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Twentieth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1902.

Number 998

 

 

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

A Number of the Principal
Stockholders in the

Douglas, Lacey & Co.’s

properties, accompanied by P. B. Forsyth, of the
firm of Currie & Forsyth, 1023 Michigan Trust
Building Manager of the Grand Rapids office,
will start on Nov. 8 on Special Hotel Car Actium
on a tour of inspection of their several proper-
ties, located in Arizona, California, Mexico and
Colorado. This firm are in great favor on ac-
eount of their thorough business methods of
protecting their investors by the law of average
and the very satisfactory dividends just re-
ceived from several of their mining, smelter and
oil properties.

 

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Credit Co., te

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
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against worthless ac-
counts and collect all
Old taace

 

 

William Connor Co.
Wholesale Ready-Made Clothing

Men’s, Boys’, Children’s
Sole agents for the State of Michigan
for the

S. F. & A. F. Miller & Co.’s
famous line of summer clothing, made in
Baltimore, Md , and many other lines
Now is the time to buy summer clothing.

28-30 South lonia Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Do You
SAVE a Dollar?

Then put that one where it will
make more dollars.

I have made other people’s dollars
earn seven per cent. on investments,
and some FOUR HUNDRED per
cent. on speculations and invest-
ments combined.

Write me and I will tell you how.

oe

Martin V. Barker 3

: Battle Creek, Michigan
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Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, efficient,
responsible; direct demand system. Collections
made everywhere—for every trader.

Cc. E. McCRONE, Manager.

 

 

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Men of Mark.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Getting the People.
8. Editorial.
10. Clerks’ Corner.
12. Hardware.
14. Clothing.
16. Shoes and Rubbers.
18. Dry Goods.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Butter and Eggs.
23. The New York Market.
24. Girl Earns Large Salary.
25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current.
31. Window Dressing.
32. The Grain Market.

Noble, Moss & Co.

Investment Securities
Bonds netting 3, 4, 5 and 6 per cent.

 

 

Government Municipal
Railroad Traction
Corporation

Members Detroit Stock Exchange and
are prepared to handle local stocks of all
kinds, listed and unlisted.

808 Union Trust Building, Detroit

 

 

If you could see the Oro Hondo
property, you would invest

The location cf the Oro Hondo property ad-
joins the biggest gold mine in the world—
The Homestake—which promises to become
equally famous and profitable. The Home-
stake has paid regular dividends for twenty-
five years and is crushing over 3,000 tons of ore
daily, and has enough ore in sight to run its
enormous plant for 35 years. This ore ledge,
which is 456 feet wide, traverses the Oro Hondo
property. The managers of the Oro Hondo
property are practical business and mining
men, who bought the property, consisting of
over 1,000 acres, at a cost of over $600,000.
With their own money they began the initial
development work before a share of stock was
offered. They erected a large hoisting plant at
a cost of $20,000, and the shaft is down over
100 feet in ore at $7.60a ton. They are block-
ing out ore sufficient to operate a large cy anide
plant which will cost about $500,000, and to do
this they are offering to original investors a
portion of its treasury shares at soc per share,
par value $1. Write us for full information.
If any subscriber, upon investigation,
is not satisfied that existing conditions
at the mine have been understated by
us, we will refund the amount sub-
scribed.

Wm. A. Mears & Co.,
Fiscal Agents, New York

Address all communications to

Charles E. Temole,
623 Michigan Trust Bldg,

 

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wanted

We want several small manufacturing
concerns to locate here and will furnish
asiteand a small bonus if necessary.
This is an excellent location for a basket
factory, oval wood dish factory or handle
factory. We also want a bank and will
extend the proper encouragement to
any one who can supply our needs.

Jack Moblo,

Sec’y Riverdale Improvement Association
Riverdale, Mich

 

 

 

Think of a young girl cornering the
pecan market! And a Texas girl at
that! She did not quite capture the
whole crop in the United States, but she
did put the nut trade on an edge for a
while, and set its oldest heads to won-
dering about what was going to happen
next. This young girl operator is only
about I9 years old—Miss Bernice Bar-
dine, if you please.

Last year she and her younger brother
made quite a little money gathering pe-
cans. Since then she has been studying
the business and laying plans for future
operations. During the last summer
she carried on an extensive corres-
pondence, not only with mercantile es-
tablishments in various cities that han-
dle pecans, but with reliable people
who reside in regions where the nut
grows. In this way she got thoroughly
informed in all matters pertaining to
the present crop. :

Feeling confident that pecans would
command a good price, she set to work
some weeks ago and, aided by her
brother and a few trusted assistants who
were sworn to secrecy,she quietly leased
every pecan grove and forest of any
value in the Colorado Valley. When
buyers appeared in the country, start-
ling the ranchers by offering to engage
pecans at 7%4 cents per pound, those who
make a business of gathering the nuts
were astounded to find that a young girl
had entered the field and cornered the
crop so far as that particular region was
concerned. A little investigation
showed that this energetic young woman
is in a fair way to make a fortune in a
few months. It is known that she got a
great bargain in nearly all of her leases.
As a sample of the shrewdness that she
displayed, it has leaked out that she
leased one forest for $100 in which there
are several giant trees that will each
yield twenty busheis or 880 pounds of
pecans. At a low estimate the profits
accruing from this single transaction
will fall little short of $5,000.

When it is remembered that nothing
of market value is subject to such
fluctuations of price as pecans, there is
not much matter for wonderment in tbe
fact that the people leased their forests
for so little money. Only a few years
ago there was an abundant crop, and
yet for some unaccountable reason the
nuts were allowed to rot where they fell.
There were no buyers and no market.

Aside from scooping the crop this
courageous Texas girl has distinguished
herself in other ways. A pecan crop is
not easy to gather. The work is at-
tended with great danger and many
hardships. The harvesting is generally
done by vigorous young men and athletic
boys. Not many young women would
exchange places with the fearless Texas
girl although tbe profits were doubled.
Those who are engaged in the business
have to camp out in the woods, often
many miles from a town or a ranch.

After Miss Bardine became convinced
that pecans would command a fair price
she at once set to work to discover some
method through which she hoped to
gather the crop in some way that would

 

Cornering the Pecan Market With Balloon.

 

be an improvement upon the old pian of
operations. The largest and best pe-
cans grow upon the topmost boughs of
the tallest trees, often a hundred and
fifty feet from the ground. A daring
atbletic climber of light weight gets a
few bushels of these ‘‘top gallants,’’ as
they are called, but ordinary thrashers
are forced to shake their fists at them
and walk away. They often leave from
$20 to $50 worth of pecans in the tops
of these tall trees. Miss Bardine deter-
mined to harvest the crop clean. So she
rigged up a balloon.

The experiment was made at Granite
Shoals, on the Colorado River, where
there is a large forest of the tallest pecan
trees in Texas. Miss Bardine’s people
had already gathered the nuts from the
branches of the giant trees as far up as
the thrashers dared to venture. They
estimated that there were at least 500
bushels of pecans yet remaining be-
yond their reach.

The balloon was transported to Gran-
ite Shoals and inflated with hot air from
a furnace constructed in the midst of a
grove of the tallest trees. The girl,
armed with a long thrashing pole,
stepped into the basket, and when her
assistants, who were holding the anchor-
rope, announced that they were ready,
the signal was given, and the airship
rose swaying and jerking to the tops of
the trees. The men who held the anchor-
rope had taken a half-hitch around a
smali oak, and they found that they
could easily control the ascent of the
balloon. So this daring pecan operator
gathered in every Jast nut on her trees—
and with them all many thousands of

dollars.
____—~¢—  —

It is reported that,owing to the drouth
in Australia, sheep are selling there at
from a sixpence to a shilling a head.
Some enterprising firm should buy up
at that price in large numbers and ship
them to the United States, where un-
doubtedly either in cold storage or as
canned meat they would find a ready
sale, The freight charge would be
something and the tariff is two cents a
pound, but even at that they could be
sold at a profit much cheaper than the
figure meat has been bringing for some
time. It is no farther from Australia to
New York than it is from Australia to
London, and if Australians had gone
into the business a few weeks ago, with
proper shipping facilities they might
have made quite a handsome sum.

a

Lord Kitchener has given many rea-
sons for his conviction that a soldier
should never marry. His latest is that
the terrible anguish of officers’ wives
was a proof that, like priests, soldiers
ought to be celibates. Lord Kitchener
said this recently to an officer’s wife,
who answered: ‘‘Then you think that
my husband ought not to have married
me?’’ To which Lord Kitchener re-
plied graciously: ‘‘Thanks to you, I
change my opinion for one case.’’

NO

An Atchison woman had fried chicken
for dinner, chicken croquettes for sup-
per and chicken pie and chicken soup
next day, all out of one little old hen,

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

MEN OF MARK,

 

Richard Bean, Manager Putnam Factory,
National Candy Co.

The science of accounts is a develop-
ment of age and experience. The
book-keeping of the trapper, the pioneer
settler on the prairie or of the general
storekeeper on the frontier is as_primi-
tive as their way of life; but when the
number of transactions multiply and
their scope enlarges, and as the won-
derful credit system which may be
either a master or a servant brings the
business under its influence, accounting
becomes a science, in its application
demonstrates the right of a business to
live and tests the wisdom of business
policies.

