & Co
in the grocery business at New Holland.

 

stock of DeSpelder & Balkema, at Allendale.

& Co. in the clothing business at Low-ll.

 

   

Goossen in the grocery business on Monroe

J. H. Wheeler,"stationer at Sherman, has
The Hazeltine &

S. Tyroller, whose fancy goods and toy
stock was recently taken on chattel mort-
ent. in full settle-

W. H. Smith has engaged in the dry
goods and grocery business at Grand Junc-
Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the

A grange store will soon be opened at Paw
Michael Mauk, grocer at Northville, has
M. Loomis, hardware dealer at
Dr. O. N. Moon has engaged in the drug
Keeler Bros., of Middleville, will open a
C. S. Smith, clothing dealer at Dexter,

C. H. Camp succeeds Camp & Broderick

Geo. Parker has bought the grocery stock
Mrs. Charlotte Shepard, milliner at Bay
has purchased Louis
Dibble & Parsons will remove their cloth-
F. B. Peck, the ‘‘Co.” of H. B. Fargo &
Douglass & Douglass succeed Sickles &
Haskins Bros., general dealers at Inlay
Frank McDerby has bought the grocery

J. H. Boyland has retired from the drug

C. D. Pease & Co. succeed Howard, Pease

The merchants of Lapeer have agreed to
close their stores at 8 o’clock each evening.

Catherine Cronin succeeds Cornell &
Cronin in the boot and shoe business at Kal-
kaska.

J. Shean succeeds Messinger & Shean in
the grocery and drug business at Hickory
Corners.

The Grandine & Hinman drug stock, at
Battle Creek, has been sold under chattel
mortgage.

John W. Solomon has retired from the
grocery house of J. L. Parkinson & Co., at
Jackson.

Rey. James Armstrong & Son have en-
gaged in the grocery business at Hopkins
Station.

N. E. Yesner, clothing merchant at Un-
ion City, has been closed out under chattel
mortgage.

Geo. H. Seriver, hardware dealer at St.
Louis, has been closed out under chattel
mortgage.

A. F. Burch sueceeds W. W. Bates &
Son in the grocery and restaurant business
at Sturgis.

Jos. C. Paris, general dealer at Kent City,
has been closed on chattel mortgage held by
his wife.

D. H. Palmer has purchased a half inter-
est in the hardware business of Jones &
Taylor at Marcellus.

The Michigan Drug Exchange reports the
sale of the drug stock of E., McAllister &
Co., at Scottsville to Higgins & Allen.

A. J. Southard, the Harbor Springs bank-
er, has purchased the dry goods and grocery
stock of H. E. Cole & Co., at that place.
Whitehall Forum: J. D. Sturtevant is
fitting up a store-room back of his residence
and will stock it with groceries for the gen-
eral trade.

Thieves broke into the Vulcan warehouse
at Newberry a few nights ago and carried
off considerable property. A reward of $50
is offered for their capture.

Dr. O. S. Holland, formerly engaged in
the drug business at Rockford, but for the
past six months the proprietor of a drug
store at Grant, died on the 25th ult.
Muskegon Chronicle: M. W. Ferris has
bought a half interest in the general store
and business of the Muskegon City Mills at
Holton. ITlereafter the firm will be known
as Henry S. Henderson & Co.

A meeting of the creditors of Taleen,
Jachim & Co., the Ishpeming hardware
merchants, who recently failed, was held at
Chicago on the 26th. A representative of
the firm stated that the liabilities were $40,-
000 and that the firm was willing to offer 30
per cent. in full settlement. A committee
of four was appointed to investigate the
matter before taking action on the propo-
sition.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Henry Ebmyer now operates the old Cas-
ter sawmill near Burnip’s Corners.

H. W. Harding sueceeds J. A. Roberts &
Co. in the manufacture of belt fasteners at
Detroit.
Bellman & Francisco sueceed Bellman &
Handy in the manufacture of cigars at
Three Rivers.
C. Colby & Co., box and basket manu-
facturers at Benton Horbor, and M. Hinckley
& Son, manufacturers of fruit packages at
the same place, have consolidated under the
style of C. Colby & Co.

Hall & Buell are putting in a Wickes gang
in the mill at Manistique, recently bought
of the North Shore Lumber Co., and have
ordered a band saw which will be put in
early in the spring. The mill when complet-
ed will be one of the finest in Northern
Michigan.

The firm of Atkinson & Co., cigar manu-
facturers, located in the State House of Cor-
rection at Ionia, manufactured during the
year ending Dee. 31, 1885, 5,380,850 cigars
and sold during the same time 5,856,100,
purchasing $17,672.25 worth of cigar stamps
to stamp the same. They had no cigars on
hand January 1.

The Jackson Cowrier says it is under-
stood that at the expiration of their present
contract, March 19, Geo. C. Weatherbee &
Co., proprietors of the broom contract at
the prison, will dispose of their interest,
and that E. M. Aldrich and Samuel W.
Phillips will continue the same. Mr. Phil-
ips has been in charge of the business
for the last six years and understands it
thoroughly.

 

STRAY FACTS.

M. Vosburg, jeweler at Union City, has
failed.
D. M. Coppock has opened a meat market
at Holland.
Mrs. Geo. Howe, milliner at St. Joseph,
has sold out.
Wm. Olin is putting up a portable sawmill
near Millbrook.
Wm. L. Davis, harness dealer at South
Lyon, has sold out.
The brine taken from the well at St. Ig-
nace is 52 per cent. pure salt.
The new roller mill at Cheboygan turns
out one ton of feed every hour.
Cadillac is seeking an opportunity to talk
with Grand Rapids by telephone.
Geo. W. Gill succeeds Thomas Neat in
the lumber business at Ypsilanti.
Niver & Brown, meat dealers at Albion,
have dissolved, Brown continuing.
F. Lucker succeeds Peterson & Lucker in
the meat and fish business at St. Joseph.
Mallett & Milton succeed F. A. Stebbins &
Co. in the hotel business at Mt. Pleasant.
Morley is moving to secure telephone con-
nection with Grand Rapids and Big Bapids.
Geo. N. Williams succeeds Williams Bros.
in the ownership of the City Hotel at Hol-
land.

1

1

Gristwood in the milling business at Fen-

wick.

J. W. Thomson, Jr., succeeds J. W.

Thomson & Son in the coal business at Port

Huron.

It is estimated that the value of the fruit

shipped from Saugatuck in 1885 will reach

$350,000.

Within the past three months over ten
tons of poultry have been shipped from
Marcellus.

Snow Brothers, of Cadillac, have pur-
chased the flouring mill of J. Spencer, at
Woodland.

Curtiss, Wylie & Co. succeed Curtiss,

Watchel & Co. in the banking business at
Petoskey.

A boom company is to be organized at
Cheboygan. Six mills are in operation there,

or will be by spring.

Delbridge, Brooks & Fisher, planing mill
operators at Detroit, have increased their
authorized capital to $30,000.

The Hamilton & Merriman Co., of Men-
ominee, is building docks to dry the lumber
at the mill before shipping to the Chicago
yards.

The snow is from three to four feet deep
in places on the Manistique, and loggers
have been obliged in many camps to stop
skidding.

George L. Burtiss, of Marquette, has con-
tracted to saw 12,000,000 feet of logs for
Hall & Buell, and is putting in a band saw
for cutting them.

A cedar tree, standing in Middle branch
township, Osceola county, measures 15 feet
10 inches in circumference 3 feet from the
root, and is sound as a nut.

Bird Brothers, Menominee, are buying all
the railroad ties they can get. Cedar, dry
or green, sell for 16 cents each; green hem-
lock and tamarack, 14 cents.

A portion of Lansing business men do
business on standard time, and a portion on
sun time. The result in a ridiculous clash
of interests, and at times a very inconven-
ient one.

Powers Bros. are making preparations to
build a roller grist mill in Ferry the coming
spring, on the site of their present one. ‘The
outlook, they think, justifies them in under-
taking their new venture.

The Kelley Manufacturing Co., of Muske-
gon, will soon be in condition to make and
ship 300 sideboards per week. An order for
600 refrigerator sideboards is now being fill-
ed for a Philadelphia firm.

A new banking house is being agitated at
Buchanan andif the suggestion is acted upon
the money that is now deposited in Niles,
Chicago and old stockings would be serap-
ed rogether and would make a creditable
showing.

Allegan Gazette: We regret to learn that
the firm of C. E. Smith & Co., dealers in ag-
ricultural implements, harness, ete., have
been forced to suspend. The failure is a
bad one involving Messrs. Smith & Mendel
in a large amount.

It is claimed that there are 1,000 more
men employed in the camps on Menominee
raters this season than last year, and that

the grand total is 5,000. With such a
favorable winter, this large force means a

heavy input of logs.
_— Se Oo
The Gripsack Brigade.
J. L. Josephs and A. B. Smith are ‘‘doing
up” the Northern trade this week.
W. J. Price is laying off this week, taking
the first vacation he has enjoyed for seven
years.
Theo. B. Goossen has engaged with Bulk-
ley, Lemon & Co., to work the city trade of
that house. :
B. J. Robertson, the Breedsville druggist,
put in Sunday in this market, the guest of
his brother, ‘‘Hy.”
A. E. Brownell, with the American Cigar
Co., of Coldwater, put in Sunday and Mon-
day at this market.
Cc. E. Bennett, representing the Cibils
Fluid Beef Extract Co., is in the city for
the purpose of introducing the goods to the
trade.
Ed. Frick has received a handsome solid
gold watch from E. W. Gillett, in consider-
ation of his selling 600 packages of yeast in
1885.
A. C. Benedict, representing the Huyett
& Smith Manufacturing Co., of Detroit, is
in town for a few days, interviewing the
manufacturers.
I. W. Van Zandt representing Howard
W. Spurr & Co., of Boston, arrived last
Saturday and has spent several days with
the trade here.
Henry Dawley, who has handled the city
trade for Putnam & Brooks for some time
past, succeeds to the territory formerly eov-
ered by Chas. P. Drew.
Jas. A. Crookston now makes reg-
ular trips through the Upper Peninsula for
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., seeing
the trade every fourth week.
Dan. Lyneh, of Fred D. Yale & Co., is
headed toward Detroit on the D., L. &N.
this week. J. C. Watson, of the same
house, is skipping through Indiana.
J. C. Utman, now on the road for the
Grand Haven Broom Co., has taken a pos-
ition with Amos. S. Musselman & Co., cov-
ering the same territory relinquished by
Cass Bradford.

‘

Herbert T. Chase and four other traveling
men took an active part in the sacred con-
cent at Powers’ opera house Sunday even-
| ing.
attention of the audience.

reports the largest trade he ever had. Geo.

road for the same corporation.

 

 

 

    

 

Long & Gristwood arses Herrick &°

They divided with the orchestra the

T. P. S. Hampson has engaged with the
Anti-Kalsomine Co. for another year, and

W. Gage and E. C. Minor are also on the

traveling representative for Putnam &
Brooks, has engaged to travel for the Michi-
gan Confectionery Co., of Detroit, and will
start out for the new house on the 8th.

John H. Eacker will take the Northern
territory formerly covered by John D. Man-
gum for S. A. Walling. L. R. Cessna will
sueceed to Mr. Eacker’s territory, but
Cessna’s successor has not been engaged.

John D. Mangum, for the past five years
traveling representative for S. A. Welling,
has engaged to travel for Brewster & Stan-
ton, of Detroit. His territory includes the
Upper Peninswla and Northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota.
President Logie instructs Turk TRrRADES-
MAN to eall a meeting of Post A, Michigan
Commercial Traveler’s’ Association, to be
held at Tuk TRADESMAN office Saturday
evening, February 6. All members of the
organization will please govern themselves
accordingly.

VISITING BUYERS.
The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

H. M. Harroun, MeLain.
Jacob May, Frankfort.
Fred Moore, Hare.
Benbow & Phillips, Hastings.
Nicholas Bouma, Fisher.
tT’. S. Jordan, Elmira.
W.J. Woodruif & Co., Copley.
H. P. Whipple, Kingsley.
R. Gannon, White Cloud.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
J. F. Mann, Lisbon.
L. E. Paige, Sparta.
S. 5. Hesseltine, Casnovia.
Fred R. Hayward, Casnovia.
J. H. Arnold & Son, Lyons.
John Wierenga, Langeland & Wierenga, Mus-
kegon.
B. J. Robertson, Breedsville.
Jas, E. Bevins, Tustin.
D. Vinton, D. Vinton & Co., Williamsburg.
a r. DeVoist, Wutson & DeVoist, Coopers-
ville.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
Jolin Kamps, Zutphen.
R. J. Dudley & Son, Alleyton.
Wm. VerMeulen, Beaver Dam.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
Myers & Benton, Alleyton.
R. D. MeNaughton, Coopersville.
W. I. Woodrutf, Copley.
H. P. Whipple, Kingsley.
c. R. Smith, Cadillac.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Mr. LaHuis, Herder & LaHuis, Zeeland.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
Capt. Wm. Rosie, Bass River.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
M. A. Potter, Oakfield Center.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
M. J. Howard, Engilishville.
Calvin Durkee, Altona.
Cc. H. Loomis, Sparta.
John Cole, Fremont.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
R. W. Hall, Hersey.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Cc. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
L. Cook, Bauer.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
BE. P. Barnard, buyer New Era Lumber Co.,
New Era.
KF. Goodman & Co., Burnip’s Corners.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
W,S. Root, Tallmadge.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
M. J. Goss, Prairieville.
Silas Lowe, Burnip’s Corners.
W.N. Hutchinson, Ashland.
John Dunn, Traverse City.
E. P. Joyee, Cannonsburg.
— A. Buck, Hopkins Spring Seat Co., Hop-
ins.
Wm. Borst, Vriesland.
F. W. Smith, Petoskey.
R. B. MeCullock, Berlin.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
G. W. Bevins, Leroy.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Byron MeNeal, Byron Center.
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Jacob Jesson, J. Jesson & Co., Muskegon.
Hutty & Dickenson, Grand Haven.
W. W. Peirce, Moline.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
Neal MeMillan, Rockford.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Bellows Bros. & Lockhart, Frankfort.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
E. B. Lapham, Rockford.
L. T. Wilmarth, Rodney.
W.H. Smith, Grand Junction.
Rose Bros., Allendale.
J. DeSpelder, DeSpeider & Balkema,
Rapids.
Joshua Colby, Rockford.
H. B. Irish, Lisbon.
Cc. H. Deming, Dutton.
John C. Scott, Lowell.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
T. J. Sherldan & Co., Woodville.
S. Biteley, Bitely Siding.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Mr. Fisher, Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
Hoag & Johnson, Cannonsburg.
G.N. Reynolds, Belmont.
R. Gannon, White Cloud.
G. P. Stark,, Cascade.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.

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Furniture Facts.

Stenglein, Auschutz & Co., furniture
manufacturers at Saginaw, has merged their
business into a stock company.
D. W. Brady, who figured somewhat con-
spicuously at Luther a couple of years ago
as a dead-beat under the name of A. Brady,
is now located at Morley, where he is en-
gaged in the retail furniture business. Man-
ufacturers and others would do well to give
Brady a wide berth.
John Bradfield, one of the incorporators
of the MeCord & Bradfield Furniture Co.,
but for the past few years identified with
the Champaigne Furniture Co., of Cham-
paigne, Ills., has gone on the road for the
Kent Furniture Manufacturing Co., taking
the Northwest trade of the corporation.
The Luther & Sumner Manufacturing Co.

is in process of dissolution, the stock hold-
ers having concluded that the corporation
may as well succumb to the inevitable first
as last. Several of the stockholders contem-
plate another organization, which will suc-
ceed to the business of the old company.

THE LOUNGER.
I see by the Petoskey papers that Cass
Van Leuven has purchased a building at
that place and will convert the same into a
first-class hotel. As Cass is never happy
except when swindling somebody, I am ata
loss to account for his latest movement on
any other supposition than that he intends

making it decidedly ‘“‘interesting” for his
guests.
* *
*

My friend Jim Stewart, who writes East
Saginaw with ‘‘Limited” before it, has in
his possession a telegram from Chas. A.
King, of Toledo, offering $1.65 per barrel
for salt at Saginaw. Stewart says the offer
was for 50,000 barrels, from which I infer
hat it might have been intended for—say
10,000 barrels. That was away back in 1873,
since which time ‘‘Saginaw Fine” has sold
has low as 57 cents per barrel. Just now
the Saginaw market is considered in a very
satisfactory condition at 75 cents.

*

Speaking of salt, reminds me that hereto-
fore everything written on that subject has
been from the Saginaw standpoint. I don’t
mean toinsinuate that the Saginaw Valley is
to lose allits prestige, but the rapid increase
in the capacity of the Manistee and Luding-
ton wells would seem to foreshadow a por-
tentious change in the saline industry of
Michigan. Just what the effeet will be, and
in what shape the subject will ultimately
resolve itself, 1 am not prophet enough to
foretell; but a man with half an eye can see
that the Western Michigan wells will play
no ineonsiderable part in the salt market of
the world.

* . *

The New Yorkers are complaining of the
street car companies of that city, which are
said to owe the city some $30,000,000 for
the use of the streets, and will not pay it.
Our neighbors might have done better to do
with these companies as we doin Grand
Rapids. We gave them the use of the streets
for nothing, so that they never can default
and be dishonest in their treatment of us.
To be sure it was said that they would un-
dertake to keep the tracks clean and pre-
vent the accumulation of snow in the streets.
This went far to reconcile us to the grant;
but now we find this was all a mistake, and
that they have no obligations outside their
tracks. How much happier the New York-
ers would be if they knew that the surface
roads neither did nor could owe them any-
thing.

7
I observe that several Michigan newspa-
pers are indulging in a considerable amount
of maudlin sentiment over the ‘‘early and
untimely” death of Stewart Ives, charitably
attributing his shattered mind and conse-
quent death to the ‘‘terrible strain incident
to over-work.” Ihave no desire to belittle
the work actually accomplished by Col.
Ives, and I would not refer to the subject at
this time were it not that I deem it my duty
to correct a wrong impression which would
otherwise prevail in the minds of those who
are not acqnainted with the tacts in the mat-
ter. Justice to the living as well as the
dead impels the statement that fast living,
and not over-work, brought on the malady
which earried Col. Ives down to the grave;
and for the sake of example the friends of
the deceased ought not to attempt to cover
up the truth or offer other excuses in pallia-
tion.

*

“

I maintain—and I have only to point to
hundreds of ready instances to prove the as-
sertion—that where hard work kills one
man, debauchery kills a thousand. The
pumber of men who fall out of the ranks
through disregard of the commonest laws of
decency and morality is out of all proportion
to the number who are wrecked in the pros-
ecution of important business undertakings.
Hard work is to a certain extent a stimu-
lant, which, in turn, impels to still further
exertion. There is such a thing as carrying
hard work too far, but it is infinitely more
honorable to die in the harness than to rust
out through sloth or to wear out prema-
turely through the misuse of one’s mental
and physical faculties.

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The Barometer of Business.

The following table, comprising the daily

reports of the Grand Rapids Clearing House,

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shows the gross exchanges and balances for
the dates named, to which is appended the

 

 

aggregate figures for the two previous
weeks:

Clearings, Balances.
RY TE. 6 65 00 caceass- 80,391.17 12,439.67
” , a $8,564.03 22,981.65
™ Me i ckgticaunanl 46,813.36 7,233.69
“ Ws cos wtadientas 88,837.98 53,457.93
“ Mi ceskcpinieas 3,904.61 5,364.57

- 0 ck ic 86,107.89 3
ys) Ns Te $434,619.04 $155,073.38
Week ending Jan. 23.... 354,205.25 63,703.41
" ” “¢ 64.... 456,251.29 127, 747,29

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9.... 167,186.96

Grand Total....... $1,411, 452.54

43,170.74

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$369,694.82

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Morton House reading room and barber shop
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WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS,"

MANWFACTURERS OF PERFECT FITTING
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AT LOWEST PRICES.

Mail Orders sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive Prompt Attention.

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STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City.

Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

President—Ottmar Eberbach.

Secretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. :

Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids,
March 2, 1886.

ichigan Stale Pharmacentical Association,

OFFICERS.
President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

First Vice-President—Frank J. Wurzburg,
Grand Rapids. :
Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens, Detroit,

Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.

Seeretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso.

Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. :

Executive Committee—Jacob Jesson, Geo,
Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W. R. Perry and
John E. Peck. : ;

Loca! Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids.

Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids,
Tuesday, October 12, 1886.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.
President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank : ec
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.

Board of Censors— President, V ice-President
and Secretary. a ;

Board of Trustees—The President, Wm. Hi.
Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White,
Wm. L. White. =

Committee on pene B. Kimm, H. E.
Locher and Wm. E. White.

Committee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck,
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeurren. :

Committee on Legislation—Jas. D. Lacey,
Isaac Watts and A. C. Bauer. a

Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in
each month. .

Annual Meetings—First
November, : : oy

Next Meeting—Thursday evening, February 4,
at “The Tradesman” office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

Thursday evening in

 

Organized October, 1883.

OFFICERS.
President—Wm. Dupont. .
First Vice-President—Frank Inglis.
Second Vice President—J. Ww ; Caldwell. :
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. R. Perry. :
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Salt-
zer. :
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each
month.
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation.
OFFICERS.
President—R. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
este im Alte ws sia
Treasurer—Chas. E. Humphrey.
Board of Censors—Z. W. Waldron, C. E. Foot

and C. H. Haskins. ee
Annual Meeting— First Thursday in November.
Regular Meetings—First Thursday of each

month.
Saginaw County Pharmaceutical So-

ciety.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.

