MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE, Editor and Proprietor. E BUILDING, 3a FLOOR.| , Wm. | : ! ; CFE 18 A088 OP -| failure in the clothing business at Whitehall {Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.| WEDNESDAY, FFB. 6, 1884. AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. Henry Ward Beecher’s new residence on Paris avenue is nearly ready for oecupancy. R. E. McCormick has opened a grocery store at Mecosta. He purchased his stock in this city. A. Bunnell has engaged in the grocery bus- iness on South Division street. He purchas- ed his stock of Cody, Ball & Co. Donnan & Gray, agricultural implement dealers at Lowell, have sold out to KE. T. Brownz & Co., of this city, who will continue the business. Dr. Henry Lever bas closed his drug store on South Division street, and is engaged in removing the stock to Newaygo, where he will re-engage in business. Perkins & Co. have received orders for 20 of their patent shingle machines during the past nine days. One goes to Oregon and four to as many Southern States. H. N. Brokaw, of Ionia, general travel- ing agent for Taylor Bros. & Co., hat and cap jobbers of Chicago, was in town several days last week, visiting the trade. Silas K. Bolles, formerly traveling agent for B. S. Tibbitts,fof Coldwater, has engaged to represeut a’Cleveland cigar house on the road, covering the same territory as form- erly. Ata meeting of the members of the plas- ter pool, Monday, the price of land plaster was raised from $1.25 to $3 per ton. This is the sequel of the maneuver predicted by THE TRADESMAN several months ago. A. E. Brooks, of Putnam & Brooks, left Monday night for Chicago, to attend a meet- ing of the executive committee of the Nation- al Confectioners’ Association, recently organ- ized, of which the firm is a member. A. Norris, of A. Norris & Son, Casnovia, was in town last week and pufchased a com- plete grocery stock of Clark, Jewell & Co., which they will put in one side of the build- ing in which their drug stock is located. The grocery stock of Carlos O. Sunder- land, of Lowell, was seld by the assignee to O. A. Ball and John Caulfield for $450, who in turn disposed of the same to Anna B., wife of Carlos, for $900, who will continue the business at the old stand. S. A. Sweet has purchased the A. W. Fisher stock, on South Division street, of Arthur Meigs & Co., consolidated with it the goods he saved from his stock during the re- cent fire at Howard City, and will centinue business at Fisher’s old stand. D. G. Hall, the Ithaca ex-druggist, was re- cently seen by a Grand Rapids traveler, and stated that his indebtedness, all told, does not exceed $600, and that he has $1,000 in un- collected accounts, on which he will realize enough to pay every claim in full. Mr. Hutchinson, of E. Jaffroy & Co., New York: F. A. Coolidge, of Gibson, Parish & Co., Chicago; Geo. Brawe, of J. K. Smeallie & Co., New York; Merritt Andrews, of Theo. Pomeroy & Sons, Utiea, N. Y., have visited this market during the past week. Mr. Sampson having refused to serve as receiver for Messmore Bros., of Cadillac, the attorney for Henry W. King & Co. and other creditors petitioned Judge Withey, of the United States Court, to enforce the assign- ment, which he granted by appointing W. H. Tuttle, of this city, assignee. Fred Clark, attorney for I. E. Messmore, visited Volney last week in the interest of his client, and persuaded Hugh H. McKenzie to reliquish goods to the amount of $360, that being the indebtedmess due Messmore. But $40 worth of stock is left to meet claims aggregating several hundred dollars. Cc. W. Jennings, of the firm of Jennings & Smith, returned Saturday from a successful fortnight’s trip through northern Indiana and Ohio. Jas. T. Avery started out on an eight weeks’ southern tour on Thursday, and Wm. H. Jennings left Monday for an eighty days’ absence, St. Louis being the objective point, and the intervening territory the scene of trouble. A gentleman from the Upper Peninsula stated yesterday that the liabilities of the American Lumber Ce. will come very near $1,000,000. The assets are now variously estimated at from $750,000 to $900,000, most of which is secured by mortgages. The cause of the failure is laid to the present de- pression of the lumber trade and the conse- quent shrinkage of values. Wm. M. Robinson, assignee for the ras- cally Newmaas, will make no further move until the 19th, the expiration of the legal limit, after which he will endeavor to effect a final settlement with the creditors by dis- tributing the amount now in his hands. It is probable that very few of the creditors will accept the percentage offered, prefering to hold their claims against the Newmans. AROUND THE STATE. Avery & Coons, meat dealers at Lowell, have sold out to Forman & Aldrich. Ballard & Nash succeed M. B. Nash in the grocery business at Sparta Center. Converse Eddy, of Grattan Center, has | taken John Emmons in partnership with him. Pray Bros., of Petoskey, have opened a branch elothing