In the United States, a new country,
too little attention has been paid to ac-
counts. In England, an old country,
perhaps too much attention has been
paid to elaborate and in many cases use-
less records. But in the older countries,
with their close and continuous compe-
tition and where little economies must
be depended upon to save even narrow
margins of profit, correct book-keeping
is of serious moment. If sometimes it
would seem that more attention had
been paid to finding out about a busi-
ness than to doing business, it was a not

unnatural development of the hard con-

ditions under which business was done.
In the United States, where, on the
whole, profits have been large as com-
pared with the older countries, where
opportunities have been more numerous
and action freer, there has been a sort
of impatience with the elaborate ac-
counting methods of the Old World,
and from it has come much of the influ-
ence which has led to the simplification
of old methods, making book-keeping
the servant rather than the master.
Still to the older countries must we
look for the most perfect methods of ac-
counts. In the United States book-
keeping is largely looked upon asa
temporary occupation to be used asa
stepping stone to a higher class of work.
In the older countries accounting is a
profession to be adopted as a lifelong
pursuit. As fine accountants as there
are in the world are to be found in the
States, but their average in accuracy,
reliability and knowledge of the art does
not begin to be so high as in Europe.
Richard Robert Bean was born on a
farm in the Yorkshire Woles, England,
Aug. 26, 1862, being the third of a fam-
ily of four children. His antecedents
on both sides are Scotch, the family
name being originally MacBean. Wher
he was 7 years of age, the family moved
to Pocklington, where he attended pub-
lic and private school until he was 17
years of age. He then entered the law
office of J. T. Sargent, who, in addition
to being a solicitor, was registrar of the
county court. Mr. Sargent was a very
capable man and taught his clerk habits
of thrift and punctuality and exactness,
which have had a marked influence on
his life and for which he feels under
great obligations to his old employer.
During the time he was with Mr, Sar-
gent, he studied law, with a view to tak-
ing up the work of court practice, but
abandoned this idea when he was 21
years of age, and moved to London,
where he remained a year, In Septem-
ber, 1884, he came to this country with
an older brother, locating immediately
in Grand Rapids, which had been
brought to his attention by friends of
his boyhood. He soon afterward entered
the employ of the Old National Bank,
where he remained four years, starting
in as collector and ending as book-

 

keeper, occupying several intermediate
positions in the meantime. Six months
after the inauguration of the house of
Olney, Shields & Co., be entered the
establishment as book-keeper, remaining
with that house and its successor eight
years. Failing health impelled him to
remove to California, where he located
on a lemon ranch near San Diego. The
change was so beneficial to his health
and so detrimental to his pocketbook
that he returned to Grand Rapids at the
end of a year, and entered the employ of
the Putnam Candy Co. in January, 1897,
taking charge of the office. He has
gradually acquired a knowledge of the
business until he has come to under-
stand thoroughly every branch of it and,
on the purchase of the plant by the Na
tional Candy Co., he was not only made
manager of the local factory, but was
also elected a director of the parent or-
ganization. As the local factory is
employing nearly 200 people, including

 

inspiring his associates to work along
common lines with him. He accom-
plishes this result without friction, in
consequence of which every person in
the establishment stands ready to hold
up his hands and sustain his policies
under all circumstances. His relations
with his traveling force are so close and
cordial that every man on the road for
the house is ready and willing to fight
for the hotse and defend its goods and
reputation on the slightest provocation.

As a credit man, Mr. Bean occupies
an enviable position. He probably
comprehends a credit proposition as
quickly as any man at this market and
appears to decide by intuition whom to
trust and whom not totrust. He has
made it a point to teach the merchant
of small means the desirability of keep-
ing out of debt and keeping his credit
good, and many men who have taken his
advice and acted on his suggestions
frankly admit that much of their suc-

 

 

 

 

 

 

six traveling men, the position is one
of large responsibility, but those who
know Mr. Bean well believe that he is
equal to every emergency and that he
will be able to make a showing which
will place him high in the counsels of
the organization.

Mr. Bean was married May 4, 1892,
to Miss Alice L. McCoy, of Grand
Rapids. They reside at 53 Ransom
street.

Mr. Bean is not a ‘‘jiner’’ in any
sense of the word, never having been a
member of any secret organization. His
home is his club and his greatest ambi-
tion, aside from aiming to be a good
citizen and a trustworthy business man,
is, apparently, to be the first man at
his desk in the morning and the last man
to leave it at night. He has an iron
constitution, which enables him to give
his business close application without
apparent fatigue. He is a remarkably
Systematic worker and has a faculty of

 

cess is due to his kindly interest.
Genuinely successful in many ways
as Mr. Bean has been, he himself is
much greater and more admirable than
anything he has accomplished. He is a
man who his intimate acquaintances
State to be of singularly pure charac-
ter, and casual acquaintances certainly
know nothing to the contrary. With all
his energy and firmness he is in many
ways as gentle as a woman and as pure
in life and speech. Perhaps no better
tribute can be rendered to him than that
of an intimate business acquaintance,
who recently said, in reply to an en-
quiry as to the characteristics of Mr,
Bean: ‘*My acquaintance with him
goes back for more than fifteen years
and i know him to be as true as steel,
He is a man who ‘sweareth to his own
burt and changeth not;’ to know whom
strengthens one’s faith in ‘human kind.
He is clear-headeal, cautious and con-
servative, but when he once assumes a
responsibility he never throws it off,’’

 

SPECIALTY SALESMEN,

 

Would the Trade Be Better Off Without
Them?

It is a question in my mind whether
retail grocers would not all be better off
if we went back to first principles and
had no salesmen.

I do not mean wholesale grocery sales-
men—they seem to be necessary.

I mean specialty salesmen, but not
even all of them.

The point is that if the retail grocer
was letf alone to fix up his own stock to
suit himself and his needs, without be-
ing badgered into stocking up this or
that by some hypnotic salesman, he
would be happier and the hair on top of
his head would not come out so fast,

That is right, and if you do not be-
lieve it, ask the grocers themselves,

Do you know that the success of most
specialty schemes to-day is determined
absolutely by the salesmen who are put
on the road to push them? That is not
alone my idea. An old specialty man-
ager who has put a whole lot of goods
on the market in his time told me so the
other day.

““IT will guarantee to get the worst
piece of goods a man can make a foot-
hold on the market,’’ he said, ‘‘and
will do it entirely by the salesmen |
put out to canvass the retaii trade, I
know a lot of slick fellows I can get and
have gotten before, who can talk most
grocers into doing anything they want
to. They are high-priced men, but I
will put them on, and in a month my
brand will be going. It may not last of
itself, understand, but what I mean is
it will be in the stores all right." *

There are some of the greatest
geniuses alive on the road for special-
ties. I have one fellow in mind now.
He is a tall man of imposing presence,
an atblete both in training and appear-
ance, and he dresses well and has a
dash about him that gets him first the
audience. The average grocer would
not dare to turn away a man like this
without giving him a hearing.

Well, when this salesman opens his
mouth his gift of gab harmonizes splen-
didly with the rest of his personality.

He isa fine talker, and he pours forth
such a persuasive, aggressive stream of
language that the ordinary man simply
Stands engulfed. If you venture to
make an argument, it is swept away in
the torrent of words in two minutes and
still the flood goes on.

Nine out of ten grocers, when this
salesman gets through with them, will
sign an order.

That may seem like an exaggerated
Statement, but the man’s experience
bears it out absolutely. I know all about
him. 1 have seen him work and know.

I believe really that one reason why
this salesman succeeds so well is be-
cause he awes and artistically brow-
beats. His size and imposing manner
create a sort of fear of him, and many
dealers weakly get out their pencils and
sign when the time comes, because in
their hearts they have not the nerve
not to.

There are loads of fellows like this,
and just as good as this, selling special-
ties on the road. Specialty salesman-
ship is a profession by itself, entirely
different from that of the salesman who
sells goods the grocer must have, like
tea, coffee and sugar.

And the result of it is that a great
many grocers are led, or forced, which-
ever you please, into putting in a whole
lot of things that they have no use for
at all. They ought never to have
bought them. And after they have sat

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

on the shelves for a few weeks or
months, then it becomes a case of get-
ting your money back, and the grocer
must turn in and work like a slave to
sell them.

Even then he has probably got to sell
them at cost, often less.

You would think that after an experi-
ence like this a grocer at least would not
buy that same specialty again, would
you not? Yet they do,

Some of these salesmen I have been
describing can actually get a second or-
der on top of the fact that the case sold
on the first is still intact.

No, I am not lying. One day about
six months ago a grocer pointed out a
piece of goods to me on his top shelf. It
had been there a year. The grocer was
grumbling.

‘*There is a sample of what I say,’’
he said. (He had been talking about this
very point). ‘‘Why in thunder I ever
bought that case of truck I do not know,
except that the salesman who came in
here with it talked my breath away.
There it is up there—I have never been
able to sell a single package !”’

