“GRAND RAPIDS, ‘WEDNESDAY, J ANU ARY 4, 1888. NO. 224, STANTON, SAMPSON & C0,, ~ MUSTARD Manutacturers and Jobbers of Men’ S Furnishing Goods, Sole Manufacturers of the “Peninsular” Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls. State agents for Celuloid Collars and Cuffs. 120 and 122 Jefferson, Ave., DETROIT, MICHIGAN. ALFRED J, BROWN, FRUITS, NUTS AND SEEDS. 16 and 18 No. Division, St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘We give prompt personal attention to thesale of POTATOES,APPLES, BEANS and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best facilities and watchful attention. Consign- ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash - advances on Car Lots when desired. Wi. H Thompson & Go, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, Gross & MILLER, Bankers, Chicago. BRAUTIGAM BROS., MANUFACTURERS OF Cant Hook Handles, Whippletrees, Neck _ Yokes, Lath and Job Turning Of All - Kinds. Stove wood in car lots. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. NORTH DORR, MICH. JACOB BROWN % 60, WHOLESALE Furniehing Goods and Notions, Manufactures of Lumbermen's Supplies a Specialty, WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF ALASKA SOCKS AND MITTENS. 193 and 195 Jefferson Ave., Cor. Bates St., DETROIT, - MICH. Parties in want should MARU GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED CO. 71 CANAL STREET. We carry a full line of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. CHARLES A, GOYE, ‘Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS : TENTS Horse and Wasim Covers, Oiled Clothing, j Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. Flags & Banners made to order. 73 CANAL ST.. - GRAND RAPIDS. SALT FISH Bought and Sold’by. FRANK J. DETTENTHALER, 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. GS Oysters the Year Around_g¢4 TUBS! TUBS! TUBS! We have 150 doz. first quality wash tubs, which we will sell F.O. B. as follows: No. 3, $3 per doz.; No.2, $4 per doz.; No. 1,$5 per doz. Packed % doz. in bdl. with straw. Qual- ity unsurpassed. Address PIERSON’S BAZAAR, Stanton, Mich. Stoneware, 6c. per gal. F. O. B. MYRON H. WALKER, Attorney and Solicitor, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ; Over Fourth National Bank. Telephone 407. J. EH. FELDNER & CO., CUSTOM SHIRT MAKERS, Men’s Furnishing Goods. NO. 2 PEARL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS Prompt Attention to Mail Orders. Telephone 891. | Muzzy’s Corn Starch i is canna expressly for food, is made of only the best white corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. U “The popularity of Muzzy’s Cor and Sun Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, aggregating many million of pounds each oe The State Assayer of Massachusetts says Muzzy’s Corn Starch for table use, is per- fectly et is well t peered, and of excel- tent 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. Sa ‘Vogt, Horpolsheimer & Co, Importers and J obbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. Overalls, Pants, Eito., OUR OWN MAKE, _ A Complete Line of FaneyCrockeryz Fancy Woodenware - OUR OWN IMPORTATION. aceon: Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. 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 flavor or adulterations. It will be sold on its merits. ders filled on 60 days approval. Price $35 per 1,000 in any quantities, Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. Handsome advertising matter goes with first order. Secure this Cigar and increase your Cigar Trade. It is sure to do it. Sample or- (GEO. T. WARREN & CO, Flint, Mich. BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, . Lumber and Farm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We ca a 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, EATON & LYON, ge e Jobbers and Retailers of B OOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 donroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, AL CANAL 8Y,, rand Rapids, - Mich. FURNITURE TO ORDER. or everything i in the fase of S 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 cates ~steo desired. — Weverne Chair eek West End Pearl St. seis ial Furniture, inside} | FOURTH NATIONAL BANK| Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. GEO. C. Prexce, Vice President. H. P. BAKER, Cashier. “= $300,000. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking business. - Make a Specialt’ -f Collections, Accounts of Country . “chants Solicited, ; EDWIN FALLAS, PROPRIETOR OF VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE, JOBBER OF Butter, Eqqs, 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 tr ade. 217,219 Livingston St., Grand Rapids. _ MIRTH & KRAUSE, ‘aly iy Show Case Fad, D. D. COOK, _ Proprietor. of the occasionally he would. travel in- Soeene He’s Innocent. Wrtten Especially for THE TRADESMAN. Yes, talk about your dead-beats, but tell me’ don’t you know That credit must be given first before you make it so; Before the greater crime is done there must exist a cause, ” And who would plan the former part must suffer by the laws? Then, sir, don’t lay your dollar down to tempt its picking up— A man will never drink if naught is spark- ling in the eup; A chicken doesn’t scratch the earth for forty rods around . Unless the chances are a grubis burrowed in the ground, 3 A debt is never made unless a creditor is in it; Then can you blame the debtor, when he didn’t first begin it? It’s well enough to cry out beat against the other man, - To make yourself look innocent whenever well you can; But, can you blame the debtor, who but acts the second part, Because he walks away and leaves the dag- ger in your heart? Yes, talk about your dead-beats, but doesn’t suspicion rest That opportunity was first a creature in your breast? Did you ever know a dead-beat to play a winning card Without it first was shuffled up and dealt out by a pard? A man doesn’t hold a four-ace hand by any common knack, Unless he first has seen the cards and shuf- fled up the pack; A debtor is, of all things out, the most un- certain kind— He takes you in and does you up about as he’s inclined; At first you’d wager half your wealth that he’d redeem his pledge; Once in your debt, you see his airs, you then begin to hedge. You see 2 race horse on the track you know can win the race, But can you tell the jockey’s price to give him second place! A politician takes the field, he’s able, clear, correct, But boodle knocks him out and some vile scoundrel will elect, By which uncertainties you’ll learn to ne’er be over rash, Nor let your customer have goods till he lets you have cash. M. J. WRISLEY. ——————— -e- a —___ THE STORY AT THE BANQUET. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN, On the Saturday night before Christmas, the employes and proprietors of a large retail dry goods house in aneighboring city were gathered around.a long table in one of the departments of the store, enjoying a delicious spread tendered the clerks by the firm, showing their generosity and apprecia- tion of the services rendered by the former. It was a delightful affair. Their hard work done for the day, and realizing that the terrible rush of the past few weeks was over, they were, one and all, in a condition to appreciate it. The numerous dishes had been gradually diminishing in.fullness, and the waistcoats of the banqueters had gradually decreased in size to such an extent that it was doubtful if the buttons would stand the strain. Toasts had been drunk, speeches made and nearly every member of the company had contrib- uted his share to the general entertainment, when someone asked Mr. Robens, the senior partner, to relate the incident which had nearly ended in his living burial. Mr. Robens demurred to this, saying that it would hardly be in place at such a fes- tive gathering. However, curiosity was aroused, aud he was importuned until he at length consented. “Thirty years ago,” he began, lighting a fresh cigar, ‘‘the most terrible, and at the same time most fortunate circumstance happened to me that it has ever, before or since, been my lotto hearof. At that time I was employed as general clerk and roustabout in a supply store located in a mining town in California. My employer was counted one of the most wealthy men in the State, owning large mining interests, the store at which the miners got their supplies and an immense ranch in the Southern portion of the State. ‘*He was unmarried and his only living relative was a nephew—a dissolute, un- scrupulous fellow, who -was employed as overseer of the mines. Being well aware that unless he behaved himself he would not stand a chance for inheriting any of his uncle’s wealth, the young man was very careful not to betray the coarser side of his character to Mr. Dempsey. But I, for “whom hehad no such fear, in my. capacity as clerk, was in a good position to discover what sort of a man he really was. ‘“‘Mr. Dempsey resided in San Francisco, and visited the mines on an average of four timesa year. On these quarterly trips he was usually accompanied by no one, coming and going on horseback, although | camp, the poor fellow was brought to the store and laid in a little room at the rear containing two cot beds, upon one of which I slept while the other was reserved for Mr. Dempsey’s use on his inspecting trips. ‘The corpse was to lie there until a coffin could be made ready for its reception. “Iwas away that day, at the nearest point_of supply to purchase a stock of blankets, of which I was out. Returning late in the evening, I did not hear of the accident, and, getting my blankets unload- ed, went to bed. I ought to say, here, that I was not expected to get back before Mon- day. Iwas nearly tired out and so sleepy that I hardly knew what I was about. Hastily undressing, in the dark, I started to jump into bed. As 1 endeavored to do so, I came in contact with something, and, remembering having put several bundles of rope on the bed before I went away, on ac- count of a scarcity of room, I pushed the obstruction off on to the floor behind the cot, and in a moment was sound asleep. “T slept very soundly, having no fear of burglars, and was awakened, partially, by someone apparently moving in the room. Again I dozed off—I hadn’t really been awakes and finally came to earth again by a feeling of numbness. I tried to change my position, but something seemed to hold me down. In vain did I twist and wrig- gle, Icould not tum my body. This to- gether with a choking sensation, aroused me fully to my senses, and I became aware of the horrible fact that my body was en- closed in a coffin! a common, pine coffin, such as is most generally used in sparely settled mining regions. ‘‘When the horror of my position fully dawned upon me, my heart stopped beat- ing, and I thought, for a second, that I was in an appropriate place. However, I soon regained my senses, and a Slight opening in the top gave me barely sufficient air to sustain life. Then I commenced to yell and pound the coffin with my fists, but no one came, and I finally gave up from sheer hoarseness and despair. ‘“How long I remained in a state of apathy I don’t know; but I was finally aroused by voices in earnest conversation. once more did I assay to cry out, but my lungs refused to perform their office, and then hope utterly deserted me. _ I could not hear the conversation of the men plainly, but Teould now and then catch a sentence, and ascertained that the voices belonged to Hill, Mr. Dempsey’s nephew, and Jack Bur- roughs, one of the toughest men in the camp. Up to this time I had not given a thought as to how I chanced to be in such a tight bex, but now I listened eagerly to catch the drift of their words, hoping they might explain my predicament and what they intended to do with me. It might be they intended to get me out of the way and obtain possession of the money which I had on hand for the monthly pay-roll. ‘I soon found, to my utter consternation, that they knew nothing of my horrible sit- uation, and were hatching a plot whereby to secure the death of Mr. Dempsey in such a way as to cast no suspicion on them. As near as 1 could make out, the details of their scheme were to suspenda rope with a noose from a tree on the road Mr. Dempsey traveled, in such a way that two men, se- creted in the branches, could throw it over his head, drag him from his horse and leave him suspended in the air, while the horse would push on to the camp. The idea was to make it appear the work of some of the numerous gangs of horse-thieves or road- agents in that portion of the country. ‘*You can well imagine that my situation was a terrible one, lying in that coffin, knowing that my own, as well as another’s, life depended on my getting released. I knew that Mr. Dempsey would surely be ‘on the way to camp oi Monday, and I, fastened in a coffin ready for burial, was the only one who might save him from his nephew’s murderous designs. ‘After a few minutes’ further talk, the drift of which I could not ascertain the two men left the room. I was now able to use my voice, but I refrained, knowing that if Hill and his confederate heard me, I should meet with a reception fully as warm as the one I was then enjoying. It would have been jumping from the frying pan into the fire. ‘‘Well, to make a long story short, after I had nearly exhausted myself planning some mode of escape, the bright idea struck me to see if the coffin lid was securely fast- ened down, or merely one or two screws put in to hold it on until time to deposit it in Mother Earth. You will probably laugh at the idea of my not thinking of this sooner, but I will guarantee that if any of you ever wake up from a sound sleep and find your- self in a coffin that your wits will not bee as available as they might be. ~ “Raising myself against the lid of tne coffin, I placed my hands under me and _ | pushed upward with all my Fee It the corpse of the miner who had: been killed and which I had pushed .onto the floor. Near by the coffin were two or three empty whisky bottles and the remains of a candle. The miners, after making_a rude coffin and completing it far in the night, fortified by forty-rod whisky, had come to my room, which was never locked and opened into the store, being so drunk they could not discern the difference between a live man anda corpse, had placed me in the coffin instead of the dead man. Being so utterly worn out with fatigue, they might have carried me a mile and I should not have known it. “Did I save Mr. Dempsey? Yes. Get- ting a couple of miners—my best friends in the camp—we mounted our horses that evening and taking our guns, as if ona hunting expedition, fora blind, we took a trail leading out on the main track about two miles beyond the tree the nephew and his pal described and hid in the brush. Early Monday morning we espied Mr. Dempsey riding leisurely along, all alone, smoking a cigar and apparently unaware of any danger. ‘TI related what I had overheard, but he refused to believe me, saying that I must have had a bad nightmare. Well, it was undoubtedly fully as bad as the nightmare, but much more real to me, and I finally pre- vailed on him to let us take a short cut to thejtree, keeing out of sight while he rodeon, as if nothing was the matter, riding slowly, that we might reach the spot first to be sure and be on hand. Keeping carefully con- cealed, we had gained our positions and found the rope hanging a little way down, but not noticeable unless its presence was looked for. By careful scrutiny we detected the forms of the two men in the tree, ready ata second’s warning, to cast the noese. Directing my two companions to cover them with their rifles, I held my knife in my hand, ready to cut the rope. **Coolly and unconcernedly Mr. Dempsey came into view, and the leaves overhead rustled a little. As he reached the tree, swift as a flash the rope circled around his neck and he was jerked from his horse. At the same instant, two shots rang out simul- taneously, and the two men fell from the tree to the ground. It was only about fif- teen feet high, and the fall was not great enough to seriously injure them if the rifles had not. When we gave them our atten- tion, one of them was past help. Hill, however, was only slightly wounded, and we took him into camp, where he soon re- covered. He was tried for attempted mur- der, and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. ‘Did you ask where the lucky part for mecamein? Well, Mr. Dempsey was so highly pleased at escaping the fate those villians had prepared for him, that he gaye me a share in a new mine he had just open- ed up. The venture turned out so well that in a few years I was enabled to leave Cali- fornia with all the experience and money I needed. RELLUF. ee Brief History of Organization in Michi- gan. E. A. Stowe in Grocery World. The history of a popular movement ora military campaign is necessarily a history of men. Such being the case, I trust no one who reads this narrative will accuse me of one-sidedness, or of being too great a devo- the at the shrine of mewm et teum. In the first issue of FHE MicHig Ane TRADESMAN, which $* ‘began: pubfishirtg jn 1883, I put nt tiysett On sreeord’ as advocating the organization of local associations,amang business, hhen.