‘ < ., ® _ GRAND RAPIDS, VOL. 3. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1886. Laundry Soap MANUFACTURED BY OBERNE, HOSICK & CO. CHICAGO, ILL. PINGREE &SMITEH Wholesale Manufacturers Boots, Shoes and Slippers DETROIT, MICH. = rs SM H 8 ae ES ae ates She i) >» & => © & & = Oo 2 > > 2 ee Qa. aw (GS"Michigan Agents Woonsocket Rubber » Company._&J Office and Factory—i1, 13, 15 and 17 Woodbridge street West. Dealers cordially invited to call on us when in town. Our Special Plug Tobaccos. 3 butts. 136 1 butt. SPRING CHICKEN .38 MOXIE 30.00 ECLIPSE 30, 130 Above brands for sale only by OLNEY, SHIELDS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia. Probably never in the history of proprietary medicines has any articje met success equal to that which has been showered upon Golden Seal Bitters. Why, such has been the success of this discovery that nearly every family in whole neighborhoods have been taking it at the same time. Golpen Seal Bitters combines the best remedies of the vegetable kingdom, and in such proportions as to derive their greatest medicinal effect with the least dis- turbance to the whole system, In fact, this preparation is so balanced in its action upon the alimentary canal, the liver, the kidneys, the stomrch, the bowels, and the circulation of the blood, that it brings about a healthy ac- tion of the edtire human organism that can hardly be credited by those who have not seen the remarkable results jhat have followed its use. Sold by Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. EATON & CHRISTENSON, Agents for a full line of . W. Venable & Cos PETERSBURG, VA., FLUG TOBACCOS, NIMROD, E. C., BLUE RETER, SPREAD EAGLE, BIG FIVE CENTER. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, STATE AGENT FOR Fermentum, THE ONLY RELIABLE Compressed Yeast. Man’f’d by Riverdale Dist. Co. 106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan, TELEPHONE 566. Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. PLUG TOBACCO, TURKEY 39 Big 5 Cents, <5 Dainty 6 fine revolver | 42 BULKLAY LEMON & HOOPS WHOLESALE GROCERS, DEALER IN AWNINGS, TENTS, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Hammocks and Spread- ers, Hammock Supports and Chairs, Buggy Seat Tops, Etc. Send for Price-List. 7838 Canal St. JUDD ce CO. JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE _And Full Line Winter Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. WHIPS & LASHES AT WHOLESALE ONLY. Goods at jobbing prices to any dealer who comes to us or orders by mail, for cash. Ga. ROYS ck CO., Manufacturers’ agents, 2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. GUSTAVE A. WOLF, Attorney: Over Fourth National Bank. Telephone 407, COLLECTIONS Promptly attended to throughout the State. References: Hart & Amberg, Eaton & Christen- son, Enterprise Cigar Co. CEE ( Parties in want should write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED GO. 71 CANAL STREET. PIONEER PREPARED PAINTS. Order your stock now. Having just re- ceived a large stock of the above celebrated brand MIXED PAINTS, we are prepar- ed to fill all orders. We give the following Guarantee : When our Pioneer Prepared Paintis put on any building, and if within three years it should crack or peel off, and thus fail to give the full satisfaction guaranteed, we agree to repaint the building at our expense, with the best White Lead or such other paint as the owner may select. Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EDMUND B, DIKEMAN, THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, —AND— JIHW BULER. 44 CANAL STREET, We earry a full line of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW, OC is valuable. The F, Grand Rapids MMIFLE’ Business College is a practical trainer and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi- ness with all that the term implies. Send forJournal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, Grand Rapids, Mich. WE LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, JOBBER OF Pure Apple Cider & White Wine VINEGARS! As the Vinegar season is now beginning, those in need of Vinegars warranted full strength and abso- Jutely pure should send for samples of my goods, or drop a postal card and I will call. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St., Grand Rapids, Mich. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address | Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. FOR SALE. A Good Opening for a Small Amout of Capital. Parties doing a good general merchandise business, desiring to remove from the State, offer their entire stock of general merchan- dise for sale at a low price. Have the only store in the town of any kind and post office, the entire trade of two mills and camps and part trade of three more. Expenses very ight. Have done an average business of $2,000 per month retail for the past two years. Have no poor accounts to sell, nothing but bright, new, staple goods. Will guarantee a bright, active, economical man can pay for the stock in one bong Purchasing party can also handle shingles in connection, if desired. It is really the best business chance for a young man who is not afraid to rough it a lit- tle that has been offered rms st ly cash ” miou. |" NEW BRANDS CIGARS! STANDARD, ROYAL BIRD, KEY VEST, LOVE LETTER, BUNNY, I SHOULD BLUSH, DICTATOR. ABOVE ARE ALL Coldwater Goods, OF WHICH WE HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE SALE, Halon & Christenson, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A, H. FOWLE, House Decorator and Dealer in FINE WALL PAPERS, Room Mouldings, ~ Window Shades, Artist Materials PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES, And a full line of Paints, Oil & Glass. Enamel Letters, Numbers and Door Plates, and all kinds of Embossed, Cut and Ornamental Glass. Special attention given to House Decorat- ing and Furnishing, and to the designing and furnishing of stained glass. 37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe. Granello, MERCHANT TAILOR, LEDYARD BLOCK, LOT Ottawa Sst. Suitings for Manufacturers, Suitings for Jobbers, Suitings for Retailers, Suitings for Traveling Men, Suitings for Clerks, AND Overcoats 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. Money Rufunded. The true remedy has at last been discovered. It was long known in his practice as Dr. Pete’s Lung Food for Consumption. It is now called Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough Cure. It is the safest, the surest and the best. No other Cough, Cold, and Consumption remedy is half itsequal. We warrant it and will promptly refund the money aid foi it if a beneficial effect is not exper- enced py the time two-thirds of the contents of the bottle is used. Sold by the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. EATON & LYON, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Stationery & Suuriss, EM x i, 20 and 22 Monroe St, Grand Rapids; M Ge Story of a Little Pair of Shoes. Walter Wellman in Shoe and Leather Review. John Davis was aclerk in a boot and shoe store on West Madison street, Chicago. John looked like an old man. His hair was sprinkled with gray, his manner was digni- fied, his speech serious. Promptly every morning at seven he opened the front door of the dingy little shop, carried out ‘‘the dis- play,” unlocked the safe, got out the books, and puts things to rights generally for the day’s trade. All day long he waited upon customers, if there customers to wait upon. And when there were none, he sat down in his own chair in the back of the store. He did not read books or newspapers, saving enough of the latter to keep himself inform- ed as to the more important events of the day. He did not like to look upon the busy throng in the street. He never made com- ments upon passing individuals. While the proprietor and the other clerks gathered: at the front door to see what was going on, “Old John,” as they called him, remained quietly at his post. There he had been every day for the past four years. From that seat he had jumped thousands of times to-reach for the green boxes containing shoes for misses, children, ladies and gen- tlemen. When not engaged about the store, or at the books, there he could always be found, from seven in the morning until eight at night, excepting thirty minutes for dinner and supper. His comings and goings were as regular as the striking of the town clock. He was never late, never sick, never wanted a holiday, never desired to run out for half an hour, or go home a couple of hours ear- lier than usual. Old John seemed like an automaton, like a mechanical attachment to the shoe store that always did its work well, that was never out of order, and that was as reliable in every way as the turning of the earth upon its axis. This is what the proprietor and the other clerks knew about “Old John” in the store.* Out of the store they knew of him—nothing. In the store he was a puzzle; out of it an unknown. Exactly at seven he appeared, and exactly at eight he went away. Where he lived they did not know. Married or single they could not tell. No friends or relatives ever called upon him, he never spoke of any. John Davis was indeed like a mechanie. Yet his associates noticed two unmechanical traits in him. He was afraid of little chil- dren. He shrank from them as if they were poisonous. He was loath to touch their flesh or to permit their golden hair to come too close to his face, or their eyes to meet his. Whenever a child came into {the store ‘‘Old John” tried to serve some older customer. But when he could not escape giving atten- tion to the wants of the little one he seemed to shudder, and then, conquering his reluc- tance by exertion of will, took the utmost delight in his service. No father’s hand could be gentler—no young mother more tender with her month old first-born. John’s other trait that stamped him a hu- man instead of a machine was a weakness for drunken men. His anger or resentment was absolutely incapable of being roused by the rudeness of an intoxicated person. With such unfortunates he was always gentle, and he was sometimes called to saloons in the neighborhood to protect drunken men from rough usage, or to save them from the natural consequences of their error if the police should but discover them. One day there was something like excite- ment in the store. The proprietor was anx- ious and the clerks talked ominously to each other. It was after eight o’clock and John Davis had not