"RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1887.

NO. 213.

 

en Seeds a Specialty
Complete Assortment
Don't Buy un-

Representing Jas. vex. of Rochester.

It 18 N. iin Gratai

CALL FOR

SCHUMACHER § ROLLED AVENA,
From the best White Oats.
Oatmeal, Parched Farinose and Rolled
Wheat in Original Packages.
a “~ these ‘choice eereals is tolearn how

‘|hear trom you.

WANTED.

Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota-
toes, Beans, Dried Fruit,
Apples and. all kinds of

| Produce. |

If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line let us
Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

Karl Bros., Commission Merchants,

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

 

~ BELKNAP
‘tu: and Sieigh C0.

a MANUFACTURERS OF
Spring, Freight, Express,
Lumber -and Farm

WAGONS!
Logging Carts and Trucks
Mill and Dump Carts,

Lumbermen’s and

ce River Tools.

We carry 2 large stock of material, and have
every facility for making first-class Wagons
of all kinds.

(Special attention given to Repairing,
Painting and Lettering.

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

KDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

= Jeweler,
hi GANAL SY,
Grand Rapids, - filch.

GRAND RAPIDS

TO THE—

FRONT

—AGAIN.—

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

“BEST FAMITL

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

Grand Rapids Soap Go.

 

FOURTH NATIONAL BANE

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A. J. BowNE, President.
GEO. C. PreRCE, Vice President.
Hi. 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 MARKEY,

MANUFACTURED BY

Beaver & Co, Dayton, Ohio.

SOLD BY

A. 8. MUSSELITAN & GO,

Grand Rapids, - Mich.

COOK & PRINZ,

Proprietors of the

Valley City Show Case Mtv. Co.,

Manufacturers of

SHOW GASKS.

Prescription ( Gases and Store Fixtures

L KINDS.
SEND FOR CATALOGUES,

SEND FOR ESTIMATES.

3 West Bridge St. Grand apids,

Telephone 374.

 

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 Eent 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.

 

TRANSET MILL GORPANY,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Flovr, Feed,
Grain and
Baled Hay.

25 Pearl Street,

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

YON & LYON,

' Importers, |
- Jobbers and
Retailers of

= Weeury a full Tine of
Seeds of every variety,
both for field and garden.
ee in want should

a Ps

 

GHARLES A. GOYE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

DEALER IN

AWNINGS & TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,
Wide Ducks, etc.
Flags & Banners made to order.
%3 CANAL ST.. = GRAND RAPIDS.

PIOWEER PREPARED

PAINT.

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

MI2Z2ED FAINT

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

 

 

 

 

 

On the Manufacturers’ Guarantee:

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
peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we —e 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

Hazelting & Perkins Drug C0.

Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids.

| Bey POLISHINA, be: best FurnitureFin -
ish made.

SALT FISH
Bought and Sold by .

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,
117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

r = tere ae Nene Around a

 

POTATOES.

We give prompt personal attention to
the sale of POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS
and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best
facilities and watchful attention. Consign-
ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash
advances on Car Lots when desired.

Wit, H. Thompson & Cb,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference
FELSENTHAL. Gross & ae Bankers,
Chicago.

EDWIN FALLAS,

PROPRIETOR OF

VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

JOBBER OF

Buiter, Eggs, Lemons, Oranges,

And Packer of

SOLID BRAND OYSTERS.

Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters
are unsurpassed. Mail orders filled promptly
at lowest market price. Correspondence so-
licited. <A liberal discount to the jobbing

trade.
217, 219 Livingston St.,

Grand Rapids.

To Cigar Dealers

Realizing the demand for, and knowing
the difficulty in obtaining a FIRST-CLASS
FIVE-CENT CIGAR, we have concluded
totry 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 favor or adulterations.

It will be sold on its merits.
ders filled on 69 days approval.

Price $35 per 1,000 in any quantities.
Express prepaid on ordersof 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. T. WARREN & G0,
Elint, Mich.
What do you think of this? While in conver-

sation with Wm. M. Dale, one of the rmeet
druggists in Chicago, we were surprised to
learn that he had sold over one and a half mil-
lion of Tansill’s Punch ic. cigars and that the
quality gets better all the time. The demand
continues to increase. . Let us tell you, if you
want to sella cigar that your customers its |
be pleased with, the sooner you order ee
Punch me better. ibis Grocer.

 

Sample or-

 

: Auviliary Associations,

Wishing to procure outfits for their Col-
lection Departments, are invited to exam-
ine the following quotations, which are for
fine work on good quality of paper:

FULL OUTFIT--$15,

30 Books Blue Letters, 50 in book.
500 Record Blanks.

500 Notification Sheets.

250 Last Calls.

500 Envelopes.

HALF OUTFITS--SI0,

500 Blue Letters, old style.
250 Record Blanks.

250 Notification Sheets.
125 Last Calls.

500 Pence

In lnoe of old style Blue Letter in above
$10 Outfit we can substitute 10 books Blue
Letter in latest form, as recommended by the
recent State convention, for $12.50

Prices in other quantities furnished on ap-
plication

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,

49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,

The Teller Spicé Company.

 

TO THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIps, Mich, Oct. 4, 1887.
I take pleasure in informing my friends
and patrons that I have merged my whole-

sale Tea, Coffee and Spice business into a
stock company under the style of

THE TRLFER SPICH COMPANY

which will continue the manufacture of
Spices and Baking Powders and the job-
bing of Teas, Coffees and Cigars at the old
stand.

Thanking the trade for the generous pat-
ronage accorded me in the past, I bespeak
for the new house, with its increased capi-
tal and enlarged facilities, a continuance of
the same, assuring its patrons that as Pres-
ident and General Manager of the corpora-
tion, their orders will have my careful at-
tention. Absolutely yours,

EDWARD TELFER.

SEEDS

FOR EVERYBODY.

For the Field or Garden.

If you want to buy

CLOVER Oh
TIMOTHY SE

Or any other kind, send to the

Need Store,

71 CANAL ST,

W. Y, LAMORRAUX.
Grand Rapis, Mich
F. J. DETTENTHALER,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOBBER OF .

pore eene!

—AND—

SALT FISH.

Mail Orders Reoeive ‘Prompt

 

THE RED Xx'S.
Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN.

I had been on the force of a private de-
tective agency but a short time, when one
day my chief called me into his private of-
fice and informed me that an opportunity
had arrived in which I might win fame as
well as gold. I had been earnestly longing
for something to arise by which I might
add to my reputation, but, as yet, I held
merely a subordinate position on the force
and any case of note had fallen to the lot of
the older men, leaving me to work up afew
petty burglaries and crimes of small conse-
quence. Describing the circumstances of
the assignment, my chief said:

‘“‘The wholesale grocery house of
has been burglarized to the extentof $2,500,
and there is not the slightest clue to the
man who did the work. Go and look the
ground over, and if you need any help call
on Jacobs.”

This was the way the chief expressed
himself on the subject—no advice to offer
and no encouragement to give. All I should
have to depend upon would be my own in-
telligence in ferreting out the criminal.
While the prospect was by no means en-
couraging, I determined to give the case the
most careful thought and the most vigorous
effort of which I was capable.

It was nearly noon when the chief gave
me my instructions and I determined to wait
until after dinner before visiting the store.
I accordingly went toa restaurant, ate a
hearty meal, smoked a cigar and then saun-
tered leisurely down to the scene of the
burglary. Going into the counting-room,
I gave Mr. B., who was the only member of
the firm present, my card, and asked to be
made acquainted with the circumstances.
He led me to the rear of the store, where a
a vault was built into the side of the wall.
The few particulars I could obtain were to
the effect that the night before Mr. B. had
himself locked the strong box where the
currency was kept and had then shut the
outer door and locked that, also. They had
not been in the practice of keeping so much
currency on hand, but the $2,500 had been
paid in by the purchaser of a new stock of
groceries, too late in the afternoon to be
placed on deposit at the bank. Thestrange
part of the affair was that the outside door
appeared to have been forced by a crow-bar
or other tool, while the door of the strong-
box had not been forced. It had been open-
ed with a key, the packages taken out and
then re-locked. The Keys, of which there
were four, were, with the exception of one,
in the possession of the different members
of the firm. The other had been kept ina
drawer in the book-keeper’s desk for his
use, and was found there in the morning
after the robbery.

I had almost forgotten to mention that by
the side of the vault, about ten feet from
the floor, was a window about two feet
square. This was broken and a rope, used
for hoisting on the outside, was drawn
through the window, showing most con-
clusively, as I then thought, the manner of
entrance and. exit. How near right [ was
will be seen hereafter.

‘Was thefe any mark on the bills by
which they might be identified?” I asked.

‘“*Yes,” responded Mr. B., ‘‘I counted the
bills, and as I did so I noticed two ‘*X-X’s”
in red ink on the lower right hand corner,
placed there, probably, by the last bank
handling the money. I should not have no-
ticed it but for the fact of holding a bill to
the light to discover if it was a counterfeit,
when the red mark attracted my attention,
and then I looked at the rest to see if they
were the same.”

‘Did you mention the fact to anyone in
the store last night or this morning?” I

asked.
‘No, I did not.”

I then went on with the usual routine
questions, but elicited nothing very satis-
factory. The kook-keeper, who used the
key kept in the drawer, was a nephew of
Mr. B. The man who swept out the store
and usually locked up at night was an hon-
est-looking young German, -and suspicion
could hardly attach to him. After request-
ing the members of the firm to keep their
own counsel in the matter and a sharp look-
out for any of the marked bills that might
be paid back to them, I left the store, con-
vinced that I could do nothing there. The
thief, whoever he was, was clever, that was
sure, and if I expected to find him I must
go to work on the outside in hopes of find-
ing some of the marked bills in circulation.
I, therefore, went immediately to a print-
ing office and had some cards printed de-
scribing the mark on the bills, and asking
anyone who might receive such a bill to re-
port to me.. I then distributed these cards
at all places where it was possible the. rob-
ber might have to spend money—livery sta-
bles, depots, boarding houses and hotels—
and then awaited developments. There
was not much hope in these proceedings,
but it was the only possible way. I could get
a clue.

Two days passed, and my baits caught no
fish; but on the third day I received notice
that a os to whom r had bes a

 

On inquiring the appearance of the person
who had the bill, he told me that a boy had
brought it in and asked for change, sayinga
gentleman had sent him from the saloon near
by, where he worked. I saw at once that
this was no clue, and went away somewhat
discouraged.

The next day something turned up which
was beiter. A lady keeping a boarding
house sent forme. She had taken a five-
dollar bill from one of her boarders—a
young girl who worked in a book-bindery,
Jennie Armstrong by name. I enquired
very particularly as to her character, but
was assured that she was a worthy young
lady. In the course of the conversation, it
leaked out that Jennie was in the habit of
going to dances and the theater with a young
man to whom the landlady had taken a
strong dislike—Charlie Pitts by name—and
she had warned Jennie to look out for him.
I determined to make the acquaintance of
the young lady, and also her friend, if pos-
sible. Iasked the landlady when she got
home at night.

‘She ought to be here by this time,” said
Mrs. Williams. ‘‘There she is now, com-
ing in at the gate.”

Not wishing to be seen by Jennie, I
stepped into a recess where I could see her
as she passed in the hall. There was noth-
ing noticeable in her appearance. She was
dressed neatly, but not expensively, and I
thought 1 could detect a gleam of coquetry
about her, but nothing of the criminal. Af-
ter she had gone up to her room, I asked
Mrs. Williams if Charlie was in the habit of
calling on Jennie at thehouse. She replied
that he was not, but that he was coming to
take her to Redmond’s the next evening,
when I might get an opportunity of seeing
him. Ithanked her, and, after arranging
to pass as a relative of Mrs. Williams as an
excuse for my presence, left the house.

On reaching the office, I found a messen-
ger with a note waiting for me. I read as
follows:

Have detained a young woman here, who
offers me a twenty-dollar bill for a ticket to
New York city. It has the mark described
in your card. Please come at once.

Yours, Frep. LInDson,
Ticket Agent M. C. R. R.

I hurried down to the depot and found a
good-looking young Irish girl sitting ina
chair in the ticket-office. She was nervous
and seemed almost unable to sit still in the
chair. I asked her to step outside-with me,
at the same time showing her my badge.
She started at sight of it, but accompanied
me.

‘‘Where did you get the bill you offered

ne agent for the ticket?” I asked her.

‘““Why do you want to know?” she said.
‘‘My husband gave it tome. Iam going to
New York and he is to join me there.”

‘““What is your husband’s name?”

“T can’t tell you that,” she responded,
“but I know Charlie has done nothing
wrong.”

Oh, ho! Another Charlie in the plot! Or,
perhaps it’s the same one. This case is get-
ting rather complicated, thought I. I im-
mediately determined to detain her at head-
quarters and see if I could not urge her to
disclose her husband’s name. It was with-
out avail, however. Jl urged her to tell me
everything and assured her no harm should
befall her. But still sherefused. Finally
I got out of patience and told her that
Charlie had stolen the money and if she
would not give me the information I desired
I should have to place her under arrest. At
this she broke down completely and sobbed
as if her heart was breaking.

“Oh, Charlie!” she sobbed.
would be true to you, and I will.”

I saw I could do nothing further in this
direction, so I took the girl home and placed
her in the care of my wife, leaving a police-
man fora guard. I did not want to confine
the girl in the station, for, howeyer great a
villain Charlie might prove, I was sure she
was innocent of any wrong and that he had
deceived her. if he had married her, it was
probably a false marriage, and he was ship-
ping her out of the country to get rid of her.

On reporting at the store the next morn-
ing, I gave the firm the details of what I
had accomplished so far, and told them I
hoped to clear the matter up in a few days.
I also made the acquaintance of the book-
keeper, Frank Henderson, whom I had not
met on my first visit at the store. His face
struck me unpleasantly. It was a face that
could not be mistaken the second time. A
large scar on the side of his forehead gavea
rather sinister expression to an otherwise
intelligent face and would attract attention
anywhere. I also discovered, through one

“T said I

of the clerks, that he was engaged to marry

the daughter of Mr. C., the senior partner.

At the appointed time that evening, I was
ensconced in Mrs. Williams’ rather cozy lit-
tle parlor, awaiting the advent of Charlie
No. 1 with great i:npatience. After wait-
ing until past eight o’clock, Mrs. Williams
discovered that Jennie had gone out soon
after supper, telling her room-mate that she
was going to meet Charlie down town to go
to the theater, I thought the matter over
and decided that the only chance” left for

‘ me was ie zo to” e a get a ee

 

and her escort goimg upstairs to the dress- |
circle.
no opportunity of seeing the face of Char- -
lie, but, as I reached the dress-circle, they —

were just getting settled in their seats and — ‘ ‘

the young man’s face was exposed to the.
full glare of the gaslight. Great Heavens! —
What did I diseoverf Jennie’s Charlie was

none other than Frank Henderson, thebook-

keeper! Rather an interesting state of af-
fairs, to be sure. Would the poor Irish
girl’s Charlie turn out to be this changeable
young gentleman, also? And here an idea
struck me. I would confront the two girls
and by this means force the truth from one
of them.

Accordingly, the next morning I called at
Mrs. Williams’ before Jennie had gone to
work. Taking her one side, I told her what
I had seen the night previous, not telling
her his right name however. Then (al-
though far from positive of it myself),
told her the story of the poor girl whom he
was so basely deceiving, and worked upon
her fears and sympathy until she consented
to go with me and see Maggie.

Before letting Jennie see her, I told Mag-
gie how she had been deceived and that I
had seen Charlie at the theater with a girl
whom he had promised to marry (a false-
hood, by the way, but excusable) and that
he was engaged to marry another young
lady, to my knowledge. Then I sent Jen-
nie to her and left them alone. When Jen-
nie came out there was fire in her eyes.

‘*The miserable, deceitful wretch!” she
exclaimed. ‘‘I wouldn’t mind for myself,
but that poor girl in there has got a broken
heart, and I'l] help in punishing him for it,
if it disgraces me forever.”

I assured her that I would see that no
shame attached to her, if she would tell me
all she knew of him, which she at once did.
She had met him on the street, flirted with
him, and, as a result, had attended parties
and entertainments with him. Then I ask-
ed her how she obtained the five-dollar bill?

“Charlie went home with me from a dance
one night. Atthe gate he asked me for
a kiss. I told him kisses were worth a dol-
lar apiece, just in joke. He said, ‘Vl give
you five;’? so I let him kiss me, and took the
money and paid it to Mrs. Williams for
board. I thought if he wanted to get rid of
his money so foolishly I might as well have
it as anyone, though I wouldn’t have touch-
ed it if I had known it was stolen.” ;

Well, by this time, I had matters pretty
near as I wanted them. I couldn’t help
feeling sorry for the girl he had deceived so
basely, for she was poor and helpless. The
other two did not worry me, for I knew
they would soon get over it.

My next move was to see Mr. Henderson,
alias Charlie Pitts. I found him in his
room, preparing to go out.

‘“‘Mr. Henderson, are you very much en-
gaged?” J asked, pleasantly. ‘‘If not, I
should like to have agshort conversation
with you in regard to the robbery.”

‘“‘Well, I was going to call at Mr. C.’s,
but I can spare you a few minutes,” he re-
plied, taking off one of the elegant kid
gloves he had just drawn on.

‘‘What I wish to inquire is, how much of
the money which you stole from the safe
has been spent, and where you have hidden
the balance?”

He turned as pale as a sheet, but soon re-
covered his composure and replied:

‘*What reason, sir, have yor for insulting
meinmy own room? Iam not guilty of
stealing, and I order you to leave the room.
at once! ”

“Not quite so fast, ny dear fellow,” said
I. “If you don’t sit quietly down and talk
with me here, I shall be compelled to arrest
you.”

With a half-audible curse, he sat: down.

As I told him of Maggie and Jennie, and
the marked money, 1 could see his nerve
was shaken. At last he said:

“T see you know a good deal about me.
However, I did not take the money; the
porter took it and I discovered him in the
act. He offered me $500 if I would keep
still about it, and, as I was hard up, I took
it.”

*‘Oh, no, Henderson,” I replied. ‘‘That
story istoo thin. If you will tell me where
the balance of the money is, I will guarantee.
that your uncle will not have you arrested.
If you don’t tell me, I shall be compelled to
make you do so in a more public place.”

Upon this, he broke down entirely, and
made a clean breast of it.

*‘T came to the store, went in the rear
door, opened the safe with the combination
and then opened the strong box with the key
kept in my desk, which I replaced.- I then
broke the combination lock, smashed
the window and hung the rope inside, to.
make it appear a burglary.”

He informed me that the money was hid-
den in some old coffee sacks on the second .
floor of the store. I went there with him |
and found $2,000 of the money. The rest
he had squandered. I returned the money °
to the firm and told them who the thief was, ©

advising them not to prosecute him—advice :

in which his uncle ably seconded me, upon —
his promise to leave the country. Out of.
respect to Mr. B.’s feelings, the firm let the :
matter drop. :
Poor Maggie, the most deeply-wronged

person connected with the robbery, was
taken violently ill, but through the good

care of my wife, recovered, and is now mar-

ried to a respectable young man, and ‘is do-
ing well. —

 

They passed so quickly that Thad

rin advance. postage paid. |
made known on application.

AY, OCTOBER 19, 1887.

 

 

 

 

‘It looks doubtful whether the Manitobans
will be able to get their railroad up the Red
River Valley, from Winnepeg to the United
State, completed at present. Mr. Norquay,

‘Premier” of Manitoba, who has been
inquiring diligently in New York and else-
here for a capitalist who would advance
‘money for its construction, has apparently
failed altogether to discover one, but THE
TRADESMAN has inside information to the
effect that the Grand Trunk interest pro-
poses to see the road put through in due
time. It is evident that fe matter is not
to drop out of sight by means. The dis-
content in Manitoba over the ‘‘disallow-
ance” of the road by the Dominion author-
ities, in the interest of the Canada Pacific
- road, is very deep and will not subside. It
-is sure to appear strongly in the polltics of
Canada.

oe

Purely Personal.