° ; I fook;my cue fromthe New England organizations: Obtaining, my inform ation as to their objects and methods froma grocer of Grand Rapids, who was one of the charter members of the Boston Retail Gro- cers’ Association and who aspired to see the tender shoots of organization transplanted to Wolverine soil. I agitated organization, personally and through the columns of THE |. LRADESMAN, for over a year. About the "time I had concluded that further effort in that direction would be useless, I received a letter frem Frank Hamilton, of Traverse City, asking for a set of blanks and forms suitable for the use of an organization of re- tail tradesmen. I was unable to comply with Mr. Hamilton’s request, but referred him to the secretaries of several New Eng- land associations, from whom he _ se- cured the desired information. My inability to do as_ requested, bhow- ever, aroused ine to the _ conscious- ness that I was advocating an idea, where- as I should be prepared to recommend a system. I therefore straightway set about the preparation of such forms and rules as seemed to be essential to the successful maintenance of an association. Shortly af- ter this task was accomplished—and it was atask for an inexperienced hand—sentiment in favor of an association among the grocers of Grand Rapids developed to such an ex- tent that we were able to inauguratea fully- fledged organization of twenty-nine mem- bers. Several months previous, however, Mr. Hamilton had interested the business men of his.place in the subject, as a result of which an association of about forty mem- bers had been successfully started, with the prime mover in the enterprise as president. This association has: kept a little in advance ‘| of the movement ever since the start, having obtained. more benefits than any other or- ganization in. the State, and its110 members |. now wield an sea which is felt all over each other, became apparent. Mr. na ton had divined this want several moni before, and in a communication to THE TRADESMAN predicted that a State organ- ization would eventually become necess thus putting himself on record as the first - person to publicly advocate a State. associa- ° : tion. The time being apparently ripe for such action, a call was issued for a meeting of delegates from all the associations in the State, to be held at Grand Rapids, on Sep- tember 21, 1886. The meeting was well attended, and be-- fore the convention adjourned the ‘Michigan. Business Men’s Association had been form- ally ushered into existence. By virtue of his having been the first president of the first association formed in the West, and al- so the first person in the world to suggest’ state organization, Mr. Hamilton was se- lected to preside at the opening sessions of the convention, when his ability as-a pre-- siding officer was found tobe so marked and his enthusiasm in this movement so great, that he was unanimously chosen president of the new organization, an act which was repeated one year later at the time of the second annual convention. A special convention was held in March, 1887, at which time it was resolved to incor-— ate the Association in such a way that it. could issue charters of incorporation to the local associations of the State. This work was immediately taken in hand by the prop- er officers, with the result thata special Act was secured at the hands of the Legislature. in June, the formality of filing the necessary . papers being complied with three months later, when the Act finally. went into effect. The second annual convention was held at Flint, in September, when the price of charters was fixed at $3, and the per capita. dues raised from 10 cents per year to 25 cents per year. The formation of a State association has proved to be a great stimulus to local organ- ization, having given the work adignity and character which it did not before possess. The conventions, which are made up of del- egates on the basis of one delegate for each fifteen members or fraction thereof, have been productive of great good, by reason of the interchange or freely expressed ideas. The delinquent department, which merely supplements the delinquent department of the local associations, has been found to be: an effective weapon in dealing with delin- quents who have removed from the jurisdie-: tion of the associations listing them. In the line of legislative work, the Association has. secured the passage of a bill prohibiting compacts among insurance companies after- January 31, 1888. In many other directions the State body has been a valuable, adjunct. to the local associations, and its field of use-- fulness will increase as it grows older. Besides being the first State in the Union. to organize a State body, Michigan can lay claim to having more local associations than any other state—l think I am safe in mak- ing the statement that she has more than all the other States put together. Within her borders are 108 active, growing associations, . all doing good work in the reformation of trade abuses and the elevation of business men and business methods. The Michigan associations take on a little different scope than those of the Keystone and Empire States. Instead of devoting all the influence of the associations to self-pro- tection, we include in our organizations the ‘village improvement idea” of New Eng- land; that is, we assume that the business men ‘furnish the brains of the community, and that every movement looking toward the material improvement of the community must be inaugurated and directed by them. Nearly all of our associations have an Im- provement Committee, whose business it is to endeavor to secure the: location of manu- — facturing and other public enterprises, and notable success has attended this depart- ment by our work in many towns. The subjects of insurance and transportation al- so play important parts in our tacties. Regarding the future of organization in Michigan, I have no data on which to base a prophecy. At our present rate of increase —and we are discouraging the tormation of associations too rapidly, holding it more es-. sential that we maintain interest in those al- teadt osganized—we shall have, inside of thieé Yeats, an association in every city and town of any size in the State. abaud:o¥ 5,000 business men, we shall then — be “able to call the roll of 25,000 representa- ‘tive business men, enlisted under the banner of ‘‘Pay, Progress and Principle.” —_———q@2-2ae A Pitiful Ci cumstance, Written Expressly for THE TRADESMAN. *T was on the D., L. & N. Railway. The noon train came.thundering from the north. She whistled and stopped abruptly at the = north platform of the lonia prison. car door opened. “This way, ladies.” The: There was something fpeculiarly soft in the brakeman’s voice. A low moan of an- — guish in the rear end of the car attracted - the attention of all the passengers. An old lady, heavily draped, arose and, accom- panied by a handsome young woman, also ~ in deep-mourning, passed up the aisle, elec- trifying every one with her pathetie sob- bings. The brakeman assisted her to the platform, when for the first time her eyes rested on the great stone wall. Speeehless she stood, her hands raised, a terrible a never-to-be-forgotten picture of a heart- broken mother, confronting the prison w within which lay the lifeless body of only son. He had died in a felon’s cel ‘The young woman broke down in hysi ical weeping. dead convict. PERFECTION SCALE The Latest Improved and Best. She was the wife of . Instead cf anti-compact law enacted by the last is unconstitutional and recom- appeal to the courts. That this ease is not shared by all the in- men is evidenced by the circular being sent out by David Beveridge, the compact manager at Detroit, which vident evasion of thelaw. The circu- is as follows: oe the ——— Insurance Co.: ‘he enactment by the Michigan Legisla- ‘alaw forbidding such agreements Fire Insurance Companies as tend t open and freecompetition, would ear to render necessary some different plan for the conduct of the business, As- ‘suming that the law will be respected by fire Underwriters in both its letter and pirit, and it being evident that were each pany compelled to employ in its own be- half.a person to rate and inspect risks, the result would be that no property holder tell from day to day what his rates of ance would be, and, moreover, that the of the conduct of the business would be largely increased; I propose—if. a sufficient iber of subscribers can be obtained—to ‘open on the 1st of January next, an Inspec- ion and Rating Bureau, with headquarters Detroit, Michigan; to conduct the busi- ness contemplated through branches located at Detroit, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, and if the interests of sul seribers shall require it, at other points. . - Whether the business men of Michigan will allow a good law to miscarry by any such evasive violations as above indicated remains to be seen. THE TRADESMAN heartily approves of the idea inaugurated three years ago by the Woolson Spice Co., of ‘Toledo, and adopted this season by the Acme White Lead & Oil orks, of Detroit, of bringing together all the traveling men of the house once a year for the purpose of exchanging views on all 5 subjects pertinent to their avocation. Such - meetings cannot fail to redound to the bene- - fit of all concerned, while the cultivation of the social side of the traveler’s nature in- yolved in participating in a banquet provid- by the employer should not be over- looked, in computing the summary of pos- ible results. i) Purely Personal. Mr. and Mrs. T. Stark, of Muskegon, spent Sunday with L. M. Mills and family. ‘fidney F. Stevens now sits ina capacious office chair, a Christmas gift from his wife. Cliff. C. Herrick, for several years past in the employ of Herrick & Randall, has taken the position of shipping clerk for Curtiss & - Alonzo F. Harley, general dealer at Defi- , ce, Ohio, spent the Christmas holidays ith his brother-in-law, Wm. Logie. He ‘was accompanied by his family. M. Temple, late with the Ohio and igan Coal & Manufacturing Co., at Te- eumseh, as Secretary and Treasurer, has taken a position with Abbott Bros., at Min- neapolis. — j . M. Church, who recently sold his gen- al stock at Alpine to J. D. Adams, has to Manton to spend the winter. He ll engage in trade again in thespring, but has not yet decided upon a locationes”. + * M. Boyd, Jr., formerly located here ds anager for the Globe Oil Co. ié now 4, ember of the firm of Appleby: Clari;& 6., storage agents at Minneapolis. Mr. snow visiting his old home at Cleve- and will call on friends here the latter of the week. ae of the ee Spice Co. ‘ollowing its usual custom, the Woolson ¥0., of Toledo, called in its traveling tatives last week for consultation jollification. Six of the eight men d with the Kansas City branch ap- in eowboy costumes, much to the ent of Toledo people—and the ad- ent of the Woolson Spice Co. In- n the programme of events wasa entary banquet at the Brady Woolson onclusion to a most pleasant and gathering. Assistant Manager toast-master, the eloquent delivered an address, and ere made by every one ESMAN regrets that Leondition of its columns pre- more extended i*| John Van Hyming has engaged in the a| Grocery business at Kingsley. Bulkley, ,| Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock. .| A block of stock in the Muskegon Sav- ings Bank, which opened for business only about two weeks ago, was sold to a Grand Rapids capitalist one day last week at 5 percent. premium. : J. A. Shattuck, formerly engaged in gen- eral trade at Sand Lake, has engaged in the grocery business at Newberry. Clark, Jewell & Co. furnished the stock. The Sand Lake business will be continued by Mr. Shattuck’s son, Frank. AROUND THE STATE. Sault Ste. Marie—Geo. H. Eccles, grocer, has assigned to C. C. Yerkes. Coopersville—Chas. Lillie succeeds Wat- rous & Lillie in general trade. Delton—Leonard & Bush succeed Leon- ard & Jeffreys in general trade. Manistique—McGuire & Wexstaff, gro- cers, have gone out of business. Fremont—YVan N. Miller succeeds O. C. Pemberton in the drug business. Detroit—C. M. (Mrs. T. P.) Murrin has sold out her restaurant business. Otia—F. Keats succeeds E. J. Bean & Co. in the drug and grocery business. East Saginaw—Carl Opperman succeeds Louis Qvinin in the drug business. Saranaec—J. D. Sackett has purchased the jewelry business of E. L. Mosher. Big Rapids—L. Olson, boot and shoe deal- er, has been burned out. Insured. Charlevoix—J. F. Smith succeeds Wm. Cross & Co. in the grocery business. Allegan—B. Stern & Co. succeed C. Strong in the boot and shoe business. Owosso—A. Sprinkle & Son have sold out their fruit and confectionery business. Port Huron— Diamond & Camp succeed A. W. Diamond in the grocery business. Manistee—Harry R. Reynolds has as- signed his grocery stock to Michael Fay, Jr. Springport—E. Wellington and Myron Gillett haye bought the Dodd grocery stock. Milan—H. S. Knight succeeds Hannah E. ness. Boyne City—J. C. McFellin, general dealer, has been closed under chattel mort- gage, ; Vassar—Emerson & Bird, general and clothing dealers, have been burned out. In- sured. ‘ Allendale—Farowe &-Dalmon, general dealers, have dissolved, H. Dalmon suc- ceeding. St. Clair—Chas. A. Kuhn will shortly re- move his merchant tailoring business to St. Ignace. Mancelona—C. F. Walden succeeds Walden & Bjorkman in the boot and shoe business. East Jordan—W. L. French succeeds French & Sutton in the grocery and harness business. . Wakefield—Kohl & Tollefson, hardware dealers, will remove to Antigo, Wisconsin, on Jan. 1. ° Saranac—J. W. Francis has assigned his clothing and furnishing goods stock to S. B. Gorham, of Ionia. : Albion—Parsons & Emery succeed Par- sons & Kinney in the stove and agricul- tural implement business. i Greenville—D. S. Seaman’s grocery stock has been taken by W. J. Gould & Co. and has retired from business. Jonia—Mary A. Dye has retired from the wholesale oil and tobacco firm of Thad. B. ) Prestan & Co. The,style remains the same. |" Botth Dotr—Pétet “Braiitigass won three turkeys’ at ‘Bravttigam” Bros.* whéelbarrow race. >“Fhp firm’s sales thatday amornted ap Ube te ears Bs Holland—C. Blom, Jr., has “méved ‘from his old location on River street into his new store on Main street, and added a bakery to his confectionery stock. Muskegon—Castenholtz Bros. & Co. have discontinued the retailing of meat at 104 Pine street, but retain the same location as an office for their wholesale meat business. Saranac—Geo. W. French, assignee for FitzGibbons & King, has sald the plant to Ben. Vosper, of Ionia, for $500, subject to mortgage and attachments. As the two partners are each entitled to $250 exemp- tion, the assignee and unsecured creditors will probably be compelled. to ‘‘whistle.” Detroit—Harris & Karpp, the Woodward avenue jewelers, are in bad shape finan- cially. A few days ago the firm filed a chattel mortgage to Bishop Borgess for $2,000. Last Friday a mortgage for $720.63, running to Eugene Deimel, and one to Pfozheimer, Kellar & Co. for $2,528 were filed. On Saturday C. T. Karpp, junior member of the firm, gave a chattel mort- gagein the firm’s name to Attorney Frank E. Noah, as trustee for about thirty small he gee a #5 .: erry * | creditors, whose claims aggregate $8,023, | bringing up the total mortgaged liabilities + | to about $13,600. Mr. Karpp is in posses- *| sion of ‘the store, as agent for the trustee. | ‘He disclaimed any knowledge of the where- B (Mrs. Hiram) Burnham in the grocery busi- lessing in th _ Cheboygan—Thompson Smith’s Sons ex- | pect to cut 25,000,000 feet of logs next sea- ‘son. | Lakeview — Andrew McAfee succeeds McAfee & Martin in the cooperage busi- ness. 4 ae Evart—Allefii Campbell has bought the Tripp sawmill and removed it to Campbell City. East Saginaw—Henry Gauss & Co. suc- ceed E. Eggert in the manufacture of fur- niture. i Kalamazoo—Geo. H. Winans & Co. have engaged in the manufacture of wagons and road carts. Grant—S. K. Northam’s shingle mill will start up on the 12th, and will be run to its full capacity. Bellaire—The Richardi woodenware fac- tory has been compelled to shut down, for lack of timber. Summit City—The Michigan Flooring and Handle Manufacturing Co. has shut down for repairs for a short time. Jackson—The Geo. T. Smith Middlings Purifier Co. has received over 100 offers to locate the works elsewhere. _ Muskegon—Ames & Frost have sold their curtain roller factory to Steward Hartshorn, of East Newark, N. J., the consideration being $35,000. Pellston—Dillman Bros., successors to Dillman Bros. & Co., have increased the ca- pacity of their plant, by adding steam pow- er and heavier shingle mill machinery. Alpena—The large wood pulp works of Fletcher, Pack & Co. consumes about twen- ty cords of spruce wood per day. They pay $3.25 per cord, delivered at the factory. Manistee—The R. G. Peters Salt & Lum- ber Co.makes the following excellent exhibit: Lumber cut, 25,668,056 feet; shingles, 79,- 681,000. On dock, 49,000,000 feet lumber, 3,000,000 shingles, 1,500,000 feet of logs. Homer—B. F. Goodrich, J. H. Cook, Jr., and P. C. Mitchell have organized the Homer Road Cart and Seeder Co., for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of the Mumbrue road cart and the. Gibbs seeder. Whittemore—John C. Brown and Dr. Wakeman have the machinery on the ground for a stave, heading, planing and shingle mill, which will be a great help to the vil- lage as well asa good investment for them- selves, as there is obtainable a large amount of lumber for such purposes, and very acces- sible. Mancelona—The Oyal Wood Dish Co.’s factory burned to the ground for the third time—the second time within a year—one night last week. The business men of the town promptly subscribed about $5,000 as a bonus to secure the rebuilding of the fac- tory, the G. R. & I. Railway adding $500 to the fund. Work on the new buildings has already begun. Big Rapids—The Falcon Manufacturing Co. has been organized, with a capital stock of $100,000, to engage in the manufacture of furniture. ‘The new concern involves the consolidation of the Big Rapids Wood- enware Manufacturing Co.’s plant with that of Crocker & Hodnutt. Local cap- italists will be asked to take about $40,000 worth of stock in the new enterprise. Menominee—The Menominee River Boom Co. and the Menominee River Manufactur- ing Co. have been consolidated, . with the following officers: Isaac Stephenson, Pres- ident, and Francis A. Brown, Secretary. The Directors are Philetus Sawyer, J. B. Goodman, A. A. Carpenter, Jesse Spaul- ding, A. G. Van Schaick, Fred Carnly, J. M. Stephenson, A. C. Merryman and Isaac Stephenson. j STRAY FACTS. Newberry—W. H. Loucks, of the lumber firm of W. H. Loucks & Son, is dead. Alpena—Monaghan & Co.’s shipments in the cedar line from Alpena county during the past summer amount to 125,000 posts and railroad ties. Menominee—T. Cole recently sold the ce- dar and hemlock stumpage on ten forties of land near Waucedah to McGuire. It is thought that 400,000 feet of hemlock wiil be cut from the land. Sherman—Frank D. Hopkins, of the firm of Gilbert, Hopkins & Co., has gone to Chicago to make a business engage- ment. If successful, he will withdraw from the firm of G., H. & Co. Baraga—Bendry & Byers have taken a contract to put in 3,000,000 feet of logs this winter for the Sturgeon River Lumber Co. Operations will be conducted on the Stur- geon river, and men and teams are being sent to the woods. : Menominee—M. M. Lemke has sold for spring delivery over 1,000 cars of paving posts, 300,000 of which go to Kansas City, and 250,000 to Minneapolis and St. Paul. He expects to ship upwards of 3,000 car- loads of forest products into the west dur- ing next summer. : oOo _A substitute has been found for vanilla, _|and should this artificial production obtain lava ies place in erce which is predicted ackson—Louis Blessing succeeds Noll & | territory as during the past year. manufacture of paper boxes.| 7 Ww. ‘& Perry for another year, covering the same There are fewer changes among the boys this season than in any New Year within ‘THe TRADESMAN’s remembrance. Valda Johnston, W. S. Horn, Johnny Garvey and W. F. Blake were among the unfortunates who were snowed in at Shelby last Wednesday and Thursday. Foster, Stevens’ & Co. will continue to look for orders during 1888 from the old force—A. D. Baker and Frank Mills out- side, and H. B. Baxter in the city. That Manley D. Jones and bride ap- preciate the handsome antique. oak chamber suite presented them by the travel- ing men of the city goes without saying. THE TRADESMAN is preparing its annual list of the traveling men of the Valley City and would be glad to receive notice of any ‘changes made incident to the New Year. Will F. Griffith has engaged with Far- rand, Williams & Co. for another year, covering the same territory as formerly. He will continue his residence at Howell. Willis J. Mills, late with C. F. Williams, {at Caledonia, has engaged to travel for Glover & Allan, of Detroit, covering the re- tail trade of the entire State. The engage- ment is for 1888. Clarence J. Peck, who terminated his en- gagement with Edson, Moore & Co. about a month ago, has engaged to travel for Thompson & Maclay. His territory has not yet been decided upon. Albert C. Antrim has returned from a five months’ trip to the Pacific Coast in the interest of the Alabastine Co. He expecis to start out again about the 10th on a four months’ tour of the Southern States. Hi. A. Hamilton, of Litchfield, John R. Stevens, of Ishpeming, and Theodore Vi- talius, of 391 Antietam St., Detroit, are the Michigan representatives of the K. of L. co-operative cigar factory of W. E. Krum & Co., of Wernersville, Penn. Arthur Meigs & Co. will be represented by the same old gang during 1888—M. M. Mallory, R. B. Orr, B. J. Robertson, John H. Mcintyre, Harry Gregory and F.. H. Lester. ‘‘Old Fatty” Robertson will hold down the office chair, as before. G. F. Cole, who has represented Cooper, Wells & Co., of St. Joseph, in the Black Hills country for the past year, was in town over Sunday, and left Monday for Newaygo, Fremont and Muskegon, where he will call onold friends. He is offered the same territory with the same house for another year, but prefers something nearer home. C. Crawford was the. recipient of a hand- some Christmas present from the ladies of Caledonia in the shape of a hand-painted, highly ornamented, handsomely moynted pot pourrt mug. The art work on the jar is of such a high order of merit that Craw- ford contemplates carrying it around on his next trip, to serve as a study for those of his customers’ wives who are interested in decorative work. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. will be represented on the road the coming year by the same trio of travelers who have made things lively during 1887—the staid old vet- eran, Crookston, the highly moral Mills and the cunning Crawford. Crookston will pur- sue the even tenor of his way, Mills will continue to play pedro and lead Sunday school concerts and Crawford will endeavor to warp it to everyone whom he can invei- gle into a trade of any kind, from exchang- ing horses to swapping jack knives. Chas. KE. Fisher, brother of Oscar D. Fisher, of Arthur Meigs & Co., succeeds D. A. Harrison as Western Michigan salesman for Farrand, Williams & Co. Mr. Fisher is a graduate of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and has worked at. his profes- sion in St. Louis, Chicago and Kalamazoo. He was for several years New York travel- ing representative for Burrows & Co., of Baltimore, and for the past two years has covered several Western States for Mill- burn & Williamson, of Detroit. Messrs. Farrand, Williams & Co. are to be con- gratulated on securing so valuable an acces- sion to their working force. The following is a description of the commercial traveler in France: ‘‘With his customers, as everywhere else, he is polite and obliging. He kissed the baby, ‘pats the spaniel, pays a compliment to the young lady behind the counter and offers a pinch of snuff or a chew of tobacco to the store- keeper. He enquires respecting the state of the vintage, fortells the result of the season, speaks at some length on the state of the grain market, obligingly enquires after the madam’s health and invites her husband to call and see him when in Paris, casually remarking that a bottle of Al wine will also be discussed. Briefly, he ob- tains an order and departs in high glee.” —————— Acknowledgement. . Tuer TRADESMAN is under obligations to the editor of the Business World for his pleasant reference to this journal at the annual banquet ofthe Woolson Spice Co., at Toledo, last Wednesday. The bill refer- [red to by Editor Battelle will be hon- fored on presentation. = ists | ‘Tue TRApEsMAN acknowledges the re- ipt of an invitation to attend the Mor banquet on the 2nd; the Quin re. _F. Blake has engaged with Hawkins | was. attende 1520 members. comed the travelers to the city, and extend-| ‘ed them the use of the council chamber, in | Owosso. bout out one “Mayor Chamb which the meeting was held. President John H. Swan then read his annual address, setting forth the fact. that during the year, through resignation, death and suspension, the Association lost twen- ty-two members, but wound up. the year ‘with an increase of four over the previous This is the first gain made in three The total membership at present is year. years. 520. The Secretary-Treasurer’s report showed the total assets of the Association to be $26- 477.43, an increase in resources for the pres- ent year of $5,527.17. The Board of Trustees, through Chair- man George L. Sampson, reported that twenty-three meetings had been held by them during the year. ‘The assessments and dues of the year show that the insurance and benefit fund of the Association had cost each member but one per cent. on the death benefit of $2,500.. An officé for the Association at 33 Congress street west was secured during the year and generously fur- nished by the wholesale merchants of the city. The shortage of $415.97 in the ex- Secretary-Treasurer’s accounts was made good by his bondsmen. The Finance Committee reported receipts of 1887 to be $13,523.06, which, with $3,500 credited from 1886, made a total of $17,023.- 06 The total disbursements for the cur- rent year were $13,505.67, leaving a cash credit in bank to the general fund of $3,- 517.39. Edwin Mortlock, chairman of the Rail- road Committee, submitted a set of resolu- tions asking the railroads to issue 5,000 mile tickets, with a license to carry 2,500 pounds of baggage free, to traveling men for $100. The plan proposed is to attach a photograph of the owner of each book so that a transfer of tre book would be made impossible. The book would be made interchangeable on all lines in the State, a great advantage over the present system which makes four to eight books necessary for each man. The report was referred to a special committee, which subsequently presented the draft of a re- quest for which action on the part of the railroads, which was adopted. ‘The peti- tion, fortified with the endorsement of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange of Detroit, will be presented at the next meet- ing of the Railway Association of Michi- gan. James E. Day’s proposed amendment to the constitution to reduce the annual dues of the Association from $10 to $3 brought out various amendments and endless dis- cussion which resulted inthe defeat of all proposed alternations to the fixed fees. The same fate met the proposed amendment of E. E. Davis, relative to changing the pres- ent plan of assessment. At the afternoon session, Geo. L. Samp- son moved that unanimous consent be given to present an amendment to the con- stitution, placing the. election and suspen- sion of the Secretary in the hands of the Board of Trustees. The request was granted.: ¢ Resolutions were presented favoring the passage of the postal telegraph bill now be- fore Congress, favoring commercial union with Canada and prohibiting the acceptance of free passes by Congressmen and other. public servants. The resolutions were not adopted. M. J. Matthews presented the following amendment to the by-laws, making article V read as follows, which was adopted: During the months of Jannary and July in each year the Secretary shall mail to each member of the Association a copy of the re- ports of the Secretary-Treasurer; the trus- tees of the Reserve Fund; and the Examin- ing Finance Committee; the same to be true copies of the several reports as rendered at the last annual meeting of the Association; also the name and business address of all elected officers of th@, Association, and the time for which they are elected to serve; the name and address of the medical examiner and chairman of all appointed committees and such other general information as may be of interest to the members. . H.- W. Bradley & Bro. asked the Asso- ciation to endorse their ‘‘Benefit” cigar in consideration of their paying into the treas- ury of the Association $5 for every thous- and sold. The offer was respectfully de- clined and a resolution adopted, indefinitely deferring the endorsement of any brand of cigars or other goods. : T. J. Haywood presented an amendment to Section 1, Article VJ, of the constitution, which was referred to ‘a special committee consisting of the mover, J. W. Ailes and F. R. Smart. Geo. L. Sampson then brought up his amendment relative to the election of the Secretary-Treasurer, when it was discovy- ered that the amended articles of association provided for the election of that officer by the Association, which would proclude the adoption of the proposed amendment. The following amendment was adopted as an addition to Section 6 of Article III: ‘They shall also have power to suspend at any time the Secretary-Treasurer for mal- feasanee of inefficiency in office.” Three other amendments pertaining to the ‘pay- mentof death claims were aisoadopted and several typographical errors in the constitu- tion were ordered corrected. The question of raising the salary of the Secretary-Treasurer to $1,200 was then taken from the table and provoked a lengthy and animated discussion, some fa- voring the plan of the Board of Trustees fixing the salary, while others prefered to make the salary absolute at $1,200. It) was finally decided to leave it as at present prescribed by the constitution—an amount not exceeding $1 per member.. Election of officers being the next thing in ordér, nominations for President were made as follows: Allan D. Grant nominat- ed Geo. L. Sampson; Geo. L. Sampson, J. C. Pontius; M. J." Matthews, T. J. Hay- wood; T. J. Haywood, M. J. Matthews; Sam. B. Sinclair, John H. Swan; John H. Swan, E. H. McCurdy. The election for President and Vice-Presidents resulted as follows: : President—J. C. Pontius, Detroit. First Vice-President—A. W. Kelly, De-| troit.. ae Second Vice-President—Geo. F. Owen, Grand Rapids... a Third Vice-President—H. E. Tremaine, Bay City. | Fourth lows mination e as foll e another year and a. committee was appointed | to arrange for the annual sermon. _tees were thanked for the faithful manner in | which had they discharged their duties dur- ‘New York A. T. Stewart & Co., H. B. Vice-President—R. P. Bigelow, | s for Secretary-Treasurer wer a ws: L. W. Em y rve Fund for two ee F. R. Smart was re-elected chaplain for | The retiring President and Board of Trus- ing the past year, when the incoming Presi- dent and Vice-President were escorted to the platform and the meeting adjourned. eae eee The Wholesale Dry Goods ‘Trade. of Chicago. The sales of Marshall Field & Co. this year will be a little over $30,000,000. ‘This will put them ahead of any other dry goods jobber in the world. There was a time, from 1865 to 1870, when H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, had the highest sales. Before that A. T. Stewart & Co., of New York, led. It was the talk that Claflin one year sold $60,000,000. Dry goods men fa- mniliar with the trade cut this down about $20,000,000. ‘They believe that Claflin & Co. in their best years sold perhaps $40,000,000 of goods. There has always been this difference between the New York concern and its big Western rival: Mar- shall Field & Co. have never sold anything on commission; Claflin has always sold about $10,000,000 of staples for the account of the mills which make them. These fig- ures indicate the wonderful change that has come over the jobbing business of the country. Twenty years ago there were at Claflin & Co., S. B. Chittenden & Co., Lathrop, Ludington & Co., E. S. Jaf- fray & Co. and perhaps one or two others, all of whom overshadowed any Western wholesale dry goods concern. Now, exclud- ing Claflin & Co., the three great jobbing concerns of the country are here at Chicago —Marshall Field & Co., Farwell & Co. and Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Itis the gener- al opinion of the trade that Claflin’s concern willsome day follow the example set by Stewart’s. H. B. Claflinis dead and his sons arerich. They may feel inclined to run no risks with the family name, which is now great in the trade. That would leave all the great dry goods jobbers at Chicago. J. V. Farwell & Co.’s sales are about $15,- 000,000; Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.’s prob- ably ubout $10,000,000. Ten years ago it used to be said that Chicago would be the great distributing point of the country. This year, Armour distributed from here $60,000,000 of provisions, the largest job- bing sales of any house in the world. Mar- shall Field & Co. distributed $30,000,000 of dry goods, the largest sales in this line in the country. The biggest boot and shoe house in the country is in this city, and the biggest jobbing iron house. Finally, Chi- eago has a bank with a million more depos- its than the biggest concern that New York ean boast. - ne Q-—___—_-—-_-— Private Cast Marks. The following words and phrases present a choice from which to select a private cost mark: gas fixture black horse misfortune importance fish tackle elucidator eash profit of industry smothering It will be noticed that each word or phrase contains ten letters, with no two letiers alike. so friendly gainful job brown sugar now be sharp fen th 1 bh sements care of this office mu 2a ‘cents extra, to cover expense of postage. 4 Froe SALE—FINEST STOCK AND BEST-PAYINGGRO- cery business in Bi 4. mess. A. Vollmer, Big Rapids, Mich. | ig Rapids, on account of er 4:OR SALE—HANDSOME LIGHT FAWN FIVE-YEAR- old Jersey cow. Registered stock, no bad aabits. « Will calve about February, kk. B. Orr, 362 Jefferson ave. i RRA prince a Cie ee ae Bee a eg ee epee ATENT RUNNER ATTACHMENT —FOR ROAD Carts. Sent on receipt of $5. Name size of axle. H. Loughborough, manutacturer’s agents, iA 200, Mich. POR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, BOOKS, STATION- ery and wall Paper in « thriving town. Alse three-story brick building on best corner in town. Will sell stock and rent store, or will trade both for good farm near some town in Seuthern Michigan. Address P. M. Lonsbury, Reed City, Mich. 224* roe SALE—WHOLE OR PART INTEREST (N A FIRST- - Glass meat market ina thriving town’ of 1,000 in- habitants with two railroads. Average sales $30 per day. Good reasons for selling. Address H., care Trades- man. 219-tf OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES IN A . live town in Southern Michigan. Only those with cash need apply. Besi of reasons given. Address, W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich. 219-228 ;,OR SALE—AT A BARGAIN. A CLEAN STOCK OF hardware and mill supplies. Address Wayne Choate, Agent, Hast Saginaw. 210-t£ 4.OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN THE THRIV- - ing city of Muskegon. Terms easy. C. L. Brun- dage, Muskegon, Mich. 193-tf£ oie SALE — HANDSOME SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BAY _,, mare. Fast traveler and safe for a family horse. Will drive double or single or with saddle. 862 Jefferson avenue. ree EXCHANGE—$1,000 WORTH OF BOOTS AND shoes, for pine huaber dry and on railroad. Ad- dress O, this office. . 230* AV es = MAN OR FIRM TO TAKE AN INTER- est in, and stock and handie the output of a new 80-horse-power factory and mill plant, which has facilities for cutting and handling 8 to 4 million feet of logs per annum in lumber, shingles, barrel heading, and planing mill stock. Has a good dock, and railroad facilities and is in one of the best locations in Michi- gan. Address O. W. Horton, Grand Rapids, Mich. 225* we eee IN GROCERY OR HARD- ware store by married man. Have been until lately engaged in the grocery businéss for myself. Country preferred. Address box 298, Vicksburg, Mich. 224* R. B. Orr, 224* N° BUSINESS PAYS BETTER THAN FRUIT FARM- L ing; no fruit pays better than the peach; no ter- ritory north of the cotton states more reliable than the famous Michigan lake shore ‘‘Peach Bolt.” Bargains in improved and unimproved farms. Write for print- edlist. H.J. Edgell, real estate agent, South Haven, Mich. 223-36 NE OS ee STORE-KEEPER WHO READS : this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a trial. It willabolish your pass books, do away with all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to a cash basis, and save you wll the worry and troubles that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start in January ist with the new system, keep pace with the times, and you will never regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff, Albany, N.Y. 219-6t Wee MAN HAVING AN ESTABLISHED trade among Iumbermen, to add a special line and sell on commission. To the right man a splendid chance will be given to make money without extra ex- pense. Address “B,’’ care Michigan Tradesman. 178-tf V ANTED TO EXCHANGE FOR MERCHANDISE- (arugs or hardware preferred). Two hundred and sixty acres of land in Barry county, Mich., and about $4,000 worth of A No. t village property in one of the best business villages in the State. Well rented, pays a good interest on investment. Address Dr. A. Hanlon, Elk Rapids, Mich. 225* We IN A GOOD STORE AS SALES- man, by young man of four years’ experience in general merchandise and drugs. Good references. Address R., Box 75, Sherman, Wexford Co., Mich. 226* OR SALE—FINE JERSEY BULL CALF, SIX MONTHS - old. Squirrel grey and fawn black points. Reg- istered stock. R. B. Orr, 362 Jefferson ave. 224* Vr ate Sree ION AS CLERK IN A GENERAL f grocery store. Had two years experience. Refer- ences given, if wanted. box 338, Nashville, Mich. V 7 ANTED—TO BUY GOOD ESTABLISHED HARD- ware business in prosperous place where busi- ness. is not overdone, or to learn of good opening, to putin new stock. Correspondence confidential. Ad- dress box 275, Pontiac, Mich. 226* W. ANTED—SITUATION IN STORE OR ON ROAD: Fourteen years’ experisnce. Best of references Address 106, this office. 226* Q nis ma LUCTOUs C. WEST, i i Bf Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 2 . of American and Foreign patents. 105 KE. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch of- fice, London, Eng. Practice in U.S. Courts. Circulars free. ALRDRESS Grand Rapids, Mich. Can talk German. Address 226* given. GRAHAM ROYS, tO 2V0i Retall Grocer with GOOD COFFEE wo wish to serve thelr Customers E55 would do well d Brands taat require the sup- port of Gift Schemes, Prize Promises or Lott Dil tery Inducements. ED Ba WORTH’S COFFEE, Which Holds Trade on Account of Unequaledk Quality. Superior Meri: Alone. Improved Roasting Process. Patent Preservative Packages. For Sale by AMOS S. MUSSELMAN & CO., Grand Rapids, and all Jobbers at Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City. DILWORTH BROTHERS, Proprieie:s, > = OS \ ye \\ PITTSBURGH, Penn. We manufacture a line of Fire Proof f Safes that combine all the modern im- provements and meet with ready sale among business men and dealers oi! | all kind. Any business house can handle our Safes in connection with any other line of goods withont additional ex- pense or interference with any other business. Ls : Weight. | Inside Measure, Outside Measure. Befee’ — No. 2%, 2501bs. 12x8x814in. 23xl4xiSin. $30 — No.8, 5001bs.. 25x10x10in. 28x18x1Sin. Ss Milliken, Trav-, Creek; Wm, Rebec, ; Blain, Lowell; EY ¥, leme nt, Cheboysg: eon Bui ‘and L cia Aspoolatione-—¥. L. ae c . E ‘Parkill, Owosso; Will aN: on Rapids. THE Micnicax TRADESMAN. ne following suxiliary associations are op- erat Mowing suzilie ‘granted by the Michi- a Business. Men’s Association: | Hy No. 1—Traverse City B. M.A. He ‘President, ‘Gco. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts. No. 2—Lowell Ff. M. A. President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. : . No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A. President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. . No. 4—Grand' Rapids M. A. President, Jas. A. Coye; Soca, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A. - President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, W. C. Conner. No. 6—Alba 6. MLA, — President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. ; President, T. M. S!oan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. : No, 9—Lawrence B. M. A. : Fxecien’ H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins. : o. 10—Harbor _____ Eastern Kalamazoo County Consjdering Organization, CLIMAX, Dec. 31, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sik—Wiill you be kind enough to give us a synopsis of the workings of a Business Men’s Association, cost to mem- bership, ete. Weare talking strongly here of organization, combining with our sister villages, Scotts, Fulton, Pine Creek, Augus- ta and Galesburg. An early reply would be Considered a favor. Yours truly, - J. BF. CLark & Co. —_— o-oo Grand Rap ds Mercantile Association. GRAND RAPIps, Jan. 2, 1888. The annual meeting of the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association, for the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and three members, of the Ex- ecutive Committee, will be held at W. C. T. U. Hall, on Pearl street, on Tuesday evening, January 3, at 7:30 o’clock. As this is the most important meeting of the year, if is hoped that every member will show his interest in the work by attending. E. A. StowE, Sec’y. —_—— 29 __- The Hardware Market. The glass manufacturers met on the 28th ult. and advanced all sizes about 71¢ per cent.’ Owing to the advance in freight rates, steel nails have advanced 5 cents per j keg, and iron nails have advanced in sym- pathy. Wire nai:s are without change. Orders are being generally entered for barbed wire, in anticipation of an advance) The tin . market remains in the spring. _ | firm, with no prospect of anadvance. The | Copper Market is ia the same condition. Notice to the Trade, — fies ‘Jennings’, genuine...........007000777. ‘Jennings’, imitation........... ..... . . disd0& BALAN genuine... ye ues pele dis CES. Spring............. Peseta mae BARROWS. Ballvosd:. 5.0 | coo eae $4 00 GAPGON ee at net do 00 BELLS, Hane plows .dis $ oe aii OW ee a Ae dis Call 30848 Gong ‘ 25 60&10 °s .. dis Door, Sargent.... ..-.-...... ie ‘dis. BOLTS, BLOVO OU alee oe ees dis $ Carriage new list...........¢. mga teues dis 70810 Plow di 50 Sleigh Shoe Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis Cast Barrel Bolts....5...6............ dis Cast Barrel, brass HONE Se oye dis Cast Square Spring................ -. dis Cast Chain oe ee ee ee dis Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis Wrought Square EU pain uei acne es dis Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob HUIS ee es oe dis 60&10 TVOS) DOOR! ee eee dis 60&10 BRACES. BRP DON ey ee ee es oe ee dis$ 40 TWGRAIG ue ea ..dis 50&10 Spofford....... +... -Gis 50 PROTA kD eae es on AN dis net BUCKETS. ses ROPES. ~ ee isinand YaeUOE cates Mani os tense cnet ere eensereceecane sees 6 saa nse Steel and Tron. era ods ant and Beveils.. Mitre we eet eee e te meee cee ccee SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. NOS, J0 TO Me $4 20 $3 60 Nos. 15 to 17.......- sek gs Panta cie 3 00 Nos. 18 to 21.......00..0 0000000. 3.10 3 15 3 25 0. 27 3 35 Ai sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 2 inches wide not less than 2-10 extr:; SHEET In casks of 600 bs, @ D.............0.... In smaller aeanetier: 8 Ib ACKS. American, all kinds. Sou vee wea ees .dis Steel, all kinds................ Swedes, all kinds......: Gimp and Lace..... ee . dis Cigar Box Naile. 230060050 dis Finishing Nails....................... dis Common and Patent Brads... |: dis Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks. ee Trunk and Clout Nails Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis Leathered Carpet Tacks TINNER’S SOLDER. No. 1, Refined FN EE SSSSSSSSS TIN PLATES. 10x14, Charcoal...............; 6 ey ee 10x14, Charcoal ee Charcoal Well. pisdnio u a e a 7 1x Well. SWIVOL ee caso bees : BUTTS, CART. Cast Loose Pin, flgured............... dis Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint. .dis Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis Wrought Loose Pin, ‘japanned Ce ay dis vee Loose Pin, appa, Bayer : Wrought Maes ee eo ee dis Wrought Inside Blind................ dis Wrourht Brass. oo02 560. cl ae dis Blind: Clarks ioc. 250 l0600. ben, oe dis lind, Parker's. fis oo oe 5 a ee dis Blind, Shepard’s...................... dis CAPS. Eiy’s ee saiitse lebaie di ass eee nd perm$ a Hick’s C.F G.D 35 MAISKOD eae oss hs BO a 60 CATRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list....50 Rim Fire, United States.................. .dis50 CenEral Wires ce ee ee dis25 CHISELS. Socket Hirmer so. 0. oo. ces ooo dis 70&10 Socket Framing.. ......... Socket Corner.............. 3 BOCKCL SHOES ole er os dis Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis WONG) So ee ete aS net COMBS. Curry; DAWPrenee’ Si. 3 se dis Hovehkass os ee dis 25 COCKS. Brass, MACKING Soo ee, 66 Bibb’s 60 40&10 66 “010 7TO&10 70 Beer ea ccs sa Wow abies occ uimuy ence ells HOMNS sto tee sk eae COPPER. Planished, 14 a Cut to 126.520. 606... BD 24 14x62, 14x56, 14 x60 eel os Urusei, 31 Cold Rolled, Lace and 14x60................. 29 ne Rolled, 14x48 28 3e 40 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dig Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 40 Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis 40 ELBOWS. vor. 4 piece, 6 in. oo a os So. doznet $.%5 Cormupated 220. 09 dis20&10) & AGIUStEDIG oie caine es oe dis %&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 06; large, $26 00. Ives’, 1, $18 00: 2, $24 00: 3, $30 00. FILES—New List. American File Association List......dis DISBCOIUS I eee ede ee dis New American: o20 000200022050 oe dis NIGHOISON Se ne a ee dis HCN OM Rae Per dis Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis GALVANIZED IRON, Nos.16to20, 22and 24, 25and26, 27 List 12 13 14 15 Discount, 60. dis dis GAUGES. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s Maveels & Co.’s REDS oe ee Se aa dis 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s................5... a noe Mason’s Solid Cast Steel st 54 Blacksmith’s Solid east pieel Hand. a ce tobe Barn Door Kid derMfa. Co. “Wood track 50&k Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&16 Kidder, wood track......... ia cles ce os MS 40 HINGES. Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.......... Ae pec eee dis BUALS cae ee ie ae per fon Fo 2 BO Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 1 and longer Screw Hook and Eye, % ...... . net Screw Hook and Rye %.............. net Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net Screw Hook and Hye, %............. net Strap ang te ae dis HOLLOW WARE. HOUSE FURNISHING Goons. Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list Japanned Tin Ware Granite Iron Ware.................2.0.. HOES. CID Se eo ee $11 00, dis 6v Grub - Sieied Wolds este catiue sy sania ney tee 11 50, dis 6 GIN Be sociicen eee De ea 00, dis 68 KNOBS—NEW LIST. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......dis Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. Bd Sed Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... Door, porcelain, trimmings aie ie Drawer and geese percelain......dis. Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’8.. ........... Hemacite ....... alee esate OS. LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list. .dis Mallory, yee & Co.’s dis Branford’s.... .. Norwalk’s Staniey Rule and Level Co. Be cicwes sce ec, G18 MATTOCKS. AZO HVC. i sce ccs -$16 00 re Hunt ie. Uebebnee sles sees ocaie v's cela OO GL Hunt’s........... coos rene: .. $18 60 dis 20 & 10 55 w 40 2 3 _282 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’f, Post, handled............ dis 56 MILLS Coffee, Parkers Co.’s Coffee, P.S.& W. Mfg. Co. enlace oe Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clar Coffee, Enterprise.... ............. deeeae “MOLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ................ -...dis 60&H Stebbin’s Genuine.... . ............. dis 60&l0 Enterprise, self-measuring. ... ie. ¢ O18 2 NAILS —TRON. Common, Brad and Fenci: eoerecescceccce dis 41 dis 40 49 10 ‘keg $2 10 Cocco secccccece 34 fine advance. aed eset s neh nails, AdV...... ose. seek cces ence ees Finishi a 8d 6d. Size—inches f 3 - 2% 2 1% Adv. @keg ae 150 1%5 2300 Steel alls—2 OILERS. Zinc or tin Coase at eS -. diseogte Zine, with | rass bottom............. ....dis 60 Seong Copper..... dis 56 tL i Coe eeerccesencces me Ber gross, § $13 net a 2 Ix, DC, DX, 100Plate Charcoal 9 V DxXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.........2........ ilk DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal 13 1e Redipped Chafcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 73 rates Roofing, 14x20, IC Roofing, 14x20, IX Roofing, 20x28, eee eo ly 12 00 Roofing, 20x28, Xe ee Sa 15 €0 TIN—LEADED. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.. . & TX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.. fous CBO IG, 20x2 8, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00 IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne......... 15 00 TRAPS. Steel Game. i en eas GOE1: Oneida Communutity, Newhouse’s Cis Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&k& Hotchkiss’ 6b&10 S, P. & W. Mfg. Oo.’s Mouse, Chokers eae 18¢c 8 doz Mouse, dolusion................000.. $1 50 @ doz WIRE. Bright Market:.0 000) 20 ee dis 67% Annealed Market............. pues dis T&leu Coppered Market...................000. dis 624% Extra Bailing......... Una tonuale 2 cule es dis 5i Tinned Market. 00.00 222 0000. osc dis — Tinned Broom. ea sale sila Sloss icin Womalo mie .8 25 Copper. aia Vue aotee oe See new list net Brass si eee te Ae ae new list net WIRE GOODs. FOS 1O&Le TOS 10810: 70&10810 WR10&1) Sorte VERE core Sone dis Hook’s Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis WRENCHES. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled Coe's Genuine sooo dis Coe’s Ptent A gricuitural, wrought, dis Coe’s Ptent, malleable MISCELLANEOUS. Bird Cages.............. Poebedse his cage wee sis 50 Pumps, Cistern..................0.005 dis . 15 Screws, new list... 02.0.6... oh, Casters, Dampers, AMOVIGAN 600g ee 4 Forks, hoes, Snae an all steel gocds...d 6 Copper Bottoms.. 3 HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out; Basswood, TOS es 13 00@15 00 Birch, log-run Seen oe ee oe ret 15 uae an Birch, Nos. 1 and 2................... Black Ash, log-run................00. 14 oodie 30 Cherry, log-run Boe elie th 25 00@35 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2......... RONG 45 00@50 00 Cherry, cull coe ee @10 i Maple, log-run...... 0... ce cee ccs 1B oogsis. 00 Maple, soft, log-run mila Seeis as de suits 6 hh 00@13 00 Maple, Nos. land?................... Maple, clear, flooring................ Maple, white, selected.......... Sa Red Oak, log-run..................... Red Oak, Nos.1 and 2.......... 24 00G25 00 Red Oak, % sawed, 8in and upw a..40 00@45 vb Red Oak,“ ‘‘ regular........ --30 00G35 00 Red Oak, No. 1,step plank.......... D 00 Walnut, log-run Seber ncnes ae CeCe es Wainut, Nos. land 2.............. .. Walnuts, CUMS see css oo Grey Elm, log-run................... @13 00 White Ash, FORPUMN ei - 00@16 50 Whitewood, LOOM oe eee eae oe 0 00G22 Ov 41 White Oak, log-run............... Tt 00@18 vo LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. FINISHING AND FLOORING. Uppers. dine. cos es $ 45 00 MG SIM ese ee ao -- 42 00@44 00 aoe PQ tO AID. oo se, . “ OMMON BOARDS AND STRIPS, No], 10 in 18 & 20 feet............ -. 1700@18 00 10 feat and under................ - 16 00O@17 00 Wide com. b’ds, No. 1, 16 ft. & un’ r 16 O@IT OD Com. fenc. No. 1, 16 in, 16 ft & un’r 16 WA@17 ow Com. st’k, No. 1, 8&0 in. 16 ft.,un’r 14 00@I16 00 Com, strip, No. 1, 4 in., 16 ft. &un'r 15 L0@ i6 00 Com. stocks, No. 2, 16 ft. & per - 12 OOw15 60 Wide com. No 2, 16 ft. & under.. . 12 WE@I3 00 Com. boards, No. 2, 16 ft. & un’r... 11 Oa@lz Co Com. fenc., No. 2,6in., 16 ft, & yn’r a 0U@13 00 OI eee Ue on a a! 8 GO@l0 00 Shipping culls, in. weoeee 10 00011 (0 Norway fencing, No. 1, 6in....... a 00@13._ 00 NQ2 2 oo eee 9 00@10 CO PIECE STUFF AND cine Piece stuff, 18 ft. & under......... 9 00@10 00 pore $1for each extra two feet in ength. Tim. ‘2x12 & un’r and 18 ft. & un’ Yr. 12 00@i3 00 Add $l for each extra two feet in length. : Norway car sills...................5 16 O@17 00 8 95 | Car decking, tft... cole .- 12 0@ SHINGLES AND LATH. een 18 in., 5 to 2%........... Clear, 6 in Thin star, 18 in. a to2in... Clear, 5 in. Star, 16 in.. Clear, 5in.. Lath, No.1 1&5 Bed and Plate............. dis G = 1-8 lb. Cans 6 Doz. in 1-4 4. 1.2 1 5 Glass Mug Tea Caddie case 6 6s 6s 66 & ‘“c &¢ ee és cs “cs 2 1 1-2 a 1 sé és £HE LAST TWO ASSORTED COLORS, The. ARCTIC BAKING POWDER has now stood the test for ten years with a steady increasing demand. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE ARCTIC. MANUEACRURING. ; 3S & 40 LOUIS STREET, Grand .apids, - Mich. WIGWAM SLIPPERS. Send Your Spring CGrders to MAYHEW. MONS oar eae ee a ne co | ¥ outh’s and Misses 00. ‘< — soles... with soles......... scee 5 20: 8 50 Childven’s os. 6s. seb awe ea ee .6 60 uy eon soles...... Coty | with soles... 60000000005) wea 6% Woonsocket and Wales- | Gacdyeas Rubbers, Boston Knit and Wool Boots. Rhode Island Lumbermen’s Heel and Strap F. 95c net. Ditto no Heel and Strap, F. 70c net. &. FR. MAYREWwW, Grand Rapids. : | SORIGAN CIGAR CO, MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED oa wy The Most Popular 10c cigar, and “x UM YUM,” The Best Selling 5¢e Cigar in the Market. BIG RAPIDS, Send for trial order. MICE. POSTER, STEVENS & C0, Wholesale Hardware, With Additions Lately Made to Our Business, We now Think We have the NEST AND MOST COMPLERE HARDWARE STORE In the State of Michigan. Our Facilities for doing Business have been mue Improved and we feel better able to meet all MARKETS and PRICES om in the line of Hardware. FOSTER, SYRVENS & 0, 10 and 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis ; _ Grand , Rapids, seeding wife and ma — a to other lands; adieu, adieu.” oa M. J. WRISLEY. .. PICKED UP. pécially for THE TRADESMAN. , said the bald-headed passenger, h kest piece of work I ever did inmy @ was capturing four bundred dollars that ascharged up to profit andloss. Old ueesicks, at Howard City, owed the firm ust that amount of money. He wasn’t paying any bills, in fact, he hadn’t a cent. I left Howard City on the evening train 1orth and got as far as Mancelona, being fneaded for Petoskey. This was. some four ‘or five years ago, and I was pretty well acquainted with all the railroad people on the north end. We waited at Mancelona Number 6, and, while in the depot, the ator, who had been listening to the king of the instrument for some time, suddenly broke forth with, ‘Here’s h——1 to pay! Howard City is burning up ” © Well, sir, the first thing that struck my mind was Squeesicks! I grabbed my bag- gage, left the train and boarded Number 6, which was just pulling out. We reached ‘Howard City at 4:30 a. m. I wenttoa wyer’s house, consulted with him and, soon finding a justice, we woke him up, and at 5:30 a. m., while the little hand engine was still pumping water on the ruins of old Squeesicks’ store and ten other =places of business, a deputy ,sheriff served __ @ garnishee on theinsurance agent in whose companies old Squeesicks wasinsured. We got every cent of our claim; and this watch the firm gave me as a present,” and the ‘ald-headed man fished out of his vest - pocket a beautiful gold timepiece. oe ‘‘Well, now,” began the passenger with the specs on, knocking the ashes off his igar, “that was a pretty good piece of work, but here is one I was concerned in. About ten years ago I used to sell a certain boot and shoe firm in Grand Rapids all ‘their goods, or nearly all. At the time this fracas took place, they owed us over six ousand dollars. The firm was composed oof B. and his wife, and they owned some property in Grand Rapids and were consid- ered well off. _ “Itso happened that Mrs. B. was visiting in Kalamazoo and was taken sick there. + that time, a considerable number of fail- ures were taking place up north, and, as 1 afterward learned, B. was deeply interest- ed in a certain bank, and, on its closing its doors, got scared and made up his mind to ‘sel? bis stock and property and let his ¢ereditors whistle. - ‘J was standing on the depot platfotm at ‘Kalamazoo, at5:30orsooneafternoon, and as bidding a chum of mine goodbye. I ‘saw a well-known Grand Rapids lawyer board the train and nodded farewell to him. I left the depot, went to the American : ‘House and, while reading a paper, over- heard the following conversation between amen who were utter strangers to me: ‘Well, he got the papers.’ -***Yes, and if nothing happens B. will e them on record before 10 to-night and to-morrow J. will own the store and we will ‘own the property.’ . ! Well, here was a go, and our own about six thousand in the hole! I hed to the depot, thinking of telegraph- ag, but could not think what to say. A t struck me—I telegraphed for an ine and, by paying fifty dollars, reached nd Rapids fifteen minutes. ahead of the ar train. I hurried up town, found )., who hurried me over to a 8 Office, and ten minutes before his papers reached the ie build- ud. ‘Papers out and serv ell, well, ” said the bald-headed man passenger, in one breath, “did rmoney?” in specs. as bonafide sale and B. skip- (ce eds to Canada and the Wholesale Grocers. IMPORTERS OF Teas, Lemons and Foreign Fruit “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. ec LINER FE ay DIRECTIONS We have enone the corn in this — ser 8 seh) ea at referable to water.) 1 on the table. None avenport Canning (Qo, Davenport, Ia. "O° * "EN AT THIS EY” THOMPSON & MACLAY, Notions, Hosiery, Knit Goods, Furnishing Goods, te, 19 South Ionia Street, - GRAND RAPIDS. No Goods Sold at Retail. Telephone 679, Lamps are filled direct by THE PUMP without liftingthe Can. The Fill ing Tube adjustingto suit the heighth of any lamp. Any overflow ordrippings are returned to the Can through an opening inthe center of the top. When closed the Filling Tube _ enters this opening, pre- venting evaporation from EITHER PUMP OB CAN. OIL AND GASOLINE CAN! EVERY LIVE DEALER SHOULD SELL THEM. The Most Practical Large Sized Can in the market and the ONLY Pump Can which closes PERFECTLY AIR TIGHT preventing evaporation from either Can or Pump _ HALF A MILLION IN ACTUAL USE ! Though imitated in Appearance, by no means Equaled in Merit. Its recognized Qualities and increasing Popularity has induced imitations and its 8 would-be competitors are trying to follow—their eyes fixed on the “GOOD ENOUGH”— = ote Bri j Ht Bla ae Leads Then All. ae ‘THE BEST GOODS MADE, POT UP IN 5 Ub. and 21-2 1b, PACKAGES. 100 lb. Cases 80 lb. Cases Eor Sale Bv Bulkley, Seuien & Hoops, Arthur Meigs & Co., Clark, Jewell & Co., Amos 8. Musselman & Co., Hawkins & Perry, Olney, Shields & Co.. Granda Rapids. Mich. AND ALL JOBBERS IN THE UNITED STATES. Manufactured By $500. $4.25. IKING % LAMB, No. 14 oth Ave. CHICAGO, Il, |Grand Rapids, | 14 and 16 Pearl Street, JENNESS & McGURDY, Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents. DEALERS IN CTOGKErY, Cina, Glassware, Fancy Goods of all Description. HOTEL AND STEAMBOAT GOODS, _ Bronze and Library Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets,, Kts., 73 and 75 Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, - MICE. Wholesale Agents for Duffield’s Canadian Lamps. HESTEHR & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND CRIST MILL MACHINERY, ATL A ENGINE Send for €@ Catalogue and oe WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND., ws & 2 As MANUFACTURERS O TEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. Caccy Engines and Boilers in Stock By, for immediate delivery. it Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Mesiinary, Saws, Belting and Oils. _ And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44,46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Do rou WANT A min ne mn i ca bs If so, send for Catalogue and ‘Price-List to S. HEYMAN & SON, 63 Canal St, Grand Rapids, RISING SUN BUGKWHEAY. Gnaranteed Absolutely Pure. , ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED. Nawayed ROLLER Mins, Newaygo, . - Mich, « PERKINS de HESS Good Work, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices. Mich. RINDGE, BERTSCH & C0, BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. “Now, John, don’t fail to Mi get some of the DINGMAN SOAP. Sister Clara writes that it is the best in the l'world for washing clothes and all house - cleaning wor FOR SALE BY i Hawkins & Perry Wholesale Agents, ' GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WM. SHEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Agonits for AMBOY CHHHS#E. 37, 839 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. W. Sreete Pacxine & Provision Co. JOBBERS IN FRESH MEATS. _ Stock Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave., Mich. 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. 