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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19,

ichigan Tradesman.

1887.

 

NO. 174.

 

We have just purchased a
large invoice of

“PLANK ROAD PLUG"

Send us a Trial Order.

Spring Chicken, Moxie and
Eclipsealways in stock.

OLNEY, SHIELDS & Go,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

STEAM LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At-
tended to.

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VOICE OF THE PULPIT.

A Sermon Preached to Commercial Trav-
elers.
From the Detroit ‘Tr.bune.

Woodward avenue M. E. chureh, by special
invitation of the Michigan Commercial
| Travelers’ Association, preached a sermon
to commercial travelers on the 9th. The
occasion was unusually interesting, from
the fact that Mr. Smart is a member of the
fraternity and was for more than a dozen
years a commercial representative of lead-
ing Detroit business houses.

* The. text was James iv, 13-15: ‘Go to
now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we
will go into such a city, and continue there
a year and buy and sell, and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the
morrow. For what is your life? It is even
a vapor that appeareth for a little time and
then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to
say, ‘If the Lord will, we shall live and do
this or that.”

The speaker remarked on the great im-
portance of the commercial interests of
city, state and nation. This is a day of
collossal fortunes. Thirty years ago the
millionaires of the nation could be counted
on the fingers’ ends, while within a few
days, in Detroit alone, three men have died,
each of them reported worth several millions
of dollars. Fifty thousand dollars not long
ago was considered an ample fortune. Now
it scarcely occasions a passing thought con-
cerning its possessor.

“The great industries of the common-
wealth of Michigan,” said Mr. Smart, ‘are
marvelous in their vast extent and import-
ance.
ed figures, think of some of the more im-
portant products of the state. Think of
one man in Manistee who is soon to manu-
facture 2,000 barrels of salt each day—twen-
ty-five carloads every twenty-four hours—
nearly a barrel and a half a minute. Think
of one saw mill cutting from thirty to forty
million feet of lumber, exclusive of shin-
gles, lath and refuse, in a single season.
The great Calumet & Hecla copper mines
are the largest in the world. Immense
quantities are annually mined of the finest
iron ore, and from an agricultural stand-

sources.

**And then glance for a moment at our
facilities for transaction of business, for
manufacture, ete., both natural and ac-
quired by the genious of our enterprising
Wolverine business men. Our great water
ways, important railroad system, the tele-
graph and telephone reaching to the re-
motest country village; our excellent bank-
ing and postal sy8tems; the prodigious
operations of our boards of trade and ex-
change; the celerity and dispatch attained
in the shipment of goods by our express
and fast freight lines; palatial steamers,
boudoir cars, even palace cars for horses
and cattle. Think of the millions invested
in broad acres and towering business blocks;
millions more in pavements, sewerage,
street railways, electric lights. Multiply
the mighty business interests of our Michi-
gan metropolis by the cities upon cities in
this wonderland of the nineteenth century,
and you begin to have some comprehension
of the commercial interests of this country.
And remember that—to all appearance—
the 500,000,000 American citizens in the
next century will be wealthier than we are
to-day.

“Sueh vast interests certainly demand
special attention from the ministers of the
gospel of Jesus Christ, exercising as they
do a controlling influence in all the affairs
of life. The commercial interests of our
nation dominate everything else. Iam not
unaware that I look to-day into the faces
of those who represent a class of business
men, who, more than any other, have been
instrumental in ushering in this epoch of
prosperity, unparalleled in our country’s
commercial history. For without the ef-
fective, pushing stride of the traveling sales-
"men of America, we should never haye at-
tained our present position at the head of
the commercial world.

“This great machine is for some great
and lasting use. The original purpose of
doing business is to make money. Money
is the medium of exchange, it takes capital
to do dusiness.. To obtain capital necessi-
tates energy and Jabor. Money-making is a
legitimate pursuit.

**Viewed in the light of God’s word, how
shall these vast concerns be managed for
the general welfare? The ‘golden rule’
teaches that no one has a right to make
money to the injury of others. This would
destroy much of the most lucrative trade of
the country—for instance, the trade in
liquors and tobaceco—paying $116,000,000 of
direct tax annually to the government. All
gambling, from busket-shop to bunco-
steerer, would go. Unfair and ruinous
competition in trade would come to an end.
If this motto, given by the Lord Christ
Himself in His matchless ‘sermon on the
mount’: ‘Whatever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them,’
were emblazoned on the front ofevery store

 

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The Rev. F. A. Smart, pastor of the

Without wearying you with extend--

point this is one of {the ‘best fed’ states of |
the ‘best fed’ country on the face of the)
earth. No state has better natural re-':

 

of him.

 

and factory, incorporated in every trade-
mark, printed on every bill-head, made a
vital part of every business agreement, and
grounded in every business man’s con-
science, what an elysium this world would
be! -

‘***But,’ say you, ‘we must keep up with
the procession or get left.’ Nevertheless
the word of God requires you to make this
world as elysian as possible. Business men
who claim that it is impossible to do busi-
ness ‘exactly on the square,’ and impossible
to be a successful business man and be a
Christian at the same time, are given the
lie direct by.such notable names as Wana-
maker of Philadelphia, Sehumacher and
Miller of Akron, .De Paury of Indiana,
Isaac Rich of Boston, and thousands of
others. ,

‘“Even if virtue is at first unrewarded,
and you are left in the race for wealth, you
are left with God on your side, the highest
possible success. Many are justly finding
fault with the whisky business, but it is
just as respectable as selling peas for strict-
ly pure ground coffee, or cheating in weight.
Indeed, the whisky-seller is the better man
of the two, for he at least does not sail un-
der false colors, but sells poision straight
for the money there is in it, regardless of
the interests of others. Rectitude pays in
dollars and cents. There is no better ad-
vertisement for a business house than hon-
esty and reliability. Ifaman does not ap-
preciate such qualities in you, look out for
him. He will bear watching.

‘“‘We should recognize in all the affairs of
life our utter dependence on God, and our
personal responsibility to Him for all our
actions, Life is short and uncertain. Death
is sure. We must all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ. The question
there will not be, how much money are you
worth, but how did you get it? Not, what
was the magnitude of your transactions,
but upon what principle were they conduct-
ed? Not, were you solvent in the sight of
men, but-can you exhibit a clear balance
sheet to God? We need to employ sound
business policy right here. We need life
insurance—yes, fire insurance, for  eter-
nity.”

Mr. Smart then devoted some time to a
portrayal of the many peculiar temptations
of traveling men, closing with an earnest,
spirited gospel appeal.

GRE hit ia CE
Business Safeguards.
8. R. Hopkins in The Office.

We often see in some comic illustra-
tion a take-off on the vigilence of police
officers—how numerous they are, excepting
where they are needed. Then we often read
in the newspapers of how a prosecuting at-
torney, sheriff or constable has been looking
for some lawbreaker with great fear that he
would find what he was looking for. Of
course, they would manage to look always
where they were sure the criminal was not.
Such instances bear a striking resemblance
to the great hunt in commercial circles after

-plans and safeguards for preventing unex-

pected failures, embezzlements, and kindred
misdeeds of trusted servants.

While business men rush wildly around
in dispair (after the thing has happened),
and the newspapers teem with copious edi-
torials on the impossibility of inventing any
device for the prevention of such outrages
on commercial life, there quietly exist the
means and dovices under their very nose, but
socommon and plentiful that their eyes, like
those: of the policeman, trained to look
where it is not, fail to discover the true rem-
edy.

In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chi-
cago, St. Louis and all large cities of the
United States, there are from a score to
to several hundred thoroughly competent
experts in accounts and business methods.
If given an opportunity these persons could
throw such safeguards and schemes of pre-
vention around the business of merchants,
manufacturers and corporations as to effec-
tually avoid at least seventy-five per cent.
of the losses which result from these dread-
ed peculations. The services of these ex-
perts are oceasionaily brought into requisi-
tion.~ But when? In time to prevent the
mischief? Oh, no! but after the mischief
has been done. Now, why are their ser-
vices not sought for before the trouble
comes? Why are they not engaged to pro-
tect as well as to discover what the amount
of the peculation was? The only answer is
that such a practice is not customary. I
have often spoken to business men on this
subject, and by way of illustration referred
to the employment of expert accountants
in England, and to the organization known
as ‘*Chartered Accountants” in that coun-
try. It is almost a universal custom in
London and other cities of England, for
tradesmen, mauufacturers and corporations,
to employ experts who make either special
or periodical audits of their accounts.

“But,” says the business man on this side,
‘‘we have no ‘Chartered Accountants’ here.
The accountants over there are especially
educated and trained for such work, while
here there are very few who have been thus
prepared.”

Now, that is but partially true. He is ig-
norant of what really exists upon all sides

It is true that there are compara-

      

 

 

        

tive few experienced expert accountants in|
this country. But why? Not because they |
lack brains or ambition, but because there |
has been no demand, comparatively for such |
services. Create a demand, and there will |
be no want in the supply. There could be |
equipped and thoroughly disciplined for ser- |
vice within six months a force of many hun-
dred able, thorough and experienced ac-
countants for service in our cities if the com-
mercial world would but offer an induce- |
ment. But first make a demand by calling
into use those who are already prepared and
seeking opportunity to demonstrate their
qualifications.

It is very gratifying to see in so ablea
financial journal as the Banker's Magazine
an article on ‘‘Auditing Accounts,” in which
the employment of experienced expert ac-
countants is heartily recommended. After
viewing various proposed schemes for the
prevention of fraud in accounts and business
methods, the article says:

“One thing, however, can be done that
will not interfere in the least with the tran-
saction of business with the public—a more
frequent and thorough inspection of the ac-
counts. The best feature of the existing
National Banking System is the examina-
tion of its affairs by public officials. * *
Why would it not be well to have a body of
skilled examiners or auditors, whose duties
should consist in making examinations
of the accounts of companies for the pur-
pose of detecting errors and wrong-doing?
Surely, no honest official would object to
the examination, for there is always danger
of error; in which case, the examiner or
auditor might see it, and if there were
fraud, then it would be exposed. From
any point, therefore, such examinations are
desirable, and if they were made would do
much toward promoting the soundness of
our financial institutions. * * ”

This is about the first time that any
prominent financial periodical has so urgent-
ly suggested the importance of expert ac-
countants for the obstruction of peculation
and the avoidance of error in the manage-
ment of business affairs. Some good will
be likely to come from such advice, and it
should be hoped that when the demand
comes the accountants of the country will
show their capacity and prove their worthi-
ness to meet every requirement. Nothing
would go further to promote such a state a
of affairs tin the systematic organization
of the accontants of America into a nation-
al body,

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Coffee and Spices Sold by
Grocers.
From the New York Tribune.

New York

‘*That is not coffee,” said the reporter.

‘“‘Who said it was?” replied the jolly,
rosy-cheeked grocer. ‘‘Are there any marks
on it to indicate that it is coffee?”

“No, not particularly; but it certainly
looks like coffee, and tastes entirely differ-
ent.”

‘Ah, you have hit the nail on the head,”
continued the grocer, with a smile. ‘‘It
would not do to let every one know it, as it
might shake people’s confidence in their
grocery store. The bag, a few beans from
which you have just tasted, contains an
imitation of coffee. It is nothing more than
flour, and poor flour at that, which has been
shaped like the coffee bean and baked
brown. If you will take a genuine coffee
bean in your hand and put it alongside the
imitation, you can see that there is a differ-
ence in the color. The shape is also differ-
ent, but that is nothing, as the various kinds
of coffee vary in shape and size. The flavor,
of course, is not there, but the way the imi-
tation is sold does not require its presence.
The grocer is not a foolish man. He does
not sell these flour beans for coffee. This
would give the business away. But when
trade is dull, and the grocer must have
something to oceupy his mind, it is a pleas-
ant recreation for him to mix a quantity of
the flour beans with the genuine coffee.
Then it cannot be easily detected. Only
just enough of flavorless bean is used to
make.a little profit. This is not quite one-
half. When the honest housewife, who
buys whole coffee so as to get it pure,
grinds up this mixture, and the odor steals
out from the mill, her eyes. snap, and she
laughs at the people who are foolish enough
the buy coffee which is ground at the store,
and can be easily adulterated. The taste of
this compound is not unpleasant, and it will
not injure any one. Even the baby can take
it with impunity. If the coffee were drunk
plain its weakness would be noticeable, but
being usually taken with milk and sugar,
the fraud is easily detected. Years ago all
the coffee was ground in the grocery, but
adulteration was earried on so extensively
that the practice was established of buying
the whole bean. This led some inventive
Yankee humanitarian, who believed that too
much coffee is bad for the nerves, to bring
out the flour bean.-

‘Here is something else interesting. See
these beautiful samples of cloves and pep-
pers. {mported? Well, no, not exactly.
They are home-made to suit the trade. They
look good, but there is little flavor to them.
Some one thought it was a shame to wagte
the beautiful and nourishing cacoanut shell,
and conceived the idea of heating it and

 

   

 

then grinding it to a fine powder. This,
when artistically mixed with various kinds
of oils, make a good spice for pies and other
good things. It is a growing industry, and
well patronized. Some of this powdered
shell, after being flavored anfl made into a
stiff paste, is pressed through moulds inte
the shape of peppers and cloves. These,
mixed with a quantity of the genuine arti-
cle, give about all the flavor that is safe
for a person to take, and the grocer does
not lose anything, but goes on paying his
pew rent and building rows of houses the
same as if there were a little cream in the
cheese, a small quantity of sugar in the glu-
cose, and a taint of, butter in the oleomasga-

rine.
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Combination to Raise Prices Unlawful.

Some years ago James R. Keene and
others formed a pool to raise the price of
lard and employed certain firms in New
York and Chicago to purchase lard as bro-
kers. In pursuance of the agreement very
heavy purchases and sales were made in
both cities. The members of the pool
brought suit against the brokers to recover
certain profits of which they alleged they
had been deprived by the brokers, whom
hey charged with having made fictitious
purehases and The plaintiffs ob-
tained an order compelling the defendants
to furnish a statement of their transactions,
the defendants opposing on the ground that
the transactions were unlawful. The New
York Supreme Court, General Term, has
just reversed this order, holding that the
defense interposed was valid. The court
(per Daniels, J.) declares that the law will
not permit parties owning property, and
comtemplating the purchase and sale of
more of it, to combine together to keep it
off the market, and in that manner oblige
the public to pay a larger price for the arti-
cle than it would otherwise seeure, and
adds: Such a combination is an unlawful
conspiracy, punishable as acrime. When
it may be successfully carried out its effect
is to impose upon the public and to oblige
individuals having the occasion to purchase
the article dealt in to pay more for it than
its market value. So far as such a combi-
notion or scheme may be rendered success-
ful it is little, if anything, less than re-
spectable robbery, which the law will not

sales.

.permit or sustain. * * * It is further well

settled, where snc ‘oe? combination or con-
spiracy may have been carried into effeet,
that the law will not aid either of the par-
ties in any endeavor, by means of legal
proceedings, to Secure or obtain his share
of the plunder. On the contrary, it will
leave the parties precisely where they have
placed themselves. It will not interpose to
secure to either that adyantage which, “un-
der the terms of the agreement entered into
and executed, he had reason to expect
would be conceded to him by the other par-
ties to the unlawful transaction. If per-
sons devise and enter into schemes or con-
spiracies of this character they must de-
pend for their remedy upon the application
of the rule, which may be observed by other
confederates, requiring that there shall be
honor among certain classes of persons who
violate the laws of the state. They cannot
appeal to the courts for redress, or for any
aid or assistance in endeavoring to enforce
the contract, so far as it may be in favor of
one of the parties against the others.
-- >. -
He Got Persimmons.

Henry Clay, who was a neat penman, was
quite an enthusiast on the subject of plain
handwriting, and was in the habit of tell-
ing a story in point about a Cincinnati gro-
eeryman who wanted a lot of ¢ranberries
and thought he could get them cheap in a
little Kentucky town. To this end he wrote
to a customer at the place requesting him
to send one hundred bushels of cranberries
per Simmons—the name of his teamster.
The writing was so bad that the party to
whom the note was addressed could not
make out the word ‘‘eranberries” at all, but
did conelude that his correspondent wanted
one hundred bushels of persimmons, which
were at once gathered and forwarded, much
to the disgust of the Cincinnati man.—
Ben: Perley Poore.

oe alia aie ic
“It Didn’t Signify Nothing.”

* | see that your brother Moses was ar-
rested in Baltimore the other day,” he re-
marked to old Abrahams yesterday.

*Vhell, dot doan’t signify nothings, does
she?”

**Yes, but he was charged with arson.
That’s a serious offense.”

‘Dot doan’ amount to shucks! Dey say
Moses set his store on fire. To show you
how easy he get oudt of it I haf a letter in
my pocket written two weeks ago, in which
he says it vhas all fixed up for his wife to
set der place on fire while he vhas off to his
lodge. All I haf to do to ciear Moses is to
send on dot letter.”

a ct

An independent old lady, speaking of
Adam naming all the animals, said she
didn’t think he deserved any credit for nam-
ing the pig—any one would know what to
eall him.

Hotel Proprietor—‘‘We don’t allow any
games of chance here.” Gambler—‘‘This
rism’t a game of chance. My friend here
has no chance.”

 

  
  

  

 

 

‘The Michigan Tradesma.
ok JOURNAL DEVOTED TO "HE :
Hercantile and Mannfacturing Interests of the State,

E. A. STOWE, Editor,

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

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887.

 

 

Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association,

President, L. M. Mills; Vice-President, 8. A. Sears; Sec-
retary and eer Geo. H, Seymour; Board of Di-
rectors, H. 8 . Robertson, Geo. F. Owen, J. N. Brad-
ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie.

 

 

t". Subscribers and others, when writing
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub-
lishers by megtioning that they saw the adver-
tisément in the columns of this paper.

 

 

Delegates from a number of New York
City organizations will meget at Washington
to-day for the purpose of intimidating Con-
gress into passing a National anti-adulter-
ation law. The movement may be all right,
so far as New York City is concerned—for
half the adulterators of the country make
Gotham their headguarters—but Michigan
has no use for it. The Wolverine State was
one of the first to move in the matter
of dealing with the question of adul-
terated goods and the result is a statute
as far ahead of the code prepared by the
New York City enthusiasts as Michigan is
ahead of any other State in the Union on
local organization. The Michigan Business
Men’s Association is not represented at the
Washington convention, as its 1,000 mem-
bers are of the opinion that they can better
be employed in enforcing the law now on
the statute books than in dissipating their
energies in attempting to secure the enact-
ment of a measure of dubious strength.

 

As will be seen by a communication from
the Secretary of the Nashville Merchants’
Union, a couple of ‘‘paper bag sharks” late-
ly raided that town. Their game is no new
swindle, having been played at Tustin, Pe-
toskey, Muskegon and several other Michi-
gan towns. THe TRADESMAN is glad to be
the medium of exposing the fraud at this
time, as the swindlers would otherwise prob-
ably attempt to beat the merchants in other
towns in the State.

 

 

Ira O. Green has now had three weeks in
which to turn over to his creditors the whole
or a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Having
failed to do so, or to make any move in that
direction, Tim TRADESMAN feels free to
stamp him as a thief—as a man whom all
decent people should shun and despise.

 

The Australian. colony of Victoria will
have 2,000,000 bushels more wheat to ex-
port this year than last, and our shippers
will have that much extra competition in
the markets of Western Europe. But 2,000,-
000 bushels is not muc wheat as things go
now.

 

The Gripsack Brigade.

J. W. Eno, late with th@ Sligh Furniture
Co., has opened a retail furniture store at
Wichita, Kansas. :

The veteran ‘*Crook,” who is beginning
to get a ruddy look in his face again, is up
the Newaygo branch this week.

A. Friend, formerly with Fox & Brad-
ford, is now on the road for S. N. Weil &
Co., liquor jobbers of Cincinnati.

J. L. Strelitsky, representing the Roper
& Baxter Cigar Co., of Chicago, is making
a tour of the Saginaw valley towns this
week.

It is understood that Silas K. Bolles is
training for the stage and that he will make
his initial appearance in Monte Christo,
taking the title rele.

Frank H. White engaged with Curtiss &
Dunton for another year on Monday and
his wife celebrated the event by presenting
him with an eight pound boy.

D. K. Frost, representing Robt. M. Floyd,
Western manager for Geo. V. Hecker & Co.,
spent last Friday and Saturday among the
jobbing trade of this market.

Graham Roys has engaged to travel for
L. H. Beals & Sons, whip manufacturers of
Westfield, Mass., the engagement to begin
as soon as he has closed out his own stock
at this market. The firm with whom he
has identified himself has lately received an

accession in the person of Joseph Beals.
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Purely Personal.

E. B. Escott, Jr/, went to Detroit, Mon-
day to take a position in the office of the
manufacturing establishment of Frederick
Stearns & Co.

Geo. Holloway, book-keeper for Eaton &
Christenson, recently received a token of
appreciation from the firm in the shape of a
handsome gold chronometer.

J. H. Walker, of the Powers & Walker
Casket Co., left Monday for Cincinnati, to
attend the annual convention of the National
Burial Case Manufacturers’ Association.

Geo. G. Bates, formerly book-keeper for
the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., but now
employed in the same capacity with the
Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., at Traverse
City, spent last week with friends and ac-
quaintances here.

Capt. G. G. Perkins, of Henderson, Ky.,
arrived in the city last week to attend the
annual meetings of the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. and the Peninsular Novelty Co., in
both of which corporations he is a heavy
stoekholder. He left for home via Chicago
late Monday night.

‘‘How a Boy had better behave in busi-
ness and what is going to come of it, by a
man who was once a boy himself, who
knows what boys are good for, and what is

 

for them,” is the elongated title of one;

erthe brightest books for boys ever issued,
D. Laney ae, RENO.

 

AMONG THE TRADE. |

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

 

I. R. Wilson succeeds Wilson & Crater in |

the picture frame business at 39 Canal
street.

Hufford & Son succeed Hufford & Stein
in the meat business at 168 West Bridge
street.

Henry VanVooheis succeeds McIntyre &
Van Voorheis in the grocery business at 699
South Division street.

C. R. Bunker, general dealer at Bailey,
has added a line of Boots and shoes. Rindge,
Bertsch & Co. furnished the stock.

Murray & Chatfield have engaged in the
grocery and meat business at Cadillac.
Amos. S. Musselman & Co. furnished the
groceries.

Schrock & Long have engaged in general
trade at. Clarksville. Amos 8. Musselman
& Co. furnished the groceries and Voigt,
Herpolsheimer & Co. the dry goods.

Frank B. Winegar, the South Division
street book, stationery and news dealer, has
executed a chattel mortgage for $1,789—a
direct result of cutting prices below living
limits.

Cornelius Fox has purchased the Cornelius
J. VanHalteren grocery stock, at 95 South
Division street, of Cody, Ball, Barnhart &
Co., and will continue the business at the
old location.

S. A..Welling has concluded to remove
his notion and gents’ furnishing goods stock
to Detroit about March 1. He says that so-
cial—not business—reasons induce him to
make the change.

S. P. Swartz has purchased the planing
mill of A. F. Willey and will continue the
business. Mr. Willey will remove to Ten-
nessee for the purpose of cutting a tract of
yellow pine he owns there.

Abraham Wilzinski, the Canal street
clothier, executed chattel mortgages to ‘his
relatives to the tune of $6,615, whereupon
attachments to the amount of $1,905.50
were made at the instance of the United
States Court.

E. Fallas has erected a two-story addition
to his cold storage warehouse at 217 and 219
Livingston street, 18x30 feet in dimensions,
and a two-story office, 10x16 feet.in dimen-
sions, and has transferred his headquarters
to that place from his old location on Canal
street.