Do you know that that grocer dupli-
cated his order, with that unsold case
still on his shelf, the next time that
salesman came in?

You would hardiy believe it, but it
is a fact, for the grocer told me so him-
self.

When I went in there again I saw two
cases where one had been.

‘*Hello!’’ I said, ‘‘that stuff. must
have become a seller with you. I see
you reordered.’’

“‘It did like—!’’ he retorted. ‘‘The
simple truth of the matter is that that
dog-goned salesman came in here again
and did me up for the second time. I
don’t know what ailed me! He simply
talks the brains out of my head!’’

See now what I mean?—Stroller in
Grocery World.

——_-_~> 2 ——
The Bid Polly Made.

The saloon had failed in business,
and was taken possession of by the
Sheriff, who advertised that the goods
and fixtures would be sold at auction.

The day of the sale came. Among the
assets was a parrot. The Sheriff, act-
ing as auctioneer, had disposed of
everything but the bird.

‘Well, gentlemen,’’ h2 said, ‘‘how
much am I offered for this parrot? I
don’t know whether she’s a talker or
not. You'll have to take chances on that.
Start ’er along. How much?’’

There were no bids. Nobody seemed
to want a parrot.

‘“‘Come, gentlemen, he persisted,
‘“‘make me an offer. Your price is
mine. She looks like a fine bird.
Start 'er along. How much?’’

Still there were no bids,

He turned to the parrot.

‘*Poll,’? he said, “‘I guess it’s your
turn, What will you give me for this
crowd of loafers?’’

‘*Two beers!’’ screamed Polly.

—_—-—~> 2» —
Sold Bacon With a String to It.
From the Petoskey News.

The other evening a boy went into a
Petoskey meat market and bought 15
cents’ worth of bacon, and started on a
bee line for his home. Within a minute
or two the meat man noticed that the
twine holder on his counter was wabbling
unaccountably. ‘‘By Jinks,’’ he said,
‘*] forgot to break the twine that I tied
that there bacon up with.’’ He came to
the door and grabbed it, took up the
slack and gave it a pull. At that instant
there was a shriek in the distance. The
boy had been scared out of his boots,
The meat man pulled the twine in and
there was the bacon. The boy foilowed
the bacon in fear and trembling and
reached the market about the same time
as the bacon. He thought a ghost had
robbed him of his bacon,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lacy
Shoe Company

CARO, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of

Ladies’, [lisses’, Children’s and
Little Gents’ Shoes

 

Jobbers of

len’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Wait to see our line. In hands of salesmen November

1o. Southern Michigan, S. E. Barrett; Northern Michigan,
tH N. M. Lacy.

 

 

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CENTRAL LAKE, MICH., Oct. 30,1902.
Mr. C. W. Jennings,

Grand Rapids, Mich.,

My dear Sir--I am sorry to learn that you have had trouble with
the pure food people. The quality of the goods that we have always
had from you has been very satisfactory, and I hope to show you by
future business that Thurston & Co. have the most unbounded faith in
your business methods.

I do not think that the grocers of Michigan will turn their
backs to you on account of this most unfortunate circumstance.

Sincerely yours,

Oye A. / A114 we ‘l

cA

So long as the retail trade stand by us in this manner,

we are encouraged to maintain our contention that our

Lemon extract is right, firmly believing that the Muskegon

Circuit Court will justify our position and vindicate our

goods.

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Every
Grocer

At times feels the
need of goods
ar. CO
This is one of our
strong points.

Our “Telephone and
Mail Order System”
is without an equal,
and backed up by our
greatly increased and
improved

shipping facilities
together with one of the

largest and best

selected stocks

in the State

makes it possible for
us to give you the best

Service.

Phone or write

WorDEN
(GROCER
COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.
Coleman—-Frank Foss, baker,
sold out to Clark Northrup.
Alpena—Ben. Colton has started a
cigar factory and tobacco store,
Charlevoix—D. J. Prosser, furniture
dealer, has discontinued business,
Custer—F. J. Reader has purchased
the hardware stock of J. B. Tracy.
Reed City—Mrs. F. J. Fleishauer,
baker, has sold out to Mrs. M. Wegert.
Applegate—Sherman & Huston suc-
ceed John S. Sherman in general trade.
Benton Harbor—Robert Richards has
sold his grocery stock to A. J. Vin-
cent.
Flint—W. F. Miller has removed his

 

 

has

grocery stock from Durand to this
place.

Quincy—C, H. Halleck, baker and
confectioner, has sold out to L. A.
Lyttle.

Adrian—L, W. Goucher has opened a
5 and Io cent store here. He hails from
Lansing.

Middleville—Ferguson & Co. con-
tinue the drug business of Ferguson,
Ballard & Co,

Flint—N. Meblberg & Son have pur-
chased the grocery stock of Anna E,
(Mrs. D. D.) Pratt.

Sherman—M. Rose has taken a part-
ner in the drug business under the style
of D, T. Rose & Co.

Hudson—U. G. Manon has leased the
Friedman store and will occupy it with
his confectionery stock.

Thornton—F. V, Zeatomo has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock
of Mrs. Cora B. Ashley.

Linden—D. B. Harrington has _pur-
chased the grocery stock of Minnie E.
(Mrs. Edward) Hartwell.

Durand—Wm. Cole has purchased
the interest of his partner in the agri-
cultural implement business of Shaw &
Cole.

Detroit—LaDue & Isham, produce
and commission dealers, have dissolved
partnership. The business is continued
by P. LaDue. :

Flint—Wm. D. Rosenkranz has _pur-
chased the interest of his partner in
the feed and produce business of Rosen-
kranz & Bloomer.

Quincy—Michael & Spaulding, hard-
ware dealers, have disso'ved partner-
ship. The business will be continued by
Clyde U. Michael.

Quincy—A. L. Bowen has purchased
the interest of his partner in the agri-
cultural implement and vehicle stock of
Bowen & Etheridge.

Fremont—S. P. Odell has purchased
the drug stock which has been con-
ducted for many years past by his
brother, J. R. Odell.

Alpena—Budde & Toolson, the Sec-
ond avenue grocers, have moved their
stock into a larger and handier room
in the McRae block.

Brigbton—R. J. Lyon, who has been
engaged in business at this place for the
past twenty-nine years, has sold his shoe
stock to S. Kallmeyer, of Detroit.

Belleville—Geo, N. Dawson, dealer
in notions, crockery and groceries, has
removed to Montpelier, Ohio, where he
has engaged in the generai merchan-
dise business,

Mesick—H. Goldman _ will shortly
close out his stock at this place and en-
gage in business elsewhere. He has not
yet decided what kind of business he
will enter into,

Coldwater—Woodward & Son have
purchased the meat market of H, P,
Hull and Robert Watson, who estab-

 

lished the business in 1860 under the
style of Hull & Watson.

Kingsley—Wm. Wright, grocer and
meat dealer, has added a line of dry
goods and men’s furnishings. Edson,
Moore & Co. furnished the stuck, Louis
J. Koster taking the order.

Willis—C. D. Dickerson, general
merchandise dealer, has purchased the
notion, crockery and grocery stock of
Geo. N. Dawson, at Belleville, and re-
moved to that place and will continue
the business at the same location.

Albion—Davis & Southworth, imple-
ment dealers, have sold their stock to
S. W. Marshall and C. H. Morgan, who
will continue the business under the style
of Marshall & Morgan, Mr. Marshall
will remove his blacksmith shor to the
brick building in the rear of the imple-
ment store.

Detroit—When the partnership of
Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co. came to
an end in 1898 Mrs. Elizabeth S. Clark,
who owned one-twelfth of the company,
accepted $16,666 for her interest, to be
paid by notes. The assets of ‘the firm
did not meet the liabilities and Mrs.
Clark did not think she was liable to
help pay, because of the contract made
at the time she received her interest.
Judge Donovan handed down an opin-
ion Nov. 1, holding her liable to pay
her share of the indebtedness the same
as the other members of the firm.

Negaunee—The business men of the
city have made one or two attempts in
the past to organize some kind of an
association for mutual benefit and for
definite agreements in regard to hours
of closing, etc , but nothing of value
has ever been accomplished. Several of
the prominent merchants of the town
have again taken hold of the matter,
and, judging from the interest that is
being manifested, their efforts will be
successful. Twenty have already been
admitted to membership and all the
merchants in the city will probably join.
Those who are prominently interested
in the undertaking are not at all dis-
heartened by the untimely fate that has
overtaken similar efforts here, and at
Ishpeming, and they say that, if their
plans are rigidly adhered to and the
provisions that the proposed constitu-
tion is supposed to contain are thorough-
ly carried, out many abuses from which
the business men now suffer will be cor-
rected, and many benefits will result, so
that there will be no desire to go back
to the present disorganized state.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Keeler—The Keeler Creamery Co, has
been organized with a capital stock of
$5, 000,

Alpena—A co-operative cigar factory
has been opened. J. Richardson is the
manager.

Pontiac—The Pontiac Spring & Axle
Works has increased its Capital stock
from $100,000 to $150, coo.

Morenci—Knosco & Campbell, manu-
facturers of condensed milk, are suc-
ceeded by the Ohio Dairy Co.