06 98, 30 & 32 Ollawa Sirest, © GRAND RAPIDS, CEO. E. HOW ES, JOBBER IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits, SPECIALTIES: Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 3 Ionia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Grand Rapids, Cc. L. DAVIS. BUNTING & DAVIS, Cc. C. BUNTING. Commission i 3 | Specialtis: Apples and Po “tive. _. from old age, probably! eT |itization of “the broad and “boundless,” we e "When the Popples return on their semi- | occasional visits to their former homes, it i | ! oe isias ihiny also have e effect of germinating and ie stage that peculiar @ disease ‘commonly known as ‘‘the . Be that as it may, however, I hace reat admiration for our trans-Miss- i fellow citizens, and when I heara g man complaining that all the avenues | usiness success are rapidly being blocked inst the non-capitalist, and note the pre- sent financial status of a large majority of - Western emigrants from my section, I al- ' most feel impelled to reiterate the noted advice of Horace Greeley. Of course, we want to retain all the young blood that can circulate healthfully in our communities, and we terribly dislike to give ‘what may prove the farewell grasp to boys - who have grown up among us, but it is hard to disguise facts, and, the fact is, or at least so it seems to me, that the business field of - Michigan and adjacent states is becoming decidedly over-crowded, an the time is rap- idly approaching, if it is not already at hand, when the little mercantile ventures _ that inaugurated the prosperity of so many « of the business men of to-day will be abor- There may be, in the future, isolated eases where the clerk of a couple of years’ experience, and the savings from a couple of years’ salary, can go into business as the = rival of his employer and make a success of ‘his undertaking; but there are prizes occas- ionally drawn in lotteries, and the ftood . that ruins ninety-nine individuals may un- P cover a gold mine for the hundredth. * * * % - A short time ago my breezy friend Popple returned from a long sojourn in the Far West, evidently wrapped in a mantle of financial prosperity. In some respects I like ~ Popple very much, but if he cares particu- .. Aarly for a continuation of my regard he ~ ‘will do well to subdue his egotism and tone down his too-evident disrespect for the community he is visiting. For instance, witness almost his first remark, after our Jong separation: **No use to ask you how business is! Can see for myself! Jogging along in the same old track! Lost a few customers : Ain’t looking y for an increase of trade! Satisfied if you _. ean keep what you’ve got! Great Scott! If I was sentenced to twelve months’ exile in this town, I’d create the first excitement of years by hanging myself! I can take five: hundred dollars and make more money§in one of our Western mining towns in a _ month than your whole measly settlement = is worth!” : After listening to language of this nature for ten minutes I felt impelled to say: “Now see here, Pepple! You’ve come among us for a short visit and we want you to enjoy yourself. We're a simple, un- progressive people, little versed in draw poker and distressingly ignorant when the subjects of straight flushes and jack pots ® are discussed, I’m pained to say that we an’t even get up a lynching soiree for your amusement, and unless you dilute our whisky. with nitric acid [’m satisfied you _ won’t relish it; but if you’ll let up a little on our failings and give us, say, some instruc- tions in Wild Western financing, we'll ap- preciace it. ‘Then favor us with some hair _ elevating narrative of Western adventure, ,. There’s a perennial wolf story, for instance, that always astonishes us. It’s about the ‘time, you remember, when you were treed yy thirteen wolves and, from your airy perch, shot them, one after another, and as fast as they fell the survivors devoured the -careasses. We shall expect you, Popple, to -demonstrate how twelve animals could be - packed in the interior of the thirteenth, and 0 dissipate a long-lingering doubt by ex- ‘plaining what become of that remarkable "glutton and cannibal. ae “That wolf story, Popple, has a very - mmusty and antiquated odor. It’s probably alittle more ‘chestnutty’ than the one re- -eently resurrected by the newspapers and -applied te your aggregation of lawlessness, recklessness and human depravity, Quartz- ‘ville. It represents that a very devout and godly man who had heard of the wickedness f your people took it upon himself to visit Quartzville to endeavor to redeem and re- generate its population. In the out-skirts of the place he ran across acitizen, and after : ishing afew questions the native en- (etm pai your ‘business be, mister?” am. umble follower of the Lamb, id, traveling to the promised land!’ es! I see! How long’ve you been ; a forty years!” od hate to discourage you, {isn’t to be wondered at that their marvelous ” | accounts of Western enterprise and progres- are usually satisfied to travel in the old rut, to reject an uncertainty for a certainty and to leave to the younger and more ambitious the alleged phenominal opportunities a0. amassing wealth. L, M. CARY. CARY & LOVERIDGE, GENERAL DEALERS IN Fire and Burglar Proof SAFES Combination and Time Locks, Grand Rapids, Mick. 11 Tonia Street, L. L. LOVERIDGE. WEOISON SPIRES 2 MERCHANTS! TT GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION — "CO. - WooLson SPICE Eco FOLEDO- OHIS. Woolson SPICE GANSAS CITY-HO. CEC a0. Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY ee LION COFFEE. Sd , To Consumers, and is, Consequently. a Quick ana Easy Seller, : | Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are not already y = oe ro cheerfully answer all communications regarding prices, etc. Convenient shipping depots established at all prominent citi quick delivery. For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere. P Ne L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, handling Lion are urged to give it a trial. We chee securing Ohio. Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufactured by the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, ESTABLISHED 1866. BARNETY BROS. 152 So, Water Street, Chicago. We do a Generali Commission Business and offer as inducements twenty years’ ex- perience and clear record. The best equip- ped and largest salesroom in the business in this city.. Ample storage facilities—full 20,000 feet of floor space in the center of the best market in the West. Ample capi- tal and first-class references on file with THE TRADESMAN. Write us if you wish information, whether to buy or sell. It will cost you nothing. BEANS! I have a nice lot of Hand- picked Beans I offer to the trade. Parties in want can get supplied by writing to W. T. LAMOREADX, Grand Rapids, Mich. 71 Canal Street, - MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—giving satisfac- tion. They are simple oo and econom- No grocer should be without , one. Roasts coffee and pea-nuts to per fection. Send for circulars. Robt. 8. West, 150 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio. Tress Stays . Soft, pliable and absolutely unbreakable. Stan- dard quality 15 cents per yard. Cloth covered 20 cents. Satin covered 25 cents. For sale everywhere. The accompanying illustrations represents the Boss Tobacco Pail Cover. It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist jand fresh until entirely used. It will pay for itself in a ‘short time. You cannot afford to do without it. For particulars, write to ARTHUR MEIGS & CO. Wholesale Grocers, SOic Ageconts, 77 to 83 SOUTH oe sate GRAND RAPIDS. Auxiliary 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-SI5, 30 Books Blue Letters, 50 in booké 500 Record Blanks, 5co 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 Envelopes. In eee of old style Blue Letter in above $10 Outfit we can substitute 10 books Blue Letter in latest form, as oe by the recent State convention, for $12. Prices in other quantities Pamnished on ap- plication FULLER & STOWE COMPANY, ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS, 49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids, DETROIT SOAP CO, DETROLTT. MICE, Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands of SOAPS MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, PHGNIX, WABASH, CAMEO, AND OTHERS. For Quotations address W.G. HAWKIN g, Lock Box 178, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Salesman for Western Michigan. QUEEN ANNE, MICHIGAN, TRUE BLUE, ZAR, MONDAY, GENUINE K. of L. CIGARS. The product of Organized, Working Ci- garmakers. Established Sept. 1, 1886, on the Co-operative plan by members of L. A. 6374, K. of L. Smokers and Friends of Labor, Attention! If you are opposed to filthy, tenement-house factories, the servile labor of coolies, the contracts for convict labor, give our Cigars a trial. If you arein favor of shorter hours of labor, the Saturday half-holiday, and last, but not least, the payment of higher and living wages in solid cash, give our Cigars a trial and accord them your most liberal patronage. The yel- low K. of L. label on every box. One hun- dred thousand sold within three months in the city of Detroit alone. Warranted to be strict- ly five and ten cent goods. For further partic- ulars, terms, prices, references, etc., address W. E. KRUM & CO., Wernersville, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. PRODUCE. We should be pleased to open corres- pondence with anyone having APPLES, POTATOES, ONIONS, BEANS, DRIED FRUITS and other Country Produce to of- fer. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY. Con- signments will receive our best attention. We are willing at all times to make lib- eral advances when drafts. are drawn with bill lading attached. Goods sold on arriv- al or held as per request of shipper. s. TT. F'IiIsEel & Co., Cemmission Merchants, 189 So. Water St,, Chicago, Ill. REFERENCE—First National Bank, or any Wholesale , Grocer here: BELL, CONRAD & CO, 58 Michigan Ave., Chicago, PROPRIETORS OF bentury Spice Mills, IMPORTERS OF TEAS, COFFERS & SPICES, “OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS: JAPAN THA---“Red Dragon” Chop. COFFEE---O. G. Plantation Java, Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican. The Best Cotte on Barth, We Solicit Communications. W.R. KEASEY., Traveling Representative. PUTNAM & BROOKS WHOLESALE NO BETTER GOODS IN THE LAND TRY, THEM : 18, 15, 17 South Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS. | PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for Denplete Outfita. | 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, Sissies BOX FASTENER ne ne AE RIC ANE a cgxegemnL PAL F, J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF OYSTERS! —AND— SALT FISH. _ See Quotations i in Another Mail Orders Receive Prompt | Attention. : : SPRING COMPANY, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS Hosiery, Carpets, Ete. , tin the newspaper gossip, that the victim of longer. considers it worth his ter a protest. The butcher, for ‘longer resents the imputation sausage receives additional flavor from the admixture of the neighborhood 4 and he exhibits equal fortitude when assure him that his beefsteak is so #ough that you cannot stick in your fork in the gravy. The milkman chuckles to him- self when you drop a nickle in the just-filled mailk pitcher and he seems to derive as much Satisfaction as you do on the discovery that you can easily detect the date of the coin _ mmder six inches of milk. He will agree with you in the statement that he knows -~ wmore about chalk than cream and that he is better acquainted with the mechanism of @ pump than the care ofa cow. The grocer mo longer denies that his butter is so strong: - that it will pull your mother-in-law in off ’ the street, nor will he commit himself on the old chestnuts relative to his sanding his gugar, watering his vinegar and moistening _. hhis tobacco. He smiles complacently when you inform him that his pure olive oil, with dhe genuine Leghorn trade mark, sustains a. near relationship to the cotton fields of Georgia and the peanut farms of Virginia. The baker and confectioner no longer fhreaten to thrash you when you assert . that their business received a strong impetus on the discovery of a mountain of terra alba. ‘The druggist does not take the trouble to explain why itis that the liquor he sells you (for medical purposes only) insists on _ @ongealing when the thermometer hovers around zero. While most of the reckless charges thus made against merchants are gross exagera- tions, unworthy of serious consideration, it is foolish to deny that there exists some eause for complaint—that impure goods are sold to a greater or less extent, varying ac- eording to the demands of the community. Such a condition of things being admit- ted, then, the question naturally arises, What are you going to do about it? Are ‘you going to conform to prevailing methods er do you propose to set yourself up as a re- former and insist upon telling the dear peo- ple they are depraved because they do not always select the best the market affords? This is a question which every merchant must settle for himself. In my opinion, the sophistication of food products i is the direct result of a demand, on the part of the consumer, for cheaper goods and solong as people cry for something cheap,so long will sophistication and substi- tation flourish and the ingenuity of man be _ stimulated to devise legitimate and illegiti- mate methods to meet that requirement. While this is true, I am equally positive that the adulteration of goods does not al- ways imply their deterioration. My advice to the merchant would be: Adapt yourself to circumstances. If Tom Jones wants ket- tle rendered lard and is willing to pay 10 cents a pound for it, sell itto him. If, on the other hand, John Smith’s: finances or tastes are different, and he prefers the 8 cent ‘‘refined” lard manufactured by Mes- srs. Armour and Fairbanks from cotton seed oil and lard, accommodate him. Ifoneman wants Mocha coffee at 40 cents a pound, give ittohim. If his poor neighbor on the alley prefers a mixture of peas, beans and ehicory, with merely enough coffee to give if flavor, sell him the mixture. Remember that it is the business of the merchant to sell goods—not to constitute himself a Board of Health and assume a dictatorship over the people who look to him for their supplies. In my opinion, a merchant has a wight to handle anything that is called for, providing the article is not unwholesome and is sold for what it really is. I see no more harm in selling a mixture of burned erackers and pepper for 20 cents a pound than pure pepper for double that price, pro- viding the purchaser understands, plainly and unmistakably, what he is getting—no more harm, in fact, than in selling a rich man a hat for $5 and a poor man one made on the same form, but of different material, for $2. I consider it the province of the merchant to educate his patrons up to pur- chasing pure goods, by demonstrating to ‘them that good goods are more satisfactory in every respect and are cheaper in the end; but the man whoarrogantly assumes to him- self all the wisdom of the community and insists upon all his patrons buying one class ef goods, comes under the head of those who are ‘“‘born before their time.” If I may be allowed a word to my friends of the gripsack brigade, it would be to as- sure them that I appreciate the work they are doing, in an educational way, in influenc- ing merchants to buy goods of standard pur- ity and strength. Their avoecation affords them exceptional opportunities for quick- ening public sentiment on this important subject, and evidences are not wanting that they are equal to their opportunities. Regarding the so-called pure food move- -ment, which was inaugurated a year ago by Thurber, Whyland & Co. and the Royal - Baking Powder Co., and which is advocated ‘with acrimonious ardor by several trade journals, I have nothing to say, either for |. @ against, except to assure you that it is entticd on *‘for revenue only” and, conse- tly, open to suspicion. Ido not appre- : chend that the proposed bill—or any one of -- the numerous proposed bills—will become a _ daw, and I am egually certain that if any hw is enacted it will not be enforced. Pub- ic sentiment is the lever which moves the world, and no enactment will meet with guocess where public sentiment is not strong oo to sustain it. As business men, we remember that agitation and educa- the handmaids of progress and that nose of us who adopt such methods do not 3 | the assistance of the law to compel mms to do that which we can do of our own acecord. We have the remedy in our own ‘long as the question involves an moral point, it seems oe ‘wish to bine] ri maieer: a He es, at on | ener enaaslag advances the Piles of | crackers 1g¢ per pound, with more trusts and combinations yet to hear from. Con- sidering the number of monopolies now cornering and manipulating the prices of staple articles in the grocery line, the gro- cer is not to be blamed if he gets up on his hind feet some day and unites with thecon- sumer in sweeping the monopolist off the face of the earth. The cracker combination hardly comes under the head of a. monop- oly, as it hasgenerally refrained from put- ting an exhorbitant price on baked goods, but it is bound to meet the same fate in store for the grievous abuses which have lately grown out of the syndicate system. In consequence of the retirement of the Big Rapids Woodenware Manufacturing Co. from the field, and the sale of its ma- chinery to the Cupples combination—an- other unscrupulous monopoly, by the way— and the destruction of the dry kiln ofthe Newaygo pail and tub factory by fire, all classes of woodenware are looking up. Es- pecially is this thecase with wooden bowls, which are scarce and high, fifteen inch ma- ple bowls being. difficult to obtain at this or any other market. ae ee ae ae Tey Against the Taxation of Lard. Armour & Co. are out with the following card, on the proposition to tax so-called ‘‘re- fined” lard: Our attitude in respect to the present lard agitation, and our refusal to indorse a move- ment for the taxation of refined lard which is instigated by rival interests, has occasion- ed so much criticism and newspaper com- ment that we think an explanation is in or- der. We are opposed to the taxation of any food products, whether compounds or imi- tations, and think any measure which tends to increase the cost, or unnecessarily re- strict the sale of food cheapening products is both unwise and unjust. A proper public policy should rather aim at the encourage- ment of the manufacture and sale of all do- mestic wholesome food products which les- sen the cost of living. Whilst opposed to the taxation of such products, we are in fa- vor of their sale upon their merits, and will cheerfully support any anti-adulteration bill which fully covers the manufacture and honest sale of all commodities under their true and proper names, and which provides for the’entire prohibition of the manufac- ture or sale of any and every article of food which is deleterious to the public health, but we must insist that there is no justice in singling out refined lard or any one food product which is admittedly wholesome and meritorious, for special legislation. Full consideration should be given to the rights and obligations of small merchants under such laws; but petitioning manufacturers eager for the protection of their private in- terests only, care little what trouble small dealers are subjected to; 1n fact, their pur- poses in advocating such legislation seems to be to make the law so onerous that retail- ing dealers either can not or will not at- tempt to do business under it. The English government has shown far more consideration for the mutual interests and protection of both the public and its tradesmen, and we believe thatin its ‘‘Mer- chandise Marks Act’ has enacted a measure which insures to the public the fullest pro; tection from imposition, and to the dealer the least possible inconvenience. If any honest attempt is made in this country to enact such a law, one that shall be morea regulation than a restriction and one fully covering all food products, drugs and other commodities, we will give it our hearty en- couragement. We manufacture all grades of lard as well as the refined, and will suffer no in- jury in our lard business by any law which | does not injure the entire trade in that pro- duet, but we firmly believe that refined lard is a meritorious and wholesome product, and that any legislation concerning it should be fair and not restrictive or prohib- itory. All the public can or should re- quire is that it should be sold under its proper name, and that should be only under a general law covering the sale of all pro- ducts. oe oe Dettenthaler’s Record. F. J. Dettenthaler has now been engaged in the wholesale fish and oyster business here for four years, during which time he has built up a good record as an honorable dealer—one who sells only good goods and invariably does as he agrees. The past season has been the most prosperous one in his experience, due in no small degree to the fact that his ‘‘Anchor” brand of oysters has met the approval of the trade wherever it has been introduced. JUDD c& CO., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Summer Goods. ANAL STREET _ Attar F rs” pecans rz — ‘Tian e° 9 Hundred é Thousand a plications for Pe the United States co tries, the publ blishers mot the. feenean cpthhea ape A ‘I manofacture my handles from rived| g second growth maple, turned 2 1-2, 2 9-16, 2 11-17 at bulge as ordered. _My stock is kiln-dried, and with a capac- ity of fifty-doz. per day can fill all orders | | promptly. ‘PROMPT ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS. LAKE BREWSTER, - - FOR SAIE! One 200 gallon square box churn, one Eureka hand butter worker and 150 Fair- lamb milk setting cans. The above have been used but six months and will be sold cheap for cash. Address O. G. Armstrong, North Farmington, Mich. ED.D. YALE & CO WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Baking Powders, Extracts, Bloings, AND JOBBERS OF GROCERS SUNDRIES. - 40 and 42 Sonth Divisicn St., oni Ae MICH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL and WOOD. __E. A. HAMILTON, Agt., 101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block. Telephone 909—1 R. THURBER, WHYLAND & C0, NEW YORK, RELIABLE FOOD PRODUCTS. {It is both pleasant and profitable for merchants to oceasionally visit New York, and all such are cordially invited to call, look through our establishment, corner West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make our acquaintance, whether they wish to buy goods or not. Ask for a member of the firm.] INCREASE YOUR TRADE BY SELLING Composed of Guatemaia, African and, Mexican Javas, Santos, Maracaibo and tio selected with especial reference to their fine drinking qualities. The most popular brand of Blended Coffee in the market. Sold only in 50 Ib. Cans and 1 Jb. packages, 30, 69 and 100 Ib. Cases. Mail Orders Solicited by the pro- prietors. : H. THOMPSON & 6O., BEE SPICE MILLS, 59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. Importers and. jobbers of tine Teas, Coffees, Spices, Etc.. Baking Powder Mfrs., Coffee Roasters, Spice Grinders. MICH. | » Apples. evaporated... make | Frazer Dienana xX, Monee. 