Chairman—Henry Melchers.
Secretary—D. E. Prall.

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
OFFICERS.

President—lI. F. Hopkins.

Vice-President—John Meyers.

Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.

Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Friday
of each month. : : i‘

Next Mecting—Friday evening, Feb. 12.

Chat With Secretary Jesson.
Jacob Jesson, of the State Board6f Phar-
macy, was in town last week for the pur-
pose of securing suitable Crooms for the
forthcoming session of the Board in this
city. He made arrangements for the use of
the Supervisor’s room and Circuit Court
rooin, in Court block, on Lyon street, where
the examination of applicants for registra-
tion will be held. About thirty applications
for examination have been received up to
date, and the probability is that the number
will be considerably augmented during the
ensuing month.

Mr. Jesson states that the Pharmacy law
seems to be giving the best of satisfaction,
and that the time is coming when it cannot
fail to have a moral effect over the trade at
large.

The questions used by the Board in the
examination of applicants for registration
are not made public, the Board having voted
to so consider them.

Mr. Jesson states that he is in almost
daily receipt of anonymous letters complain-
ing of the incompetency of druggists and
clerks holding certificates of registration
from the Board. Such communications are
invariably submitted—to the waste basket.
~ i ty ameter

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

The reguiar monthly meeting of the
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, to be
held at Tux TrapEsMAN Office Thursday
evening, promises to be of unusual interest.
The subject for discussion is the ‘‘Explosive
combinations met with by druggists,” which
will undoubtedly bring out a free and full
discussion. The trade at large owe it to
themselves and the Society to attend the
meetings more universally. So long as
they share the benefits resulting from the
organization, they ought to be willing to
contribute an insignificant portion of their

time to its maintenance.
——— > -O-

A Cruel Doctor.

“Took here, doctor, 1 don’t want you to go
to my house and frighten my wife again as
you did this morning.”

“Frighten her? How did I frighten
her?”

“Didn't she ask you what the symptoms
of hydrophobia are?”

**Ves.”

‘And didn’t you tell her the patient al-
ways has a strong aversion to water?”

“Certainly.”

‘Yes, well, the poor woman is down sick
with fright. She thinks I’ve got the hydro-
phobia.”

aisle nt _
Chicago claims to have six chemical
works, twelve paint factories, two white

jead corroders, five varnish works, seven

linseed oil mills and five glue works.

 

Another Answer to Mr. Crandall’s Whole-
sale Arraignment.
Editor MICHIGAN TRADESMAN:

Dear Srr—Your cranky and unreason-
able correspondent, J. V. Crandall, in as-
suming that, because a few conscienceless
druggists sneak behind an honorable pro-
fession to avoid the State and local taxation,
the entire body of Michigan pharmacists are
necessarily saloonists in disguise, should
have accompanied his charges with the ad-
ditional allegation that because Benedict
Arnold was an apothecary, all American
apothecaries are innolulated with treason.
It would have been a fitting and appropriate
addition to his remarkable logic.

While I hardly feel justified in assisting
my friend, Dr. Locher, in filling out a certi-
cate of character for every individual whose
name is recorded on the books of the State
Board of Pharmacy, I nevertheless believe
that no other trade or profession in Michi-
gan will show a greater proporticn of hon-
orable, law-abiding and intelligent citizens
than the druggists of the State. That a few
of them violate the liquor law is undoubt-
edly true, }but they are amenable to and
should be subjected to the same pains and
penalties as other transgressors. It is the
rankest injustice aud grossest absurdity to
ask their non-offending business contem-
poraries to help bear the burden of their
wrong doing.

Your correspondent, although perhaps a
gentleman and an estimable citizen, is evi-
dently riding a hobby, and hobby riders are
never critical anaylsists. Because a few
noted divines appear to have a very limited
reverence for a very important command-
ment, I hardly think he would deem it a
publie duty to rush into print with a sweep-
ing allegation that every minister isan adul-
terer; or, if a medical gentleman oceasion-
ally lends his assistance towards preventing
an excess in the population of the country,
it isn’t probable that he would publicly ar-
raign the whole profession as abortionists;
but, should he do so, he would be just as
logical, just as reasonable, and just as hon-
orable as he is in asserting—in substance—
that every Michigan druggist is a disguised
saloonist.

I am glad to notice that your local society
is moving in the matter of the removal of
the drvggists’ liquor tax. Its collection un-
der present circumstances is a gross injus-
tice and unwarranted imposition. The use
of spirits is an absolute necessity of the
trade and when properly and carefully
handled their sale should be made as legiti-
mate and untrammelled as that.of any other
midicinal merchandise. F. H. SPENCER.

Saranac, Jan. 30, 1886.

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Originality.
From the Michigan Manufactuder.

The inventors who have attained the
highest suecess have been, with some ex-
ceptions, original thinkers, rather than skill-
ful ecopyists. Nearly all the great modern
inventions which have revolutionized in-
dustrial methods, and which may almost be
said to have created a new civilization, have
been wrought out by men who turned aside
from the beaten paths of research, dis-
carded old theories, and thought for them-
selves, wringing momentous secrets from
nature by means of persistent and patient
investigation. Itis not expedient that an
experimenter, in pursuing a course of ori-
ginal investigation, should neglect to profit
by the experiences and discoveries of others

often the result of accumulated knowledge.
But the truly original investigator takes very
little for granted. He weighs carefully the
deductions of others, and ascertains by
actual tests, whether they coincide with his
own conclusions.

Originality is one of the highest attrib-
utes of the human intellect. It was former-
ly called genius, but that definition is giv-
ing place to the more sensible modern
synonym—hard work. The idea that orig-
inality, or genius, isa direct gift from the
Creator, is practically abandoned, and men
have come to recognize the fact that great
results, whether in literature, science, art,
or mechanics, can be accomplished only by
close and intelligent application. To a cer-
tain extent, every man holds the keys of
his own destiny, and his success in life is
largely dependent upon his methods of using
them.

Originality of invention, in the strictest
sense, is much more rare and difficult now
than it was a few years ago. So thorough-
ly have all known industrial fields been ex-
plored, so eager and alert are the searchers
after something novel, that only the dis-
coverer of a new force or principle can
justly lay claim, in the broad sense, to
originality. Nevertheless, the possibilities
of combination are almost infinite, and a
new industry is often founded through a
skillful combination of known principles or
processes. Tueo. M. CARPENTER.

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A Prominent Business Man.
From the Wall Street News.

A Cleveland speculator sent his son to
Wisconsin to buy hops telling him to keep his
eye open for any speculation. Aftera few days
a dispatch came, saying: ‘‘A widow has
got a corner on the hop market of this State.
Shall I marry her?” ‘‘Certainly,” was the
reply sent over the wires. Twelve hours
later the son announced: ‘‘Got the hops,
the widow, and several step-children, and
shall go to Chicago to-morrow to see abouta

divorce.”
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The Drug Market.
Business is good and collections are fair.
Quinine and opium are dull and featureless.

 

    
 

Other articles in the drug line are about
steady. a

in the same field; for a great discovery is |J

Too Much Style.

A prominent New York druggist is spend-
ing the winter in San Antonio, for his
health.

‘What mout your trade be, stranger?”
asked the genial clerk of the local hotel.

“T am a pharmacist.”

‘““A what did yer say?”

“A pharmacist,”

“Why don’t you talk English, and say
you are a hoss doctor.”

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There are immense deposits of borax at
Soda Springs, Teals’ Marsh and other points
along the line of the Northern Pacific Road,
and several hundred tons are each month
shipped to San Franciseo. An effort is also
being made to produce carbonate of» soda
from Owens’ Lake, and it is hoped that it
will become a thriving industry. The mar-
ble quarries are also attracting much atten-
tion.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min
eral Spring Water from Hazeltine, Perkins
& Co. See quotations in another column.

RETAIL DRUGGISTS

OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

 

GENTLEMEN—The constant call for a
good and low-priced COUGH and CROUP
remedy has induced us to introduce our Lung
Balsam in three-size bottles: Priee, 25
Cents, 50 Cents and $1 per bottle. The 25-
cent bottles are put up for the aeccommoda-
tion of all who desire simply a COUGH. or
CROUP remedy. Those desiring a remedy
for Consumption or any Lung Disease
should secure the large $1 bottles.

May we ask you who are not familiar with
the merits of Allen’s Lung Balsam to order
from your wholesale druggist a sample lot
of any of the sizes, and you will find it to
give satisfaction, and that those once using
it will eall for it again.

It is for sale by all wholesale druggists at
popular prices: $1.75 per dozen, small size;
$3.50 per dozen, medium size; and $7 per
dozen, large size.

We hope you will consider your stock in-
complete without ALLENS LUNG BAL-
SOM on your shelves.

J. N. HARRIS & CO., Ltd., Props.,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.

TRADE SUPPLIED BY

Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co.

An Enterprising Firm.

The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. can al-
ways be relied upon not only to carry in stock
the best of drugs, but have secured the agency
for Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough Cure, which they
warrant. It will cure all Throat, Lung and
Chest diseases, and has the reputation of being
the best Cough cure ever discovered for Con-
sumption.

 

 

Cushman ’ss

MENTHOL INHALER

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A superior Remedy for the immediate relief
of Neuralgia, Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever,
Asthma, Bronchitus, Sore Throat, HKarache,
Toothache, and all diseases of the throat and
lungs.
The neatest and most eflicient way of using
menthol.
Try Them. They Sell Readily.
For Sale by
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.
Farrand, Williams & Co.,
as. E. Davis & Co.,
John J. Dodds & Co.,
T. H. Hinchman & Co.,
Ask their traveler to show you one the next
time he calls.

MICHIGAN DRUG EXCHANGE,
Mills & Goodman, Props.

357 SOUTH UNION ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, -

 

Detroit, Mich.

 

MICH.

 

7 ANTED—Small stock of $1,000 to $2,000,
near to or in Grand Rapids.
.{ MALL stock in growing town on D., G. H. &
M. RK. RK. cheap for cash only. Doing good
business.

YOOD LOCATION on Grand Trunk R. R.
\ Stock of about $1,500 can be bought at
liberal discount for cash.

 

 

ee of about $4,000 in northern town on
WO G.R.& LL. R. R., doing a large business can
be bought on easy terms.

A NICE choice stock of about $1,600T., A. A.
& N. M. RK. R. must be sold at once on easy
erms.

 

1 OOD location on the Lake Shore in lumber-
ing town. Stock about $1,500.

 

> ARG AIN—Fine drugstore in north-western
Michigan, on railroad, in growing town.
Building for sale or rent on easy terms. Fine
chance for physician. Stock about $2,000;
buildings, $3,000. Part on time.

JRINCIPAL drug store in western Michigan

on Lake Shore R. Kk. Stock about $3,600,

$1,000 cash, balance on easy time if secured.
Good paying store. Good reason for selling.

 

wey STOCK in western Michigan on C. &
W.M. Railway. Stock worth about $1,500.
Good location.

 

A7E HAVE several competent registered

pharmacists on our list and can supply

druggists requiring assistants with well reec-
omended assistants on very short notice.

 

A Million Dollars.

Millions of dollars would be saved annually
by the invalids of every community, if, instead
of calling in a physician for every ailment,
they were all wise enough to put their trustin
Golden Seal Bitters, a certain cure for all dis-
eases arising from an impure state of the
Blood and Liver, such as Scrofula inits various
forms, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia or Indigestion,
Female irregularities, Diseases of the Kidneys
and Bladder, Exposure and Imprudence of
Life. No person can take these Bitters accord-
ing to instructions, and remain long unwell,
provided their bones are not destroyed by min-
eral poison or other means, and the vital or-
gans wasted beyond the point of repair. Gold-
ed Seal Bitters numbers on its list of cures ac-

 

   
 

io os a great celebrity, being used as a fam-
ily medicine. Sold by Hazeltine, & Perkins
Drug Co. |

 

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 28, 1886.
We beg leave to announce
that the business heretofore
conducted by Hazeltine, Per-
kins & Co, has been transfer-
red to the

HAZELTING & PERKINS
DRUG COMPANY.

a duly incorporated Company
under the laws of this State.

All indebtedness of Hazel-
tine, Perkins & Oo, is assum-
ed and will be paid by the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co.; and all debts due Hazel-
tine, Perkins & Co. musé be
paid to the Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co.

All members of the old firm
are members of the new com-
pany, and the management
will remain unchanged.

With increased capital and
improved facilities we contfi-
dently hope for a continuance
of past friendly relations.

Very Truly Yours,

HAZELTINE & PERKINS
DRUG COMPANY.

  
   

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,
PPP PLL NLL, Ce
Advanced—Oil cloves; oil lemon, Sander-
s0n’s; linseed oil: turpentine, pink root.
ACIDS.
MOOG, NO, Boe ac ea acacee ds 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
RMN ig one cc le ss kv sdels bh avin ee 34 @ 36
ei andes 6 @ TW
PRU PUAEIG OS COM ooo. se ce conn cass 3 @ 5
PUNTA DO GOR os cs ioc cas cc les gu @ hk
ORO 10 @ 2
SOTONUrTIC CO GOR. «ow. oe ccc cc cecee 3@ 4
Tartario pPOWdOred.............+.. 52 @ 55
Benzoic, English............. 8 OZ 18
Benzoie, German....... s jdnmeaeses 12 @ 1
se oc seed wi dekadeeeances 2 @ Bb
AMMONIA,
OO os a ig acc d ccckn ss gh 1 @ 18
PEUTIALS (POWs SEO) oo on cons ccc ccs i4
Ae A GOR OF BE... occ. 5c csc ccss 8 @ 5
Pie TE COG OF 40 ode ccc gcesneess 4@ 6
BALSAMS.
OT ac cick cen ne deasacuacses 40@45
Fe ee laws deecasceceesuc 40
as ce hve wh tds eens 1 75
ee ee a ks 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 1
Cinchona, yellow..............ee: 18
ME CRB as on occ ane e dee cceacs 13
PEM, MTOUNG, PUTO. « .. 5... scan snes 14
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
POOR OF POG oi a cnnn sc eacs 10
WH Cherry, GGIOCE.. o.oo os cs cc cces 2
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered...............:. 18
ON ag ies cca e ce aeees 30
BOGE CUO eis kek ci cnccevecs 12
BERRIES.
Cubeb prime (Powd 1 05e)........ @1 00
ss ac cass ~« © @ F
WVIGRIY BAN oa cis dic cece css 50 @ 60
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25e)... 27
Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9
Logwood, 1s (25 Ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, 4s GO hicsuaaces 13
Logwood, 448 OO accuse cous 15
DOGWOOG. GBOG GO vinssecsss 14
Fluid Extracts—25 # cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
I os acl ce senudeasecs bo eeas 12 @ 15
Chamomile, HOmaAn.........6..< 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMs.
MlOGH, FIATHAGOCE, «56s oc cs cessscse 60@ 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 20¢)............ 12
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
Pe i cd adecenuss 28@ 30
Arabic, powdered select.......... 90
AeabiC, TEC WICKEG... oo .5.006<ceseses 90
VAIO THOME co oo ono sc cncs sencas 80
PPAR, TE DICMOO, . 5 6... caccasecss 15
AYyenic, GITIOG GOFEK. «oo . 5 occa ceca 5D
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 25
Toi ca ccc caneeedusses 55@60
Ce a cds tec cuiss 2@ 27
Catechu. Is (% 14e, 4s 16c)...... . 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
Wo oo ns in vs ven nnn ees 80@ 90
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35
Kino [| Powdered, 800]...........06. 20
pC ES a ae eee 1 25
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $5 25).......... 3 50
Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30
POU, BEN... . oo. cose cccoass 26
BO, TRE aoa oc acs caekaccas 24
MROUNG DIGGONOG. |... . ccc cu aces 30
hg eT a Se ee 30 @i 00
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
NE oi oss ves ca nen base cectenesas 25

  

PP ee a en eee a 25
POO isa we cd ccnccn a ccncacages 25
Pa ia ia oe ene daw ee en cccccaen neat 40
BOG cook vacant ance ceuseuswanencunnsen 24
PG BU ea i cca sn taccccacenencces 35
WO ay kon a ed cea ewe onan sa akaeas 2b
TON ec as wasc seas sees hecencaneaa 30
TE BA ee py
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 4 00
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ %
OI ve hv nce cca dace wecanus
I on i ce vcs ca anesns 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25¢c)........... 13 @
Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 4s, 12¢)... 6
Senna, Alex, MAUPAl.............- Ww @ 2
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled... 30
MONO, POWGGrOd, . .. i... 6s ccnccees 22
Pes SOI, 2 ase nes wccncess 16
Re es ca sacs cede sees 10
OOO is bi de daca ce cans codes 35
TG ee ike ccs ch cena cnt ees 30
UN ooo ca de cece deaecsncs 3b
TREO, HOG ic 5 hae ce ce cn sans: 2 35
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 50
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @l 50
OT OF ooo eda cdncccnecceeaes 135 @l 75
RE, PR, os oa oe cc conn aces cas 200 @3 5
MO aks coca cca ceskec- 175 @65
CG WEG, conc c cen ceeeaes as 125 @2 00
BOE VOR os iiss ca neacscdescnens 1 35 2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 22
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 204......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25
Cg ocak adc nha esncescoun 65
OILS.
IEE, OOOE ccc ccna ccuns 45 @ 50
PMADOE, VOCUINGG. vc cece cecscvavees 45
aa oh beac dni bean 2 00
gO) RR on oe ree 50
MNOS oc hice ence weds aeaas 2 25
ici ec case daes 1i%@ 19
eo acc ewan sccs teases 2 00
ee 5
iw bi cs al cc cede wcas 1 00
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 35
COO ok ce cas chan ceases 75
OO es vec kk co ccecaueess 1 25
00 EAVGr, Miss. | kee, -® gal 1 20
Cod Liver, best......... ees 1 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00
Oe ccs te scce cs 9 0
ee a 60
oe nk ck os ces eo hades nes 2 00
OCPM WE OG, 8 ccc eke caccoess 75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 35
mMEMTIDOE WOOK, 5 55 os cc cccc ce cc ecnces 50
TEED GD DOKTION.« .. 05. cece scceeecs 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavender garden OO 4... 1 00
Lavender spike OO ici ice. 90
BENOT, TOW ORO ic oc coke a cccaecs 1 75
Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 2 25
INO os ide dd cca ce scanas 80
Olive, Malaga..........: . @ 90
Olive, ‘Sublime Italian . awe 2 id
Origanum, red flowers, French... 1 2
Chr, INGOs Bnd een ons cannes 50
GN ooo cos ei dea cae ' a csnns 1 30
Peppermint, whito..........6..... 4 25
MUG OF Og vids ck cosets ccs tee case 8 00
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 65
PUT OE ou dk vc ac cd ccsedvexes 2 Tb
Pe ok oa a Us oy 0 as Cenc ke a ch bee 1 00
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
OE EO, Whe og irc c gcd eke 7 00
PNG access ccsc even ce uns 55
BG oon ba oe cack eae co be wae @9 00
WO ey occa bus vos bacee aa 400 @4 2
WO CEP OL OE ceca ne kes cdaceces 1 @
WE IRRPRIOOES 6 oo 6. cece ce ch ccetecscs 2 35
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00)..... 83 50
WON aio ss ain hd ob cen ans ces 2 00
POTASSIUM,
POOPING i ook sc iksav cesses co 8 b W@l1
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 40@43
Chlorate, eryst (Powd 25e)......... 23
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00
PPVUSGIALA VOLOW .. oo 6 5 bcc ce cceecss 28
ROOTS.
Mg iic dng s skewed sbaccd candice 20
UN, CIN iv niche bho ss cone sceeene 25
Arrow, St. Vincent’s............ i 17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and ¥4s.... 33
BRNO COW FOO gids scene ckccacacs 12
Calamus, peeled...............000. 20
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 35
Elecampane, powdered............ 20
Gentian (Powd l5c)................ 10
Ginger, African (Powd I4e)........ lu@R
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 17
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)............ 20
Hellebore, white, powdered....... 20
Tpecac, Rio, powdered............. 1 20
alap, POWdEred............c.ccees 30
Licorice, select (Powd 15)...... .. 18
Licorice, extra select.............. 20
I, PE ice cick ec decks akan ‘ee 85
Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. I................110 @1 20
Rhei, choice cut cubes............ 2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 2

 

RONONIRD oso lei se ci os cee ae cuce 65
WRONMMN  oce b ci <o oh ua cs uaa S ust 60
Sarsaparilla, Hondurus........... 49
Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 20
Squilis, white (Powd 35c).......... 15
Valerian, English (Powd 30¢)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28e)... 2
SEEDS.
Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢)......... 1b
Bird, mixed in ) packages....... 56 @ 6
CMnary, BHIVTOA. ....... 0. .c.5 —w— €£€ @&
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 2c). 165 @ 18
Cardamon, Aleppee.. ...........- 1 5b
Cardamon, Malabar................ i 7d
OO TS ee 15
Coriander, pest English........... 10
he co cecd ec clio 15
MN, CU i eek cc acer cccccce | ON
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)............ 4@ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered............ 7@ 8
ea le 44@ 5%
Mustard, white Biack l0e)........ 10
Me oo occ dvs coc occa cuss 75
MA, PI gc evcciesescscccecee € @
EON, RMWOR occ ok cok ccc cs 14
: SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.....2 25 @2 50
Nassau do oe 2 00
Velvet Extra do do 110
Extra Yellow do i eae 85
Grass do GO 4.64. 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, oe 6 1 40

MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) ® gal.... 2 31
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Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 50
Auoarve Hotman’s............... 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2
Meee FR YORS. «3c... coc ccc 45
A... oa Bh 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢e).......... 3@ 4
AATGGEA), THUG... «oo 555 oc on ac on 45
Antimony, powdered, com’l... .. 4%@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... €é @ ¥
WOO PPI, cans. coc once ese. 50
Bay Rui, imported, best......... 2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
Beaune Giiena Buds. ................ 40
Meee Tones. .......... oe, 2 2%
BOON, Vo oo oo coos cc cc acc. 700 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 2 30
Bane Pill (Powd 7We)............... 50
Me WORE cs. ase. 6 @ T
Borax, refined (Powd 12¢)..... ... W@12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 50
Capsicum Pods, African...... seus 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... a2
Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... 18
Wenn FOO A ooo cs cocci ck caus 4 00

Se ce 12
Calomel, Amerioan................ vo

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Chalk, prepared drop.............. ‘5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 12
Cpeie ved Ungers................. 8
Chalk, white lump................. 2
Chioroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60
CRON BIDION. . .. oc os cc chasse in 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50
Chloral do ado  erval... 1 70
Chioral do Scherin’s do ... 1 9
Chiora! do do crusts.. 1 75
MN ooo occ cc ccec da 63 @ 65
Concueniaw, Fe W......4.:...... 2&2 6 &
Cinchonidia, offer MVEIGS: . 5 <<... 18s @ 2
CHOVOR (POW FUG)... ooo once cease. 18 @ 2
so ons vnc cacececccca, 40
COCOR TNO ooo cock oc cccc ck acces 40)
Copperas (by bbl le)..... Lenceseees 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 70
Corks, X and XX—40 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 b box.. 15
CN hc ovo cose occa aeccsnccce 50
COO. PAINE. «55. oo co os ca cc ce ce 24
CHIC Biel) HOMO, . o.oo onc c cscs aces 20
NNR esac. alae, 2
Rovers Powders..........<. <2... 110
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered............ eagh ee 65
MEUMNG EME ce. wn cu scene ose 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
Epsom Salts (bbl. 19g).............. 2 @ 3
WIP, SUNN os ic ce icc ccecsncccede 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 60
MPM WN oo ooo anes ince ccc cel. 14
GYEINE PAPAGIO®.. .. . <6 cscs cicness 15
Gelatine, Cooper’s...........cccece 90
PROIGEING, UVGHON .o6 . occ ccs cccecce 45 @ 7
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Ce, GROG. gk obec iksciclca 12 @ 1
CR Ns ooo cs os sk sce cccces. - 6 OB
CUIVGONING, DUNO, . .. 6.6 co 5 cs cccccce 16 @ 20
De ee 25@ 40
DE ee 40
Pe ec 8 @i 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00
Jodine, resublimed................ 4 00
Isingiage, American...........<... 1 50
AO ee a ae %
bao Furie. ...i2.... 06.0300 10 @
ee ee 15
Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 19e & 4s Ie) 8
PURER ios aoc i va ed cece coc acdc 1 00
POO DOMINON gs oo oi ek icc a ca. 45
Dee ae 50
Madder, best Dutch.............. I?24@ 13
PA a ooo vaccine chccccecus 75
LO a a ee 60
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 2 95@3 20
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 4)
Mt OGRE Coo voc os ce caus 8 tb 10
Fi os olds ccc Leek 12
PRUOCArdl, PQUAlh. . oo occ. oc coca cass 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10  cans...... 18
iy oh oss caenkscacecese 23
PRR EO, Fo oe onc kc accccs cee 60
Wee Vee 4. ee oc 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 45
ao ooo vk becca, li @ &
Fepper, Biack Berry.............. 18
OI oi ook os ce ck kas ceca ckacesec 2 50
Piteh, True Burgundy... ........<«- 7
OI oe ig ccc cc cena eecness 6 @ Tf
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ bos 80 @ &
(PING. GEFMAll.. ...... 0. .s0ceees 75@ 80
BOG PYOGIMICGte.. .. ....... <<< 8 tb &%
PMRtNON WEI NONI ok ici vesecacescus 25
RU VOR ee CUVEE, oo oc ccc cen s cuaces 1 60
Silver Nitrate, eryet..........csees 74 @ 78
BATON, AIMGKIOOR. . «6... .<s-cccecae Bd
PO Ge on i vn vn kn cscccccacs @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.........s.<i. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
Wee PU, oo gonna ca ca cs coenui 33
BO io ooo hov ca cc cavhiceeacn 2@ 2%
Nbc ccc lc cecces ce 215
vos ks bo eens cs cenecd caus 6 56
Snutfs, Maccoboy or Seotch....... 33
Hoan Aen [iy hee 80). ......<ceccec +
ek ne ee 48
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 44%@ 5
Soap, White Castile...........254.' 14
MOOT, CHOOT GO occa cncéuneees 7
PD GIR ok coca escacas 9
Soap, Mm GE soil ieccs il
BN ONE oka bs dis od bane ce sacs 14
PERG FON NN sons cose ctancpenceet 26 @ 28
PTE TENET, 4. oon cd cccccaceul oud 30 @ &
Sugar Milk powdered.............. 35
SRN THOMA. oc ic dcas cs ccncecodas 8BY@ 4
BUT NEE PUMh so os ce ic coccccseesccens 3G 38K
ARE MRR carve nc kc uses ccceases 60
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4% gal. cans #@ doz 27%
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do Pinte in tim. ....< << 7)
Turpentine, Venice........... PB b 25
Wax, White, 8. & F. brand........ 5d
Mee, NMR, 5 os cs on hens an kode use 7™@ &
OILs.
Cert) Cee. so. .. ins ds unccedscceccucsasa 15
PROLOG. oon coc cn nc nn cccccs cece csi 60
RNR COP on os van oso cckills cceccs cs 50
Meet) A oo ooo . o acs cdi ce denccacas a. 35
POGriogs MACHINGEY. ... ..cccsccccccccccccieccs 30
OCMBUGTIOG DIRODINORY «6 soos on cdcs cc ccecsccicis ee
Pe he IO. ok cd dc xd ov oecdeckc cc) 30
Black Diamond Machinery... .. 0... cc ccccaces 30
CMNGr MERGE IO CAE, goose os ch cacacec decease, 6C
WE Fe oo cic on nc ca dcacecceisscicn 15%
MTs OF OWES ois oun caus ccanavcdsvccesucnus 21
Sperm, winter Dieached.. ......cccccccsceces 1 40
Bbl Gal
We I TINO, gb n.ns bcc xcdae cocwocacas 70 75
NE OI go ook owcc ced ae dcecehaes 55 60
BR, PUN By aoc coda od ba ca nadeucenuecel 45 5d
BOE, WHO PAW o oc deca ccccccceces 43 46
RE, CIO oo ic oa ncdacenc ca ceucos 46 49
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90
DIFTON WR OTGING, 0 6 ook on ce cdccecess 46 50
VARNISHES.
Wes BE COMO 6 a oad cocnc cn ccsaccsece 1 10@1 20
MONEE UNE he vk vc os conn ccewus ccundneae. 1 GO@L 70
COG TH iki ns cc cv anes céacacesse 2 T6@3 00
THO, 1b TOP PUrtiGUre, . .. .o.ciccecccess 1 OO@1 10
PERG TU) DOM so oo cs oiicc cc cccacacs 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryor, No. 1 Turp.............. 0@ %%
PAINTS

Bbl Lb
Bete WO oc ci ccccacce 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24 3
Putty, strictly pure...........- 2 2%@ 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 13Q@16
Vermilion, English............ 5S@60
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 64@ 7
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 64@ 7
Whiting, white Spanish....... @i0
Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, Paris American........ 110
Whiting Paris English cliff.. o- 34
Rigners srepared Faints..... 1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa pare Painte.. 1 00@1 20

   

     

 
 

   

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman.

A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

E, A, STOWE & BRO., Proprietors,

Office in Hagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor.
Telephone No. 95,

{Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class Matter.)

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1886.

 

BUSINESS LAW.
Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

RANK—CHECK—COLLECTION.

Where a bank received a check for collec-
tion and forwarded it directly to the bank
on which it had been drawn the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania held (Merchants’
National Bank of Philadelphia vs. Good-
man) that the proper course to pursue was
to transmit the check to some party other
than the one who was tomake the payment,
as no firm, bank, corporation or individual
could be deemed a suitable agent in contem-
plation of Jaw to enforce for another a claim
against itself.

 

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—STATUTE OF LIMI-
TATIONS —MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
A provision in the charter of the city that

all actions to recover from the city money

improperly collected as taxes should be
brought within six months, while the gen-
eral law provided a limitation of five years
as to actions of that character, was held
constitutional by the Kentucky Court of

Appeals. The court pointed out that legis-

Jation as to municipal corporations rests up-

on peculiar grounds, owing to the fact that

they are agencies of the government.

INSURANCE POLICY —TRANSFER—FORFEIT-
URE. @

A clause in a policy of insurance provided
as follows: “If the insured property be
sold or transferred, or any change take
place in title or possession, except by suc-
cession by reason of the death of the insur-
ed, whether by legal process or judicial de-
eree or voluntary transfer or conveyance, or
if the property shal! hereafter be incumbered
by judgment or otherwise, or if this policy
shall be assigned before a loss without the
consent of the company indorsed hereon,
then, and in every such case, this policy
shall be void.” In the case of Griffey vs. New
York Central Insurance Co., the New York
Court of Appeals held that this provision
was insufficient to include a transfer of the
policy by way of collateral security.

 

 

MEANING OF ‘PRODUCE DEALER.”
The construction of the word ‘‘produce,”
‘as used in the license law of the District of

SPRING &

DRY GOODS,

CARPETS,

Grand Rapids,

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

. Staple and Fancy

MATTINGS,

Or, CLOoTnsS
Ere. ETO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Michigan.

 

Columbia, was involved in the case of the
District of Columbia vs. Oyster, decided by
Supreme Court of the District. The ques-
tion was whether a vender of eggs and but-
ter was a “‘produce dealer” within the terms
of a statute imposing a tax on ‘‘produce
dealers.” The court held that such a ven-
der was a produce dealer and was liable to
pay the tax. Referring to the argument
that produce means only those things which
are the product directly of the soil, the court
said: ‘“fhe common parlance of the coun-
try and the common practice of the country
have been to consider all those things as
farming products or agricultural products
which had the situs of their production up-
on the farm, and which were brought into
eondition for the uses of society by the labor
of those engaged in agricultural pursuits, as
contradistinguished from manufacturing or
other industrial pursuits. The product of
the dairy or the product of the poultry yard,
while it does not come directly out of the
soil, is necessarily connected with the soil
and with those who are engaged in the culg
ture of the soil. It is in every sense of the
word a part of the farm product. It is de-
pended upon and looked upon as one of the
results and one of the means of income of
the farm, and in a just sense, therefore, it
may be considered produce. The word
‘produce’ has no definite, exact and techni-
eal meaning. It may be used in a larger
or more restricted sense. Butwemust look
to what the habits and usages of society are,
and what has been the practice with regard
to it, so as,to give an interpretation to this
word which is not a technical one under the
Jaw. And in that aspect of itthe court is at
no difficulty in determining that in their
judgment the words ‘produce dealer,’ as
used in the license law of the District of
Columbia, which says that ‘produce dealers
shall pay $25 annually, and every person
whose business it is to buy and sell produce,
fish, meats and fruits from wagons and
carts, shall be regarded as a produce dealer,’
apply to one who brings eggs and butter to
vend in the market as much as to one who
brings only cereals or fruits, or what is or-
dinarily called ‘‘garden stuff.”
eae

 

Timely Caution.

From the Grocer and Marketman.
We caution our readers against buying

    
   

The Well-Known

       
    

ARE THE BEST IN MARKET.

PUTNAM & BROOKS

WHOLESALE AGENTS.

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frozen oranges and lemons. ‘There is little
oer no stock of these fruits in the country |
that have not been slightly touched. Ifyou |
are receiving any stock, it would be a good
thing to at once put them in a barrel or tub |
of water, when the frost will come out and |
cover the water with a film of ice. Sell as)
rapidly as possible after taking them out of |
the bath, as they are liable to become soft.

a a
Miniature silver barrels, filled with weed
best Minneapolis flour, are the gifts weet

the Danish people of the Northwest send to |

their friends in Europe.

  
  

OMING fo GRAND RAPIDS

IN

CAR LOADS!

D. W. Archer's Trophy Corn,
D, W. Archer’s Morning Glory Gorn,
D, W. Archer’s Early Golden Drop Gorn

EVERY CAN BEARING SIGNATURE OF

 

 

 

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Tobacco is packed in 30 pound butts, lumps 2x12, Rough and Ready Clubs, 16 02,
full weight. A case of 80 knives packed on the top of each butt.
with case of Pocket Knives is branded “ Pen Knives;” the one with Jacks, “Jack Knife.”
The consumer gets a 16 oz. Plug of the Finest Tobacco that can be produced by
purchasing a GOOD KNIFE at 65 cents, well worth the money.

Big thing for the Consumer, equally so for the Retailer. Send us your order.

W. J.G00LD & 60., Detroit, Mich.

The butt of Tobacco

 

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Princess BAKING POWDER.

 

J. H. THOMPSON & CO.
BHE SPICH MILLS,

Teas, Coffees & Spices,

The Celebrated Butterfly Baking Powder,

Dealers in Tobaccos, Cigars, Hic.,

59 JEFFERSON AVENUEH,

"334400 338 AINOK

WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS OF

VOLO ALE

DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EVERY DEALER

Should write for sample sheets and
description of the

Complete Busivess Register,

An improved CASH AND SALES BOOK,
which contains columns with printed headings,
arranged to record the results of each day’s
business, providing also for weekly, monthly
and yearly totals. This book will show at all
times exactly how the business is running.
Over 35,000 Copies now in Use.
For all particulars, address

H. W. PAMPHILON, Publisher,
30 Bond Street, New York.

RINDGH, BERTSCH & CO,,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

BOOTS AND SHOES.

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

We have a splendid line of goods for Fall Trade and guarantee our prices on Rub-
bers. The demand for our own make of Women’s, Misses and Childs’ shoes is increas-

ing. Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

EDMUND B. DIKEMAN,

THE—

GREAT WATCH MAKER

—AND—

JEW hE.

44 CANAL STREET,

 

The Archer Packing Co.

OHILLICOTEE, ITT.

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DRYDEN & PALMER’S |! PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
ROCK CANDY. ENGINES

Unquestionably the best in the market.
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond.
Try a box.

John Caulificid,

Sole Agent for Grand Rapids

From 2 to 159 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
Contracts made for

| ing, Pulleys and Boxes.
Compiete Outfits.

 

PIN GREE &SMITE

Wholesale Manufacturers

Boots, Shoes and Slippers

DETROLT, MICH,

   

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

invited to call on us when in town.

   
   

 

  

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Origin of the Lamp.

Lamp, derived from the Latin, lampus,
has been defined until within a few years,
as a receptacle for oil with a wick for illum-
ination; but the inventions of the past gen-
eration have made it impossible to distin-
guish between the lamp proper and any
other artificial means of giving light. As
used by Egyptians, Greeks and Hebrews,
lamps were simple flat vessels, round or ob-
long in shape, at one end of which was a
small handle at the otheranozzle with a lar-
ger opening in the center into which oil was
poured. The oil commonly used was veg-
etable, but, according to Pliny, sometimes
of liquid bitumen. These lamps, many of
very elegant form and ornamented with fan-
ciful designs, were hung by chains to bronze
eandelabra. Tarentum and {gina were es-
pecially famed for making them of great el-
egance.

Among the Canadian French the same
low oval metallic vessels, furnished as in
olden days with a handle at one end anda
nozzle at the other, may still be seen. Some
are made to be earried in the hand, while
others are suspended by chains in the mid-
dle of the room. The Hebrews kept their
lamps burning all night, and this custom is
still in vogue in Aleppo and Egypt. From
the earliest times until within about a cen-
tury, the lamp remained much the same,
consisting simply of oil and wick in some
kind of a vessel. A complete revolution in
artificial light was caused by the invention
by Ami Argane, in 1784, of a burner with a
circular wick. The flame was thus supplied
with an outer and inner current of air. <Ar-
gand was also the inventor of the glass chim-
ney as applied to his and other lamps. The
so-called astral lamps were provided with
these circular wicks, the reservoir for the
oil being arranged in the form of a hollow

ring, enveloping the central stand that sup;)

ported the burner. In consequence of the
peculiar shape given to the ring the lamp
east no shadow at a little distance off. An
ingenious piece of clockwork machinery was
devised by Carcel in 1800, for pumping the
oil from the reservoir at the foot of the lamp
up to the burner, and thus supplying it al-
ways from the same point. This lamp, af-
terward slighly improved by others, was in
many respects the most perfect of these con-
trivances, but its great cost prevented its
general adoption. It was, furthermore so
large and heavy that it could be moved only
with difficulty, and the very complicated
nature of its mechanism required access to
skilled workmen to keep itin repair. A
modification of the Carcel lamp known as
the Diacon, was long popular in this coun-
try.

In 1778 Peter Keir made the great inven-
tion—since fully developed by Aronson—of
raising the supply of oils by means of anoth-
er fluid with specific gravity greater than
oil. This fluid was generally a mixture of
salt and water.

The automaton invented by Porter in 1804
was very ingenious. The lamp was sus-
pended on an axis, counterbalanced by a
weight, so that it hung level when full, but
at an angle of forty-five degrees when emp-
ty, thus being fed evenly by the gradual
ascent of the burners.

In 1822 Samuel Parker made an impor-
tant improvement; the fixing of French
chimneys upon burners by means of metal
supports.

The difficulty of distinguishing between
the countless inventions relative to Jamps
and those referring to general illumination
does not appear great prior to 1865, when
the production of petroleum greatly stimu-
lated the study of practical methods of gen-
erating light.

It is remarkable that the invention of Her
of Alexandria, in which the oil was raised
by water, involves the pressure principle,
sinee developed in nearly a hundred forms,
It is adapted to any kind of inflammable
fluid, and while burning may be volled on
the ground, upset, or reversed for any time
without danger. It is interesting to note
that the most important recent inventions
in lamps are chiefly American. <A full de-
seription of them all would occupy volumes;
but it is safe to say that no other household
article has undergone so many and marked
changes in the eet century as the lamp.

oe as ee
He. Promoted Himself to the Highest
Rank.

A well-known furniture traveler, while
opening up a new route through the South
last fall, took pains to let everybody know
that he was ‘“‘Major ——.” His little
scheme worked pretty well to secure him
the best room in several village hotels, and
to have his opinion sought for on the
weather, the European situation, ete., but
there was a snag waiting forhim. He struck
a hotel where his room: was in the garret,
and his bed a lonesome object to behold.
He held the tallow candle above his head
and made an examination of the surround-
ings, and then walked down stairs and in-
dignantly demanded of the landlord:

‘Sir, do you suppose that I will accept of
any such quarters as those?”

“Sorry, Major, very sorry; but it’s the
very best I can do.”

“But you must have better rooms?”

“Oh, certainly; but I go according to

rank. The Generals get the best, the Col- |

onels come next, and [ stow the Majors
way im the garret. It’s all your own fault,
”
t day the furniture man promoted
to General, and he hung to the title
» Jeft the State. ;
tO
g the speed of a fan-blower doubles
of air delivered. The pressure
fourfold, and the power required
blower is eight times as great.

 

 

 

CLARK

J HW HLL

é& CO,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ELASTIC STARCH

It requires no cooking. Makes collars and cufis
stiff and nice as when new. One pound of this
starch will go as far as a pound and a half of any
other starch in the market, and all we ask is an

SOLE AGENTS FOR

 

order for a trial box of

Elastic Starch.

We have in stock a fine line of Foreign and Do-
mestic Dried Fruits, Raisins, Prunes, Currants,
Peaches, Apples, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, Figs,
We are sole agents for “COMMON
SENSE ” Cigar, the best five cent cigar in Michigan,

Dates, Etc.

 

I. M. C., the best ten cent cigar in Michigan.

CLARK, JEWELL & CO.

 

 

 

F.J. LAMB & CO.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hruits, Vegetables,

Butter, sss, Cheese, Etc.
S and 10 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FILLING ORDERS.

 

AMOS S. MUSSELMAN & UU.

Snocessors to Fox, Musselman & Loveridge,

Wholesale Grocers.

ERmnight of Labor Plug.

AGENTS FOR

The best and most attractive goods on the market.

SEND FoR SAMPLE Burt.

SEE QUOTATIONS IN PricE-LIsv.

 

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, } Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits,

Designers

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading Feature.

Address as above

49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

JENNINGS

Hlavoring Hxtracts!
JENNINGS & SMITH,

MANUFACTURED BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

CRAND hater, .

 

   
   
  
 

  
   
  

io d jilling of orders.

 
  
 

m6 cts, (in stamps) to cover

PETER HENDE

 
 

   

4 Our Seed Warehouses, the largest in
4 > New York, are fitted up with every ap-
pliance for the prompt and careful

© of the NEWEST, BEST and RAREST

Plants.

Our Catalogue for 1886, of 140 pages, containing colored ees descriptions and Illustrations d
SEEDS and PLANTS, will be mailed on receipt of §

35 & 37 Cortlandt St, ;

DERSON & CO. * 427,

    

 

Our Green-houso Establishment ab
Jersey City is the most extensive in
America. Annual Sales, 23, Million

 

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THE LEADING BRANDS OF

LOB ACC

Offered in this Market are as follows:

FLUC TOBACCO.

RED FOX
BIG DRIVE
PATROL

JACK RABBIT Re ae
SILVER COIN a ee

PANIC -

BLACK PRINCH, DARK “4

BIG STUMP

BaP LE JACK ne ee

2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.

THE MEIG

FINE CUT.

S FINE CUT, DARK, ome nent

STUNNER, “DARK -
RED BIRD, BRIGHT -- ee
OPERA QUEEN, BRIGHT -~ -

|FRUIT

O SO SWEET 1a as

ARTHUR'S CHOICE, LONG CUT, BRIGHT

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

RED FOX, LONG CUT, FOIL -
GIPSEHEY QUEEN, GRANULATED
OLD COMFORT, IN CLOTH -

SHAL OF GRAND RAPIDS, IN CLOTH

DIME SMOKER, IN CLOTH -- -

These brands are sold only by

8c less in 100 pound lots. .

Arthur Meigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled. We guar-|
antee every pound to be perfect and all right in

every particular.

We cordially invite you, when in

the city, to visit our place of business, 77, 79 aad
81 South Division Street. It may save you money.

 

  
  

 
      

 

PUTNAM & BROOKS

Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE CAND

ORANGES, LEMONS,

BANANAS, FIGS, DATES,

  
 

 

See Our Wholesale Quotations else-
where in this issue and write for

Special Prices in Car Lots.
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle,

A.B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

AMBOY CHEESE.

Agents for

=; VM. SHARS & CO.
Cracker Wanufacturers,

37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 GRANELLO,

MERCHANT
TAILOR,

LEDYARD BLOCK,
LOT Ottawa St.

| Suitings for Manufacturers,

 

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Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Clerks,

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Suitings for Traveling Men,
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AND

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(Ivercoats for Everybody.

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WOOL-
ENS AND WORSTEDS, THE BEST
MANUFACTURED. FINE AND SER-
VICEABLE TRIMMINGS.

SUPERIOR WORK AND THE PROP-
ER STYLE FOR THE WEARER.

ALL AT PRICES THAT WILL IN-
DUCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR ORDER.

 

Michiga rill Dairymen’ N's 5 hanes istien

 

Organized at Grand Rapids, February 25, 1885.

 

President—Milan Wiggins, pncwnees ile.

Vice-Presidents—W. H. Howe, Capac; F. C.
Stone, Saginaw City; A. P. Foltz, Davison
Station; F. A. Rockafellow, Carson City;
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale; Chas. E. Bel-
knap, Grand Rapids; L. F. Cox, Portage;
John Borst, Vriesland; R. C. Nash, Hilliards;
2 Adams, Ashland; Jos. Post, Clarks-
ville.

Secretary and Treasurer—E. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids.

Next Meeting—At Kalamazoo, February 16, 17
and 18.

Membership Fee—$1 per year.

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN,

 

 

| TIME TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO DIVISION.)

Arrive. Leave.
MEMO, vo os cc cscassccees 7:15pm 7:30 a me
EM once see sas awennas 9:50 am 4:00 pm

| All trains daily except Sunday.
i; The train leaving at 4 p.m.connects at
| White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on Main
| Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep-
|} ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and
Boston without change.
The train leaving at 7:30 a.m. connects at
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with
| special New York Express on Main Line.
Through tickets and berths in sleeping
| coaches can be secured at Union Ticket ottice,
| 67 Monre street oe depot.
. MCKENNEY, Gen’! Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

 

 

Leaves. Arrives,

bac ciaak duscceas 9:00am 4:30 pm

| es [op a ae 35pm 9:25pm
*Night Express............ 10:40pm 5:45am

Muskegon Express......... 4:20pm 11:20am

*Daily. tDaily except Sund: ay.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
1:00 p. m., and through coach on9:15 a. m. and
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.
—. Arrives.
PE cc hc sete donaseses 20 pm :30 p m
Express... 3: 00 & m 10: 50 a m

All trains arrive » and de part from Union De-

0t.
| ’ The Northern terminus of this Division is at
| Baldwin, where close connection is made with
| F. & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and
| Manistee.

J. H. CARPENTER, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I. trains for St.
Ignace, Marquette and Lake Superior Points,
| leaving Grand Rapids at 5:0 p. m., arriving at
| Marquette at 2:05 p. m. andjh:30 p.m. Returning
ij leave Marquette at7:(0 a. m. and 1:40 p. m.,
arriving at Grand Rapids at 10:30 a. m. Con-
; nection made at Marquette with the Marquette,
Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad for the
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper pa tg.
| EK. W. ALLEN,
Gen’! Pass. & Tkt. Agt., Marquette, Mich,
i

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING EAST.

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express. ..... 6:25 am
Through Mail............. 10:40am 10:50am

'+Evening Express......... H

t 840 pm 38:50pm
*Limited Express.......... 8:30pm 10:45pm

 

 

 

| t*Mixed, with coach........ 11:00am
| GOING WEST.
| *Morning Express......... 1:05pm 1:10pm
*Througn Mail... .......<.. 5:00pm 5:10pm
| tSteamboat Express....... 10:40 p m
he ee a J:lvam
*Nienst Pepregs............. f 5:10am 56:35am

+Daily. cadens excepted. *Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:25 a. m. Express
' make close connections at Owosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The Night Express has a through Wagner
Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand
Rapids.

D. Porter, City Pass. Agent.
GrEO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 9:20 p ma
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:30am 11:30a m

 

Ft. Wayne& Mackinac Ex 4:10pm 5:05pm
G’d Repids & Trav. City Ac. 7:00a m
GOING SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am
| Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. §:05 pm 5:50pm

Mackinac & Ft. Way! e Ex..10:30 am 11:45 p m
Cadillac & G’ad Rapids Ac.10:30 p m
All trains daily except Sunday.
SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS,
North—Train leaving at 5:05 o’clock p. m.
| has Sleeping and Chair Cars for Petoskey
and Mackinac. Trainleaving at 11:30 a.m. has
cembined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw
City.
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p.m. bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
| Cc. L. Lock woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Michigan Central.
DEPART.

WEIOGWOTG PER ITOOB ooo oo cc cencccccbcseces 6:00 am
WEP MNO inc ceca cdiNiadccec duane 12:45 9 m
WME TEM NN, 6 oni bans cde cea cadens 10:40 pm
FW NG is 6 ign oss cb hs bdne conenecas 6:50 a m
ARRIVE.
PROC TER ITONG oso sce cncecsscncduscs 6:00 am
NN oe dik ck neds sdcuwesn ce Gaeceuss 3:30 p m
*Grand Rapids Express............... 10:35 p m

Way Freight. ‘

+Duily e xcept ‘Sunday. *Daily.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacifie
Express.

| Direct and prompt connection made with
| Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
| Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus
| avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has
| Drawing Room and Pevrlor Car for Detroit,
| a hing that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10: 30
a.m.,and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.

a train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
ing at Grand gg at 10:35 p.m

s. H. NorRIs, Gen’! Agent

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Groceries.
Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon,

OFFICERS.

President—H. B. Fargo.

First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.

Second Vice-President—A. Towl.

Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.

Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.

Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen-
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A. Tow! and
E. Johnson.

Finance Committee—Wm. B. Kelly, A. Towl
and E. Johnson.

Committee on Rooms and Library—O. Lam-
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.

Arbitration Committee—B. Borgman, Garrit
Wagner and John DeHaas.

Complaint Committee—Wm. B. Keift, D. A.
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot, R. S. Miner and L.
Vincent.

Law Committee—H. B. Fargo, Wm. B. Keift
and A. Towl.

Transportation Committee—Wm. B,. Keift, An-
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.

Regular meetings—Ffirst and third Wednesday
evenings of each month.

Next meeting—W ednesday evening, Feb. 3.

RETAIL GROCERS’ ASSOCIATION
OF GRAND RAPIDS.

ORGANIZED NOVEMBER 10, 1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.

First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.

Second Viée-President—Jas. A. Coye.

Secretary— Cornelius A. Johnson.

Treasurer—B. S. Harris.

Board ot Directors—Eugene Richmond, Wm.
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn and
W.E. Knox.

Finance Committee—W. E. Knox, H. A. Hy-
dorn and A. J. Elliott.

Room Committee—A. J. Elliott, Eugene Rich-
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.

Arbitration Committee—James Farnsworth,
M. J. Lewis and A. Rasch.

Complaint Committee—J. George Lehman,
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner,

Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem-
ber.

Regular meetings—First and Third Tuesday
Evenings of each month. :

Next meeting—Tuesday evening, Feb. 16.

Britain and the United
States.

The census of Great Britain, which was
taken last year, offers some interesting and
suggestive statistics when contrasted with
the results of our own census of 1880. The
population of Great Britain” was, in 1881,
thirty-five millions. That of the United
States was fifty millions. Some of the re-
turns of this census will illustrate the vast
difference between the two countries in the
matter of live stock. The figures are as

Eggs in Great

follows:

Great Britain. United States.
SURGERY. cb hoiebeoseoens nce 10,859,000 35,925,000
ic kkseesennctees 1,999,000 10,357,000
on osns ce vee ene 3,687,000 47,682,000
RD: sec ses bes bse ve 30,086,000  *42,000,000
Fowls (all kinds).........- 29,940,009 125,507,000

* Including 7,000,000 tor estimated number on
ranches and public lands.

Of the “fowls” in the above table, Great
Britain has a little over twenty million of
the ordinary barn-yard fowl. The remainder
are ducks, geese and turkeys. In our cen-
sus, one hundred and two millions are of
the barn-yard kinds. The egg product of
this country is put at four hundred and
fifty-seven million dozen, or forty-five eggs
for each fowl; that of Great Britain, at the
same rate, would be seventy-five million
dozen. In 18838, Great Britain imported
seventy-one million dozen eggs, which, at
the same rate for 1885, would give an ag-
gregate of one hundred and _ sixty-six mil-
lion dozen for home production and import,
or about four dozen per head for the popu-
lation. In the last year for which we have
official returns, the import of eggs to the
United States was sixteen million, four
hundred and eighty-seven thousand, two
hundred and four dozens, and our export
was two hundred and ninety-five thousand
dozen. The consumption of eggs in the
United States, adding home-production to
the import, is about nine dozen for the en-
tire population. It is no wonder the country
grows so fast and vigorous, when it has at
hand such stores of nutritious food.

The yalue of our egg import is nearly
three millions of dollars, as stated in the
Customs returns, or about six cents a dozen.
Happy is the consumer who can buy them
for twelve cents, while he who eats them at
the restaurant pays five or ten cents for
each specimen that he takes upon his plate.
It is a curious fact, known to those who
take meals at our city restaurants, that the
price of eggs is unvarying. They cost as
much there in January asin June. Of the
egg import into the United States, three-
fourths come from Canada, mostly from
Quebec and Ontario. One-fifth comes in
via Vermont, and another fifth at Buffalo,
another at Niagara, and another at Boston
and Ogdensburg. Nearly one-hals of the
importation is into New England, and the
remainder arrives at New York and at
Niagara and Buffalo. It is a curious fact
that China sends us two hundred and
twenty thousand dozen eggs, worth eleven
thousand, four hundred and. sixty-six dol-
lars, and that San Francisco reports an im-
port of eggs to that amount exactly. John
Chinaman clings closely to his native land,
and to such delicacies as those eggs must be
after traveling a fourth of the circuit of the
globe. Our census returns show that the
egg product—the average of the laying fowl
—depends much upon the accessibility to
good markets, and to the exercise of care
and the administration of good food. Thus
the New England States average about
eighty eggs to the fowl. New York, Penn-
sylvania, Illinois and Ohio average sixty,
and in some of the Southern States the
average is as low as forty. In some of the
States, poultry is raised more for the table
than for the egg product.

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Wn. A. Berkey has nearly completed ar-
rangements for merging his business into a
corporation. It will be known as the Wm.
A. Berkey Furniture Co., with a paid-up
capital of $80,000. Mr. Berkey will be
President of the company, and it is under-
stood that Wm. H. Jones will write Secre-
tary and Treasurer after his name.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min-
eral Spring Water from your grocery job-
ber. See quotations in another column.

 

 
  
 

 

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The Coming Dairymen’s Convention—
Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

The present indications are that the sec-
ond annual convention of the Michigan
Dairymen’s Association, to be held at Kala-
mazoo on the 16th, 17th and 18th of the
present month, will be a large and repre-
sentative gathering. The Secretary is in
almost daily receipt of letters from leading
exponents of the industry, announcing their
intention to be present and several have sent
in the titles of papers they have in course
of preparation, to be presented at the con-
vention. The local committee write that
applications for space for the exhibition of
dairy implements and appliances are coming
in from all parts of the country, which gives
good ground for the belief that this depart-
ment of the convention will be of excep-
tional excellence and value.

The Secretary has secured a reduction to
one and one-third fare on the following
railways: Chicago & West Michigan; Chi-
eago & Grand Trunk; Detroit, Lansing &
Northern; Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau-
kee; Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette; Flint
& Pere Marquette; Grand Rapids & Indiana;
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; Michigan
Central; Michigan Air Line; Michigan &
Ohio; Pontiac, Oxford & Pt. Austin; Toledo,
Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan; Wabash,
St. Louis & Pacific. Those wishing to avail
themselves of this concession must obtain
certificates from the Secretary previous to
leaving home and secure the signature of the
agent from whom they purchase their tick-
ets.

NEW CREAMERY AT VICKSBURG,

W. T. Long sends Tur TRADESMAN the
particulars surrounding the organization of
a creamery company at Vicksburg:

The company has not been incorporated
as yet, and the officers will not be elected
until that event occurs. The eapital stock
of the company is $5,000, all of which has
been subscribed by the following persons in
the amounts named;

Davis & BMankin., ¢..6..-....2552-. 5205 os 2-08 $1,000
BOT TPN sa aks vse mes ene case . 800
RY WU Bott oo ai vas cade oe ee ade ena ns ss 500
TD CBRE. ioe oan once otc oes oe soos 500
Cee COO, 5 os oa conc ho abt been en seek eee 500
WP, Me. PON oc ob os hae oe ek cee sess ec nes 500
BR. Bishop... .......- sec cccccescccccseoese 200
OP PR aed h cae sab enh: tae ee 200
WT TODD: . 25. o-oo sone ose eno 2a eee eee 200
WT, PAGO co cc be ae nees on Seekiae ce 500
Miss Nettie Fraser...............-2+seeeees 400

DAIRY NOTES.

A. E. Chapman has purchased the Spring-
dale cheese factory, near Hilliards.

W. T. Long writes from Vicksburg: ‘‘Sev-
eral Vicksburg people propose to attend the
dairy convention at Kalamazoo.”

Frank E. Picket has concluded not to re-
move his cheese factory from Hilliards to
Moline, but has made arrangements to oper-
ate another season at his present location.

The Michigan Dairy Supply Co. has been
organized to succeed to the business of the
Acme Manufacturing Co., at Kalamazoo.
The latter corporation was thrown into the
hands of a receiver on account of personal
differences between the members of the
company.

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The Grocery Market.

Dates are higher and advancing. Peanuts
are still firm and a little higher. Brazils
are a little lower. Oranges are steady.
Lemons are a shade lower.

Business and collections are both satis-
factory. Sugars are down from a sixpence
to an eighth from last week’s quotations,
but whether the next turn of the wheel will
send them up or down no one is willing to
prophesy. English currants are a little firm-
er, and some varieties of raisins are slightly
weaker. There is a small decline in some
of Kirk’s soaps. Package coffes are down
Me.

The Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co. has issued
a circular to the wholesale trade stating that
from and after February 1, the privilege of
making a reduction of 44. cent per pound
from card rates, when selling coffee in lots
of 300 pounds or over, is revoked. The rea-
sons given for the action are that some
jobbers abuse the privilege in various Ways;
and that many retailers, by securing such
reduction, cut the retail price, to the injury
of those dealers who can not buy in the
larger quantity.

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The Grocers To-Night.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of the
Retail Grocers’ Association, which will be
held this (Tuesday) evening promises to
be one of the most interesting of the season.
Mr. Stowe has received from Smith Barnes
a supplemental paper to his article on
‘Weight vs. Count,” which will be intro-
duced under the head of special business, at
which time a discussion of the subject will
prevail. I. W. Van Zandt, of Boston, who
addressed the Association last December,
will be present and detail the points he has
picked up during a trip among the Eastern
associations.

——__—~> >.>

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Tlides are dull. Pelts are dull. Furs are
active. ‘Tallow is lower and weak. Wool

is unchanged.
- <a - <

The Eastern trunk lines announce the fol-
lowing changes and additions to the classi-
fication of west-bound freight: Plastering
hair, ¢13 toe 14.; Japanese paper in bun-
dies, or 1; Iron boilers, bath or range, ore]
4; Stamped ironware, nested solid, no other
goods in same package, 4.

A pound of bananas is said to contain as
much nutriment as three pounds of meat,
and an acre of banana trees will produce as
much food as thirty-three acres of wheat.

 

 

 

The true remedy has at last been discovered.
It is Golden Seal Bitters. It is to be found at

your drug store. It makes wonderful cures.
Use it now. It will cure you. It is the
secret of healtb.

  

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

ee

Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
or = cents for three weeks. Advance pay-
ment.

Advertisements directing that answers be
sent in care of this office must be accompanied
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,
ete.

\ ANTED—To buy an interest in a good

paying mercantile business. Have some

money to invest with services. References ex-

changed. Address E. M., care the TR pa
6 fy"

 

 

 

AOR SALE—Desirable store building and
clean grocery stock, situated in growing
railroad town. Present owner has all he can
do to attend to other business. Anyone with
$3,000 can secure the opportunity of a lifetime.
Address X, care THE TRADESMAN. 124*

 

Wee TO RENT—A centrally located

store ip some thriving town suitable for
first-class drug store. Address Lou J. Shafer,
141 South Division St., Grand Rapids.

ITUATION WANTED—By a man of long ex-

perience in mercantile business, to man-

age a general store or lumber supply store.

Can furnish unexceptional references, Ad-
dress, X X_X, care THE TRADESMAN, 121tf

AOR SALE OR RENT —Store in the livliest
manufacturing town of 2,000 population
inthe State. Splendid opening for grocery,
drug or clothing business. Possession given
March 1. For further particulars, address Lock
Box 116, Muskegon, Mich. 119tf

JARTNER WANTED—A general merchant
doing a good business in a thriving lumber
town desires a partner with two thousand dol-
lars capital. For particulars address, ‘“Part-
ner,’ care the Tradesman. Witt
NOR SALE—The font of brevier type for-
merly used on THE TRADESMAN, The font
comprises 222 pounds, with italic, and can be

had for 30 cents a pound. Apply at the office.

 

 

 

COOPERAGE.
Quay, Killen & Co, quote as follows, f. 0. b.

at Grand Rapids.

STAVES.
Red oak flour bbl. staves......... M 6 00@ 7 00
Elm - " es M 5 00@ 5 75

White oak tce staves, s’d and j’t.M 20 00@23 00
oe 7) M

White oak pork bbl. 18 50@20 00
HEADS.

Tierce, dowelled and circled,set.... I@ 16

Pork, os ’ eo! ae ae

Basswood, kiln dried, set............ 4@ 4%
HOOPS.

White oak and hickory tce, 8f’t. M 11 50@13 00
White oak and hickory * eee 10 GO@11 00
y

Hickory flour bbl................ 6 50@ 7 50
Ash, rOUnd © o.oo kes nse M 62%@ 7
Ash, fiat racked, 6% f’t........... M 3 50@ 4 00

BARRELS.