The Werkman Lumber Co., of Holland,
has purchased the VanWirt & Dibble saw-
mill, at Alba, and will operate the same to
its full capacity. The company will also
put in a general supply store, Arthur Meigs
& Co. having secured the order for the gro-
cery stock.

AROUND THE sTATE.

Fowlerville—Marshall L. Barnard jew-
eler, has assigned. e

Sheppard—F. E. Shorts, of Alma, will
open a book store.

Brockway Center—Holden Bros., general
dealers, have sold out.

Lake City—L. A. (Mrs. Geo. B.) Howe
has sold her drug stock.

Allen—Byron Merritt has moved his gen-
eral stock to Bristol, Ind.

Morenci—M. A. Bell succeeds E. J. Yes-
bra in the jewelry business.

Richmond—A. M. Cooley, notion dealer,
has assigned to 8. H. Heath.

Ashley—E. W. & B. Field succeed Phin-
ney & Bullock in general trade.

Vassar—The creditors of W. M. Starker
will realize about 30 per cent.

Charlotte—A. D. Baughman will remove
his dry goods stock to Alma.

Kalamazoo—O. M. Goss has bought the
grocery stock of Andrew Pyl.

Stevensville—C. E. Gilson & Co. succeed
W. M. Parrish in general trade.

Union City—John Bassett succeeds Lee
& Bassett in the meat business.

Wyandotte—E. M. Clark succeeds Chas.
F. Gill in the hardware business.

Vassar—Alonzo G. Buck succeeds A.
Parkhurst & Son in general trade.

Climax—Stratton & Willison succeed F.
E. Stratton in the hardware business.

North Adams—Knapp & Huff succeed
Knapp & Crane in the drug business.

Charlotte—F. L. Green succeeds F. L.
Green & Co. in the clothing business.

Sand Lake—J. G. Goul will put a siock
of groceries in the postoffice building.

Morenci—-Capp & Osgood succeed Capp
Bros. in the grocery and meat business.

Clio—Elmer E. Huyck succeeds John W.
Nixon in the drug and grocery business.

Charlotte—Lang & Vomberg succeed
Joseph Lang in the clothing business.

Bay City—H. F. Munyan succeeds Mun-
yan & Braddock in the grocery business.

Morrice—E. B., Hartwell succeeds Hart-
well & Ormsby in the hardware business.

Lansing—Harris & McCarthy succeed
Hough & Schmitt in the grocery business.

Detroit — Shepley & Barron, produce
and commission merchants, have dissolved.

Cheboygan—G. A. Davis, boot and shoe
dealer, was attached by the sheriff on Jan.
14,

Coopersville—Wm. Eistedt has closed out
his meat business and returned to rural
life.

Kalamazoo—Walter D. Grove has sold his
grocery stock to Mr. Manning, late of Ot-
sego.

Charlotte—C. 'T. Henion, agricultural im-
plement dealer, has assigned to ‘Geo. A.
Perry.

West Bay City—Porter, Squiers & Co.
sneceed H. G. Porter & Co. in the grocery
business.

   

 

6. B. B & GO.

. DARGEHEST EXCLUSIVELY

WHOLESALE GROCERY HOUSE

IN MICHIGAN.
Cor. Ionia and Louis Sts., Grand Rapids.

 

Hartford—Chas. Mortimer sueceeds Sey-
mour & Mortimer in the hardware business
at Hartford.

Manistique— P. A. Zahnen_ succeeds
Ewerhardt & Zahnen in the merchant tailor-
ing business.

North Adams—Langdon & Cutter succeed
E. J. March in general trade and the bank-

a : :
ing business,

Cheboygan—A. W. Westgate @ Sons,
boot and shoe dealers, have assigned to
Frank Shepherd.

Coldwater—Walsworth & Keep succeed
Walsworth & Smedley in the agricultural
implement business.

Alma—J. W. McLeod,
has been closed by creditors.
$7,000; assets, $4,000.

North Adams—E. J. March has retired
from the firm of John F. McBain & Co.,
dealers in dry goods.

Muskegon—J. Hoffman has bought Piper
& Jeannot’s feed business. The latter con-
tinue their grocery business.

Detroit—Curtiss W. Marvin succeeds
Ayers & Marvin in the sewing machine and
musical instrument businesss.

Edwardsburg—J. R. Reese, general deal-
er, sets up a hot dinner of oysters, beef and
vegetables to his customers daily.

Saranac—Assignee 8. M. Crawford has

general. dealer,
Liabilities,

closed out Gifford & VanDreger’s general |

stock to Root, Strong & Co., of Detroit.

St. Joseph—J. M. Yoeum has sold his
confectionery business to Webber & Phelps
and returned to Michigan City, his former
home.

Port Huron—Gray & Durkie, paper and
picture frame dealers, have been closed by
creditors. Their liabilities will probably
reach $5,000.

Manistee—J. E. Somerville, news, book
and stationery dealer, has assignéd to Geo.
A. Hart. The liabilities are $17,000 and
the assets $13,000.

Saranac—Wnm. G. Clark, the pioneer gro-
cer, has sold his stock to Wm. C. Clark and
Mrs. M. Kyle and will retire to private life.
Wm. C. Clark will manage the business.

Saranac—J. H. & C. S. Brown will re-
move their clothing and furnishing goods

stock to Charlotte, where it will be consolf’

dated with the stock they now own there.

Cheboygan—The Tribune says that the
merchants of Cheboygan ‘‘are nearly unani-
mous in the statement that the year 1886
was the most successful year they ever ex-
perienced.”

C. C. Tuxbury, late of Sparta, has en-
gaged in the grocery business at Sullivan, a
new town on the line of the Muskegon,
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway. Arthar
Meigs & Co. furnished the stock.

Corinth—J. F. Hacker, general dealer,
who failed about six months ago, has set-
tled with nearly all his creditors on the
basis of 25 per cent., and will shortly re-
sume business on his own account.

Wayland—E. W. Pickett, who has been
engaged in the mercantile business here for
a number of years, has formed a copartner-
ship with John A. Turner and the new firm
will do a general banking business, thus
filling a long felt want.

Elm Hall—The losses by the flre on Jan-
uary 9 are as follows: A. L. Rings & Co.,
building and dry goods stock, $1,000, no in-
surance; Blair & Houck, building, $1,500, in-
surance $1,000; general stock, $3,000, insur-
ance, $2,000; Dr. O. O. Osborn, drug stock,
$600, insurance, $1,500; M. Douglas, build-
ing, $800, insurance, $550.

Muskegon—Johnson Bros., who have car-
ried on a general store at Lakeside for the
past three years, assigned on January 8 to
C. S. Beader. Previous to assigning, C. B.
Misner was given a chattel mortgage for
$500. The liabilities aggregate $4,500. The
stock inventories $3,200 and the accounts,
which will probablly sustain a shrinkage of
75 per cent., amount to $2,000 making the
total assets about $3,700.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Bay City—Gray, Maher & Co. succeed
the National Boiler Works.

Chase—Davis Kirk will put in a lathe for
the manufacture of chair posts.

Vanderbilt—Millard Olds succeeds Man-
ley Olds in the manufacture of staves.

Lansing—Harris & Ingersoll succeed In-
gersoll & Piatt in the milling business.

St. Ignace—The Martel furnace has been
obliged to stop its work owing to the lack
of wood.

Morenci—O. G. Osgood succeeds Osgood
Bros. in the manufacture of broom handles
and cider. .

Williamsburg—Ernst & Follett are run-
ning their sawmill almost wholly on cedar
this winter.

Detroit—The Farrand & Votey Organ Co.
succeeds the Whitney Organ Co. in the
manufacture of organs.

Petoskey—E. B. Husted will have his
planing mill in full operation by February
1. There will be connected with the mill a
lumber yard, under the management of L.
P, Saxon, late of Traverse City.

 

Belding—The silk factory is nearly com-
pleted and it is expected to get the machin-
ery in operation by April 1.

St. Louis—Competition among the hoop
manufacturers has raised the price of elm
logs to $6.25 per thousand feet.

Lansing—Geo. E. Breck has retired from
the firm of Clark & Co., carriage manufac-
turers. The firm style remains the same.

Jackson—A company has been formed to
manufacture the water cut-off and valve
box, invented by Ed. O’Neil and Benj. Por-
ter.

Oxford—The new automatic roller flour-
ing mill will do almost everything without
the aid of the miller except to pay for the
wheat.

Kingsley—Chas. E. Brewster, the handle
manufacturer, writes Tims TRADESMAN as
follows: ‘‘I have just reeeived an order for
4,000 sets of maple table legs from Eastern
parties, six legs to the table, making 24,000
piece. How is that for legs?”

Detroit—The co-operative shoe factory is

not meeting with the success anticipated for |

it by its projectors, the concern having
steadily lost money during the past six
months. The shortage will probable be
covered by $5 debentures, providing anyone
ean be found to take them in exchange for
cash.

STRAY

 

FACTS.

 

Marlette—The new bank has begun busi- |

ness.
Tecumseh—A_ stock company has been
formed for breeding skunks.

Ovid—Horace McCarthy sueceeds Frank

J. Gleason in the restaurant business.

Kalamazoo—P. H. Burke succeeds John
Richmond in the restaurant business.

East Saginaw—The new Saginaw County
Savings Bank will open February 1.

Benton Harbor—The net proceeds from
fruit shipments in 1886 reached $750,000.

Farmington—Fred. M. Warner succeeds
P. Dean Warner in the boot and shoe busi-
ness.

Frankfort—F. L.
county, and E. R.
bank.

Reed City—H. H. Freedman & Co. sue-
eeed H. H. Freedman in the manufacture of
cigars.

Eaton Rapids—V. R. Steiglitz. succeeds
Steiglitz & Minnie in. the manufacture of
cigars.

Muskegon—H. M. Clark* succeeds Wm.
E. Southard, Jr., as landlord of the Arling-
ton Hotel.

Negaunee—The Lucy Mining Co. is the
name of a new corporation organized to
work the MecComber mine.

Dowagiaec—Daniel Lyle, one of the pro-
prietors of the Dowagiae City Bank, died
on the 13th, aged 57 years.

Leslie—The First National Bank is sue-
ceeded by the Peoples’ Bank of Leslie, with
a paid-in capital of $50,000.

Adrian—Clark Baker & Co. will begin
the erection of a canning factory, 55x80 feet
in dimensions, as soon as spring opens,

St. Ignace—The merchants are somewhat
disgruntled at the doubling of transfer rates
across the straits via steamer Algomah, and
some of them will haul their goods across
with teams as long as the ice holds out.

Petoskey—The Record says: More maple,
bireh, hemlock, basswood and elm lumber,

Fuller,

Chandler will open a

. more ties, posts and telegraph poles are be-

ing gotten out in Emmet county this winter
than ever before and at much better prices.

Lake Linden—Paul E. Perrault, book-
keeper for the Joseph Bosch Brewing Co.,
has been arrested for embezzlement. He is
supposed to have stolen about $3,000, and
was placed under $2,000 bonds to await his
examination.

East Saginaw—Suit has been commenced
by Hosea Pratt, a well-known lumber and
commission dealer, against Sidney L. East-
man, of the lumber firm of Warner & East-

man, for defamation of character. He
claims that Eastman charged him with

stealing 2,500 feet of lumber, and he lays
his damages at $10,000.

East Saginaw—After ten years’ study of |

the fruit business, J. T. Bell, formerly a
nurseryman of New York, has perfected an
invention called ‘‘Fruit Ozone,” to be ap-
plied to the roots and trunks of fruit-bear-
ing plants and trees, by which the keeping
qualities of the fruit is extended weeks and
months. Berries from plants thus treated
have been shipped great distances, arriving
in good condition. He now has apples in
his possession kept from the fall of  eighty-
five. Theinvention is evidently destined
to work great changes in the fruit growing
business.

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The New Year’s number of the Kansas
City Commercial is worthy of compliment-
ary mention, both as regards its fine typo-
graphical appearance and the amount of in-
teresting reading matter which it contains.
The first page of the cover is .ornamented
with a finale figure. of ‘‘Progress” pointing
to Kansas City as the great western railway
center, while the last page is handsomely
embellished with cuts of prominent build-
ings of the place.

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of Montealm,

 

PEREINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

Setting about a store are unsightly, besides the pro-
jecting nails on them are dangerous to clothing.
enter prising grocer realizes the value of handsome And yy
convenient fixtures, and to meet this demand the
WOOLSON SPICE Co., of Toledo, Ohio,
their

Liion Coffee Cabinet,

 

Of which the accompanying cut gives but a partis
idea. In this cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packa
of Lion Coffee, and we offer the goods at a pr
enabling the grocer to secure these cabinets without
cost to himself. They are made air-tight, tongued and
grooved, beautifully grained and varnished, and are
put together in the best possible manner.
set of casters, with screws, inside this cabinet. Their
use in every grocery, after the coffee is sold out, is ap
parent; just the thing from which to retail oatmeal
rice, prunes, hominy, “dried fruits, bread, and a hun
dred other articles. Further, they take up no more
floor room than a barrel, and do away with these
unsightly things in a store.

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BLAVEPRP-ANGS.

This Coffee — Gives i ied

‘A GOOD BREAKFAST

ALWAYS possible when a good eup of cof-
The grocer who sells LION
his trade can invariably se-
LION COFFEE
contains strength, flavor and
is a suecessful blend of Mocha,
Packed only in one-pound air-
roasted, but not ground; full

always uniform;

A Beautiful Picture Card

We solicit a sample order

For sale by all Wholesale Grocers every-

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Co.

COMBINED "92 to 108 Oak iy: Toledo, Ohio

 

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders withthe various houses:

Neal McMillan, Rockford.
8. J. Koon, Lisbon.
C. F. Williams, Caledonia.
Q. Look, Lowell.
5. 'T. Colson, Alaska.
W.J. Roche, Lake City.
C. F. Braden, Lake View.
J.N. Wait, Hudsoriville.
Grand Ledge Chair Co., Grand Ledge.
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland.
Herman VanAllen, Van “Allen & Co., Ionia.
D. H, Moloney, Cheboygan.
Chas. lt. Dye, T. B. Preston &€o., Tonia.
L. Mauer, Fisher.
J. Raymond, Berlin.
John Smith, Ada.
O.F. & W. P. Conkin, Ravenna.
J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
L. A. Paine, Englishville.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
Werkman Lumber Co,, Alba.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Woodville.
M. J. Butler, Sand Lake.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
John M. Cook, Grand Haven,
M. J. Howard, Engtishville.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
C. R. Bunker, Bailey.
M. Heyboer & Bro,, Drenthe.
P. Bernsteine, Fife Lake.
Howk & Bostwick, Lowell.
. W. Pickett, Wayland.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
A. & E. Bergy, Caledonia.
G. M. Huntley, Wright Center.
Perey T. Cook, Reynolds.
Mr. Redpath, Redpath & Murray, Martin.
E. B. Wright, West Michigan Lumber Co.,
Woodville.
L. Vincent, Muskegon.
Herman Thompson, Canada Corners.
Mr. Rice, Rice & Lilley, Coopersville.
Watson & DeVoist, Coopersville.
Earl & Earmon, Rodney.
8. 8. Wilcox, Big Rapids.
Nelson Pike, Morley.
A.5S. Frye, Ashland.
H. M. Fuller & Co., Paris.
Anderson & Griffin, West Troy.
Jobn J. Ely, Rockford.
Robt. Neil, Ashland,
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
. N. Fisher, Dorr Center.
H. W. Potter, Jenisonville.
O. House, Chauncey.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Jos. P. Cordes, Alpine.
Heyboer & Bro., Drenthe.
Cc. EP. Sears, Rockford.
A. & L. M. WolffsHudsony ille.
N. Bouma. Fisher.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Farrowe & Bro., Allendale.
L. Cook, Bauer.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
John Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
J. M. Cook, Grand Haven,
C. F. Walden, Leroy.
F. Phetteplace, Kalamazoo.
Schrock & Long, Clarksville.
Frank W. Foster, Newaygo
O. Naragang & Son, Byron Center.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
W.J. McKenzie, Muskegon.
L. Roscoe, Roscoe & Spicher, Mancelena,
J. Frank Clark, Big Rapids.
W. W. Peirce. Moline.
Henry Strope, Morley.
Jas, Colby, Rockford.
Cc, C. Tuxbury, Sullivan.
Mrs. A. F. Harrison, Sparta.
A. Waganaar, Nsw Holland,
D. H. kker, Zeeland.
Wm. Brugma, Vriesland,
as S. Goodyear, H. A. Goodyear & Sons, Has-
tings.
R, ‘Flanagan, Lowell Manufacturing Co.,
Lowell.’

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There were thirty-eight new drug stores

opened in Kansas City, Mo., during the past
year.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
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.

por SALE—A sills -year old grocery stand
in Kalamazoo. A two-story frame store,
| with good tenement rooms above, and a good
tenement house on same lot. also barn. Three
blocks from M. C. depot. $3,500, part down,
bulanee in easy payments. Possession given
}in May. J. Van Zolenburg, Petoskey. 1l74tf

Pek SALE—Interest in a well-paying gro-
| cery store in this city. Address “P,” this
| office. 172-3t

vs: in Kent County Savings
| Bank. Address, stating terms demand-
| ed, “Purchaser,” care “The Tradesinan.”’

ye SALE—Two-story brick building, 24x60,
ae with clean grocery and meat stock (wood
| business in connection) on principal business
‘street of thriving Northern town. Terms,
$5,000, half down, balance on time to suit pur-

i chaser. Address “Bargain,’’ care “The Trades-
man. 181
YOR SALE—Small stock of groceries, witha

good paying patronage. Living rooms in
connection with store. Rent reasonable. For
terms, address Box 465, Big Rapids, Mich. 174*

OR SALE—A two-story store, 22x58, almost

. new, second floor done off and tenanted.
Sell goods in store if desired. Good place for
dry goods and groceries. Ina good farm-
ing country. For particulars, address C. E.
Clapp, Martin, Allegan Co , Mich , where store
is located. 133

Bo SALE—First-elass hand laundry ata
bargain. This is a rare chance. Address
Box 33, Big Rapids, Mich. 176*
AOR § SALE—A Svst-clae water power rat Lee
Station on C. & W. M. R. R., or would take
in a pardner to build a grist mili on same a
er. Address D. J. Dokey, Lee, Mich.

 

 

 

 

[* YOU WANT —To get into business, to sel!
your business, to secure additional capital,
to get a situation, if you have anything for
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in the
Miscellaneous Column of Tries TRADESMAN. A
twenty-five word advertisement costs but 25
cents a week or 50 cents fo. ‘hree weeks.

 

The eee E-IERY $3 SHOE
LANUFACTULED BY
HATCH & EMERY, Chicago and Boston,
D. G. KENYON, Trave ling Salesman,

227 Jefferson Street, ~ Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Annual Meeting of the Peninsular Novelty
Co.

The annual stockholders’ meeting of the
Peninsular at Co. was held at the office
of Col. Geo. G. Briggs on Monday. The
report of pa usurer Parker was a very flat-
tering one, and the officers and direetors
were tendered a vote of thanks. The old
Board were all re-elected, as follows: Col.
Geo. G. Briggs, Dr. C. S. Hazeltine, Capt.
C. G. Perkins, Lieut. W. F. Bulkley, Dr. J.
B. Parker, Edward 0. Ely and .Geo. E.
Parper. Election of officers resulted in the
selection of the gentlemen who have served
the company during the past year, as fol-
lows:

President—Geo. G. Briggs.
Vice-President—Edward 0. Ely.
Secretary—J. B. Parker.
Treasurer—Geo. E. Parker,

 

   
    

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Association Notes.

Detroit Journal; Dead-beats aj! shop-
lifters might as well give Owosso the shake,
the merchants of that city having orgauized
a Business Men’s Association.

President Hamilton never uttered a bright-
er remark than this: ‘It gives me even
more pleasure to hear that an association is
at work than to learn of the organization of
a new association.”

L. Roscoe, a member of the Manecelona
Business Men’s Association, is in.town for
a couple of days. He says the members of
the Association are receiving splendid re-
turns and are much pleased with both the
results already accomplished and those in
prospect.

The Merchants’
spects to the head of the State Association:
“Frank Hamilton, of Traverse City, has or-
iginated a system of finding out a custom-
er’s standing which is worthy of attention.
Hamilton is one of those progressive Wes-
tern men who make everything succeed.”

Rockford Register: ‘The Rockford Busi-
ness Men’s Association is new thorougly or-
ganized. At their last meeting two names
were added to the membership, making
twenty-six individuals and firms now be-
longing. The association wilt probable be-
come auxiliary to the State organization in
a short time.

President Hamilton presents. the follow-
query: ‘Should an attorney—a member of
an association, but not the appointed actu-
ary of the association—be allowed to use
our system of blanks for col/ecting other
than his own personal accounts?” THE
TRADESMAN’S answer would be, No, em-
phatically no!

President Hamilton soniaahe the follow-
ing addition to the list of Queries, to be pre-
sented at the March meeting: ‘‘Does an
accepted note imply a settlement of ac-
count and thus debar one from using
our system to collect the overdue note?”
Also, ‘Should our system for collecting be
limited to open accounts?”

Kalkaska, with thirty-six members, Man-
celona with twenty-three members, and
Bellaire, with thirteen members, have affili-
ated with the Michigan Business Men’s As-
sociation since the last report. This gives
the State body a total auxiliary membership
of 921. Later—Wayland has since joined
the majority, swelling the tota] auxiliary
membership to 942.

Detroit News: Petoskey has organized a
Business Men’s Association, and every mer-
chant in town has joined it. It makes the
dead-beats shake in their shoes, and they
are talking of a convention to demand _bet-
ter goods and lower prices, if they have to
pay cash. Petoskey stores will close at
7:30 p. m. after the 12th, and an effort is
being made to induce the saloons to do like-
wise.

Plainwell Independent: In order to dis-
pel any doubts as to its legitimate motives,
we print the constitution, by-laws and rules
of the Plainwell Business Men’s Association
in full. Its object is not to harrass debtors,
who through sickness or misfortune are un-
able to pay, but to collect of ‘those who can
pay, but who would sooner beat the creditor.
The Association starts out with a very
satisfactory membership, and every busi-
ness man in town should become a mem-
ber.

Referring to the first delinquent sheet of
the Cadillac Business Men’s Association,
President Hamilton writes: ‘Cadillac sheet
shows all right. Every local association
should have it and the way you propose can-
not be improved upon, unless in this way:
Suppose their meeting of January 2d fur-
nished one or more delinquents, the Secre-
tary forwarding same to you next day.
Their members would not receive them un-
til your next semi-monthly issue, thus keep-
ing the members in the dark nearly two
weeks. Now, why not have you print Cad-
illae local sheet (same as this) and send to
them at once, keeping type in place for use
in semi-monthly issue? Of course, it would
be. a little more expensive, but I do not
think the local association would demur. I
think this exchange of sheets will do much
toward cohering the bodies.”

Allegan Tribune: There was a general
attendance of the members at the meeting
of the Allegan Business Men’s Association
Tuesday evening, considerable interest was
manifected in the objects of the Association
and several new names were added to the
roll of members. Various manufacturing
projects and proposed improvements were
discussed and the Committee on Electric
Light reported that they had been in cor-
respondence with the proprietors of differ-
ent systems and the agent of the United
States company expected to be here this
week to explain the advantages of their sys-
tem. Messrs. Pond, Eppink, Streeter and
Van Ostrand were added to the Committee
and they were given further time in which
to make a report. The old officers were re-
elected for the ensuing year as follows: I.
F. Clapp, President; 5. D. Pond, Vice-Pres-
ident; J. H. Eppink, Treasurer; E. T. Van
Ostrand, Secretary. A committee was ap-
pointed to make arrangements with C. J.
Bassett Post for the use of G. A. R. hall
and the meeting adjourned, subject to call
from the President.