arrived. He was more than an hour late. Such a thing had never be- fore been heard of, and it was an event suf- ficient to set all tongues wagging and all heads to shaking. But at length ‘‘Old John” arrived. His face was{as pale as it could be. His lips were closely drawn, and there was a tightening of the muscles about the lower jaw. His eyes were nearer closed than usual, and more brilliant. Something ws the matter with John, that was quite ajarent, but no one could tell what it was. JT bade all his usual monotonous ‘‘good morning” as he entered, and, observing that the store was ready for business and no cus- tomers in, he took his old seat. Every one was eager to know whathad occurred so ex- traordinary as to account for the tardiness, and yet all-were afraid to inquire. He had held them at arm’s length concerning him- self for four years, and he easily held them now. His reserve was an envelope through which they had not the nerve to break. They gathered in one corner to-talk the mys- tery over among themselves, and so when a customer happened to drop in it fell to ‘‘Old John to do the serving. The customer was alittle girl of eight or nine—a tall, pale, large-eyed, golden-haired little miss who was confident of manner without im- pudence, as if even at her age she had seen some knocking about in the world, acquir- ing self-reliance without brazenness. She drove straight at her point with: ‘‘Please, sir, these shoes for my little brother are so small that he can’t wear them, and mother wants them changed for a size larger.” “Qld John” took the shoes without a that he took them roughly. his way. ‘*We can’t do it,” he said bluntly, as was his wont; but then noticing the cloud sweep- ing over the young face, he added gently, ‘these shoes have been worn, my little girl, you know we can’t take back worn goods. I’m sorry, but you’ll have to run back and tell your mother that we can’t exchange. Perhaps she can stretch them and make them do.” The little girl turned away. She under- stood the reasoning, but she rebelled against the decision. It was necessity urging her to greater persistency. She lingered at the door and allowed her bright head to droop in meditation. Presently she retnrned, and, with a tremor in her voice, said: “Please, sir, ;mamma has no other shoes for brother, and no money to buy new ones, and these hurt his feet so they’re blistered now, and—and we—we did so want to go out to the park to picnic to-morrow.” Here the trembling voice broke down, and the great sad eyes turned for a moment into springs. “Well, well,” said John Davis, carefully turning his back toward the other clerks, and furtively passing the ends of his fingers just under his eyes, ‘‘well, well—let me see the shoes. They’re not so badly worn aiter all. I guess we can exchange them this time, just to please you, little one.” But it was only And “Old John” picked out the ‘size lar- ger” of baby’s shoes, and before wrapping up the package reached into his pocket and pulled out a bank-note. This was wrap- ped up with the shoes, and as the girl took the package the sudden transition from dis- appointment to success overcame her dis- cretion. She threw her arms about John’s neck and kissed him heartily. Then she sped away as fast as her nimble feet could earry her. ‘‘Old John” took up the soiled shoes. They were fora boy of four—little black things, with the brown soles a trifle soiled and seuffed. “Oh, well,” said Jolin, as he went to the books and charged himself with a pair of shoes, ‘‘they say there’s luck in such things. I’ll see how it comes out in my case.” Then he took the little shoes, carefully wrapped them in paper and stuck them in his overcoat pocket. At night he carried them home with him. He thought of them often, and oceasionally took them out and unwrapped them. He liked to stand the little things up beside his own huge shoes, and smile sadly at the comparison. At other times he would bring out a photo- graph and look first at it and then at the little shoes on the bureau before him. This made him more sad than ever, but it was a delightful sadness, nevertheless. The little shoes had such a charm for him that he could not bear to leave them at his room during the day. “T’ll earry them asa pocket piece,” he said ‘for luck.” And he earried them. There were hundreds of little shoes in the store, many of them prettier than these, but they were nothing to him. They were mere things of commerce, while these had life. They spoke to him of childhood, of a gen- erous deed, of a warm, thankful kiss from young lips. They spoke also of his past, but not so bitterly. They seemed to take the dross out of his sorrow, and leave it pure. One Sunday, a few weeks later, ‘‘Old John” was walking in the park. The lit- tle shoes were in his pocket. He was thinking of them, as usual. All about him were bright children, playing and shouting. He wondered where his own boy was—for “Old John” had a little boy of his own, and a little girl, too, whom he had not seen for several years. His was the old story—the appetite for drink, periodically uncontrolla- ble. He had given way toit at first reck- lessly, and then it mastered him and drag- ged him down. He was separated from his wife and children and was an outcast from home. At length he had conquered him- self, though the struggle was even now and again and again to be gone over with. Itis a warfare that never ceases while life lasts. The morning that he was late at the store he had been tempted. The old passion had seized him, and was determined to drag him to the nearest saloon. He fled to the park, and with his face buried in the grass, and the cool wind fanning his cheeks, he fought it out, and conquered for the moment. The little shoes came to him and completed the victory. This Sunday ‘‘Old John” was very sad. He felt lonely. fis wife was often in his thoughts, and he wondered if she would forgive him if he should go back to her. He wondered how big his girl was and his boy, and if he could wear the little shoes he had in his pocket. While his thoughts were running on like this he heard a conver- sation in'the bushes by the side of his path. ‘“That’s the man,” said a young voice. And the little girl that had brought the shoes to be exchanged stepped out shyly, evidently remembering the kiss her impetu- ousity had led her into giving the shoe clerk. ‘Please, sir,” she said, ‘‘my mamma would like to thank you for changing Bob- by’s shoes when they were so dirty.” handsome at that, his gray hair being the only sign of age—paused to hear the thanks. He was a man and weak enough to delight in such incense. % * x x * * * “So you knew it was [all the time, did you, Mary?” ‘“*“Yes, John, for two years we have lived here, I have known where you were during nearly all that time. I kept watch of you, and determined that if you could—could— but you have, haven’t you John? And that is all over now. The children have seen you nearly every day, and have grown to love you, though I never dared tell them who you were. Conspicuous in the midst of the luneh spread upon the turf there in the shade was that pair of shoes that were too small for little Bob. And how keen were the appe- tites, how bright the grass, how cute the shoes, how joyous the laughter, and how happy the look in the mother’s eyes at this family reunion. The West Side Grocer. The inshurance man was around last week and wanted pa to inshure with him, but pa said the raites were too high for these hard times and he was going to be ekomieal and kaareful and so pa kanseled all his polieys and drilled the clerks as to what to do in kase of fire. Pa bawt a lot of hoes (not garden hoes) but hoes to squirt thro, and pa hung em in a koil on a stik in the bak end of the store near the highdrent. Pa drilled the klerks every evening when the store was klozed and instrukted them what each klerk was to do in kase of a fire. One of the clerks was to buckle on the hoes to the highdrent and squirt at the fire, another was to lok all the buks and papers and money in the safe, another was to karry out chests of T. and fine bottled guds. Pa was to superin- tend the whole sirkis and I was to keep out the way. Pa felt more and more tickled as time rolled and he saw that his clerks were getting more and more used to the nitely drill and knew jest what to do in Kase of a fire. Every time the fire bell rung, every elerk wud run to his post until pa told them the fire was nowhere near the store, and pa was rubbing his hands and kongratulating hisself on his gud fire brigade. One evening pa thawt he would put his fire brigade into akchewal praktis and then he wud kno for serten whether the brigade was gud for anything. So pa arranged a dog fight just back of the store and when all the clerks were out luking at the dog fight Pa got some shavings and sprinkled a little carrysene on it and then pa teched er off and hollered fire two or three times. The klerks rushed in and when they saw the blaze they got exsited and I thot the store was shurely going to burn. The skwirting clerk tuk the hoes and yanked them down from the peg on the floor, and then he turned pail when he saw the blaze and run likethedevil and knocked over pa on the floor, and then the clerk who was to save the T. rolled a empty sugar bar- rel over poor pa and thru acake of maple shugar at the fire with the hope of putting it out but it skattered the fire and things went booming. The clerk who was to lok all the buks in the safe tuk a 10 dollar bill out the drawer and jammed it in his pistol poket and lokt the empty safe up in good shape and then he tumbled a lot of fine bot- tled goods in a bushel basket, breaking every one of the bottles and wound up by throwing a shugar skoop at the klok. Everything was konfushen, the store was. filled with smok and pa was trying to put the fire out. People outside was hollering fire and some went in the store and helped themselves to sigars and smashing things. Finally the Skribner street engine cum along and skwirted water in the store and skwirt- ed all over pa and in his fase and blinded him so he had to git out too. When pa eud tauk he told the firemen that it was alla goke but they didn’t stop till they wet every- thing all up. Pa sais the dam age is abowt 500 dollars and pa has got the stock inshur- ed again. —_ ~~ > The Sugar-Maker’s Revenge. Ike Sloan was a farmer, but wasn’t ex- actly one of the type whose ‘‘critters” and * vegetables always bring more money than other people’s. On the contrary, if there was any difference between the price that he got for his products and the market rate it was generally to his disadvantage. One day on his way back from the village he complained bitterly to the people with whom he gossiped along the road: that the store- keeper had abused him most shamefully by giving him only nine cents a pound for his maple sugar. “But gol dern him,” said Sloan with ag chuekle, ‘I got even with him, for I put more’n two dozen bucketfuls of water into the sap before I b’iled it?” > -o<——————— If we assume a moderate area and depth of that portion of the globe covered by the: ocean, the quantity of salt thatit contains is estimated at six times the volume of the Alps. Unlike coal, the supply of which is being gradually exhausted, marine salt is word. Some people would have thought “Old John”—he was only forty, and x absolutely inexhaustible. The Michigan Tradesmal. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manofacturing Interests of the Siate. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1886, Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange. Organized at Grand nd 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 Cheboygan. President, A. M. Wesgate; Vice-President, H. Chambers; Secretary, A. J. Paddock. Luther Protective Association. President, W. B. Pool: Vice-President, R. M. Smith; Secretary. Jas. M. Verity; Treasurer, Geo. Osborne. Ionia Business Men’s Protective As- sociation. President, Wm. E. Kelsey; Vice-President, HH. M. Lewis; Secretary, Fred Cutler, Jr. Ovid Business Men’s Association. President, C. H. Hunter: Secretary, Lester Cooley. G(@” 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. IMPROVE YOUR OPPORTUNITY. The present sharp advance in sugars af- fords grocers in general and sugar cutters in particular a splendid opportunity to re- establish prices on a paying basis and it is to be hoped that they will avail themselves of the opportunity. It is very much easier to bear down than it is to boost up and the experience in this State has taught the gro- cery trade that more sugar has been sold at a loss than at a profit and that the time is ripe for a change in the present method of handling an article which is conducive to more annoyance than any other commodity included in a grocery stock. Let there be reform in the handling of sugar! There appea: urs to be 1 no o diminution in the interest developed regarding dairy matters in this State and the creamery agitation is certainly gaining strength. Nearly every creamery supply house in the country is now represented in Michigan and the num- ber of new butter factories which will go into operation this spring is almost without parallel. Those competent to speak on the subject assert that the present activ- ity in the direction of the creamery system will continue for at least two years yet, at the end of which time Michigan will have fully four hundred creameries within her borders. Tue Tr ADE SM IAN. Ww velcomes letters from its old friends at Cant Hook Corners this week and trusts, now that the silence is broken, that communication from so impor- tant a locality as Soliman Srrooks’ home, may be more frequent than has been the ease during the past year. No Creamery Butter For Him. VentTUuRA, Mich., April 24. C. A. Stowe and Brothers I dont want you paper eny longer at pres- ent My reason is this you are tring to cel out farmers and mack companys rich for instant you cout butter rene at 20 when the material is worth 6 sents & creamry butter at 28 scents when it is not as good as good dary buter that you cout at 15 sents youer dealers in town say that my buter is beter than the creamery yours truly G. W. Jos- celyn. Tue TRADESMAN has no extended com- ment to make on the above communication, which is given verbatim. It quotes butter- ine the same as it quotes corn syrup or sec- onds canned goods, because they are legiti- mate articles of commerce. So far as ‘‘sell- ing out the farmers” is concerned, such a charge is to diaphonous to be entertained by a sane person for a single moment. Mr. Joscelyn’s assertion that ‘‘dairy butter is better than creamery” is on a par with his other statement and stamps him as a person who is unfortunate in the scope of his knowledge. ———_—»>-e- Miscellaneous Dairy Notes. The starting of a creamery at Charlotte was a death blow to the Ainger cheese fac- St Louis is marching onward. A new cheese factory has been added to her indus- tries. The creamery at Mason is expected to be- gin operations by May 1, with the milk of 1,000 cows. The first new Michigan cheese received at this market came in from Lenawee county to-day. It was received by Wm. Sears & Co. ‘ Geo. Purdy is endeavoring to awaken the farmers around Prairieville to the advan- tages of a cheese factory, and in case he se- cures the requisite number of cows he will put a factory in operation by May 20. - —O- < Good Words Unsolicited. C. M. Woodard, general dealer, Kalamo; need THE TRADESMAN in my business.” J. C. Stitt, general dealer, Dollarville: “It is a good paper and well worth the money.” D. R. Thralls, general dealer, Walton: “If you ever stop sending THE TRADESMAN, I shall challenge you to pistols and coffee.” P. E. Hackett, general dealer, Wolverine: “I find it a very pleasant and newsy sheet and a paper thatoevery business man in Michigan should have in his office.’’ d : : i “ay AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. Vossen Bros. succeed Julius Vossen in the dry goods business. Keith Follett succeeds Follett & Dregge in the lumber and coal business. J. W. Morrison has engaged in the gro- cery business at West Troy. Cody, Ball & Co furnished the stock. Oliver & Hilliards will engage in the saw- mill business at Leroy. Hester & Fox fur- nished the machinery. A. A. McCoy has engaged in the restaur- ant business at Traverse City. John Caul- field furnished the stock. L. Smalheer has engaged in the grocery business on West Leonard street. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. Thos. P. Mortinson has engaged in the grocery business at Upper Big Rapids. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. W. D. Brewster succeeds Brewster & Augustin in the grocery business at 754 South Division street, corner Hall street. F. S. Antrim and J. E. Hartman will en- gage in the tea and coffee business at 97 Canal street about May 1 under the style of the Japan Tea Co. Eugene Klein, druggist at 34 West Bridge street, Will remove to his new building at 198 West Bridge street, corner Gold, about May 1. J.C. Shaw & Co., grocers at 56 Canal street, will remove to 79 Canal street—the former location of Peirce & White—about May 1. Olney, Shields & Co. have leased the sec- ond floor of the Brown block, in which they are located, and will occupy the same with their tea, spice and canned goods stock. or A. Vidro, grocer at 257 Fourth street, will shortly remove his stock to the build- ing formerly occupied by Curry & Holmes, on the corner of Fourth and Stocking streets. The Curry & Holmes grocery stock will be disposed of at chattel mortgage sale on May 1. There will be nothing left for the general creditors and Clark, Jewell & Co. and John Caulfield, who hold a second mortgage, will probably find themselves in the same boat. AROUND THE STATE. H. B. Huston, hardware dealer has removed to Almira. H. S. Faust succeeds John Leinweber in the furniture business at Caro. Geo. McKenzie succeeds G. E. Graves in the grocery business at Adrian. B. S. Reed has moved his dry goods stock from Niles to New Carlisle, Ind. Dr. G. W. Hoag has sold his drug stock, at Martin, to Dr. J. D. Hamilton. Holmes & Fuller succeed Holmes & Wit- tenbrook in general trade at Caro. Selig Stern has purchased R. Arthur Stone’s grocery stock at Kalamazoo. W. F. Sawdy succeeds Sawdy & Declute in the hardware business at Bronson. W. P. Andrus succeeds John A. Spooner & Bro. in general trade at Cedar Springs. Eppink & KohlIman succeed Church & Kohlman in the grocery business at Alle- gan. Davis Olney succeeds Goodenaugh & Olney in the boot and shoe business at Ludington. W. F. Edgerton, general dealer at Grand Haven, has closed out his stock and retired from business. W. L. Warne & Son, druggists at East Jordan, have sold their stock to G. W. Bea- man, of Williamston. Frank M. Chase has sold his blacksmith and wagon shop, at Boyne City, to a man named Webster, and will shortly engage‘in the hardware business. C. M. Woodard, formerly engaged in the drug and grocery business at Ashland, has purchased the general stock of F. E. How- ell, at Kalamo, and will continue the busi- ness at the latter place. Dr. R. W. Culver, of Battle Creek, who recently opened a drug store at South Haven without complying with the State law rela- tive to registration, has been ordered to close by the other druggists of the place. J. R. Price, the Benton Harbor druggist and cigar and tobacco jobber, expects to be able to close out his stock within the next three months. He contemplates engaging in the wholesale tobacco and cigar business at Chicago. T. C. Prout, formerly engaged in the grist mill business at Howard City, but more re- cently engaged in trade at Mancelona, has concluded to build and equip a roller mill at Howard City, having a capacity of fifty bar- rels per day. Mr. Prout was in town a cou- ple of days last week, making the prelimin- ary arrangements for securing the necessary machinery. at Chase, MANUFACTURING MATTERS. A washing machine factory has been started at Litchfield. The Manistique mills have started up and will run day and night this season. The Knights of Labor have boycotted the Ovid Carriage Works and the factory is run night and day in consequence. The Noyes Cart Co. has just been organ- ized at Kalamazoo with $10,000 to manufac- ture this cart, the invention of Chas. Noyes. I. H. Lamoreaux, of Otsego, has arranged with R. E. Werkman, of Holland, to manu- facture 500 of the former’s ‘‘Indicator” fan- ning mill. The Michigan Plow Co., at Three Rivers, has bought the Nye patterns, formerly made at Union City, and will manufacture the plow at their shops in that village. Wm. Harris & Son, of Chase, have their new shingle mill about ready to run. They have cedar enough to cut 30,000,000 shin- gles, and say that they can sell them all to Grand Rapids parties. Phineas Medalie’s starch factory at Cad- illac is now an assured fact and will be built in time to use this season’s crop of potatoes. An outlay of several thousand dollars is re- quired for sites, building, machinery, etc. The Coldwater Manufacturing C@ has commenced business, and will manufacture base ball clubs, Indian elubs, neck yokes and chairs. Will Atwater, of Coldwater, and J. R. McNabb, of the Detroit Bending Works, will bave charge of the works. Paid up capital, $10,000. STRAY FACTS. Robert S. Jackson has sold his flour mill at Alaska. H. V. Rifenburg succeeds the Rifenburg Milling Co., at Charlevoix. Julius J. Howe has sold out his livery business at Allegan and will remove to Cal- ifornia. D. M. Baker, the Adrian lumber mer- chant, has bought the lumber yard of the late James M. Berry. N. B. Clark has located at Cadillac to buy hemlock bark. He expects to collect 1,500 earloads for shipment from that vicinity this season. The Petrie Lumber Co., of Muskegon, has bought 13,500,000 feet of standing pine in Roscommon and Crawford counties from Louis Huldebach for $33,000. T. DeYoung and John Meyers, of Chica- go, and C, Christiansen, of Benton Harbor, have purchased the Benton Harbor building known asthe ‘‘old canning factory,” and will refit it for a vinegar and pickle factory and cider mill, at a cost of $7,000. C. G. Bullard, one of the largest — growers in Kalamazoo, says there will be 25 per cent. more celery raised this year ane ever before. Arrangements are being made with the express companies for better rates, so there is every prospect of the business | extending indefinitely. ———__— +. <.