White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M_ 1 00@ 1 10
White oak pork barrels, machine.. 9@ 1 90
White oak tard tierces............. 1 20@ 1 30
Beet and lard half barrels......... 75@ 90
Custom barrels, one head.......... 1 00@ 1 10
HWigue HOTLOIS. «oe .6 es he asda se estes 380@ OT
Produce barrels.............-++e++- 23 25

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

 

 

STICK.
Standard, 25 Tb boxeS..........---- eee 84@9
Twist, OO eit ee a es 9@ 9%
Cut Loaf do oa cous caes sos I@Dae
MIZED
Royal, 25  pails...... 01. eee eee eee ees @9
Royal, 200 th DbIs.... 2... eee eee eee eee ee @8%
Extra, 25 th pails..... 2.2.5 ccc ees esc ee se 10@10%
Pextra: 200 DDIS.. ooo. i soc sees eee sees 9 @ 9%
French Cream, 25 tb pails.......... ia @12%
Cut loaf, 25 I CASES...........-2.eeeeeees 2%@
Broken, 25 ® pails........ 260-6. cececneee 10@10%
Bronren, WO PVIB. «os... coche ese sh eee « 9@ 9%
FANCY—IN 5 b BOXES.
Lemon Drops............ss ee. -on cece L@13
RNY POVODE ia ooo sce ce os ak on re oe 2054 eee 18@14
Peppermint Drops...... 2... -ceeeeeeee M4@15
Chocolate Drop. ..........sseccesccessieess 15
H M Chocolate Drops...............cecer00 20
C3909 TIPO joe wc onc os conc ens cn os neesaceces 10
Licorice Drops....... bcece es dhicadedscceniad 20
AB LiGOMCE DOVE... vase nese cede eck ngs 2
RiOPOBR GAG DIRID (£0 oo. 5 as cces nes eensataneces 15
Lozenges, printed............ ..c2.seeeesees 16
STDOTIAIS oo os Fons i ek ce chs ke cnn nases ot et 15
REN oc eine ks sane 6A 9 On 4 o4 0k nd 8 ocean 15
Crane Tar 66 oo ob 8 Ra ee oo we 18@14
DEA FEAF oo oi oon oa en ca cos occas ee 13
CAPOIRIG is oe ee kee nes oko ies 18@20
cand Made Creams, . 2. .... .5.s/sviee ess oes se
tee CI os ck ke near cee ence dads 17
Decorated Creams....... ....eeee cece cere ees 20
Peri TE oo nk an hc ee ne ae nee’ M4@15
Burnt Almonds... 22
Wintergreen Berries........... 0. 6.0.0 ee 1b
FANCY—IN BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails............... @12
Lozenges, plainin bbls...........-..-- 104%@11
Lozenges, printed in pails............. @12%
Lozenges, printed in bblis...... oak I1Y4@l12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............- @l2%
Gum Drops in pails................0.00 Qi
Gum Drops, in bbls..............0006- @ 5%
Moss Drops, in pails.............. peees @10
Moss Drops, im DbIS.......... 6.0. cece ee ee Meee
Sour Drops; in pails... 0c. 2.222. we cece es te ae
Tmperials, in pails... ........6...ceenes é @12%
Imperials in bbls... ............. ae @ll
FRUITS
Bananas Aspinwall...............--- .
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls..............-.
PRIOR. FIOVUIG . oo isso ceases se ceees .3 75@4 50
Oranges, Valencia, Cases............-. 7 00@8 00
Oranges, MeSSina&.............002 scenes @4 00
Oranwes, Naples............c.cesecee-
TGMODE, CROIOD.. .5 «nc cucs ov cs ce ccoess 3 T5@4 00
CS , TACT oo aod elke cen cts eee 4 00@4 2
Figs, layers, new, ®@ B.............-6.. 144 @l6
TADON, TRANG GO 555k oes be ce ce aeaeees D
TATE, MAD AG oo eee nhc keke nn eceee @
TORT, BRI eae oh ise ceacideceseses
TiRtGe, 6 BI oc ois ccs obea cone etiee
Dates, Fard 10 box ® Ib............. @10
Dates, Fard 50 tb box # Ib.............. @ 9
Dates, Persian 50 tb box # .......... TAG 8
Pine Apples, # dOZ............,--668
PEANUTS,
Prime Red, raw ® D...............065 @4
Choice do ici caks ese veseees 44@ 5
Fancy do aca 5 @5%
Choice White, Va.do :.............0086 @ 5
Haney FP... VG GO ...-.......02.5-65 @ 6%
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona..............06- 17@18
a AOR ii kes Nae ar ran 16@17
WT ie secs coun sak ae eae 94%@LO
ChHeatnnts, PET DU... a6 ees ence one
Filberts, Sicily............ Eee eel 114%4@122
" BAPORIONG, 6556 5s ee 5 cca ina es @10
Walnuts, Grenoble.................2.- 14 @u4%
- EOP O os. 6s ae chew cess
- French...... apes eeaaeine 8 @ll
+ CavtGOrnie. o.oo. see Q@l2
Pecans, Texas, H. P............-...-.+ 10 @13
es Missourl......,... seiceasice sa 9 @10
Cocopntits, 100)... cs oc. np nda cd an ess @4 50
WOODENWARE.,
Standard Tihs, No. Lig. cess see cece see 7 00
MtAnNGArG THOS, NOi tc... nde cccsccsnsssensss 6 00
Rinna TRADE, NOs Book ec ok coin ot ns’ 5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop................6005 1 40
Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 65
White Cedar, three hoop .................5. 2 00
TOMER PIN os oo cs bs chan a cee ccna nie snues 1 90
py ORS ETS Ce i GUN RSG an res py Poin Star 8 00
Dowell Tubs, No.2........... FP a eae ee 7 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 3......... Kana bk Chae ss 6 00
White Cedar, No. 1............ Sura ovsa wees 7 50
MU ite ODOUR. NOE. os oc ssge nk sacs oo b6k os aed 6 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................- 2 00
FR CERGOY TIGR. ooo os alk oa gnc eds cs ae nos ones 1 2%
PGT PUG... os oc ve Seen canes cte snesnn cose .1 00
PIOTALS DIMGIOUN, . o5 ic cc ascvicn acne aeensacenes 5
Clothes POUNGGER, «oo +. .2cccac ccs ccc toes sens 2 2
CER AUN sag eek cd en gn as cs enn cseasnens 65
Mop St0ckS........ 2... cece cece ence ee eeeeceees 1 25
Washboards, single...............cccceceeees 1 15
Washboards, double.................eee eee 2 25
BASKETS.
Diamond MAckKel... 00.65... sce ese we ce eces 40
Bushel, narrow band..........-....+--++.ee- 1 60
Bushel, wide band..............c0eeeeceeeeee 1%5
Clothes, splint, No. 1............ elev cone 8 6
Clothes, splint, NO. 2..........c..ereeesee au
Clothes, splint, NO. 8........c0ce eee ee ee eens 4 00
Clothes, willow, NO. 1.2... 22. ee ee ee ee ee ee eens » OO
Clothes, willow, No. 2........ ee pe aaa 6 00
Clothes, willow, No.3......... wads aes 7 00

 

FRESH MEATS,

John Mohrhard quotes the
prices as follows:

trade selling

 
   

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

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These prices are for cash buyers, who pay
promptly and buy in full packages. ‘
AXLE GREASE.
BPAZOL'S.. e552. 2.s 90| Paragon ..........- 1 80 |
Diamond X........ 60 Paragan 25 pails.1 20|
Modoe, 4 doz....... 2 50| Fraziers, 25 tb pails.1 25 /
BAKING POWDER.
Thompson’s Butterfly, bulk..........-.---- 25
“ “s 6 or 10 } cans...... 27 |
+ _ %,4doz. in case... 95)
“ os % 2 os + 1 Oh
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, \48.....-- 1 25}
* a” se _ 8, ..... 240
“ * - ” BE eaves 4 25
“ $e “ wd bulk..... 28
Arctic, % BD CAaNS............02e8 eee ee ees 45
- ly ge aaa s Gea dae ee es 75
vet Y% Me ict cehaes | Se uense es 1 40
-~ 1 ee te ia eas 2 40
_ 4 aaah aae oe WAN h decawe = 00
Silver Spoon, 8 dOZ............-e sees eee eee es 7 50
BLUING.
Dry, NO. 2........cccceesccccceeces doz. 25
Dry, NO. B.... 20. cc ceceee eee cen erase doz. 45
Liquid, 4 02,.......-.. ee er eee ee eees doz. 35
Liquid, 8 OZ. ........0-ee eee ceeeeeee doz. 65
PAPOCIO £07... 6.652552 cece we cass as secs 8 gross 4 00
SA One oe cha pda haces de eeeescescene 8 ¢
I 8 cs 5 ci cc os concn ens nena eseneee 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper bOX........ 66... se eee 2 00
Arctie No. 2 <i OF esd ese h eae tees sk 3 00
Arctie No.3 ef ae kaae . 400
BROOMS.
No. 1Carpet........ 2 T6INO. 2 FUP. Ww. ee es 200
No. 2Carpet........ 2 50/Fancy Whisk....... 100
No.1 Parlor Gem..2 90;/CommonWhisk.... 75
No. 1 Hurl...:....-. 2 25
CANNED FISH.
Clams, | ft standards...........-- ehaaue es 115
Clams, 2 th standards.........--..+-+eeeeee 1 %5
Clam Chowder, 3 D...........--.-6- see eee 2 00
Cove Oysters, | Ib standards............-. 115
Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards...........-- 1 90
Lobsters, 1 ib picnic. ........-.---. cee e ee 1 75
Lobsters, 1 BD star.............- ee eee ee eeeee 2 00
Tometord. SW StAr.« .. .s. 5 oe ce ne eh eee ne ees 2 90
Mackerel, 1 tb fresh standards..........-- 1 10
Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards............ 38 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 tb..........- 5 25
Mackerel,3 thin Mustard............-6+0+5+ 5 26
Mackerel, 3 lb broiled................0++06+ 3 25
Salmon, 1 th Columbia river..........+++-- 1 55
Salmon, 2 t) Columbia river............--- 2 30
Salmon. 1 hb Sacramento............2-++++ i 45
Sardines, domeStiIC 348......-.0 cece eee eee 9
Sardines, domestic 4S..........-..-ee ee 15
Sardines, Mustard 48........----.eee seers 12
Sardines, imported 148...........0e.ee0++s 14
ert TT POM. oc kc ene ees k ones ree ce 4 50
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, 3 standards .........-..0++++++-- 90
Spence. gallons, standards............+++- 2 30
Blackberries, standards... ........-.-++-++: 95
Cherries, red standard............-.---: 85@1 00
MAAN i hos ne snc adn esa csacesee 1 00
Egg Plums, standards ............++++0+- 1 40
Green Gages, standards 2 b........ ee 140°
Peaches, Extra Yellow .............-.-25-5 2 40
Peaches, standards..........-.-+---- 1 To@1 95
Peaches, SCCONGS...........eccee eee eeeeee 1 50
Pineapples, Erie...........-.. cee cee eee 1%
Pineapples, standards...........--+++++++- 1 50
QUINGES .. 0... cee eee ee eee eet ete e eee e ees 1 45
Raspberries, @Xtrat..........ee sees ee eee -110
CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA.
Lusk’s. Mariposa.
IADEICOIG oon os acca nance vcceas 2 2d 2 00
PU ENB. oon pens u a ceca sna see 210 1 85
MO MION oo 5 os vnc no do oe ce ne os cose 210 1 85
Green Gagmes.........2.. 200065 2 10 1 85
Re aac ae cae euae 2 65 2 25
OUINOOS os cece cee Sane os ee ue 2 75 2 2%
POR GHOR o oa cio oa nde e eee os 2 55 2 20
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........-..++-+-+-- 3 25
Beans, Lima, standard...............- 90@1 10
Beans, Stringless, Erie... ..........---+--- 80
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 65
Corp, TODUW.. .~ 22... 25s aceon ce ce ee seas 1 05
Oe RO OE ee cc uk cn bs coda se tes asaies 90
Oh MRA BIION 5 ao bo aap eee cern eves oe 1 00
Peas, French... .......00cceceersececcceees 1 75
Peas, Marrofat, standard...............+-- 1 60
WOAs, FORVEE. oo. oc coc c ee cen anne eens cece se 70
Pumpkin, 3 f Golden.,.............0+0. ++. 8d
Succotash, standard............eece eens 90
Tomatoes, TRODDY .. .> .o2..-s000 ceccces 1 05@1 10
Tomatoes, Hilisdale................se2---: 1 05
Tomatoes, AGrian...........0.00sseee-0es 1 05
Tomatoes, Three Rivers...........--.es05- 1 05
CHEESE.
Michigan full cream................4- li @W
Wee GU cece ce wh apek ee wens 9 @10%
es cain heres eane se eeees 5 @6
CHOCOLATE.
PCO 5 ck ae anes 36'German Sweet....... 25
PRY GB ow wecabn nce 38; Vienna Sweet .......2d
RERIOG oi his eae 35)
COFFEE.
Green Rio...... 9@13 |Roasted Mar. ..17@18
GreenJava..... 1i@27 | Roasted Mocha.28@30
Green Mocha. ..23@25 |Roasted Mex... @I1b

Roasted Rio....10@15 |Ground Rio.... 9@16
Zoasted Java ..23@30
COFFEES—PACKAGE.
100 Ths.

60 ibs.
WEGIM i ooo. hci ccs assess 12% 25

4a ~ /8
APODORIG © 26 oo rs hen cis cies 1234 12%
CORDAGE.
%2 toot Jute ..... 12% |7%72foot Cotton....2 25
60 foot Jute..... 100 |60 foot Cotton....2 00
40 Foot Cotton....1 50 |50 foot Cotton. ..1 75
CRACKERS.
eo ibn eka wh ce cake wees 5
eee eres ce eee O46
5 per cent. off in 10 barrel lots.
FISH.
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............- 75@30
COd, WHOLE «2166. n sows cee en cece neces. @5
Cod, Boneless....... cece cece ener ee eeees 54@6%
Taba cic ce eck an ce ene ns Coats li@i2z
Peete HG TBs ana os ia cs ccna nc ee anes ness 2 26
Herring, Holland, domestic... .........-. S50
Herring, Scaled... ............ceceee cess eee: IS@2z2
Mackerel, Penny bbIs............0.2-eeees 4 75@5
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, % bblis............ 5 00
id - + TPM RMA ...sss 80
" aig “ Se idee os 70
. DEO: B36 Se be cea es knee 3 50
"ig WA AP i eae ss veka 62
- . a ccwscaws 5D
BREE, We DBL coca ks ck ve nnetinw stad ets seesedes 2 50
Trout, 4 DDIS.......6.c00 ses neeecesenccees 4 00
- Oe ac ee ee ees pe eens 70
Oe ay daca anetnnanes 65
White, No. 1, % Dbls .........- 2. cece ee eeees 6 50
White MO. 1, Io Ty R108... 56. neces ences 1 00
White, No. 1, 10 i kits............. Pe eRe ee 90
White, Family, % bbis.................---- 2 2
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon. Vanilla.
Jennings’ 2 OZ..........-2.200 #8 doz.100 1 40
- ioe ee ren cw ks ce sees Loo fb
* ck ca ie an whew ees 250 4 00
“ Oe asin is pe anaeacets 850 65 00
- TO, SPANO. 6 ccc cis ceca ene 125 150
“ OG 8 ees eke sens 175 300
at % pint round.............. 450 7 50
a 1 Rane ekunes 900 15 00
* Be bac sd va de co Cece 300 425
- tO eo ccc kene 425 600
FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Apricots, 25 tb DOXeS......---- 6. esse eee Q@ %
Cherries, pitted, 50 Ib boxes........... @ b
Egg plums, 25 bh boxes............+.-- @ 2
Pears, 25 D DOXES........ 02s ccs en eee @ 2%
Peaches, Delaware, 50 ib boxes....,.. @ 28
Peaches, MIGKIGAD. 0.655.000.5000 cece @i2%
Raspberries, 50 tb boxes.............-. @ 2
FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Oe ccc. eae es twee 64 anes @ 3
Currants, NOW......-..e eee e eee rece eee @ 1%
Prunes, French, 608...........0+.0+ 008: @ 1b
Prunes, French, 808..........+.0++ +++ @ 10
Prunes, Turkey........-.eceeeeeeeenees 456Q@, 05
Raisins, Dehesia............---+++2+-+- @4 00
Raisins, London Layers............--- @3 2%
Raisins, California “S .........-.+6-- @2 60
Raisins, Loose Muscatels, new........ @2 75
Raisins, Muscatels, 10 i boxes........ @ 9
Raisins, Ondaras, 148............-.-+-- @
Raisins, ” WO a asi aes @12%
Raisins, Sultanas, NeW.........-...6- @ 9%
Raisins, Valencia............secececeee @10%
Raisins, Imperials, 10  boxes........ @1 0
KEROSENE OIL.
Water White...... 12% | Legal Test....... 11%
MATCHES.
Grand Haven, No. 8, square............ j.ask OO
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............- 1 ia
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............- 2 25
Grand Haven, No. 7, round..............++ 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2........0-00+50 ikea Lv deuas 1 00
Oshkosh, No. 8.........+--+-++- a ceceecavanees 1 50
PO ek cea py ska bees heap ease ke 75
Richardson’s No. 8 Square..........-...006- 1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 WO ei tee Gad eseeuces ..1 50
Richardson’s No. 7%, round...........-..65- 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 ei neues 1 50
MOLASSES.
Black Strap..........ceseeeee eens cree ccueue 15@19
Porto Rico........ cuca os Se icaes oles . «2830
New Orleans, good........ scat seen ee « BOMA2
New Orleans, choice..... ciweac apne ccineees See
New Orleans, fancy.. wives a sdaunes a eeeee

% bbls. 8¢ ‘extra.
OATMEAL.

el cut...........5 25|Rolled Oats, cases.
uaker, 48 ibs......

Steel
Steel Cut, % bbl....3 00

PICKLES.
MOO ae ie cis ace Pov @5 50
* Oe APSO bcos caw ti sceuenesae @3 2:
Pc oo yin es ee wens ce cco ees @7 00
PIPES.
Imported Clay 3 gross.............-+¢. 2 25@3 00

Imported Clay, No, 216,38 gross..... .. @2 25

  
 
 

Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... @I1 85
Amoristite To Tn. cose rc dead conliws eta @ 90
RICE.

| Choice Carolina..... CO FOG ok cckn cscs @6
Prime Carolina..... PMU ioe ko voc ccvees 6
Good GCarolina...... 5 \Rangoon.......54@i~
Good Louisiana..... & [Bromen.: ..... 34@3%

SALERATUS.
DeLana’s pure...... Sie Dwight 6... ssc. eee- 54
Church’s ...........54|/Sea Foam...........5%
Taylor’s G. M.......5%4|Cap Sheaf........... 544
14¢ less in 5 box lots.
SALT.
Gi Pooket, FY Dairy. .....<. cc.ccecns: 2 30
De POG ions ces eeencdde ccdetuceenses 2 25
BOS Wy TOONS occas ccanecds cnccdas 2 50
Saginaw or Manistec..............00. 1 00
BENE GO ic ci ccccwecswadhe Asecanes 1 60
REGAN CORTEG.... 66 cence cccessscs 1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 80
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 80
American, dairy, 4% bu. bags.......... 25
HOON, HHBDOIB. ois s cea ne sak: 28
SAUCES.
WPI, ME WAU oo ko oc is he ccc aces @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 7b
Pepper Sauce, wreen. ...........eeceees @1 00
Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @I1 7
Cateun, TOMBIO, PINE... . «2.665 55<ce-s @1 00
Caden, TOMAtO, QUAFUE ... ....cc.e0cs @1 30
Halford Sauce, pints...............26- @3 50
Halford Sauce, 4 pinte................ @2 20
SPICES.

Ground. Whole.
Pepper... on. ess, 16@25|Pepper ..........- @i9
Allspice ..........12@15|Alispice .......... 8@10
Cinnamon........ 18@30'Cassia ............ W@11
Cloves ........... 15@25 Nutmegs ........ 6065
COINMOP oo say cues TO@ZOClOVES 2.2... ce00- 16@18
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Cayenre ......... 25@35)
STARCH.
Elastic, 64 packages, per bDOX.............

 

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Fresh Beef, sides............ pics cues -- 44@ 6%
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............6 @ 7%
Dressed Hogss.......... cue sénveses save Se 2
Bete: Carcasses...... sine eas kb oeens se Oh
Pork Sausage.........cccsccssscessecee CH@T
BOWOBUS. 6 cc occ acsecevccessseecesssacay Oe ®
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luaker, 60 Ibs......2 50
luaker bblis........6 00

 

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A WN EN 8 oie s aac dac cocucss 4%@ 5

OND SI i vas: cons as caxsencs wees 2%@ 3

Peas, Green Buel. 2.4... ccc cece ee cis @1 35
Peas, Split Prepared... ....s..0.sceee @ 3%
MO oo a ob bn bh che ccna nsas dees’ @3 00
WO ME i ook oc cave de coke @1 90
TOs ccc i Veeh ons cde os cabs as euese @ 18
Sauerkraut, bbis.......... ... vial baees @A 75

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PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
quote as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess, Chicago packing, new............+.++ Il 75
Clear, short pork, Chicago packing....... 12 50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago packing...13 25
Extra family clear, short cut.............. 12 25
Clear. A. Webster packer, new............ 12 76 4
Extra clear pig, short cut...............018
MES GIOGT, NOGWE oc coc cccccecsccces occel ae
CiGer DROM, GHOPE CUE. . .. 65. occ cece cancess 13 50
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.

