* e 4 @ a] ‘ , The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 4. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. NO. 204. To Cigar Dealers Realizing the demand for, and knowing the difficulty in obtaining a FIRST-CLASS FIVE-CENT CIGAR, we have concluded to try and meet this demand with a new Cigar called SILVER SPOTS This Cigar we positively guarantee a clear Havana filler, with a spotted Sumatra Wrapper, and entirely free from any arti- ficial flavor or adulterations. It will be sold on its merits. ders filled on 60 days approval. Price $35 per 1,000 in any quantities. Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. Handsome advertising matter goes with first order. Secure this Cigar and increase your Cigar Trade. It is sure to do it. GEO. 1. WARREN & GO, Elint, Mich. FURNITURE TO ORDER. Anything or everything in the line of Special Furniture, inside finish of house, office or store, Wood Mantels, and contract work of any kind made to order on short notice and in the best manner out of thoroughly dried lumber of any kind. Designs furnished when desired. Wolverine Chair Factory, West End Pearl St. Bridge. WANTED. Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota- toes, Beans, Dried Fruit, Apples and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. Karl Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. BELKNAP Wagon and Sleiah 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. G2" Special attention given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering. Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, SEED Garden Seeds a Specialty. The Most Complete Assortment 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 HIRTH & KRAUSE, LEATHER And Shoe Store Supplies SHOE BRUSHES, ‘SHOE BUTTONS, SHOE POLISH, SHOE LACES. Heelers, Cork Soles, Button Hooks, Dress- ings, ete. Write for Catalogue. 118 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, CINSENG ROOT. y the highest price for it. Address Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich, JODDYD ct CO., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Summer Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. WRT PS ADDRESS Sample or- bes * GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich, SHERWOOD HOUSE. The Traveling Men’s Favorite. CHARLOTTE, - - MICH. Re-fitted and Re-furnished, Sample Rooms on First Floor. First-Class in all its Appointments. M. F. BELGER, Proprietor. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, 4k CANAL SY. Grand Rapids, - Mich. GHARLES A. GOYE, Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS : TENTS Horse and Wagon Covers, Oiled Clothing, Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. Flags & Banners made to order. 73 CANAL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. HAL FREEDMAN & C0. Manufacturers and Jobbers of CIGARS Factory No, 26, 4th Dist. REED CITY, - - MICH. Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 donroo St., Grand Rapids, Mich. STEAM LAUNDRY, 43 and 45 Kent Street. STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. Wi DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At- V. R. STEGLITZ, Proprietor of Raton Rapids Cigar Factory. Manufacturer of the following popular brands: S. & M. CRICKET. ROSADORA. V. BR. S. Dealers not handling any of above brands are solicited to send in a trial order. Haton Rapids, - Mich. POTATOES. — We give prompt personal attention to the sale of POTATOES, APPLES,BEANS and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best facilities and watchful attention. Consign- ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash advances on Car Lots when desired. Wi, H Thompson & G0, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, GROSS & MILLER, Bankers. ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR Independent Oi Co.'s KEROSENE If your Jobber does not han- dle INDEPENDENT OIL, send your orders direct to the office of the Company, 156 South Division St., Grand Rapids. LUDWIG) WINTERNITZ, STATE AGENT FOR Fermentum! The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co. 106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. TELEPHONE 566. Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. None genuine unless it bears above label. Halon & Christenson Are State Agents for FREDERICK THE GREAT CIGAR. Grand Rapids, Mich. Represented by the Giant, Mr. Christopher Sparling. COOK & PRINZ, Proprietors of the Valley City Show Case Mv. Co, Manufacturers of SHOW GASES, Prescription Gases and Store Fixivres OF ALL KINDS. SEND FOR ESTIMATES. 38 West Bridge St.. Grand Rapids. Telephone 374, PLONE! We have a full stock of this well-known brand of MIZAED PAINT and having solditfor over SLX YEARS can recommend it to our customers as be- ing a First Class article. We sell it PIONEER PREPARED 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 o 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. In 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 Hazéltine & Perkins Drag Go. Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. Try POLISHINA, best FurnitureFin- ish made. HEMLOCK BARK! WANTED. The undersigned will pay. the high- est market price for HEMLOCK BARK loaded on board cars at any side track on the G. R. & I. or C. & W. M. Railroads. Correspondence solicit- ed. N. B. CLARK, Grand Rapids HENRY J. HARTMAN, FOUNDER, GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. Send for Estimates. 71 South Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 101 Ottawa St., PLACE to secure a thorough and useful education is at the GRAND RAPIDs (Mich.) Bust- NESS COLLEGE. Write for Col- lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG. THE TRAMP’S REVENGE. A great fertile hollow, with hills on all sides, and one man ownedit all. Five hun- dred acres of level and upland, field and forest; and well might Milly Van Vleeck complain that she could not even visita neighbor without climbing over the hills. But old Squire Van Vleeck had no use for neighbors. Was not the land his own, and the home- stead, and the well-filled store, and the sawmill itself half-way down the hollow? The first heavy snows came earlier than usual and the cold weather brought with it immunity from the one thing the squire hated most. Not a tramp had been seen in the hollow for weeks, and no man troubled himself to ask whither they had flown. All the more, however, that bitter after- noon did the old man’s angry soul stir it- self within him when he met, at his own gate, the most outrageous specimen of the abhored breed that the whole season had brought before him. If other tramps had sometimes borne only the seal of misfortune or of common vaga- bondage, this one was clearly and undenia- bly a prince of his worthless guild and a chosen vessel of vice and crime. Plenty of bone and muscle had he, and the very swing and spring of his slouching gait proclaimed that no lack of mere physi- cal capacity had made him what he was. Can a tramp have in him anything like energy? The squire would have said ‘‘No” at any time before he gave that roving ruffian so large and so acrid a piece of his mind and temper. He had scarcely dreamed of such a change as his words produced. There was some magie in them, stirring up evil into power. The begging whine swelled into a vol- ume of hoarse and strident vituperation. The relics of a mind glowered fiercely through the hairy, filthy face. The whole hulking frame seemed to quiver, as the tramp strode away, with the meaning of the threats and curses with which the air was blue behind him. Fear is a bitter ingredient to put in the cup of anger, and Squire Van Vleeck was even in a worse humor than usual, ten min- utes later, when a somewhat fine looking man reigned in his horse at the gate, and seemed about to spring from his sleigh. **Good morning, squire.” “Don’t stop, Gil Morse! Drive right on!” roared the old man. ‘‘Don’t stop ag’in anywhere in this holler. Yer father’s son needn’t quit the road anywhere on my land. Ef it hadn’t a-been for him, I might a-had the nomination.” More than that he said, but while the young man’s face deepened to a hot crim- son, he controlled his temger sufficiently to give his horse the reins and do as he was bidden without another word. A tall, strongly-built, broad-shouldered youth was Gilbert Morse, anda year ina city business house had made none the less of amanof him. He had left a common- place position in the country store at home, to seek experience and advancement in the busy, bustling city of Grand Rapids. A warm friend in the shape of a traveling man had interceded for him with a large jobbing house and the rapid steps he had taken upward, as well as the growing ap- preciation of his merits entertained by the tnembers of the firm, bespoke for him a bright:and successful future. His greeting at the squire’s had been clearly altogether unexpected, and he pulled his horse to a walk a moment later, as if he wanted to give the matter some kind of consideration. How he would have driven if he could have looked along the road ahead of him just beyond where it entered the hemlock woods! Distant as were her neighbors, Milly Van Vieeck was too robust and healthy-minded a young lady to remain housed up, even in winter weather, and she never had looked rosier or prettier in all her life than she did that afternoon, as she tripped along the frosty road homeward. Away beyond the saw-mill and into the woods she had been, almost aimlessly, in sheer exuberance of youth and high spirits, never dreaming of such a possibility as dan- ger there and then. Down the road she was coming and the frosty snow that crackled under her light feet was not more innocent or fearless. A man in the road! It might be Jake her father’s sawmill hand, or it might be one of the farm boys, or it might be neither. Why should she care? And yet, as that man drew nearer, Milly walked more slowly and her heart began to beat, she could not have told why. She could see him more distinctly now, and never had her eyes fallen on anything like that befcre. “T almost wish I had the dogs with me,” she said to herself with a shudder. ‘*What a horrible looking man! I thought the tramps were all gone.” More and more slowly walked Milly, for, as the hideous human form drew nearer, a pair of blazing, hungry, wild-beast eyes gloated fiercely and triumphantly upon her through the matted locks which hung from under the battered felt on his head. “A darter of his, I reckon,” growled the tramp. ‘‘It’s all the same, anyhow; some rich man’s gal.” A wild scream burst from Milly’s whiten- ing lips, and she tried to spring past him; but his long arm caught her as she went by, and in an instant her shawl was wound around her head. “No more screechin’,” growled the hoarse deep voice, ‘though there’s nobody nigh enough to hear you.” Nobody? Then why is it that the lash had fallen so suddenly on the good horse Gilbert Morse was driving, just beyond the turn in the road? A scream from vigorous lungs goes far in frosty weather and the whip fell more than once. Milly struggled hard, even in that grasp of iron, but her strength was failing fast, when a wild, angry shot rang down the road, and the tramp loosed his hold for a moment. “Don’t meddle, youngster,” he began, as a fiercely plunging steed was pulled up in a flurry of snow at the roadside. The answer came from the loaded end of a whip, square between the eyes. A thinner skull might have been cracked by it, and, even on his brazen forehead, the blow brought him to his knees. Milly Van Vleeck was free, and she al- most instinctively bounded into the cutter. There was no rooni to turn and Gilbert Morse gave his trotter the reins, for he saw the tramp was feeling among his rags for something which might have danger in it. He longed to stay and finish his work with his loaded whip, but there was Milly. “Oh, Gil,” she exclaimed, ‘thow shall I get home?” “‘The saw-mill road,” he replied; ‘the track has probably not been broken, but the snow isn’t deep.” “*Yes, but it has,” said Milly. ‘*They were hauling logs yesterday.” ‘Sate enough, then,” said Gil. ‘But ain’t I thankful I came along just then?” ‘Did father tell you 1 was out this way? I knew you would come to see me, first thing. And how you have improved!” Milly’s excitement was taking a form that could not be unpleasant to her compan- ion; but a deep cloud was settling on his face, notwithstanding, and she checked her- self suddenly to ask him. “But what can be the matter? not hurt you, did he?” **No, but your father has, Milly, I cannot stop at your house. Your father has for- bidden me. Something between him and mine about the election. When we get to the gate, you get out and go in. Perhaps he’ll get over it soon, and I don’t want to make him any worse just now.” A wise young man was Gilbert Morse, in spite of Milly’s all but tearful protesta- tions, for the sight of his daughter return- ing home in such company aroused old Squire Van Vleeck to the uttermost. {t was even an aggravation that Gil so deftly pulled up just long enough for Milly to jump out, and then raised his hat so po- litely to her father as he drove away. So choked with wrath, indeed, was the bitter old man that he could not find words to express himself, and, before he had re- covered his utterance, Milly was rapidly re- counting to her mother her awful peril from the tramp, and the gallant manner in which she had been rescued by Gilbert Morse. The squire could not help listening, al- though it seemed a good deal like a romance at first. But Milly had bruises to show, as well as her torn shawl and disordered dress, and in a moment more the old man was striding up and down the room like a tiger in a cage. “On my own land! In my own woods! My own daughter!” he gasped at intervals. And then stopped in front of her with: “Did you say Gil Morse knocked him down?” ‘*Yes, father.” ‘‘And saved ye?” “Yes, father; and he brought me home in his cutter.” ‘“‘And I drove him away like a dog ora tramp this very afternoon,” roared the squire. ‘“‘Vll drive them all away. VU shoot ’em on sight. They’ll burn me out of house and home next.” Milly’s mother had her arm around her almost hysterically, but her excitement was calmness itself compared to the all but lu- dicrous frenzy of the old man. Lack of love for his own had never been charged upon him, whatever were his other faults. The events of the afternoon had not, moreover, been of a sort to induce any un- usual quietude in the blood of a young fel- low like Gilbert Morse. His expected supper and evening at Squire Van Vieeck’s having been so unceremon- iously put out of the question, his after- thoughts equally forbade an immediate drive home, for that would be ten miles at least. Just over the hill, and less than three miles from the Van Vleeck homestead, was a pleasant country hostelry, and there Gil naturally betook himself for supper and horse-care. This attended to, he said to the landlord, an old acquaintance: ‘*Al, can you keep a secret?” ‘Did once,” replied Al. ‘Then lend me your shotgun,” said Gil, and, with the request, he added an account of his exploit on the road, and the differ- ences between himself and the squire. “Can’t go to the house, you see, Al, but I’m bound to know if that rascal is loafing around there.” “Vd go with you in a moment if I could get away,” almost shouted the landlord. “Gun? Yes, twoon’em, if you want. I wish my wife wasn’t sick. It won’t do for you to arrest him all alone, and without any warrant, but try for a chance to fill him full of buckshot.” Al’s notion of law may have been some- what original, but his meaning was full of publie spirit. It was somewhat dark when Gilbert Morse began to retrace on foot the road he had so recently driven over, for the moon was not yet over the hills, but he felt all the better for having the double-barreled duck-gun over his shoulder. ‘Better than a pistol for night work,” he said to himself. He did not keep the road up to the home- stead, but made a detour through the woods, and came out beyond, not far from the saw- mill. ‘‘Better go on toward the main road,” he muttered; ‘‘it’s early yet, and he’s likely to come in from that direction.” ‘*Hullo!” he exclaimed, a moment later, as he stood among the sheltering shadows of a clump of trees, ‘‘three of ’em? The big fellow’s the same one. They’re making straight for the sawmill. Bent on mischief, not a doubt of it. There was no earthly reason for any doubt. The big tramp had met his two associates returning from an expedition somewhat more successful than his own, and they had promptly agreed with him that the circum- stances called for the infliction of the ex- treme penalties known to the laws of their guild. That is, in short, fire, and as much plun- der as possible. It was already getting well into the even- ing, and rural retiring hours are notoriously early. Not that slumber was likely to come very promptly tothe Van Vlieeck family that night, though the squire had calmed downa good deal and was unusually silent. Mrs. Van Vieeck had kept very close to He did her daughter all the evening, and had taken the precaution to bring the two dogs, both large ones, into the house. The dogs and the family might be the safer, but how about tramps? The big ruffian, as has been said. was not without some traces of a vicious intellect, and was quite competent to be the leader of a little affair like that. ‘Set the saw mill first,” he said. ‘All the men folks ’ll start for it to put it out. Then the barns, to eall away the rest, and we kin work the house quick and get to the woods and over the hills as safe as so many foxes.” So they could, indeed, if no mishap came in to interfere. The house folks must be in bed now. A match, some kindlings and bits of wood, on the opposite side of the saw mil! from the house—nothing easier than to start a fire. ‘‘Now, boys, for the big barn. We kin wait there till this un’s well a going.” They made a run for it, but the only rea- son they were not more closely pursued, or even fired upon, was that Gilbert Morse deemed it his duty to stop and scatter the growing blaze behind the saw mill. It was not hard to do, although the fire was begin- ning to come up very well when the desper- adoes left it. The brands could all be kicked into the snow, and there was not a trace of it in three minutes after he got there. But those three minutes! The big barn was better than either of the small ones, because farther from the house and more easy of’entrance. It contained no horses and was not even locked. The three tramps were inside quickly enough, and the big one climbed one ot the high mows. ‘‘Better light it up here,” he said to his friends below. ‘They can’t get at it to put it out. Say when. Is the saw mill well x going?” *“Can’t say edzackly,” growled one of the smaller rufiians, peering through the door. ‘‘And there’s a feller runnin’ acrost the field.” “Here goes, then,” exclaimed the leadex, as he caught up a wisp of hay and seratched amatch. ‘‘Now, boys, I’m coming. Make for the shed. We’ll work it.” A slippery thing isa hay-mow, and un- certain footing in the dark. Instead of coming down as he went up, the big tramp found himself sliding, sliding helplessly in- to that twenty-foot gulf between the two mows, In vain he grasped at the dry timothy and clover; he did but seatter his lighted wisp among the tinderish masses he pulled down, with him in his fall. Down in a half-stunned heap, with a vast pile of kindling hay on top of him, to choke and stifle him with its smoke as he limped about in the suffoeating darkness, and vainly groped for a way of escape, Bang, bang! One of the smaller tramps went down amid a storm of leaden pellets, but the other reached the shed just as the door of tue house swung open, and the two mastiffs bounded out to see what he might be doing there. Squire Van Vleeck and his “hands,” old and young, were out in the shortest order, and the female part of the household were not far behind them; but it was too late to save the big barn, whatever might be done for the others. Well for the squire’s pocket that he had built them some distance apart. As for Gilbert Morse, he was calmly re- loading his duck-gun when the squire dis- covered his presence. “Tm going in a minute,” he remarked coolly. ‘Don’t be in a hurry. I’ve put out the fire at the saw-mill, and I think I peppered that fellow lying there by the shed. If Vd been a little quicker, I might have saved the barn.” ‘So you’ve been out here this winter night lookin’ out for my property, hev ye?” said the half-bewildered squire. ‘The barn’s gone, and no mistake: but we kin save the others.” The old squire was just the man to be steadied by an actual calamity; but while his “hands” were doing what little could be done in the way of a fire depart- ment, he strode straight for the two tramps. The one who had been in the way of the buckshot would never answer any more questions, but the one the dogs were hold- ing down gave some information. ‘‘Where’s the man that attacked my daughter this afternoon?” asked the squire sternly. ‘In the barn,” replied the tramp. ‘‘But the barn’s burning up,” said the squire. ‘So is he,” doggedly returned the ruffin, ‘fand sarved him right, for getting me into sech a scrape as this.” Some profanity there was; but the dogs were taken off, and the man was tied up. “Oh Gil, come into the house,” were the pleasant words that came to the young man’s ears as he stood looking at the tramp he had shot. ‘*‘Not till your father asks me,” was the half-haughty response. ‘Don’t be a fool, Gil Morse, just because Iam,” growled the old man. ‘*Do as Milly tells ye, now and hereafter. Go right in. We'll take care of things for ye for a while; but I reckon it’ll be all your’n one of these days.” And so Gilbert Morse did not go back to the hostelry that night; and when, a few months later at the trial of the captured tramp, he was asked, ‘‘Are you in any manner connected with Squire Van Vieeck?” he manfully responded: ‘*He is my father-in-law.” But nothing more was seen of the big tramp, notarelic of him, until they re- built the great barn the following spring. C. M. Kina. >. .