GRAN D RAPIDS, WEDN ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1887.

NO.,210,

 

a See d Specialy,
The Most Complete Assortment
, Michigan. Don’t Buy un-
you get my prices.

ALPRED J. BROWN

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

16-18 N. Division St, Grand Rapids
BELKNAP
Wa om i sleigh C0
Ww A G O NS!
2 ae

Lumbermen’s and

River Tools.
We carry a large stock of material, and have
ena Tou for making first-class Wagons
kinds.
G2 Special attention given to Repairing,
Painting and Lettering.
Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

 

 

 

SCHUMACHER’ ROLLED VEN

Oatmeal, Parched Farinose and Rolled
Wheat in Original Packages.
‘ a use these choice cereals is to learn how
0 live.

EDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker
Jeweler,

4k CANAL SY.,
Grand Rapids, - Mich.

 

 

TRANSIT? MILL COMPANY
Flovr, Feed,
Grdin and
Baled Hay.

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.
0. E. Brown, Gen. Mgr,

GRAND RAPIDS

—TO THE—

FRONT

—AGAIN.—

We are now supplying the Trade with our
new Brand of Soap

“BEST FAMILY.”

It is the LARGEST and BEST bar of
white PURE SOAP ever retailed at Five
Cents a bar. Respectfully,

Grand Rapids Soap Go.

 

 

 

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A. J. BowNE, President.
Gzo. 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.

Grandpa s Wonder Soap

THE BEST SELLING GOODS ON
THE MARKET,

MANUFACTURED BY

Beaver & Co., Dayton, Ohio.

SOLD BY

A. §, MUSSELMAN & 60,

Grand Rapids, - Mich.

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,

101 Ottawa 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, etc. Write for Catalogue.

118 Canal Street, 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.

POTATOES.

We give prompt personal attention to
thesale 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.

Wa. Hi Thompson & 60,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference
FELSENTHAL, GRoss & MILLER, Bankers,
Chicago.

 

ASK YOUR JOBBER
Independent Oil Gos

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.

CHARLES A. COYE,

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.
%3 CANAL ST.. - GRAND RAPIDS.

COOK & PRINZ,

Proprietors of the

Valley City Show Case Mfg. Co,

Manufacturers of

SHOW GASES.

Prescription | Cases and Store Fixivres

F ALL KINDS.
SEND FOR ‘CATALOGUES,

SEND FOR ESTIMATES.

38 West Bridge St. Grand Rapids,

Telephone 374.

 

EATON i LYON,

Importers,
Jobbers and
Retailers of

- Wecarry a full tine of
‘Seeds of every variety,

- both for field and garden.:

Parties in want should
write to or see the

 

 

PIONEEN PREPARED

PAINT.

We have a full stock of this well-known
brand of

MIZ2ED FPAINT

and having soldit for over SIX YEARS can
recommend it to our customers as be-
ing a First Class article. We sell it

Guarantee:

 

 

 

On the Manufacturers’

When two ormore coats of our PIONEER PRE-
PARED PAINT is applied as received in original
packages, and if within three years it should crack or
Seal off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to
re-paint the building at our expense, with the best
White Lead or such other paint as the owner may se-
lect. 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

“THaaelin Parkins Drag Co.

Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids.

Try POLISHINA, best FurnitureFin -
ish made.

SALT FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. _
we Oysters the Year Around _¢4

 

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 & G0,

lint, Mich.

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 5c. cigars and that the
quality gets better all the time.. The demand
continues to increase. Let us tell you, if eu
want to Ss a paged that your customers will
e pl h, the sooner you order Tansill’s

Punch the i Dee tates Grocer.

Sample or-

 

FORTY YEARS AGO.
Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN.

I beg that no person will think me ego-
tistic, as that period in my life is long past;
but if some of my early experience as a boy
will, in part, assist or benefit the boys who
may come after me, I shall feel amply re-
paid for its recital. It may have been
chance only, that ‘‘my lines have been cast
in pleasant places,” but su¢h i is a fact and I
have no complaint to make,

Is it Shakespeare or Bacon who says,
“There is a divinity which shapes our
ends”? Boys are little, undeveloped men.
Not always, but yet often, the whole future
of the man depends on the training and edu-
cation of the boy. I say not always, as it
occasionally occurs that a boy is forced to
learn a trade or study for a profession for
which he has a positive dislike; and al-
though he may succeed in obtaining a de-
gree, he will abandon the work at the first
opportunity. I say this by way of preface.

My first introduction to the mercantile
business was at the age of fourteen years.
I passed from the school room into a large
general variety store, in the village (now
city) of St. Thomas, Canada. My employer
was a Highland Scotchman—Murdoch Mc-
Kenzie—a man six feet, three inches in
height; in build a perfect Apollo; he was
well-educated, thoroughly disciplined, and
a sterling business man. Like most large
men he was calm in his demeanor, cool and
collected under all circumstances, and a
man of rare good nature. He was exact
and particular in everything, and was always
scrupulously neat in his person and dress.
He had a bow and a smile for the humblest
customer and I need not add that he was a
general favorite with all. I possessed an
innate desire to become a shop-keeper; and
whatever merit I may possess in that busi-
ness may be credited to the tuition and ex-
treme care and kindness of this man and
the other clerks in his employ.

I recollect what a very generous man I
thought him about one week after entering
his service. He had probably noticed the
affectionate look I gave the raisins when-
ever a customer required some, and, know-
ing a boy’s appetite for that fruit, he said to
me, ‘Franklin, at any time you feel like it,
eat all the raisins you wish! You are ex-
pected to eat what you please.” It is un-

necessary to say that when. left alone one

evening soon after, ‘tthe boy” ate more
raisins than one small stomach could care
for, and it was about a year afterward be-
fore that poor stomach would consent to
care for another plum! Since ‘‘older grown,”
it is my firm conviction that Mr. McKenzie
was altogether too kind in his designs.

The agreement with my step-father was
that for the first year’s service I was to re-
ceive the munificent sum of $20 with board
aud lodging; ‘‘and,” said Mr. McKenzie,
“the boy will in that time break twenty
dollars worth of crockery in handling it,
which really makes his salary $40.” Think
a moment, boys! How many of you would
accept a position at this salary and put in
at least fifteen hours a day fora year? It
would be hard to find one. It is probable
that I did reach nearly the amount of break-
age supposed, as I distinctly remember of one
day attempting to carry too much, at once
and broke the value of $11 at one crash. While
punishment was expected for this, a kind
but serious reprimand was all I received;
and the manner in which the reproof was
administered was productive of more good
than a sound flogging would have been. I
fully determined to be more careful, and
with added instructions how to handle the
goods, I broke nothing of any account after-
ward.

Twenty dollars was at that time consid-
ered a fair salary for a boy fresh from the
country, as many at that age were glad to
commence with their board and lodging only.
An incident. occurred in connection with
that salary which, as Mr. McKenzie told a
friend, showed the Yankee hlood in my
veins. At the close of the first year, I was
called into the private office for ‘‘a talk.”
‘‘Well, Franklin,” said he, ‘‘your first year
has closed. , You have been a good boy and
I would like you to remain. How much
do you expect for the next year?” Of course,
I could not decide, but would leave it to his
generosity. ‘‘Well, then, how will it please
you if I double your salary?” I was quite
satisfied with that, particularly ds the past
Christmas his gift of shoes, hat and gloves
Was a generous and timely one. At the ex-
piration of the second year, I was called to
his side to talk over the matter of a coming
year’s salary, and, leaving him to name the
amount, he at once inquired if it would be
satisfactory to again double it. I answered
that it would. As I had considered the mat-
ter and made up my mind to remain in ser-
vice until the age of twenty-five, the thought
of what amount I might-be able to save in
that time was uppermost in my mind, and
at the first favorable moment I again sought
Mr. McKenzie and innocently inquired if
we could not at once close a bargain for

> the next nine years, if he intended to con-
tinue doubling my salary. |

 

the doubling process was very satisfactory.
“Why,” said he, ‘the last year it would
take my entire stock, stere and lot included,
to pay you! Ah, Franklin, that won’t do.
Go back to your work, and we will talk over
the salary each year.”

I remained with this man only four years,
when by his advice I accepted an offer to
again attend school in New York free of
expense. Not only had he doubled my sal-
ary each year, but on leaving him he told
his eashier to pay me ten pounds extra, for
“services faithfully rendered.” Ido not re-
member of his speaking one unkind word
to me during all those years, and the good
advice he gave me, the patience he exer-
cised in teaching me, and all the valuable
instruction imparted for my especial benefit
will never be forgotten while life lasts.

Sometimes I thought it a hardship to be
compelled to stand at the counter and, under
his eye and instructions, wrap and tie up
and unwrap the same half-pound of tea six
or eight times before it was deemed perfect
and in proper shape and condition for a
customer; and the same drill had to be gone
through with with sugar and other articles,
even to the smallest half and quarter-ounce
packages. I was also drilled in the use of
twine—how best to tie peculiar knots, and
even to the cutting, about all of which he
was equally particular. With a special turn
of the fingers the twine was broken or
made to cut itself at a given point, as it
was considered inelegant and improper to
use any sharpinstrument, such not being al-
lowed, except when a very strong linen cord
was used. ‘‘Time,” said he, ‘‘is valuable
in business, and it will not do to go back
and forth even to your pocket for a pair of
scissors.” Time after time would he watch
my every motion while waiting upon a cus-
tomer, and gently chide me if every move-
ment was not made with almost military
precision, even to packing the moist brown
sugar in its parcel, with a portion of the
paper itself, as cleanliness and elegance be-
fore a customer must not be forgotten and
our fingers must never touch delicate arti-
cles of food. In those days, paper bags and
other ready-made packages were unknown,
and it required much knowledge and skill to
tie up neatly and quickly a given amount in
a certain sized piece of paper. I was
schooled in habits of economy in all things.
Waste paper which came as packing or
otherwise must not be destroyed but sorted,
smoothed out, placed under a press, and
kept ready for use as wrapping paper.
Even bits of twine must be saved, neatly
tied together, wound into balls, and used
for the coarser purposes. Many of the re-
ail stores of to-day burn up, sweep out,
and otherwise destroy fifty dollars’ worth
of wrapping paper yearly. I am acquainted
with merchants in business who know that
they save from $20 to $30 in paper and
twine every year with very little extra effort.
There are those who in this age consider it
little and trifling, but in a country or village
trade where there is generally much leisure
it is no trifling matter to save a good suit
of clothes every year thus easily.

Every man and boy in Mr. McKenzie’s
store was supposed to know his duty and
not neglect it. A part of mine was to
wash every piece of crockery and glassware
before it went to the shelves, to assist in
washing windows and show-cases, and put
up and take down the window blinds, which
in that day were heavy boards, secured up-
on the outside by heavy iron bars placed
across them, and bolted in place on the in-
side.

Forty years ago there, was less actual
credit given by retail merchants than at the

present day, but far more barter and ex- |

change. There was probably much less
money in the hands of the masses, if not
in the country, than at present; thus, inter-
change of commodities was a necessity.
Mercantile business, also, was conducted in
a different manner from the present. Goods
were brought in from the great centers of
trade, and the products taken in exchange
were shipped back (or more generally trans-
ported by land) to the same cities, to be
sold for cash or its equivalent in goods
again. As there were then few railroads in
the country and none in Canada, the main
wholesale depots of trade were accessible
only by water communication, either with
Europe or with distant points on our own
continent. Two or three times a year the
merchant usually went in person to pur-
chase and select his stock; and the arrival
of the huge wagons, each piled high with
from one and a half to two tons of new
goods, was an event to be known far and
wide and was the theme of conversation at
many a fireside and an advertisement of
much value. Then came the night work,
when the goods had to be marked and
placed in order for show and for business;

‘and for a week or more afterwards, after

closing the store at the usual hour—9 p. m.
—the proprietor and his- employes might be
found hard at work until midnight. Then
came the grand opening, which, from its
infrequency, possessed unusual attractions,
and the ae was in a state of excitement for

 

Every store of any pretensions to busi-|-.

ness had a cellar of its full size beneath it
and usually a large warehouse adjoining
or near it for the storage of grain, pork,
potatoes and farm products that were not
perishable. During the early winter months
large numbers of dressed fat hogs were pur-
chased by Mr. McKenzie, payment for
which was usually made in goods. Then,
each night after business hours all hands
repaired to the cellar to cut up, salt and
pack the pork into barrels for shipment;
here the proprietor thought it his duty to
be found with coat off and sleeves rolled to
the elbows, assisting in and directing the
work. In those days all were true ‘‘Knights
of Labor,” who thought it no hardship to
work at night, and the man who could get
all the sleep he wanted in six hours and
labor the other eighteen was proud of his
day’s work and was never out of employ-
ment. Few, indeed, were the men then
looking for an easy position where the least
number of hours with the highest wages
might be found conjointly. The true dig-
nity of labor was acknowledged by all, and
the price of it (like all other things) was
regulated by supply and demand and cheer-
fully acquiesced in without threats of bluod-
shed or anarchy.

Do not imagine, however, that those were
the haleyon days of happiness for all, and
which have never been known since. I
have only lifted the veil of the past that
yon might look upon the true and actual of
nearly half acentury ago, and youth may
possibly profit by a comparison with the
present. What, you ask, did I gain by all
this seemingly excellent tuition and exam-
ple? I learned how best to perform all the
labor required to keep a store in proper or-
der, even to the smallest details; that to do
all your work well when a boy is to make
you the peer of any person in your man-
hood; habits of economy worth very much
to me since; how to sweep afloor correctly
and well; that the best method of cleaning
glass, including lamp chimneys, windows
and show-cases, is with soap and water,
and to polish with aclean newspaper only,
all else being too expensive in money and
time; that a cloth is better to use with the
water and soap on glass than all other pat-
ent devices; that under no circumstances
should a sponge be used to wash or wipe
glass—soft and clean as they may seem to
be, they will surely mark it indelibly, and
soon ruin its beauty and value forever, mi-
nute particles of flinty sand and shells
(carbonate of lime) being the destructive
agents; that greasy rags should always be
thrown in the stove or outdoors, and not
left in some out-of-the-way place inside, as
at a certain temperature they are liable to
take fire by spontaneous combustion; that
sometimes an extra hour devoted to your
employer’s service pays fourfold; that it is
best to refer every one to your employer
when his business is inquired about; that
you cannot afford to be cross or ungentle-
manly to a customer; that the aged and in-
firm should take precedence in being
served; that when questioned in regard to
the quality of your goods, tell the truth so
far as you know—it pays in dollars and
cents to do so; that you should speak well
of all competitors in business or say noth-
ing; that twenty per cent. profit in cash is
far better than thirty on the ledger; that
habits formed when a boy are quite apt to
remain with you through life.

These and many more useful truths were
taught by this man, who has long since
passed away, but whose memory is revered.
As Llook back upon that long ago, lam
amazed at the changes which have taken
place in the commercial world, and I look
forward another half-century and regret
that we cannot then be here to see the siill
greater transmutation.

FRANK A. Howia.
i - 9
His Last Trip.

Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN.

The slant rays of the rising sun were
throwing streaks of yellow light on the paths
of the park. The robins and sparrows were
twittering and singing in the well-trimmed
trees. The nurse-maids, with their little
charges, poor heat-shriveled things, were
drinking in the soft, cool air full of the
strengthening perfume of the grass and
swelling buds. The policeman who was
sauntering along, humming to himself (hap-
py that his hour of relief was near at hand),
swung his club in a scientific manner, with
no thought of it. The men and boys on
their way to their daily toil, pipes in mouth
and dinner pails in hand, who crossed the
park that morning had no idea of what lay
in that dark underbrush. Yet only a short
while ago the most momentous hour of one
man’s life had passed, the Archangel’s
trump had blown for him and at that very
moment, perhaps, he stood before his Maker,
to answer for the deeds done on earth. It
was a tramp who found him—a tramp, rag-
ged. and dirty and sore, who had lain all
night on the hard benches of the park, ever
ready to steal away from the watchful eye
of the minion of the law, and whose first

 

He was dead—cold and stiff when the pa-
trol-wagon came to pick him up. What
mystery was here? Was it murder? Had
some poor, belated wayfarer seeking hishome
been struck down in the flush of life by the
assassin’s hand? Hardly possible, for jew-
elry and money were still on his person.
Was it heart disease? Was some poor moth-
er or heart-broken wife waiting with tear-
bedimmed eyes for the loved one who
would come no more? No. It was suicide
—cool, deliberate self-murder. The bullet
wound in his head, the revolver in his hand
were evidences of what had happened. But
why? Young and handsome, healthy look- ©
ing, well-kept and well-dressed, what had
caused him to seek the coward’s refuge and
try to better his fate in that dark Beyond of
which we know so little? A short tale and
soon told.

He was a traveling man, and had been
with one firm over twelve years. He had
risen by slow degrees, through earnest, hon-
est labor, to a position of trust and honor.
He had been thrifty and had saved money,
and was loved and respected by all of his
intimates. Two years before this fated day,
he had met the woman he married. She
was a proud, high-born beauty, the belle of
the little city in which she lived. He wooed
and won her. He brought her here, built
and furnished a home for her, such as but
few men in his position could do. He filled
it with all the comforts which money could
buy and love think of. His family name
opened wide the doors of select society for
her.
Man-like, blind and believing, he thought
this was all, and went on with his business.
Was away from home—two, three months
atatime. Love her? Could you have heard
him talk to his comrades on the road, that
question would scarce be asked. Cupid
himself could have taken lessons from him
in the language of love.

He left home three months ago, and yes-
terday returned, prepared to stay. He-had
been offered and had accepted the position
of manager. This would allow him to stay
at home. Only a traveling man can realize
what that means—it is the goal to which
they all aspire, a position ‘‘in the house.”
That day and the day before and for weeks
before—he was going to surprise her—his
mind had been filled with delightful thoughts
of her surprise. Oh, the glowing pictures
he painted to himself! Just how he would
tell her, just what she wouldsay! Hedrew
plans of the evenings at home, the opera,
the drives.

He reached his home, he sprang from the
carriage. Why, in his joy he actually for-
got to pay the driver, who stood on the side-
walk with outstretched hand. The door
was opened. He did not stop to note the
pained surprise on the face of the servant
girl. He hurried to his wife’s favorite room.
Loving words were on his lips. His arms
were ready to embrace her. He threwopen
the door. The room bore evidences of wo-
man’s presence, but she was not there. He
hurried into the next room and the next.
He called out her name. No answer. His
heart sank; an unknown, indescribable
dread filled him. Where was she? He
called again, louder and louder. Filled with
an awful fear, he yet laughed huskily to
himself and said, ‘‘Fool that I am! The
dear girl didn’t know I was coming and is
out shopping.” He passed a looking-glass
on his way out of the room and was fright-
ened at his own face, as he mechanically
glanced therein.

Alas, alas, she was out. She never came
back! She had gone three days before, no
one knew just where or how, but she had
gone with an old lover. No need to moral-
ize on why it happened or how. Too much
time on her hands, and a vile scoundrel near
by to fill her mind with soft flatterings and
to take the place of the poor fellow who was
away from home.

When the full force of the blow came to
him he left the house. Who shall say what
thoughts surged through his brain, as he
walked up and down that little park? Peo-
ple who recalled it afterward, said he looked
“strange.” How shall we know of the mis-
ery and shame and thoughts of burning re-
venge and shattered hopes that filled him?
As he wandered alone in the dark on
that spot where they had been together so
often; when he thought of his plans and
what his life would now be; when he
thought of his friends’ pity and his enemies’
sneers—it was too much. He did what oth-
ers have done before, what others will do
again, when life’s burdens seem to bear
down too hard. Hedied. Alone with his
misery, no loving hand to wipe the death-
damp from his brow, no loved eyes to weep >

over him—he died. Leo. A. CaRo..
;

Business Enterprise. :.

Customer—Why, Schneider, you were
complaining of bad business last week, yet.
ae are enlarging your saloon? How S$
that :

Schneider—Dot vos blain enough
zwei churches on der neghst plock
open again to-morrow, und der pig:
choir in each of dem. You get onto dot?

Customer—QOh, yes; but where is your
free lunch to-day? a

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“WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1887.

 

 

The Detroit News and other papers in the

State having repeatedly asserted that the
_ new liquor law prohibits druggists from

selling liquor except on a physician’s pre-

scription, THe TRADESMAN deems it ad-
visable to reproduce Section 3 of the Act,
in order that the trade may be reassured on
that point. The principal features of the

‘Section may be briefly summarized as fol-
-. lows: Druggists shall sell liquor for chemi-

cal, scientific, medicinal, mechanical or sac-
ramental purposes only; they shall not sell
to a drunkard or Indian, nor to any person
when warned not todo so by a relative, em-
ployer, or town, village or city official;
shall sell to a minor only on the written or-
der of parent or guardian; shall record all
sales in a book kept for that purpose; shall
file a bond with the county treasurer in the
sum of $2,000, executed by freeholders and
residents of the same county. The last pro-
vision is an improvement over the old law,
which required bondsmen to be residents of
the same township. Clerks are made re-
sponsible for violations of the law, the same
as employers, the penalty in either case be-
ing a fine of $100 to $500 or imprisonment
from ninety days to one year, or both, for
first offense and for second offense the same
penalty, with the addition that the person
be debarred from selling liquor for five years.

 

Eastern salt manufacturers are attempt-
ing to organize a salt ‘‘trust,” which is only
another name for combination or pool. The
telegraph announces that the organization
has been effected under the style of the Na-
tional Salt Union and that headquarters
will be established at Pittsburg, but until
the new ‘“‘trust” makes terms with the
Michigan Salt Association, Wolverine man-
ufacturers will not, probably, be counted
among the participants in the pool.

 

The remarkable success attending the re-
cent exhibitions of the Western Michigan
Fair naturally revives interest in the agita-
tion begun by THE TRADESMAN four years

ago relative to the inauguration of aregular

exposition. The idea of a permanent ex-
position, to be open two or three weeks of
the year, originated with I. C. Levi, who
confidently expects to see such a_ project
put into execution within the next three
years.

 

The Detroit News thus refers to the al-
leged action of a Detroit bean handler:

A. Detroit dealer claims to have cornered
the bean market, and the price of the tooth-
some commodity is on the advance. The
old beans are used up, the new crop is a
short one, and the demand is increased be-
cause of shortage in other vegetable supplies.

This is supposed to be the first time on
record where a bean crop was cornered be-

fore it was harvested.

 

Anticipating the time when National
banks will have passed out of existence,
through the failure of Congress to provide
means for their continuing their circulation,
State banks are now being organized under
the same general-style. Hillsdale business
men, for instance, have organized the
‘First State Bank,” and the ‘‘Second State
Bank” is now in order.

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Wm. Logie has been laid up forsome time
with a lame foot, caused by stepping too
heavily on a rusty nail.

C. B. Lamb, Michigan traveling repre-

_ sentative for Adams & Ford, the Cleveland

boot and shoe jobbers, was in town over
Sunday.

Hy. Robertson and H. L. Toles are giv-
ing all their customers portraits of them-
Selves this week. They are tin types and
cost the boys sixty cents a peck.

Suel A. Sheldon, formerly on the road for
the Jackson Wagon Co., of Jackson, but
now a horny handed granger, walked in

from Berlin Monday to buy a pair of stoga
boots.

Jas. D. Wadsworth, traveling representa-

. tive for Arthur Meigs & Co., who has been

-. laid up with rheumatism for the past four
_ weeks, is recovering.

_ is temporarily filled by H. L. Gregory.

_. Irving W. Van Zant has severed his con-

“nection with Howard W. Spurr & Co., of

His place on the road

Boston, to accept the position of Assistant
Manager of the Western Department of
Chase & Sanborn, with headquarters at

_ Chicago. Van is to be congratulated.

Everett E. Wooley, the dry goods travel-

er, and Albert M. Love, the sundry sales-

in, assumed very funny roles while going

from Northport to Traverse City on the
_ City of Grand Rapids last Tuesday. Wool-

xy pretended to be insane, and Love figured
as his attendant, supposedly conveying his
arge to theasylum. The passengers on
were largely ladies, who were thor-
ightened at the antics of the al-
ytie, but the good looks of the

 

 
 
      

 

   

      
  

 

  

chased at this market. = =
It is reported that Jas. Brown, of Detroit,
has again under advisement the project of
starting another wholesale boot and shoe
establishment at this market.

_ W. T. Lamoreaux and G. A. Johnston
have formed a copartnership under the
style of Lamoreaux & Johnston and engaged
in the fruit business at 71 Canal street.

The Western Michigan Fair last week at-
tracted more outside merchants than have
ever favored Grand Rapids with their pres-
ence in a single week. The jobbers gener-
erally had their hands full in. attempting to
play the role of entertainers.

Kerr Bros., of Coldwater, after obtaining
prices at Chicago and Detroit, placed an or-
der with Foster, Stevens & Co. last Thurs-
day for an $8,000 stock of hardware, being
the largest hardware stock ever shipped
from this market. F. R. Miles booked the
order.

establishing a line of coast steamers, to ply
along the Eastern shore of Lake Michigan,
seems to be gaining ground, not only in this
city, but in thé towns even more directly
interested than Grand Rapids in the project.

 

AROUND THE. STATE.

Benton Harbor—Felts & Kramer, grocers,
have dissolved.

# Wayland—Jas. Fisher,has engaged in the
bakery business.

Eureka—Daggett & Dennis succeed Dag-
gett Bros. in general trade.

Adrian—Earle Bros. succeed Earle &
Hatch, grocers and bakers.

Holland—Stephen Crandall, late of Big
Rapids, will open a notion store.

St. James—Day & O’Donnell succeed
Owen O’Donnell in general trade.

Battle Creek—J. L. McCluer succeeds V.
P. Collin in the hardware business.

Holly—Frank, Marks & Frank succeed
F. M. Joslin & Bro. in general trade. :

East Saginaw—Haas & Edinger succeed
Nicholas Haas in the plumbing business.

-Romoe—Willert & Kaiser succeed Tins-
man & Willert in the dry goods business.

Detroit—J. V. Lisee & Co., dealers in
boots and shoes, have assigned to A. F.
Wilcox.

Cedar Springs—Geo. C. Huntington will
remove his boot and shoe stock to Nebraska
this week.

Boyne City—The attachment on the John
C. McFellin stock has been satisfied and
business resumed.

Negaunee—M. Nassauer & Co. succeed
P. (Mrs. Morris) Kohn in the dry goods
and clothing business.

Three Oaks—Boardman & Wehrle have
engaged in the grocery, boot and shoe and
furnishing goods business.

Cheboygan—The Cheboygan Lumber Co.
will close out its supply and grocery stock
during the present month.

Marine City—G. S. Donahoe, general
dealer, has been closed on chattle mortgage
and stock sold to Lucinda Clough.

Plainwell—A. Manley has put in a stock
of boots and shoes to fill the vacancy
caused by D. P. Hopkins’ removal.

Mancelona—A. L. Bachant and C. M.
Lanning will shortly engage in the dry
goods and furnishing goods business.

Red Jacket—Sibilsky Bros., late of Eagle
River, have opened a dry goods, notion,
millinery and gent’s furnishing goods store.

Pentwater—It is reported that Chas. F.
Lewis has purchased Wm. L. Tilden’s in-
terest in the hardware business of Tilden &
Co.

Hastings—A. R. McOmber has re-em-
barked in the jewelry business at Hastings,
having purchased Baughman & Buel’s
stock.

Petoskey—Geo. E. Sprang, until recently
engaged in the same business at Alma, has
purchased the R. Connable book and sta-
tionery stock.

Lake Linden—A. Levy, who two years
ago carried on a general store at Houghton,
has opened a dry goods and gents’ furnish-
ing store goods here.

Vermontville—Asa J. Brown has pur-
chased a half-interest in the furniture stock
of J. C. Walsh. The new firm will be
known as Walsh & Brown. |

Dalton—A. A. Aldrich, the Hickory
Corners hardware merchant, will shortly
cpen a branch establishment here. He will
operate a lumber yard in connection.

Big Rapids—F. Fairman and M. G.
Woodward have formed a copartnership
under the style of Fairman & Woodward.
and engaged in the dry goods business.

Alma—T. A. Miller & Co. have purchased
the book and stationery stock of Geo. E.
Sprang and will remove their drug stock to
the building adjoining, connecting the two
stores with an archway.

Lisbon—R. B. Gooding, formerly at
Greenville, will shortly engage in general
trade at a new station, as yet unnamed, on
the T., S. & M. Railway, one mile north of
this place. A new store building is nearing
completion and an elevator will be con-|
structed before snow flies.

Groverton—Is a new village two -miles

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_ , MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

_ Owosso—The Owosso Tool Co. is turning
out 2,400 snow shovels per day.

_Muskegon—Firman & Goss succeed Cross-
ly, Goss & Co. in the sawmill business.

Hillsdale—C. S. Veeder’s broom factory
is turning out about 100 dozen brooms per
week. .

Hillsdale—S. O. Fisher has invested
$570,000 in pine lands during the past four
weeks.

Hillsdale—Frederick W. Stock will start
a roller mill on the site of the old wheelbar-
tow factory.

Plainwell—J. C. Ives has arranged to
manufacture cheap beds in connection with
his handle business.

Boyne City—White & Perkins are adding
shingle machinery to their sawmill, and
“will make cedar shingles.

Bannister—A. W. Dickerson has put into
operation a stave and heading mill which
will keep forty men busy.

Dalton—Adna Jones intends moving his
wagon business and planing mill from
Hickory Corners to this place.

East Saginaw—C. E. Eastman & Co. will
put in 20,000,000 feet of logs in the Upper
Peninsula the coming winter.

-Clinton—The Clinton Woolen Manufac-
turing Co. has orders enough booked to
keep the factory going until January 1.

Jackson—The Bortree Corset Co. em-
ploys 330 girls and twenty men, making
corsets, bustles and other feminine harness.

East Saginaw—John G. Owen will build
a sawmill in Brookfield township, Huron
county, where he has a large tract of pine.

South Boardman—J. W. Balcolm has
bought the sawmill and supply stock of M.
B. Farrin & Son, and will continue the bus-
iness.

East Saginaw—C. & E. Ten Eyck have
repaired their mill which was lately dam-
aged by fire, and are now making shingles
again.

Grand Haven—F. F. Sommers will re-
move his match factory to Green Bay, Wis.,
the business men there having offered to
take $15,000 stock in such an enterprise.

Muskegon—Boucher Bros. have just con-
tracted for 900,000 feet of white oak tim-
ber of the Grand Haven Ship Building Co.,
Grand Haven, and. 500,000 feet of Miller
Bros., Chicago.

East Jordan—Palmiter Bros. have pur-
chased the Plummer sawmill, at Bay
Springs, and will remove it to this place
and put it into operation. It will havea
capacity of 40,000 feet per day.

Ludington—The Danaher & Melendy Co.
has purchased from the Butters & Peters
Salt and Lumber.Co., of Manistee, a tract
of pine estimated to have 20,000,000 feet on
on it, for $110,000, and located near Luther.

‘ Ludington—The sawmills at Ludington
and upon the railroads tributary to Luding-
ton cut 200,000,000 feet of logs into lumber,
lath and shingles annually, while the salt
blocks are turning out from 1,200 to 1,500
barrels per day, all the -year round.

Muskegon—James A. Cook and other
parties have purchased the Spear mill prop-
erty for $2,000. The mill will be put into
condition, with a cutting capacity of about
100,000 feet per day. The company owns
many million feet of valuable pine, which
will be brought over from Menominee.

Menominee—The Soper Lumber Co. has
four camps in operation in the upper pine
region of Wisconsin. Camp supplies have
to be hauled twenty-five miles, and the
wretched condition of the roads has neces-
sitated considerable work. About 100 men
are employed in preparations for the win-
ter.

‘Bay City—Foss & Leiter recently had a
Lake Superior log that sealed 1,628 feet
clear lumber. One plank without a single
flaw was cut that scaled 288 feet. The
plank was six inches thick, thirty-six inches
wide and sixteen feet long. Another log
for ‘the same firm, cut at Hitchcock &
Bialy’s mill, was so large it took fifteen
minutes to get it inside the mill.

 

ae STRAY FACTS.

Hillsdale—The First State Bank is the
name of a new banking concern.

Saginaw—Anthony Byrne succeeds Ad-
ams Gregory in the liquor business.

Detroit—The American File Cabinet Co.
has increased its capital to $75,000.

Gladstone—There is considerable bass-
wood in this vicinity, which the inhabitants
are seeking to utilize. One builder is using
the wood for flooring, believing that where
it does not come in contact with moisture to
much extent it is better than pine.

Detroit—The Detroit Sulphite Fibre Co.
will haye the largest paper mill in the
world in operation in Detroit by next
March. ‘The company has purchased six-
teen acres of iand at Delray, and will erect
eight buildings. The river Rouge will be
dredged to the works. :

Bay City—The suit brought by Maltby,
Brotherton & Co. against C. H. Plummer,
of East Saginaw, oi account of Iumber cut-
ting complications at the latter’s mill in
Ogemaw, has resulted in a judgment for
$11,000 in favor of the plaintiffs. Plummer
will appeal to the Supreme Court.
Detroit—The Canadian Electric Co., cap-
ital stock $250,000, has filed articles of in-

 

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- {ceeds Samuel Blumenthal in the grocery

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‘Bronson—John Holmes is building a new

   

 

 

Litchfield—J. B. Smith has’sol:
ber yard to KE. Bodner, lateof Three Rivers.

Detroit—The North Champion Iron Co.
is a new corporation, with a capital stock of
$1,000,000, formed for the purpose of* min-
ing and smelting iron, silver and copper in
Marquette county. The stockholders are
all Detroit men, as follows: 6,000, Seymour
Brownell; 5,400 each, Herman C. Fech-
heimer, Sol. Heavenrich, Henry C. Hart
and Alexander C. Comstock; 500 shares
each, James R. Turner and Robert Atkiuson.

Fort Blakely—A stick measuring 150 feet
long and twenty inches square, containing
5,000 feet, was recently placed on board a
vessel for shipment to San Francisco, where
it will be exhibited at the Mechanics’ Fair.
It 1s considered by millmen a good repre-
sentative of the forest in this region, but
the giant of all was felled some time ago
by the same company, and will be heard
from in time. It measures 240 feet in
length, the first limb being 160 feet from
the butt, which measures seventy-two
inches, and forty. inches at the top. It
scales 33,000 feet of lumber.

——_—<-9
Purely Personal.

Ben. W. Putnam is expected home from
his Minnesota trip to-day.

B.S. Krause has taken the position of
prescription clerk for C. E. Westlake.

C. H. Sweet, of Brown, Hall & Co., is
spending a fortnight’s vacation at Traverse
City.

C. N. Rapp, with Geo. E. Howes, is in
Western New York, buying apples for cold
storage.

Fred. D. Yale has returned from Empor-
ia, Kansas, being called home by the serious
illness of his father.

Dr. O. O. Osborn, of the drug firm of G.
H. Oliver & Co., has removed his family to
this city from Elm Hall.

D. C. Underwood and wife went to
Brighton Saturday to attend the wedding of
his sister, which occurred on Monday.

Elmer R. Thompson, book-keeper for
Perkins & Hess, is recovering from the fey-
er which has confined him to his bed for the
past three weeks.

John M. McGill, of the drug firm of
Ritchie & McGill, Imlay City, was in
town last week on a visit to his brother-in-
law, Will Lamoreaux.

Jonathan Boyce is said to have the larg-
est holding of pine lands in Michigan, ex-
cept David Ward. He owns 250,000,000 feet
of pine in Clare county.

Henry C. Stewart, who has clerked for
several years for G. H. Cannon & Co., at
Evart, has engaged in business on his own
account at Washington, Macomb county.

Silas. K. Bolles and wife have returned
from Leadville, well pleased with their trip
and its results. Silas is enthusiastic over
the mineral wealth of the Leadville region
and may remove there to watch some in-
vestments he has made.

—_»_9—<__
The Resurrection of Lake Linden.

Lake Linden—the farthest point north
in the Upper Peninsula, the wonder of the
tourist and the Mecca of the builder, me-
chanic and laborer, cremated in May last—-
has sprung from its ashes of destruction
with a vigor, lite and activity that chal-
lenges admiration and bears proof of the in-
domitable courage of an industrious people.
Within the four months last past, it has
built over 350 residences, all substantial,
many costly, modern and magnificent. Doz-
ens of stores, mostly two and three story
brick or stone, are now in all stages of con-
struction. Everywhere is busy industry on
the wing. ‘Timbers, stone, lumber, brick
and shingles literally fill the streets, wharves
and yards. A few canvas tents are yet
seen on the vacant lots. Of the more nota-
ble buildings which may be mentioned (it
will be remembered that the May fire de-
stroyed every business place in the city ex-
cept Leopold & Hanauer’s meat market and
grocery, the oldest house in the place, and
John Herman, jeweler) are the following:
Edwin Henwood, who lost house and con-
tents, hardware stock and store, was the
first man to occupy a new two-story brick
store, 50 x 60, with a full stock of stoves
and hardware; Wm. Harris, another victim
of the fire, is building a two-story brick,
100 x 90, cellar same size, elevator and all
modern improvements. Upper story will
be fitted in elegant style for a dress-making
and cloak department, cost $20,000. Juhn
Bennallack has built a new two-story brick,
24 x 40, which is oceupied by McNabb Bros.
& Co. asa paint and paper store. Joseph
Piearce has built and occupies a new store
with a full line of hardware and stoves. F.
H. Hopf has a new two-story brick and does
the boot and shoe trade. Louis Deschamps
is building a $6,000 two-story brick, 40 x 60.
It will be occupied by A. E. Deschamps &
Co., druggists, below, and the upper story
will be fitted for offices, ete. Wm. Jewel
is a jewel indeed, for he is building a first-
class portage entry stone hotel that will bea
godsend to Lake Linden, for there is no re-
semblance to such a house there now. In
size it is 50 x 100, three and one-half stories,
mansard roof, modern in all its appoint-
ments and, better than all, his beef-steak
will come from Southern Michigan.

In addition to above, the following gen-
tlemen are erecting buildings, to cost, ap-
proximately, as follows:

 

Panl Perrailts.: 6. 66.6. bee. occ cs $ 5,000
Hucharists Brule... seo. ee 4,000
Nicholas Reding & Co..... 10,000
Philibert Lebault.......... . 6,000
Alex, Barbeau 2.60665. ee 2... 4,000
Herman Kallenbield.,..................., 6,000
Charles Kallenbield..¢.................... 3,500
Louis Hennes & CO.......... 0. ccc cece eee 15,000
Hyriac WANG... 2. esc oles oe cease ce os 3,500
Peter ROGIWS. ooo. ese oe ee 3,500
ean Ac Gillet. iol ek 500
Newman & Trelease................2.0... 15,000
John B. Toupin........ i telaer ees cone a 3,300

Dozens more, who are now building and
who have built, could be mentioned did
space permit. It is enough to say that no

other such place for push, enterprise, pluck’

and courage can be found between Chicago
and New York—excepting Grand Rapids,
ofcourse. == $$ M.J. WRisLEy.

 

 

    
 
  

 

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Un view of the large increase in the price
of coffee during the past year, much has
been heard of the use of adulterants to mix
with and take its place.. From the 4igures
of chicory imports, » prepared by the New
York Shipping Lisi, it appears that the
imports of this adulterant were larger in
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, than
any year since 1883. The total imports in
1886-87 were 5,297,995 pounds, valued at
$165,569, against 3,415,655. pounds, valued
at $116,159, in 1886, and 6,339,989 pounds,
vaiued at $229,929, in 1888. ‘lhe above
paper is inclined to think that, in view of
these figures and the high price of coffee
now ruling, the theory of great adultera-
tions is not extremely well founded. It
says: ‘‘On the other hand, it may be said
that, as the above figures embrace the im-
portations for only six months of the calen-
dar year, and as the price of green coffee
has only affected actual comsumption dur-
ing the past six months, the importation of
chicory during the next six months will
show more conclusively whether its con-
sumption has been increased by the advance
in coffee.” While the above views, as
shown, are inclined to be rather comforting
to coffee drinkers, it should not be forgotten
that chicory is not the only adulterant used
in coffee. It can be only successfully used
in ground coffees. If coffee is bought in
the bean the risk of adulteration by this
means is small. It is really in the shape of
bean coffee that adulteration is to be feared.
It would be interesting to know whether
ordinary beans and peas do not furnish prof-
itable substitutes and are not commonly
used. It is doubtful, however, whether
statistics in this direction are to be easily
obtained.

and its Adulterants,

  

Se eS
Lots of Grocers Whistie.
From Harper’s Bazar.
Old lady (to grocer’s boy)—Don’t you
know, boy, that itis very rude to whistle
when dealing with a lady?

Boy—That’s what the boss told me to do,
mum.

Old lady—Told you to whistle?

Boy—Yes’m. He said if we ever sold
you anything we’d have to whistle for the
money.

Sahel Se ae

*“‘Business is booming in the oyster line,”
said F. J. Dettenthaler, the other day.
‘*The Anchor brand still leads the van and
by the way the orders are pouring in upon
me, it looks as though I would have to hump
myself to take care of all the orders for this
favorite brand the coming season.”

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for one cent a word or two cents a word
for three insertions. No advertisement taken
for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

Advertisements directing that answers be
sent in care of this office must be accompanied
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

 

 

po SALE-—-At a bargain. aA clean stock of
hardware and mill supplies. Address
Wayne Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 210tf

FoR SALE—A stock of groceries, books, sta-
. tionery and wall paper; a bargain will be
given. C.S. Ross, Cass City, Mich. 210*

For SALE—Or exchange, platform spring
peddling wagons, suitable for wholesale
or retail trade. Address Welling & Carhartt,
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich. 208tf

OK SALE—A new soda fountain, which
cost $140 and treight this spring. It was
bought of Matthews & Co. Will sell for $100.
In perfect order. W. R. Mandigo & Co., Sher-
wood, Mich. 212*

yee SALE—Twenty acres of improved

fruit land, with several acres bearing
fruit, one mile from Frankfort. Will trade for
house and lot or stock of goods in Grand Rap-
ids. : 205.f

Wok SALE—Desirable residence lot on Liy-
ingston street. Will sell on long time or

exchange for good stocks, mortgages or other

real estate. E. A. Stowe, Tradesman office.

Fee SALE—Twenty acres of improved fruit
land three miles from Franktort. Will
trade for house and lot or stock of goods in
Grand Rapids. Address, for particulars, E.
A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. 205tf

OR SALE—i20-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, H. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 198tf

For SALE—At a bargain, all the ma-
chinery of a two run grist mill. Put up
last year. Does first class-work. G. C. Willey,
Summit City. 3*
vee SALE CHEAP—Portable saw mill in
good runningorder. Capacity 25 M pine
lumber per day. Gang edger, saw dust carrier,
and linerollers. For further particulars en-
quire of J. F. Clark, Big Rapids, Mich. 196tf

Foe SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv-
ing city of Muskegon. ‘Terms easy. C. L.
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 198tf

OR SALE—Best bargain ever offered for

 

 

 

 

farming community in Northern Michigan.
Stock willinventory about $6,000. Sales last
year were $60,000. Address*’he Tradesman,”’
Grand Rapids. 1Vitt

OR RENT—Pleasant store at 19 West Ful-
ton street, Boston block. Now used as

dry goods store. Good location. Apply to
221 Mt. Vernon street. 207tf.

ANTED—Location for custom sawmill in
pine or hardwood of large tracts, or two

or three years sawing. Satisfaction guaran-
teed in manufacturing. Address B. B., care
Tradesman. 210tf

\ K J ANTED—Situation by registered pharma-

cist of four years’ experience. First-
class references. Address P., Tradesman of-
fice. 217+

 

ANTED—A salesman of experience and
ability with highest references, to sell

cigars to first-class drug and grocery trade by
a large cigar distributing house. Address M.
Blank, 72 Murray street, N. Y. City. 212*

ANTED—Good newspaper man with at

least $500 cash, to take half interest in,

and management of, newspaper officein grow-

ing town on Lake.Michigan. Addres Franklin,
care Michigan Tradesman.

ANTED—A first-class meat market man

to take good position in country town.

Good salary to good man. Address J., care
Tradesman, 207

VY ). ANTED—By aman of twenty years ex-

perience, a situation on road handling
groceries, cigars, tobacco, wooden or willow
ware or can turn to most any line of goods.
The best of references given. Address John M.
Laberteaux. Benton Harbor, Mich. 209*

RA ee exchange farm worth $2,600
for a stock of goads; Address Box 23,
Tradesman office, ‘ 208* tf

ye man having an established
trade among lumbermen to add a spec-
ial line and sell on commission. To the right
man a splendid chance will be given to. make
money without extra expense. Address “B,”’
care Michigan Tradesman. 178tf
O EXCHANGE—Highly improved real es-
tate adjoining city limits for stock of
general merchandise. Address box 65, Grand
Rapids, Mich. ie 211*
IMBER LAND FOR SALE—4,400 acres of
fine timber land in Columbia Co., Oregon,
‘within 35 miles of Portland, 3 to 4 miles of the
Columbia River. For further particulars call
onor addreseg E. E. Long; No. 10 Stark St., Ear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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general stock in growing town in good.

      
  
   
    
    
   
  

 

MANUFACTURERS

Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

438 & MeGURDY.

‘Importers and Manvfackvrers’ Agents,

DEALERS IN

CTOGKELY, China, Glassware

Fancy Goods of all Descriptions.

HOTEL AND STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronze and Library Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets,, Ete.
73 and 75 Jefferson Ave.,

DETROrT. MICE.

 

Wholesale Agents for Duffield's Canadian Lamps,

 

YUIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & GO,

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hat 1 is termed

mate the yearly

ered by that community, oc-

by the credit system, and I think

can be demonstrated that credit (broken
romises ‘of the ‘‘respectable” elements of a
community) | has damaged the reliable and

- solid portion of that community one thous-
and times more than the thief and burglar.

: of robbery.

Let us look for the roots of this system
‘The producers (and he that is

_ of real use to society in every branch of hu-
man thought and action, be he exchanger or
‘dirt digger, is a productive factor) must

produce before’ they possess.

A. certain

__ percentage of society in all ages either get

indolent and produce only when animal

_ necessity spurs them to make an effort, or

get anxious to possess without producing,
or faster than they can produce—that is,
they, in some form or other, attempt to get
their pay in advance, secured by their hopes
of producing or the appearance of possess-
ing. It begins in most instances very early.
Parents or guardians allow the subject to

- get into the habit of being behindhand, or

“unlucky” in daily duties. They begin by
‘vetting excused” in the various depart-
ments of life’s work. They are ‘“‘lucky”

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lessons or in getting ‘‘help” from the mis-
taken kindness of friends (more destructive
of real manhood than any other foe of hu-
man integrity); and soon the habit of being
behindhand is contracted and becomes a
fixture in the character. It were better for
that man and all who were thrown in con-
tact with him in life that he had never been
born. Better had he joined the criminal
elements and robbed upon principle, bleed-
ing strangers on the highway by a direct
attack, than to thus go through life the
most dangerous kind of a thief known to
civilized society, inasmuch as the profes-
sional thief robs only strangers, the dishon-
est with the simple, while the credit swin-
dler robs none but his friends and men who
have confidence in human nature and fair
appearances, not only robbing them of their
hard earnings, but of that which is worth
even more than money—their hope and con-
fidence in their species and their peace of
mind. I have seen this credit system under
a microscope, and I positively aver it is the
very worst scourge of civilization.

A few years ago, a simple-minded sort of
a man in this new section, a man who
knew little else but to dig frantically on his
little homestead and pay as he went, was
at one time reduced to veritable sackcloth
and ashes (the latter came from burning
log heaps in his clearing) and a bag of corn
which he had to grind in a coffee mill in
his little cabin. After being reduced almost
to the verge of pauperism, by getting cheat-
ed out of his wages and trusting ‘‘unlucky”
men (yet always in the last ‘‘nip” being
able to still pay his way in advance), a
snug little sum of money fell to him entire-
ly unexpectedly. He had passed for ‘‘a

“clever sort of a chap” (or, rather, a fool

of fools) in that new settlement, and when
it was known around that he had ‘‘plenty
of money,” the roots and central nerves of
the credit system were laid bare before his
eyes in a manner rarely witnessed in this
world except by those who pass for the
proverbial ‘‘clever fellow,” among _ the
worst set of fools that were ever known un-
til the American ‘‘respectable”’ dead-beat
was generated. Within six weeks after
his windfall came, the whole community
around him—lacking possibly one in ten—
had called on him one after another with
friends ‘who had never visited him before;
and in a. most excessively friendly manner
asked for free loans of cash (accommoda-

tions, you know) of from $20 up to $200

each—just to help them through a tempor-
ary pinch. Truly, had he possessed Gould’s
enormous fortune and allowed those friends
(the religious and irreligious alike) to have
their way, they would have taken it all.

A most fearfully large percentage of
Christian communities look upon credit or
a borrowed dollar exactly as a besotted

_. ‘whisky toper looks upon free drinks; and

it is the same resistless temptation to them
to get into debt, when they find a chance

to promise their way into possession with-

out production, that it is to the old soaker

_ of gin to smell a saloon.

‘man’s existence.

Now these credit worshippers, from low-
est to highest, have been educated in ideal
laws. “Hosts of them feel certain that they
can readily obtain the greatest prize of
With their heads way up

_ —ideally—in the clouds of theoretical suc-

cess in ‘man’s mission on earth, their feet go

‘straight into the pit of financial ruin; and

woe to him’ ‘who shall place confidence in
them and allow them to get their promises

in at face yalue in exchange for realities.

sistless Jaw which decrees that

ay to ‘acquire saphiadent scales
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There are more shouts. wounded and more

innocent persons broken in spirit (worse |
than murdered) and crushed in life’s battle

by the credit system than by war, by retail
murder and by intemperance. The relief
that it brings is in most cases far more
deadly and dangerous toe the subject than
any drug or intoxicant that was ever swal-
lowed by the sick to relieve physical pain.

The credit system (which is supposed to
help men onto their feet or enable the indo-
lent to great*bread without work, thus. gen-
erating financial crises which fatten only
the fewest of the most soulless. Shylocks)
is exactly like that course of living which
brings to man the necessity of a surgical
operation or to nations that moral pestilence
known as civil. war, which destroys all that
was built up during prosperous’ peace.
If there is no way to do away with this
credit system and abolish individual and
national debts, then you may depend upon
it the soul of slavery and despotism lies so
deeply imbedded in the hearts of mankind
that it cannot be removed, and even your
highest civilization is only gilded barbarism
which will cause all the habitable portions
of the earth to become a desert at no dis-
tant day. We must either put away debt
or drift in that ever narrowing circle of his-
tory repeating itself and make a dismal
failure of existence. C. H. BARLOW.

.
The Blue Letter.*
Mr. Toastmaster and Members of the Business

Men’s Association:

I regret exceedingly and probably you
will before I conclude, that Mr. Clapp, the
gentleman originally appointed to respond
to this toast, was prevented from being
here. Living as he does at Allegan in
what is known as the peach belt, he was so
busy shipping this luscious fruit to less for-
tunate localities that he regretfully gave up
the pleasure of meeting with us and when I
was requested yesterday morning to fill his
place, I, like another well known, unwise
individual, ‘‘Saying I would ne’er consent,
consented.”

In these days of special mail trains and
increased postal facilities of all kinds, the
number of letters received by the average
individual is wonderful to contemplete.
These letters are greatly varied in their
nature, some bringing joy and gladness, as
they tell their story of the fruition of some
long-cherished hope and plan, the prosper-
ity and happiness of some dear friend or
some other cheering piece of news; others
casting gloom over the receiver, as they tell
their story of death or misfortune, while
many others make no lasting impression
upon he recipient and are carelessly cast in-
to the waste basket. Such, alas, has for
years been the fate of the gentle reminders,
in the shape of statements that we have
sent out to delinquents and many of us,
after spending hours in pouring over our
books and making out a series of duns,
have considered ourselves fortunate if we
got back enough to pay our postage. Al-
most every business man, no matter how
earefully he has conducted his business, has
fallen a prey to the omnivorous and omni-
present dead-beat, and has been at times
more than willing to lose the whole of his
account if he could only get even with his
tormentor and extort a portion of the sum
due from him by pressure of some kind.
But in this he has often failed, and the
dead-beat has laughed in triumph over his
successful schemes.

Now. however, a David has risen in Is-
rael, who bids fair to stay this Goliah, and
the dead-beat trembles before the potent but
silent efficacy of the little blue piece of
paper that is handed him by the post-man.
Whether its color was chosen as emblemat-
ical of the ‘‘blue” state of his feelings when
he receives it, 1 cannot say; but it certainly
expresses them most admirably, for he real-
izes that his day of triumph has passed and
that the men on whom he has so long prey;
ed have at last organized for self-protection
and, working together for this end, have
invoked a power that is greater than he.
The message conveyed by this blue missive,
although couched in courteous terms, yet
signifies that it is not to be lightly cast aside
like its predecessor, the humble statement,
but must be attended to and without any
loss of time.

It is unnecessary for me to revert to the
many individual instances of the effect of
this Blue Letter—every man who has used
it knows its power, but it is well to re-
member that its influence arises from the
fact that we are banded together to support
it, that’ each man is pledged to make the
cause of his neighbor his own and that
only by strict compliance with, our obliga-
tions can we keep up the usefulness of this
Blue Letter. No matter what the tempta-
tion may be, we must not swerve from our
course, and no consideration must induce
us to extend favors to any man who has
failed to respond to the polite invitation to
call and settle conveyed by some. brother
merchant through the medium of the Blue
Letter.

*Response by F. T. Ward at recent banquet
of M. B. M. A.

——__—~._o-.___—_

The Columbia River Salmon Pack.
A San Francisco dispatch, under date of
Sept. 18, conveys the following pleasing in-
telligence:

News which reaches here from Oregon in-
dicates that the salmon pack will: probably
not fall as short as at first anticipated. The
elose of the season for salmon on the Co-
lumbia River ends on Sept. 30, but itis
stated that several.canneries on the river
are making preparations to put up salmon
next month. Pilots report fish in enormous
quantities twenty. miles off shore about the
mouth of the Columbia River, and this
leads to the hope that large numbers will
enter the river. The quality of October
salmon is very little inferior to what is
known as ‘‘spring chickens” and is consid-
ered in Eastern markets as first-class.

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The Hardware Market.
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will result in good.all around. ' Reports in

‘writing were received at the convention
from three local Associations, as follows:
LAWRENCE.

The Lawrence Business Men’s Associa-
tion was organized with twenty-four charter
members April 21, 1887, and has recently
added four names to its membership. Two
hundred and seventy-three Blue Letters
have been sent and $412.85 in cash been
collected. Besides the collections, many
settlements by note have been made. We
have issued our delinquent list with forty-
eight names, one of which has paid and
been reinstated as a law-abiding citizen.
Amount represented on said list, $559.49;
cash received for membership and dues, $40;
cash disbursed, including $2.40 to State As-
sociation, $24.06; cash on hand:September
3, $15.94. About half a dozen members
have done nearly. all the work and received
a like proportion of the benefits. Although
we have just started, we have been well
paid for the small amount invested. Our
members feel like pushing forward and, in
addition to making collections from dishon-
est patrons, expect to add largely to the
manufacturing industries of our beautiful
village and all unite in sending a vote of
thanks to the officers of the State Associa-
tion and especially to the Secretary for his
wise counsel to the officers of our Associa-
H. M. MARSHALL, Pres.

IONIA.

The Ionia Business Men’s Exchange, dur-
ing the past six months, has been alive the
entire twenty-six weeks and, although it
might have done more, it has done well
under existing circumstances. Immediate-
ly after the last State convention, we got
out a complete set of blanks, such as is now
in general use by the association, and dis-
tributed them among the members of the
Exchange. Weare sorry to have to report
that but a small percentage of our members
have made use of them, owing, probably, to
the failure of the first set of blanks given
out. Such, however, as have made use of
the Blue Letter have had very good success.
One member, for instance, sent out twenty-
five Blue Letters, to which three responded.
The twenty-two who did not respond, he
sent the Secretary, who sent them blank
No. 2, and of the twenty-two officially noti-
fied by the Secretary thirteen paid their ac-
counts in full, while several others made
satisfactory arrangements. This is the
most successful instance we have to record.
Qther members also had from 20 to 40
per cent. of the notices sent out favorably
responded to. Many of our members who
have to date made no use of these collect-
ing forms have been encouraged by these
good reports and we think a more general
use of the blanks will follow. Our Ex-
change has issued no delinquent list during
the six months past, mainly for the reason
that we await the decision of the State con-
vention on the question of granting a per-
son on the delinquent list credit under any
circumstances. We consider the force of a
delinquent list lost if a person shall be
given credit by any member of the Associa-
tion after he is legally blacklisted. Our
Exchange has its eye open to procure any
manufacturing interests it can which will
benefit our city and, in more ways than one,
we are mrking ourselves felt and recognized
in this community. We have a great field
of labor and usefulness before us and mean
to be equal to the emergency. We hope at
the next State gathering to give a more
interesting report.

FRED CUTLER, Jr., Sec’y.
SPARTA.

I regret very much not to be with you in
this convention, but am ‘‘heart and hand”
with you in this work. i have been in
favor of this movement from the start and
have done what I could for the cause. Our
town has been a little backward in taking
hold of this work, but we have done some
very good work and I think every member
is well satisfied. I have known of debts
four years old and considered lost which
have been collected through our Associa-
tion. I would suggest that the State body
furnish a form of letter to be used by all
local organizations that are auxiliary to the
State. Then every man getting a letter
from any local association will see that he
is dealing with an organized body. I was
present at both State meetings at Grand
Rapids and have seen this Association grow
from a smallbaby to a largechild. It has at-
tained such proportions that the dead-beat al-
ready trembles before its gaze and the manu-
facturer of adulterated goods soon will.
There are many other things which can be
turned to the profit of the business man by
this combination. In smalltowns, where the
association takes in all kinds of business
men, itis the very men who shape the
destiny of the town and they can do much
more to make it what it should be if they
are all combined in an association, which
affects all interests alike.

J. K. HARRISON, Pres.

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Confectioners’ Butter in London.
Fom the Liverpool Courier.

I happen to know a man who makes a
living by collecting the rancid butter and
dirty butter scrapings from the butter shops
and then retailing them to West End con-
fectioners. The other day I met him wheel-
ing a truckload of the loathsome-looking
stuff along the Baywater road.

‘‘Hullo,” exclaimed I, ‘‘what in the name
of goodness have you got there?” for really
Icould not tell from the look of it, it was
so dirty and discolored, while the stench it
gave, when I went up = it, was something
fearful.

**Oh,” he replied, with quite a business
air, “it’s offal.”

“But what kind of offal? It smells al-
most bad enough. to knock you down!”
-**Why, butter offal.”

“Indeed! Do you mind telling me what

you're going to do with it?”

‘‘Make it into lumps and then take it
round to the confectioners.”

‘*The confectioners! What do they want
it for?’ It would poison a dog.”

‘*Perhaps so,” responded my friend, with
something very like a grin; ‘‘but, none the
less, it don’t poison the aristocracy.”

‘*What do you mean?”

‘*Why, that it’s used in the pastry fal-de-
lals they’re so fond: of.”

‘But not as it is, surely?”

ts no; they first parity it in some ay, is

ay $<. ____

a ‘Smith Hams & Van Arman, grocers, Hast-

is a wise decision and

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hy
ria | a for a dry goods
ade was dull that year,” says
olff, ‘and I suggested to the firm the
of sending some one ont among the
cocntry merchants to drum up trade.” *‘Who
will be the drummer?” asked one of the firm.
Twill, I replied, and they sent me out.
That was the origin of the term ‘drummer,’
by which all traveling salesmen are now
known. I went on the road and solicited
trade among the merchants of southern and
central Pennsylvaniaand New Jersey. For
five years I carried no samples, filling my
customers’ orders from samples provided by
themselves. In 1849, it struck me all of a
sudden that this was necessarily keeping my
trade limited, and that if I carried a line of
samples of my own, I could introduce new
goods and more of them. I sent te the firm
and showed them that the samples were
coming from the wrong end of the line, and
they saw the point and furnished me with
samples. From that year dates the custom
of carrying samples by drummers.” Mr.
Wolff has been on the goad ever since his
pioneer trip among the country merchants.
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A Model Lumbering Community.
From the Northwestern Lumberman.

Charles Hebard & Sons, sawmill owners
at Pequaming, Mich., are said to have es-
tablished a model village. There is no
saloon there, and the firm, owning all the
land in and about the place, will not allow
one for any consideration. It is further re-
lated that every married man is allowed a
neat house and garden free of rent. Every-
body is neatly dressed, and no ragged chil-
dren are seen. If an accident disables an
employe of the firm his pay goes on, and in
serious cases the best medical and surgical
aid is furnished, the injured man’s family
also being fully provided for. The
employes, themselves paid in cash, run no
store bills. Here, it would seem, was real-
ized a dream of the social reformist, yet
even such a condition of things as outlined
would not suit some men. They not only
would not admit the decency shown by
their employers, but they would vigorously
resist the enforcement of decency on their
own part. Rather would they prefer to
revel in dirt and misery as an excuse for
hoisting a red flag and proclaiming against
capital from a dry goods box. But if
Pequaming is what it is pictured, the pity
is there are not more such places.

Dbaroware.

These prices are for cash buyers, who pay
promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGERS AND BITS.
TVOs), Old Style 020 dis
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Jennings’, PONUING 5 ee cee oe cs dis
Jennings’, imitation........... ........ qis50810
BALANCES.

SPTING. se ee ees bey ee dis 40
BARROWS.

RerOads 6.6 eee a ese ee oe, $ 14 00
GAnden ccs. oe a ee net 35 00
BELLS.

PPO eee es ee La ey § 60&10&10

COW ee S ee i a eawe a (a eke
Oe oe an
GONG oe ey at de dis
Door: Sargent... 6.02.02 6.55. oe dis
BOLTS.

PLOVG. os ee eka eee dis $_ 60
Carriage new list...........0.cccceeee dis nee
Plow di
Sleigh Shoe..... a
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis
Cast Barrel Bolts..........: RY eee dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis
Cast Square Spring................... dis
Cast Chain: oe. ke eke ds ...dis
Wrought Barrel, brass knob..
Wrought Square eels Ns caval sis
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis
oe Bronze and Plated Knob

USI se ose ck oe dis 60&10
PVCS) OOK coo eee ose. ou dis 60&10

BRACES.

sosels
eokio

Barber ......
Backus...... .-dis  50&10
Spofford. ..dis 50
are Bae ees ces ee ee co le digs net
BUCKETS.
Werle plain. 00). eee, $ 3 50
Wellyswivel.. 4%... 48 oo eek rece cut £00
BUTTS, CAST.
Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 7%0&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis i
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis
Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvez
tipped i
Wrought Table.........
Wrought Inside Blind
Wrought Brass.......
Blind, Clark’s........
Blind, Parker’s......
Blind, Shepard’s...........5.s3s 2.0. c6 dis
CAPS.
MWA I AQ eels. eels eksee per m $ 65
PIICKESI OC: We see odes aw lee. oes e

G. D
MGISKOG Sola sone os Senses 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fhre, U. M.C. & Winchester new list50&10
Rim Fire, United States....5........... dis50&10
CONnErAl TITG oe cei ae cree na’ dis308&10
CHISELS.
Socket Firmer eR tiie vas Scag 6 sas dis %0&10
Socket Hramine:.. os. 2c. clock occ ess dis 70&10
Socket Corner...........5.560 8.5060. dis 70&10
Socket SliCKs. 3.5.5 b2 cosh ce eros. k dis %0&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COG a eee ea a oe net
COMBS.

Curry, Lawrence’s...........-..ece.05 dis 40&10
TIOUCHIRISS os ee a cae va dis 2
COCKS.

Brass, Racking’s..........2.....2sssee0s
Bibb’s

- dis$ 40

70 | No.

k and Eye %
Screw nee and Eye,
Strap and T
* HOLLOW. WARE.
Pots ......... Posse ee tee ow esocs
Kettles ............... Ms oa ee te bene ckes
BDIGGIS 20 ioo ca ae Pe
Gray enameled... 0.0... 6.6 .c cece cece ee
HOUSE UR Aran GOODS.

Stamped Tin War new st
Japanned Tin Ware Cee S er aah Ora ewee ee
Granite Iron Ware........ Pee bccn

HOES.
Grub boo eee $11 00,
CIN 2 ee eee ee 7 50,
Grup s,s eh cas 12 00.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis .
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings...:..:.
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... i
Door, porcelain, trimmings.............
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain bakes dis
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. .........3.-
Hemacne? 2060 ee. dis

LOCKS—DOOR
Russell & Irwin Mf, pee 8 new list. .dis
Mallory, Wheeler & dis
Branford’s....
Norwalk’s

LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis
MATTOCKS.
Adze EHye............. ..- $16 00 dis
Hunt Hye............ ...915 00 dis 60
Hunt 8 oc ‘$18 50 dis 20 & 10

Sperry & Co.’s, Post. h handied Eee oes dis 50

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s 8 40
Coffee, P.S.& W. Mfz. Co. ’s Malleables .
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.........: Gis 40
Coffee, Enterprise................ccceeees dis 25
MOLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern .................... dis. 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ............. dis 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis 25
NAILS —TRON.
Common, Brad and Fencing.
TOG £0 GO ee ee oc #@ keg $2 10
8d and 9d adv..... é ce 2
6d and 7d adv..
4d and 5d adv....
OG BAVANCE: oo. ee. oe ie}
3d fine advance..................... os
Clineh nails, 8€V. 6.560. rocco ccc
Finishing ' 10d 8d 6s 4
Size—inches { 3 2% 2 1%
Adv.@keg $125 150 1%5 200
Steel Nails—2 20.
OILERS.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom............. -,...dis 50
Brass. or Copper. -.. a. 6.. oe occ cee cnc oo dis 50
Reaper... oii hice. occ per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s 50&10

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dis
dis

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83

50
75
50
25
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Ohio Tool Co.’s, tance Boe oo aara cc vas

Sciota Beneh. 02.2.0 oes. dis 5s
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... .........
Bench, Seeaually Be uc Sey See dis B0@85
Stanley Rule and pret t re 8, wood....dis20&10

ry ACmeG! oy ccc es ae dis 50&10

Common, polished................... ...dis60&10

DPIppINe 2 Oss sees oe oes. ke ® Ib 6%
RIVETS.

Tron and, Tinned... oo icc ciee ces. beet dis 55
Copper Rivets and Burs...........2. dis 60
PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24t027 10 20
“B”’? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20
Broken pale 4c 8 b extra.

OPES.

Sisal, % in. and lareoe cme Oi eee ccs a ce ly,
Matte 6 12%
SQUARES.

Steel and Iron... ce eben lk dis 70&10

Try and Bevels...... di
ees oes dis

Mitre <2 cos. 5. 20
SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.
INOS: MtO U4 eos ees ccc e- $4 20 $
INOS 1D tO Eo oe ern.
INOS! 1S 60 Clio oe ccs
INOS: 22:00 24)
INOS 25:t0)26. 2 ooo oa. cee

at 4
All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 3 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 tbs, @ Ib...... 2.02... 0 0k. :
In smaller quansities, #@ t..............
TACKS,

American, all kinds.................. dis
Steel, all kinds.... ...dis
Swedes, all kinds. ...dis
Gimp and Lace.... ...dis
Cigar Box Nails.. ...dis
Finishing Nails..... ...dis
Common and Patent Brads.......... dis
Hungarian Nails end Miners’ pecke: dis
Trunk and Clout Nails. .. dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis
Leathered Carpet Tacks............. dis

TINNER’S SOLDER. "
No. 1, Refined. 2. od. ccc ee cs
Market Half-and-half............. ....
Strictly Half-and-half..................

TIN PLATES.

IC, 10x14, Charcoal................ 5 40@5
TX, 10x14,Charcoal:.:...........20.008 7
IC, 12x12 Charcoal... 0.0.26. kc. 6
Ix, I2xi2y Chareoak ........... 5.0.25.
Ic, 14x20, Charcoal... <.....2.......-0.2
IX, 14x20, Charcoal...
IXX, 14x20, Charcoal.
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...
IXXXX, 14x20, Charcoal..
IX, 20x28, Charcoal....
DC, 100 Plate Charcoal..................
DX, 100Plate Charcoal..................
DX X. 100 Plate Charcoal.......... 2222222
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate addi 50 to 6

rates.
Racane, VERON EO Ss Shoe eels Gee es ce
Roonne, 4x20, UX ook ce kes
Roofing, 20x28, Or se a ea,
Roofing, 20x28, ER ee uo Roos
TIN—LEADED.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne...........
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne..........
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...........
1X, 20x28, choice Bape Terme, ©... 6.2
RAPS.
Steel, Game: o.oo. ceo seas. coe oa oe 60&:
Oneida{Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’ 60&10
SP. & We Mie. Golgi oo 60&10
Mouse, CRORCGI cece eee ce ce cs 18c # doz

oo

gggugeses ¥

Reb
GRRS SBS BH

ey
az
nr

BEan Eoaan obSam
SS8S SSR HSSSS

RS

Mouse, delusion..................... $1 50 8 doz |

WIRE.

Bright Market... .. oo6.5. 0. e555 500 dis 67%
Annealed Market............. Pee ewe dis W&lu
Coppered Market...............-....... dis .62%
Pixtra DAPI of occ aoe ook. dis

Tinned Market. 2.22). cca ccc seek eee dis 0%
Tinned Broonls . oo. 6.6 esc... co. kee #8 Ib 09
Tinned Mattress... 6... occ. 0 ence ccesecens B Ib oa

| Coppered Spring Steel................. dis

Tinned Spring Steel.................... dis 408410
Plain Fence... 6c. 62 3c ee ce
Barbed Fence, metveined

painted..

60 COPPer. 224.6. os eee as

COPPER.
Planished, 14 a cut to size Bee tee le ge oe 8 Ib
14x52, 14x56, 1 x60 :
Cold Rolled, and and 14x60 oe.
Cold Rolled, AE ec cares Be
MS OUCOIIS ee ek is Cores eon ue

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stock................000 dis
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis
Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis

ELBOWS.

Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $.%75
COPRTUGREEE te, os one ok belong
AGIVUBIADIO 5205 oo oe eis oie oe cec eed dis 4%&10
XPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, sis 00; ae $26 00. dis 30
Ives’, 1, $18 60; 2, 2 $24 00; 8, $30 00. dis 25
FILES—New List.
American File Association List. Sh cee dis
PUGREON IS eo Coa eee dis
New American............... ccccc eee dis
INICHOISOD IS 2 oe oso occ i ec a dis
GU OI Be oe soo ee es ce acco dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps..:.............. dis

GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos. 16to20, 22and 24, 25and26, 27
List 12 13 4 15
Discount, 60.

40
40

60&210
60&10
60&10
55&10

28

GAUGES.
Bieriey Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis

HAMMERS.

vetkes & Fae aes
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. 20 e 40&10

HANGERS.

mpion, anti-f: ion
, wood

-» Wood track. 50830 |
Ss dis 60&10| Gre

 

rasa ee See es es “new list net
WIRE GOODS.

Brights. 303i. Foe fog eis dis ‘T0&10&10
Screw oer Sy SN Sie en cad dis 70&10&10
Be oe ate coerce ..--.-Gis %70&10&10

Gate Hooks and Evyes.....2<.-..5 dis 708&10&10

WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine.................+--.---+ dis
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.............. dis
MISCELLANEOUS.

Bird CAGQOR oo cess a cscs a eee ween cins 50
Pumps, Cistern................. . dis 75
Screws, new list.......... T0&5
Casters, Bed and Plate............. ener
Dampers, American ..................... . a
_ 28e

50
75
T5&1C

Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods.. a
Copper Bottoms........... ... ... Vay

HARDWOOD LUMBER.
The furniture factories here pay as follows
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run..............sc00: 12 00@14 00
Birch, log-run saa da, oclacesee naa :.15 00@18 00

50 Birch, Nos. land 2..............0-006

ar 4 00
Black Ash, log-run............sssc0+- 18 00@15 00
Cherry, log-run Boos cats cnc oe Base 25°

00@35 00
4g | Cherry, ae Pand 2.22.56... 2c. es 45 00@50 00

Oherry, Gulls. oo Socks eet @10 00
Maple, log-run...............e022.008 12 00@14 00
Maple, soft, log-run................. 11 00@18 00
Maple, Nos. land2............... gece @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00
Maple, white, selected.......... us

of | Red Oak, log-run............

os.1 and 2.......
Red Oak, quarter sawed..
Red Sen lomrus o. 1, — plank.

Red Oak, N

 

~ And Close Buyers of Western Michigan

The James Stewart Co,, Li

Op

RAST SAGINAW, - - MICHIGAN,

Desires to call your attention to the fact that they are the
best firm in this State to purchase supplies from. Carrying an
immense stock of

Yeas, Gottees, Spices, Tobaccos, kte,,

And purchasing early for spot cash enables this Co. to offer
Bargains no other firm in Michigan dare offer. We offer all

5|FIRST-CLASS BRANDS of PLUG TOBACCO in

BUTT LOTS AT 30 GENTS.

—-WE INCLUDE——

SPRARHKAD, AGM PUNGH, DIAMOND 8.
NIMROD, WINGO,
GHOGOLATE GREAM, GOLD SHIKLD, P. WV,

And Many Other Brands.

We also offer 500 butts of the following brands in 5

'BUTT LOTS AT THE VERY REASONABLE PRICE OF

26 CENTS.

\fenable’s Lark, Lorillard’s Sweet Russet, Mc-
Alpin's Boom, Sorgs Quality & Quantity,

30c.
24c.

Merry War, in 5 butt lots
Big X Plug in 5 butt lots

——WE ALSO OFFER——

000 PAILS OF FINE GUY AT
24 YO a0 GANTS.

ALE SPLENDID VALUES.

In Teas we only ask a trial order. Our present stock of
1,400 packages includes Teas of every nature and description.

Dust 5 To 6c., Good Dust at 10 To I2c,

IN JAPANBS,

ow Grades, fine for money, 12 to lds.
Mediums. 1b to 188.
Good New Japs 20 to 2ds.
Klegant New Japs - 28 {0 336,
Fancy Japs, Our Own Importation, 37 to 466.

Send for Samples and Quotations on everything sold by
First-Class Jobbers. We Stand next to Phil. Armour on every-
thing in the

PROVISION LINE.

Parties Desiring Our Ciroulars Please
| Mail Address.

 

| beniefit to him when he starts in business |
| for himself. It will lead him to see that|
his expense account is kept within the

& *)

: another he had to depend.
Nothing to ask and nothing to lend.
were the head without the feet;
uld it perambulate the street?
would a poor reporter do

t his heels to carry him through?

‘As well might the feet without the head
ages the battles of life, instead.

‘What were the head but a helpless thing,
Like a bird with neither a leg or wing,

‘Were it not for a part to obey command,
And execute when a thing was planned?
Nothing alone—head, man or a nation—
Independent of all the rest of creation
Can flourish or exist, nor did God so de-
mand,
_ When his trowel rolled Adam out of the
Band,
ee M. J. WRISLEY.

—$—<$< 9 —<——______

- Mercantile Education.*

It is a. well-known fact that failure in the
mercantile world is a very common occur-
rence. It has been estimated that, of all

those who embark in trade, not more than
ten per cent. make a success of it. It is
- very evident that there is something wrong,
and there must be a cause for it; if there is
any remedy it should be applied, if possi-
ble. To me, the cause is very apparent—it
is that so many endeavor to do a mercantile
business who have had no training or pre-

aration for it. In order to do a successful
business, a man should have a thorough ed-
_ucation in the particular branch of business
which he proposes to adopt as his life work,
ind that education must be largely by exper-
fence. Whatever calling he may propose to
enter, he should, first of all, have as good
an education in the way of letters as is of-
fered by public schools. This is, now, for-
tunately, within the reach of all. This

- should be extended as far as the time,
. means and circumstances of the future bus-
_. Wess Man may seem to be for the best in
_ his particular case. It is generally conceded
~ that if a young man is to enter the ministry,
» practice law or medicine or follow any of
‘the scientific pursuits, he must obtain such
‘education by study and experience as will
be of use to him in the particular profession

» he chooses. Does he choose to follow farm-
-ing? Let him learn by his experience from
~ boyhood supplemented by proper reading
_ and study. Does he choose any of the me-
ohanical arts? He must become appren-
ticed to some master in the line he adopts.
‘He must serve for years without pay or with
_ very’small wages until he has mastered his
trade and is able to go out for himself. In

foreign countries, this is the custom in mer- |

eantile pursuits. A. young man must serve
His seven years’ apprenticeship in the busi-
ness, and then he is supposed to have
Ibarned it as a mechanic learns his trade,
always allowing that he is adapted to that
line and is possessed of ordinary common
sense. But in this country it is by many
considered not necessary to waste (?) time
in that way. Anybody can run a store! A
boy enters a store, and in a few months’
time he knows. all about the business—or
thinks he does. His father furnishes him
‘with eapital,.and he starts in business for

imself with a grand flourish of trumpets,
ently to meet with disastrous failure in the
course of a few months, or years, at the
most, the time depending on how long the

source of capital supply holds out.

Again many a map, having tried farming
or inechanical pursuits. until he approaches
middle life, thinks that it would be a much
easier way of making a living to keep a
store, where all he will have to do will
‘be to pass out the goods to his custom-
ets and take the money forthem. Accord-
ingly he disposes of his farm or raises a

ittle capital in some other way and buys
it some established mercantile business,
starts in some new place. He goes to
market or the enterprising drummer comes

> him; he selects his stock of goods; he
pens them up and advertises himself as
for business, and business comes. It

rd for him to refuse to trust his old

id acquaintances, and he does

thing of a credit business. Time runs

on, and some fine day he is confronted with

Es

out as his original capital amount-
This may largely be considered good,
not convenient for his customers to

; Just the moment he must have
. He looks through his stock
darge amount of goods which are

He now sees that. he has

ft a class of goods for which

but which the wholesale |»

re is in the hand:
me the way of

{let him save some portion
cannot do without forming on-|
-} omy—habits thus formed while in the em-|

| year.

which hel

habits ‘of econ-|
ploy of another he will find of incalculable

proper percentage of the volume of his bus- |
iness; it will teach him to keep watch of
the little items which are so apt to be over- |
looked, and which, in the aggregate, form
a large amount on the debit side of the
profit and loss account at the end of the
He will learn while with this. suc-
cessful business man that it is absolutely es-
sential to always meet his engagements—
and never let a paper bearing his name fail
to be taken care of at maturity—no matter
what the sacrifice, he must meet his finan-
cial obligations if he expects to maintain his
credit. He will also learn to say, ‘‘No.”
If credit is given it will be done with great
caution, and he will see that notes and ac-
counts receivable are collected when due.
Then, having thoroughly learned through
years of service these essential points—
knowledge of values, economy, industry,
business obligations, collections, attention
to details, etc.,—the young man may, with
confidence of success, launch out for him-
self. If he has saved up enough from his
own earnings to supply him with the nec-
essary capital, so much the better, it is his
own, he knows how he came by it. Butl
think that a young man of unquestioned
integrity, educated in the manner I have
indicated, might safely handle capital fur-:
nished by parents or friends. Let him
make his purchases right, keep his expenses
down, meet all obligations, carefully watch
his accounts, never misrepresent, treat his
customers courteously, and he cannot fail
of succes. He may and should start ina
small way, and his business will increase
as he comes to be known as a reliable and
honest dealer. He will meet with reverses,
undoubtedly, but will meet them squarely
and overcome them. Panics will come and
values will be unsettled, but he will know
how to meet all such emergencies. His
business will be on a sure foundation and
will not be shaken. He will go down to
old age, aman who can be leaned upon by
others who are learning the way he has
taken; and, after he is called hence, his
memory will bekept green, and he will long
be remembered as one of the noblest works
of God—an honest business man.

DOUBLE. THICK
“BALL.

thick
on the ball, and give

DOUBLE WEAR...

Most economical Rubber

tase a or tee pose
sts longer

' other oor and the si

PRICE NO HIGHER,

Call and ex-
‘amine the

FOR SALE BY

E. G. STUDLEY & CO., Grand Rapids.
Jobbers of

Rubber and Oil Clothing of all kinds,
Horse and Wagon Covers, Leather and
Rubber Belting and Mill and Fire Depart-
ment Supplies. Send for price list.

ARSTER & FOX.

Manufacturers’ Agts. for

baw and Grist Mill
M AcuINnNERy

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds,
of Wood- Working Machinery, Saws
Belting and. Vils.

 

 

 

 

 

PLACE to secure a thorough
and useful education is at the
GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) BusI-
NESS COLLEGE. write for Col-

lege Journal. Address, C, G. SWENSBERG.

LUCIUS C, WEST,
AT 7 Attorney. at Patent Law and Solicitor
ef American and Foreign patents.

105 E, Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch ' of-
fice, London, Eng. Practice in U.S. Courts. Cireulars

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

hand Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—giving satisfac-
tion. They are simple
durable and econom-
ical. No grocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
P and pea-nuts to per-
fection.

Send for circulars.

ae Robt. 8. Fest,

} 150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

 

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large
stock kept on hand. Send fur sample Pulley
and become convinced of their superiority.

WRITE FOR PRICES.
44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
CINSEING ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

Peck Bros,, Druggists, (rand Rapids, Mich,

PEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool é& Tallow,

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

ARLOW B 205.

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: Tr 80, send for Catalogue and Price-Lis

HEYMAN & SON, 8 al, ra Ri

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——-ESTERETEE & SONS
DRY GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,

83 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

{A Specialty.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, - Grand Rapids, M

SPRING Jt COMPANY,
DRY GOODS
Hosiery, Carpets, Ete.

O ald 6 Monroe St, Grand Rapids,

 

Cc. C. BUNTING.

BUNTING & DAVIS,

Cc. L. DAVIS.

Commission Merchants.

Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

C. AINSWORTH

JOBBER IN ’

U7TOOL,
GLOVER, YIMOYHY SEED and BEANS.

Parties Wishing to Buy or Sell above are Invited to Correspond.

76 South Division St., - - - Grand Rapids, Mich

 

BULKLEY, LEMON & f

Wholesale Grocers.

IMPORTERS OF

Teas, Lemons and Foreion 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.

 

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The accompanying illustrations represents, the

Boss Tobacco Pail Cover,

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

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,

*sOlce Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS,

 

 

standing in the door, ‘er speakin’
tific-like, the yarb nickotum vomitum.
has been instances known where

} growed up to be men without usein’ it,

but prob’ly they didn’t ‘mount to much.
-. Stick to it, sonny! an’ wen you kin smoke
_ all day, an’ sleep with a wad of fine cut in
: syour mouth, an’ call. your pa the ole man,
au’ git off afew cuss words graceful-like,
you can call fur your diplomy. Now run
shome an’ tell your ma that you et too much
watermelon, er some sich lie, an’ she'll fix

"you up fur anuther rassle to-marrer.”

“When you an’ I, an’ the rest of us old
fogies have got our head-stuns,” said the
old man, launching out in his favorite
topic, “I s’pose the world will travel on

-*pout as usual, I swan, it bothers me to dis-
_kiver how the risin’ generation are goin’ to
‘torn billiards, an’ base ball, an’ boat pad-
_dlin’ an’ saloon loungin’ into clothes an’ per-

visions. Wot perportion of the young fel-

_. Jers now ‘days are fit to be shoved out to
‘shirk fur themselves, an’ how many busi-
ness.men do you know has got boys that
earn ten per cent. of their livin’? All most

.of’em appear to care fur the old folks is
what they can squeeze out of ’em fur style
an’ amusement. You remember w’en Boll-
anger was run over by the cars, las’ year?
Yes! Well, alot of us was down on the
track tryin’ to put Bollinger together in
ssuthin’ like a nat’ral shape, an’ his son sat

on the bank cryin’ as if he’d bust. IfI

_ ever felt sorry fur a human bein’ ‘twas fur
that boy, an’ finally 1 went to ’im and tried
to console ’im, an’ he says:

‘Oh! I wouldn’t min’ it, Mr. Jones, but I
ome down to get dad’s watch fur myself,
san’ it’s all knocked into a cocked hat.’

- “This,” said the old man gloomily, as he
went in to wait on a customer, ‘‘is the style

-of youngsters we are rasin’ to bless us.”
te * * * * *

“I have very little doubt that the propensi-
ay for decrying the preversity and useless-
ness of the rising generation, and predict-
‘ing a near future when thrift and industry
zand ambition would disappear forever,
“emerged from mythology, and has come

down through the ages unimpaired and un-
altered, and as long as civilization exists
ssueceeding ages will listen to thesame wail.
When Washington pere observed the de-
~ +gtruction of the historical cherry tree, his
- mind was undoubtedly filled with gloomy
_‘aisgivings for the failure of the race.
When Lord Wellington’s ancestor detected

_-dhis son in aiding and abetting the heinous

crime of poaching, I presume that he had
faint hopes for the integrity of the coming
Englishman, and when Thiers’ guardian be-
_held his change in custody for a raid on a
‘neighbor’s orchard, he probably solemnly
"prophesied that the acme of moral depravity
would speadily be reached by the succeed-
- 4ng generation. Yet the youthful follies
and escapades of these, and thousands of
_-other distinguished and honored men, are
viewed by their biographers and admirers
with leniency, and almost approval, and
‘thousands of. the youngsters “of the present
stime, who have been tried before juries of
the sedate and silver grey order, and pro-
- nounced. profligate and useless, and irre-
i, claimable, will, in after years, become in-

uential and ‘substantial citizens, and in
«due time will turn in mourning over the

ssa om of ied age.

ut Tam ot surprised that Jones feels

ke « an 5 pdbedion. are always ex-
; liberal ‘ins ee for the

 

nowledge than the yellowest kind of a yel-|
_ | low dog, how ‘would you apne him of the} |
| unfortunate facts?” m

“Why, l’d—I’d—write him a
“Correct! Now, Mr. Jones, you have lib-

‘erty to retire for the purpose of composing a

letter to thateffect.” .

If Jones had secured a thoronghi phren-
ological examination of his son and heir
some years ago, and placed any reliance
on the science, he would have saved a vast
amount of trouble and anxiety and no incon-
siderable number of dollars. The laws of
nature are unchangeable and immutable,and
when she creates a hewer of wood and
drawer of water, with no capacity or ambi-
tion for science, art or literature, all the
universities in America, and all the forcing
process that can be devised can not alter
her decrees. To be sure, the individual
whom she constructed for a hewer of wood
and drawer of water may, in these modern
days, develop into an athlete of some noto-
riety, but the fact remains the same that he
is ‘‘of earth earthy,” and that to his bone
and muscle alone will be due all the brief
and evanescent record that he will leave be-
hind him.

I hope no casual reader will infer that I
am wanting in respect for the toilers of the
earth—should he do so he will totally mis-
judge me—but I like to see labor. and
amusement run in separate chanels, and I
have all the more admiration for muscle

when it is accompanied with active brains.
*% * *% *% *

An now, least the editors of THE
TRADESMAN should hastily pronounce this
paper a departure from mercantile subjects,
I desire to submit that we are all of us,
more or less, financially and otherwise, in-

terested in Young America, and that, more- |-

over, when Young America becomes a pro-
fessional athlete he is almost invariably a
mercantile commodity, for sale to the high-

est bidder.
>
Five energetic young men can obtain sal-
aried positions with the Metal Back Album
Co., Battle Creek.

&

MM

Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly
for food, is made of only the best white corn
and ts guaranteed absolutely pure.

The popularity of Muzzy’s Corn and Sun

Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale,
aggregating many million of pounds each

a

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

sae
Voigt Herpolsheimer & Co,

Importers and J obbers of -

DRY GOODS

Staple and Fancy.
Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN MAKE,

A Complete Line of

 

 

“ess Crockery: Fancy Woodenware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION,

Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit
Prices Guaranteed.

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

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m 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills
Grist Stills, Wood Wor king Machinery, Shaft
‘Pulle: made for

 

OUR LEADING BRANDS:
Roller Champion,
"Gilt Edge,
, Matchless,
Lily White,
Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,
‘White Loaf,
Reliance,
Gold Medal,
Graham.
-QUR SPECIALTIES:
Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Granulated

Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran,
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.

Write for Prices.

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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AND OTHERS.
For Quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

Lock Box 178, GRAND: RAPIDS, MICH
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LUBRICATING OILS.

We makeas eciaity of

BEOREBA OIL,

Which for Farm Machinery and general
purposes is the Best Brand on the market.

GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE,

No.1 Canal St.,
Telephone No. 228-2.

J. G. ALEXANDER, Agent,

GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER.

We Guarantee Satisfaction.

SI’. CHARLES,

J. W. MORSE, Manager.

REED CITY, Mich,

Fine Sample Rooms im Connection,

This spacious and admirably construct-
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and pleasant, in suits or single, and newly
furnished throughout. Thedesign of man-
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The Traveling Public are cordially in-
vited.

ORANGES LEMONS

PUTNAM & BROOKS

Wholesale Mfrs. of

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rgest and _ best-equipped
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PEANUTS

62

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IN MICHIGAN,

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Grand Rapids.

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THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.

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ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS.

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PROPRIETORS OF

bentury Spice Mills,

IMPORTERS OF

TEAS, GOFFEES & SPIGKS.

OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS:

JAPAN TEHA---“Red Dragon” Chop.
COFFEE---O. G. Plantation. Java,
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F, J. DETTENTHALER,

 

MOSELEY BROS.,
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.

28, 30 & 32 Ottawa Street, GRAND RAPIDS

STORE oe TERS AND FURNITURE TO ORDER.
D. H. MOSHIER,

MANUFACTURER OF

Govnters, Prescription Gases,

’ WOOD MANTELS!

And all kinds of Store and Bank Furnitire.
Odd Bookcases and Sideboards.

Special attention given to ordered work. Call and nee Rae a

or send for estimates. 2

62 So. Front St, GRAND RAPIDS

 

ABSOLUTE SPICES

 

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

CARY & LOVERIDG!

GENERAL DEALERS IN

Fire and Burglar Proo

 

bors on their prospects,
see all other northern

owns follow the example Char-

that the warm weather is over, it is | Ci

er for those Associations which have
ageing during the summer months to
ve interest in the work. THE TRADES-
does not know of but two cr three as-

ions which need punching up on this |’
it, as the majority of the local organiza-

s of the State have kept up interest in
work, in spite of the discouragingly hot
ther of the summer season. The com-

¥ winter ought to be rendered memorable
point. of results secured by the local

- In sending his regrets at being unable to
attend a recent meeting of the Grand Rap-
ids Retail Grocers’ Association, Park Math-

ewson, of Detroit, adds: I will send you]

one thought for which your attention is
claimed. Let it become more and more
a all men that your Association
recognizes as its first duty ‘Good will and
_ brotherhood,” and that these virtues are to
ber ‘practical in many ways. There is
one way that considetation will show to
you tol very practical and effective—adopt
asa pait of your creed that any member
‘who wiskes to retire from business will be
helped to do so by the members of your As-
oO «Journal: At the meeting of
_ the Business Men’s Association last Friday
‘evening, R. W. Kane reported the work of
_ the State meeting at Flint, and gave the prin-
_ gipal points of the papers read. He also out-
 lineda plan foradvertising this region, which
had been discussed by the delegates from
- ~ Northern Michigan, and which it was hoped
__ to,put jnto successful operation this winter.
- It is proposed to call a meeting of represen-
tives of associations to be held in Petoskey
* about the first of November, to complete
the plans. All the papers read at the Asso-
_ eiation are to be printed in-THE MICHIGAN
. “TRADESMAN, which our business men will
find instructive reading.
Howard City Record: The Business
- Men’s Association has secured the co-op-
eration of the highway commissioner and
is taking active steps toward straightening,
. grading and cutting down the hills on the
- yoad running west on the line between this
township and Pierson, as far as the State
- goad on the county line. Between two and
three hundred dollars is now available for
__ this purpose, anda great deal of work on
_ the road has already been offered. The As-
- sociation is determined to see the work be-
~ gun at once and pushed vigorously to com-
pletion. Citizens of Ensley township will
_ subserve their best interests by aiding our
~ men as much as possible in their undertak-
ing
ney and Dr. A. M. Gerow of the committee
‘appointed by the Cheboygan Business Men’s
Association to solicit. subscriptions to the
Stock for the dry dock, have spent a couple
Edays on the warpath and are meeting
“with moderate success, but few they have
zalled on refusing to take stock in the enter-
prise, though they were disappointed in the
of shares taken by some of whom
‘Detter things were expected. This is a
re opportunity for Cheboygan to secure
aportant industry. Every citizen in-
ited in the prosperity and growth of our
lage should be interested in the dry dock
oject. We believe that it would not only
step in promoting the growth of
mm, but that it would also prove a
investment from the start. Let all
bold with a will and make it a success.

+ Review: An interesting meeting

Evart Business Men’s Association
eld Tuesday night. Several commit-

and matters of general interest |
surrounding country were dis-

rincipal matter under consider-
‘the road south in Evart Town-

ittee appointed for the,
up ‘the most feasible |

favor of the road on the

as. Turner’s farm, |

‘Cheboygan Tribune: Messrs. J. F. Mol-|

A. R. M
_ D. B. Rankin, Shelb
Aaron | , Ravenna

~ James Colby,
_R.T. Parrish, Grandville

C.K

’ M. P. Shields, Hilliards

k

: s

~ Crandall & Son,

A. Wierengs: ‘Muskego:

in ten : aS
J. ng, Darling & Smith, Fremont —

O. W. Messenger. Spring Lake |

va we

A cKinnon, Shelby
elby

J.C. Wals , Walsh & Brown, Vermontville
W.B.Falk, Hobart
ee er iomenuine
: of, Ferrysburg
Rockford —
¥F. C. & A. C. Stone, Cedar Springs

G. W. Reynolds, Belmont.

J. C. Townsend, W?:ite Cloud

C. P. Sowers, Pews:a0

Alex. Denton, Venton & Loveley, Howard

.D. Mills, Otsego

Geo. A. Sage, Rockford

A. Curtiss, Manton

Jos. Gerber, D. Gerber & Sons, Fremont
Dr. W. Ryno, Coloma
M. Winnie, Traverse City
G. 'T. Clapp. Glenn :
John M. Clo

C. C. Eddy,
D. B. Galentine, Bailey
A. G. Clark, White Cioud
D. R. Stocum, Rockford
B. A. Jones, Leetsville
S. V. Albertson, Cadillac
C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs
Byron McNeal, Byron Center

. H. Thompson, Mancelona

. W. Preston, Millbrook

. H. Bartholomew, Wayland

. P. Dockeray, Rockford :

. M. Harroun, Bogue Chitto, Miss
W. J. Clark, Harbor Springs
Taylor & English, Lucas
W. W. Peirce, Moline
J. J. Nichols, Petoskey
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake
Geo. W. Bump, Petoskey
udsonville
FE. J. Kobe, Freesoil
John Smith, Smith & Bristol, Ada
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade :
W. H. Haney, Haney & Darling, Big Rapids
L. D. Chapple, Wayland
Levitt & Dorr
C. H. Deming, Dutton
C. E. Coburn, Pierson
Wm. Black. Cedar Springs
G. C. Baker, LaBarge
Wm. Hewitt, West Campbell
Wm. English, Piainwell
Nichols Bros., Borland
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg
¥F. E. Campau, Alaska
Jno. Giles & Co., Lowell :
Mr. Sheppard, A. Patterson & Co., Martin

Henry Strope. Morley

J.J. Wiseman, Nunica

Jno. Damstra, Gitchell

Pp, Kinney, Altona

C. DeYoung, Fishville

S. A. Bush, Lowell

M. J. Howard, Englishyille

A. M. Church, Alpine

J. Barnes, Austerlitz

G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
Boomegard & Son, Grand Haven
A. C. Hibbs, Three Rivers
Pursel Bros., Schoolcraft

C. H. Moulton, St. Joseph

A. L. Power, Kent City

Wm. Depree, Wm. Depree & Zeeland
E. Conklin, Ravenna —

J.P. Huling, Big Rapids

G. D. Willey, Summit City

A. & E. Bergy, Caledonia

N. O. Ward, Stanwood

-N. Pipp, Pipp Bros. & Martindale, Kal-

a
. R. Bates, Hart
. A. Scoville, Clarksville
. N. Hutchinson, Grant
.N. Parker, Coopersville
. M. Robson, Berlin
alling Bros., Lamont
mith & Deitz, Cadillac
. B. MeCullock, Berlin
. B. Field, Vermontuille
. Q. Look, Lowell
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland
H. E. Hawkins,.Wayland
Cc. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan
J. Van Enenaam, Zeeland
Farnworth & Williams, Mancelona
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna
L, K. Ware, Sand Lake
R. E. Werkman, Holland
M. V. Gundrum, LeRoy
C. Moesker, Muskegon »
Philabaum & Howell, Muskegon
Pp. Jeannot & Co., Diamond Lake
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia
L. A. Barbor & Son, Petoskey
A. 8. Chubb, Pewamo
Tew, Kilmartin & Tew, Orange
A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey
G. H. Remingion, Bangor
C. E. Coburn, Pierson
O. L. Evans, Shelbyville
Robt. Johnson, Cadillac
L. DeChamplain, Cadillac
J. E. Balkema, No. Muskegon
Jacob Sissing, Muskegon
L. Kolkema, Holland
J. Neyering, Noordeloos
F. C. Willey, Summit City
F. Voorhorst, Overisel
Peter Dundee, Hopkins Station
A. S. Frey, Lake
T,-Foreman & Son, GrandjLedge
I, J. Quick, Allendale
Lindstrom & Lovene, Tustin
E. L. Carbine, Scotts
¥F. Catlin, Catlin & Munger, Sullivan
Benson & Co., Woodland
Peck & Co., Walton
HH. E. Hogan, So, Boardman
A. W. Blain, Dutton
G.M Huntley, Reno
Geo. W. Turner, Greenville
J. Tutkill, buyer forS. Bitely, Sparta
Mr. Stitt, Stitt & Knox, Hart
H. B. Hawley, Westwood
W. G. Tefft, Rockford.
Mr. Heyboer, Heyboer Bros., Drenthe.
Mrs. Q. Huyser, Holland.
B. A. Jones, Leetsville.
Mr. Dalmon, Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale.
A. Purchase, So. Blendon. f
L. Pe mares :

mo. Meye , Noordeloos.
z M. . Maple Hill. é
A, C. Barkley, Crosby...

.8. Putnam, Fruitport.
-Manistee Lumber Co., Manistee.
Nelson F’ Miller, Lisbon.

Band Lake.

P. Mulder & Co., Graafschaap. :
Jno. Bishop, Montague...
_J. A. Shattuck, Sand Lake. .
Schrock & Long, Clarksville.
J. E. Bennett, Ferris. :
DenHerder & » Vriesland,

Zadok s

SHO by

 

i: |

ville,
| J.G. Runy

ithe same determined effort with which we

banquet of

 

1, W. brook
oa Jernstadt, Jernstadt &

& Son, Hastings Beles A
Geo. Pickhaver, Ionia

W.-H. Struik, Forest Grove

E. cng scat Fife Lake

Bliss & Owen, Plainwell

W. Barker, Sand Lake

F, J. Kobe, Freesoil

G. Bergman, Bauer

8. J. Martin, Sullivan

H. Thompson, Canada Corners

¥F. Broonstra, Drenthe

P. Vandon Bosch, Zeeland

m. Black, Cedar Springs

Bristol & Nickerson, Lacey

S. Sheldon, Pierson

M. F. Washburn, St. Johns

S. H. ard, Spa. ‘

Palmer, Gray & Gibson, Kalkaska

L. T. Knowlton, Volney f

Hugh Johnston, Shelby

John Dursema, Freemont :

“; The State Association.*

It is hardly necessary for me to go into
the details of the organization of this Asso-
ciation. Many who are before me were
present in Grand Rapids one year ago,
when, in a small room, we met at the call
of the Retail Grocers’ Association to dis-
cuss the advisability of a State organiza-
tion and to put in shape thoughts and
methods which to many had for months
seemed most imperative. They were not
dream thoughts, which, like the early dew,
disappear with the morning sun, but they |
were vital, living principles, withheld for
thé hour and hand to give them promi-
nence. ‘To-day our Association ranks in
numbers and effectiveness second to none
among the States,

We call this an age of associated effort;
itis also an age of disintegration ; itis an
age of theory; it is, too, an age of practice;
it is an age of reason; it is an age of faith ,
it is an age of trade and social abuses ; itis|
an age of high trade morality; it is, too, an
age of prompt pay; it is an age of food,

ink and wear adulteration ; ic is an age
when the best and purest can be and are
obtained. We might say that these are only
the extremes of our age. True, they are,
and they appear to us as our conditions and
surroundings suggest, according to our de-
gree of hopefulness in and for the future.
But when we stand between these two ex-
tremes, and with broad, clear vision and
with a firm hand push the evil behind with

grasp the good that awaits us, then it is
that we are led to co-operation and union
for the fulfillment of our high ideals.

I look upon the State Association of bus-
iness men as a manifesto of that high and
dignified solution of the many perplexing
questions that enter the business man’s life,
questions that sometimes call for public
condemnation, but more often for approval—
condemnation of the loose forms and dis-
honest tendencies that threaten to destroy
the honor, the confidence, the profit even,
which the honest business man is seeking
to enjoy, who, notwithstanding his noble
efforts, his zeal and business qualifications,
too often shares in the results of depres-
sion caused by the ignorant and false meth-
ods indulged in by nota few competitive
and malicious delinquents; approval, when
against the tide many are pushing on,
moved by a principle that is unshaken to
reform abuses, both social and mercantile.

Let it be a body to which the local bodies
(which, in their own unaided strength, fail
to reach their highest conceptions of what
the business man may do for his and others’
good) can look for the fulfillment of their
hopes, for energy and strength. Let it, by
conservative methods, wise discussions, dis-
semination of trade and business. intelli-
gence, stand, like the great statue of lib-
erty, alight to those who arein darkness.

It should manifest a paternal interest in
and watchfulness over the delinquent, and
extend to him the good old message,

“While the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.” . :
It will continue to do its part in keeping u
eorrespondence, that pleasant ties may re-
main unbroken. What we have done in
the past is only indicative of what we may,
through the co-operation of local bodies, do
in the future.

The prize system must go. Better law
for ‘the collection of debts must. come.
Merchandise of all kinds must stand out for
what it is, and not for whatitisnot. Bus-
iness integrity and square financial dealing
are principles that have come to stay. Our.
hope is that we may secure a harmonious
development of a broad, intelligent adjust-
ment of the highest relations between bus-
iness men. Let us seek always for unity
and strength.

 

*Response by Frank Hamilton at recent
M. B.M. A

—_—___—_2

A contemporary asks: ‘‘Did it ever occur
to anybody that if the women of this coun-
try should march en masse to the polls to
vote, no power on earth could stop them?”
Turn a‘cow loose near those polls ahd the
enfranchised women would scatter ‘‘en
masse.” No power on earth could stop the
panic.

—_——>_ 2

The New Hampshire lawmakers, like those
in Massachusetts, refused to give municipal
suffrage to women, but they also have just
taken good care to protect milk cans. Reas-
on why: :
votes; women have none.

 

 

 

Datbeck, Wood-|

500 Blue Letters, old style,

| Dilworth’s
. | Standard ................,
| German ............+--+05. é
. Magn OHA...+...... ounces ee

Kagle......
(on

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ye 4ago Record Blanks.

250 Notification Sheets.
125 Last Calls. ea
500 Envelopes.

tae

8 at
In place of old stylé:s3siue Letter in above
$10 Outfit we can siibstitute 10 books Blue
Letter:in latest form, as recommended by the
recent State convention, for $12.50
Pricesin other quantities furnished on ap-

PULLER & STOWE COMPANY.

 

FULLER & ST

ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,
49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,
WINTER COAL

wae ee

SUMMER PRICES.
Until Further Notice.

Eggand Grate - - - $6,75 per ton.
Stove No. 4and Nut - - $7.00 per ton.

For September Delivery.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

OFFICE 52 PEARL ST.,
Yard, Corner Wealthy Avenue and M.C. R. R.
Telephone No. 159.

TS!

In can offer a few cars of
No. 1 White Oats at - 3lic.
No. 1 Timothy Hay, per ton, $13.

In car lots here on track.

W. YT. LAMORKAUX,

71 Canal Street,
GRAND RAPIDS,

 

 

MICH.

 

 

heading Cigar jobbers of Michigan.

EATON & CHRISTENSON.

Wholegale Cigars,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

WHoEPS

ADDRESS
GRAHAM. ROYS, '- Grand Rapids, Mich.

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

These prices are for cash buyers, who pay

promptly and buy ii full packages.
AXLE GREASE.
CYrOWR © ee a 80jParagon ........... 210
Frazer’s........... 90/Paragon 25 pails. 90
Diamond X........ 60\F raziers, 25 Ib pails.1 25
Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50
BAKING POWDER.

Acme, 4B cans, 3 doz. CABE.. 2... eee sooo

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Princess, 48......
y WB...... 2
MG reel eas ene ee os eon 2. Se nes 3 75
a DU ee hoes. --- 2 ee
Arctic, % b cans, 6 doz. case...........+...
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66 1

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6%
6s

2
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Victorian, 1 b cans, (tall,) 2 doz............
Diamond, *bulk.”’..). 22.2... 52. s scene ees

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Dey, Moe RL, RAS doz.

TVs NOLO. ose cee de es: tare ns ved doz.
Liquid, 4 02,......... Vowiss aGieese ae doz.
Liquid, 8 oz. ......... Joke cwaactes co
-Aretic 4 02Z........... Lieis ga ce ck cen «
Arctic 8 02Z...:...... Fee caste gan ae ee

BPOUGAB OT. sola es Sk La gs 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................006. 2 00
AYOtIO NO. 2 8 Ne a ae etads 3 00
Arctic No.3 :

25
45
35

doz. 65
gross 3 56
7 20

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BROOMS.

No.2Hurl.......... 1'%5|Common Whisk.... 90
No. 1 Hurl....2 00@2 25|Fancy Whisk...... 100
No. 2Carpet........ 2 PoIMAM oc. cs cee cee ee 3 75
No. 1Carpet........ 2 50|Warehouse ........ 2 75
Parlor Gem........ 30

+ CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s Premium..35|German Sweet....... 23
ot Sweet...... 25) Vienna Sweet ....... 22
B’kf’tCocoa45|Baker’s .............. 3t
Re a-theta 42|Runkles’ ............. 35
anilla Bar 28
COCOANUT.
BR ese cence ce eaten aot
lg and s...
5

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66
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Schepps,
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Mailtby’s,
a (Pe TE Rees SESE ree eae
Manhattan, pails............ oes
Peerless ........ nee

The owners of milk cans have Bulk

Mocha ......... | focha... .
COFFEES—PACKAGE, |
tion. . ee sreapa’ eS ae wre 10 Es
on, in cabinets........... ae
XxXxx

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26
Pores sco oec ik Salers tone. . 25
‘Arbuckle’s ............ ‘ 2

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Ginger. Snaps as

‘No. 1 Ginger Snaps.....
Lemon Snaps..............4.
Coffee Cakes..............

Jumbles............. Seve reba
Extra Honey Jumbles.........
Frosted Honey Cakes.........
Cream Gems...........0.0ccc05 :
Bayleys Gems........ Sigee ek
Seed Cakes............00.0c0008
S. & M. Cakes. .....; ote ccee

CANNED FISH.
Clams, 1 ib, Little Neck........ age eee ss. 110
Clam Chowder, 3................-... aee-e 15
Cove Oysters, 1 bb standards..:.;....... 95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib standards...:......... 1 55
Lobsters, 1 picnic. ..........5...0ceeeees 1%
Lobsters, 2 ib, pienic............... ae le ee 2 65
Hobsters; 1 star: . 00. .60066. ee 2 00
Lobsters, 2 I star...........0..0. che ccce ee 2 OB
Mackerel, 1 fresh standards............ 170
Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards. :.,........ 5 c0
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 Ib...........
Mackerel,3 thin Mustard............: ope:
Mackerel, 3 ib soused............ Ee heces
Salmon, 1 Columbia river..........:.... 2 20

| Salmon, 2 i Columbia river....... ....... 3 96

Sardines, domestic 48................ 0000. 6@61
Sardines, domestic ¥48...........5...0000: tool
Sardines, Mustard %8............csceceee 10@11

ardines, imported 8................2..-18@15
Trout, 3 brook...................

CANNED FRUITS. :

Apples, gallons, standards......... 2 ..3 00@38 40
Blackberries, standards................:- 115
Cherries, red standard........... Catt ecowsk OO
DAMSONS . 00 ccs aaa 115
Egg Plums, standards .......0....cccee0s 1 45
GOOS6DEFTICS . o.oo ccs eecc cewek sce cee 1%
GRADCR Se eee eae. icwcsee OD
Groen Gages, ioc. ee 145
Peaches, standards.............0..cececces 2 65
Peaches, SCCONGS...........0ccccccececateed 20
POHCHOS, DIG ee ee 130
Pears... .. 00.02. ahaa nga sels ceo c ress uae sous 140
PAIMERDPIOS, 0.6 oe oot oo cc rece scs 1 40@2 50
QUINGOS ooo a ees, 11
Raspberries, CXtra@............ ccc ce ceeees 1 50

POG ee es 150
SteHwherrics 5.1. os eR. 1 60
WDOrtlEberFies 4.066628. soc ea 100

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay................008- 2 00
Beans, Lima, standard..................6. 15
HOARE! String oo ee eee 63)
Beans, Stringless, Erie.................... 90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 50
Corn, Archer’s Trophy................000. 1 20
Peas, Freneh.-.: 80 ool lace ant ok 160
Peas, extra marrofat.................. 1 20@1 40
Pean; BORKEd 8508 col oe oe ee oe 75

‘© Early June, stand............... 1 50@1 75

fe s oe SRRbOG Cs Sage oe oe 2 00
French, extra fine:................... 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine............. ...00%. 22 00
Pumpkin, 3 i Golden......................
Succotash, standard..................00. 80@1 30
Squash 1 40
Tomatoes, standard brands............... 110

CHEESE.
Michigan full cream...:.............. 12 @13
DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.

LER OR ee a cas a 19 @ 22
CUPTANES, O10. 2). oie. oc ccc cece is cocdk us 64
CUEPANIS; NOW... ooo bois ceo ec cones 1%
Pemon Pee 25. se he es ss @ 14
Oranee Peli. o. eee eo occa cence @ Mu
Prunes, French, 608.................02 @10%
ss French, 808.2 os osc cece eee ke @ 8
* Prench,: WS. .6. 5.5 oes segs ek @%

PUEERON ooo. to costs. ok 4 @5
Raisins, Dehesia............. Oe ak 3 50@5
Raisins, London Layers...............
Raisins, California °
Raisins, Loose Muscatels..............
Raisins, Ondaras, 288.7. ........ 2...
Raisins, Sultamas..................0005
Raisins, Valencias, new...............
Raisins, Valencias. layer..............
Raisins, Imperials.............c0cce008

FISH.

Cod, whole.................. :

Herring, round, % bbl.

Herring ,round, \% bbl..

Herring, Holland, bbls.

Herring, Holland, kegs.

Herring, Scaled...............

Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % bbls....
oe “ 66 12 bd kits

iy 66 oe 10 6s
“ No. 3. % bbls...
Sardines, spiced, 4s.
Trout, % bbis......
© 10 b kits.....

White, No. 1, 10 kits
White, Family, % bbls oe
“ SO RAUB ee soa See Leas

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon.

4
B
eS
P

or

66
os
66
66
yy

“
“6
6
6
6

~
R

No.4 Pee
2 pint, round.

SO 09 bet OT Hm D9 bet
a

6e
6
“es
“s

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2th

No. 3 panel..
No:8 * .

No. 10 oe

MATCHES.
Grand Haven, No. 8, square......
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor..
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor..
Grand Haven, No. 7, round....
Oshkosh, NO. 2): 0005 oo es icarselac ane
Oshkosh, NO: 82.0.2 ono oe.
BWOGISN:: oe eee e st eee ec lans
Richardson’s No.8 square...........02.....
Richardson’sNo.9 do
Richardson’s No. 7%, round.................
Richardson’sNo.7 do
Woodbine, 300

MOLASSES.

Black Strap... v.66 ess eccny yet Sai cee 16@18
Cubs Baking. oc. 0.. 6.622 sc sends ee: 25@28
POMo HicOs) soe Peeve ee 4. -24Q30
New Orleans, good............: Reha. 3..28@34
New Orleans, choice..... ........ «- -44@50
New Orleans, fancy............ Bievaece cea 52@55.
¥% bbls. 2c extra
OATMEAL ROLLED OATS
Barreis.............6 00|Barrels....:........ 6 00
Half barrels........ 3 12|Half barrels...... 3 12
ORRCR io oe DP QICBSGR oe c. osc cc eee 2 2
PICKLES. -
Medium ............ 6 50|Small,;: bbl..... vanced OO
ss. AQ DDL. Sec. 3 451. ~% bbl....... 4 00
PIPES.

Imported Clay, No. 216, 3 gross..... ..
Imported Clay, No. 216, 244 gross......

American T. 5 oer, :

Bat eta
RISSSARSSSS.
SSRSSSRE

s

-@2 00
@1 %
@ %

Taylor's G. M....... 5 |Cap She
4c less in 5 box lots.
SALT.
60 Pocket, F F Dairy......
22 Pock ;

eeeeeessce

r e bags eecaeee
aoe airy, 4 bi bags....
Higgins lish dairy bu. ‘bags...
7 ; % ba. Dage: ous.

eeusaaaaeee

i OFAN ROR OOo eo. coco e cake cc de vee

 

Cee seeteevse ssecce
The oes
aes

See en ccoeeee

* Jamaica

Mace Batavia...
Mustard, English... Seek as bb as eae ce
oer * and Trieste.........
FPIORG oe ob es
Nutmegs, No.2...... Bee ee:
Pepper, Singapore Lorin eee twee oe ce

66

oe a “ STARCH.
uZzy, a o b eet b pkgs.. ‘

“ 40 bulk

* 2 I crates, 6 b boxes..
“* Corn, 40 ib boxes, 1 ® pkegs....
ee “6 20 oe 1 Db 6

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1b pkgs...
s " ee so acing “

aR

6s

sw

Pure, 1b pkgs............
Corn, 1 i pkgs..... ......

: SUGARS.
Cut Loaf........ Pe gece oreo
COR ee as
POWOCLOG oo ee ee

Granulated, Standard... ............
0 Off :

OUD TF 93 D> Od > > OO

Rane.

es

SO” Rae =

Confectionery A.......... 0000. ..000,
StandardA. ooo. ee
No.1, White Extra C..................
Wor 2, Mes ©. es ea
NOS Ce os Pr oieice ened 4

POPHOHSHHHHSH OHOHSSOSOSS
RFFRE

SYRUPS.
@31|Pure Sugar, bbl. 25@35
Corn, % bbis...... @33|/PureSugar,} bbl 28@38
Corn, (0 gal. k’gs. 235
TOBACCOS—PLUQ.
Spear Head.......... 42|Blue Blazes......... 32
Big Gun..........., ..44'Eye Opener.......... 82
Bio Nig occ: 35|Star enero e
Plank Road.......... 42\Clipper .............. 34
MCHUDBO oS Foe nose 36|Scalping Knife......
Holy Moses.......... 83|/Sam Bass............ 34
SNOFF.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.....

ss Maceoboy... 26. 2. oie.
Gail& Ax’: *

s6 RADNCG.
Railroad Mills Scotch.................
EQtZbeGk sf. ae ee

TEAS.
Japan OrdIMAry....... 0.2... cece ees eee 18@20
Japan fair to go0d...... 0.0... cece ee 25@30
PAPA MNCs ee 35@45
OMDAN GURL 6. bolus ek 15@20
MOUUG FEVBOR ooo. ee 20@45
Gun Powders 2). 0 35@50
3I@S5S@C

Corn, barrels.....

COLON oe seer ok
CONGO) 2 oe oe 25@30

VINEGAR.
50 gr.
10
10
16

30 gr.
08
08

White Wine....05 0000
Cider (oes poi emer uot
York State Apple...........5....
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported ..... pea uese eg
oO American..................
Burners, Nov0. 60.0.
do INO Ee ws
do INOS es ee
Cocoa Shells, bulk.....................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 cans.........
Candles, Star: 20. 055. 00
Candies, Hotel... 2.00.00
Camphor, 02., 2 boxes...............
Extract Coffee, V. C...................
do WOE
Fire Crackers, per box................
Fruit Jars, pints... 02000
sf *S QUBTUS. oS ooo:

to oe

SOUEPtS cc oo
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...............
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.

Guin, SPEC yk
Hominy. @ DOL... co.
Jelly, in 30 } pails.....................
Pearl Barley... 6c...
Peas, Green Bush.) 2..00 0.200520.
Peas, Split Prepared..................
Powder, Keg@...9. 2002)
Powder, 4 Kee... 0
BESO G le eee
BAGO) eee ee
BADPIOCH ou ce a ee oa

CANDY. FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.
Standard, 25  boxes................... 8%
Twist, CO 0 ee,

Cut Loaf do pace wees ules
MIXED

Roval, 25 pails...................0006
Royul, WO DbIS:.. . ce ec. oo
Pixtra, 25. pails. oo... see
Extra, 200  bbis........ 0.00.0.
French Cream, 25 bb pails..............
Cut loaf, 25 ib cases..

Broken, 25 tb pails...............00000.
Broken, 200 b bbis.....................

FANCY—IN 5 b BOXES.

Lemon Dropee i. oi gecc fi
SOUR Drops. 0 eo a a
Peppermint Drops...... ...........0005
Chocolate Drops................ccce cence
HM Chocolate Drops...................
Gum Drops. 2.20. os oe,
Eicorice Drops... 2. 6.28. eee
AB Licorice Drops... — ...............
Lozenges, plain... 0... occ. ccc cece cece ce
Lozenges, printed...............c.ceceee
TIMPOrigis 2 as
MOUtOGE 62 a
Cream Bare. ole ec
Molasses Bari. 0.2 oo ee
@Caramelg oo oe ee
Hand Made Creams......................
Plain Creams 2. oe os. ose
Decorated Creams....... 2.0.0.5. ...000e
String ROCw es
Burnt Almonds................ 2.0000 0. -
Wintergreen Berries........... ... eis

FANCY—IN BULK.
Lozenges, plain in Eee ead ee oko
Lozenges, plain in bbis................
Lozenges, printed in pails.............
Lozenges, printed in bbis.............
Chocolate Drops, in pails..............
Gum Drops in pails...................
Gum Drops, in bblis.................0..
Moss Drops, in pails./................8 9
Moss Drops, in bbls.................005
Sour Drops, in pails...................
Imperials, in pails.............0.0cec08
TImperials in bbls.................. 22.

: FRUITS.
BRANGS oe oc ee cee Seen 1 00@2 50
Oranges, California, fancy............ @
Oranges, Choice ............:.......2..
Oranges, Jamaica, bbis................
Oranges, Florida... oo... ec ae
Oranges, Rodi,..... Sale os aeoet eu sree wae 4 50@5 00
Oranges, Messing................ cece @
: @

Oranges, Imperials.................... @4 50
Lemons, choice.....................0-04 O@t 50
Lemons, fancy.............00..00- .....0 0@6 60
Lemons, California....................

5

8

Dates, Fard 10 b box @ Db.............
Dates, Fard 50 Ib box @ ..............
Dates, Persian 50 b box #@ D........... 6
Pine Apples, ® doz...................
NUTS. |
Almonds, Tarragona.................. 17K@18
ee PV8CR eee. ones gs ceae @lT
California ...............5.. @17%
. 846 9
@ll

@ 8
@ 6%
@

eee e Seacrest er enesecccccsccresos

Brazils
Filberts, Sicily............. Desiree sae
a Bercelona. .. 0... 6.65

ee econ eee oe

issouri pacar teases
-| Cocoanuts, @ 100, full bags............

ae - PEANUTS. Bs
Prime Red, raw @ D.................. i
Choice do 4d ie
Fancy H.P.do. dO ........cccc cence
Choice White, Va.do ........
Fane: ‘ LP... 1a do |
H.P. Bee elec cee sen eee

OR Cee noes en eese ee
ee ec enenan

ee ee ec esse ctesecee

| Black bass......

oF Hater ax

ss

_bu. and holding at 75@80c per bu. oa.

 

2 | Fairhaven Counts
82! Selects....... .

Anchors.........
Standards Saeed

eeeeneee

Wall-eyed pike.
Duck-bill pike. ...

turgeon.............
Sturgeon, smoked... :
WhHIitOHB 2...
Whitefish, smoked....................... a

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
quote as follows: a
PORK IN BARRELS. — -
Mess, Chicago packing....<...............- 16 00.
Short cut.,.......... ey ea 1606
Short cut, clear, Botsford.................. b0O.  .
Shortcut Morgan.......2...00......00...... oe
Extra clear pig, short-cut............. ....17 00
Extra clear, heavy.......... See ee
Clear quill, short cut....... 3 :
Boston clear, short cut... wneeves 2000
Clear back, short cut. .........2............ 17 00
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 17 00
Bean ;
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. _-
Hams, average 20 I8.............000........ 12°
a * 16 WS. oe ee, Rye
fo to Mee 12%
PICMG oie ire eee ge cc cee see §%
best boneless il.
1%

oe “
66
eevee Ne Tepe
reakfast Bacon, boneless..................
Dried Beef, Oxtra cs) See
a ham PRICES <0 oe oss tose cc a
: LARD.
WIGTEOR ). os, eee ee Ts
30 and 50 Tubs .................005.... 1%
LARD IN TIN PAILS,
3 Ib Pails, 20 in @ case.......... 0c ccc es 1%
5 Ib Pails, 12 in a case. ..............00.. 1%
10} Pails, 6 in a case .. 2... eee 75%
20 Ib Pails, 4 pails in case 7%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.............. 7 26
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacging.............. 7.00
ee “Kansas City Packing.......... 7 50
Plater .2c5 2 ees er es 7 50
Extra Plate................ Soe oo ee - 8 00
Boneless, rump butts.............:......... 11 00
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork Sausage.............. Ocoee ooes ce Ty
Ham Sauskg@e ooo. a ll
Tongue Sausage...................0000..., 9
Frankfort Sausage............0.......... 8
Blood Sausage... .... 0.6... 0. cece cece ee el, a
Bologna, straight.................. Oe
Bologna, thick. 20.022 ..5..25.
Head Cheese.................. hese eee.
PIGS’ FEET.
In half barrels. 05650 ay 3 00
In quarter barrels.......................... 1%

6:
6
6
6

————

FRESH MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the i
prices as follows: — oe
Fresh Beef, sides...................... 5 @
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 6
Dressed Hogs. 2.2000 5
Mutton... 20000. 6

amb spring........... iguetes deta wtees:
Ven ee
Pork Sausage.............0....000.....
Bologna. oo
Bowls.) ee
DUCES 0500 a
Turkeys et
Lard, kettle-rendered.................

WOODENWARE.
Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:

Standard Tubs, No. 1.................. 5 50
Standard Tubs, No. 2........................ 4 50
Standard Tubs, No.3.... ............... 3 50
Standard Pails, twohoop....................1 3
Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 50
Pails, ground wood a eae
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................. 2 2d
Butter Pails, ash...................... 2 25
Butter Ladies. 0. 0 ee oY
Butter Spades... 3: 02.0 1d
Rolling Pins... 7
Potato Mashers..............02.0..6...6... : BO
Clothes Pounders............................ 2 25
Clothes Ping...
Mop Sticks....:.....0...4. Joes eg

‘Washboards, single..........................

Washboards, double..............
Washboards, Northern Queen
BASKETS.

| Diamond Market...............0............

Bushel, narrow band, No. 1........

Bushel, narrow band, No.2................. i 20

Bushel, wide hand... $00 ee
othes, splint, No. 3........................

Clothes, Sank ee Ses 2

Clothes, splint,

Clothes, willow ‘

Clothes, willow f

Clothes, willow No.1......... So dehae een eee es T 50:

Water Tight, (acme) bu..................... 3%
aS a $ half bw.2. 5 .2..02055 3 2 85:

MISCELLANEOUS.
Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market
paying $5 for all offerings of good bark. oe

Ginseng—Local dealers A
for clean washed roots. ~ > $1.60@$1.70 @ b-

Rubber Boots and Shoes—Some manufactur-—
ers authorize their agents to offer 40 per cent.
and 40 and 5 per cent., for first and second
quality, respectively, and some are authorized
to sell for 40 and 12% per cent., and 50.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Fall fruit is in good demand an@
supply at $1.40@$1.65 per bbl.’

Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.

Bean—Hand-picked mediums are very:
— readily. commanding $2.50@$2.70 per

ur.

Butter—Creamery is in good demand and
oe firm at 26@28c. Dairy is active at 18@

2c.

Cabbages—$4@$7 per 100, according to size. |

Carrots—40c per bu. i

Celery—20@25 8 doz.

Cheese—Jobbers are holding their stocks at
R@1Be.

Cider—9c per gal.

Cranberries—Home grown, $2@$2.50 per bu.
Cape Cod, $3 per bu.

Dried Apples—Evaporated are dull at 10@
lec per Ib.

Eggs—Scarce and firm. Jobbers are paying
16ce and holding at I7e.

Grapes—Concords, 34%c per lb; Niagaras,,
6@7%c # 1b; Delawares, 6c per Ib. a

Honey—Dull at 12@16c.

Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14
per ton in two and five ton lots and $13 in
car lots.

Onions--In plentiful supply at 80c per bu.

Peaches—Smocks, $2.50 per bu. White, $1.75  —-
@$2 per bu. : aes

Pears—$1.50 per bu. :

Peppers—Green, $1.25 per bu. powers

Potatoes—Handlers are paying 60@6dc per

Pop Corn—2c # D. see,

Seeds—Clover, mammoth or medium, $4.50.
Timothy, $2.60. Seen %

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.50 per bbl. Bal-
timores, $2.75. oe:

Tomatoes—$1.25 @ bu. coe

Turnips—60c ®@ bu. ae.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. _

Wheat—Nochange. City millers pay 75c for

| Lancaster and 72c for Fulse and Clawson.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 50c in 100

 

 

 

N.L. White, A. C. Bauer and

sarod; ee EE
eo October 6, at THE

 

Perry.
eound Vice President. J. Ciena:
‘and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
and. de seat pag o dpe.
t Wednesday in J
Kirst t Wi Fin cach month.

 

tral Mic fidageaas Druggists’ Association.
Sentra 3 W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.

‘Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society.
é oes: M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.

Clinton County Druggists’ Association.
: President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8. Wallace.

_ Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
p hemtveed H.W. oe Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

 

Ionia County Pharmaceutical jSociety.
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

+ Jackson County . Jonamimencge jer ge 7 aes.
President, R. ¥F. Latimer; Secretary, F. A. Kin

Ss Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
: “President, D. O..Boberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.

Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.
d President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.

‘Mecosta’ County Pharmaceutical Society.
7 C. H. Pe tn Secretary, A. H. Webber.

Monroe ‘County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, 8. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss.

Muskegon County Druggists’ Association,
President, W. B. Wilson; Secretary, J. R. Tweed.

 

 

een Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

 

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady.

 

Saginaw County omuaesygen ge cot Py:
President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. P:

 

Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society

 

Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, E. A. Bullard; Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

 

Manistee County Pharmaceutical Society.
-President, W. H. Willard; Secretary, A. H. Lyman.

 

 

SECOND-HAND CORKS.

A ‘Small- Sized Industry That May be of
Grave Injury.

- The bartender in a large Broadway saloon
had cut his hand with broken glass or ice,
and the blood from the wound carmined the
“cork he had just drawn from a bottle of
Rhine wine. He threw the wet cork into a

dirty pail beneath the bar, washed his hands
and then wiped the bottle, which he forth-

“with served. The blood on the cork dropped
slowly on to the pail full of corks and stain-
ed a score at least with the red liquid of his
veins.

A few minutes afterward a party entered
the saloon. One ordered an egg-nog, and
the rest brandy and soda. The order was
filled. The first drinker, whose nerves were
unstrung, spilled a goodly third of his foam-
ing beverage upon the bar. Two or three’
removed the corks of their soda bottles and

‘ laid them in the wet. In a moment the bar-
tender had seized them and thrown them

~. into the pail.

» About this time a man opened the front
- door and crossed the threshold. He wasa

- Polish Jew of about fifty years of age, shab-
bily dressed and looking the personification

_ of dirt and antipathy to soap and water. He

>. @arried an old bag under his arm, which was

apparently older and dirtier than its owner.

It was greasy. and discolored here and there

‘with tobacco juice, sawdust, saliva and sand.

He approached the bar, and laid the bag up-
--on the floor that was wet with a thousand
- liquids.

_- **How many to-day?” he asked the bar-
tender, in an ordinary business voice.
 *Bout the same as usual; eight hundred,
more or less, I guess,” was the auswer.

The pail was handed to the new-comer,

dumped its cargo of corks into the

‘yawning bag. A silver half-dollar was

handed to the mixer of drinks, and the trans-
action was over.

_ In response to a question, the bartender

Decame talkative, and in the intervals be-

s. Before that time, so far as I
ethrew themaway. ‘Thecash they
_is considered a perquisite of the bar-
ie get about one-tenth of a cent

ess.

ippose to the manufacturers of

ineral waters. Idon’t have much

1 them, as we buy only first-class

1a- saloon like this we use about

XeS beer, five of mineral waters,
besides

“In dra ing the corks we

in twen , 80 that we have
ich

en talking, the
inker and lis-

I don’t know where they go|

 

The t ‘next a "customers are wine
ley buy their wines in bulk

ah ‘They
an os them. sa aid use ogo per

> more; the ‘second want
eee and the last take any cork

‘| that Soexe: as if it had come across the
-| ocean. The chief customers and the cheap-
est are the soda water and the mineral

men. Competition is awfully close, and
they can’t afford to use a decent. cork.
Why, there are concerns who sell a box of
two dozen bottles of ginger ale, sarsapa-
rilla, soda or lemon soda for thirty-five
cents. One cent more or less to them on
twenty-four means success or ruin, so they
buy from us at the very lowest rates and
buy anything that will stop a bottle, no
matter how old or dirty.”

‘Are the other dealers as careful as you
are?”

“No, sir; not by a‘long sight. They are
only collectors, and sell their corks direct
to the bottler without washing or drying
them. ‘They don’t care whether the corks
are bloody or covered with tobacco juice, or
flavored with the bad eggs which. occasion- [
ally turn up ina saloon, and which the
bartender often throws into the corks in-
stead of the rubbish pail. The bottlers
wash them, however, with a hose, and so I
guess there’s no trouble or harm done.”

The incidents mentioned, which are of
daily and even hourly occurrence in New
York and Brooklyn, and probably in every
large city of the land, are full of food for
reflection. While a cork.is waterproof on
account of its peculiar construction, it being
a species of spongy layers, whose air-cells
do not interosculate, and so form contin-
uous passages, yet its outside layer, if not
several layers, are porous, and hold liquids,
vapors and semi-fluid solids for a long time.
Corks from perfumery bottles or from lab-
oratory bottles containing noisome com-
pounds are admirable illustrations. In
these interstices organic matter will decay
and. germ-life be started and developed.
A clean, newly-made cork is as innocenta
substance as science can find among the ar-
ticles of daily use in civilized life. Witha
second-hand cork it is different. Thecorks
mentioned are apt to contain, and fre-
quently do contain, ptyalin, the ferment of
saliva, nitrogenous matter from the eggs,
milk, beef tea and bouillon used at the bar
or from blood, saliva, tobaceo-juice, free
lunch or other substances found around bars
and bar rooms. They may possibly contain
the germs of smallpox, searlet fever, con-
sumption, yellow fever or any other bacil-
liferous disease. While it is possible to
kill all germ-life in such corks by heat and
chemicals, yet. the expense of thorough
treatment would raise their cost to that of
new goods, and therefore precludes the
same. While, therefore, the riskis not ex-
cessively great, yet there is risk in many
ways—risk of contagious and infectious
disease, and especially risk of putrefactive
ferments. Mild wines and sweet ‘‘temper-
ance drinks” in bottles corked with such
corks are liable to putrefaction and to be
filled with swarms of bacterial life. Such
beverages introduced into the system are
certain to produce gastric disorders. Every
man of the world as well as every phy-
sician knows how bad wines will fre-
quently produce nausea, heart-burn, vomit-
ing, colic and diarrhoea. In every case this
is not the result of the wine, but of the
putrifying substances or active germs the
wine contains. While in almost. all in-
stances the putrefaction is occasioned by
careless handling, yet in some, how many
cannot be said, it results from the use of
second-hand corks. -

In conclusion, one point must be brought
forward. All little children have a habit
or instinct which prompts them to put corks
in their mouths. While a clean, fresh cork
is not objectionable in the premises, second-
hand ones are to the utmost. For this rea-
son, until their use is prohibited by law,
every parent should sedulously endeavor to
prevent his little ones from indulging ina
practice which, under conditions of com-
mercial honesty, would be harmless, but
which, under existing circumstances, is
fraught with danger of the worst kind.

9 a
Minor Drug Notes.
Menthol is known in Japan as Po-ho.

There are 2,500 druggists in New York
state.

Java was the source of nearly 92,000 tons
of cinchona bark in 1886.

Antithermin or. phenylhydrazinlevulinic
acid is a new antipyretic agent.

Three tons of liquid carbonic acid per
week are manufactured in Berlin.

Cobweb-is an-old antiperiodic. It is given
in pill form in doses of 5 to 30 grains.
Nux vomica is used quite extensively in

China as an external remedy, and in_ that
country is not classed as a poison.

The drug business in Switzerland can not
be very much of a bonanza, if we credit the
statistics from an exchange, as follows:
Zurich, ‘with 70,000 inhabitants, has forty
drug stores: towns with 9,000 have twelve:
with 1,500 up to three, ete. Physicians are
allowed to dispense their own medicines,
and a pharmacist ina by ne means small
town asserts that he in three weeks has not
seen a single new prescripticn.

—___—_o1s________—_—"
Improved Liquor and Poison Record. |
Druggists are ‘requested to note the an-

| Snes of the Fuller * Stowe Com-

 

pi act
Gaigeriote who sell liquors

ientific, medicinal,
ital

druggist, nor for
consists in whole 61

paren at ed tine, to sell, furnish, give or
deliver, any spirituous, malt, brewed, fer-
mented or vinous liquor, or any mixed li-

| quor, a part of which is spirituous, malt,

brewed, fermented or vinous, to a minor,
except for medicinal or mechanical purpos-
es, on the written order of the parent or
guardian of such minor, nor to any adult
person whatever who is at-the time intoxi-
cated, nor to any person in the habit of get-
ting intoxicated, nor to any Indian, or any
person of Ingian descent, nor to any person
when forbidden in writing so to do by the
husband, wife, parent, child, guardian or
employer of ‘such person, or by the super-
visor of the township, or mayor, or director
of the poor, or any supervisor or alderman
of the city, or president or trustee of any
village or superintendent of the poor of the
county in which such person shall reside or
temporarily remain, nor to any other person
to be used as a beverage, nor to any person
to be drank on the premises, nor tobe mixed
and drank with any beverage drawn from a
soda-fountain or other apparatus or device
for dispensing aerated or other beverages;
.but such druggist shall be allowed to sell
said liquors for medicinal, chemical, scienti-
fic, mechanical and sacramental purposes
only, without the payment of any tax speci-
fied in section one, and subject to the fol-
lowing restrictions and conditions: Every
such dealer in drugs and medicines shall
procure and keep a suitable blank book in
which shall be recorded by said druggist,
his clerk or employe the names of all per-
sons applying for such liquor for any of
these lawful purposes, the date of each sale,
the amount and kind of liquor sold to each
person, and the purpose to which the same
was to be applied, as stated by the purechas-
er, which book shall be kept in the store of
said druggist, and shall be open to all per-
sons for examination during all business
hours; and the failure to keep a_ record of
every such sale, in manner and form as
aforesaid, or the delivery of liquor for any
purpose other than above named, shall sub-
ject such druggist to the penalties provided
for in this section: Provided, That such
druggist shall, on or before the first day of
May in each year, or before commencing
business, execute and file with the county
treasurer of the county in which he is car-
rying on such business, a bond, the suffi-
ciency of which shall be determined by the
township board of the township, or the
board of trustees, or the common council of
the village or city in which such business is
proposed to be carried on, to the People of
the State of Michigan, in the sum of two
thousand dollars, with two or more suffi-
cient sureties, who shall be freeholders and
residents of the county in which such busi-
ness is proposed to be carried on, each of
whom shall justify in a sum equal to the
amount of the bond, over and above all in-
debtedness and all exemptions from sale on
execution, and all liability on other similar
bonds, which bond shall be substantially in
the following form:
* *% * * *

Whenever any druggist shall violate any
of the provisions of this section, he shall,
on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and be punished by_a fine
of not less than one hundred nor more than
five hundred dollars, and costs of prosecu-
tion, or imprisonment in the county jail not
less than ninety days nor more than one
year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the court; for a second vio-
lation of any one of the provisions of this
act, such druggist shall, in addition to the
penalty hereinbefore provided for, be de-
barred from selling in this State any of the
liquors hereinbefore mentioned, for a period
of five years from and after the date of such
conviction, and it shall be set forth and de-
clared in the record of judgment upon such
second conviction: Provided, That every
drug clerk shall be responsible for violating
the provisions of this act, for his personal
act or violation, and be subject to the same
penalties as proprietors or employers.