Rte CUGAEG, TOGVY «5 55 coc ccwcsccccesss 6

as IN ova cha nso aasess 6

“ ioc cuuc oeaecicceses 6
Short Clears, ROAVY .. .. ...0 5. cece ccses a 6%

do. EE es ae 6%

do. Haebt..... Al bakes ode aceeass 6%

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLALN.
a a oa ran cin soo ce gescasescecccces GE 9
WO I in bso 4056 600 kad bes ncas V4
as 934
We En io cc econ can: vegeedaces 16
BURR CCIUIIOEE . g 5 5 5s ccc cccsnscesscscwes 64
Te FO sob ovo che dk chawacees rey be
Dried Beef, extra quality......... usa 9°
Dieted MeG@t, FEAT PICCOR. .... 4. cence cnsenes 10%
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ 6
LARD.
No sli cdicd cccoucueageuces 6% a
Br Ne OUP eo ac cd ce ci ceecinccat 6%
50 ® Round Tins, 100 Cases... ......<6::; 6%
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 B® Pails, 4 paile in case. ......... cece 7
tm Wren, er ed ORIG, 2 5s oo oc nda ccacs 7%
Oe Pe, FA OD COGN, oo coin wos ccckcnccn 75%
AO) ee tie, GAT B CORE. ok oo ccc ce cccceds 7%

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SUG: Ss. acd ,
Pa UGARS acu Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tbs........ 9 25

Bn me ce cme a nec te ween secs seeeeesas i 3 less, extri F
sta Cia le a aa ete @ 4 RET OO iis cave ce o0 cece cu aeeas 13 50 '
Granulated, Standard................. @ 6% |p , SAUSAGE “FRESH AND SMORED. a
CMAN Boa oi cock acu cas @ 65 Pork SAUSAGE... 2.2... cs cece ce eee: ceceeee os
ANT Aha lec acices sc! @ 614 | Ham Sausage... 6.0.6... cece eee ee eee ee eee
WO. 1, White Petra ©... oo. iec sc ais 6%@ 6t, | Ton@ue Sausage... ...... 6. eee eeee seer ees
DO BM ei see ere cece 6 @ bt, | Frankfort Sausage........ 1... eeeeeeee vee
Meee ee 5Y@ 5% MN PN lg Be, ob ie ic saccceus da vedas
Mise 5%@ 5% MU, BOS eka oa os cose sc cedacdeeakas
Meee Big@ 54 PI, OU ooo cc ca deavascces snasens
New Orleans Vellows.................. 54@ 5% pe aE te ee a Ease Fe

SYRUPS. shelby PIGS’ FEET.
Corn, WO i eee acs ignan | Wr ele DOPOIS, « 6... iio. sock cece ecco se 3 5
Corn, Me no ec cc as cay anaes 26@30 }An quarter barrels...........-..c:ecseseee ee ;
Corn, (0 gallon ROg6. ... 1... 6.520 50ct es @3v ae
Corn, § PANO BORG... . 6... 5s ese een nese 30@31 8, PELTS y U
Corn, 4% gallon kegs. ..........0...0065 30@31 : spain cedemnaggh eco salndaea ¢
et a ee ieee 23q@z8 | Perkins & Hess pay as follows:
nre Sucar Onan?
eee Somer, va bbl. wettest ee eeeeeeeeees 25G30 HIDES.
ure Sugar 5 wal WO@e.. .. .. «260.0506 @1 50 | Green....# Bb @ 7 |Calf skins, green
TEAS. Part cured... 8 @ 8%} oreured.... @l0
REMPATE GPA le ca vac anees acu 15@20 | Fulleured.... 8%@ 9 |Deacon skins,
areal T0ie tO BOOG. oo ook. co cc ede ce ec eass 2530 | Dry hides and | @ piece.....20 @50
Japan fine Se ee ee 33@45 | Kips ........ 8 @l2 | n
NNN CG oe vec c cc ee ne teesecnecaaaees 1520 SHEEP PELTS
WOR PEVEOT, og oe ks acne cs cess ce ens BOQMSO : ne a To
Gun ce icc: esos ss i. O14 wool, estimated washed # B...... O25
Pe i ae sasnaac | TAOW-----+--+- sSetdeccccccccsersecees QA
WANG ile inc ueue seus cana eedenes "25@30 | 1. WOOK >
TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS. es » ae Unwashed........ 3
£ : ane 2 se washed... 18@22
Dark AmericanEagle67| U nderwood’s Capper 35 FURS.
ag a CL wae eeuec 64) Sweet Rose. waeeetees 45 Bear ay ru a ce dade ks 00 co ch can sauanes 1 00@12 00
ted Bird............. 50| Meigg & Co.’s Stunnerds | Fisher . ............ 2 WAG 00
State Seal............ Atlee. |... a ociiciicciuensul ns 1 OO@L 2
Prairie Flower ...... 65;Royal Game.......... oo |} Grey Fox........ es abode ceed 1 00@1 30
Indian Queen........ 60} Mule Bar............. MN ose ibd iecccecccccans, 25@1 00
BGT TOE: cok cc nose su 60|Fountain............. io sense aries 050 60
Crown Leaf..... .... 66,;Old Congress......... Me Pee. WINERY, <5 55. o ss cn cesses 10@ 12
REID WALOS 20 60 cs nce cs (> Good Duck. ..........02 ” Me 6@ 8
Globe .........-...-+. “Oi Blaze Away.......... 35 “ ee @ 2
May Flower.......... 70| Hair Lifter...........30 cians A O0GnS 00
Hero .... se eee eee es MEA GCOVORTION os 55 ca ces: BE occ dolce sa scsskia eens L0@1 00 @
Sweet Owen.......... 66, Fox’s Choice........ MT ope a, LU@1 20
OM Ab cies 49|Medallion ............ Ot i timawer, @ W...........---.<<cvacensecch SOO OM
PLUG. DN OE a ic eidcasccse cote 10@ 30
CN Tl ee @50
. on «© io @49 OYSTERS AND FISH.
6 7a ‘ ee , ) 7 }
: five age oe ee @A8 F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
a i ca ss . @AO OYSTE
oo he nce bo cc cae eisass DAS aa “Oe ' —
ee ree ete, SE FE Rte OU S Hevecwns sor cens cn nesivents 33
a iciacevap ce screeds @50 cose reerenss: teeses cenececcecceaercncees OO
Seal of Grand Rapids.<.00.00..0.00.0. Oe ere ennen teense eee 7
ie on Me De De. eee ce cee eee cee eee eee e eee eens 8
) rham ee can daee @A6 tie ee lt
I aici dncindnaesnsesasencensys ie ieee lhl =
Jack Rabbit Dene ee Oh heee Kh ee en eneseece he @46 ee es Dee ee san As
RO as ae cou ce ude sacs @46 Pri Bere, a Pee enres nee cats henasrd se tas * @
CNOBCIAIO CROGID gino nin sc cenccneaceas @Ab S ae t behuik teecceeesceceecee
ooo @44 dé re ec cal occ ccatinne cd
og ocular Nib @10 Standards, by bulk....................1 O@i 10
PRIDE CA Oe AC AOMS AERO AEREAN CORO HOMES * by : -eayws!l “VS alice 4 y 4{
BOO NOI acs oasis dc csa seer eesecds @38 Shrewsbury shells, em cseedigereeeeseeceel 40
Bie Five Center — Princess Bay Clams, @ 100... .......... coe: sO
ig Five Center... ......-..cecceceeseees @d5 New York € 3. 3 }
Woodcock a ae co aue w ds nace nuns @16 mow SOre Counts, © 100. ....... cces ances 1 40
Knignts of BM cco as bo cg h ae caus AG FRESH FISH.
og sn cca aa ee whee dacs ean @AGB WANN cc oucccss @i2
PR ek i sas dan aeanetes ene @32 ook. oe @ 8
Pe PE EN eS Mee ee. ok th. nossc ss
— cae sl ees oe su gga deh al ae ak calls 6 iuae dies cake @ 7%
nena ee nese eens enn tanes teeeane WAG erch, dressed......... j
Old Five Cent Times............-...+s- MO ay ip acdccs canes neecss 10 Git
Prune Nuggett, 121.........-.-.-+-+ Oe FN ores veces cake aco ensaee: — @9 e
a. @A6 Uae a
OV NO loca cas ca cdalaneeuas @38 LOUNTRY PR ‘CE
WPA. ii cock Li cacees lo ae Cera Sao
Glory ween te ecee cece eeeesemeeeee seen eens @4A6 Apples—Choice winter fruit is dull at $1.75
BON Cs as ces ewe cs coe es sue @46 @$1,90
ee @35 ila os
Black Prince [Dark]..............s0s0. @35 Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@$90 @ bu. for
Black Racer [Dark] ch chases tea ceeacues @35 unpicked and hold ordinary hand-picked for
Leggett @ Mivers’ Ghar............5.... @46 | $1.10@$1.30
aca c els ceael oa tc... .....
RE oi ks ca cnanstaneene @A6B Butter—Michigan creamery is easy at 25@28.
McAlpin’s Gold Shield ei eeudasaugaus @A6 Sweet dairy is in sharp demand and firm at 16,
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ib cads....... @dl while old is dull at 5@8e
Cock of the Walk 68................... @3t ogra hasty alent
I ogee dois andes cout: @46 Butterine—Creamery packed commands ve. :
— ee eee GAS Dairy rolls are held at 14@15se and solid packed
NS oes ec kesas bees ai en wannacs @A4 "@l4e "
NO ee eins cies @35 - nae a
BRU PO hi ckencncdassrecceceaes @AD Cabbages—In fairdemand at $8@510 ® 100.
Serine. css cscs @46 Cheese2The best grades of Oc 4
SPVUMG see eee ee eee eee ee eee ee ee es 046 ‘ > st. grades of October and
—— cae eae na oUE oa November make are selling at W@12%.
ee ey ee Cider—lc @ gal. and $1 for bbl.
ee enka caune @36 Celery—20@22e 8 doz. bunches for Kalama-
D. and D., Dlack.... 0... .... cece eee eee @36 =| z00 or Grand Haven
MecAlpin’s Green Shield............... 46 vs 3 ae aaa
Ace Piteh, WOO io le lc secs ous @35 Cranberries—Cultivated and wild Michigan
Sailors’ eee ssc caes ne enaahets lt: @46 command $1.75@82 % bu. for choice. New
2c. less in four butt lots. Jersey $2.25 8 bu. box
Jers $2.25 B . box.
SMOKING i Se ae eee 7
Bs ice 28,Good Luck........... “al oe ee ee eee Se ®
Old Tar..........++++- 40, Sweet Lotus.......... 32 | and pickled are moving slowly at 18@He.
ae mee ,--- Sa oomee Usain a3 Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at le.
> Misi caeevecaaws 26/Gr MO cc iesaesecaus 32 , j is activ j S16
WU acs din ca uns gelSeal Skin............. a | ay Balled is active and firm at SI per ton
Gene TOOK, «<6 65.5508 90 Rob Mow... ....0.005- 9g | in two and five ton lots and $14 in car lots.
Gold Block wea as ; 30 Uncle ON fs ccc cass 28 Hops—Brewers pay 8@lv0e ® tb.
Seal of Grand Rapids |Lumberman ......... 251 Lettuce—25e ®@ ib
(cloth)............25| Railroad Boy......... 38 ca ply hi
Tramway, 3 0Z....... 40| Mountain Rose....... ig | Onions—Home-grown, 75¢ B® bu. or $2.25 @ bbl.
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Home Comfort....... 25| Pop Corn—Choice new commands 24%c ® b
BOSS 2... se sees ee ee ee TOE AI ca each cases 55 | and old 3e @ b
Peck’s San........... 18 Seal of North Caro- ; oe f
Miners and Puddlers.28| ‘ina, 2 oz........... 48 Potatoes—Burbanks command 50c. Late
ce DOW... ..<.; ao — a Caro- Rose are fair demand at 40c.
MAM cs ch deve as cnees 22 Mh, SOB vie vesice 46 > -v—Fairlv well s ie fowls se]
WOGTIORS ooo eka sce vss 24'Seal of North Caro- " Foultsy on wall ennenied, PUNE. OR
Miandard .... cc. ese e: OO) Tne, S08.) ce... ess 41 | for l@1le; chickens, N@I2c; ducks, 1se; and
- a biopic banccas 18 Seal of North Caro- turkeys, Le.
om TOY cc cade 24 lina, 160z boxes:...40 Souash— . , tmally at }
cli ak buecs Pu ete EOL gg i deh uouas 27 Squash Hubbard, eum d nominally at le ®
RUBVOIOT 0 .0-20065505 35| Apple Jack........... 24 | ib, although very little is moving.
er pas na. = ae in ers o-ae Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $4.50,
*kwick Club....... Milwaukee Prize....24 | There are few Jerseys i ar} i
Guee tek aa ll 38 There are few Jerseys in market and no Balti-
VIGUAB occ elves 22,Windsor cut plug....25 | Mores.
ee eee anew sdaa ea ik eck nkeas 16 Turnips—25e ® bu.
Solid Comfort... ....30! Holland Mixed....... 16 iS AN +p 101
Red Clover. ......... g2\Golden Age.......... eee ee
Long Tom............ 30|Mail Pouch.......... o; | Wheat—Lower. The city millers pay as
PEMEIORAL 4.5 cc sis eens 26| Knights of Labor....30 | follows: Lancaster, 85; Fulse, 82¢; Clawson
SE a 26| Free Cob Pipe........ 27 | g90, heehee sa eu,
SHORTS. ioe : cia ‘ itn
Mayflower ........... 23| Hiawatha............ 22 ore soning generally at 44@45¢ in 100 bu.
CN oii we cue e das 22 Old Congress......... 93 | lots and 88@40¢ in carlots.
x Ow! a 6 » ¢ ‘
Mule Ear............. 2z|May Leaf...........- 22| Oats—White, 38e in small lots and 83@s4e in
SNUFF. car lots.
rillard’ ericé re mmen..... 75 x
Taaiants Essenioan Gentlomen.-.:- - Bo ig| Ben neue Ohm
Gail & Ax’ ee. @ 44| Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 P ewt.

” Rappee..........+- eedueetes 35 r — ; », Fancy P 5.50 ¥
Railroad Mills Scotch........ssccc-. @ 4% s cart — oan — ‘ faecal en beg
Te oc bes cua an sean ac cecee cases GAS bbl. j x a $4 80 i : i raight, $4.00

VINEGAR. - in sacks and $4.80 in wood.
Star brand, pure Cider............+ee++e++ 8@12 | Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ®@ bbl.
Star brand, white wine.............++.+++- 8@12] mill Feed—Screenings, $14 Pt B
MISCELLANEOUS. ee ae, OS Pton. Eee
Bath Brick imported ...........-.-.+++ 95 # ton. Ships, $15 % ton. Middlings, $16;
ie - in sa Dulweracasauanee is ‘ o Corn and Oats, $20 ® ton.
rners, Se gee neue veleaue s

0) ay i encase cece cueses 1 50 si
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 7 80 Twenty-five cents will
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 Ib cans......... 16@25 | tle of Allen’s Lung Bals
Candies, Star..............-. eeaewl sae @R% Money |andsure remedy for
Candles, Hotel...........+---.++ seuvegs @l4 eroup. Those desiring
Extract Coffee, V. C.........+:22-++ 08+ @s0 Well Spent, for consumption or a

do Felix 10... nese soece 1 2 : ease should try the

Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.............-.  @26 Try it. | tle. (It contains no

Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ _ @3s form.) Price 25e, 50
30@35 tle at druggists.

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News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own
Correspondents.

Bear Lake.
The aggregate shipments from Bear Lake
the past season were as follows:

Hardwood, feet..........216..----.02-- 5,500,000
Pine, feet..........2. eee ee eee ne cee cence: 600,000
Shingles, Wasa ces eM Seba cee eee 2,500,000
OCOndwWOOd, COFGB. .......0--cs8esccsecsees 15,000
Hemlock bark, PON os bs cong bk eee be aene 2,000
Cedar posts, PCB ..............--.-en seen 5,000
Telegraph poles............2..2-22+e00+ 2,000
Potatoes, bushels...............-..-656+ 10,985

The annual report of the Bear Lake &
Pierpont Railway makes as eictesrt
good showing, as ‘follows:

Gross COrnings.... .. 2... d.n. 0: oe sane . $13, 497.67

Operating expenses and repairs....... 5,029.82
Net carnuwes..6.66506 ie et, $8,467.85

 

Big Rapids.

A. J. Jakeway, for the last five years
with the Ives Lumber Co., at Hungerford,
has purehased the store building of T. N.
Colvin and oceupied by Mrs. Mulberry with
a stock of drugs. Mr. Jakeway will use the
first story for a saloon. Mrs. Mulberry has

rented one of Mr. Morrisey’s new store
rooms, where she will remove her drug
stock.

J. G. McElwee & Co. isshipping shavings

from this place and Reed City to New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey. The freight is $80 per
ar.

W. D. Robinson, of Detroit, who holds a
mortgage on H. Flynn’s stock of merchan-
dise, has placed a receiver in the store and
is trying to satisfy his claim. J. W. Fearns,
who held the stock on a contract, concludes
there is not enough left to bother with, and
for his claim of some $800 will look to Mr.
Flynn to pay when better able.

Mr. Faulk -has removed his drug stock
from the Harwood block to the building
lately vacated by the Big Rapids National
Bank.

F. Fairman, banker here and manager of
the tub and pail factory, has just sold all
the goods manufactured after the expiration
of their contract with the Association, and
declares a net profit of over 50 per cent. on
the capital stock. The factory will be clos-
ed for two months for repairs. Mr. Fair-
man will leave this week for an extended
trip South, with a view to a nest from busi-
ness.

Will Harman advertises his entire dry
goods stock for sale. He sayshe is going to
get out of Big Rapids.

C. A. Verity has purchased his partner’s
interest in the grocery.

Bonanza,

The quietude of our town was broken by
the dissolution of the firm of Clark, Russell

& Co., Mr. Russell retiring from the busi-
ness. F. W. Clark & Co. succeed to the
business.

Other firms are moving along as usual.
Weare having a fine run of sleighing.
The snow is from 15 to 18 inches deep.
H. F. MINER.

Cadillac.

Hurst & Joyce, boot and shoe dealers,
have dissolved partnership. Geo. Hurst
eontinues the business with Joyce in his
employ.

Frank B. Kelly, of the clothing firm of W.
R. Dennis & Co., has in use about the store
a handsled which he has owned over thirty
years, it being a relic of his youthful days.
It appears to be as strong and durable as
ever.

©. H. Drury, of Sampson & Drury, is on
a business trip to Chicago this week.

S. W. Kramer has returned from the East,
where he purchased a new stock to re-open
his clothing store here March 1.

Indications point unmistakably to an im-
mense building boom at this place the com-
ing season. Several large residences are al-
ready pli unned and some new business blocks
are in contemplation. Already the city real
estate exchanges are more active, with an up-
ward tendency of prices. This improvement
is joyfully welcomed by our carpenters and
tradesmen, who have made little or nothing
from their labor over necessary living ex-
penses for the last two years. No more
moss will be allowed to accumulate for some
time to come.

J. W. Cummer, the hardware merchant,
has invented an improved heating apparatus,
eonsisting of a hot air drum and cold air
pipes, which is giving satisfaction. He has
already put up a number in this and sur-
rounding places. A patent has been ap-
plied for.

Casnovia.

Isaac C. Neff’s new hotel is up and en-
closed, and the doors and windows have
been put in place. The structure is 40x50
feet in dimensions and three stories high.
It is expected that everything will be in
readiness to begin business about May 1.

Mr. Neff also contemplates the erection
of aroller grist mill, with a capacity of 100
barrels of flour per day.

Gersey.

Those burned out in the late fire are get-
ting well established again. Neville &
Beardsley have fitted up a building across
the street, have bought the Collar stock of
drugs and fixtures at Reed City and are in
running order again. Mr. Diggins is reno-
vating another old stand which formerly
was his place of business, and soon will be
again. John Sweet has fixed up an old store
house on Front street for his saloon. The
postmaster and lawyers are still wandering
up an down in a dazed sort of a way.

John Sweet has purchased the shingle
mill machinery and part of a section of
shingle timber south of Hersey, and has
rented power of Gloss Bros.’ mill to cut the
timber into shingles.

Houghton.

W. B. Anderson, teller of the First Na-
tional Bank, has accepted the position of
cashier of the First National Bank at Red
Jacket, which is soon to be organized with
a capital stock of $100,600.

 

St. Joseph.

We have formed an organization among
our business men styled the St. Joseph Im-
provement Association, for the purpose of
looking after the interest of our town, with
the following officers:

President—A. W. Wells.

Vice-President—Montgomery

Treasurer—H. M. Zekind.

Secretary—James R. Clark.

Executive Committee—A. H. Morrison,
Warren Chapman, C. C. Sweet, L. S. Will-
son, M. C. Barnes, A. H. Scott, A. Kane,
L. I. McLin.

Shepard.

Traverse City.
L. F. Perkett has been in Summit City
the past week buying potatoes.
Our streets have presented a most lively
appearance during the past few days.
Farmers from all dixcotions have been

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bringing in cord wood, lumber, logs and
square timber in immense quantities.

D. M. Clark has bought the C. A. New-
ton meat market, at Elk Rapids, for $1,200
cash. Mr. Clark was robbed at Manistee a
few weeks ago, just after disposing of a
large quantity of cattle.

Mancelona.

The Grand Rapids Chair Co.
with headquarters at Mancelona, buying
maple logs. The logs are shipped by rail to
Grand Rapids.

W. H. Thompson, manager of the Man-
eelona Handle Co., has returned from a bus-
iness trip to Philadelphia and other
Eastern cities. ‘The factory is running to
its full capacity.

The Oval Wood Dish Co. is running every
day buying large quantities of logs for the
season’s run.

S. M. Beane is running his sawmill eight
hours a day.

The law firm of Hudson & Bailey is dis-
solved, each lawyer operating separately.

The Grand Rapids Furniture Co. is put-
ting in 2,000,000 feet of maple logs at its
saw mill, one mile south of Mancelona.

Geo. H. Raymond controls a portable saw-
mill located four miles west of Mancelona.
The lumber will be shipped from this place.

te en ly A ameter
An Ode toa Stove Pipe.
From the American Artisan.

Few states in the Union are more fruitful
than is the State of Michigan, either in the
products of nature or in the works wrought
by the skillful hand of man. That it is not
lacking in literary genius is evidenced by
the following, on an all too familiar subject,
which is sent to the Ariisan from the Pen-
insular State:

Infernal stuff! Your nature well I know;
So when I took you down six months ago

Each piece I numbered so that I might tell
Exactly how you’d go together well.

And now the time for chilly days draws nigh,
To put you up again I madly try.

But all in vain. “The joints that here did fit
Now do not come within an inch of it.

I get you two-thirds put in place, and then—
Crash you go, tumbling to the floor again.
Once more | try. You are rather full of soot,
And I am getting daubed from head to foot.

I jam my thumb, but still I persevere.

One piece goes down again and rakes my ear.
I grab to catch the piece, and another goes,
And, of course, scrapes the hide all off my nose.

And another piece falls with a slam,

And the rests goes down and I say d——n.
And then my blood gets boiling and I say,
“By all that’s blue, Pll fix you, anyway.”

Once more I go to work, and by patience great,
I get all but a single section straight,

And that I am about to place, when, oh!

The chair I stand on tips and flat I go.

I land upon my neck in fright and pain,
And mutter dreadful language once again,
As over and around me with a horrid crash,
The whole comes down in one grand smash.

And then my wife remarks, “I never saw

Such an awkward, clumsy man.’’ I say,
“Hold your jaw.”’

And for a tinner send, while I retire

To wash myself and swear to vent my ire.

te --
Purely Hiisonal,

Jas. E. Granger, the more or less elabor-
ate shipping clerk for Cody, Ball & Co., is
rapidly accumulating an art collection in his
department. His taste runs to the nude in
art.

