The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 4. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN ESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887. 9 as : 5 NO, ISG , GIANT Clothing Gompany. Ur Order Veparimed customers the most eareful attention and guarantees perfect sat- Secures to out-of-town isfaction. Weare the LARGEST HOUSE i the STATS eady-Made Clothing With the splendid Tailor-Made Clothing4 we handle the fit is as perfect 2s in the fin- est custom work. Send in your order for a Spring Suit or Overcoat and make a saving of at least one-third. _--GIANT-— The attention of dealers is called to our JOBBING DEPARTMENT. We pay cash for our goods and make CASH PRICES. With superior advantages and ready cash we are enabled not only to meet Chicago prices but offer you a most complete line of FURNISHING GOODS. GIANT CLOTHING COMPANY, A; MAY, Cor, Canal & Lyon Sts. Grand Rapids IM Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly for food, is made of only the best white corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. UW The popularity of, Muzzy’s Corn and Sun Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, aggregating many million of pounds each year. The State Assayer of Massachusetts says Muzzy’s Corn Starch for table use, is per- fectly pure, is well prepared, and of excel- lent quality. Muzzy’s Starch, both for laundry and table PROPRIETOR. use, is the very best offered to the con- sumer. All wholesale and retail grocers sell it. SEEDS For the Field and Garden. The Grand Rapids Seed Stare, 71 Canal Street, Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden Seeds in Bulk. Medium Clover, Mammoth Clover, Alsike Clover, Alfalfa Clover, White Dutch Clover, Timothy, Red Top, Blue Grass, Orchard Grass, Hungarian Grass, Common Millet, German Millet, Flax Seed. Use Heckers’ Standard Manufactures. COOK & PRINZ, Manufacturers of Show Cases, Counters, Tables and Furniture of any Description, as well as Designs thereof, made to order. Write for Prices or call And see us when in the City. 38 West Bridge St.. Grand Rapids. Telephone 374. EDMUND B. DIKEMAN, THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, —AND- JEW EOE RR. CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. BATON & LYON, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Dlallonery & SUnOrIES, 20 and 22 fonroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. JODDYD ce CO., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Winter Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. POTATOES. We make the handling of POTATOES, APPLES and BEANS in car lots a special feature of our business. If you have any of these goods to ship, or anything in the produce line, let us hear from you, and we will keep you posted on market price and prospects. Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired. Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker. Har] Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK T. R, Etts & C0,, Book Binders PAPER RULERS, Blank Book Makers, 51, 53 and 55 Lyon St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHARLES A, GOYE, Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS = TENTS Horse and Wagon Covers, Oiled Clothing, Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. Flags & Banners made to order. 73 CANAL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. MONNICH & STONE, Flint, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF Send for Sample Order. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. Overalls, Panis, Etc., OUR OWN MAKE, A Complete Line of Fancy Crockery2¥ancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. - Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. POTATOES. We give prompt personal attention to the sale of POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best facilities and watchful attention. Consign- ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash advances on Car Lots when desired. Wi. Hl Thompson & G0, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, Gross & MILLER, Bankers. HEMLOCK BARK! WANTED. The undersigned will pay the high- est market price for HEMLOCK BARK loaded on board cars at any side track on the G. R. & I. or C. & W. M. Railroads. ed. Correspondence solicit- N. B. CLARK, 101 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. MOSELEY BROS. —— WHOLESALE NERDS, FRUITS, OYSTERS, AnA Produce. 26, 28, 30 and 82 OTTAWA ST., G’D RAPIDS MUSCATINE OATMEAL. Made by new and im- Best in the world. | proved process of kiln-drying and cutting. All grocers keep it. barrels and cases. MUSCATINE ROLLED OATS. Made by entirely new process, and used by everybody. Put up in barrels, half bar- rels and cases. Put up in barrels, half For Sale by all Michigan Jobbers. SWEET oe The Best Laundry Soap on the Market. TRY iT: FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. MANUBACTURED BY Oberne, Hosick & Co. CHICAGO. A, HUFFORD, General Agent, Box 14. Grand Rapids.% Relations of the Banker to the Business Public.* in the minds of too many there is a vague impression, the erronedusness of which would be evident even to them, per- haps, were they to attempt to express that feeling in clear, decided words, that the banker is apart from, and not a necessary part of, the business world of to-day. They used to hear, long ago, of ‘‘the bloated bond holder” and the ‘‘gold bugs of Wall street,” and a certain impression was left that the banker receives a great deal of, and con- tributes very little to, the prosperity of the world, that he costs more than he is worth and that the world could get along very well. without him. The banker is as essen- tial to the business life of to-day as is the merchant, the manufacturer or the railroad manager, and without his aid the wheels of industry and commerce would jar and stop with a erash that would precipitate ruin upon the entire country. The banks cen- tribute millions of dollars annually to the moving of the great crops, the cattle and other products of the West, to the East and to Europe. They have aided the farmers, especially those of the West, to buy their farms, make improvements and get their crops to market. It is largely by the help of the banks that the railroads, which are so important a factor in the development and prosperity of the country, are enabled to lay their rails to all parts of the land and to carry on their work. The manufactories, great and small, from Maine to Texas and from Washington ‘Territory to Florida, with their hundreds of thousands of employees, and making the great market for the pro- duets of field, mine and forest, would be sorely erippled and theusands of them would be forced to close their doors, were the helping hand of banking capital to be withdrawn. The merchant, whether the millionaire, importer and wholesaler of the great city or the general dealer of the coun- try ‘‘eorners” (who is overloaded when he has a.$500 stock on hand), is, in a great degree, indebted for whatever prosperity he may enjoy to the influence, direct or indi- rect, upon his business of the banks. A high authority on financial matters says: ‘‘Banks have become numerous, widely distributed and intimately identified with the varied industries by which our en- tire population literally obtain their daily bread. No peoplein modern times have ever risen to civilization or maintained their civili- aztion, without banks; and least of all ean it be questioned in this ¢ ountry where, besides 2,868 national banks now in operation, we have over 5,009 state banks, savings banks and private banks and bankers, whose oper- ations extend into the minutest ramifica- tions ef the employments and resourees of our 60,000,000 of popuiations” In the marvelous deve‘opment of the Great West, the banks have borne an im- portant part. Districts rich in natural re- sources lay undeveloped for lack of capital, until banks, local or distant* aided the strug- gling few already in possession and encour- aged immigration and new enterprises, until the ‘‘New West” has become a giant in power. A late treasury document*says: In those states in which the older banks are situated, the stock is more largely held by residents and is more widely distributed, while in the area in which nearly all the banks are of recent organization, the proportion of non-resident shareholders is larger, and the amount of stock held in large amounts is greater. This shows the very important and significant fact that the national bank- ing system is serving to bring capital into those new districts ‘trom the older states, and in this way it is a constant and valua- ble factor in the process by which American industry and enterprise are being extended all over the continent, and by which the ties of a comimon citizenship are being daily strengthened by the bonds of commercial intercourse and of interdependent interests. In the foregoing, I have had _ reference, chiefly, though not exclusively, to the aid extended by banks in this way of furnishing needed capital by loans. But, it may be ob- jected, if banks did not make the loans, in- dividuals would, and so the capital would be obtained. The objection is but partially true. Money lenders merely and individual buyers of stock and bonds would not and could not furnish the capital now furnished by the banks. The amount of capital stock actually paid in as banking capital by no means represents the amount available for loans by the banks of the country. The last published abstract of reports from all the national banks shows the amount of loans, stocks and bonds carried by the banks to be over one and one-half billions of dol- lars, while the paid-in capital is but a little over half a billion, showing that the amount furnished by the national banks in aid of the various enterprises of the country is three times the capital of the banks. As private banks make no report of the amount of their loans, it is impossible to ascertain the aggregate amount of loans, made by banks of all kinds; but a moment’s consid- eration of the fact that national banks alone have the enormous sum of one and one-half billions outstanding in loans and stocks must impress even the most careless with a sense of the vast importance of the relations in this respect alone, of the bank to the business public. While it is true that much of this capital would find its way to the aid of business without the intervention of banks, itis also true that very much of it would not, and that the portion of the coun- try needing it most would be most neglect- ed. The following is an extract from a late issue of a leading southern paper, showing how important a factor in the de- velopment and prosperity of a state banking facilities are: ‘The Manufacturers’ Reeord, of Baltimore, once more calls attention to the need of banking capital in the South. A correspondent writing from Bristol, Tenn., found at that place and all through Southwest Virginia that the great want that is felt in fostering the industrial pursuits and developing the varied resources of the region is sufficient capital. Itis estimated that there are not less than one hundred thriving towns in the South in which, like the one named, business is severely hamper- ed and restricted solely on account of the lack of banking capital. The rates of in- terest are too high in the South, and it is often impossible for business men to se- cure on the best security the money needed * Paper read hy C. -_ ‘Hammond at recent convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association. owing to the paucity of banking facilities. It is said that 9 to 15 per cent. per annum is a common rate for business men to pay, and, in view of the cheapness of money in recent years, this seems very high. The Atlanta Constitution says that the lack of banking capital is seriously felt in Geogia. The commerce of the State has been largely increased since the war, but the State and the people have been crippled—-paralyzed, we may say—by a lack of capital.’ The writer of above refers to the need of lower rates of interest for a successful pros- eeution of business and looks to the coming of banks for a reduction of the prevailing high rates. In spite of usury laws, if money is seare, interest rates will be high and more capital, not more laws, will be re- quired to reduce them. The funds for banks in the newer portions of the West come largely from non-resi- dents. Nearly one-third of the national bank stock of the Western Territories is held by non-residents. Banks, in a sense, create capital. The billion dollars loaned by the national banks in excess of their capital, and so invested in productive industry, come from the savings and temporarily idle funds of the people, a large part of which, but for the existence of banks, would be hoarded by the owners, who unwilling to entrust their money to the vi- cissitudes of a business of which they know nothing and from which they might not be able to withdraw it when needed, would hide their funds away in the proverbial ‘‘old stocking” or bury it in the earth—anywhere to have it safe and ready to use when re- quired. Thus an amount, enormous in the aggregate, would lie idle and useless instead of going into the channels of trade. The formation of saving habits and en- couragement of economy and thrift, which come from a system of safe and convenient depositories are not the least of the many services rendered by the banks to the pub- lic. As was referred to yesterday, teach a man habits of saving and thrift. Let him accumulate one, two, ten hundred dollars, and you have not a man who will engage in lawless, violent strikes, but a supporter and defender of peace and law—a citizen nota socialist. But the service rendered the business world by the banks, in the way of loans, the fostering of habits of economy and thrift and the conversion of idle, useless funds into working, productive capital, is but a part of their beneficent work. Some time ago the Comptroller of the Currency forwarded to every national bank blanks upon whieh they were requested to record a synopsis of their business for a given day, showing the entire amount of their transactions for that day, the amount of money—curreney and coin—employed in those transactions and the amount repre- sented by checks, drafts and other repre- sentatives of money. ‘The combined reports showed that only about 5 per cent. of that day’s barfking business was done in cur- reney and coin, while 95 per cent. was in checks, drafts, transfers of credit and other representatives of money. In other words, the banks furnished 19-20 of the medium employed in the transaction of the enormous business whieh passed through them on that day. Again, the service rendered in the sate, rapid, convenient and cheap transfer of credits to and from all parts of the country is a most important one. The merchant in Michigan, Maine or New Mexico steps into his home bank, deposits his money and _ it is promptly transferred for him at a trifling expense to Chicago, New York or New Or- leans. The importer employs the banks in payment of his purchases from Brazil to Japan. And all is done so promptly, easily and continuously that we often fail to real- ize the importance of the work. T have made no reference to the great ben- efit which the country derives from the sys- tem of national bank circulation or bills. The omission is not due to any lack of ap- preciation on my part of the great advan- tages accruing to the publie from such a safe, convenient and elastic medium, but because there are a considerable number who deny their advantages, and, as I have not time to argue the point, 1 have spoken only of thoseservices rendered by the banks, the importance of which there can be no de- nial. : The last report of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that last October there were about 8,‘ 200 banks of all kinds in the United States, 2,875 of which were national banks with a capital and surplus of $780,000,000, deposits of $1,800,000,000 and loans. of $1,500,000,000. Private bank figures can not be ascertained. Michigan stands eleventh in list of states as regards national bank capital and seyenth in deposits. We have in Michigan about 370 banks, consisting of four classes—pri- vate, savings, State and the national banks. A glanee at their distinguishing features may be of interest. All receive deposits, make loans and buy and sell exchange. One hundred and one are national banks and most of the rest are private banks. By private banks, I mean those not ineorpor- ated. They are subject to no special re- strictions or examinations and are required to make no reports to any department or to the publie. A word anent savings banks: Not less than five persons may unite to organize a savings bank, the capital of which must be at least $25,000. Business is managed by a Board of Trustees or Directors, chosen by the stockholders from their own number. Two-thirds of the deposits may be loaned on real estate and in United States, city, county, state and sehool district bonds. Four times a year, a report of its condition must be made to the State Treasurer and published. A reserve must be maintained in cash or demand deposits in an organized bank. Savings depositors in such banks are made preferred creditors in ease of the bank’s insolvency. Stockholders are liable only to the amount of stock held by them. Savings associations are also provided for by state statute, but they are so similar to savings banks that I have classed them as such. Any number of persons may associate to organize a State bank.. Capital must be at least $50,000. Bank management is vested in a Board of Direetors, who elect the officers and who are themselves elected by the stockholders. Each director must be a stockholder. Semi-annual statements are required to be made to the State Treasurer and published. As in savings banks stock- holders are liable to the amount of stoek only. The fourth elass—national banks—in- cludes the greater part of the banking capi- tal of the State. The Comptroller’s October report shows the 101 national banks of the State to. have a capital and surplus of $8,000,000, deposits about $32,000,000 and loans about $36,000,000. The distinguish- ing features of the national banking system | are as follows: Their powers and limita- tions are fix by national instead of by state law. They inust have at least $50,000 eash capital. They are managed by a Board | of Directors chosen by stockholders. Real estate cannot be taken as security for loans, except where it may seem necessary to se- cure from threatened loss a loan previously | ced made in good faith. L have often ieard | surprise expressed that national banks should be debarred from so safe a class of | security as is well-chosen real estate. The object of the restriction is tomake the banks | commercial institutions whose loans shall | be upon securities readily convertible, a sys- | tem of reliable oil-eups, so to speak, which | shall ever furnish to the thousand bearings of the wheels of commerce the lubricant re quired to ensure smooth and easy ac- tion. They are authorized to issue cireulat- ing notes secured by United States bonds deposited with the United States Treasurer. | The banks pay a tax of 1 per cent. upon | their circulation and bear the expense of en- graving, shipping and redeeming. The issue of circulating notes was very profitable when bonds paid a high interest and banks | issued all the law allowed them—90_ per cent. of capital—but, at present prices of bonds, circulation 1s, in many eases, attend- ed with loss and many banks issue only | the amount granted on the minimum amount | of bonds which the law requires to be held | and many would sell their bonds and retire | their circulation entirely, were they permit ted so todo. Though the bank note is not | tueir a legal tender, it has behind it all the seeur- | ' ity which‘ greenback has and considerable | more. The stockholders of a national bank are liable not only to the amount. of. their | stock, but for as mueh more. National banks are required to keep a certain per- centage of their deposits in cash at all times as reserve. They are also required to aceu- mulate a surplus fund from the profits of the bank, from which losses may be met | without impairing the capital, which must | not be permitted to fall below $50,000. Five times a year, a detailed statement of the condition of the bank must be made to | the Treasury Department, at Washington, sworn to, attested by at least three Directors and published in the place where the bank is located. And there is no ‘fixing things” just before statement day to make a good showing. One never knows when state- ments will be required, as the department | calls for them at irregular intervals and al- | ways for a past date. Annually, or oftener, the banks are visited by an-examiner, who makes a thorough examination of the affairs of the bank, counts cash, verifies books | and papers, examines securities, serutinizes | methods and general conduct of the bank | ; and maks a full report to the Treasury De- | partment at Washington. If irregularities | are found, the bank has been overstepping | the legal limitations or its management is | deemed injudicious, it is promptly looked after, and in extreme cases, the Comptroller may put a receiver in charge to pay off all ereditors and wind up the affairs of the} bank. They are prohibited from loaning more than 1-10 of their eapital to any one person, corporation or firm—a very consery- ative provision and one guarding against | one of the chief causes of bank failures, viz., excessive loans to one borrower. The amount to which a national bank may be- | come indebted, except in certain directions, is limited, and, in various ways not herein mentioned, provision is made for the estab- lishment and continuance of a system of banks, which shall conform to the needs of the business public and which shall merit | and receive the confidence of the country and contribute in the greatest degree possi- ble to the development and prosperity of the land. In speaking thus of the national banking system, I do not wish to be under- stood as disparaging the work or position of other banks. Thousands of them are ex- cellent institutions, doing great serviee to their communities and richly meriting con- fidence. The idea prevails, to a certain extent, that national banks are, in some way, a monop- oly. Such is not the case. Any five or more citizens of the United States, who can ecom- mand $50,000 cash, may organize as a na- tional banking association. That the busi- ness is not monopolized by the capitalist is abundantly proven by the last report to Congress of the Comptroller of Currency, | which tells us that less than one-half the shareholders of the United States have over $1,000 in stock and Jess than one-ninth have over $5,000. National banks shareholders number 225,600 and they come from no one class, but from all ranks and stations in life, from the capitalist of leisure to the poor widow, whose little semi-annual divi- dend check, from her single share of stock (her only reserve against a rainy day), gives needed help in the payment of her rent. The interests of the bank and the publie are so interwoven and commingled that the prosperity of one is the prosperity of the other, and from their mutual helpfulness come the greatest welfare and advancement to the country, of whose power and influence we are so proud and whose highest prosper- ity we all so earnestly desire. —_ or 2 The State Convention as Viewed at Albany. From the Merchants’ Mail. ‘Tuesday and Wednesday of last week the Michigan State Association held its semi- annual convention and banquet. It wowd be a most difficult matter to get into an e¢i- torial article like this all we might want to say concerning this convention. ; r av rj "eae . 4 tradiot yy We say, without fear of contradiction, | in time be able to accomplish something, to- with representatives from Illinois and Pehn- | sylvania to back the assertion, that ‘we would not care to find a more representa- tive gathering of merchants than was seen at this meetiig. We doubt if any state could produce a better looking, more intelli- gent set of men than those gathered at Grand Rapids last week. In all our travels among associations in and out of New York we have never met their equal. | of the most | know where to find him That Nearly three hundred delegates responded to the roll eall at the opening session and the We could have wished that large delegations could have been present from New York and Pennsylvania, in erder to have learned many valuable lessons in association as exemplified at this meeting. The essays read before showed the closest kind from word go, it was business. work this convention attention upon the part of the writers and would make one valuable movement ever collections of published. experi#hee, whom had personal experience in and with the matters they discussed. The of these essays commanded the attention of present applause. It is no wonder that the State of gan has State Association listened to such carefully pre upon the trade abuses, as ij listen to. It spe: essays The inany of upon this writers were men of reading persons and elicited the heartiest Mi such a strong when one has pared sub ject + Was our pleasure to | mighty volumes for the future of this move- ment not only in the State of Michigan b all over country to have in the ranks such men as Michigan enlists in thi movement. the front The banquet was a most magnificent in tellectual treat and repaid all who attended, | Whether that person came from New York Pennsylvania, Illinois, State of Michigan. Covers were laid fo about three hundred g one that appealed to the or each end of the uests. The menu was stomach of guest while the delightful strains of musi: hestra aided digestion in a The set many of every from the ore most wonderful manner. toasts were gone through, the speakers elicit ing the heartiest kind of applause. It wa a late hour when the members dispersed. In coneluding this article we have only two persons to mention although we could l mus with pe fill several colu rsonal mentior | [t has seldom been our pleasure to meet | better presiding officer than President Ham ilton. The mee to order at tings: were promptly called He wa ee upon mentioned. eareful not to force his own ‘ ‘ the ime the members: conservative in all his rulings one wouwd have to go a fore finding very long ‘There ! I about President way be- his equal, s nothing two-sided Hamilton, you on every question that concerns the movement. The State Association of Michigan feel proud of their President and they have ing so. Editor Stowe, of Tie MicimG Aan Tr: ADES MAN, is one of the most unassuming modest journalists we ever met. As a work- er in this cause he has but few peers. His efforts in organizing the State have been- unceasing and tradesmen owe to this man a debt of they his has know to be a fact. The Merchants’ Mail extends to both these gentlemen its heartiest congratulations grocer cause for feel- and vratitude ean been appreciated we hever repay. work | upon their work with the assurance that, at any and all times, New York will be proud to extend to sueh noble fellows any assis tance in her power. => © <> Manufacture of Gauze. The etymology of the word gauze has caused it to be conjectured by many writers to be derived from Gaza, a city of Palestine, on the frontiers of Egypt, which in antiquity was a place of considerable extent celebrity. The particular and arrangements used in the production of this tasteful, light and transparent fabrie, are known among manufacturers under the title of cross-weaving. It is the essential character of gauze (says a textile authority) that be- tween each cast of the shuttle sueh a eross- ing of the warpthreads shall ensue, which, while it admits each shoot being in its turn struck up by the batten with the degree of foree necessarily required to impart to it stability and regularity, yet prevents its be- ing carried into absolute contact with the shoct immediately preceding; the intervals thus left between the interlacings causing that degree of transparency which, without could only result from a looseness of texture altogether in patible with beauty and utility. In manufacture of gauze, French weavers are saidto bearthe palm. The weight of silk contained in a yard of guaze is very trifling. these crossings, com- the In fact. the value of the material bears a very small proportion to that of the labor consumed in its eenversion. —- > > Henry B. Baker, Secretary of the State | Board of Health, writes President Hamilton as follows: ‘“‘Llook upon your State and local organizations as a power in the way of educating the people on the question of pure food. Ithink if your Association and this Board and the proposed Laboratory—if established—would work together, we might | ward bringing about useful legislation. ® _—————_ <> -> <—-— -— Boots and Shoes: We notice a great deal is being said among retailers at present, re- garding adulterated rubbers. Our friends may be surprised when we tell them that all rubbers are adulterated. It is impossible to make a rubber ont of pure gum that would be worth anything, but the exact for- mula employed by each rubber company a secret. <> The Michigan Tradesman. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E, A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association. President, L. M. Millis; Vice-President, 8. A, Sears; See- retary and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour, Board of Di- rectors, H. S. Robertson, Geo, F. Owen, J. N. Brad- ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie. GS Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers. will confer a favor on the pub- lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. NEE Every subscriber to THE: TRADESMAN ought to feel a personal juterest in making its columns as instructive as possible, and each one can contribute some article to this end, if he will but take the time and trouble to apply himgelf. * ‘Letters from the Trade” are always readable, but how can such communications be printed, when those mostinterested fail to furnish them? Num- bers have written the editor of their in- tention to furnish something sometime for publication. If so, now 1s the accepted time. With Tue TRADESMAN’s thousands of subscribers, such a department should be continually full. If each one would not leave the subject for his neighbor to attend to, but would take it upon himself to con- sider this a personal request, there would never be a dearth of this class of reading matter. Jet each and every one respond to this appeal. TS Three weeks ago THE TRADESMAN opened the subject of bulk vs. package coffee. Last week the manufacturer was given a hearing and this week the jobber and retailer present their respective opinions on the question. Next week the retail trade will be given further opportuni- ty to respond and efforts will be made to get atthe subject from the standpoint of the con- sumer. All who would like to contribute to the diseussion—no matter from what view—are invited to do so. LT IS Attracted by the interest which THE TRAWBESMAN’S presentation of ‘‘bulk vs. package” has aroused in all parts of the country, the Chicago Grocer hastens to follow in the same footsteps, with a view to stealing some of THE TRADESMAN’S thunder. Somebody once remarked that ‘an imitator is worse than a thief’—a statement the Grorer is requested to pon- der. NL The papers of Messrs. Hammond. and Warner, presented this week, were two of the most important contributions to the pro- gramme of the recent State convention, and will be read with interest by hundreds of business men who were unableto hear them read by the writers. No town in Michigan offers a better open- ing for a roller mill than Hopkins Station. The man who gives that place a first-class mill will put money in his purse. Purely Personal. W. H. Goodspeed, representing the Woolson Spice Co., is in town this week. Daniel Ter Horst, formerly in the em- ploy of Hutty & Dickinson, at Grand Haven, succeeds Frank Escott as prescrip- tion clerk for Mills, Lacey & Dickinson. Harry Hall, the would-be cow boy, will be back at his desk at the Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co.’s the latter part of the week, the bullet wound in his head having nearly healed. The sister of John G. Shields died at Richmond, Va., on Sunday. The interment eccurs at Blairsville, Pa., to-day. Mr. Shields is expected home again the latter part of the week. ———_—_——>2>___— The Grocery Market. Coffee has sustained another advance and the manufacturers of package goods have accordingly raised their price 14 cent. Jas. S. Kirk & Co. have stiffened the packbone of the combination on their soaps, so that prices will be maintained hereafter. For several months past the goods have been cut and slashed in fearful shape, both by jobber and retailer, in consequence of which they have been nearly driven out of the market. Oranges are higher and firm, with a good supply in view. Lemons are a little lower and receipts are quite heavy. —_- > o> White Cloud Will Join the State Body. WuirE Ciovup, April 8, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—I would like toenquire what steps we want to take to become members of the State Association. We took in»ome new members at our last meeting. We want to join the State Association and get the State list and all the other advantages of such a connection, Yours truly, M. D. HAywaArp, Sec’y. Ten cents a head will pay the dues to the State Association from now until Oct. 1. Af- per year per capita. , eb sie —— Meeting of Traveling Men. GRAND Rapips, April 11, 1887. To the Traveling Men of Grand Rapids: on application. | | AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Apple & Son succeed John D. Engels- man in the grocery business at 614 Canal street. Co ee | Herrendeen & Richardson have engaged South Divi- ary | in the hardware business at 657 | sion street. Frank Conlon has been appointed Grand Rapids agent for XX XX package coffee by W. F. McLaughlin & Co. A. M. Stebbins, notion dealer at Sheridan, has added a line of groceries. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. Clark Jewell & Co. have begun moving into their new quarters and Curtiss & Dun- ton are following close on their. heels. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops comtemplate adding a fourth and fifth story to {their jobbing establishment another season. E. E. Mohl has concluded to re-embark in the wholesale cigar business. He has engaged Al. Love to represented him on the road. Jas. A. Morrison and Edward Frick have been admitted to partnership in the whole- sale grocery house of Olney, Shields & Co. The firm name remains the same as before. Botsford Bros., proprietors of the Auburn Paper Co., at Auburn, N. Y., will open a branch establishment at 25 North Ionia street about May 1. The business here will be managed by E. J. Botsford, who will re- move to this place from Auburn. Fred. D. Yale has retired from the firm of Fred. D. Yale & Co., jobbers of extracts and baking powder at 40 and 42 South Division street. The business will be con- tinued by Daniel Lynch under the same firm name. Mr. Yale will remove to Emporia, Kas. Lewis McCrath is rebuilding a two-story structure on the site of the building recent- ly burned on the corner of Hall ‘street and Madison avenue. The whole building will be 40x53 feet, in dimensions. The corner store, 20x40 feet, will be occupied by T. Crane & Son with their grocery stock. They ex- pect to be doing business in the new store by May 1. AROUND THE STATE. Stockbridge—John C. Reid, grocer, is dead. Stockbridge — J. C. dead. Yuba—H. Allen has opened a grocery store. Marine City—The salt and brick works are boring for gas. Escanaba—Purdy Bros. are closing out their grocery stock. Saline—C. King succeeds King Bros. in the grocery business. Manistee—Thervald Peterson has engaged in the grocery business. Grass Lake—Lord & dealers, have dissolved. Cassopolis—C. C. Nelson succeeds the Cassopolis Furniture Co. Decatur—L. Brigham has bought out A. S. Hathaway, general dealer. White Pigeon—Bracken & Davis succeed Seekel & Bro. in general trade. Franklin—Geo. W. Gordon succeeds Hig- by & Gordon in general trade. Cheboygan—Jas. R. Forsyth has sold his drug stock to Dr. O’Connor. Clayton—Kessler & Boles succeed Chas. Hoskins in the lumber’ business. Brant—J. Sorrell has bought out the general of stock Geo. Ward, Jr. Boyne Falls—McFellin & Co., hardware dealers, will dissolve on April 15. Detroit—John C. Poole succeed Dedrich & Poole in the wallpaper business. Three Rivers—Carl Lauer has disposed of his grocery and bakery business. Vickeryville—Hiseler & Jenks succeed DeHart & Hiseler in general trade. Escanaba — Seth S. Goodell, agent, is closing out his dry goods business. Jackson—A. E. Spencer has bought out the grocery business of Chas. Holt. May—lIngersoll & Tubbs succeed G. V. Ingersoll in the furniture business. South Saginaw—Frank E. Youmans has bought T. T. Hubbard’s drug stock. Gresham—Fred. L. Ryan succeeds Wil- liams Bros. in‘ the grocery business. Watervliet—S. D. Walden is succeeded in general trade by 8. D. Walden & Co. ‘Portland—Wolverton & Dudley succeed Ellis & Hixson in the meat business. Hillsdale—Barrows & Wolcott succeed Barrows & Teachout in general trade. Detroit—Lochbihler & Dennis, dealers in hats and caps, are succeeded by H. E. Den- nis. Cheboygan—Chas. M. Rapin & Co. suc- ceed Chas. M. Rapin in the stationery busi- ness. Battle Creek—Farrell & Boremus, cigar dealers, have dissolved, Jos. Farrell contin- Reed, grocer, is Teufel, general uing. Big Rapids—H. D. Widger, manager of ‘the K. of L. store, died of heart disease on | the 4th. ter that date, the expense will be 25 cents | ‘Sharlevoix—A. T. Washburn & Co. suc- ‘ceed F. W. Craine & Co. in the dry goods | business. Letroit—Kendall & Beardsley succeed Kendall, Beardsley & Dey, furniture manu- Your presence is respectfully requested at | a meeting of the fraternity, to be held at) Tur TRADESMAN Office Saturday evening, | April 16, for the purpose of making pre-. liminary arrangements for the State T. P. A. convention and banquet, to be held here on May 13 and 14. L. M. Mints, See’y Mich. Divy., T. P. A. | facturers. Jedar Springs—Geo. C. Huntington & Co. have engaged in the boot and shoe business. Vaslsar—Ida B. Starker has sold her clothing stock to C. R. Richardson & Co., of Detroit. Flushing — Thompson & Farthing suc-: ceed John §. Thompson in the boot and shoe business. Grand Hayen—T. Van DenBosch & Bro. have bought out G. Van Den Bosch & Bro., general dealers. Ubly—B. S. Slack’s general store has been closed (by ereditors. Mr. Manley con- tinues the business. East Saginaw—McCausland & Co. suc- ceed Plumb, McCausland & Co. in the wholesale grocery business. Hopkins Station—Frank B. Watkins is getting timber on the ground for a ware- house, 30x80 feet in dimensions. Charlevoix—E. E. Mudge has entered in- to copartnership with his father under the firm name of A. J. Mudge & Son. Mt. Pleasant—H. M. Angell, dealer in dry goods, clothing and boots and shoes, has been closed by chattel mortgage. Detroit—C. B. Northrup, dealer in gents’ furnishing goods, has compromised with his creditors at fifty cents on the dollar. Champion & Hayward, grocers at White Cloud, have added a line of crockery. Cummings & Graham furnished the stock. Big Rapids—John Loduon and John Gilmore have opened a gen’ts furnishing goods and merchant tailoring establishment. White Pigeon—Robert F. Jarrett has bought out the clothing department of Cc. E. Jarrett’s clothing and hat and ecap_busi- ness. Lowell—John Wingler-—or Sarah Win- gler, as the business has recently been known—refuses to pay a centof his obliga- tions since the sale of the grocery stock. Elk Rapids—C. L. Martin & Co. have purchased the drug stock of Rushmore & Holbrook. The latter firm will put in a line of hardware to take the place of drugs. Traverse City—Mrs. C. E. Closs has sold a half interest in her millinery business to Miss Libbie Bigelow, formerly of Grand Rapids. The new firm name is Closs & Co. Iron Mountain and Ironwood—Lieberthal Bros. & Co., general dealers and bankers, have dissolved, Lieberthal & Co. continu- ing at Iron Mountain and Abraham Lieber- thalat Ironwood. Good Harbor—W. S. Johnson’s new store, built on the location of the building burned about six weeks ago, was destroyed by fire on the 4th. The circumstances of both fires indicate incendiarism. Bronson—Van Woert & Perkey’s drug store has been closed at the instance of Per- key’s wife, who claims to be a heavy credit- or of the firm. Chattel mortgages to the amount of $3,000 are held by firms in Tole- do and other cities. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Gordon Earl, who operates two shingle mills near Rodney, was in town one day last week. Lansing—Elihu Peck, of the firm of Peck, Esselstyn & Co., manufacturers of crackers and confectionery, is dead. : Holland—Walsh, DeRoo & Co. have merged their business into a stock company, to be known as the Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co. Hopkins Station—S. A. Buck is preparing to erect a new building in the rear of the factory of the Hopkins Spring Seat Co., which he will occupy with his planing mill. The new structure will be 80x44 feet in dimensions. Port Huron—Active work has commenc- ed in the erection of Church & Co.’s salera- tus works. The buildings will cost $500, 000, and 600 men will be employed in them. The natural gas gave Port Huron this es- tablishment. STRAY FACTS. Adrian-—-Mason Bros., produce commission dealers, have sold out. Adrian—Baker & Clark, Baker & Co., cheese jobbers. Battle Creek—The Knights of Labor here are to start a co-operative manufactory of shirts, overalls, blouses, ete. Kalamazoo—John Aummel and Gotiel Laepple, late of Holland, have purchased the Appledoorr tannery, the consideration being $3,000. Geo. Purdy, late of Shelbyville, is fitting up a vacant store at Moline for use as a cheese factory and expects to begin oper- ations about May 1. Detroit—H. N. Smith has withdrawn from the firm of L. D. Ross & Co., grain commission dealers, and the business will Shattuck succeed pork packers and be continued by L. D. Ross under the same | style. ——_——>>_—_—— The Two Towns Should Organize To- gether. WATERVLIET, April 7, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Smn—! have watched the progress of the Business Men’s Associations for the past year with considerable interest and I have talked with the business men of this place and they, like myself, seem to be satisfied with the results. We are in favor of an immediate organization, pro- viding Coloma can be persuaded to organize. Coloma is only two anda half miles from here and I should think that both towns could be organized in the same day. Yours, H. J. PETTYs. Where two towns are so near together as | Waiervliet and Coloma, THe TRADESMAN advises them to organize together, » instead of each town ‘‘going italone.” The public inprovement feature can be arranged by the election of a Business Committee for | each place and meetings can be held in each place, alternately. Mr. Pettys can arrange the preliminaries much better than the edi- tor of Tur TRADESMAN can at a distance, and the latter will hold himself in readiness to respond to the call ona day’s notice. _—_——— Wm. Neilan, general dealer, Weldon Creek: “One of the very best.” VISITING BUYERS. ' The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders withthe various houses: Hanson Bros., Morley. J.C. Hill, Manton. S. L. Ware, Sand Lake. p. A. Klies, Sullivan. C. H. Schatfer, Onota. Fred Tracy, Cadillac. Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg, Jas. Colby, Rockford. L. D. Webster, Reed City. J.S. Toland, Ross. ae Farowe, Farowe & Dalmon, Allen- ale. C. Durkee, Lakeview. M. Minderhout, Hanley. John J. Ely, Rockford. D. J. Peacock, Ashland. S. H, Sweet, Kalkaska. Jobn Gunstra, Lamont. S. T. McClellan, Dennison. W. A. Thomas, Thomas & Son, Bowne. Gus Begman, Bauer. O. F. Wollman, Jennings. W. W. Forrester, Pierson. S. Frost, Stanton. Cole & Chapel, Ada. A. B. Foote, Hilliards. Rk. E. Werkman, Holland. G@. M. Huntley, Reno. Crandall Bros., Monroe Center. O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. PD. W. Shattuck, Wayland. M. Carmon, Mecosta. Dr. John Graves, Wayland. A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey. Cc. KF. Williams, Caledonia. H. Barry, Ravenna. Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mill. Rk. A. Hastings, Sparta. Walling Bros., Lamont. J. F. Hacker, Corinth. J.N. Wait. Hudsonville. J. E. Thurkow, Morley. O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake. Naragang & Son, Byron Center. M. E. Snell, Wayland. Cc. S. Comstock, Pierson. TT. J. Sheridan, Woodville. 5. McNett & Co., Byron Center. J. Smith, Ada. Morley Bros., Cedar Springs. M. J. Howard, Englishville. DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesland. Velzy Bros., Lamont. Jno, Kamps, Zutphen. Jno. Damstra, Gitchell. M. Gezon, Jenisonville. H. VanNoord, Jamestown. G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove. L. N. Fisher, Dorr. Walter H. Struik, Cannonsburg. DeKruif, Boone & Co., Zeeland. Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland. N. Bouma, Fisher. Mrs. R. P. Brown, Hastings. S. Cooper, Jamestown. Wm. VerBeek, Holland. ° S. Stark, Allendale. Gordon Earl, Rodney. Jos. Renihan, Turner & Renihan, Allegan. F. P. Hopper, Middleville. Adam Wagner, Eastmanville. H. D. Plumb, Mill Creek. Geo. R. Bates, Hart. Joshua Colby, Rockford. T. Stadt, Spring Lake. L. A. Seoville, Clarksville. . Seott, Keeler. L. G. McMichael, Muskegon. P. Iisen, Zeeland. F. Jenison, Manton. A.S. Frey, Lake P. O. A. Engberts, Zeeland. J. Teisenga, Forest Grove. C. Pfeifie, Park City. —_—__—»>--2 <> --- ° The Gripsack Brigade. Jas. A. Crookston is still confined to his house by illness. W. P. Townsend is now located in his new home at 77 Court street. W. E. Richmond, late of Springfield, Mass., has gone on the road for L. D, Har- ris. f Manley D. Jones, late with Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops, has engaged to travel for Clark, Jewell & Co. Fifty-one trateling men go out of Grand Rapids in the ' interest of the eight whole- sale grocery houses here. Wm. Logie has been under the weather for a couple of ‘weeks as the result of an attack of fever and ague. Floyd Ephraim Jacob Johnson Ever- hart is now selling goods to the farmers for a snide wholesale grocery house of Detroit, receiving 20 percent. commission on all sales. Will Campbell has engaged to travel for Fred. D. Yale & Co., taking the territory formerly covered by Daniel Lynch, who will hereafter devote his entire time to the inside management of the business. A. W. Newark, of the former grocery firm of Newark «& Sorenson, at Cadillac, has engaged to represent Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co. in the Upper Peninsula. He will take up his residence in Marquette. J. N. Bradford was more than pleased with the way in which the members of his old regiment—the 26th Volunteer Infantry —were entertained by the citizens of Muske- gon last week. Jim distinguished him- self at the banquet by responding to the toast, ‘*The Old Canteen.” “T am heartily in favor of Dave Haugh’s suggestionin regard to a trip to Niagara Falls,” said jolly Dr. Hatfield the other day. “I Want it, with a big W. It would cost but a trifle more than the annual pic- nic foots up to, and we would have a bet- ter time, generally. Picnics are no good, anyway.” Annual Convention of the Michigan Divi- sion, T. P. A. The third annual convention of the Mich- igan Division, T. P. A., to be held in this city on Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 14, promises to be one of the largest gather- ings of the fraternity ever held in the State. The programme comprises morning and af- ternoon sessions on. Friday, a banquet in the evening, and a closing session Saturday morning. The T. P. A. band of Union City will furnish music for the occasion. Among the invited guests who have prom- ised to attend are the following: Gov. and Mrs. Luce, Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Alger and daughters, Detroit; Ex-Gov. Blair, Jackson; Hon. Michael Shoemaker, Jackson; Hon. Clarence Bennett, Jackson; Hon. George Willard, Battle Creek; Hon. Gill R. Osmun, Secretary of State; Hon. T. P. Aplin, Au- ditor General; O. P. Pindell, National President, and lady; John R. Stone, Na- tional Secretary, and lady. The various posts and towns in the State | are expected to be represented by the fol- lowing number of delegates. Bay City, 5; East Saginaw, 3; Saginaw City, 2; Owosso, 9: Lansing, 5; Muskegon, 5; Detroit, 10; Ypsilanti, 5;. Ann Arbor, 5; Jackson, 50; Albion, 3; Marshall, 5; Battle Creek, 20; Kalamazoo, 10; Augusta, 3; Galesburg, 2; Buchanan, 2; Niles, 3; Benton Harbor, 4; Hillsdale, 3; mM Ww | | | | | | St. Joseph, 3; Coldwater, 5; Adrian, 2; Flint, 5. Beware of Wm. Dunn. Tue TRADESMAN has already driven one dishonest commission merchant out of busi- ness and duty to itself and the publie com- pels it to present this week an exposure of the peculiar methods of another produce dealer. It affords Tue TRADESMAN no pleasure to thus injure or ruin the business of any man, but when a person is not hon- estin his dealings, he is entitled to no imerey. The sooner his trne character is known the better it will be fur all concern- ed. Early last December, J. C. Stitt, the Dol- larville merchant, in making a remittance to the Valley City Milling Co., enclosed $15.85 due Wm.. Dunn for produce. Mr. | Dunn signed a receipt for the same on Dee. 11 and four days thereafter drew on Mr. Stitt by express for the same amount. The draft was paid, on the written quarantee of Mr. Dunn that he had not received the sum previously sent him. Mr. Stitt made sever- al unsuecessful attempts to secure the re- turn of the money, when he turned the mat- ter over Tur TRADESMAN. The _ latter has given Mr. Dunn three distinct opportu- nities to set himself aright or make a satis- | factory explanation, but nothing of the | kind has been fortheoming. This is by no means the first case of the i kind which has been brought to the atten- ition of Tire TRADESMAN. Complaints ‘come to the office frequently of crookedness on Mr. Dunn’s part and it is a common oc- currence for him to claim that merchants have sent him counterfeit money in their remittances. When asked to return the bogus bills, however, he invariably makes the excuse that the counterfeit has been destroyed or mislaid. ‘“‘Forewarned is forearmed,” and hereafter any merchants suffering loss by dealing with Wm. Dunneannot complain that THE TRADESMAN ‘‘should have warned them of Mr. Dunn’s peculiarities.” . Later—Since writing the above Mr. Dunn’s goods have been set out on the sidewalk by a constable, he being in ar- rears for rent. 0 oe -- Organization at Hopkins Station. A meeting of the business men of Hop- kins Station was held last Friday evening for the purpose of forming an association. F. B. Watkins was selected to act as pre- siding officer, and Wm. Dendel officiated as secretary. At the conclusion of an expla- nation of the objects and results of organi- zation, D. B. Kidder moved that an associ- ation be formed forthwith, which was adopted. The usual constitution and by- laws were adopted, when the following charter members were accepted: F. Bb. Watkins, Wm. Dendel, N. E. Leighton, Furber & Kidder, Hopkins Spring Seat Co., EF. Cavanaugh. Election of officers re- sulted as follows: President—D. B. Kidder. Vice-President—F. B. Watkins. Secretary—Wm. Dendel. 'Treasurer—S. A. Buck. Executive Committee — D. B. Kidder, Wm. Dende], F. B. Watkins, 8. A. Buck, FE. Cavanaugh. Committee on Business and Trade Inter- ests—F. B. Watkins, S. A. Buck, N. E. Leighton. The Blue Letter collection system was adopted and the Executive Committee was instructed to procure the printing of the necessary blanks. F. B. Watkins reminded the gentlemen present that the thing most needed by Hop- kins Station at the present time is a grist mill. He said he hoped the Business Com- mittee would do all that lay in its power to secure one. President Kidder corroborated Mr. Wat- kins’ statements, warning the Committee that while a good mill would be a good thing, a poor mill would be worse than none at all. The meeting then adjourned. ee Reducing the Garnishee Exemption. Wn. E. Kelsey, chairman of the Legis- lative Committee of the Michigan Business Men’s Association, has sent out blank petitions to all the local associations in the State, accompanied with a request to have same filled out and forwarded to Lansing without delay. It is to be hoped that prompt responses will be made to this ap- peal, as the matter is one of vital im- portance to every business man in the State. The full text of the bill, as recom- mended to the House by the Committee on Judiciary, is as follows: SECTION 1. Michigan enact, That section six thousand four hundred and forty of the complied laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section eight thousand and thirty- two of Howell’s annotated statutes of Michigan be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 26440. Sec. 2. The person summoned as garnishee from the time of the service of such summons, shall be deemed liable to the plaintiff in such suit, to the amount of the property, money and effects in his hands or possession, or under his control, or due from time to time the defendant in such suit: Provided, That when the de- fendant is a householder having a family, nothing herein contained shall be applicable to any jndebtedness of such garnishee to the defendant for the personal labor of such defendant, or his family, for any amount not exceeding the sum of one dollar per day for each day’s labor rendered by said defendant, or his family, for any number of days not exceeding twenty-five working days immediately prior to the time of the service of such summons. —— —-6 <> Not Pure Pepper, Furber & Kidder, of Hopkins Station, favor Tur TRADESMAN witha sample of ground pepper, with a request for an opinion as toits merits. Microscopic analysis reveals the fact that the goods comprise ground white pepper, black pepper shells and p. d.—inother words, pepper mixture. The pepper is about half pure. The People of the State of | Organization Observations. The Merchant’s Association of Belding has applied for admission to the State As- sociation. J. C. McAdam, president of the Cadillac Business Men’s Association, was elected mayor of the city by a majority of 241. The grocers of Omaha, Neb., are con- sidering the subject of organization and have sent to the Retail Grocers’ Association for the necessary blanks and information. H. E. Hogan, President of the South Boardman Business Men’s’ Association, writes: ‘‘Weare getting along first-rate. We took in two more new members. to- day.” Grand Haven Herald: The Business Men’s Association has rented the rooms in Odd Fellows’ block, occupied by the Ger man Workingmen’s Association, and beld its monthly meeting there last Wednesday evening. The B. M. A. has evidently come to reside permanently. Reynolds Bros. write as follows relative to anassociation at Eaton Rapids: ‘‘We have no doubts as to the advisability of or- ganization, as we had a local association here in 1885, which was allowed to lapse through the fault of someone. tion feature would not benefit The collee- us, person- ; ally, to any great extent, as we try to doa} cash business; but we think business mien | ought to be brought together, so that if any- | thing was to be considered that would bene- fit the city they would be in a_ better posi-| tion to act on and aid the same. We will question some of our brother merchants and see if they are willing to try it again.” —_———__—»>> -<—_____—- Collecting Judgments. CADILLAC, April 1, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sir—I am instructed by our Asso- ciation to ask what action, if any, can be taken by the Association in the matter of collecting judgments. We do not know that we*have a right to act upon them, and a great many of our members hold that a judgment pays an account. Respectfully, J.C. McApaAm, See’y. Tue TRADESMAN’S answer to this en- quiry would be that if the person against whom the judgment is held will not pay it, and has no property on which an officer can levy, he is a fit candidate for the delinquent list. If, on the other hand, the man is col- lectible—that is, has property which can be levied upon—the Association has no_busi- ness to consider his case. BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh bo. MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and Farm Ww AGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We carry a iarge stock of material, and have | every facility for making first-class Wagons | of all kinds. ("Special attention given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering. | Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, FIELD SEEDS. Clover, mammoth. ..............-.-.:- 4 25@4 50 | “ WCC i ic on cs po cte ese nes 4 25@4 50 imOthy. TMG. ... «06-6 -06-<-050404--- 1 9@z2 00 | experience. MISCELLANEOUS. ONL AOL A NAL lA Advertisements will be inserted under this head for one cent a word or two cents a word forthree insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. Advertisements directing that answers be sent in care of this office must be accompanied by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, NOR SALE—General stock of merchandise which will be sold at a bargain, as owner has other business he must give his attention. Write or apply to.J. W. Closterhouse, Grand- ville, Mich. 188* OR SALE—Exceptionally good business f opening. Wishing to leave Owosso, I of- fer for sale at a bargain my stock of dry goods, groceries and boots and shoes. whict will in- ventory $4,000 or $5,000. Also a fruit evaporat- or at half price. This is a splendid chance for someone. 7y Engines and Boilers in Stock tor immediate delivery. Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. ‘ Write for Prices. 130 OAKES ST.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FRUITS A.D. SPANGLER & CO. Faneral Commission Merchants, PRODUCE, NUTS, BERRIES, ETC. Consignments Solicited. 200 and 202 North Washington Ave., East Saginaw, Mich. THE OLDEST. THE LARGEST. THE BEST: The best of Testimonials from every State and Territory, ALE KINDS foot: PORTER IRON ROOFING C0. Src. gated on @ TALK AND TURKEY. Combination Entertainment for the State Convention. eonvention of the the Retail Grocers’ As at the September Michigan B. M. A., Association of Grand Rapids added to the | hie pleasure of the March convention by ten-| jy,o dering the delegates a banquet at Sweet’s Hotel, on the first evening of the meeting. Aside from the visiting delegates, about fifty members of the local association sat down to the well-loaded tables and assisted their brethren from abroad in demolishing the edibles. After the wants of the inner man had been fully satisfied, Toastmaster | Wn. E. Kelsey rapped the assemblage to order and announced as the first speaker of the evening, President Hamilton, who would respond for the State Association. Mr. Hamilton, who was frequently greeted with applause, spoke as follows: A few years ago I read of a young stu- dent at Leipsig, who being asked the qual- ity of his coffee at the breakfast table, said there was one good thing about it and one bad thing. The good thing about it was that there was no chicory in it. The bad thing about it was that there was no coffee in it. Now, im my response to-night, there thing. The good thing is there is no tatfy in it. The bad thing is there is nothing of that species of adulterated humanity regu- larly called the dead-beat. GENTLEMEN—It seems a little unfair to | place upon me, after being in the harness all day, this duty, and had it not offered me the privilege to speak in behalf of the Asso- ciation, I think I should have deelined; but, Mr. Chairman, f thank you for this, not because of an Aopportunity to make a _ speech—tmind you, do not lay this thought to my charge, a merchant, a small trader— but because it gives me an opportunity to express in behalf of this body, most gen- erous thanks for the hospitality and gener- osity extended to us by the Grocers’ Asso- ciation of Grand Rapids. When we came to you in September, if we had ever dreamed of your magnanimity, we left you without a question of its sincerity and if we had even surmised your hearty good fellowship and kindness, we went away feeling that we were looked upon with almost painful solicitude; but when you called us the sec- ond time, we hesitated as the young maiden does when she is asked by her lover to wed, hopefully and with anticipations; and if our acceptance of your invitation seemed a little premature you will consider the cour- tesy of your former treatment, and then do not wonder that the business men of Mich- igan appreciate such grace and turn gladly to youwin response to the = slightest call. Remember, too, that we are glad to come to Grand Rapids, the city of good fellowship, intelligence, thriftand industry: the birth- place of this Association; the home of our tather and mother who has named us. Can you wonder then that from infaney to our present childhood we turn to you when you eall, eat at your tables and feast in your presence. I donot know that custom de- tines how often family re-unions may with propriety occur. It is seldom we have such privileges, but, singly, we shall continue to come. Why not, when our very forests stretch their arms toward you and, return- ing, decorate our homes with manufactured grace: from fields denuded of forests, we send bountiful harvests of golden grain, to be returned a delicious nutriment:; our boys tind their way to your college and return to us business men; to your firesides as bach- elors and return as benedicts; our girls find here the fulfilment of their ideals in adorn- ment, music, art and—husbands. But of our State Association, what shall Isay? An Association of business men— sixty-five local bodies, when twelve months ago one could count them upon his fingers —six months ago no State body existed— now an active membership of seventeen hundred—six months ago, with but one ex- ception, we could call them here through our telephone—to-day they dot the north- ern, the eastern and western coasts, down to the southern or Indiana line. Eighteen months ago, had we prophesied this and had we have asserted that 200 business men from sixty-five associations would have as- sembled here for the discussion of business interests—the promulgation of right prin- ciples—we would have been regarded as visionary. Is this not an outgrowth of the reeog- nition of our growing wants, even necessi- ties, as well as of the undaunted zeal and energy in the fulfilment of them? Can we not attribute this remarkable growth to the awakening of a latent but universal senti- ment—harmonious unity in business circles —¢can we not now see plainly that for years there has been growing a stronger senti- ment in favor of wise regulations and adjustments of business methods? And do we not discern the broadening and deep- ening of the channels of trade and that social union is as indispensable to the busi- ness man as to those classes with whom it has long been customary, and we think with Cable that ‘tthe whole human family is bound together by the putting of every one’s happiness into some other one’s hands.” So, in business, real suecess for each lies largely in the hands of others. Of course, men are free and must be, to acecu- mulate according to their own ability. We would not advocate a communistic uniform- ity. It would be folly. But we are mov- ing along the lines of freedom—business, social and religious—-we are learning that no one of these great lines can successfully do without the other: we are slowly learning the lesson of ‘‘good will to men,” disdain of those impositions which have stained the name of trade and have partially robbed it of its dignity—the avoidance of that iso- lation that begets suspicion—and may we not through this organized effort hope to reach our ideal standard of mercantile re- sponsibility? The Toastmaster next called on Newton Dexter, of Albany, to respond to the sub- ject of ‘‘Organization in New York.” Mr. Dexter spoke as follows: After the very flattering introduction by your Toastmaster, I hardly know how to respond to this toast. There is nothing bet ter that [like than to make an after-dinner speech, and I generally consume from one to three hours in doing it [laughter]. I have jotted down a few thoughts, and be- fore 1 go on I want to explain one little in- cident that happened here this evening. Mr. Hydorn held up a business ecard and said that some one had come in here and | had not purchased a ticket. 1 hear whis- pers around the table that it came from New York. I own the job was put up on scheme originated in Pennsylvania. this in my own defense. | | j | | | | | | Peninsulas which compose your State, GENTLEMEN—You probably have hard the story of the chaplain of the Minnesota legislature, who recently opened the legis- lature with prayer, as follows: *‘And now, dear Lord, bless the report- ers whose nimble pens catch our every word almost before it is uttered. Like Thyself they are omnipresent, and almost omnipo- If we take the wings of the morn- ing, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, they are there. . They meet us in the jungles of Africa, they waylay us in the solitary canons of Colorado, and when at length we find the latitude of the magnetic pole, behold they are there. May their light and goodness be equal to their power, and in the general assembly of heaven let no reporter be excluded.” Being a newspaper man accounts for my being present with you this evening. News- paper men, as arule, would rather sit down at a banquet of this sort and enjoy the good things of this life and see the men who are expected to make speeches squirm around, than to make speeches themselves. I want to tell you, however, how well pleased I am at being present with you. What I have heard and witnessed more than repays the fa- tigue of a thousand mile journey. It has been a great pleasure to me to take by the hand your worthy president and cordially thank him for the great work he has done in the State of Michigan. It has been no less a privilege to meet that hearty, whole- souled and genial editor, E. A. Stowe. You : : | probably have noticed that editors gener- is one good thing about it and one bad | Py??aly % 6 ally, are of that sort. ‘That pleasure has been heightened by meeting the gentleman about whom I have heard so much and whom you all know so well, Mr. Floyd, | from Illinois, aman whom I have longed to know by personal fellowship. Then comes staid old Pennsylvania, who sends her two religious representatives here, to keep the editor from New York from wan- dering off into strange pasture grounds, both of whom I love because of the enemies they have made. Friend Smith will forgive me, [’m sure, for whatever I may say about him. I ean only ask this large assemblage not to believe one word he may say about me. I feel with all these things that it has, indeed, been a pleasure for me to have been permitted to be with you to-day and to- night, and I cannot help but feel that you will all agree with me that it has been good for us all to have come together, and that each one of us will leave old Michigan with a firmer resolve to push on in our several States this glorious work so well exempli- fied here in Grand Rapids to-day. But, gentlemen, we must not be over- confident. We must not feel that, because New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota have strong State associations, all we have to do now is to settle down and enjoy the fruits of our work. Are there not abuses to be corrected that had a giant’s growth before we organized? Have not abuses grown since organization that de- mand our attention ? Those — that have been corrected are few, and we dare not rest until these associations have be- come as permanent and as enduring as the everlasting hills. There was onee an old preacher who told some boys of the Bible lesson he was going to read in the morning. The boys, finding the place, glued together the connecting pages. The next morning he read on the bottoni of one page, ‘‘When Noah was one hundred and twenty years old, he took unto himself a wife who was”—then turning the page—‘‘one hundred and forty cubits long, forty cubits wide, built of gopher wood and covered with pitch inside and out.” He was naturally puzzled at this and read it again and veritied it and then said, ‘‘My friends, this is the first time I ever met this in the Bible, but I accept it as an evidence of the assertiun that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.” So we found in the Empire State abuses that were fearfully and wonderfully made, and it has been our work for the past two years to correct those abuses. It is no easy matter to convince a man who has, for years and years, been selling flannel sau- sages and wooden nutmegs that it is wrong to do so. It has been no easy task to con- vince the wholesaler that he ought not to retail and that, by his so doing, he is taking the profits that belong, legitimately, to the retailer. It has been a difficult matter for the retailer, who will be damned if he doesn’t give to every chureh fair and festi- val and to every charitable object that comes along: and, if he does, he will surely be damned by some one who pays taxes and helps support his own city. I say it has been a difficult matter to convince the city authorities that these retailers had rights over the hucksters and peddlers who neither pay taxes nor give anything for charity. Has it been an easy matter to force the re- spectable delinquent to be honest, or, at least, pay for what he eats or drinks? Yet this, and more than this, we have acecom- plished. No longer can you find flannel sausages and wooden nutmegs for sale. Inch by inch, we are driving out of the State all prize or gift systems with articles of food. It has been slow, but, at the same time, sure, and the trade has been elevated. We have taught tradesmen that, if they want the truth, they must speak it; if they want honest weights and measures, they must, in return, give the same. This, and more than this, we have done in New York State, and we propose to keep right on do- ing until the time shall come when the re- tailer will command the same respect from his community as does the wholesaler. You remember the story of the man whose wife sent him to a neighbor’s with a pitcher of milk, and who, tripping on the top step, fell, with such casual interrup- tions as the landings afforded, into the basement, and, while picking himself up, had the pleasure of hearing his wife call out, ‘John did you break the pitcher ?” “No, I didn’t,” said John, “but Vl be dinged if I don’t.” Gentlemen, I have exhausted all the milk, and I’m sure, if I keep on, I shall break the pitcher. Perey F. Smith, of Pittsburg, then re- sponded to the subject, ‘Organization in Pennsylvania,” as follows: Fifty years ago, on the 26th day of last January, your State became one of the Republics of this great American Union. From that time until the present, you have enjoyed a degree of prosperity scarcely equalled by any other State of the Union. Although more than 200 years have elapsed since Father Marquette and others set foot on your shores, yet but little over fifty years have converted your forests into fertile fields and dotted your State over with cities and towns. Now, about two millions of people find their homes within the two en- joying the freedom which was set up in Pennsylvania in 1776 and which you assist- ed to make perpetual in 1861-5. The story of your patriotism in the days of civil war ine, and J want to say that New York had | is still fresh in our memory. We remember absolutely nothing to do with it, that this | that, out of a population of 800,000, you j I say | gave 90,700 soldiers to the Union cause, and that nearly 15,000 of your sons were sacrificed on the field. Of your treasures you spent $17,500,000 in support of your soldiers and their families. We have heard of your mineral wealth, vying with Pennsylvania in the production of iron ore and exceeding the world in the richness of your copper deposits. , Your cereal products are immense, and your lum- ber, in some form or other, is scattered over the whole world. Although nearly half of your State is en- gaged in agriculture, yet nearly’ 50,000 are employed in trade. You, gentlemen, are, indirectly, their representatives, and we come from Pennsylvania, with her 100,000 traders, to see if our hearts beat in unison with yours. As Pennsylvania and Michi- gan soldiers stood together in 1861-5, can- not merchants of these two States stand side by side in 1887, united in a war against trade abuses and for the elevation of our business? Our purpose in coming here to-day is to receive lessons and to take back to our Pennsylvania merchants, lessons which, I trust, will be of great benefit to the trade. We are intensely American and sincerely believe in the self-government principle. Government among men has been estab- lished in order to secure the largest individ- ual liberty. Government among traders has been in- stituted in order to secure the largest indi- vidual business freedom. By means. of these organizations, individual strife has been reduced to a minimum and_ brotherly love fogtered and cherished. Co-operation between conflicting interests has been and will continue to be secured, until an era of peace, never before known in commercial cireles will obtain throughout our country. Thus will be accomplished results that will doubly bind us together as a people and a nation. Had the industries of America been organized twenty- -five years ago, as they promise to be in the near future, the history of the American Union would have been written without the reeord of a civil war. The great moral influence that is to flow from the organization of classes of in- dustries and occupations is beyond estimate and promises to entirely supplant the de- grading influences that have been brought to bear in political campaigns, local, state and national. Until about three years ago, the retail trade of Pennsylvania lived as strangers and enemies to each other. From early morn until late at night, the shutters were down, the lights burning nightly; the store room was a shelter for loafers, who apprc- priated store-boxes for seats and the floor and stoves for spittoons, and while whit- tling wood, they regaled the merchant with small talk, tattling , obscenity and profanity; delinquent accounts grew in number from year to year; swarms of peddlers went trom door to door selling, but contributed nothing to the expense of city or county; wholesalers sent their agents to solicit. or- ders, and when we were stocked up, turned around and sold to our customers at whole- sale prices; we were made the channel through which consumers were deceived and cheated; we were bribed with fraudu- lent gifts, to handle fraudulent goods; short weights, inferior quality, and adulterated and unhealthful compounds were means cupioped to cheat us. Does it seem strange to you, gentlemen, that, under such intluen- ces, suspicion, jealousy and distrust were feelings most commonly exercised by the retail trade which struggled under such abuses. Honorable, noble and fair-minded men, such as Hamilton and Stowe, of Michigan, Coughtry and Dexter, of New York, Harbaugh, Sharples, Deisher and Daub, of Pennsylvania, have risen up and summoned the moral strength of the States mentioned to unite in the defense of their rights and to fortify themselves against the giant fraud that stalks over the land, claim- ing every dealer and consumer as his vie- tim. Following the example of you gen- tlemen of Michigan, local associations have been organized in different parts of ovr State, to correct the local abuses which have crept into the trade, and everywhere the most flattering results have been accom- plished. Take, for instance, the question of early closing. The merchant is no longer a prisoner in his store. He is at home with his family in the evening , enjoy- ing the love that warms the hearts ot hus- band, wife and children, as they talk to- gether of the common interests so dear to the family cirele, so refreshing after the duties, perplexities and labors of the day are passed. This glorious privilege has been accomplished by organization. View it, if you please, from the standpoint of trade fellowship, and I must only glanee at these objects and aims—they are so varied, and there are many others whom you will, no doubt, take great pleasure in hearing. Brother traders, who never darkened each other’s doors or spoke to each other, are now in the enjoyment of each others’ con- fidence, and, arm in arm, walk our streets together. In fraternal feeling alone, our associations are worth all they cost. In the matter of influence, let me note that city and town councils have been com- pelled to recognize the justice of our com- plaints, and have passed ordinances to correct long-endured abuses. Delinquent accounts are in rapid liquidation and the delinguent lists promise a great source of protection against future losses by worth- less accounts. We have already abated nuisances, exposed frauds and driven out tea and coffee lottery swindlers. These are but infantile steps, taken at a time when we felt our weakness in num- bers and strength. To-day, there is a com- mon sympathy running throughout the sey- eral organizations, giving Strength and cour- age to every member. We feel it here as we talk together. Are we yet strong enough to grasp the greater, the broader questions that concern us as citizens of a great na- tion—and the controlling factors of an as- sociation that is the life-blood of that na- tion? It has been whispered to us in Pennsylvania that we are growing too fast, that we must wit until we grow stronger. Shall we gather strength by inaction and fasting? When shall we bestronger, if we do not to-day reach out and grapple with the issues that are pertinent to our avocation. Public improvements, licences, revenues, State and national laws affecting com- merce are subjects of legislation which an organized trade should have the manhood and intelligence to respectfully consider. This field, although inviting, is too wide for me to stop longer in and survey; and, besides, I am thoroughly convinced that, in your valuable trade paper, THE Micura AN TRADESMAN, you are weekly feasted on intellectual food, which, if properly di- gested, will give you special prominence in the work. In union there is strength. You will rec- ognize in this motto, gentlemen, nothing new to Pennsylvania. Under that banner, a nation was born in one end of our State, and the State Merchants’ Protective Asso- ciation in the other. No later than the 18th day of last January, a convention of dele- gates from the several local associations in the State, met in Pittsburg and organized a State Merchants’ Protective Association. | To-day it numbers nearly 2.000 members, and its influence is being felt throughout | the State. Do you ask its objects? Lan-| And are these follies going, _ swer, to systematize, fraternize, economize. | a ore —— oe Oiteut ewes These are, in brief, our objects. I might} ia oe eee it sown — speak upon them at Jength, but you, gen- re tlemen, know full well their import. 1 The State Association is but for the pur- | pose of enlarging on the opjects sought by the local associations; and, to facilitate the work, reduce the cost of management and effect a more perfect system. men, we adore them, and, as gray-haired | sires, we—well, let Tom Moore answer: | THE HOME YEAST CAK Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market. No, vain, alas, the endeavor From bonds so sweet to sever; Poor Wisdom’s chance against a glance Is still as weak as ever. oe a on mms NEBERITS. Faithful, changeable, loving, deceiving, | ,, t : The Home Yeast Cakes are put up in two sizes (packages) cartons. more often betrayed than betraying, the Stanley E. Parkill, of Owosso, then re- imperfections, of her character, like the No. 1. Large size, 36 packages, or cartons, per ease, $1.30. ath eae spots on the sun, are obscured by the luster No. 2. Smaller “ 236 vs es ss 1.00 sponded to the toast, ‘‘The Ladies,” as fol-| o¢ per many virtues. NO. OMe 8 00. lows: ——MANUFACTURED BY—— We praise their beauties to the last, We tease, annoy and would caress them, We Jove them first, and last and best— The ladies all—God bless them. [CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.] SEEDS Garden Seeds a Specialty, The Most Complete Assortment This somewhat lengthy title that the toastmaster has used in introducing me will, I fear, remind those who are familiar with the writings of Hans Christian Ander- son, of a character in one of his tales. A little fellow, with one of those—to us Americans, at least — unpronounceable names common to that land of dykes and windmills—names which tie themselves into a hard knot around your tongue, when you try to pronounce them—was dubbed by a companion as ‘‘the little fellow witha long tail to his name.” Since coming into this hall, I have been trying to settle in my mind why this toast — be offered on this oeeasion. I was mable to settle the matter, until it dawned caee me that the invitation to join in this convention was addressed to the sister asso- ciations of the State, and, of course, gen- tlemen, the toast, ‘‘The Ladies,” is en- tirely proper for a gathering of sisters. Isee before me men who have grown gray in mereantile service, who had wooed and won lovely women for their brides long before the King of Day shone on my na- tivity, who have reared aecomplished daughters, who, in their turn, have been married, and to-day children’s voices hails grandpa’s approach with as much joy as they do that of the fabled Santa-Claus. I feel somewhat abashed in the presence of the superior wisdom and more extended ex- perience of these gentlemen! It seems entirely wrong that J should respond to this toast—I, a bachelor who still sews on his own buttons, mends his own soeks and swears at his fire in the privacy of his own apartments, when it goes out THE HOME YEAST CAKE C0. 26 & 28 River St, Chicago, 1, . B.---Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOME YEAST € AKE. L. D. HARRIS, Wwrolesaliec Dealer in in Michigan. Don’t Buy un- til you get my prices. 3 X. = EG FR, ALFRED J.BROWN | Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester. 33 NORTH IONIA STREET, 16-18 N Division St, Grand Rapids) cxmamrm RaPrps, UD FREEDMAN & 00, Manut MICE. CASES Dealers will find it to their advantage to correspond With us, as we are in the posi- tion to make A No. 1 goods at the lowest pos- sible prices. Corres pond- S HO Ww and Jobbers of CIGARS acturers on a cold winter’s morning. ‘From the qnee Poy abundance of the heart the mouth speak- Factory No, 26, 4th Dist. . , bing trade reha- tivetopremium Address cases. AMERICAN SHOW CASE WORKS, 27 Ihahkoc Street, Chicago. Send for Catalogue and prices. eth” is as true as it is old, Mr. Toastmaster, and would have been an excellent precept for you to have borne in mind; but, per- haps, you also believe that the continual striving after the unattainable, like the search for the philosopher’s stone or the fabled Fountain of Youth but sharpens a man’s perceptive faculties and throws around the object sought a thousand attri- butes unseen by other men. But, Mr. Toastmaster, I honor your sa- gacity in selecting a druggist for this task, even although your choice has not fallen upon one of the most worthy of that noble profession. The imaginative faculty is not usually very highly developed in the average business man. His life is given up to the mastering of the hard facts of every-day business. You are familiar with the story of the good old deacon, who kept a grocery and was wont to say to his clerk each morning, ‘John, have you sanded the sugar?” Yes, sir.” ‘*Watered the vine- gar ?” ‘Yes, sir.” ‘‘Taken particular pains to see that the largest and _ apples are on the top of the basket “Yes, sir. “That's right, my boy. As a rev rard in your faithfulness, you may come to. pray- ers.” We have heard of the dry goods man, who, with a strength of purpose worthy of a better cause, forces twenty- seven inehes of unwilling elastic to meas- ure a yard and warrants a spool of cotton to contain 200 yards of thread, strong enough to hold the largest trout that sports in the murmuring brooks of Northern Michigan, when, in reality, it won’t meas- ure two hundred feet, and, being doubled, 768. Division St, Grand Rapids. ORGANIZATION OUTEIT. Full outfits for the Collection Depart- ment of a Business Men’s Association, con- taining all the late improvements, supplied to order for $13. The outfit comprises: 1,000 “Blue Letter’ Notification Shects, for member's use. 500 Copyrighted Kecord Blanks, 500 Association Notification Sheets, and 500 Envelopes. Money can be sent by draft, or express orcer. Fuller & Stowe Company, 49 Lyon Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich. L, M. CARY. CARY & LOVERIDCE, GENERAL DEALERS IN Fire and Burelar Proof AE ES Combination and Time Locks, 1] Tonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich, METAL BRAND TWO AND THREE PLY eats’ RHADY ROOFING Ll. L. LOVERIDGE, post-office THE ACME OF de Unility cg ECONOMY 6 } waxed and twisted, won’t hold on a sus- = pender button for fifteen minutes. You SHELF <= EVERSIBLE. Waterproof, Durable and Economical, have all suffered from the seductive wiles ETS. SHELVING of the ice cream man, who encourages you re, with smiles, while, with your best girl, Rey (AN BE READILY OVER 7,900,000 SQUARE FEET APPLIED IN 1886. you devour his frozen sweets, knowing full : fw e well that, ’ere morning, the newly discov- ,. PUT UP BY ANY Curtiss &Z Dunton ered tyrotoxicon will have doubled you up 2? ONE AND MOVED ? with that complaint as old as ‘‘the first 22 AS co child to the first woman born,” and for which essence of peppermint and paregorie constitute the sovereign and time-honored remedies. All these men deal with facts, but it is not so with the druggist. In him, the imaginative faculty is highly developed and keenly alert. For instance, you have heard of the nan afflicted with @eafness, who paid the clerk five cents, instead of the seventy-five cents asked for his pre- scription, and told the clerk to go to thun- der as he had made three cents anyway That, gentlemen, indicates a man of genius, He who can see seventy-five cents where two cents covers first cost can, as Lowell says, ‘‘see beauty where none is,” and is just the person to respond to this toast, the fair subjects of which are conspicuous to-night by their absence. When Virginius is called upon by Ap- pius to furnish proof that Virginia is his daughter, he takes her by the hand and leads her before the magistrate, more lovely in her girl grief than a creation from the inspired brush of an oldimaster. Virginius gazes at her with all the tenderness of a father’s infinite love, then turning to Ap- pius, says, ‘“There is my answer, and, if her eloquence cannot move you, then, in- deed all mine were powerless.” Standing here to-night in this the metropolis of Wes- tern Michigan, whose thousands of happy homes crown her more than seven hills, homes made happy by the noble women who adorn them, I can but feel that any feeble words of mine in their praise would be powerless. The love of man for woman has been the most important factor in shaping history. It has gathered and dis- persed nations, crowned and uncrowned kings, raised a peasant to become the leader of a people and given rulers to the heads- man. 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The ‘‘Tansill’s Punch” is unquestionably the most profitable cigar to handle as dem- onstrated by the testimony of their numer- ous agents located in every state and terri- tory.—New England Grocer. .* When Eve brought woe to all makind, Old Adam ealled her woe-man; And when she wooed with love so kind, He then pronounced her woo-man. But now, since'in our hearts they dwell, Our bank accounts fast thinnin’, The ladies are so full of whims, That people call them whim-men. And yet, as boys, we love them, as young Ta Ketign Treat 4 MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E, A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Bagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. Telephone No. 95, {Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1887. The Village Improvement Feature in Our Local Associations.* M. De Tocqueville, a Frenchman who studied very closely and wrote very clearly on the genius and spiritof our institutions, said of us, ‘‘Americans do every thing by means of associations.” Frenchman, under the empire, had been accustomed to obey orders, even insmall matters pertaining to municipal affairs. The principle of local self-government, on the other hand, was firmly rooted in the English system. The differing results in the two systems are an open page before the eyes of every observ- ing American. The French colonist on this continent went out, practically. The Eng- lish occupied and held the land. Take a dozen descendants of the Epglish race, put them on the plains of Kansas or in the forests of Michigan, and in thirty days they will have an association to their common advantage, a school district formed, a township organized and are holding district and township meetings. And they hold their ground, through these important factors in the problem of all true village improvement---these associations so com- mon that we almost lose sight of their im- portance and call them municipal corpora- tions. In ‘considering the village improvement phase of the business men’s associations of Michigan, I trust that it is not amiss to re- member these prior, fundamental associa- tions, the precious legacy of the fathers, and pay willing tribute to the truth that through them so much of needed good has been wrought out for organized society. Through them, under the constitution of tle several states and of the nation, with ehureh spires pointing heavenward and freedom of conscience, we enjoy civil and religious liberty. To them we owe un- divided allegience. There are meteors and there are stars: some things are transient, and some abide. In considering the new plans, the good ‘we may do, let us give heed to the safe- guards of the constitution and the just laws of the commonwealth. If they are not just, let us give our influence and our votes to change them. I say then, the earrying out of the village improvement line of work in these associations, with a view to results, implies that, through the men who compose them in our cities and villages, right principles tending to the publie good shall be embodied, kept and preserved in our city and village charters anal state laws, not only so but utilized; and even dormant principles tending to the public good will ye given vitalily by practical application. In the fourteenth century under Edward Ill, a law was enacted holding the local governments answerable for damages by a mob or ariot, unless, in such cases, every effort was made to repress the disturbance. The principle became statute law in Penn- sy!vannia, in 1845. A few years ago, we all read of the great riot at Pittsburgh. Property to the value of several millions of dollars was destroyed. The mayor of the city sheriff, magistrates, merchants and citizens all stood around as spectators and saw the boys have their time and have itout. Suits were brought by the sufferers against Al- legany county, and on trial judgments were taken against the county in the sum of two millions of dollars. Members of the Iiouse and Senate from that county at- tempted to get a bill through, making the State assume the heavy burden. The State declined. The county has been wrestling with the principal and interest of that debt ever since. The rich and the poor alike are subjected to the heavy burden. The same principle would have been law without the statute, and would, probably, in a like case, be law in Michigan to-day. Cincinnati repeated the role of disaster by negligence in failing to elect worthy city officials, and our own State of Michi- gan was but recently disgraced by the spectacle of fifty paid detectives imported from a neighboring state to help perserve the peace. No true man in the State but felt outraged, One Pittsburgh lesson ought, in reason, ‘to be enough to stimulate every true man in every comniunity in favor of law and order, the best good of society and the honor of the State. Gentlemen, the responsibility for the peace and order and good of society, in which subsists all true villagelmprovement, is largely with youin your several cities and villages. ‘Tell it out among the people that, as the citizens of Allegany county, rich and poor, paid the expenses of the unchecked riot at Pittsburgh, so, in like ease, in other cities and villages, the loss in the end is liable to fall on the mass of the people. There is need that the lesson be impressed upon the people of the United States in this day—that redress for wrong should be sought by constitutional methods under the laws of the land. This much as an ineentive due and proper attention to publie affairs. I appear to digress. I hoped I was ap- proaching my subject, I would lay primary stress upon proper charters, proper laws and the utilizing of them to proper pur- poses of village inprovement, by using them to their full limit and capacity, within constitutional limits. Gentlemen, the cities and villages which you represent will heed your suggestions in the matter of ac- complishing any needed good by the use of some power conferred by your charters or by general laws. Do our municipal corporations vote the 1-40 of one per cent., as provided by statute for the public library? It ought to be done, in order that our public libraries may be feeding places for the minds of the people. Intelligent thought is the basis of all right action. toads and bridges are the proper charge and care of the public corporations, yet im- provements here are within the proper scope of our work. Too often the roads leading from our villages in all directions are in a sad state of neglect and demoraliza- tion. Action should be taken by the voters at the spring corporate elections and by official boards charged with that duty. This would result in every locality having some roads constructed thoroughly and well. It * Paper read by W. W. Warner before re- cent convention of Michigan Business Men’s Association. is important and in the interest of every city and village that means of access thereto be perfected. Every right-minded man on a farm will second your efforts in this direction, and, if I mistake not, will will- ingly co-operate with you for the purpose of accomplishing so desirable a result. A word about bridges: some one has re- marked it asa singular coincidence that rivers, in their circuitous courses, generally happen to run so near to large towns. It may be singular, but it involves bridges as a necessity; and it is time that, in Michigan, they were built of iron with stone abut- ments—built to stay. So far granted. Practically, there is this difficulty in the case. The statute law contemplates that, the job being let by contract and the con- tracts certified to by Board of Supervisors, the supervisors, in their discretion, shall put not to exceed half the cost on the body of the county, the local municipality pay- ing the other half, all to be raised by tax the same year. ‘There is no authority to issue bonds for this purpose. The theory of the legislators is to avoid permanent in- debtedness for snch purpose, and that is right so far. But, supposing your super- visors, in their discretion, leave the entire cost on the local municipality; the result is, the local government is obliged to raise some two or three times what is lawful to do under legislative restrictions enacted on the theory that the Board of Supervisors would do its duty. In New England and in some Western States, .the cost of bridges, in such a case, is a county charge; and, certainly, as to the half of cost, the statute ought to be mandatory on supervisors. A river runs through a county; as the county is interested in good and permanent bridges over it, Boards of Supervisors should do their duty in this regard. I have called attention to roads to show that under the laws, we have superficial work. This should give place to some- thing solid and* permanent. I have called attention to bridges, to show either that Boards of Supervisors should act upon and carry out the theory of the law as it stands, or that the law should be changed to make its provisions mandatory upon them. I have called attention to the statutary pro- vision to secure to every municipality a valuable public library, believing that, through inattention and public lethargy, this important provision for the public good, especially for the young, a mere pittance as a taxis often lost to the public, through simple neglect to vote it at the annual township meeting. The matter of roadside trees is in much the same condition—what is everybody’s business is nobody’s. Our statute law recognizes the practical utility of beauty, the value of the refreshing shade. The law pays a premium to the intelligent man who heeds its provisions, and this for serving his own interests. Sections 1,408 to 1,410 inclusive give the statute law on the subject—‘‘distance of trees, sixty feet apart, and shade trees shall be planted along both sides of the public highways. . Trees sixty feet and more apart shall remain. Any person planting shade trees along roadsides shall be allowed twent-five cents per tree, not to exceed one-fourth part of his road tax.” If owners will not attend to this, it is the duty .of the overseer of highways to collect the twenty-five cent of the road tax in money and attend to it himself. The law further provides that at least fifty trees per year shall be planted in each district where trees are now lacking and it is the duty of the commissioner or overseer under his direction, see that this is done. Every man _ recog- nizes, when called to his attention, the im- portance of these provisions; yet, show me a commissioner or overseer of highways who pays any attention to it, and I will make a note of it on the twenty-ninth day of February. The lack of attention to some of these very important phases of village and rural improvement reminds me of the attitude of the man down in Maine toward Christ. He was approached by a colporter with the query whether he loved the Lord. His answer was, “Il haint got nothin’ agin Him.” After all, there is a better way than to leave this work to the commissioner and overseer of highways. The law is. all right—let it stand but enforce it. Let us take up the theory that itis every man’s individual work, and try that. Soon, the Governor will appoint another ‘‘arbor day.” I suggest that our associations appoint a Village Inprovement Committee, with this special work in view. Let the attention of property owners in village and country be called to provisions of this law. Let every man set trees against his own land. Let the country take up the work and meet the villages. Let there be uniformity in town- ships and villages, so far as possible, and among adjacent land owners. As to the distance trees shall be set from the outer line of the* highway, see section 1,408, Howell’s statutes. Let trees be set not less than thirty-five nor more than sixty feet apart—say thirty-five to forty feet in vil- lages and forty to sixty feet in the country. Let the foolish habit of selling trees without roots or vitality be abandoned. Let this Committee of our associations, clothed with no legal authority, whatever, and requiring none, enter upon this work and engage, through personal effort, through the press and through every friendly aid, the active co-operation of all men. Let them canvas the village personally, interviewing owners of property where there is no friendly shade, in each ease, take their orders for the num- ber of trees required by them. Have con- tracts with faithful men of experience, who are in active sympathy with your work and who will do their work well, to furnish trees. You will want them by scores and by hundreds. Have oneof your Committee er a suitable man to receive them and leave them at the proper places, and see to it that they are promptly and properly set out. Remember that, with good setting and proper protection, the suecess of the tree is assured. Let the press call attention to the law on the subject and to your good work and inyite the active co-operations of all, Old Stockbridge, Massachusetts, deserves to be mentioned in this connection. These ideas are not original with me—they were born there. ‘‘Laurel Hill Association,” of Stockbridge, Berkshire, the home of Cyrus Field and many others whose names are as familiar as household words for the good that they have done, has done a work that is ‘‘a thing of beauty and a joy fore ever.” A Village Improvement Association was formed, fee one dollar. The public square received the attention of the Soceity, then the cemetery, until no desirable thing in the line indicated remained undone; then the streets, one street at a time, the Com- mittee first taking the street that, in local enterprise, offered best inducements, then the next and so on. Some gentlemen of means gave five dollars, some ten dollars each. The work went on, the country joined with the village; roadside maples s and elms soon lined jhe streets leading in- to the country in all directions. Men who at first gave one dollar, then five dollars or ten dollars now had become interested and gave one hundred dollars, each, as freely as before they had given the smaller sums. A public library that now numbers some- thing over 6,000 volumes was added to the Society’s work. At the decease of some who were friendly, the Society began to re- ceive legacies of five hundred to one thous- and dollars. A library building was erected, and Iam advised that it has come to the point that hardly any one of wealth or eul- ture in that vicinity, now, comes to serious- ly meditate on death, but he at once writes down something in favor of Laurel Hill Association, toaid in its grand work of village improvement, material and moral, which done, he can proudly say, monu- mentum cere perennius exegi—I have builded a monument more lasting than brass. Gentlemen, there is satisfaction in the consciousness of having wrought a good work. Ifaman dies under such circum- stances, there is some advantage about it— you don’t have to skirmish around so far to get a minister who is willing to preach the funeral sermon. Why, I heard of a man in the West, Kansas I believe it was, I for- got just where. He ran away from the East to go there and never had done a good thing there. He died. They couldn’t get any one to preach his sermon. They all knew him. ‘They had him laid out, thrown intoa cheap coffin—lumber from Muskegon, I believe. Finally, a man stepped forward and said that he would try to say some- thing. The time was set. The sermon came—‘‘My friends, I don’t like to preach this man’s funeral sermon. I didn’t like the man. He had horses, and he run ’em. He had cocks, and he fit ’em. He had money, but he gambled it all away. He had friends, but he made them all his en- emies. The bearers will please remove the body, and we will sing the following hymn: With rapture we Delight to see This cuss removed. My friends, it is a sorry thing when a man’s life stands in the way of the best good of the municipal government of which he isa member. It is an easy thing to do and highly creditable to any man to give his kindly word and influence and sub- stantial aid, according to his ability, in favor of every enterprise that is calculated to promote the public welfare. A kindly Providence has done much _ for Michigan. Encircled by the Great Lakes, the prevalent westerly winds, as they come across the great water, have their harmful sting removed, and give us a fruit belt of great value. With all the varied interests of our grand State, we have a Garden of Eden, which we would do well to dress and keep, to make it attractive and beauti- ful. Such work is a constant source of pleasure and varied good. Gentlemen, I must close, leaving un- touched several phases of my subject. With the vote on the amendment pending, I ought to recommend, in the line of village improvement, water,——at least occasionally —especially here. But I forbear. I trust, however, that the amendment will prevail. More money for groceries and less for whisky. will make your trade better, will make happier homes, better citizens, and these matters are certainly in the line of village improvement. I desire to add a word as to the improve- ment in our villages of tracts designated on plats of villages as public squares. I find that, under the statute law in this State, and when it was a territory, the title, ‘ta qualified fee,” for public purposes and for no other, vests, in such eases by dedication in the county. At county seats, the county treasurer, or other person designated by the Board of Supervisors to have the public’ charge, is a proper person to co-operate with our efforts and his labors will meet with public and general favor, if he shall see to it that needed work in the line in- dieated is thoroughly done. I mention the law on this subject, as there seems to have been more or less misapprehension in re- gard to it. In closing this paper, I take pleasure in expressing the faith that is in me that these business men’s associations have before them an important work for our State. You are constituted in your several com- munities a committee of the whole to take cognizance of every needed public good. These associations are young, yet they are already healthy and strong and_ give promise of great usefulness. It is left for the business men of Michigan to realize the idea of Thomas Carlyle. He wrote in his note book, ‘‘We have associations for almost every thing, if only we could have one more, an association to promote com- mon honesty.” And then he added, ‘‘If we could have a law passed to give it effect.” The jurisdiction of our circuit courts is limited on the equity side to sums of one hundred dollars and over. These associa- ations seem to have a jurisdiction on the side of equity auxiliary to our courts of common law in sums of less than one hun- dred dollars. In so far as the tendency and effect are to promote common honesty among men, the work isin the line of true village improvement. Astoour Allegan Association, judging from the interest manifested in the material phases of village improvement, a dozen schemes are afoot, and must be attended to. It can no more die now than the poet Ten- nyson’s ‘‘Northern Farmer.” Time, spring of the year, an extra farm just rented, a hundred acres to put to the plow, his cows not half of them calved yet, he says in amazement, as the death angel comes, ‘Does God A’mighty know what aa’s adoin’? Let him take old Jones.” 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. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, STATE AGENT FOR Fermentum! The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co, 106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. TELEPHONE 566. Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. None genuine unless it bears above label. oS ff. Ee. & CO. LARGEST BHXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALH GROCERY HOUSE IN MICHIGAN. Cor. Ionia and Louis Sts., Grand Rapids. ORANGES Soi PEA NUTS 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. BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Importers and W holesale Grocers. Solic Agents for Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps. Niagara Starch Co.’s Celebrated Starch. “Jolly Tar” Celebrated Plug Tobacco, dark and light. Jolly Time” Celebrated Fine Cut To- bacco. LEMONS 1865 PUTNAM & BROOKS WHOLESALE CAN FRUIT 1887 ‘SLL N OYSTERS SPRING & COMPANY DRY GOODS, 0 ald 8 Monrog St, Grand Rapids, 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. JOBBERS IN “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. 05 97 and 29 Tonia Stand 51, 53, 55, 57 and 59 Island Sts, Grand Rapids, Mich. CEO. EH. HOW ES, JOBBER IN Hosiery, Carpets, Ete. MAN BLOCK, corner Pearl and Ionia Sts., April 15. EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE PAPER & WOODENW ARE preign and Domestic Fruits, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 3 Ionia St., CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . REMOVAL. We shall remove to the HOUSE- Curtiss & Dunton, Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce, If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota- AG, 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa street, MOSELEY BROS., WHROLESALE fd ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY. toes, will be pleased to hear from you. GRAND RAPIDS. SL ERC eeer ELIAS ANK BOW. D FOR —— ava SOLER nce WM. SHARS & CO. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. ABSOLUTE SPICES Absolute Baking Powder. 100 per cent. Pure. Manufactured and sold only by ED, TELFER, Grand Rapids. Cracker Manufacturers, Agents for AMBOY CHEESE. The Michigan Tradesmen. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisionsin Courts of Last Resort. SALE—FIXTURES—IMPROVEMENTS. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held, in the ease of Kisterbock vs. Lanning, that the engine, boiler, cupola and machinery in a foundry where fixtures, and passed to a purchaser at a sale on a mortgage of the land with the belongings and improvements thereon erected. BANK—DEPOSIT—SET-OFF A bank has a right of set-off as against a deposit only when the individual who is both depositor and debtor stands in both these characters alike in precisely the same relation and on precisely the same footing toward the bank. So held by the Supreme Court of Llinois in the case of Internation- al Bank of Chicago vs. Jones. AGENCY—AUTHORITY. In the case of Keith vs. Hirschberg Opti- cal Co., the Supreme Court of Arkansas lately held that an agent to sell goods had authority to agree with a purehaser not to sell to any others in the same town, and that such a» agreement would bind the principal where the purchaser did not know of any limitation of the agent’s authority. LIABILITY FOR LOSS OF PERISHABLE FREIGHT. Where the transportation of freight, per- ishable in its nature, was interrupted and delayed by a flood in the river which the track of a railroad crossed, and the freight decayed, and there was no negligence on the part of the common carrier in taking care of the freight or otherwise, the loss was attributable to the flood as an act of God, and the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the carrier was not liable. The court said that the fact that a similar flood had occurred once in each of the two pre- ceeding years, but that the carrier had not, by changing the construction of its road or providing other means of crossing the river, avoided the detention, did not render him liable, such floods being, up to the time of the trial of the cause, otherwise unpreceden- ted. ASSIGNMENT OF WAGES TO BE EARNED IL- LEGAL. Employees cannot assign wages to be earned, according to the decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. vs. Woodring. Woodring, who was an em- ployee of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, as- signed his wages for a month to a store- keeper in Northampton county, and the company paid the storekeeper the employ- ee’s wages on presentation of the ment on pay-day. Woodring brought suit against the company to recover his pay, for the month on the ground that the ment was not legal, because the thing as- signed had no existence at the time and there was no transfer of property. The Supreme Court, affirming the decision of a lower court, held that Woodriug was enti- tledtorecover. Thecourt said: The attempt was to assign that which had no existence, either substantial or incipient. There was assign- assign- no foundation of contract on which an in- debtedness might arise. It was the possibility of a subsequent acquisition of property. This is too vague and uncertain. It cannot be sustained as a valid assign- ment and transfer of property. mere _ ee Commerce of the Ancient Chinese. The ancient Chinese are said to have ex- tended their voyages as far from home as the coast of Africa, and according to Cos- mas, the Indians who traded with Chinese were accustomed to resort to Ceylon, where alone they received silks, spices and other valuable productions, which were thence distributed among the different marts of India. Gibbon, in the fifth volume of the “‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” thus describes the mode of prosecuting this commerce: The Chinese and Indian navigators were conducted by the flight of birds and periodi- eal winds, and thought the ocean might be securely traversed in square-built ships, which, instead of iron, were sewed together with the strong thread of the cocoa nut. Ceylon, Serendip or Tapobana was divided between two hostile princes, one of whom possessed the mountains, the elephants and the luminous earbunele; and the other en- joyed the more sordid riches of domestic industry, foreign trade and the capacious harbor of Trinquemale, which received and dismissed the fleets of the East and West. In this hospitable isle, at an equal distance (as it was computed) from their respective countries, the silk merchants of China who had collected in their voyages aloes, cloves, nutmegs and sandal wood maintained a free and beneficial commerce with inhabitants of the Persian Gulf. >> 2 Time is Money. Merchant—The article ig first-class, madam, and at $1.50 per yard 1s very cheap. If we hadn’t got four months’ time on it—if we hadn’t bought it on credit—we couldn’t sell it to you atthat price. If we had paid cash it would cost you $2 a yard, madam. Mrs. Yerger—Yes, I know it must be cheaper to buy on time. My husband al- ways tells me to purchase all I can get on credit. I think I’ll take sixteen yards and you can charge it to Colonel Yerge1 <> -2<——_——-— Plainwell Enterprise: The Business Men’s Association is going to establish a certain hour for its merchant members to close their stores. At the last meeting, Jas. N. Hill, John Crispe and the Plainwell Lumber Co., were admitted to membership, The delegates to the State convention re- turned very encouraging reports. AMOS S. MUSSELMAN & COMPANY, STANDARD GOODS AT ROCK — -TRY US ON A MAIL ORDER. - ROCERS Mich. WE HAVE ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL LINE OF “ BOTTOM PRICES. And let us urge you, if you have not already done so, to add to your stock our Bera SAD BOY” FINE CUT TOBACCO, and Dilworth Bros’. Package Coffee. “Bad Boy’ is undoubtedly the best piece of goods for the money ever put on the market, and Dilworth’s Coffee is second to none. The “Bad Boy” is made expressly for us and is not the same as other brands urged upon you as such. Don’t Fail to keep it in Stock. It will make you Money and Draw you Trade. ALL GOODS a8 REPRESENTED PROMPT Shipments Satisfaction GUARANTEED. THE NEW Soap Company. As previously announced, the trade is now being supplied with Soap from this new factory. Two brands are now introduced, 1 ie Headlight Tittle Daisy: Both free from adulterations of all kinds, and contain pure Ceylon Cocoa Oil, Steam Refined Tallow, Glycerine and Borax. The former is a first-class Laundry Soap, and the latter, being fine and milder, is one of the best Bath, Laundry and Toilet Soaps combined now on the market. factory, in (Telephone For terms. please apply to the person, by letter, or telephone. No. 578—5 rings. ) Shall we receive your eneowragement by way of a trial order? Respectfully, Grand Rawids Soap CO. Jersey Butter Tubs. These are the Finest Lathe- Turned Ash Butter Tubs in the market. Every tub is smooth and perfect. Good goods should be put up in et ene 25 lb. Tubs.. 3 cents 40 ** Fn aeveb een iee tess ards 2 “ oo Of uaa oe orca ear aeaeee Special Price in Car Lots. CURTISS & DUNTON Grand Rapids. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN ES From 2 to 159 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills Grist Mills, Wood Working Machimery, Shaft ing, Pulleys and Foxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, Wy. Gy MICH. We carry « full lineof Seeds of every variety, GRAND RAPIDS, - both for field and garden. Parties in want should CE ED \ write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED 00. 71 CANAL STREET. NOTICE. To Restore Lands to the Public Domain. Pursuant to instructions from the Commis- sioner of the General Land Office, dated March 8, 1887, the following lands will be restored to the public domain and become subject to set- tlement and entry as other unoffered public lands, and rated at $2.50 per acre. That onthe 25th day of April, 1887, at 2 o’vioek p. m., said lands will be subject to entry. The lands to be restored are as follows: NORTH OF BASE LINE AND WEST OF MICHIGAN PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN. SEC TOWN RANGE ACRES PARTS OF SECTION 34 4 642.75 34 4 631,53 34 + 640.00 84 4 640.00 34 4 640.00 34 + 640.00 3t 4 640.00 34 4 640.60 . 34 4 640.00 W% of ne4,nw'4 and e% of BSW)4......--.--- 3 35 4 332.78 BA OE, oor 5 ck ee ee ee 5 35 4 643.20 asta [fo 4 S21.82 W'% ney, se4 of ne4 Sate ics 9 35 4 440.00 fe hae of nwyands.... ll 35 064 ©~=©— 360.00 PD OE ck oes i cc epecsesnce « 13 35 4 640.00 B% of ne4 and se\..... 1 8385 4 240.00 N% of ney and n&% of : ETE ons ca cae nae cnmwiens li 35 4 . 160,00 AAI OE, so. eo ceca bees: 19 3 4 96.17 W% of Se, neyandw% 23 35 4 560.00 E% of nw4 and e%..... 2A 35 4 400.00 BU OE occa el eee 3 = 888 506.56 Nw, n%4,sw4 andn% Oe OE as aos es rae 25 36 320.00 S% of.... 27 36 4 320.00 S% of él 36 4 811.85 All OF ines 33 36 4 640.00 W% of nwi.....-....--> nS 68 Ct 80.00 12,426.66 U.S. LAND OFFICE, Reed City, Mich., March 14, 1887. NATHANIEL CLARK, W. H.C. 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V dc = 8 @ es SH ea — “vine — 3 mt AOE set ea Saat 35 J He a es 5 50g 4 ace aoe 16 TS 4 os 30 pr oh io nets a 3 oe 28 16) Hiaw Aes s. & prices y E bs aa oe 6 00 ae ae Old Cons see te * tobe 1 R == — 33\Dack on. a A Report on Adulterated Spices. The chemists of the Department. of Agriculture, under the direction of the Commissioner, have for a year or more been investigating the extent and manner of food adulteration practiced in this country, and a report covering several branches of the work is in process of preparation. That portion relating to spices and condiments, prepared by Clitford Richardson, the chemist, is already com- pleted. Mr. Richardson’s investigations show that no other kinds of human food are adulterated to such an extent. Of twenty samples of ground cloves examined only two were pure. The others had suf- fered the extraction of their essential oils and had been polluted by the addition of clove stems, allspice and husks of various kinds. Ofeight samples of cayenne pep- per only one was pure. Of ten samples of mustard none were pure, though several had only suffered the loss of their fixed oil; the others contained quantities of wheat flour, the spurious matter being in some cases two-thirds of the compound. This made it necessary to add turmeric acid (harmless) to restore the mustard color. Ten samples of allspice were examined, eight of which were pure. Four samples of cassia were all pure. Of ten samples of ginger, four were pure. Only one out of thirteen sam- ples of black pepper was found to be what it purported to be. A specimen sent from Baltimore to a man who had an army con- tract was almost entirely spurious. Cayenne pepper, black pepper husks and mustard hulls were used to give flavor and pun- gency, while ‘‘body” was supplied by ground beans and rice, and color by char- coal. Two samples of white pepper out of five were pure, two samples of mace out of five were pure, and of three samples of nut- meg examined all were pure. Mr. Richard- son incidentally mentions a New York spice grinder who within a short time worked off five thousand pounds of cocoanut husks. —~. «> Loaded Lime Juice. From the Druggists’ Circuiar. At this season of the year when drug- gists are looking around for a supply of lime juice for the coming summer, it is well to note that at least one kind offered is not pure. A sample of this juice sold in bot- tles with faney labels was recently tested by the Board of Health of this city, and found to contain a large proportion of free wines, etc.,—are likely to be higher, on ac- count of the inter-state commerce law, which largely increases the freight rate from | the Pacific slope. Manufacturers of iodide | potash have advanced the price 10 cents and a further advance is anticipated. Gum | camphor is very firm at the advance report- | ed in our last. Oils cloves, spearmint and | cubebs have declined. elie cies E. Shay, lumberman, Bay Springs: “I would not think of doing business without it.” | sulphuric acid. The barium test was used, giving a copious precipitate after standing a short time. The growing demand for lime and lemon juice affords a large margin of profit for such an adulteration, but as the test is simpleand easily applied, there is no reason why a customer calling for lime jusce should get dilute sulphuric acid. CIE Na AER The number of institutions that are pre- pared to teach pharmacy continue to in- crease. SOLIMAN SNOOKS. The Effect of the Prohibitory Amend- ment on Trade. Cant Hook Corners, April 8, 1887. Editor Tradesman: Dear Srr—Well, the great political fight is now over and the conntry is once more saved from going to the everlasting bow-wows. The more I think of it, the more I stick to my opinion, once before expressed, that this nation needs an A No. 1 bleeding and physicking. About six or seven million cranks need killing, or else given some- thing to keep them busy besides making laws to interfere with business. We just manage to get the mercantile interests of the country into some shape, so that trade begins to loom up and the weary merchant begins to hope that he can diseard his year- before-last-year plug hat and afford himself anew pair of four dollar pants this sum- mer, when his hopes are busted by the eranks turning luose a lot more of legisla- tion and proposed legislation, wpon labor, transportation, prohibition, etc. until it gets a good start again. Then it can stand these things. Trade and com- merce are the most timid and bashful things in creation. A backwoods bride from. Po- sey county on her ‘‘tower” aint a circum- Let a big strike occur on a railroad in Texas, and immediately the furniture man that has been smoking ten cent cigars, drops down to fives, and all his men drop down from cut plug to Peerless. Introduce a bill to prevent the use of wine in churches, and liquor between meals, and immediately two-thirds of the cigar makers are out of a job and become tramps. When one goes down, he drags another with him, until all go into the sewer together, as some old writer observes. I have in mind just now a man who trades with me right along. A few months ago this man was smoking 10 cent cigars. He said he never could go cheap goods. The “‘long and short haul” bill was intro- duced and had some effect on him, I hardly know how, but he explained it all to me— something about San Francisco, water routes, passes, rebates, cuts and other ob- scure terms. At any rate, he began to smoke 5 centers, saying, ‘‘f think domestic tobaceo is better for the nerves anyhow.” The bill passed the House and went into something or other of the hole, and Jones come down to cheroots, two for a nickel. He said they were “more satisfying than Wisconsin tobacco.” The bill passed the Senate and Jones came down to cigarettes, saying, ‘‘I tell you, Snooks, that is a mighty sweet smoke for a cent. The President signed, and Jones called next day tor some cheaper cigarettes, two fora cent. The bill took effect and he bought him a corn cob pipe and a bag of Durham; yesterday he got aclay pipe and a paper of Topsy and I noticed his furniture ‘‘on the installment plan” being loaded into a dray. So I guess he is about busted. Thatis just the way this prohibition amendment has worked and I will bet my hat that we will now have a lot more of tinkering legislation. They will also have a shy at the druggist again, most likely— perhaps pass a law that druggists must send along a man with each bottle of liquor sold, to see that the customer does not drink it. It is expected, of course, that no person should drink liquor for medical pur- poses. Itshould be used with a syringe in all cases. Mr. Editor, I see but one way to help ourselves—we must combine all the mer- cantile interests and use our power to prevent, as far as possible, legislation that is injurious to us. While we have been busy weighing out nails, mackerel, butter- ine, quinine and epsom salts and measuring off calico, sheeting, barb wire, porus plas- ter and molasses, the cranks who have nothing in particular to do are busy looking up all sorts of schemes to injure us. Let us wake up and fight for our rights. In the mean time, we must get our old pants half soled and patiently wait for bet- ter times. Yours Conservatively, SoLIMAN SNOOKs, General Dealer. What trade needs is letting alone awhile, stance to the shrinking nature of trade.’ APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. Cushman’s cep? MENTHOL INHALER In the treatment of Catarrh, Headache, Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron- chitis, Sore Throat and Severe Colds, stands without an equal. Air Mentholized by passing through the Inhaler- tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are held‘ thoroughly applies this valuable remedy in the most eflicient way, to the parts affected. 1t sells readily. Always kcep an open Inhaler in your store, and let your customers try it. A few inhalations will not hurt the Inhaler, and will do more to demonstrate its eflieiency than a half hour’s talk. Retail price 50 cents. For CyrcuLars and TESTIMONIALS address H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich. Trade supplied by i Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, And Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. Michigan Drag Exchange. 375 South Union St., Grand Rapids. AGENTS FOR THE Standard Petit Ledger. A AAA AAT ON Vy ANTED—RKegistered pharmacists and as- sistants who are sober, industrious and willing to work. Co oe OR SALE—Very desirable stock of about $5,000 in town of 8,00) inhabitants in Tex- as. Can be bought on very reasonable terms. OR SALE—Stoek of about $1,820 in town of 12,000 inhabitants, (county seat,) in Wis- consin. Can be bought on liberal terms. oe Wee SALE—Stock of about $1,200in growing northern town of about 35@ inhabitants. Good location. OR SALE—Stock of abeut $500 in town of 4,000 inhabitants in eastern part of State. No other drug store within a mile. OR SALE—Stock of about $1,700 in town of Su inhabitants in Western Michigan. Do- ing good business. Can be bought on very reasonable terms. LSO—Many other stocks, the particulars of which we will furnish on application. rmno DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks we willfurnish the address and full par- ticulars of those on our list free. \ E HAVE also secured the agency for J. H. Vail & Co.’s medica! publications and ean furnish avy medical or pharmaceutical work at publishers’ rates. were a“. ree Exchange, Grand Rapids. ' Michigan Drug 357 South Union St., TIGER OIL. What J. A. Crookston Has to Say Whilein the Tiger Den. CADILLAC, Jan. 24, 1887. Well, Doctor, Iam around again, but my wife had to use a lot of Tiger Oil. It isthe most wonderful medicine I ever knew. It surpasses everything else. During my se- vere sickness of pleuro-pneumonia, when my pulse ran up to 130 and my temperature to 104° the pain was so excruciating that noth- ing would relieve except. TigerOil, which never failed. The physician gave but little hope of my recovery, but through his atten- tion and the constant application of Tiger Oit I pulled through, and am gaming strength by using Tiger Oil, which I know is doing me good, and will do good to all who use it properly; for of all medicines that I have ever known in over forty years’ ex- perience as a retail ant wholesale druggist, I have never known of a single one to be n any way as good as Tiger Oil for the cure of so many different kinds of diseases. There seems no limit to its power over disease. Therefore, knowing as 1 know of Tiger Oil, I do but my duty in recommending it to all my fellow men as publicly as possible, that they may have the benefits of such a valua- ble medicine as Tiger Oil has proven itself to be wherever it has been used, both for man or beas:. J. A. CROOKSTON, Of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. ANSY GAPSULE CC PN ee Se THE LATEST DISCOVERY. Or. Laparle’s Celebrated Preparation, Safe and Always Reliable. Indispensable to LADIES, Send 4 cents for Sealed Circular. CALUMET CHEMICAL CO., Chicago. ut pacer CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address Peck Bros,, !ruygisis, tirand hapids, Mich, Hazel Kirke SOLE AGENTS ~ OTTENBERG'S Ci La Rosa Celeste| sweet Catawba)! aS. 10 cents. c 5 cents. Having secured the Sole agency for S. OTTENBERG & BROS.’ Celebrated Cigars, I take pleasure in recommending them to the Trade, as the Finest and Best 5 and 10 Cent Cigars Ever placed on the Market. They are made of the Finest Qual- ity of Imported Tobacco without artificial flavor. CIvEe THEM A TRIAL. I will send to any responsible first-class dealer a sample of these Cigars on trial, to be returned if not satisfactory, within 60 days. Wesend advertising matter with above Cigars. Morris H. Treusch, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PAPAL WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. ,__ SPONGES. | Florida sheevs’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 oat ~ | Nassau o GO ces) 2 00 Declined—Oil spearmint, citric acid, oilcu-| Velvet Ext do do 110 bebs, opium, glycerine. | Extra Ye do do... 83 Actin Grass ado GN chan 65 sla = en wD cc . sor ae WG. occas es 7d PROMO 6. ons oa ua ohio nes ca wen pe ce os 8G | Yellow Reef, a e ( Benzoicum, German........... ...... 80@1_ 00 | MISCELLANEOUS — COCNOMCUME 666i colo ene akn nce 50@ 55/ _, : a Ae ON re bas ceo eavaince ges 5s@ 60 Ether, Spts Nitros, 3 F.............-.. a PIV POENIOM ees cecs bcs c- 3@ 5 | Aither, Spts. Nitros, t F............... WO 32 | Nitrocum ..... 2... ..ccce cecceccee cee 10@ ¥D| Adame .... 2... eee eee ce ee ee 24@ 3% } RP RINIE .5R ois Hines cos were Seine HN@ 13; Alumen, ground, (po. 7)..........-.... 3@ 4 Oe HE Bie 10 | IEE ose ees sh beens coer aieeens 55@, 60 MO oe ee ec a 1 40@1 60; Antimoni, po... -... eee. eee ee eee 1@ 5 " IN hence bends ice ereces 50@ 53 | Autimoni et Potass Tart.............. 50@ 60 eed | rmeney Nivees, soo oii ats cen @ 68 ARES fhe FP ace cee an ck cc ieee 5@ 7 OU, I Oem ee es ee ee cc ces o@ %| Balm Gilead Muc...................... 38@ 40 n Me AO ie po ind exe oc chet ae «6G ramen © ON oc ee 2 15@2 20 UN co a, H@ 18) Calcium Chlor, Is, (438, 11; 48,12).... @ 9 Ben ‘3 Chia oes. oo otk cattle 12% 14! Cantharides Russian, po.............. @2 2% BACCAE. or oo OR ca, @ Ib Cubebae (po. 1 75..2. 2... cece eee 1 8@2 10 Capsici Fructus, po................... @ 16 W : 1 inkipeae ao Nt a IER C@ 7) Capsici Fructus, B, PO... 2.2.2. .0- oe _ @ HOLESALE TE oii gs kcc kis cas cone on 2@ 30 | pe aga a MP cha vcns nase uenns 30@_ 33 : HO ES Oe | ae ra es | @3 7 : ene PR OE Moose cone en cn ctcens BOG 55 : — Da alee cts ace boca cae me . | — NG ooo oak oii cece se dass aus 22@ 30 i aces sess Beha e ees Gl 5 Moos ea scan cane eeesuusacs @ Terabin, Cangga.............:-..-..-+- cE oD go a @ is Pee ea... MO I niin csr cese sce gee @ CORTEX. | Seiatoe abas oak aaa cedkennueis @ 50 Ps . Oo ee BQ 40 —- teen tere eeesecnsccccenssere a i Chloroform, Squibbs.................. @1 00 toes) )C, 13 | piors) Eeyarate COVER ec seis 1 coe = 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gr, : : poi hd ba os ead ee ae he ae eae uees , 2 . oe eee ee ae 4 Cinchonidine, P.& Woes 15 20 93 and 95 Louis Street. . re es <> | Cinchonidine, German........... ...: 9@ 1 ee ie 2 | Corks, see list, discount, per cont...” 40 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF ee I oe ccs cli nsndanes danas, @ 50 Finan cea ak sabe ee ee ae aa bh ad as me 12 CrewR, (DBL. TO): .-+--24.-nsenneeserereen @ 2 Ty . hs : ee ee eee ee ee ee ee er a} reta prep ASRS ED Si CLA as UG i ate Big ee IG pe 5a 6 Clin acini Bho phat prego «| Dmgs, Medicines, Chemicals EXTRACTUM. Créta obra @ 8 ’ j i | Glycyrrhiza Glabra.................. +. Q@ 25 | CLOCUS .... 20... cece cece ee eee cece eens 25@ 30 1 a] 4 ‘“ Oe 88@ 35} Cudbear.... 0... ee eee eee eee @ 24 ‘1 Haematox, 15 b boxeS..............6-- 8@ 9} Cupri Sulph.... 2... ee eee ee eee ee eee 6@ 7 “ Se iis oleracea WG 12 } j i + ee, Gr | UN ONO eee cbs tects ces es cae. 68 70 ants “ sa. @ 15! eeny Ug Ee @ 8 and Ure ols § Ee @ 4G ’ ——— PRPMONS: (0. ON)... sss ok ec ees sae u 5e@ 60 uae Carbonate Precip............-....--.. @ Wi wae White. ie R@ | “7 Citrate and QuINIA....... <6. 60. oes e ss: GAM GA a, @ 28 Citrate Soluble...............---5-0.-+. COO a 1@ 8 Ferrocyaniduim Sol.............5-+-55: @ 00) Gelatin, Coopor.............. 060-6500: @ Ws ’ Solut Chloride.................. 0.2004. @ | Gelatin, Brenen.... :................,.. 40@, 60 Sulphate, com’l, (bbl. 75).............. 14@ 2! Glassware flint, 70@&10 by box. 6010, less. MANUFACTURERS OF WE ease TV GWG TOW cdc ccs. 9@ 15 FOLIA. Cle, WONG el, 13@ 2% } BOrOSma .... 2... 3s s seer ww ee cess e+ ees HQ 35 a —— ae — 2 Cdl armacentlca repard- Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly............ 200, 25 wrana Paradisi.................... 0. @ 15 “ “ ae 35@ 50 ee eid cies a deed debaeeeeat yee, 75@ 40 . ) nnate Salvia officinalis, 4s and 4s8.......... Me Blt ee ce S = {Ons il { acts ane _y Sependnase eta ape a 0 ee to es ' Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum............... @ 8 se GUMM1. Hydrarg Ammoniati Dae iueeesed ieee @1 00 Hinirs Acacia, Ist picked.................0604 i 00 | Be crere Unguentem. ...........1.+.-. e © ee @ 9 Thies Pato athstnteneenedanees 1 wnt b MM hence liniedasersaess @ 90] 1oaios Bern stares tsnseessanerss = SNERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS FOR a Gifted sorts.... 6) 6c.) @ 65 Pe eens tttotecsececcensencesones 4 ions ua ee nn eer BO ele ees scea ae cess T5@L 00 ter snnae ssn as sh sadness as 15| W nai a. 50@ 60 | Lodoform ........... 0... see sees serene @5 15 olf, Patton & Co. and John L. © eee Uke os. as ccs osc ces, @ 12} Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... @ x sys . a @ | Llauor Potass Arsinitis..........0..., 100 Whiting, Manufacturers of AVOMONIOG oe ee see was 25@ 30} 7v ESNet Han a asne tsa auonse seas ae j j Assafoetida, aU @ 15 izcopontam es = ° Fine Paint and Var- IIIs eisai aneccssneriesicena E 5d Pe ere ad Ss aes en an tees eensie ree - i fee 254 2 | Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 134)............. 20 3 nish Brushes. Catechu, 1s, (8, 14; 48. 16)........... @ B Mannia. RN eres cede aie sew aae nes , 20@1 00 Maphorblum, PO.............c0c-.00055 oe TE + pnd omg idol fl ea 8 168 & THE CELEBRATED LL @ 80| Moschus Canton....................++. @ #0 Gamnbore, DO. 6.6. cei oe 75@ so | Myristica, No.1... ess... ee eee eee @ 6 ‘ Guaiacum, (po. 4B)...........¢<... +05. @ % _— Vomiica, (pO. 20).........++.2- 4+. an = ON RE Rios oven sere cn ccis sess. I ella y seine ar Gey Oe ne ay ioc hci gecescanes Gi %5 | Lonsin Saac, BH. & P.D.Co............ GE oe ’ Worry (0 40), . 5 os nw on os conn ene s ones @ 40 Picis Liq, N.C.. % galls, doz.......... @2 70 NE ai feces ines ew senate. 4 25@4 30 | Bicis Lia., quarts...................... oi ® ALSO FOR THE SOURS ec a, W@ 25 Oi Hisdeare to ae ener nee ss S 2 ME oo kins sasacnsnas 25@ 30| Bil Hydrarg, (po. 80).................+. @ 5 j fi seamen BQ | Piver Nigro, (po,38).c0-ccsccccsc @ is| Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu- HEnBA—in ounce packages. iper ES | @ 3 * Absinthiunt yo... srsessss-- cee, gh { BEX Burgun....... sve secs uo i facturers of Hair, Shoe snd ; IN si iii reacasn cans 2 Baas heen sedetnasanans 7 re PES NE eS 9; | Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. @ 40 Horse Brushes. Majorum son Ue ae cugnetieet s Hage 28 Potassa, Bitart, com.................5 @ 1b Mamiee Piet... ..... 5 cscs. ss. 93 | Potass Nitras, opt.................. 65 8@ 10 WE ARE SOLE OWNERS OF ry Vir 25 MOURA oo ios s ce concen scaeus ss i@ 9 Rue... «3 | Bullvis Tpeeae et opti. oo. 1 10@1 20 a Wah? Manacotnm, Vii... ccc shecccls cue ees oy» | Pyrethrum, boxes, H.&P.D.Co., doz. @I1 Weather| Wich dll Cat ON eee aces 25 Zee, PIE ne sknesscedsecerecsdacaes 2@ 53 I IT ll JUASSINE ..... aN Wd ee sh oneb aed aadacenaas 8@ 10 MAGNESIA. Quinia, 8, We Woe ik ccaanns aes 2. 62@ 67 a 3 i CAtOIneR, FAG ice cece eae es sass 55@ 60 | Quinia, S, German.................+.+. 50@ 60 Which is positively the best Remed; Ce oa 290, 22 Rubia Tinctorum SO a a R@® 13 of the kind on the market. Carbonate, &.& M............ cock oe 20 25 aoe Lactis, pv................. @ 35 Nae 2 ale ia He MII ooo coe esd enna date neces apes @4 50 Carbonate, ees oo as aaa — > Sanguis MAIN ooo ccs lenensniesss. 40@ 50 sEUM. MU ioc ise si inca canceess @A 50 : : : hice aciaatal li FFs hc hbase ch ccqamaaens 12@ 14| We desire particular attention of those Pow 0}-30 0900000 0 | re ee rr @5 00 Ss M . ; ame 45@ 50 | S8PO M......-...0eceeeeeeseeeeeeeeeees 8@ 10| about purchasing outfits for new stores to Amydalae, AMArae........2. 0.66 c eee 7 00@7 50 Seldtita OE le ea ea @ 15| the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACIL- a gs Be ea te eee ee ce 2 mes io aoa MON ice vanes ccc ces ° = ITIES for meeting the wants of this class i : 5 a 2) CS Oe Se D2 i ty ~ Tee eee Rw Oe eee eer ewe c , « ee os 00@2 ms Sinapis, opt ae ee is didesbacwnns @ 30 of buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the ae eG iB | Sautl, Maceaboy, Do. Voes........... @ 35| most approved and acceptable manner Caryophyll esate Oe re a ga eee tore sternss: &@ 35| known to the drug trade. Our special ef- I Ee ee aa ele Shas Giles oe a ttc es one aa in this directi i OE oes acai ce un cutee Oe re ee eee eh ee regen = = — Degen ie a RTE 6s 6h is concndacecs ides OU OR] ee a Tt heer scents esse See ig | Sees OF Cae Seana Cy es Oe oe re @ TD Soda, cart I 4@ | fying recommendations. og Ee eee 33Q@ 65 So — - Bissassts setae snseenssascdasas 3@ 4 Ona @ 80| sore aves SRS Set nits sa 4 statasaess an : : OO ai ie alec ec dnea ee 1i 00@12 60 Bote M ete * Sees e esses waeee @ be IN occ swags ac csed cus CTS consol aes mg smog el aaah Ge 0 ee 1 20@1 30 Sree Vin ‘fees es ae at Tenet 2 50 I ooo ce scacecinasess eae sey gg ladle o = ooo apedicsancc Oe te ee ons snseons eens ayer giz | . We give our special and personal atten- Gosetoll, Sam. wal................4..-5- 5@ 7516 + ; Pa caves vcsesseersreroessssssss Gil | Ochre, yellow Bormuda,----. ig _aa|S0Ur Mash and Old-Fashioned Pe cic tankssoedscnt cans SO go ee eee an one = - - tienda. ue o Putty, strictly pure............ 2 2%@ 3 Hand Made, Copper cel eg a a : Vermilion, prime American... 13@16 Distilled POTASSIUM. 7 or Mie ceeacnas 5558 Istiile sic : no, | Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Fea ate wcsessvsrrecieerreessss BB | Lead, red strictly pure... @%IVT ELI SK HY Chinmnte, Pete. ee aq 2 | Lend, white, strictly pure..... HO 6% . Me 8 0@3 25! whiting Gilder’ @: We not only offer th d b PUUGRIAIO ©... cia ccnces becca cuuee. 23@ 28 | eta, Howe nlite haa on v naadinas armineeiarns Be ome | White, Paris American........ 1 10| ¢fled by NOOTHER KNOWN BRAND RADIX. | Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40) in the market, but superior in all pects Althae cee ck ae ee eed eA oe eb ub aae 250, 30 | Pioneer Prepared faints re 1 20@1 40 to most’ th t P = d Ac Po SE 1b@ 29 | Swiss Vilia Preparer Paints.. 1 0O@1 20 ee to ante. We Ave, 660 @ 25} VARNISHES. GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis- Calamus... 5. EE EN ee 20@ 50} No. 1 Wi Cagen.. 1.10... .........; 1 10@1 20} faction and where this brand of goods has Bertini, (0. 16) 5. oo css she cane WO A RC sks ein eens nn es ss 1 60@1 70| been once introdu has Givgehrrivap, Gv. 1D). 0. 6.0. enschede ns Tee 08 COMO os co as cage bean es 2 T5@3 00 been penne oduced the future trade Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 35)........... @ Ww WO. T Vie PiPietine 5... 6 ooo os cc eas 1 0O@1 10 r Hellebore, Alba, pO................... - 0G -20| Extya Turk Damar..............0...., 1 55@1 60 We are also owners of the ee OS TS Ge I ae 15@ 20}; Japun Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. 0@ 75 POCONO, DO. eek eee 1 60@1 70! 1 j . SENG OM ice bbc cbse bee d tes conceal ea 0 ll | 4 EMMA, BOG. oi ook oc wan nc kates @ 35) . i aa a WO caches scores 15@ 18 | 1 } i eas sns acs T5C1 00 : © eek “ors TUYT Which continues to have so many favor- aplec s ees oe a i 3d | ARS 4 ites among druggists who have sold these Peo cheno hada ce mun neen ese hed sb ees Oo) vO | ; Sanguinaria, (po. 25).......... 202.000 @ 20) ~- Ay IT IN ] bi 1 goods for a very long time. Buy our BOVRORCRFIG ii. n soso cans cc swawtses 40@_ 45 | ° TIN es eens Seckawionsassaneeen cl 50@ 55 | : : 1 1 } } Smilax, Officinalis, H oe ae | Q@ 40! We have a full stock of this well-known Nh Tall iN he 18S. . - Oe @ 22w; brand of Seillae, (pO.88)...- a snsssecsesneee 10@ 12 | ’ Symplocarpus, Foetidus, po.......... @ 25! Valeriana, Engiieb, (pO. BO. 2 | ; @ Os, | MM. L aie a LD & &. x IN = We call your attention to the adjoining * FOPIMOD oo us 5@ 20} i i i : auwex - | and having soldit for over SIX YEARS can a market ee Se “ o- to Anisum, (po. 22) : ; recommend it to our customers as be- ee — possible, ee, (pe pate ene ,@ 18 Soi & Wiest Clade aittdin ‘We pell th For special quantities and quotations on a ee fee ene Se mea oe Rg Se Ce CM ek iea cheered Ww@ 15| On the Manufacturers’ Guarantee: such as CN oe sess decease dices a LW@1 2%)... ' ne PIONEER PRE ‘ori es \ 9! Vhen two or more coats of our P NEER PRE- s s eee se ea ae ee a ean " PARED PAINT is applied as received in original Guden’ HONE CME GNT ESO H SOTA EH Rho ea ees ora packages, and if within three years it should crack or DVGOMIUIN. 0.6... eee eee eee eee ees 15@1 00) peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to Chenopodium ey cam wee eee ass 10@ 432) re-paint the building at our expense, with the best j Diptoerix Odorate.. .... 666 05562...... 1 75@L $5 | White Lead or such other paint as the owner may se PORCH IME oan vied ccaceids ghas woss os @ — _ — * Sent prompt notice must be | Ete., we invite your correspondence. HOGHUGTOOK, DO... 6.0 k ce celica ass, im 4 eee Mail orders alw ei i BM saci oes iin bce) il ax AOA cen be « 3%@ 4 T. H. NEVIN & CO. and personal aaa Senere Cee gee PAE MD, COB), boo dina sn asses os 34Q@ 4 Mtrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead. ioe PhAlawS CANBTIAN:: 06 6c. oo. eed 4 @4% >j > , Oa lee ee caucus, 5@ 6 Pittsburg, Pa. : BING. ALOU. 6. ees eves cine ceus re tent 8@ 9 i - PU MMN co cicn ss bode We hae a 4h Sees 5 t@ Y Write for prices and Sample Card to SPIRITUS. F ‘ Frumenti, W., D.& C0...) oo. ic se ce 2 00@2 50 i j 1 , Frumenti, D. F.R....: Do Nee eyes ious aes 1 T5@2 ve \ ( Bramonid Cy epic w sien ccumime oh Pesci ica L 10@1 50 , . Ins UPI DOPI AIO, Oo. ne cctv een cens L T5@1L 75 : ete CO ere oe coke ccc ol: 1 53 50 Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. - Te = Be isos dain chy Cases dec nas 1 75@2 00 | recente Ms IRD COON so cde chin tbdces ccecscke 1 75@ : ‘ Vini OFT oo oak i he udeiih ee eek ce 1 open 00 | Try POLISHINA, best Furniture Fin- ru WU AU iaisbecsccedshuciensss 1 25@2 00 ish made. . yr ™ Ww 2. The Michigan Tradesmal. Interesting Meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association. At the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association of Grand Rapids, held last Tuesday evening, F. H. Emery applied for membership in the As- sociation and was accepted. The Committees on Reception and Enter- tainment for the recent State convention made their final reports, which were accept- ed and adopted and votes of thanks were tendered the Committees for their efforis in making the convention a success. Treasurer Harris presented a_ report, showing that the total expense of the enter- tainment of the State convention was $253. 56. This amount, together with the sum expended in entertaining the September convention, leaves a balance of 50 cents in the fund contributed by the jobbers for en- tainment purposes. On motion of E. A. Stowe, the balance was passed to the gen- eral fund of the Association, which makes the total sum in the hands of the Treasurer $154.96. On motion of B. S. Harris, a vote of thanks was tendered L. Winternitz for his efforts in selling tickets to the banquet ten- dered the State Association. President Coye related his experience in attempting to secure an amendment to the city charter at the hands of the Legislatare. He was instructed to go to Lansing by the Executive Committee and present to the House Committee the advantages of amend- ing the city charter so as to enable the Council to establish a city market. As soon as he arrived on the ground, he was convin- ced that his mission would be fruitless. A number of pseudo workingmen were on hand to oppose the project and the Com- mittee before whom the argument was made was composed of farmers, who would listen to no curtailment of their present vested rights. The Committee refused to recom- mend the repeal of Section 27, as requested, but placed itself in a very inconsistent light by leaving the law so that farmers can ped- dle on the streets of the city without a li- cense, while residents of the city who wish to sell meat or vegetables must pay an an- nual license fee of $50. The report was accepted and an order was ordered drawn on the Treasurer for Mr. Coye’s expenses. An opinion on the legality of the Blue Letter collection system was then read by the Secretary. The President then asked for voluntary | statements relative to the Blue Letter, which was responded to as follows: B. F. Emery—l recently sent a Blue Let- ter to a man who was formerly in business in Casnovia. I had previously sent the man two statements and an iron-clad letter, without result. The man had jumped the country, without my knowledge, but the Blue Letter was forwarded to him at Vicks- burg, from which place I received a nicely- worded letter, pleading for leniency and more time. F wrote the gentleman that I would give him until March 15, and on the morning of that day 1 received a check in full for my account. J. Geo. Lehman—I have sent out eight Blue Letters and have heard from five of them. Iam getting small payments on all five accounts, one of which is over three years old. capital way to collect small accounts, which are not large enough to put in the hands of a collector. H. A. Hydorn—I have sent out six Blue Letters, and all responded—and quickly, too. I sent one Letterto a man who owed me $5 and hadn’t been in my store for a year. Hecamein and introduced himself —the fact is, I didn’t remember him—threw down a $10 bill and told me to give him a receipt in full for his account, which re- quest I gladly complied with. I entered in- to conversation with him and before he left the store, the balance of that $10 was in my till. Ihave collected over $50 in this way and ama standing proof of the eflici- ency of the Blue Letter. President Coye—I am convinced, gentle- men, that our present system is the best that could be devised for the collection of accounts and would suggest that those who have not yet tried the Blue Letter, procure a package at the Secretary’s desk at this meeting. President Coye said that during the re- cent spring campaign a good deal had been said by the editor of the Workman about the Retail Grocers’ Association ‘‘starving workingmen to terms in the case of a strike.” The Association takes no such position, and the person making such asser- tion knowsit. The only thing which could pe twisted into such shape were the state- ments made by Robert M. Floyd, in a paper read before the State convention, but even there the inference was not made affirma- tively, but interrogatively. The Workman is no longer the organ of the working class- es, but its editor assumes to speak for them in opposing the Association. B. F. Emery—The Workman professes great love for the grocer when it wants his advertisement. H. A. Hydorn—I think Tie TRADESMAN hit the nail on the head in its reference to the editor of the Workman last week. E. A. Stowe moved that a committee be appointed to present a revised form of the constitution and by-laws at the next mect- ing. The motion was adopted and the President appointed as such committee E. A. Stowe, E. J. Herrick and B. F. Emery. B. J. Herrick enquired whether it would AND H LEONARD 2 SONS 134-142 E FItOn BL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN: OUR NEW French Bufiet. NO. 100. SEE CUT. FILLED WITH 32a@% PIEC- ES, PATENT FIRE-PROOPF BOTTOM TIN WARE. G Hi HA Hl SURPASSES ANYTHING EVER YET OFFERED. | 1 Comb and Br Jonners AND. BARGAIN COU Nt HR Grand Assortment 10 cent fc THE GRAND. 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