4 doz. “BAKING POWDER. Weent cans............ sees os hides tus te eeees 190 Princess, BARE pie eccie eee Cs kee 1 Be oes Se A Oe ek uu caal 4 2 00 66 3 6 2 | Yictorian, 1 b cans, (tall,) 2 doz.. Diamond, ‘‘bulk.”’ Absolute, % b cans, 10n cans in case es ll %5 Dee Re ae 10 00 50 Succ ao Telfer’ 84 b, Cee dozi in Case............ 2 70 ee 1 66 66 66 be 4 “ 1 oe Dry, No. 2.. Dry, No.3 . PAQUWIO SL OF, oes eae uk vec cee , doz. MAGMA LS OF). ee oe ee Sas cee at doz. ALOHORORN Ooo. he a ees @. gross y e PAMOUIC 8 OF 6 ojos sae cs oe ee oeisle ecien odes s NTOMC IB OZ ore Ok a oss pee vale alee ahiaes 1“ 00 Arctic No. b pepper box asec ies Snes aes 2 00 PATATIC NOG ee eRe ee as 60 oe Arctic No. 3 BUCK WHEAT. King’ § Quick-Rising, 80-1b. cases......... $ 100-1b. 66 BROOMS. No. 2Hurl. oo. 22; 2 00|;Common Whisk....i 00 No. 1 Hurl......... 2 a paney. Whisk...... 1 2 No. 2Carpet........ DOUMAH ee eco eee 3 75 No. 1Carpet........ 3 % Warehouse Pee 3 00 Parlor Gem........ 3 00 CHOCOLATE. Runkle Bros’.. Vienna Sweet................ es Premium 6s ele os Homeo-Cocoa.... Breakfast. . COCOANUT. Schepps, ee Pe Oe ae gee eeaceees ¢ 3 Woe ee se Oe A ee isi 4 tin, DAB oe cas % Maltby’ 5, is Ba Wad Siamese Widw sein 'g ne doe we ae a is oe Ose Sosa ee Manhatian, ain OE en se aa IPCGrlGSS oo ee yeas se Bulk, pails or barrels.................. COEFEE—GREEN, Mocha.......... 2 @2T- iCosti Riea...... Mandaling...... 2 5@55 |Mexican........ OG Java....... 2:@25 iSantos.......... t Java........... 28@2t tkKio, fancy..... Maricabo....... 21@22 jRio, prime... Rio, common. 18w@19 To ascertain cost of roasted. coffee, add 4c per tb. for roasting and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEES—PACKAGE 30 Ibs 60 bs 100 hs PAO oe ee hee ak area 2414 Lion, in cabiewts PORE eet Dilworth’s . Magnolia. . Honey Bee....... GOEEMaN.. ces ilee oo eee. |German, in) PINS. eek | Arbuckle’ S-Ariosa...........- AVONICH.. fo .5 5.5. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. COFFEE S—SPECIAL BRANDS. Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java. “ Mocha... .. 2.2. JEVOKA... 25s... Imperial........ : Banner. ......:.. Mexican. Arbuckle’s Avoriea, 50 ib. double bags ** Quaker Cy. Best Rio Prime Maricabo | Thompson & Co.’s Honey Bee.......... CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... 90. |50 foot Cotton. %2 foot Jute ..... 120 |60 foot Cotton....1 75 49 Foot Cotton....1 50 |%2 foot Cotton....2 60 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter..... V) (Oity Soda... 60.2. 2:. 8 Seymour Butter....514/Boda................. by Butter..8 ss. BM Sa Haney: 05.0.0! Family Butter...... 6144|8. Oyster............ Buy Fancy Butter........ B iPienie.. ote 5% Butter Biscuit...... 644|Fancy Oyster Bean 5 Boston ....... Ve es t% CANNED FISH. Clams, | ib, Little Neck.................... 1 35 Clam Chowder, BAD coe eeu sete es 2 15 eee Oysters, 1 standards............ Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards............. Lobsters, 1. picnic. 2... 5.33 5. he. e. kee 1 %5 Lobsters, 2 Ib, picnic................. 2... 2 65 PE ODSLCTS, 1 1D SUA sock ce rece t se see ee eee 1 90 ILODSters, 2 1D Sha co eee et ek ee Mackerel, 1 ® fresh standards...... ear Mackerel, 5 ® fresh standards.... be Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 b........... Mackerel,3 hin Mustard.................- Mackerel, 3 ib soused....................-- Salmon. 1 fh Columbia river......... Lee 10° Salmon, 2 i Columbia river....... ....... 3 50 Sardines, domestic 48.............. 2. cece @% Sardines, domestic: 448................... 2@10 Sardines, Mustard 48.............-..0.00 9@% 10 Sardines, IMPOrted WSs... ieee koe ewes 12@13 Sardines, spiced, 48... ........ceceee eee 10@12 Trout, 31D DrOOK:. 2. bo. see eee ek CANNED FRUITS. ples, gallons, standards................ Bho kberries. standards................. 3 Cherries, red standard...................- Caer Be ca be sidics ¢ s'e'e 6 ..1 8@I DamMsOnS oye se is ee eae. 1 25@1 Egg Plums, standards Gooseberries...............- we tuiee Sue ce GTADGB sides ees. ns Sree iene acai . Green Gage és Peaches, i bliow. standards. ceaesece eae Peaches, seconds................ Pe as PERCHES SDIC. «2... ee ee ke cee te ee 1 66 a Pears.:..-.- Be Sue Gr eu uee 1 40@2 75 15 32 30 28% 2 s 23 23% 25% 25 sé 06 Ge oe sé o6 ce oe 6c ee ..-1 60 eat fet BD) “S33 at ee dO D0 RESEES Pineapples, .......... ae Quinces ...-.. PEs athe ec am nse ou loe 1 Raspberries, RPE ot ise sec tiesies os Se -..-1 50 red ...... Red maeae oe tales seer &0 Strawberries ..............---.-- wea eck Whortleberries ...............- 200 eee CANNED VEGETABLES. Aspara, Oyster Bay........ Ssididiste’s slesie « 2 00 Beans, Lima. standard.................... 75 Beans, Green Limas...............5.. a ee: 40 Beans, String .. ccevceccesrh OC@! 20 Beans, Stringless, Bie 90 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.....-........ 1.60 Corn, Archer’ 8 Se ae es 11 Morning Glory.......:...:. L 1b ss Early Golden.............. - 1,15 Poapr: Rrenehii ces eo oa ee ee ee cae ce oe oele 1 60 Peas, extra Marrofat.................. 1 ae 40 Peas, soaked. . ghee oe Baas acti ie! Early June, stand. Pee Rare is eye 1 or 75 BIECCO So cine ss foes ve 2 00 French, extra fime........ Saas oe Ae 20 00 Mushrooms, extra fine.. ara 22 00 Pumpkin, 3 Golden...... 00.0... sees 1 20 Succotash, standard..............6+..-+- 80@1 30 POUIBS ot ee ae aie eee en Wels oats Tomtoesa, standard branida. 0000000001004 Tomatoes, Red Coats....... : oy Good Enough......... Other standard brands... CHEESE. Michigan full OPORI le eo sag geen PRIED FRUITS. . 50 30 te pastes cues DRIED. FRUITS—FOREIGN. ee eed Core asseeenocesess cece oe v1.2 10| oo once paiia” 90}: a eee 120] 95 Pease: 140 Oatmeal Crackers...... eves ,round, % bb ' Holland. bois... . 0... epesees Seale a ees ane eget White, No.1 White, No. 1,12 8 : eee White, No. 1, 10 kits............. Pues 1 05 White, Family, i ue ee gn ee 8 75 ee EXTRACTS. peo: Vanilla. Ji ennings’ Dae ae Bean #8 doz..1 CR > Oo et ¥% pint, round....... l 6s ee ae rer ata te tata ket ataes NASSSAIRSSSS roel OO Co FARTNACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 Ib. kegs.................... Hominy, # bbl Macaroni, domestic 12 lb. boxes...... ae im ported 260.620 i Pearl Barley. ooo. o eee PeGs, \GTeOn foo eee ee PORs SPNt eee oe ee: Saco, German 6 a Tapioca, flake or pearl..... ean GLP cote Wheat, cracked :........0.0....0. 050055 Vermicelli, AMPOLCE oo ee cc eee domestic, 12 lb. boxes...... MATCHES, Grand Haven, No. 8, square............ coat Ob Grand Hazen, No 9, s ae SRTO css e soc. 110 Grand Haven, No. Parlor csc. eoccc. 1 % Grand Haven, No. 300, Parlors: 2. oye cc 20 Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ 1 50 Oshkosh, No. e Bee Sea Se uae Gos if Oshkosh, INO. Soe. eee ees Oe ce dene calee 1 50 75 Richardson’s No. 8 SQESLO. oo) oes eek 100 Richardson’sNo.9 GO. ..............-06- : a Richardson’s No. 7%, round................. Richardson’sNo.7 4 : 4 20 Woodbine, 300) O00 ee oe eo eo a, 115 MOLASSES. Black Strap oo.) ose soe ee 17@18 Cuda, Baking ce ooo saeco ee 2225 Porto: Ric. oe sores ea ee 2 New Orleans, 200d...........0cccce cece cues ao New Orleans, choice..... ............eeces 44@5! New Orleans, fancy....-.0 0... ...c00 00s es s0oS2 ¥% bbls. ge extra OIL. Michigan Test: .2... 2h: eb sel. 092s 0% Water White. oe ala. 1154 OATMEAL ROLLED OATS Barrels. 0055, . 5. § 25| Barrels. . .& 2 Half barrels........ 3 25| Half barrels... ae 3 25 Cason coer isc. 2 35|Cases.. beeen BOD : PICKLES. Medium............ 6 00|\Small, bbl.......... 700 ey ¥% bbi...... 3 50] . ** ¥bbl....... 4 06 PIPES. : Imported Clay, No. 216, 3 gross..... .. - @2 00 Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... American T. Prime Carolina..... 6 |Patna. Good Carolina......5% Rangoor 2 Good eee: .54%4|Broken. 54 @8 JAPAN. 22600286 5 S/ ALERATUS. DeLand’s pure...... 5% |Dwight’s ............ 5 Church’s 5 |Sea Foam........... 5 Taylor’s G. M....... 5 |Cap Sheaf........... 5 4éc legs in 5 box lots. SALT. 60 Pocket, FF Dairy.................. 2 Pe BOCKOU fh cos ici Cues hoc cag cid cine ss 100-3: pockets. 02. ei ce eee ca cces Saginaw or Manistee.................. Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... American, dairy, 4 bu. bags.......... Rock, bushels. .o. eo coe c eas Warsaw, Dairy, fee bags Bea Aa 10@2 20 210 SAUCES. London Relish, 2 d0z............ 0c. cc002 as SOAP. Dingman, JOO Dargeccc sce oe cee secs 4 00 Don’t Anti-Washboard................0c0c0 45 DAR OUS 26 oan. eats Dewue Go gcicges (feo ewe 3% SPICES—WHOLE. ANIBDIGG et ud aw oae 8% Cassia, China in mats.................. 8% ** . Batavia in bundles............ 12 “ Saigon in rolis................. Cloves, AMDOYNB.......... cc cc eee e eee SO AAT ZIDAT o Uo elas Mace Batavis . os... cs cc cece e so ecee s Nutmegs, sey Wed Guus teed accom suns os No. 4 Pepper, Singapore, bier Boece ee cue ee . SPICES—PURE GROUND—IN BULK. Alispice ....... Cassia, Batavia a: and Saigon. Saigon . Cloves, Amt boyna.. ss Zanzibar .... ae Ginger, African...........2: epee * Cochin..... BS eee Sa, alee ee be IRI CR bs, eos Mace Batavia. io... ess el bee. M ustard, English.. and Trieste......... FBRIOBEO cae oui oce beech Nutmegs, No: 205. 0000 sce. nee eee ee Pepper, Singapore DlgekK es sk White. oo. eee: OBVeOnne, 568. eo es eee : Absolute Benner, per doz. eats Cinnamon Allspice Cloves Ginger damage oe oe “es “ss 66 66 os oe STARCH. Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1b pkgs....: 6 ib boxes... bulk Pure, 1 b pkgs............ Corn, 1 & pkgs lube, Gloss, “s b she get tb pkgs. als ris tate 42 t crates, 6 ib boxes.. Corn, 40 h boxes, | i pkgs.... yy 20 Ib se lb “6 Lae es os 66 1 oe os be oe os 66 a oS * SUGARS. Cut Loaf...... Fahne ae Saree sate ae Dba a, CuUDCB 2s eos eek, eacudee as eee oad Powdered Granulated, Brenears 2: Granulated, New Orleans ae een Confectionery a es 4 Standard Aico. oe cil e cee cee No. 1, White Extra C.! ; ee tra C . ofete3 OO Sd S2_ Sd he CU OV ey OUD oT ok aK RONAN =z oo _ ao oe of ES PHOHOHHHASHHS PGOHHHSHOHOHO ® OOH rat Nox KK Corn, barrels..... @33' Corn, % bbls......@35 Corn, 10 gal. k’gs. 338 Deve Sugar, bbl. 25@38 Pure Sugar,% bbl 27@39 SNUFF. Lorillard’s American Gentlemen Siar accoboy...... aiegeeel ates Gail & Ax’ Rap Railroad Mille Loa ee Lotzbeck ...... Stee oes | SWEET GOODS. Coes cccccresece x Ginger Smaps...................+- Sugar Creams...... 2.0000. sncesece Frosted Creams.........c0..eceeees "Graham Crackers.................- TOBACCOS—PLOG. Spear Head. 3 Oe Morey wae Pesuicaens 35 Plank OO see Jolly ey aaa ee Eclipse Ney oe SslLive & Let Live... Holy "Mosca. eee +1 BIN ieee Blue Blazes......... i Whopper». s2200-~-9 ; ee a oes ae souloid Honesty........+. ‘Bi Conner Stone. pyre: OM scoreless 42 33 BO | OOLONG .....c. ce cceecce ccc ees es CONROE se aces ee uy cee eceas aliens y Summer sausage....... + Blo : -80@50 alasiotars VINEGAR. 30 gr. eet ha Ro eae ns ye see Cide : SS aa e 50 gr. 10 12 Het Brick Seneorad Veen ee ena ae do AIMOPICAN |. 65.6 is ee ck o. No.2 Cocoa, Shells, bulix Condensed Milk, Eagle brand Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ® cans... Candles, Star............. ei ces Candles, Hotel............. Camphor, 02z., 2 boxes. pene Coffee, NEOs. elix ..... eee Fire Crackers, Per DOW eek: Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. Coe Gum, PRENEO Ve cee ee, Jelly, in 30 pails.........5........ ee Powder, Keri: ee a Powder, % Keg... .. oe cece cece ces Sage CANDY. FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: Standard, 25 bb asa andard, : OO R or cue ca kd, 8 Twist, @ Ay Cut Loaf re Gi Royal, 25 ib pails. oo too ee 84@ ; Royal, 200 bbis..... 2... eee ee Extra, 25 pails..... 20... eee eee Extra, 200 1 DDIS es eee Cer French Cream, 25 Hans: Cut loaf, 25 ib cases. 4 Broken, "35 1 Pas. ces ls 5. Sls. Ai. Broken. ATW DDS. oo ss os eo Te FANCY—IN 5 b BOXES. Lemon Drops.................. ies Sour Drops oo oe bs ce ne La Peppermint Drops Chocolate Drops HM Chocolate Drops................... Gum Drops Eicorice Drops...) oe AB Licorice Drops.. Lozenges, plain. 6.0.0.2... ecco. Lozenges, printed Imperials MOEEGER oa ee os ee as Cream (Bar oc he ee Moiasses Bar Caramels Plain Creams: .. 2.300.000.0052. Decorated Creams....... .. String Rock............... aa Burnt Almonds. f5200200, 000250 os, : Wintergreen ‘Berries. . ee ee FANCY—IN BULK. Lozenges, plain in pails............... Lozenges, plain in bbls........... Pog Lozenges, printed in pails.. algae Lozenges, printed tn bbls: cece: Chocolate Drops, in pails Gum Drops in pails................... Gum Drops, in bbis.................... Moss Drops, in pails................... Moss Drops, in bbls Sour Drops, in pails.. pe a ONC Imperials, in pails.........0.....0..... Imperials in bbis... .............. 0. FRUITS. HAMAR AS pee Oe es 1 Oranges, California, fancy. ous. Oranges, Choice ........0......0..00005 Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.............. out : Oranges, Florida..................... .3 25@4 00 Oranres; ROG ¢. 2 vole. li eee cone @ Oranges, Messing..................008. @ Oranges COe. ee ee: 2 85@3 00 Oranges, Imperials.................... 3 BHemons, CHOICE... o.oo. oe Hemons, FANCY. 6... soe ce ne 4 aos 50 Lemons, California.................... Figs, layers, NOW, i coce se 12 @i6 Figs, Bags, 50 lb Dates, EERMS (GO ooo 8 5 i a 5% Dates, 14do do 6% Dates, Fard 10 ih box ® fh............. @ 9% Dates, Fard 50 box # I.............. 8 @8% Dates, Persian 50 b box # fb.......... 6 @i% Pine Apples, # doz.............-..... @ NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona. oo. 06.0.0. 5 cece ae EVRGH foo Uo eae oe California con... os Brazils . Filberts, ‘Sicily ees eo) ee viene Barcelona: o.oo. c ci ccc Walnuts, Grenobles se. oes. ccs SIGUY oe aa PRONGR cece eis 9 @13 Pecans, WOKS HS Peco eeu) casas 9@12 MISSOURI. 0 oop. sees er ocsecl @5 50 @ 66 Cocoanuts, # 100, full bags............ CHESEDUS: Soo es eae ec — PEANUTS. Prime Red, raw a keg Choice do : Fancy H.P. do a Reais cciWustdacnas Choice White, Va.do ................8 6 Nancy HP Van dee. o el Pe POV esse Saale sera en 6% PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. WIGS hoe ee a a ee 16 00 SHOPU GUD eke ye ool oe oe ee 16 U0 Short cut, clear, Botsford.................. 15 00 Shortcut Morgan..................0-20008. 16 25 Extra clear pig, short cut.. an galaaera ts ce fee oe 17 60 Extra clear, R€AVY ........0. cece cece ce cw ee 17 00 Clear quill, short cut....................... 11 C0 Boston clear, short cut.............:.2...0. i7 00 Clear back, short cut..................000.. 17 00 aed clear, short cut, best............17 00 CR Ou aoe ee : SMOKED Sa OR PLAIN. Hams, average 20 Ib 1 16 bs Se eee loan sw cele ret as 14% 12 to TA Deo a. lls pieniec ........:. waheigeine Gakarcd cuivesel cae $% best Doneless. . 2.08. ccc ec cscs SROUIGCEA oo ee eo oe 8 Breakfast Bacon, boneless. . LO e eee Dried Beet, ORGRR oro hcl geen Ue RAM PVICOS oes so 10° DRY SALT MBATS. Long Clears, HOGVY 00 Cedi eben. we. 8% PIMGQUUM. 5 ooo ee tas Feo oA Welter. ee sce eee 8% ss 6s 6 os 8% 66 oe 30 ‘aud 50 TD DUDS occ. case ces ct Peco wan LARD IN TIN PAILS. 8 tb Pails, 20in a case................... 5 Db Pails, 12 in a case. 10 ® Pails, 6 in a case .. eis oary eae @cieipl 20 Db Pails, 4 pails in dase. BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 he...........-.. Extra Mess, Chicago Pacging.. Ay Kansas City Packing.........- 2 PIACO a, oak aoa Coat bececdon Cuwate ce: date ee Extra Plate. ..i 26... cee. MeLecdeaasesa ys ‘ Boneless, rump butts ‘6 se Kan City pkd esas : * % bbl. SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Pork Sausage.............. te Se aee Le eine igs 7 Ham Sausage...... ay cb ease % Tongue Sausage.......... red Gules cca uaeudede Frankfort Sausage...........c cc cceesee cece Blood Sausage......... CLL aaee ane dine et aiee Bologna, straight.............. DW uucueaiae Bologna, thick........ acdc kawe vac need Ada k's Head Cheeses. oo. ssc) sc eae cease PIGS’ FEET. In half barreils........ In quarter barrels..... evcce emcee cess ces ee eeesceseerecees eer ecseesece FRESH MEATS. |. (he W. Steele Packing & Provision Co. uotes as follows: sh Beef, sides or carcasses........ Dressed HORB.-----+n cece sverevcerees Pork loins.......-- eke eve Reef loins... ec ee ee woe Geeks GOL PIG is so ess a sera ‘i Pork ribs.... FOES 54G. 6% % Oo peecense S68 oo & BGI MII DO eeeeae voce ee eeeccecce 7 5 6 ea es eeceseoseeoeeeraeer er eeoeneceas Frankfort BAUSAZO...... 0000 cc ecceensce —_ emcee Pee ceeene er and head arhard -: 10| Favorites... .... 25230 | Standards per eae ceca ue wane, Selects, per Pale ee poses Counts, in bulk, por 100.” Oe ate eats * shell Lee ee eh eae ete epee ence | eee beceeerecesce he ee eee eerie ar te | aces ceeearee. Duk ti pike ee peo tkae Trea BO Re Re ee eee ee ee meee ener ee wees os aececnee Whitedsh false Cees Relea ee) - WOODENWARE. Curtiss & Dunton roe as Fa : Standard Tubs, No. 1 a ki Standard Tubs, No. 2 4% | Standard Tubs, No.3.... ............ vee 31 Standard Pails, twohoop.................... 125 Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 150° | Pails, ground wood .... 2... cee tee 450 Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.............2...2 25 Butter Patis, ast... sca 2 25 ; Butter Ladles..... OE SO ae eee oe Butter Spades. 2.02) ore re E : Rolling Ping. 03.0. sooo se ee ee cae 27 Tb Potato Mashers .....0 005. 0..02500 BO Clothes Pounders.......... 