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He Will.
From the Pittsburg Grocer.

E. A. Stowe, of THe MicniGAn TRADES-
MAN, claims to have organized more asso-
ciations than any other man in the country;
and, he says, ‘I hope to keep up my gait.”

 

Mail thus pays its re-].

 

. From: the Manistique Sun. s :
Tuesday night according to anndunce- |

ments made in the Jocal papers. some. fif-,
teen of our most prominent business. men,
met in D. G. Currie’s jewelry store, the fol-
lowing firms being represented: Garner & |
Lewis, Austin Fydell, Coon Brothers, Geo.
Chantler, F. H. Thompson, Maclaurin |
Bros., D. G. Currie, Ephriam & Morrell,
Frank Clark, Jr. & Co., Orr Brothers, |
Plunkett & )
Bros., Sun and A. C. Richards.

The meeting was called to order by elect- |

ing Mr. Garner chairman and E. N. Orr

secretary.

sociation in Manistique. Healso read from
Tne MicnigAN
well constitution and by-laws, which were
adopted: Election of officers resulted as
follows:

President—F. H. Thompson.

Vice-President—Leon Ephraim.

Secretary—E. N. Orr.

Treasurer—D. G. Currie.

Frank Clark, Jr. and Geo. Maclaurin were
elected members of the Executive Commit-
tee.

Messrs. Garner and Chantler were elected
a Business Committee.

It was moved, supported and carried that
the membership be by firms, and that each
firm be entitled to one vote.

Moved, supported and carried that the
Secretary furnish the two local papers, also
Tue MicuigAn TRADESMAN, With a copy
of the proceedings of this meeting.

The meeting was in every way harmon-
ious, a fraternal feeling was excited among
the different business firms, and there is no
doubt that this Association will be prolific
of much good. Certainly it starts out under
auspicious circumstances.

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Organization Flourishing at Cheboygan.
From the Cheboygan Tribune.

The annual meeting of the Business Men’s
Protective Union of Cheboygan for the
election of officers was held Monday even-
ing and the following officers chosen:

President—J. H. Tuttle.

Vice-President—H. Chambers.

Financial Secretary—J. W. McDonald.

Treasurer—R. Rapp.

Auditing Committee—W. H. Scott, O. M.
Clement and John Reid.

Executive Committee—E. O. Pentiy, John
Wertheimer and Charles Cueny.

It was voted to become auxiliary to the
Michigan Business Men’s Association, the
State organization. The local organization
is in a very flourishing condition, its mem-
bership comprising the leading business men
of our village. None but dead-beats have
anything to fear from the organization, the
object being to protect the members from
being defrauded by those who do not intend
to pay.

 

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Pine Lake Facetiousness.
Boyne City, Jan. 13, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—The second meeting of the
newly-organized Business Men’s <Associa-
tion was held last evening at Lewis’ Hall.
Four new members were received and the
meeting assumed the air of a true business
spirit. The general works and benefits of
the Asssociation were freely discussed by
all present and much work mapped out that
seems necessary to be done before effective
results can be accomplished. Our circular
letters are not yet printed,.but we have the
promise of them by Wednesday evening,
January 19, when we are to meet again to
further perfect our organization, get up
more steam and attach our coach to the
State train. We hope we shall not be called
the sleeping car, or pushed up next the bag-
gage because we make things ‘tsmoke” a
little. Very muchly thine,

F. M. CHASE, Sec’y.
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“He Speaks Right Out in Meeting.”

CoLFAXx, Jan. 15, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—Some of our people here don’t
like the way you talk about those who do
not pay their debts, but I think you have
given them the right name, “Dirty Dead-
Beats.” If you can succeed in killing off
every dead-beat in the State, all kinds of
merchandise can be sold cheaper to those
who do pay, for the latter will not have to
pay for goods earried off by the dead-beat or
see the merchant gounder. I know of men
who do not seem to give the subject of pay-
ing their debts the first thought, but who
study continually how they can get out of
paying just dues, when it would not take
half the mental energy and physical force to
pay everything in full and enable them to
stand before the community as men.

Wishing you success in your efforts, I am

Yours truly,
G. KE. THoMAs.
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Casnovia to Organize January 21.
CASNOVIA, Jan. 13, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—Yours of to-day at hand. In
the meantime I have interviewed nearly all
of our business men and they are all ready
for organization. We propose to take in
Trent and Bailey, if they will come, and we
think they will. We would be pleased to
have you come up and help us. Can you
come January 21, 25, or 26? If not perfect-
ly convenient for you on any: -of these nights,
please set any evening in that vicinity (ex-
cept the 24th) and as soon as we hear from
you we will notify the busines men at Trent
and Bailey. 1 will do all I can in the mean-
time for the cause. We propose to put
some of the D. B.’s ‘‘on the list” and make
it warm for them in this part of Michigan.

Yours truly,
1. E. HESSELTINE.
—_—-—-~<>-9-
Mancelona Joins the State Body.
MANCELONA, Jan. 15, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—I hand you herewith draft
No. 814 for $2.30, in payment of Mancelona
Business Men’s Association dues to Michi-
gan “Business Men’s Association. Our
membership is twenty-three. I have been
necessarily absent from all but one meeting
since our organization, but our members re-
port themselves well pleased with the Assox
ciation, and its healthy and invigorating
effect on the D-B element of our locality.

Very truly yours,
C. L. BAILEY, Sec’y.
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Bellaire Joins the State Body.

BELLAIRE, Jan. 12, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—Our Association now num-
bers thirteen members. ” Enclosed find draft
for $1.30 as per capita dues to the State As-
sociation.

 

 

 

Yours res
G. J.

tfully, :
OTRWARE, See’y :

JaddeH, E. N. Orr, Blumrosen |

Mr. Chantler was called upon, |
and explained that the meeting was for the |
purpose of organizing a Business Men’s As- |

TRADESMAN the Plain- |

“Cemanraxs: Jan: 11, 1887. °
BAL Stowe, Grand Rapids: __,

Drar Srr—At the annual nieeting of
the Business Men’s Proteetive Union of
Cheboygan County, action was taken to
| make this organization auxiliary to the State

Association and we now desire to know
' whether you first send us blank applications
to be filled out or furnish any credentials or
certificates entitling us to membership; or
‘does the remittance from us of 10 cents per
member constitute the initigtive require-
/ment? Please give us the necessary instruc-
tions and oblige,

Yours respectfully,
H. G. DozEr,
——__—_~--o-—--—
Of Course The, Will Work Together
CASNOVIA, Jan. 12, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sin—We expect a man from Sara-
nace here with a stock of goods in a few days
and he has probably had some experience
with a loeal association and then I am go-
| ing to try and work the matter up and get
him to help me, if he will, as we need one
here. I should think Casnovia, Bailey and
Trent might work together.

Yours truly,
H. E. HESSELTINE.
pal la Seg a
Wayland Idenudes Itself with the State
Body.
WAYLAND, Jan. 17, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—At our meeting a few nights
ago it was voted that our Association be-
come auxiliary to the State Association.
Our membership is twenty-one. Enclosed
find postal order for $2.10 dues to the State
Association.

Yours respectfully,
Dr. H. J. TURNER, See’y.
> -2 =<

Make Yourself the ‘‘Moving Spirit.”

EVART, Jan. 15, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Str—Evart is ripe to organize. We
only lack a moving spirit to start us along.

I collected_an account this week of nine
years’ standing through the Sturgis Business
Men’s Association.

Yours truly,
FRANK HIBBARD.
—_— 0
The Hardware Market.

Nails have taken another advance, being
now quoted at $2.65 for steel and $2.50 for
iron. Advances have also been made in
pumps, sinks, carriage and machine bolts
and lag screws; also new list on locks and
knobs, nuts and washers, and quite an ad-
vance in them. Foster, Stevens & Co. say
in private advices to their trade: ‘‘We can’t
tell where it is all going to end, but it is
quite evident the very low prices on hard-
ware in general that have prevailed are at
anend. All prices subject to change with-
out notice.”

io
Furniture Facts.

Greenville—Another furniture store would
do well.

Burr Oak—-G. W. Bullock succeeds G. F.
Diehl in the furniture business.

Niles—C. Nieman succeeds C. Zithlow in
the furniture and sewing machine business.

Pontiae—John G. Crombie, for nearly
forty years engaged in the furniture and
undertaking business, died in-his store on
the 11th, of heart disease, aged 67 years.

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No Fear of Overproduction in Glass.
From the American Glassworker.

We hear frequent expressions of fear that
the rapid growth of the glass industry in this
country will result in overproduction, and
competition will finally foree many of the
factories now working to discontinue and
force the large number of workmen attracted
to the trade into other fields, which will re-
sult in great hardship until the necessary
equilibrium is again established.

This alarm is partly caused from the fuller
reports now made about the building of new
factories, the number of factories operating,
statements of production and the frequent
notices of the stoppage of this or that
works.

That we have never produced near all the
glass consumed in our country the large
amount of glassware of every description
imported annually, as well as the very
small amount, comparatively, that we ex-
port, notwithstanding our increased produc-
tive capacity, are subjects that will go far
to dispel all fears as to any over-production
in the near future. It should also be re-
membered that glass is being put to new
uses every year, and the field of the indus-
try has been very greatly enlarged during
recent years. The cheapness of glass arti-
cles, also, resulting largely from improved
machinery, skilled workmen and the rivalry
of competition, is also. greatly in its favor,
and it is safe to assume that wherever glass
can be utilized in the manufacture of new
articles it is indeed almost impossible to
displace it on the ground of cheapness,
while for cleanliness, polish, brillianey and
beauty no material of manufacture equals
it.

There need be no fear overproduction as
long as we import millions of dollars worth
of glassware annually and export so little.
Indeed it seems to be a patriotic duty to en-
courage the erection of new plants until
every pound of glass consumed in this coun-
try shall be made of American materials by
American workmen.

In Russia there are about 15,000 persons
employed in the glass industry; England,
22,000; Germany, 38,000; France, .12,000;
Bohemia, 18,000; Belgium, 16,000; Austria-
Hungary, including Bohemia, 60,000, and
the United States about 30,000. From all
the countries named come large lots of glass
to this country. Many of these countries
are but a dot on the globe’s surface as com-
pared with the United States. But their
wares reach us because, first, we do not
make enough glassware to supply our mar-
ket, and second, they make all of their glass | p,
cheaper and a great deal of it better than
we do.

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same gave our patrons such good satisfaction that they all compared the carriage with a
comfortable room, and still more can be said as the heat was of great benefit to the carriage,

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use of your Heaters and Fuel in the future.

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10 and 12 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
GENERAL AGENTS,

 

COOPERAGE.
D. Quay quotes as follows, f. o. b. at Bailey:
STAVES.
Red oak flour bbl. staves iy Seas - @ 6 00
ee ee iro vee cals @ 5 2%
White oak tce staves, 8 ‘d and j’ t. M @21 00
White oak pork bbl. 19 50@2z 00
Produce barrel staves.... .. .... M @ 4 75
Tight bbl, and h’ds to matech.....M @l7 00
HEADS.
Tierce, dow elled and circled, set.. l@ 16
Pork, i Jae wb
Tierce heads, square.......... @ M 23 09@26 90
Rote bb | ow Gi. aces ies # M 19 00@21 00
Produce barrel, set. Sum dac ga cae eg 4
ee eee cka ween eee 4%
Crll wood Heading: i... sc0.s66s cee aK 3%
HOOPS.

White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t. M 11 00@12 50
White oak and hickory * Tut? t.M 10 et 00

Hickory flour bbl................ M 7 00@ 8 25

te oe vadeaoncss M 6 00@ 6 75

Ash, fiat racked, 6% f’t........... M 3 75@ 4 50

ee sa hci 5 00@ 7 CO
BARRELS.

White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M 1 00@ 1 10

White oak pork barrels, machine.. 8@ %

White oak tard tierces.............

 

Beef and lard half barrels......... 75@ 90
Custom barrels, one head.......... 1 00@ 1 10
BiOee VRTVOIR, ooo sis ce ene en ss 80@~—s87
Produce GALES... o.oo. eee se 25 28
WOODENWARE,
Mtangand PODS, NOs Loci ccc ccs ce woe os ec § 25
BIANGAPG THOR NO: 2.6 ocic asc ecccenacscaae> 4 25
Mepiigard TIS, INO: By... 5 os cc as cennee dennns 3B 26
Standard Pails, two hoop.................... 1 25
Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 50
Pasta: OWNING WOOR monk occ nee ke cece 4 00
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................. 2 00
PRECOP PAIR, OR oc ks ca ce a wa ce ke eees 2 50
PO iO oa oc tin gc lo coc cen shee, bencans 1 00
ee ako kc esc eee cuss os oe es
Me PN ois as oa ea kk vee ec des
Clothes Pounders ou Gee a eis Weeds desc as as 2 25
De As eck ces cose Renee eee 60
PROTP LOCKS, 65 on onic de oe een eaves eee ais 1 00
PW BOB POG, SETIBIO. 6 oia ce kk oe cs dae cns duecss 1 75
Washboards, OO cade. 2 25
BASKETS.

MAO MOP OR ook ons ae ke cde s ca as os
Haahel, NATTOW DONG. ... 0... co 6. ki ee cee cees 1 60
PRR, WHIC DANG ca oss oc cn oe oo ta eine ee ec ee 75
Clothes, splint, No. ‘

Clothes, splint,
Clothes, splint,
Clothes, willow
Clothes, willow
Clothes, willow s
Water Tight, RAD fee eee oo cee ose ee Nae o ale 3 75

Moet RE eee oo cee i 2 85

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows
for dry stock:

 

 

   

Basswood, log-run. io... 66.3. ese 12 00@14 00
Birch, log-run Ree oe ea Pee tae 15 00@18 00
Birch, PGR. LONG Sooo ioc dente ac as @25 00
Bilsek Ash; lOe-TUM!. oo. c eececee se @13 :
Cherry, log-r MIs is esky eds cee 25 00@35 00

Cherry, Wont one 8. 45 00@50 =
CORTE, CU oo cic os ec ays cnauces coe @10 00

MERD IG, TOMEI oooh 5 sev ps dened te ss 12 00@14 00
Maple, soft, log-rum................. 11 00@183 00
Maple, Nos. land2................... @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00
Maple, white, selected............... @25 00
Red Oak, log-run Cy a euaae sabia asa @18 00
Red Oak, NOS. 1 ANG 2... co a) é: @24 00
Red Oak, uarter sawed............ 26 00@30 00
Red Oak, No. 1,step plank.......... @25 00
Walnut, jog-run arene Vee vceeeh ces @i5 00
Walnut, Nos. land 2................. @i5 00
Walnuts, CUB... 6.5 cine. cece tes ‘ @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run............... @13 00
White Ash, TOPs ioe sow deka es 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run...... deceiceeeen @23 00
White Oak, POR a es @17 00

FRESH MEATS,

John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling
rices a8 follows:

PYOOR OGL, BIGCE. . . 5. ..csscecncny cess 44@ oH
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ @%
Dressed Hogs ct Os sg ok dee aic Waka eea kes BK 6
Mutton, Carcasses.......... ccs. ceceees 6 @ 6%
oe NG oe eis ceo cn sake saeunes 64@ 7

WE de res ok ck ciais coin c dione tives. 2 GY
Pork Sausage.........606..s00- <piakias @ %%
aacgne PES RSA TE ES ag egos @ 6

23 EE es Hee anes pemrom enon eran 9 @10
Seems Chickens.. resbassacans euae ol
BRAOMS oases cc dk adie vod Teeeeeae eae
MO bh oy is 5h kek ssc ced cep:

 

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These prices are for cash buyers, who pay

 

 

 

  

promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGERS AND BITS.
DVO, CD OR a ss hs ccd d cs pacucas dis60&10
ec, kc kcas ss dis60&10
vac ces ccus cane dn ceeeeseks dis60&10
keh eas ch bn cw cae ba aneeae dis60X10
Snell’s..... )
calc cs cnt saneseeis dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine............. eal caeas dis 25
Jenninis’, Imitation........... sess dis50&10
BALANCES.
Psa a as ae sds hand veeaeans dis 40
BARROWS.

TUNOI ooiea es wh ck alae ie as dues nae cans $ 13 00
WO os a ase auk 4 decneeusae net 33 00
BELLS.

PO ea ca sacs es dis $ 60&10&10
ME ooo ici cease. Urge lececeees dis 60&10
eee ek ea dis ~~

Ns See cee alec ee dis
Or, PAMROME LL... ois. ese sss dis 6010
BOLTS.
PHOV Os ease P annie shad vans vena ass +.5 2.018 © 40
Oerrigge BOW HBG..... . <6. cceccccucces dis T6&10
ek nce vcs gens cose seas tneh es dis 30&10
Be TE ON oe ks aan Gh a oe ake uw ae dis 70&10
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 60&10
Cast Marre, BOWS... ... 6.65.5. 0. cask dis 60&10
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 60
Cast Square Spring................... dis 60
WN OI oo cake cece acca ecescics dis 60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 60&10
WrOUGDE DOUAIG 0600. oc cc ccc ese cacce dis 60&10
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 60
Wrought Bronze and Piated Knob
Te ale ae pea ck eke woe eueks ...dis 60&10
TO PO res, os canes caves cones dis 60&10
BRACES.
PMR idaho a veda cee csenasas chess dis$ 40
RM ehh cease den cccestensesc agus dis 50&10
Be oe 6 cde liek asl canlac. dis 50
Ws ie ie ck deckas cecil. dis net
BUCKETS.

Me, asa ve eee ies soso acne $ 3 50
Well, I aac ic aces gucci cece sunk . £0
BUTTS, CAS”.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......dis 70&i0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed,.dis 60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis 60X10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, "japanned Laulaee dis 60& 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvex
TUG ioc no os wah wae cased er bad ee Wis 60& 5
WRONG BAUR. os bee coc cca vccesaae es dis 10&60
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 10&60
Wroumns HPAGE. . 2. occ ccc cin cane dis 75
Blind, Clark’s.........2.. 80
PR. PREROP Bec bo cocci ice chances dis 80
Blind, BROOOEO Bo oo ek ck vn cs 2 Gs 70
CAPS.
WOE ik cee Nase s aren Mecees er m $ 65
AM een cee acs des das ev cease: , 60
G. D SUNEH OMe COCR Ae ON Oe Ce mee eee eens eeee 35
Bo RR ar RECA Loco EPR 60
CATRIDGES,
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list50&10
Rim Fire, United States................ dis50&10
CERT FIFO a os ees en red ts tc wens dis30&10
CHISELS.
BOGCMOT FIPIIOR oo. oa 5 oes oo ds 05s chaee wes dis 75
BOCKOE PeAMIING. 6. soci ccc ccccececsies dis 5
BOGKOU GCUTIOE. cores ccd ecceeteceeceur dis %5
RIOMOU FNOMD, in oo sche cay ce sa bics ones dis 75
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Fi ir WANES ii ocendecss dis 20
Oa a a as So hnd wenn bees net
COMBS.
Curry, LG WIOnice’s. ..... 20.05. cccuancs dis 40&10
WENO io hei dic cacacuackiecnceeces dis 25
COCKS. .
Wives VOMCRIO Sooo Ai ves kccdsecckacces 60
WRENN ni os its eck cad cs hace ten dake cj
rs oa ica oe on os che honnue 40&10
Oe i es a bin cs da 5
COPPER,
Planished, 14 02 wat ty OU oo a oe cans 8b 28
14x52. , 14x56, Oe a shccaeaca ses 31
Cold Rolled, iia a SG WARGO. ci ee ees 23
Cold HOUCH, ORE eo cocoa ck oes esdcecsns 23
RILLS
one” 8 Bit Seoek,.. bid ium asieaeekves dis 40
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 40
Morse’s Taper Shank..............-.. dis 40
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 im............-+-+-+ doz net $.85
Corrugated .... 2... ....c eee eeee cece eres dis 20&10
POTN oon isco ea ce lecee sees ... dis 4 &10

so cheap and used |

ranging from $1.50 to $5, being made |
We also make &@ Register Heater. to take the place of a!

  

 

. EXPANSIVE BITS.
meg small, $1900; large, $26 00. dis 20

  

Ives’, 1, $18 00; + $24 00; 3, $80 00. dis 25
EILES—-New List.
| American File Association List...... dis 60&10
POI oe ocelot evan da cestode cs dis 60&10
OT | aie en pel dis 60&10
© PO Caos Sechaba a des dis 60&10
Re ee kk oe hc ces .dis s55&10
wreier 6 HMorge Rasps. ..............:. dis 5O& 5
GALVANIZED IRON,
| Nos. 16 to 20, 22and 24, #5 and 26, 27 28
List 12 13 4 1d 8
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... ..dis 50
HAMMERS,
meu OM cg. cs a ks es 25
et accede seas. ee 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..... i. .ci54s0Gee See
Mason’s Solid Cast Sicel. ....00 @ list 50
Biacksmith’s Solid Cast Ste el, , Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10
HANGERS. ;

; Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track 50&16
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10
Bigcer, Wood track...................@8 49

HINGES.

pete, Cinre 6 0.3. G.. ok ooo. cc conse .dis 60
State ls cis ono keds ceca kus per doz, net, 2 50
Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

and Caeer. PO NO A ME a oa Se 3%
Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10%
Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net 84
Serew Hook and Eye Ms... --net 8
Screw Hook and nee is RP eee net 7%
Strapand T. : a «ae 65

HOLLOW WARE.
BORO COANE OU NG ooo ona sees snes cea n ice 30
Me PATE WEG. 5. oc. ccc wec neces 25
Cover TKO WEG... oon oe ocak cn cece 25
HOES.

DO eee occ Sa eeiwas $11 00, dis 60
WE eis ices otc gs weave deans 11 50, dis 60
ice con hc hg da ence ca aes 12 00, dis 60

: KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis 45
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ 45
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 45
Door, porcelain, trimmings............. 45
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 70
Fieture, H. L. Judd & Co.'s... .... 6.005. 40&10
TOMI Rico occa ce ckk bcc ccccceces dis 45
LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 45
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 45
MO ig oka ccks ccuda. ascoaneca dis 45
PN ag gcc cc iicck teed cccnade dis 45
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............dis 70
MATTOCKS.
I PR ci as vce ccc ccens $16 00 dis 60
MN a ios be asa ncuecsas $15 00 dis 60
oo oan be Sc dcceccos sce $18 50 dis 20 & 10
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post. handled........... dis 50
MILLS.
SO, WTO COG, 6c . oos cos ce cassccsess dis 40

 

Coffee, P. 2 & W.Mfz. Co. oe ..- Gis 40

Coffee, Landers, ee & Clark’s . dis 40
Coffee, Enterprise.... ... ia ..dis 2
MOLASSES GATES.
PUNT RR oo ca ccc ccs csacvecss dis 70
Reentry © ChONNTRIEIG, . 88 kc wins ccc s ceuccs dis 70
Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
NAILS—TRON.
Common, Bra and Feneing.
WO ooo on os ces newness 8 keg $2 50
ee a bei ecac cease cas i 25
We ic yc ck ba ce caccauns dO
Se a ey Ta
Te oc oo hn cn as case dean nous ave 1 50
ae 3 00
hac cc Sanu cecdccucees 1 75
Finishing t 10d 8d 6d 4d
Size—inches { 3 oa 1%
Adv. # keg $1 25 150. 1%5 200
Steel Nails—2 65.
OILERS.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&i0
Zine, with brass DOCtOM..........<.. css. dis 50
I Ee Ooo cS cas neneececss dis 50
MO oie ly Cv cnccecse ces per gross, $12 net
WT oooh cde cca ccncceice ences 50&10
PLANES,
Cie Wot ©O.G, TOUCH... . occ cco ccc ccs dis 15
8 ee dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy Wace ahs ties dis 15
Bench, first spor yf Noahs as e500 ks ca eacs dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. ...dis20&10
PANS.
hones cada cvecnanves dis 50&10
COMIN, NOTBROG.. .5 6 oon cas scans a: <e dis60&10
cs dpi bach en cs cdcadeass B bb 6
RIVETS.
OEE TIO ko ci dc tac a ddccases dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs............. dis 60

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.
“A’’ Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10
*B’’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos.25 to27 9
Broken packs ec ® bb extra.