—__—_ Caro Considering the All-Important Sub- ject. Caro, Aug. 8, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DeAR Sik—We have been agitating the subject of forming a Business Men’s Asso- ciation for some time and have decided to call a public meeting for that purpose on the 15th. Any information you may be able to give us, or if you can in any other manner as- sist us in the performance of the work, the same will be very greatly appreciated. Hoping to hear from you again in refer- erence to the matter, I am Yours truly, FRED. SLocum. The Michigan Tradestnall A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE RETAIL TRADE OF THE WOLVERINE STATE. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. A !vortising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. The revolution in the kingdom of Hawaii is by no means assured a final success. The natives, who at first acquiesced in the change, from a sense of the incompetence of King Kalakaua, are inclined, on further re- flection, to resent the interference of a league of foreigners in the domestic affairs of the islands. They begin to show them- selves restive under the new authority, and a counter-revolution is among the possibili- ties. It might be effected the more easily if the national cause could be separated from the fortunes of Kalakaua, who is no- toriously unfit for his position. His life as king is what might have been expected from his antecedents as a harbor boatman and a banjo-player in a sailor’s dive. He was elected because he was the only candidate of royal blood available to the party which was opposed to Queen Emma and her effort to convert the islanders into High Church Anglicans. Having served that use, the country has no other for him. About a year ago the real estate dealers of this city formed an association for pro- tective and offensive purposes—mainly to shut off the machinations of the dead-beat- ing house renter. Some expense was in- curred in the printing of the necessary blanks, the bill for which has not yet been liquidated, owing to the fact that several members have not paid their dues. Such members have been free to avail themselves of the benefits of the association, but have not rendered a cash equivalent. The dif- ference between themselves and the dead- * beat they are pledged to exterminate is nil. The question is, how long can decent real estate dealers afford to harbor such per- sons, thus placing themselves in the equiv- ocal position of dead-beats fighting dead- beats? Tue TRADESMAN would urge upon every local association in Michigan the necessity of being fully and ably represented at the Flint convention of the State body. The two previous conventions of the organiza- tion have gone down to history as the largest gatherings of representative business men ever held in any State and the Septem- ber convention gives every promise of even enhancing that reputation. Aside from the substantial progress afforded the work by such meetings, the new ideas gleaned from interchange of opinions and experiences en- able the delegates to carry home with them u degree of enthusiasm which necessarily gives the local work a strong impetus. Every association should bear this fact in mind and act accordingly. TTS The great merchant, advertiser and phi- lanthropist of Philadelphia, John Wana- maker, is building a home for working- girls, containing seventy-four sleeping rooms, with parlors, sewing and bath rooms, ete. Board will be supplied for 33.- 25 until it is found that it can be furnished for less. There will be no embarassing rules such as caused the failure of the Stew- art home, and the girls will be expected to behave as they know how to do. Mr. Wan- amaker is one of the very few men who, while remarkably successful in business, is at the same time just and generous to his employes. The National Whipmakers’ Association, which adopted a rigid schedule of prices about a year ago, has rescinded the sched- ule, allowing manufacturers to cut prices as much as they please. The trouble was caused by a Westfield, Mass., manufactur- er, who persisted in violating the agree- ment, evidently acting under the impression that he would be expelled from the Associ- ation. Suchaturn of affairs would have resulted to his profit, but the suspension of the schedule leaves him in an open market, with no advantage over any other manufac- turer. EO AD M. de Lesseps has failed to float his latest Panama loan, even at 56 per cent. discount. This marks the collapse of the scheme. The French Bourse, which has furnished the funds for the enterprise thus far, de- clines to throw good money after bad. Nothing but a government could afford the cost of piercing the Isthmus, and to a gov- ernment it would be a great sacrifice of rev- enue without any adequate return. And the last government to undertake it, or to allow any other to undertake it, will be that of the United States. A Substantial Gain. The recent bank statements show a sur- plus gain of $25,500 over the last report. The banking capital of the city now stands as follows: Capital. ae Old National Bank............ $80,000 7,000 National ae ee a reer 500,000 25,000 Grand Kapids National Bank 500,000 Fourth National Bank....... . 300,000 Fifth National Bank......... 100,000 Grand Rapids Savings Bank.. 50,000 Kent County Savings Bank.. 50,000 rs Total paid in capital. ... $2,300,000 Total surplus........... - 265,500 Gross banking capital. . $2,565,500 ——_— 4 A cyclorama of Niagara falls is be erected in London. soon to AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. L. Sandler succeeds Sandler & Co. in the second-hand clothing business. — Fred. E. Rice, tired of doing nothing, has engaged in the peach and apple business. Wm. Tink has engaged in the grocery business at Kalamazoo. Bulkley, Lemon& Hoops furnished the stock. A. Kenyon has moved his grocery busi- ness from West Broadway to the corner of East street and Wealthy avenue. H. D. Rice, who is logging about eight miles from Big Rapids, has put in a supply store. The stock was purchased at this market. F. BE. Croft, who has moyed his grocery stock from Lakeview to Manistee, was in town last Friday, purchasing additions to his stock. W. C. Denison has secured the order for two huge boilers for the Grand Rapids Hy- draulic Co., a new pump for the Michigan Soldiers’ Home anda10x16 engine for Williams, Campbell & Co., of Manton. The plan upon which building associations are run in Washington has come to be rec- ognized as being as near perfection as such associations have reached anywhere in the country. There has been a movement on foot in Grand Rapids for some time to es- tablish a second building association on a similar basis, and as soon as the necessary preliminaries can be arranged a move will be made in the matter. It now transpires that Robert Neil, the Ashland Center general dealer and logger, was more scared than hurt when he put his property out of his own hands, in order to prevent any creditor crowding him. The transfers were made in trust for the credi- tors and settlements have since been made with most of his creditors by means of notes endorsed by. the men to whom he transferred his property. Henry Spring is authority for the statement that Neil will have $15,000 left when his debts are paid. AROUND THE STATE. Oscoda—Lochlan McGillioray, grocer, has assigned. Alba—Geo. Mathews is stocking up his hardware store. Saginaw—C. B. Burton has opened a new confectionery store. Ypsilanti—Ely & Ely, grocers, have been closed on chattel mortgage. Marlette—Jas. W.Warner succeeds A. E. Vail in the hardware business. Ludington—P. D. Keim succeeds Keim & Moon in the grocery business. Edmore—John W. Pfeifler has sold his hardware stock to L. C. Cronkhite. Dansville—Prudence Webb has sold her dry goods, drug and millinery stock. Marquette—Peterson & Wenor succeed Herlick Bros. in the grocery business. Reese—Samuel Johnson succeeds Nicker- son & Johnson in the harness business. Bloomingdale—F. E. Avery contemplates moving his general stock to Benton Harbor. Petoskey—Sam. Lampson has bought the Daily grocery and feed stock and will con- tinue the business. Dansville—Miss Emma Diehl! succeeds Mrs. Olive Thompson in the notion and fancy goods business. Whitneyville—Wm. Thomas has engaged in general trade. Grand Ledge—Schumacher & Allen suc- ceed A. B. Schumacher in the drug and grocery business. Muir—D. A. Reynolds has sold his drug stock to H. W. Mann, formerly engaged in trade at New Lathrop. — Lansing—A. M. Emery “has purchased the interest of A. Silverhorn, Jr., in the Lansing Book & Paper Co. Reading—Cook & Fitzsimmons succeed Cook & Canfield in the hardware and agri- cultural implement business. Ithaca—John M. Nichols, late of St. Louis, has opened a jewelry store, making the third establishment of the kind in the place. Ithaca—Geo. Srodes has purchased the grocery stock which Jas. Logie recently sold to Abram Thompson, and will continue the business. Manton—Mrs. M. B. Sechryer, formerly engaged in the millinery business at Trav- erse City, will soon embark in the same business here. Bellevue—Ward & Co. have rénted J. R. Hall’s new store and will engage in the clothing, hat and cap and furnishing goods trade about September 1. Whitehall—Two attachments have been levied upon the clothing stock of Widoe & Son—one for $833, by Newborg, Rosenberg & Co., of New York, and one for $479, by Lindauer Bros. & Co., of Chicago. The Chi- cago firm is represented by lawyer G. A. Wolf, of Grand Rapids, also the New York firm, the senior member of which, Mr. Newborg, is now present in the village. Be- sides these attachments, four chattel mort- gages are held by the following persons: H. E. Staples, $3,500; S. H. Lasley, cashier First National Bank, $1,400; E. M. Rug- gles, $350; Mrs. E. V. Widoe, $300, As soon as this news gets out, it will probably bring on some more creditors, but at this writing it is claimed that the stock will cov- er all indebtedness. STRAY FACTS. : Berlamont—J. H. Shippery & Sen will soon start their new fruit evaporator. Big Rapids—H. Harpster has sold his in- terest in the “Old City Bakery” to G. 'T. Pilgrim, of Paw Paw. Mr. Harpster will continue his intelligence office. Ithaca—Edward T. Edwards succeeds Edwards & Feeley in the liquor business. Evart—Atkinson & Massey have closed their cigar factory, owing to the absconding of the latter partner. " Muskegon—A savings bank, with a paid- up capital of $50,000, is among the possi- bilities of the future. W. E. Bellows, of Reed City, is working up the project, which has the hearty support of many reputable business men. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Saginaw—A. Bradley, of Alma, is con- sidering the project of starting a new plan- ing mill here. Hopkins Station—Myron A. Ross has bought the wagon-making and blacksmith departments of the Hopkins Spring Seat Co. Allegan—J. H. Eppink, Leon Chichester and H. L. Boyle have formed a copartner- ship for the manufacture of Boyle’s patent anti-rattler for buggy thills. Edwardsburg—Leading business , men will push a project to manufacture the Bur- lingame hot airfurnace and other heating apparatus invented and patented by S. D. Burlingame. Cheboygan—Pelton & Reid have enlarged their mill to cut timber up to forty-five feet in length, purchased standing timber and a logging outfit, and are now going in for bus- iness in the way of cutting bill stuff. Cadillac—Cobbs & Mitchell and Cobbs, Mitchell & Co. have voluntarily advanced the wages of their employes from $1.40 to $150 per day, the advance dating back to July 1. Wages for skilled labor are unchanged. Belding—At the annual stockholders’ meeting of the Belding Manufacturing Co., it was decided to build a brick addition to the present factory next spring, 40 x 200 feet in dimensions and three stories high. The contract for the new hotel has been awarded. It will be 100 feet square and al- so contain five stores and an opera house. Pr res ote en eras Gripsack Brigade. It is entirely in order for the customers of W. F. Blake to ask him what makes his nose so red. Wm. B. Edmunds left Monday for a visit to the jobbing trade of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Duff Jennings, representing the Ding- man Soap Co., of Buffalo, took in the pienic on Saturday. Geo. W. Botsford, of the Auburn Paper Co., isin Kansas City at present. He is headed for home via St. Louis. H, L. Toles, formerly with J. R. Price, at Benton Harbor, succeeds F. H. Lester as Indiana salesman for Amos 8. Musselman & Co. : Mrs. Geo. Seymour and Mrs. R. B. Hy- man are spending the heated term at Frank- fort. Geo. expects to meander up that way this week. Will Campbell, who hovers over Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana for Hawk- ins & Perry, came up Saturday to attend the picnic. M.S. DeLano, of the firm of J. H. Platt & Co., cigar manufacturers of Ithaca, N.Y., has been in town several days. He took in the traveling men’s picnic. “ F. H. Lester, Indiana representative for Amos S. Musselman & Co., has engaged to travel for Hawkins & Perry, taking the same territory as formerly. S. W. Bush, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois representative for Leonard A. Treat, the Boston fish jobber, is rusticating on the farm of his brother, near Pierson. Herbert A. Filler has been promoted to the charge of the entire trade of the State for the P. J. Sorg Co. He will make Grand Rapids headquarters the same as before. Olney, Shields & Co. have engaged Chas. Miller, of Chicago, to assist Ad. Morrison work the city trade. Also J. A. McBlair, late with J. G. Butler & Co.,.of St. Louis, to handle a line of cigars and tobaccos ex- clusively. John P. Saeger has severed his connection with Wm. Sears & Co., and engaged to trav- el for F. J. Blair, Andree & Co., wholesale crockery and glassware dealers of Milwau- kee. He will make Grand Rapids head- quarters the same as before. That was a strong point the President of the Michigan Division, T. P. A., made ina recent speech before the Owosso Business Men’s Association. Referring to the hegira of business men to Canada, he remarked, ‘You will find no colony of traveling men on the other side of the Canadian line.” The boys are telling a good joke on Steve Sears nowadays. It appears that the genial cracker man went over to Chicago in the early days of boodleism and offered the gang $300 for the cracker contract. That fact having come to the notice of the offi- cials who are conducting the present prose- cutions, they have sent Mr. Sears notice that they are ready to ‘‘settle,” the figure named being $1,000. None of Steve’s friends are apprehensive that he will have to go to jail in default of the payment of the sum named. A good many tough stories are told on the traveling men, but one of the toughest was related by the present head of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association at the an- nual banquet of the organization at Petos- key abouta month ago. His subject was “The Traveling Men—Our Guardian An- gels,” and he began by remarking that he was unable to discover anything angelic; in the traveling fraternity. ‘I have read in the Good Book,” he continued, ‘‘that at certain times in the year an angel came down and troubled the waters of a certain well. Now, I have never heard of a travel- ing man troubling any water.” The ap- plause which followed this remark prevent- ed the speaker from continuing for several minutes. As will be seen by the challenge publish- ed in another column, the traveling men of Grand Rapids have decided to challenge the Detroit boys to a match game of base ball, one game to be played here and one at De- troit. As the Detroit boys have been ach- ing for a meeting for some years, there is every probability that the challenge will be accepted. —_—___» -¢ << ____ Purely Personal. Robert Armstrong, the Reed City clothing merchant, was in town last Thursday, on his way home from Chicago. A. E. Brooks, of the firm of Putnam & Brooks, is spending the summer with friends at North Orange, Mass. His family accompanies him. M. S. Goodman, book-keeper for the Ha- zeltine & Perkins Drug Co., is spending a week with friends at Traverse City. His wife preceded him two weeks. Jas. Campbell has finally removed his family from Westwood to this city, thus severing all connection with the scene of his early privations and triumphs. H. E. Merritt, the Battle Creek grocer, was in town last Thursday. Mr. Merritt says he always liked Grand Rapids and hopes soon to be numbered among her citi- zens. Arthur Bassett, of Detroit, President of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associ- ation, was in town a couple of days last week as a delegate to the Great Tent of K. O. T. M. A. Giddings, the Sand Lake general deal- er, has not been to market for over two years, albeit he lives only twenty-six miles from Grand Rapids. Mr. Giddings is enti- tled to the belt. A. J. Little, of the Art Album Co., Battle Creek, was in town Monday on his way home from Macatawa Park, where he has been rusticating a week. He was accom- panied by his wife. W. W. Wise, formerly of the firm of Wise Bros., hardware dealers at Mancelona, but now engaged in the same business at Mid- dlebury, Ind., under the style of Wise & Barnes, was in town a couple of days last week. M. C. Russell, formerly engaged in the produce commission business here, but now identified with the Michigan Buggy Co., at Kalamazoo, was in town Saturday on his way to Ottawa Beach, where he is taking a week’s respite. Dr. C. S. Hazeltine, President of the Ha- zeltine & Perkins Drug Co., goes to Spring Lake every evening during the heated term, returning every morning. His family are regularly ensconced in their pleasant sum- mer home at that resort. Homer Klap, formetly of the retail gro- cery firm of DeJager & Klap, but more re- cently with Goossen & Daane, has engaged to represent the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in some Northern Michigan town, the loca- tion of which will be decided hereafter. EF. W. Bowker, formerly engaged in the bakery business here, but now engaged in the same business at Saginaw City, is in town for a few days. He is in poor health and contemplates removing to California as soon as he can dispose of his Michigan in- terests. Frank H. Escott, the Canal street drug- gist, will be married Sept. 1 to Miss Bessie DeHeus, a young lady well known to resi- dents ‘‘on the hill.” The ceremony will oc- cur at the residence of the bride’s family, 47 Clancy street, and the happy couple will take up their residence at 126 Turner street, where they will be pleased to meet their triends after Sept. 15. ——-——>___—__— VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders withthe various houses: W, W. Wise, Wise & Barnes, Middlebury, nd. Robert Armstrong, McClellan & Co., Reed it i. EK. Merritt, Battle Creek Geo. P. Stark, Cascade J. R. Bailey, Mackinae J.S. Stearns, Ludington Jay Marlatt, Berlin Keeler Bros., Middleville A! A. Weeks, Grattan S. J. Koon, Lisbon Walling Bros., Lamont R. T. Parrish, Grandville A. Purchase, South Blendon Cc. H. Adams, Otsego Geo Carrington, Trent W. H. Hicks, Morley Cc. F. Williams, Caledonia J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg A. DeKruif, Zeeland C, K. Hoyt, Hudsonville Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg J.C. Branch, White Cloud H. D. Rice, Big Rapids Gus Begman, Bauer J. P. Dwinell, Carlyle A. D. Martin, Otia Bartrom & Millington, Paw Paw C. M. Shaw, Sparta Geo. A. Sage, Rockford Cole & Chapel, Ada Eli Runnels,-Corning O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna ¥. Eikelburg, Grand Haven F. E. Croft, Manistee Cc. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville M. Minderhout, Hanley N. Bouma, Fisher Jno. Damstra, Gitchell C. H. Joldersma, Jamestown Wim. Vermulen, Beaver Dam Velzy Bros., Lamont Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon J. V. Crandall, J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake Jno. Kamps, Zutphen G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove A. C. Barkley, Crosby Childs & Carper, Child’s Mill T. J. Sheridan & Co., White Cloud C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville S. Anderson, Big Rapids - S$. M. Geary, Maple Hill A. F. Harrison, Sparta B. Gilbert & Co., Moline J. W. Robinson, Stetson DeKruif, Boone & Co., Zeeland Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland A. 8. Frey, Lake * C.H. Joldersma, Jamestown Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam H. Van Noord, Jamestown . Johnson, Shelby A. Yates, Allen Creek . KF, Cook, Greve M. Reid, Grattan .O. Ward, Stanwood . Fitch, Sparta f . H. Deming, Dutton 2 . 8. Frey, Ashland . L. Page, East Jordan eo. R. Bates, Hart = Ho . QZpoez Traverse City Numbers Ninety and Nine TRAVERSE City, Aug. 7, 1887. EK. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sirn—At our last regular meeting we appointed as delegates to the State con- vention the following gentlemen: T. T. Bates, S. E. Wait, Hon. 8S. C. Moffatt, D. E. Carter, S. Barnes, Geo. E. Steele, L. Roberts, C. Wilhelm, J. E. Greilick and S. C. Despres. Other matters of much importance were discussed and much interest manifested. We paid per capita dues on cvighty-nine members. We now have ninety-nine pay- ing members. I herewith enclose $1 to pay tax on the other ten members. Please send another certificate for reduced railway rates. We want to be there in force. Yours truly, L. Roperts, See’y. WARREN’S FEATHERBONE STs : Soft and pliable. Very Not injured by perspiration or Ask your dealer for them. Merchants Stationery. Having Made a Specialty of Mercantile Printing for several years, we are able to offer the Merchants of Michigan the best goods in that line at the Lowest Prices compatible with Fine Work. We quote: Boned with Featherbone. Comfortable to wear. or Laundrying. ~pemgrin | Good Stock : ote heads | Envelopes Rk a. k Bill heads | xtra otoc Statements | $10.00. Anything else in the line of Commercial Printing Executed Promptly and at a Reasonable Price. Remember that a Merchant is judged largely by the appear- ance of his stationery. Orders can be sent direct and ee delivered to any job- ing house at this market, to be shipped with other goods. Correspondence Solicited. FULGER & STOWE COMPANY, Mich. MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—giving satisfac- tion. They axe simple durable and econoim- i No grocer be without one. Roasts coffee Pand pea-nuts to per- fection. Send for circulars. Robt. 8. West, 150 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio. Grand Rapids, - - a ST, CHARLES, G. S. SWAYZE, Manager. REED CITY, - Mich. —— Fine Sample Rooms in Connection. This spacious and admirably construct- ed New Brick Hotel is now open to the public. It is provided with all the Modern Improvements. The rooms are large, airy and pleasant, in suits or single, and newly furnished throughout. The design of man- agement is to make this house one of coin- fort and pleasure to its guests. The Traveling Public are cordially in- vitec. CHURCH'S Bug Finish! READY FOR USE DRY. NO MIXING REQUIRED. It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco Worms. : This is the only safe way to use a Strong Poison; none of the Poison is in a clear state, but thoroughly combined by patent process and machinery, with material to help the very fine powder to stick to the vines and entice the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer. ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS of plaster and Paris Green as mixed by the farmers. Itis therefore cheaper, and saves the trouble and danger of mixing and using the green, which, needless to say, is danger- ous to handle. Bug Finish was used the State Agricultural College Farm at Lansing, Michigan, and, in answer to inquiries, the managers write: ‘The Bug finish gave good satisfaction on garden and farm.’”’ Many un- solicitated letters have been received prais- ing Bug Finish. Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at Coldwa- ter, Mich., write as follows under date oj May 14: “We sold 3,100 pounds of ‘‘Bug Finish” last year. Itis rightly named “Bug Finish,” as it finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli- catiod. We shall not be satisfied unless We sell three tons this year, as there is already a strong demand for it. Please send us ten bar- rels (3,000 pounds) at once.” past season on the Guaranteed as represented. Cheaper than any other Mixture used for the purpose. MANUFACURED BY Anti-Kalsomine Co, Grand Rapids. MISCELLANEOUS. mee Advertisements will be inserted under this head for one cent a word or two cents a word forthree insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. Advertisements directing that answers be sent in care of this office must be accompanied by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, VOR SALE—A well-selected stock of general merchandise in a good townin Northern Michigan. Stock will inventory about $20,000. Can be reduced to $10,000 if desired. Will also either sell or lease store building and ware- house. Store, brick, 32xi00 ft,,2 stories and basement. Warehouse, 24x60 ft, on railroad track in rear of store, Address**Tradesman,” Grand Rapids. Box 21. 207* NOR SALE—Stock of dry goods in a large manufacturing town of about $5,000 in- habitants; stock inventories about 36,000. Ad- dress A. J. Petz, box 690, Owosso, Mich. 206" VOR SALE—The mill and machinery for- merly used by the lonia Manufacturing Company at Ionia, Mich. Apply to A. J Webber, receiver, lonia, Mieh. 203-3t NOR SALE—120-acre farm, with fine house and other buildings, three miles north of Coopersville. The best orchard in Ottawa county. Price $7,000 cash. Address, for fur- ther particulars, B. 4. Stowe, Gfand Rapids, Mich. Lostt OR SALE CHEAP—Portable saw mill in good runningorder. Capacity 25 M pine lumber per day. Gang edger, saw dust carrier, and line rollers. For further particulars en- quire of J. F. Clark, Big Rapids, Mich. 196tf OR SALE—Fine residence property on Mount Vernonstreet, west side, with bath room, closets and all modern conveniences, for sale for $5,000 cash, or will trade for stock of general merchandise or goods in any partic- ular line. Address N. A. Fletcher, Houseman Building, Grand Rapids. 195tf OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv- ing city of Muskegon. Terms easy. C. L. Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 198tt OR SALE—Sest bargain ever offered for general stock in growing town in good farming community in Northern Michigan. Stock willinventory about $6,000. Sales last year were $60,000. Address*’fhe Tradesman,” Grand Rapids. 17itt Vy ARTED SALESMEN—Five traveling _ Salesmen; salary and expenses; no ex- erience necessary, Address with stamp, almer & Co., Winona, Minn. 20ti* Vy JANTED-—Situation by young man in a grocery or general store. Four years’ experience. Best of references. Address S., care box 354, Fremont, Mich. 207* ra ee ee a eerie ig, we D—To exchange farm worth $2,500 for astock of goods. Address Box 23 Tradesman office, 201ett Vy Sneep—& man having an established _Y¥ trade among lumbermen to add a spec- ial line and sellon commission. To the right man a splendid chance will be given to make money without extraexpense. Address “B,’’ care Michigan Tradesman. 178tf ] OOK HERE—Parties looking for an oppor- A tunity togointo the drug business tomake money had better investigate this stock of drugs and building for sale in an iron furnace townin Michigan. No opposition. No other drug store within six miles. Stock will in- voice $1,000. A good building that cost $1,000. Will sell the stock and building for $1,500, part cash, balance ontime. Reason for selling, too much other business to attend to. Address P., care *’Tradesman,’”’ Grand Rapids. 206* Michigan Drug Exchange AGENTS FOR THE Standard Petit Ledger. —, PAL PL ALLA LPL ALL we SALE—Stock of about $1,300 well locat- - edin town of 6,000 inhabitants in Texas. Liberal discount. TOR SALE—Stock of about $1,300 in town of 600 inhabitants in Kansas. Can be bought on very reasonable terms. : POE, SALE stock of about $5,000 in town of 3,000 inhabitants in Indiana. Average daily sales $35. Terms easy. OR SALE—Stock of about $1,500 in town of 5(0 inhabitants. No other drug store in place. NOR SALE—Stock of $1,200 in town of inhabitants. Average daily sales $15. JOR SALE—Stock of $3,740 well lecated in i Detroit. Doing good business. NOR SALE—Stock of $500 in town of 800 in- habitants. No other drug store in town. 300 4 NOR SALE—Stock of $2,200 in town of 800 4 inhabitants. Average daily salea $15, Will sell at liberal terms. LSO—Many other stocks, the particulars & of which we will furnish on application. ryxO ~DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks _we will furnish the address and full par- ticulnrs of those on our list free. \ YE HAVE also secured the agency for J. H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and ean furnish any medical or pharmaceutical work at publishers’ rates. ann -“ PPA PPL PALA PALA PAL AA AL ARAL Michigan Drug Exchange, 357 South Union St., = - Grand Rapids. Must Have Tiger Oil. GRAND RaAprips, June 22, 1887. Dr. Leeson, Cadillae: DEAR Str—lI should have answered your letter ere this had not sickness prevented, and now I will just say that L asked fo: the sole ageney of Tiger Oil simply because I thought your medicine was not at present for sale here. JI have relatives and friends here who have tried repeatedly to find Tiger Oil in the city and failed, and consequently have been in the habit of sending to Mill- brook for it. When we moved here recent- ly, almost the first day some one asked if I brought any Tiger Oil to sell. As | had not I kept lending from what 1 had for pri- vate use, until it was gone, and we tried to buy more here, and, as on former occasions, failed to find any. So, thinking perhaps it might pay to keep a small supply on hand (if no one else near me kept it), L wrote youasI did. Lintended sending out your circulars from house to house, and so adver- tise it. If, as you say, so many druggists in this city keep ‘Tigey Oil they take no pains to sell it, even when called for. You can do as you choose about sending me any to sell. 1 can get my supply, as formerly. from my husbe:l’s mother in Millbrook. Very respectfully yours, Mrs. SusA CAWTHORNE. ORGANIZATION GUTEIMD. 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. Now is the time for you to use Tiger Oil aud prove it is better than any other medi- cine known for all Summer Complaints of the Stomach and Bowels, from the infant to manhood, as Pain, Colic, Cholera Infantum, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhcea, Flux, Yellow Fever and all kindred diseases, as well as Nervous Diseases, Sunstroke, Par- alysis and their relations. Use internally and externally. Association Notes. Chas. H. Smith, Secretary of the East Saginaw Retail Grocers’ Association, writes: “Our collection department is in full force and working finely.” Every message from Flint is the effect that the members of the Flint Mercantile Union are working like beavers for the suc- cess of the State convention. - J. A. Sidle, Secretary of the Plainwell B. M. A., writes: ‘‘We now number thirty-five members and are still growing. It is a good organization and the Blue Letter is doing a great work.” At the annual meeting of the Kingsley B. M. A., the following officers were elected: President, H. P. Whipple; Vice-President, Dr. Fenton; Secretary, C. H. Camp; Treas- urer, G. W. Chaufty. The well-known gallantry of the Presi- dent of the Lowell B. M. A. will find ample scope at the picnic next Friday. bering Mr. Blain’s marked preference for the ladies, the Committee of Arrangements engaged the Grand Ledge female band for that occasion. The entertainment programme provided for the September convention of the M. B. M. A. by the Flint Mercantile Union gives ample assurance of the generosity and hos- pitality of the business men of Flint and affords the delegates an opportunity to an- ticipate a season of pleasure as well asa period of profitable business discussion. Evart Review: The Business Men’s As- sociation is turning its attention to the dif- ferent roads running to town. Among them are the McFarlane road bed leading to Cedar township and north-western part of county; the road between Sears and Evart and the river road, running north. This is a move in the right direction. Give us better roads. Lansing Journal: President Wells, of the Business Men’s Association, is hopeful of the complete success of the early closing movement. The small business done by those who keep their stores open after half-past six o’clock is regarded by him as conclusive evidence of the popularity of the movement. ‘Public opinion clearly sus- tains us,” he observed thi morning, ‘‘and I know of no reason why we should not suc- ceed.” It is hoped that as many of the delegates to the Flint convention as are able to do so will arrange to arrive at Flint on Monday evening, Sept. 5, as it is absolutely neces- sary to begin the sessions of the convention early Tuesday morning in order to get through with the work set down for the meeting. Unless delegates arrive at Flint on Monday evening, they cannot get there until Tuesday noon, thus missing one of the most important sessions of the convention. The very liberal concessions secured at the Flint hotels by the local committee of ar- rangements ought to enable every delegate to arrive in advance of the convention and stay until the last word has been said. Traverse City Herald: Status of the M. C. T. A. DETROIT, Aug.+12, E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—At the regular August meet- ing of the Board of Trustees of the Michi- gan Commercial Travelers’ Association, a warrant was ordered drawn for $2,500 in favor of the widow of the late O. B. Cor- sett. Death assessment No. 2 for 1887 was called, to date Aug. 8. O. B. Corsett joined the Association on Sept. 19, 1864. He died at Evansville, Ind., July, 18, 1887, of consumption, aged 43. The total membership to date is 536, showing a net increase this year of twenty. The —— in the reserve fund to date is $19,912. The advance death assessment is a ‘and the general fund amounts to $1,008.66, making a total of $23,420.89, which is drawing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. I hope the Grand Rapids boys will make an effort to increase the membership from their city before the close of the year. Yours truly, Tuos. MACLEOD. neat inmeeert ———cmrarnrnt The Hardware Market. Nails have advanced $2.10 for iron and $2.20 for steel. Sisal and manilla rope have advanced at the Eastern markets, but no change has yet been made by Western job- bers. 1887. Dbaroware. HINGES. Gate, Clark's, 1,2, 8.0.0... eee ee fees dis PE eck eens cece cas eece bees Prog net, 2 0 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 MOG LOND OR 6 cocci icin svea Gone: evdencee 3% Screw Hook and Eye, &% ............net 10% Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 8% Screw Hook and Eye X.............. net 7% Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net 1% Birap and ooo ese lig dis 7 HOLLOW WARE. es ce oc a5 pa ce es das 60 POCO es enc, ek cs ceca) aa akg ceo 60 cE SOREL SG A A SS tin A as 60 Gray COBIAN oo colic vc cuu vests 50 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list 75 Japanned Tin Ware................200+. 25 Granite Iron Ware..................000- 25 HOES. OS Be cle acon cd ceumake cee » $11 00, dis 60 OP a sce sok deka 11 50, dis 60 MOT hs eel oo vue ha es ceases 12 00, dis 60 : KNOBS—NEW LIST. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 55 Door, porcelain, trimmings............. 55 Drawer end Shutter, percelain bean dis 70 Picture, H. L. Judd Be On E.-..... 40&10 PAPO AOI oda coe ed ace ncees ences dis 45 " _ LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 55 PRP © ks ick ccc: nsanec seas dis 5b POOR EM oe es opens ad be wc canse dis 5d LEVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 70 MATTOCKS. MONO VO n. ids esis s bases vaca ee ae $16 00 dis ° MP css che cab asec eess $15 00 dis OE oh se Se can oak das ene $18 50 dis 20 & 10 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, h handled Cn oa dis 50 MILLS. Cofiee, Parkera O0.'S.... oo... 5. dene ec cscs dis 40 Coffee, P.S.& W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ... dis 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry &Clark’s.......... dis 40 Coffee, Enterprise. ..... foc. ccc ce cece snes dis 25 MOLASSES GATES. BteDbin' 6 PAtIOrM ...cn.c cess ccccecnas dis 60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine...... ............. dis 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis 25 NAILS —TRON. Common, Brad and Fencing. R0G40 GG es ® keg $2 10 ee BG BI os ea wine ego nce acacws 25 6G ORG TO FAV... 6s. coos aes s 50 Ad and 60 BOY... 0... 5.0050 75 BE BA ACG. ie in eds ccc cse sess ce ws 2S ee EO GEVORMIOD, ooo nk cops once oc cece cee 2 25 VG BOS, BOC ce ka ence eons 1 00 Finishing 10d 8d 6d 4d Size—inches f{ 3 2% 2 1% Adv. @keg $125 150 175 200 Steel Nails—2 20. OILERS. Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&10 Zinc, with brass bottom............. .... dis 50 SVARS OF CODED... 2.55. cece ccc cn cs dace ee dis 50 TORO, i. kek; ..-per gross, $12 net MOTORS lee chances hans cane 50&10 PLANES. QGhio Tool Co.'s, fancy......5) 2.2.5.6 6.0. dis 30 She eos SECTS Se dis 50@55 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 30 Bench, first{quality...................- dis 50@58 Stanley Rule and Level ong 8, wood....dis20&10 PAN EU OIG oo oe oe cok cn ca ce os cs cecees dis 50&10 Common, polished.............-........ dis60&10 EO oe oe ca Sein cp aac cens cose esses gh 6% RIVETS. Tron and Tinted... . 0.666. cc..ceceese dis 55 Copper Rivets and Burs............. dis 60 PATENT FLANISAED IRON. A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24to27 10 20 *“B”? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20 Broken packs ce # ib extra. ROPES. : — } Sisal, 4 in. and larger.................e000 10 1. Paper—Mutual Insurance”’-—Hon. M.| These prices are for cash buyers, who pay ser “aaa aaa aie : ee 11K T. Cole, Palmyra. promptly and ay in full packages. ict oak’ SQUARES. sen 2, Opening of Question Box. UGERS AND BITS. eel and Tron........ 2... seeeeeeeeeees is 3. Paver—“Baying goods, how, when| Ma Sue ssa | Mie ce a os and where.” Douglass’...........0.0ce0eeeeeeeeeeseeed dis 60 SHEET IRON. 4. Selection of next place of meeting. a Sige di nena ns hoes ahes ene cach icanen ” = Nos. 10 to 14 Com. —— on. r . ‘ SU RBTRGE Go ona wept ses bn ncka eset escenwetiess is AO TO TR... we ee ee cee nees 2 2 § iT a ai of standing and spec-| Gooig 212220 cis dis 40] Nos. 15 to 17........ . 420 2 90 committees. Jennings’, genuine............2... 008: dis 25| Nos. 18 to 21...... 4 20 3 WEDNESDAY —%7:30 P. M. Jennings’ ’ imitation ry disb0810 oe 22 to fee gs ss as _ 4 20 3 05 : : BALANCES. Nos 25 PO vcs Coen ce -. 440 315 1. Address—‘‘The Business Man in Pol- | Spring................ 0... cee e cence ee cee is | 40 NOR ee ee wine ae besos 4 60 3 25 itics’—Hon. S. C. Moffatt, Traverse City. BARROWS. , All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 3 inches 2. Report of Committee on Resolutions. a Re een Cnn Seat Neen ae AEE ASN) te oe - = —o pags ing omen 3. Adjournment to banquet tendered by oo en In casks of 600 8, ® W............2..05. 6 the Flint Mercantile Union. Han eee Ae dis $ connnnia In smaller quansities, @ .............. 6% WOM eos sae ose ce soba sec cs tee dis TACKS, sas OO a dis 30815 American, all kinds.................. dis 60 The Banque: Frogeanses. ee dis 95 | Steel, all kinds.................-.0000. dis 60 At the conclusion of the banquet, it is de-} Door, Sargent.... ................ dis e0&10 | Swedes, all kinds..................2.. dis 60 signed to have fifteen or twenty responses] gioye mee aoe _ ae ee yin os to appropriate toasts, no response to exceed ee new list.. Hinisning NAS...) cess ceo ns se dis 50 i : oo ae Common and Patent Brads.......... dis 50 five minutes in duration. So far as ar- aah Shes a Bengarian Ponsa ences Tacks.dis 50 ranged at this time ses wi Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 60 | Trunk and Clout Nails................ dis 50 & : e, the responses will be Cast Barrel Bolts......... ..dis 40 | Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis 45 as follows: Cast squire brass knobs. dis 49 | Leathered Carpet Tacks............. dis 35 Se : _| Cast Square Spring..... dis 60 TINNER’S SOLDER. The State Body —Frank Hamilton, Trav-| Gast Chain min ap Od, Monet. co ck Secs 12 50 erse City. : Wrought Barrel, brass knob. dis 69| Market Half-and-half............. 2... 16 00 Our Local Bodies—U nassigned. Wrought Square wa age tote eeesereecees dis 60 | Strictly Half-and-half.................. 70 Early Closing—Fr: s ing. rought Sunk Flush................. dis 5 TIN PLATES. Ageoslation Sie Le WwW.” Bune Wrought mone ae Peet Roe 1x TOxt4, Cuereoal Bede ’ - 5 . ’ CUE NE AO NESE ia ak dis 60&1 ’ x POOR ican pc edce dese cee Greenville. Oe I ci oie dis 80810 IC, 12x12, Charcoal..............-.20+ é 25 The Blue Letter—Irving F. Clapp, Alle- as BRACES. wax12, ono settee eset eeeeaees = : Aer i, dis 9 | 1c, x20, Charcoal..........2.+. sees 5 75 “oe incdcas - i W. Noble ain |... om "dis vaeaee Ix, NANO. CHAPOOR)..... 2.6. c so leceae ces 7 25 ae aveling Man—Geo. - No le, | s Spofford..........: Se ee dis 50 a 14x20, caereon ee - %5 ‘ont ma ae dis net Xé BAPCOOL.... 66. eee eee eee QT The City ot Flint—To be assigned by the Mie a BUCKETS. es 14329, Charooal A - 55 Flint Mercantile Union. ON IAN eS ek ce $ 3 50 9 x BICOL. . 0. ce eee cece ee eens » 50 Michigan—Gov. Luce. binge saaetcamarmareaee™ he 9 a - 400) Do Me eR essc inn nvenn tn OM The Egotist in Trade—C. N. Hyde, Rock- | Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 70&10 | DXX. 100 Plate Chareoal..- ooo... 10 50 oe. Caat Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed. ....dia 70&10| DUS MGharooal ‘Tin Piate add 1 $6 to 6 1 a iia ‘ ry f ‘ genuine bronze 18 ‘ ne oo. - = sagt ga om AmAz00. | Wrought Narrow, bright fast Joint..dis 60&10| | Fates. : an in ar—W. I.] Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis 60&10 | Roofing, 14x20, IC.......... 26... cece eee ee 5 25 Thorpe, Hart. Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 6| Roofing, EES TR ONE 6 75 The Delinquent—U nassigned. Wrought Loose Pin, japanned eae dis 60& 5 Roofing, 2x28, eo ee ees cka a 11 00 Mission of the Druggist—A. Bassett, De- Wena Loose Pin, japanned, spans” nee ee iain Coe ee -— troit. ee eaten tess esisen sees GOR S| a, ae choice Charcoal Terne..........- 5 50 z 0 Our Guests—T'o be assigned by the Flint] Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60810 | LX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ -- 7 0 Mercantile Union. wrousnt Brass Sissi nceeh aa aie dis 75 IG, 20x28, — rst a tteteeeees 2 00 a ; NN occ cctesccevshseses dis 70&10| LX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne......... 4 00 aan Hosts—Geo. H. Rowell, Battle Blind, Parker's 20.00.2020 vtec dis 75810] .. 31 Game TRAPS. saa CK. n as... di WE ROT scan ca ha ae Oe ek Kha bho dnned en ee The Ladies—Robert M. Floyd. r CAPS. o OneidaCommuntity, Newhouse’s.......dis 35 es Ely 81:10... tals bie Per m g 65 Botekaiae ne. Hawley & Norton’s. _— at Pe, ONE ikki e a bens soc baen bade ncacseecane Delegates Selected. Wa as es S, P. & W. Mfg. Co.’S........ 0... eee ee eee 60&10 The delegates so far selected are as fol- ae ee eee 5 Mouse, WOO eso ees codec sss oenes 18c 8 doz a . 2 , a a ar ae oe. Mouse, delusion..................... $1 50 8 doz 8: m Fire, U. & Winchester new LiatOkIS WIRE. Dimondale—N. H. Widger, F. G. eenys foot Fire, United rnc Sueease ee ted Ma net Re a eae di _ usin . ’ pmiral FING... 0. Giese i cseesi es iec ccs nneale TROL... eee ee eee cece ees 8 Tb&lU Alternates—H. A. French, I. D. Nort CHISELS. — Coppered Market...................0005 dis 62% Flint—Albert Meyers, John Bick e T. Socket Firmer. . hciisacous a cieaud dis 70&10 ae e.. tt tneee tee eee eens eeee eee ais om : g @ : : ° ocke’ raming.. ... ...... dis T0&10 nne PMNs soo asus acnbsdias cnesgucee 8 - se a ae _ 4 Miner »| Socket Corner............ ***dis 70&10| Tinned Broom....... .........cescessees %# Maras edden, G. . ubbard, . 0; Socket Slicks............. .. dis TO&10 qe es sedate eek anes suds an tb on erce. Butchers’ Tanged Firmer. ..dis Yoppered Spring Steel.... ............ 8 50 Saranac—H. T. Johnson, O, J. Bretz, aese' s Socket Firmers............. dis = ee MPI SCOGh. ss oo ig epee ene ecees Oe D =e i eT INN ec Shae i oe doc he eh cass wba t Pe OC os boca a earn on cng ins as gy Pina bas aiieataa COMBS. re Barbed Fence, galvanized Distasisiesscns 4 10 —A. G. . Curry, Lawrence’s..... eos dere asuas oy dis 40 painted...........--. seers: .-3 35 Freeport—A. J. Cheesebrough, Wm. Hotehkiss Oe eee ig cen dis a COPPeT. .-. +0. eee eeee se cree ee er eees new list net Moore. Alternates—E. H. Sisson, S. R. COCKS. DR oss vines ce eille cori che sees e aes new list net Hunt Brace, DAOKINE E65 is. codes dine 601 5 right WIRE GOODB. dis T0&10&10 et ER Teli ce naa ray bles nnd is 708108 Cheboygan—H. Chambers, Jas. F. Molo-| Beer epee et ee eee peat teat anes ete e eter enee ee 40&10 Screw nee ee dis T70&10&10 ney, O. M. Clement, Fred S. Frost, Wim. | Femms’-------------- cmiamene err est 60 os Hooks and Eycs............ = eee Rindskoff and W. H. Scott. Planished, 14 02 cut to size... Rb 28 WRENCHES. Owosso—S. Lamfrom, Chas. Lawrence, | 14x52, 14x56, 14 x60........ 31 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... 9 ’ . di h - K H. W. Parker, 8. E. Parkill and N. Mc-| Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. BO DONOR ARIINE 5 0s 3 eee Bain. Alternates—E. L. Brewer, J. M. | Cold Rolled, 14x48.......... | ay Qos Riaps } sxiputere. ScougKh = ; : ’ Es Sia aa ICSE elie DEE eS NEVE 23| Coe’s Ptent, malleable.............. dis 5&0 Terbush, E. A. Todd, N. C. Payne and DRILLS ' MISCELLANEOUS. Paul M. Roth. Morse’s Bit Stock raaee ..dis 40 oa ee: sa teeeeeeeeeeseeeee sees eee i 50 rn itv—T. T. q i+ | Taper and Straight Shank. .. di MOG, CUBUOIT., . nhs aos cccrensansses 8 5 Traverse City—T. T. Bates, 5. E. Wait, Morse’ ’sTaper Shank................. ae = Screws, TOW VAG, oo. ccc cessctcndncnsnens mae D. E. Carter, S. Barnes, Geo. E. Steele, L. Casters, Bed and Plate Gis50&10& ; p f Sa aaa . Bed and Plate............. Roberts, Chs. Wilhelm, J. E. Greilick, S. Com. 4 piece, 6 in dosnet 8.80 Dampers, American ..........-..-02.400+ 40 C. Despres, S.C. Moffatt. Alternates—J. | Corrugated .........c..cc..c.ccscc-+-dis 20810 | ROTKS. hes, rakes an all steel goods.dé0s10510 Stoithaers, C. K. Buck, A. W. McElcheran, | Adjustable ..............2..020eeeeeee Ha RI te NI ewe wanes wap ea seee ne as E. W. Hastings, M. B. Holly, W. F. Har- EXPANSIVE BITS. of : dea Clar’s, small, $18 005 1a’ e 26 00. ‘ HARDWOOD LUMBER. sha, C. R. Paige, H. D. Campbell, A. H. en 1, $18 ies Oe ; “Eo 00. = = The furniture factories here pay as follows Brinkman. Bah oy List. for dry stock: a lite : : Sie Ta a ane Amorinen File Association List...... dis oon Bien en Pe tee eee i oat = arbor Springs Joins e e—Goo MO rs is ocs haw ani los seus 8 6010! Birch, Nos. 1 ana a ie @25 00 New American............... ..se205 dis 60&10 : i 1 Report. Black Ash, log-run.. -13 00@15 00 P NIGHOIBOM'G. <5. 5s cn foetesscclevecdess dis 60810! Cherry, log-run Sr eee 25 00@35 HARBOR SPRINGS, Aug. 10, 1887. ppt eae teste - - Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2................5 45 00@50 00 BE. A. Stowe Grand Rapids: dalvaNinep mon, CGIPT OT bans eka cease coehcics @10 00 ; p gs Maple; JOm-FUn.. ..sccc.. cscs seen sees 12 00@14 00 DEAR Siz—Enclosed please find draft for = 16 2 20, 22 _ 24, 25 and 26, - - Maple, soft, jog-run eu eat 11 00@138 00 $2.50, the per capita dues on twenty-five Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60 Maple, Nos, land 2...............066- @20 00 members, which we now have, and you will] ' : anes ' mani. seer ne, cbehacienn shores on 00 please place our Association auxiliary to the| stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... ie Ol eee eee ee State body. ‘ HAMMERS. Red Oak, Nos.1 and2................ @24 00 We have held our meetings once a week aeranie MCB ee cece aed cer cseag i = mee Oak, nat cage: ‘ i es = since you were here, with good turn-outs, Y RO occu ph seb yietees =s e a. oO. 1,8tep piank.........- + . “ erkes & Plumb’s..............-00s0- dis sosi0 Walnut, log-run..........cccc cece eee @55 00 every member working hard for the Associ-| Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..:........... 30 ¢ list 60| Walnut, Nos. 1and3......2..2.0.2°2) @i5 00 oe — ree - aero and | Blackemith’s pane Cs Cass, Bice, Hand. ry c M&10 Walnuts, ame is ship G ede ccew haan dee és Ges o eir wor Ww show for itself ina re MM, LOM-PUM...... eee eee eeeee duetiicne: Yoers coaamiteliy Very | parn Door Kidder Mfg Co, Wood track 50810 | White Ash, log-run...0...000........ 12 0@14 00 AL. ’ . Champion, ee: gcekadspeeae We 60&10 Whitewood, Sere. ca ak Coal kac saeae 20 00 . HOMPSON, Sec’y. | Kidder, wood track.. Aas 40! White Oak, log-run.. seteessccs 1 @gas OO Fuses, Caps, ‘snyereddy suyse[g HURGULKS POWDER THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK Annihilator Strongest and Safest Explosive known to the Arts. Now is the time to Stock Up for Farmers’ Trade. Mail orders promptly filled. L.S. HILL & CoO., 19 and 21 Pearl St., Also wholesale dealers in Gunpowder, Ammunition, Guns, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods Generally. Grand Rapids, Mich. NO RUBBING! NO BACKACHE! NO SORE FINGERS Warranted not to Injure the ‘a. 00 USED TWO WAYS {Nd ie taint Warm Water. FULL DIRECTIONS ON THE WRAPPER. THE BEST LABOR-SAVING SOAP MADE A Vegetable Oil Soap. Contains No Rosin. A LARGE **CHROMO”’ WITH THREE BARS, Manufactured only by the G. A. SHOUDY SOAP CO. CLARK, JEWELL & C0, Sole Agents for Western Michigan. ARSTAR & FOX Manufacturers’ Agts. for Naw aud Grist Mil MAcuiInery Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds, of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood 1 split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. WRITE FOR PRICES. 130 Oakes St., Grand Rapids, Mich. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY EMGINES From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills Grist Millis, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft ing, : Pulleye and "oxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. LD ie 9 - AG war . ‘ el Vw. C& Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS. - MICH. Parties in want should Nal \ write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0. 71 CANAL STREET. 6. G. A. WOIGY & 60. Proprietors of Star Reller Mills. Manufacturers of “Our Patent,” “Star,” “Calla Lily,” “Golden Sheaf,” “Our Fancy.” Rye Flour, Granulated Meal, Bolted Meal, Bran Mid- dlings and Screenings. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. We carry « full 'ine of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Full Line ot LUBRICATING OLls We make a specialty of HOUREBRA OIL, Which for Farm purposes is the Best Brand on the market. Machinery and general GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE, No.1 Canal St., Telephone No. 228-2. J. G. ALEXANDER, Agent. GIVE We Guarantee Satisfaction. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. US A TRIAL ORDER. Overalls, Pants, Etc., OUR OWN MAKE, A Complete Line of Fancy Crockery: Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION, Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. LUCIUS C, WEST, Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor of American and Foreign patents. 105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch of- fice, London, Eng. Practice in U.S. Courts. Circulars free. PURE. removed, | NEW PRGESS STARCH, This Starch having the light Starch and Gluten Factories: SWEET. One-Third Less Can be used than any other in the Market. Manufactured by the FIRMENICH MNFG. CO. Marshalltewn, Iowa; Peoria, Is, Offices at Peoria, Ills. FOR SALE BY STRONG, Clark, Jewell & Go. | SURE. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. JS ~s >» The Michigan Tradesman. Michigan Business Mcn’s Association. President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City. First Vice-President—Paul P.. Morgan, Monroe. Second Vice-President—E. J. Herrick, Grand Rapids. Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo. Executive Committee—President, First Vice-President, Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey. Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse oa) P, Ranney, Kalamazoo; A. W. Westgate, Che- oygan. Committee on Legislation—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; J. V. Crandall, Sand Lake; J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. Committee on Membership—H. 8. Church, Sturgis; B. F. Emery, Grand Rapids; the Secretary. Committee on Transportatlon—Jas. A. Coye, Grand Rapids; J.W. Milliken, Traverse City; C. T. Bridg- man, Flint. Committee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; R. D. McNaughton, Coopersville; I. F. Clapp, Allegan, Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following local associations have mostly been organized under the auspices of the Michigan Business Men’s Association, and are auxiliary thereto: = Ada Business Men’s Asseciation. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, Elmer Chapel. Alba Business Men's Association. President, C. R. Smith; Secretary, Peter Baldwin. Allegan Business Men’s Association. President, Irving F. Clapp; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. Retail Grocers’ Association of Battle Creek President. Geo. H. Rowell; Secretary, John P. Stanley. Belding Merchants’ Association. President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle. Bellaire Business Men’s Association. President, John Rodgers; Secretary, G. J. Noteware. Burr Oak Business Men’s Association. President, B. O. Graves; Secretary, H. M. Lee. Merchant's Protective Ass’n of Big Rapids, President, E. P. Clark; Secretary. A. 8. Hobart. " Boyne City Business Men’s Association. President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. Cadillac Business Men’s Association. President, J. C. McAdam; Secretary, C. T. Chapin. ~ Carson City Business Men’s Association. President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, Cc. O. Trask. ~“Casnovia, Bailey and Trent B, M. A. President, H. E. Hesseltine; Secretary, E. Farnham. Cedar Springs Business Men’s Association. President, T. W. Provin; Secretary, L. H. Chapman. Charlevoix Business Men’s Association. President, John Nichols; Secretary, R. W. Kane. Coopersville Business Men’s Association, President, G. H. Watrous; Secretary, W. R. Boynton. B. M. P. U. of Cheboygan. President, J. H. Tuttle; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. Dimondale Business Men’s Association. President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. Dorr Business Men’s Asapciation. President, L. N. Fisher; Seeretary, E. 8. Botsford. Retail Grocers’ Association of E, Saginaw. President, Richard Luster; Secretary, Chas. H. Smith. Edmore Business Men’s Association. President, H. W. Robson; Secretary, W. 8. Whittlesey. Eastport Business Men’s Association. President, F. H. Thurston, Central Lake; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston, Central Lake. Eaton Rapids Business Men’s Association. President, F. H. DeGalin; Secretary, Will. Emmert, ik Kapids Business Men’s Protective As’n, President, J. J. McLaughlin; Secretary, C. L. Martin. Evart Business Men’s Association. President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, Chas. E. Bell. Fife Lake Business Men’s Association. President, E. Hagadorn 3 Secretary, 0. V. Adams. "Flint Mercantile Union, President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, J. L. Willett. Frankfort Business Men’s Association. President, Wm. Upton; Secretary, E. R. Chandler. Freeport Business Men’s Association. President, Foster Sisson; Sec’y, Arthur Cheseborough. Fremont B. M. A. President, Joseph Gerber; Secretary, Cc. I. Rathbun. Grand Haven Business Men’s Association. President, Fred. D. Voss; Secretary, Fred A. Hutty. Retail Grocers’ Ass’n of Grand Rapids. President, Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. Greenville Business Men’s Association, President, L. W. Sprague; Secretary, E. J. Clark. Hartford Business Men’s Association. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. Holland Business Men’s Assoeiation. President, John Krumer; Secretary, P. W. Kane. Hastings Business Men’s Association. President, L. E. Stauffer; Secretery, J. A. VanArm. Harbor Springs Business Men’s Ass'n. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. ii Thompsen. — ~~ Hersey Business Men’s Association, President, O. L. Millard; Secretary, Frank Beardsley Hopkin’s Station Business Men’s Ass’n. President, S. C. Furber; Secretary, 8. C. Dendel, — Howard City Business Men’s Association. Chairman, C. A. Vandenberg; Secretary, B. J. Lowry. _ La: s M »rciat Holland “Business Men’s Ass President, Jacob Van Putten; Secretary, A. Van Duren. ion. Hubbardston ‘Business Men’s Association, President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, L. 'W. Robinson. _ : = Jonia Business Men’s Exchange. President, Wm. E. Kelsey; Secretary, Fred. Cutler, Jr. Kalamazoo Ketail Grocers’ Association. President, P. Ranney; Secretary, M, S. Scoville. Kalkaska Business Men’s Association. President, A. E. Palmer; Secretary, C. E. Ramsey. Kingsley Business Men’s Association. resident, C. H. Camp; Secretary, Chas. E. Brewster. Lansing Business Men’s Association. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Will Crotty. ~~ Bawrence Business Men’s Association. President. H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins. _ Leslie Business Men’s Association, President, Wm. Hutchings; Secretary, M. L. Campbell. Lowell Kusiness Men’s Protective Ass’n. President, N. B. Blain: Secretary, Frank T. King. Luther Business Men’s Association. President, W. B. Pool; Secretary, Chas. J. Robinson. Lyons L-usiness Men’s As’n. President, B. M. Hutchinson: Secretary,D.jA. Reynolds Mancelona Business Men’s Association. President, W. E. Watson; Secretary, C. L. Bailey. Manistee Business Men’s Association, President, C. D. Gardner; Secretary, H. W. Leonard. Manistique Business Men’s Association. President, F. H. Thompson; Secretary, E. N. Orr. Manton’s Business Men’s Association. President, F. A. Jenison; Secretary, R. Fuller. (xrocers’ Ass’n of the City of Muskegon. President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer. Merchant’s Union of Nashville, President, Herbert M. Lee: Seeretary, Walter Webster Muir ‘Business Men’s Association, President, Simon Town; Secretary, L. A. Ely. Otsego Business Men’s Association. President, J. M. Ballou; Secretary, J. F. Conrad. Oceana Business Men’s As’n. President, W.E.Thorp; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. Ovid Business Men’s As’n. ’ President, C. H. Hunter; Secretary, Lester Cooley. Owosso Business Men’s Association. President, W. A, Woodard; Secretary, 8. Lamfrom. Petoskey Business Men’s Association. President, Jas. Buckley; Secretary, A. C. Bowman. Pewamo Business Men’s Association. President, Albert Retan; Secretary, E. R. Holmes. Plainwell Business Men’s Association. President, M. Bailey; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. M. U. P. A. of Port Huron. President, G. C. Meisel; Secretary, 8. L. Merriam. Rodney Business Men’s Association. President, L. T. Wilmarth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick. Reed City Business Men’s Association. President, C. J. Fleischauer; Secretary, H.W. Hawkins. Rockford Business Men’s Association, President, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary, J. M. Spore. Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall; Secretary, J.S. Barker. St. Charles Business Men’s Association. — President, B. J. Downing; Secretary, E. E. Burdick. St. Johns Merchants’ Protective Association, President, H. L. Kendrick; Secretary, C. M. Merrill, Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac. President, Geo. A. Potts; Secretary, P. T. Williams. i Scottville B. M. A. President, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. w. Higgins. “South Boardman Business Men’s Ass’n. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8S. E. Niehardt. 80. Armand E, Jordan Business Men’s As’n, President, D. C. Loveday; Secretary, C. W. Sutton. Sherman Business Men’s Association. President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. G. Shane. Sparta Business Men’s Association, President, J. R. Harrison; Secretary, M. B. Nash. Sturgis Business Men’s Association. President, Henry 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. Traverse City Kusiness Men’s Association, President. Geo. E. Steele: Secretary, L. Roberts. Tustin Business Men’s Association. President, G. A. Estes; Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins. Vermontville Business Men’s Association, President, W. H. Benedict; Secretary, W. E. Holt. Watervliet Business Men’s Association. President, H. Peirce; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. Wayland Business Men’s Association, President, E. W. Pickett; Secretary, H. J. Turner. ~ Woodland Business Men’s Association. President, John Velte; Secretary, I. N. Harter. White Cloud Business Men’s Association. Presitent, P. M. Roedel; Secretary, M. D. Hayward. hite Lake Business Men’s As’n. President, A. T. Linderman, Whitehall Secretary, W. B. Nicholson, Whitehall. Eastern Lumbering Operations. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN. The lumbermen of Pennsylvania are dis- playing wonderful energy in developing the country of the central and northwestern sec- tions of the State. Within a recent period the number of lumber manufacturing estab- lishments erected in this great produciug re- gion has been great. In the cities of Wil- liamsport, Lock Haven, Emporium and War- ren, the increase in the number of manu- facturing works and sawmills within the past six months exceeds anything in the his- tory of the lumbering interests. The Clearfield and DuBois regions like- wise show a vast increase of business. The entire country surrounding DuBois is brist- ling with sawmills. A trip from Bridge- port, on the Susquehanna river, to Reynolds- ville, Jefferson county, a distance of about fifty miles, disclosed no less than forty saw mills, whose average daily capacity reaches 500,000 feet of excellent lumber. The pro- duct of these works finds its way to the mar- kets of Philadelphia and New York, most of the lumber going overland, it being main- ly for building purposes. Many of the establishments turn out mil- lions of feet of hardwood lumber, which is largely consumed in the manufacture of pi- anos and elegant furniture. The several trade associations, notably the West Branch and Northwestern Pennsylvania Lumber- men’s Associations, have hastened the de- velopment of important interests that vastly augment the prosperity and growth of the sawmill and manufacturing industries. Since the great exodus to West Virginia, many representative capitalists, who are identified with the lumbering business of this State, have invested liberally in opera- tions in Virginia forest lands, and now hun- dreds of portable sawmills are removing and manufacturing superior hardwood lum- ber. One company, whose tract is located near Charleston, West Virginia, cut and finished 20,000,000 feet of beautiful oak and maple wood during the month of June. The mountain wild cherry is a splendid material for decorative purposes, and the lumbermen find much profit in preparing it for market. The Great Kanawha region of the Virgin- ias is prolific with magnificent hard woods, and the lumbermen of Pennsylvania have also found a fine field for operations there. The writer has been informed that since the first of January over one hundred lumber and manufacturing companies have been chartered in West Virginia, whose capital will reach $20,000,000. These organizations are actively engaged in developing districts that hitherto have been nothing but a wild- erness. ‘The completion of the Ohio Valley Railroad, which extends from Columbus, Ohio, to Parkersburg, West Virginia, fur- nishes an avenue for the transportation of the enormous lumber output to the seaboard centers of trade. The hardwoods of Virgin- ia and West Virginia have attained a high degree of popularity and estimation among all classes of furniture makers and decora- tive workers. The handsome woods that have a large commercial value are walnut, oak, maple, cherry, béech, ash and sycamore. The mountain wild cherry is attaining a degree of prominence among art workers. In some of the Southern industrial centers. the pro- duction of graceful and attractive decorative furniture and other household articles is rapidly crowding out other minor industries. The peculiar and splendid markings in the natural woods of the region mentioned are pleasing to the artistic eye, and these pro- ducts are destined to be in still greater de- mand. The Southern furniture and art goods manufacturers are forging to the front with a rapidity that is gratifying, it showing that the resources of the South are wonder- ful and excellent. The Pennsylvanians de- veloping the hardwood woodlands of the Great Kanawha country, contemplate open- ing up other regions, where there is untold wealth in choice and marketable lumber. W. A. ENGARDE. ——_—_—_— -¢ <2 - THE TRADESMAN is inclined to unite with the friends of the administration in congratulations on the cessation of the trou- bles about the fisheries. It did look as though both our fishermen and the Canadian authorities had come to see more clearly the boundary line which defined rights on both sides, and that the unneighborly refusal of anything beyond ‘‘wood, water and shelter” was to constitute the whole of our com- plaint against our neighbors. But the trou- bles have broken out afresh. The Cana- dians complain that American fishermen have been taking mackerel within the three- mile limit, and for this offense they have seized and fined several of them. In the case of at least one American vessel this three-mile rule has been applied with great harshness. The vessel crossed the line in search of two of its own men, who had drifted away ina boat. It had the right to do this under such restrictive regulations as the Canadian government sees proper to im- pose. But the regulation actually estab- lished is that a foreign fishing vessel which crosses that line shall report at once to the nearest custom-house, exhibit its papers, pay the usual fee and accept a clearance. This clearly is vexatious in intention as well as in effect. Few countries would pass such a law, and none has ever been able to en- force it. The fine of $400 for failure to comply with it is a piece of robbery under forms of law, in which our government can- not afford to acquiesce. Mr. Cleveland could put a stop to it ‘within sixty hours if he choose to use the power our law has put in his hands. Fred. H. Ball went to Milwaukee Satur- day night, returning home Monday evening. D. W. ARCHER'S RED COAT TOMATOES. PACKED By ” DAVENPORT CANNING (O,, DAVENPORT, IOWA. EN ROUTE! 100,000 Old Virginia Cheroots WILL BE IN STOCK THIS WEEK. SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co SOLE AGENTS, brand Rapids, - - Mich. Cc. C. BUNTING. Cc. L. DAVIS. BUNTING & DAVIS, Commission Merchants. Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots. 20 and 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eB FA LLI:AS, 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, CHO. E. HOWES, JOBBER IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits, SPHCIALTIES: Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 3S Ionia St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. waa) ee a PSN NNN TIN NZ TY xe) YS The accompanying illustrations represents the Boss Tobacco Pail Cover. It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist and fresh until entireiy used. f It will pay for itself in a short time. , You cannot afford to do without it. For particulars, write to ARTHUR MEIGS & CO. Wholesale Grocers, SOle Agents, 77 to 88 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. DETROIT SOAP CO, DETROIT, MICE, Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands of ” SOA PS , QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR, ‘ TRUE BLUE, CZAR, MONDAY, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, PHCENIX, WABASH, AND OTHERS. For Quotations address W.G. HAWKINS, * Lock Box 173, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ; Salesman for Western Michigan. \ 1U! FUR BASKKTS! We Have Got 5,000 DOZEN. ee MARKETS, Cheap to Give Away, . IAMOND MARKEYS, Good Ones to Use, BUSHEL BASKETS and overs for Shipping, BUSHEL BASKETS, Extra Finish, to Use, THK AGME, the Best Basket in the World, WILLOW and SPLINY Clothes Baskets, PRAGH and GRAPK BASKETS. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. CURTISS & DUNTON, , ‘, CAMEO, PAPER & WOODENWARE. The Michigan Tradesmay, 4 MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. K, A, STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., $4 Floor. % Telephone No. 95, \fntered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-clase Matter.| WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17, 1887. x LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN. ‘ Consistency is a jewel which a great many business men do not possess. I have been acquainted with dealers who were chronic lecturers on the iniquities of the dead-beat, and the exasperating indifference of the slow- pay customer, with whom a settlement of mutual accounts was next to an impossibili- ty. Ihavea sort of an old fogy notion of wanting to see how I stand with the world, at stated times, and this class of individ- uals has disgusted and annoyed me, time and again, by disarranging my programme. 4 For instance, I have ‘‘taken stock” and be- gun invoicing my accounts. After mentally 4 branding my yearly accumulation of ‘‘d.- b’s,” and transferring their names to the mortuary list, I come across the account of Dusenberry. Dusenberry is a liberal buyer in my line, but his—to my mind—serious failing is that he doesn’t believe in cash trans- actions between merchants. If he should 5 invest in a fourth part of my stock he would ~ expect meto trade out the amount in his . commodities, and, moreover, the signs in the moon never come just right to make him anxious for a settlement. As I say, I come across the account of Dusenberry, and 1 realize, perhaps for the third or fourth time, that I must strike my balance in perfect ig- norance of the condition of affairs between us, and I solemnly promise myself that be- q fore another year I will have the matter ad- justed if I have to invoke the law, which, like many other solemn promises, is never ’ fulfilled. And yet, I have heard Dusenber- ) ry discourse eloquently on the evils of pro- ¢rastination and the merits of frequent set- tlements. * * * * * With all his dilatoriness, his unbusiness- like habits and his semi-dishonesty, I should & hardly think that the Dusenberry of trade would prove a satisfactory customer to even the jobber. His system of book-keeping is as mysterious and unreadable as the Pytha- gorean riddle, and as he always insists on settling by his own records, and always has ‘ numerous little claims and rebates and al- leged shortages and leakages and under- weights charged up, mentally, on seraps of paper and in the tangled mazes of an over- @ worked pass-book. I certainly sympathize with the ‘‘drummer” who books his orders. And then, after that ingenious and versatile individual has untangled the snarl of a nine- ty days’ business and made liberal conces- sions and kept a tight rein on his disgust and contempt, you ean safely bet that Du- ) senberry will ‘‘stand him off” for a goodly proportion of his over-due bills. *% * * * * As arule, the Dusenberry of trade event- ® ually, through choice or necessity, drifts in- to bankruptcy. He is not calculated to suc- ceed honestly, in any event. If he has the best intentions regarding his ultimate ex- trication from indebtedness, he is not able to fulfill them. His slipshod habits, his slovenly manner of transacting business, the contempt of the parties with whom he 4 deals and their consequent neglect of his in- . terests all combine to make the result al- most assured; but if he isa dishonest Du- senberry, with some brains, he usually fore- sees his situation in time to save more or less out of the wreck. I presume traders of the Dusenberry style occasionally ‘‘get to the front,” financially, but my acquaintance and experience with this stripe of merchant convinee me that a dealer who has no capacity for the methods and details of traffic had better resign at the ® first favorable opportunity. * * * * * A few years ago one Daniel D. Dusenber- ry, a successful and prosperous farmer, be- came tired of the ‘‘drudgery of an agricul- & tural life,” and, finding a favorable oppor- tunity to dispose of his property, he invest- ‘ed the proceeds ina general ‘stock, ina small town in Western Michigan. His trade was fair for a time, but his want of system, ignorance in the matter of purchases and hap-hazard manner of conducting business had their usual result, and Dusenberry was acute enough to see, after a couple of years’ . experience, that, while his stock and bank account were steadily growing smaller, his indebtedness was increasing with alarming rapidity, and, after mature reflection, he concluded to beat his creditors and save everything possible out of the concern. He accordingly began to put aside the cash tak- en in, ‘thypothecate” bolts of dry goods, chests of tea and other useful articles, and look about him for an assignee. There * was, however, one very serious obstacle in the way of Dusenberry’s project, and that was the fact that his clerk, Joseph Corker, a sharp but very illiterate youth, had unmis- takably ‘‘tumbled” to the scheme; so Dus- enberry, much against his will. was obliged to take him into his confidence. One night, just before the proposed explosion, and af- ter the store was closed, he remarked to his assistant: *‘Jo, haven’t I always used you square?” “T hain’t nothin’ to complain of, Mr. Dusenberry.” ‘‘Now, Jo, the fact is, I’ve got to bust up. I can’t stave ’er off, Jo, an’ ’ve got to save a little suthin’ for my old age. You know that there’s twenty-two hundred dollars in the safe, an’, if there’s any lawin’ over the matter, they’ll call you for a witness. Now, if you’ll forget all about that there money, I'll gin you the odd two hundred.” Joseph agreed to the terms, and after the bargain was consummated the parties sep- arated. The next morning Mr. Corker and the twenty-two hundred dollars were both miss- ing, anda day or two afterwards Dusen- berry received a letter with a Canadian postmark, reading somewhat as follows: DrER Sur: After leavin you tother nite 1 begun to reflec wether Id ruther go in fur two hundred dollars wurth of purgery, or twenty-two hundred dollars wurth of steel- in. By this time you probly no how I de- sided the questun. Yurs trooly, JOSEPH CORKER. TRANSIT MILL COMPANY, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Flour, Feed, Grain and Baled Hay. 25 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. 0. E. Brown, Gen. Mar. What do you think of this? While in conver- sation with Wm. M. Dale, one of the largest druggists in Chicago, we were surprised to learn that he had sold over one and a half mil- lion of Tansill’s Punch de. cigars and that the quality gets better all the time. The demand continues to increase. Let us tell you, if you want to sella cigar that your customers will be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s Punch the better.—Independent Grocer. SALT FISH Bought and Sold by FRANK J. DETTENTHALER, 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. tS" Oysters the Year Around _gg FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. P. BAKER, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections, Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. Valley Gily Miling Co i“ es OUR LEADING BRANDS: Roller Champion, Gilt Edge, Matchless, Lily White, Harvest Queen, Snow Flake, White Loaf, Reliance, Gold Medal, Graham. OUR SPECIALTIES: Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Granulated Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran, Ships, Middiings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed. Write for Prices. Grand Rapids, Michigan. SEEDS FOR EVERYBODY. For the Field or Garden. If you want to buy Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Orchard Grass, Kentucky Blue, Red Top, Seed Oats, Rye, Barley, Peas, Onion, Ruta Baga Mangle Wurzel, Anything in the Line of SEEDS Write or send to the Need Store, 71 CANAL ST, W. T. LAMOREAUX, F. J. LAMB & Co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Etc., 8 ald 10 lomia Steeé, GRAND RAPIDS, MICE. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FILLING ORDERS. REMOVAL. Jennings & Smith, PROPRIETORS ARGTIG MANUFACTURING COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts, Arctic Baking Powder, etc. WILL REMOYE ABOUT AUGUST 15th. TO THE GIBSON BUILDING, 38 AND 40 Louls ST. SPRING & GOMPANY. JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS. Hosiery, Carpets, Etc. D ald 6 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, P MEKETEE & SONS, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS, 838 Monroe St., AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers American and Stark A Bags 1A Specialty. WM. SEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Axzents fox AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids. Michigan. ORANGES 1865 PUTNAM & BROOKS Wholesale Mfrs. of SHoiet in the land. Come and see us. 11,13, 15, 17 SO. IONIA ST. 1887 PEANUTS Ure Gand Our New Factory is one of the largest and best-equipped LEMONS ‘Ss. LL1.N CANDY CURTISS, DUNTON & ANDREWS ROOFERS Good Work, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices. Grand Rapids, - Mich. STORE COUNTERS AND FURNITURE TO ORDER. 62 So. Front St., D. H. MOSHIER, MANUFACTURER OF Govnters, Prescription Gases, WOOD MANTELS! And all kinds of Store and Bank Furniture. Odd‘Bookcases and Sideboards. Special attention given to ordered work. or send for estimates. GRAND RAPIDS. Call and see me Babb, CONRAD = 60, 08 Michigan Ave., Chicago, PROPRIETORS OF bentury Spice Mills, IMPORTERS OF TRAS, GOPPEKS & SPICES. OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS: JAPAN TEA---“Red Dragon” Chop. COFFEE---O. G. Plantation Java, Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican. The Best Cotibe on Earth, We Solicit Communications, W. R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative. C. AINSWORTH, WOOL, GLOWER, TIMOTHY SRED and BEANS. Parties Wishing to Buy or Sell above are Invited to Correspond. 82 South Division St, - - - - Grand Rapids, Mich, L, M. CARY. D 11 Ionia Stret ~ L. L. LOVERIDGE, CARY & LOVERIDCE, = GENERAL DEALERS IN Fire and Burglar Proof ISAFES Combination and Time Locks, Grand Rapids, Mich, Be rersareye Te 5. at ST eee ae : } Groceries. The Grocery Market. There is a decided firmness in several lines of goods, notably canned goods and fish. Packers of corn and tomatoes assert that this year’s pack will not be above half the usual amount and are shaping prices ac- cordingly. Baltimore packers have advanc- ed quotations 10 cents, and local jobbers have withdrawn quotations for future de- livery, preferring to make a set price at the time of shipment. There is no pumpkin to be had at any price, as the old pack is com- pletely exhausted and the new crop has not yet come in. Gallon apples, which started in at $2 at Baltimore, have since been ad- vanced to $3, and are still ‘‘on the go.” There are no old packs of any kind of goods to be shoved on this season, which is sure to have considerable effect in holding up prices. Fish are advancing and are bound to go higher. Corn syrups are le. above what they were a week ago. Rice is up Wwe. The new crop is slow in coming in. The manufacturers of package coffee re- duced their list ye. last Thursday, but ad- vanced to the old regime again on Monday. Candy is active and firm. Nuts are un- changed except peanuts and pecans, which are very strong, with every prospect of an- other advance before long. Oranges are in fair supply and prices a shade lower, with quality and condition generally fine. Lemons are in better sup- ply and prices are a little easier. Bananas remain about steady in price with only a moderate supply. >.> The Fourth Annual Picnic of the Grand ' Rapids Grip Carriers. The fourth annual picnic of the Grand Rapids traveling fraternity, which was held at the various Black Lake resorts last Sat- urday, was fairly well attended and result- ed—as all events do in which traveling men are a predominant feature—in a good time. The party left the city on the 9:10 train in the morning, and the ride to Holland was without special incident, except to the choice few who were initiated into the mys- ties of the new secret order gotten up for the occasion. The ‘‘work” was done in the smoking ear, and was highly enjoyed by all except the novitiates. The steamboat ride was somewhat marred by the misty condition of the atmosphere, which rendered it necessary to bring um- brellas into active service. A landing was made at Ottawa Beach, where dinner was served in regular picnic style on one of the long tables in the rear of the Ottawa. At the conclusion of the repast, Geo. W. Noble, of Buchanan was called upon for a few re- marks, and responded by imploring his brethren to be just as careful of their own reputations as they are of those of their cus- tomers—to save something for a rainy day, just as they insist upon their customers get- ting ahead in the world, Referring to the commonly-made statement that all traveling men are mashers, he said that if there were no ear there would be no sound—that ‘‘if there were no one to mash, there would be no mashers,” a statement which was greeted with applause. L. M. Mills was next called for, but de- clined to make a speech, as he said his forte was poetry. A. B. Cole was asked to say afew words, but evaded the assignment by moving that an adjournment be made to the ball grounds, which was unanimously carried. Arriving on the grounds, A. B. Cole, and J. N. Brad- ford chose sides, Cole’s team comprising the following well-known players: A. B. Cole, C and C F; Ward, P & 1st B; Dave McDonald, 1st B & P; T. P. Ly- man, 2d B; Will Logie, 3d B; Chas. M. Falls, 8 S; N. B. Seribner, L F; L. C. Brad- ford, C F; Mark Burnham, R F. They dub- bed themselves the Detroits. Jim Brad.’s team was composed of the following gen- tlemen: Frank Miller, C; Jim Brad., P & S S: Hi Robertson, 1st B; S. F. Downs, 2d B; S. B. Morrison, 3d B; W. H. Downs, § S & P; Dave Haugh, R F; John Utman, C F;L. F. Kelley, L F; (give out) W. F. Blake, L F. These gentlemen dubbed themselves the Chicagos. The score at the end of the fifth inning stood 15 to 46 in favor of the Chicagos. Cole demonstrated one fact—that as a kicker he was a success. After the umpire had fined him $300 for back talk, the um- pire informed him that although he thought himself a ball player, he did not know enough to play hoss. N. H. M. Raymond acted as umpire and scorer. Boating, bathing and fishing were then in order, while those so inclined tripped the light fantastic at the Ottawa. Supper was faken at the various resorts, after which most of the party turned their faces home- ward, well satisfied with the day’s pleasure. —___ «>_< Grand Rapids Challenges Detroit. To the Traveling Men of Detroit: The traveling men of Grand Rapids here- by challenge you to play two match games of base ball—one at Grand Rapids and one at Detroit—at such time and in such order as may best suit your convenience. The only condition we shall rigidly insist upon is that all players shall be actual trav- elers, who have never played ball profes- sionally. J. N. Braprorp, Capt. Make Contracts Now. The Independent Oil Co. is now prepared to make contracts with the retail dealers to furnish them with their supplies of oil dur- ing the fall and winter months. This is the best method for the retail trade to pursue, as it ensures a full supply at all times and fair prices, which is not always the case where the dealer is compelled to depend up- on his own resources during the time of the oil famine. Pleasant Picnic by the Battle Creek Asso- ciation. From the Battle Creek Call. The annual picnic’ of the Battle Creek Retail Grocers’ Association and grocery clerks Wednesday was one of the most en- joyable social events that has taken place in this city this season. The committee of ar- rangements had attended to the details of preparation so effectually that success was assured from the commencement. Promptly on time, five street cars, loaded to their full capacity, left the corner of Main and Jefferson streets to the inspiring har- mony of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne,” played by the full German band. Arriving at the Lake, the crowd dispersed as they pleased through- out the pleasure grounds, while the commit- tee and their helpers arranged eight long ta- bles at Camp Beidler. The supply of edi- bles was abundant and of excellent quality. Mr. Southworth had donated ice in profu- sion, Geo. E. Howes had presented a box of oranges, Austin & Godsmark had furnished a large supply of water melons, and hamp- ers and baskets of choice viands were brought by every firm participating. When between 250 and 300 persons took positions at the board, the tables groaned with their load, and when the repast was finished the persons did the groaning. At this point, J. F. Halladay set out several boxes of excel- lent cigars. After ‘‘all did eat and were filled” more than ‘twelve baskets of frag- ments were taken up.” Meantime the band enlivened the occasion with several of their choicest musical selections. The lovers of athletic sports were enter- tained with an interesting game of base ball between the Ashley nine and the Whalen nine. We have not space toreportin detail a game presenting so many fine and amus- ing points. Hoxie and Halladay were the Ashley battery and Austin and Whalen pitched and caught for the Whalens. James Hicks, umpire. The only really ungentle- manly thing concerning the whole affair that we heard of is that Halladay was knocked out of the box. Why they had him in a box, or who knocked him out, we have not heard. On the whole, we believe the game was considered a great success and furnished much amusement to those who witnessed it. ‘The final score stood, Ash- leys, 13, Whalens, 23. We are reuuested to say that the grocers’ clerks of Battle Creek beiieve that they can ‘‘do up” any nine se- lected from any one vocation in the place, and they seem especially anxious to meet the dry goods clerks. After an afternoon of unalloyed enjoy- ment the cars were again on time and all returned to the city and their homes. The committee asked no reduction of fare from the street railroad. The only favor they re- quested was a supply of cars on time each way and this request was promptly met. To the committee, Messrs. J. P. Stanley, J. H. Halladay and W. G. Murphy, the thanks of all participants are freely tendered, for the efficient manner in which they perfected every arrangement that could contribute to the success of the entertainment. Nota 1 | | | circumstance occurred to mar the pleasure | of the occasion. —_—---__—< -@- <- —— ape ce Pe Organizetion of an Association at Ithaca. Peas, | The business mien of Ithaca, after hold- ing a preliminary meeting and canvasing the subject thoroughly, met last Friday evening for the purpose of effecting an or- ganization. A. F. Jackson was made chairman of the meeting and E. J. Heath secretary pro tem. The editor of THE TRADESMAN explained the system in use by the other associations of the State, when | Dean Parker moved that the formation of an Association be immediately proceeded with, which was adopted. On motion of Frank P. Merrill, the constitution presented by Mr. Stowe was adopted, when the fol- lowing gentlemen handed in their names for charter membership: Jackson & Brown, W. H. Beasley, Riley Davis, Frank P. Mer- rill, O. H. Heath & Son, S. E. Parrish, Car- ter & Son, Chas. T. Rogers, Will K. Lud- wig, F. L. T. Hasse, Geo. Srodes, Jas. B. Crawford, Robert Smith, Wm. Shaw, Wm. Pullin, Nelson Baker Co., H. T. Nooney, C. R. Richardson & Co., A. B. Scattingood, Jas. Moore, John Everden, Brisbin & Cool- ey. Election of officers resulted as follows: President—O. F. Jackson. Vice-President—Robt. Smith. Secretary—John Everden. Treasurer—Dean Parker. Executive Committee—President, Secre- tary, A. S. Barber, O. H. Heath, S. E. Par- rish. The election of the other committees was deferred until the next meeting. The editor of the local paper was request- ed to print the constitution and by-laws in his next paper, as a matter of news. The Blue Letter collection system was adopted for the use of the Association and the Executive Committee was instructed to procure the printing of the same. The meeting then adjourned. -—<=> -2- <> ——-—_——_ Annual Meeting of the Saranac Associa- tion. SARANAC, Aug. 8, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—At the annual meeting of the Business Men’s Protective Association of Saranac, held Aug. 8, a large majority of the members were present and considerable interest and enthusiasm was manifested. H: T. Johnson, O. J. Bretz and George R. Walker were chosen as delegates to attend the State conyention. A committee of three, S. M. Crawford, F. H. Spencer and E. P. Gifford, were appoint- ed for the purpose of securing a permanent buyer and shipper of wheat to locate at this place. The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: President—George A. Potts. Vice-President—D. G. Huhu. Secretary—P. T. Williams. Treasurer—S. M. Crawford. Executive Committee—F. H. Spencer and F. E. Cuhoon. Yours truly, P. T. WituiAMs, Sec’y. sa Meeting Deferred. GRAND RApips, Aug. 15, 1887. . As the local delinquent list is not quite ready for distribution, it has been decided to defer the regular meeting of August 16 until Tuesday evening, August 23, at which time the delinquent list will be distributed, delegates to the State convention selected, an address given by Warren Hutchins on the ““Eest Method of Preserving Vegetables and Fruits,” and other importers _Inatters disposed of. E. A. Stow#, Sec’y. | WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. arn een These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. CYOWR 2.<6.56- 00> 80/Paragon .........-- 2 10 Frazer’s.........-- 90|Paragon 25 i pails. 99 Diamond X........ 60|Fraziers, 25 pails.1 25 Modoe, 4 doz....... 2 50 BAKING POWDER. . Acme, % } cans, 3 OZ. CASC.....---- seers 85 . He ee Fens et sacs 1 60 + 2h Mo SS BP a wae beers 3 00 « Bulk..... 25 Princess, 48..... - SAS ka ae @ 6 4s aug wag gc dae coe eee ease 4 2 uy PTE oii k ck pads uso seosrenacee 28 Arctic, % I cans, 6 dOZ. CABC.......--++++++ 45 * A “ = ie aes 75 “a i “ 2 oe 1 40 “ 1 “ 2 7) 2 40 a 5 . ig ees 122.00 Victorian, 1 cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... . 2 00 Diamond, “*bulk,’’........-- eee ee eee eer eee 15 BLUING Dry, NO. 2..... 02. e cece eee eee eee eees doz. 25 Dry, NO. 8... 2 cece cece ee ce eee ee ees doz. 45 Liquid, 4 02Z,........0:ee esos erences doz. 35 Liquid, 8 OZ. ........ esse eee ee cree ss doz. 65 Arctic 4.0Z.. 2... ccc wee e ce ec ee ec eres #8 gross 3 50 AYCtiC 8 OZ.... 0. cece cece eee eee ee ee eeeeeese 7 AYCtiC 16 OZ.... 0. cece cece ee ree cee eneteeees 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper DOX........-..eeeeeeeee 2 00 Arctic No. 2 “ ee aoe eae ee 3 00 Arctic No.3 ‘“ ieee eens . 400 BROOMS. No. 2Hurl.........- 1 %5|Common Whisk.... 90 No. 1 Hurl....2 2 25|Fancy Whisk...... 1 00 No. 2Carpet........ DOE ov ccoees ce eee 3 75 No. 1Carpet........ 2 50|Warehouse ........ 2 75 Parlor Gem........ 3 00 CANNED FISH. Clams, 1 }, Little Neck.........---+-++-e+- 110 Clam Chowder, 3 D...........eee ee eeeeees 2 15 Cove Oysters, 1 Ib standards..........---- 90 Cove Oysters, 2 I standards...........-- 1 60 Lobsters, 1 D picnic. ............--eeeeeeee 1 %5 Lobsters, 2 Ib, picnic.............-++: ks 2 65 Lobsters, 1 I star...........-ee eee eee cece 2 00 Lobsters, 2 Ib star... ...... eee cece eee ee eee 3 00 Mackerel, 1% fresh standards..........-. 1 45 Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards.........--- 5 25 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 bb 3 50 Mackerel,3 fin Mustard....... 3 50 Mackerel, 3 b soused............ 3 50 Salmon, 1 ® Columbia river........- 1 85 Salmon, 2 i Columbia river....... ..- .-3 2D Sardines, domeStic 148.......... 2 cece eeeees 6@7 Sardines, domestic 8.........---.:.eee+ 10@12 Sardines, Mustard 48........-.-+eseeeeees 12 Sardines, imported 348...........-s+eeeeee 13@15 Trout, 3% broOKk.........----eeeeeeee eee 4 00 CANNED FRUITS. Ares gallons, standards...........++--- Blackberries, standards..........-e-esee 80 Cherries, red standard..............-++++- 1 30 DAMBONS .... 0.0. ce cece eee eter ee neceeeees 100 Egg Plums, standards ..........+--+--+ .-1 30 GOOKCDECITICS.... 6... eee eee ee ree ee eee tes 1 00 Green Gages, standards 2 I............++- 1 30 Peaches, Extra Yellow .........--+-+-+-++- 175 Peaches, stamdards..........-:-seeeeeeeees 2 00 Peaches, SCCONS.........- cece cece ee eceeee 1% Peaches, Pi€.... 2... cee ceeeec cee ee eeeeeces 1 25 RO oa io sn chun pace sees se eenanees he 110 Pineapples, standards.........-..++-+-e+++ 1 35 QUINGCES ......- cee cece ee eee tect nee ee ete e es 1b Raspberries, extra.........---+++- cea 1 25 ae MO os os i cine one eee a sss 1 35 StrawberrieS ......-.--.e cece eee e eect eres 1 20 WhortleberrieS .........cce cece cee en erence 80 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay........---.-- 2 00 Beans, Lima, standard............ <<. 2 Beans, Stringless, Erie.........--.-+-+-++- 90 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked...........-.. 150 Corn, Archer’s Trophy........---+++++se+: * Morning GIOry........---seeeeeeees Ah TRAORO oo aco oa Bienes ogden 1 35 AS, oo, us van dace een tease eae on 1 35 6 Gequoit......... 6... cece ee eee cece ees 1 35 Plambure.............--20cecece cece 1 40 © FpivingstOM...... 62... eee ee ee eee ee 130 Peas, French...........eee cess ee eeee seen ens 1 50 as, extra marrofat...........----+++ 1 20@1 40 RN. GORMOU. ceca sc snes nes spot eect anions 7 “Barly June, stand............++- 1 50@1 75 + “ OO UPROG. os hace as ve oe ek 2 00 * Brench, extra filme..........-- eee eee 20 00 Mushrooms, extra fine.........-.++ sseee- 20 00 Pumpkin, 3 b Golden..........----++++ ++: Succotash, standard. ...........+seeeeees 80@1 30 Squash ........ sc ee eeee eset sees cee sees ceees 1 00 Tomatoes, standard brands...........---- 1 20 : CHEESE. Michigan full Cream...........0-. eee 11%@12 CHOCOLATE. Wilbur’s Premium..35|German Sweet....... 23 ” Sweet...... 25; Vienna Sweet ....... 22 + B’kf’tCocoa 45! Baker’s .............- 37 *s Cocoa-theta 42) Runkles’ ...........-- 35 ? Vanilla Bar 28 COCOANUT. SchepPS, 18....---.--eeeeeeee ceeeeerees @25 * 16 ANG MG... ......cosceercsese @26 * REM | pastes niece abecse eons saee Q27 - 1s in tin pails................ D27% a y% eae kcaees @28% Maltby’s, 18...........e-eceee ee eeeeeees @23% ” THANG 368...... 000-006 2 sced @24 * VaS.veseeereececeeeeesceeeeees @?4% Manhattan, pails.............-.eeeeeee @20 TRRRIOORN 5). pose and ehcare ecparkepeee @18 ec 5 coe n aoe oae sabes as ; Glib COFFEES—PACKAGE, 60 tbs 100 bs RAE oc he cach ae apace sean os oe aee 25 Lion, in cabinets............-.eeeee- 2634 ae eae ee 8 25% 25% AYDUCKIO’S ....:00. 02-0 cecccncecccecs 25% 26% Dilworth’s .......-.c00ccceccceceseres 2554 REANOATO. «coe en ss ne ce ceecss cr ccesesee 25% CAOTEAAN 6 oc bs css osc e ces esee ese es 251% German, in DINS..........--.eeeeeees 2534 Magnolia...........c cece eee eee e eee 25% Eagle.......ccesceceeec cree ceeeeneeees 25% 25% PIGRICOIA o.oo acess nc nteres scencerseee 20 2 COFFEES. Green. Roasted. RO... 55s ss: ROM IRio.....2%%--<>- 22 Santos.......+++ 23@25 |Santos.........- 23@26 Maricabo....... 2@26 |Maricabo.......25@26 BAUR ois os'ce tee 23@25 |JAava.......... .25@30 O. G. Java...... 24@32 j0. G, Java...... 30@35 Mocha .......-- 25@26 |Mocha... ...... 31@32 COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS. Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java. 32 ne “ * Mocha........... 32 ‘ a - Javoka.......... 30 . _ “ Imperial........ : 29 al - * TABTIRCT. . 00.05 -+s 28 a ” _ Mexican......... 20 CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... 100 |50 foot Cotton....1 60 72 foot Jute ..... 125 |60 foot Cotton....1 75 40 Foot Cotton....1 50 |%2foot Cotton....2 00 CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. X XXX #b Kenosha Butter...........-.-+- 6% Seymour Butter...... 5 PROTON = oo ae oo oe ce oe ees 5 Fancy Butter.........-- 4% Bi OVRURY. ..- ons nsncseee 5 PAOOIG bc. bse cs cr cece cena : 5 Fancy Oyster.........++-+++. .. 4% Fancy Soda........-...eeeeeees 5 City SOdB.......... cece eee eeces 7% A ee has cast cercanntese 5K BU os geass pce swssen se 7 TEGBUDD oo. ike eae cas dees Loa ed q CAVADAIN 2. oe eon e ccc t ce teee sens 8 Oat MOAL 6 .sn occcss cscs cewtiocs 8 Pretzels, hand-made........... 11% Pretzels .. .. 6000s ne sc cccees eee 9% OYACKNEIB .......002 cs eeeceesces 15% Lemon Cream.........--26- e+ 7 8 Sugar Cream..........-eeeee ees : 8 Frosted Cream.............+++5 8% Ginger Snap8...........-+++++- 7 8 No. 1 Ginger Smaps...........- 7 Lemon Snaps..........eeeeeees 12% Coffee CakeS.......-.ce.eeeeees 845 Lemon WaferS............+05+ 13% Bas OB: os bs aah es oss cas nae eee 11% Extra Honey Jumbles......... 12% Frosted Honey Cakes......... 13% Cream GeMS..........eeeereee 1% eons Gomme os ioscan ds oes 138% Seed CakeB..........-2eeeeeeees 2% SG: & M, Cakes. .........-- s--- 8% DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN. CUEHOT, iw onc kcc cs oe cone ns so pesca tanonn 19 @ 22 CUPrant 0.06... cece cee cece eee eects 14@ 7 Pemon Peel........c.0e eee ee eee eeeeee @ Orange Peel...........- cess ee ceeeeeeeee @ i4 Prunes, French, 608..........-.++-+-0++ @10% « French, 808..........0+602 eee @ 8 sd French, 908...........eeeesees @% so - MPurkey.........0. cece cn Me eee t @5 at Pohemia........ cece cvessseces 414 Raisins, Dehesia...........22---ee eres 3 50@5 00 Raisins, London Layers.........-+++- ‘ @1 80 Raisins, California “* ......-.seeeees @1 65 Raisins, Loose Muscatels..........--++ 1 30@1 46 Raisins, Ondaras, 288..........-+ +--+ 84%@ 8 Raisins, Sultamas...........-.-2+-5- ... 9 @10 Raisins, Valencia, new....... pie aats 7 @™ Raisins, Imperials.............000-++- @3 00 FISH. fot, whole Be ote acta se ceree ees ‘n+ WOLGEN 2255. ice Sescesecapensteeess. Cm Halibut Siete Se Soa bcd esse cabs net vayevaees com Herring, round, % bbl............+++- @2 75 Herring ,round, % DD1........eeeseeeeeres 1 40 Herring, Holland, bbis........ esahcenaas 9 50 Herring, Holland, kegs.............-+-- 68@75 Herring, Scaled........2.......056 sete ees Mackerel, shore, No. 1, 4% bbis............ 20 00 “ " * WewEe. 44-4; 3 CO » “ Me eee aa vas 2 50 - MEO. ©, 36 IS. . wo a 6 cas esa ee 6 50 Sardines, spiced, 4S.........-.. cece oneness 10@12 Trout, % DbIS........ 2. cece ee ee eee rene eee 5 50 Ae ER is ike pckabde stan sseeneas 85 White, No. 1,% bbis........... weed COMT 50 White, No.1, 12 th kits.......... 0... ee ee eee 110 White, No. 1, 10 Ib kits.............+--- .. # White, Family, 4% bbls.....-...-.....------ 3 00 " Oe A eh ec eee cnc hdas be 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. emon. Vanilla. Jennings’ D.C.,202.........- #doz.100 1 6€ "a Ree od Sienna es cutee 1 2 65 - FO oats ah deses 2 50 4 2 ” i OE ches ceacs ives 35 5 00 a” * NO. 2 TAper.:. «..-- 1 25 1 75 es MOA ce kease 1% 3800 * “ 1% pint, round....... 4 50 9 00 . aoe 7 Me liwgeke 900 18 00 o * No.8 panel.......... 110 185 - Oe ee a, 27% 500 -* NOSIG. ons ws eee 4 25 7 00 MATCHES. Grand Haven, No. 8, square............++-- 95 Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gTro........... 115 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1% Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............- 2 25 Grand Haven, No. 7, round...............- 1 50 Oshkosh, NO, 2..........02-0cecccsceeccecoens 1 00 OCBNIOSD, NNO. Bo ois. cece c eds cee cay een ence ges 1 50 OIA so ea ne ashen ee Cee ne saeees bees 75 Richardson’s No. 8 square..........-.-+-+-- 1 00 Richardson’s No. 9 WO ok i ee es 1 50 Richardson’s No. 7%, round..............-+- 1 00 Richardson’s No.7 dO ..........eeeeee ee 1 50 OCI ON oo oi ci sca ene g et ues ceeces 115 MOLASSES. Pee SUBD ooo ois og oes ae ene bast secs cones 16@18 CT AI so 8 ah oe ile as hace enn ee 2D TOOT RIO, bo sicn sau ne 5 cece ce 6 sh ea dp oh antes 24@30 New Orleans, ZOOd.......... 0.2000 ce ee eeee 28@34 New Orleans, choice..... ........-+eeeeees 44@50 New Orleans, fancy...... ........eeeeeeee 52@55 ¥% bbls. 2c extra OATMEAL ROLLED OATS IAP POIB cas cs ewan os B Tb BArrelé. ... 6.005555 5 75 Half barrels........ 3 00|Half barrels...... .3 00 (CASO8...,.,..-s 2 25@3 25|\Cases......... 2 25@3 2% PICKLES. PACA fe. cos dase 6b nee @tb 50 * bl @3 45 OO os ak heh ee sc an aeds taeoaess @i 50 ” ME a cag as @A 00 PIPES. Importeé Clay, No. 216,83 gross..... .. @2 00 Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... @1 75 Amenoge To t.2... ci clic seas @ iad ‘ RICE. Choice Carolina..... T WOVE sia cciess-s 5% Prime Carolina..... 6 |Patna..... ceneuceas 5% Good Carolina......£%)Rangoon....... @4% Good Louisiana..... 5\4%\Broken. ...... 34@3% RIO os ck ck esis ass ue BM IJADAT 6.2... .500000- 5% SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure...... 54|Dwight’s ............ 5 CHUPCH’B .... ss cca: 5 iSea Foam........... 54 Taylor’s G. M....... 5 |Cap Sheaf........... 5 4¢¢ less in 5 box lots. SALT. 60 Pocket, F F Dairy.......... 2 25 DP POGKOE goes cs ncn s cae scenes an i. 210 1003 D pockets... .... 2.2.0.0 cece seeeeee 2 35 Saginaw or Manistee...............+.-- 95 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 15 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 275 Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 75 American, dairy, 4 bu. bags.......... 20 MOCK, DUSNOIS: oo. oo 65 co icc asc eases = Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.............. 40 . . ac EE RAs 20 SAUCES. PPOVISIAG, ME DINE e sc. iss ones eens ees @2 Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 70 Pepper Sauce, green...........eeeee ees @ 80 Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 25 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @l Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @ %” Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 20 Halford Sauce, pints.................- @3 50 Halford Sauce, % pints...............- @2 20 SPICES—W HOLE. AIOE ook a dinsa des Neu, oo ee cea ces 6% Cassia, China in mats...............265 634 « Batavia in bundles............ lu ** Saigon in rous.............---+ 40 ClOVOS, AMPOINA. ... 6... 5. ae ene. nee ps! OO TR cons os so teats s ce kea aes 28 MGGO PRAGA VIA . «oo. a5 ce oon ce cncccnccces 80 Nutmegs, fancy............ccceeseeess 75 “ 2 EER Pepa 70 * PO bake ac ees 65 Pepper, Singapore, black...........-. 19 - “ WT cso ces 29 SPICES—PURE GROUND. ALBPICE 2.222. cece ese ce ee ce ne ceases It CORGIG TATRVIA. o.oo 5c ck cco onan aes 15 i " and ,Saigon............ 25 A os oc) ae ds ewok cn es 2 Cloves, AMDOYNA....... 22... sce e ee eeee 32 “ PORMIORD 0 onc crce ee os + cones bl Ginger, African... ...........ceseceeees> 10 Oe NT es os foe ss cet ane ee 15 Oh PRIOR ,. cn ia ncentesesees 18@22 Maco ROtAVis, |... escnccssccnsncennss 85 Mustard, English... ................. 20 " ay and Trieste......... 22 af MPTOREO | oc cas nec s cone sean 25. Nutmegs, NO. 2...... 0.2.0 ee ee eer ees 65 Pepper, Singapore black.............. 22 “ ME ITO 8 oso ec ce yaa 32 “ CAVONNG. oo... 5 cin scenes tse 23 STARCH. Muzzy, Gloss, 48 b boxes, 1 b pkgs... @ 5% “ ee 48 at oe 3 Db ty aie @ 5% - “ £0: “. ee ....... @4 sf ss 92 Tb crates, 6 ib boxes.. @ 6% * Corn, 40 hb boxes, 1 fb pkgs.... @6 “ec 6 6 tb ee lb “ oe @ 6% Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 th pkgs.... @7 5E - * 6 Ib boxes... @ i% rT oe be bulk i @ 6% . Pure, 1} pkgs............ @ 5% “ Corn, 1 ® pkgs............ @7 Firmenich, new process, gloss, 1D.... @ 5% * - SD.... @ 5% ‘ . a 60... @ 6% “ “ bulk,boxesorbbls @4 nt S* GOMT. F Bisse sc cece @ 6 SUGARS. ON ER sek chs ccceenscnese ed nns @ 6% a, vs evens deesns @ 6% POW OPO oo oa cd oh cee saree ccc eces cceses @ 55 Granulated, Standard... ............ @ 6% “ es ic ssi nese bene @6 18 Confectionery A.......... cece cece ees @ 9% Si Ae. cic c kes cask c sec ckaes @ 5% No. 1, White Extra C................-- @ 5% IG, ©, FORURA Co. . oes ceca ccc mess anne @ 54 ME ica cac acces ce ee es. as @5 ica cs ck aaseee es @ 4% a Packs connie caste @ 4% SYRUPS. Corn, barrels ........-..eeeeeeee eens @28 Corn, % DDIB.... 2... ee cece ee ee cee e ee eee @0 Corn, 10 gallon kegs..........-.+-++-+++ B3i Corn, 5 gallon kegs..........-+--ee eee @32 Pure Sugar, Dbl.......... cece cece ee eee 24@30 Pure Sugar, % bbl.......-..----- ee as 26Q32 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PALLS. Unele Tom..........: MATOA BOY... ..-.se sss 40 What Is It?.. . .28)\Cinderella............ 37 Cherry .....-.-- , OOF There.......:....- 30 Five and Seven . 40) Red Cap........2.e.-- 55 Magnet.......... . SolOross Cut... ...-ceeee 35 Seal of Detroit. OIG EIU cn da anc ceanaess 35 Jim Dandy..........- B8Old Time........s.s-- 40 Our Bird............: 25| Underwood’s Capper 35 Brother Jonathan.. .27\/Meigs & Co.’s Stunnerv5 Jolly Time.-......... BO AUIS occ ecn np csceanss 35 Our Leader.......... 40|/Royal Game..........38 Sweet Rose.........-. 32|Mule Har..... 65 May Queen....... .65| Fountain....... T4 Dark AmericanEagle67|Old Congress... 64 The Meigs.........++- 60'Good Luck..... 52 Red Bird. ......-.-..¢ 50| Blaze Away.........- 8 Prairie Flower ...... 65| Hair Lifter........... 30 Indian Queen.......- 60|Hiawatha ............ 67 May Flower.......--- LS a een ee 65 Sweet Pippin........ 45|Crown Leaf..... .... 66 TURtlOt oo ie oe ccs e os OP SUNBOE ines cece scuet es 35 Mackinaw........--.- SAV - YUM... 2... 55s 45 Macatawa.......-...-- 23|/Butterfly .............35 Folin Cnief..........; 30 PLUG. Eye Opener......---- 32;Blue Blazes......... 30 Whopper......--.--++ 30 Capper Se asc ehh cen it 40 Peach Pie...........- B0| Jupiter ............-- 25 ER oh das wales oe S7\Night Cap............ 22 Old Solder.........++- 37\Splendid ...........-. 38 Clipper .....+--..-++- B4\ Red Fox...-......+.6s 44 Corner Stone. ....... $4|Big Drive..........-. 44 Scalping Knife...... 34|Chocolate Oream....44 Sam Boss........---- BAINIMTOd 2... 665s o soe 33 WEE oe sicek ads eseee 29| Big Five Center...... 35 Favorite ..........0+. SOIPALPOL 2.26.6 ce access 42 Live and Let Live...32|/Buster.......--...+--- 3b Quaker........-.-++++ 28| Black Prince......... 35 Big Nip.....0+.+.-0-¢ 37|Black Racer......... 35 Spear Head.........- AA CUIMOR ois sve cciees ss 2 uae aces oat 36|Horse Shoe.........- 37 Spring Chicken...... BBLVINGO: 20.6 os eon tae ss 36 Eclipse ........---.-- 33|Merry War.... 02 WMAP KEY... 2 scr ececees 39|Ben Franklin. ..2 Q. B Qe... ccrcessecees . 04 TOP. sic cecec’ eoeees 26| Black Jack........... 32. Choose me...... .....24|Musselman’s Corker.30 JOUY Tar... .....6.065> 82/Live and Let Live.. .32 Red Top.......--.---+ 24|Happy Thought.... .42 Pip TOP. :.... 0.60006 .26\Cherry Bounce.......36 tre (BOB... esesses $2|Plank HRoad.......... 42 is pean saeusa eens | SHORTS. ‘ ican om . PROVISIONS. eee Santer -- ++ an cenaness”... as| , See Grand Bapide Packing & Provision Co. Globe ae 22 May Leaf | quote as follows: Cad ee eee . SMOKING a, =e DOG oo 055s cise can sec gyess : . Wom Vem..ic.....- GP UNO ook ia eda ce cue AAT OTS Gitte sp eneees chet gene ness cent i see resets - Our Leader.......... MOONE oo 5.5) foi dn ae se 20 | Short Repetpnee ss 3) sh cas in +> sane sane sks oes a2 Old Vet 30 Unit carn} Lb —< pig, SNORE CUL..... . 2.06. 206) ose 17 00 (ae ae han aa eis On| Bieht EXni+ oo s Xtra clear, REAVY.... 6.0... e cece cree ee eeee Se clippines se rehs wie nedtaeeee 24 | Ciedee GUL, MONE GOK... 555s sade cece cess 16 50 a. eee a eee ee aa Hard Tack........... 30|Duke’s Durham..... 49 | Clear back, short Cut..........2---+++se+++s 17 0 ¢ . ORI S| Standard clear, short cut, best... ........ 17 00 TEEN oc cg ce cannceanve 26'Green Corn Cob Pipe 26 | . Die ees co ace ae ies 49, Owl..... 16 | DRY SALT MEATS-—IN BOXES. ciate Chelan... a. ar, | Long Clears, h@avy........-..-eeeeeeees , Bed Fox....... Me, a Weep \ 70 Oe i ca 26 Lumberman......... 25 eee tat tere arena et ceo Gold Block..........: 30, Railroad Boy......... S| ORS ete, RET «= avs 5s 2s'e0 0+: 2208 Seal of G rand Rapids | Mountain Rose....... 18 os i. pn enaeeane eam ehs saan 25) = Vg OO ee ee ee ee Miners oni Puddiérs’30 aa ce ‘a Sea oe rer Peerless ...........-- 28'Seal of North Garo- | #ams.average © Bomb ssn sinsceendusgegs ares s Standard . ‘aa “Ina, 3 O8........... Op 6 Peace sesenavn ets nstst oes 12% Old Ton... 19 Seal of North Garo- | i By Ve is kv nb ka ca ncodacasee 12% Tom & Jerry a Wk, GOR. «css ca ce 48 e ice cuca Veda ckecatceee 404 §% - co... "951Seal of North Caro- . : te ONG og ook os cack cnnssegsses 11 Traveler ...........-- 35 lina, CON 45 Shoulc ers Ub de oC he eh eG bees 6684640000604 0400 44605 ‘ wy \ iin |... 21|\Seal of North Caro- Breakfast Bacon, TIAN: . os nk sc ccacccasas 10% Pickwick Club....... 40| lina, 16 0z boxes. ...42 Dried Beet, extra.. wpatecececeeereeneceesees li Nigger Head......... 26|King Bee, longeut.. .22 HAM Prices.........-.--++ee-++- 1B Sv awetas 22\Sweet Lotus.......... 32 Tierces oceans ~y f OUMIATL oc eon. ease 15|Grayling ............. 821 ¢ Bteeret ert ttoes Serna tase arnt wae Honey Dew.......-.. 25/Seal Skin............. ee ate cise ca nore es cakesse sess: % Colonel’s Choice..... 15) Red CHOVOR. ci ccscnss 32 LARD IN TIN PAILS. Queen Bee. ........ 22|Good Luck........... 26 | 3 Pails, 20 in a case.........-.--+ sees 1% Blue Wing........... WENANY oe eons 30 | 5 Pails, 12 im a case. .......- seen eee 7% SNUFF. | 10 Pails, 6 in a CASE ...... 2.6... ee ee eee 75g Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... 70 | 20 b Pails, 4 pailsin case............... 73g ° TAMRCONOY «soc sc cke sec cc cee. @ 55 BEEF IN BARRELS + DOR ies Aecrte @ 44 gp “~ “ RM oo clack ss cass @ 35! Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Bs........ 7 75 Railroad Mills Scotch................. @ 5 Boneless, OXtra.... ..cccccccccccccencccecces ll 50 OR BU oe ics cc aces case canaes @1 30 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. TEAS. TY Japan Ordinary... sesescceeeeceee aoe jouta| Gee Gee Se ’ ee _ GO FOOT... 0. eee cece eee ee ee ees =. | Tongue Sausage.............eseeeeeeeee ees 9 ee it ee eget 8 eS Mame sad< so teaster it ensson soon oa Bologna, straight.............sseeeeeeeeeeees 6 PIO inn narcennecese teense sees =; --39@5 | Bologna, thick...........0.sseeeereee eeee ees 6 ¢ Sonne cect e tee cence eee ee eee arene eens aera TERT COGS og oo 55 i Se a isc he ceed encnccgasaces 6 sa tdewensdess ca. PIGS’ FEET. * i : 30 gr. 50 gr. | Im half barrels.............:seeeeceeeeeeeees 3 00 White Wine...................... 08 Br Tey OMREOP DOFTOIG. «5. 05 5c 5550 cca ceescaaene 1 65 Og he ciac cet ansad seceasces 03 10 _ York State epg envnel eee : 2 16 FRESH MEATS. Lithia... 99 |.Jobn Mohrhard quotes the trade selling do MN oss aca a acess 7d prices as follows: is eee. a Fresh Beef, sides............00.eeeeees 5 @ 6% a0 Hos 1 a Oe so _— oe hind quarters............ 7 @5 Oo Se resse Oe cc daaa canuhaeeccaucuas @ 7% Cocos Shelis, bullk................006-. iM : ? Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... Cream Tartar 5 and 10 i cans......... y CEM, PIE i oe av on coca cs coche c seas f Cy Ee ee Camphor, 02., 2} boxes............... Extract Coffee, V. C...... 2. ..0.0 esas _ do MEEME cicce cues wauee Fire Crackers, per box................ Te DORE I on ng ose gc ceca nsnes 9 50 aa _ On MON cas oc sc ee shee 10 50 TE SE ; a. oo ea ae Oi3 50 ya See Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @25 Clover, mammoth.................-.-- @5 15 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @35 oe medium eG ca ca ca naeukacsaates @5 15 Oe I ioc cccacscuscsdcsnces @30 TUIORING, WRTUAG, oon nn vnceccccuccccdees @2 65 PROTA Do oo ds ci vc ew deans ccs acess @3 50 — Jeuy, = = WM Pee oe ccc sc @5 OILS. a eel OPO ois sn ook ons cs edens ona 234 JMIN Peas, Green Bush. ....... .. 2.5.0. 0.500 oi W a suacesaas meena Peas, Split Prepared................0. @ 3: Water ERGs bs dake ck 0 hn cade ndgenesdeieens lls Weta Meee... .. 5 es... sc os ocnaes @s 00 Michigan Test...... ......sesseeeeneceeeeees 10% d Delay, WO oo, cock coon ccance @2 75 I oo hoe oa ck on ca ok ce neahadancusceees 13% Sage Oe ee @ 15 Ruby elias cone ceded s Weneehes d640 be beeeRC4MeeE 2Y% ’ Sago a eee hae hes cee es en @ 6 LUBRICATING. TAPlOC 2... 2... ee ce cess ec eeee sens cecess MO LA ks acs ccice oo nccndeucccacccuess 11% ? CE COTO og dase ce ceed acececsaacs dene CANDY. FRUITS AND NUTS. oo eee a ae a eau sade cucecscena usecase 31% B : PE COE i occ cicciccsdccccccasseads 26 ren orroe — Eldorado Engine.............ccccecees sae Standard, 25 i boxes. ie 8%@ 9 Peerless Machinery eaeeenededdeeeneeeiianaus 20 Twist, > aaa ad at a er a RAR @9 Challenge Machinery.............-.:+++++++: 19 Cut Loaf do @10 Paraffine ...........+... aude asaanea tay lnn sees 20% 6 MIXED en cussmaes, West VEPSIOIR. 65 cnc nases 9 Roy l, 2 naiis......... ack, 25 to cs auc s cence choc cdceuse us 10 ea. $; BI Ge Waa sves arn cena es cennannees in Wircre, 25 O) AMIS... oo occ cence cess @10 MO cc kccenck hateaccuhess diaacuuces seeclat ME FE ooo ain pon me a cececeenss @9 RS French Cream, 25 tb pails..........++++ @l1% MISCELLANEOUS. ut loaf, 25 cases............ 6. ee es @10 Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market are qrenets 2, woe De ake as seie a eens @10 paying $5 for all offerings of good bark. . FANCY -—IN & b BOXES. aes @9 Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.50 ® b&b for ” Lemon Drops.. ie ee See skaa i @12 clean washed roots. BT isc casacsscsasicacses I Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers are Peppermint Drops...... .......s.eeeees @13 | authorized to offer standard goods at 40 and 5 Chocolate Drops............-.eeeeeeeeees 14. | per cent. off, and second quality at 50 per cent H M Chocolate PAE sa, 18 | off. eo UN TO ogo 5c bs wes cots ccna asdues 10 ceeeuireineneninianns ee ee 22 WOODENWARE, AB Licaowice Drops... «= ....ccenescsees R sg oolndscejacasnncens 14 | Standard Tubs, No. 1.... 5 75 Lozenges, printed................0.0eeee 15 | Standard Tubs, No. 2. 475 WOOP oo sl li ede cy anna esqnestanchaee 14 | Standard Tubs, No. 3.... . 88 ee a 1h Standard Pails, two hoop................006. 1 40 Cie FIA ie ole acc esas deus 2 Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 6 WRG nc i ce aco a seecd : 2 We, OTIS WOO asin ch ncde ct cecccsass 4 50 yo oo, cv eekd cccecaces 18 Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.............+++: 2 % Hand Made Cream................-0000: 18 Butter Pails, ash......... uc dd ae cteedsescas 2 25 Main CHOGIIE ok oo ooo osc ai vacleesacs 168 Butter Ladles................2sesceee eeeee es 1 00 Decorated CreAmiS....... ....ceccecesace 20 MRR I i og hsbc cond ds cc ccceedsaguanes < coca orcs scascasueess 13 WEEs PEBONE ooo oc ccs cos ce ccacscdeccsess 50 Wine MINE oo acc ssc ccadeenece « 9 Clothes Pounders................eeeeeeeeeees 2 25 Wintergreen Berries........... .. ...-- 14 Clothes Pins ae 1s oe oe ods cdees chun cede: 66 FANCY—IN BULK. Mop Sticks... .......... cece cece cece ereeecees 1 00 Lozenges, plain in pails............... @1l% Washboards, single bh ce ecedsees oc celecsueus 1 75 é Lozenges, plain in DbIs...............- @10% We ONO, GORING. . cc cacccccccs senccsess 2 25 aren psietee in — addi uae uae @12% BASKETS. zenges, printed in ccd at saces @1l% ; ee Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. @12% Diamond TE ioc icc s ccc ceeccss « & Gum Drops. in pails @ 6 Betis, TAN TOW DTI. «5 5 55nd nsec ceccacs week | a ms ‘ Pris stat teeraeeeeeeeees $ Bie Bushel, wide band............c0eseceeeeeeees 1% Moas Drops, in pails... 9 @10 Clothes, splint, No. Boece eeeeeeee eee eeee eens 3 50 lacus eaene We... socks @ 9 ee splint, NO. 2.......-.eeeee seer ee ee es 4 25 Sour Drops, in pails................4-- @12 Gashes, epiint, NOS Se ey imperial in patie @2 Clothes, willow NO. 8............ssseeeeeees 6 00 Tnerinia col. ggahg eae elaine @ll CUORNOR, WELW INO. B.. «oo oc cine cccciccsesces 6 50 . p rest %| Clothes, willow No.1......... Seah oleae 7 50 ein 5. 1 50@3 WO WwW ater a ck oo os kc ca sece cdaagnnns 3 7% Oranges, California, fancy............ @ MANE WHE. -caoe + nn eserrens eens hed £ Oranges, Choice ..............eeeeeeeee @5 00 er f Oranges, peg Pe oo lial eases COUNTRY PRODUCE. ee 5 xs 50] APPes~Plenty at 25 per Du. Oranges, digesina Cee oes ead @ Beets—In good supply at 30c per bu. ENNIO OI oo anc ce secs sencsennnnes @ Beans—Good hand-picke yor 2 Oranges, Imperials...........--..+2+++ 4 75@5 00} ¢2 10 8 wruincicrsacima tire icant ont TOPO GHOME. osc ce sins cece eseeces 5 50@6 00} *"" Lemons, taney Oe ela ene 6 SO Butter—Creamery is in good demand and Lemons, Califormia................e0+. fairly firm at 20@22c. Dairy is active 5 Figs, layers, new, @ D.............--+- W G15 | 29¢ . ° ary Sears a Figs, Bags, 50 D......... cee eee eee eee es WAtOR LEBUG GO. 5 snes -ccancccccecenes 2 5% | Corn—Green, 7c. B doz. Dates, 4 dO dO ...... ssc ce eeee es eeeee 6% Cabbages—New, 75@80e per dozen. Dates, Hard 10 box @ 0200020000. OME | Gacrete don ver aT a Dates, Fard 50 i box @ D.............- @ 8 ae : Dates, Persian 50 box @b.......... 7 @™%| Celery—20@2% P doz. Pine Apples, @ doz............-...4.- 2 00@3 00} Cheese—Factorymen are now holding July , NUTS. a and August make at 104@lLle, in consequence . Almonds, aoe eaghacseades onedas nner of which jobbers have been compelled to " “ California 2222. = @1z_s|: raise quotations to U4@lec. Brazils neace ceeeeeeeceseasnsaceeccceens G9 Cucumbers—10 # doz. 5, ilberts, scan eo gir cereepeeniy et b Dried Apples—Evaporated, l6c ® b; quarter- Walnuts, Grenoble................0055 15 @i7 | ed and sliced, 6@7c B b. a “ ORIG coe cc uaciavssviueeane 15 Dried Peaches—Pared, lic. ' * MPPONNOM. onc oc cs dene co snan anne ll Se : ead Maree WE Wc, .0.2cceg cus wxoie |. Seee—Dull. Jobbers are paying le and “ Missouri..........ccc....2..-8 @ 9 | holding at 12c. Cocoanuts, 100.... 2.2.2... cece ee en eee 4 50@5 00} Grapes—Concords, llc per Bb. cia Sad. vee . @ 4% Honey—Searce at 10@l4c. Choice _do Oe aes ee Hay—Baled is moderately active at $15 Fancy H.P. do GO ...... 6. eee ee ee @ 5%| perton intwoand five ton lots and $13 i Choice White, Va.do ..........-...-++ @ 6% oe lots : ” Fancy HP,. Va do .......e eee ee ee ee 74@ 7% ’ é H. P.Va...... Lug ienencoaeneansecguieces @t Muskmelons—We per doz. —_——— Onions—Very scarce, readily commanding HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. $3@$3.50 per bbl. é : Perkins & Hess pay as follows: Parsley—25e ® doz. Scarce, a 92 5K ae i Peaches—Hale’s Early and River’s are in fair reen.... 4@ 6 alf skins, green see eb Ge is Part cured... 7 @7%|_orcured....7 @8 supply at $2.25 = bu. Fullcured. oc 74@ 814 Deacon skins, Pears— $1@$1.50 per bu. Dry hides and * | piece..... 10 @30 Potatoes—New, 75c per bu. " BEDS pics eeus 8 ees ae Pop Corn—2Ke ¥ Db. Old wool, estimated washed # tb......25 @26 Tomatoes—31 @ bu. Tallow.....-.5-s Oe ase le sheet cond 3 @8%| Turnips—dic 8 bu. WwooL. , a 2 Fine washed @ ib 22@25|Coarse washed.. 26Q28 Watermelons—$il @ $15 per 100. Medi ‘:....-4-- 27@30|Unwashed........ 16@22 GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. L — Wheat—2c higher. City millers pay 75c for OYSTERS AND FISH. Lancaster and 72¢c for Fulse and Clawson. r F, J. Dettenthaler preach ag follows: Corn—Jobbing generally at 52ec in 100 bu. Fairhaven Counts ..... ..2-ee cece sees eee eeeees 40} lots and 47%c in carlots. FRESH FISH. Oats—White, 35c in small lots and 30@3le in — pom luce ak ke cabana head eh ee en hd ade d i car lots. ee “tit g| Bye—48@50e bu. Wall-eyed PIKE... .-.2- seers Sens 7 Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ® cwt. senate PIKE... 6. cece ee ee ree eee e eee e erence 8 Flour—No change. Patent,$5.10% bbl.in sacks SEOT SCOR onc airsseesestr re secci eet g| amd $800 in wood. Straight, $4.10 % bbl. in WATE. is. ace cadnes Gutcasdecnosccctocsaseageund sacks and $4.30 in wood. zoel sere Ly ek coadendae be se dcannecenedban 4 Meal—Bolted, $2.40 @ bbl. White gu] _ Mill Feed—Sereenings, $14 @ ton. Bran, $15 yy Brook Trout. s<+0s = Ura Drei : yorarz Ammotitati...\......... 2... @i 00 TA UPrBi...... 2... ee cee sees eee ee eee 8@ 10} Hydrarey Unguentum.... 1... 1.7 @ 40 GUMML. PEVOPANGVINE . ooo. ee @ 65 Acacia, ast picked Cee @1 00 a AM o. 0c eee eeee eee. A oan = 0“ 2n es r INTE TNO Nae Ode dana dace gene deh e aun en dans T5@ fe er eee Seer eetetemnontaeas ee a tee, Rea 4 WOE 10 ‘| iia ee Ge G5} SOCOfOMIE ee: @5 15 Me 75@1 00 | Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... @ 27 Abie eek, ee 0... . .. 50@ 60 Liquor Potass Arsinitis............... 16@ 12 “ Cape, (om @ Ww Lupuline Ph ecaehs dace boha cc neeeduceucus 85@1 00 “ Socotrine, (po. 60)............... @ bo igoepodiam ee 55D 60 AMMONIBG 6. a 25@ 80 | ACIS... ..- eee ee eee settee eter eeees 80@ 85 Assafoetida, (po. 80)... @ 15} Magnesia. Sulph, (bbl. 1%4)............. 2@ 3 eoranen 50E€ 55 | 2 WRG AGM de We da bad doe «6 bee 6 oe « PUK Renzomum | 0@ 65 | Mannia,S,F.... 9%@1 00 PE ns oo osc iss ..-. 26@ 28| Morphia, 8, P.@W.... 3 35@3 60 Catechu, Is, (4s, 14; 8, 16)........... @ B oe 5. N. Y.Q. & C. Co...........3 83@3 30 Muphoran, pO. 35 10 ao CANTON... oe... eee ee ee eee aa = IDB oe bee e sale as cee @ 80 oe ise Shea debate aa 10@ 10 MARTDORR BO. cooks bie occ. 75@ 80 Me ge tt SD Qe BU) anna en secacccences OW Guaiacum, ae @ 35 Os. PODIt.......... ae tastes teeeeeeeecees 22@ 25 Kino, (po. 25)........... Hele Tae etn @ 2 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.Co............ @2 63 ee @1 25 | Bicis Lig, N. C.. % walis, doz.......... @2 70 Sen tet. °. @ 40 Li Ee a ee G1 40 RO 1G Tico ccs ns cose cas ss 1 CURR EB | Re POI ao sans co ccc cnn sane ns @ 85 Shellac... .. 5), ee 1s@ 25| Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)................... @ 50 ee IORGNOA fc 25@ 30 Piper Nigra, (PO, Be) eee reese ee eaes @ Mragacanth eo . 30@ 75 ine Alba, (PO. 35),... 2... 2. ceeeeeenee @ % HERBA—In ounce packages. We ER sees o wah aece ae ua bn cece es am | Min. oh Plumbi PO ae gle 4@ 15 aanrun ..... 99 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. @ 40 a ee ea 9; | Potassa, Bitart, com.................. @ lb ie 23 Potass Nitras, Rie shc et &@ 10 Menthe Piperita 0066.60. ; 93 | Potass Nitras....... gyctttsteese sees eees i@ 9% e o ‘ 25 Pulvis foeene et onil........ .. ..... 1 10@1 20 Sic oe 30 Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D.Co., doz. @A 25 Manacotany, Vio... 29 aoa OR oki. 55Q . “Sia On ce ew &@ eI. Vc. bse havi eden i ine eae es Ban 60 MAGNESIA. Cin, 5 German................,.... 42Q, 53 Caisingd Pap oe ae 55@ 60| Rubia Tinctorum................ 2@ 13 Carbonate, Pat oe 22 | Saccharum Lactis, pv................. "Sa Carbonate, Pat........ Diels a catdeeea 20@ 22) Sacchar WOR OY a one ks cane cc @ 35 Ourbonste, KR. aM... GD BO ee eee le. 2@ V5 Carbonate, Jennings. .....°... 2... 2@ 386 Sanguis POOR £0@ 50 bol OLEUM. oe Deh eeke uae cc, Cia tdad cca. wn = Adbantinm.. 3 ..-+...-.soysse sees APOC M Geom Mono sees: ae gz oy Perse ease se seeensseeces t Re ie. @ 5 Amydalae, Amarae.............. 0.000: 7 25@7 75 Seldlitz Milture ¢ z ae Pag ee ee PS @ 2 uranti PE oc ene e ceca. Qe ee @ 30 TEM cic is ag -ipSsieq ea). ce Gomer OU Snuff, ateakos. 2 VOm.....:..... @ 35 Cajiputi .......... cece ce eee e ee - %@1 00! Snulf, Scotch, Do. Voes.........00.77° @ 3 eee sean emewdin ABS L545 ba tidses « ae os soda Doran. (po. O)...... (4G 9 MOOR a ce wal ceed ete kc eles aa Bd 5) | Soda et Potoss Tart.......... IQ 35 RONOOU oe ees ce acs oy ce ak @l1 50 | Soda Carb.. nse . EAU AN As eo ou UMA ooo oes cca cc dds cick: uaa Gwe. 10. 6 MPN eer ia eas - Oe Aen... sk. ae Conium MAG. occa, ane 651 Soda Sulphas,....................... ao 2 ee ee ee ; seein ry mpte, BANer CO... fo) ow. 50@ 55 MORO iio ak eas ens as soc mae ck os W@10 Spts. Myreia Dom................ a2 00 PIROCDUDILOR icin se aan acces wae suc 90@L 00 Byte. Myrcia Peer a o3 50 MUNI ooo cen cuss es 1 20@1 30 | Spts. Vini Rect, (bbi. 2 08).1.2.2271111. @B 25 PEROT ce ee eo: * 25@2 35 | Strychnia, Crystal.. ................, @1 30 OPA ee @ 75} Saiphur, Subl................... 2%@ 344 Gouin, Gem. e0l....................- &5@ 75 | Sulphur, Roll.............. 02020... 84@ Br NN oso cian ehana ii icdiar ivan ME PT I i isis ones ive coccee cic ce. S@ 10 POO ee .+ses. 530@2 00 | Terebenth Venice..................... 22@ 30 Lavendula Lec iataleda eee cbnnteg sans a Oe TOOEIONNOD 6.5. piaccseccnosecscacacc A Ge OS RUE co ee Cube ches ctcccacl 1k ee ee I 9 DKO@I6 OO OO ei ek cele ss. oe © Mee Bak i "| 8 ee ee: Ce 50G8 5) ee ee ee ™ 5 MOM GIA VETIG. o.oo. ccs ce dew csc as 5 50@8 00 ' Bbl Gal ace af Wee . ce pas MURINE aie ina cciekc cs, 70 75 ge VES m WO bao Offre... ....:......... A j Ma... iat) eo BOS Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)................. 1u@ 12) Linseed, pure raw.................. 47 50 OE eas Cav Wcuawcceay hy aes Ua eaa ass 1 42@1 60 | Linseed, boiled ...............0...... 54 58 eee 15@1 (0 | Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 50. 60 ae AWWA Sei Weenie snes tied ee4 ah gales ee = Spirite Turpentine................... 35 40 WOE ee dee dina setae wacceds seus O15 PAINTS ea a, 90@1L 00 es Bbl Lb Santal ...... 0... . cece ee eee wees oe .-8 50@7 00} Hed Venetian.................. 1% 2@ 3 ROEMEMER 5h Rhett aechan debe eect ea au 42@ 45/| Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Sinapis, ORG oe ee i o. @ 65] Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 BR ee a ove va deed ccc. ses @1 50 | Putty, commercial ............ 2ig 2%@ 3 Thyme pus bk a soe eee ie be obs ees eee ce eee 49@ o0 | Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3 : Ms ee ccc anak aks @ 60 | Vermilion, prime American.. 13@16 TOOT CORIAS. coos oc coc ue ciel eae. 156@ 20 pS aabaragg ss RAN... 5... 55@Q58 POTASSIUM. reen, Peninsular............. 16Q17 Dichvomate coool ce a, 1s@ 15| Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6@ 6% MN ieee isch kc tv ccc cones, 42@ 45| Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6@ 634 OOPS OR. (MOC eee sche, eae cy 18@ 20] Whiting, white Spanish..... . % > ( ) @ 20 ta ° 10 ONO he ie ciel 3 0@3 25 | Whiting, Gilders’.............. @0 Pruesinte 2.6 rc oes 1. 2@ 28 he dope raris re aie oe . 110 hiting. Paris English cliff... 1 49 RADIX ; ae . i o,, | Pioneer Prepared Faints .... 1 20@1 40 MRO an tS, 25@ 30 Swiss Viil ae ste . > 9 PRON og ho coc a ecu ce coe, lb@ |" — ro re Paints.. 1 001 20 ‘ VARNISHES. ream ag HAR a enia A tinea che ont aiitieas Ks ae = NO. } Pure Cogan coe ek 1 10@i 20 Gentiana, (po. 15) lisegty es cr tees on uggs cat 100 55 | HxXtra Turp........ eeu cesadec ass eee due 1 60@1 7% Glochventin ae 16@ 18 COGOR BOGE ied. oss oe sewn dc cede 2 T5@3_ 00 if a Avante Fane kaae awa @ 2% No. 1 Turp Furniture.............! %...1 00@1 30 ices: hae a Nw AM oan 04 5 ons 1s@ 29 | EXtra Turk Damar... ee. 1 55@1 60 Inula, pO........0.0scccccscceccccceeess, 15@._ 20 | 28PO0 Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. bs li POCORN ei cot econ ccna cece cs cs 1 75@2 00 i UG I opel. eo pce k ce occas 25 i on ae °@ | APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. fea ey pee lean bes ucaec. we 7 ; WMGODRVUUIN, DO... asics ide se cecaave 5 Qus hman Ss PONOe ee ae ee: 7561 00 Pa “Sls * PV eee ecee cree ee eee eer eens ee enee T5@1 35 PS es ea ieee cccce oes tec ies 48@ 53 Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..............c00es @ 2 BOPDOUTOPI ick. kkk ee ce obec ces 35@ 40 ROC RR ee es kee ec csa 40M 45 Smilax, Otficinalis, H.................. @ 40 eT " AOE el. @ 20 f . 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Always kcep an open Inhaler in your store Dinteriz Odorate. <2 66. eee, 1 75@1 85 | and let your customers try it. A few inhalations wil Foenienlum .. 2. 66.665 bse uc @ 15 not hurt the Inhaler, and will do more to demonstrate Foenugreek, po................... a" 6@ 8 its effieiency than a half hour’s talk. Retail price Lini ee a 3%@ 4 50 cents. Fer Circutars and TESTIMONIALS address ial ae (obi, 3) Stet ete e eee ee cree weeee 3@ 41 H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich. » ord, 9 Daevereccccescssvecee ve 372 | rade supplied by Phalaris Canarian.......:............. 8%@1% : Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, RA oie et iis ec 5@ 6) And Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. Pibaee, Ae a 8@ 9) — a PATI ess oe an, H@ i?) SPIRITUS. ‘ Frumenti, Wy 2; & 00 a ke ee 2 00@2 50 | ANSY GAPSU LE Pruments, D. Be oes ic iieee cond 1 75@2 UC | ee Frument! sgfetecresscoucnnyeocsee 1 10@1 50 | THE LATEST DISCOVERY. uniperis Co. 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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 te the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACIL- ITIES for meeting the wants of this class of buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special ef- forts in this direction have received from hundreds or our customers the most satis« fying recommendations. Wine and Lignor 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 custom-~ 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 Drigeists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favors ites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gils, Branies & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim te make as complete and perfect as possible, For special quantities and quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list Patent Medicines, Etc., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. The Michigan Tradesmal. ROLLICKING ROVER. Story of a Dog That Fought in the Mexi- can War. In writing the history of the Mexican war, full justice has been done General Scott, the bravery of our officers and the determined courage of our men, yet one no- ble character, who did much to encourage the hearts of our soldiers on their first land- ing on the Mexican shore, has been entirely overlooked. During the year 1846, a proclamation was issued by President Polk that ‘‘war existed on the Rio Grande,” and it is a historical fact that war with Mexico was never for- mally declared. When the call for volunteers was made, public meetings were held in New York City, and the speakers called upon the patri- otism of the people to march through Mex- ico in defense of National honor, to whip the enemy and ‘revel in the halls of Mon- tezuma.” This last sentence fired the enthusiasm of the boys, and in a few days a regiment was formed under the command of Colonel Ward B. Burnet and taken to Fort Hamil- ton, where they were taught the duties of soldiers. Among the volunteers was a lad named Charley, who, without the permission of his parents, enlisted. He was only sixteen years of age, but had all the ardor and love of country which an older man might pos- sess, and with this the boyish affection for many things that had been his in the home life, so that he begged the Colonel to allow his old playmate, Rover, to go with him to the fort. Rover was an immense, full-blooded New- foundland, about four years old, and weigh- ed fully one hundred pounds, immense in height and jet black, with the exception ofa beautiful, white curly chest. He soon became a general favorite with the men and officers, and made his appear- ance regularly at the messes of both. The Colonel became so interested in Rover, that, when petitioned by Charley and the boys, “Say, Colonel, won’t you let Rover go to Mexico with us!” he, smilingly acquiescing, said, ‘‘Yes, he can go with us, and, boys, we will adopt him.” So Rover become “The Dog of the Regiment.” A silver collar was given him by the offi- cers and he was duly enrolled a member of the regiment and he never failed to appear on parade with the Colonel and his staff. When the regiment marched down the pier to embark for Mexico, headed by the Colonel on horseback, Rover trotted at his side, head and tail high in the air, and he in reality received as many plaudits and cheers as did the troops, and he showed his appreciation of it by an occasional ‘*Bow- wow-wow” that waked the su:rouuding echos and increased the excitement and en- thusiasm of the occasion. On board ship, poor Charley was sea-sick nearly the entire voyage and consigned to his bunk, and it was a pleasant sight to see old Rover make his rounds and visit him. He would raise himself, put his paws on the edge of the berth and look over at his sick playmate as if to say, ‘‘Poor Charley, I am awfully sorry for you;” then, with a good- bye wag of his tail, he would start off to finish the round of the ship—first to the Colonel and then to the different messes of the men, there being no place forbidden the old fellow, for the fact was, every one was glad to welcome and divide anything they were eating, with him. After a long and unpleasant voyage, the regiment disembarked at the Island of Lo- bas in the Gulf of Mexico, where Rover gained a still stronger hold upon the affec- tions of the men by saving the life of a sol- dier who had fallen overboard. Orders were soon received directing the regiment to re-embark for Vera Cruz and to prepare for an attack upon this import- ant point. When the fleet of vessels came to anchor off the Mexican coast opposite Vera Cruz, Kover sprang into the first boat that left the ship, and, pushing aside the bowman, he sat watching the shore and wagged an answering shake with his tail whenever the man spoke or patted him. When so near the shore that every object could be clearly defined, Rover was heard to give first a terrific growl, then a deeper and fiercer bark that denoted rage; and ere the boat had passed the last line of break- ers, before beaching, Rover sprang into the waves and, breasting his way through them in a noble manner, he made fora point on the beach where now plainly visibly to the men were a pack of Mexican dogs. On gaining the shore, he pitched into this body of Mexican representatives of his own kind, and soon drove them yelping out of sight over the lows and hills. This courageous charge of Rover up the beach so excited the men in the boats, that with one accord a cheer of exultation and pride burst from them, which, echoing back to the transports, so aroused them on board, that, in a twinkling, the spars and rigging were lined with men eager to learn the eause of the excitement. Then with a mighty roar came such an answering cheer from them as was been heard before or since in old Mexico, the waving of hats and the continued huzzas of men filled with delight and excitement at the result of their first battle, won by their noble old Rover. After this, Rover was a well-known, hon- ored and welcomed member of the Ameri- can army, and was with them at the capture of Vera Cruz and in the battles that follow- ed, up to Cherubusco, where the poor fel- low met his fate. He was as brave as he was noble, and carried himself gallantly in every engage- ment. This sketch is written as a tribute to the memory of Rover—a dog. Born, N. Y., 1841—Died on the field of Cherubusco, 1847. “Strength without insolence, Courage without ferocity.” RoBERtT M. Fioyp. —~——-2- <> ——__—- Sault Ste. Marie as a Flour Center. The Chicago Tribune recently outlingd a magnificent project, as yet largely on paper, by which Sault Ste. Marie is to rival Minne- apolis as a wheat-flour manufacturing cen- ter. It describes Lake Superior as the mill- pond, and mentions a proposed canal around the Sault Ste. Marie locks as the source of unlimited water-power, with 190,000 cubic feet of water tumbling over the dam every second. A syndicate has been organized with $1,000,000 capital, which is under $100,- 000 bonds to complete the canal within two years anda half. There the wheat now ground at Minneapolis is to be ground in transit. The Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific are there to offer transit when navi- gation is closed. The impossibility of a lack of power at any time is dwelt upon as a basis for the belief that a chief glory of tise Flour City is to be taken from her. IV Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly for food, is made of only the best white corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. U The popularity of. Muzzy’s Corn and Sun Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, aggregating many million of pounds each we 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. VOIGT MILLING CO., Proprietors of Crescent Roller Mills Manufacturers of the following well known brands: Crescent, © White Rose, Vienna, Royal Patent, AND ALL WHEAT FLOUR. The Great Health Food. W. end Pearl St. Bridge, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. All Trains daily except Sundny. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex......8:45 am 9:05 am Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex..... 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex 7:30pm 10:40pm Cadillac Express... ... 3:40 pm 5:05 pm Saginaw Express. . apse aclasbhons “11:25 am 7:20am bh shah oenosissss on 10:30 am. 4:10pm Saginaw express runs through solid. 9:05 a.m. train has chair car to Traverse City and Mackinaw, 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Traverse City, Pe- toskey and Mackinaw City. 10:40 p. m, train has sleeping cars for Traverse Clty, Petoskey and Mackinaw. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express................ 7:15am Fort Wayne Express...........+-++ 10:30 am 11:45 am Cincinnati Express..............-+ 4:40pm 5:00 pm Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex..10:50 pm a: 15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 p. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadivn points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. Arrive. E00 Oi osc nether cds nevesccnwa ces Sic sceheascuon 10:10am ey ee er 4:30 pm BAD hn io on oc cc ante on nen cas secenssesnscncbecece 8:50pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Lansing & Northern. Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division. DEPART Saginaw EXpress......cccccsovcserssevccscscaces 7 30am Saginaw EXpress. ........ccccccccscsccevecsscces 410pm ARRIVE. Grand Rapids Express.............00+ sscoceeee 11 25am Grand Rapids Express.............csecsscseeees 10 30pm All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot. Trains run solid both ways. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Atrives. WORE cis pibancededa sddchechecocens 9:10am 3:55 pm Day EXpross........0.-cecccsccoes 12:30 pm 9:45 pm SNight EXproese, ......0200rcceseeees 11:00 pm 5:45am Muskegon Express........ .- ..++ 5:00 p m 11:00am *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on ry night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful attendants without ex- tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m., and through coach on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains. Newaygo Division. eaves. or BEER OOE 050 cccsscccstoscccnccansenns i :05 pm 4:20pm EXPeGB, ..00ccccocesevcccncesscesces 8:25am 10:20am All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot. The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin, where close connection is made with F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. V. A, GAVETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent. J.B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. Le > Arrive. Ex. & Mail. N. Y. Mail. N.Y, Mail. N. Y. Ex 4:35pm _ 7:45am..Grand Rapids. 9: 45am 6:15pm 6:55pm 9:02am..Allegan....... 8:28am 56:00am 7:05pm 10:06am..Kalamazoo... 7:30am 4:90pm 8:30pm 11:35am..,White Pigeon. 5:55am 2:20pm 2:30am 5:05 pm..Toledo........ 11:00pm 9:45am 8:30am 9:40pm..Cleveland..... 6:40pm 5:35am 2:50 pm ae eee eden was 11:55am 11:40pm 5:40am m..Chicago....... 11:30pm 6:50am 50 pm p : A local relight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 pm,carry- ing passengers as faras Allegan. All trains daily ex- cept Sunday. J. W. MCKENNEY, General Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +tSteamboat Express..........-.00+ 6:25pm 6:30 p m ,tThrough IE 5 vids con's sso o-06ee ob 10:40am 10:50 am *tEvening Express...........seeee08 3:25pm 3:50 pm *Limited Express..........0+.ee006 6:50am 6:50am +Mixed, with coach................ 11:00am GOING WEST. tMorning EXpress.........+.+++++. 1:05 pm 1:10pm +Through Mail..................+.. 5:00pm 5:10pm +Steamboat Express. a 10:45pm PURER os cis anne sons nbvaniarcosensse 7:45am *Night Express. ..........seseessees 5:25am 5:40am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:50 am Express make close connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:30 am the following morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner car and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Gro. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager Chicago. Michigan Central. Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit MxOrewe..¢..oooccasscceeeciicccosccvoncnede 6:15am Day EXpress.......ssssseesseesereceeeeserceseeee 1:10pm *Atlantic EXpress.........cccceccesecccncvecseces 10:10 pm BRE oi Goes icaac oles Ka penecesces ces baesed anes 6:50am ARRIVE. "Pacific EXPTees. ......52.ccsercsccsnccccscescccs 6:00am MONE bic obss bhscckds esta benvesercsvacsessanscaspe 3:00 pm Grand Rapids EXpress..........esceeceseseaeees 10:15 pm i ok os oi en cen ks 5:15pm *Daily. All other daily pt Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacifi press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec- tions mee at Detroit with all through trains East over M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.) D. W. Tolieaetne Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. O. W. Ruaaxs, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway. WEST EAST AM PM Leave] {Arrive AM PM 11:30 506... oon eree Grand Rapids.......... 10:30 3:40 PM AM _ Ly Ar PM AM 10:45 *6:50 .......6.. St Ignace 1.......... 8:30 5:30 8:00 1:00 Ar....... Marquette........ Lv 2:05 10:00 8:83 1:48 Af,..ecsre Negaunee ........ Ly 1:85 9:15 BAR TD sichecerss Ishpeming.......... 12:50 9:05 11:45 5:25 Houghton .......... 9:20 6:00 3:14 6:34 Ar......... Calumet ........ Ly *8:06 4:26 PM PM AM PM Only direct route between the East and South and the Cover Peninsula of Michigan. E W ALLEN, Gen’! Pas The Stauadard of Excellence KINGSFORD'S Oswego “Dilver Gloss” Sr" A. EE eC Ez. Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc. THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY. WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME! ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS. “Pure: CLARK, JHAWELL & CO. ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR ELASTIC STARCH. ITS A WINNER. Your Stock is Not Complete Without It. INCLUDE A BOX IN YOUR NEXY ORDER. BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Wholesale Grocers. IMPORTERS OF Teas, Lemons ald Foreign Fruits. SOLE AGENTS FOR “Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros, Soaps and Niagara Starch. Send for Cigar Catalogue and ask for Special Inside Prices on anything in our line. 1, WKUNARD & SUNS, WHOLESALE CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMP GOODS AND STONEWARE. 134, 136, 138, 140 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. To Insure Prompt Shipment Order Fruit Jars direct from us, HEADQUARTERS Shtate eae : . Mason's Porcelain Top Fruit Jars. FOR THE Excelsior Cooking Crock. PRICES. @ gross. ne i os ioc ines cee a. $9.50 Positively the finest kettle for cooking any Quarts......................eeee eee 10.25 kind of food. Those who try it will have no % Sallons.............. ss. seeeeee eee 13.25 other Globe Fr oy Dds obs sees dies caeie 15 : . : obe Pruit ars, pints ix-g4e 4 Cheapest Preserving Kettle. Absolutely Fire ee po: 12.00 Proof. Not affected by Heat or Acid. _ | eae... 56). 15.00 Fact Pri ey PSO ory Prices. ide st m Preserve Jars. TomatoJugs. Apple a » Butter Jars. Blackberry Jam Jars. MU ee “ 8. 0 Sherwood’s Incomparable Fine Glazed Stoneware, Dark. White. Stew pans * gal.. -- doz. 1.50 1.75 Loudis Lhe asia ees! 2.00 2.25 TUE ss eee, o 66 Oe. 00 SHERWCOD’S. doz a gal. Pres, Jars..... 15 4 17 % “ Butter Crocks bie Regular Stoneware. per doz. White Line@........ . 90 % gal. Preserve Jars. Stone Cover...... .90 lgal. Butter crocks ty ” “ - esc White Lined.. Lia * _ " . * eee 2 gal. Butter Crocks 4! re Tomato Jugs and corks... cucecs White Lined.. moe OM lkakesccdecus 1.40 Tea Pots, Corks for % gal. Tomato jugs........... 1 1: ae Coffee Pots, Ice Mugs, ee wax, ‘aus —— in peer he ‘ 03 HONEY BEE COFFEE Best in the Market for the ne PRINCESS BAKING POWDER, EQUAL TO THE BEST MADE. BEE MILLS’ ‘SPICES Absolutely Pure. ABSOLUTE SPICES Absolute Baking Powder. 100 per cent. Pure. Manufactured and sold only by ED. TELFER, Grand Rapids. AG GIBALOVARNVA 0 MSH" DO xOoOU Se &. If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to S. HEYMAN & SON, 48 Canal St, Grand Rapids. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO., MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich. @ MOSELEY BROS., WEROLESALE \Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce, ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY. If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota- toes, will be pleased to hear from you. 6, 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa Sircél, © GRAND RAPIDS " a