_ Arthur Graham, book-keeper for Cody,
-. Ball, Barnhart & Co., will be married this
evening to Miss Bertha Rand.

Jos. Totten, the Totten mill man, has in-
vented an impreved gummer for circular
Saws, which he is arranging to put on the
market.

_W. B, Sweet, formerly book-keeper for
H. H. Freedman & Co., at Reed City, has
taken a position in the business department
of Bennett & Roney’s new commercial col-
lege.

Smith Barnes, General Manager of the
“Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., Traverse
“City, has returned from his trip to the

_ Pacific Coast, much improved in health and
“spirits.

Miss Lilla Sligh, for the past three years
“pilling clerk for Hawkins & Perry, severed
‘her connection with the house Saturday
“evening. She is succeeded by Fred. Ald-
‘zich, who recently graduated from college.

A. W. Newark, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Cadillac under the style

of Newark & Sorenson, but more recently
on the road for Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co.,
has purchased an_ interest in the lumbering
and mercantile business of the Sands &
Maxwell Lumber Co., at Prentice Bay, U.
P., and will manage the same.
Se - ee
Gripsack Brigade.

David Donnan, representing Wm. Don-
nan, of Detroit, was in town last week.
~ John Brummeler succeeds Peter Lankes-
ter as city salesman for Hawkins & Perry.
Mrs. C. C. Crawford is visiting friends in
Reed City. Cornelius is disconsolate in con-
“sequence.
Mrs. W. F. Blake, wife of the eye-glass

_, ‘trayeler,is spending the week among old

\. friends in Chicago.
~ ‘Yh@re is strong talk of arresting L. M.
Mills, W. ¥. Blake and C. C. Crawford for
personating officers.
Jas. D. Wadsworth, who has been con-
fined to his house for several weeks with
" “seiatic rheumatism, is able to be about the
store again, but will not resume his position
‘on the road before spring.

Claude D. Freeman has started on the
road for the Telfer Spice Co., taking the G.
KR. &1,C. & W. M., and D., G. H. & M.
- (East) as his territory. Claude is a stirring

-- sort of a youth and is destined to make his

_ amark as a salesman. ’
_ R. P. Bigelow, of Owosso, sends Tur
TRADESMAN a hand-bill announcing the
_ ‘particulars of a friendly game of base ball
__ “which was played at that place yesterday,
- Between the traveling salesmen and grocery-
- men of Owosso. The announcement plead-
ed fora crowd in the following terms:
_-“@eme out and absorb the ozone and be
pulverized, and as the succulent tobacco
‘juice echoeth from the gravel and the calves
in their adjacent pens sniff the scent of the
affray, skew their tails athwart the ambient
air and bleat, gaze heavenward and watch
the ethereal gyrations of the ball as it as-
ends from the bat in the hands of our
heavy hitters, and while we score tallies, go
“ye down deep in your pants pockets and
1 for fifty-cents to pay for the oysters.”
‘Thos. McLéod and Samuel Tichner acted as

‘Monday to take action towards having
chartered by the State Association. The
Committee was instructed to take

stion and the new constitution was

M. B. M. A. since the last|
e bers; | their new mill.

2|. Battle Creek—The Adyance Thresher Co.

is building a large shop for the manufacture

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Miller & Thompson are opening a dry’
g0 re at 21 and 23 Grandville avenue.

Benj. J. Story has engaged in the grocery
business at Langston. Clark. Jewell & Co.
furnished the stock.

M. M. Brooks has engaged in the grocery
business at Austerlitz. The stock was pur-
chased at this market..

W. J. McJunker has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Summit City. The stock
was purchased at this market.

M. Boyce & Son, formerly engaged in the
meat business at Petoskey, are now con-
ducting a market at 661 Wealthy avenue.

Divine & Van Denbergh, dry goods and
clothing dealers at Howard City, have added
aline of groceries. Clark, Jewell & Co.
and Hawkins & Perry furnished the stock.

Bradfield & Co. and O. M. Dunham have’
joined hands in the wall paper and paint
business and both establishments will here-
after be run under the style of Bradfield &
Co.

.E. Rodenhuis has engaged in the dry
goods business at the corner of Plainfield
avenue and Caledonia street. P. Steketee
& Sons furnished the stock.

Geo. Dunaven, who recently sold his gro-
cery business on East street, has about de-
cided to re-engage in the same business on
Union street, near Mechanic, as soon as a
suitable store building can be erected.

THE TRADESMAN has it on undoubted
authority that the D., G. H. & M. and Lake
Shore Railways will change their lines so as
to run into the union depot next season;
also that the plans for a $300,000 depot have
been decided upon and that work on the
new structure will be begun as soon as
spring opens.

The freight traffic of this market has
grown so rapidly during the past few
months that the railroads centering here
are unableto do the business justice. Es-
pecially is this true of the G. R. & I., which
has usually been a model road in this re-
spect. Freight which ought to go out the
same day it is receipted for by the trans-
portation companies is frequently held over
a second day and occasionally to a third.
The delay occasions much complaint, but
will have to be borne until matters can be
adjusted to change conditions.

AROUND THE STATE.

Kinney—C. E. Manly has sold his gener-
al stock to John Kinney.

Allen—John Bond succeeds T. H. Con-
dra in the meat business.

Croswell—Thorp & Patterson succeed A.
J. Thorp in general trade.

Romeo—Levant Bedell succeeds W. R.
Owen in the book business.

Midland—J. S. Allen has moved his boot
and shoe stock to Mt. Pleasant.

Quincy—C. H. Hallock succeeds C. D.
Livermore in the bakery business.

South Haven — Wm. Jacobs succeeds
Chas. Sharron in the meat business.

South Lyon—L. C. Tubbs has sold his
grocery stock to Postmaster Calkins.

Hastings—Levi Fowler has removed his
boot and shoe stock to Lake Odessa.

Detroit—John Lauer succeeds Lauer &
Baumann in the machinery business.

Hillsdale—Ferry & Savery succeed G. W.
Mosher & Co. in the grocery business.

Casnovia— R. K. Hesseltine & Son, the
hardware dealers, are going out of business.

Bay City—W. W. Hodgkins succeeds
Goeschel & Hodgkins in the grocery busi-
ness.

Bay City—F. A. Schleiper succeeds F. A.
Schleiper & Co. in the drug and cigar busi-
ness.

Ionia—Chas. B. Hall succeeds Geo. W.
Burt & Co. in the bakery and confectionery
business.

Edmore—Frank Dreese has removed his
general stock to the store formerly occupied
by Betts Bros.

Chase—W. S. Linn, a Detroit wholesale
grocer, has opened a retail grocery. J. P.
Stacy will manage the business.

Pentwater—Wm. L. Tilden has sold his
interest in the hardware establishment of
Tilden & Co. to Chas. F. Lewis.

East Lake—Mathias Albreytsen has
bought the general stock of the Manistee
Town Workingmen’s Mercantile Co.

Dorr—The store and general stock of F.
Newman, Sr., was burned to the ground
early Monday morning. Loss, about $3,-
000; insurance $2,500.

Grand Junction—W. A. Feazell has
placed his general store in charge of a com-
petent manager and gone to Wisconsin to
open another general store.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

East Jordan—The East Jordan Lumber
Co. succeeds Glenn & Porter in the sawmill
business. :

Traverse City—T. Wilce & Co., of Chica-
go, are driving piles for the foundation of

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‘the Potter Manufacturing Co., of Potter-
ie is . :
- Gladstone—T. J. Sheridan, of Grand
Rapids, and R. E. Walmsley, of Cedar
Springs, talk of building a shingle mill
here.
- Lakeside—Hunter, Tillotson & Co. have
received another order for boxes from Cen-
tral America, and are now at work on a 11,-
000 lot. ;
. Skanee—Busch & Been’s mill has shut
down on account of the prevalence of ty-

| phoid fever, which attacked some of the
|-workmen.

. Good Hart—Wm. H. & Allen J. Vesey,
of Goshen, Ind., have secured a site and

will shortly put up a sawmill—an_institu-

tion long needed here.

_Allenville—The furnace company, has a
crew of about sixty men at work getting out
wood for making charcoal. They are cut-
ting abont 400 cords a week.

Cedar Springs—E. M. Phelps has moved
his shingle mill to Millbrook, where he has
purchased 600 acres of pine and expects
to cut 40,000 shingles per day.

Detroit—The Wolverine Manufacturing
Co. has been organized with’ capital stock
of $10,000, one-half paid-in. J. S. Seefred
and John M. Gunn each hold 133 shares and
Marcus A. Emmons 134. The corporation
will make spring beds, lounge and furniture
frames, cornices and mouldings.

Detroit—The Bagley Rail Joint Co. has
been organized to engage in the manufacture
of an improved fish joint for railway rails.
The capital stock is $50,000, all paid in and
divided into 2,000 shares, of which 262
shares are held by Horace E. Smith, 491 by
Allen Bagley, 301 by same as trustee, 568
by Archie W. Wilkinson, 87. by F. Newton
Rice and 301 by same as trustee.

STRAY FACTS.

Caro—The Caro Woodenware Co. is haul-
ing pine logs from Ogemaw county by the
train load.

East Jordan—French & Sutton have paid
out $14,000 for hemlock bark during the
past season.

Northport—Thos. Copp & Co. are adding
to the capacity of their sawmill by the addi-
tion of a planing mill and handle lathe.

Plainwell—Will W. Dunlap has sold his
interest in the Forbes Boat Co. to John
Forbes, who will continue the business.

Marquette—W. W. Walker is_ establish-
ing camps in the woods north of Negaunee,
where he expects to cut about 6,000,000 feet
this winter.

Reed City—W. E. Bellows has sold to
the Petrie Lumber Co., of Muskegon, a
tract of hemlock in Osceola county, esti-
mated to cut 2,500,000 feet. The terms of
the transfer were not made public.

Chesaning—E. Hallenbeck is shipping
200,000 feet of oak. A portion of it goes to
the Saginaw river for water shipment, and
the remainder is shipped directly to his dis-
tributing yard at Tonawanda, N. Y., by
rail.

Allegan—M. O. Walker, the creamery
man, is in financial embarassment and his
fruit evaporator is being run by E. B. Born,
the principal creditor. A movement will be
made to make a stock company to run the
concern.

Detroit—The Detroit Insole Co. is the
style of a new stock company v ‘th $10,000
capital, all paid in. Benjamin L. Mason,
Samuel S. Stephenson, Henry S. Robinson
and Arthur W. Kelly each hold 100 of the
400 shares. :

Mecosta—The banking firm of Gilbert &
Wixson has been dissolved, Giles Gilbert
retiring, and the business will hereafter be
conducted by Wixson & Carpenter, the lat-
ter, a New York capitalist, having been ad-
mitted to partnership.

Detroit—The Electrical Accumulator and
Lighting Co. has been organized witha
capital stock of $100,000, one-tenth paid in,
for the purpose of buying and selling dy-
namos, storage batteries, ete. The 4,000
shares are owned as follows: James Mc-
Millan, Ashley Pond, William A. Jackson,
Frank E. Snow, 800 each; C. E. Fisher and
W. C. MeMillan, 400 each.

Iron Mountain—The more learned of the
bank failure the less there is certainly
known about just what 1s the matter. The
bank was knownas the Merchants & Miners’
Bank, and J. S. Edwards was the proprie-
tor. On Thursday last he made an assign-
ment to J. F. Shafer. The liabilities of the
bank are about $15,000; and the ‘‘available
assets nominal,” or, in other words, the ex-
plosion has been a bad one. Edwards has
left the place, or is not where he can beseen
by the naked eye, and his friends say he has
gone to raise funds. Those who take a pes-
simistic view of the situation, think his
search for funds will extend so far and so
long that the railroads will all be over-

grown with weeds before he gets back.

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Encouraging Beginning at Quincy.

/ Quincy, Oct. 15, 1887.
E. A, Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—We have now got our organi-
zation completed, committees and ally and
enclose herewith per capita dues on thirty-
five members. We expect to increase our
mémbership to forty before many more
moons. Yours,

oe C. W. BENNETT.

‘| L. Win

 

of lumber |

of an Association be immediately proceeded

P ATENTS: . LUCIUS C, WEST,
; ri : ) at Patent Law and Solicitor
> i Oe Aanerioan and Foreign patents.

1 ef iamazoo, Mich., U.S.A. Branch  of-
| Hee, London, 1 iin ‘Practice in U-8. Courts.

 

ing a B. M. A. John-E Th lecte
chairman of the meeting, and J. H. Wright
secretary pro tem. After an explanatic
of the plan of organization by E. A. Stowe,
W. O. Lake moved that the organization

with, which was adopted. W. H. Hicks
moved that the constitution presented be
adopted, which was carried. The follow-
ing gentlemen then handed in their names
for charter membership: Wm. Hill, W. H.
Hicks, F. C. Beard, Chas. Lawson, H.
Strope, Lon A. Pelton, W.O. Lake, Nelson
Pike, B. H. McMullen, W. H. Richmond,
J. B. Loshbough, Dr. B. F. Brown, L. 1.
Whitbeck, J. E. Thurkow, Hansen Bros.,
Hugh & Co., Cutler & Wright, A. W.
Dodge Clothespin Manufacturing Co.
Election of officers resulted as follows:

President—John E. Thurkow.

Vice-President—W. O. Lake.

Secretary—W. H. Richmond.

Treasurer—Henry Strope.

Executive Committee—President, Secre-
tary, W. H. Hicks, Wm. Hugh, B. H. Mc-
Mullen.

The Blue Letter collection system was
adopted for the use of the collection de
partment and the Executive Committee was
instructed to procure the printing of the
necessary blanks.

The Association then adjourned for one
week when the State constitution will be
read and ratified and the Executive Com-
mniétee instructed to apply for charter and
auxiliary membership. —

INCIDENTAL NOTES.

‘‘Probably the first we shall undertake in
the improvement line,” said President Thur-
kow, ‘is the opening up of some new wagon
roads and the betterment of two or three
main thoroughfares into the village which
are a disgrace to us. There is plenty of
room for effective work in this direction and
I propose to put men on the Improvement
Committe who will do the. subject justice.”

‘‘Another thing we can agitate at our
meetings,” said an active worker, ‘‘is the
desirability of our having a local newspaper
printed here at home. We have a pretty
good organ now, but it does not carry the
samé weight that a paper would that is
printed at Morley. I think the sentiment is
decidedly in favor of such a move on our
part and I have no doubt that we can
bring it about through the Association.”

The organization of an assoication at
Morley supplies the missing link on the
Northern division of the G. R. & I. Rail-
road. ‘There is now an association in every
town of importance on the main line of the
G. R. & 1., from the Straits of Mackinac to
to the Indiana line, except Vicksburg and
Mendon.

Few towns are tributary toa larger radius
of farming community than Morley. The
surrounding country is passing through a
transition period—that is, the timber pro-
duct is about all marketed and the agricul-
tural possibilities of the country ‘are only
partially developed. Rapid improvements
are being made in the right direction, how-
ever, and few years will elapse before the
country around Morley will be looked upon
as one of the best agricultural sections of!

the State.
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Association Organized at Douglas.
Dovuae.as, Oct. 12, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR SrR—A Business Men’s Associa-
tion was organized here Monday evening
and the following officers elected:

President—T. B. Dutcher.

Vice-President-—J.'S. Crouse.

Secretary—C. W. Winslow.

Treasurer—D. C. Putnam.

Executive Committee—President, Secre-
tary, D. C. Putnam, J. N. Dickey and H.
Bird.

We desire to join the State Association
and wish you would forward the necessary
blanks. Yours truly,

C. W. WINsLow, Sec’y.

POTATOES

I am receiving from the
potato districts of Northern
Michigan large quantities of
choice potatoes that I offer to
the trade of Southern and
Eastern Michigan. Parties in
want will receive prompt at-
tention by addressing —

WT. LAMOREAUX

71 Canal St.,

- Giraud Rapids, - Mich.

 

 

 

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EATON &

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esident, Secretary, Geo. W. Hub-
relsey, fonia; Irvicg F. Clapp, Al-

__legan. — . : Ce
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse
City; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; H. B. Fargo, Muske-

gon, : ‘ L :

Commmitte on Legislation—Frank Wells; Lansing; W.
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford.

Committee’ on Transportation—J. W. Milliken, Trav-
erse City; Jno. P. Stanley, Battle Creek; Wm. Rebec,
East Saginaw. A

Committee an Insyrance—N. B. Blain, Lowell; E. Y.
Hogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Chebos <an.

Committee on Building and Loan Ac:ociations—F. L.
Fuller, Frankfort; S. E. Parkill, Owosso; Will Em-
mert, Eaton Rapids. .

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The following auxiliary associations are op-
erating under charters granted by the Michi-
gan Business Men’s Association:

: No. 1—Traverse City R. M. A.
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
No. 2—Lowell #3, M. A.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
No. 3—sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. 8S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
No. 4—Grand Rapids R, G. A.
President, Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No, 5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, W. C. Conner.
No. 6—Alba 8. M.A.
President, C. R. Smith; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. S8—Eastport B. M. A.
President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
No, 9—Lawrence B. M. A.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.
No. 10—Harbor Springss B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
No.11—Kingsley 8. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H. Camp.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, C. W. Bennett.
No. 13—Sherman B. MM. A.
Prosident, H. B. Sturtovant; Secretary, W. G. Shane.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B.M. A.
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
No. 15—8oyne City BS. M.A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, J. F. Fairchild.
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M.A.
President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, A. P. Comstock.
No. i7—Plainwell B. M.A.
President, M. Bailey, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Oweosso B,. MM, A.
Fresident, W. A, Woodard; Seeretary, S. Lamfrom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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appened to be out at the time, I concluded
tostart out on my own hook. The first
place 1 struck was Clark, Jewell & Co.’s,
_ where a nice looking gentleman treated me
to acigar, without saying a word. I soon
- found the gentleman was dumb, which
seemed a great pity, so I went on to Curtiss
__& Dunton’s where George Dunton told
-meall about the new baby at his house.

Paul Steketee, Henry Spring and Henry

Snitzeler all gave me a cordial reception,
and I divided my dry goods order between
» the three houses. _Dan Lynch and Charley
_ Jennings both asked me to take dinner with
them, so I bought my lemon extract of one
and my vanilla of the other. Arthur Meigs
was not in when I called, but a man named
Underwood said he made $5,000 on a real
estate speculation that day—which is beiter
than having a railroad come through your
land. A man named Fisher showed me
through the retail department, which is
very slick. Samuel Lemon was waiting on
a customer when I called at Bulkley, Lemon
& Hoops, but he stopped long enough to
convince me that a case of Queen olives was
just as essential to my business as a counter
or scales. I don’t know who will eat’em, but
no one will go hungry for olives as long as
l keep a store. Amos Musselman showed
me his big stock of fine cut tobacco and
Ben. Putnamtook me through his candy
factory. What kind of a man is Lew.
Hawkins? He talked me blind on the sub-
ject of butterine, and when he gouldn’t
think of anything to say, an actor-looking
sort of a fellow named Gifford put in his
lip. John Shields told me all about a new
block he is building—how the expressage
on the brick cost more than the brick itself.
O. A. Ball rushed me through his big es-
tablishment so quick it made my head swim.
A red-headed fellow named Fairchild fixed
me up on an assortment of drugs and Ed.
Telfer sold me the strongest pepper I ever
struck. Foster, Stevens & Co. fitted me out
with a line of nails and padlocks and Lester
Rindge sorted me out a nice lot of boots and
shoes. Uncle Sammy Sears took me
through his cracker factory. Will Lam-
oreaux was so busy packing apples that he
would not speak to me. I ealled on all the
commission men, and they all made me
promise to ship them all the potatoes I
could buy. I propose to do a land office
business when I get started. I bought a
little here and a little there, so 1 could see
which houses I liked best. I forgot to order
any lamp chimneys, and I wish you would
step into H. Leonard & Sons when you are
down that way and ask them to ship me a
ease. I think that Ill order me a safe 1
looked at at Cary & Loveridge’s, but life
wouldn’t be worth living if Cary had talked
to me seventeen minutes longer.