ROPES.
eee 8 10, BG POOP... . 5 os cc cc ccenececce 10%
Misi isk a scasccsacws cease 13%
SQUARES.
OE dis 70
OO Ne OOO oo ok ova cea snc cs vccoecs dis 60
Mook svcd cena ccane «access dis 20

SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.

Nos. ¥ EE beg i ae ee $4 20 $2 90
DG RO ee 4 20 2 90
WO, Be oe os od ccc caccs sca as 42 3 00
TN Oe odio a acne sasaeeeusc 4 20 3 05
WOO ON BAP es oh cnc cccccccuscdcces 4 40 315

NN oc cise es deka doc ysenees 4 60 3 25

All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 2 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
Dh COGRE OF G00 Da, © By... 2. 0. cc cncacses 5%
In smaller quansities, @ .............. 6
TACKS.
Avporione, Mii MINS. . 5.6.6 cece sccess dis 60
EE UE oven ccc ccuscucceeaece dis 60
PEUGEOT oo ona cnc s case csecess dis 60
OO EE iio goo so on ds cae cces aac dis 60
Oe I PAG... 55 os cnc c neces sceces dis 50
IP POE co cca cserccees dis AG
Common,.and Patent Brads........:. dis 50
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis 50
‘Trunk and Clout Nails...........<..<- dis 50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.......dis 45
Leathered Carpet Tacks............. dis 3
TINNER’S SOLDER.
MD I sk de cv ccc ecuddcdcade cds 12 50
Market Half-and-half............. sss: 16 00
Strictly Half-and-half.... ........<...0. 17 50
TIN PLATES.
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

IC, WE CIOL ook dc acne ccceecacsc 5 75
Ex. RE AIOE occ cesenccec ese 72
Ic, WE, COON ook va vec cc cccncass 6 25
1d. # Pete COMROORL 5... . cc cacs cscucces 775
IC, 14x20, Poe cies cdscnceas 5 75
IX, BO BN onda cc a ceccacacne % 2
7X, 14x20, a ob isn ncccceseses 8 1
IxxX, De GI no acc eu ekcidens 10 77
Tee A. Fae, COMPOOGL. 5 oc 55k 5 ccc ccc cece 12 55
IX, 20x? A ee ee 15 50
DC, 100 Plate Charcoal............-.---. 6 50
Be | PARP CAPOORL, . o6 50 cc ccccccccse OCU
Team , 100 Plate Charcoal... « ......4s-ceees 10 50
DASA. 100 Plate Charcoal.............<.: 12 50

Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
rates.
OE Ts 9 COME Ee ; =
Roofing, BOM OR 5 oe oie oo hd dvedsceic 75
PERE, Ps BO eno oc coy ws ce cccweceveses i 00
Roofing, 20x28, Be i ics cates cbis aceaess 14 00
TIN—LEADED.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 50
LX, 14x20) choice Charcoal Terne........ _1@
10, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... “11 00
LX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........ 14 00
TRAPS,
PERE oc a io ve navn oe ennctes 60&10
Pht idajCommuntity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
ida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hote WON oa on eck cede cd aeedacennises 60&10
BP em OW. Mie, O66. . 6c occ c ce chess 60&10
po 8 engi Seige ere ei ee 18e 8 doz
PROC, COLON), ooo vnc cs cece ccccccs $1 50 PB doz
WIRE.
BED PRO, oso isc eens ceancdees dis 67%
Avinenled MARKOt. ..< ...- 5. < ccs cusses dis 70
CO EOG, PAMEMOE Sooo oi oa ccc ceccscees dis 62%
Rr Oo ici udakccudeawe uae: dis 55
PUPNIOE TG og cca ot cc cns daseceuns dis 62%
PUNE PUNE, gb kck 0c a dsc cc ndecckeecas mb O99
oy ea ne rey B Ih 8%
Coppered Spring Steel..... ....... dis 40@40&10
PInHOG SOFIE BIOEL. ... «ccc ccc ccnccccnce dis 650
py es a ee a renee @ Ib a4
Bar bed Fence, gg ee ee
MNEs gcd so dnaeds as bdegs “gue
CE os i oo he occ ck arias sven eccyes new list net
EV ei Ca vnc cweds daees new list net
“WIRE aoops.
MONE gai oo ccc ecsk cee decu dccnaee dis 70&10&10
oa os os he aan seek cn es ac dis T0&10&10
ROMA oo bc co hic cain nd nace dis 70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis 70&10&10
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Ce CRO iio kc oc aca vdateceances dis 60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 75&10
Coe’s Patent, malleable............ dis T5&10&10
MISCELLANEOUS.
MOM ios s even cd co de aascadewabeces 5
PURO. CHBGOIN 6 «oe cn cscs sinc canescens dis 70
Borewe, NOW Lb. . ore cccccsccssescesas 75
Casters, Bed and Plate............. disd0&10&10
Dampers, American .............-....45- 40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5
Copper Bottoms.............. sapdiveduas 250

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4 MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

KE. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors,

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

i£ntered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class Matter.]

 

| EDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887.

 

. »
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul! P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. Herrick, Grand Rapids.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—Juligis Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Committee—President, First Vice-President,
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Committee on ‘Bbrade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse
City; P. Ranney, Kalamazoo; A. W. Westgate, Che-
boygan.
Committee on Legislation—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; J. V.
Crandall, Sand Lake; J. F, Clark, Big Rapids.
Committee on Membership—H. 8. Church, Sturgis; B.
F. Emery, Grand Rapids; the Secretary.

 

Ada Business Men’s Association.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, Elmer Chapel.

Allegan Business Men’s Association.
President, Irving F. Clapp: Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

 

Bellaire Business Men’s Association.
President, John Rodgers; Secretary, G. J. Noteware.

 

Merchant’s Protective Ass’n of Big Rapids,
President, N. H. Beebe; Secretary, A. S. Hobart.

 

Boyne City Business Men’s Association.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

Burr Oak Business Men’s Association.
President, C. B. Galloway: Secretary, H. M. Lee.

 

Cadillac Business Men’s As’n.
President, A. W. Newark; Secretary, J. C. McAdam.

 

Cedar Springs Business Men’s Association,
President, T. W. Provin; Secretary, L. H. Chapman.

 

Charlevoix Business Men’s Association,
President, John Nichols; Secretary, R. W. Kane.

 

Business Men’s Protective Union of ' Che-
boygan.
President, A. W. Westgate; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

 

Coopersville Business Men’s -Association,
President, E. N. Parker; Secretary, R. D. McNaughton.
Retail Grocers’ Trade Union As’n of Detroit.
President, John Blessed; Secretary, H. Kundinger.

 

Dorr Business Men’s Association.
President, L. N. Fisher; Seeretary, E. 8. Botsford.

 

Eastport Business Men’s Association.
President, F. H. Thurston, Central Lake; Secretary,
Geo. L. Thurston, Central Lake.

Elk Rapids Business Men’s Protective As’n,
President, J. J. McLaughlin; Secretary, C. L. Martin.

 

Freeport Business Men’s Association,
President, Foster Sisson; Sec’y, Arthur Cheseborough.
- — s — — ——— _ _ -.

Grand Haven Business Men’s Association.
President, Fred. D. Voss; Secretary, Fred A. Hutty.

 

Retail Grocers’ Ass’n of Grand Rapids.
President, Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

 

Greenville Business Men’s Association,
President, L. W. Sprague; Secretary, E. J. Clark.

 

Hastings Business Mén’s Association.
President, L. E. Stauffer; Secretary, J. A. VanArman.

 

Holland Business Men’s Association.
President, Jacob Van Putten; Secretary, A. Van Duren.

 

Ionia Business Men’s Protective Ass’n,
President, Wm. E. Kelsey; Secretary, Fred. Cutler, Jr.

 

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.
President, P. Ranney; Secretary, M.S. Scoville.

 

Kalkaska Business Men’s Association,
President, A. E. Palmer; Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.

 

Business Men’s Protective As'’nof Kingsley.
President, Jas. Broderick; Secretary, Geo. W. Chaufty.

 

Leslie Business Men’s Association,

President, Wm. Hutchings; Secretary, M. L. Campbell.

 

Lowell Business Men’s Protective Ass’n.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.

 

Luther Protective As’n,
President, W. B. Poot; Secretary, Jas. M.Verity.

 

Lyons Business Men’s As’n,
President, A. K. Roof; Secretary, D. A. Reynolds.

 

Mancelona Business Men’s Association. |
President, W. E. Watson; Secretary, C. L. Bailey.

 

Manton’s Business Men’s Association.
President, I. A. Jenison; Secretary, R. Fuller.

 

Muir Business Men’s Association,
President, L. Town; Secretary, Elmer Ely.

 

Grocers’ Ass'n of the City of Muskegon.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer.

 

Merchant’s Union of Nashville.
President, Herbert M. Lee; Secretary, Walter Webster.

 

Oceana Business Men’s As’n,
President‘ W.E.Thorp; Secretary, E.S. Houghtaling:

 

Ovid Business Men’s As’n.
President, C. H. Hurter; Secretary, Lester Cooley.

 

Petoskey Business Men’s Association.
President, Jas. Buckley; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.

 

Plainwell Business Men’s Association.
Président, M. Bailey; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

Reed City Business Men’s Association.
President, C. J. Fleischauer; Secretary, H.W. Hawkins.

 

Rockford Business Men’s Association.
President, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary, J. M. Spore.

 

St. Johns Merchants’ Protective Association.
President, H. L. Kendrick; Secretary, C. M. Merrill.

Business Men's Protective Ass’n of Saranac.
President, Geo. A. Potts; Secretary, P. T. Williams.

South Boardman Business Men’s Ass’n,
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8S. E. Niehardt.

 

 

Sparta Business Men's Association,
President, J. R. Harrison; Secretary, M. B. Nash.

 

So. Arm and E,. Jordan Business Men’s As’n.

 

| How Charred and Mutilated Currency Is

: Handled by Experts for Redemption.

, The bank note has any number of ene-
mies. These conspire to shorten its average
life of three years sometimes to less than as
many weeks. Bad habits are fatal to it. If
it starts out on a tour of the drinking places
and falls into low company, the chances are
a dozen to one that it will turn up at the re-
demption agency in a few days a’ ragged
and disreputable vagabond, to be chewed up
and made into papier-machie frogs, tur-
tles, ete., for paper weights. The bloody
fingers of a butcher and the dirty pockets
into which the bills are stuffed, wadded up
in every way, are not especially friendly to
the life of the bill, and fire and water claim
many of them for their victims in a year.

The charred and blackened remains of
many thousand notes appear at the treasury
department every month. They come in
singly, in half-dozens, and sometimes in
great packages, charred through and
through. All the burned bills go into the
hands of one lady in the comptroller’s office,
whose duty it is to identify them before
they can: be redeemed. If the notes are
stuck together in a crisp, black mass, she
first separates them, one at a time, witha
knife made with the thinnest possible blade
for the purpose. The remains of each note
are then laid upon a glass slab and very
closely scrutinized through a magnifying-
glass. The lady is familiar with the minute
peculiarities of the issue of notes by the
various banks and it rarely occurs that
some clew to the identity of the note is not
discovered.

Notes which are mutilated go to the re-
demption agency, which owes its origin to
Gen. Spinner. Here about 160,000,000 notes
on an average are handled five times each
ina year, the largest numbers coming in
January and June. An expert can han-
dle about ten thousand notes in a day.
When the notes are received they have to
be “counted in.” The counter-in” must go
over them twice, and if any mistake is
made or any counterfeit passed the loss is
deducted from the salary of the one making
the error. The counter is handed a bunch
of from 5,000 to 10,000 notes, for which a
receipt is given, and if, when they are
“counted back,” the two counts agree,
credit is given for them. Each package
bears the name of the counter and the
amount which it contains.

When the notes are thus counted they go
to the ‘‘sorters” where those in good con-
dition are separated from those that are
badly dilapidated. Next they are arranged
according to denomination and then distrib-
uted into banks of issue. After this they
are grouped into denominations, the head of
the banks putting them out, and are finally
‘counted out.” The ‘‘counter-out?? must
handle the notes three times.’ The respon-
sibility of the ‘‘counter-in” is much greater
than that of the ‘‘counter-out.” The ‘‘coun-
ter-in” must bear in mind constantly the
name of every bank whose notes have been
counterfeited, The greater part of the
work in this department is done by women,
and the degree of expertness displayed is
little short of marvelous.

—— oO
Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.

The Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion held their annual meeting on the 11th.
The election of officers for the ensuing year
resulted as follows:
President—Peyton Ranney.
First Vice-President—O. K. Buckhout.
Second Vice-President—S. Stern.
Secretary—M. S. Scoville.
Treasurer—J. Schuster.
One new member was admitted and the
Secretary was instructed to write to others
who were not already members, requesting
them to join.

a - 9
.Kalkaska Entitled to the Broom.

KALKASKA, Jan. 11, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Sirn—We wish to join the State
Association and I enclose $3.60 for our
per capita tax. At our last meeting we also
voted to subseribe for Tue TrADESMAN
and I also enclose $1.00 for that. We think
for the size of the town that we have the
largest membership. Are we right? We
have less than 1,000 inhabitants.

Yours truly,

C. E. RAMsry,

Sec’y Kalkaska B. M. A.
a
Exceedingly Valuable.
From the Bayne Falls Gazette.
E. A. Stowe, of Tire Micw1Gan TRADEs-
MAN, has been round this way looking up
the subscribers to that journal. His efforts
were well rewarded ana he gathered in a
big pile of silver dollars, besides several
new subscribers. Tur TRADESMAN is an
exceedingly valuable publication, and no
‘ive merchant can afford to be without it.

 

President, A. E. Pickard; Secretary, John Leng.

Sturgis Business Men’s Association,
President, Henry 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.

 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association.
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, C. T. Lockwood.

 

Tustin Business Men’s Association,
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.

 

Wayland Business Men’s Association.
President. E. W. Pickett; Secretary, H. J. Turner.

White Lake Business Men’s As’n,
President, A..T. Linderman, Whitehall; Secretary, W.
B. Nichoison, Whitehall.

 

Woodland Business Men’s Association.
President, John Velte; Secretary, I. N. Harter.

 

Retail Dealers’ Commercial Agency.
W. E. Cooper, Actuary, Grand Rapids.

 

Grand Rapids Butchers’ Union,
President, John Katz; Secretary, Chas. Velite.

 

Country Shopping.
From Harper’s Bazaar.

“No, ma’am; those are two articles we
don’t keep; but the oysters. I think, you
will find at the post office, and bananas you

 

 

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FPIREH-KINDLERS,

FOR SALE BY

Curtiss, Dunton ? Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

 

 

  

Importers and

Wholesale Grocers.

Sole Agents for

Lautz Bros. & Co.'s Celebrated Soaps.

Niagara Starch Co.’s Celebrated Starch.

“Joly Tar” Celebrated Plug Tobacco,
dark and light.

Jolly Time” Celebrated Fine Cut To-
bacco.

Dwinell, Hayward & Co.s Roasted
Coffees.

Thomson & Taylor’s Magnolia Coffee.

Warsaw Salt Co.’s Warsaw Salt.

“ Benton” Tomatoes, Benton Harbor.

“Van Camp” Tomatoes, Indianapolis.

“Acme” Sugar Corn, Best in the World.

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.

29, 27 and 29 Tonia St. and 51, 53, 55, 57 and 59 Island Sts,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Designers

Engravers 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.

BAKING POWDERS

With Presents.

FAMILY, 1 lb. cans, 2 doz. cases, at $4.50

With each Can apiece of Decorated China
all large pieces, and of same value.

FAMILY, 1 1b.cans, 2 doz. cases at $4.25
With each can a half-gallon Glass Pitchers.

FAMILY, i lb. cans, 2 doz. cases at $4.00

With each can a Hob Nail Oblong Berry
Dish. Assorted Colors.

SILVER SPOON, 8-4 lb. can, 4 doz.
cases at - - ~ - $2.50

With each can, a piece colored glass Tea
Set.

 

 

 

Arctic Manufacturing Co,, Grand Rapids,

 

: ORDER.
Our Leader Smoking | Our Leader Fine Cut
15c per pound. | 338c per pound.

Our Leader Shorts, | Our Leader Cigars,
16c per pound. | $30 per M.
The Best in the World.

Clark, Jewell & Co.

SOLE AGENTS

Dwinell, Hayward & Co.’s Royal Java Coffee; and
O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

GERMAN IL, Winternitz,
MUSTARD. 106 Kent St.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Stop That Book-Keeping.

. The successful merchant of to-day is always
on the alert for the latest designs to please his pat-
rons. So we say to Merchants, stop that
Book-Keeping, and use the TALLIAFERRO
Coupon Credit Book.

' on have no idea how it will revolutionize

FOR

 

Dissolution of Copartnership.

The firm of Curtiss, Dunton & Co., has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent, Eli F.
Harrington retiring from said firm. The busi-
iness of the above firm will be continued by
John L. Curtiss and George B. Dunton under
the style of Curtiss & Dunton, who assume all
the liabilities of said firm, and to whom all ac-
counts are to be paid.

Curtiss, DuNTON & Co.

Grand Rapids, January 8, 1887.

 

 

fully to Cars Consigned to us.

ABSOLUTE SPICES

Absolute Baking Powder. °

100 per cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED, TELFER, Grand Rapids.

POTATOES!

CAR LOTS A “SPECIALTY.”

We offer Best Facilities. Long Experience. Watchful Attention. Attend Faith-
Employ Watchmen to see to Unloading. OUR MR.

 

 

your business; customers are _
and when once used by the merc

return to the old thread-worn pass book to prove
to their patrons that they are dishonest.
few dollars in Coupon Credit Books, give them

hted with them,
ant, they never

Invest 2

STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Fuller & Stowe Company will be held at

a fair trial, you can easily return to the old method;
faithful of errors, discontent and expense.
Sample copy 10 cts. in postage stamps.
Address

the office of the company, 49 Lyon street, Wed-
nesday, January 19, at 7:30 p,m., for the pur-
pose of electing a board of directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction of any
other business that may come before the meet-

 

 

 

ean get across the way, at the barbers.’ ’

Shop Cor. Front and First Sts., Grand Rapids.

J. TALLIAFERRO,

1933 McGee Street. ansas City, Mo, ing, - ° K, A. Stowe, See’y.

 

166 SOUTH WATER ST., ~

THOMPSON ATTENDS PERSONALLY TO SELLING. Issue SPECIAL POTA-
TOE MARKET REPORTS. KEEP OUR SHIPPERS fully posted. OUR QUOTED
PRICES CAN BE.DEPENDED UPON. WE DO NOT quote irregular or anticipated
prices. Consignments Solicited. Correspondence Invited from Consignors to this mar-
ket. References given when requested.

WM. H. THOMPSON & CO,, Coumission Merchants

CEICAGO. ILI.

  

 

  
   
 
     
  
   
    
     
   
   
    
  
   
    
      
     
    
   
    
  
   
   
  
   
    
   
   
  
 
   
      
   

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BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

INDEFINITE ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
An-acknowledgment in the following
terms: ‘‘I owe Dr. S. in borrowed money
and doctor’s bills of long standing not ex-
ceeding $1,000,” was held by the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania to be too indefinite to
remove the bar of the statute of limitations.

ACCOUNT—SEPARATE DE-
: MANDS.

A debt upon a continuous account or
book entries made in the ordinary course of
dealing is entire, and cannot, without an
agreement to that effect,, be split up into
separate and distinct demands, so as to
form the basis of separate suits,» according
to the decision of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania.

DEBTS—BOOK

PAYMENT—SENDING CHECK BY MAIL. 4

In the case of Norman vs Ricketts, late-
ly decided by the English Court of Appeal,
it appeared that the plaintiff, a milliner in
London, sent to the defendant, a customer
of hers in-Suffolk, a letter saying that she
would be obliged by the favor or a check |

 
  
    

PUTNAM & BROOKS

JOBBERS OF

And Manufacturers of

CANDY.

 

within a week. On receipt of the letter the
defendant drew a check payable to the or-
der of the plaintiff and posted it to her ad-
dress. The check was stolen in transit and
was paid by the defendant’s bankers, the
thief having forged the plaintifi’s indorse-
ment. In an action to recover the amount
the defendant pleaded payment. This plea
was sustained by the Court of Appeal.
The Master of the Rolls, who delivered
judgment, said that the rule of law requir-
ed the debtor to go and pay his creditor,
but that where the creditor asks for pay-
ment by check and by post, posting a check
to the right address is payment, though it
never reaches its destination.

 

CONTRACTS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

One person, for a valuable consideration,
entered into an agreement with another,
to the effect that he would not thereafter
engage in the business of manufacturing
ochre ‘in the county of Lehigh or else-
where.” He afterward went into the busi-
ness of manufacturing ochre in Lehigh
county. A bill was brought for an injunc-
tion to restrain him from continuing the
manufacture, he opposing on the ground
that the contract was in restraint of trade,
and contrary to public policy. The Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania held in the
ease of Smith’s Appeal that the contract
was divisible as to place; that while it was
void outside of Lehigh county; it was good
within the county; that it was competent

    

  

DIRECTIONS:
We have cooked the corn in this can pit
sutliciently. Should be Zhoroughly ) a iM
Warmed (not cooked) adding piece of
Good Buiter (size of hen’s egg) and gill
of fresh milk (preferable to water.)

NS Season to suit when on the table. None
. t genuine unless bearing the signature of

hel (rehey hicling ge
OR SMICOTHE tL Fx,
Ev at THis ENO

      
   

  

    

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with
signature and stamp on each can.

 

for the defendant to make the contract, and
that the same was reasonable and not op-
pressive. The court said: Where a county
or city or borough is named as a limit, and
an unreasonable extent of territory in ad-
dition is also named, the covenant is divisi-
ble, and may be valid as to the particular
place which is a reasonable limit. It has
been said that all the cases, when they come
to be examined, seem to establish this
principle—that all restraints upon trade are
bad, as being in violation of public policy,
unless they are natural, and not unreasona-
ble for the protection of the parties in deal-
ing legally with some subject-matter of
contract. The principle is this: public pol-
icy requires that every man shall not be at
liberty to deprive himself or the state of his
labor, skill or talent, by any contract that
he enters into. On the other hand, public
policy requires that when a man has, by
skill or by any other means, obtained some-
thing which he wants to sell, ‘he should be
at liberty to sell it in the most. advanta-
geous way in the market, and in order to
enable him to sell it, it i#mecessery that he
showld be able to preclude himself from en-
tering into competition with the purchaser.
In such case the same public policy enables
him to enter into any stipulation, however
restrictive it is, provided the restriction, in
in the judgment of the court, is not unrea-
sonable, having regard to the subject-mat-
ter of the contract.

Notions, Hosiery, Furnishing

Regardless of Cost,

24 PEARL ST.,

MY ENTIRE STOCK OF

oods, Lumbermen’s Sup-
plies, Pants, Overalls,

BITC.
Is For Sale,

To Save Expense of Moving’.

S. A. WELLING,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

A
Why it Was Too Late.
From the Detroit Free Press.