___—_— The Gripsack Brigade. Arthur Retan, formerly of Hudson, has gone on the road for the Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co. Frank E. Chase is frequently mistaken for a clergyman since he bereft himself of his moustache. Al. Baker denies the report that he has leased Gould’s private car in which to take his wedding tour. Calvin S. Gray, of Benton Harbor, is now on the road for the Chase Bros. Piano Co., going wherever the spirit calls. Ned. H. Knight, Michigan representative for P. Lorillard & Co., is in town for the purpose of painting the city crimson. Hub Baker, who was laid up with rheuma- matism last week, is improving and may be able to get out on the road again this week. Jas. A. Crookston came home somewhat under the weather early last week. J. H. Hagy finished up his trip on the Grand Rap- ids & Indiana. Ed. P. Andrew recently returned froma trip through Iowa and Illinois in the inter- est of the Diamond Wall Finish Co. and started out again Tuesday for a tour of Mis- souri, Nebraska and Kansas. Geo. W. Haynes, for the past three years general traveling representative for Pelgrim & Son, the Kalamazoo confectioners, has removed to Grand Rapids, taking up his residence at 495 Jefferson avenue. Honest John Eaman the more or less rus- tic emissary of the Fuller & Fuller Co., of Chicago, put in an appearance Saturday and meandered around the streets Sunday with his usual complement of hickory shirt and stoga boots. Henry Dawley now figures as a ‘‘frightful example’ among the unsolicited recom- mendations of a more or less celebrated In- dian physician. The peculiar physical trouble from which he was relieved was a lame back, superinduced by lifting a carriage out of the mud on several oceasions during the ‘‘break up” a month ago. Perley W. Hall first saw the light of this world on Benton Harbor on September 27, 1862. There he spent his boyhood and at- tended school, graduating from the high school in the spring of 4882. He immedi- ately entered the employ of John R. Price, spendiug about a year behind the prescrip- tion case. He then went on the road for Mr. Price, selling tobaccos and cigars,gtak- ing the Lake Shore towns and all @her available trade in Southwestern Micl&gan and Northern Indiana. After pursuing such a courge for about three years, he en- tered the employ—February 1, 1886—of Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops, with whom he is likely to remain for some time. His terri- tory includes the Lake Shore ‘towns south of Holland, and the Grand Rapids and Indi- ana as far as Morley. He sees his trade every two weeks and would be welcome if he made the rounds twice as often. He has never had the smallpox, nor has he never robbed a Sunday School; but, in spite of these disadvantages, he has a positive ca- pacity for effective work which is exedlled by few men in his line. He is not married, but spends his Sundays in Benton Harbor, which may be something. ——_—> Best in the West. From the Ovid Union. Those who read Tur MicHIGAN TRADES- MAN at this place, say it is undeniably the best commercial paper in the West. Itisa commercial paper of to-day and not halfa cenrury ago, like many other so-called pa- VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: T. C. Prout, Mancelona. Dan. E. Soper, Newayge. Geo. Purdy, Prairieville. Hunt & Hunter, Lowell. Cc. H. Adams, Otsego. Neal MeMillan, Rockford. S. T. Colson, Alaska. L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners#® J.R. Dibble, Burnip’s Corners. C. Stocking, Grattan, B. McNeal, Byron Center. Walling Bros., Lamont? F, B. Watkins, Monterey. Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia. E. Wilson, Hopkins. J. B. Watson, Coopersville. Severance & Rich, Middleville. E. Carbine & Son, Hesperia. N. DeVries, Jamestown. S. M. Geary, Maple Hill. N. K. Jepson, Clarksville. L. Shrock, Clarksville. Frank Alberts, Muskegon. Mr. Hightower, Fogg & Hightower, Ferry. Andre & Son, Jennisonville. C. Porter, Chauncey. Irwin Hill, Hopkins. J. Howard, Englishville. C. 8. Comstock, Pierson. Dan Lynch, Blanchard. Chas. H, Deming, Dutton. N. O. Ward, Stanwood. M. M. Robson, Berlin. Geo. Cook, Grove P. O. Joshua Colby, Rockford. 8S. 8. Dryden, Allegan. B. H. Rose, Sherman. J. W. Dunning, Hesperia. J.S. Barker, Sand Lake. c. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville. Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. Cole & Chaple, Ada. Foreman & Aldrich, Lowell. D. Wellbrook, Rockford. J.C. Townsend, White Cloud. J. E. Thurkow. Morley. U. DeVries, Jamestown. John Giles, Lowell. John Gunstra, Lamont. A. A. McCoy, Traverse City. J. H. Stevens, Muir. E. H. Dakin, Muir. Baker & Son, Grand Haven. : ba VanPutten,G. Van Putten & Son, Hol- and. Thos. P. Mortenson, Upper Big Rapids. M. P. Shields, Hilliards. A. Purchase, South Blendon. L. M. Wolf, A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. C. E. Coburn, Pierson. John Kamps, Zutphen. H, M. Harroun, McLain. Geo. Eastman, Robinson. J. M. Cook, Grand Haven. R. J. Side, Kent City. B. Gilbert & Co., Moline. Lyman T. Kinney, Woodville. Purely Personal. Christian Bertsch is in Boston, buying fall goods for Rindge, Bertsch & Co. E. J. Keate will shortly take a_ trip through the Upper Peninsula in the inter- est of the Star Union. Ferd. B. Porch, representing Knowlton & Dolan, manufacturers of flouring mill ma- chinery at Logansport, Ind., was in town a couple of days last week. An attache of Cody, Ball & Co.’s_ estab- lishment writes Tre TRADESMAN as fol- lows: ‘Please state that Walter McBrian, after borrowing other people’s knives for the past three years, has finally bought one of hisown. Whether he paid for it, depo- nent saith not.” i ‘“FRermentum” the only Reliable Com- pressed Yeast. See advertisement. MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 4 or 50 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. eee on \OR ‘'SALE—A neat, new 7 grocery 8 rock 2 fixtures in the growing part of city. Rent Location, the best. New block, cor. Hall W. D. Brewster. 138* low. and Division. VOR SALE— A general stock ues about twenty-two mlies south on the L.S. & M. S. Railway. Willinventory about $1,500. The Spirits of Turpentine Market. For some time past the market for spirits of turpentine has been gradually growing weaker, and it now seems probable that the day of high prices is past, though it is ex- pected that the decline will be gradual until the middle or end of next month, when summer prices will be reached. The new crop is beginning to come in more freely, Savanah, at present, being the principal re- ceiving point, from which the majority of supplies are being drawn by the other mar- kets. The position of the market has been up to the present time somewhat peculiar. Over-exporting placed London in posses- sion of the bulk of the world’s supply, but the near approach of the new crop season robbed this unusual circumstance of much of its importance and leaves London with a much larger supply than she has any use for, and will no doubt have considerable ef- fect upon the immediate future of the arti- cle. The shipments to the other side at a time when the New York market was badly supplied .gave rise to the unusual circum- stances of the importation from England of five hundred barrels two weeks ago and the receipt of this invoice here was no doubt one of the chief causes of the decline, or at least precipitated it, though the simultan- eous arrival of several Georgetown vessels was probably the chief factor in bringing about the downward movement. The outlook conveys the impression that after the middle of May prices will settle down to the neighborhood of thirty-cents in the Southern markets, sales having been made there during the past week at that figure, against thirty-three cents last year for deliveries during June, July and August, while for New York about thirty- five to thirty-six cents are indicated, that be- ing the basisof sales for the summer months made this week. Itis too early yet to ex- press an opinion regarding the extent of the crop, but the present indications are that there will be plenty of spirits of turpentine this season. ——_- -~>--4 The Drug Market. Opium and guinine are steady. Chlorate of potash is advancing. Carbonate am- monia, linseed oil and oil sassafras have de- clined. Cubeb berries have advanced. Ger- man chamomile flowers continue scarce and likely to go higher. The stock of oil anise has been concentrated in New York and the price is likely to go higher. peer —memnee The Saginaw County Pharmaceutical So- ciety has effected an agreement with the East Saginaw druggists whereby the latter close their stores at 9:30 p. m., Saturdays excepted. ae Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. MUSKEGON, April 23, 1886. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Smr—The M. D. C. A. held their regular meeting on the 14th, all the mem- bers being present except four. Wm. Welsh was admitted to membership. The subject of ‘‘Mereury” was continued from last meet- ing and further discussed.: Mr. Glover is to read a paper on the subject of ‘‘Belladonna” at the next meeting. Mr. Miller and Mr. LeFevre were appointed to prepare papers on ‘*‘Acids” and ‘‘Alkaloids,” respectively, the same to be in readiness to be read in four weeks from date of lastmeeting. The regular semi-annual election of officers takes place at the next meeting and a full atten- dance in requested. The meeting falls on Wednesday April 28. QO. A. LLoyD, Secretary. —_—~> -2- A Sure Cure. From Puck. ‘‘Are you the proprietor of Dr. Coffin’s celebrated consumption cure?” “Yes, sir—the present one.” “Then your name, I presume, is Doctor Coffin?” “No! I sueceeded him. Dr. Coffiin is dead. He died last fall of an incurable mal- ady.” “Ah! Ihadn’t heard of it. what he died of?” ‘*Haven’t heard? tion.” May I ask He died of consump- + <> ____—— A Logical Sequence. First peddler—What are you carrying? Second peddler—Patent medicine. F. P.—Well, all right; you go ahead and work up the business, and I’ll follow.” S. P.—Why? what are you carrying? F, P.—Gravestones. —_---—>-9 At the recent meeting of the Wisconsin Board of Pharmacy 58 per cent. of the can- didates were granted certificates. “Fermentum” the only Reliable Com- pressed Yeast. See advertisement. THE OLD RELIABLE Perry Davis Pan Killer, Established 1840. All Druggists Should Keep It. PRICES TO THE TRADE: Per Bottle. Per Doz. ROI IRO onc chess ao chic’ 25 1 80 MOGI BRIGG... o.oo is oes ceecee 50 3 60 RATIO BID, co oo ow oo os fae 1 00 [2 Beware of Imitations. There is but One Pain filler. Get the Genuine. J. N. Harris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O. Proprietors for the Southern and Western States. For Sale by all Medicine Dealers. Allen's Lung Balsam The Great Remedy for Curing CONSUMPTION, Coughs, Colds, Croup, And Other Throat and Lung carrying passengers as far as Allegan. All trains daily except Sunday. J.W. MCKENNEY, cone Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. a WON ee be ehiecese 9:00am =? +Day Express.............. 12:35 pm 225 . = *Night Express............ 10:40 pm * 45am Muskegon Express......... 4:20pm 11:20am *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. 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 on9:1l5a. m. and 10:40 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. ioe es. oe es. PURO ON ke cho oe inn cn oees> 4:20pm 7:30pm BUR DIGGS oo osc ak as tacos oes 8:00 a m 10: 50am = trains arrive and depart from Union De- ‘The Northernterminus 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. Going West. Going East. 0 m........ Houghton ....... 8:30 am 3: 00pm, D..... Marquette ........ A, 1:06 pm 2:05 pm,A..... Marquette ......... D, 1:40 pm 10: 40am........ ROMO oo isc css 4:50 pm T7240 BM... oo ee St. Seams Cie eie eae 8:15pm 6: OM. ..:... Mackinaw City....... 9:30 pm 5:00 pm........ Grand Rapids........ 10:30 am Express trains Nos. 1 and 2 make close con- nections at “ey ee oe with Michigan Cen- traland G. R.& I. R. Connections also cane at St. Ignace with steamers of the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company and all lake steamers. At Marquette with the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad, tor all Lake Superior points. A. WATSON, Gen. Supt., Marquette, Mich. E. W. ALLEN, Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express. ..... 6:25am +Through Maus, 5.53.4. 10:40am 10:50am +Evening Express......... 3:40pm 3:50pm *Limited Express.......... 8:30pm 10:45pm t+Mixed, with coach........ 11:00 a m GOING WEST. throne Express......... pm 1:10pm +Through Mail........ ; pm 65:10pm *itsamboat Express.. pm WIR oo ooo ok acs eons ceaes 7:l0am *Night Express bi ockeinesacs 5:10am 5:35am +Daily, Sundays 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. PoTrer, City Pass. Agent. GeO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 9:20 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:30am 11:30am Leaves Ft.Wayne& Mackinac Ex 4:10pm 5:05pm G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac. am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am Mackinac & CincinnatiEx. §:05 pm 5:30pm Mackinac & Ft.WayneEx..10:30am 11:45am Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac.10:30 p m Alli 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 on Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw ity. South—Train leaving at 5:30 p.m. bas Wood- ruff rs Car for Cincinnati. C. L. LOCK Woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Michigan Central. DEPART. +tDetroit Express................ccecees 6:00 am TURD TR DTOOR. oii 6 vices yeeods bev cnness 12:45 pm *Atiantic EXpress............c.cecce0es 10:40 pm PAW OY OO oo odin ces ch oe cedsacanecsys 6:50 am ARRIVE. SPACING MEDICS... 2.5 ..5.. cs se reese ce 6:00 am NINE ig cious kek bs S5kl yeahs bo oph eve 3:30 pm +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:35 p m ‘a ROI aa cle ieee sep eas sees snes 5:15pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific 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 Koom and Psrlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city * 11:45 a.m., New York 10: :30 a.m.,and Boston 3 eel m. next d ay A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. deliy except Sunday with drawing room or attached, Vv ing at Grand Rapids at 10:35 CHAS. 8. Gen’ Agent "ome NO CHEMIp ee IN GOLD e Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with \ % Good Butter (size of Wr | Season to suit when onthe table. Bone / £ genuine unless bearing the signature of i DIRECTIONS We have cooked the cornin this can [ff sutticiently. Should be Thoroughly, jf Warmed (not cones) adding piece of nen’s egg) and gill of fresh milk (preferable to water.) Welch Uhclingls CHILLICOTHE itl. PEN AT THIS ENO signature and stamp on each can. GES ©6989 ABSOLUTE , ICES Warranted to be Pure Goods. Manufactured Only by TELFER & BROOKS, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. J. DETTENTHALER, OYSTERS & FISH, BUTTHR AND HGGS, JOBBER OF CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, 117 MONROEST,, — - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WM. SHARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Agents for AMBOY CHHEHSE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. JENNINGS’ Flavoring Extracts! JENNINGS & SMITH, MANUFACTURED BY Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co., CRAND RAPIDS, . MICH. P, STENETEE & SUNS, DRY GOODS, JOBBERS IN B83 Monroe st.. AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peertsss Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty. JOHN CAULFIELD, WHOLBSALE GROCER, Grand Rapids, Mich. B. LEIDERSDORF & CO, MILWAUEEE, WIS., MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED UNCLE SAM, ROB ROY, MINERS AND PUD- DLERS, RAILROAD BOY AND HURRAH SMOKING; COMMANDER AND HAIR LIFTER CHEWING TOBACCOS. Headquarters for above named brands at JOHN CAULFIELD, WHOLESALE GROCER { PUTNAM & BROOKS Wholesale Manniactnrers of PURE CANDY | ORANGES, LEMONS, BANANAS, FIGS, DATES, / BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Importers and Wholesale Grocers. Sole Agents for Daniel Scotten & Co.’s “HIAWATHA” Plug Tobacco. Lautz. Bros. & Co.'s SOAPS. Niagara STARCH. Dwinell, Howard & Co.'s 2eval Mocha and Java. Royal Java. Golden Santos. Thompson & Taylor Spice Co.’s “Mag- nolia” Package Coffee. SOLE PROPRIETORS “JOLLY TIME’ Fine Cut Dark and sweet, with plug flavor, the best goods on the market. In addition to a full line of staple groceries, we are the only house in Michigan which carries a complete assortment of fancy groceries and table delicacies. Mail orders are especially solicited, which invariably secure the lowest prices and prompt shipment. Satisfaction guaranteed. 25, 27 and 29 Lonta Stand 51, 53, 55, 57 and 59 Island Sty, Grand Rapids, Mich. ® q "The Michigan Tradesman. SOLIMAN SNOOKS. The Old Man Thawed Out—All the Men Out on Strike. Cant Hook Corners, April 25. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Str—I allow you will be surprised to get a letter once more from this neck 0’ the woods, being as you haint hal none in such a long while. The fact is, I have been pretty busy with business and as the world in general seemed to be getting on in good shape without my help I thought I would not trouble myself. Tread Tur TRADESMAN just the same, you bet, and I am glad to see that the good work of organization goes bravely on. From all parts of our State the word comes, or- ganize! organize!! for the day of tribulation is upon us, when the dead-beat goeth forth up and down seeking whom he may devour somebody. Some mean cusses call us a “ving,” and claim we join hands to put prices up. But all such claims are unfouyd- ed and I have not heard of a case where any grocer or drug organization have taken ad- vantage of the people by putting prices above where they ought to be. No, we just simply keep from cutting each other's throats like we used to by selling goods be- low cost. The gentle public cannot in rea- son expect a grocer to sell goods at a loss, unless it is some such thing as granulated sugar, on which, of course, a man is ex- pected to lose from 75 cents to two dollars a barrel, and try and make the loss up on codfish and washboards. Trade is a little off at the Corners just now, on account of a parrellizing strike we are haying. We was a gettin on tip top and trade was just a boomin up every day when the strike struck us. Potter’s slab conveyer first set the strike a goin by demandin an advance to 75 cents a day. ‘The rest of the sawmill men stood by him and when Potter refused to grant the advance, the whole en- tire six men marched out ina body. Potter had to rake out the fire his own self and lock up the mill. The strikers marched to the grist mill and induced the erew of two to join them. That night a meeting of the Millers’ Association of Cant Hook Corners was held at which Potter presided and Joel S. Pratt, the other bloated capitalist, was the body of the meet- ing. After discussin the situation from every standpoint, the Association resolved unanomously to stand out and close their manufacturing institutions. Potter said that lumber was a little slow now anyway and he had a pretty big stock on hand anyhow and besides he had only a few logs in the yard or anywhere to cut. Pratt explained to the meeting that he