As soon as I get the stock unpacked and
arranged on the shelves, I will let you know
how the old thing looks. Yours,

ZACHARIAH WAYBACK.

Taking Mr. Bazlow to Task.
From Boots and Shees. :

C. H. Barlow, a contributor to a recent
issue of THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN,
takes occasion in a lengthy article to de-
nounce the credit system in the severest
terms. He attributes to it all the evils
which afflict the mercantile community tend-
ing to depress trade and disturb its healthy
equilibrium. In a lengthy article, in which
Mr. Barlow makes a lavish use of inuendo

_ to the total disregard of reason or argument,
he avers that ‘‘more hearts are wounded and
more innocent persons broken in spirit
(worse than murder) are crushed in life’s
battle by the credit system than by the war.”
What do our readers think of this? In our

opinion, Mr. Barlow is a little too severe.

We admit that much evil arises from the
credit system, but it is only in consequence
of an abuse of it. Abuse of any privilege,
however beneficial, will produce evils more
or less baneful, and that these evils exist.is
no fault of the privilege whose wrongful
use brings them about. Mr. Barlow should
‘reflect a little and instead of condemning
an old business custom without duly weigh-
ing the benefits arising from it, let him
_Tather suggest a means of overcoming the
‘present abuses of it.
Standard Recipes for Cranberry Sauce.

The American Cranberry Growers’ Asso-
_ ciation has approved the following recipes
for cooking cranberries and recommends
that dealers handling cranberries have cop-
_ ies of the same printed for distribution
among their patrons: 7
‘No.4. 1 qus

d water toa boil; add the
ll clear—fifteen or twenty

| beside :

| in the cause that we hold dear.

sight of and the demand for a united action

| State body for the benefit and welfare of the

» “To a contented man I give this farm. Ap-
Dy wei ee ee
-| Many years went by and the sign still
| hung on the gate post and

almost obli

 

jation at Philadelphia
sth, are too frequent to

incerity attached thereto. =
it Michigan would be doing an
to herself in failing’ to respond,
owing an act of discourtesy to
those who have so liberally accorded to us
praises, the grounds for which are hardly
apparent to us, and who have sent to our
conventions most worthy men, co-workers
Such rela-
tions as now exist, such aid and knowledge
as the Pennsylvania workers will, I am
sure, be glad to render, should not be lost

or inter-state co-operation on those points,
which seem to us alike imporative, may at
this time be agitated.

You recollect our last convention very
wisely sanctioned the delegate plan recom-
mended by us and also the payment of
necessary. expenses attendant thereto.
Within the last few days I have received
letters from all the members of the Execu-
tive Board, who further recommend the
plan and suggest that the President and
Secretary both attend the Philadelphia con-
vention. Much as I should like to, I do not
at this time see the way clear, but most
heartily do I approve of your representing
us and bringing home to Michigan words of
encouragement and cheer, as no one else
among us will so well do. 1 well know that
you need no words of ours to prompt you to
the performance of duty in association mat-
ters, when our best interests are involved;
but should there be any shade of hesitancy
on your part for any but the most vital rea-
sons, remember the power vested in the
Executive Board at our last convention and
go! Cheer and be cheered; tell the fellow
workers of Pennsylvania of Michigan, her
associations and the host of good men we
have who are bringing our associations into
public favor by continuous effort in well do-
ing; bring to us good tidings from the East,
and remember that the business men of
Michigan, in spirit, are with you.

Be kind enough to convey my deepest re-
grets at not being able to be with you all
and may pleasure and profit attend your
visit is the wish of

Yours Respectfully,
FRANK HAMILTON,
President M. B. M. A.

In accordance with the above command,
the editor of Tuk TRADESMAN has started
off on the first respite he has taken since
the paper was inaugurated, fully determined
to put into practice a doctrine he has
preached for four years—that business men
should take occasional intervals of rest. If
next week’s paper is not up to standard, its
readers will remember that the helmsman
seldom leaves his post of duty and that he
will come back to the work, after a fort-
nights’ visit to New York and other
Eastern cities, with a fullness of experience
which will eventually redown to the profit
of all concerned.

——————>_* <a ____
Good Report from the Gwosso Associa-
tion.

Owosso, Oct. 15, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Sin—We did not get a quorum at
our regular October meeting, on account of
our county fair, which was a very satisfac-
tory and successful exhibition. We hada
good display of stock, machinery and agri-
cultural implements from all sections of our
prosperous State. The Yankee character-
istic showed itself in the display of pump-
kins and squashes.

Our shook factory is in full blast, em-
ploying about twenty men. ;

There have been and will be quite a few
changes here. C. W. Reed has removed his
grocery stock to Judd’s Corners and the
store vacated by him will be occupied as a
grocery and notion store by aman from
Flushing. Murray & Terbush are opening
a new store to-day with astock of boots and
shoes. A.J. Petts is closing out his dry
goods stock and the store is rented to Dib-
ble & Parsons, of Corunna, to be occupied
December 1 with a stock of clothing and
men’s furnishing goods. ‘The car and re-
pair shops of the T., A. A. & N. Railway
are located east of their depot, and_ their
erection has already commenced.

It appears that the dead-beats are pretty
well cornered in this ‘section. Out of nine-
teen Notification Sheets sent out by me
since September 1, I can give you the grati-
fying news that eleven of them have either
paid or made satisfactory arrangements to
pay. I have no names for you for the State
sheet, and if it works in’other Associations
in this way, your State sheet will be still
smaller than the October one. You have
undoubtedly heard the anecdote of the cele-
brated marksman. When he went hunting
and raised his gun to bring down a squirrel,
the squirrel would cry out, ‘‘Hold on!
Don’t shoot. I will come right down.” It
appears we have our dead-beats fixed in a
similar way here.

We had a splendid turn-out and a good
meeting last evening. Theconstitution and |:
by-laws, as submitted by the State conven-
tion, were unanimously adopted with a few
very slight changes. It was also unanimous-
ly voted to affiliate with the State Associa-
tion and apply for a charter at once. Hence
enclosed please find New York draft for
$19.50, $16.50 for per capita dues on sixty-
six members and $3 for charter fee; also ap-
plication blank, properly signed by Execu-
tive Committee.

Trusting that all local associations will
respond promptly and affiliate with the

associations, and that they will all bear in
mind ‘‘United we stand, divided we fall,”’ I
remain, Yours truly,

S. LAMFRomM, Sec’y.

In the time gone by, there dwelt in Obern
aman of worth and integrity. He had of
the world’s store sufficient and occupied
himself in endeavoring to better mankind.
One day he placed a sign on his gate post,
which read as follows:

rds thereon,

 

By-th

known as a peddler and hawker,
goods, wares and merchandise of any and
every description, or taking orders for the
same by sample, list or catalogue, whether
for himself, or another, and whether the
goods be his own or another's,
this license. The only excepted classes are:

First, manufacturers, mechanics, farmers
and nurserymen, selling their own work or
productions; second, any wholesale mer-
chant selling goods of his own make to deal-
ers.

each person who comes within the act,
traveling or trading, though in the employ-
ment of but one person.

‘trul

truly, C.N. ADDISON. _
the

f the State,

The license is to be obtained by written

application to the Treasurer of the State,
stating in what manner the applicant intends
to travel and trade; whether on foot, or
with one or more horses or other beasts of
burden, or with any sort of carriage.
license fees are as follows: For travel on
foot, $15; for travel with single horse or
other bea&t, 340; ‘for travel with more than
one horse or other beast, $75; tor travel by
railroad, steamboat or other public convey-
ance, $100; for travel in any manner to take
orders for goods by exhibiting samples,
lists, catalogues or otherwise, $50.

The

‘The Treasurer, upon receiving such appli-

cation and fee, issues a license for the term
of one year, to travel for the purpose and in
the manner indicated in the application.
Such licenses must be renewed annually by
the Treasurer, and may be issued tor a less
term than one year, at a ratable fee.

The penalty for peddling without such li-

cense is a fine not exceeding $50 and _ costs,
or imprisonment not exceeding three months
in jail, or both, in discretion of court, for
each offense, and the penalty for a failure
to produce such license on demand,
traveling and trading as aforesaid, is $10.

when

Under this Act, every person commonly
selling

must pay

These classes may sell by sample or oth-

erwise, in person or by agent, without pay-
ment of any fee.

obtained for
so

A separaie license must be

Besides this, cities and villages incorpor-

ated under special charters often, and cities
incorporated under the general law always,
have power to require hawkers and peddlers
to take out a license.

For the text of the Statute on this sub-

ject, see Howell’s Annotated Statutes, p.
1257 to p. 1266. and Session Laws of 1887,
Act No. 85, amending same.

Perhaps it is proper to state that this law

has so far been practically a dead letter in
Michigan.
1887, changing the penalty from forfeiture
to fine and imprisonment,
tention to put new life into the law and its
enforeement is a question which persons
coming within its lines must decide for
themselves.

Whether the amendment of

indicates an in-

ni ite
A Busted ‘“Trust.”’

Ded. B. Simpson walked into Jones’ store

at Bungtown one day last week with a four-
inch smile chasing the tobacco-juice around
in the neighborhood of his mouth.

“T have organized a grocers’ ‘trust,’ Mr.

Jones,” said Ded., ‘‘and I want your co-op-
eration and advice.”

‘What is the nature of the ‘trust,’ Mr.

Simpson?” said Mr. Jones, as he moved the | gp
box of free tobacco carefully out of sight
behind the counter.

‘‘Well, you see, it’s like this: I come in-

to your store and buy ten dollars’ worth of
groceries, you put it down on the ledger, I
take the goods home and eat ’em,
this concatenation of circumstances you and
I form a mutual ‘trust.’ ”

and by

‘Ah! yes; I see,” replied Mr. Jones, and

afiendish look lighted up his countenance.
“There is only one thing that may spoil the
plan.”

‘‘What is that?”
‘“Why, you see, we have what is called

the Bungtown Business Men’s Trust; and,
having trusted you once too often before,
Mr. Simpson, I shall be obliged to decline
the honor of entering into your philanthrop-
ical ‘trust.’”
sadly and meditatively out of the store,
wondering if there was any place in the
State of Michigan where a man of advanced
ideas could form such a ‘trust? as he pro-
posed. = .

And Ded. B. Simpson walked

RELLUF.

Get Ready for Cold Weather.
The cold weather is coming, and now is

the time for druggists to prepare for winter
-and the class of trade it. brings.
our readers who live in the city have réady
‘access to goods and obtain them on short
notice, but those who do business in smaller
places should erder such goods as are brought |

Those of

| {in demand by cold weather and be ready for
x | oo clistomer
either city

ers. It is time for druggists, in
that.

By. the laws of 1 “every person | —
who travels from place to place within this|
State, for the purpose of carrying to sell or
exposing, to sale any gocds, wares or mer- |
chandise, or for the purpose of taking or-
ders for the purchase of goods, wares or
merchandise, by sample, lists or catalogues,
must obtain a license as a hawker and ped-
dler; excepting only any manufacturer, me-
chanic, farmer or nurseryman, who sells his
own work or productions, and any whole-
sale merchant who sells to dealers goods of
his own manufacture, by sample or other-
wise.

eHOtCHRIAg -.. 6) ch d

country, to make up the prep- |

2:
Pe So Ee
PY o\pIUSTABLE =
BRACKETS. EVERSIBLE,

Ty,
mis yk
Bee
9

Ns

e°o eo 4

EASILY AS §TOCKe

ONE BRACKET ©
SUITABLE FOR VARIOUS
fWIDTAS OF SHELVING.

{ PATENTED OCT. 19, 1887.
Manufactured by

KOCH A. B. CO.
354MAIN ST., PEORIA. ILL

Liberal discount to the trade, or parties
first putting up these brackets in any local-
ity.

LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.
ETAILEY WN. ALLEN, Proprietor.

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

Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At-
tended to.

 

 

@% Cor ch have been sawed by one man in 9
Aenrs, Hundreds have sawed 5 and 6 cords daily. “Exactly”
what every Parmer and Wood Chopper wants. First order from
four vicinity secures the Agency. Tilustrated Catalogue FREER,

Address FOLDING SAWING MACHINE C@.,
AAPA OM na? Btwant MU... 2n. TID

an

STIDD c& CO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE
And Full Line Summer Goods.
102 CANAL STREET,

Iardware.

These prices are for cash buyers, who pay

promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGERS AND BITS.
Tyesi; Old BtYl@s. 6022020. dis
Mee Ce CO tia ea dis
WIOUPIRS Se dis
PACTCCS es ee OS ae ON las dis
SUOUS fe eee dis
OOS ee oe dis
Jennings’, genuine................ 000, dis 5
Jennings’, imitation........... 0.0.2... disd0&10
BALANCES.

PDO eee dis

 

 

 

 

BARROWS. :
RAVTOAG 6 ee as ee. @ 14 00
GAPden ee net 235 00
BELLS.
TIANA os ce oe es dis $ 60&10&10
DON esos a8 wile ood, Lee en lis 70
Call eS a gas 30815
COU ee as dis 25
Door, Sargent o...0 6 0. eo dis 6010
BOLTS.
BEOVO 2 ok dis $ 60
Carriage new list.:.:...0............. dis 70&10
BIOW. Coa eae ees dis 50
PiCIEN SHOC 2 8 ee el dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts......: Bees ene dis
Cast Barre! Bolts..........02......... dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis
Cast Square Spring............0...... dis
Cast Chane cg eo es dis
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis
Wrought Square ..... .............00. dis
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob
MOIR D oc el dis 60&10
VOR? DOOM: 50: ee ee dis 60&10
BRACES.
Barbers. dis $ 40
Backus.... : i
SPOROLG oe dis
a, BAe es eet dis
BUCKETS.
Well, plain oo
Well, Swivel............. Sis sats
BUTTS, CAST.
Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......dis
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
TIPPOR eso ee ee eee, dis
Wrought Table... 2.00. bey: dis
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis
Wrought Brass:s 0.6552) dis
Blind; Clark's. oo. oes, dis
Blind: Parker's... 0... eo. oe: dis
Blind, Shepard’s..-.... 0... eck ee cs dis
CAPS.
MIVISAAO. ee ee esse ect k per m § 65
WICKS C2 se 60
SU ee ers Ne og ee le 35
MUSKOE. oso coe con eeak 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list50&10
Rim Fire, United States................ dis50&10
Central Wire ee ee dis30&10
CHISELS. :
Socket Hirmer,. .o6. 6 seo sc. dis %0&10
Socket Framing....................2- dis 70&10
Socket Corner..............0.... ees dis 70&10
BOCKCL SHCKS. 52. ee dis %0&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COLD oe net

net
Rene $ 3 50
se

eee

COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s...............00.6. dis 40&10
is 26
COCKS.
Brass, Racking’s.................cccceees 60
BADD S feo lee oe ag oes 60
OCR oo oe a ls SA 40&10
WONKA ee 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. Rb 28
31

Cold Rolled, 14x48
Bottoms... % cee b eet
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dis
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis
Morse’s Taper Shank dis
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $.%5
Corrugated. fo cos ee ae dis20&101 &0
AGJUSEADIG 5 oo. ies os ees deg eee dis %&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. = e
8

Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.
FILES—New List.
American File Association List...... dis
Disston’s i
New American......... Soop on: Pete deaes dis
NNICHGISON' So. ee dis 60&
PIQUOY A oo Oe a eee dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis
GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and 26, 27
List 12 a AB 14 15

Discount, 60. :

; GAUGES.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis.
: HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s...........

Kip’s .

ese cick be at cae
Yerkes & Plumb’s.

Mason's Solid Cast Steel... .
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Stee

 

| Sorew Hook
| Serew Hoo
Strap and T

PO She R Se Rene o-ccles

40| Ni

00 | DC,

5 | IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 11 00

40) Bird Cares. 2.2.52. 2, fe,
49 | Screws, new list................... scene 7085

M0} Basswood, log-run...........-..ce00e 13 00@15 00
60&00 | Birch, log-run........ cc. ccc ec ccc eeee 16 00@18 00

Cherry, log-run............... sone a COO

| Maple, log-run.............. picseeesy 12 00@14 00 |

Maple, white, selected............... :
Re 18 onan

‘Red . 4 sawed, 8in and upw’d..40
C Ke és 6 .30

 

i ses seEk

and Eye, %

 - HOLLOW WARE.

Kettles 2 oe
Spiders 2 Weer ‘
Gray enameled... ... 0.0.0... ce ccc coc ce
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list
Japanned Tin Ware.....................
Granite Iron Ware........ eee aa cuca as
HOES.
Grup Boo oa

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... .... .dis
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.....
Door, porcelain, trimmings.............
Drawer and Shutter, pcercelain......dis
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s

Hemacite .......... . bees aie cee ders dis

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new Mat. . dis
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis
Brantord’s.0 0 ooo. oc dis
Norwalk'a. 2 oc ee ee dis

LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis
MATTOCKS.
BOZO Wye ee ee, $16 00 dis 60
Hunt Byes ee $15 00 dis 60
HRONG 8 $18 50 dis 20 & #0

MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’#, Post, handled............ dis 50

MILLS.
Coffee, Parzers Co.’s...........0......-... dis 40
Coffee, P.S.& W.Mfg. Co.’sMalleables ... dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &Clark’s.......... dis 40
Coffee, Enterprise........................ 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.

JOG 1O (000 coe ea keg $2
Sd andiGd advo oi ee
6d and Tdiadv. 2 ee a Hi)
AO ANGE Adv. 2 15
BOMIVANCE Soo ee es 1 56
od fine advance... 22.20.0000 2 2
Clinch nails, adv...... .........0.0.0000... 1 00
Finishin f 10d 8d 6d 4a
Size—inches f§ 3 2% 2 1%
Adv. @keg $125 150 15 260
Steel Nails—2 20.

OILERS.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&10

Zine, with brass bottom.................. dis 50

Brass or Copper................0.5....... dis 50

READER. ro per gross, $12 net

Olmstead’s . _............... Se ce es 50&10
NES.

PLA
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................. dis 40@10
Selota Bench... dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ....... dis 40@10
Bench, firstiquality.................... dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... dis20&10
PANS.
Fry, Acme.. Soi We Scie eas sa vclas sao. dis 50&10
Common, polished...................... dis60&10
Dripping. 2 ee 2b 6%
RIVETS.

Tron and Tinned...................... dis 55
Copper Rivets and Burs............. dis 60
PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

‘‘A”’ Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24t0 27 10 2¢
“B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20
Broken packs %c # b extra.

ROPES.

Sisal, 4% in. and larger...................... 114
Maniligcs 2. 2.000 an 2%
SQUARES.

Steel and Iron. o2 . dis 70&10
TPryand Revels. dis 60
Mitre: Goce ee dis 20
SHEET IRON

Com. Smooth. Com.
NOS: 10 60 140 oe $4 20

$2 90
Nos: ito BP icc 2 99
NOS. 418'£0, 2). ooo eo
INO8.22 £024.00
INOS 225 602608 :

SREAH SSS RR

RAAT of

oz

10
25

20
4 20
42
4 40
Onto Coe 4 60 3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 2 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 tbs, # th...... 2...
In smaller quansities, ® b..............
TACKS,
American, all kinds................. dis
Steel, all kinds. 0 dis
Swedes, all kinds..................... dis
Gimp and Hace... 60.6 dis
Cigar Box Nails. oc. 0. 2.002026. dis
Pmishing Nats) oo es os dis
Common and Patent Brads.......... dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks. dis
Trunk and Clout Nails................ dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis
Leathered Carpet Tacks............. ais
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No.1, Retined 2.
Market Half-and-half............. ....
Strictly Half-and-half..................
TIN PLATES.

IC, 10x14, Charcoal................ 5
Ix, 10x14, Charcoal 20.025.
IC, i2el2, Charcoal. oo... 06, 6 25
Ix, dexel2; Charcoal osc.
Ic, 14x20, Charcoal... 0.2.0.0... 00.05
Ix, 14x20, Charcoal....................

a 8Ex20, Charcoal. 2508 8 5
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.................... 10 77
IXXXX, 14x20, Charcoal.................. 12 55
Ix, 20x28, Charcoal.............000005. 15 50

100 Plate Charcoal.................. 6 50
DX, 100Plate Charcoal.................. 8 50
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 10 50
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 12 50
Hetipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75

rates.
Rooting, 4x20 10.2 ov 4 90
Rootng, 4x20, PX eo a 6 40
Roofing, 20x28, TC. coo. oe 10 50
stooting, 20x28; EX 5. 13 50
TIN—LEADED.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7 00

12 50
16 QO
17 50

40@5 00
7 25

TX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne......... 14 00
TRAPS.
Steel, Game... ee ee 60&10
Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
HOCCREISS) ee a ee 60&10
6; PB. @ W. Mig. Colas. sc ae 60&10
Mouse, CHOKE?) ..o.65. soe. 18c 8 dez
Mouse, delusion..................... $1 50 8 doz
WIRE.
Bright Market. -.0. 00.0.3. 0 000.00. dis 67%
Annealed Market................0.... dis 7&1u
Coppered Market...................000. dis 62%
Extra Bailing: 0.2 ns eee di

is 55
Tinned Market... 200.2 .025205055.55. dis 62%}
el:

Tinned: Broom. ou. 0.020 56. oo $2 Ib
Tinned Mattress... 2... eo 2 Ib 844
Coppered Spring Steel................. dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel...............5.... dis 40&10
Pinin Hence. osc. ese os, Be 8b 3
Barbed Fence, galvanized.:................. 410
ts PHINLEGs. oe 3 35
COpNere eee eee new list net
IBTASS. 200 ee i es new list net

WIRE GOODS.
Bright... ee dis 7%0&10&10
Serew Hyes. 6: hoes oes oc, dis 70&10&10
OOS ee dis %70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis 70&10&10
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine. 22. 2... 206 cs dis 50
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis 463)
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.............. dis 5&1C
MISCELLANEOUS.

50
Pumps, Cistern....................00% dis = 75
Casters, Bed and Plate............. dis50&10&10
Dampers, American .................0... 40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 36
Copper Bottoms.... ...... 02... ..eeee _  e8e

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

 

TER STE & Ch.
nolesale Hardware,

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

FINEST AND MOST COMPLERE
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, STEVENS & 60,

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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

DETROIT SOAP CO,

DETROrT, MICE,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands
of

OAPS

QUEEN ANNE,
MICHIGAN,
TRUE BLUE,

CZAR,
MONDAY,

MOTTLED GERMAN,
ROYAL BAR,
SUPERIOR,
MASCOTTR, —
PHGINIX, :

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AND OTHERS.
For Quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

Lock Box 173, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

Salesman for Western Michigan.

 

Cc. C. BUNTING. Cc. L. DAVIS...

BUNTING & DAVIS,

Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots,

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

 

The furniture factories here pay as follows
a bye Stock, measured merchantable, mill
culls out;

Birch, Nos. Vand 2: 50. ok:
Black Ash, log-run...................14 00@16 50

00@35 00
45 00@50 00
‘@10 00

Cherry, Nos.1 and 2.................
Cherry, cull.......
Maple, soft, log-run.............4.. -11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. land2.................. - @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring............ done

d Oak, log-run......

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d was iiastientibus and |
g his duties, the mor-

ae separates those who are
ot from those who narrowly escape
ng fools. 1 certainly wouldn’t want him
proceed, te summary judgment and ex-
tion on the testimony of one or two
witnesses, because of a tender regard for my

: safety, if nothing else.
On reflection, however, I am satisfied that
: the ¥F. K. could be kept reasonably busy in
exterminating the self-confessed fools. Let
 him—again supposing him materialized—
- mingle in the crowds at a fair or circus.
_ Let him board the crowded excursion trains
or boats; or report for duty at horse races;
or be present, officially, at political conven-
tions; or make himself ‘‘promiscuous” at al-

: - most any occasion that calls together multi-
tudes of people and each and every time

‘would bring to his notice the self accusa-
_ tions of numerous individuals who are,
temporarily at least, anxious to confess
that they are the blankest kind of blank

fools.
* * * *

- It is passing strange that in these days,
when probably ninety-nine people out of a
“hundred have almost free access to the
American newspaper, the fool crop continues
to multiply and flourish, but unfortunately
4t does. The methods and devices by which
he multitudinous tricksters and swindlers of
the land “‘get in the work,” that leads in-
-dividuals to plead guilty to temporary
‘idiocy, are matters of public discussion
~and daily newspaper comment, and yet the
- country is prolific in human geese who are
anxiously waiting to be plucked. Smith
will chuckle over Brown’s disastrous
“encounter with the three-card monte sharps,
-and at the first favorable opportunity fall a
victim to the oily confidence man. Jones
will grin with delight over the recital of
-Robinson’s experience with the premium
-grain fraud, and readily become the dupe of
the smuggled cloth swindler. When Jenk-
‘inson sends to New York for a hundred
“dollars worth of ‘‘green goods,” and receives
‘a neat package containing a cent’s worth of
brown paper in return, how Jobson laughs
at his folly and declaims against his dis-
honesty, but how easily Jobson will be
‘caught up” by a similar scheme in a dif-
ferent guise.

And how little sympathy Black, White
and Green have for these human geese, and
how they congratulate themselves on their
superior intelligence and lack of gullibility,
but perhaps by the next time they meet to
compare notes Black will have been ‘‘de-
moralized” by a snide patent, White ‘‘laid
out” by a professional poker artist, and
‘Green ‘‘swamped” by bucket shop transac-

tions.
* * *% * *

if it wasn’t for the indisposition of a
part of the human family to pay a hundred
- cents for an honest dollar’s worth of a com-
modity required, and the disposition of a
still larger portion to attain wealth at the
expense of others, and without furnishing
a tithe of its equivalent in brain or muscle,
the sharpers and swindlers of the country
would speadily cease plying their avoca-
tions. And this very indisposition and dis-
position account for the flourishing condi-
tion of the fool crop. Not a gambling or
confidence scheme was ever devised that
didn’t invite one person to profit by the
losses of another; and any person who im-
agines that gamblers and confidence mgn of
any description propose to become habitual
losers is a distinct specimen of the crop.
* * * * *
itis not always the agriculturists that
become the victims of the professional
sharper. A few years ago a merchant doing
_ business in a small Michigan city, anda
_ man of considerable capital and experience,
_ had a costly introduction to one of these
gentry, but the circumstance, for some rea-
ae son, was never chronicled by the local press.
One day he _ received a letter with a
printed heading and business-like appear-
ance, dated at New York, and bearing the
‘postmark of that city. Its contents were
something as follows: .
“My Dear Sir—A mutual friend refers
ms to you asa gentleman who can perhaps
usin a very unpleasant and serious
tter. A trusted clerk has disappeared
from our office, taking with him a small
‘sum of money, and $16,000 in R. L. & B.
R.. bonds. From ‘certain memoranda
behind, we have reason to believe that

he is in your vicinity. As he is a near rela-
e of our firm we don’t care to

amined the ‘‘valuables” passed_over.

The dishonest “clerk” received eight one
hundred dollar genuine treasury notes, and
the amateur detective sixteen one thousand
_ | dollar counterfeit railroad bonds.

! * > *. 2a *

Some time agoa Chicago swindler proved,
satisfactorily to himself and the public,
that poor Snooks was a flourishing example
of the genus fool. He wrote that strug-
gling peanut purveyor that, being the

Cuban Lottery, he held in his hands a cer-
tified check, payable to Snook’s order, for
$2,500; that his fees thereon were 5. per
cent., or $125, and that on receipt of said
amount he would at once forward the paper.
And he gave voluminoys references, cer-
tificate of character, and enclosed a news-
paper clipping setting forth the good Juck
of Snooks and sundry other parties.

Now, Snooks had never bought a lottery
ticket in his life. A small fraction of com-
mon sense should have convinced him that
the matter was a bare-faced swindle; but
the bait was too tempting, and only the
good nature or indifference of his creditors
saved him from an assignment, with nom-
inal assets at $75, and indebtedness about
three times that amount.

* * * * *

On the whole, I am very thankful that the
F, K. isa myth. His appearance at certain
periods in the lives of a great many of us
would have seriously jeopardized our chances
for anything like a comprehensive exper-
ience with earthly affairs; and when we look
back over the multitude of fools we have all
known, and recall the proportion of perma-
nent recoveries, we should all rejoice that
a temporary attack of idiocy in monetary
affairs is not attended with fatal conse-

quences.
ment of Large Wood

WA Working Establish-

ment. Business firmly established. Goods sold all
over the South. Brains, moore? and Experience

essential. Some meaner desirable. Good chance for
right man. TERRY, Nashville, Tenn.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

The most practical
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150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

Peck Bros., )ruggisis, tirand Rapids, Mich,
WHIPS

ADDRESS
GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

LACE to secure athorough
and useful education is at the
GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) BusI-
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aL That erening the parties met to fulfill the :
contract. Each was provided with the ma-|
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Western United States agent for the Royal

 

 

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This spacious and admirably construct-
ed New Brick Hotel is now open to the
public. It is provided with all the Modern
Improvements. The rooms are large, airy
and pleasant, in suits or single, and newly
furnished throughout. The design of man-
‘agement is to make this house one of coin-
fort and pleasure to its guests.

The Traveling Public are cordially 1n-

“Butter, Hes, Cheese, Fte,
B aud 10 Tonia Steeet, GRAND RAPIDS, RICH

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FILLING ORDERS.

W. Sreece Pace & Provision (0,

JOBBERS IN

FRESH MEATS.

Steck Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave.,

Mich.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids,

 

ay Gity Milling Co.

CUR LEADING BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Gilt Edge,
Matchless,
Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf,

Reliance,

Gold Medal,
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OUR SPECIALTIES:

Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Granulated
Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran,
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.

Write for Prices.

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

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.

6, 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa Direel, © GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

’

Having contracted with Steele & Gardiner to handle
the entire output of their broom factory, all or-
ders should be sent to us direct.

CURTISS & DUNTON.

The accompanying illustrations represents the

Boss Tobacco Pail Cover.

It will fit any pail, 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.

Whelesale Grocers,

Sole Agents,

77 to 88 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

 

FURNITURE 10 ORDER.

Anythingor everything in the
line of Special Furniture, inside
finish of house, office or store,
Wood Mantels, and contract
work of any kind made to order
on short notice and in the best
manner out of thoroughly dried
lumber of any kind. Designs
furnished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,

West End Pearl St. Bridge.

 

JENNESS & McbURDY,

Importers and ManvfactJrers’ Agents.

DEALERS IN

Crockery, Cina, Glassware,

Fancy Goods of all Descriptions.
HOTEL AND STEAMBOAT GOODS,
Bronze and Library Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets,, Ets.,
73 and 75 Jefferson Ave.,

DETROIT,

MICE.

 

Wholesale Agents for Duffield’s Canadian Lamps.

NSWORTHRH,

JOBBER IN

OOL,
GLOVER, TIMOTHY SEKD and BRANS.

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

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich

 

PUTNAM & BROOKS

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

NO BETTER GOODS IN THE LAND
TRY THEM
13, 15, 17 South Ionia Street,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

HENRY IVES,

 

 

 

 

 

GURYISS, DUNTON & ANDREW

SPRING & GOMPANY,

JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS,

Hosiery, Carpets, Ete.
0 ad 8 Monroe St, Grand Rapids,

 

 

BRLL, GUNRAD % vl,

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

PROPRIETORS OF

Century Spice ny

IMPORTERS OF

-TRAS, COFFERS & SPIG BS

OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS:

\J APAN TEA---“Red Dragon” Chop.

COFFEE--O. G. Plantation Java,
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he towns the State around,
Big Rapidsisthe worst,
‘walks and ruptured ground
_ A city is accurst.
_ There’s not a street the city through
_ ‘Where man or beast may travel,
_ But planks and tile and timbers strew,
» Or piles of stone and mud and grave
Blockade the way, and more’s the pity,
‘Bring tax and curses on the city.
oe M. J. WRISLEY.
i
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

The young man who desires to make his
mark in mercantile life should not depend
alone upon his own promptings as to his
course of conduct. He will find good mod-
els among the merchants of the day. Let
‘him observe them closely in their lives as
business men and citizens. He will dis-
cover that they have energy, integrity and
truthfulness, and that they have won repu-
tation and fortune by the especial practice

of these qualities in all their relations of
life. Nothing is cl2arer, then, than that he
should do the same thing. He must hew
his own destiny to exactly the same shape,
or he will be a disfigurement in the eyes of
all honorable men, a failureas far as a high-
toned manhood is concerned, and a model
solely of his own conceit and short-sighted-
ness.
*%

Though a man may smile and bea villain,
still it is considered that this evidence of
cheerfulness and amiability is also a good
indication of a genial and upright person.
Hence, nothing contributes more toward
success in business dealings than the pleas-
ant, winning smile. Itis the sunshine of
such intercourse, and it promotes a mutual
friendly interest more than any other per-
sonal habit. Instinctively all creatures turn
to the warmth of the sun, and all human be-
ings awaken to more kindness of heart
when a smile—common and informal as it is
—constitutes a part of the ordinary greet-
ing.

%%

Moralizing may seem a species of affecta-
tion of goodness and wisdom, but let noman
on this account hesitate to accept the les-
sons that it makes self-evident to his own
understanding.

*%

What to do with the surplus, which is in-
creasing so enormously and dangerously, is
the anxious thought of the business man.
‘‘Have no fear,” whispers the politician;
*+we will have jobs to consume every dollar

of it.” And then the patriotic merchant can
but grieve that corruption is the remedy for
over-taxation. ‘
*,* :

The time is not far distant when tariff
discussion, and other subjects relating to
national legislation, will again occupy the
attention of mercantile men. The practical
views of the representative men of this class,
who annually appear at Washington, are
likely to differ as widely as ever from those
who shape :egislation, to say nothing of the
diversity of opinions among the latter.
Hence, no important changes in the exist-
ing tariff are probable, especially as another
Presidential election is approaching, and
men with political axes to grind are not
disposed to stir up any opposition to them-
selves or their party at such a period.

**

Ambition and energy are an association of
forces which will overcome almost every
obstacle in business life. One is like the
fire which makes the steam in the boiler,

and the other is like the machinery in full

motion.
OOO
_ ‘The Future of California, as a Wine-Pro-
ducing State.

Wine manufacturers on the Pacific coast
are in high glee over the favor with which
California wines have lately been received
in England. The London Times recently
reported a lecture on the subject, delivered
by a Dr. Springmuhl, before a large assem-

-Dbly of London wine merchants. The San
- Francisco Examiner of September 4th, al-

- . duded to the occasion in the following words:

“It will be seen that a new era of prosperi-
ty is dawning upon California and that it
- will soon reach its meridian splendor. Our
wines have been tested by European ex-
peris, and the verdict has been more than
. favorable. In obtaining the opinion of con-
- noisseurs, Dr. Springmuhl recognized the
_ principle that justice is blind and wisely
acted upon it. California wines were given

) experts without announcement. of the lo-
lity or date of the vintage. Frenchmen
pronounced our clarets to be Bordeaux of ex-
ellent quality, and Germans said that our
hocks were from the best vineyards along
the Rhine. The dicta of these authorities
ost gratifying, inasmuch as a growing

these particular wines exists |

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ety

is it used in America?” Yes,
safely say that for the past two years
unption of Indian teasin the States
‘ork, New Jersey, Connecticut,
sylvania and.the New England States
increased considerably. Our tea deal-
shave found (as did the English dealer
long ago) that the blending of choice Indian
tea with Oolongs or Congou (English
Breakfast) adds very much to the quality of
the tea.
_. Yea was first imported from India, not
China. In 1610, tea from India was used
in Holland and in 1656 we find it sold in the
~ @offee houses of London at 20s. (about $5)
_ perpound. Thecost of it in India was
_ then only about 3s. (about 75 cents), evi-
dently a very nice profit for the importer.
In 1664, the Dutch East India Company
brought home two pounds of Indian tea as a
‘present to His Majesty King Charles the II.
_. The first order sent out from England was
for 100 pounds of choice Indian tea from
Batavia.. This was in 1667. In 1707, the
first green tea was imported. Tea was first
cultivated in India as an article of commerce,
and as it soon became one of the leading ex-
ports, China and Japan turned their atten-
tion to this branch of industry, their natives
being acquainted with the tea-plant and
‘having probably always raised tea for their
own use, it being the custom to plant a few
‘shrubs on the edges of the fields. At first,
only high and rather rocky ground was used
for planting, as the quality raised on such
ground was far superior; but as the demand
increased poorer soil was used, and hence
the poor tea our people have been using for
years. Both Chinese and Japanese very
quickly hit upon the plan of coloring their
teas and in part covering up the defects that
would otherwise make their tea unsalable.
This indiscriminate planting made the rais-
ing of tea in India a losing business, and for
many years but little tea was raised there.
The few gardens which were cultivated
shipped their tea to a few firms in London
, who could dispose of the product to people
who understood the value of the tea.

A few years ago a number of gentlemen,
members of the largest tea firms, determined
to bring Indian teas before the people,
knowing, as they did, that when the people
once understood the purity and value of
these teas that they would use them in pre-
ference to all others. What they believed
has come true. From an importation of a
few thousand pounds it has steadily in-
creased, until last year 72,000,000 pounds
was the importation.

It is not expected that the trade with In-
dia will supplant the trade with China and
Japan, as the highest grades of China and
Japan teas are very fine; but the growing
indian trade will enable the people to obtain
a better quality of tea at a much lower
price. The taste for Indian tea is rapidly

- increasing here and there are some who even
prefer it by itself. No China or Japan teas
possess such sharp piquancy, such great
strength, and such pronounced, yet delicate,
flavor as the better deseriptions of Indian
teas. To obtain the perfection of these
qualities, it becomes essential to use the
best Indian varieties. The cultivation of
“tea is, in India, much more a matter of sci-
ence than it isin the Celestial Empire or
Japan. The Chinese and Japanese, from
dime immemorial, have grown their teas on
‘every little available space—sometimes on
hillsides, sometimes on patches of land com-
paratively barren. They have used little or
m0 manure; in fact, the son has followed in
jis father’s footsteps, without attempting
to excel. On the contrary, the growth of

the tea industry in India has been fostered
‘by many experiments—experiments as to
‘the climate most suitable to tea-growing, as
_. 4 the soil most congenial to it, and the ma-
— mare by which it is most nourished—experi-
~-aments to ascertain the best kinds of plant
 tcultivate. All these problems have been

_ solved toa certain extent, but there is no
@oubt much progress will still be made.

__. When, therefore, we consider the differ-

mee between a system of cultivation so

- barred to progress as that of the Chinese and
apanese and one so enterprising as that of
‘the English in India, we cannot wonder
that, while Indian tea has been advancing
greatly in public estimation, China and

japan teas have made comparatively little

Where is one remarkable difference be-
‘tween Indian and China and Japan teas,
‘and that is, while first, second, third and
fourth crop China and Japan teas are differ-

in character, and respectively inferior,
‘the one to the other, there is nothing in In-
, to proclaim its relationship to any

ar crop or gathering. —
following are the principal districts
n which our supply of Indian tea is ob-

| as plenty as expected

 

fused leaf is tender and bright. The. dry
| leaf is blacker, but, taking the average, is

scarcely as tightly twisted as that of Assam |
teas. Darjeelings from Terai (Terai is be-
low Darjeeling) are probably the best teas
that are brought to England or America;

for full flavor and rich strength they are un- |

equalled. Occasionally Darjeelings are
found that do not possess the flavor for
which the district is justly famous. The
tea then is soft and insipid and is useless

for increasing the flavor of a blend. Most:

of the plants in Darjeeling are from China

seed.
SYLHET.

Sylhet produces teas which are similar to
those of Cachar, but are more pungent.
KANGRA.

Teas grown in the Kangra Valley are;
fine, delicate and aromatic. Their infused
leaf is very bright and the flavor is even
considered superior to that of the Darjeel-
ings, but, unfortunately, they are often thin.

. DEHRA DHOON.
Dehra Dhoon teas are mostly thin, high
burnt, and rather sour. Occasionally, the
flavor is rather earthy. They are not much

sought after.
KUMAON AND SIMLA.

These teas are somewhat similar to Kan-
gras. They are very flavory, and sometimes
rich, but are not infrequently thin. Occa-
sionally, the flavor is not of a very high or-

der.
HAZARIBAGH.

The infused leaf of these teas is very
bright. The liquors are fresh and flavory.
CHITTAGONG.

Chittagong teas are strong, thick and al-
most nntty in character. They are good,
useful teas, and, for their great strength,
are in considerable demand.’

NEILGHERRY (MADRAS).

When Neilgherry teas were first import-
ed, the flavor was decidedly objectionable.
It has now improved, but is still far from
perfection. The liquor is thin, and the dry
leaf black and tippy. Neilgherry teas from
Madras must not be confused with the As-
sam Neilgherry teas,
rough and pungent.

DOOARS.

The teas produced in this district are sim-
ilar in choracter to those of Cochar, but,
being considerably stronger, are more valu-
able for blending.

JULIGOORIES.

Juligoorie teas have a very bright infused
leaf and a thick, rich, but rather soft, liquor.
RANGURTH.

The infused leaf of this is also bright.
The liquor is fine and fresh, but thin and in-
clined to be sickly.

SORTS OF INDIAN TEAS. _
“In the Manufacture, Indian teas are gen-
erally sorted into the following classes:

Flowery Pekoe,
Orange Pekoe,
Pekoe, (i
Pekoe Souchong,
Congou,

Broken Flowery Pekoe,
Broken Orange Pekoe,
Broken Pekoe,

Broken Pekoe Souchong,
Broken Souchong,
Broken Mixed,
Fannings,

Dust.

HENRY SMITH.
—_—— Oe
: The Grocery Market.

The feature of the week has been the ad-
vance of nearly 4ge in sugars, consequent
on a strong statistical position and the for-
mation of a combination among the refiners.
Referring to the “‘trust,” as the members
prefer to call it, Willett & Hamlen remark:

The combination represents a capital of
say $15,000,000, apportioned to the different
refineries on an equitable basis for the divis-
ion of profits. The only sugar refineries in
the United States not included in the ‘‘trust”’
or combination are two refineries in Phila-
delphia, one in Boston, three small refin-
eries in New Orleans, one in St. Louis, but
not running, and two in San Francisco.
The committee have full control of the pro-
duction of refined, so that it can always be
regulated by the demand by the running
full, or closing, or partial closing of any
refinery, and will have no difficulty in regu-
lating the prices of refined to a paying basis,
as compared with the market price of raw.
sugar. Itis not likely that large profits
will be demanddl, as this course would an-
tagonize the 60,000,000 sugar consumers,
who would unite in demanding from the
next Congress the entire removal of sugar
duties on both raw and refined sugars.

The refiners defend their action in unit-.

ing by stating that the disastrous condition |

of the business fora series of years has
forced them to take such a course for self-
protection. The action of the refiners will
undoubtedly do much to stimulate the pass=;
age of a bill by Congress largely reducing
or entirely repealing the duty on raw sugars.

‘Most lines of canned goods are precepti-
bly firmer, but no changes are made in quo-
tations. Other articles in the grocery line
are steady. o

Candy is in good request and, on account.

4 of the high price of sugar, prices are very

firm. Bananas are reasonably plenty and
prices are low. Orangesfwill be scarce un-
til November, when the Florida crop will
begin to arrive. New figs are in market at
about the usual prices. Chestnuts are not
and prices are higher.
— oe

which are. strong, |

#8 Pride. Sa
E Coburn, Pierson
erate 2
' Benj J Story, Langston -
1 W Fincher, Pentwater ©
"Neal McMillan, Rockford
Walling Bros, Lamont
’ Geo Carrington, Trent
~ KT Parrish, Grandville
*! J C Benbow, Cannonsburg
TA Miller & Co, Alma .
PM Lonebury & Son, Reed City
Seward McNitt & Co, Byron Center
'- CF Williams, Caledonia
- John Gunstra, Lamont
* G@ W Robinson, Edgerton
'< B Burlington, Bradley
«EN Lesperence, Hamilton
_> CK Hoyt, Hudsonville
L Cook, Bauer
+ Jobn Smith, Ada
M M Robson, Berlin
-L Maier, Fisher
LA Paine, Englishville
__B Gilbert & Co, Moline
- G F Cook, Grove
W Vermeulen, Beaver Dam
Geo Carrington, Trent
BF Hall, Fennville
Cornell & Griswold, Griswo'd
+; Dell Wright, Berlin
J Raymond,B erlin
- Jas Barnes, Austerlitz
oC O Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg
S Cooper, Jamestown
D J McNaughton, Chauncey
W S Root, Tallmadge
-B M Denison, East Paris
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
Jas Omler, Wright
A J White, Bass River
John Kinney, Kinney
W J McJunken, Summit City
M M Brooks, Austerlitz
Geo Sage, Kockford
Gus Begman, Bauer
L Johnson & Bro, Greenville
L R Rogers, Eastport
W F Merecer, Carlyle
Eli Runnels, Corning
Richard Purdy, Fremont
J £ Thurkow, Morley
A D Martin, Otia
Smith & Bristol, Ada
Howard Morley, Morley Bros, Cedar Springs
Geo P Stark, Cascade
Geo N Reynolds, Belmont
Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale
Hamilton & Morton, Sand Lake
C E Joldersma, Jamestown
Walter H Struik, Forest Grove
LN Fisher, Dorr
A F Harrison, Sparta
H Eberlink, Kalamazoo
Jay Marlatt, Berlin
IA Mitchell, Lowell
Ed Wright, Woodville
H Cummings, Muskegon
F Voorhorst & Co, Overisel
HH Childs, Childs Mills
J W Robinson, Stetson
Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam
M Minderhout, Hanley
IJ Quick, Allendale
John Giles & Co., Lowell
Eldridge Bros., Hesperia
OF & W P Conklin, Ravenna
Farnsworth & Willlams, Manton
CE Pratt, Moline
J C Drew, Rockford
A W Blain, Dutton
M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe
L.M Wolf Hudsonville
Wm Mines, Nunica
James S Toland, Ross
N B Hawley, Westwood
G8 Putnam, Fruitport
Jacob Hoeksema, Kalamazoo
A C Barkley, Crosby
Jno Kamps, Zutphen
Jno Damstra, Gitchell
Jas Riley, Dorr
M J Howard, Englishville
RH Topping, Casnovia
S A Bush, Lowell
R MeKinnon, Kent City

<> -9- <> _______
Where the Clothespins Come From.

There are five clothespin factories in
Michigan, as follows: Aldrich & Brayman,
Custer; Oscar Schubert, Grand Haven; Ne-
waygo Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids;
C. D. Huntington, Mason; A. W. Dodge,
Morley. The bulk of the Michigan product
is handled by the Cupples Woodenware Co.,
of Grand Rapids, which markets at least
half the clothespins made in the West. A
New York firm, which buys for the export
trade only, frequently takes as many as
twenty carloads ata time. An idea of the
low price for which clothespins are sold may
be gleaned from the fact that the Morley
manufacturer recently sold to the Cupples
Manufacturing Co. four carloads at an aver-
age price of twenty pins for a cent.

oe - 0

According to the commercial reports from
thirty cities, for every $100 worth of busi-
ness done for the first nine months of last
year, $108 worth of business has been done
-during the first nine months of this year.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market are
paying $6 for all offerings of good bark.

Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.60@$1.70 # b
for clean washed roots.

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

t

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Buyers are paying 40@50c per bu.
for winter fruit and selling at $2@$2.25 per
bbl.

Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.

Bean—Hand-picked mediums are. very
scarce, readily commanding $2.50 per bu.

Butter—Creamery is in good demand and
ey firm at 22@26c. Dairy is active at 18@

2c

Cabbages—$4@$7 per 100, according to size.
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20@25 # doz.

pe con ana per fe $20825
ranberries—Home grown, $: 60 per bu.
Cape Cod, $3.25 per bu.

ried Apples—Evaporated are rather weak,
for reasons given last week. Jobbers pay 8c
a eet 30c. a ae

ses—Scarce and firm. Jobbers are paying
18¢ and holding at 20c.
b> Honey—Dull at 12@16c.

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

Onions—Jobbers pay 60@70c and hold at 80c.

Peppers—Green, $1 per bu.

Pop Corn—2c a

Potatoes—There seems to be almost an en-
tire absence of demand in all markets, both

| East and West. Shippers are baying 60c here

and 50@55¢e at the principal Northern buying
points, but large stocks are accumulating on
their hands, owing to the difficulty to oad
at remunerative prices.
Seeds—Clover, mammoth or medium, $1.50.
Timothy, $2.00.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys, $3.25@
$3.50 per bbl. ~
Turnips—40c # bu.
_ . GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS,
_ Wheat—No change. City millers pay 75c for
Lancaster and 72c for Fulse and Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing generally at50c in 100 bu.

| lots and 47%c in carlots. - oe
Oats—White, d5¢ in small lots and. @3lo in

 

{Fancy Butter.......: poe waes coe

: Cheese—Jobbers are holding their stocks at Q
4+ 1L3@18%c

 

- BAKING POWDER.

Acme, % bb cans, 3 doz. case............
“sé % Db of 2 6 oe

wee ee cose ee
oe

1b
« Bulk
Princess,
ee
: re [LL EN Seca area eR ee
Arctic, 4% cans, 6 doz. case Dies
6 4
a8
Victorian, 1 % cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... ..
Diamond, “bulk,” ..............00006-
Absolute, - b cans, ay cans in case..
6s “ :

“ os

Telfer’s % ib, cans,6 dozincase............ 2 70
Se et eee OO Sn Eee eee 2 55
1 66 se 1

coeur ee 1 &0
BLUING
Dry, NOUS eee a: doz.
DPV ONO Boe os ae ee ls doz.
Diquid, 4:02, 5. 6. A doz.
Uigiid; $ OF; 7.55.6 es es doz.
ATCUGEOF Oe leo ee cece cane ® gross 3 50
ATCHIO SAO. oo eg oe Oh re ea
Arctic 160z....... Rie Oe eS a
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................0605
Arctic No. 2 Oe ae aoe aes oes e ae ence
Arctic No.3 “t ;
BROOMS.
No. 2 Burl: ::..0...: 1 %5|Common Whisk....
No.1 Hurl.......... 2 00|/Fancy Whisk...... 1
No. 2Carpet........ 2 2p Me os. a 3
No.1 Carpet........ 2
Parlor Gem........ 2
CHOCOLATE.
Wilbur’s Premium..35|German Sweet....... 23
es Sweet...... 23| Vienna Sweet ....... 22
B’kf’tCocoa 45| Baker’s .............. 37

oe

ce 6s ob

25
45
3.
65

13
8 Warehouse ........ 2 75

20
00
00
00
00
90
7

66
66
“ee

Vanilla Bar 28
COCOANUT.

SCHOPPS Ss... a eons
Sr) Ie IR I AGRE OS
PGR ree sul ae oss ce Sa veces
ia is in tin, PAUS. ck: a
BO EE ewes ec teeceesece
Maltby’s; $65 ee
re AS ANG MGs ec ice ee ces
fs MBS oo cials x as mieie dkeed os stelouiers cle glee s
Manhattan, pails...............0...005
POCCRIORS os FU ea a
Bulk, pails or barrels..................

COFFEES.
: Green.
MIO oes oa ese 22Q@24
Santos.......... 238Q25
Maricabo....... 24@26
23Q25

COFFEES—PACKAGE,
60 Ibs 100 ths

MAO cose es a os eee 25
Lion, iN CAVIMCtS. 2.5.66 ssc eee ees.
DSO. SE A a ee 25%
ABDUOWMOS 35.0808. on ols seas Aca ee 25%
MPUWOTUA Ss. o.oo. oa ces coos seca eee
BLAndands : 6 es  e
German 7 ee os
German,in bins................6.4..
Maenoias fo. obs oon ae
MiPOIG ee ee eae 25%
MMCKICAR 2680000 ee a aS 20
Honey Bee, 1 } packages............ 26

COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.

Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java.
ee ss = Mocha... .......
JAVOKS 606.20...
& Imperial.........
sé Banner..........
Mexican. .......

' CORDAGE.

60 foot Jute..... 90 |50 foot Cotton... .]

%2 foot Jute ..... 120 |60 foot Cotton....

49 Foot Cotton....1 50 |72foot Cotton....

CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. :

X XXX

Kenosha Butter................

Seymour Butter............... 5

Bratbers es oe eo 5

4%

be

6

io
%

Ss OVSLCT ss ok cy ee eed
PICNIC. oo 2a. 8 dss ee on
Haney Oyster... .. 00.00.0666. 444
Fancy S0d@.e25.6.2i.202.05.2. 5
City SOG. 205.560 o cia ole
Soda

Ee vc eee oes soe ec ss
BORGO oo ek
Graham sc eT Bes
Oat Meals. . 5.55 so 32 0...
Pretzels, hand-made...........
IPVOU7ZOIS ee ae bee,
WTACKNOIS . 6 Go. esc esse os cscs
Lemon Cream.......6.. 2.02.05
BUCH OPEAMN: 006: ss. 5. oo soe.
Frosted Cream.................
Ginger Snaps..................
No. 1 Ginger Snaps............
Lemon Snaps...............08-
Coffee Cakes.. i. oc cco see. e ss.
Lemon Wafers.................
SUMIUDIOG se sche se oh Se
Extra Honey Jumbles.........
Frosted Honey Cakes.........
Cream GeMB.....6.5.00. 6.000.
Bagleys Gems.................
Seed Cakes. . a. os co ccc cease
S. & M. Cakes. ...... Reo, SoS.

CANNED FISH.
Clams, I tb, Little Neck.................... 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 b................-... ee
Cove Oysters, 1 ib standards............ 95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 i standards............. 1 55
Lobsters; PM plenic. 6. io2. 2.62... seeks 1 %5
Lopsters, 2 1b, picnie:... 0.0... 6. weet 2 65
ToOpRbers; 1 W Star... oe bee cee. 1 90
TODStOrs. 2 ID SEAL. coe ee 2 90
Mackerel, 1 fresh standards............ 170
Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards............ 5 00
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 b...........
Mackerel,3 tbin Mustard.................-
Mackerel, 3 i soused...................00.
Salmon, 1 ih Columbia river............... 2 20
Salmon, 2 i Columbia river............... 3 90
Sardines, domestic 48..............c0c00c @6
Sardines, domestic \48............0..0 000. $@10
Sardines, Mustard s.......... Sees aaa 9@10
Sardines, imported 48................000 13@15
Sardines, spiced, 48............cccccececes 10@1)
TrOUE, GAD DEOOK. sooo a ee ack boss eee :
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, standards................ 3 00
Blackbecries. Standards: o.356. 0.5. ee ck 125
Cherries, red standard.................... 165
DIATROUR Coscia. ee sek eos okie weeks ocean 125
Egg Plums, standards ................0.- 1 56
GOOSCDEETIOR.. 666 5 hob eee Set eee 1%
GOTADCR Es oe eee eee eas ois cece cs 95
Green GAO, oii eck ees 145
Peaches, all yellow, standards............ 2 6
PPACHES, SECONGS.. 2... 6.505. . eSee eck ec eee 2 2
POBRCHER DIO. oa ii cs ois S80 ue eed cack css 180
WPORTR os oe Seo oe vs Wece oe ssc eco eeeece een es 1 40
PINGAPPIOS, wc 2c. See a ee eee ae 1 40@2 50
AIADGOS 2 hoo ee oe ee ek See ses bee seca eces 115
Raspberries, CXtra.............. cece cece 1 50
ef POC Soe e ee es a ce 1 50
StVAWDELVICS 6 oosiss ess oc be ees oe coc enc 1 60
WROPCIGDELTICS .: .55- 5550 occ chock eke sees. 130
oleae VEGETABLES. on
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................000-
Bonus, ima, standard...............2000. %5
ROGns, SUINE soo e esc os sac ce os a cle nse ae ue "5
‘Beans, Stringless, Erie.................... 90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 50
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.................008 1 20
Peas, POMONA... se ee oe ese 1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.................. 1 20@1 40
POOR; SORKPOG: 6.0. Seo cee ce ea eis %5
ss Early June, stand............... 1 50@1 75
#8 fi BILEOM closes carer 2 00
French, extra fine.............000c00- 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine.............-.....6 22 00
Pumpkin, 3 hb Golden................2.000. 1 20
Succotash, standard... ................. 80@1 30
Squash... 140
Tomatoes, standard brands............... 1 20
: CHEESE.
Michigan full cream.........5........
DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
WHGVON ooo sa 8 cots ooo bas Ca oss Helle eee

8%

“10D kits...
White, No. 1, 14 bb]
'| White, No. '

Cocoa-theta 42) Runkles’ ............. 3516

1 Medium
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Q 00 | French Cream, 25 b
85 | Cut loaf, 25 b cases...

pa cae see oe ei eineee BO
ite, No.1, % bbls 0.2... 6 50@6 75
White, No.1, 12 bb kits 110
AUAD REGS OOo
White, Family, % bbls.............. 2.0... ‘3 %5
Rites on Shad oui 55
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon. Vanilla.
Jennings’ D.C.,207.......... #doz.100 1 6
: OB ORO Soe an 560 8263
6

ob ae

OLE eas
¥% pint, round......: 4 50
Be ee og 00
No.3 panel.......... 110
No.8 22... 25
NOe10 oe es 4 25
MATCHES. :

Grand Haven, No. 8, square................
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro...........
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor..............2 2
Grand Haven, No. 7, round........:........ i 50
Oshkosh, No. 2............ 2 SOUND EE ae pais q

OshKosh, No. 8.000. 1 50
Swedish ...... MEPS e me rhe Ce eres 75
Richardson’s No. 8 square.................. 160
Richardson’s No. 9 GO ei, 1 50
Richardson’s No. 7%, round................. 100
Richardson’s No. 7 OG. ee oe 1 50
Woodbine; 800.005. oo 115

MOLASSES.
Black Stray 6.00 16@18
Cuba sBaking 60.02. gi oe 22Q25
HOMO MICO. oe or 0
New Orleans, g00d................ 0000000. 28Q74.
New Orleans, choice..... ............ cece 44@50
New Orleans, fancy...... ........ cc cceeee 52@55
_ % bbls. de extra
OATMEAL ROLLED OATS
Barrels... e064. 6 00|Barrels............. 6.00
Half barrels........ 3 12| Half barrels...... .3 12
ASCR Gore as 2 20|CaSeB.............2- 20
PICKLES.
Ses ira aa 6 00;Small, bbl..........7 00
% bbl...... 3 50} % bbl....... 4 60
PIPES.