Detroit—The Detroit Chair Manufac-
turing Co. has merged its business into
a corporation. The capital stock is
$6, ooo.

Detroit—Neugarten & Voelker, manu-
facturers of skirts, have dissolved part-
nership, Newman & Neugarten suc-
ceeding.

Burr Oak—The Hincher Manufactur-
ing Co., manufacturer of specialties,
has filed articles of association with a
capital stock of $12,000,

Roberts Landing—The Roberts Han-
dle Co, isthe style of the new concern

 

which continues the handle manufactur-
ing business of Wm. M. Roberts.

Three Rivers—The Clark Bros. Co.
has agreed to remove its steam specialty
manufacturing business from Vicksburg
to this city for a cash consideration.

Detroit—W. J. Burton & Co. have de-
partmentized their fuel economizer
business and will hereafter conduct it
under the style of the Fue! Economizer
Co.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Sandstone
Brick Co. will begin the manufacture
of brick sometime this week. Most of
the machinery has been placed and
tested.

Hart—The Hart Potato Starch Co,
has started the machinery in its plant
and it works like a charm. After a few
minor changes have been made, the sea-
son's run will be begun,

Addison—The Addison Cheese Co, is
erecting a first-class modern factory,
with cement floors and new machinery
throughout. It is expected to begin op-
erations in the spring.

Vicksburg—The canning factory will
be opened between November 1 and Io
by the Meat Substitute Co., which will
manufacture its cereal product called
‘‘Try-a-vena, King of Meats.’’

Flint—The Flint Sanitary Milk Co.
has decided to retire from business,
which it has been carrying on at a loss.
The company is entirely solvent, but
under the present circumstances sees no
prospect of any money being made.

Interlochen—The David Lumber &
Shingle Co., Limited, bas been organ-
ized, with W. Scott Barton, Chairman:
A. H. David,Secretary ; David Collins,
Treasurer and C, C. Terwilliger, Man-
ager. The new company expects to be-
gin operations at once and will furnish
employment for about fifty men.

Sault Ste. Marie—C. W. Caskey &
Sons will shortly engage in the furniture-
making business. The plant will be lo-
cated at the corner of Spruce and Fourth
streets and the erection of the buildings
will be begun at once. It is expected
that the industry will give employment
to about forty men at the beginning of
operations.

Girard—The Girard Lumber Co. has
purchased 1,500 acres of timber land
from Byron Smith, of Oconto. Some of
the lands are located in Florence county,
Wis., but all of them are not far from
this place and the timber and logs can
be easily secured. The company has
made other timber purchases within the
past two years which will supply suffi-
cient stock to keep the plant in opera-
tion for several seasons,

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Kalamazoo—H. B. Jickling, at pres-
ent connected with the Sperry Hardware
Co., will have a part interest in the Bet-
ter Skirt Co. Mr. Jickling has been em-
ployed in the Sperry hardware store since
April, having been employed at Ed-
wards & Chamberlin’s for ten years
previous to that time.

Alpena—D, Daniels has been trans-
ferred from the Hawley dry goods store,
at Bay City, to the store here, He is
Manager and buyer of the dress goods
department.

Petoskey—Miss Dagmar McKinley,
recently in the employ of Marshall Field
& Co., of Chicago, has taken a position
at J. Welling & Co.'s. She will have
charge of their cloak and suit depart-
ment.

Alpena—S. Semon, of Cleveland, is
manager of Greenbaum Bros.’ dress
goods department.

 

Sturgis—G. Q. Stofflet, who has been
head clerk in E. W. Pendleton’s drug
store for several years, will go to Grand
Encampment, Wyoming, soon to take a
position in a drug store,

Alpena—Jas. Foreman has taken the
place of O. Shaughnessy at Potter Bros.’
hardware store. Mr. Shaughnessy has
secured a berth in Detroit.

Hillsdale—Wm. H. Woodward has
taken the management of C. S. Wol-
cott’s new music store at Toledo.

Alpena——Walter Currier, assistant
pharmacist for Burt Green, has taken a
position in a Marquette drug house.

Pellston—W. D, Tuxbury, formerly
manager of the W. W. Rice Leather
Co.’s store, at Kegonnic, but for the
past six months connected with the
wholesale department of the Brackett
Hardware Co,, at Petoskey, has taken a
position as manager of A. E. Judkins’
general store, at Pellston.

Alpena—Gordon Grant, for the past
five years manager of James Grant &
Sons’ grocery store, has taken a position
in Symons Bros. & Co.'s wholesale
grocery house at Saginaw.

Kingsley—George Vangorder is now
employed as salesman in Case & Over-
holt's hardware store.

Alpena—Elwood Pratt, formerly with
Robt. Ellsworth, of this city, is in
Marshall Field's clothing department.

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Small But Flourishing Organization.

Papa—You were up late last night,
daughter.

Daughter—Yes, papa;
club met on the piazza.

Papa—Who belongs to your fresh-air
club?

Daughter (slowly and somewhat reluc-
tantly )}—Well—Jack—and—and—me,

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A new supply of Radiator Valves and
Radiators, Pipe Fittings and Heating
necessities, Pumps and Well Supplies.
We solicit your patronage. Prompt
shipments always.

Grand Rapids Supply Co.
20 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Market.

 

 

Sugars—The raw sugar market is very
strong indeed. Refiners are willing
buyers at present quoted prices, but
holders are asking ‘4c more and are
offering but very little stock for sale.
No sales were made at the prices asked,
but, as refiners’ stocks are getting low,
they will have to come into the market
soon and will probably have to meet
holders’ views as to prices, List prices
for fine granulated are unchanged, but
some grades of soft are being shaded 5
@io points. Demand is rather light,
dealers buying in small lots only. Mich-
igan beet granulated is offered quite
freely, but is meeting with only a mod-
erate demand.

Canned Goods—The canned _ goods
market is practically unchanged. De-
mand continues good for almost all lines
and the market in general is in a healthy
condition. Tomatoes still are a very
interesting article, but a rather un-
steady feeling prevails and offerings
now are quite liberal. However, a num-
ber of purchases have been made during
the past week by those whose contracts
for future delivery were not filled in full
and who had to come into the market
to get supplies with which to fill their
orders. Corn still remains very strong
and an active enquiry continues. Any
large sized quantities of good grades,
however, are very difficult to find. Peas
are in good demand at unchanged
prices. Peaches still continue very firm
with an excellent demand. Stocks,
however, are very closely cleaned up.
There are only a few small lots here
and there throughout the State and those
are firmly held. Gallon apples are a
trifle easier in tone,although some pack-
ers are still holding at full prices, which
they will not shade. The market on
small fruits is firm, but with limited
supplies offering, being chiefly red
cherries, plums and rhubarb. Demand
for salmon continues very good. Prices
on Red Alaska have been advanced 5c
per dozen, but, as most dealers have al-
ready made their purchases of this
grade, this does not affect them much at
present. The advance is caused by the
heavy consumptive demand and the
fact that the quantity of Red Alaska
left from the 1902 packing is exceed-
ingly small. Sardines meet with a
steady demand at full quoted prices.

Dried Fruits—Dried fruits remain
practically unchanged with moderate
demand. The slow shipment of dried
fruits from California is causing con-
siderable inconvenience among the
trade. Raisins particularly are behind,
and the trade are getting anxious for
their prunes, also, as stocks of these
goods are very light. There are a few of
the small sizes of prunes on hand, but
the large sizes are what are wanted and
almost impossible to find, Prices on
both of these articles are firmly held
with the probability of an advance soon
on raisins, particularly seeded. Peaches
and apricots are firmly held, but demand
is only moderate. Figs are meeting with
good demand at unchanged prices.
Dates are rather quiet, but show no
change. Demand for these goods is ex-
pected to show an increase very soon.
The evaporated apple market is rather
dull and prices show a slight decline.
Stock is being offered quite freely now,
although there is not expected to be
any surplus of evaporated apples in
Michigan, as about half of the dryers
have shut down altogether for the season

 

or have sold their entire output. With
the advent of cooler weather demand is
expected to show considerable improve-
ment.

Rice—There is considerable improve-
ment in the demand for rice anda
number of good sized lots have been sold
at firm prices. The lower grades are
shaded somewhat, but the better grades
are very firmly held and meet with a
very good demand.

Molasses—The molasses market is
firm with no change in price. Busi-
ness, however, was only moderate, buy-
ers generally holding off for new goods.
Offerings were small, the supplies on
hand being hardly able to meet the
regular requirements of the trade.

Fish— Mackerel still holds the position
of prominence in this market and the

The Produce Market.
Apples—$2@2.25 per bbl.
Bananas—Good shipping stock, $1.25

@z per bunch.

Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime
yellow stock.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Creamery is firm and _ strong,
commanding 25c for fancy and 24c for
choice. Pound prints from fancy com-
mand 25c, Dairy grades are not quite
so strong, commanding 18@2oc for
fancy, 16@17c for choice and 13@15c
for packing stock. Receipts of dairy are
meager in quantity and mostly poor in
quality.

Cabbage—4oc per doz.

Carrots—35c per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz.

Chestnuts—$5@6 per bu.
Michigan nuts command $7.

Cocoanuts—$4 per sack.

Cranberries—Cape Cods are in ample
supply at $2.60 per box and $7.75 per

for Ohio.

situation remains very strong at the] bbl

high prices. Codfish shows no change
in price, but meets with good demand.

Nuts—The market, while fairly well
supplied with shelled almonds, remains
steady on a good demand. Brazil nuts
show a strong tendency, but are offered
at unchanged prices with good interest
shown. Sicily filberts are in good de-
mand and Grenoble walnuts are held
slightly firmer. Peanuts show some
easiness. While a fair business is doing
on the quoted range, a fairly liberal
supply of Igo01 crop is still in sight.
The new crop is drying slowly, owing
to damp and unfavorable weather in
Virginia. Thecropis reported the best
on record, favorable weather having
caused it to fully develop, and very few
second grade stock is looked for.

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The man who votes is entitled to re-
spect. He exercises the right of sov-
ereignty which was dearly bought by
the American forefathers and which is
practically surrendered by the man who
neglects to use it. The man who votes
is a factor in the nation’s life and
progress. The man who refuses to go
to the polls is a political cipher.

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The Woodhouse Co, has been organ-
ized with a capital stock of $25,000, fully
paid in, to carry on the wholesale to-
bacco business at 33 North lonia street.
John T. Woodhouse is President and
Treasurer and P, C. Payette is Secre-
tary and General Manager. It is ex-
pected that the stock will be in so that
shipments can be made by Nov. Io.

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Arthur E. Gregory, Ralph Rockwell
and Lillian Christie have beén trans-
ferred from the Ball-Barnhart-Putman
Co. to the Judson Grocer Company.
Arthur will hold down a desk in the
front office, Ralph will act as assistant
shipping clerk and Miss Christie will
do billing.

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Miss Marion Northrup, for several
years in the office of the Ball-Barnhart-
Putman Co., will take charge of the
books of the Woodhouse Co,

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Samuel M. Lemon was in the Upper
Peninsula nearly all of last week, ac-
companying Senator Burrows on a po-
litical tour.

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W. W. Miles has opened a grocery
store at Walloon Lake. The Judson
Grocer Company furnished the stock.

22.

Anthony J. Quist, house salesman for
the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., will cover
the city trade of the Woodhouse Co,

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For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades

and prices, call Visner, both phones,

 

Celery—Home grown is in ample sup-
ply at 17c per doz.
Dates—Hallowi, 5!4@6c; Sairs, 5@
53¢c; 1 lb. package, 7c.
Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz.
Eggs—Local dealers pay 19@2oc for
case count and 21@22c forcandled. Re-
ceipts are small and quality is poor.
Dealers are drawing on their cold _stor-
age supplies, which they market at
I9@2Ic.
Figs—$1.10 per 10 lb. box of Califor-
nia; 5 crown Turkey, 17c; 3 crown, 14c.
Grapes—Blue, 15c per 8 lb. basket;
Niagaras, 16c per 8 lb. basket; Dela-
wares, 15c per 4 lb. basket; Malagas,
$5.25@5.75. i
Honey—White stock is in ample sup-
ply at 15@16c. Amber is in active de-
mand at 13@14c and dark is in moder-
ate demand at 10@1IIc.
Lemons—Californias,$5 ; Messinas,$5s.
Maple Sugar—io%c per Ib.
Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy.
Nuts—Butternuts, 75c; walnuts, 75c;
hickory nuts, $2.50 per bu.
Onions—Home grown stock is in am-
ple supply at 60@65c. Pickling stock,
$2@3 per bu.
Oranges—Floridas command $4 per
box. Jamaicas fetch $3.75 per box.
Pears— Keefer, goc@$1 per bu.
Potatoes—The market is strong and
the demand active. Local buyers are
paying 35@4oc and in some cases 45c.
Poultry—Prices are firm, owing to
small receipts. Live pigeons are in
moderate demand at 60@75c and squabs
at $1.50@1.75. Spring broilers, 9@
loc; small hens, 8@ogc; large hens, 7
@8c; turkey hens, 10%@11%c; gob-
blers, g@ioc; white spring ducks, 8@
gc. Dressed stock commands the foi-
lowing: Spring chickens, 12@13c;
small hens, 10o@11c; spring ducks, 12
@13c; spring turkeys, 13@14c.
Quinces—Scarce at $2.50 per bu.
Radishes—z2oc per doz. for hothouse.
Spanish Onions—$1.25 per crate.
Squash—2c per lb. for Hubbard.
Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.25 per
bbl. ; Virginias, $2.25.
Turnips—4oc per bu.
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Recent Business Changes in Indiana.

Anderson— Rogers, Babcock & Co. is
the style of the new hardware firm which
succeeds Goul, Rogers & Co.

Fort Wayne—L. H. Gocke & Co.,
dealers in spices, are closing out their
stock,

Maples—Adam C. Crawford has re-
moved his general merchandise stock to
Hoagland.

Rochester—Stanton & Sterner, dealers
in books, have dissolved partnership,
Sterner & Rannells succeeding.

South Whitley—Masten & Burwell
succeed Masten & Reed inthe hardware
business.

Terre Haute—Jos. Diekemper has
closed out his grocery stock and retired
from trade.

Connersville—D,.' W. Rigrish has dis-
continued the drug business.

Marion—Herman Coran, dealer in
hosiery and notions, is succeeded by the
New York Commission Co,

 

 

Delphi—Christian Gros, of the hard-
ware firm of C. Gros & Son, is dead.
The business will be continued by his
son, Charles Gros.

Elwocd—C. C. Henze & Co, have
discontinued the grocery business.
LaGrange—Garmire & Son, cigar

manufacturers, have sold their business.

Logensport—Isadore C. Hoffman has
removed his stock of stoves and tinware
to South Bend.

Monticello—Chas. W. Davis bas pur-
chased the grocery stock of A. R. Ben-
nett.

North Judson—Kellar &
succeed The Hardware,
Merchandise Co.

Seymour—G. L. Hancock & Bro,,
grocers, have dissolved partnership, E.
L. Hancock succeeding.

Converse—Wm. C. Lancaster, dealer
in general merchandise, has made an as-
signment.

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Hides, Pelits, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market remains firm from
small supply. The demand is good ata
price, while scarcity of goods forces
prices upa trifle, as necessities require.
Prices are high and the want of mar-
gins makes tanners hesitate beyond
from day to day supplies.

Pelts are not plenty. The demand is
good at a fractional higher value. There
is no accumulation.

Tallow has been active and the mar-
ket is well cleaned up at a slight ad-
vance. Large quantities have moved
and, while little edible is being offered,
the lower grades have been wanted, and
no large offerings are to be had,

Wool remains firm at the advance,
with large sales East, while little has
moved from States. Prices West are
too high for the Eastern market, which
stops trading. Buyers were quite active
in Michigan the past two.weeks, but
could not move the stuff to any extent.

Wm. T. Hess.

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Jarnosky
Furniture &

Remarkable Surgical Case.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

A few days ago a Miss Death was
brought to the German Hospital to be
operated upon for appendicitis. She
was a daughter, she said, of an under-
taker.

Tbe surgeon’s name who was chosen
to perform the operation was Dye—Dr,
Frank Hackett Dye

When the operation was over Miss
Death was placed in charge of two
nurses,

Miss Payne is the day nurse.
Grone is the night nurse.

The patient is recovering rapidly, and
in a week or so Miss Death will bid
good-by to Dr. Dye, Miss Payne and
Miss Grone,

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Kerosene oil will start the dried oil
which has been allowed to work from
the axle of the delivery wagon and _ be-
come mixed with dust until it sticks
like the varnish itself. By the way,
many of us have a habit of putting too
much oil on at a time, Only a few
drops are needed at one oiling. The
rest must drop away and be wasted.

Miss

 

Piles Cured

By New Painless Dissolvent
treatment;

no chloroform or
knife. Send for book.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson

Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Getting the People

 

 

Suitability and Proportion in Display.

‘“Put it in as big black type as you
can’’ is the common instruction in deal-
ing with display.

The proper proportion in type display
should be regulated by the distance at
which it will be generally read. If it is
a sheet to be held in the hands of the
reader the use of a letter occupying the
page as a poster is worse than space
wasted. Experience is demonstrating
the proposition that type display which
will be included in an easy angle of
vision as the page is held in the hand
is much more effective than when the
eye must run across a broad sheet to
read it. Thus it was customary a few
years ago to head the full page adver-
tisements of department stores with a
black line across the page giving the
name of the institution, Now it is more
usual to see the name limited to three
or four columns in width, thus not only
giving more space for other purposes,
but actually serving better to catch the
eye. The distinction between a news-
paper and a poster in advertising should
be based on the probable difference in
the distance at which each isto be read.

Then there should also be a consider-
ation of the size of the space to be used
in proportioning the display. A com-
mon fault in small spaces is the use of
a main line which so far overbalances
the rest that the eye dismisses the sub-
ject at the distant glance. What is
wanted is a size of display which will
gain attention at a distance to invite to
smaller lines perhaps, or to a paragraph
which is short enough and in large
enough type to retain the attention.