was in just about the same fix as the gen- tleman who just spoke. Inasmuch as he had over twenty-five barrels of flour on hand and only about seven bushels of wheat in the mill and where a nuther darned bit of wheat could be got in the county till after harvest he did not know. The intelligent reader will see by this statement of the case that in this strike, as in those occurring in greater financial cen- ters, the bloated bond holders will manage to come out ahead. The next day after these events the hands in the cant hook foctory struck and the old horse that turns the crank died of wind colic. So there goes another industry to smash! I don’t like to see these labor troubles myself, but 1 must say that it is high time that such high handed corporations as Old Potter, Joel S. Pratt and Jay Gould were sat down upon and duly squeleched. I can’t help but sympathize with Mr. Gould though, because he has made his money, I under- stand, in the same way that I got my start toward affluence. Yes, I used to water all the old man’s cattle when I was a young chap of sixteen bright summers, at four dollars a month and found. I never have learned whether Mr. Gould was ‘‘found” or not, but 1 rather guess not. CNow, Bro. Stowe, I look upon this ques- tion as being a sort of a grist mill. The capitalist is the upper stone and the laborer is the under stone and the upper one does the grinding and the under one the bearing and between the twa runs the wheat and the wheat gets smashed all to flinders. Yes, and by gratious, come to think of it, I guess us merchants are the grain. I think some of our friends up by the big bay will say Lam correct in this statement, as they ‘+went through the mill” last year. Larer—The village marshal was just in and reports that a can of nitro glycerine was just discovered under the south-west corner of the sawmill. Great Scott! {where will this thing end? We shall all be mur- dered in our beds. I must lock up and go out to see what is going on. I will try and keep you posted, bu: if anything should happen to cut me off in my prime, I trust that you will see that my grave is kept— hello! what is that—a big yelling—I must hurry out. Very Latrest—Pshaw! I am disgusted. It turns out on investigation that it was on- ly a peach can filled with axle grease, that old Sim Brayman, the drayman, kept under the mill to keep it away from the dogs. All is quiet as I close my letter. Yours Laboriously, SoLIMAN SNOOKS, G. D., P. M. and J. P. Pp. S.—Since writing the above I learn that Mrs. Snooks—she that was the Widder Spriggs, you remember—has writen you a letter and told you about my becoming a happy father. S.8. ss > —_— WIDOW NO LONGER. Mehitable Spriggs Married to Soliman— Advent of the Baby. Cant Hook Corners, April 25. Editor Michigan Tradesman: ; DEAR Sin—When you read this I have no doubt you will be surprised. Yes, it is me, or, more properly speaking, itis. I thought you and our many friends who read Tne TRADESMAN would like to know what became of us. Of course you know, Soli- man and I got married, and I made him promise not to write any more, as it would take up too much of his time; and, of course, I wanted him all to myself, so I hope you will forgive me. Soliman is well, and is hard at work on a new fangled almanac, whereby you can tell the time of day, what to eat and how to cook it, and lots of other things. I never was a great hand at astronomy. We had an election here the other day and Soliman run for jus- tice on the Prohibition ticket and Bilson run for justice on the Independent. tick- et. Such goings on you never saw in all your born days. First Bilson had a lot of hand bills printed and said a lot of ridic- ulous things about Sol., said he was a ‘chicken thief” and that ‘‘the first writ he would have to issue would be on himself for arson, which act of felony Snooks had committed by selling whisky on Sundays.” And then Soliman retaliated by’saying Bil- son could not find bondsmen in ease he was elected, because he had borrowed all the money there was in the district. And the speeches! Soliman sat up all of one night to study up a speech of thanks for his nom- ination and when the time came all he could say was, ‘‘Fellar citizens—I—I—l,” and sat down. And Bilson got drunk by filling bottles of ginger beer for his constituents, and came near poisoning the widow Bats- woods, by giving her croton oil instead of castor oil. When election day came, Soliman had a big wagon going up and down the street with streamers on the horses which said (the streamers, not the horses) ‘Vote for Snooks, the Honest Man:” and Bilson hada little colored boy going up and down with a transparency which had on it ‘‘Bilson, the People’s Choice.” Cass Bradford was here and distributed samples of plug tobaeco and Will Drueke was here and distributed his samples and—well, Soliman came home ten o’clock that night in sections. First, his hat—then his coat and then Soliman, overcome by the weather—though Bilson said it was Drueke’s samples. Soliman was elected, of course, and now let Bilson be- ware of the strong arm of the law. I under- stand Bilson is going to form a branch of the Knights of Knife and Fork here, an or- der that upholds the use of the knife instead of the fork. I hope you are soon coming down our way, for I’ve something to show you. A baby—Soliman’s and mine, of course—boy— smartest child you ever seen—three weeks old—going toname him Soliman Sears Mills Snooks. I hope he will grow up to be an honor to his parents, but Iam afraid the name will be too much for him. Yours maternally, MEHITABLE SNOOKS, (Mehitable Spriggs that was.) by hi . ~ Se oC) For eas NE use * aia Lustre’” © Starch. It is all prepared for immediate use in One Pound Pac es, which go as far as two pounds of any other Starch, Ask your Grocer for it. The Electric Lustre Starch Co. 204 Franklin St., New York. JOHN CAULFIELD Wholesale Agent, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~ CURTISS, DUNFON & C0, TWINES, CORDAGE, Papers: Wool Twine, Binders’ Twine, Tarred Felt, Tarred Board, Building Board, Etc. LYON sT., GRAND RAPIDS. J. T. BELL & Co., Saginaw Valley Fruit House And COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits. Reference: Banks of East Saginaw. E ast S 9 on aw, Mich. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. GO TO Putnam & Brooks FOR URANGES, LEMONS Figs, Dates, ETC. WON BEHBEN & SHAFFER, STRYKER, OHIO, Manufacturers of Eivery Style of ” pee noe OARS. Spoon Oars made of Best Spruce Timber. ROWING SPOON OARS FOR ROAT CLUBS MADE TO ORDER. ’ FULLER & STOWE COMPANY, Designers Eneravers and Printers Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits, 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. Amos $, Musselman & Go. Successors to Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Wholesale Grocers. AGENTS FOR MUSSELMAN’S CORKER PLUG AND RUM CIGARS, The best and most attractive goods on the market. SEND FoR SAMPLE Butt. SEE QUOTATIONS IN PRICE-LIST. HALF A MILLION a ARE eeadeckel SUPPLIED WITH S iN A ARH Our Green-house Establishment at Our Seed Warehouses, the largest in ; Jersey City is the most extensive in § t a _— ~ fitted up — ee sa fi plianco for the prompt and caref America. Annual Sal ‘i filling of orders. Plants. ee ne Our Catalogue for 1886, of 140 pages, containing colored plates, descriptions and Iilustrations x Hof the NEWEST, BEST and RAREST SEEDS and PLANTS, will be mailed on receipt of f = 6 cts. (in stamps) to cover postage. ; | |sicricien & GO, 3 837 Corian Si} EFALLAS. Wholesale & Commission-—Batisr & Eggs a Specialty. Choice Butter always on hand. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No.1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each. de fra 99 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Michigan GUNN HARDWARE COMPANY, Hixclusively Wholesale, Present to the Trade the Largest ald Most Complete Line OF and Heavy Hardware EVAR SHOWN IN WESTERN SICHIGAN. Our Stock Comprises Everything Included in a Firsi-Class HARDWARE STOCK. Dealers visiting the City are Cordi- ally Invited to Call and Inspect our Establishment. SPRING & COMPANY WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy « DRY GOODS CARPETS, MATTINGS al OIL, CLOTHS ETC. ETC. 6 and 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Groceries. Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon, = OFFICERS. President—H. B. Fargo. First Vise President Wm. BR. 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 Kabracy 0. Lam- bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie. Arbitration Committee—B. Borgman, Garrit Wagner and John DeHaas. Complaint Committee—Wm. B. Keift, D. Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot, R. 8. Miner ana 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—First and third Wednesday evenings of each month. Next meeting—Wednesday evening, May 5. RETAIL GROCERS’ ASSOCIATION OF GRAND RAPIDS. 4 ORGANIZED NOVEMBER 10, 1885. President—Erwin J. Herrick. First Vice-President—E. E. Walker. Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye. Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson. Treasurer—B. 8S. Harris. Board of Directors—Eugene Richmond, Wm. H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn and W.E. Knox. Finance Comapitecen 7° 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. Collectors—Cooper & Barber, 69 W aterloo St. S Eagle Hotel block. a meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem- er Regular meetings—First and Third Tuesday Evenings of each month. Next meeting—Tuesday evening, May 4. Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association. President, P. Ranney; Secretary, M. 8. Sco- ville; Treasurer, Julius "Schuster. OUR ROLL OF HONOR. We, the undersigned wholesale dealers of Grand Rapids, hereby pledge ourselves to the Retail Grocers’ Association, not to sell goods in our respective lines to consumers: OLNEY, SHIELDS & Co., Hawkins & PERRY, F. J. LAMB & Co., BuLKLEY, Lemon & Hoops, Amos MussELMAN & Co., Fox & BRADFORD, O. W. BLAIN, Ira O. GREEN, MOosELEY Bros., BuNTING & SHEDD, W. F. Grsson & Co., S. C. PEER, CLARK, JEWELL & Co., Copy, BALL & Co.. JENNINGS & SMITH, JOHN CAULFIELD, Frep D. YALE & Co., TELFER & BRooKS, EATON & CHRISTENSON, LupwiGc WINTERNITZ, HAZELTINE & PERKINS DruG Co. ———>-+ <> The Grocery Market. The all absorbing topic in grocery circles has been the sudden advance in sugar, amounting to about seven-eighths of a cent. The upward tendency is due in part toa shortage of the raw product, but was pre- cipitated by the striking of the workmen in some of the refineries. ‘The average output of the refineries in the country is about 24,- 000 barrels per day, while refineries which represent 13,000 barrels of this production are not in operation. At present writing the indications are that no agreement will be effected with the strikers during the next few days, while itis not unlikely that work- men in other refineries may follow suit. Whether the strike continues as it is or is augmented by the cessation of other fac- tories, refined sugar is tolerably sure of go- ing higher. Some predict that granulated will touch nine cents in New York, but THE TRADESMAN is inclined to the opinion that this prediction will not be realized. Salt has taken a sharp downward turn and is now quoted at 66 cents in carlots at Saginaw. Local jobbers are holding at 90 cents, at which figure there is likely to be no undercutting. The jobbers have agreed to hold paper bags at 30 per cent. off list. Some of the starch manufacturers have advanced starch one-half cent, but the movement is not likely to become general. Candy is up about 1 cent, in sympathy with the advance in sugar. Nuts are steady. Fruits are active and lemons are advancing. Short and Interesting Meeting of the Re- tail Grocers’ Association. There was a fairly good attendance at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association, which was held on the 20th. C. Stryker was elected a member of the Association. Samuel M. Lemon was granted two weeks further time to prepare his paper on ‘‘Adul- terated Goods.” On motion of A. J. Elliott, Wm. E. Coop- er was elected an honorary member of the Assoclation. Collector Cooper reported the collection of $48 and read a list of the names reported since the last meeting. The Law Committee was instructed to prepare a memorial to the Cémmon Council, praying that the peddlers’ license be in- creased. It was suggested that as peddling butch- ers pay a license of $50 per year, the license for huxters and fish mongers be placed at the same figure. After an informal discussion on ‘several subjects of interest to the trade, the meet- ing adjourned. The next meeting will be held Tuesday evening, May 4. et Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides are steady. Pelts are weak and|™ dull. Furs are weak and lower. Wool is | g00ds. Overworked Clerks. , From the Chicago Grocer. The discussion going on betyeen laborers and capitalists regarding what should be considerated 2s a full day’s labor brings to the mind of the philanthropist the over- worked clerks in the wholesale and retail stores of this city. Just before eight in the morning State street is crowded with a hur- rying, bustling crowd of young men and women, who, imagining themselves a few minutes late, are endeavoring to reach their port without incurring the hostility of the proprietor of the store. This crush of hu- A. |manity can also be seen with less animation in their countenance after six o’clock at night, when the over-worked, tired-out shop girl and poorly paid book-keeper strives to keep up energy enough to reach home or their boarding places and get something to eat and a chance to sit down. If everybody who works hard for a living is entitled to mercy, certainly nine-tenths of these poorly- paid, half-famished individuals are. There are a good many country stores, particularly grocery stores, where at least one person works from seven o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night. He commences in the morning by sweeping out the store and dusting, then turning his at- tention to doing up packages from the order book, and later in the day to the delivery of goods. ‘There are in every town many fam- ilies who do not order their groceries until six o’clock in the evening, but the goods must be delivered the same night, and so after supper another delivery has to be made, and by the time the clerk has the horse put up for the night, the store locked, and is on his way homeward it is after nine o’clock. It is doubtful whether the country clerk suffers more from his daily routine and longer hours, than do the city clerks with their tedious and close confined labors; the fresh air outdoor exercises of the for- mer furnish continued good health which makes work more of a pleasure than a labor, but to the latter it is constant, hard, labor- jous work, standing, rarely being allowed to sit down for a single moment. ——_—»_>-. <> Sayings of George Eliot. When a man gets a good berth, half the deserving must come after. By being contemptible we set men’s minds to the tune of contempt. The most terrible obstateles are such as nobody can see except one’s self. Always there is seed being sown silently and unseen, and everywhere there come sweet flowers without our foresight or la- bor. There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and loving soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice and kindle charity than the most elaborate arguments. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease. The cat couldn’t eat her mouse if she didn’t catch it alive, and Brotti couldn’t rel- ish gain if it had no taste of a bargain. The secret of oratory lies not in saying new things but in saying things with a cer- tian power that moves the hearers. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as our- selves. There are debts we can’t pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I’ve been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it’s too late now. >a How to Make Business Good. First merchant—Business is getting ex- tremely dull. Second merehant—It is, indeed. I don’t know what we can do to increase our cus- tom. ‘There is only one thing I can thing of.” ‘““What’s that?” “Get our stores boycotted.” — -.-- “Silver King” coffee is all the rage. One silver present given with every 1 pound package. ‘‘Fermentum” the only reliable compress- ed yeast. See advertisement. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0. SEED MERCHANTS, Office and Warehouse: 71 CANAL ST. GRAND RAPIps, April 26, 1886. DEAR Srrs—Below we hand you jobbing prices for to-day: Clover, 5 Say ise sae 60 bu ‘= 50 ‘* Mammoth Prime... ..... ee 7 00 OO PIO so kp ae eek °WePb “* 1200 “ Alsyke . we * “ 9 00 “ ‘AlfalfaorLucerne20e * of 12 00 Tease Prime Aue kebuck sia seee 452% bu 210 air to Good.............. * 2 00 Red Top: dices bss be Hes pgewenbeea ie u4mhbu =: 90 TOSSA oi oe ce os cae cos kee ks ‘ 2 50 OPCRATO Grae. ... ss sscescce seed cces ‘ 2 50 PRUOAPIRG 68 6 ss cacy se istiee eo se 48 Db bu: 90 Millet, common..................655 90 COVINA ois vis cos coe snaace ts 1 00 BRUSOIC WADING ooo ss ook co's os ce sca nes ~ 75 Peas, White Field. | .............. 60 tb bu 1 25 PRWO, WOE: va oo bins as Coe eed 56 fb bu 75 OE a cs descs pie panos 1 00 WHORE, ROTH ss nde cane cons ceases 60 bu 1 25 TON i ea chet ey ¥as uke ewt 1 50 Oats, thaian whtien ieee ueuschase 82 %> bu —s«iB0 Corn, Early 8 Rowed Yankee..... 56, b bu 1 %5 “* Leaming, Early Dent........ 1 50 © BG BIAGOG. bio .cs keep eens ss * 175 Onion, Sets, Red or Yellow........ 4 00 WT soa cic iokesics 5 00 Onion Tops, Evergreen.......... 1 00 Prices on Rape, Canary and all other seeds on application. The above prices are free on board cars in lots of five or more bagsatatime. Cartage on smaller quantities. Wecarry the largest line of Garden Seeds in Bulk of any house in the State west of Detroit, oa — be pieased at any time to quote rices, vate id Seeds are spot Cash c on receipt of _W. T. Lamo Agt. MOULTON & REMPIS, Manufacturers aT sare FRU STawe Ta DAW IW WASEIS., And Jobbers in Gray Iron Castings. WRITE FOR PRICE-LIST. 54 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. UX & BRADFORD, WHOLESALE TUDALUUISNTS| FULL LINE OF ALL STAPLE PLUGS KEPT IN STOCK. Sole Agents for Celebrated F. & B. Boquet, Spanish F'ly, PantiHa, Rosa DeOro, Amer- | ican Club, Jim Fox Clipper, Moxie. 76 South Division St., Giand Rapids, Mich. Exclusively Wholesale. FRED. D. YALE. DANIEL LYNCH. TEU, YALE & 0. CHAS. S. YALE & BRO., WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Baking Powders, Extracts, Binings, 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, - MICH. BULL DOG Tobaccos. TRADE UNION AND LABOR UNION, The largest amount of good tobacco for the least money. * AND EXTRA GOOD FINE CUTS These goods are all UNION MADE, and each box is duly stamped with the Union Label. No scab work goes from this fac- tory. Every employee is a Union man and aK. of L. If your jobber don’t sell it, your order rect will be filled promptly at prices quoted, and delivered to your railroad depot free of freight. poll Dog Tobacco Works, WHOLESALE PRICH CURRENT. These prices are for cash buyers, re, who pay | promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. PYOZOr's.. 6 csc ces 90| Paragon... Gee ikas s 2 10; Diamond X........ 60; Paragon 251 pails. 90 Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50|Fraziers, 25 pails.1 25 BAKING POWDER. Thompson’ 8 Butterfly, _— vous cs ee ccaa saan 25 6 or 10 Ib cans...... 27 " - 4, 4 doz. in case. 95 + - %,2 ae ie 95 de HH. Thompson & Co.’ 8 Princess, 48 Nivea ! 25 “ ‘ “ a comers as - a * bulk... .. 28 Arctic, i? tb cans, ; doz. CASE... eee eee e es 45 Z 5 py : a peri vise 1b ks OR ee eee . > 1 ee wate ieee ee 12 00 Silver Spoon, 50 canms......-.......0.05 eee 10 00 Victorian, 1 tb — te) 2 GOR. 6 cos oe cc ns 2 00 THAPRONG, “DU oa i Be cee cce Se cd acee ess. 15 BLUING. . BINT es as a ac ces kG ce ees ener doz. 25 Dry, No. 3 edie wae aw inca bene rs eeaeaes doz. 45 BRIM Oe dk wend cd bode cons gees doz. 3d Liquid, 8°02. ...... 2. see cece ee eens doz. 65 MASON BOB. on ons ce vc chen ee aa Oe @ gross 4 00 PROUT CUM oo ack ae Wa opie slenae Mas oee ob 8 00 OUTS FOO ook oes cock hbk neko cabs < awe 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper box Lye ens be na cdeees 2 00 OO ieee ek ceewsasse ne 3 00 ArcticNo.3 ‘“ i kale since A 4 00 BROOMS. PO PAOEL. cies i case 2 00 Parlor Gem........ 3 00 No.1 Hurl.......... 2 25;Common Whisk.... 90 o. 2Carpet........ 2 i nner Whisk...... 1 00 No. 1Carpet........ 2 ie cei cece n ene 3 75 CANNED FISH. Clams, 1 Me Little NOK. soso oka ys cans nt 1 30 Clams, 2 tb. Little Neck.......... . 20 THARP, PS oon oak nc sacs 34@ 4 Niagara, OM i ia @ 5% WRUIE EOC, oo, oe Si dake s casccaee @ 614 eee. ee. @ 5% * WR oa cn oc oka ca eve ce 4@5 Quaker, laundry, G60... .... 