Imported Clay, No. 216, 3 gross..... ..
Imported or; No. 216, 2% gross......
American. Ti De! os cos

monroe
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@2 00
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RICE.
Choice Carolina..... 644 (Java... cc... 5. 5%
Prime Carolina..... G Paine i 5%
Good Garolina...... 5% |Rangoon....... @5
Good Louisiana..... 5%4|Broken... ..... 34@3%
WPaDIO Pecos as 6% |Japan............... 6
Head esos ess 7
SALERATUS.
DeLand’s pure...... 54|Dwight’s ............ 5
Church’s 5 |Sea Foam........... 54
Taylor’s G. M....... 5 {Cap Sheaf........... 5
44¢c less in 5 box lots.
SALT.
60 Pocket, F F Dairy............2.... 2 10@2 20
Pe POCKCE 2 oe es Sue te 23
AQU'S'M POEkKets coco
Seginaw or Manistee..................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags......
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags......
American, dairy, % bu. bags..........
Hoek, bushels. oo0 00002) os.
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags..............
oe ee % ee

London Relish, 2 doz..................00. 0s 2 50
SPICES—WHOLE.
MIG PICO oe ee
Cassia, China in mats..................
‘* Batavia in bundles............
Saigon in rolls.................
Cloves, AMbOyNA............ 0. eee cee
A aM ZAMAN) oo. Ness ee
Mace Batavia ce o8 a,
Nutmegs; fancy... 1.6.50 oe
ee IWNOoT ... oe es
INQ GS a eer es eke
Pepper, Singapore, black.............
- ne WtE 2.0... ck:
SPICES—PURE GROUND.
Allspice.......
Odssia, Batavia. .co. es old
s $s and Saigon............
fo SAIPON
Cloves, Amboyna... .-0. 2.6.8 eal
ee ARMAS oo es
Ginger, Africa, 0500.
o> COCHIN Sf Gg nr 2
SAMGICA |
Mace Bataviaie oe
Mustard, Enzlish...
a Gy and Trieste.........
FNHOSEG 2 oe,
Nutmegs, NO. 2.000000) ee)
Pepper, Singapore black.......... ane
2 er white....
Cayenne.......... :
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 i boxes, 1 pkgs...
“ee oe 48 oe oe 3 Hie) 66

se 40 Ib bulk 6.02.5.

Bt (2 Ib crates, 6 ib boxes..

Corn, 40 ib boxes, 1 ib pkgs....
66 20 Ib be 1 Tb oe

6e

oe

66

6s

6
“ce

“ce

Pg

NS

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 pkgs....
s¢ se ‘** 6 Ib boxes...
bulk .....
Pure, 1b pkgs...... se
Corn, 1  pkgs..... ......
SUGARS.
Cub Boat
Cubes eas ee
Powdered |. 208.0006. gs
Granulated, Eyecare oe

os be

Rae.

Series HE OU SD 3 MF OD OD SD CNT
N.
WS i.

a
RK KK Bek

Confectionery A.......... ....
Standard A

No.1, White Extra C............ ae
NOs?) Hixtrs ©. o8 oe oy
NO: Coot. aa: Pile bene ee eee ole

POOOSDHHOSSD POOHOHOHOSO

OXON >

8.
Corn, barrels..... @31%|Pure Sugar, bbl. .25@35
Corn, % bbls...... @3314| Pure Sugar, % bbl 27@37
Corn, 10 gal. k’gs.335%
SNUFF.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... 70

Maccoboy.: oo. 660... oe se 55
Gail & Ax’

“6 44

RANG! 2 ee, 35
Railroad Mills Scotch................. 45
hotzbeck 2). 30

TEAS.
TOBACCOS—PLUG.

Spear Head.......... 42|Merry War........... 34
Plank Road.......... 42\ Jolly Tar............. 34
HCHDSO) 7 ee. 36|Live & Let Live...... 34
Holy Moses.......... 83|Quantity & Quality. .25
Blue Blazes.......... 82|Nimrod............... 37
Eye Opener.......... 32|Whopper ...... iMoees
Star 66 ey ee 41| Jupiter..... . 26
Clipper ........5..... 34/Old Honesty.......... 42
Scalping Knife...... Oe Pe Lees eres es 33
Sam Bass............. 34
JAPAN OYAINATY: ic. eos oe ee tee 18@20
Japan fair tO ZO0d...........0 ccc ce ec ee aes 25@30
MADAELHBO. ccc ce oka oss cu cc ences ed
JAPAN QUSE es Les tics ee ee ee
Young Hyson..
Gun Powder....

White Wine. 32.09.05.) oe
Cider os eee. 8
Apples: soe. eis
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported ..................
do American. .......66.s.5004.

Burners, NO: 0. ooo ae ee cs hoon
do WN

COs NOs Bee ak,
Cocoa Shells, bulk.....................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 hb cans.........
Candles, Star...... 00. .2ecccccc cee ees
Oandles, Hotels ..5 2606s e. aus
Camphor, 02., 2 Ih boxes...............

t »V¥.C

‘oO GUS en ee ces
Fire Crackers, per box..... ee oa aes
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...............
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............
Gum, Spruce: oss ee 2
Hominy, BUD. os. cee eas
Jelly, in 30 Ib pails.............. 0.2.00 6
Pearl Barley... o. ec ek occ aes edccens
Peas, Green Bush...........0.cc.ccc0e
Peas, Split Prepared.............. alee
Powder, Reg... 0.02300 eo a.
Powder, 36 Keg oka gece e's
BARRO co oes an ee

COS eT erases eesecscopacecae

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks oe as follows:

22 | Broken, 25 D

6% | Pails, ground woo
+) | Butter Pails, ash........

_| Clothes Pounders........

 

5 D pails..

- PANOCY—IN
Lemon Drops..........0..-.. ees
Bour Drops: .00 66 oie ce ae
Peppermint Drops...... ...cc.cccsceees
Chocolate Drops.............. Riceccuaees
‘HM Chocolate Drops...................
Gui Drona oe ee
Tieorice Drops... 0... io... cece coco ed ee
AB Licorice Drops.. .......... ie
Lozenges, plain... ..........0 0. ccc eee s cece
Lozenges, PViled. Ve a
TUOUIAIN oe
DEGUIOCS eee
Cream Bar? oe
Molasses Baro) oo. 25
Caramels co. oi.
Hand Made Creams......................
Plata Creging 6.2) 0
Decorated Creams....... ...............
String Rock............. ed codes tenes oes
Burnt Almonds. ........0.0 000000000 :
Wintergreen Berries........... ... ..
FANCY—IN BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails...............
Lozenges, plain in bbls................
Lozenges, printed in pails.............
Lozenges, printed in bblis.............
Chocolate Drops, in puils..............
Gum Drops in pails...................
Gum Drops, in bbis.................... 5
Moss Drops, in pails................... 9 @10
Moss Dropi, in bbls ....... Bea
Sour Drops, in pails...................
Imperials, in paiis.....................
Tmperials in Dbla... .............
FRUITS.
ERNE re 1 00@2 50
Oranges, California, fancy............ @
Oranges, GhOiICe .... 0.2... eee eee
Oranges, Jamaica, bbis................
Oranges, Florida... .................06 si
Oranmes, Rodi, 2
Oranges, Messina................ 0.0005
Oranges Oe oe
Oranges, Imperials.................... @
Lemons, choice... 2... ee 4 00@4 50
Eemors, fancy 5002.0 5 (0@d 50
Lemons, California....................
Figs, layers, new, # ................. 124.@16
Wiese, Bags, 50. 2c
Dates, fraila do. 00.2. 2222 oe ee,
Datesyi4 do do .- 20.0.
Dates, Fard 10 hb box @ D.............
Dates, Fard 50 b box ® b..............
Dates, Persian 50 bh box @ D......:... 6
Pine Apples, #@ doz...................
NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragona..................

. DVSCR
California. 2.002 6.0. eo...
Bran 8
Filberts, Sicily............. ee eee

Ne Barcelona ss. oe
Grenoble. oe). ee
DICH Ve i
BRONGHS co 8%@O 9
POxas eB 2 ek 138 @i6

Missouri gsc) eee:
Cocoanuts, #@ 100, full bags............ @5 50
Chestoute. 2508 3 ce @4 50
PEANUTS.

Prime Red, raw # Ib..................
Choice do GOs 5 @5
Fancy H.P. do QO ees ca
Choice White, Va.do ...........0.0005, 6
Hancy Hop. Vado ....0 5
OPV ae ee 6

ADMD HNC
eS

os

Q8a ENESEse
wt 2D FE CO

SS
esed
oS ooh 2D

Walnuts,

oc

66

Pecans,
oe

OYSTERS AND FISH.
EF. J. Dettenthaier quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.
Hairhaven Counts 0000. 6)... 25
DElGCIS oe eee a a 23
ANCHO Vo cee ea 20
MUBNGRrOS (802 ee ee 18
FRESH FISH.
Black Past Go ee ee 10
IROGK DSER eso SP a
Ore os aoe ee
Walleved pikes.
Buck-Dil pike ce a ee
UUM COM ee es
Sturgeon, smoked.....................
PBROUU yer Seek ae ee
MONIUGHSD 2 ee
Whitetishy smoked. 0... 50
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
quote as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess, Chicago packing..................... 15 5
SHONG GWU ee 15 5
Short cut, clear, Botsford.................. 15 00
short cut Morgan. 9 ..2.. 0. ss 16 60
Extra clear pig, short cut......... ... vee AG 75
Hxtra.clear, heavy .....<.... 2c
Clear quill, short cut.............. 0.000000. 16 %5
Boston clear, short cut...............0.000- 16 15
Clear back, short cut................00000.. 16 %5
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 16 75
OMG a er ee
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, average 20 Ibs........................ nai
Be es HG US ae
2 to Hos. oo. 12%
WIGHIC; (ot ee a 5%
Dest ponelesse. 0. sees i
SHOUIMERS jo. es ee 1%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................. 13%
Dried Beef, extra 250
. § Haid) PRIGes! ey oo y
LARD.
TWORGOS (20a ee
30 and 50 T) Tubs... ¢..:.. 0... lec
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
3 & Pails, 20 in a case............0......
5 Pails, 12 in a case.

oe as
oe

es

20 I Pails, 4 pails in case...............
BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.............. 7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago Packing.............. 7 2

es ‘* Kansas City Packing.......... ° 7
IPINGG oe Re Boe 7
xtra Plate. 2.00 205002, Be eee 8 25
Boneless, rump butts............0.0...0008. 10 50

ss so “Kan City pkd........ 9 50
oe ee os ee % bbl. I~
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
BOrk BaUsage.. 2c ce, 7
Ham Sausagcee yee i
Tongue Sausase. 20s. Peo 9
Frankfort Sausage............0.0...... 20 ee 8
Blood Sausare wns. oo 6
Bologna, straight... 20... 6
BHoloensa, thieks; . o.oo otc 6
Head Oneese.) oo 6
PIGS’ FEET.

Tmliale DArrels.o.. io ioc. oe ee, 38 00
In quarter barrels....-.........62250..25.. 1 %5

FRESH MEATS.

John Mobhrhard quotes the trade selling
prices as follows:
Fresh Beef, sides................0c000s 5 @6
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 54@ 6%
Dressed Hogs 22 yc ieee, 6 @6%
MBGLOM Fee Oe oe 6 @6%
anid SPEIRS. 6. io. oo es 74@ 8
Veal T%42@ 8
8 @8&%

@

oe be

POrk SaUsaoo 3 os
Bologias coe ute Soe OS.
BOWES eo ec ee
ROCKS aye os ns a eo re

IPUPKCYS 00) 20. oooes boo
Lard, kettle-rendered.................
HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.
Green ....8 hm 5%@ 6 |Calf skins, green
Part cured... 7 @7%}i_ orcured....7 @8
es 7K@ 8 eee ae 20 i
ry hides an piece.....
KIPS 62.02... 8 @I12

WOOL. ;
Fine washed # ib 22@25|Coarse washed... .26@28
Medium ......... 27@30|Unwashed........ 16@22
MISCELLANEOUS. :
Sheep pelts, short shearing....... .. 5@25
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated....... @25
Tallow... cc .402.. Bo SS as 384@ 3%
Grease DULEr. oo 5 oc bee ee cack 8
Ginkene, £000)... oe. ok 1 60@1 70
WOODENWARE.
Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:
Standard Tubs, No. 1l.......... 0.0 cc ceee cess 5 50
Standard Tubs, No. 2...........0.... ccc cee 4 50
Standard Tubs, No. 3.........0.... 0.00. c000 3 60
Standard Pails, twohoop.................:..1 2
Standard Pails, are ROOD. veel eens , =
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................. 2 25

Nena TITe a
60

Sees eccecoeece eee tcc cree cease sees.

 

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
ENGINES
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft

lag, Pulleys ant Boxes, Contracts made for
Complete Outfits. Doe ane

V V a SoS.
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,”
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

Volw!, derpolshelmer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of

DRY GOODS

staple and Fancy.

 

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN MARE,

A Complete Line of

Faney Crockery2¥aney Woadenware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION,

Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit
Prices Guaranteed.

 

Correspondence a merchant is judged
largely by the quality of his

STATIONERY,

And if you are not supplied with

LETTER HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
BILL HEADS,
STATEMENTS,
ENVELOPES,
CARDS.

Send to us for Samples and Prices.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

Fuler & lowe Company.

49 LYON STREET,

Grand Rapids. - Mich.

 

WINTER COAL

—AT—

SUMMER PRICES, »
Until Further Notice.

Eggand Grate - - - $6.75 perton.
Stove No. 4 and 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.

GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT.
TELEGRAPH Co,

NO. 3 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS,

 

Electrical Supplies, Burglar Alarms and
Fire Alarm Boxes put in cities. Hotel
Annunciators and Electric Door Bells at
wholesale and retail. Drawings sent
with Bells, so anyone can put them up.

Messengers, Hacks, Express Wagons on
hand day and night.

J. W. GLASS, Supt.
J. EK. FELDNER & CO,,

CUSTOM SHIRT MAKERS,

Men’s Furnishing Goods.

NO. 2 PEARL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS,
Prompt Attention to Mail Orders, Telephone 891.

MYRON H. WALKER, |

 

 

Attorney and Solicitor,

s|GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

_ Over Fourth National Bank. Telephone 407.

 

 

 

 

‘Detroit, noes
ds Pharmaceutical Society.

enna.
ident, Vice-President and Sec-
The President, John E. Peck, M. B.
iateenwen and O. H. Richmond. :
atts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. White.
r iters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
e on Legis’ ‘ islation—R. A. McWilliams, Theo.
‘and W, fi. Tibbs, :
seioe on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and
- Isaac Watts...
Re Meetings—First Thursday evening in each

_ month. :

Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November

_ Next Meeting—Thursday evening, November 3, at THE
TRADESMAN office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
Se, ; OCTOBER, 1883. ;

W.R. Perry.
- J. Crowley.
Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
and Treasurer—aA. B. Lee. .
Wednesday in June.
Wednesday in each month.

 

s mtral Michigan Druggists’ Association.
= eet J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.

_ Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.

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

Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
President, H. W. Willard; Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

 

Tonia County PharmaceuticalSociety,
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President, R. F. Latimer; Secretary, F. A. King.

_. Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.

 

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

 

Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society.
.  President,C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber.

 

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

 

Muskegon County Druggists’ Association,
President, E. C. Bond; Seeretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C.S8. Koon; 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.

Seciety.

 

 

 

Saginaw County Pharmaceutical
_ President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall.

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.

 

The Apprentice in Pharmacy.*

a %) is an apprentice in a drug store entitled to re- |

ceive instructions in practical pharmacy

from his employer, and to what extentis the

latter held to grant a reasonable time for
daily study?

The term apprentice, in general, as now
used, does not convey any definite idea as
in former years, when the term expressed
the existence of an agreement, or contract,
binding both the master as well as the em-

. ployed. Under these indentures, both par-
e ties were heid to fulfill certain conditions
~~ agreed upon as to nature of business or
_ trade. In the vocation under consideration,
the pharmacist entering into a covenant
with a boy desiring to learn the art, bound
himself to instruct the apprentice in the art
through all its branches within an agreed
term, receiving, as a compensation, a stipu-
_ ~~ lated sum, or the service of the apprentice
for the term agreed upon, free. ‘Ihese ar-
_ Yangements were found, as society emanci-
¢ ated itself, and the popular sentiment de-
~ veloped for tree trade and labor, to work in-
juriously, both to the master and appren-
‘tice, as either party would most certainly
_ find ways and means to rid themselves of a
compact that had, through conditions, be-
come obnoxious.

The system being abolished by common
<onsent, the practice of making bargains for
a term of three or four years, with graded
compensation for service, was established,
¢ uring which time the apprentice was to be

_Anstructed in the mysteries of the art. Also

this practice has gradually given way, so
that, at the present day, engagements are
_ made by the year, month or week, with re-
- Mauneration in accordance with the mercan-
tile conditions, and location of the busivess,
‘ased on the services to be rendered for the
time of engagement, the question of a phar-
maceutical training being entirely ignored
.. and left to the disposition of the party en-
gaged, to make the best of it, if he can man-
ge to pick up a little here and there of his
own accord, during the busy hours from ear-
Ay in the morning to late at night. Theem-
‘ployer having only the mercantile advan-
tages or running expenses to conduct his
business in view, in the majority of cases,
@ pecuniary gain, with least amount of
or and study, outweighs the prospects of
thorough professional training and vseful-
hess, by the employed, which, in justice to
the young people here accused, be it stated,
ot altogether due to the lack of energy
the inclination to take life easy, but to
fact that they have no intelligent com-
prehension of what hardships and work they
1 encounter in their career to become ef-
pharmacists; that it means years of
mt labor and study, with an ever-
ng desire to know more of the mys-
leveloped by natural sciences.

harmacist member of this Associ- Ph

ould make it his special duty to
these features to young men who
iter a drug store, with the ex-

a new developing
many of those who

 

ipting to revive of the past,

Goce “Tiits bemME popcoted,, the Gucotn
—| gress. This being con the question
{how to train and bring up pharmacists,

_ [thorough in. professional knowledge and
usefulness, places itself boldly before the
. | profession at large, and particularly before

this Association, as the prime mover for ob-
taining for this State an enactment to draw
certain limits for practising the art of select-
ing, preparing and combining medicinal
substances correctly, and with positive

knowledge of their safety in regard to

changes that may take place on mixing, and
doses in which they are ordered to be ad-
ministered.

The conditions of a large percentage of
those who have served, and who enter drug
stores at present for the purpose of becom-
ing qualified pharmacists, in the sense as
the new state of things, under the pharma-
cy law, will develop, are not in pace with
the times, as a few years’ service on - the
Board clearly demonstrates.