>" 9 a
She Saw the Point.

A man. having large business interests
and a handsome income married a lady

'who, accustomed all her life to the luxuries

of wealth, had never formed any clear con-
ception of the value and purchasing power
of money. For some months every whim,
no matter how extravagant, was gratified
by the indulgent husband, who always gave
his check for any amount of money asked.

One day the bride of a few months, to carry
out some caprice, requested a check for so
large a sum that the gentleman was some-

what staggered thereby. He saw that such’

prodigality, if persisted in, meant ruin; but
not wishing to grieve his wife by a down-

| right refusal, he determined to give her an

object lesson in the financial line. Accord-
ingly, with a smile of seeming acquies-
cence, he remarked that the supply of
checks was exhausted, but he would send
up the money from the office.

About noon the promised money came, |

not in crisp $500 bills, as was expected, but
in sterling silver dollars, the sum total fill-
ing several specie bags. The wife was at
first vexed and then amused; finally, be-
fore the afternoon wore away, became
deeply thoughtful... When her better half
came home to supper she took him gently
by the arm, and, leading him into the hall
where the ponderous bags of specie were
stil standing, said ;

. “My dear, is this the money I asked. you
for this morning?” -

“It is, my love, % was the reply. «
“And did you have to take this all in

| dollar by dollar, in the course of your bus-
iness?” was the next question. :

‘*Yes, my dear, it represents the result of |

4|many -weeks of hard a he Sees
ay . cui

 

enbane, ‘fox- (
| glove, and higher prices will rule 1 these | ‘Tan:

articles.

A Small Loss. _

Regular customer ‘(disposed to be face-
tious)—I gu ess you will have to to trust me
for the doer ‘until to-morrow. |

Grocer—Oh, that’s all right sir.

Customer—But eo ppode I was to be killed
between now and t.-morrow?

Grocer—W ell, the loss would not be much,
sir.

Detroit Cai ——_— tt Second Best.
From the Detroit News. ’
The Detroit druggists, who went: over
to Cleveland and were used by their
brethren down there: to mop up the dia-
mond, are home again and hobbling about
in an atmosphere. redolent of arnica and
St. Jacob’s oil.
—_— aoe __—_—
Cheboygan is to have a life-size boycott.
Some of the merchants have been buying:
dude coal stoves, and their stores are to be
avoided by a lot of farmers who live in the
back towns and have timber on their land

thicker than the hair on a dog.

 

 

DOR AND
POISON nECORD!

Why Go Yo the Yrovble of
Keeping Two Records,
When one Improved
Record will do

As Well?

Fuller & Stowe Company
would respectfully announce
to the drug trade that they
have just isued an Improved
and Revised edition of their

Liguor and Poison Record,

Combined, which embodies
features contained in no other
Record on the market. The
Improved Record is arranged
for recording both Liquor and
Poison Sales, is handsomely
ruledand printed on good paper,
substantially bound and sold
at the reasonable price of $1
per copy of 100 pages. Orders
can be sent direct or to

Hazeltine & Perkins Drvg Co.,
Michigan Drvy Exchange,
L. D, Putnam & Go,,

Peck Bros.

FOLLLER & STOWE COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS,

Grand Rapids. - Mich.

 

DRUGGISTS |

One of the most important provisions of
the new liquor law, in its bearings on the
drug trade, is that clause which prohibits
druggists selling liquor to minors, except on

the written order of the parent or guardian.

By being supplied with proper blanks, this
provision is rendered as little obnoxious as
possible.

‘We are veopared to furnish these blanks

in any. quantity desired.

ee Can furnish them with printed card of

 

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Capsici Fructus,
Capsici Fructus,
Caryophyllus, (po. 35).
Carmine, No. 40
Ccra Alba, 8. &
Cera Flava
Coccus .

Centraria .

Cetaceum ...

Chloroform

Chloroform,

Chloral Hydrate Cry: t.,

Chondrus

Cinchonidine, P.& W..

Cinchonidine, German.

Corks, see list, dseount, per cent....

Creta, (bbl. aes
Creta. prep...
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Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum @
Hydrarg Ammoniati : @1 00
Tyee Unguentum.................. S 40
Hydrargyrum 65
Ichthyocolla, Am...................... 1 anol x
Indigo 75@1 00

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5 | lodoform

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Aloe, Barb, (po, 60)... 2.6.5... Se

ee Cape, (po. 20)

** Socotrine, (po. 60)...............
AMMONISG 200 eh oes ee eek sone
Assafoetida, (pO. 80)..............00005
BenZomum <2 so ek a ee
Camphorae
Catechu, 18, (48, 14; 48, 16)...........
Euphorbium, WO Geo ua cane ea es Seti
Gaba oe. e068 os ase sires eo dactes
GRWIDOPO, PO ioe eee. oe Sloe res cae
Guaiacum, (po. 45).......... 2... cece eee
Kino, (po. 25) @ 20
IMESTIO es cee coc cess ceceslis @1 a
Myrrl; (DO-40) 305605805 ee oe @
Opti, (0.6 00). 0. ooo eel 4 60@4 "3
SHEHAG.. 50.5.3 coeds Deka te aks 18@ 25

c, bleached: <2... 00 25 eS pol ceauee 25@ 30
PPA SAGAR oo fie Sicko oe Cal cc cca

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MAGNESIA.
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Capbouaie, “Pat... sc. ee
Carbonate, K. & M.............. 0 ccce 20@
Carbonate, Jennings.................. 35@

OLEUM.

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Amyegdalae, Dulc.. oe 50
Amydalae, Amarae.
Anisi
Auranti Cortex. .

55@
20@

Cajiputi ....

Caryophylli...

Cedar. 2te:). ccs

Chenopodii .........
Cinnamonii.........

Citroneia <...52 06.2. .

Conium Mac..

Copaiba .....

Gubebae ....

Exechthitos.

HVIG@rOn 6.5 ccs. orcas
GAWltNenae eo. i so 2 ee cea ms
Goran, 25. 255. os 5s ccs ence cos
Gossipii, Sem, gal...........:..........
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TUMOR 6 ees ee cos. a
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Limonis.....

Lini, gal.......

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Morrhuae, gal

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Picis Liquida, (gal. 35).
Ricini.......
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Todine, Restbl.... 3.0. .020 00500 oo. 4 00@4 10
@5 15

Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod..
Liquor Potass Arsinitis
Lyeoponi

Ms
Mannia,§, f

Myristica, No.1

Nux Vomica, (po. 20)

Os. Sepia

Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co............
Picis Liq, N.C. % galls, doz..........
Picis Liq., quarts

Picis Liq., pints..

Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80

Piper Nigra, (po. 22)

Piper Alba, (po. 35)

Pix Burgun

Plumbi Acet

Potassa, Bitart, pure..

Potassa, Bitart, com

Potass Nitras, opt

Potass Nitras

Pulvis Ipecac et opii 11
-Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D.Co., doz.
Pyrethrum, py

Quassiae

Quinia, S, P. & W

Rubia Tinctorum
Saccharum Lactis, pv
Salacin

Sirens

Sinapis, opt

Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. Voes
Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes
Soda Boras, (po. 9)

Soda et Potoss Tart.

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Spts. Ether Co

Spts. Myrcia Dom.....................
Spts. Myrcia Imp

Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)

Strychbnia, Cryst al

Sulphur, Subl

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Linseed, DOUGd ooo ee

Neat’s Foot, winter strained........

Spirits Turpentine ae Gees be tenes comce s 36
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Red Venetian..................
Ochre, yellow Marseilles......
Ochre, yellow Bermuda.......
Putty, commercial ............
Putty, strictly pure............
Vermilicn, prime American..
Vermilion, English............
Green, Peninsular.............
Lead, red strictly pure elec
Lead, white, strictly aes aioe
Whiting, white Spanish.. A
Whiting, Gilders’..............
White, Paris American........
Whiting Paris English cliff. .

Pioneer Prepared Faints ....
Swiss Villa Preparer Paints..

VARNISHES.

No.1 Turp Coach...................-8- 1 10@1 20
Mixtra (Vurpsos 32. cco 1 60@1 70
Coach Body..................0. Rohe. 2 'T5@3 00
Nod Waep Poriure + 1 00@1 10
Extra Turk Damar.................... 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. @ %5

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MENTHOL INHALER

In the treatment of Catarrh, Headache,
Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Sore Throat and Severe
Colds, stands without an equal.

Air Mentholized by passing through the Inhaler-

tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are
thoroughly applies this’. valuable remedy in the

most. efficient way, to

readily. Always kcep :
and let your customers eT A few inhalations
sean pe ler, ani

han a half
r fer Grove a

BaaR

 

DRUG

WHOLESALE —

Urvgg

Have now in Stock and Invite
Your Order for the

TOOLIDAY RADE.

PERFUMES

a

j
Put up in the following sty14s:
gf

bs
a! Mate Sates fiue se ‘i
Christmas Gards ten styles
Fancy Plush Boxes
Hand Lamps two sixes
“Night Lamps
Embossed Boxes
Vases four styles
Slippers two sixes
Bisque Figures
Watches
Tumblers:
Pitchers
Boots

Jugs.

Also a Line of

Sachet Bags

In Silk and Satin.

All Yhese Goods are Low in.

Price and are wery
Desirable.

; Hazeltine

 

1 me a “stone.” His time and the
of THE TRADESMAN’s columns are

) : valuable.” Let me say to the gentle-
‘that there. is in the United States no

| which will more cheerfully than

i of any business problem.

) facts for which I asked (could Mr.
lowig have furnished them at all) might
have filled the space of an eighth column.
place of this he has seen fit to occupy
ly a column and a half with a series of
littering generalities and with comments
on his own gratuitous assumption that I
seek to champion the credit business. This
is unfair, as anyone may see who reads my
article of August 31, and, had it not been
‘or this position of Mr. Howig, I doubt if I

should have taken further notice of him.

I admitted the existence of the credit‘evil,
and asked this self-constituted teacher of
the business fraternity of Michigan to show
ms the way out of it. What followed?
Mach abuse, but little definite information.

Before the war I recognized the existence
of slavery, and sought its remedy, but I

ee none therefor called a pro-slavery man.

The suppositious case of Mrs. Croesus is
/ eallled ‘irrelevant and shallow.” That shall
_ beas Mr. HoWig pleases. It was doubtless
_ extreme, and was intended so to,be. But
- ean anyone doubt that I could have filled
+ these columns with illustrations of a like
_ eharacter and of all grades of depth, had I
supposed I was writing for children?
_ As to “‘dead-beats,” I suppose that with
the exception of Mr. Howig, I have been
“bitten” by them to as small an extent—in
‘proportion te the amount of business done
_—@s any merchant in Michigan. The losses
“over which I do feel ‘‘waspish” were occas-
ioned by a tricky partner and a rascally
_ friend, but have nothing to do with this
discussion.
» I did not ask, nor care‘to learn, anything
‘about Mr. Howig’s antecedents. I simply
wanted him to demonstrate to the satisfac-
tion of the merchants to whom he assumes
- to lay down laws that he had done a busi-
- mess of any importance, given no credit and
made money; or knew someone else who
had; and as nearly as I can learn or guess
from his: letter he is, (1) doinga little ‘‘no-
tion” business of certainly less (probably
mm mueh less) than $5,000 per annum, else he

The “rub” of the thing is this:

many years of experience, Mr. Howig has
n a line of business strictly in accord-

e with his means and capacity, and is

‘ icting the same very much to his own
satisfaction. The mistake he has made is
natural to theorists, ‘being the fallacious
ption that the same line of conduct

ti e in a small business will, of

: "Give us the facts.”

After |

 

: ) pos- | er to 8
sess, sees open bie Bin legs and ¥S,| (ONE POUND

| with a sweet smile upon his beaming. coun-|

tenance. and his benevolent hands extended
| over the broad State of Michigan, “Do as I
have. done and you will be rich and happy,”

we have an undoubted — to say in reply,
. MERCHANT.

” shurtlett Bros., pete dealers, Cross Vil-

s|Jage: “No TRADESMAN means no business.”

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS MICH

Buy of the manufacturer and save freights and
dealers’ commissions. Factory, 61, 63 and 65 South
Front St. Office and salesroom, 92'Monroe street.

STEAM LAUNDRY,

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

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

Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At-
tended to.

JODD ct COO.,
JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

Ana Full Line Summer Goods.
102 CANAL STREET.

TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
All Trains daily except Sundny.
GOING NORTH.

 

 

 

 

Arrives.

Leaves.
8:45am :

Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex..
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex 7:30 pr m
Cadillac Express.............22..06 3:40 p
Saginaw Express pee icleawo-ce pacne 6 aie ll 25 8 a ‘a
pcickakeaiseeceonte 10:30 a m.

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....
Fort Wayne Express.
Cincinnati Express.. 4:40 p
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex..10:50 pm

7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.

5 300 pm train has Woodruff sleeper Sess Cincinnati.

Ep. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama-

zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadien
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p.m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Leave. Arrive.
G30 BM... cevcscccccccoccrsccescescccvecesivece 10:10am
12:00 BI... coc cccecnccscccccccccecsscevevesecccs 4:30 pm
AOD ON, oslo acl cosas eces cho we venenpeucesenee 8:50 pm
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.

Cc. L. LOcKWoop. Gen’! Pass. Agent.

7:15am
11:45am
5:00pm

Detroit, Lansing & Northern.
Grand Rapids - caw Division.

Saginaw Express. 2.0... ..s¢sscccnsecesevececssen 730am
Saginaw EXPress.............ccccccscccccccccccs 410pm
ARRIVE.

Grand Rapids Express. ............205 seccceees - - am
Grand Rapids Express. ............-..cccceeeees pm
All trains arrive at and depart from Union depo’

Trains run solid both ways.

Chicago & West Michigan. ~*
Leaves. Arrives.
UNA 5 i nian p35 cased dee bse ne okncee es 9:10am
tDay Express..... coegctescobeenen 12:30 pm
*Night Express............... ooee+e1:00 pm
Muskegon Express........ ....-00 5:00 pm

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through
parlor car in charge of careful attendants without 6 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.
Leaves.

SER IVTORS oo Sig ods yokecseh aise sap nse ie oe pm 4:20pm
REXPVORS). 6 o5cccecacescsscsrsnines soso 8:25am 10:20am

All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.

The Northern terminus of this division is at PBaldwin,
where close connection is made — F. & P. M. traine
to and from Ludington and Maniste

W. A. GAVETT, Gen'l Pass. Agent.
ULLIKEN, neral

Arrives.

er.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Kalamazoo Division.

Leave Arrive
Ex. & Mail. N.Y. Mail, N. Y. , Mail. N.Y. Bix
7:45am. Grand Rapids. 9:45 8 m 6:15pm
9:02 am.,Allegan....... 8:28 a ae
10:06 a m.. Kalamazoo... 7:30 am
11:35 a m,. White Pigeon. 5:55 a m
6:05 pm..Toledo......... 11:00 p m
9:40 p m..Cleveland..... 6:40pm
= one une: reneeves 11:55 a m
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Bug Finish’ was used the past season on 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., pre 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 bie with one appli-
eatiod. 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-

relg (8,000 pounds) at once.”’

Cheaper than
any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACURED BY

Anti-Kalsoming Co., Grand Rapids.

SEEDS

FOR EVERYBODY.

For the Field or Garden.

If you want to buy

GLOVER
TIMOTHY SE

Or any other kind, send to the

Need Store,

71 CANAL ST.,

W. T. LAMOREAUX,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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With Additions _ Made to Our Business, We now Think We have the

FINES? AND MOST COMPLETE
HARDWARE STORE

In the State of Michigan.

Our Facilities for doing Business have been much

Improved and we feel better able to meet all

MARKETS and PRICES.

 

We Solicit Orders or Inquiries for anything wanted

in the line of Hardware.

FOSTER, SYRVENS & G0.

10 and 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

To Insite Prompt Shipment Order
Fruit Jars direct from us.

HEADQUARTERS

Mason's Porselain Top Fruit Jars.

PRICES. @ gross.
PINts)) coc oa ee $9.50
Quarta. ose ee ee 10.00 °.
Me PalloOne oie a eae . 18.00

State Agents

FOR THE

Excelsior Cooking Crock.

Positively the finest kettle for cooking any
kind .of food. Those who try it will have no R
other. Globe Fruit Jue pints..
Cheapest Preserving Kettle. Absolutely Fire « “"“quarts........ oe
Proof. Not affected by Heat or Acid. " Me gahons ese. 15.00
Factory Prices. .

BOUATGS a oe ee per | doz. oe .
SQUARE. Coes ee ss
8: 00

Tomato Jugs. Apple
Blackberry Jam Jars.

Preserve Jars.
Butter Jais.

Dark. White.
Stew pans % gal Gees Ten *,...d0zZ. 1.50 = 1.75
$5 2.09 2.23
86
‘90

Z “s Phe ores ; Regular Stoneware. per doz.

White Lined........ .90 % ga’. Preserve Jars. Stone Cover...... -90
I gal. Butter crocks ee Me i s oe 1.40
White Lined 30 2 ** ~ ‘ a
2gal. Butter Crocks aes Tomato J ugs and corks RU tae
White Lined)... .800 Bite Ute Se ee 1.40

Tea Pots.
Coffee Pots,
Ice Mugs,

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WANTED.

Butter, Begs, 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, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

W M. SHARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agonts for

AMBOY CHEESE.
87, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WHOLESALE GROCERS, - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,

Bought 0,000 Boxes ‘ADDY fi fikY SUAP™

More or Less.
60 BARS—60 POUNDS IN A BOX.

Which they will sell at a Great Bargain until Oct. 1. NO BETTER SOAP MADE.
10 boxes and upwards delivered at your railway station free. Retail Grocers can sell 5
pound bars ‘‘HAPPY FAMILY SOAP” for 25 cents, surprise their customers, and
make a handsome profit. Send in your orders, for. all soap stock has advanced, so will
this soap. Manufactured only by :

Alien BB. VW risiley, Chicago, Ill.

P. S.—A full line of my fine milled Toilet Soaps kept in stock by Messrs. Jennings &
Smith, the best value in the market.

 

PURNITORE TO ORDER.

Anythingor everything in the
line of cs 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.

CEO. E. HOWES,

JOBBER IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits,

SPHEOrALTIESsS:

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.
S Ionia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

TERY OUOR OELDLEBRATED

“BEE 2= CHOP’ JAPAN TEA.

This tea is grown in the Province of Surunga, which district, all Japanese admit,
produces the most regular leaf and best drinking Tea of the many plantations now: yield-
has Each year some new district becomes known, but none grow any tea equal to that

from Surunga. Our Teas are carefully picked by the natives, and the leaf well rolled.
They are then sent to Yokohoma, where special attention is given to the firing and pack-
ing for this market. We can highly recommend our ‘‘BEE CHop” Tea, and all lovers of
a full, rich drinking tea will appreciate its many merits. Try it and be convinced.

J. H. THOMPSON & CO,

SO Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

 

 

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LLIAMS BROS, & CHARBONNEAU

Preserves and Jellies.

DANSON, = BLACKBERRY JAM,
CHERRY, RASPBERRY JAM.

"TA FG, APRICOT, Bic, Be,

10 t Wooden Box, 5b Tin Pail, 2 b Glass Jar, 1 Glass Jar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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