There is no value in the use of dis-
play unsuitably large forany space. In
the laying out of the advertisement there
should be constant attention to suitabil-
ity in the proportion of the whole.
While there should be enough of con-
trast in sizes of lines to give prominence
to the salient features, there should not
be one or more unduly heavy, black
lines and the rest in type too minute for
easy reading.

Then, again, the poster should not be
considered as a newspaper. How often
one will notice a lot of small display,
with small type paragraphs, at distances
that can not be read by the average eye
and certainly will not by those not more
than casually interested. If it isa no-
tice of a tax sale which is likely to affect
one’s belongings he will try to get near
enough to read it, but if it is a detailed
account of the merits of some new shoe
the chances are that he will pass by on
the other side. Illustrations of this er-
ror in poster work are frequent in street
car advertising. In this branch the ad-
dition of small lines is injurious, for
the reason that the effort of the average
eye to make them out is so disagreeable
that the whole sign becomes repelling.
Let the argument be brief enough to be
expressed in letters large enough for all
to read across the car and save the de-
tails for other vehicles of publicity.

* + +

Horace Prentice & Son start out their
puzzle announcement with a pun on the
quality of their rocker which is not bad.
There is a degree of complication,
however, in the statement of the puzzle
and its conditions which I am afraid
will frighten the average intellect. Not
but what it is as clear as such a state-
ment could be made, but there is neces-
sarily a degree of complication apparent
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Horace Prentice & Son,
FURNITURE - - 137 S. Burdick St
eeeocte —CONDITIONS———
1. All Answers Must Be ACCOMPANIED WITH CORNER COUPON.
2. Answers Must be sent by MAIL only and Marked Puzzie Department.
3, No Answer will be considered that is Mailed Before November 5. or that
Reaches Us After November 11.

Answers complying with above conditions will be numbered by us as re-

THE SENDER OF THE FIRST CORRECT SOLUTION

Will Get the Rocker. WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 12, we will show is

 

 

 

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Furniture Dealers, 137 South Burdick Street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Imported Ruquefort
Imported Fromarge De-Brie
Imported Brickstine
Imported Edam
Imported Pine Apple
Imported Muenster

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$ SPECIAL SALE OF

Dining Room

Furniture....

Beginning Monday, October 6th, avid continuing all the week.
we offer at special low prices every Buffett. China Closet, Sideboard,
Dining Table and Dining Chair in stock- These gools comprise the
best makes in the country and we show the largest and most varied
assortment in the city. We handle only the best and while our price
has always been extremely low we propose to put the price knife
deep for thissale. Call early before the assortment is broken.

WM.E. SMITH & CO.

THE RELIABLE FURNITURE MEN.
116-118 S. MICHIGAN ST. SOUTH BEND.

 

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Sample Underskirts ?

~ Placed on Sale Chis Morning «

All new styles but only one of a kind in the lot—Black.

Colored and Fancies. at

One-third off Regular Prices

See Window Display!

Steinberg’s e Bi 43bF PRY coops

in Dress Skirts. Another Big Lot of

GRAIN

Of all kinds bought or stored.

FEED

Ground as you want «tt with
our new feed roll

For Sale

Street Car Feed, Fine Feed, Hog
Feed. Oats, Bran, Middlings
and Screenings.

SEEDS

Timothy, and Mammotn. Med-
ium, Alsike or White Lawn
Clover. Etc., Etc.

FLOUR

Crosby's Superior, Pure Gold
and White Frost.

SALT

Barrel or Rock.

COME

And see our twenty horse power
Gasohine Engite and look over
our new elevator building oppo

site of the dc pot.

Manton
Produce Co:

 

   

GET THEM NOW!

“Please ' ot Me Sleep”
“Bill Bailey”
“On a Sunday Afternoon”

 

 

“Rip VanWinkie”

Lave: Popular Sheet Music 5, off

J. W. CLIFFE,

MARKHAM BLOCK

 

 

 

 

course, the test of such schemes is the
success they achieve, but I would not
be afraid to wager that in this case the
results do not come up to expectations,
However, many may be induced to
look into the window. The printer’s
work is careful and well arranged, only
the ‘‘conditions’’ might have been put
in small type to the advantage of the
rest in giving room for more white
space.

The cheese connoisseur can hardly
fail to find his likes represented in the
list of J. Sellwood & Co., but he is
likely to have to study some time before
he decides what it is all about. At the
first glance the word ‘‘cheese’’ would
be taken for a Greek labyrinth rather
than English characters intended to con-
vey an idea. With good ordinary dis-
play, smaller type for the list and an
address at the bottom the advertisement
would have been a good one.

Wm. E. Smith & Co, make an effect-
tive announcement of special sale of fur-
niture. The breaking of the border with
the main line is made an attractive fea-
ture. I would have set the first line in
DeVinne and cut the paragraph a few
phrases shorter.

J. Steinberg makes an exhibit of
mixed styles of type and zigzag rules
which will bring the tears to sensitve
eyes. It is to be hoped his window
display is not so heterogenous. The
printer seems to have tried to follow
some system in his work, but, apparent-
ly, his lines were badly marked in
proof and I notice some errors were over-
looked. The wording is not bad for a
conventional display, but the printer
should be allowed to try again, I have
noted Mr, Steinberg's announcements
in the Traverse City papers for several
years,and have favorably commented on
several samples which have been repro-
duced in this department. This is the
first time I have ever had occasion to
speak sharshly of his work.

The Manton Produce Co, furnishes a
sample of simple treatment for a one
column space which is not without
merit. The main lines are calculated to
catch eyes likely to be interested and
the sentence paragraphs are short enough
to carry the attention,

. J. W. Cliffe shows a good sample of
music advertising, but 1 would have
used plain lines instead of the zigzag
ones and the printer should have brought
up impression enough to make all dis-
tinct.

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He Shaved No More.

He—How do you like the idea of my
growtng a beard this summer?

She—Why, 1 should set my face
against it.

 

Good
Advertising

is a science which few
merchants have time to
acquire,

They can, how-
ever, acquire a knowl-
edge of slow-pay and
poor-pay and don’t-pay
customers by investing
in a membership in the
Commercial Credit Co. :
which places every mer-
chant in a position to dis-
criminate between the
good and the bad, the
true and the false.

 

 

 

 

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LANSING MICH.

price.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN @

“= Woven Fence

for Half Cost

This is exactly what dealers can promise their customers if they use the

Superior Fence Machine

The drop in the price of wire combines with high trust prices for ready
woven fencing to place our machine in active demand To further aid
the dealer we have decided to withdraw our travelers from Michigan and
will give the Michigan dealer the benefit of this economy in reduced
i With cheap wire and a cheap practical fence machine, the dealer
who follows this course will secure the farmer's trade. Write us for
prices and full information.

Superior Fence Machine Co.,

ieee 184 Grand River Ave.,

Detroit, Mich.

BAKERS’
OVENS

All sizes to suit the
needs of any grocer.
Do your own baking
and make the double
profit.

Hubbard Portable
Oven Co.

182 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO

Mr. Grocer

Have you put in a supply
of the Famous Malted
Cereal Food,

Malt-Ola

If not, yououghtto. It
means more trade and
new customers. Let us
send you atrial package.
A postal will do.

LANSING PURE FOOD CO, LTD.
Lansiog, Michigan

 

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One of our
Leaders

in

Cigar
Cases

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Published weekly by the
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When writing to any of our advertisers, please
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E, A. STOWE, Eprrox.
WEDNESDAY - - NOVEMBER 5, 1902.
STATE OF MICHIGAN }

County of Kent ‘bes

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:

i am pressman in the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge
of the presses and folding machine in
that establishment. I printed and
folded 7,000 copies of the issue of
October 29, 1902, and saw the edition
mailed in the usual manner. And further
deponent saith not. John DeBoer.

Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this first day of November, 1902.

Henry B. Fairchild,
Notary Public in and for Kent county,
Mich.

PIERCING THE PYRENEES.

Twenty years ago France and Spain
arranged a treaty for the construction of
two railroad tunnels through the
Pyrenees, which range constitutes the
natural boundary between the two coun-
tries. But the purposes of the treaty
have been delayed until the present
time because of the objections of the
War Offices of the two nations to the
plan. Although we are said to be an
idealistic people, the American mind is
not sufficiently imaginative to compre-
hend how a railroad tunnel can be a
military menace to any country. A
mere handful of men might easily de-
fend it against an army, or quickly ren-
der it impassable to trains or troops. But
military experts in Europe always look
askance at a railroad tunnel which may
piece the natural boundary between two
countries as a source of danger in case
of war. France and Spain are now on
exceedingly friendly terms,and are pre-
paring, if they have not in fact consum-
mated, an alliance. The two govern-
ments have, therefore, overcome the
scruples of their respective War Offices,
and the tunnels and railroads through
the Pyrenees are to be constructed at
once.