Looking at the large number of intelli-
gent, well-posted pharmacists of our State,
and at the unprecedented growth of our Asso-
ciation, developing the liveliest interest for
everything appertaining to pharmacy, hav-
ing at our dispositien a state institution,
provided with a special department for eur
vocation, of which we can proudly boast,
that in regard to results of its work and in

| reputation, it is second to none in the Un-

ion, and equal to many of the best in the
world. There must be a possibility to en-
list out of these vast sources a body of in-
telligent organisatory talent, to develop un-
der the auspices of this Association in the
course of time, a system for selecting, train-
ing and educating pharmacists, with great-
est possible advantages to both employer
and employe, and an ever-growing credit to
this Association, as corner-stone of the
structure we are all laboring on, which will
be a permanent guarantee of its stability
and growth, it will rear and bring in an ele-
ment and material into the ranks of this or-
ganization in the course of time, of which
we will be proud, and a thousandfold re-
warded for the labor it may cost.

Having given the subject a great deal of
thought as to a practical plan by which to
gain ends in view, I must confess there
never was a time in which I considered it
more difficult and the conditions offered
more contrary, to propose some general
plan for this State than I do now, after hav-
ing served two years on the Board where
there is every opportunity offered to come
into contact with every form of shop-boy
training, from the one who enters a general
merchandise store on the frontiers, who,
after two, three or four years, presents him-
self for examination, to obtain a certificate
as registered pharmacist, up to those that
have had the best of opportunity for acquir-
ing pharmaceutical knowledge.

Convinced that compulsory or obligatory
apprenticeship are contrary to the spirit of
the people who believe that trade and labor
must be free and voluntary, and such regu-
lations, if enacted by legislature, would be
inoperative; it is useless to look fora change
of things in that direction. We are, there-
fore, compelled to look elsewhere for an im-
provement of conditions, we must appeal to
the true sense of responsibility and intelli-
gence of our profession, and the sound and
practical sense of a free people, bring the
subject squarely before them, and the ends
in view, that would never be conceded if
compulsory means are attempted, will be
granted and carried out voluntarily.

In the present state of affairs pertaining
to pharmacy in our State, where we have all
conditions represented, from those of the
most advanced stage of society, to those
incidental with the developments of a new
country, it is perfectly natural to find that
many of the registered pharmacists are in-
competent to educate a boy in the arts of
pharmacy, for the very reason that they
themselves never had the opportunity and
satisfaction of such a training; it is a com-
mon fact that a party who has been con-
ducting a general merchandise store, driving
a Stage, or engaging in some other honest
vocation through which he has managed to

attain a large amount of useful knowledge

in all directions, in consequence of which he
became one of the leaders, and was looked
upon as the learned memberof his commun-
ity—which, in most cases, is really the con-
dition—will lay in a stock of drugs at the
request of his neighbors, or some physician
in the neighborhood, to supply the want of
a drug store, and commence the practice of
pharmacy by putting up drugs and com-
pounding medicines. -
In due respect for the members of this
Association, and the registered pharmacists
of Michigan, I would very much regret if
the statements in this paper should be inter-
preted as a ridicule on the standing of phar-
macy in this State, the subject being of too
vital an importance to leave room for any-
thing of that disposition. 1t is well under-
stood by our best minds and most enthus-
iastic pharmacists, that throughout our
State, away from cities, and even in some
of these, the druggist is a self-made phar-
macist, sustained by the community, more
for his social standing and personal charac-
ter rather than for his professional qualifi-
cations, and to the credit of most, be it said,
along with the study of the mercantile part
of the drug trade, fair attention is paid to
increasing their knowledge by freely refer-
ring to Wood & Bache and Parrish, and as
a support of their sense of responsibility,
careful statistics show’ that more serious er-
rors occur, in proportion, among the high-
er educated pharmacists than among the ex-
temporized pharmacists.
From what has been stated, it must be at-
tributed to these conditions that we have so
much superficial qualification among those
now engaged in business, and these must
have competent clerks, as the State devel-
ops, and the requirements of the Board of
armacy become more stringent.
This Association being the instigator of

|the Pharmacy Act, which brought about the

conditions under which pharmacy is now
practiced, is also counsel for the pharma-

.| cits of this State, and it is its duty to make

it a particular issue in all its gatherings, to

give this subject its particular attention. If
this view is correct, each individual mem-

ber, as a constituent, is morally bound to do

ni | all he can in assisting any plan or variation
| from customs, to raise the standard of ap-|
to. all parties, with lib-
is business and abili- |
eet at vo a

cons
t, all

cated class,

 

morally bound ta: le time.|

for reading, as a natural consequence of the
agreement. Pe eS

The writer presents here some ‘proposi- |,
tions for consideration, if it be the|
pleasure of the Association to accept the im-
portant subject as one of its main objects
for the future.

_ The druggist who engages a boy should
make such an engagement with a positive
understanding of the purpose of his enter-
ing the employ, whether the boy is hired as |:
a porter or errand boy, for all kinds of gen- |
eral work, or whether he is to be taught the
art of pharmacy. In the first cases, the
amount of wages is all that is to be consid-
ered, and can only be fixed in accordance to
conditions by contracting parties; but in
case instruction to learn pharmacy is to be
given, it is a question of a decidedly profes-
sional character, of more prominence than
heretofore, on account of the requirements
of a pharmacy law, and one which needs
careful investigation into the past of the ap-
plicant, or selection of young men who are
to learn the business, many of whom will,
in not many years hence, be members of
this Association, and take charge of its af-
fairs. ©

Our profession is still looked upon as a
tributary branch of medicine, and will re-
main so until we are able to show in its
ranks a large proportion of well-educated,
scientific men, when it will rank fully equal
with the medical profession. The candi-
date should, therefore, have a good elemen-
tary education, as furnished in our common
schools, although high school education
would be preferable; a knowledge of some
foreign language, German or French, would

_ Graffenberg Catholicon, ”
Gourand’s Oriental Cream,

Dialyzed Iron,

Hagan’s Magnolia Balm,
Helmbold’s Rose Wash,
Ink of all kinds,
Injection, Brou,
Injection, Mothey Caylus,
Laird’s Bloom of Youth,
Liquid Blueing,

Liquid Dye colors,

- Mother Noble’s Syrup,

Mineral Spring Waters,
Orange Flower Water, —
Perry’s Lotion, ;
Perry’s Comedone, °
Rose water,
Solution citrate magnesia,
Solution carbolic acid,
Solution phosphoric acid,
Swift’s Specific,
Thompson’s Eye Water,
oe Bitters,
inchester’s Syrups Hypophosphites
Wilhoft’s Tonic, ne :
Whittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure.

All goods liable to injury from frost are

wholly at risk of purchaser.

0
Harry Hall, billing clerk for the Hazeltine

& Perkins Drug Co., spent Sunday with
friends in Detroit.

s

Oe
Sweden has also passed laws against the

use of poisonous coloring matters in goods
for household use, such as woven fabrics,
yarns, shades,
wall paper, artificial flowers, blinds, etc.

sealing wax and wafers,

 

 

be so much the better. He should be of a
frank and thoroughly honest disposition,
and ambitious to learn and acquire perfec-
tion in the semi-scientific processes of phar-
macy. The engagement should be on the
basis of not less than four years; the first
year should be a trial year to establish
whether the boy takes any interest in the
practice of pharmacy and study of natural
sciences; if he should prove adverse, he
should be dissuaded from following the bus-
iness by friendly reasoning; if useful, he
Should be bound for at least the second
year, and it should not be considered wrong
if, after the expiration of the second year,
he leaves his employ, in good faith, for the
express purpose only of attending some
acknowledged school of pharmacy for com-
pleting his education and acquiring a college
diploma.

On making an engagement, it should be
expressly stipulated that the young man
should be allowed one to two hours daily
for pharmaceutical! or professional reading,
selecting such hours not later than 8 o’clock
p. m., least detrimental to the best interests
of the business, and that the employer make
it his especial duty that this be complied
with, allowing no other reading in the stip-
ulated time; the master should instruct the
apprentice in practical pharmacy by order-
ing him to make preparations under his su-
pervision, and thoroughly on the subject of
weights and measures, temperatures, in the
principles of specific gravity, percolation,
filtration, evaporation, distillation, ete., al-
ways having in view positive results, taking
care of drugs, and to observe ‘all general
principles of neatness, exactness and a gen-
tlemanly attitude.

In order to protect the employer, and give
due reward for obligations connected. with

an advantage over the
facturers, who simply grind and mix.

coach, carriage and
colors;
ground in Japan; decorative
floor, sash, fire-proof, car,
paints; wood and iron fillers;
manent green; pure putty.

SPECIAL PAINTS MADE TO ORDER.

PENINSULAR

WHITELEAD AND

COLOR WORKS.

MAKERS AND GRINDERS OF

Chrome Greens and Yellows.

Prussian, Chinese and Sol-
uble Blues. Peninsular
Permanent Red Ver-
milions. White
Lead, Zinc,

Etc., Etc.

Being makers of DRY COLORS, we have
80-called paint manu-

SPECIALTIES—Tinted leads, twenty shades;
id buggy paints, nine choice
ready mixed paints; coach colors
wall, fresco,
barn and domestic
maple leaf per-

Peninsular brands of ready mixed paints

are full weights and free from water and
barytes.

FARRAND, WILLIAMS & Co,

WHOLESALE AGENTS.

Factory, Lieb St., between Transit R. R. and

. River Front.

DETROIT, - MICH.

Send for Sample Cards.

 

such, or simular arrangements, the question
of compensation is one of vital importance,
and must be regulated by the contracting
parties, according to conditions of each ease;
in all events it should be very small the first
two years, so that in case the young man
leaves after the expiration of the - second
year, the proprietor shall feel himself com-
pensated for his trouble. Should the em-
ploye stay his time out, three or four years,
as the case may be, the contracting parties
can equalize compensation by graded higher
salaries for third and fourth year.

To sum up the drifts of these remarks, if
pharmacists engage young men for the pur-
pose and understanding of making them
pharmacists, select such as have availed
themselves of a liberal education, and can
show a good school record; make conditions
so that you can afford a liberal time for
study, without sacrificing your own means,
and allow them to make as many as possi-
ble of such galenical preparations as you
can under your supervision. If you need
errand boys, or some help for general labor,
hire them with strict understanding of their
duties, instead of several boys who enter
your employ with expectation of being in-
structed in theoretical and practical phar-
macy. By so doing the apprentice will have
more time and opportunity to become profi-
cient in the store, and at the same time
wane himself more remunerative and use-

ul.

With these considerations, I will leave
the recommendations to the judgment and|-
practical sense of this Association, having
the advancement of our vocation, as a pro-
fession, in view, and the best interests of
employer and employe at heart.

—_—_——vo a
The Drug Market.

sons?

IF NOT

DRUGGISTS!

HAVE YOU

A Record Book for keeping Sales of

Liquors?
HAVE YOU

A Record Book for your Sales of Poi-

Send to us for our Improved

Iiguor and Poison Record,

COMBINED.
Can be used for either or both.

SENT POSTPAID, 100 PAGES, §1.00,
DO NOT

Mistake ours for the cheap 40 or 50

page ‘‘Records,” printed on cheap paper
and poorly bound.

OURS

Is printed on thick, heavy paper, and

firmly bound in mill board and Leather
Backs. © :

SEND FOR SAMPLE PAGE.

FULLLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Grand Rapids. - Mich.

 

Quinine is in a very unsettled state. The
lack of demand and very large stocks is the
cause. Some large holders are selling to
get out from under the downward course of
the market. P. & W. reduced the price of
their quinine 2c. on the 14th. Itis believed
that quinine will sell at 25c. in the near fu-
ture. Insect powder is in a very strong po-
sition, owing to a very small crop of flow-
ers, and extreme prices will rule next year.
Orders are being booked in New York by.
grinders at advanced prices over what was
asked a week ago. Opium is steady. A
good demand would stimulate the. market
and harden prices. Cubeb berries are firm
at the advance. Cuttle bone is tending high-
er. Oil anise has declined. Oil cubebs is

very firm. Oil pennyroyal is lower. Canary
seed is tending higher. Jamaica gingers
are looking up and high prices will prevail
before the next crop. Castor oil has de
clined. Linseed oil is lower. Turpentine

has advanced. _,
3 oe

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
ie _ MUSKEGON, Oct. 14, 1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

_ Dear Sre—At the semi-annual meeting

 

| WITHOUT CARD

0, 4. belt ier ae the} Blocked Jn tablets of 100 and mailed |

BLANK LIQUOR ORDERS

FOR MINORS,

SS

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 can furnish the trade in any quan-

tity desired either with or without card of
druggist.

WITH CARD

500—$1.50.

1,000—$2.

 500—$ °75+ +‘ 1,000—$1.

 

 

Advanced—Insect powder, entine.

Z Declined—Quinine. P. & W., quinine, Ger-
Iman, oil anise, oil pennyroyal, castor oil, lin-
seed oil. ee .
_ACIDUM

Acetioum . 0.00. oe
Benzoicum, German........... |._: oO
CarboHcam 2.00205 3
Citricum (2)
Hydrochlor ................ loess Cuvee
Nitrocum ..... .......... Ey teases Gouden
Oxalioum: 066.5 es
Salicylicum ................. pe oe a oh
Tannicum........ Beha poe ok cae ve hey oe
Partarioum 2.0.0.0

AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16 dew see

Sp IB GOR A eases
Carbonas. ee
Chioriduar 3 ee

BACCAE.

Cubebae (po. 1 80.............2........ 1 60@1
PUBIPOLUB se
Xanthoxylum ......................... 25@

BALSAMUM.
COpaIba oo
ROM oo elie dace .
Terabin, Canada......

AP OUMGOMR S55. des enue ecb ek

CORTEX.

Abies, Canadian.......................
COBRIAC ee
Cinchona Flava........................
Evuonymus atropurp..... Eeeeeae teed:
Myrica Cerifera, po.............
Prunus Virgini................
Quillaia, grd.................
BASEITAS F066 as
le ee eee
Ulmus Po (Ground 12).................
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra................0... A@
¢ DO eee ee 8q@
Haematox, D ID DOXES.. eer
Bees ce coy cousins ee

© Eeed

Carbonate Precip................. ae
Citrate and Quinia....... .............
Citrate Soluble.........................
Ferrocyanidum Sol....................
Solut Chloride.............0.000000000..
Sulphate, com’l, (bbl. 85).............. 14
. DUG ee ee oe
FLORA.
Arniea ce ek ee
AMUNOUNA 5 ee
Matricaria.,

oO
aSSSR

QOOOOH

a109

1L2@
45@

Arosa. ooo eee 10@
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly............ 20@
ae se Alimee e é

Salvia officinalis, 4s and %s..........
Urea Urs
GUMML.
Acseia, Ist picked)... 3 8.
: ae Poet gees ee ne
Sifted sorts: .... 2.5.6 o es
DQ oss. on oe Soule.
Aloe, Barb, (p0,'60).. 22
Cape. (pO: 20). 8
‘© Socotrine, (po. 60)...............
Ammonige 0 a
Assafoetida, (po. 30)................005
BenZOmua oo
Camphorae 22... s
Catechu, Is, (48, 14; 48, 16)...........
Euphorbium, po.......................
GalbanumM ee eo ee ee
Gamboge, po.... Bee eee eee scene.
Guaiacum, (po. 45)............ cece cece
Emo} (POS2D) ae @ 20
MABE U @1 25
Myrrh, (90:45). 02. eo @ 40
Opi, (po. 6:00)... 000k 4 '70@4 85
Shiellge 0. ais oS edesn cae 18@ 25
77 Dleached. | eo  25@
PPPAPACHIEN 225 fee ce cee
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium ;
Hupatorium 200.2500 0o eso ee:
Lobelia ........... iS elats Cei sla Sew CUA ee a
MAJ OVUM eo oe. coc ce ee
Mentha Piperita.... 2.0... ccc ccc cece
se Vir

@
@
@

UNG oo ae
Panacerum: Wo. 3 yet
Thymus, V

MAGNESIA.
Caleined, Pat: o500 ise oe,
Carbonate; Pat... 2. 3.5.2.5...
Carbonate, K.& M....................
Carbonate, Jennings.................. 35@

OLEUM.

PADSINCHIIME oso oe 4 50@5 00
Amyegdalae, Dule................ eee ee 4 50
Amydalae, Amarae.................... 7 25@7 %5
PTV i co en Be eo 2 00@2 20
Auranti: Cortex soe. oo ecc. Sebel @2 0u
Boreal: os ke 2 75@3 00
Cajiputi ...-.......2....-- Poe - 90@1 00
CarvODR VU ooo 5 oi oes bees te ele. @2 30
Cede eee 35@ 65
CHERGPOGI 2... 5 stones. bec 5
CIDREMORIE oo ei ee a
Citronella 2... 28. ne ee We @
Contumy Mae... ce ak.

¢} COPAINS 2.0 cee. oe ee

90@ 1 00
CUDSDBRG soe oe ce 12 00@12 50
EX@GBEDIGOS 2. oo occ 90@1 00
HPIQORON «ioc. eco 1 20@1 30
Gamltneria: oo 2 25@2 35
Geramninn: Fos oc. @ %5
Gossipii, Sem, wal... 6 oe coe. 6@ 75
Hedeomea. 6. ee oe T5@ 85
SUMIDOE coe eee 50@2 00
Pavenauls tois. sce. o.oo a 90@2 00
Limonis’.....2......: Be eles oat eee 1 75@2 25
Minigal ee ae 42@
Mentha-Biper. oi scccce.) ccc 25@3 3)
Mentha Veérid. ... 6.6. 6.600. ooce e 3 75@4 00
Morrhuge; gale occ oe ee 1
MYTCIAs S2or ee @ 50
OUVO ie Cees oes 1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)................. 10@ 12
RIG a ek or. 1 36@1 50
ROSMAPING 620080050 %5@1 00
OGRE: Gio oe ea ee G8 00
Succi 25.02 so
Sabing. oi ae ee
Santali ee ee ats
BASS@ErAS 3s cscs oo

opt
THEODPOMAS |... 62.6, We
POTASSIUM.

Richromate . 20.2.0. 05. 50200 Be 13@
Bronude s.0. 5 es ee ores oe ay 42@ 45
Chlorate, (PO. 20)0. 5 oo ee eee 18@ 20
FOGIDG oo ee oe 3 O0@3 25
Prussiate 20-20. .ee c 25Q 28
RADIX.
MINAS soos ees ees
ADEDUSE. Poo ce ee
AP POS. ec
Calamus. oot ere
Gentiana, (po. 15)... ce eee ck.
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)...................
Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 45)........... @
Hellebore, Alba, po................... 15@
Tnula, pO ss os. cc eee 1 20
Tpecac, po............. Ms vat Get ee Saye 1 H@2 00
JEABD AS DE ss. soo e es eck eee 25@ 30
Maranta: 348 ool cece oo
Podophyllum, po............. eee ee
Rhei Bag eo nae ve eines at Cua aS
66
Vv

Spigetia tee ct eeen ls eaters
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)...................
Serpentaria...... Bienes Cree see cot
Senega.....: yokes roas
Smilax, Officinalis, 2
Scillae, (po. 35)....... ive avubar ee canes 10@
Symplocarpus, Foetidus, po.......... @
Valeriana, English, (po. 30)...........

aS Germann: i

25@
15@
@

@

1Lb@
SEMEN.