0. .c.ccccccees ene’ 2 25 Clothes Pins ee 60 Mop: SHEKS. 2503060 Pe 100 Washboards, single................ce cece’ ‘an A 1 Washboards, double.............. ‘Washboards, Northern Queen......... BASKETS, -Diamond Market Bushel, narrow band, ae Bs ie oo pies 1 50 Bushel, narrow band, Noede. i. ceibig re geaubanal 140 Bushel, wide band Clothes, splint, Clothes, splint, Clothes, splint, Clothes, willow Clothes, willow Clothes, willow No.1 j Water Tight, (acme) Dts ee 3 half bi es, 2 85 HIDES, PELYS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as pouwes HiDE Green ....8 b 44%G 5 Calf skins, green Part cured.. ue @ 6%| or cured.. 6 @7 Full cured.. @ Deacon skins, Dry hides aaa 8 piece..... 10 @25 Kips ........ 6 WOOL. Fine washed % ® 22@23iCoarse washed. . .22@24 Medium ......... 22@25|Dmwashed........ 16@18 FURS. No. 1 No. 2 3 “4 Bears 55 25h 6 oo eek 15 00 7 00 Beavers... . 3.00502. se 6 00 BAGRErE Joe. oo v5) Cat, Wid. cece vccets.. = SO HIOUBES oS 2cc ee: Fox, Redo rk 1 00 Bc OPROSS2 Gout oc 5 n Grey e308 ee Pisherac oo) oe oe: . 00 EVO oo ee 4 00 Mink, Large Dark...... 40 Small Pale....... 25 Martina 2.05 2200200 8e0 4 1 G0 SPRING WINTER FALL KITS Musrats.: 22a: it 4 00 59 oe Otlen Sse ee 6 00 Raccoon, page eee "5 Small. se Shoct Grey, Long ‘ MISCE! LANEOUS. Sheep pelts, short shearing.. we or sheep pelts, old wool estimated....... WAHOW. oo es a 3uo 3% Grease butter: 2... a 8 Ginseng, goods ooo. 1 60@1 70 MISCELLANEOUS, Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.60@§1.70 2 b for clean washed roots. _ Rubber Boots and Shoes—Jobbers are offer- ing 40 per cent. off on first quality and 40 and 12% per cent. off on second quality. 6s PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—$2.25 per bbl. Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu. Bean—Hand-picked mediums are very searce, readily commanding $2.25@$2.50 per bu. Butter—Jobbers pay l8c for choice dairy and sell at 20c. , Grease butter is slow sale at 8c. a Butter:ne—Creamery, léc for solid packed” and lic for rolls. Dairy, 14c for solid packed and l5c for rolls. Cabbages—$6@$s per 100, according to size. Very scarce. Carrots—3(@3ie per bu. Celery—25 # doz. Cbheese—Jobbers are holding their stocks at 183@13\e. Cider—iCe per gal. Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; apple ba rels, 25¢c. Cranberries—Home grown, $3 perbu. Cape Cod, $ 1 per bbl. Dried Apples—Jobbers hold sun-dried at 6¢ and evaporated at 8c. Eggs—Jobbers pay 18ec for pickled stock and 22c for fresh, holding at 2c above those fig- ures. Fresh eggs are hard to get. Honey—In moderate demand, but eRe readily commanding i6@18c. Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14 per ton intwoand five ton lots and $13 in car lots. : Onions— Home grown, 7c per bu. Spanish, $1.30 per crate, Pop Corn—2e # b. Potatoes—Buyers pay 68@70c for good stock (Rose and Hebrons preferred) and hold at beg 80c. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys are scarce and high, readily commanding $5@$5. 50: per bbl @ i Turnips—20@25ec per doz. GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Wheat—ze higher. City millers pay 8c for Lancaster and 80c¢ for Fulse and Clawson. Corn—Jobdbing generally at d6c in 100 bu. lots and 54c in carlots. Oats—White, 46c in small lots and 35¢ in ear lots. Ry # bu By ip teenies pay $1.20 2 cwt. Flour—No change. Patent, $5.20 bbl.in sackd and $540 in wood. Straight, $4.20 8 bbl. in sacks and $4.40 i in. , wood. Meal—Bolted, $2.40 # bbl. Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 @ ton. # ton. Ships, $8.50 @ ton. ton Corn and Oats, $18 @ ton. COAL Present Prices: Stove No. 4 and Nut - - Egg and Grate - - - Middlings, $19 8 $8.00 per ton... $7.75 per ton. We are agents for Brazil Block Coal. The best and cheapest steam coal in the market Grand ait Ice & Coal | 4 OFFICE 52 PEARL ST. Offer me 0.: 170, : President—Frank Inglis : . “Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society. ' President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8. Wallace, _ ‘President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote. ; @ Presicent, D. Q. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald. ~ “Mason County Pharmaceutical Society. | Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society. President, C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber. _ President, 8. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss. “Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society. " Jtis perhaps not generally known that ee he “the average value per bushel, the average ity of preserving and increasing the value fa eo : ¢ Neosote is the name given to a new pre- __ sereosote. jan a decanter ! ,, The following alkaloids are derived Manistee County Pharmaceutical. Society. “from the acrid and irritating compounds Lyman, Jobn mt Meeting-At er—Henry B. Fairchild. Censors—President, Vice-President and Sec- Board of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, Geo. a. a roe ‘A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg. ‘wen, Isane Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. White. mmittee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- mittee “on Pe ntion- x. A. McWilliams, Theo. m1 . H. Tibbs. Oe on Pieccner OW. L. White, A. C. Bauer and Sse Mest gs—First Thursday evening in each First Thursday evening in November Meeting—Thursday evening, January 5, at THE Detroit Pharmace utical Society. is ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883 Vice President—F. Ww. R. Ferg. ynd Vice-President—J. J. Crowley. oc ‘ann Treasurer—F. Rohnert. une. ach month. ‘entral Michigan Druggists’ Association, President, J. W; Doeion: Secretary, R. M. Mussell. “President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart. © €linton County Druggists’ Association. ‘ Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society President, H. W. Willard; Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter. Tonia County Pharmaceutical Society, President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum. Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n. o Pharmaceutical Association. President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett. “Monroe County Pharmaceutical Society. Muskegon County Druggists’ Association, President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre. ‘Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, Geo. L, LeFevre. resident, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller. ' Oceana County Pharmaceutical society. z ident, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady. Saginaw County Pharmaceutical Seciety. President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall. Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society. President, E. A. Bullard: Secretary, C. E. Stoddard. President, W. H. Willard; Secretary, A. H. Lyman. * : Paris Green and the Potato Bug. ‘potato culture is more profitable than that of any of the cereals, and that the average value of its product per acre exceeds that of ‘wheat, corn, rye and buckwheat combined, ‘with margin enough to cover the additional cost of cultivation. In a pamphlet recently publislied by C. T. Reynolds & Co., this fact is conclusively proved from the statis- fies of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Figures are given to show ‘yield per acre and the average value of the yield per acre of the four cereals named, as compared with potatoes, and the met result for each year is about the same. In 1886 the average value of the yield per acre of potatoes was $34.49, while the aver- ‘age value per acre of the combined yield of the four cereals was but $30.24. The neces- f such a crop, by the application of the ~only successful agent numerous experiments and scientific research have been able to pro- ‘duce, cannot, therefore, be overestimated. ‘Paris green, the efficacy of which is attested by such authorities as Prof. C. V. Riley, Prof. R. C. Kedzie and Prof.. Stephen P. Sharpless has, during the past fifteen years in which it has been in use, proved: to be: ‘that agent. a Se ei Weosote as a Wood Preservative. servative, similar to creosote in properties, and row being prepared on a large scale from the phenoloids which occur in the ‘blast furnace creosote oil. This oil is used -as8 a liquid fuel, and also for the ‘*Lucigen” ‘light, and for creosoting timber. ‘The new ‘antiseptic is prepared from it by heating the rude mixture with caustic soda, by which a aonsiderable percentage of phenoloid bodies sare dissolved. The crude sodium phenols obtained in this manner are next purified »with which. they are associated and has then no color. On exposure to the air for some dime, it gradually becomes sherry red in col- -or.. It is found to be less caustic than car- bolic acid, although equal to it in its anti- septic and disinfectant qualities, and can be employed as a substitute for it and wood tar ——>—_2. Wisdom from Pharmaceutical Examina- -Q.. is a decantation? - Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. MUSKEGON, Dec. 28, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—At the meeting of the M. D. C. A., held last evening at the Bradford Hotel, Will Welch, of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, formerly of this city, read a paper on ‘‘Hydrastis Canadensis, the Alka- loid Berberina and its Preparations.” Het also exhibited a specimen of the drug. A alate hour the muveting adjourned. The next meeting will be held on Jan. 10. Gro. L. LEFEVRE, Sec’y. Oe Milk sugar is an excellent substance to use in teoth powders, as it is capable of dissolv- ing calcareous deposits between the teeth. Venezuela offers a prize of $4,000 to any one who can convert locusts into grease or some other useful product. "i The melancholy The salesman does not weigh so much _ As just before the Christmas trade; The *‘picnic’”’ has not been so great, _ Nor on the counter has he laid. From early morn till midnight drear His sweetest smile has been displayed ’ Behind the counter filled with toys, And all his meals have been delayed. But now he loafs upon his stool And thanks his lucky stars—at last His weary feet may rest awhile, For busy Christmas time is past. RELLUF. eee Oe An Explanation in, Order. The following letter, written to the affa- ble Secretary of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., involves an explanation on the part of David Goliah Holmes, the blooming beauty of the West Michigan Lumber Co., at Woodville: settlement Town, Desember 7, 1887. mister Fairchild i seen in the tradesman paper about dave Homes and the nursing bottels and bein as me an my woman has a pair of twins we ast dave if they was a good kind. he and Me are real good frens as we have traded back- wards and Forards a konsidrable. he told me they were just what I wanted and give Me your post offis derecktions .so i thot ide rite for you to send me a haf dozen as the brats do brake a Hel of a lot ov these kom- mon kind. daveisowin me for a spring calf and is a little backward in payin for it and i tole him as he was doin bizness with you he had better pay you and i would strat- en it out with him on the ealf bizness for i am a little skittish about sendin money in the male fori Lost fifty cents one time when isent to big rappids for -some hog Tings and i am smart ennuff not to git keched agin. now you had better pay for the postage stamps on them for the naybers git nfy male most all the time send them as quick as you can and rite me a letter about itto. igit my male at Woodville. the old woman saysi must put in a stamp butif you dont nead it you can send it back when you rite. Yours trulie JouN FULLAR. >< The Drug Market. Last week’s market report was made up earlier in the week than usual and so hur- riedly, on account of the Christmas holi- days, that the advance of 2 cents per pound in castor oil and 2 cents per gallon in linseed oil was not noted. The prices have been corrected in this week’s quotations. Tur- pentine has advanced 114 cents per gallon. Quinine is dull and a trifle lower. Specu- lators still have this article well in hand. Opium is unchanged. Morphia is steady. Balsam copaiba has again advanced and is tending higher. Gum camphor has ad- vanced and higher prices are expected. Pure cream tartar has declined. Oil sassafras is very scarce and tending higher. Oil cubebs and oi] pennyroyal are advancing. HAVE YOU. A Liquor and Poison Record, Combined? If not, send $1 to the Futler & Stowe Company, Grand Rapids, and,you will receive the best record published, by return mail. STEAM LAUNDRY, 43 and 45 ‘Kent Street, STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by mail and express promptly attended to. A MARVELOUS RECORD. ———-THE SUCCESS OF ——_ — Weal’s Carriage Paints. The Original and Only Complete thing in the history of Paints. NTs WHICH MAKE THEM A HOUSEHOLD WORD ARE QUANTITY, ECONOMY, DURABILITY,: CONVENIENCE. A Long Felt Want Supplied. Previous to the introduction of Neal’s Carriage Paints, an old vehicle could not be repainted without con- siderable outlay. Often the cost would exceed the article painted. Now, with Neal’s Carriage Paint, you can cost (in colors if desired). entirely unnecessary. ers, Etc., to their original brightness, use Neal’s Carriage Top Enamel Dressing. BEWARE OF WORTHLESS IMITATIONS ACME WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS Sole Mit, Detroit, Mich, For Sale by all First Class Dealers in Paints. THE CARDINAL POI QUALITY, repaint your buggiss at a oe durable luster, rendering varnis. 2 ine. Surpasses any- APPEARANCE, hard, with a brilliant, The paint dries perfectl Try it. Torestore old Carriage Tops,. Dashes, Blink- USE THE EDISON MIMEOGRAPH, For mainifolding autographic and type-writer work of all des cript ing: : * 205 LaSalle Street, _ . MAKERS AND GRINDERS OF Chrome Greens, and Yellows, Prussian, Chinese, Steel and Soluble Blues, Ver- “millions, Rose Pink, Lakes, White Lead, Zinc Paints and every- thing in the paint line. Being makers of DRY COLORS, we have an advantage over the so-called paint manu- facturers, who simply grind and mix. SPECIALTIES—Pure Ready Mixed Paints, Tinted Leads, Carriage and Buggy Paints ready for the brush. Floor Paints, Sash Paints, Domestic Paints, Feenee ioe Permanent Red, Maple Lead Permanent reen. t~ Superfine Coach Colors ground in Japan; Pure Fine Colors ground in oil. Wood and Iron Fillers, Steel Color Paints for Iron Workers, Graining and Fresco Paints, ete. SPECIAL PAINTS MADE TO ORDER. Peninsular brands of Ready Mixed Paints are full weights and free from barytes, nap- tha or any other adulterations. Send for sam- ple cards and prices. F. J. WURABURG, - Wholesale Agent, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE IMPROVED Americ? Packet Battery, FOR PHYSICIANS AND FAMILY USE. Points of Superiority: Portability, Power, Durability, Compactness, Strength of Cur- rent, Patent Hard Rubber Revoluble Cell, Water Tight, Convenience, Can be Carried in the Pocket Charged. Price $10. Dis. to the Trade. The Electro Medical B:ttery Co., KALAMAZOO, MICH, Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Go., Manufacturers’ Agents, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PECKHAM’S JNIVERSAL GROUP REMEDY Is prepared especially for children and promptly cures Croup, Whooping Cough, Colds, ete., diseuses sc common to childhood. The Croup Remedy contains no opium nor anything injurious to the most delicate child. _ The following wholesale druggists will fill trial orders for 14 do... received before Febru- ary Ist, 1888, thus giving the trade an oppor- tunity to tesi the remedy free of expense. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug -Co., Grand Rapids. Farrand, Williams & Co., Detroit. James E. Davis & Co,, Detroit. Peter Van Schaack & Sons, Chicago. FOR ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISING MATTER ADDRESS HE PROPRIETOR. DR, H. C. PECKHAM, Mich. Hreeport, - _ Peekham’s Universal Croup Remedy can be obtaimed of druggists only, Price 50 ets. per bottle. A beautifulily-decorated Metal Box, with bionze Iabel pull, GIVEN FREE with every dozen boxes of COLGAN'’S TAFFY TOLU. Specially Designed for a Herbarium. Suitable when empty for preserving, under proper label, herbs. roots, s:eds, spices, papers. etc., etc. Every storekeeper as well as housekeeper, wil find it well adapted in size, material and finish for many use- ful purposes. Place a COLGAN’S TAFFY TOLU is the original trade-mark- ed gum which has. cet the world a-chewing. It sells rapidly, pays well, and alwayf gives satisfaction. Supplied by all jobbers, packed in above style, at $3 perdozen. Size, $ix4ix7iginches. —* COLGAN & McAPEE, Lovisville, Ky. Ori ginators and Sole Proprietors, . . |. N. B—Include a dozen boxes in yournext order. You will find it the best $3 investment you ever made. ‘Aceticum .... Benzoicum, Ge Se ere Hieayece cat yc pg & j UT cep cae es eee eee. cee ee c EEVOTOCHIOR (6 oo onc. oe icc cea cs ee 5 Nitrocum 00.0.0 .525 2.4... Bess ee ee ee 12 Oxalicum ...0........0.. SA pbc cdas nese Salicylicum ....,......05. 0.005008 Be) | THNRIOUM 062206 cecceses. 1 40@ Tartaricum ................ Wee Valescw's AMMONIA. Aqua, 16 deg..... ....... ** 18 deg.... BACCAE. Cubebae (po. 1 39.......... es 1 60@1 7% PMDIDCTUB foo c cee .. 8 @9 Xanthoxylum ..... wien ty aue teens : 30 BALSAMUM. COpaibe oo. oe toes seewee cls 58@ 63 Or eee a ec cee ee @1i 50 Terabin, Canada................ Meee aes 55 WOMEAD eee aod, Ba 45@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian................-...05. Cassiae ....... eee cece eee wens Cinchona Flava....................0065 Euonymus atropurp.......... Linansesgnes Myrica Cerifera, po............. ..... Prunus Virgimt. +... 2s occ es oe .. Quillaia, BTA. oe ae eects soe ca. BHSRETAS oe a ee Ulrus seed. Wo occeee ots eee Ulmus Po (Ground 12).....:...; EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabraieio ye roe 24G@ . POCo Bee ee Haematox, » W DOXCSi ee. cae ccs e nee ‘ is S weer ece Carbonate Precip................. Citrate and Quinia. : Citrate Soluble....................0.008 Ferrocyanidum Sol.................... Solut Chloride................4 Geta Sulphate, com’l, (bbl. 85).............. 1% oe De ee ee ai ae ge eaedé SOOO FLORA. ATTIC R ec ey eee ae Ur TAILORS: oe SU es ee ee MACVICATION 8c heeled ee Sa ee FOLIA. Barosmeaccc. cele ee nesses Bae a die Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly............ R@ 45@ 30@ 10@ 2A@ 35@ 10@ 8@ @1 00 @ 90 12 25 50 BR 10 My cst alana vaio ce Salvia officinalis, 4s and %s.......... Wea Orsi ee es acca eS GUMMI. Acacia, Ist picked............... Soe “62nd eve ees aii in ue 3rd Sifted. sorts. ....6..0.080 05.000, POL ese, eis cca sk sieaton hie Aloe, Barb, (po, 60)............ Pana OADCs (DO: 20). ccc closes ced vse Socotrine, (po. 60)............... AIAMNIONING sie oe Assatoetida, (po. 80)................02. BONZOIBMIO: foo. ci cece bcs hoes cee Camphorae ..............0c008. Catechu, Is, (448, 14; 448, 16)........... @ Euphorbium, po...................200. 35@, Galbanum, oie. ees el ese, : GAMBORO NO. es eo ee, T5@ Guaiacum, (po. 45).......... ccc ee cece @ Kamo: (po. 2b) 20 eee es eee IMASBICT woes ose Ne oe Myrrh; (p0.45) 0 26s be oo eo as. @ Opus (pOsd (0) ek eee ose 4 13@4 Shellac. 6.352. ost e le Merron aise 25 “ bleached.......... . PREACHER Sess oss se a HERBA—In ounce packages. ADSINEDHEMN 6 ooo ek cchs ee bee cok. UPAtOPUI 0. es ce cess sees WODGH Brees oe ooo ey oa uece eels os MSI OPUIN 600555 occurs oe bee e ies Coe. Mentha Piperita.................cee0e eG VAP cn oe ecto ca alee sce hs ee @ 25@ @ 50@ 27@ @ @l 25 40 25 33 a Rue, 20205. Tanacetum, V............ IBRy MUS Vi ee eee Sa oe MAGNESIA, Oalcined, Pats ceo ee oe a, Carbonate, Pate.) ee. s cs eee Carbonate, K.&M.................... Carbonate, Jennings.................. 35@ OLEUM. FADSINEDIVUIN 22 O85 oo Ge ee ae 5 00@5 50 Amygdalae, Dulc....................6- 45@ 50 Amydalae, AMarae................ 000. 7 25@7 75 AEST oe Seo ee 1 90@2 10 Auranti OOrtex: 2.65. 