Jf it had not been for the fears of the
military experts that a railroad connec-
tion with France might destroy Eng-
land’s isolation and increase the dan-
gers of invasion, a submarine tunnel
would have been constructed long ago
under the Strait of Dover. The scheme
is feasible, and has often been dis-
cussed. But whenever the subject has
been broached in Parliament the experts
of the British War Office have invari-
ably condemned it. Thus an enterprise
which would doubtless be of immense
commercial benefit to both countries has
been forced to yield to what is said to
be a military necessity. Yet the ferries,
which run regularly between Dover and
Calais, constitute in a sense a floating
bridge across the strait, and no objec-
tion is raised against them. There was

 

 

a time when the same objection was
raised against piercing the Alps, but
the international guarantee of the pres-
ervation of the integrity of the Swiss
republic removed it, and a large part of
Europe is reaping a benefit from sev-
eral tunnels now running through the
range. France and Spain will un-
questionably profit commercially from
the two tunnels which will soon pierce
the Pyrenees and destroy that natural
barrier to commercial intercourse be-
tween the two countries.

 

Something of a sensation has been
created in Jersey City by a clergyman’s
attack on women members of church
choirs, He says: ‘‘A young lady with a
plumed hat, fearfully and wonderfully
made; a waist laced to several inches
less than its natural size, and a piece of
sheet music in her hands, stands up
and opens her mouth and emits a series
of noises in strained, unnatural tones,
trilling, warbling, screaming and rolling
out sounds inarticulate, artificial, un-
natural, not one of them expressing an
honest emotion of the heart, but simply
exhibiting the compass of her voice,
which frequently is as metallic asa coin
that is paid for her performance. The
reflective hearer is reminded of the an-
cient prediction of a time when ‘the
songs of the temple shall be howlings
in that day.’—Amos vii.—3."’ This of,
course, applies only to Jersey girls.
The feminine songsters in Michigan are
as yet above criticism of this kind.

 

One result that it is expected will fol-
low the consolidation of Atlantic steam-
ship lines is a daily mail between the
United States and Europe. This calcu-
lation is based upon an assumption that
the new consolidation will provide that
its fastest steamers shall avoid competi-
tion with each other to the fullest pos-
sible degree. In other words, it is ac-
cepted that only one fast steamship shall
leave New York each day and that a
similar schedule wil! prevail for west-
bound steamers. Such an arrangement
would give each of the very swiftest ves-
sels in trans-Atlantic waters a sailing
free from any-rivalry in its own class,
and, it is assumed, would commend it-
self to the managers of the consolida-
tion as good business principle.

Trachoma, a disease which produces
a granular condition of the eyelids, bas
become almost epidemic among _ school
children in New York City. It is a con-
tagious disease and physicians say that
with the most heroic measures several
years will be required to stamp it out.
The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
bas been almost overwhelmed with pa-
tients from among the poor of the East
Side. It is necessary in nearly every
case, to effect a cure,to perform a slight
operation necessitating the administia-
tion of chloroform, and therefore it is
necessary for patients to go to a hos-
pital. The authorities doubt their abil-
ity to cope with the situation unless it
soon abates.

A political manager is of the opinion
that the rural mail delivery system with
its daily newspaper is largely respon-
sible of the political apathy characteris-
tic of the campaign just closed. He
points out that the political rally has
heretofore given the farmer an oppor-
tunity to drive to town and meet his
neighbors; it has been one of the
remedies for the Joneliness of farm life,
but the daily newspaper now delivered
at his door removes this feeling of loneli-
ness and serves to occupy agreeably his
leisure hours,

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

With public attention engaged by the
election it is not to be wondered at that
stock trading should continue dull. As
all is being left in the hands of the
speculators it is an evidence of the un-
derlying strength of conditions that no
serious reactions are being caused by
bear attacks. Whether there will be a
resumption of the normal volume of
trading to follow the elections or
whether the hesitation which has char-
acterized past months is to be extended
towards or past the holidays is a ques-
tion of wide interest. There are some
among leading financiers who predict
further waiting, but with the full tide of
manufacture and transportation it seems
as though speculative activity can hard-
ly be far away.

In all fields of production and ex-
change the pressure of demand is at
the highest. Indeed,in many lines it is
found that new business offered can not
be taken care of unless the time given
is exceptionally long. One of the most
serious complications now is the lack
of transportation facilities on the part
of many railroads. In some cases the
trouble is in lack of motive power, but
more frequently in the other rolling
stock, Considering that a great pres-
sure has long been put unon the manu-
facturers of railway equipment and
supplies it seems strange that demand
would so far outrun the production.
The most serious lack isin the fuel dis-
tricts, especially coke, but there is
much bitter complaint of delayed ship-
ments of general merchandise in many
localities, some frequently requiring a
month when four days was usually con-
sidered ample.

In textiles the general report is of
favorable conditions. In some cases
new business is receiving little attention
for the reason that the output is sold
so far ahead. Woolen mills are taking
new supplies of material freely, but cot-
ton is not taken so rapidly as more fa-
vorable prices are hoped for. Footwear
shops are supplied with large orders
and for two consecutive weeks ship-
ments from Boston have exceeded the
exceptionally heavy ones of last year.

 

MINERAL OIL IN ALASKA.

If the reports of mineral oil discov-
eries at Cook’s inlet are trustworthy, a
valuable addition has been made to the
known resources of Alaska. These re-
ports come through Tacoma channels.
A recent arrival at that city, who has
been mining at Cook's inlet for the past
four years, represents that oil in good
quantities is being drawn from several
wells in that section. The district is
full of oil indications for a distance of
over thirty miles inland from the inlet.
Some San Franciscans are prospecting
there now, and samples of the crude oil
obtained from the formation have been
shipped here for analysis. If further
prospecting opens a productive oil field,
the result may have a far-reaching in-
fluence on the development of other re-
sources of the Territory.

It is not unreasonable to assume that
petroleum deposits exist in Alaska
which may be profitable to exploit. The
Territory covers a vast area of the con-
tinent, and only spots here and there in
it have been explored for any purpose.
The chief search has been made for
gold, and while the discoveries made
of that metal have been, in some re-
spects, marvelous, the true extent of
the auriferous belt is far from being fully
determined, All prospectors agree that
gold is to be found in every part of the

 

Territory so far explored, and when it
is more thoroughly settled the profitable
gold-bearing area will doubtless be
greatly expanded. Besides, the Ter-
ritory isrich in coal and copper. These
deposits are beginning to attract the at-
tention of capital, and they will, in
time, be systematically exploited. If
crude petroleum is to be added to these
mineral resources, the visible wealth of
Alaska will be greatly enlarged and the
way will be opened for the introduction
into the Territory of many of the manu-
facturing industries, which constitute,
after all, the mainspring of prosperity
in all countries.

 

Col. Pupe, one of the pioneer bicycle
manufacturers of the United States and
one of the receivers of the American
Bicycle Company, known as the trust,
which recently went into bankruptcy,
gives it as his opinion that the cessation
of advertising killed the bicycle busi-
ness. The way to revive it, he declares,
is to resume advertising, which was
cut off by the trust to reduce expenses,
forgetful that there would also ensue a

reduction in revenues, ‘‘I thoroughly
believe in advertising,’’ says Col.
Pope. ‘‘You can see how I feel in the

matter when I tell you that I spent $500, -
ooo in one year in that sort of publicity,
and that it is my idea for the future—
to advertise. There is a future for the
bicycle yet, but it will take advertising
to develop it.*’

 

The men who own soft coal mines and
the men who handle the product are
confident that they will have a perma-
nently increased market in consequence
of the recent strike, during which many
consumers had their first experience
with bituminous coal. Each previous
strike has shown a slight gain for soft
coal in the amount used for domestic
and steam purposes. It is less subject
to change, less ‘‘touchy’’ than anthra-
cite. It is not in the hands of so few
men. Means for mixing anthracite and
bituminous in such a way that little or
no smoke results, are constantly being
improved. The mixture for ordinary
grades of soft coal is two and a half to
three of anthracite to one of bituminous,
Better facilities of firing are also being
found out.

 

 

Ancient Rome has long been living
on the glories of its past. It may soon
be able to live on the riches of the
Romans who flourished in the days of
the mighty empire. The worthies of
those days were accustomed to cast their
most valuable possessions into the Tiber
as Offerings to the gods. The authori-
ties have just granted permission for a
thorough search of the bed of the river.
It is confidently expected that great
quantities of gold and silver and pre-
cious jewels will be recovered, besides a
variety of curious things in the way of
armor worn by many soldiers who at
different times were killed in battles on
the banks and bridges of the Tiber,

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In New York City there is an or-
dinance against the use of soft coal, but
the enforcement of it was suspended
during the strike when soft coal was the
Only fuel that could be obtained at any
price. Mayor Low announces that the
ordinance will again be enforced on
and after November 15 in view of the
fact that anthracite is now available at
moderate prices. The use of bitumi-

nous coal in the metropolis has com-
pletely changed the atmosphere of that
vicinity, long noted for its clearness,
rendering it as smoky and disagreeable
as the air of London,

 

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You will have enquiries for

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SAPOLIO

Do not let your neighbors get ahead of you. It will sell because we
are now determined to push it. Perhaps your first customer will
take a dollar’s worth. You will have no trouble in disposing of a
box. Same cost as Sapolio.