Anisum, (po. 20)......... 2.205 pee e koh @
Apium (graveolens)..........0.....005 10@
Bing Ise. ee 4G 6
Caruiy (DOrIs)5 5. oo ec a ee, R@ 1b
Cardamom ......... . Pa ae 1 00@1 25
COPIANQEUIN 5 on eo coe cece eos 10@ BRB
Cannabis Sativa:.........0..0.... 0.008 a@ 4
CyGODUU SS ce eek eee a: 75@1 00
Chenopodium ...............6.000.0.., 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate......... We hea 1 75@1 85
Roeniculum,. 2. ov .ee. os oe @ 1b
Foenugreek, pO.............000....eees 6@
a Ga a Behe Dome a sce ao

ini, : 7): IR ee Be aoa pe
Phalaris Canarian............ Shi he tees 38%@4%
Rapa ....... Nasdececces Me bac e ea ae 6
Sinapis, Albu.............. ba Goa e ere

2 ee Nigra. occ vesicle ieee ay oe

ee _. SPIRITUS.. es
Frumenti, W., D. & Co........;

 

99 | ledoform

 

 

| Florida sheevs’ wool,
‘Nassau :

0
Velvet Ext do.
ExtraYe - do
Grass do d
Hard? for slate use
Yellow Reef, do
: MISCELLANEODS.:
Aither, Spts Nitros,3F................
AXther, Spts. Nitros, 1F |. sbUse eee
mes eee gah eR
umen, ground, (po. 7)...............

Annatto ..... .
Antimoni, po
Antimoni et Potass Tart.......... 11".
Argenti Nitras, 3.
APIGWON ec
Balm Gilead Bud...........0027272777
pena ED

Jaleium or, Is, (348, 11; %4s, 12)...
Cantharides Russian, po. *
Capsici Fructus, af......_
Capsici Fructus, po
Capsici Fructus, B
Caryophyllus.
Carmine, No.
Cera Alba, S.
Cera Flava
Coecus
Cassia Fruc
COMEPAMIA
Cetaceum ..............
Chlgratorm 2.00
‘Chloroform, Squibbs...........01.777
Chloral Hydrate Cryst
CHOBGrA ee
Cinchonidine, P.& W.......112 2077777"
Cinchonidine, German...........° 17"
Corks, see list, discount, per cent....
Creasotum
Creta, (bbl. 75)
Creta prep..
Creta, precip
Creta Rubra
Crecus

OPPO ee 68a twee ness ee eeu ss
Si 9m Beet S6k 06's sa 8 eb ac een 60 we

Sogsgososessos

BRERSoSE BS Se

eee ce eee eenee
ecm nec cec cece

10

Cupri Sulph
Pemtge
Ether Suiph...........000.00000003 Soe
Emery, all numbers
Emery, po...
Ergota, (po.) 75...........0007.
Flake White.............._.
Galla......
GRIOr
Gelatin, Cooper. ......000.
Gelatin, French.......0....227007 77777" 40@
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 6010, less.
elie, Brown. 0k 9@
Give, Witte ca
Giscerma 2.
Grana Paradisi......200002000001 20007" @
Mumielg 25@
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite ....210722077777" @
Hydrarg Chlor. Cor........../72777°"" @
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum @
Hydrarg Ammoniati.......//2/70°177, @1 00
Hydrarg Unguentum @ 4
Hvdrareyram ........ 4... @ 65
Ichthyocolla, Am .....020002220777107 1 25@1 50
TAI T@1 00
Iodine, Resubl
MOUEORDE oe @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod..... 1... @ 27%
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Weapuline 85@1 60
PYCOMOGMIN occ 55@ 60
80@ 8d
2a 3

stew cccce
Pere ccccece

B@
23@

Macis........
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 22) ah ae
Mania. 8.80... 90@1 00
Morphia, S,P.&W.............070777. 3 385@3 60
Morphia, 8. N. Y.Q. & CG. Co...........8 25@B 50
Moschus Canton @ 40
Myristica, No.1 0@ %5
Nux Vomica, @ ie
Os. Sepia 25@ 28
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co.........7"" @2 00
Picis Liq, N.C..% galls, doz
Picis Liq., quarts
Pieis'Eig., pmis................°.....
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)...................
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)................777
Piper Alba, (po. 35)...........00/0077"
Pix Burgun..
Plumbi Acet.. 00.)
Potassa, Bitart, pure...............77!
Potassa, Bitart, com
Potass Nitras, opt
Potasa Niteag. . 2)
Pulvis Ipecac et opii...........°.0127" 11
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P.D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum, pv 5
Quassiae ... 2... sue oa. 8@
Quinia, 8, P.& Wo... 48@
Quinia, 8,German.............2727777"
Rubia Tinctorum...............277°7"!
Saccharum Lactis, py
Salacin........
Sanguis Draco
BUONO 2c. 5
Oe Wooo
ne, Me
Sapo, G .
Seidlitz Mixture
Sinapis........
LO i er
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. Voes......_..""
Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes
Soda Boras, (po. 9)...............2277!
Soda et Potoss Tart..............072777
Soda Carbs 0 Se eee a.
Soda, Bi-Carb......00 00000000000
Soda, Ash.......
Soda Sulphas.........................,
Spts. Ether Co..2....0.2 sac.
Spts. Myrcia Dom 00
Spts. Myrcia Imp..............00077072 @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)...........7! @2 25
Strychnia, Crystal... .......... ae
Sulphur, Subl...............
Sulphur, Roll.............
Tamarinds......... ......
Terebenth Venice......
Theobromae............
Wantlige oor
Zinci Sulph............

OILs.

+3

S85
ww
x

es
Wwe Or

50@ 55
@2

Whale, winter...........

00} Lard, extra......

Lard, No. 1.......

Linseed, pure raw. Ae

Linseed, boiled ......................

Neat’s Foot, winter strained......_.

Spirits Turpentine................77!
PAINTS

Red Venetian.................. ’

Ochre, yellow Marseilles......

Ochre, yellow Bermuda.......

Putty, commercial ............

Putty, strictly pure............

Vermilion, prime Ameriean..

Vermilion, English............

Green, Peninsular.............

Lead, red strictly pure..... ..

Lead, white, strictly pure.....

Whiting, white Spanish..... .

Whiting, Gilders’..............

White, Paris American........

Whiting Paris English cliff,.

Pioneer Prepared | aints.....

Swiss Villa Preparer Paints..
VARNISHES.

No.1 Turp Coach.................0....

Extra Turp........

Coach Body

No. 1 Turp Furniture..................

Extra Turk Damar....................

Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp..............

0
1 0@1 10
1 00@1 20

70@ 75

APPROVED by PHYSICIANS.
Cushman ’s

 

‘MENTHOL INHALER

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

Air Mentholized by passing through the Inhaler-
tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are
held‘ thoroughly applies this valuable remedy in the
most efficient way, to the parts affected. It sells
readily. Always keep an open Inhaler in your store
and let your customers try it. A few inhalations will
not hurt the Inhaler, and will do more to demonstrate
its efficiency than a half hour’s talk. Retail price
50 cents. Fer OmcuLars and TESTIMONIALS address

- D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich.

Trade supplied by .
Hazeltine & Perkins Dru
And Wholesale Drugzists of Detroit and Chicago.
erent ee er rrr

RRB

anSiakBosarSSa8e

bed od
Sror

Co., G’d Rapids,

I PERKINS
DRUG 60

WHOLESALE

Have now in Stock and Invite
Your Order for the

TROLIDAY TRADE

An Elegant Line of

PERFUMES

Put up in the following styles:

Match Safes five styles
Christmas Cards ten styles
Fancy Plush Boxes
Hand Lamps two sixes
Night Lamps
Embossed Boxes
Vases four styles
Slippers two sizes
Bisque Figures
Watches
Tumblers
Pitchers
Boots
Jugs

Also a Line of

Sachet Bags

In Silk and Satin.

All These Goods are Low in
Price and are wery
Desirable,

Hazeltine
—& Perkins

 

ie

Druggists|

*

 

ppear. And the man whose soul
1 his business, looking on that busi-
s (be it a farm, store, office, or any kind
‘ealling) as an artist, his spirit spontan-
aly impelling him on in improving upon
; work, is pretty apt to have no soul in
any other department of life.
- During an experience of over twenty
years, much of the time under conditions
that enabled me to see things as if under
the very highest magnifying lens, it was
. often fairly thrust into my face that the
~ man who had nosolid business qualifications,
_ in that department of life where his destiny
has placed him, really has nothing in him
worthy of being termed manly. Again and
- again, did Isee it demonstrated that promp-
_ titude, reliability and safety in the business
affairs of life indicated in a most positive
“manner a sound moral development and
the spinal column of genuine religion,
whether professed or not.
Let no man say that I am ‘‘preaching” or
- attempting to drag into my theme the popu-
lar’ interpretation of religion, when I affirm
that business and religion (the business of
feeding the hungry, healing the sick, cloth-
ing the naked, sheltering the homeless, and
making this world a happy dwelling-place
for mankind) can no more be divorced from

_ each other than can the fire and water in

the work of propelling the steam-engine.

Repeatedly did I see it proven on allsides
(with an emphasis that would cause the
deaf to hear and the blind tosee) that where

“the twain were divorced a total and com-
plete failure in every department of life was
the résult.

The Army was aschool that taught us
what no other institution of learning could
have taught and impressed so vividly that
the men—we termed them ‘‘boys” because
of their jovial, hearty spirits—who were al-
ways on hand for business, first at roll call,
first on drill, first to ‘‘get there” in the
work of daily duty, were real men all
through; and no matter what were their
ideas of the various theories concerning
what happened in a remote past, or to what
class, nationality or color they might be-
long, the business—the flinging of them-
selves headlong into that which must be
met in order to get the work done—proved
the soul of the men, and he who was a man
in business was a complete man in all other
departments of thought and action. Let
such a character appear in any civilized na-
tion _on the planet, and let him go right
along with his business and be prompt and
thorough in all his earthly duties—toward
his wife, mother, child and neighbor and
whether he lives in China with the follow-
ers of Confucius, in India with the Bud-

‘ dhists, in Jerusalem with the Jews or in
Christendom with Christians, by his silence
and good works he will gain the applause
of every sect of religious believers and that
of unbelieyers, also; and every one of them
will claim him as belonging to their particu-
lar band of worshippers and believers, and
will recognize him as their brother. But
let the ‘“‘unlucky” sloven or grasping nickel-
chaser appear among any of the above men-
tioned worshippers or non-worshippers and
profess or preach any imaginable form of

popular, religious or patriotic ideals—no
matter how ‘‘zealous” he may be in his “‘re-
form” measure—and everyone will reject
him as a fraud and despise him accordingly.

_ After all, the clear-headed business man

-—hbe he a dirt digger or President—is the
deliverer of mankind; solid business and

‘persistent application in life’s realisms is
what saves the world. He who is faithful
in a few things is faithful in many; and he
will surely be found right and square and
plumb and true in his busfness transactions.

If the church of the coming man fails to

adopt as its key-stone principle ‘‘Owe no

- man anything but to love one another,” in

the six days of business life (letting the
- day of rest for the weary follow as it may
. and can), the present practice of owing
‘ every man everything but to love one an-
- other will knock your civilization higher
» than Gilderoy’s kite.
- If this is preaching, make the most of it.
Te ac C. H. Bartow.
ae How to Evade the Tax on Mortgages.
_ Referring to the new law relative to the
taxation of mortgages, a Lansing attorney
thus describes a method by which the tax
wanbeevaded:
‘For instance, the Board of Supervisors
‘will sit next week, and tht session will last
for two weeks. During the first week it has
to raise valuation or to place valua-
ipon property already assessed. In
the second week the board only has power
reduce valuation. Now suppose that A

mortgage of $5,000. He goes to his} run

has him make out the mortgage in
yn name, record it, and make an as-
el it to himself. Z - regularly

 

The popularity of Muzzy’s Corn and Sun’

Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale,

aggregating many million of pounds-each

ea

The State Assayer of Massachusetts says
Muzzy’s Corn Starch for table use, is per-
fectly pure, is well prepared, and of excel-

lent quality.

Muzzy’s Starch, both for laundry and table
use, is the very best offered to the con-
sumer. All wholesale and retail grocers
sell it.

 

 

 

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GRAND RA 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.

BRAUTIGAM BROS.,

MANUFACTURERS OF
Cant Hook Handles, Whippletrees, Neck
Yokes, Spinning Wheels and Job
Turning Of All Kinds.
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED.

NORTH DORR, - MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
All Trains daily except Sundny.
GOING NORTH.
ives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex...... 8:45am
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex.....
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex.... 7:30pm
Cadillac Express. ......-..eeessseee 3:40 pm
Saginaw EXpress..........+-+++e02 11:25am
nf eas pabeee sae 10:30 am.

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 City,
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnati Express.............---
Fort Wayne Express...........-.++ 10:30am
Cincinnati Express.......... ee esis 4:40pm
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:50 pm

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

5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.

5:00 p. m. train connects with M.C. R. R. at Kalama-
zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadivn
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Leave. Arrive.
6230 AM... ccc ccc ce cece cece nscescececseessccccs 10:10am
4:30 pm

Leaves.
9:05 a m
11:30am
10:40 pm
5:05 pm
7:20am
4:10pm

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

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

Detroit, Lansing & Northern.
Grand Rapids & Sere Division.
EPART.

Saginaw EXpress...........0cseeescseeeseeecenes 7 30am
Saginaw EXPTess. ........-.sssseeeesseecsescoees 410pm
ARRIVE.

Grand Rapids Express............52++ sesececes 11 25am
Grand Rapids Express.........-.-.--seeseeseees 10 30pm
‘All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot.

Trains run solid both ways.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
PMail 2.02... .c cece ce ccc cscs ececcecce 9:10am
+Day Express......... fo citine sche cree 12:30 pm
*Night Express. ........c-seeseeeees 11:00 pm
Muskegon Express........ .- sees 5:00pm 11:00 a m

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through
parlor ear in charge of careful attendants without ex-
tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p.m.,and through coach
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. Arrives.

EXPIeSS .......20-cseeccecccoceccess 4:05 pm 4:20 pm
EEXPTeSS. 2.2.6.2. sccccccececcessenccs 8:25am 10:20am

All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.

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

W. A. GaveETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Kalamazoo Division.

Leave. Arrive

x. & Mail. N. Y. Mail. N.Y. Mail. N.Y.

..Grand Rapids. 9:45am _ 6:15

. Allegan....... 8:28am _ 5:00

..Kalamazoo... 7:30am 4:00

..White Pigeon. 5:55am 2:20

9:45

5:35

1:40

Atrives.
3:55 pm
9:45 pm
5:45am

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5
.-Toledo ........ 11:00 pm
..Cleveland..... 6:40pm
250 pm .-Buffalo........ 11:55am 1
5:40am 6:50 pm..Chicago....... 11:30pm 6:50am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 pm,carry-
ing passengers as far as Allegan. All trains daily ex-
cept Sunday. J. W. McKENNEY, General Agent.

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Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING EAST.
Arrives. Leaves.

*Night Express...
+Through Mail...
Evening Express
+Detroit Express....
+Mixed, with coach..............-.

GOING WEST.
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+Mornin

*Night Express. ..........20ess0s00 ?
+Mixed....... de cluy cabin eessinehisest=

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. °

Passengers taking the 6:50 am Express make close
connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at. Detroit for
New York, arriving there at 10:10 am the following
morning. The Night Express has aWagner sleeping car.

: Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

Gxo. B. REEve, Trafiic Manager, Chicago.

Michigan Central.
Grand Rapids Division.
Detroit Expiess. .
Day ccs fae etek
*Atlantic Express
Mixed
"Pacific EXPress.........-+-20----reeeeecececees

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6:00am
3:00pm

Grand Rapids Express. Goce kcsane sau nion pee nase 10:15 pm
Mixed

ROG ia ccc5 saw es sscesukapeecsacseetes Pet sinta ten 5:15pm
*Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars

mon Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from
Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand
Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec-
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

oO, W. RuaGEs, Gen’ Pass. and Ticket Agt., hicago. a
‘Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway.

Fuses, Caps, Auge

 

HURCULES POWDER

THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK

Annihilator

Strongest and Safest Explosive known
to the Arts. Now is the time to Stock Up
for Farmers’ Trade.

Mail orders promptly filled.

L. S. HILL & Co.,

19 and 21 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Also wholesale dealers in Gunpowder,
Ammunition, Guns, Fishing Tackle and
Sporting Goods Generally.

CHURCH’S

Bue Finis hI
: eS ”
READY FOR USE DRY.
NO MIXING REQUIRED.

 

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole
crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also
kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobaeco
Worms. :

This is the only safe way to use a Strong
Poison; none of the Poison is in 4 clear state,
but thoroughly combined by patent process
and machinery, with material to help the very
fine powder to stick to the vines and entice
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.

ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS
of plaster and Paris Green as mixed by the
farmers. Itis therefore cheaper, and saves
the trouble and danger of mixing and using
the green, which, needless to say, is danger-
ous to handle.

Bug Finish was used the 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., write as follows under date oj May
14: “We sold 3,100 pounds of ‘‘Bug Finish” last
year. Itis rightly named “Bug Finish,” as it
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli-
catiod. We shall not be satisfied unless we sell
three tons this year, as there is already a
strong demand for it. Please send us tea bar-
re!s (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented. Cheaper than
any other Mixture used for the purpose.

‘

MANUFACURED BY

Anti-Kalsomine Co., Grand Rapids,

AMBOY CHEESE.
37, 39 & 41 Kent Street. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

 

 

NELSON BROS. & Go.,

68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.

 

WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR

Provision Uepariment

We Carry a Large Stock of all kinds of |
Dry and Salt Meats and

BUTTERINE.

We buy of First Hands and Will Not Be
Undersold by anybody.

Gody, Ball, Barnhart & Go.

 

66 C ANDEE 29
Bois
mv THICK

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

DOUBLE WEAK.

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

PRICE NO HIGHER.

Call and ex-
amine the

Fr FOR SALEB

E. G. STUDLEY & CO., Grand Rapids.
Jobbers of
Rubber and Oil Clothing cf all kinds,

Horse and Wagon Covers, Leather and

Rubber Belting and Mill and Fire Depart-
ment Supplies. Send for price list.

RSTER & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agia ter :
Saw and Grist Mill

MeAcEINERY

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

 

 

 

 

~BULKLEY, LEMON & HOURS,

Wholesale Grocers.

IMPORTERS OF

Teas, Lemons and Foreign }'ruts

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.

 

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

CARY & LOVERIDCE,

GENERAL DEALERS IN

: Fire and Burglar Proof

 

134 to 140 Fulton Street, ae 2 a
Grand Rapids, - Mich.

 

We are now prepared to show the finest line of Christmas
Goods ever exhibited in the State of Michigan. Our Personal
selections from the greatest foreign and domestic factories in

the world, bought for SPOT CASH and placed before the

Western Trade at New York Prices.

We call especial attention to the fact that in no. other
establishment in the West can the assortment of goods be
obtained that is to be found in our stores. Thus enabling
buyers to place their entire order at once.

WE SOLICET YOUR PERSONAL INSPECTION.

Immense assortment of Dolls, Doll Heads, Bodies, Shoes,
Slippers, Stockings and Caps, Wax, Bisque, Indestructables,
China and Cloth Dolls; Tin Toys, Steam Engines, Window
Toys, Games, Blocks, Picture Books, Iron Wagons, Wood
Toys, Drums, Silver Plated Ware, Hanging Lamps, Tea Sets,
China Cups and Saucers, Dinner Sets, Rich and Rare Vases,
Cuspidores, Smoker Sets, China Mugs.

SPRGIAL NOVELTIES FOR c., 10s, AND
26s, COUNTERS.

Fancy Glassware and Decorated Winerware.

 

 

 

$ 75
1.25
2.00
2.50
1.50
2.25

i x Ax Handles
a x ;
ox
4X
3 x Dbi. Bit
4x

ce 6s

66 66

66 6é

66 oe

Cc. & D. LANTERNS,

OIL CANS AND TANKs,

And a General Line of

PAPER & WOODENWARE.
CURTISS & DUNTON,

D. W. ARCHERS

 

HOLIDAY GREETING!