200s. eee sk 2 00 Bergamii............. Ho wean 2 T5@3 25 CagIputl: o.oo. oe chee eas Seacecee . 90@1 00 Caryvopnyile o.oo @2 00 COMBE or oe ol re 35@ 65 Chenopodit soe oo oes @1 7 CINNAMOND boos eee. sue see ck oats oo 9°@1 00 75 65 55@ 22@ 20@ Citronella or eee ss a ee, Conium MSG .. f20 loose oes coca e cots Copaiba .. 00.65.05. Moe cee uted ee G@ 1 00 CUNEDHC ee eee cae cece 12 00@12 50 HEXCGHTNICOB Se ee eee 90@1 00 FUTIPOVON GS oa. Sie Wale cele aa oe os sic oo 1 20@1 30 Galeheria ooo ese ee oe era, 2 25@2 35 Goeraniom. 4.30. oe eee eo 5 Gossipii, Sem, gal..................200. 55@ 75 5G 8&5 HICAGOM Bes oka ee he ewes sae eos v5 FUMIPSM oo. 2s ots ete deem ceo ue ses 50@2 00 90@2 00 EAVONGUIA | oc os --- 90 PAMONIS 2. oe ee ee -.1 T5@2 25 Mimi ale ree a oe ea ~-- 4@ 45 Mentha: Pipers. i. ei vec eck. 2 25@3 3) Mentha Verid. 2. oc6. coe. ee ke 3 Ta@4 00 Mocrnuae, palo. ci ce cee ks 80@1 00 MYyrcia, Secs ys cscs ee ce ave ak @ 50 Ole a oo ae Se ae 1 00@2 75 Picis Liquida, (gal. 85)................. 10@ 12 ACTA age See we oe Meee ec oo 1 18@1 26 ROSMATINE |. 6528 ee ee oe phe 75@1 00 IROSBES Soe eae Ces es oe @6 00 SUGEME be ue eee ee ot aoa L * my Sassafras... ....... Pp THeEODFOMAB. - os ie bse ee ae cee: ae POTASSIUM. BICRTOMSte eo oe en Noes once Bromide 2 i... 526.045. hoes cam cath Chlorate, (Po. 20)............ No cuaes daar HOGIGG ec ae eek ee 4 PYussiagte 3) ose. oe ees Sua cu ose aie craee * RADIX, TANPNAG soe cn ose ee bac eons cen aele AMICHVISE Koes oes bes os oa eats ATUM, PQ .o2 os. se Bega ea ae slieuisaumy es COIAMUR ee bess one Gentiana, (po. 15)............ 00665 eae. Glyehrrhiza, (pv. 15)............. woos Hydrastis Canaden, (po. 48)........... Hellebore, Alba, po.............. wag: Inula, pore. es. eels Ipecac, po......... edna SABA. Pie ee elec ee cease seco ks Marans, 248.5 000 8.00.2. ceeo Podophyllun, po..:................... BMGT ee ee eae Spigetia Pega eiie iia state Mak dale mises cigeies arr Sanguinaria, (po. 25).............:..... Serpentaria...................00; aes Senega ‘ Smilax, Officinalis, H...............2.. ee oe Mex Scillae, (po. 35)....... naienig eiaele c'n/aie Sic As Symplocarpus, Foetidus, po.......... Valeriana, English, (po. 30)........... St German. oo. SEMEN, ANISUM; (PO. 20). 6. cd seo e eee eke ve @ Apium (graveolens)....:......5..0.... 10@ 12 Bird ls es ee oer esk geese 4@ Carui, (po. 18)....... Se OUES oes cue wat R@ 15 Cardamom ......... Sieies ce ausetes az cc sb OOGE 25 CoPiggagram. ioe ae Cannabis Sativa..... nite ee eee Cydonium............ ene vent Chenopodium ............... Dipterix Odorate. ak Foeniculum.............. Leese we Foenugreek, po...-.......... Dive end ae 2@ 4% %5@1 00 6@ Lini:.... ee oe eee eeretee Bpictee ek 34K@ Lini, grd, (bbl, 8)....0. 00.00.00 0... 2. 34@ Phalaris Canarian............5.......5. 38%Q@AM * * Tre 6 wee eee ee es tence BO | ther, Spts Nitros, f Sulphur, BS. oO ard! ,for Yellow Reef, do Pes MIS shh abbns OUS. C3. 4Aither, Spts. Nitros, 1 F PGR eos eo ss Alumen, ground, (po. %)..../.......... Annatto ..... AMIMON POs a a Antimoni et Potass Tart.'............ Argenti Nitras, 3...................... -Arsenicum.......... Bue cae ces sue an Balm Gilead Bud...................... Plaka cae ap eres Poo ek een ree 2 alecium or, 18, (48, 11; 348, 12).... ‘Cantharides Russian, po.. - Ak selene Capsici Fructus, af.................... Capsici Fructus, po.................... Capsici Fructus, B PO sol ee ‘ Caryophyllus, (po. 35)................. Carmine, No. 40... 2... 00.0006. ccc ceca ee Cera Alba, S..& Bove Cera Flava. ooo 02 Coeeus ye ee! wees Cassia Fructus......................... Centravia (2.6 eee Cebacenm (2008 po Ghioroform..000 i Chloroform, Squibbs.................. Chloral Hydrate Cryst................ Chondrag. fg ee Cinchonidine, P.& W.................. Cinchonidine, German........... .... Corks, see list, discount, per cent.... Creasotnm Crete, (DBIT5) 2 Creta prep : Creta, precip... 5.2 2. oe Sosogesosesd | Creta Rubra..... Crociig, ae ee Cudbear i ee ees Cuprr Suiph 2:20 Dextrine 2c ee Be Bthor Suiphe:...2 00200. Emery, all numbers................... MMery, POs 2. eS @ Ergota, (p0:) 75... 6. 10@ Higke Witte 8 LR@ Gala oe a ee @ Gambier ./55.0 200005) 82): eet oh 1@ Gelatin, Coopor........................ @ Gelatin, French...) 2-2... 40@ Glassware flint, 70&10 by box, 60&10, less. Glue, Brower Glue; Whites B@ Glyeering oo es ee ES 23@, Grana Paradisi...............; pes FOS 2c wees eka Hydrarg Chlor. Mite .................. @ Hydrarg Chlor. Cor................... @ 80 Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum............... @ 90 Hydrarg Ammoniati.................. @115 Hydrarg Unguentum.................. 45@ 55 Hydrareyrum’ 3 300 @ 80 Ichthyocolla, Am ..................... 1 25@1 50 TPAGISQ coe es es 7@1 00 @ 25@ 85 50 18 Todine, Resubli:.. 0300550 4 00@4 10 : = > @ Liquor Potass Arsinitis............._. 16@ 12 Mair eo ee uO ce 3 Morphia, §S, Myristica,.No. bo ee eee ou e Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co... 0007! 2 00 Pies Higu, pmte. ae Piper Alba, (po. 35).................... Potassa, Bitari, pure.................. Potass Nitras.......0...0.000.... sae Pyrethrum, pv: 0220 ee a as Quinia, S,German..................... pees Salacin ............ eiowelee gucci te coke Todeform 005 (AS @5 15 Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... at Hupulme oe 85@1 00 Lycopodium 220.20 55@ 60 : 80@ 85 Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 134)............. 2@ ¢ WANNA SM oe 80@1 00 Has, PGW ee se 3 10@3 35 Morphia, 8. N. Y..Q. & C.Co........... 3 00@3 25 Moschus Canton ...................... @ 40 60@ 0 Nux Vonmiica, (po. 20).............. S 0 OS Sepia oi ee Picis Liq, N. C..% galls, doz.........) 2 0 Picis Liq., quarts. Ree foe g Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)................... Piper Nigra, (po. 22)................... Pix Burgas oo ee Plumb Aceti oi Potassa, Bitart,com.................. Potass Nitras, opt..................... Pulvis Ipecac et opii........... ...... 11 Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D.Co., doz. Quassiae Quinia, S..P. & Woo Rubia Tinctorum...................... Saccharum Lactis, pv................. Sanguis Draconis...................... SAMLOHING. 25 ee BDO Ga ee es eae Seidlitz Mixture................ als SMAPS: sos ec, Os ses SNAPS, Opt ee a Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. Voes........... Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes..... fe Soda Boras, (po 11).........02......... 10 Soda et Potoss Tart.................... 3 Soda Carbo. li es Sode, Br-Carb.. ose bis Sods; Ash ee hee Soda Sultphas. eS Spte: Mther Coc 5. Spts. Myrcia Dom.............0....... Spts. Myrcia Imp..................... p Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)...2......... Strycbnia, Crystal... ..........00..... @!1 30 Sublet 24%@ 3% Swipnyr, MOUs: ou 24@ 3 PPAMaTINGS oo » 9 8@ 10 Terebenth Venice..............50..... 28@ 30 THeEODTOMIRG 260 60@ 65 Weer ee og aoe 9 00@16 00 Mipci Sulphe oo ee i@ 8 OILSs. Bbl Gal 70 15 SEEEEEEOS cw) © a 5086 Shr monk ed 0 s e; @2 25 Whale, winter...........0.cccec sees a Hard; extras o.oo) 5 Bards Noo Loca. Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled ..............2...000. Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ Spirits Turpentine................... PAINTS Bbi Red Venetian.................. 1X Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 24 2% Putty, commercial ............ Putty, strictly pure............ Vermilicn, prime American.. Vermilion, Engtish............ Green, Peninsular............. Lead, red strictly pure..... .. Lead, white, strictly pure..... Whiting, white Spanish..... a Whiting, Gilders’.............. White, Paris American........ Whiting Paris English cliff.. Pioneer Prepared Faints..... Swiss Villa Prepared Paints.. g VARNISHES. No. I Turp Coseh. leo eel. 1 10@1 20 WExtre PME ee Ge a 1 60@1 70 Coach Body... ..........0.6.000..006202 15@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10 Extra Turk Damar..............2..... 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. 0@ td mC, Importers and Jobbers of DGS, CHEMICALS ND DR “SUNDRIES. DEALERS IN PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WE ARE SOLE PROPRIETORS OF WEATHERLY'S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. We have in stock and offer a full line o Whiskies, Brandes, Gins, Wines, — -Rums, We are Sole Agents in Mich- igan for W.D.& Co., Hender- son County, hand-made SOUR MASH WI Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky, We Sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We Give Our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction. All Grders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive them. SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER. Hazeltine - & Perkins | GGTS that Senators who have traveled in Europe, _.- emment telegraphs of that continent, are not __ public telegraphs. . . its friends surelg are oe enough to cir- _ jpasis, the following table shows the com- . neglected, will wamble and lie. M. J. WRISLEY. : ee IMPORTANT MEASURES. bill to establish a postal telegraph evidently has strong friends in the nate, and they were able to secure its ref- erence at first to a special committee, though subsequently, ‘at the request of ‘Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, this was Teconsidered, and it was sent to his Com- - mittee on Post Offices. That Committee ‘thas been very slow, heretofore, in acting - pon similar measures, but it is probable that it has been sufficiently roused, this - #ime, to be more punctual. It is notable ‘and have had some experience of the gov- especially desirous of making the change. The greater cheapness of service is attended by serious disadvantages, even in countries where there is no extension of executive patronage in connection with the While telegraphs are not articles of public mecessity, schools are such, and _ therefore THE TRADESMAN is glad to see that Mr. Blair is resolved to revive his bill for the extinction of illiteracy by aid from the gen- eral treasury. In view of the substantial _ gnanimity with which the bill passed the ‘Senate a year ago, there need be no delay in sending it down to the House, where it will have torun the gauntlet of Speaker Carlisle and his well-packed Committee on Education. But it is much stronger in the House, and especially with the Southern members, than it was in the Forty-ninth Congress. Several Southern Congressmen were refused renomination because they took part with Mr. Carlisle in trying te kill it, and in the election of last August in Kentucky it played a part only second to the Tariff in imperiling the future of the Dem- ecratic party. THE TRADESMAN doubts whether Mr. Carlisle will dare to deal with it as he did two years ago, and if he does, ecumvent him. Eggs by the Pound. From the Bgston Globe. As the result of an agitation among the marketmen of this city and elsewhere, it is probable that eggs will be sold by weight hereafter. A rule of this kind is greatly meeded by the purchasers, who now must be contented with eggs of whatever size the @ealers choose to give them. Everybody who has eaten egrs or bought eggs knows there is a wide difference in the size of the product manufactured by the various kinds of hens. ‘The large Asiatic varieties lay ig eggs aud are not stingy with the qual- afty of the material they put inside the shells.. The yolks are large and fat and yellow, and the whites are as near perfect albumen as can be found. On thecontrary, the small breeds—the Bantams and Leg- horns and Black Spanish—appear to know @hat eggs are sold by the dozen and, work- ‘ing by the piece, endeavor to turn off as many as possible, having no regard for the the feelings of the poor, deluded buyers, - who vainly hope to make a meal from the dilute albumen and thin yolks. Another advantage of buying by weight is that ancient and decrepit eggs do not weigh as much .as those which are young and healthy; and when the good house- keeper finds out that she has had some of last year’s eggs palmed off on her she ean console herself with the idea that they do not cost as much as those lately plucked from the warm nest. It is high time that the honest, conscien- tious hen was protected from the base, cut- | Expre under methods of cheap hen labor that are g the market. By all meanslet eggs be bought and sold by weight, like beef and - pork and other animal foods. Cost of Roasting Coffees. The cost of roasting coffee is. generally " at 144 cent per pound, while the shrinkage is figured at 15 per cent. On this parative cost of green and roasted coffee: ppinie ei peinievinpeNRiRNs ia aaa Gi BeeeEss | He ent man. Soa f E | Rapids Exp: to and toon I it. + eo) er ae gut through trains nt ©: W. Rueaixs. grand : : ss Ades care of the the Michigan. HEXTER & FRIEDMAN, Manufacturers of ‘pUTTEHERINE. office and Factory; 231, 233 Michigan, St., CHICAGO, - ILL. BEGIN THE NEW YEAR Right by using the “Complete Business Re°ord,’ A New Account Book For Grocers and General Dealers. This book has Printed Headings planned to receive a daily statement of Sales, Pur- chases, Cash Received, Cash Expended, Bank Account, Bills Receivable, Bills Payable, etc.. etc.; also provides for Weekly, Monthly and Yearly Totals. The arrangement of the Reg- ister is such that a dealer can ascertain his lia- bilities and resources in a few minutes at any time. Each Register contains Interest Tables, Standard Weights and Measures, Business Laws and much other valuable information for business men. Over 35,0/0 copies of the Register now in use. Address, for free sam- ple sheets, prices, etc., oH. W. PAMPHILON, Publisher, 30 Bond Street. - NEW YORK. A cla be 3 0, LECTROT ; re ga aaee is el ok wala 7 _ — ms ae FURNITURE veacana | Na Sunes Sole pects for Chicago Brass Rule Works, for State of Michigan. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. All Trains daily except Sundny.° GOING NORTH. Arrives. Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex...... 8:45Ja m Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex..... Traverse City & Mackinaw cane Cadillac Express..........++-. Z "3: Saginaw Express pac ceescs en ee oe ee cuebaceeeee esses 10:30 a m. Saginaw express runs through solid. 9:05 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City and Mackinaw. 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Traverse City, Pe- toskey and Mackinaw City. 10:40 p. m, train has Mieesing cars for Traverse Clty, Petoskey and Mackinaw. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express. ..........+...- Fort Wayne Express.............+. rt re am Cincinnati Express.............+++ 40pm Traverse City ee Mackinaw Ex. “10, 50 pm 7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. z 00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper Ag Cincinnati. 5:00 p. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadien points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. Arrive. 6:30 AM... c cc cvccccccsccnccncescesccscewscccces: 10:10am eee Eecc cane ows cing cee tenses ewer sceces oe 4:30pm Leaves. 9:05 am 11:30am 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 & Saginaw Division. DEPART. Saginaw EXpress........scscccsssccscccccccceces 7 30am Saginaw EXpress.........sescecsecescccrcccesces 410pm ARRIVE. Grand Rapids Express...........ce2+ ssseseees Z = am Grand Rapids Express.........-...-----+-+++++- pm All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot Trains 7 solid both ways. Chicago & West ; West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives. +Day Express.. *Night Express... ov Muskegon Express Spe ese ees ae pae 5:00 pm *Daily. tDaily except Sunda: Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful attendants without ex- tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p.m.,and through coach on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains, Newaygo Division. Leaves. Arrives. mxpress ok eee aa ke nie eee ee bee 4:05 pm 4:20 pm Sos ebeapeus bent sn nes ae anc cw. 8:25 a.m 10:20am ail t eraine arrive and depart from Union Depot. The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin, where close connection is made = h F.& P.M traing to and from lana and Manistee W. A. GAVETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent. J.B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. Y. a 2: = Mail. tw eit oe BS BeeeeEae 1 pevddT BEBBEB I, N. fh Nba 9:02 a 10:06 a 1:35a 5:05 9:40 3:30 om. oa am. NW WH IS OOD Or s ec B am _ 7:10pm..Chicago 11:30 p : A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at t. 10pm, ca ing passengers as — as Kalamazoo. All trains dai & except Sunday. . MCKENNEY, General Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. *Night Express.............---2-+-» 9:30 pm ¢Through Mail --10:20 am +Evening Express.. e +Detroit Express... “ +Mixed, with COACH. .....0c0ceeeee GOING WEST. (Morn: BOXPTOSS. .5 65 -ioct ee scces ? 4 1 ; +Daily, Sun oe oy Passengers t: the 6:50 am Express make close connection at Owono for Lansing, and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:10 a m the following morning. Th ne has pW ager seerinecnr JAS. CAMPBELL, City: P: re Agent. GEo. B. REEVE. Traffic Manager, Chicag Michigan Central. | Grand Rapids Division. | : DEPART. ae oe ¢ Express os oe et ccab es aus auc ace ce ose sees ie « 6:50am trains East over C.R. R., ( D. W. JOHNSTON, =e aise TO RETAILERS _OF— CLOTHING, Furnishing Goods, LUMBERMEN'S SUPPLIES Hats, Caps, Fite All winter goods will be sold at and BELOW COstT FOR 30 DAYS To make room for SPRING GUULS Which are now arriving. TERMS i-- 7} 1.6, LBV 7 per cent. 10 days. oO 30 NET 60 36, 38, 40 and 42 Canal Sk, GRAND RAPIDS, 6c SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF ABSOLUTE SPIGKS, Ann Avsolute Baking, Powder. 100 PER CENT. PURE. SEEDS FOR EVERYBODY. For the Field or Garden. If you want to buy CLOVER Oh THY Or any other kind, send to the Seed Store, 71 CANAL ST,, W.-Y, LAMOREAUX. Grand Rapids, Mich, MICHIGAN. To the man seeking a business location or contemplating a. : | change, the lumberman, the manufacturer, we invite your at- tention to the opportunities, prospects and present situation NEW TOWN With magnificent harbor facilities (to the great harbors belong the great cities), backed by many square miles of White Pine and Hardwood forests untouched by the woodsman’s axe, af- fording the most practicable facilities for the establishment of woodworking industries. To these, whether great or small, FREE SITES Are offered. Immediately tributary to this port are the great- est iron-ore producing ranges in the World, embracing the Go- gebic, Menominee and Marquette, which will find their outlet, in due course, via this natural shipping point. The great Minne- | apolis, Saulte Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway will enter this port by December 1. It has already expended over $500,000.00 In Docks, Warehouses, Depots and Terminal facilities. Over One Hundred and Fifty (50) business houses and dwellings have been built within the past three months, and the promise of growth for the coming year is most flattering. . For further particulars, opportunities for business, maps and plats, address F. W. McKINNEY, Agent sal Ste, Marie Land and Improvement Co, * GLADSTONE, MICH. « VINDEX Tae BEST 5-C. CIGAR In the World. SYRAIGHT HAVANA LONG FILLER, SUMATRA WRAPPER. = OLARK, JRWELL & 60, Sole Agents for Western Mich. COUPON. PASS BOOK Combines the Advantages of a Pass Book and the Coupon System. PRICE LIST. 20 Coupon Pass Books............ $ 1 00 50 100 250 500 1000 Money can be sent by postal note or post- . Office or expres order. E. A. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids, Mich. P, STEKETEE & SUMS, JOBBERS iN DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS, S83 Monroe St., AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Full line of Notions for the Holiday Trade, to which the inspection of dealers is cordially invited. 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