and dry goods store at Cross Village. Lee & Son, grocers at Allegan, assigned to A. S. Peek on the 31st. Liabilities are esti- mated at $2,500; assets about the same. W. C. Tuttle, druggist at Albion, has been closed at the instance of Sheldon & Robert- son, who held a chattel mortgage on the stock. M. F, White, of Jackson, and H.C. MeFar- lan have purchased the Manton flouring mill and will enlarge the building and repair the machinery. M.: C. Barber, assignee for Curtiss & Church, of Lowell; paid a second dividend of 15 per cent. on the ist. The first dividend was 25 per cent. Rockford Register: Mr. J. Coon has moved his stock of boots and shoes contained in his branch store at Cedar Springs back to Rockford. It didn’t prove a paying invest- ment. Howard Record: Mrs. W. S. King has sold her stock of goods to A. H. Jackson, of Three Rivers, where he runs a bankrupt store. The gocds were packed and shipped Saturday. H. H. Hendereen has erigaged in the drug business at Kent City. | J. Hullinger, druggist at Mecosta, proposes 'to remove his stock and business to Big | Rapids, and I. M. Patterson, dealer in drugs | at Millbrook, will remove his stock to Me- | costa about the same time. Wm. Oppenheim, who made a disastrous a few months ago, the adjustment of which has not yet been effected, died at his home at Dowagiac on the 30th, after a long and painful illness. The interment was made at Detroit. Lewis Brown, a Hebrew elothing merchant who has been in business at Allegan since midsummer, 1882, made an assignment on the 31st to Asa H. Patriek. The liabilities are about $4,000, and assets about $3,000. Brown was formerly engaged in the clothing business on Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, and was supposed to be worth $1,500. He never kept any books, did not do a_ banking busi- ness, and did not associate with the people of his race, being somewhat of a business enigma. Creditors representing $27,000 of B. S. Tib- bits’ liabilities met at Coldwater and agreed to settle for 50 eents ona dollar. His lia- bilities are about $50,000. If the balance of the creditors are willing, all claims will be settled on the same basis. His cigar manu- factory is running without interuption. He made no assignment, but secured extensions, and gave notes for his indebtedness, and covered his.property with mortgages. after which he announced that he was insolvent and willing to pay the percentage above mentioned. STRAY FACTS. Dryden will have a barrel factory. The Monroe paper mills are still idle. _ R. F. Dana, an Albion baker, has sold out. A flouring mill is wanted in Charlevoix. Vermontville will have a wagon and sleigh factory. A new $100,000 hotel is in contemplation at Jackson. F. D. Adams & Co., Alma, will erect another store. The Dowagiae Manufacturing Co.’s build- ings cover two acres of ground. A cheese factory is to be established at Smith’s Corners, east of Almont. H. J. Leonard is preparing to erect an ele- vator and warehouse at Belding, Blissfield is working to get a roller mill, shoe factory, churn factory and foundry. McElwee’s picture backing establishment at Big Rapids, will start up shortly with 30 men. The East Saginaw National Bank will be- gin business February 15, with a capital of $100,000. Geo. D. Barton & Co., Alma, are building an addition, 60x80 feet, two stories, to their saw-mill. The Decatur Manufacturing Co. has re- ceived an order from a large St. Louis con- cern for 1,000 buggy boxes. The State Roller Flouring Mills, Dowsa giac, have a capacity of 225 barrels, and have to run night and day. It is rumored that the machinery of the Clinton wollen mill, which is now idle, is to to be removed to Tecumseh. Blousfield & Co.’s new woodenware fac- tory at South Bay City will soon be in run- ning order and turn out 5,400 wash boards daily. : John Thompson has purchased the Shelby | grist mill of Wm, H. Banks, and intends to | have it completed ana in running order by April 1. Pentwater News: We place the Grand Rapids TRADESMAN upon our exchange list this week. Itis a paper every tradesman along the shore ought to take. The American Lumber Co., of Dollarville, has failed. The laborers are on the verge of starvation, as many of them have not receiv- ed their wages for some months. The total output of the Lake Superior iron mines and the valuation for last year was as follows: Gross tons pig iron, 57,484; value, $1,291,140. Gross tons iron ore, 2,351,372; value, $13,677,919. Weaver’s grist mill and G. D. Webster’s saw mill at Hesperia have started up again, having been idle for several months on ac- count of a break in the dam. Hesperia now has twe grist mills and an equal number of saw mills in operation. The Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railway is busy preparing to extend its line into the western part of the State during the present year. Ties and material are being gotten out at Lakeview for the extension from that place to Howard City of the Saginaw Valley and St Louis division. The work of