5060606055 @4 50 A 1 SYRUPS. orn, barre Me us cc savewa deus -savei 22@26 OWN PE cos os is od on vad adncoece to Corn, (0 MOOT ROME. ooo... cok c ccs cuc ck @29 Corn, Sen OIE ce co asc ccc cas ss 1 35 BNO: PE, os ove do as ne nsec ance 22@26 WU Ua oon oe ck nc cnc cea cecs 24@28 Pure Sugar 5 gal kegs................. @1 50 TEAS. aPOTE RO bie ci ak cocenvuen caac 18@20 MDOT TRIE EO MOOR. 6 oo oo co oi kc ce cede cee 25@30 MEM Ng os cas oe bu nesc cease caanceaae, 35@45 MTD sn oc hasan dade weds se csceude 15@20 OE PRE hs iv cence ses cc evan chee ucus 30@50 Ci POWGEE oe cola, 35@50 NN is oa ose sie be co ne ucca wu cece: BIG@SS@EC I a hea eh eo ie ess eo 25@30 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS. Our Bioek...........- 60) LG ee 35 Zum Yum...........2 25 Underwood’s Capper = Sweet Rose.......... 32;\Sweet Rose.......... May Queen....... .65) Meigs & Co.’ = Stuiannerds solly Timeé........... MP RUBS ooo koe os, 35 Dark AmericanEagle67| Royal Game.......... 38 The Molgs............ 62/Mule URE ccccc ass. 65 mea Bird... 6.56.43. 50; Fountain............. 74 State Seal............ 60/Old Congress......... 64 Prairie Flower ...... 65|Good Luck........... 52 Indian Queen........ 60) Blaze Away.......... 35 Bull Blog... ......-- *57) ‘Hair BANE ccs cscs 30 Crown Leaf..... .... 66 Jim RG os on ca ancas 38 Hiawatha ............ 65'Our Bird............. 28 CG oii as een can cess 65| Brother Jonathan... .28 May Flower.......... 70'Sweet Penain........ 35 *Delivered. SMOKING RG TIGAl. .. 5... ose 0 a BRIO nas cc ecascecc. 39 Ruby, cut plug...... meres 4. cs, 15 Navy Clippings...... 26,\Two Nickel.......... 24 TOON oo oie sc ccacses 15 Duke’ 8 Durham. . eka 40 Bara Tack........... BUENO voc Sadan cathe des ot OC TE oes vce cacdss Arthur’s Choice..... 33 3 Railroad PUN ecu i 26|Mountain Rose....... 18 30 Home Comfort... .... .25 Seal of yo mapids (Old Rin.............. 60 COIOGD) «once cease 25|Seal of North Caro- Tramway, 3 0z....... 40 A A Oh ise cs nas 48 Miners and Puddlers.28|Seal of — Caro- OCR oni. cass sc kes 24) THOM, €ORs ovens cece 438 Standard ............. 20' Seal of North Caro- Old Tom.............. 18} _ Hina, $0z............ 45 Tom & Jerry......... 24'Seal of North Caro- MON ccna cine niuea 25; lina, 16 oz boxes... .42 EROMONOE coin coerce nes 35| King Bee, longeut.. . 22 MIR os bind cc wanes 25'|Sweet Lotus..........: 32 Pickwick Club....... * Grayling De chatculsues 32 Nigger Head......... 26|Seal Skin............. 30 BROUAI oi. voe sadness 22) Red Clover. ......... 32 oe ids ixeeeeuces 15|Good DOOR ak ei a OO SOP Bi cis cciveds 42@46 PLUG. QUGROY. . 0c. scsas ....20/rrade Union.:...... #36 Bull Dog............ *36|Labor Union........ *30 Hiawatha............ 2i\Splendid ............ 38 Jolly Tar.... ....... s2lold Seder oe ee cc 40 Jolly Time........... = MIOUOY oc bcccesksaks 44 BOGOR occa se cacns MOO FOR. gece cee: ane 42 Black Bird........... Sol Big we. a 40 Live and Let Live.. “35 Seal of Grand Rapids 2 Ne rad cp Sick on ons Og) CSE TR Os cp cas caus 37\ Jack Rabbit.......... 38 Spear Head.......... 39 Chocolate Cream... .44 Old Honesty......... 40|Nimrod .............. 40 Whole Earth......... Me ois oo es cece 38 os POS. cia etics 82|Spread Eagle evckeaes 36 Se sae a nh ss deck es 40| Big Five Center......33 Spring Chicken......33) PO Foo hs .................. 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 MidGer, WOOG tYACK...............0.., dis 40 HINGES. ate Ciere 6:12 8. i dis 60 BOG ce beiass sede sesh civcc cds per doz, net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 Mn IONMER.. 8. eo ie iss 3% Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10% Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 8% Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 7% Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net i% PPR OR Fe dis 65 HOLLOW WARE. Breanne Fit Were. o.oo... ct ck. ccs 30 SADAUNOG TIM WALA. 66 okies cence eca s 25 Grantie Tron Ware... 03.6 co 25 HOES. RP Bes eee elas pe seca $11 00, dis 60 RN es eka ba ll lines eck ace, 11 50, dis 60 MPS has cea eho es cc ec. 12 00, dis 60 KNOBS. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis 45 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ 4h Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 45 Door, porcelain, trimimings............. 45 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 70 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ........... 40&40 Bemaeite .. 6.5 ok unc. Ha Cueadva oak dis 45 LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 4h Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 45 PATONG Bo ei iieece ese. a sake dis 45 PROVO 6 ii eas sa. dis 45 LEVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 70 MILLS. Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................. dis 40&10 Coffee, P.S.& W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 60 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... dis 60 Coffee, Enterprise....................0005 dis MATTOCKS. ORO VO. ccs cache sles cs davecses $16 00 dis 60 POR VO. 5s kbs os evn sawkewees ca $15 00 dis 60 BUNCE ie ae $18 50 dis 20 & 10 NAILS. Common, Bra and Fencing. BOC IO BON ee oec lewd i es accs ceca. ® keg $2 50 Oe OTE OO ooo oie iv chs ce cdealacdcca nce 25 ORANG Ie BOM ee ae 50 ME, BOG i soi oko dl hhc ve eh eo ces 75 Oe MRVOOR. 505 ba oh k ik sisisns choc beecec cae 1 50 BO TD OVO Goo. oss Lh cow co ki b cans 3 00 CUSTOM DASE, BO dsc he sek ekcceces 1 75 Finishin 10d 8d 6d 4d Size—inches 3 2% 2 1% Adv. #® keg $125 150 175 200 Steel Nails—2 65. MOLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ........i.cccccccccscaes dis 70 Stebbin’s Genuine...... 0.0... .. cece ness dis 70 Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 OILERS. Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent. ............. dis60&10 Zine, with brass bottom............. 2... dis 50 MIPOBE OY CODDON, 60 i655 os ass cnn dione cs dis 50 PROT coca line scs a -per gross, $12 net AOA Oho a cece C505 lea woke 50&10 PLANES. Olsio Too! Co.'s, Taney. s . oe ‘ Tack, No.2, oval hickory a ee 35 64.00 ee rene handled, Eclipse Sifter. Same as above only handle, heavy polished ousenold, seit PWG RIZE. ose. cs esas ek cone shen aE A smaller, handle on top. These head, strong claw...... 70 800 closing, sanded, cover Cake Turners, iron hand., retinned 42 4 75 Cuspadores. D cannot be replaced at the price 90 Tack Claw, strong, full size........ 72 82% : os nnveotingy 45 5 25 : wood handle, Russia No. 2, Darling, asssorted colors and me One. Pudding Pans, oval, pieced, 4 qt. .. 89 10 50 . ron ve ‘ing... 7 iron blade............ 5 . oe eae i i nie ws + Tron Drip Pans , The Everlasting.. 1% 8 00 . = oe Sis 40 4 56 decorations, made of the Milk Cups, pieced, 2 qts............. 1 87 : ak “ bl ra 8 ok heaviest XXX tin. See cut....2 00 Sieves, stamped “Champion,”...... 88 10 40 Best quality iron, with Rings, 8x10. 75 9 00 tinsbiieen . ee a - sah 84 = 9 50 | Cottage, regular goods, ass’d colors 87 10 00 Molasses Cans, pint, Japanned...... 89 10 50 3 a og 9x12. 90 10 50 speiaweioons nano nh See No. 40, Daisy, larger size than the® Tea Canisters, 1B., Japanned...... 80 950 . . . 9x14.1 00 aeoad Should . as - Cottage, same decoration....... as) — m Se a ee “ “ ss 10x15.1 25 se ‘ very : . Rustic, earthernware, hand painted, BRTIRe BOPIONE oo ook dcdcdc veda cee 80 950 * “ “ 12x17.1 60 Gin : HARE EM or iahinn Rhee taboo 58 46) 9 45 ° 00 Regular price on this, 2 25; we Doz. Gross. | Ladies, malleable iron handles, re- Dar Ans, age ” ooks, Japanned and braced 65 7 50 Aiea pe eae 2 00 The ** Acme” Egg Beater. The best A ee ee 41 4% Muffin Pans, 6 on sheet, extra heavy and “ i ee ee - 5 00 | Nickle, same size as No. 40. Former and most popular beater on the ‘* Ebony handle, retinned, ex- Will WOMB. oo, ca ceccn eee 1 50 Pr ee ec sn hee 45 500) price, 650 ® doz; knock- market. We have always becu tra strong bowl............. 5 85 a af an sold ahead on this article, but WOR PE au cw dace ve vada sdecs 18 2 00 : BBR | 2isbs ii cai ke 2 00 ed down to..... .......... ans 3 75 " ’ : Pocket Monkey Wrench,full polish’d steel 2 00 Iron, porcelain lined, solid cast iron, have stock enough for all this Carpenters’ Plyers, the best goods Match Safes, nickel, pocket, spring assorted colors, largest sizes....8 50 MND sas saat nbesersnenennct sass @. 9a at the price.... 33 3 50 COVED.....0.20ceeee noes 7% 900 Magic Key Rings, nickeled, combi- | . Pincers ............ 2000. desi TS “ pocket, the Mascot, 4 nation lock, 1 doz. on card...... 45 5 25 " PRRDONE ci ceccicucecsess Oe OU eine |<. 4cscees 2 25 No. 5900 Key Ring. The common ” COmmpGGhes. ..........-;. 32 3:50 Brad AWI8...........:0seeeeeeee ee eeee 35 4 25 steelring. 1doz, assorted sizes Pepper Boxes, Japanned, larg’tsize 20 2 25 Screw Drivers, machine, polished, No. 2646 Tea or Coffee Strainer...... 40 4650 Ol OAR ci cscs ss ca ey es 15 150|Dredge “ as “ 5 6% ebony handle........ 34 3 85| Hand. Tea or Coffee Strainer, black | Flesh Forks, retinned, 4in.2 prong 48 5 7% y 1 eS 2% “ carpenters, polished, enameled hand, A good article 1 35 ” " i9in.38 “ 85 1000 cast steel, strong and Sherwood’s No. 2 Lustral wire, hand. WT Wnwahle o.oo hic kes 80 950 SUAION oii cei ces cece cess 2 25 ae Butcher Kniv oe. Gimlets, metal head, assorced size.. 18 2 {4 Sargain ere, The regular 1879, . and . > e 30 B40 6 in. Buteher Knife, full size, = C « large sizesonly | sold by the trade everywhere at best material.. 45 5 25 Dust Pans, Japanned, full sheet, | Eo We GuOle SE............... 89 1050 : heavier and better than the one | Tron Fire Shovels. Note our Special Low Prices. usually sold. A great improve- | No. 80, Vulcan, the strongest made 8 oz. Retinned Tacks, in patent MONE . 2... e cece cece eee e rece ee ees 80 9 25 2 | Ri i POO. ins ose cnsaesdn: 38 440 wrappers, per doz. papers...... 14 Dust Pans, one-half covered, ele- | Victor, 20 in. hollow handle......... % 85110 oz. Retinned Tacks, in patent gantly decorated on best quality | No. 1 Spring Balance—will weigh up wrappers, per doz. papers...... 16 XNX tim... . eee eee eee eee eey 2 10 to 24 ths. by 4 TDS............---- 80 9 50 Crumb Pans, same decoration and | No. 51 Spring Balance—will weigh size, for use with a knife or | ‘ eee a 2 00 hina nh the tabs. . |... 2 10 Cullenders, pi EE SS 1 35 Toy Dust Pans, Assorted colors.... 33 3 75 | Tea Kettles, 1 X extra tin, copper bottom, NO. 7......