W. T. Lamoreaux leaves next Monday for
New Orleans, where he will 'spend a week
or ten days in search of recreation and
pleasure. He will be accompanied§ by his
wife.

Thos. S. Freeman may be addressed in care
the Avery House, at Mt. Clemens, during
the next two or three weeks. The absence
is rendered necessary by an attack of the
old trouble, inflammatory rheumatism.

M. C. Russell, who has earried on the
produce and commission business in this city
for the past four years, has concluded to
close out the same, and accept a flattering
offer tendered him by the Michigan Buggy
Co., at Kalamazoo. The acceptance of the
position necessitates his removal to Kala-
mazoo, which will bea souree of genuine
regret among his friends and business asso-
ciates.

 

-— - <= —9——-

Good Words Unsolicited.

M. J. Young, hardware, Ionia: “‘it is a good
paper.”

Cc. L. Hasbrouck, druggist, Mendon:
paper.”’

Forman & Aldrich, meat market, Lowell: “It
is a good paper.”’

Chas. 8. Bulkley, general dealer, Ovid:
is a good paper.”

Mrs. John Helm. general dealer, Burdick-
ville: “I think your paper a good one.’’

Blodgett & Byrne, Jumbermen, Muskegon:
“Tt is well worth a great, big silver dollar.”

E. A. F. Little, druggist, Spencer Creek: “It
must be had,if it takes the last shot in the
locker.”

“Good

“Tt

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The Hardware Market.

Business and collections are both fully
satisfactory. Augers and bits are steadier
and some makers are asking higher prices
for east butts. Chain is stronger and ad-
vances are anticipated. Barbed wire is im-
proving so far as demand goes, and prices
are firm. The wire market is firm at the
revisions made in Price Current.

————_- ~~. 2.

A Chippewa Lake correspondent writes:
J. J. Wright, the defaulting agent for the
Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railway, has
returned and paid over to the company the
sum of $400 in cash to settle the recent
discovery of over charges while in the em-
ploy of the company. He is taking steps to
move his family and effects to some other
place and commence over again.

The people of Ottawa, Kan., issued re-
cently a circular and scattered it in all lo-
calities within fifty miles of that,town to the
effect that all tramps coming there will be
given ten days on the city rock pile. They
have not been troubled with tramps to any
great extent since then.

Detroit News: A Detroit produce mer-
chant, just in from a jaunt through the
country, reports seeing large quantities of
potatoes selling in wholesale lots at 55 cents
per bushel. The prevailing sentiment is
that they will be at high figures by planting
time.

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

These prices are for cash buyers, who pay
promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

 

vy Oe BE ois Coed esas ase dis60&10
ke coisas dis60&10
Diuahaes’ Ps pans odes he wecn da soem cence dis60&10
PON oe oo can Cans Celie bsa a cocpecossnee dis60&10
UN ics csvela dap uh veescng ce ceedeieaes dis60&10
NN a a a ees acne a
Jennings’, ZEMUINE............ cee eee e es dis
Jennings’, imitation........... .......- ae 50810
BALANCES.
OI i ave cane ....dis 40
BARROWS.

CPUS TCU) PRIOR RARER nour ene Se piven $ 18 00
OO eo ia ae oaeei scans .net 33 00
BELLS.

BGG ea aes ko ee ee dis $ 60&10&10
OE soos Siac pe cet oe ba oa cee kk dis 60&10
Mos ess es cs bee on cal ee dis age

ea a dis
DIOOP, BATRONE oo oc. bons as cc ances dis wie
BOLTS.

ON tees dis $ 40
yee new list............. oe dis 80
MO wee oe ak chs cua cas, dis 30&1C
PIOION SROG esi che eeececns os dis 7a
Wrought Barrel Bolis. bocce ueanceececs dis 60&10
Cast Barrel Bolts...............5..0005 dis 60&10
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 60
Cast Square Spring................... dis 60
RORG BARE oa oes eon ve nas dis 60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 60&10
Wrought Square ead hea aba aon Cosas Po 60810
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob

F lush hes hee see sues e eke dis 60&10
TUR. NOK. oe i ea dis 60&10

BRACES.
REORRE ooo a ee dis $ 40
RRR sock oes de os oe ora ge dis 50&10
RR oo ek sath ees aces os cu cee dis 50
ee ee dis net
BUCKETS.

WE ea sks wake ec. $ 350
WU, OWI ooo ioe ts on oe ee . 400
BUTTS, CAS.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis T0&i0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin. .....2.0..6023.%:; dis 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis BOS 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
ROG ee toe ae ack ess cs ve nes is 60& 5
WOUROG TADIC.. oo oes asec ccc acs nase dis 10&60
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 10&60
OV ROUING TITABR.. os oc ck dis T0&10
TOG, CUBINC BR cose occ ee we es dis 80&10
BiuaG, POVRCN 8). 6s. ..4 ose. oes dis 80&10
mind, SRENSTG'S,... 5.5... se dis 70
CAPS.
Be NO, ees ee per m$ .
a. Ness uae ek i 60
Sean ee ee bens cans shea aap se seek ke ea a oo 35
eta SRGK coe dee et oe ea ac ease: 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list50&10
Rim Fire, United States............... $dis50&10
MOO, BAO dis40&10
CHISELS.
OOHKOE FICMOT, 666s bose dc leds occas sek dis 75&10
MOOKOS PRAMINO. oo. ck aces dis J5&10
BORKOS COMNGR. ooo ok. bos occ cee eae dis 75&10
OR OD SIGHS. oni ioe ses pwn ca eae as dis 75
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
OOM ee a net
COMBS,

Curry, Lawrence’s..................0. dis 40&10
TROUT BS oo os ook ce ccc scceccse dis 25
COCKS.

Brass, MROUIOIS oes ai 60
A i 60
Beer Phen ane Sane eles enmbe tine oc sine sar canis. 40&10
PONS i a. 60
COPPER,

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. 8 Ib 26

Baxce, 14008, 16000... ce 31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60......0.......... 19
COM BOHGG, 20548. 8. ss... 184%

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dis 40
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 40
Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis 40
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $.85
OO a BAG PVF epieerarme ye dis 20&10
PTMIBEODIO ooo eis oo os oo ook eo eee dis %&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.

Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’, 1, $18 U0; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES—New List.

American File Association List...... dis 60&10
PNOOIN eee re rs dis 66&10
New AmMerCan... 0... 2.6.6.3 kek ce dis 60&10
MUCROISOI SE... cies. eS, dis 60&10
PROUOR 6 oo i dis 30
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 30&10

GALVANIZED ait

Nos. 16 to 20, az and 24, 25and 26, 2% 28

List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50
HAMMERS.
Maydole ONO ec dis 25
BRAID oo eee ss eye ance cn ee dis 25
Terkes @& PlIUM'S. «o.oo sc es cose nine dis 40&1
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track 50&10
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10
Kidder, wood track................... dis 40
HINGES.
Gate, Clark's, 132; G. . <6 s. o so 5 cs dis
a... per ey meh. 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 1
ONO 1O0GORy. 5 oe ike 3%
Screw Hook and Eye, \% . -net 10%
Screw Hook and Kye %.............. net 84
Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net i%
Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net T%
iran ON To eke ies co a, dis 65
HOLLOW WARE.
Stamped Tim Ware. ... .... 6.00. ..s cs cae 30
Japanned Tin Ware................0.0.. 25
Granite iron Ware................5..0.- 25
HOES.
Ort Fe ee iss $11 00, dis 60
TU Ok os a 11 50, dis 60
Grub 3. Poco aes eb bts keok secs cack se 12 00, dis 60
KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......dis 50
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. Aaa wes 50
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 50
Door, porcelain, trimmings............. 50
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain ocean dis 70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ........... 40&10
Hemacite Sine dehed eM aeieb ws Cee iad dis

LOCES—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list. .dis 50
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 50
POVORICONG Boao ook i veces ai csccke cs dis 50
WOT WOU 665 i dis 50
VELS.
Staniey Rule and iene OB cial. dis 70
MILLS,
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s...............0:. dis 40&10
Coffee, P.8.& W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... dis 60
Ooffee, Enterprise... oi occ. cece cceces dis 2%
an MATTOCKS. 5
WA RO oa noose 5s eee eee 16 = = 60
SAME FSV. oor ooo bk cha se $15 00 60
TAUUO Bo ce oc $18 50 aie. 20 & 10
NAILS.
eas axe Common, Bra and Fencing.
a) bac deh beers eeu e 50
8d and 9d adv............ co 25
BO OG 10 BOV oo oes ee 50
Oe Be Ne eae oy 15
BE VRORS oo ois os hoes obec eas nee ck es 1 50
WO TAI AV AMIOB os eek cock coed bose chock 3 00
SAG BUI BO oo ions cease eek cs 175
Finishing 10d 8d 6d 4d
Size—inches ' 3 2% 2 1%
Adv. #@ kee $125 150 175 200
Steel Nails—2 65.
MOLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern ..............00c5. 0000 dis 70
Stebbin’s Gonuine.... 0. 0. ics ec ee cee dis 70
Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50
: : OILERS.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&i10
Zine, with brass bottom............. .... dis 50
SOVRER OF CONDOR ois oe seca x ccc cc cess dis 50
BORDOT oo coe soi ns kossi ys ee per gross, $12 net
RPGR Bee ois is boos So beens es 50&10
PLANES.
Onio Tool Co.'6, TANOF: foo. ccs ccc bess cue dis 15
RUOUOIR RONG. 6s ok cies ws ck oon asa dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... - 15
Bench, first quality............... 00000 20
Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... dine
PANS.
MOY) AN oi os eos hk dis 50&10
Common, polished................... ne erent
ROCIO os i hs he essen ® Ib
RIVETS.
Tron and Tinned...................22- dis 2

Copper Rivets and Burs..

 

UNN HARDWARE

COMPANY,

Hxclusively Wholesale,

Present to the Trade the

Largest and Most Complete

OF

Shelf and Heavy Hardwa
EVER SHOWN IN WESTERN WIGHIGAN.

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Class
HARDWARE STOCK.

Dealers visiting the City are Cordi-
ally Invited to Call and Inspect our

Establishment.

 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON,

 

 

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES,

 

 

DRY GOODS PRICE CURRENT.

 

The following quotations are given to show
relative values, but they may be considered, to
some extent, “outside prices,’’ and are not as
low as buyers of reasonable quantities can, in
most instances, obtain them at. It will pay
every merchant to make frequent visits to
market, not only in respect to prices, but to
keep posted on the ever-changing styles and
fashions, many of which are never shown “on
the road.’’

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, ?-4..17 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 19

Androscoggin, 7-4.. 1344 Pepperell, l1-4...... 22

Pepperell, 7-4...... 3 |Pequot, 7-4........: 1444

Pepperell, 8-4...... Ds (POGUGs, 46. 05553 16

Pepperell, 9-4...... 7 Weauot. 4... ...... 18
CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, 0z..10
Caledonia, X,0z... 9

Park Mills, No. 90..14
|Park Mills, No. 100.15

Economy, 02....... EP rOdigy, OF... 46-44 8%
Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron Weuevciea 84
Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... 834
Park Milis, No. 70;.12 iY OPN, b 00s occ 6sccus 94
Park Mills, No. 80..18 York. AA, extra 0z ‘wig

OSNABURGS.,

  

Plain. Plaid.
PUBVOGAG . «o.oo decd G4 AIMDAMS . ...<<6-45 6%
F Ceres . 8. 5. oc oe ce S56} AUMUGCR cucnccnscce 654
Je well eae S [Georgie 2. s0<s cs .aes 6%
MOMUNGKY ....%.... 5% Louisiana .......... 6%
WA ob eke voce cccn a tt 4 Tennessee ......... 0

BOGE occ ck oc 0 et OO Cah kc ceca 6%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
| Avondale, 36...... 84|Greene,G 4-4 .. 5%
Art cambries, 36... 9%/| Hill, 4-4............. 7
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8% BU, WG ccc es ce ceaes 6%
Androscogyin, 5-4. .1244|Hope, 4-4........... 6%
Ballou, 4-4. ........ 54/King Phillip cam-
Weaiow, O4.......... 6 brie, 6 ie saan, 9
Boott, O. 4-4........ 84) Linwood, 4-4....... 1%
Hoott, EB. &6....... 1 iLonsdale, M4 aes 1%
Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 914 Lonsdale cambric.104%
PORE: hs Oe. 4c oe 5%4| Langdon, GB, 4-4... 8%
Blackstone, AA 4-4 644 Langdon, 46........1
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 5!4| Masonville, 4-4..... 7%
Conway, 4-4... . .. 644|Maxwell. 4-4........ 8

 

Cans, £4,.......-. . 6%) New York Mill, 44.10
Cabot, 7-8........... 6 |New Jersey, 44.... &
Canee. 24.......... 4 |Poecasset, P.M. C.. 7%
Domestic, 36....... 74 Pride of the West..10%
Dwight Anchor,4-4. 8 |Pocahontas, 4-4.... 74
Dawe, 4-4... ...<.... 8 Slaterville, 7-8...... 6%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 7% Victoria, AA. 7
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 63 Woodbury, in, 54
Fruit of the Loom, W hitinsv ile, 4-4... 6%

cambrie, 4-4...... a Whitinsville, 8. ...
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 64 “4 Wamsutta, 4-4...... 9%
Gold Medal, 7-8..... 5) res Williamsville, 36... 8%
Gilded Age......... 7%

SILESIAS.
cei c ee 17 |Masonville TS...... 8
No. 10.. wiacecesRh (DROSORUIHG SH ....,., 10%
Coin. Soa ae 10 Lonsdale ........... 94%
Nee, 15 [Lonsdale A.........34
Centennial ......... : 1OGORY Chis ca cccine 5%
Bigekburn ......<.. 8 [Victorvd....:...... 6%
TE vce ccaccs, 14 Victory BP sy asecs 8i4
PP Se 1244) Victory Bevis cecccs 10%
PACOMIG «oc cnceceede =LPMODTILX Boo ccs icc 19%
heel Cros. .....<..-. 7%4|Phoenix B......... 10%
Social Imperial.. 16 i\Pheenix XX.. << e
PRINTS.

Albion, solid........644/Gloucester ........... 5%
Albion, grey........ 6 |Gloucestermourn’g.5%
Allen’s cheeks......5%|Hamilton fancy....6
Ailen’s fancy.......5%|Hartel fancy........5%
Alien’s pink. ......«. 54e|Merrimac D......... 6
Allen’s purple.......54;|Manchester ......... 6
American, fancy....5% Oriental eer Nas 5%
Arnold fancy........ 6 (Oriental robes . 6%
Herlineolid......... 5 |Pacifie robes........ 6
Cocheco fancy...... @ (Hiohmed........02 5%
Cocheco robes.. -644/Steel River.......... 4%
Conestoga fanc y. G jMimneow es ........5.
Eddystone ..... 6 {Washington fancy. 6
Eagle fancy........ a {Washington blues. 6
Garner pink.........54 44|

FINE BROWN COTTONS.
Appleton A, 4-4.... 6%4/Indian Orchard, 40. 7

Boott M, 44........ 6 Indian Orchard, 36. 644
Boston F, MeO sks 6% Laconia B, 7-4...... 13
Continent: ul C, 644 Lyman B, 40-in aaeui 9
Continental! D, ‘in 744 Mass. BB. Bh ices 54
Conestoga W, 4-4... 5% Nashua KE, 40-in.... 74
Conestoga D, 7-3... 4% Nashua R, 4-4...... 6
Conestoga G, 30-in. 5 Nashua O,7-8....... 5%
Dwight X, 3-4...... 434 Newmarket N. 1s Oe
Dwight ¥,7-8....... i | Pepperell E, 39-in.. 6%
Dwight Z, 4-4.. 4 Pepperell R, 4-4.... 5%
Dwight Star, 4-4.... e" Pepperell O, 7-8.... 544
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 7 |Pepperell N, 3-4.... 5
Enterprise EE, 36.. 434 Pocasset C, +4... 5%
Great Falls E, 4-4... 644/Saranac R.......... 6
Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 54%/Saranac E.......... 7%

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS,

 

 

 

 

“A”? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 The Newayro M: a H Amoskeag ......... * |Johnson Manfg Co,
“B’? Wood’s ont. nlanianed, Nos. 25 to 27 9 b. poe es ne On Geren tm Amoskeag, Persian 9 | Bookfold ......... 12%
Broken packs 4c ® B extra. Uppers, | inch per M 4 00 | pp St¥lOS.- ++ ee eeee eee _ |Johnson Mantg Co,
ROPES. Uppers, 14 1% and2inch. 46 00 BEOROG 05. 555 cane eee 6 | dress styles...... 10%
Sisal. % le and larwer 0066s. o ee ess MiGgunaias. 35 0p | Berkshire ......... 6 |Slaterville, dress
EEE SRE IE TS | Selects, 1%, 14 and? inch... 727"! Sh Ob cere: Laney: eles on esee cane ;
SQUARES. Fine Common hineh ee 30 00 Glasgow, royal.. . 6% | White Mtg Co, stap 6%
Pleo) ane Irom Me Te thee tte. ce al a 29 go | Floucester, new ~,,| White Mfg Co, fane 7 744
ee Bi WOON oo oc. foie sees es ses ds WA oe fe 1 edi: 32 op | pStundard ......--. 7%|White Mant’g Co,

a, pe On tao angie! eae tant he winch. ...... 3 0} Plunket ............ 4) Baeristen.... ssc. ™

BURP nc ae cee es sagen uh tess Sta ena dis A No. l Stoeks, 12 itt., 12, l4and 16 feet 2 ow 00 Laneaster » G ordon "
SHEETIRON. | ie INO. I Stocks, 12 in. (8 feet... .. .. cc ce ese 16 00 | Done meets + lGrevicns. anon :
Com. Smooth. Com. ! No. 1 Stocks. 12 in. 20 fee m4 POW ..5 000550 7 |Greylock, dress
Nos. 10 to 14 $4 2 $2 30 No. Stoc 8, 12 in., 20 fe et...... bx ece cates 17 00 enfrew, dress.... 9 styles 1
ea OR es 4 0 i 40 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 teet..... 15 00 : un ee
Now 18 re 21 we akee aces ae beincandes 4 20 “ 60 No. l Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet OL een ogee 16 00 WIDE BLE LACHED rf OTTONE. al
sa 18 rn Be ehh soem re tek re a ae No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... .... 17 00 ye oe oggin, i-4.. — pe 10-4... oo
ee ete entero ns casero ‘= Fog No» 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 3s 0G | Censors 8-4..16 |Pepperell, L-4.....24
no a Pek ee eke hoa ae ts aay ; = 3 80 a : as : in., . — oe ei 16 00 Pepperell iy adaaue be iPetuor ee ecaeeaded
Ge Aad sic eensonessecaces ct eteeeee _ % WU! No. 1 Stocks, in., 2 —. Cl. " > SVOLL, O-%...... & {£9 i J

All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches | No 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, if and 16 feet..... = E Pepperell, 9-4...... 9 |Pequot, 'O4. ......-. 20

wide not less than 2-10 extra. | No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 13 0 HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
a ocala bs @ D ZINC. 6 No. 2 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.... Sa narece oss 14 00 | Atlantie A, 4-4..... 64%:Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 64
oe ea auc | No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 | Atlantic H, 4-4..... 644 Lawrence XXX 40. 7%
quanst ies, @ ee eres % No.2 Stocks, 10 Wis, WO OCG, oo... an eae. 13 00} Atlantic D, 4-4..... 5%/Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5
No.1, Refi = wekstarnay oe 12 50. No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 14 00} Atlantic P, 4-4...... ?. Newmarket N...... 5%
— i. oe aie erences ~ 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 00 | Atlantie LL, 44.. % Mystic River, 4-4... 5%
ao | Stric et Half-and-half............. +. 15 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 12 00 | Adriatic, 36......... 7%4|Pequot A, 4-4....... 6%
rictly Half-and-half........ Sp eae et aon 16 50} No. 2 Stocks, 8in., 20 feet................ 13 00 | Augusta, 4-4........ 644|Piedmont, 36....... 6
Cards oe ee ones $6 75 Coarse Common or shipping culls, all Boott .M, 4-4........ 6 |Stark AA, 44....... 6%
IC 10x14 a 8, 40. - | , Widths and longths......... 1.5, 8 00@ 9 00 | Boott FF, 4-4....... by Tremont CC, 4-4.... 4%
ix oe yo. | Aand B Strips, 4 or 6im ............... .. 33 00 | Graniteville, 4-4.... 5% |Utica, 4-4........... 10
1c . ates 6 iis C Stri 8, 4 or 6 WOON eas cea k esas a. 27 90 | Indian Head, 4-4... 63 |\Wachusett, 4-4..... 6%
Ix’ Jacie Chavon ee tehe tne es 0 7 | No. 1 ‘fencing, all lengths... dae dthiasias 15 00 | Indiana Head 45-in 11% |Wachusett, 30-in... 5%
Ic” 14x20 Chare al cette eee erect eeees ‘ 4? No.2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 feet.......... 12 00 TICKINGS.
1x i“ 30 , Chi as settee eee ee ee ee eee He = No. 2 Fencing, Pesos cass ea ceae, 12 09 | Amoskeag, ACA...12%)Falls, XXXX....... 18%
ink ; rere jaeeeek an eee eeestoenssacse ; =) | No. 1 Fencing, 4 inch a Oi ada aia ud kane 5 00| Amoskeag ‘* 4-4.. 15 ray D> © & Ces: 15%
IXXX, 14x20. fence POC CAN ETAT ES NA Nee eS Por 4) | No. 2 Fencing, 4 In@h...... east neeeecaeces 200} Amoskeag, A......11 |Falls, BB........... 11%
IXXXX 14x20 aos 2 12 Norway C and better, 4 or 6ineh......... 20 00 | Amoskeag, B...... 10 | Fs alls, BBC, 36...... 19%
1X b0598 tenons ee nie 15 50 | Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A Me Wk cc coke. 18 00} Amoskeag, C...... 10 |Falls, awning...... 19
of wae es 2 2, BevelSiding, 6 inch, C......-..........0+. 14 50 | Amoskeag, D...... 9 |Hamilton, BT, 32.. 9%
DX 100 Plate Ch noel SAV RAR Re eh OKs Cos 3 Hr | Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common.... 9 00 | Amoskeag, E...... 84%/Hamilton, D....... 8%
DXX, 100 Plate fase ae ee 10 50 | Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear..... Le ceaneens 20 00 | Amoskeag, F....... 8 |Hamilton, H...... 8%
DXXX, 100 Plate Pa oanas te tee e eee eee 2 > BO | ce etree a 7 = raat 10 00 ier a 44... 4 oon AY ioke ‘i eu
ete e eee es eee ov $1 addit z each 2 feet above 16 ft. remium B........16 |Methuen AA.......
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 | Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A. B............. 26 00 | Bxtra44............ 16 |Methuen ASA.... iat
Forme 14x20. IC sel Dressed Flooring, 6 in. C. piece eligi eces ae OO | Poxtra F662... 00. 14% Omega A, 7-8....... 10%
R sot = 14x20, Se 6 =) | Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No.1,common.. 17 00 | Gold Medal 4-4...... 15 Omega A, 4-4....... 2
fe € aoe! I ae eee eer ys eens ennerats , > 1) | Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2common.... 14 00 4,;Omega ACA, 7-8....13
| pipe Axes, Be meen xtatace yet 100 Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. ” Omega ACA, 4-4....15

oofing, 20x28, LX. oe eset ee ee eee ereeeee 14 00! Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00 iOmega SE, 7-8...... 24
IC, 14x20, choice eer eee 5 50 | Dressed Flooring, 4in., C ive aeeheceunse o 26 00 i¢ mega SEK, 4-4 sewer 27
1X. 14x20 choice Charcoal Terne........ . T OO! os coe : os i No. i pan ay 16 - 1 jomese M.7-8 ..... 22
Ic "90x98 se po genic leon eda 1100] ress d Floor ing, 4ord5in., No.2 com’n 14 00 | Cordis AAA, 3..... 14 |Omega MM, 4. ices 2%
LX. 20x28 itn thas. 14 60 | Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. Cordis ACA, Be Levis 15 jShetucketSS&SSW 11%

» @UXKS, erne........ ; (XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 3 10} Cordis No. 1, 82.....15 iShetucket, 8 & SW.12
TRAPS. bt ede AAs PMN ce siden sanedacvcewaces 3 v0 Cordis No. 2........ 14 ‘Shetucket, SFS ..12
Oiee Gee COG | Ee Fas hy che ei dc kaedecasecaens a 15 Cordia No. @........ 13 \Stoekbr idge Bi icci “7
OneidajCommuntity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35| No.2or6in.C. B18in. Shingles......... 1 75 | Cordis No. 4........ 1114|Stoekbr idge fancy. 8
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10 | No.2or5in. C. B.16 im...... 2.2... eee. 1 40 GLAZED CAMBRICS.
I isis cos eck Won c ks badaasaes MA PN eee ci k libs onecdvscacbadecss 1 7%@ 2 00| Garner...........:. BS Peto
s. P. & w. Mtg. ee 6010 | ponaes. Scbecesuea Ak asa Mebseude 4%
DUGG, CROMOR 5. oes iva cces pes cane 18¢ #8 doz | “ Red OroeG.......... & (Bdwards........2...
PEOURO, COHIBION. . . ooc cs cncccadce is $1 50 y doz | HARDWOOD LUMBER. Forest Grove....... S.S. & Sons........ 3
WIRE. | ‘The furniture factories here pay as follows GRAIN BAGS.
eae Ri dis 67% | ioe Oxy stock | American A.......1% Old Ironsides......15
pik) itis <j | Basswood, log-run.........-...-++++: . , G3 00 | Stark A........... -21%; Wheatland ......... 20
Coppered Market....................... dis 62% Birch, log-run..... eal seGh cneeun wae ces 16 0U@20 00 DENIMS.
Satie... dis 63 | rer, OR FARO Foc. se cs case ec ens @25 00} Boston ............. O4iOtis OO... 6 c. ce cae: 9
uned Marret, ey ee . dis 62% Biaek Ash, log-run..............<.0.- ie @1B 00 | Everett blue....... 114%|Warren AXA...... ll
Tinnad Broom: Chil ee ov | GRerry: log- run..... Guk leba ss sa caaae 25 00@35 00 Everett brown..... 114| Warren BORE wan ws *
shia. bh 8% Geet? — OG Book ovine ss canes _ @55 00 | Otis AXA.......... 1) |Warren CC.. i
Coppered Spring Steel... dis 40@40&10 | se Levee eee eens eee teste eres » 00@12 00 | Otis BB............. 10 LYorR, DIGG... c6.c: “124

Tinned Spring Steel.................sse0e aia fe i ci Pay hy wees eens nee eeeceees 4 00@16 00 : PAPER AMBRICS.

ost" la cara aT RS ae Bh 3% aple, soft, log-run............-++6. 2 WW@14 00 Manville ea chuess 4%@5 |S. S. & Sons..... a 4 @5
Rates Wonea Maple, NOS. FANGS... ..... ese ewan @18 00 | Masonville..... 4%@5 |Garner ...,..... 45@5
DOG ene coer lah nat | SeQbies CE: BOGAE, --+ ~~» -H- oe © WIGARS.
ae ee marie Heanek een white, selected Douliawaes eeues @% 00 | Red Cross*......... 64 |'Thistle Mills........ 6

| ROGOGRs LORTUD, oo... sc ees cece ess GONG OR) ) PP 6c ooce oc cece ce @ PONG. isc. iiscecc, 6%
: WIREGOODS. | | Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.......... eas @20 00 | Garner ............. |
Pee aca elds ecuees usec cesreue oe ore op Oak, No. 1, step plank.......... @25 00 SPOOL COTTON,

sre POR ia ee ahaa co eaen c 7 ear | We SEUNUG, LOMHPUIN,. 5. ions ccc cnn ccua cues a5 RO IR
PE ee a haan tae dis T0&10&10 > Watnut, Nos. ROS ic cscs Or UD BEOORS «00-0500 + ” Eagle and Phoenix
Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis 7O&10&10) Walnuts, culls.................20008. @25 00 be ppiahen wae 53 IG sr aed a =

WRENCHES, | Grey Elm, log-run. ...........-+++++ @i3 00 | Willimantic 6 cord.s6 |Statford . 35
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... | White Ash, log-run................+ 14 00@16 00 | Willimantic 3 cord.40 |Hall & Manning... =
Coo's Goniine.. io dis 60 | Whitewood, log-run...............-. @23 00 | Charleston ball sew iHolyoke _
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 75&10 | —_— ing thread........ ofc:
Coe’s Patent, malleable............ dis 4&210K10, COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, c aatinen Su ANS,
MISCELLANEOUS. | A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: ' :

: i : ee BRTIONG v5 cc ccaces 6@6% |Kearsage...........
Bird CAGES... .. 2.0 .c.ecacensenccesercass Bi oe wees oo ote Pee se sentecenere 1 = Androscoggin ....+ 64 Naumkeag satteen. Hh
ee, CON oa ee nce cees dis TO&10 “tbe eo ae eet cate = | Canoe River....... 5 \Pepperell bleached 84
Srenwi. HAW Het ee g32  Louisy ille Cement, per bbl............ 1 30 | Glarendon 5@5% |Pepperell sat 8 >
Casters, Bed and Plate............. diss0&10&10 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 30| Hallowell Imp..... 5% emt "
Eaatpers. American ..... peunenyiea ines) 40810 a eh per DDL. ....+-.-.s.e0s 1 05@ ; 4 Ind. Orch. Imp..... ait| Lawrences. rae Gea 6

or KS oes, ra » c Ss eee ie Se A ge Ee ae oe wr ee ee et eg ate nas
foeoee an ee ee eee Ronan ee | Plastering hair, per bu........... 25G 30 | FMOOUIS o6cc scene 6@6% |Coneg Osut. . 5%

FRUUOOGc DOR DE: ci ocak 6s cok cine cats nanes *1 % | Ce
MISCELLANEOUS. | a plaster, per os ae re ‘3 5 | CHARCOAL PIG IRON.

Hemlock Bark-- The local tanners are offer-| Fire brick, per M.................-+.-- #5 @§ $35 | John Otis, Mancelona, quotes as follows, fo
ing $5 per cord delivered, eash. Fire clay, per bbl... aoe reer 3 00 | iS Lake 8 i

: Re 0. ake Superior...........--..eeeeseeee 23

Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.59@1.60 8 ® | anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..$5 75@6 00 | Te a weawe ouaainad 23 00
for clean washed roots. Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6 00@6 25! No.3 “ rr Ore be gecee le vkae eee den seul 23 50

Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized Cannell, car WOM cack o uh casas us tiescs wes No. 3% “* Pe a acc te Ruan | 23 50

fter 40 and 5 t. off a Ohio Lump, car lots.. 25|No.4 ‘ “ 11.24 00
to offer 40 and 5 per cent. off on standard goods | Bjossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. a6 00;No.5 *“ We Se arabic are ae 24 00
and 40, 10 and 5 percent. off on second quality. | Portland Cement.......-.....-+++++++ 00; No.6 “ uf cas ball ein sland acaddlu

      
 

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The Michigan Traiesman.

Something About Leather Belting.

A well-known manufacturer of leather
belting says: Having been engaged in the
manufacture of oak leather belting for the
past fifteen years, I would respectfully eall
attention to the essential points necessary to
the manufacture of good belting, the first of
which is the selection of the leather, which
should be oak tanned, it being more pliable
than any other, and as durability is required,
it should be thoroughly tanned and made
from young hides, they having more strength
than the hides from old animals. Leather
chosen, though it may be ever so good, may
be spoiled in currying, and as this is an im-
portant part, it is conducted under my own
supervision, where I have the shoulders cut
from the hides, and nothing but four feet in
length of the choice butts, curried for belting
purposes, as the shoulder naturally stretching
in a different direction from the butts causes
that great aunoyance in factories of belts
running crooked. The putting on of belts
should be done by persons acquainted witb
the use of belting, and too much judgment
cannot be exercised in this respect, as the
wear of the belt depends considerably on
the manner in which it is put on, therefore
the following suggestions, if practiced, will
be of much service to persons employed in
this capacity. The butts to be joined togeth-
er should be cut perfectly square with the
belt, in order that one side of the band may
not be drawn tighter than the other. For
the joining of belts good lace leather, if
properly used, being soft and pliable, will
always give better satisfaction than any pat-
ent fastening or hooks which have yet been
invented.

Where belts run vertically, they should
always be drawn moderately tight, or the
weight of the belt will not allow it to ad-
here closely to the lower pulley, but in all
other cases they should be slack. In many
instances the tearing out of lace holes is
often unjustly attributed to poor belting
when in reality the fault lies in having the
belt too short, and trying to foree it togeth-
by lacing, and the more the leather
has been stretched while being manufactur-
ed, the more liable it is to be complained of.
All leather belting should occasionally be
greased with the following mixture or it
will become dry and will not adhere to the
pulleys: one gallon neat’s-foot oil or tanner’s
oil, one gallon tallow, twelve ounces resin,
dissolved by heat and well mixed together,
to be used cold, the belt having been pre-
viously dampened with warm water, except
where it is spliced together. During the
winter season, an extra quantity of oil
should be added to the mixture. ‘To obtain
the greatest amount of power from belts, the
pulleys should be covered with leather, this
will allow the belts to run very slack, and
give 25 per cent. more wear. I drive alarge
circular saw, requiring 15-horse power, with
a very slack belt, the pulleys being covered
with leather. For heavy counter belts, not
intended to be used on cone pulleys, or at
half cross, I recommended double belts,
made from shoulders only, which I furnish
atthe price of single belting; and as the
stretch is taken out from the shoulders after
they are cut from the side, they are guaran-
teed to give better satisfaction as a counter
belt than a single belt will.

More power can be obtained from using
the grain side of a belt to the pulley than
from the flesh side, as the belt adheres more
closely to the pulley; but there is this about
it, the belt will not last half so long, for
when the grain, which is very thin, is worn
off, the substance of the belt is gone, and it
then quickly gives out; so that I would ad-
vise the more saving plan of obtaining pow-
er by driving with wider belts, and covering
the pulleys with leather. Where belts are
to run in very damp places, or exposed to
the weather, I would recommend the use
of rubber belting; but for ordinary use it
will not give ‘the satisfaction which is so
generally obtained from using oak leather
belting, as it cannot be run on cone pulleys
through forks or at half-cross, and with fair
usage would be worn out, while a leather
belt was regularly performing the work al-
lotted to it, for when the edge becomes worn,
the belt soon gives out.

—_—_-> >
- Points for Retailers.

A man who minds his own business has
steady employment.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak
will sink a great ship.
The man who attends to his own business
has his hands full.
It is said that clothes do not make the
man. Still, your garments show what you
wear.
If the best man’s faults were written on
his forehead, it would make him pull his
hat over his eyes.
Possibly truthful sign on a cheap store:
“Don’t go anywhere else to be robbed; step
right in here.”
Energy and enterprise climb the steep
stairs to the pinnacle of success, while luck
goes up in an elevator.
The failure of one man is the opportunity
of another—to get ten cents on the dollar if
he moves quickly enough.
It is said ‘‘Fortune knocks at every man’s
door.” In most cases it must have knocked
when the man was out.
A new way to pay old debts is to pay
them, but it has not been very generally
adopted, and probably never will be.
‘It is not necessary for a man to be poor
to be honest.” Certainly not. But it seems
sort of half-way necessary for a man to be
poor if he is honest.

detection of what is false directs us toward
what is true every trial exhausts some tempt-
ing form’‘of error. Not only so; but searcely
any attempt is entirely a failure.

There is an old, worn-out, bald-headed
and toothless saying to the effect that com-
petition is the life of trade, but nothing will
make a merchant’s under lip hang down like
the tail-board to an exp;ess wagon than right
lively competition in his peculiar line.

> —-o-

: A Conundrum.
Father—Well, wife, I do not care what
you say, I’m always, for the under-dog in
the fight.

Little Boy (who has been silently listening
to the argument)—Well, father, suppose it
was two eats?”

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ABOLISH YOUR PASS BOOKS.
GROCERS!

Start in the New Year by Introducing the

SUTLIFF

CUPON
SYSTEM.

The only Complete Coupon System in
existence, making business safe both for
the merchant and his customers.

 

In presenting to the trade my COUPON SYS-
TEM, which has been revised and improved, I
claim that I have the most complete, safe and
cheapest system for simplifying business on
the market. Customers can send their ser-
vants with the Coupon Book to the store with
no danger or discrepancies, as by the record
which is kept on inside covers, amountof each
sale is recorded. All books are numbered
when so'd, and when not paid for in advance,
are secured by note, one of which is in every
book. Every Coupon has engraved signature
of the merchant, together with the card; cov-
ers hdve the merchant’s advertisement on, and
their size makes them desirable to the custom-
er as well as the cashier. As they are now
made the smaller numbers below the five cent
ean be detached, same as the larger ones, thus
obviating the necessity of a punch and stamp.
MERCHANTS CONTEMPLATING CHANG-
ING FROM CREDIT TO CASH, ean still hold
their old customers by introducing this sys-
tem, whichI claim is the only system where
both customers and merchants are absolutely
protected against all loss. Send for sample.

J. A. SUTLIFF, Proprietor

ALBANY, N. Y.

 

 

This Baking Powder makes the WHITEST,
LIGHTEST and most HEALTHFUL Biscuits,
Cakes, Bread,ete. TRY IT and be convinced,
Prepared only by the

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

DANIEL LYNCH.

PRED. YALE & GO.

CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF

Baking Powders, Extracts, Bluings,

AND JOBBERS OF

GROCERS’ SUNDRIES.

All orders addressed to the new firm will re-
ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, ~

 

 

 

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BETHESDA MINERAL WATER.
H. F. Hastings quotes as follows:

Barrel, 42 gallons...............eeeece ce eeees 8.50
Half barrel, 20 gallonB............. 26. ee eeee 5.00
Cans, 10 PANODS. «20... 6.5.5. cena ce cece ceesss 2.
Carbonated, cases 50 quarts........... ..+. 7.00
“ Ms JOD DING os od coos pss c are 8.50
This water will be supplied to the trade b.

HESTHR & FOX

MANUFACTURERS AGENTS FOR .

SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

  
   

 
 
  
  

 
   
 
 

aisle Met iN i fa! = ENGINE grey adel

elo INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.A,
MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.

Cazry Engines and Boilers in Stock Mh Tera
for immediate delivery.

 

Planers, Matchers, Moudlers and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pniley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample pulley
and become convinced of their superiority.

Write for Prices. 130 OAKES STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

CURTISS, DUNTON & CO.

HEAPQUARTERS FOR

WOODENWARE!

A LINE OF

UTHITE CEDAR TUBS AND PAILS,

THE BEST GOODS IN THE MARKET.

THE ELKHART PAPER PAIL,

THE BEST PAPER PAIL MADE.

OIL TANSES,

1, 2 AND 3 BARRELS.

DIAMOND and KING Oil Cans. “GOOD-ENOUGH OIL
Cans, all Sizes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

51 and 58 Lyon S8t., Grand Rapids.

 

CHOICE BUTTER A SPECIALTY!
CALIFORNIA AND OTHER FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Care-
ful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M. C. RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.

ma FALILA SBS,

Wholesale & Commission—Butter & Hoes a Specialty,

Choice Butter always on hand. Ali Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each.

97 and 99 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Michigan

“WARREN'S GRIP.”

This new brand of cigars (to retail at 5 cents) we put on the market guaranteeing

 

 

them to equal, if not excel, any cigar ever before offered for the price. We furnish 500
“Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them. We want

one good agent in every town to whom we will give exclusive sale.

MANUFACTURED BY

Geo. T. Warren é& Co

ELINT. MiCcri.

H. LEONARD & 3

 
  
 

UNS,

Grand Fiapids, Mich.

THE LATEST

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No. 2 Two Cone Burner 5.40 per doz.
No. 2 Three Cone Burner 6.30 per doz.
Frosted Chim. for 2 or 38 cone burner 1.50 per doz.
Plain Chim. for 2 or 3 cone burner 1.25 per doz.

A BIG DEAL IN CROCKERY.

Assorted Crate KNOWLES, TAYLOR & KNOWLES, Thirds, Diamond X.

9 doz. 5 inch Plates 36 3.24
20 doz. '7 inch Plates 50 10.00
6 doz. 8 inch Plates 6O 3.60
83 doz. Bakers, 1 doz. 6 in., .75; 1 doz.
7 in., 96; 1 doz. 8 in., 1.40 S.1]
8 doz. Bowls, 1 doz. 86, 50; 1 doz. 30,
60c; 1 doz. 24, '75 1.85
1 doz. Covered Chambers, 9 °4.00
1-2 doz. Open Chambers, 9 3.00 1.50
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in. 25 1.50
1-2 doz. Covered Butters, 5 in. 3.20 1.60
1.2 doz. Covered Dishes, 1-4 doz. 7 in.,
3.20; 1-4 8 in., 3.60 1.70
1-8 doz. Ewers and Basins, 9 6.60 2.20
4 doz. Scollop Nappies, 1 doz. 5 in., GO;.1 doz.
6, '76; 1 doz. 7, 1.00; 1 doz. 8 1.40 3.76
1 doz. Platters 1-4 9, 1; 1-4 10, 1.60;
1.90
04 8.16
6.24
2.00
$56.36

1-4 11, 2.14; 1-4 12,284
A fall ling of Barvain Conuter Goods. Send tor Cataloone,

DEALERS IN RAW FURS AND DEER SKINS,

14 Seta Unhandled St. Dennis Teas 26
SEND FOR PRICE-LIST TO
PERKINS & HESS.

Package,
a is L, | Green and Dried Fruits,
rite me for prices. POP CORN A SPECIALTY.

w. T. LONG, VICRSBURG, MICE.

ilnstrated

A MEU

 

 

Nos. 122 and 124 Louis St., Corner Fulton,

Grand Rapids, Mich

 

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Butter, Eggs, Pop Corn,

 

 

P, STEKETER & SONS,

JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS,

B38 Monroe st..
AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

G. R. MAYHEW,

JOBBER OF

 

ALASKA WITH CRESCENT HEEL PLATE.

Wears three times as long and Keeps trom slipping.
The Trade Supplied with Arctics, Alaskas and Sandals with
the Crescent Heel Plates.

Agent for Woonsocket, Wales-Goodyear and Meyer
Rubber Companies.

S6 Monroe St,, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

APPLES!

We have a large Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local
demand, and also handle both Evaporated and Sun-dried Apples largely. If you have
any of these goods to ship, or any Potatoes or Beans, let us hear from you, and we will
keep you posted on market price and prospects. Liberal cash advances made on dried
fruit, also on apples in car lots.

EARL BROS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

 

O.W.BLAIN & CO., Produce Commission Merchants,

——DEALERS IN——

Wehandle on Commission BERRIES, Ete. All orders filled at lowest market price.
pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties.

PHREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,

: Corres-
NO. 9 IONIA ST.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Every failure is a step to success; every | Rapids

any wholesale drug or grocery house in Grand

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Reference—First National Bank. | 157 S. WATER ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

  
 

   

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

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