grading is to be commenced as early as practicable. Surveyors are also at |work on preliminary lines for the extension of the main road to the lake shore. Louis N. and A. T. Moran have formed a co-partnership at Detroit for the purpose of carrying on a wholesale grocery business, under the firm name of Moran Bros. Louis N. contributes the sum of $25,000 and A. T. $20,000 to the common stock, to be used in | common between them. Each member of | the firm is to devote his entire time to the | business, and the profits are to be equally di- | vided. Itis provided that neither of the | partners shall indulge in outside speculations | without the consent of the other, and a sum / notin excess of $2,500 per year shall be | drawn out of the business for individual ex- | penses, unless the profits shall justify such | transaction. Late Furniture Gossip. L. C. Stow, of the Grand Rapids Furniture | Co., is spending several weeks in the South- | west. He is at present in Kansas. Eaton, Lyon & Allen are getting out an il- lustrated, thirty-page catalogue for the Mc- Cord & Bradfield Furniture Co. It will bea fine job, typographically and otherwise. Russell & Austin, proprietors of the Grand Rapids Mattress Co., have made arrange- ments to start a branch establishment at Bay City. It will be located in Gates’ block, en Water street, and will be placed in charge of a son of Mr. Austin. Getting Along Fast. ““Dogou see that man passing by?” said a Canal street grain merchant, nodding toward a red-whiskered individual who was trudging past the store. “It is only afew years ago that he was in hard luck, and went around looking wretchedly shabby—in fact, I think he wore a long coat for a very particular purpose. He gota job braking on the rail- road, and in three months was placed in charge of a train. Two years later he owned two hotels up north and au addition to the eity. That’s what I call prosperity.” The last fraud—a cheap boot. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & COMPANY, WHOLESALE 49 and 44 Ottawa St., and 89, 91, 98 DRUGGISTS, and 95 Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF rigs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glassware Anda Druggists’ Sundries. Also Manufacturers of Fine Pharmaceutical & Chemical Preparaticns. FRUIT We uote T0-Day: ) $3.00--93.25 per Box. Oranges 00 $300-$395 por Box Val. $5.50-$6.00 per Case, Lemons $5.00-55.50 per B WE SOLICIT YOUR ORDERS. PUTNAM & BROOKS. SPHCIAL NOTICE Dealers iu Crockery aud Glassware Having finished our inventory, we have resolved to offer a large amount of our Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Trimmings and Miscellaneous Goods at a Great Sacrifice to close out patterns and lines of goods that we do not intend to buy hereafter. Here are positive bargains. H. LEONARD & SONS, sOBBERSs Of Crockery, Glassware, Stoueware, Lamps, Chandeliers and Pendants. Buy “Our Own Brand of Lamp Chimneys, if good ones are wanted. Note the Special Prices we quote in another column. 16 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fruit & Produce at Wholesale Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Mince Meat, Maple Syrup, Jellies, Buckwheat Flour, and Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., 6’d Rapids, EF. J. LAMB & COMPANY, ——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN.- Butter, Cheese, Eges, Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 IONIA STREET, MICHIGAN. NELSON BROS. & CoO., EXCLUSIVE myY WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES GRAND RAPIDS, FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, ren Se ey Ns Ep AAA = zs A ee eee ———— WHOLESALE GROCERS, 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ——WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR Nimrod, Acoru, Chief, Grescent & Red Seal Ping, Tovaccos. Gur stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete, —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices OUR MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN AND MAN.” CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. Efouse and Store Shades Made to Order. A BENOW LSON, ——WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco ! LIME, HAIR, COAL and M7OOD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office—7 Canal Street. Sweet’s Hotel BMBck. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Central Freight House, — WW EOLESAIE Hat and Gap Store PRICES GUARANTEED AS ‘LOW AS CHICAGO AND NEW YORK! GOOD FUR CAPS, $22.50 PER DOZEN, WOOL HATS, $4.50 AND UPWARDS GENUINE FUR HATS, $13.50 AND UPWARDS. LARGE LINE OF —- Imported Scotch Caps, Tumbermen’s Goods, Mackinaw Shirts cc Drawres. AGENCY FOR THE—— ; Boots! Pontiac Fulled Mitts, Socks and EVERY ONE WARRANTED. ——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Coods. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN. (a> Terms—7 per cent. off in 10 days; 5 per cent. in 30 days; net in 60 days. x. &. Xi w I. 36, 38, 40 and 42 OANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN’