; VOL. 4. ° GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1887. ‘The Michigan Tradesman. NO. 188. BELKNAP “Wagon and Sleigh Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and Farm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We carry a large stock of material, and have . every facility for making first-class Wagons , of all kinds. ao ("Special attention given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering. Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, GIANT ) Clothing Gompany. i. CEN Y,,| | TRADE MARK ——= = SO a. ——_ Our Order Departent Secures to out-of-town customers the most careful attention and guarantees perfect sat- sfaction. We are the LARGEST HOUSE in the STATE DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN Ready-Made Clotting With the splendid Tailor-Made Clothing we handle the fit is as perfect as 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. 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, PROPRIETOR. Cor, Canal & Lyon Sts. rand Rapids MONNICH & STONE, Flint, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF Send for Sample Order. 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. Wn, H Thompson & Go, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, GROsS & MILLER, Bankers. _--GIANT--- Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly for food, is made of only the best whité corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. 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 use, is the very best offered to the con- sumer. All wholesale and retail grocers sell it. PLACE to secure a thorough and useful education is at the GRAND RAPIps (Mich.) BUSI- NESS COLLEGE. write for Col- lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Ct, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. OUR OWN MAKE, A Complete Line of Fancy Crockery2Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. SEEDS For the Field and Garden, The Grand Rapids Seed store, 7i 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. COOK & PRINZ, Manufacturers of Show Cases, Counters, Tables and Furniture of any Description, as well as Designs thereof, made toorder. Write for Prices or call and see us when in the City. 38 West Bridge St.. Grand Rapids. Telephone 374. JUDD cw 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. Karl Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK. T. R, Ets & 60., Book Binders PAPER RULERS, Blank Book Makers, 51, 58 and 55 Lyon St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Overalls, Pants, Eitc., THE NEW Soap Company. As previously announced, the trade is now being supplied with Soap from this new factory. Two brands are now introduced, " Feadlight AND Little 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. For terms, please apply to the factory, in person, by letter, or telephone. (Telephone No. 578-5 rings.) Shall we receive your encouragement by way of a trial order? Respectfully, Grand Raids Soap bo. EDMUND B. DIKEMAN, THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, -—AND— JEW BOR. 44 CANAL STREET, MICH. HEMLOCK BARK! WANTED. GRAND RAPIDS, - The undersigned will pay the high- est market price for HEMLOCK BARE 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. MUSCATINE OATMEAL. Best in the world. Made by new and im- proved process of kiln-drying and cutting. All grocers keep it. Put up in barrels, half barrels and cases. MUSCATINE ROLLED OATS. Made by entirely new process, and used by everybody. Put up in barrels, half bar- rels and cases. For Sale by all Michigan Jobbers. T 16 The Best Laundry Soap on the Markel. TRY rT! FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS. MANUFACTURED BY Oberne, Hosick & Co. CHICAGO. A, HUFFORD, General Agent, Box 14. Grand Rapids.3 CHARLES A. COYE, Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS 2 TENTS Horse and Wagon Covers, Oiled Clothing, Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. Flags & Banners made to order. 73 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS. THE DRUMMER DID IT. AClass of Honest and Enthusiastic Peo- ple Who Never Die. From the San Francisco Chronicle. All investigations by archeologists into the various races and their history break on an inexplicable influence that seems to con- nect widely different places, periods and peoples. They find old jars in use in India that the mound builders had here, and they come across iron teaspoons in the primeval forest beds of coal. They are astonished to find the gridiron of the north of Ireland fig- uring in the social life of China three or four thousand years ago. The Bedouin Arab has the army blanket of the Esqui- maux, andin the ruins of Pompeii they come across peanut shells like what. the sweeper sweeps out of the gallery of the theater to-day. Well, why is this? Arch- eologists cannot tell. I can. The myste- rious ubiquitous infuence that leaves no track save the article is simply the drum- mer. It was the drummer who did it all. He left those curious Grecian serolls in Egypt; he carved those hieroglyphics on the rocks of ancient Britain; he is the man who introduced French candy into Herculaneum and stuck the mound builders with iron tea- spoon. Do you ever know what becomes of a drummer? Not that you care, but have you ever seen a dead drummer? I don’t be- lieve drummers’die. I believe they simply talk themselves into gas. ‘‘Gas thou art, to gas returnest,” was written of the drum- mer. I have met one or two men who have been drummers, but they do not talk much about it. When a drummer gets tired of talking he just disappears. I do not see how this country survives the existence of drummers. You gointo a small country place; you step into the hotel; you find in the office sixteen coats hanging up on the wall and sixteen valises in a row on the floor, and sixteen men sitting with their thirty-two feet up on the stove telling six- teen lies about their business and their ad- ventures, all at one time. You can’t get what you want in that town. The drum- mers have made the store keepers buy what they have to sell, and you’ve got to take it or go without. It seems almost impossible to believe that a drummer should ever be able to disguise his identity. He is, as a rule, aggressive and runs things. If yousee aman come inta the office of a hotel and step up timidly te the counter and ask the clerk if there are any letters for him, please, you may know that he’sa hum- ble private citizen and a plain guest. If you see a fellow bang open the door, stride in and leave it open behind him, go and hang his coat on a peg and jam his valise on the floor, walk behind the counter, take outall the letters and read the addresses from every box, open the drawer and look in, then yowll know it’s a drunmmer—good for one night’s lodging and several drinks. He generally lets everybody know that he’s sold a lot of stuff, and he talks very loud about the fun he’s had sometimes. But they told me of one drummer who called himself a count, and wore a long fur-lined ulster and an imposing foreign looking mustache. He came in the summer season and stayed a long time. He was the rage; the girls fell in love with him; the ma- mas admired him; he was on the eve of get- ting engaged to a haughty San Francisco belle, when a lady walked into a drug store one day and found him with a lot of sam- ples of soap, trying to stick the proprietor with his stock. That let him out and he disappeared. But the profession disowned him, for, as arule, the drummer isa straight- forward, open, honest and enthusiastic nui- sance. —_—_— > -0-< Taxes on Commercial Travelers Held Un- constitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision denying the right of a state or a municipality to tax commercial travelers from another state on the ground that such taxation is an interference with interstate commerce, and is, therefore, un- constitutional. The case in which this de- cision was rendered was that of Robbins vs. Taxing District of, Shelby County, Tenn. It appears that a state law applicable only to the taxing district in question was in force, subjecting ‘‘drummers” and all per- sons not having a regular licensed place of business in the district, and offering or sell- ing goods by sample, to a tax of $10 a week or $25 a month. Robbins, who was -unlicensed, was engaged in soliciting orders firm and in exhibiting samples for the pur- pose of effecting sales. He was arrested, convicted and fined, and his conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Tennes- see. The Supreme Court of the United States has just reversed the decision of the state court, holding the tax to be unconsti- tutional. In its opinion the court lays down the following positions: First. The Constitution gives to Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states, and that power is necessarily exclusive when- ever the subjects of it are national in their character or admit only of one uniform sys- temorplanof regulation. Second. Where the power of Congress to regulate is exclusive in Memphis for stationery for a Cincinnati [ its failure to act indicates its will that the | subject shall be left free from any restric- tions or impositions, and any regulation by the states, except in matters of Iceal con- cern only, is repugnant to such freedom. Third. The only way in which commerce between the states can be legitimately affect- ed by state laws is when, by yirtue of its police power and its jurisdiction over persons and property within its limits, a state provides for the security of life, limb, health, comfort and property, or when it does those things which may incidentally affect commerce. Butin making such in- ternal regulations a state cannot impose taxes upon persons passing through or com- ing in merely for a temporary purpose, nor upon property imported and not yet become part of the common mass, and no discrimin- ation can be made by any such regulations adversely to the persons or property of other states, and no regulation can be made directly affecting interstate commerce. In the matter of interstate commerce the United States are, in the opinion of the court, but one country, and are and must be subject to one system of regulations and not to a multitude of systems. It seems to be forgotten that the people of this country are citizens of the United States as well as of the individual states, and that they have some rights under the Constitu- tion and laws of the former independent of the latter and free from interference or re- straint from them. To deny the state the power to lay the tax or require the license in question will not, the court believes, in any preceptible degree diminish its re- sources. Goods, when brought into a state in consequence of a sale by a drummer, will be liable to taxation, and as much will be realized as if the tax were imposed be- fore the sale. To tax the sale of goods under such cireumstances before the sale is, in the opinion of the court, clearly a tax on interstate commerce itself. If the employ- ment of drummers injuriously effects local trade, Congress may be appealed to to make such regulations as the case may demand, and Congress alone can do this. The con- fusion into which the commerce of the country would be thrown by being subject- ed to state legislation on this subject would be, the court says, but a repetition of the disorder which prevailed under the old articles of confederation. tle —-P—-—— Tribute to the Traveler. They may be classed as the skirmish line of her prosperity, for upon them devolves the duty of advancing to the frent, to ex- plore the field and report the position and condition of trade, they are the private sol- diers of commerce, whose fidelity and pat- riotism are never doubted. They are ever advancing, never retreating, and, while the glory of suecess is seldom accorded them, still they are, like the well-disciplined sol- dier, the prime factors of the success of the commander or principal who plans the com- mereial enterprises which they represent. Jack can give no better illustration of the virtues and usefulnéss of the commercial traveler than to quote from an address de- livered recently before a convention of the craft, in which it was said of the commer- cial traveler: ‘‘I have been with him when business was booming and he rode upon the crest of the topmost wave of prosperity; and I have been with him when business beeame so dull that he approached the verge of innocuous desuetude. We have set in the smoking room of the parlor car and smoked straight 10 eent cigars together, when the limited was flying with usa mile a minute towards the wife and little ones we loved; and we have wrestled with wheel- ing stogies togetherin a caboose of a freight train, when the highest earthly aspiration of that freight train was to take first money in the slow mule race. We have met at the depot at 2 o’clock in the morning, when the model foot line was four hours late, and the thermometer stood 30 degrees below zero. We have been on the Mississippi to- gether when the steamer was lost in the fog and she was 36 hours overdue in the next town, and, besides, we have sweetly roosted on a bundle of shingles from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof, when the Ohio river was dusty and our little eraft stuck on asand barall night. Yet, amid all the vicissitudes of life, he, Mark Tap- ley like, has maintained the virtue of being happy under adverse circumstances. He is a manufacturer of sunshine and puts large blocks of it into circulation that ‘Old Sol doesn’t know anything about. A physician would Jabel him anti-dispeptic, while the florists would classify him as a perpetual bloomer, whose breezy petals begin to un- fold themselves early on the morning of the first of January, and close the last week in December. The pathway of this life is not more thickly strewd with roses than are those of the rest of humanity, but he has a better knowledge of the ways of this wick- ed and windy world, and knows better than his less-traveled brother how to turn unfa- vorable conditions and circumstances to his advantage. THe goes around the 365 mile track smiling, with his grip in his left hand, while with his right he shakes the hands of the dear people, exchanging little pleas- antries, instead of unloading his troubles and personal grievances upon them. He has all the elements of a first-class politi- cian, and, if he ever runs for governor, the popularity of Doc. Ames would sink into insignificance. If he should be rechristianed Gilfillan, and was to make the race for Con- gress, the popular Mayor of St. Paul would get left, for here is a mixer of the first mag- nitude.” The commercial traveler is a very numer- ous individual; so much so, that, if the American delegation were to march past a given point four abreast in proper time, and at correct distances, you would be compelled to stand thirty-six hours before the end of the procession passed you. He is the me- dium through which fully 40 per cent. of the business of the United States is tran- sacted. Heis abrother of the lightning ex- press and its locomotive, that literally hurls commerce from one end of this great eoun- try to the other. He is first cousin of the telegraph, that flashes through from conti- nent to continent. He is a blood relative to telephone and ecaligraph, a child of the same | mother, necessity, and just as useful as either of them. The commercial traveler is a gentleman in dress and manner, forced by the nature of his occupation to be such, if not already so by inclination. You will find in his home the elements of happiness and of comfort. The sun shines straight down his chimney. The queen of his house- hold is worthy of the highest compliments which man can best bestow upon her, the same mother. Henever loafs around the corner and whittles up the boxes in front of the stores. He never gets on a strike, but, when differences arise between himself and his employer, he is intelligent enough to know that their interests are mutual; and, instead of writing for Grand Master Work- man Powderly, or the executive board of the Knights of Labor to come aud adjust their differences, he just writes *‘l Pluri- bus Unum’ all over his faee, and, with freedom’s soil beneath his feet and freedom’s banner waving o’er him, he proceeds to move on the works of his house. They, in their turn, recognize that the interests of their commercial traveler and their own are one. The result is, they have a conference in the back office, and it’s a ‘‘cold day” when our man gets left. Generally he has his salary raised two or three hundred dol- lars, has two or three new towns on his route that he has been wanting for the past three years and has arrangements made for a vacation in August. The commercial traveler is sober, honest and industrious. He is liberal to a fault. His friends areas the sands of the sea. He is diplomatic enough to keep solid with the whole world. His mission will end where the milennium be- So let the city we love so well re- member in her joy and pride that the com- mercial travelers within her borders are part and parcel of her prosperity: and, when the happy greetings of the new-born year are passed around, may she place one laurel at the feet of the busy men who herald supremacy to the outside world. —— oi ‘The Wandering Merchant.” Among the great names in the mercantile world early in the present century was that of Vineent Nolte, better known **the wandering merehant.” he began life as a banker’s clerk. He gave the greater part of his time to drawing earieatures and high living. gins. as 16, he found himself possessed of a ward- | robe consisting of twelve coats and twenty | pairs of hose and trousers, then just coming into fashion. His financial standing was represented by a tailor’s bill to match his clothes. 1796: was in Paris with Wellington in 1815; fought under Jackson at New Orleans, in 1814, and was with Lafayette in Paris dur- In his day he was known as the giant of cotton specu- lation: he was a contracter for supplying he French army with muskets; he was the ing the revolution of 1850. mereantile agent in the United States and | house of | Cuba for the great Amsterdam Hope & Co.; was the agent of the Barings; | was a translator of manuscripts in Venice; was a writer on finanee and an editor; and | in whatever he undertook he was success- | ful. Patriotism and Chicory. Once a deputation of wholesale dealers in coffee waited on Mr. Gladstone, presented their humble petition, showing how chicord imperiled the British advantages which would accrue to the reve- nue. The agitation ended by an augmenta- tion of duty on chicory of 100 per cent. There was a very good wire pulled in this chicory business, which, of course, Mr. Gladstone knew nothing about. o —- — “Yes,” said Fogg, ‘tas a success I have always been a failure, but as a failure I have been an unqualified success. sorn in Leghorn, | At the age of | He saw Bonaparte at Leghorn, in | constitution and the | The Insurance of the Future. From the Detroit Journal. ‘| don’t know anything about this Cole insurance bill,” said T. H. Hinehman this ; morning, ‘‘but I understand that it aims to prevent combinations among insuranee companies and the making of rates by means of boards of underwriters. Sueh legislation does not seem desirable to my mind. It is an infringement on the rights of individuals. I think that combinations are bad, but if the Legislature can abolish combinations of insuranee companies it may with equal justice abolish combina- tions of manufacturers, and for that matter | combinations of workingmen. | ‘*Thelaw might eventually be | siderable benefit to the State. ago a similar Dill almost through the Michigan Legislature. underwriters threatened to companies from the State. ot my Iwo con- years was passed The withdraw their This frightened | the Senate and the bill was lost. If the in ¢ . . | Cole bill should go through I faney many | ‘ . ‘ |of the insurance companies would with- draw from the State. “The cost of rnnning a stoek insurance company is very large. Managers are paid very high salaries, and agents get an surdly large proportion of the premiums. Some of them get as much as 35 per cent. of premitims for new business, and taking all the agents and all the companies to- gether the agents get 19 per cent. of the re- ceipts. The cost of operating an insurance company averages 40 per cent. of the re- ceipts. ‘The losses last year averaged 60 per cent. Profits must consequently be light. If the board of underwriters is done away with the local agents will immediate- ly begin to cut each other. The companies cannot stand acut. Therefore they would be oblidged to withdraw from the field. The vacuum would soon be filled by mutual associations, organized by merchants and manufacturers their own insurance only. They would employ no agents and give no very great Being much cheaper ard not for money making pur- poses, the insurance rates would be vastly lower. That is how the people would bene- fit. “This is not a new scheme. An associa- tion of this kind was started in New Eng- land in 1855. Twenty have been built up, only one of which failed. The average rate of insurance charged by these companies is 3-10 of 1 per cent. as against an average of 3 per cent charged by the stock companies. ‘Three new associations have recently been started and five others will soon be started in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chieago and St. Louis. There are also some sixty farmers’ associations. These and similar companies are destined to revolutionize the insurance business, and at no distant day. With without the Cole bill, the stock companies will be oblig- ed to reduce their expenses, cut down their ab- for salaries. since or rates or be wiped out of existence. I sup- pose the passage of the Cole bill might cause us a good deal of difficulty for a year or two in getting insurance.” —_—_—___—~._0<.__ Stalwart Butter. | Zoarding Housekeeper—I want three pounds of table butter. Provision Dealer—Here you are, madam. Here is some table butter that I can reecom- mend. Itis just the thing you want, and it costs only thirteen cents a pound. | Zoarding Housekeeper—Rather dear, lisn’t it? But you say it is especially nice. | What is there about it that makes it pecu- ' liar? | Provision Dealer (earnestly)—Its labor- | saving qualities, madam—it’s labor-saving | qualities. That butter, madam, is perfect- ly able to help itself without any attention. | You put the butter in a dish upon the table, and you will see it distribute itself, a piece upon the plate of every boarder without | missing a single one. There is nothing ef- ifeminate about the butter, madam. And it costs only thirteen cents a pound! | > -o <—- - Reason in Religion. Omaha girl—Your family are unitarians, are they not? New York girl—We were, but ma andl |have joined the Episcopalians. We like | their forms better. “The forms?” | ‘Yes; you are up and down so much your | dress doesn’t get crumpled you know.” >> - o | A recent decision of the Supreme Court | says that no city or town has a right to li- | cense any man to sell his wares or merchan- ldise in front of another man’s property. | The street in front of his property or place lof business is the appurtenances thereto and for the especial use of the owner only, 'against the rights of all others except to | travel therein. This decision will result in i shutting out street venders and hawkers, unless they can. arrange matters with the owners of the property before which they can expose their wares for sale. —_———__—>_-+->_—__— | An Albany newspaper tells of a tramp iwho recently asked a merchant for ten leents. The merchant replied: ‘I do not care to give you money, but if you will step into this restaurant I will pay for a steak and some hot potatoes for you.” He was somewhat surprised when the tramp replied: ‘Well, sir, I don’t want the ten cents for victuals. I want to buy a drink. Another thing, you’re no gentleman to ask a man to eat meat in Lent. That ain’t my religion.” | % . Pf . above the level of the brute. ‘The Michigan Tradesman, . JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Hercantile and Mannfacturing Interests of the State. B. A. STOWE, Baitor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association. President, L. M. Mills; Vice-President, 8. A. Sears; Sec- retary and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour; Board of Di- rectors, H. 8S. Robertson, Geo. F. Owen, J. N. Brad- ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie. sc sinciaciean memencemcunceicennnnn™ (2 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 ot this paper. In the light of the dishonorable methods pursued by the insurance companies in set- tling the loss of Messrs. Pingree & Smith, at Detroit, the statement of ‘Country Mer- chant” to the effect that a policy in a stock company is a ‘‘safe investment” is open to criticism. The investment is safe as long as the transaction is confined to the pay- ment of premiums, put let a fire result in a partial or total loss and the situation imme- diately undergoes a change. Instead of recognizing the local agent, the company sends on its adjuster, who is usually an ill- mannered bully, wholly devoid of decency. This person delights in uttering all manner of accusations against the insured, in brow- beating and contradicting, and in making life a burden as long as he remains in the place. After enduring the follow’s insults and insinuations for several days, the unfor- tunate agrees to take several hnndred dollars less than his policy calls for, for the sake of ridding himself of @ man who is little AH insurance adjusters are not of the character above de- seribed, but fully three-quarters of them match the description given. Why the in- surance companies employ such men to set- tle their losses, is a question that has never been answered. They earn their wages, no doubt, in beating down estimates and state- ments of losses, but they put their employ- ers in such an unenviable light that the companies interested never afterward get a cent’s worth of surance from the insured or any one acquainted with the merits of the case. cxcinrtanniemmaeeaninmmminnaia Trustworthy advises from Lansing assure Tue TRADESMAN that the advocates of board insurance have concentrated a lobby there which is sure to defeat the Cole bill in the Senate, unless prompt measures are taken by the business men to offset the in- fluence of the corruptionists. As has been the case when legislation of this kind has been previously undertaken, the represen- tatives of the insurance monopoly are sup- plied with all the financial assistance need- ed to compass the opposition or apathy of men who are susceptible to bribery. Peti- tions will go into the Legislature this week from every Business Men’s Association in the State, praying for the passage of the bill, and individual letters from representative men would have a salutary effect. ES TS The bill providing for the establishment of a Laboratory of Hygiene passed the Senate on April 20 and is now before the House. All business who feel so inclined—and every man in the State would be benefitted by such an institution—should write his Repre- sentative immediately, requesting favorable action on the measure. TS LD ST A man who refuses to join an organiza- tion which has for its principal object the building up of the community in which he lives is guilty of treason to the town. Such aman is always ready to participate in all benefits secured by his brethren, without rendering any service in return. The Grand Rapids Telegram-Herald re- produces an @rticle from the pen of Soliman Snooks, without the slightest reference to Tur TRADESMAN, which paid for the con- tribution and ought to be entitled to some credit in such connection. Such is so-called ‘“‘metropolitan journalism.” The Why and Wherefore. During the past six weeks, readers of THe TRADESMAN will have noticed thata sale of unelaimed government lands has been announced in the advertising columns. While in Reed City the other day, the editor of Tue TrapresMAN called at the U. S. Land Office and asked why this paper was given the preference over any other journal in the State. In reply, Register Clark said: ‘We were ordered by Commissioner Sparks to place the advertisement in the paper hav- ing the largest circulation in this district. We looked the field over thoroughly and found that Tuk TRADESMAN was entitled to that distinction. We merely followed instructions from Washington.” —_———_—___—>>———- Mr. Steele’s Rejoiner on the Calf Question. TRAVERSE Crry, April 23, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. Dear Sir—Since President Hamilton gave my Jersey calf such a free ad. in last week’s TRADESMAN, the calf has been do- ing well—price advanced $10. Everybody reads THE TRADESMAN, except hens. They will not look it over for fear of expos- ure in their egg adulterations. Found one this morning full of air on one end. Hope the time will come when food adul- terations will be confined to Jersey calves and Presidents of Business Men’s Associa- tions. Happy day then! Yours sometimes, . Gro. E. STEELE. - _ > —_ sacar - Broker Bunting sold 1,500 cases of Harm- burg canned goods to Cody, Ball, Barn- hart & Co. one day last week. AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. P. J. Schroeffel succeeds the Spa Bottling Co. Eugene Carpenter, grocer, has been closed on chattel mortgage. Oe J. L. Davis is now located in the com- mission business at 33 Ottawa street. Herman H. Idema succeeds C. Frederick Idema in the loan and pawn shop business at 56 Lyon street. J. Gibson has engaged in the grocery bus- iness at Petoskey. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. A. Kenyon has engaged in the grocery business at 115 Broadway. Clark, Jewell & Co. furnished the stock. Hedley & Son have engaged in the grocery business at Wayland. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. M. E. Curtiss has engaged in the grocery business at Edmore. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. G. W. Robinson has engaged in the gro- cery business at Edgerton. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. Joseph McKay has engaged in the gro- cery business at Central Lake. Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. D. C. Leggett has put in a grocery stock on one side of his brother’s drug store at Paris. The stock was purchased here. F. Wingarden and M. W. Cook have formed a copartnership under the firm name of Wingarden & Cook and engaged in the commission business at 30 Waterloo street. AROUND THE STATE. Lansing—E. M. Esselstyn, grocer, has sold out. Battle Creek—Chas. Binder has sold out his meat business. Battle Creek—Robert Nevin has disposed of his meat business. Muskegon—K. Mulder has bought D. Mulder’s grocery stock. Coloma—R. R. Hewson’s general stock has been destroyed by fire. Luther—E. A. Hudson has bought the meat business of E. Morgan. lonia—John L. Taylor will shortly re-en- gage in the grocery business. Ann Arbor—Niles H. Winans has bought J. A. Brown’s grocery stock. Burnside—John G. Bruce & Co. succeed John G. Bruce in general trade. Morrice—G. W. Mells succeeds D. B. Holmes in the grocery business. Leonard—A. Hazelton & Co. Allen Hazelton in general trade. Saline—E. W. Walker will erect a hand- some business block this season. Onondaga—Godding & Wilcox succeed W. S. Hart in the drug business. Bronson—G. W. Watkins succeeds Silk- worth & Watkins in general trade. Cadillac—Wm. Kennedy succeeds Ken- nedy Bros. in the grocery business. Detroit—J. D. Baker succeeds J. D. Baker & Co. in the book binding business. Menominee—Mrs, E. 8. Dalton has bought the grocery stock of Young & Dalton. Judd’s Corners—Henry Cameron, general dealer, has been closed on attachment. Portland—W. M. Elder succeeds. Elder Bros. in the grocery and drug business. Detroit—John C. Hartz succeeds Hartz & Kernaghan in the hat and cap business. Milford—Wilson & McMahon, dry goods dealers, have dissolved, each continuing. Wayne—Obed Coy succeeds W. W. Southee in the grocery and notion bysiness. Caro—A. C. Young & Co., general deal- ers, has dissolved and gone out of business. Wayne—J. W. Booth, grocer and dealer in notions, has sold out to Alex. Meldrum. Lansing—Goodnow & Field succeed Harris & McCarthy in the grocery business. Coloma—Vineent & Gammer, grocefs, have dissolyed, Vincent & Wright succeed- ing. Alma—H. B. Waldby & Co. succeed Pol- lasky, Waldby & Co. in the banking busi- ness. Jackson—Caldwell & Sherick succeed Benj. Caldwell in the boot and shoe _ busi- ness. Caro—A. C. Young & Co., general deal- ers, have dissolved and gone out of busi- ness. Reed City—Baker & Norman have bought E. C. Bradley’s stationery and confectionery stock. Hamilton—Dangremond & Nykerk are building an addition to their hardware store. Detroit—Burnham, Stoepel & Co. succeed J. K. Burnham & Co., wholesale dry goods dealers. East Tawas—Emerson & Tighe, grocers and feed dealers, have dissolved, Emerson succeeding. Battle Creek—Rupert & Estelle, flour and feed dealers, have dissolved, Estelle & Co. succeeding. Milton Junction—Geo. Reed is closing out his grocery stock, preparatory to retiring from business. Scottsville—Higgins & Allen, the drug- gists, will shortly dissolve partnership, Mr. Higgins succeeding. Battle Creek—Herman Raible, late of Kalamazoo, has taken a position as clerk in J. Helmer’s drug store. West Chester—Dr. R. Gibbs, of Six Cor- ners, will erect a building here and engage in the grocery business. Luther—F. C. Langerwisch has purchased the jewelry stock of F. J. Fletcher, posses- sion to be given May 1. Linden—L, B. Hyatt, a leading business succeed man, has become insane and is now confined at the Pontiac asylum. Evart—Mark Ardis has sold his general stock to David Redmond. Mr. Ardis will continue the banking business. - Reed City—Rickerd & Johnson succeed C. W. Rickerd in the manufacture of cigars and the retail tobacco business. Boyne Falls---J. C. McFellin sueceeds McFellin & Co. in general trade, and has moved the stock to Boyne City. Hart—C..B. Williams has sold his gro- cery stock to C. Slaght. He will close out his flour and feed stock and retire from bus- iness. Elwell—G. A. Keller & Son have moved their grocery and dry goods stocks to Breck- enridge. Reed City—John W. Densmore is remod- eling the* interior of his store by cutting an archway between the dry goods and grocery departments. Reed City—W. H. Hawkins has purchas- ed the interest of his brother in the grocery firm of Hawkins Bros. The change will occur May 1. Luther—J. E. Whiting, formerly engaged in the wagon making business at McBrides, has opened a hardware store, with tin shop in connection. Casnovia—Johnny Bowen, late of Kent City, has leased the Neff House and takes possession May 1. O. H. Tuxbury, also of Kent City, will run the livery stable in con- nection. Hastings—Dr. J. A. Baughman and Wm. Buell have formed a copartnership under the firm name of Baughman & Buell and purchased the drug and jewelry stock of A. R. McOmber. Reed City—H. H. Freedman & Co. will soon remove their cigar factory to the new Stieg building, on the opposite side of the street, when they will increase their work- ing force from eighteen to thirty men. Nashville—L. J. Wilson, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business here, but for the past six months engaged in farming, has again returned to the grocery business at the same old stand. The stock was pur- chased at this market. Luther—Rice R. Miner & Co., who en- gaged in general trade about two months ago, as successors to the Luther Chemical & Lumber Co., are closing out the stock. Mr. Miner will go to Kansas City as partner and department manager in the wholesale dry goods house to be established there by J. K. Burnham & Co., of Detroit. STRAY FACTS. Saugatuck—A bank is to be established here. Muskegon—James Balbirnie will shortly open a furniture store. Rochester—Wilson Bros. have sold their flouring mill for $8,500. Milford—P. Bryne succeeds Begole, Fox & Co. in the lumber business. Coopersville—John and August Busman have engaged in the meat business. Evart—T. W. Atkinson and R. Massey are about to open a cigar factory. Casnovia—F. E. Ackerman has moyea the Kent City Herald to this place. Charlevoix—Jas. A. Gellick succeeds Gel- lick & Ingalls in the saloon business. Sand Lake—Thos. Olds has opened a restaurant in the B. F. Lewis building. East Saginaw—Lewis C. Slade succeeds Stephens & Slade in the lumber business. Onondaga—Geo. Murray has moved his harness business here from Vermontville. Casnovia—Mrs. F. H. Bunker has engaged in the millinery and fancy goods business. Saranac—John P. Anderson will shortly open an agricultural implement warehouse. Owosso—Smeadley &Co., wholesale beer | dealers, have been closed on chattel mort- gage. Muskegon—Hovey, McCracken & Co.’s sawmill was the first to start up for the sea- son at this point. Manistee—D. Turnbull, of Chicago, has purchased an interest in the meat business of L. N. Roussin. Williamsburg—The pine logs from John Torrent’s camp are to be taken to Board- man river or a pole road. North Muskegon—The terra cotta works at Pullman have again contracted for all the sawdust from Gow, Majo & Co.’s mill. Lansing—Farrand & Rogers have merged their business into a stock company under the style of the Michigan Condensed Milk Company. Luther—Frank Breese has purchased a half interest in the grain and seed busines of R. M. Smith. The new firm is known as Smith & Breese. Byron Center—Agents for the Detroit wholesale grocery house which makes a practice of canvassing among farmers are infesting this locality. Muskegon—A Brush electric light plant is being put into the Petrie Lumber Co.’s mill. They expect to run night and day throughout the season. Menominee—The Doherty-Baars Lumber Co. state that this year’s cut will be the largest cut ever made. Their mill has been thoroughly repaired and its capacity in- creased. Rockford—Morrison LBeardslee, the Waterford cider and vinegar manufacturer, will put ina power cider press here this fall and manufacture seyeral hundred bar- rels for hisG. R. & I. trade, making all shipments from here. Holland—The Waverly Stone Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $25,000, to operate the stone quarries one mile east of here. ‘The officers are: Presi- dent, H. D. Post; Vice-President, Adrian Yates; Secretary and Treasurer, O. E. Yates. The sandstone is pronounced by experts to be the best in Michigan. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Sullivan—Klise & Son are building a new sawmill. Dexter—A. P. Ferguson, wagon maker, has removed to Ann Arbor. Ypsilanti—The dress-stay factory gives employment to seventy-three persons. Charlevoix—F. J. Meech succeeds A. Buttars as superintendent of the Charlevoix Manufacturing Co. Mancelona—Harvey Eastman has bought a half interest in the business of the Man- celona Handle Co. St. Louis—W. W. Starkey, proprietor pail and tub factory, is succeeded by the St. Louis Woodenware Co. North Muskegon—S. H. Gray & Co.’s mill, which is being moved from Big Rap- ids, is nearly ready to begin operations. Muskegon—Barker & Akeley’s mill has been supplied with electric lights and will run night and day throughout the entire season. Fremont—J. B. Jewell has purchased the interest of C. H. Cook in the sawmill firm of Darling & Cook. The new firm will be known as Darling & Jewell. St. Louis—Dunham & Co., of Stanton, have located here and are prepared to man- ufacture sewing machine crate, paper pail racks, barbed wire reels, ete., utilizing all the slabs and waste lumber from the mills in the village. en Purely Personal. “Klick” Hastings refused an offer of $500 for his “Sultan” on Monday. Frank Jewell and wife are home from California, where they spent the winter. The grocery business must be good. Sam- uel M. Lemon is out with a $60 suit of clothes. E. Mortlock, representing H. Uitchcock, Son & Co., of Detroit, was in town one day last week. J. Locke, of the firm of Arey, Maddock & Locke, tanners of Boston, was in town over Sunday. Christian Bertsch left to-day for a two weeks’ buying expedition in the eastern shoe manufacturing markets. C. E. Olney started last Thursday for Thompson, Conn., where he is spending a week with friends of his childhood days. Amos. S. Musselman went to Hungerford Monday to sell the C. Tyler grocery stock, which he recently foreclosed on a mortgage. Harry Gregory, late with Emnet Haga- dom, at Fife Lake, succeeds B. J. Robert- son as billing clerk for Arthur Meigs & Co. Herman Spitz, of the Barnhart & Spitz Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, spent the Sabbath with his brother, L. Winter: nitz. W. B. Tyler, late with J. W. Schermer- horn, at Nottawa, has taken a_ position as salesman with E. P. Kidder & Co., of this city. B. J. Robertson has resigned the position of billing clerk“for Arthur Meigs & Co. and has re-engaged’ in the drug business at Breedsville. Wm. and Wm. A. Wilcox, of the Wilson Manufacturing Co., of Garrettsville, Ohio, are in the city for the purpose of investi- gating the advisability to removing their business to this place. The remaining part- ner, C. L. Wilson, will join them to-day. E. Trump, the Reed City dry goods deal- er, leaves about May 1 for an extended trip to California. While in Denver, he will con- sider the advisability of disposing of his real estate there, for which he is offered a handsome advance over the purchase price. —_————> Organization Observations. Vermontville Echo: The Business Men’s Association is bringing the chronic delin- quent to the realization that it is better to pay cash or go without. The Ann Arbor Business Men’s Associa- tion will erect a building 20x124, two stories high, for Bullis’ capsule factory. This in- stitution will give employment to forty per- sons. Waukesha, Wis., merchants are consider- ing the idea of organizing an association and have sent to the Michigan Business Men’s Association for full particulars and sample blanks, both of which have been fur- nished. Julius Schuster, of Kalamazoo, Treasurer of the Michigan Business Men’s Associa- tion, is undergoing treatment for rheuma- tism at Mt. Clemens, from which disease he has been a great sufferer. Late reports as to his condition are not as encouraging as could be desired. The members of the Plainwell Business Men’s Association have agreed to close their places of business at 8:30 p. m. from May 1 to Sept. 1 and at 7 p. m. from Sept. 1 to May 1. A bell will be rung at the appoint- ed time, when every key will be turned in the doors. The Belding Merchants’ Association, fif- teen strong, has united with the State body and the Cheboygan Business Men’s Protec- tive Union has’ remitted per capita dues on twenty additional members, mak- ing a total membership of sixty-one. The ‘State body now comprises 1,855 business men, which number will probably be in- creased to 3,000 by the September conven- tion, ——_—_ << “Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Be- fore.” Manufacturers of corkscrews and other varieties of bar goods are flooding the drug trade of the State with circulars and price lists. The action contemplated by the Leg- islate has evidently reached headquarters. [Ee Eee “Mr. Rindge’s suggestion relative to the advisability of keeping a railway register is all right,” said H. A. Lamos the other day. ‘“‘T’ll keep the book free gratis for nothing, if some one will furnish the book.” Formal Announcement of T. P. A. Con- vention. BATTLE CREEK, April 21, 1887. To the T. P. A. men of Michigan: The annual State convention of the Mich- igan Division of the Travelers’ Protective Association will be held in the city of Grand Rapids, on Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14. The annual State banquet will be held on Friday evening, May 13. The Ladies T. P. A. Legion of Honor will also meet in conjunction. The convention will open at 10 a. m., Friday, and that day will be devoted to conventional work; Saturday to the election of State officers and the election of delegates to the National convention to be held in June. Ample provision will be made for the accommodation of all who will be in attendance. State announcement will be made during the coming week in regard to rates and special arrangements. Repre- sentatives from many of the State Divisions will be present, including the President and Secretary of the National Association and several of the National officers. The list of distinguished guests in attendance will in- elude His Excellency, Governor Luce, Gen- eral Russell A. Alger and ladies and the National Senators and Congressmen of Michigan. All members and their wives are especially invited, and all visiting mem- bers and commercial travelers will be wel- comed. State Secretary Mills will mail no- tices of meeting to all State members, and it is hoped that all will feel the importance of attending and also of notifying the State Secretary at once of their acceptance, to en- able the committee to make estimates and perfect arrangements. All communications ean be addressed to L. M. Mills, State See- retary, 568 Wealthy avenue, Grand Rapids, or to A. F. Peake, Chairman State Commit- tee of Arrangements, Jackson. i. M Minis, C. 8S. KELSEY, Sec’y. Pres. COMMITTEES APPOINTED. The following committees have been ap- pointed to complete the arrangements for the convention: On Finanee—Geo. F. Owen, L. M. Mills, A. D. Baker. On Arrangements—L. M. Mills, J. N. Bradford, A. B. Cole, Leo A. Caro. On Decoration—Ed. P. Andrew, C. L. Love, N. Y. Barelay, C. E. Watson. On Invitation—E. A. Stowe, L. M. Mills, Geo. F. Owen. On Banquet—H. S. Robertson, Geo. W. McKay, A. B. Cole, Joe F. O. Reed, A. L. Braisted. On Reception—The following gentlemen and their ladies: Messrs. W. H. Jennings, Wm. Logie, Frank H. White, D. S. Haugh, W.S. Horn, L. C. Bradford, C. I. Peck, E. E. Wooley, Geo. H. Seymour, W. H. H. Smith, Stephen A. Sears, C. S. Wilcox. The hall of Valley City Council, on Waterloo street, has been engrged for the sessions of the convention and arrangements have been made to give the banquet at Sweet’s Hotel. Invitations will shortly be issued during the coming week. sarcencaneioie — o> <> arene The Gripsack Brigade. Jerry Woltman has severed his connec- tion with Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops. J. T. Avery, with Jennings & Smith, is visiting the Upper Peninsula trade this week. O. P. Pindell, President of the T. P. A. of the U. S., arrived in the city Monday, and will remain here several days. A. L. Lay, general traveling representa- tive for the Michigan Buggy Co., of Kala- mazoo, is in town for a day or two. J. L. Strelitsky, State agent for ‘‘Lucky Star,” started out on an extended trip through Northern Michigan Monday. A. W. Newark, Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co.’s new traveler, begins his perigrinations in the Upper Peninsula next week. Merchants in towns in which midnight trains are a special feature testify to Dr. Frank E. Chase's admirable penchant for entertaining. It is reported that Trunk Manipulator Babcock, J. K. Burnham & Co.’s new G. R. & I. traveler is $80 poorer by reason of a bet made at East Jordan on election day. A. D. Estabrook, formerly express mes- senger for the U. 8. Express Co., is now on the road for the Powers & Walker Casket Co. His territory lies in Northern Michi- gan and Wisconsin. Cc. S. Kelsey, President of Michigan Div- ision, T. P. A., spent Monday in Grand Rapids, assisting the local committee on arrangements in arranging the preliminaries for the coming State convention. ‘John C, Souther, for several years past gen- eral traveling representative for Earl Bros., the well-known South Water street com- mission merchants, unites his fortunes with Alex. Fish & Co. on May 1. Messrs. Fish & Co. are to be congratulated. D. S. Haugh writes Toe TRADESMAN as follows: ‘Capt. J. N. Bradford is a little too previous in accusing me of proposing the trip to New Orleans. It will be pistols at ten paces. If my memory serves me right, it was Charles Saltpork Robinson who sprung the New Orleans hegira.” D. G. Crotty, the Muskegon flour man, is gratified at the manner in which he is be- ing treated by the G. R. & I. Railway, in consequence of the injuries he received dur- ing an accident on the Luther branch. The company paid all the expenses incident to theinjury and informed Mr. Crotty that when he was ready to settle, it would not be necessary for him to invoke the aid of the courts. The condition of the road bed on the branch in question is not such as” would warrant much defense in a suit for damages. FRESH: FISH Bought and Sold by FRANK J. DETTENTHALER, 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. (errs Oysters the Year Around 43 For Sale or Exchange. A factory fully equipped with wood work- ing Machinery—good Brick Buildings—am- ple grounds—good shipping facilities—well located in a thriving City in Iinois—will be sold at a bargain, or exchange for other property—a rare chance. Correspondence solicited; address ‘‘Factory” this paper. ORGANIZATION OURS 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 Sheets, for member’s use. 500 Copyrighted Record Blanks, 500 Association Notification Sheets, and 500 Envelopes. Money can be sent by draft, post-office or express order. ‘ Fuller & Stowe Company, 49 Lyon Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN BS From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulleys and Foxes. Contracts made for lomplete Outfits. fi r ers yer | DN ae vw AMET er i a ie j Wi7 . ». MVOMISON, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, — | GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. | t i Cc. C. BUNTING, BUNTING Commission GROCERS’ REFRIGERATORS, Manufactured by O. M. WHITMAN & CO., 99 Bristol Street. - BOSTON, MASs. AGENTS—A. Flesch, 118 Randolph St., Chicago, Il. William M. Morgan, 215 Duane St.,N. Emil Wienert, Albany, N. Y. Gardiner Bros., St. Augustine, Fla. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. GEO. C. P1eRCE, Vice President. H. P. BAKER, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections, Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited, GERMAN |]. Winternitz, MUSTARD. grand Rapids, Mich STEAM. LAUNDRY, 43 and 45 Kent Street. STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS, Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At- tended to. Cc. Le. DAVIS. é& DAVIS, Merchants. Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots. 20 and 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. JENNESS & MCCURDY, porters and Manufacturers Agents, DEALERS IN Crockery, China, Glassware, - Bronze Lamps, C 1andeliers, Brackets, Etc. 73 & 75 Jeliersm Ave. - DETROW, MICH e 5 . ~~ @ DETROIT SOAP CO, ° DHTROITT. MIOCFtL.. Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands SOAPS QUEEN ANNE, MICHIGAN, TRUE BLUE, CZAR, MONDAY, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, * PHCNIX, WABASH, CAMEO, AND OTHERS. For Quotations address W.G. HAWEINS, Lock Box 178, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Salesman for Western Michigan. \ ‘ ¢ TO THE GROCERY TRADE OF MICHIGAN. WE take pleasure in inviting attention to the following facts : Please ask for prices. Please ask for prices. Please send for prices on 10 and 25 Butt lots. Please ask for prices. Special prices on 10 and 25 pail lots. We are Sole Agents and Headquarters for Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps. Freight paid on 5 bex lots and upwards. - - - We are Sole Agents and headquarters for Niagara Starch Works’ Laundry, Gloss and Corn Starch. - - a 4 We are Sole Agents and headquarters for Finzer & Bro.’s Jolly Tar Plug Tobacco. It is a pronounced winner. - i We are Sole Agents and headquarters for Daniel Scotten & Co.’s Hiawatha Plug aac: - - x ‘ S We are Sole Agents and headquarters for F’. F.. Adams & Co.’s Brother Jonathan Dark Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco. - We are Sole Agents and headquarters for the famous Jolly Time Fine Cut Tobacco. Best in America to retail at 50 cts. - “ We are Sole Agents and headquarters for Macatawa and Mackinaw Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco. - - Pe We are Sole Agents and headquarters for King Bee Long Cut Smoking Tobacco. - - - . a We are Sole Agents and headquarters for Fould & Co.’s Wheat Germ Meal, 32 2-lb. packages in case. $2.80 per Case. We are Sole Agents and headquarters for “Acme” Full Cream Cheese, Herkimer County, N. Y, make. This brand of Cheese has no equal. We make a great specialty of and handle largely Foreign and Domestic Lemons. Special inside prices on round lots. - - - We make agreat specialty of and handle largely Foreign and Domestic Oranges. Special inside prices on round lots. - . i We make a great specialty of and handle largely Confectionery and Chewing Gum, including Penny Goods of every description. - - We are acknowledged to be the largest jobbers of Domestic, Key West and Imported Cigars in Michigan. ‘ “ ‘i We are large Importers and Jobbers of Japan Teas. We We We We EMI are large Operators in Syrups, Molasses, Rice and Canned Goods. are a good house to deal with. assure you mail orders always obtain precedence and lowest possible prices. desire you will make our place headquarters when in Grand Rapids. BULKLEY, & HOO Special prices on 10 and 25 pail lots. Special prices on 10 and 25’ pail lots. Ask for prices. See weekly quotations. See weekly quotations. Send for Catalogue. Please send for price list. THREE OF A KIND. Formation of Associations at Luther, Evart and Hersey. | | : | tion and by-laws in his next issue and the} Queries from the Land of Corkscrews. | | | | | meeting adjourned. | The Secretary of the Retail Grocers’ On his way home from Evart, the editor! Association of East Saginaw asks the fol- of Tue TRADESMAN stopped off at Hersey, The editor of Tux TRADESMAN “‘struck | where he was pleased to find that the busi- his gait” again last week and the result is | ness men were ripe for organization. three new organizations enlisted under the! gnired no argument to convince them of banner of Pay, Progress and Principle. the benefits of united effort, for they were The first town to succumb to the destroy- | ali subscribers to Tue TRADESMAN, in er of the dead-beat was Luther, where a/ which they had read hundreds of testimon- meeting was held on Wednesday evening. W. B. Poole acted as chairman and J. M. | tion. ials as to the advantages of local organiza- An appointment was accordingly Verity as secretary. After the plan of or) made for the business men to meet at the ganization had been explained, Ernest Nich- | hotel parlor, when H. T. Lewis was chosen oson moved that the organization of an as (jo officiate ‘as chairman and Frank L. sociation be immediately proceeded with, | Beardsley as secretary. On motion by Chas. | which was adopted. J. Robinson, the constitution and by-laws presented were adopted, when the follow- ing gentlemen signified their desire of join- ing the body: W. B. Poole, Samuel Buck- ner, Chas. J. Robinson, J. M. Verity, Ernest Nichoson, L. J. Osborn, M. Dough- erty and W. H. McQuarrie. W. B. Poole was elected President, Chas. J. Robinson, Secretary and Jas. M. Verity, S. Buckner and W. H. McQuarrie members of the Ex- ecutive Committee. The election of the re- maining officers was deferred until the next meeting. The regulation blanks were adopted and ordered printed and the editor | of the Lance was requested to print the | constitution and by-laws in full in his next issue, which he promised to do, The meeting then adjourned. On Thursday evening the business men of Evart repeated the programme. The meet- ing was held at the Evart House and was well attended. W.M. Davis was selected to act as chairman and Chas. E. Bell as secretary. After the usual explanation as to aims and objects had been made, G. F. Andrus moved that the organization of an association be immediately proceeded with, which was adopted. The constitu- tion presented by Mr. Stowe was adopted, when the following gentlemen were ac- cepted as charter members: J. H. Voller, C. E. Smith, G. F. Andrus, Frank Hib- bard, F. S. Soverence, W. M. Davis, Fred. Postal, D. L. Dumon, O. M. Bush, E. C. Thompson, B. G. Colton, G. W. Minchin, Chas. E. Bell, E. J. Terrill and C. V. Priest. The following officers were elected, the selection of the remaining officers being deferred until the next meeting: President—W. M. Davis. Secretary—Chas. E. Bell. Executive Committee—President, Secre- tary, C. V. Priest, Geo. L. Andrus and Frank Hibbard. . It was voted to accept all applicants for membership previous to the next meeting as charter members. The Blue Letter col- After a brief state- ment of the best methods to follow in or- ganizing, H. H. Procter moved that the Hersey Business Men’s Association be form- It re- | ed without delay, which was adopted. O. L. Millard moved that the constitution pre- sented be adopted, which was carried. The following charter members were accepted: H. Tt. Lewis, Frank Procter, John Fink- beiner, Zerah Whitney, O. L. Millard, Frank L. Beardsley, W. L. Beardsley, J. J. Faist, John Sweet and John R. Ladd. Elec- tion of officers resulted as-follows, the selec- tion of Committees on Business and Trade | Interests being deferred until the next meet- ing: President—O. L. Millard. Vice-President—-H. T. Lewis. Secretary—Frank L. Beardsley. Treasurer-—John Finkbeiner. Executive Committee—President, Secre- tary, Frank Procter, W. L. Beardsley and John R. Ladd. The regulation blanks were adopted and ordered printed. The Outline was request- ed to print the constitution and by-laws in the next issue, and the meeting adjourned. >. The Hardware Market. Nails have taken another drop of 15 cents per keg, making a decline of 45 cents a keg below the highest price reached at the fac- tory. Indications point to a trifle lower market. Outside of the nail business, prices are upwardly inclined where any change at all is made, except in the case of pumps, which have declined 10 per cent. Manu- facturers of table cutlery have all with- drawn their quotations, and where special prices are written for, slightly higher prices |are asked. The advance made on locks a | short time ago is only partially sustained. | The Business Man a Factor in Legislation. “I think the exemption bill fathered by | the Michigan Business Men’s Association will go through the Legislature all right _and it is my opinion that the Cole bill stands a good show of getting through. Asa bus- | iness man, it has pleased me to see the in- lection system was adopted for the use of | terest business men are taking in legislation the Association and the Executive Commit- | t tee was instructed to procure the printing his year, which I attribute wholly to the influence of the Business Men’s Associa- tions.” Such was the recent remark of of the necessary blanks. The editor of the | Representative McMillan, of the Northern Review was requested to print the constitu- | Kent district. lowing questions: 1. Are delinquents amenable to the rules of the Association for the collection of debts contracted prior to date of organiza- tion? 2. Are members amenable to the rules of our Association, relative to fines, by trust- ing a delinquent so declared on a debt made prior to organization? 3. Should a party be placed on the de- linquent list for a débt contracted with one merchant while he promptly pays others? ANSWERS. 1. Yes. More accounts have been col- lected, made previous to than after organi- zation. Hence the great worth of our sys- tem. 2. Yes, if the debt isa justone. If the delinquent should pay or be published by not complying with our rules, so should the merchant. ‘*What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” 3. Yes, if there are no extenuating cir- cumstances. Our rules are clear on that point, and only by a united effort on the part of members will this ‘tbad pay” ele- ment be eliminated. The moral support of tellow-traders and business men si worth far more than the trade of any man who has defrauded a member of the Association. If, on the other hand, the account in ques- tion is disputed, then let the decision of the Executive Committee, as reported to the Association, be final. —_-—— 4+ <———- Battle Creek Grocers Alive on Organization BATTLE CREEK, April 23, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srmr—You ean say that we are bound to have every grocer.in the city in our Association. We are getting much more friendly by coming together. Messrs. Buckhout and Scoville, of Kalamazoo, paid us a pleasant visit on Wednesday evening and told us of the many advantages Kala- mazoo grocers had secured through their Association. We have all agreed to close our stores at 8:30 p. m. hereafter. We have resolved to hold a grand jubilee next Wednesday evening and we want you to come down and explain the plan to our new members. We will see that every grocer in the city is on hand. Yours truly, R. C. PARKER. >-> > The Poetical Grocer. In reproducing the poem inscribed to the peddler, published in Ture TRADESMAN last week, the Allegan Guzette remarks: There is not much about the grocery busi- ness to incline a man to poetry or other lit- erature (unless it be oweds), and hence, anything of this kind produced by the deal- er in provisions, is the more remarkable, and the more praiseworthy. Irving Clapp of this village appears to be one of those whose gifts are not bounded by the narrow confines of his counters, for at the recent banquet of the Michigan Business Men’s Association he replied to a toast ‘*The Ped- dler,” in unique and racy style. The Cheboygan Association Moving for Another Railroad. CHEBOYGAN, April 19, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—Enclosed herewith please find $2, being the per capita dues to the Michigan Business Men’s Association for twenty new members, increasing our mem- bership to sixty-one. Also find copy of report of a special com- mittee made at our meeting last night, which I am authorized to request published in THe TRADESMAN.’ Also place same in the hands of the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Business Men’s Associatiod, with request to aid us in this matter and thereby mutually benefit onr respective cities and business prosperity. Yours respectfully, H. G. Dozer, See’y. of B. M. P. Union. The report to which Mr. Dozer refers is as follows: Your committee, to whom was referred the matter of suggesting some way in which Cheboygan’s prosperity might be forwarded, beg leave to report that in taeir opinion the best way will be to offer something practi- fal and = capable of accomplishment. Theories never built up a town yet, and are not likely to. We need new manufacturing industries located in our village, and to in- duce them to come here we must be ina position to offer competitive transportation facilities. We have at present but one line of railroad, but we need another—one that will open the western markets to what we have to sell and to transport hither what we wish to buy. The distance between the G. R. & I. Rail- way at Levering and Cheboygan is but sixteen miles, through a good farming country, and at easy grade. , Your committee therefore recommend that immediate steps be taken by this Asso- ciation, in conjunction with that of Grand tapids, to forward the enterprise of build- ing a branch railroad from Levering to Cheboygan; satisfied that it’ is the first thing that should be done far furthering the prosperity of our town. Respectfully submitted, A. M. GmrRow, J. W. McDoNALD, Committee. PRAISEWORTHY ENTERPRISE. CHEBOYGAN, April 20, 1887. E, A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—At a meeting of the Business Men’s Association of this place, held Mon- day evening last, I and another gentleman were appointed a committee to suggest something that the Association might do in order to further the prosperity of our town. The report we made was short and to the point. We recommended that this Asso- ciation correspond with that of Grand Rapids, as being the two most directly in- terested, to use means calculated to induce the G. R. & 1. Railway to build a branch from Levering (fifteen miles distant) to Cheboygan, satisfied that that would more than anything else give us the railway con- nection we most need. We now have 5,000 and upwards of popu- lation, and there is a cut of upwards of 100,000,000 of lumber each year. A great share of our flour and groceries come directly from Grand Rapids, and we are convinced that if we can but get the branch spoken of it will be a great benefit to all concerned. The committee were advised to write you and ask your assistance and direction in this matter, as to the best course we should take. It was also sug- gested to ask your kindly offices to enlist the Grand Rapids associations in the mat- ter. Will you kindly let me hear from you regarding the matter and any advice you may give us in this enterprise will be ap- preciated. Very respectfully, A. M. GERow. Tre TRADESMAN is glad to see such evi- dence of enterprise and public spirit on the part of the members of the Cheboygan Association, as it presages a degree of activity which is sure to result in the secur- ing of new enterprises and the consequent growth of the town. Regarding a branch railway to Cheboy- gan, THe FraApresMAN is informed by a gentleman who claims ‘‘to speak by the eard” that in the event of the Michigan Central Railway constructing a branch line to Charlevoix, the G. R. & I. will im- mediately retaliate by making a connection with Cheboygan. There has been a tacit understanding between the two roads for several years past that neither would enter the other’s territory. That agreement is likely to terminate the coming summer by the construction of a Charlevoix branch by the Michigan Central, in which event the running of a branch to Cheboygan by the G. R. & I. may be set down as a certainty. THe TRADESMAN will do all that lies in its power to interest the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids in the matter above referred to, and hopes to see the effort begun by the Cheboygan Association result successfully. ~~ -0-<—_—_—_-— The Dodging Delinquent—The Red List. A correspondent asks: 1. Will a delinquent pay one man and re- fuse to pay another? 2. What is the meaning of the ‘Red List” and who are placed thereon? ANSWERS. 1. Yes, but it is only a question of time when he refuses to pay the one who has been lenient with him. Better ent him off at once and join with your co-workers in making him a ‘good pay” customer. 2, The ‘*Red List,” as used by some As- sociations, is designed for a class whom the Executive Committee will not, for special reasons at that time, publish as the lowest, or rank as the highest credit, but who are considered dangerous credit. Merchants are not debarred from trusting this class, but do so at their own perli. We carry a full lineof Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Parties in want should CEE) ( write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED (0. 71 CANAL STREET. VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed | orders withthe various houses: M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake. k. B. MeCulloch, Berlin. J.S. Marr, Spring Grove. Gus. Begman, Bauer. John Gunstra, Lamont. Eli Runnels, Corning. G. 8. Putnam, Fruitport. G. M. Huntley, Keno. J.G. McElwee & Co., Big Rapids. Dell Wright, Berlin. S. MeNett & Co., Byron Center. Mr. Owens, Owens & Bullis, Maple Rapids. Parkhurst Bros, Nuniea. Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland. N. Bouma, Fisher. A. B, Foote, Hilliards. 0. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. Jas. Colby, Rockford. A. W. Blain, Dutton. Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale. M. Minderhout, Hanley. Mra. M. Burbank, Spring Lake. L. Cook, Bauer. M. P. Shields, Hilliards. J. Omiler, Wright. C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. Velzy Bros., Lamont. L. A. Paine, Engiishville. W.S. Root, Talmadge. G. H. Walbrink, Allendale. G. H. Tenhoor, Forest Grove. Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz. J. Debri, Byron Center. C. E. Coburn, Pierson. Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. L. T. Wilmarth, Rodney. J. P. Gordes, Alpine. J. E. Darrah, Clarion. fF. B. Watkins, Hopkins. £. C. Watkins, lonia. N. Bouma, Fisher. S. Cooper, Jamestown. G. N. Reynolds, Belmont. Childs & Carper, Child’s Mills. Jno. Damstra, Gitchell. Morley Bros., Cedar Springs. L. N. Fisher Dorr. Nelson T. Miller, Lisbon. H. VanNoord, Jamestown. M. E. Snell, Wayland. A. ©. Barkley, Crosby. B. Gilbert & Co., Moline. M. Gezon, Jenisonville. Jno. Snaith, Ada. Cc. W. Joldersma, Jamestown. Aedley & Son, Wayland. Mrs. G. Miller, Muskegon. Newmun & Esbaugh, Dorr. Mrs. P. B. Hunsicker, Woodland. D. D. Erwin, Newaygo. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. Cc. K. Hoyt. Hudsonville. D. J. Peacock, Ashland. Smith & Bristol, Ada. John Koopman, Falmouth. A. G. Clark & Co., White Cloud. J.N. Wait, Hudsonville. Dr. E. H. Lathrop, Hastings. Jacob Jesson, J. Jesson & Co., Muskegon. Jas. G. Johnson, Traverse City. Narregang & Son, Byron Center. Dr. 8S. J. Koon, Lisbon. Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia. Higgins & Allen, Scottsville. U. DeVries, Jamestown. J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. E. 8S. Botsford, Dorr, F. L. Blake, Ivoring. C. H. Deming, Dutton. C. H. Loomis, Sparta. H. D. Mills, Otsego. P. W. Travis, Otsego. Silas Lowe, Burnip’s Corners. KE. Conklin, Ravenna. c. C. fuxbury, Sullivan, Wm. DePree, Zeeland Dr. E. A. Parkinson, Traverse City. Jos. Mekay, Central Lake. M. E. Curtiss, Edmore. G. W. Robinson, Edgerton. C. Huyser, New Grosingon. H. Muveger, Sullivan. Mrs. J. DuBois, Freemont. Mrs. Q. Huyser, Holland: F. P Hopper, Middleville. John Spring. Spring & Lindley, Bailey. A. Purchase, South Blendon. Geo. A. Seribner, Grandville. Dexter & Noble, Elk Rapids. W. W. Pierce, Moline. J. Raymond, Berlin. esses sak atin MISCELLANEOUS. Fath ncaa hamish dislike wcgaleedi aig | ; Advertisements will be inserted under this head for one cent a word or two cents a word } for three 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—A complete stock of drugs, paints and oils; am doing a good business; ; Surrounded by a good farming country. | Reason for selling, poor health. Cal! on or | address E. H. Stevens, Pewamo, Mich. 192* and stoek of general merchandise, situ- ated ten miles from Grand Rapids, in a good |farming country, worth $5,000. Not much | competition nearer than Grand Rapids. The Grocery Market. Sugars are without a change. Rio coffees continue to advance, and the manu- facturers of package goods have advanced their price 3c. Potatoes have sustained an unusual ad- vance during the week, the fact that the principal markets of the country are bare of good stock having just been disclosed. —— io - Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides are low in price, on account of be- ing undesirable in quality. Wool is dull and sluggish. OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. New York Counts ue eeabe ces 38 A. F. oe Oo. a seients.............-..-.2.-5--- 35 POT oc bs i ce ee ke sec hee eens 25 FRESH FISH. MUR GS. ok ba eee pease se sca see 10 STOO TOMBS oe kia eca er oee awe cere 4 PIV i Sas ace ics ones bese ar 4 WVOlL-OVPR DIK... 28... o.oo es cee esa ees soe 7 UTES OLE 1 ce ee SS es 7 RGRIPMI ope eke ne pec bn css se ee chase cnes 6 Biairweon, BMOKOG.........-.--s2.0004 os eeee 8 PUNOUEG gc ka coca e check ce see babes pe ceaes pene ve 9 Pape: BYRON 5. os osc oask cokiecen sees nesees 10 MV RAEOG ck dec cdbece sche sesceocrssetes 9 Whitefish, smoked....................00ce-ee- J0 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. DEN. TOW. occ kko once occ ecpa see sens eee 17 50 OPE CMI IBN, oc oki siescaese ovoccecesae 16 50 Extra clear i, SNOVE OUE......56- 20s sane 17 = Mixira ClOAT, NOAVT..... <2. 05 .> 2002 s2c0ns seer 17 50 Clear quill, short cut..............-....06-- 17 50 Boston clear, short cut...............5..065 17 50 Clear back, short cut...................006- 17 50 Standard clear, short cut, best............ 17 50 DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, BORO och bcicekss sions 8% I gs ose. e, 8% * EOIN oe wcsbee dceie cs 83% Short Clears, hae ois cee k ae uss 9 do. SVROMUUSINND os es Gane ese n bes 9 do. SEUNG cca cco hc nces cscs ae 9 SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams, average a Oc eee ee 12 Be eee 12% e " BED 10 PB. co neck cscs 123% OF RU cc eee es eee cece ee are 9%4 RRL, POMBIGES, oo osc vas hie soos een ee il PUTRI ooo on oe oe os oe ee eee ee nee 8&4 od POOMIBIBR oo ae lee ee eee de 9 Breakfast Bacon, BONBIORS fg is eck ie ese e cae 10% Dried OGL BRIE ooo oo ee eee eee 10 af HAIN DICE ois. ie ie ebesee 13 LARD. RON os oe 2s bo ot eee 74 BD) end GO) Tus... ..:.2...-.-.0 see 736 LARD IN TIN PAILS. 8% Pails, 20 i W@ CABC.... 252... s.sr0c00s 8 5 Pails, 12 in a case. .........f........ 73% 10® Pails. 6in acase................... 1% 20 Ib Pails, 4 pails in case............... eet 4 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs........ 8 50 Boneien: OKITA. ... -6.+ oe ne eee eee sees 11 50 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Pork BOUBRRO. o.oo docs keen se cess cece sea os i% BANS RNIB a on rhe bec de epee ce becess 11 Toneue GAUNGARS,.......-..5--+-.--- 505-26 9 HMranktore DAUSARO......5...-.).5- 25.2.5... ; Rl URN oc ooo c lab bese cee cade BODO, BITHIBDLE. «0.2. oo oo os oo oe oe none oo vee 8 BologRs, THICK... ......-... 252500050. se0neee 6 BUG CHOOND oi os rine et he cece ee acde nee os 6 PIGS’ FEET. Ray TARE TON gis oe oa ob coke ance ee 8 00 1h GQUBFTOY DATPOUR....0.502565- 5200 565s ess oe 1 65 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: TIDES Green ....# b 54@ é \Calf skins, green Part cured... 7 @7%|_ or cured.. Fulleured.... 74@ 8 |Deacon skins, Dry hides and ® piece..... 20 @b5v Kits «5.4.56 8 @2 SHEEP PELTS. Old wooi, estimated washed ® b...... 25 MAAN ogg hace nko en oo be has eee 3 WOOL. Fine washed @ ib G26 | Coarse washed.. 24 Medium .........2 27@30|Unwashed........ 2-3 FURS. eda ch eae caebocss cedeese 10 00@25 00, Ps i icccs ene one cio caus 4 00@ 6 00 SRNR ee oe ke eek. os be eee 75@ 1 00 WEEE NRG sass oie bos beh ees ceo eee 50@ 75 Weir CO eo oko os oe co ee ee eae ne W@ 20 BOK, WOU cic ces se Ge ae: 1 00@ 1 50 OY NR ck i ko oe eae c es aes ; 00@ 5 00 Me AY obs eas ceed eke > 1 00@ 1 25 TORN ks cos cw ce bese acbokis- se 4 00@ 8 00 WU oe ope es oes eo ke bee seer eh cece 3 00@ 6 00 Ot ah a ese es 20@ ~=«-«69 OTA aEAUD ee baw he oe os cece ees 75@ 1 00 OBE ee 5 00@ § 00 WO ek ee 4@ 90 WSR cea etka see kee e reas eee @ 9 VOI oc cece eet ekoe es Boe eee ess 2 00@ 3 a DTuGhEAT, WIKUEL. «6 cose c ceo veo esss @ os WE eek eve ad ao oees 06@ 03 J - one coke ce uec eaves coos @ 16 Dont: WD. a 5@ 2 These prices are for prime skins only. OILs., ILLUMINATING. Gah WY NE sg a cso bch ase ssecev ae dienes Ig ECCI TORE ccs eas bos cee che ven sues cco es 10% Mee a eo ye ns os oo pe eek caeee 12% BEARD og os bk ec kao Se eee s Fhe aee eke ewesn ee 12 LUBRICATING. COTTA sos iss so bb oo ews hese ccs uy Capitol Cynder. .,.......00ccsccseeecssooee 36% DIGGGL COUDGGR 255 odes aces oe see scehes 31% Bie COV EOP oon ico Sok os 5 ob seo ev aves 2% POLO FETTIND o ook nen eo deve ces oo snes 23 POOTIONS MACHIIONG os kop o ss bees sd esoesss 20 Challenge Machinery..............c2eesseres 19 oi chs ak ko ch eens bhio sie On Black, Summer, West Virginia... ......... OIG. Bi TM oi ek sso ccs neacecec sd os 0 II | ade tN dea sac rareg nese rey can li BD cc ck bone sa lees 2 FIELD SEEDS. Clover, TMiBMMOU.... 6... 6 6s5. ss ee 4 25@4 50 ” WRENN is hs vee eee : : 50 TUMORI, TTI. is ok as cases bao 2 00 SEEDS Garden Seeds a Specialty. The Most Complete Auportatiint in Michigan. Don’t Buy un- til you get my prices. ALFRED J.BROWN Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester. 16-18 N. Division St, Grand Rapids 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 willbe restored to the public domain and become subject to set- tlement and entry as other unoffered public lands, and rated at $2.50 peracre. That onthe 25th day of April, 1887, at 2 o’ciock 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. PARTS OF SECTION SEC TOWN RANGE ACRES PAIN OS ks ios tans seas 1 34 4 642.75 ET NO Ae i 34 4 631,53 eee i ee ll 384 = =64~—«640.00 OR el ena ce s 13 84 4 640.00 Aas oa eo keke 1 8 4 ~~ 640. OF couvue ais eenkee bake 23 = 84 4 640.00 Ms bas ob as ask eabas 25 «3h 4 640.00 OF Sidas akan u siea enna 27 38+ 64 ~~ «(640.00 Oe es oe ae 358A 4 640.00 WwW of ne”, nw¥4 and o% Of SWi4........0.5- 8 28 4 3882. All of Pires oul ees caeeen 5 8 4 cutee ee eis % 8 4 621.8 wi ao se4 of ne4 s a ine e: 9 ’ : oe . oi nwi4 ands.. 11 E 30. ri fc, _ s. cavaueee ws 13 35 4 640.00 Ek of ne’ and se4..... 1 3 4 240.00 Ni’ of ne4 and n%& of ata be « 3 os 160,00 All WO ee cece cece 19 3 4 96.17 W of sey, negandw% 23 35 4 560.00 E% of nw and e&..... 25 385 4 400.00 ot OF su aes is a 35 8 506.56 w4,n%,sw andn of ae Poise dees 25 36 320.00 AE a OE era a 27 36 4 320.00 OR Ol. cb caeeecaeso 31 é 4 $11.85 BU OE obs 8 faces cess 33 36 4 ~~ 640.00 W% of nw34............. 35 36 + 80.00 12,426.66 U.S. LAND OFFICE, Reed City, M ich. ., March 14, 1887. NATHANIEL CLARK, W. H. C. MITCHELL, Register. Receiver. REED Crry, Mich., April 13, 1887. All action under restoration ordered by Hon. Commissioner, Wm. A. J. Sparks, letter a March 8, 1887, is suspended until further or- ders, W. H. C. MITCHELL, Receiver. NATHANIEL CLARK, Register. The universal sale of ‘‘Tansill’s Punch” 5-cent cigar is proof of its extraordinary merit. The live dealer will always avail himself of an opportunity to make money. 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- =. —New cebinsee Grocer. COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples—Good truit is.scarce, readily bring- ing $38@$3.50 per bbl. Fancy, $4. Ruta Bagas—$1 # bbl. Beans—Looking up. Country basil « picked are heldat $1 #bu.,and city picked are in fair demand at $1.30. Beets—4ic # bu. Buckwheat—2\c ® b. Butter—Not so scarce. Jobbers are now pay- ing 1%c. and selling for 1l&c. Cabbages—90c ® doz. Carrots—35e # bu. Ceiery—No good stock in market. Cheese—Fall stock of Michigan full cream is firm at 134%@l4c. Cider—l2\%c ® gal. Cucumbers—$1.20 ® doz. Dried Apples—Evaporated, 13c # b; quarter- ed and sliced, 6@7c ® b. Dried Peaches—Pared, I4c. Egys—Jobbers are paying 10c and selling for 11I@11%e Honey—Good demand at 10@138c. Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14 per ton in two and five ton lots and $13 in car lots. Lettuce—l6c # Ib. Maple Sugar—1l0c # 1b. Onions—Old stock, 85ec. ® bu. $2.75 per crate. Spring, 20c % doz. Parsley—25c @ doz Peas—$2 # crate. Potatoes— Buyers are paying 50-55e for Bur- banks and 55-60e for Roseand White Star. Southern Rose, $5 ® bbl. Pop Corns-2%e # tb, Pieplant—4c # b. Parsnips—$1.75 per bbl. Rutabagas—$1 ® bbi. Radishes—35-40c @ doz. Spinach—90c# bu. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys $4 50 ® bbl. Strawberries—30c ®% qt. String Beans—$1.75 ® box. Tomatoes—$1.50 8 box. Vegetable Oysters—30c % doz. GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Wheat—Steady. City millers pay 78 cents for Lancaster and 75 tor Fulse and Clawson. Corn—Jobbing generally at 45c in 100 bu. lots and 40¢ in ecarlots. Oats—W hite, 36c in small lots and 30@3le in car lots. Rye—48@50c #8 b Barley—Br ae pay $1.25 # cwt. Flour—No change. Patent, $4.80% bbl.in sacks and $5.00 in wood. Straight, $4.00 ® bbl. in sacks and $4.20 in wood. Meal—Bolted, $2.40 ® bbl. Mill Feed—Screenings, $13 ® ton. Bran, $15 ®ton. Ships, $15 @ton. Middlings, $16 ® ‘ton. Corn and Oats, $17 ® ton. Bermudas, FRUITS | A. D. SPAN CLER & co. Geleral COMMISSION erat S PRODUCE, NUTS, BERRIES, ETC. Consignments Solicited. 200 and 202 North Washington Ave., East Saginaw, Mich. OLD BARRELS Setting about astore are unsightly, jecting naifs on them are dangerous to clothing. enterprising grocer realizes besides the pro- ce fixtures, and to meet this demand the ff WOOLSON SPICE Co., of Toledo, Ohio, have designed their i} Liion Coffee Cabinet, Of which the accompanying cut gives but a partial} In this cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packages hi of Lion Coffee, and we offer the goods at a price cabinets without fitm@ They are made air- “tight, tongued and fig idea. enabling the grocer to secure these cost to himself. grooved, beautifully grained and varnished, and are put together in the best possible manner. set of casters, with screws, inside this cabinet. Their use in every grocery, after the coffee is sold out, is ap- Ly parent; just the thing from which to retail oatmeal, rice, prunes, hominy, dried fruits, bread, and a hun-# dred other articles. Further, they take up no more floor room than a barrel, and do away with thesef unsightly things in a store. For price-list of Lion Coffee in these cabinets, see price-current in this pa- per. Read below what we say as to the quality off ion Coffee. Thef the value of handsome and § In every package. for a cabinet filled with LION COFFEE. For sale by all Wholesale Grocers every- where, and by the ‘Complete an) This Coffee Cabinet Given Away. A GOOD BREAKFAST Is ALWAYS x fee is served. COFFEE to cure this result to them. is always uniform; contains strength, flavor and true merit; Java and Rio. tight packages; net weight, and is never sold in bulk. possible when a good cup of cof- The grocer who sells LION his trade can invariably se- LION COFFEE is a suecessful blend of Mocha, Paeked only in one-pound air- roasted, but not ground; full A Beautiful Picture Card We solicit a sample order Woolson Spice Co. 92 to 108 Oak St., Toledo, Ohio. OTTENBERG'S CIGARS. Hazel Kirke La Rosa Celeste | Sweet Catawba! Having secured the Sole agency for S. OTTENBERG & BROS.’ Celebrated Cigars, I take pleasure in recommending 10 cents. 5 cents. 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. We send advertising matter with above Cigars. Morris H. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOLE AGENTS T'rreusch, } Groceries. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. aad These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. CYOWD ...05-.6 55. . 80/Paragon ........... 210 HEAZCY'S. 64... 535s 90 Paranen 251 pails. 90 Diamond X........ 60/Fraziers, 25 ib pails.1 25 Modoe, 4 doz.......2 50 BAKING POWDER. Acme, ” = cans, 3 doz. CASE. ..-.6 eee ee ee es ‘ = - % b " i - clay ea ae 3 00 “ Ta aes iki Sage aes cen ekw neces 25 Princess, ee es cae ce gipwdek shane é 1 25 Oe uae as han 2 25 te Oe a rics ec ad Sak na cs aaes 4 25 " ii kek tage cones 28 Arctic, ¥ tb cans, : doz. case ua ceased 45 A eh i aaia evans des 75 . % . 2 As aci sade eas 1 40 ty 1 2 seu eeceuhecas 2 40 ” 5 io 1 ee ia ca caes 12 00 Victorian, 1 oe (0G) 2 GOB... cs case 2 00 DPA G, WO ou. sos kos s sneha ccae snes 15 BLUING Dry, Boxe ce os dic os vcs eas aw doz. 25 DO, Re is a i each aac ade doz. 45 PARI BOR, ics gins coabak Obyceyekas doz. 35 DA OR a. se as oe ann dan doz 65 EI a cis ec lave cns 8 eros 3 50 oo hh ins aa pa su a cecaaee 7 20 I oo os rn eee av eee dsaaaes 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper box a ae us ee aaunan 2 00 OC ceric ce dcccsuns 3 00 Arctic No.3 “ We Le asec des aeee . 400 BROOMS. No. 2 Hurl. .......<. 1 35) Common Whisk.. 90 No. 1 Hurl....2 00@2 25 os Whisk...... :.1 00 -No. 2 Carpet. eas ON ks caus cans 8 15 No. 1 Carpet........ 2 50|\Warehouse ........ 2 %5 Parlor Gem........ 3 00 CANNED FISH. Clams, ! B, Little Neck.................--+ 110 Clam Chowder, BEI eden cs ecco tense ee 2 15 Cove Oysters, 1 standards.............. 90 Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards............. 1 75 Lobsters, 1 Mplenie. 2. ocdseegcesscceedaes 75 LODSEOLS, 2 My DICTIC. «65. ccc cyec tes sees 2 65 TOP GTers, Fy See oon cock wine cane e ce caees 2 00 TODStENS, 21D BEBE... doe one ss oc eek wee nen 3 00 Mackerel, 1b fresh standards..... weeed 40 Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards,........... 5 25 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 b........... 3 50 Mackerel,3 bin Mustard.................. 3 50 Mackerel, 3 soused............ ... 2.200. 3 50 Salmon, 1 f Columbia river............... 17% Salmon, 2 i Columbia river........... +...d 00 Sardines, GOMOGUIC ME... o.oo. occ ccs cence 6@7 Sardines, domestic %8..............200. 10@12 Sardines, Mustard 48.................0005 9@11 Sardines, imported 45.............-.e00e 12@13 "Trout. 21) OLOOKR. 0... cs. accecse es ease 4 00 CANNED FRUITS. Apples, gallons. standards................ 3 25 Blackberries. standards............-...06 90 Cherries, red standard...................- 110 PUORANE a k. en ce as dhe seheencacees 1 00 Egg Plums, standards ..................- 1 25 CORIO can cacectaesescncs 95@1 00 Green Gages. standards 2 Ib........-...... 5) Peaches, Extra Yellow .................... 175 Peaches, standards... ..............cccceees 1 55 PeAChGR, SOCOTIGE.. .. o.oo sce occ secesecens 1 45 POOR OOM FO ogo insc oc vs ce cn an ee as ancacens 1 10 Pineapples, standards..................68- 1 40 Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced... .......... 2 Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated...... ..... 2 75 ON aoe os cn ca cea ca saa snakes dns ae 115 Raspberries, RN cc ii one pica wh a canes 1 25 ek ee 1 35 BEPAWDRTTIORN .. .....--6 2.50085 Sika 1 26@1 80 WU GE OER anaes kak ok oe cape ees ce 90 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay.. Oeacs as 2 00 Beans, Lima, andar... 600.05. 7d Beans, Piwingings, Brie... .....4--- 6656s 50s 90 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 70 Corn, Avoner s& Tropoy....... 255 6.6 scess 1b ab Mornin GlOPy. oc cc. he cues 3 10 Ae an dea as pa see ah “ Maple RON ie ae . a ok da pwede eg ee case 1 20 me ee 1 35 ON a ache cee coa aes 1 50 OF ER re a ha ee ag ish en as 1 00 POOR oes ys cade cuss 1 00 a ca civic ee aeeae : 10 ORs WOOO oo ca icc ias cts bese. 1 50 Peas. extra marrofat.................. 1 me _ Ue OG er eas ca aeiee ew cnens _ Early June, WANN ess in sie 1 50@1 "6 “ WrIOe se 2 00 * Wrench, OXtrA MMC...........50-<-022- 20 00 Mushrooms, exira fine............. ......- fy 00 Pumpkin, 3 Goldem...................0-- Succotash, standard..................065 sa 30 OT ons eek a eae sce deen 1 00 Tomatoes, standard brands............... i 20 CHEESE. Michigan full cream.................. 138%@14 York State, AGme..........5-4+.--% 4 @ CHOCOLATE. Wilbur’s Premium.. 35) German Sweet....... 23 a Sweet......25| Vienna Sweet ....... 22 “ B’kf’ tCocoa 45) MEMO 8 alii cess ss 37 “ Cocoa-theta42| Runkles’............. 35 a Vanilla Bar 28| COCOANUT Schepps, cack baa tu canes @25 NE AD. on oo ncn cha hie es @26 ™ Occ cane bene cach ec aaa G27 - is in i Sc sts sg @27% et los Oe ee. ea Ry a i on ks ce cn ciene ses i - T0000 WE... .. s,s: seeu Got - ee ee @24% MGMROTION, DAGG. .. 6 ci. cen cas cee e ae @20 Ge cick ayes acess @18 COFfEES—PACKAGE, 60 Ibs see 300 Ibs an ica een 14 lion, in cabinets............... a eee e ce veces 215% 21% 21% eI is cc ces locke cs cees 215g 21% 21% PY Soin ecu n as peecce seas 2136 OWA ke ica wn nsen ss 21% WROD ocak hes bans ca eee 2144 German, in Bins.............5<«> 21% I oo iwc cc oy dd ck kes 2134 hes cei cg sae we 2034 20 Pome 21% 20% 2 MEOMIOR go ae eens 18 18 18 COFFEES. Green. Roasted. REO go ee as TH4@Qie ERIO. «... sachs, 18 @19% Golden Rio...17 @18 |Golden Rio.. @20 BANLOR. ....-.- MO Gt Bentoe......-....... 21 MaAriCADO. < 660. cece 18 |Maricabo....... 21@22 as GO ava... 000. @28 ©, G. JAva...-.- @25 \O. G. Java. 29 @30 MIGGDS oreo ccc aks 28 |Mocha... .... a @28 CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... 1 00 (50 foot Cotton....1 60 72 foot Jute ..... 12% 160 foot Cotton....1 75 40 Foot Cotton....1 50 |72 foot Cotton....2 00 CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. X XXX #b Kenosha Butter. ......... 02.66. 6% Seymour Butter............... 5 UN was wa kee tas as ceue 5 Fancy Butter...:.:............ 4% CE eos ne cua dese cness 5 ecko is va acne a 5 Panoy OVater......iececsice.s 4% WOMGG BOG, co cic n ed sscceen css 5 OU OE cn tas ao ca cew eke aren’ 7% a a 5% ee ede cen cs seus 7 PEON oe oui cas ideo eade a PMO 5 oes cc cc av acaceess 8 Or Og ca cc aa cna noes 8 Pretzels, hand-made........... 11% OURO oo os ees oe eee seen 9% Opaarnele . oi... cc cdc beks cass 1544 POON CHORE. oo. oe sn creek a cae 7 8 PIGAY CROGML. «oo 6.45 cess seh ees. 7 8 Frosted Cream...,.........600. 8% Ginger Snaps. ....6......-..0.- 7 8 No. 1 Ginger Snaps............ 7 Timm BORNE. occ eens cs caine 12% COHGO CARO: «oso. n0 0c cs ees cs 8% TLOMON WALCEB. oe esac ds cease 13% PPA ROE ok oc cas ince deste ees 11% Extra Honey Jumbles......... 12% Frosted Honey Cakes......... 138% Ovremre GOrie so oa co ck cbc kn dees 13% Bagleys Gems...........0..... 13% BOO CORGG oi os sas 65.05 ok koe 12% O&M COROR. .o cc. uence bece 8% DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN. CNET ON ois oa et ead sip deo GA cee dn bs eas 22 25 a cy ose a case aanqass @ 6 TOTO FOO. oi. si yas voids cc Dea tagenss @ PRO oie ic iy scarce doce nas @ 14 Prunes, French, 608.................2-. @l - PONG OU. 6 ccc cp cc oend e645’ @l0 si PLONE, Ube css <2 i os ves caeace @ 7 Prunes, Turkey. Ua oc pe Cee e dead oe us @& TRQISI OS, DONORIA win fo5 sc ck paceeesse’s 3 50@5 00 Raisins, London Layers............... @2 50 Raisins, California “ | i... csceecasess 1 50@1 90 Raisins, Loose Muscatels.............. @l1 56 Raisins, Ondaras, 288............ ...-. ak 4@ Bi Raisins, Sultamas...............-..0605 Raisins, Valencia, new..............-- sno oy Raisins, Imperials................++ ac Prunes, Bohemia...............0e0000 5% f FISH. PLUG. WH WON a ica tan oes cdn f@5'% | Eye Opener.......... 25;Blue Blazes......... 25 OG, DOO Ss Ga Veks ds cen ctacn ose cues 54@6% | Pauper .............. TUCAP POF... . «ceca vees 35 ee aa ovine 84@IC%4 | Peach Pie.. 3, SOUee 6 i 2 Herring, round, 7a" MNEs seeds i dake dec Ae POE esac cans, '39| Night C ae Weaececiaa us 22 PRCYTINg POUNG, 34 DOK... 65... ccc cc esc aces 1 75 CO OWGGE, «oc cc cccces 37/Splendia . deaeeen Oe Herring, Holland® WS aoa ce WE 0 CUE ois oa inn ccs We OI 5 bv ccnce cu) 40 Herring, Holland, a ci veces 75@ 80 | Corner Stone. .......! 34, Big Drive. ie BEOUUT CORIO ii ds av ivecccc kde. Keates 18@20 | Sealping Knife......: 34 Chocolate Cream... .40 Mackerel, shore, No. 1, 6 WO coi cc ees 10 GO | Sam Boss............ Sereereed .. 45... 35 8 “i 2 fb kits Saaeca 1 50 Next . ........ ......29|/Big Five Cente Bee seee 33 " 10 ease 1 25 | Jolly ‘Time.. ose KLM bc cence Cicces 42 : No. ica aaccesnanns 6 50 Sie awlia da cel Aaa... 3D Sardines, spiced, }48..............00+0.0---I0@IZ Black Bird... ..o2 Black Prinece.... 35 Trout, is on bos essed db edad esess deneacue 6 AY Liv aoe Let Live. ..32 Black Racer.........35 Wahi ash osha danas desncs 95 uaker...............28\Cli c 2 White, No. 1,4 bbis «22.21. apc vu |e Mies. ariAcorn 2.22.2... APN TG, FUOy Br Or ooo os nk onic cs ctdcccs 110 Spear Head.......... 39\Horse Shoe.......... 37 We it, BUG. 2, MP Oe IGM... .. .. o co ce a cscs. 1 00 We Wieck dacdn Qi cci. 36; Vineo ..... 34 White, Family, % bbls... 0.........0.003 50 Spring Chicken...... 36\Merry War...........26 NN oo de cae dss eesesce 75 WU oc vccc ccc tcas: 30'Ben Franklin........ 32 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. hy gate .39| Moxie pesiacleeus le 34 Lemon. Vanilla. (2a Oa 24} Black Jack........... 32 Jennings’ D.C.,202.......... @doz.100 1 6c | Park......... ......22/Musselman’s Corker.30 - MB ccoknas eats 50-2 65 “SMOKING “ “ an ee 50 4 25 pase, Tam shadededuen a 1b “ “ Q p Oar Leader... .......; OEE kc consis i “ oe iPaper. 2222. an SRV ss a or 30 “Nod Pet CEE 2 ak MMIIOEL, <<< yo A Si e ; | aE Ae %2 i g . ot 00 oh MEROGONOS 565.0650 es 50s @ 5 cases 2 s@3 25 cases 2 25@3 25 | Gait & Ax’ a . PICKLES. LL 38 Medium . 2... 00.0... cee eee cece eee ee @7 00 | Railroad Mills Scotch... ....22.22227: g is Oe. Bi IEE fisccisc ccc. ee Small, Ye bhi eh sends de adecene cece ceus = 50 Mii a TEAS ee @4 75 | Jap GORTIIIIE Yo 6 6. id vos ncacdaseacsas acca PIPES. ne ap WO Oa iss ci soc ee sn cec dace, 25030 Tenported Clay, No. 216,83 gross..... .. 2 WO WOR I 5 66h 6 65 aaa hdd cc ecu ce cccenss 3B5@4S Ternned Cun ite tk ot eas & We | DBPAM AUBE.... cece eeeececeeeeceeeeces 15@20 einen ek iy + @ 33 a = MON obo se ec ccedddccccicucs 2045 ee eee eee eee eee un ow er 35 > eee Tests TF OF UR OWOE oss nny ccccescenccceccncnsess 3550 Choice Carolina.....6%|Java ........... 6 eoone A Dr rae ae aet TI@S5@6E Prime Carolina..... 5%|Patna ..... ee ae 5% Min Nt teet nt 04845 Sa shntneedasaesncisach ss 25@30 Good Cex olina...... 4%/Rangoon Loa @5% Teeam, 30 50 300d Louisiana..... 5 |Broken. ..... 34 @3} ; Tine wae. Der. MG Vice ec ails saa ss ) WODGN ..........<. — . fo hueneoansahoncemanctcnte a 10 BALBRATUB, | FIO nn wee ences ee ee eee coceeeees 10 ane S$ pure...... 5% |Dwight’s ............ 5 on aa ANEOUS. ” MRONS 0.0.5.0). 5 |Sea Foam........... 5% imu Taylor’s G. M....... 5 |Cap Sheaf........... Y — ype arg DB arsneceerenssacees 90 115 loan tn & bee lone, ie Wale WO ic en SALT. | in 60 Pocket, F F Dairy. .......6...cceca 2 15 a Hq - + 4 2 9 8 Pocket... cone iain une a wR a a Condensed Milk, Eagle brand ot Saginaw or Manistee... ... eae 5 Cream Tartar 6 and 10 ® cans G25 ai a" 70 Candles, WN 5h 6 50d boca be dank ceccces @u Pon eee. ‘ > . ” < Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80 — Hote > tb @l2 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags... 315 oe tC fee, v. boxe Witeeetsedeecase G35 Higgins’ English dairy bu. DOGS. .... 75 3 ae — Fetx Po a pant , : ot @ Wie... 2 2 ee an “on sete eeee z Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... = Warsaw, Dairy, ba. bags... 0-0-2... 40. | Qua Rubber 200 lumps. ............ one re alla 9 4 itm, § ( 3035 eT eae law e's a 20 Hominy ®@ bbl —, SAUCES. MW NN oe had cc adencescenci is @3 00 Parisian, % pints........ og ae @2 oo | ely, in ME sicciccss csc 8 5M Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 7 re ari Barley : - 24@ 3 Pepper Sauce, green. ...........0. 000s @ 0 pene Green ish PEST ECSC ROE Coss 4544s @1 Pepper Sauce, red large ring........ - @13\p : ale ro Prepared. @3 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 50 Powd mae td Pe Teste et eesepenneoens @ 00 Catsup, Tomato, WS oo oo as chien a @ 9 pow Py 1 ROR... cece cece eee eee e es @2 5 Catsup, Tomato, quarts... 2.2. 222.2.! @I1 20 |; — a sale he ao ahah @ ks Halford Sauce, pints.. Se @3 50 | Has aes rere sti ween entnaetdisensents SRS Halford Sauce, % pints... 00002000600, a eee ttwenetes: @% SOAPS. — BO oocciiccencs 8 85 Extra Chicago Fam- ,... PANDY. FRUITS AND NUTS. Muster ......... 0... 40, te :94| Putnam & Brooks quote as follows : New Process, 1 ..3 85 Napkin............. 4 75 STICK. New Process, Sh Staal |... :.. 4% Standard, 26 B boxes................... SKB D Acme, bars........ 3 55|White Marseilles. .5 50 | Twist, GO bene seen ccaercacacs @Y Acme, blocks..... 3 05, White Cotton Oil..5 50 | Cut me as. lL @10 = American....2 93)Railroad ........... 3 50 R 1, 25 ' MIXED nee co B TOU. Ga.ccecceccccce-cB 46 | ROVAl. 5D pails... ........ sce seceees @ Big Five Center...3 85/My stic White. ..2.274 65 | Roy all, 200 DbIS.... 0... cece eee eee eee @8 Rickel pe 3 45 Saxon Blue......-. 26 ae 2 eee settee seat ee ee eee @i0 Shamrock...” 3 mF wire S08 O08... :....... 5. . @9 Blue Danube....... 2 55 London Family....2 30 | French Cream, 25 ® pails.............. GIULY% at SPICES—WHOLE. Cut loaf, ® COQ cla. Ge Anke... ~ WOR, OP OP Io ios cd cdecccavccecs @l0 Cassia, China in mats.................. 7 | Broken, 200 ' DDIS...... 2... 20 -e seer ees @ 9 ‘* Batavia in bundles............ il FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES. Seigon i Olid... ..... 544... 05 Ae | EON DRONE, «5 oo oo os ccs. cccce OD Cloves, Ameen... 8... sss. Do Se ee @is © ZN ocak ca eu cave: 29 | Peppermint Drops...... .............:. @1s EN Ee ae 60 | Chocolate Drops..............ceccccceees i4 Nutmegs, fancy...............0.0+-+: 65 a M acount ameue:. tt teeeeeeces 18 No. I res 690 |Gum Drops ........ Scab 44h aca as Ww wee Be IIOOE, o caceciissscitiessenscice | Pe pper, Singapore, ee 18 . B Licorice oe . teen ee ee eeeee ” white . age vy | Lozenges, plain. ees4eeucd caucus aueeca 14 a enue cies Guenen. een printed. ada chao cnaece us cececes - PO ee ane il =o em ae ee i oe ha pal el el - Cassia, Batavia Ad bo bene dead abacuseass 16 Frememaas ates ss st nracaeseshvsacetsegeas i - oe and om: tore. 25 M » : - eee eee enne a ” BEE NAO BOM 6 iol nerd cece cccecduases 1z Cloves mann ia. ea venres ss = WI ooh ac as bg 5c a pans scccencc 18 Oe eer tt reap es eenies ts 34 Hand Made Creams... ..... 6... .6.0cccee: 18 Giger, APM... ..--..s0ces.- fax err cee dees cst Sesesnenenentteneens - = Gan is decorate Me SIFORIN ikdccc cehidccacciecee 20 . we ese: et LUPINE TROON. 5 cscs cc ccees be caccaticeceun is cc Re eee sti annten essa rose = RRNMNG, MIB 6g io sces si se osc ace ss 20 PPOTET OOD TEED | Cocoanuts, # 100.. .5 WEE 00 Five and Seyen...... 4BiCyoes Cut..........- PEANUTS. MOWOE oi. ki ocs daue' PU PE coc dance voce 35 | Prime Red, raw ® @ 4 Seal of Detroit....... 60/Old GG es wa) 30|@hoice do a... hl @ 4% dim Dandy........... 38| Underwood's Capper35| Fancy H.P.do 0 .................5 , ° Sun Bed 25) cen Rose rues 1.P. do OD co caccicccscctcses GG de eulc eens 4m > d.......-+- 45 | Choice White, Va. ciisii steeeics Brother Jonathan.. .27) \Meigs & Co.’ sStunnerss5 ee H Pr Wa ” - meee Se on SOUY TING... 2.55.50. EMMA ods cencene dean 3518. P. Va... ieee Our Leader.......... 33| Royal Game.......... neo AS NONE aes sti Sweet Rose..........d2;Mule Ear.............65 wiepusies . . May Queen....... Gb Fountain. .........%.. 74 FRESH MEATS. Dark AmericanEagle67 Old Congress......... 64| John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling Whe MOBS... 4 .c55-: 60;|Good Luck...........52 | prices as follows: Red Bird.............50)Blaze mrey :. lei veles 35 } Fresh Beef, sides..............eeseees 54@ 7% Prairie Flower ...... 65 Hair Lifter.. . ...80 | Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 7%@ 9 Indian Queen........ 60 Hiawatha ............ OFT TPPQGROG TROGG. ooo ic co cc cc cc cecceseccees @" May Flower.......... MCR coc cas cu nn cee Oe EN io acdc 05 dee sac deudeescnces 8 @9Y Sweet os Siekeuat 45\Crown Leaf..... .... WEN ohn ok cea k 6c ca ccecdssanenvecsances 8@9 Hustler . cake 22 \sunset Heasveus iv deuess BB | Veal... cece cece cece ee eens ener eee tees 7 @™% Bade BOY... os cc veccas We PO nis icc oe cakeneccceacaans @ 8 SHORTS. WIIG oo vin ak ds chun ce ceceuscecdedneca @ 6 Our Leader.......... aoe ei igekescces We Ta isi lc cack de Wadd dak ecadcauuans 12 @13 Mayflower ........... 23\Old Congress......... ee BPN ook, Loc icaka cuncucedecacdcas tela @ GONG os) ci caic cee cecd 22\May Leaf............ Se I cnc add ccavecesevinacs ..- 12 @IB Mule BM cei cidss BOAR i Side cw iceccecsece 20 ' Lard, kettle-rendered................. @ 8 6 i ‘@ \. Drugs & Medicines Staite Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo, Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. President—Ottmar Eberbach. Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas, Vernor. Next Meeting—At Detroit, July and 6. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Frank J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids. | First Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. | Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpeming. Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—Geo. W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, Frank Wells, Geo. Gundrum and Jacob Jesson. Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey. Next Place of Meeting—At Petoskey, July 12, 13 and 14. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. President—Geo. G. Stekettee. Vice-President—H. E, Locher. Secretary—Frank H. Escott. | Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. | . ; Board of Censors—President, Vice-President and Sec- retary. Board of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, M. B. Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond. | wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. White. Committee on big Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- child and Hugo Thum. 8 Committee on Legislation—R. A. MeWilliams, Theo. Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. nee Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and Isaac Watts. ! Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each month. F : Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November Next Meeting—Thursday evening, May 5, at THE TRADESMAN office. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883. President—A. F. Parker. First Vice-President—Frank Inglis. Second Vice-President—J. C, Mueller. ¢ Secretary and Treasurer—A, W. Allen. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae. Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month. Central Michigan Druggists’ Association. President, J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell. Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society. President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart. Clinton County Draggists’ Association. President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. S. Wallace. Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n, President, R. F. Latimer; Secretary, F. A. King. Mason County Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett. Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society. President, C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber. Monroe County Pharmaceutical Seciety. President, 8. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss. Muskegon County Druggisis’ Association, President, W. B. Wilson; Secretary, Geo. Wheeler. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, I. C. Terry; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre. Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller. Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady. Saginaw County Pharmaceutical Society. President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall. Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society. President, E. A. Bullard; Secretary, C. E. Stoddard. A DOLEFUL DRUGGIST. He Tells of His Benefactions to Humanity and Bemoans its Ingratitude. “Oh, yes, drugs have come down in price a great deal in the last year or two,” said an up-town dispenser of health-restoring compounds, as he glanced sadly at the price list in front of his door. ‘*The bottom has fallen out of everything. Not only stan- dard drugs but proprietary medicines have been so reduced in price that there is searce- ly any profit left in the business. Medi- cines that we used to get $1.25 for now sell for 75 cents; dollar medicines go for 50 or 65 cents; 25 cent compounds, for 15 cents, and so on. Of course, that’s all right for the public, but how about us? Nobody stops to think that, besides supply- ing drugs and medicines, saving lives at all hours of the night, spreading health broad- east, by dispensing pure soda water and other things for which we get some little return, we are an indispensable public con- venience in ways that never bring us a cent of profit. For instance, here and .every- where else, except down town, everybody who waits for a street car waits for it in a drug store. Everybody who wants to bor- row a newspaper or get a light for a cigar or look at a directory or usea telephone or in- quire about the family who moved away from the house three blocks away, year be- fore last or put up a free advertisement or write a postal card goes straight for a drug store. Then look at the people who save doctors’ bills. They come in here, describe their symptoms, tell how sick they are and want to know what to do about it. We tell them to soak their feet, wear woolen socks and take a dose of salts or whatever else they need, and they thank us and buy a postage stamp. Why, I’ve spent half an hour at a time telling a man what to do for a sore throat or the gout and then seen him go away without spending a cent. This sort of thing goes on all the time. We are continually giving people information, ad- vice and all kinds of accomodation. It’s a little tough to run that kind of a charitable institution on a profit of eight cents on every dollar bottle of medicine you sell. It’s no wonder we make the sarsaparilla syrup for the soda water fountain by shak- ing an empty sarsaparilla bottle over a bucket of water. We would be justified in doing worse things than that, I think.” —_————_—>-6-a— Queer Prescription. LUDINGTON, April 18, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sir—Enclosed please find a sam- ple of prescriptions like we have to com- pound in this part of the country. We quite often receive some which are just as good as this, but the ‘*Argonomo!” and ‘‘Ojel of Oil” takes my fancy. Yours truly, SUBSCRIBER. The prescription referred to is as follows: I ai ok no os cay ct ccecesbonsiees os 1 Auns ROR I ook obi is bins os or is eee nk 1 Auns eee Oe CE bis coon s oe ue devon eens 1 Auns Ms 65 ik i ek as ee 1 Auns Oe OT Nios dass eos cass vaseis ces 1 Auns It is estimated that there are cultivated and distilled annually in the United States about 15,000 tons of peppermint plants, yielding about 100,000 pounds of essential Oil. A DRUGGISTS’ LICENSE. The Situation Assuming a More Hopeful : Aspect. In answer to the call referred to ‘in last week’s paper, the following representative druggists met at Lansing last Tuesday to consider the best method to adopt to fore- stall inimical legislation: T. H. Hinehman, Jas. Vernor, Frank Inglis and Wm. Du- pont, Detroit; Frank J. Wurzburg, Geo. G. Steketee, John E. Peck and J. W. Hay- ward, Grand Rapids; Geo. W. Crouter, Char- levoix; G. M. Harwood, Petoskey; Jas, G. Johnson, Traverse City; Geo. Gundrum, Ionia; Jacob Jesson, Muskegon; S. E. Par- kill, Owosso: Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo; Frank Wells, Lansing. An informal meet- ing was held at the Hudson House in the forenoon, when committees were appointed to prepare a memorial and series of resolu- tiofs. The former committee made the fol- lowing report at an afternoon meeting, held at Pioneer Hall, which was adopted: It having come to the knowledge of your memorialists that legislation is in contempla- tion by your honorable body having for its object the restriction and increased taxation of the liquor traffic; and they having also learned that some of your members favor the including of all pharmacists among those to be so taxed, respectfully ask your consid- eration of the following reasons why the members of this class should be exempt from the burdens and the opprobrium such action upon your part would cause. We hold pharmacy to be an honorable business, and second to no other in its importance to the community. In its practice, high char- acter, skill and education are more neces- sary than similar qualities are in any other business. That throughout the country the standard of knowledge and ability in those who practice its arts has been greatly raised during the past few years by means of schools, large and numerous organizations, and extensive and valuable literature devot- ed to its scientific progress. That Michigan stancs pre-eminent among the States in the adoption by her pharmacists of the means just named to se- cure for themselves and their patrons all the benefits which the latest advances in knowledge and science ean confer. AS an evidence of this, we point to the school of pharmacy at Ann Arbor, an institution just- ly celebrated throughout the country for the high character of its work, thereputation of its graduates and its valuable contributions to professional literature, the alumni of which forma large and yearly increasing proportion of the druggists of our State. We also call your attention to the State Pharmaceutical Association, an organiza- tion which in three years has united 700 reputable pharmacists of Michigan into a society having for its object the promotion of all means for increasing professional knowledge among its members. Through the efforts of this Association, a law was secured three years ago restricting the practice of pharmacy, in all who should thereafter join its ranks, to those whom a rigid examination might show to be quali- fied, and we voluntarily assumed all the ex- penses which this law entailed. These are evidences which show more clearly than any words we might use the character and aims of this large portion of the pharmacists of Michigan. ‘Their influence will yearly be felt more and more, and we believe the time is not far distant when incompetency shall be banished from our ranks and the in- fluence of professional character and pride overcome almost wholly tendencies to evil practices. The existence of this profession- al pr.-de has been manifested and will con- tinue to be in efforts to induce Congress to relieve us from the effect of that unjust relic of the war, the law which classes us as li- quor dealers and taxes us accordingly. We are loth to believe that this stigma is again to be placed upon us by our own State with- out the reason that dictated this course by the general government—the income which it would produce. The effect of such a step upon pharmacy would be disastrous in tke extreme. Few self-respecting persons would en- gage in a business classified by the laws. of the State with the dram shop and the sa- loon. Many of the most honest of those already engaged in the business would be obliged to increase their liquor business to at least an extent which would enable them to pay the tax from the profits of sueh in- crease. The moral influences which now restrain many of the less honest would be removed, and no barriers would exist to prevent the gratification of a thirst for gain in the most shameless manner. Uniting an honorable calling with an ignoble one will have the double effect of dragging down the former and of rendering the practices con- nected with the latter more general and re- spectable. Should it not be for the purpose of wise legislation to keep both where they properly belong? The one a business founded on scientific knowledge and cultivation neces- sary to the life and health of every member of the community; the other, a calling car- ried on for the most selfish purposes, abhor- red by good men everywhere and minister- ing to destruction and death. To unite these two by legal sanction would be a disgrace to the virtue and intelligence of an enlighten- ed age and people. The mere thought that the Legislature of the State of Michigan could be guilty of such an unwise act seems to us a libel upon their character and judg- ment. For those among our number, few as we believe them to be, who prostitute an honorable profession for gain, regardless of results, we have only indignation to ex- press. We shall welcome any legislation which will compel such to appear in their true colors. A. saloon under a garb of phar- macy is no less a saloon, and should receive from the law and from public opinion all the restrictions, penalties and obloquy to to which its true character entitles it. We earnestly protest against being regarded as brethren of this class or held in any degree responsible for the disgrace which their ‘hypocrisy and evil practices have brought upon our profession. Though it may be regarded as difficult to distinguish always between the pharmacist and the impostor, yet we believe that, when the attempt is seriously attempted, it will be found comparatively easy. The drug saloon is as well known ina community as the saloon, the difference in the two being only in the appearance. But, were the difficulty even greater, or were it impossible to so distinguish, we submit that no rule of ethics would justify the punishment of a large class of reputable citizens, because a portion of their number were charged with practices detrimental to the welfare of the community. To the pos- sible claim that a druggist need not be a liquor seller, we reply that there are but few among our number who would not wil- lingly relinquish the traffic if it were possi- ble. It is a fact; beyond our control, that alcohol in some form enters into a very large proportion of medicinal preparations. Its uses in manufacturing and the arts are also extensive, while physicians depend up- on pharmacists for liquors for the sick, whose qualities can be vouched for in precise- ly the same manner that other medicines are vouched for. Hence to banish alcohol and its varied combinations form drug stores would be, injthe present condition of medi- cal science, impossible. Commending the above facts to your con- sideration, your memoralists pray your honorable body not to take a step likely to! drive many honorable men from the busi- | ness of pharmacy and prevent others from | entering it, and presenting to those who re- main the strongest possible inducement to become in fact what your action would make them in law. Such a course would not only be of incalculable injury to the cause of temperance, but would be an act of in- justice unparalleled, we believe, in the his- tory of legislation in Michigan. Frank WELLS, Lansing, JACOB JESSON, Muskegon, T. H. Hincuman, Detroit, GEO. McDoNALp, Kalamazoo, G. W. CrouTeR, Charlevoix, Committee. The following resolutions, embodying in Outline such provisions as would be satis- factory to the druggists of the State, were adopted: : Whereas, It has been brought to the no- tice of this meeting that some action is about to be taken by the Legislature looking toward a change in the present liquor law, whereby pharmacists may be classed and taxed as saloon keepers, and Whereas, A tax of any importance would, in our opinion, simply result in driving out of the profession of pharmacy the more re- spectable members, causing the others to become saloon keepers in self protection, and Whereas, It is deemed by pharmacists en- tirely unnecessary to inflict a punishment | | upon the innocent majority, in order to pun- | ish the guilty few, it is therefore Resolved, That the following measures, | whereby it may be possible to reach and| tax those pharmacists who are willing to degrade their profession by selling liquors for other than medicinal purposes and in di- rect violation of the laws of the State, be declared the sense of this meeting and be transmitted by the secretary thereof to the members of the Legislature: That we consider the present law ample and sufficient, but as. not being enforced. We recommenced that a State constabulary be appointed for the enforcement of the said law, for the first violation thereof, the person so convicted to pay, as a penalty, the amountof the regular saloon license; for the second violation, the registration as a pharmacist to be ordered revoked by the State Board of Pharmacy, and the person so convicted shall be inelligibie for registra- tion in this State for a term of five years. Your committee respectfully report the foregoing preamble and resolutions for your consideration. JAMES VERNOR, Detroit, Joun E. Peck, Grand Rapids, Gro. G. STEKETEE, Grand Rapids, GEO. GuNDRUM, Lonia, : FRANK INGLIS, Detroit, Committee. The House Committee on Liquor Traffic was then requested to meet the delegation, which request was granted, and an infor- mal discussion followed, participated in by every member of the Committee. Of course, no expression was given by the Committee as to the attitude the mem- bers would take on the subject, but every delegate went home well satified with the work accomplished. Meetings of the Republican majority in the House were held several evenings last week, but no agreement has yet been reached, nor is an amicable arrangement likely to be reported. The present situation is clearly defined in the following letter from the chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the M. S. P. A.: LANSING, April Frank J, Wurzburg, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sir—I waite youa few lines this morning to give you the result of the caucus last night, which, I presume, you are as anxious to learn as 1 was. Our friends were stimulated for the contest, and upon motion to make the action of the caucus binding upon all, seven of them arose to de- part. Argument followed, and the fault of the bill proposed, in its application to the drug trade made so forcible that the head- long and reckless majority hesitated. Ata late hour the caucus adjourned without action, subject to the call of the chairman. This result is far more encouraging than I dared to hope when I wrote you last night, and inspires me with a belief that no liquor bill will receive a caucus sanction. If this can be avoided, our chances for justice will be greatly improved. For partisan in- fluence, dictating how members shall vote, will be substituted individual judgment and sense of right. Certainly our cause is yet in danger, but the prospect is much brighter than yesterday. Yours truly, FRANK WELLS. SOE ee Sa The Drug Market. There are but few changes to note this week. Trade is reported dull in the East, with no speculative demand. Trade in this line here is excellent, exceeding in amount any previous year. Citric acid is very dull and still tending lower in price, with hardly any demand. Carbolie acid is firm and with usual consumption at this season will be higher. Quinine is very dull. Stocks are large and demand light. Gerinan in 100 oz cans is at present quoted at 471e. Opium has again declined. Latest cables from Smyrna reporta strong market, though the reports on the crop are so variable at this time that no fair deduction can be made as to the probable output, although favoring alarger amount than has been predicted. Morphia is weak and a decline is probable very soon. Ipecac root has again advanced and is very firm. Canary and hemp seed are a trifle lower for round orders. Canada balsam fir continues scaree and high. Oils » 28, 1887. i Minor Drug Notes. Iodoform and colomel are said to be in- compatible. Oil of rose is said to be adulterated with spermaceti. Hydrogen peroxide is recommended in whooping-cough. Canna has the largest and rice the small- est stareh granules. About 500 new drug stores have been started in Indiana during the past two years. Twenty-eight of the states and territories have laws governing the practice of phar- macy. Chemists found only 50 per cent. of the amount of quinine in pills manufactured by a Rochester, N. Y., firm that they claim for them. ; The members of the Nebraska State Phar- maceutical Association claim that they have a larger per cent. of the druggists of the State in attendance at the meetings than any similar association. A Philadelphia physician prescribed ery- sophanic acid, and stated that chrysarobin was not wanted. The druggist is now try- ing to get the doctor to explain the differ- ence between the two articles. A physician was attending an Irishman recently and asked his wife if her husband had any movement of the bowels. ‘‘Oh, yes,” she said, ‘the had a ‘change of inside yesterday. APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. Cushman’s 7 r MENTHOL 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 efficient way, to the parts affected. It 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 efliciency than a half hour’s talk. Retail price 0 cents. Fer Crrcunaks and TESTIMONIALS address H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich. Trade supplied by Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, And Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. Michigan Droge Exchange, 375 South Union St., Grand Rapids. AGENTS FOR THE Standard Petit Ledger. 7 ANTED—Kegistered pharmacists and as- sistants who are sober, industrious and willing to work. OR SALE—Very desirable sfoek of about $5,000. in town of 3,00) inhabitants in Tex- as. Can be bought on very reasonable terms. OR SALE—Stock of about $1,850 in town of 12,000 inhabitants, (county seat,) in Wis- consin. Can be bought on liberal terms. rok SALE—Stock of about $1,200 in growing northern town of about 350 ‘inhabitants. Good location. TJOR SALE-Stock of about $500 in town of 5,000 inhabitants in eastern part of State. No other drug store within a mile. - OR SALE—Stock of about $1,700 in town of sul 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. YO DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure.clerks we will furnish the address and full par- ticulars of those on our list free. Vy E HAVE afso secured the agency for J. H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and ean furnish any medical or pharmaceutical work at publishers’ rates. PAL PLA DDI LASS Michigan Drug Exchange, 357 South Union St., = - Grand Rapids. TIGER OIL. What J. A. Crookston Has toSay 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 Tiger Oil, which never failed. The physician gave but little hope of my recovery, but through his atten- tion and the constant application of Tiger Oil I pulled through, and am gaining 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 anid wholesale druggist, I have never known of a single one to be m any way as good as Tiger Oil forthe 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 us 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 beas3. J. A. CROOKSTON, Of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. TANSY GAPSULES THE LATEST DISCOVERY. cassia and anise are firmer and likely to ad-| or. Laparle’s Celebrated Preparation, Gone and vance. Oils peppermint, wintergreen and sassafras are weak. Cloves are in a strong position and likely to be higher. Other spices are unchanged. ee Ground pepper is said to be adulterated with ground olive stones. | | | i | } | | Always Reliable. Indispensable to ZF. ES, Send 4 cents for Sealed Circular. CALUMET CHEMICAL CO., Chicago, havc. CINSENG ROOT. We the highest price for it. Address Peck Bros,, Druggists, (rand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, | Advanced—Ipecac root. Declined—Opium. ACIDUM. | UII os be oko cs wh ve beds ee on 8@ Benzoicum, German........... ...... 80@1 00 | CN ee 50@ 55 | OT PMN a eon ce as coe ee eck ele. 5G 69 FAVOPOC MOR ce cous cs a 5 Pe ce 10@ 12) ROO 1@ 13) RCV cy ciel cies ak 1 85@z 10 MeCN es ae 1 40@1 60 | PUTO ore 50@ 53 | AMMONIA, POG I GON ee eco ec i. ee OT Ae OO. crete ee 4@ 6 | CO ee eae. n@ 13) Org wW@ 14 ' BACCAE. 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WH 22) MAIO es cuca esace c duces: 24%@ 3% Alumen, ground, (po. 7)............... 3a 4} Po Ce a en ae ei D@ 60! ener, IO, ok oo. ce. oe sc 4@ 35} Antimoni et Potass Tart.............. 55@ 60 b AreeOn TCras: Fe. oe cc @ 68 eNmeeO, cnt... ke ei ., 5@ 7 mate Gilead Hud...............5..... 38@ 40} pac ee eee 2 15@2 20} Calcium Chlor, Is, (4s, 11; 448, 12).... @ | Cantharides Russian, po.............. @2 25 | t Capaier Pretue, af.........0 000655005. @ bi Capsict Fructus, no. ............. 0.0... @ 16} Capsiol Fructus, B, po............ ... @ Caryophylins, (no. 85)................. 30@ 33 Caoveune, Wo.40...... i... 1.5.6... @3 75 CATR Bie, BOG. oscil. 5O@ 55 CEO MU i 22@ 30 CO ee, @ 40 CMRI WRUCUUEL coco bli i ec alii clas. @ Wb WOM ieee a. Ga @ CeO eek acca. @ 50 CRIOUCRGr 38@ 40 Chloroform, Squibbs.................. @1 00 Chloral Hydrate Cryst................ 1 50@1 75 CHONG ci cece ea W@ 2 Cinchonidine, P.& W.................. L@ 20 Cinchonidine, German........... .... 9@ 15 Corks, see list, discount, per cent.... 40 CROMSOOHER oo... cleo e cc @ 50 Crete, (BOE TS). ooo ec ces a: G@ 3 te We 5@ «6 CHOU, DROOT ia acc, &8@ 10 CONG ie ache ca cee, @ 8 eee 25@ 30 SOI oo oo isles css ll, @ 24 ME elec cece, 6@ 7 BIO eel a. 10@ 2 Barer OOM 68@ 7 Emery, all numbers................... @ 8 a @ 6 Ergota, (po. 60)............ OM hasaceaueve 50@ 60 Wee WHO. Nilo k ec R@ 15 SE es ee @ 23 GOMUee 1@ 8 Gelatin, COODOK, 06. c ool. @ WW SOGIMOIN, PPONGN. 4.6 k.. 5. es cdc... 40@ 60 Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 60&10, less. Glue, Brown. oo, 9@ 15 CG WONG a. 13@ 25 CIVOORINE od... cee cc ge 23Q@ 26 Crann Weradl,... 2. . 6.0035... 6 @ Wb WOOP 25Q@ 40 Eeverarg Chior. Mite .................. @ 7 Peverare Chior. Cor................... @ 65 Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum............... @, 8d Hyarare Armmoniati.......:..... |... @1 00 hydrareg Un@uentum.................. ' @ WEVONSIC OVO icc coe cc: @ 65 FOPENVOCOUA, AMR ye es. 1 25@1 50 PU ea J5EQ@L 00 Oe, CR 4 00@4 10 oe ee a @ b Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... @ 2 Liquor Potass Arsinitis............... 10 12 PO 85@1 00 DVCOMOGGIUIN |... ...<53. cc... 55@ 60 EM i le 60@ 65 Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 14)............. 2@ 3 mgonia eo W. . 90@1 00 moronia, ©. VS W............. 3 15@3 35 Moschug Canton, ... 2.050... 6.06 ccc ce @ 40 Mayrntion, NG. 1... os... @ 65 mux Vomica, (po. 20)...............5.. @ 1 Ae Oe 19@ 22 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co............ @2 00 Picis Liq, N.C.. % galls, doz.......... @2 70 FO Eis QOPI oo oc co ccccccsees @1 40 erGNe ME PO ec sic as eons ca ese @ 8% Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)...............000. @ 50 Riper Nigra, (00. 28)... 6... ccec ce ccc @ 1B Piper AlvG, (0. S6)...........0.0...... @ 3 Pee MONG Ge 7% Pim Regt. osc, MU@ 15 Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. @ 40 Potassa, Bitart,com.................. @ ib Potase Nitras. ong..................... 8@ 10 I iis i oshciecaasel sn. @ 9 Pulvis Ipecac et opii........... ...... 1 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes, H.&P.D.Co.,doz. @I1 00 MeNOGu Oi NV. 48@, 53 OMNI ee. 8@ 10 I ion ciec secs cce cucens B8@ 63 Craite. &, Gorman. 3 oo...) cious 48@ 60 Riga eww R@ 13 Saccharum Lactis, pv................. @ 3 NO @4 50 Sanonis Draconis. ......6..2.......05. 40@ 50 NO oo gl ull @4 50 el EE a R@ Ce 8@ 10 I @ lb Readies Metre... ... 6... ccna, @ 28 I , @ 18 eG a @ 30 Snuff, Macecaboy, Do. Voes........... @ 35 Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes............... @ 3 Sos Borag, (po. 10).................... 8@ 10 Soda et Potoss Tart.................... 33@ 35 Re OC oe ea... 2@ 2% OGG, MEO... .. o 6c. c so... ak 4@ 5 Se Oe 3@ 4 hoes Somes... 1... @ 2 Spt&sEther Co............ eet eee aaa 50@ 5d Spts. Myrcia Dom..................... @2 00 ots. Mevrois Ian... ..........-.... @2 50 Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 25)............. @2 35 Stryehnia, Cevetal... +................ @1 30 euipnib, BONE. 2)... .. 66.555. 24@ 3% Sulphur, Moll............. Bale, 24@ 3 TAM ee, 8@ 10 werepenth Venice..................... 28@ 30 TOOUNOWNEG cooks Toe, @ 40 WOU ee ce 9 00@16 00 Zinei Sulph............ TEE ™]@ 8 OILS. Bbl al VO 70 o { . & 68 EM Bo cc cu cc can, 53 58 Linseed, pure raw.................. 40 43 Linseed, boiled ................ aca a 46 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 50 60 Spirits Turpentine................... 44 50 PAINTS Bb! Lb Red Venetian..... Mdeacauasaues 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24%@ 3 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3 Vermilicn, prime American.. 138@16 Vermilion, English............ 55@58 Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6@ 6% Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6@ 6% Whiting, white Spanish ede ‘ @iv Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff. . 1 40 Pioneer Prepared J aints..... 1 20@1 40 Swiss Villa Preparer Paints.. 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES. NO. 1 Tien Cogeh.. «oo. ooo. oo c sc a: 1 10@1 20 eee Ue 1 60@1 70 Conoh Hody........2....... Sevethanec 2 T5@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10 Bxtrn Tork Demar...............0000. 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. 70@ 5 UNEER PREPARED PAIN'T. We have a full stock of this well-known brand of MISSED PAINT and having sold itfor over SLX YEARS can recommend it to our customers as be- ing a First Class article. We sell it On the Manufacturers’ Guarantee: When two or more coats of our PIONEER PRE- PARED PAINT is applied as received in original packages, and if within three years it should crack or peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to re-paint the building at our expense, with the best White Lead or such other paint as the owner may se- lect. Im case of complaint, prompt notice must be given to the dealer. T. H, NEVIN & CO.. Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead. Pittsburg, Pa. Write for prices and Sample Card to Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co. Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. ae Try POLISHINA, best Furniture Fin- ish made. AAEL TINE \ PERKINS DAU CD, WHOLESALE Druggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gr, 93 and g5 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, and Draggist’ Sundries. Elegant Pharmaceatical Prepare: tous, Finid Extracts aud Rlinirs Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. Whiting, Manufacturers of Fine Paint and Var- nish Brushes. THE CELEBRATED Pioneer Prepared Pants. ALSO FOR THE Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu- facturers of Hair, Shoe snd Horse Brushes. WE ARE SOLE OWNERS OF Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cure Which is positively the best Remed= of the kind on the market. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing outfits for new stores to the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACIL- ITIES for meeting the wants of this class of buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special ef- forts in this direction have received from hundreds or our customers the most satis- fying recommendations. Wine ald Liquor Department We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for the DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit the high praise accorded to us for so satis- factorily supplying the wants of our custome ers with PURE GOODS in this depart- ment. WeCONTROL and are the ONLY AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of the celebrated WITHERS DADE & C0,°S Henderson Co., Ky., Sour Mash and Old-Fashioned Hand-Made, Copper- Distilled WHISKEY. We not only offer these goods to be ex- celled by NOOTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are exposed to sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis- faction and where this brand of goods has been once introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Hrageisis Favorite Eye, Which continues to have so many favor- ites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gils, Brandes & Fine Wines, We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim tao make as complete and perfect as possible, For special quantities and quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list, such as Patent Medicines, Etc., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co, The Michigan Tradesmal. The Drummer’s Soliloquy. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. To sell, or not to sell, that is the question: Er. LEON 184 to 142 Hast Fulton ARD & SONS, St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Whether ’tis nobler in a man to suffer The flat denials of o’er-drummed dealers; Or to take one’s samples into his cramped store, And, by exposing, sell them—to talk—to bluff— Galore; and by an order say we end The headache, and the thousand ghastly jokes We fain must list to—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To bluff—to sell— To sell—perchance “on note;’’ aye there’s the rub; ¥or in that sale of goods what things may hap, When we our order home by mail have sent. | To countermand—There’s the Bradstreet, That make’s such havoc in one’s order book. For who would try to sell his goods to men, Chatte] mortgaged, all poor men surely,— In love with other goods—or those who claim Exclusive sale, and cruelly would spurn The intrinsic merit of your samples shown When all yourpains may be knocked edgeways By Dun or Bradstreet? Who would pick and choose "Twixt great and small of the stores he sees, But that the dread of something he may learn, The “turned-down” order at whose baneful sight The drummer cusses, try how he will, And makes him wish he’d sold the man he knew ‘Than fly to those he knew not of. Thus credit doth make cowards of us all, And thus our native gift of persuasion Is hindered with the thought “Is this man a9 And sales that might havereached four figures Thus handicapped, their columns dwindledown And scarce are worth the entry. —— << Regular Meeting of the Retail Grocers; ff Association. At the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association of Grand Rapids last Tuesday evening, Willis E. But- ler, of Mill Creek, applied for membership and was accepted. A unanimous vote of thanks was tendered Irving W. Van Zandt for his contribution to the badge fund of the recent State conven- tion. The Committee on Constitution made the following report, which was accepted and adopted: Your Committee on Revision of the Con- stitution would respectfully report that they have had the matter under consideration and would recommend that they be allowed further time as the officers of the M. B. M. A. are preparing new forms for both State and local constitutions and we think it de- sirable to defer reporting until we can recommend a draft thoroughly in accord with the ideas of the State body. E. A. STOWE, E. J. HERRICK, B. F. EMERy, Commitiee. | The Committee on Entertainment report- | ed that an instructive programme had been | prepared for the evening but the | pants failed to put in an appearance, J. L. Strelitsky gave an interesting dis- sertation on the culture of tobacco and the manufacture of cigars, claiming that the $35 cigar of to-day is better than the $50 cigar which was sold for the five years suc- ceeding the war. i J. P. Thompson called attention to the fact that a man is peddling butterine froma market basket on the streets. , He is selling the stuff for 15 cents a pound, and, when pressed, admited that it was butterine. A Buys, the Fulton street grocer, said that the man had been peddling in his neighbor- hood, as also said M. C. DeJager, of Grand- ville avenue. A committee composed of J. P. Thompson, E. J. Herrick and L. Winternitz was appointed to wait upon the U. S. Revenue collector and ascertain whether the man has obtained a government license, and also to wait on the City Clerk in regard to his having a city license. | President Coye then called for voluntary testimonials as to the efficiancy of the Blue | | | GASOLINE STOVES. 5 New Pattern Stee Stove with Nickel Trimmings. stove, all supplied with gas from a single generator. wash boiler can be set in place of oven when desired. The oven is large and its keep things warm. with Patent Safety Attachment which not only extin- guishes all the flames tank can be filled. No. 172, with Tin Oven 2114x18x13}4. No. 172, No. 173 is same Stove with three burners on top instead of two. No. 173, with Tin Oven, 2114x18x13}4 No. 173, with Russia Iron Oven, 2114x18x13%4 Quick Meal, No. 172. Has two burners under the oven and two on top of A top is useful as a heating surface to All Quick Meal Stoves are provided but closes every Burner before the ‘Russia Iron Oven, 2114 X18X1314... 1. cece eee ee ee ee een etree cece neeces Crating 30c net. the oven, it has five burners, all supplied with gas from a single generator. With the two burners under 6 ebb es be aban 6 beh Oo Oe 210 68 SO he Oo 6 68 Oe Fe Se + 88 88! OP Monitor, Gem aud WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR The Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves Peerless and Horizontal Ice Cream Freezers. Manufacturers of the Leonard Cleanable Dry Air Refrigerators and Creamerigs. SEND FOR CATALOGUE OF SUMMER GOODS. oluer Ui Stoves. iit a5 oe , ae f 1 epee Mion} HK i Jem oe = ; = bs (f) ; a iy Sa hi < Sian LIST ...919 00 ... 21 00 NET PRICE. wm ingle Gem Oil Stoves, each...........- Donble ‘ Oe ce ee 4 00 | sé oé ee OIL, STOVES. This is the best and most powerful of the cheap Oil Sto two 4-inch wicks, and is made in first-class style. saae ete 80 | The Reddy Oil Stoves, per doz... ..........-- Tron Clad Clooch Feerless ICE CREAM FREEZER, SIMPLE, CHEAP AND PEREECT. With Crank, 3 Quart List, each...........34 ™ - 4 ° " Wr add cebdnens “ “ 6 ss rT R “ 10 Wheellt “* “ 18 ‘ oe os se ee oe “6 as ee se ee “ ves. It has | | | 20 per cent. Discount, cc 3 Quart Horizontal.......-..-- Letter, which request was responded to as | follows: Geo. Dunaven—I sent out two Blue Let- ters and got my money before sun-down. J. Geo. Lehman—I sent out five. Got my money on one the same day. M. C. Goosen—I am in $4.50. B. F. Emery—I sent two out and heard from both of them. J. A. Coye—I got my money in full in one day, in consequence of having sent out three. The President called the attention of the members to the fact that an association had been formed at Goshen, Ind., and that it was meeting with good success. The meeting then adjourned. >.> How to Treat the ‘‘Off-Horse.”’ Boyne Ciry, April 19, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sin—Our Association still holds its own and our last meeting developed considerable interest. Three new members were received, one from Boyne Falls, one from Advance and one from Horton’s Bay. | | | | | | | 1 { i } ‘and fresh until entirely used. j | | | | | So you see that while we are not growing | much in our own town, we are spreading | out to other places—enlarging our borders as it were. The general topic at the last meeting was early closing and the absolute need of a place of amusement for those who would be, so to speak, turned out of doors before bed-time. A good reading room was suggest- ed, accompanied with games, such as check- ers, dominoes, peg boards and many light but amusing games ot that kind, books, daily, weekly and monthly papers, etc The Association seems to look forward to general improvement and public benefits and we think we can do a great deal in this line with little outlay financially. What does Ture TRADESMAN advise the Associations to do with business men who refuse to join, claiming that they get more trade? Should the Association take any ac- tion in such cases? Tue TRADESMAN’s idea of treating the man who thinks it is cunning to remain oué of the Association is to let him severely alone. He may flourish for a time like a green bay tree—on the patronage of dead- beats—but he soon tires of such methods and slips unobserved into the Association by the back door. <_-o-<—— --————- Any butter will lose its fine flavor by be- ing frozen, just the same as when it gets overheated in the summer. fi oN alan a eee item easier rr renee ie | " | " fl ae The accompanying illustrations represents the Boss Tobacco Pail Cover. It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist It will pay for itseif in a short time. You cannot afford to do without it. For particulars, write to THUR MEIGS & CO. Wholesale Grocers, wOlc Agents, 77 to 83 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. MiieR’s PAT, CASH TILL AND SALE REGISTER Manufactured and Sold Onlyjby Patentee, Cc. BB. MILLER, TTEACA, N.Y. Office of SAM’L MOFFETT, Grocer, d : Fuint, Mich., Nov. 26, 1886. CG. B. Miller, Ithaca, N. ve Dear Sir—Enclosed please find New York draft to pay for “Cashier,”’also for one doz. Rolls Paper, which please forward at once by Am. Express. = it took me some time to arrive at the con- } clusion that your “Cashier” was the one I wanted, but now,after having had itin practical use for some time, T will frankly admit “this is the thing I long have sought,’ and possibly I might justly add the other line of this verse, but will leave that for others, in need, to imagine. Yours, etc., Sam’L MOFFETT. 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- ence solicited from the job- bing trade rela- tivetopremium cases. CASE WoRES, Address AMERICAN SHOW 27 Lalkcoc Street, Chicago. Send for Catalogue and prices. HIRTH & KRAUSE, DEALERS IN THiides, Furs =e Tallow, Prompt returns made on Consignments. 1183 Canal St., Granada Rapids. me. FTA LOA B, Makes a Specialty of , Butter and Eggs, Fruits and Oysters. Cold Storage in Connection. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters. No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each. 217 and 219 Livingstone Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. HONEY BEE COFFEE! Best in the Market for the Money. PRINCESS BAKING POWDER, EQUAL TO THE BEST MADE. BEE MILLS’ SPICES Absolutely Pure. ‘LIOULAA “oAy wosIegel 6g 0D 8 NOSANOHL “H'f Ad (gu ALOVaAONVIN L. L. LOVERIDGE. OVERIDCE, GENERAL DEALERS IN - CARY. CARY &L Fire and Burglar Proof Combination and Time Locks, 1] Jonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. HESTEHR & FOS, MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS FOR SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, a 1 ATLAS wos 3 Prices. H WORKS e Ge Seem INDIANAPOLIS. IND., U. S. A. co } Ais. 7 MANUFACTURERS OF : \) Carry Engines and Boilers inStock VWIDLIS T4h ’ r She # for immediate delivery. Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 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. 130 OAKES ST.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Planers, Matchers, Write for Prices. METAL BRAND TWO AND THREE PLY READY ROOFING Waterproof, Durable and Economical, OVER 7,500,000 SQUARE FEET APPLIED IN 1886. Curtiss & Dunton, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS, MIOrFtL. i t ~