**You see, the way of it was this,” he was
explaining to a patrolman on Baker street
yesterday; ‘‘I was in the grocery alone, and
two men came in. They warmed their
hands at the stove, and one of them sudden-
ly began snuffing and sniffing and then
called out:

‘Say! Mister, your kerosene is leaking all
over the cellar.”

“That rattled me, and I grabbed a couple
of matches and ran down stairs. I was
down there a couple of minutes before I re- |

membered.”
**Remembered what?” .

**That my kerosene was up stairs at the

 

 
 
  

STRONG| Clark, Jewell & Co. | SURE.

PURE.

 

 

NEW PROCESS STARCH, [SW==T.

This Starch having the light Starch and Gluten
removed, »

, One-Third Less

te 3 Can be used than any other in the Market.
ie Manufactured by the

/FIRMENICH MNFG. CoO.

Factories: Marshalltown, Iowa; Peoria, Ils.
Offices at Peoria, Ds;

FOR SALE BY

 

 

back end of the store. I hurried up as quick
as I could, but I was too late.”
“They had robbed the till and gone, of

course?”
“Oh, no. They had gone around the

counter, and my big dog had corralled one
in the potato bin and the other between two |
molasses barrels, and was biting them at
the rate of forty bites a minute.”

“Then how was it too late?”

“Why, when I called the dog off and
looked the fellows over, I hadn’t the heart
to kick ’em across the street. 1 just led ’em
to the door and gave ’em one lift apiece: and
asked ’em to call again. I wish 1 wasn’t so
chicken-hearted about such things—I really
ao.”’ .

 

Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Rata Baga

afford will do well to write or wire us for prices before consign-
ing elsewhere. All goods sold on arrival and remitted for.

6 J BROKER & G0, 1002 N. Third St, $7, LOUIS, Mo.

In Car Lots.

Shippers looking for a better market than near-by markets

 

Commissions, 5 per cent.

 

SHEDS

26, 28, 30 and 32 OTTAWA ST., G’D RAPIDS.

Pd Sunes aie

Lili aoa siuaiiticiuk a ieee aide
are Peart eR :
BROS.

——WHOLESALE——

FRUITS, OYSTERS,

And Produce.

    

 

leading druggists and grocers of Michigan.
In towns where the cigar is not handled, I
am prepared to give the exclusive agency to
good parties, druggists preferred.

128 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

H. G. STUDLEY & CO.,,

 

ot

BAXTER'S CELEBRATED

 

“TUGKY. STAR” CIGAR

This famous brand is now handled by the

J. L. STRETITSKY,

STATE AGENT,

 

“CANDEE”

fie

The Sts. adard of Ms collence

-KINGSFORD'S

  

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iIVERGLOSS Sty
KINGsFoRD &SON

Bag? OSWEGO.N.Y.
=. 7 <ndE | Mapes 5

 
   
     
  

  

 
 

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings,
Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.
TIE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.

WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME!

ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS..

 

Rubh: ¢

 
  
  
   
  
   
  
 
 
   

DOUBLE THICK
BALL.

Ordinary Rubber Boots
always wear out first on
the ball. The CANDEE
Boots are double thick
on the ball, and give

DOUBLE WEAR.

Most economical Rubber
Boot in the market.
Lasts longer than any
other boot and the

PRICE NO HIGHER,

Call and ex-
amine the
goods,

Wo. 4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
Largest and finest stock in the State of
Rubber Goods, Mill Supplles, Fire Depart-
ment Supplies and Sporting Goods.

 

TIME TABLES.

Chicago & West Michigan.

       

: Leaves. Arrives,
POR odin cba sale ciisescusccauseds 9:10am 3:55 pm
tDay Expre 12:30 pm 9:45 pm
MR I i ecko ne c's cis ace 11:00 p ra 5:45am
Muskegop Express.....4. .. ..... 5:00 pm 11:00 a m

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through
parlor car in charge of careful attendants without ex-
tra charge to Chicago on 12:50 p.im., and through coach
on 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. trains.

Newaygo Division.

saves. Arrives,
Express sd eorbereensaseseceonsiacnna CaO Oth 1:50 pm
TRON ous es peas cekelsascesce cn ee 10:30 am

All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.

The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin,
where close connection is made with F. & P. M. trains
to and from Ludington and Manistee. :

V. A. GAVETT, Gen'l Pass. Agent,
. J.B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

 
   

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH,

Arrives. Leaves.

Traverse City Express.,........... 7:00 am

Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex.. 9:20am 11:30am
Cincinati Exprees....... 6. .5...55 7:30 pm

Petoskey and Mackinaw Express.. 3:40 pin 5:05 pm

Bam@iaw ExXpreey, ......cnccsescase 11:25am 7:20am

. cL ar. akan ae bee eae aan 10:30 am. 4:10 pm

Saginaw express runs through solid.
7am train has chair car for Traverse City. 11:30 a
m train has chair car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City.
5:05 pm train has sleeping and chair cars for Petoskey
and Mackinaw.
GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnati Exprems. .....6.....5.0. 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express............... 10:30 am 11:45am
Cincinnati Express. ..... 26.5.0... 4:40 pm 5:00 p m

 

Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex..11:00 pm
7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
save,

Le rrive,
MA MN bis a ane k bik edn con wek bus kevens 5 9:15am
qe 1:00 pm
5 7:10pm

 

saving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.

  
 

 

   
  
 

Leave. Arrive.
Ex. & Mail. N. Y. Mail. N.Y. Mail. N.Y. Ex.
4:35pm 7:45am..Grand Rapids. 9:45am 6:10pm
5:55pm 9:02am..Allegan....... 8:28am 5:00am
7:05pm _ 10:06am,..Kalamazoo... 7:30am 4:90pm
8:30pm 11:35 am..White Pigeon. 5:55am 2:20pm
2:30am 6:05 pm..Toledo ., +1100 pm 9:45am
8:30am 9:40 pim..Clevelan -» 640pm 5:35am
2:50pm 3:30am..Buffalo.. --1:55am 11:10pm

6:40am 6:50 pim..Chicago.......11:30 pm = 6:50am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1 p m, earry-

ing passengers as faras Allegan. All trains daily ex-

cept Sunday. ‘ J. W. McKenney, General Agent.

 

Detrvit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.
Arrives. Leaves.
tSteamboat Express............... 6:25am
PERO ATE oki ck. reas oceans 10:40 am 10:50 a m

   

tEvening Expre 15 pm
MEASAUEG PXDEGHE, os 05 o opan cies ones 9:20 pm
TOKO, WIR: CORED eos cs ok

GOING WEST, -

3:50 pm
10:55 pm
11:00 am

  
  
  

‘Morning Express. occ...) 55.6 ck ae 1:05pm 1:10 pm,
+Through Mail.... iceaesen Gee) ia 5:05 pm
‘Steamboat Express............... 10:40 pm

TIONG, . a. ain e; 7:45am
*Night Express 5:10am §:35 a m.

  
 
 
 

+Daily, Sunday pted. *Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:25 aim Express make close
connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for
New York, arriving there at 10:30 am the following
morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner car
and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. Porrer, City Passenger Agent.
Gro. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager Chicago.

 

Michigan Central.

  
  
 
    
  

DEPART.

Detroit Express Wg ttt eerste e testes scene eens 6:15am
MOAT MRM E  l P eins (uke kn ba cues ek le cae 1:10pm
MA UMREAG SEPP CRK 6 6 oasis ss dois eb ncn bb cose cass ace 10:10 pm
aes oa ck eee eee coc i cans 0k be des 6:50am
WE MRE POU oy ir eh se shee a ve 6:00 am

RRAE SG hse ts shade lcd chah eA eas sud ars ake ce Lhe ccs . 3:00 pm
SPARRO HADUIS EKUTORS, boii cscs coc ctveces 10:15pm
POUR icyou aka ee cia eave iguua Megs ewees 5:15pm

*Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars

run on Atlantic and Pacifie Express trains to and from
Detroit. Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand
Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direet connec-
tions made at Detroit eid all through trains East over
M. OC, R. R., (Canada Sout@ern Div.)

D. W. JOHNSTON, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago,

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going West. Going East.

7:00am 6:50am..St. Ignace..... 8:30pm 5:55pm
2:20pm 9:40am..Seney.......... 5:15pm 12:35pm
5:30pm 12:40pm) § 2:15pm 7:00am

12:50 pms Marquette .. (2:00 pm
1:40 pm. .Negaunee..... 1:25 pm
1:56 pm. .Ishpeming....12:58 p m
6:30 pm.. Houghton ..4. 9:20 a m
5:50 pm,..Hancoek ..... 9:0Lam
6:35 pm,.Calumet...... 8:15am
Mixed train leaves St. Ignace at 7am; arrives Mar-
uette 5:30 p m. KE. W. ALLEN,
nm. Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette.

 

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FB. J. LAMB & CO.

STATE AGENTS FOR

‘D. D. Mallory & Cos

DIAMOND BRAND OYSTERS
Also Fruits and Country Produce,

OBERNE, HOSICK & CO.,

Manulactarers of FINE LAUNDRY and TOILET SOAPS,

L200 Michigan St., Chicago, Iil
. We make the following brands:

HARD WATER, Linen, German Family, Sweet 16, White Satin,
Country Talk, Mermaid, it will float, Silver Brick, Daisy,
White Prussian, Glycerine Family, Napkin, Royal.

Our HARD WATER Soap can be used in either hard or soft water, and will go
one quarter farther than any other Soap made. (Trade mark, girl at pump.) We are
getting orders for it now from all parts of the country. Send for a sample order. We
pay all railroad and boat freights. Our goods are not in Michigan Jobbing houses.

A. HUFFORD, General Agent, Box 14, GRAND RARIDS, MICH.

Write me for Prices.

   

 

 

 

The accompanying illustrations reprents the

~ Boss Tobacco Pail Cover.

It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist
and fresh until entirely used.

It will pay for itselfin a short time.

You cannot afford to do without it..

For particulars, write to

ARTHUR MEIGS & CO.

Wholesale Crocers.,

Solic Agents,

77 to 88 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS,

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AN OLD GAME. ’
Nashville Invaded by Paper Sack Swin-
diers.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 17, 1887.
E, A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Drar Str—This place was visited Se a
couple of paper sack sharps last Saturday.
They registered as M. Hogan, of Detroit,
and Dan Beram, of Grand Rapids, and
claimed to represent the Union Paper Sack
Co. ‘Their modus operandi was about as
follows: They went to the dealers and so-
licited advertising, representing that they
were going to furnish five thousand paper
sacks to the two leading grocery houses
here, the advertising to be done on those
sacks. They sold the whole of one side of
the sacks to a clothing house and the whole
of the other side to a hardware man, beside
selling considerable space to other parties.
They went to the proprietor of the News
and made a contraet with him to do the
printing on the sacks, and wanted to pay
him for printing one thousand and have
him give them a receipt showing that they
had “paid for printing five thousand, so
they could show the receipt to the dealers.
They claimed that Marshall Cook, the edi-
tor of the Hastings Banner, had given them
a receipt for payment for five thousand
when they had only paid for one thousand,
and showed a contract with Cook, and his
receipt, to the dealers here. The proprie-
tor of the News would only give a receipt
for what they paid him, so they paid him
for printing one thousand sacks, and told
him the sacks were at Mr. Derby’s and at
Buel & White’s. When the dealers asked
them where the sacks were, they said that
one thousand of them were at the News
office and the rest would be here long before
that thousand was used up. When Strong,
the News man, sent to McDerby’s and to
Buel'& White’s for the sacks to print, they
knew nothing of them—had not seen’ any
sacks belonging to the Union Paper Sack
Co. They made a written contract with
the grocers that were to use the sacks and
showed these contracts to the dealers. Af-
ter they had given the copy to Strong for
the advertising, and just before taking the
train, they went to the printing office with
another advertisement and wanted Strong
to put that on, too; but he objected, saying
that healready had all they had paid him
for putting on. They insisted that that par-
ticular advertisement must go in and to
leave out some other one to make room for
it. If Strong had lent nimself to them, and
given them the receipt that they wanted,
they probably would have roped in nearly
every business man in town, but, as it was,
they got but very little money.

Yours truly,
WALTER WEBSTER,
Secretary Merchants’ Union.
Dubious Jobbers—Information Wanted.

CoLuins, Jan. 10, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Str—I am credibly informed that
several parties in Ionia who wholesale kero-
sene oil are in the habit of selling to farm-
ers at wholesale rates. To me this looks
wrong. What is the opinion of THE
TRADESMAN? ,

If there any reader of THe TRADESMAN
who has tried the experiment of selling
goods at 5 per cent. for cash or ready pay?
If so, I would be pleased to hear the result.
It seems to me that such a course would en-
courage cash trade and be a just reward to
prompt-pay customers.

Truly yours,
S. S. BURNETT.

As a constant reader of Tot TRADESMAN
for the past four years, Mr. Collins could
not fail to have noticed frequent references
to the abuse to which he refers—the jobber
selling the consumer. THE TRADESMAN
does not consider it legitimate business, and
is glad to be able to state that the crusade
begun against the abuse by the Retail Gro-
cers’ Association of this city has resulted in
the complete abandonment of the practice
on the part of Grand Rapids jobbers. Simi-
lar action by the Ionia Business Men’s <As-
sociation would undoubtedly accomplish the
same result as regards Ionia.

If any of Tuk TRADESMAN’s readers has
tried the experiment of selling goods at 5
per cent. off for cash, it will be a source ef
pleasure and information to many merchants
to learn the results of such experiments.

———__—— o>

The Grocery Market.

Sugars remain nearly stationery, but cof-
fees, fruits, canned goods and fish continue
to trend upward.

The supply of oranges is large and prices
rule very low. Lemons are in moderate re-
quest and steady in price. Almonds and
filberts show a slight decline. Other nuts
are unchanged. Peanuts are firm, with a
shade higher market in Virginia. Figs and
dates are steady very low prices. Oysters
are held firm at last week’s advance and
there is no prospect of any change in the
near future. Chesapeake Bay at Baltimore
is frozen over solid as far as the eye can
reach.

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Japanese Cod Liver Oil.

The Japanese do not appear to be lack-
ing in-commercial enterprise. According
to a note in Nature, the Japanese govern-
ment has dispatched an official of the Min-
istry of Commerce to Norway in order to
study the cod fisheries, and the prepara-
tion of cod liver oil in that country. In the
north of Japan large numbers of cod-fish
appear at certain seasons of the year, and it
is intended to develop this industry. Jap-
anese cod liver oil is not unknown in the
London market, but, doubtless, the inquiry
now being made will lead to the prepara-

tion of a superior article in Japan.
—~—>-? >

It is urged that the people of the State of
Illinois are placing an unfair burden upon
the druggists of Iinois by compelling them
to pay the expense of the enforcement of
the pharmacy law, because the people are
benefited by the law, through its restraint
on adulteration and sophistication of drugs
and medicines, as well as the fact that it
secures to them pharmacists of the highest

 

 

From the National Stockman and Farmer. .
The manufacture of ‘Philadelphia but-
ter,” which has long been recognized as, the
choicest article in that line made. anywhere,
has, within the Jast half doxen years, been
largely transferred from the bands of the in-
dividual farmers into the control of the
creameries. ‘These creameries are scattered
about the country, in convenient: locations,
and have become quite numerous. They are
all establishments of limited capacity, cal-
culated to handle the products of a territory
small enough to insure freshness of the milk
when delivered. The average output of
these concerns is 250 to 300 pounds of but-
ter per day. At first, they all make skim
cheese also, but this is discontinued because
it is unprofitable. All the creameries with-
in forty or fifty miles of Philadelphia were
built to make both butter and cheese, and
all the patrons delivered the whole of the
milk every morning.

In the West and in New England, a differ-
ent method has been more recently adopted,
and, instead of collecting all the milk of a
neighborhood at a common point, only the
cream is collected, the gathering being done
by men and teams in the employ of the man-
agers of the creameries. This plan has its
advantages in the reduction of time and labor
required to handle the whole milk, as there
is no skim milk to deal with, only the but-
ter and butter-milk. The cream is separated

the gatherers, whose routes are sometimes
as much as twenty miles long, going by one
route and returning by another. This plan
makes a little more work on the farm, as the
milk must be set for creaming ‘and cared for
in all respects as if the butter were to be
made at home; but the cream is collected
every day, or every other day, and carried
to the factory. Farmers must have suitable
arrangements for keeping their milk until
the cream rises, which in many instances re-
quires the use of ice in summer or a good
dairy house with plenty of cold water.

The cream, when all collected and de-
livered, is placed in a large vat to ripen and
is churned the following day. The churns
are large, holding about 200 or 300 gallons,
but for churning, only one-third to one-half
of the churn’s capacity is put into it at once.
They are cylindrical in form and hung on
the long axis, are driven by steam power,
and require from one to twa hours, as cir-
cumstances may require, to complete a churn-
ing. The churn is stopped when the butter
is in the granular form, the butter-milk is
drawn ofi, and what adheres to the butter is
washed out with the brine before the butter
leaves the churn. It is‘then taken from
the churn, placed on a revolving table, and
worked only enough to remove the brine and
put the butter in shape for printing in pound
or half-pound quantities, or ‘packing in fir-
kins for market.

Wherever the creamery is introduced, it
supplants the manufacture of butter on the
farms. It is more economical to thus make
the butter. It is of uniform quality and
brings a better price when sold, and the
farmer realizes more money for his product.
The prevailing plan is to arrange with the
operator of the factory to do all the work,
from collecting the cream to selling the
manufactured product in packages furnished
by himself. For his work he gets four cents
per pound and the butter-milk. Thus, the
farmer gets the market pric@ of creamery
butter for his product less the four cents per
pound for manufacturing and marketing,
settlements being made weekly or monthly,
as may be agreed upon. In this way he gets
more money for his butter than if he made
itat home, with the added advantage of
relieving his household or himself of much
disagreeable drudgery.

The cream-gathering method is ihe one
adopted in all localities where new creamer-
ies are being built. Itis, on many accounts,
preferable to the old plan of carrying all of
the milk to the factory and bringing the
skim milk home. Less work is required, as
a few men and teams can do all the collect-
ing and manufacturing, while the farmer
can attend to his work at home, instead of
spending an hour or two every day deliver-
ing his cream tothecreamery. Insomecases,
the operator of the creamery buys the cream

make a pound of butter. In this case,

price which butter brings in the market.

which plan is adopted.

he may receive in either case.
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A Complete Stock.
From Life.

men’s gloves?
gloves large enough to 4t you.
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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

tions. Pelts are fairly active.

on the farms and skimmed and collected by |

at so much a measure, usually estimated to
the
price paid for the cream is regulated by the

There is not much difference to the producer
The operator as-
stmes, or is made to assume, all responsi-
bility of manufacturing and marketing, and
may be held to account for the cream which

Old Lady (to clerk)—Have you gentle-

Clerk (glancing at the old lady’s hands)—
Yes, ma’am, but I think we have ladies’

Hides are dull at the present low quota-
Furs are
quiet, pending the approaching London

 
   
  
 

“Tt is. well

  

Kerns: & i uneoed. “Clarion:
worth the price.”

“The drug department alone is worth more
than the price of subscription.”

John A. Wright, lumberman and general
defler, Grand Junction: “Your paper is doing
a good work. The principles advocated should
be adopted by the business men’s aséociations,
as they have long been neglected and are
needed by all dealers.”

Chas. E&. Brewster. handle manufacturer,
Kingsley: ‘Pus TRADESMAN is of great value
to me—more, perhaps, than any other one
journal I get. I do not want it stopped, but
on the other hand want it to come to me regu-
larly by every week.”

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—The best winter varieties are scarce
at $2.75@$3 PB bbl.
Beans—Country hand-pick
@ bu., and city picked $1.40.
Beets—40c ® bu.
Buckwheat—2\4c #® b.
Butter—Michigan creamery is in good de-
mand at28@30c. Dairy is in tair demand at
20c.

Cabbages—$4@$5 8 100, according to size.
Carrots—30c # bu.

Celery—Grand Haven or Kalamazoo, 20@25e
# doz.

Cheese—Fall stock of aie full cream is
firm at 184%@1l4ce.

Cider—12\%c # gal.

Cranberries—Choice Bell and Bugle and
Cape Cod are scarce at $9@$9.50 @ bbl. Jer-
seys, $8@3.25 B bu.

Dried Apples—Evaporated,* 11@12c ®@ b;
quartered and sliced, 6(@6%c ® b.

Dried Peaches—Pared, lic.

Eggs—Scaree and high. Strictly fresh are
hard to get, readily commanding 22@24c and
pickled and cold storage stock are in good de-
mand at 20c. °

Honey—Dull at 9@18e

Hay—Bailed is moderately active at $15
per ton in two and five ton lots and $14 in car
lots.

Onions—Good stock readily commands $2.75
# bbl.

Potatoes—Buyers are paying 35c at this mar-
ket and towns within convenient shipping dis-
tance of this market.

Pop Corn—24%e.8 bb.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys, $4 8 bbl.
Squash—Hubbard, 2c 8 bb.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.
Wheat—lc higher. City millers pay 78 cents
for Lancaster and 75 for Fulse and Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 46@47c in 100 bu.
lots and 42@48c in carlots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots and 32@33e in
car lots.

Rye—48@50c # bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 8 ewt.
Flour—Lower. Patent, $5 @ bbl. in sacks
and $5.20 in wood. Straight, $4 #® bbl. in
sacks and $4.20 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ® bbl.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $13 # ton. Bran, $13
®@ton. Ships, $14 #®ton. Middlings, $15 # ton.
Corn and Oats, $18 #% ton.

PROVISIONS.

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

ommand $1.15

 

  

  
 

PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess, Chicago packing.................2.5, 11 50
DRAG BO ek io iy a se a ee baat ekane 2 12 50
BN GUE C16 TOW on oo i oi akan caseccas so .12 75
SP. Booth, aes cee ck ees 12 75
Clear, A. Webster, NEW ...........-.....5% 13 75
Extra clear pig, short cut............ Vice. 14 00
Extra clear, heEavy.......... cc cece eee ce eeee 14 00
Clear quill, short cut............08¢020% ves D4 00
Boston clear, short cut..................... 14 25
Clear back, RE OM co inca. il Tiss: 14 25
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 14 60
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clear OR oki aa ene suse sts 6%
WOOGIE soo a bas nieces ie 6%
$s RE bs os cg oo cha caavea ts 6%
Short Clears, eeante Bok gee ee kage
do. PII oon oe kan cnc eee
do. ee i ck oakinictawie bin
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, average . = caesae Tae ceue caus 1 i
bat si aces is cake eeceube 1
- + 2 “a <a Reed east 11%
OP PON oo oso cane nse ate Caos anne gin i%
~* Honeiess ...-...-.- ‘
* best boneless... ao
ERIN a ake cack oct o ns ood ie
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................4:. &%
Dried Beef, extra rd ca ae cans bene ak 9
TMT PPGOOS oe ak ee cae odin 12
LARD.

EOI ge es ee Ais epee eae oa 6%
20 end OOD TRS 2... sce ok ose ene ss eee 65g
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
3b Pails, 20 in a case............ Le: 7%
5 b Pails, 12 in acase.................... 76

10 i Pails, 6 in a case..................- T
20 Pails, 4 pailsin case............... 6%

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs........ 7 28
TRONOIOBR: CET 5 os oi ok ok knees cone se sas 12 00
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

POU BAUIBORO. «oo oo oc 5 ce kee oeen sas cdo See as 7%
Ham Sausage...........- esr leiaee ee iM’

Tongue Sausage. oe es ans tea dd
Frankfort SausSag@e............cecedeees cece 8
Mei A os is oc cs conc ck os cee kes 6
Bologna, straight............cccceeccescecsves 6
TROIGHDE, TG o sn ok cree cc ce cacs ase cesneet 6
BEGRA COORD. os oie oe ign sd cc detec mens 6
PIGS’ FEET.
hs HALE HONVOIS ooo is vos cs sien aed eee eae 8 40
In quarter barrels.............ceseeeceeeees i)
HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:
HIDES.
Green....@ %5%@ 6 |Calf skins, green
Part cured... 7 3 7%! orecured....7 @9
Fullcured.... 7 Deacon skins,
Dry hides and ® piece..... 20
D6 2 3.55-s+ 8 @l2z
SHEEP PELTS.
Old wool, estimated washed # D...... 25 @28
TAUOW.........2- ve leseseoecess eee. see 38 @ 38%
Fine washed # b anaes! ee washed.. as
Medium ......... 27@30| Unwashed eee cee
FURS.

 

Oe ye oe akadien nes eee ees 25
We og a oka hanes bac beens cote cs 4 00@ 8 00
RB aco. chic cae ees co euse 3 00@ 8 00
NN iad oc ae yee ca bos 80@ = «9
os oe as eee bo ws oe ee 1 00@ 1 50
CO Seas ees ces 5 00@ 8 00
ON es ein dn ta ees ie heats 4-@ 1 00
At ccs viaccess oa esee goo 1 00@ 1:10
ss aes go Va pes os noes 2 00@ 3 LO
Muskrat, WI oi osc ae Ae it 14
WEN is Ses beh a Gada neds cane 1@. v8

Deer, OP. os Bie ek ss 5@» 2d

These prices are for seinen skins only.

 

 

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS,
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

 

 

 

 

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sales. Tallow is without change.

Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 00
po eae econ car ee Map uaeacsee Pa

uisville Cement, pe@bbl............
PCR AN EOUE: Akron Cement per m bs Laas ak is ceeh 1 30
Hemlock Bark—Tanners all have large sup-| Bnifalo Cement, per bbl..... i ichiaes 1 30
plies. Dealers are paying $5 for good bark. ad — nis So ese 1 no

we fh : astering hair, per bu................ 5@

oe —_ dealers pay $1.50 @ for | sencco, per DDl.....---+scsccseeecereers 175
clean washed roots. Land plaster, per ton................65 3 50
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers are | Land Slaster, OOP NOU, cdc ri stn 4 cei 2 50
authorized to offer standard goods at 35 and 5 Fire brick, per > ceeeedeneees beads bea e $25 a; _

per cent. off, and second quality at 35, 5 and 10 | Fire clay, per bbl........... Renee vein)
er cent OF. * Anthracite, egg win oe ate car es: ve T5Q@6 S

nthracite, stove ut, car lo 00@6

FIELD SEEDS. _ Cannell, car lote........+..ess0e000s a 00
Clover, ee eng ee au aonb eas oases 4 560 | Ohio Lump, car lots.................- 31 25
WO os sc kk css ooo ie 4 50| Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. 4 Poe 00
Timothy, prime. beau genden sts s oavinue es 2 00| Portland Cement...............2..0. 8 00.

H. BE. Grand-Girard, druggist, Big Rapids:

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

  

 
 

 

  
 
 
 

 
 

 
  

 

  
  
   

 

 

 

ng Toe
Groceries. . Vanilla
7 150 250
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. “ “ 6 02 ieaesretieaerst 250 40
ais “ Noe Taper ek en aes 12 1 50
These prices are for cash buyers, who pay “ © Mee oe 17 2 15
promptly and buy in full packages. 5 = - 2 pint, round ciatees + ps + a
- Be a ae aees 9 5
: AXLE GEBLEE. Mog No.8 panel.......... 110 165
CROWD ioscan ee ee: 80/Paragon ........... 210 . BONO. 8 OM seeeteeeee 275. 4%
Frazer’s........... 20 Paco 25 ib pails. = : NOuIO 8 eee 425 600
Diamond X........  60|Fraziers, 25 pails.1 2 FISH.
Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50 Pra Whe eh ca 4 @A%
BAKING POWDER. MO Oe ain bev os Socata tng comcen suet genes,
= Se ae RRS RTO eR ARATE ea 9@10
Acme, % A tb cans, 8 doz. CASE... ee ee ee eee 85) Herri ine. pond, % bbl......... ck. @2 50
ate 4° ae ; ae ga ee ee ete Herring ,round, 4 ES os hs dies oad hs 1 35
ie B ik eee re nee: 25 Herring, Holland, as oa kes ccs 11 00
: PEER Fea Cone am tiier cesta eames ceah et os | Herring, Holland, kegs..............-..-. ais
I rincess, “48 Be ks coe ck co ee cee eee 1 = MMA HRI os sank bree ce es @20
ce og Kid eich p Rikk ha ees ORR ane ee 8 4 35 Mac kerel, shore, No. : % bbls Ce 8 it 8 00
Mo I de se a tre 28 - ‘ ae a
Arctic, % tb cans, 6 8 doz. CASC......-.-.++ ++ 45 “ No. 3. ¥ i r »
“ i “ ° oe ee oe 1 40 Sardines, spiced, 4S..........-. oe eau ceuus 10 @ 12
a eee re ee A aa ae eget ae a a me 7 1 L
God BB Beet ee Te ope te
Victorian, 1 b cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... ...... 2 00 Wink ao : 2 as Redeacemeheresnt anes : >
Diamond, “DU vi... ick is base wens an pence 15 White, No. 1, eee 90
White, Family, Hy i ogee pak ince eee Oe
Dry, No. 2 25 Rs loca ce bes ncdaendace 75
Dry, No. ; en 45 MATCHES
Liquid, 4 02,.,........... Lae nenveses —_ 35 | Grand Haven, No. 8, square Si hii a becces 1 00
ROUND co bis ce dni cb ace es en doz. 65 | Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro........... 1 20
PIAA ORs co vee hd cena sening sons ® gross : ro Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1%
PROTOS FOR ioc nd cota cc chan eces des esieness Grand Haven, No. 300, WOM oie ee sees 22
A BOO a es Us i wc nae sotto cree nes 12 00 Grand Haven, No. 7, HOME... cies “8
Arctic No. 1 pepper box cook yh iadee ats eeaes S00) CB ROS, NOC o.oo c. ck ge ceases cows cecsvese sd OO
OTTO BIO i eck ens tse ss 3 00 Oshkosh, No. 8.......... Mob dsueueanyataceasa 1,50
APOMO MOS 8 ae iene yaa pe GD UN ec ceca ce claw aacuss ves)
—— aor. ong : om Oe eakeecleiies ;: z
: ‘ ichardson’s No. § Maa he eae cess cas 5
No.2Hurl....,..... 1 75|Common Whisk.... 0! Richardson’s No. 744, round. .............0.. 1 00
No. 1 Hurl....2 00@2 25;Fancy Whisk...... 1 00 Richardson’s No. 7 do 150
No. 2Carpet........2 PE RIE cco ctca cw see snes 3 75 Woodbine, 300 Cee er mee W@L 10
No. 1Carpet........ 2 50| Warehouse sige cnad 2% , aa "
Parlor Gem........ 3 00 scsi 16@18
CANNED FISH. We PN ooo cosas ead es cc ew cance cacas 25@28
lams, 1 , Little Neck............0..4s+- Pa Ee ne re Oe 24@30
Clams Ohowier, Bs chee ecko ee eas 215 Néw Orleans, ZOOE......-....... ee eee eee 28Q@34
Cove Oysters, 1 } standards.......... 90@1 % New Orleans, choice..... .......--.2+0+0+5 44@50
Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards...........°. 17 New Orleans, fancy, .... 6 ons c ick on cd ca ond 52@55
caneenns, 1 > picnic. ....:-... poo 1 i5 % OAT _ a
s 2 NEC Cs va wea as cae canoe 2 65 4
Lobsters, 1 B'star... Seite ee Ee 20 | Rolled Oats, bbl....5 50|Steel cut, Dbl. 8 50
Lobsters, 2 B Star..........:6.00. eee cree ees 3 00 . oe 1-3 00| ¢ bbl...3 00
Mackerel, 1 t fresh standards............ 15 cases 3 25)
Mackerel, 5 fresh standards............ 5 25 PICKLES. -
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, Me ice 3 50 Medium i dcab see dence eedehee headeeas cs 4 50@4 75
Mackerel,3 in Mustard................-: 3 50 BAN rds ec da usec s eee teense s ne @3 00
Mackerel. 3 - soused ee oe 3 6 Small, WP ehid ee oaaas iss tise uaee 50@5 75
Salmon, 1 i Columbia river.............-- 16 ue
Salmon, 2 t Columbia river..............- 280 | Imported Clay 3 gross..............--- 2 25@3 00
Sardines, domestic 48........-..02.--0e ees 6@7_ | Importeé Clay, No. 216,3 gross..... .. @2 2%
Sardines, domestic %48............+.0+-++ 10@12| Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gTOss...... Ql %
Sardines, Mustard %8.............. 2.00005 0@l2 American T. D....... messes yy Fonte shy 15@ - 90
Sardines, imported \48............4.-+2+4+ ¢ " : ie
ee ee G16) coice Carolina.....S99 RYE ooo... ‘
Prime Carolina..... 54 |Patna ............--. 5%
CANNED FRUITS. Good Oarolina...... 4%|Rangoon..... 54
Apples, gallons. standards...............- 325 | Good Louisiana..... § |Broken...... MOS
Blackberries. standards............-..0+6+ 90 TPRENO os did base waees © LR Ch ow keen ccncs
Cherries, red standard...........-.+-+-.6+ 110 SALERATUS.
BGO coc ae a Fawacca cease tenccassae 1 00 DeLand’s pure sia. §44|Dwight’s ............5
Egg Plums, standards ............- Sele: 2 CUTNONE: : .5 cos ns ee Bo Oe POG ic scans 514
COORODORPIOE oc oe oa es oc voce chew ecda seen - Hs 00} Taylor’s G. M....... 5 |Cap Sheaf........... 5
Green Gages, standards 2 D........-...... 1c less in 5 box lots.
Peaches, Extra Yellow es eects aus eunees 2 oD SALT.
Peaches, standards................0.ceeees 1 60 | 60 Pocket, FF Dairy:................. 210
Peaches, OOO oon cs cn cere cn dc scus aecaes 1 45 Be i Slee casewece cc cdevaacends 1 95
Pineapples, standards,...............+560% .1 40 SOD G Oy OOIONG, 5 ooo noo os ence te cna cees 2 35
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced... .......... 2 60 Saginaw or Manistee.................5 8d
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated...... 9 Wh PI oi gins oo cohen cne's Las L 45
MOE ike on cane ahs wean ess deemed concer 11 Standard COAT... ........sccnccsesee ‘ 1 2
Raspber RR, UIE Go. ic acne cc ane at near 1 25 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 75
MO oes is eaeeecs ccae es 135 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 75
BO TORTIOB oo iiss once so cecs nanan eenens 1.26 Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 70
WROTTICDOITICS «oc. 0. 55 ccc ec cs ccccntseesss 90 er ag ce to mg % bu, bags.........- 22
COFFEES—PACKAGE, Oock, busbels............2... see seeees 28
60 Ibs 100 bs 300 ths Warsaw, —" rage bags Del Gaeeeeeaau =
OE hs eben cap eawensaeee 2034 2034 20% uae ‘Wiha ai "
IOI 6 oo a bac ade ean cenaen 2034 2014 204 Parisian, % pints... _ eo 2 00
DI WGIG 2. occ heen dee hese hae 2044 Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 70
ERR IE o oc ice nk sce to oe bene 20 Pepper Sauce, WO eis a acccdetes @ 80
MAORI 6 oko ik iio x sna cese shawds 20 Pepper Sauce, red large ring ee @1 25
ee ak Caen ak eeues 20 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @l1 50
Lion, in cabinets............... 2034 Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @
IR so ssc esses eens 20. | Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @l 20
oy = aie Rega y aad da wshehe me anata * en ¥ . Halford Sauce, pints.................. @3 50
rt eee as kas ewan seeks sane ome “ 972 fOr 2a 1 i 9.
VORP FR oie ess teense ones 24 24 MRCOG HENCE, 6 a Ce @2 2
MRORIOIIN scan ansn se ohsestrsay recs = BOONE is feb sek une 3 85| Extra Chicago Fam-
CHEESE. WAOION oo eae l cess AO eae 2 94
Michigan full cream.................- hen New Process, 1 t)..3 85 Napkin............. 4 75
York State, Acme............... «. @l4 New Process, 3 tb. .3 96 POWER .<5455+ Lawease 475
cuoconaTe. Acipe, blocks... 3 08 White Cotton. Oil..8 50
Baker’s ........6.++4- 37/German Sweet....... 23) Best American....2 93,Railroad ........... 3 50
RUUMKICS .. 5 i. 4-0 ses 35) Vienna Sweet ....... eet Olena 8, Se. G.. os cn 3 45
COCOANUT. _S ve Center.,.3 85 Mystic White.......4 65
ox tke t Sé » 2 6
Schepps, 1 gooey ccs O35 | Shamroct 11103 1 Pale i paaoe
orca ae Ceca casen U6 atin She ce oo
i ye eek astm enmaengaus @2T Mi 7 , ~
2 “a a in tin pails Os Eye @27% London Family... ‘aoe oc obec ice 3 6
Bae oe ce ed @28% a PICES. Whol
Maitby’s, . ee aad cle shown es 23% | p ' ‘ no1e, pi
1s and ee uae @24 epper....... «s,.16@25|Pepper ..........- @20
@24% =~ BOIOO . 6. wcaacs ao PNG occ i a ess 8@10
a ee Se > innamon........18@30\Cassia ............10@11
Manhattan plc ge Gloves..." 1a Nutmess, No. i. so
Oe ei neensene ee neg a. &
COFFEES. Mustard.......... eee CIDVOE onc icicssss @28
. Roasted. Cayenne ......... 25@35
Pe ecdees 164@l17 Oost cases cee Ge orAncu.
Bolden Rio...17 @I19 Golden Rio...18 @20 | Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 tb pkgs.. @ 7
Santos........ 15 @li |Santos.............. 20 ** 6 Ib boxes... @ %%
Maricabo........... Z \Maricabo....... 18@20 ” “ “ak . @ 6%
WOVE Boca Re mg ies ae ca 2526 - Pure; £3 pkg@s....i....... @, 5%
O. G. Java....20 oo O. G. Java....23 @% iby Corn, } BD pEgs..... ...... @t%
MOGHA Vo loess: 23 |Mocha... .... 27 @28 | Royal, Gloss, 1 b ‘packages............ @ 5%
CANNED VEGETABLES. . a i ee chews ? é
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................05+ 200 | Muzzy, Gloss s, 1 ib packa; a » 5%
Renna. peg BtAHGMNE.... 6... 0... Mesias % sie sos ie packages Sua g Bit
Beans, Stringless, MUON. 6 fo ok idea ei een “ a Be Gs
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.......... seas 120 * Corn, 1 packages........... @ 6
Corp, Archer’s Trophy............-.-.++4- 110 | Firmenich, new process, gloss, lib.... @ 5%
MOVHIA@ GHLORY. 6 cise ce lene cases i 10 “ “ “3h. @ 5%
MA CIRO os o. nhw nce ene -: at tenee 1 10 se e' “ 6h... @ 6%
Sh EID TIGRE. oi een k ceca ewes os es 1 v0 “6 * bulk, boxes or bbls @ 4
fi! ioe laches 5 eas a 1 10 “ * corn. 1 Ba....... @ 6
QORGROR 7. so... ect neces cose esaes 1 35 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PALLS.
OP ENP ca oes vy sen eco phic onda pee eenes 5 | Obleery oi cccs i.e, cs. 60\Cross Cut............. 35
Os GND vides San 5 ode pa cn ee sas andanns 100 | Five and Seven..... 5 SS es 35
(> NOW PROGORS.... i. 6066 sce ss oc ee ss : Maghe 6 o.os. o s\Old Time............. 80
Peas, French... 2... ener es necseesccenncess Seal of Detroit....... 60 Underwood's Capper 35
Peas, extra marrofat................. 1 it "40 Jim Dandy........... 38\Sweet Rose.......... 45
PEAS, BOMKEG.... 2. seen ee cece ew cee e ee skans 7 | Our Bird..........: : - 25) eigs & Co,’s Stunner’
‘* Early June, stand............-.. 1 50@1 75| Brother Jonathan.. a ras ccs eta late 35
A RECEOG i.e csee eck aaa we 2 00} Jolly Time...........! 36|Royal Game.......... 38
* French, extra fine.................6.- 20 00} Our Leader........-. 338i Mule Bar... ........... 85
Mushrooms, extra fime............. -..eee- - 00| Sweet Rose.......... 32|Fountain............. 74
Pumpkin, TD COON. oo hac sv bdo ted cde sae 1 C0 May Queen....... - 65) Old Congress... | 64
Succotash, standard..............eeeeee: ee 10) Dark AmericanEagle67/Good Luck...........! 52
EOIN io 5 ose kane ew eee neee asses seeaene 6 The Meigs............ 60 Blaze Away.......... 35
Tomatoes, standard brands...........-... i 10 Bed PPG... csc us cus 50| Hair Lifter....... ... 30
CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. Strate BOAl,......0.<s- 60| Hiawatha ............ 65
KX XXX ®b Prairie Flower ...... WE ooo g ce lads caucan 65
sae aircon Indian Queen........ GPE TW oo ka cna *67
Kenosha Butter................ 6% May Flower 70'Crown Leaf 66
Seymour Butter............... 5 Sweet Pip cease ee 45 Hustler id alls te lt os
Butter ie tes Ch lace oa wes Pee ees 5 PPA <6 SMOKING Pant oceans _—
Fancy Butter........./....-++- 4% Our Leader.......... Ue oo 30
5. Oyster. shibaes guessed eee bane s 5 Old Wee ees 30'E ight Hours 24
POPE nih nn son5 oasnes arsine eens 4 5 Big Deal. ..... 27 Lucky bce ae
Fancy Oyster ipsa cece se : 4% Navy Clippings......26)\Two Nickel.......... 24
a Re hsminites te eh sd mdes ? iy | Leader ........ 0.5 15 Duke’s Durham..... 40
JIEV SOGA.... eee ee ee ee cece ences 5% Hard Tack.. : Be areen Corn Cob deine
Fe NE oo en die cease Osis cas
7 | Old Tar..... ........- AD MOD. MOY». 6o0<i esas 26
8 Arthur’s Choice.....22;Unele Sam........... 28
8 Hed Pox.............. 20 ma Derman ......... 25
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Pretzels, hand-made........... 11% on ac er aul a Se manned) =
Pretzels .....+-+2- e+ ereeeeeeeees 9% | Seal of oo Rapids |Home Comfort.......25
CDG ON io kas os oe be de pe anes 15% on nae
: e (OIODE) oo cede ca os MOOG BAD... ei ew esses 60
Lemon Cream...........--++++: i 8 eacear, 3 on 40\Seal ot North Caso
Sugar Creami............-..-00: 7 8 Miners and Puddlers 281 ‘ina, 2 oz 48
Frosted Cream..............++. 8% | Peerless “aAideel ot Marth Garo
Ginger Snaps..............-..- % 8 Sodio On lina: 40m =? 48
No. 1 Ginger Snaps............ t Old Tom oe eae Seal of North Ca wg
Lemon Snape... .........- 05600. 12% Tom & Jerry......... 24 lina, 8oz eal 45
Roflne CARON... ...-.0s-sescs0s 8% takee Toren na oslSeal of Novih Garo. -
a a aati teitapian age abate +f Traveler .............35|_ lina, 1602 iliaten. 42
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Extra Honey Jumbles......... 12% } ee 401 Stand org ences ‘=
Frosted Honey Cakes......... sl cas Geel Seine. =
Cream Gems...........6-.0e0+: 13% Holland soeahe a = ite sunbec ener ans 30
Bagleys Gems poe ee 13% Gucccan Stee eee eens 15} Red Maen went ee wees 30
Seed Cakes....... Misia sits namood ink 26
Bo CCRIRE. -- ++ <s2 09+ °° 84 | Honey Dew..........25}Queen Bee. ........22
CORDAGE. Colonel’s Choice..... 15
60 foot Jute..... 100 |50 foot Cotton....1 60 PLUG.
72 foot Jute ..... 125 |60 foot Cotton....1 75 | Sta ++ +++ -39/Splendid ............ 38
40 Foot Cotton....150 |72 foot Cotton....2 00 Old Minas Gaaavedwuene 97 OG WOR. i cscs ke scs 40
CHORE ia cco ccc tes MiBia Drive........5) + 40
DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN, Corner Stone. ....... 34\Chocolate Cream... 40
MUR ee ccs caps te seas 22 @ 25| Sealping Knife...... BAIN UMNIOE oo ies cscs eee
CRE oo ic cv ct ue iciic ce can ech ests @ 6%| Sam Boss..........-. 34| Big Five Center...... 33
BOM POOL i os kg ois heed ea eck estes Oe AA NG ec ce cess nb dnns TRITON oo ons 5 nc cece 42
OVaN@e POOL... 0. nce seceecscceenctaes @ 14| Jolly ae a, 82|Buster .......... i
Prunes, French, 608.............-6++0++ @ 9% | Jolly Wie. <2. scs% 82' Black Prince......... 35
Prunes, BrOUOR, GOB. oc occs ceutess ér ss @9 MAVORIG oss once venns 42)Black Racer......... 35
Prunes, Turkey, TE oi banc cnee ues se 6% | Black Bird........... MGM oo os cca sivwces 42
OIG fei iv cw ceieas antes 5%@ 6 | Live and Let Live...382)Acorn ............... 30
Raisins, Dehesia.......... ayetecedenees 3 50@5 00} Quaker...........-... 28\|Horse Shoe.......... 36
Raisins, London Layers............... @2 50| Hiawatha............ MEV IOOO oh oa c kb as anes cc 34
Raisins, California “ ...........+-+. 1 50@2 00; Big Nig.............. 37|\Merry War........... 26
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.............. 1 70@1 96| Spear Head.......... 39|Ben Franklin........ 32
Raisins, Ondaras, 288............ .-+++ 9 ON oY isis aven cuss ....40|Moxie........ Gontahes 34
Raisins, Sultanas.,...... @ 8% ee Chieken......38 Black Jack......... 82
Raisins, Valencia, new......... ia) Be le ..30}Hiawatha........
Raisins, Perera Turkey...............30|Musselman’ s Corker .30

 

 

 

 

  

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MOO NOs Bani ooo snc hss ecdnaaies
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Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ® cans.........
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Camphor. 02., 2 B hoxes...........605;
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POG PUMPIO ooo iss ko cc Keke cc ccwck esse 2%@ 3
Bret, GVGOU SUOBE oa is vce cec ose neis @1 16
Peas, Split Prepared. ... .....cceceasss @ 3 -
pe ESS OC ST ES Fe npr anne @4 00
Pe, MA RO goon occ se cecsdcccue cs = 7
Moa cs do nedensakecdncnssgeckeus
Sauerkraut . 4 wows 0
CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 BD boxes................05. 84%@ 9
Twist, cena @9%
Cut Loaf ei G10
MIXED
POAVORN, WM OUIB 6 oan os oc cea cnc cw sceas @9 ¥
PIE, SRE OP RIS Sov no ks cava bictaded ces @ 8
pe a ae a @l0 ¢
Us TU I ok on oo nbs coca ceed cas @9 ‘
French Cream, 25 ib pails.............. @uU%
Ne NOE, Te  CRROE, 6 a on oc sn csc ceccas @10
Bee ORs. ee Wr DIGEIO, 6 oo os eas ce csccceses @10
PPGNE, HE Pe in oo oa ve ccccsechccs @ 9
FANCY—IN 5 b BOXES.
Me TI ook cs cues oncsee ania Ge
WEY CPOE as 6 oa ce cccead bocusecst acess @ls
POPMOTMING DION... 62. ccccccececccces @i3
A AMORNAERS BOUIN so os cans u4 pc ce cdecacees 14
H M Chocolate Drops.. A ee 18
EPI oo ds cogs koe bac seas cs a 10
RMN BOD 6 ook vce cde c hn wasesesqaes 22 a
AB Licorice Drops.. aéweegadeeies 2
WRG, THIEN «cos on ccc hae sceacce stakes lt
MO, TE TUINOG ooo oe gic cs cc acne cbs 15
EE ne ks 14 %
MM a dh as cand bs cc bebe necensdnectds. 1B)
I IN ocd on da ccs Conccccs cusses 12
EN TIO cin cos bene isis a 2
MI goon oa eh cd de cen ane. aceucless 18 4
amin PEMOO CYORIAG, ..- . oo. acc cecncacaes 18
once ode ccna s cule canccua. if ,
remem CYORUIE. 5.35 osc ccs ccincss 20
WI iso ka'ok vn cu be ohis because 13
OIG Pe i occ nck cack cunncs 22
Wintergreen Berries........... .. 14
FANCY-—IN BULK,
Lozenges, plain in pailS............... @l11l%
Lozenges, plainin bbls........... .... @10%
Lozenges, printed in pails............. @Ii2%
Lozenges, printed in bbls............. @ul%
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. @12%
Cidtes EWODS Iii PAIS... 6 cc ce cc ccccdcs @ 6%
Grit Eve, 10h IB. . oo oe cc ce ceca scae cs @ 5%
RONG BRNO, WE DRUM, once ss ccewsvess . 9 @l0
Moss Drops, in bblis...... ch wad wa ea eges @9 “4
Stay EPeOrOm, Th LIB... 5. os < oon cc cones @l2
BOOT, BEF IN, 6 okidc vacds sc decececes @l2
Toperiais in DDIS... ..........4.. @ll%
FRUITS
POOTRIRE ASUTIIWEL.. occ cscs cosesss
Oranges, California, fancy............
Oranges, California, choica..........
Oranges, Jamaica, bbis................ »
COPCIMOG, WIOCIGR, . oo os cco cenceccsncs 01 3 00@3 75
Oranges, VWRIGMOCIA, CORGE. .......5 6.65. @6 00
CPOMTIOM, TROGNIG ooo occ ck ccccacceceds 2 50@2 75
Oranges, N —- ole auccu cases cceeus
Lemons, choice.. PS
DOI, TANGY ios so vec crcccac sacs @4
Lemons, California....................
Figs, layers, new, # D................. 11% @lb
Preaee SN, OP ss 5c Mak nos xc occ ands @6
pS ye a ae ee ® 5% $
emesis @ 6%
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Dates, Fard 10 fb box ® fb..... foie @10 6
Dates, Fard 50 b box ® B.............. @ 8%
Dates, Persian 50 ib box # b.......... 7T%@8
WIG BODICH, DH GOB. 6 065 dec secs cece
NUTS.
Almonds, WUPTROONA 6c ss 5 esse cds en
WMG geo co esi c rues sees. 15 @18%
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MOP oc, dai vc cacdceecsss ieee cases 12 @12%
MUNN OO TIE, 6 a cao soc vices tes esse
RINE, OME i oc onc cc co secdncseans @li
i RE i eo ska ds @9
Walnuts, ae ee ee 15 @li
" WO os ohne kc cieacce ccc 125
= os 5 beak oc ede dansk.
_ MTN, os oo os cna cance 12 @16
Pecans, OR Bhs Hook oo ve ku teca deuce 10 @l4
WINE co ea, @ 9 ‘
ROCIO, WE Me, so icc sacs ceccaesse @5 50
PEANUTS
Prime Red, raw 7 Wi ebsé desceedccea 4 @4%
Choice do GO ok oa cass ss desde @ 4%
Fancy H.P. do WN eae icae ens ass @ 5
theles WE SOOO oases iG @ 5%
We Be a OH OO ocak dc ccencacccses @ 6
Vice cu ccc cs deci uedcuuss 5%@ 6 ¢
OYSTERS AND FISH.
¥. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.
New York Counts.. . ....... 35
H. F. H. & Co.’s Selects...... ic... = ’
MR ce ink cee: ccdeeus she: es oda aecaccee
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UNNI occ iwadcdeesadweaiks Alls ccceccces 7 :
Oda oka ccccccee 14
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Selects, bulk, ® gal.. ‘ ..d 50
Standards, bulk, B gal.. ee) cnccces 110
New YorR Counts, ee “....... ..1 2
“ * oghell ®B 100. ..1 40
Clams, shell, # ! .
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BONO nc vo deavee cs cees ied
Mackinaw Trout.......:....... eieaees
MPM cc shi sen cei cies te hetstcncclcecen” Oa
BMD, chi Gan svcdee dnvnnnseeventse ces 10 @l1 ¥
OE occa. si cacocees: cawueceacc. @9 ¢ *%
OILs. ¢
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NOTES TOBE ionic colic danecececcdecaueue 10%
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MN PRIE CRORE ns oss bed eh aceceseugels ue 3644
IONE CRIME oo on u's cds cide cs kaon das dacces 31%
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Peerless Machinery. .i..........scccccccsces 50
Challenge Machinery....................000e 19
UII, ea ooh kako bic nccsed sede Niece Gkecens 7%
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~ Drugs & Medicines

State Board of Pharmacy,

_ One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit. '
‘Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. :
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids, March 1 and 2.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids.

First Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. —

Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpeming.

Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.

Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Treasurer—W m. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—Geo, W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson,
Frank Wells, Geo. Gundrum and Jacob Jesson.

Loeal Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.

Next Place of Meeting—At Petoskey, July 12, 13 and 14.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

*resident—Geo. G. Stekettee.

Vice-President—H. E. Locher.

Secretary—Frank H. Escott.

Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. | :

Board of Censors—President, V ice-President and Sec-
retary. : eg

Board of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, M. B.
Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond.
wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. White.

Committee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
child and Hugo Thum. :

Committee on Legisiation—R. A. MeWilliams, Theo.
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. :

Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and
Isaac Watts. :

Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each
month. ae

Annual Meeting—First Thursday eveningin November.

Next Meeting—Thursday evening, Feb. 3, at THE TRADES-
MAN office.

Saginaw County Pharmaceutical Seciety.

President—Jay Smith.

First Vice-President—W. H. Yarnall.
Second Vice-President—R. Bruske.
Eoneumary--D: . —_
Treasurer—H. Melchers.

Committee on Trade Matters—W. B. Moore, H. G. Ham-
ilton, H. Melchers, W. H. Keeler and R. J. Birney. |
Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday afternoon in

each month.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883.

President—A. F. Parker.
* First Vice-President—Frank Inglis.
- Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae.
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.

 

Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—R. F. Latimer.
- Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
ag a A. cE .
Treasurer—Chas. E. Humphrey.
Board of Censors—Z. W. Walivos, Cc. E: Foot and C, H.
Haskins.
Anntal Meeting—First Thursday in November.
Regular Meetings—First Thursday in each month.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.

President—I. C. Terry. ’

Vice-President—P. VanDiense.

Secretary and Treasurer—Geo. L. LeFevre.

Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednesday of
* each month.

 

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society.

President—F. W. Fincher.
Vice-President—F. W. VanWickle.
Secretary—Frank Cady.
Treasurer—E. A. Wright.

Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.

President—F. N. Latimer.
Secretary—W im. Heysett.
Treasurer—W. H. Taylor.
Meetings—Second Wednesday of each month.

 

The Drug Market.

Quinine, reported on-the 15th as dull and
without feature in New York and offered in
a large way spot cash at 49 cents, took a
sudden and unexpected turn on the 15th and
is now reported excited at 57 cents in bulk
and tending higher. Cubebs are very firm
at the advance. The oil has advanced to $12
@$13 per pound. Morphine is very firm and
a further advance is expected soon. Oil
cloves has further advanced to $2.15 and
tending higher. Borax is hardening in
price, having advanced °{ cent per pound
in barrels. Smaller quantities are still
quoted at 8@10 cent® Carbolic acid is very
firm at last week’s advance. Oil lemon is
higher. Canary seed is now quoted at 334
cents by the bag and 4@4!¢ cents in less
quantity. A further advance is looked for.
*‘Rochester” Hop Bitters are now in rebate
at $7.25 per dozen; three dozen taken at
one time, $7 per dozen; twelve dozen taken
at one time, $6.75 per dozen. Linseed oij
has advanced 4 cents per gallon and a furth-
er advance is expected. Elsewhere in this
issue will be found the announcement of
the associated manufacturers of Paris green.
The price is without scale, buyers being
confined to a rebate, instead of as formerly,
to a sliding price list, this change, undoubt-
edly, having been determined upon as a
means to check the cutting of prices which
was frequently charged upon some jobbers
‘Yast year. The rebates will only be allowed
in such cases.as where association prices
have been strictly adhered to. This new
departure operates against cutting of price,
as it places all on an equal advantage in the
market. The larger buyer secures the bet-
ter rebate by reason of the risk assumed in
marketing his purchase, as possible contin-
gencies may occur in a season when its use
as an insect poison will not be in demand,
and sales frem the manufacture are not
eancelled.

 

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Annual Meeting of the Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co.

The annual stockholders meeting of the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. was held at
the office of the corporation last Friday
evening, at which time an encouraging re-
port of the year’s business was made by the
Secretary. The selection of a Board of Direc-
tors for the ensuing year resulted in the re-
election of the old Board—Dr. C. 8. Hazel-
tine, Capt. C. G. Perkins and H. B. Fair-
child. A meeting of the Board was held
on Saturday, at which time the old officers
were re-elected, as follows:

, President—C. S. Hazeltine.
Vice-President—C. G. Perkins.
Secretary and Treasurer—H. B. Fairchild.

 

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Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.

The Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association
helf a regular meeting on the 12th inst.
The new officers were duly installed and
the Association entered upon its third term,
under very satisfactory circumstances. A
paper on “Arrangement and Management
of a Drug Store” was read by D. A. Schu-
macher, which drew out very little criti-
cism, as the paper was almost complete.
Before the meeting adjourned, W. E. South-
ard, the retiring landlord of the Arlington
Hotel, who has granted us the use of his
parlors in which to hold our meetings, was
called up and presented with a box of fine
‘imported cigars. :

Our next meeting will be held Wednesday
evening, Janu

26.
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DRUG TAKING.
The Injurious Effects of Every-Day Self-
Dosing. on

At the recent sanitary couveution. held at

Big Rapids, under the auspices éf the Mich-
igan State Board of Health, a paper was

read by Dr. John P. Stoddard, of Muske-’

gon, on the above subject. He said, in
brief, that the habit of self-medication had
become not the least of sanitary sins. Peo-
ple prefer medicine to advice, and if the pro-
fession had grown to give too much medi-
cine it is largely due to the pressure of their
patients, but if people took only the medi-
cine prescribed by their doctors, it would
reduce the amount of drug consumption
greatly. About four times the amount of
drugs are taken by self-prescription as are
prescribed by physicians. Stimulants, nar-
acotics, tonics and drastic cathartics are
taken in turn with that excess and indis-
crimination born of ignorance regarding
their effects. Evil habits often result from
the practice. The practice is on the in-
crease. Alcoholism is one of the habits
often fastened on young persons by this
practice. Morphine is not only taken by
the mouth, but the hypodermic syringe is
in the possession of the people. The hypo-
dermic habit cannot be easily overcome.
The drinking of ether is not uncommon.
Narcotism begins to attack children even in
infancy, as many mothers periodically ad-
minister paregoric and other narcotic elixirs.
Quinine is the most popular drug for self-
medication. The use of this drug indiscrim-
inately endangers the organs of hearing.
The habit people have of taking quinine for
a cold is prolific of positive harm, and may
result in conditions of permanent disease.
Self-prescription of the bromides is very com-
mon. Women and nervous men keep them
in stock at their homes, resorting to their
use on trivial occasions. A brisk walk in
fresh aig would do much more good.
Iodides, alkalies, -and a long list of mineral
waters will deprave the blood and interfere
with digestion. The various digestive fer-
ments are now on a popular wave of the
market; when continuously used they make
permanent the very disorders they are in-
tended to relieve. The taking of cathartic
pills is a widely prevalent habit. Cathartics
are agents which do not not well harmonize
with the jaws of life, and when taken into
the stomach the constitution makes an effort
to remove the offending substances, result-
ing in a loss of vital power. ‘The consump-
tion of legitimate drugs is not a tithe com-
pared with the patent secret nostrums which
are industriously put before the people by
the use of large sums of money. Not three
out of ten homes are free from the habit.
Can we not see the result of this over-medi-
cation in the weakened digestions and the
irritable nervous systems which are so char-
acteristic of American life? Liquid nos-
trums contain oftener than any other, four
drugs, alcohol, opium, a cathartic and a
cheap tonic. They are classes which should
never be taken except by advice from a phy-
sician. The golden rule for the public as
regards medication is thus: Drugs must
never be taken self-prescribed, and only
when considered necessary and by the ad-
vise of those learned iu their uses and ef-
fects, and skilled to recognize and treat dis-
ease.

 

 

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Paris Green for 1887.

The associated manufacturers of Paris
green have issued the follpwing ecard to the
trade:

The manufacturers of Paris green, in
deference to the generally expressed desire
of the trade, have decided to anticipate the
date named in their circular of October 12,

‘and now announce, that the price of strictly

pure Paris green is for the present fixed at
174¢ cents per pound in*bulk, at which price
it will be charged the buyer without regard
to quantity, subject to the rebates mentioned
below.

The manufacturers have adopted the fol-
lowing scale of rebates for specified quanti-
ties, payable to purchasers as soon after
July 1, 1887, as practicable:

500 lbs. to 1000 Ibs. 4g cent per Ib. rebate.
1000 2000 * 1 .

The rebate is not to be paid by individual
firms of the Association selling, but only by
the rebate treasurer of the Paris Green As-
sociation upon the written statement of the
buyer that the terms, prices, ete., of the as-
sociation have been strictly maintained.

This is the sole condition on which the
rebate is offered by our association, and it
will not under any circumstances be paid to
parties who haye violated it.

The above rebate will be allowed on the
aggregate quantity which they have pur-
chased from the association during the sea-
son.

Additional charge for following packages
being the same as last year:

Kegs of 100 lbs. to 175 Ibs. 1c per lb.

os es sé 6é

Cans of 14, 28 and 56 Ibs. net wt. 2c ‘* ‘*
Paper Boxes 2 Ibs. to 5 Ibs. 2c
sé ss a 6h ie ie 24e se 6
6 6 Vv $6 °% s a 4e se bE
sé ee Vy ee ai es 6 le sé ee
Owing to the precarious nature of the

business and because the article is useless
except for the single purpose of an insecti-
cide, we can accept orders only on the condi-
tion that they cannot be cancelled under any
circumstances.

Terms—Payable July 1, 1887.

Discount at 6 per cent. per annum for un-
expired term. No brokerage or commission
allowed to buyers.

eects nee nereiememenrer

Acopon is an absolute medical term, taken
literally from the Greek, for a soothing
salve. It may be useful for some ointment
maker in search of a title.

 

 

357 South Unio St,

  

Minor Drug Notes.
The Big Rapids Current says: The drug-
gists of Big Rapids and Mecosta county are
about to form a pharmacist association.
President Wurzburg has received a letter
from Secretary Parkill, stating that he is
working up the subject of local organiza-
tion in Shiawasse county and that effective
results may shortly be expected.
A physician in China has discovered that

the natives of that country Bave a substitute |

for cocaine. It is difficult to find anything
that the Chinese have not used for a few
years or else been acquainted with a sub-
stitute for an equal length of time.

‘An inquisitive Frenchman has been bring-
ing science to bear upon old flour in order
to prove the presence in it of alkaloids, and
has been rewarded with success. He treated
the flour with: ether in a displacement ap-
paratus, dried the etherial solution on a
water bath, leaving a fatty, acid substance
with a disagreeable penetrating smell and
imparting a burning taste to the tongue.
The usual re-agents showed the presence of
an alkaloid in flour only twelve and eighteen
months old. This alkaloid is thought to
have its origin in the transformation of the

gluten by a natural ferment in the grain.
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The Official Proceedings.

The official proceedings of the fourth an-
nual convention of Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association is now in press and will
be ready to be sent out to members about
March 1. The work is being done in De-
troit, under the especial supervision of Prof.
A. B. Lyons, which is a sufficient guaranty
of its accuracy.

Secretary Parkill has just completed the
work of mailing 3,000 copies of Prof. Pres-
cott’s admirable paper on ‘‘Plans of Study
for the Assistant in Pharmacy,” ordered
printed in pamphlet form by the Michigan
State Pharmaceutical Association at its last
convention. Mr. Parkill is now at work on
the mailing of certificates to those who
joined the Association at the October meet-
ing.

 

 

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Compound for Extinguishing Fires.

A German physicist recommends for the
extinction of fires in closed places, where
the use of water or other liquids would be
likely to do great damage, a dry compound,
which, by its burning, adsorbs the oxygen
and quickly renders combustion impossible.
The compound is composed of powdered
nitrate of potash, fifty-nine parts; powdered
sulphur, thirty-six parts; powdered char-
coal, four parts; coleothar, one part. This
preparation is one that can be cheaply
made. It is recommended that it shall be,
when thoroughly dried and mixed, put up
in tight pasteboard boxes, holding abaqut
five pounds each, with a quick fuse in the
side of the box—protruding six inches,
with four inches inside—to facilitate and
insure lighting it.

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Some Profits.

THE TRADESMAN has it on unquestioned
authority that Parke, Davis & Co., of De-
troit, will divide $250,000 among the stock-
holders on February 1. As the paid-in cap-
ital stock is only $500,000, it will readily be
seen that the dividend will amount to the
pleasant figure of 50 per cent.

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Pharmacy Organization in Clinton County.

Alonzo O. Hunt, the St. Johns druggist,
is working up the subject of organization
among the Clinton county druggists and ex-
pects to be able to repgrt something tangible
in the way of results accomplished during
the next two weeks.

A et

Dr. O. E. Larkin, of Deerfield, Wis., has
been fined $50 for violating the pharmacy
law—viz., selling poison without being
registered. This makes the eighth case un-
der the law, in which the Board has been
successful in every case.

The Intereolonial Pharmaceutical Confer-
ence of Australasian Colonies agreed with-
out discussion ‘‘That the rapid increase of
the trade in proprietary medicines and secret
nostrums is antagonistic to the true interests
of pharmacy.”

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address

Peck Bros,, Drugyisis, trand Rapids, Mich,

Michigan Drug Exchange.

Mills & Goodman, Props.

357 South Union St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

V registered Pharmacist to take charge of
store. Will pay good salary for right man or
will sell part interest in stock if desired.

FJHOR SALE-Stock of about $1,200 in town of
} 450 inhabitants. No other drug store in
six miles. Physician’s practice will be given
free if store building is also bought. Doing
good business. Terms liberal,’

AOR SALE—Stock of $1,400 in town of 800 in-

habitants in Eastern part of State. Rea-

son for selling, poor health. Doipg good bus-
iness.

OR SALE—Stock of about $2,000 well locat-

ed on one of principal business streets in

Grand Rapids. Doing fine business. Reason
for selling, poor health.

OR SALE—Part interest in stock of about
$5,000 in good growing town of 1,800 in-
habitants or will sell whole stock at good dis-
count. Reason for selling proprietor is prac-
ticing physician and cannot attend to both
store and practice.

OR SALE-—Stock of about $4,000 in town
of about 2,000 inhabitants in western part
of State. Will exchange for good farm.

OR SALE—Bankrupt stock of about $700
can be bought at large discount.

LSO—Many other stocks, the particulars
of which we will furnish on application.

O DRUGGISTS—Wishing to Wecure clerks

we willfurnish the address and full par-
taculars of those on our list free,

Michigan Drug Exchange,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advanced—Oil cubebs, oil cloves, linseed oil, Atseniouns. ei fEae bic hee Ako a °
turpentine. Balm Gilead Bud...................... 38@ 40
ACIDUM: | Bismuth Re ee eae cuess bea ee 2 15@2 20
MN ais occe ice (ace kk cate cet: 10 Calcium Chior, Is, (48, 11; 48, 12).... @ 9
Benzoicum, German.:......... .....- 1 09 | Cantharides Russian, po.............. @2 2%
CMP MOUONED oi o-oo ic acc isscevss .. 40@ 45 | Capsici Fructus, af.................... @
ES Ee aaa cee ee 70@ 75} Capsici Fructus, Behe or ok esnaes cr ot se @ 16
MOI 6 osc crac unkind. takcuces 3@ 5) Capsici Fructus, B, po........... ... - @ i
Nheseum 8 ee ee 10@ 12) Caryophyllus, (po. 35)................, , 30@ 33
Guatipan ee 5 Wom, We | Carmine. NO. ies es es coc ee @3 75
PTO VMOUNO ios 5559 oi dase eiynr vcd cc 1 85@2 10; Ccra Alba, 8. & FB... ee HOM 55
Winminnie 6 ee 1 40@1 60 | Cora Blava.. nc... eect 2@ 30
PAPGRPIOUME 6.0066... sees Sea. ee 5 ce BO@ 53 | COCCUB cece eee eee eect ee ees @ 40
AMMONTA | RBG TF PUOCLIS. Foi. cc ccc cease cece @ Bb
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Aqua, 16 deg..... 0. eee cece eee ee ee: > 5 Comes oo. kas @ 50
ooo aloe ca wade aac gor hae 7s — u | eOR ORONO oy ayo B8@ 40
fae ee 1200 14 Chioroform, Squibbs.............%.... @1 00
potas oe nace Seok yale tay ld Parc eg a | Chloral Hydrate Cryst................ 1 50@1 TS
‘ BACCAE. | MOee eee i eck ccd dau 0@ 12
CUBEDAC (D0. 20. 6. a a. ec. pene cece 1 50@1 75 | Cinchonidine, P.& W.................. @ 15
JUMIPCTUS .... 2.2... ee cee ee bee ee eens 6@ 7 Cinchonidine, German........... .... '@ 14
PBTAROON VTE oe ce ca ceca shes des sees 25@ 30 Corks, see list, discount, per cent.... 40
BALSAMUM. | Creasotum ci baaeeab ana caee edn ae ok @ “BO
CORE i close ea ones ce css 45@ 50 Creta, (DDI. 75)... 0.6... cece eee eee @ 2
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Mathis, Caneee.... cs... sc.0s. 55 cssss 38@ 40 | Creta, procip.......... 0... s.eeeeeseeees %? %
Me 45@ 50 Creta Rubra... agate iene @ 8
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COBBIAC 00 oe nseressrer ener srercnecs PE SES A SL LS W@ 12
CAMEROONS FIAVA. i. ok k. bebe Coc av seek sss 18 | Ether Suipl aes
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Myrica Cerifera, po............. 2... 20 | Emery, Sane a et ae Tie a8
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$ : bE VU oe coe cn Cio cde ces sc aaans 2@ 15
TN iin cy ee nese ds cone fea y ee da 10 | Galla @ &
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Pisiieicihen Glebe oa AM 2 CROTATI, ROMO. oo oo on ce cc once onda ven 40M 60
yeyr a 33@ 35 | Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 6010, less.
Haematox, 15 tb boxes................. 8S@ 9] Sree’ ou oe et ene ue S
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MB ver cerenreracccerccaces rr PE ec ec sds oss c be 25@ 40
_ FERRUM. | Beyavere Chloe, Mite... .5 5... cece ccc @ -7
Carbonate Précip......-..-..........:. @ 15; Hydrarg Chlor. Cor..... Gdabanuweenad @ 65
Oitrare ONG Quinta... 2. ese ce lasek @3 50) Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum............. va @ %
ClPPOte BONIDIO o.. 5 cheek oan @ | Hydrarg Animoniati............. ..;. @l 00
Ferrocyanidum Sol. ..s......6..6..-25> @ 50; Hydrarg Unguentum.................. @ 40
Bot Chiomde, ...4 coe. loc ek ae @ 15] Bydrareyvrum ©. oo os. ioe cee ccc. @ 65
Burpnate, Com’ > (DDL (5). .... 65.6.5... DG Fl Tenthyorolla, Am ..0.,.. ccc ccnk ones ce 1 25@1 50
” We a ees Om Fire. ee. 9... T@l! WwW
: GUMM1L. POM, FOBWE iio acs bc ae 4 00@4 10
Acacia, lst picked....../....0....0.3.. Woe | TOCOTOr i a ea ics uk @5 1b
Be ke ene @ 0) Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... @ 27
- meray eee ann ess @ NW} Liquor Potauss Arsinitis............... 10@ 12
* MITTOR SOLUR.. ooo y ce cies ie Oat SEG ee 85@1 00
' MUO oak Cocca Cote cca sence cys toMy OF LVOGHOIEDD oe es cee os 55@ 60
AlOG, Bard, (10. 00). 6.6. ec cree was acae ee Oe eke ee 60M 65
OP ONO, (O09). coe e dec ek ee el @ 12; Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1%)...........2. 2@ 3
* Bocotrine, G0. GO). x. «6 ci ee. Gy. OG F BIG ee ck ce 90@1 00
APRAOGBO oink is cebaconsss. 25@ 30) Morphi:x, S, P. & W................ *....2 85@2 60
AgsatOeOtidh, (0. 25).... 6... cece scecees @ Wi Mosehin Canton, io... oe ec cl chek @ 40
PISRROINIG foo hee a a 50@ 65} Myristica, No.1........ oe a a @ 60
CRPRUOFAO <0 os ceil ack oe oe «--0 SA. SU eV ormlied hol Bey. 2. ck ceo. ee. @ WW
Catechu, Is, (448, 14; 4s, 16)........... > TAT OR, BOW sain sos cass oes cae ssc 18@, 20
PRO MOTOIUE, DOL. 66. i cccs ns cane aces 35@ 10| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co............ @2 00
MN nce ck aa @ 80} Picis Liq, N.C.. % galls, doz.......... @2 70
MONE ORO, DO ci icc oo cael TO OO) ols Fae. OU oo es ole cis cs @1 40
Guaiacum, (po. 45)................ 22. De Oy Pie ils ik soc ce cae ce ve os @ 8
We Cs Fe oa ec acc noes @ i Pi Hedrava, (0-90)... . o.oo ccc. cues @ 0
eens @I 25; Piper Nigra, (0. 22). .... 6... oc cec ca css @ 18
BRIO, (O00 BN ooo k os ca cece ce ence ane @. 40) Piper Alba, (po. 86)... 228... oc cn. @ 35
SEG TORIC Ge") HOMER aS ROE ete tsa NO BT EON PROVO oe ca cs ce cov nue @ 7
OT occu bass sche ces cp csenune PO Bt PN, OCG oes eve cca cs HM@ 15
ERO a ea ce eka balan’ ~§h@ 30} Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. @ 40
"TROMRGOMEN . o.oo 5 4 cans ences Solis 30@. 75 | Potassa. Bitart, com.................. @ Wb
HERBA—In ounce packages. WOCRGS MNOS, O06 ok. ooo. ccc coca ce &@ 10
APRON ooo ilies ccc suas ee Wh Potnes Nivea es occ, ™]@ 9
POI OR II oie ces one sees sh ; 20 | Puivis ipecae et opit..........5 .. 0.6. 1 10@1 20
DO a Se eh oan cde 25 | Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D.Co., doz. @1 00
De a yo, oer POET INI Yo coon csi tk ce dene ve 38@ 40
Mentha Piperita........ 2.25.05. .005.6 tet CRI 8@, 10
. a ee a. me) Gta, Bore We ee 65a 7
TA ee a ec, BO Guin. & Geren... oo... ceil 60@ 65
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MO a Yo ok a cl 2 | Saccharum Lactis, pv............ <i... @ 3
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Aveyunaion, Pele... 65. 2.05. ss... de Wl Minecis opt @ 30
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Auranti Cortex. ....1...-.-..--.--;---- o anon | Soda Boras; (po. 10)....... 20.0.0... 8@ 10
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Citronella .,.....-,...c.teeened cc eaees @ ‘5! Spts. Myrcia Dom.............. @2 00
Conn Maer oe ase ee Oo nia Meswaia Print a? Ke
Ont Sots, Myrcia TOD. oi. okie ces ceice ck. @2 50
Copaiba ........ dah ak ese ace eee 5 @ 80 Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 25)............. @2 35
Cubebae et ead ie bian au ba cue wan aan 12 00@18 C0 Strychnia, Crystal.. ........... @l 30
Exechthitos NG una eacs ac eee cee eeue 9@1 00 Sohur subi. 24@ BY
Erigeron. Sikd Gentes veda b wee aussG Gubaas 1 20@1 30 Sulphur, He ae eee 24a he
Gaultheria Beene eee eee ee een eee eens 2 30@2 40 Wearmnnvinns 8. e@ 10
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PUTS seo ea cess ano 4s Way ess ecu ae 1 T5@2 25 Bbl Gal
SH Oech ae cant aan tse te tanner : 42@ We Whale winter... co... 70 "5
PAOEMNG FIDO oo ane aks ees swns cat 3 00@3 75) Lard. extra 5h 60
Pee WORM sco cis 6001 Giese ws i 45 65
MOPUROD GO BOL oar aes 80@1L 00} Linseed, pure re ee eee ame 45
RMD Seige els slg eee tet ant a walae' @, Mr insted: NOUS -..0.5..-.\0 bik: 45 48
Olive setter te teen eee oe 1 C0O@2 ‘) | Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 0 9%
Picis Liquida, (gal. 50).......2.......-,. W@ WwW Spirits Turpentine 44 50
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paces aU pesos eee eee i 40@'5 1 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Baian Oc he bbes chek sehecdcasncen shsees a 90@1 00 | Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 13¢ 2@ 3
Santal........ ei eeede bs tsee eee cs aes 3 5C@T 00 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3
Sassafras... ede Aetieg Setew oe sate we an we 45@ 50] putty. strictly pure...........- 24% 2%@ 3
Simapis, €8S, 3........ 66.0. seers ce eee @ 65) Vermilien, prime Ameriean.. 1316
Tilil 00... eee eee eee ee ee eee eee ees @1 60) Vermilion, English............ 65@70
rhyme BE eek eta ee case aes foes 40@ 50| Green, Peninsular............. 16@N7
i ORG. fies sas. tteeee sans @ 60 | Lead, red strictly pure..... .. "@ 7M
Theobromas........ A ee I@ 2] Lead, white, strictly pure..... 1@ Ti
: POTASSIUM. Whiting, white Spanish..... : AD
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Bromide weet teen ence en eter seer eee teens 3s6@ 40) White, Paris American ....... 1 10
WPIOPALC, (ED, OA)... singe cnc m eet inecces , WE 22) Whiting Paris Enelish elif. . 1 40
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fei 63 oo 10@ 12 No. 1 Turp UPC ois co oie ss cau es ] 00@1 10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..........-.-.+.0.. 16@ 18| Bxtra Turk Damar... 2... eee 1 55@1 60
Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 35)........... @ 30 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp. Wa ede cekueus i0@ 75
Hellebore, Alba, po....:.............. 1b@ 20 ;
DI Oe ee vac aes eas 15@ 20 .
SROONO, DO ee ive els 1 00@I1 10
Deepa, OP 25@ 30 :
PEM ee eee ass @ 35
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Sanguinaria, MO: thi. pee ae @ 10 Send 4 cents for Seaicd Circular.
OORT so ices ces dis ba cae kedas 45@ 50 % Mention
Sheten Pa ea ae ees 50@ 60 DALUMET CHEMICAL C9., Chicago, this paper.
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SiMGhis, ADB rik es 8G 9 fr) TAKE IT FAITH
a Nigra, ere Cdn eae s@ 9 i FULLY, AND
Frumenti, W., D. & Co............2605 2 00@2 50 | You Wi GS E
erent, Be Biv Wai 1 T6@2 vl Yi a
WUNIONE oo eens hci ees ae cee 1 W@1 50 4
gamiperis = Oe eer oa 1 75@1 75 yy Con in ee
MAUIDOMIO Og os eas coos kee cece 1 75@3 50 4
seeewnres * : ee es 1 — 00 TH AT TH £. R E / $
PW RE RA Sa dc eo 5 cca Vga cinemas 1 75@6 50 | : ’
SE CONN: «66 USS esd vali cscs: 1 25@2 00 | R b
WOE MIB cis wakasbceieer i sis 1 25@2 00 | Bur one. ane Y¥ FOR
SPONGES. Cc Oo H.
Florida sheevs’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Cc OLDS
Nassau do SOMO dass 2 00 AND THAT tS -
Velvet Ext do do ae 110 “ ‘
BxtraYe * do fe cs 85 lens UN Ba lsa
oraae, ‘ e ‘ GO est 65
ard ! for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, do ........... 1 40 D
Yoow Neekin Sok a AX DRuGGISTS
er, Sp OB, Be, esc ich seas. 28
Aither, Spts. Nitros, £80000. ee |) ar Q5 ESOC a, F120 Per tie
Alumen..... by chet ies itesesss aces RS 7? : J
Alumen, ground, (po. 7).............. . a
PRRITAOD nv ph uc 405s ha ch ah eres Scapeseenes

J.N. Harri S$é C ° ROP Scin.0

 

se

AAEL TINE
\ PERKINS
DRUG UO,

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gr,
93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

ries, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
dnd Drnggist’
Sundries.

Elegant Pharmacentical Prepare:
fons, Finid Extracts and
Elin?

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L.
Whiting, Manufacturers of
Fine Paint and Var-
nish Brushes.

THE CELEBRATED

Pioneer Prepared Paints, .

ALSO FOR THE

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu-
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd
Horse Brushes.

WE ARE SOLE OWNERS OF

Weatherly’s Michisan Catarrh Cure

Which is positively the best Remedy
of the kind on the market.

 

 

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing outfits for new stores to
the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACIL-
ITIES for meeting the wants of this class
of buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the
most approved and acceptable manner
known to the drug trade. Our special ef-
forts in this direction have received from
hundreds or our customers the most satis-
fying recommendations.

Wine and Liguor Departmen

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for the
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit
the hjgh praise accorded to us for so satis-
factorily supplying the wants of our custom-
ers with PURE GOODS in this depart-
ment. We CONTROL and are the ONLY
AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE & 60,’

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash and Old-Fashioned
Hand-Made, Copper-
Distilled

WHISKEY S.

We not only offer these goods to be ex-
celled by NOOTHER KNOWN BRAND

.| in the market, but superior in all respects

to most that are exposed to sale. We
GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis-
faction and where this brand of goods has
been once introduced the future trade has
been assured.

We are also owners of the

Trageists Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favor-
ites among druggists who have sold these
goods fora very long time. Buy our

Ells, Brandes & Fine Wines.

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list,
such as ' 9

Patent Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.
Mail orders always receive our special
and personal attention.

Hazeltine
& Perkins

_ Drug Co,

   
   

Ws

 

Ts t made his collections, hasn’t made his
check good, and has injured his credit. So
it h lappens that eredit men look baie eu

The Michigan Tradesmall

HOW MUCH SURPLUS IS THERE. personal check. Many men who never

There is no sort of agreement as to the canin »-who now better, and who ought to
amount of the surplus revanue. It is vari-| ‘be ashamed of saving twenty-five cents ex-
ously spoken of at all figures from thirty to | | change by the non-purchase of a draft, per-
thirty-five millions per annum up toa hun- | nh aps are not aware that they lower their
dred millions. The President, in his mes- Ler edit a peg every time they save the twen-

 

 

     
 
  

sage to Congress, estimated that for the cur-

rent fiscal year there will be a surplus of |
ninety millions, the receipts being $356,- |

000,000, and the expenditures $266,000,000.
But Secretary Manning stated a different
and lower amount, though he pointed out
that for the seven years past the annual sur-
plus, exclusive of the amount used for the

| ty-five cents in that way.
Can they afford the practice on such

| terms?

<_<
Fifteen Years’ Cheese Record at Gotham.

 

New York’s Receipts and Exports in Boxes
from May 1 to December 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

purchase of silver bullion, had averaged one : g
hundred millions. a ao he 3 .
As a matter of fact, the experience of the - s & 8 z B
past is the best basis for future calculation. | = 2 5 ee =
If the revenue laws remain as theynow are,| & | = |_| & | OR my
os wi : : 2a 3
and if the appropriations are not greatly in- eld Lae ean . oe meets
creased, the excess of income will be nearly | 3973 | 1,709,534 | 1,323,824 | 7744 | 385,710 | 13 ore
or quite one hundred millions a year. The phy ere von ess ot pry - ou
Treasury statements show in cold figures | 1976 | 1,732,831 | 1,329,245 | 76% | 405.587 | 924@15
what was the experience of 1886. The to- | 18% oer ois sete =" at oon eae
tal interest-bearing debt, on January 1, | 1879 cae eer # poy b4@13%
1886,'was 12603 millions of dollars; on Jan- Leong 2'309; 194 17491426 oe 559,768 eis”
uary 1, 1887, it was 113014 millions. There | 188 1,916,871 | 1,384,438 | 60/2 | 581.433 10%@13%
had been, in the twelve months, a cancella- Red eee Tat'se0 ia 057805 oiaae
tion of 13014 millions. Part of it, of course, a4 iene iterate 6836 res roi
was effected by drawing upon the too-heavy

balances in the Treasury, in response to the
loud call of Congress, but without going in-
toan elaborate analysis to show how far
this was the ease, the fact is safely asserted
that a hundred millions excess of revenue
was received.

In connection with this, it is proper to
point out that the reservation of the ‘*sink-
ing fund” will cease to be practically oper-
ative after the three per cents. are redeemed,
for the simple reason that the money cannot
be allowed to accumulate in the treasury
vaults, and that it cannot be used for retir-
ing bonds as none are redeemable. The ex-
cess, therefore, of revenue over expenditure
will not be subject to the ‘sinking fund”
deduction; it will stand at the full sum
shown by subtracting the one from the
other.

The problem is one of magnitude. Its
importance has been dwelt upon in these
columns many times, during the past four
years, and actual contact with it is likely to
bear out all we have said as to the need of
dealing with it vigorously and broadly. It
is not a matter for chenme- DACRE statesman- |
ship.

 

The Personal Check Fiend.
From the Ironmonger.

The various branches of the jobbing trade
are infected by a race of commercial rats,
whose function is to worry, annoy and irri-
tate.

They do not rise to the proportions of a
calamity which can be borne with dignity
and patience; they are simply a nuisance
like a cold breakfast, the Salvation Army
or female shopper.

They are of various kinds and manifest
themselves in various ways. One kind is
the Deductionist, who finds fault with qual-
ity, claims shortage, and finally wants a de-
duction on pain of returning the goods. A
second, the text of this discourse, is the Per-
sonal Check Fiend, the man who thinks
that his check on a bank at Oshkamazoo
pays an account due in current funds in the
market in which he buys.

Of the race of commercial rats this man
is the worst and most persistent. He is
found everywhere and is always with us and
everywhere is damned with complete en-
thusiasm and’ entire unanimity. Cashiers
know him and curse him heartily; credit
men despise him and take a reef in his line,
and he, serene and cunning, chuckles to |
himself at saving twenty-five cents ex-
change, or at saving his time discount by a
transparent ‘‘shin” when he has no funds
in his bank.

Seriously, the habit which many country
merchants have of paying their debts to dis-
tant creditors by personal checks, is a most
annoying evil of very large proportions.
Having been merely a nuisance and nota
commercial crime, city merchants have, as
a rule, vented their displeasure with a big,
big D, and said no more about it, but the |
nuisance has grown to such proportions,
the amount wasted in paying for the collec-
tion of these personal checks is so consider-
able, that credit men are by degrees allow-
ing this matter of personal checks to weigh
against a customer's credit.

This is not merely because personal checks
on a distant bank are, under the rules of
many city banks not available as cash, but
are only entered for collection, and become
cash about a week later on, not because it
costs twenty-five cents or more to turn these
checks into cash, but because, in a great
many cases remittance by personal check is
regarded as ‘‘shinning.” ‘The country deal-
er has an account maturing in New York
on a certain day. To save his discount his
remittance must be in his ereditor’s hands
by that day. He hasn’t the necessary funds
in bank to buy a draft, but has “plenty of
collections coming in within a few days.”
It will take a week for his check to get to
New York and back again, and before that
time he will have money in bank. So he
draws his check, mails: it, saves discount
and exchange, and pats himself on the back
as a close fellow.

As arule most of these checks are met
and no further harm results than a loss of
collection to the city merchant and a loss of
the use of the money until the check has
been collected. But occasionally there is

 

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

ENGIN BS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
comer Outfits.

 

ww. C&. Denison,
_ 88, 90 and 9 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

 

WM. L. ELLIS & C0.

 

BRAND

Wholesale Denot,

STATE MANAGER,

37 Gaal St,

 

EXCLUSIVELY.

WHOLESALE

 

 

76 South Division 8t.,

 

 

Baltimore Uysters

B. F. EMERY,

- Grand Rapids,
Smoke the “L0.B.” & “Fox” Cigar,

 

FOX. & BRADFORD,

CIGARS!

G. R. MAYHEW,

JOBBER OF

“RUBBERS
In Wales Goodyears & Woonsockets.

I have a small surplus of the following goods, which I will
close out at once at Net Prices in Case Lots:

 

List. My Price.

Lumbermen’s No Heel Overs, Meyers F,..........--- . + $1.25 68
* 2 * ¥ ad A es ee 1.40 .70
as <ho® OW ia ideesce coos 1.25 63
« Heel and Tap Overs, Dei ae sk Huns 1.65 83
« A a ie he ices ee 83
Oo me eo OR Meewards 2.66... 108 86
“ No Heel Overs, ‘“ sau ee ee 66
ts a“. * New England F and W, 1.25 64
és Heel and Tap, Overs “ - a 1.65 85
6 5. Ss “ Wales Goodyears W W_ 1.65 94
“ No Heel with Strap a " FF 1.40 .80
" Boys No Heel Overs F 4 Wales Goodyear.. 1.00 57
es Youths No Heel Overs F 14 Wales Goniaae 75 43
« Heel and Tap Ant. Buck Arctics F W’ G’r 2.25 28
“ No Heel Snow Excluder F Wales Goodyear 2.15 1.2
Men’s Ant. Buck Arctics Heel Plates Wales Goodyear.... 2.10
se a « Snow Excluders F “ “ 2.10
Boys “ © Arectics Heel Plates F “ * jeoe dae
Women’s Ant. Buck Arctics F Wales Goodyears.......-. 1.55,
Misses os * * a “ uae 1.20
Childs «6 & “ “ oy ees 90
Men’s Imt Sand Woonsockets F............ eee eeeeee 80
Women’s Imt Sand Wales Goodyears I’..... Sinn des eke 55
Misses oS ‘ & eS wba eee cous 44
Childs oe “ “ cai bobaece ee
Women’s Cro. “ ‘ a Mss a eas bes 05 31
Misses ae “ “6 Meee aves as ~~ 48 25
Women’s Plain Cre, Sand Wales odes Faken a ee 31
Misses’ a a a ¢g @ Oca caeees ~ e 25
Boys’ Imt Sand Wales Goodyear F........---+4+00+. 68 37
100s 6 ‘ is Oo ata ace’ ace 50 29
Men’s S. A. Imt Sand Wales Goodyears F’........... see 51
= “« Clogs - - Gees cane b «0 .90 51
a “ Wool Alas, Lan. Toes Wales Goodyears...... 1.40 .80
“ Vendome Plain “ a és ae 95 1
« Argyles “ a % «“ «s ceceae ee 51
“ Brunswick Plain “ « ae - vihen * ae 83
« Longwood .“ “ « a “ Wwevesc Se 1.34
Women’s Paragones Wales Goodyears......--. +++ -++:: 2.45 1.40
Misses’ « “ Mee is ane cane uaa 2.05 1.17
Child’s . *" Me ene een seen <eec¢. knO 1.03
Men’s Dull Wool Lined Woonsocket Ben. F..........--. 4.00 2.28
* “ Friction “ es eat eke 4.00 2.28
« Tum: Buck Ank. Ben. Haywards W....... nae 1.85 1.09
« Ant. “ Arctics Rhode Islands F.............. 2.00 1.03
Women’s Ant. Buck “ « sc Ocoee sesnaness . EOS .80
Misses’ . «.% e a Mice eat es eae 0 62
Boys’ 8 «“s « Mes ho eens 2.60 82
Child’s 8:8 ‘“ « Mp aa ec ialoues .90 46
Women’s Cro. Rhode Islands F.......--.-. -+es ee eee 55 28
Misses’ « oc de ee ee Feary 44 23
Women’s Plain Cro. Rhode Islands............++-- vec oe .28
Men’s Imt Sand “ era ont baw eda ees SO Al
Women’s Imt Sand“ eee ee coisa seas 55 -28
Misses’ ge ak «“ Sees: cece eeu tons 44 .23
Child’s 8 # ef Mika eu ence wees 40 21

Price.

G.'R. Mayhew, Grand Rapids.

  

A full line of Wales lca and Woonsocketa at Market

 

de J. DETTENTHALER, |

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
JOBBER OF

FISH
CAME.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
See Quotations in Another Column.

 

 

Also Grand Rapids Agent for Cleveland Baking Co’s
\Crackers and COOKIES.

  

 

OYSTERS,

P. STRKETEE & SUMS,

JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,
S83 Monroe Sst..
AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers
American and Stark A Bags

| A Specialty.

 

L, M. CARY. L. L. LOVERIDGE,

CARY & LOVERIDCE,

G ENERAL DEALERS IN

Fire and Burelar Proof

ISAFES

Combination and Time Locks,

1] Tonia Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich,

‘Order a sample case of

HONEY BEE COFFEE.

 

Equal to the Best i in the market.
Wholesale

JA Thompson & 0, °°.

59 Jefferson ave., Detroit, Mich.
O.W.BLAIN & CO., Produce COmmIssin Merchants,

——DEALERS IN——

Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Souther Vecctables, Ale.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc. All orders filled at lowest market price.
pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. NO.

BFA LUAS,

Makes a Specialty of

 

Corres-
9 IONIA ST.

 

  
 

 
 

 

 

s

‘

PRINCESS BAKING POWDER,

Butter and Eggs, Fruits and Oysters. * °

Cold Stor®ge in Connection. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
We Handle the Celebrated ““ROCK BRAND” Oysters.
No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each.
97 and 99 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Michigan

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

DEALERS IN

Frides, Furs =< Tallow,

Prompt returns made on Consignments.

118 Canal St., Grana Rapids.

HOGLE &, C0 Jobbers Michigan Water White and
gy Legal Test Oils. Manistee and Saginaw

 

 

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a

Salt. Agricultural Salt. Warsaw Salt; pockets, all sizes, and

barrels. West Michigan Agents for Prussing’s Celebrated Vin-

egar works. Write for quotations. MUSKEGON MIGH
j i

Warehouse: Lee’s Ferry Dock,

 

With Wood Jacket,
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS FOR 1887.

THE

AMORE

3,5 and 10
Gal. Size.

THE

JACKET.

 

H. LEONARD & SONS,,

GRAND RAPIDS, MIOFE.

 

 

 

 

Manufactured by the Adams & Westlake Mfg. a

OIL & GASOLINE CANS, «

WITH or WITHOUT