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You think perhaps that National Cash
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get a first-class, fully

you that you can
guaranteed National at a very low price, we
print here a picture of a Total-Adder for
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Clerks’ Corner.

A Maxim From a Commercial Point of
View.
Written for the Tradesman.

 

 

When pretty little Milly Berdan went
to housekeeping everybody in Mill
River knew she would be a blooming
success and told her so. She came from
a long line of New England grand-
mothers and so had a long line of not-
able kitchens to copy after, every one
of them an inspiration and every one call-
ing upon her to keep up the reputation
of the distinguished line. She began to
unfold the ancestral trait very early in
life and turned as naturally to the
handed-down cook book as she did to
her Bible. Neat as she was thrifty, she
was determined that the weekly expense
should find her with an increased bank
account, be it ever so small, and this at
that early period of her life began to
develop into a tendency to ‘‘nearness.’’
She wanted to make things go a little
farther than they possibly could—not
quite to stinginess, but leaning strongly
in that direction. ‘‘Prudent but not
parsimonious, '' she used to say when her
open-hearted and too-open-handed Tom
insisted that a hen trying to cover too
many eggs addled more than she
hatched.

This trait made her a close buyer and
it made her a disagreeable customer,
She always wanted the best, but at a
second-hand price, and she _ insisted
upon having the biggest to the insistency
of picking it out herself. Hers were
the biggest strawberries, The smallest
potatoes in the center of the basket or
barrel never by the slightest chance
reached her kitchen. It was the big
cucumber and the big apple and the big
pear that she was determined to have,
and the storekeeper that ventured to put
her off with the smallest eggs found to
his cost that he had made a mistake.

The last one who had tried that was
an inexperienced clerk at the Fair-
weather brothers. Mrs. Berdan had
done but little trading there. The clerks
were old and experienced and met her
peculiarity with such downright firm-
ness that she kept away from them;
but going by there one morning she saw
some Crawfords that met with approval
and back of the tempting baskets was a
good-looking clerk whose tanned cheeks
hinted so strongly of the tanned August
fields he had lately left that she had to
go in and buy.

She found him ‘‘easy.’’ She noticed,
woman that she was, that he saw a
strong resemblance between her and tbe
peaches, as she had in him, and while
she was not above the sense of flattery
she saw no reason for not taking advan-
tage of it and the result was a splendid
basket of the finest Crawfords at re-
duced rates.

Of course she went away in high glee
and of course the Fairweather Bros,
from that time on had a new regular
customer, Fairweather, Jr., who had
watched the proceedings, promptly came
forward when the little woman went out
and congratulated the young fellow upon
deftly landing that much-longed-for fish,
‘‘Keep her at any cost, Swadley, and
we’ll see that you do not lose anything. "’

He kept her ail right, you may be
sure about that. As promptly as 8:15
a. m came around there stood the little
symphony in pink and white with her
blue eyes looking earnestly up into his,
and her dainty head turned to one side
as she heard his strong commendation
of some small but unfamiliar goods.

 

‘“They may be exactly what you say,
Mr. Swadley, but they are too little to
appeal to me. I really can not afford it.
1 like the large. They look substan-
tial. They seem to have grown where
there was a good chance to grow and to
have made the most of their ample op-
portunities. Take that big potato there.
Look at that enormous pumpkin. See
that splendid cluster of grapes! What
a good time they have been having
where there was a Ict of soil and sun,
and so they come into town full of the
wealth of all outdoors, literally.‘‘full as
their skins can hold.’’ You can not
have too much of a good thing, Mr.
Swadley. So you may send me the big
pumpkin and the big potato and the big
cluster of grapes, anyway.’’

‘‘ They could not go to a better place,
I will say that, but I am pretty well
satisfied that there is a good deal of
truth in the old proverb, ‘The best of
the goods is done up in the smallest
bundles.’ The proof of that -is right
here,’’ and that young Swadley’s black
eyes twinkled a little, enough, anyway,
to put meaning into the admiration
that beamed on his face as he looked
down upon the charming dot of con-
densed womanhood before him.

“That bit of commercial gallantry
shall have its reward. Add to my or-
der’’—the list is of no importance and
need not be written out—‘‘but be sure
that every item sent is the biggest of its
kind.’’

‘All right, madam, the command shall
be obeyed ;’’ and witha laugh the ray of
human sunshine went out, leaving only
common daylight behind her.

The junior member looked at the ex-
tended order and laughed. ‘‘For a
young one you are playing a strong
game, but the parties can stand it and

 

 

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Cooking
For Business ?

Just sign your name to a
postal card and forward
it to us, then we will tell
you all about the quality
and selling properties of
our line of Crackers and
Sweet Goods. Will send
you price lists and asam-

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Detroit, Mich.

We Do Hot Belong to the Crust

 

 

The Celebrated
Star Mill

The Acknowledged King
of Coffee Mills

No Better Made

 

This mill has an elegant nickel plated hopper,
holding three pounds of coffee, with a hinged
dome top cover. Has two twenty-three inch
fly wheels. Mill stands thirty inches high, and
finished in vermilion with rich gilt decorations.
Its capacity is one and one-half to two pounds
per minute. The most popular size of counter
mills. See supplementary list for price on

larger size mill.
$27.00

Spices and Mill f. 0. b. Toledo.
Spices guaranteed pure.

Woolson Spice Co.

Toledo, Ohio

Given as a Premium with 100 pounds of
Pure Spices, assorted, for - -

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

11

 

it is all right. I wonder what she had
in mind when she mentioned the pump-
kin?"’

‘““That is easy. She looked at you
and winked at me. You were too far
off to hear what she said.’’

The man Swadley was too much taken
up with the thought which came to
him just then to notice the effect of his
remark. Should he teach that delightful
woman a much-needed lesson? Would it
pay? Could he afford to run the risk?
He would think of it, and all that busy
day he turned the idea over and over,
whistling as he turned. As he went on
with his order-filling circumstances en-
couraged him. The whole order hap-
pened to be one that the biggest could
be made to fill. The store was full of
the largest specimens of its kind, and
when Mrs. Berdan’s goods were placed
together the sight was so gratifying
from every point of view that Swadley
felt called upon to urge the firm to come
and see.

‘“*They make a pretty picture to look
at, for a fact,’? exclaimed the eldest
Fairweather, *‘and you have an eye for
effective arrangement; but, man alive!
don’t you see that everything but those
little sugar pears are so big that they
are all fiber and that Mrs. Berdan will
be down here before breakfast to tell you
they are not fit to eat? You want to
look out for that customer in more ways
than one. We can not afford to lose her.’’

‘*That is right, we can not; but when
Mrs. Berdan orders the biggest in the
pile, do you think it exactly safe to
send her anything else? Of course, I
will do it if you say so—it will let me
out—but I guess you had better let the
little woman have what she orders and
that is what she said: ‘The biggest
you have.’ Shall I give the delivery
man a_ note to her that you know what
she wants better than she does?’’

The senior member turned on hi’ heel
with a ‘‘humph!’’ halfway between a
laugh and a frown, and the goods, accord-
ing to the order, was safely delivered.

Monday morning bright and early the
ray of Berdan sunshine came streaming
into the store. A gleam of ineffable
good humor greeted it from the back
side of the counter.

‘*1 do hate to offer a word of com-
plaint, Mr. Swadley, but the fact is that
the only really good thing in my Satur-
day's order was those little pears that,
I guess, were intended for somebody
else. The fruit certainly looked the fin-
est that [ ever saw andi know it was
the biggest. Mr. Berdan and myself
felt that we were to have the treat of our
lives, and the little pears were the only
thing we could eat. I really could
hardly wait for the dessert to be brought
on. All the way home I could think of
nothing but my big Bartlett pear and
that mammoth Crawford went straight
to Mr. Berdan's plate before I could
get a chance at it. One little slice was
all I wanted. Most of the tree had
found its way into the fruit, and I posi-
tively could not masticate it, and the
only commendable quality about the
peach was its size."’

‘*T am very sorry,’ was all that Swad-
ley could say. That is all he did say, any-
way, and the attempt that he made to
make it sound sorry was ‘‘just that and
nothing more.’’

‘‘You see’’—the silence was a trifle
awkward and he had to say something—
‘‘the fruit grew so fast and so large that
the quality had to give way to the quan-
tity, and the soil of the Wild West where
this fruit came from is too fertile to fur-
nish anything but the coarse and fibery

 

and tasteless. ! thought of that when I
put in the little pears. Of course, you
get more in the big fruit than you get
in the littie, but in that case you realiy
get more than you pay for. I think you
will find it true every time, Mrs. Ber-
dan. It is the little package that has
the best goods, and it does not make
any difference what merchandise you
are talking about. A grocery store is
hardly the place for poetry, but it is a
fact that

Iron is heaped in mountain piles
And gluts the laggard forges,

But gold-flakes gleam in dim defiles
And lonely gorges.

‘*One good thing about it is that in the
long run the smailest, because it is the
best, is the cheapest always and with
what, I guess, is your way of manag-
ing things, will go a good ways farther.
Let us leave it to Mr. Berdan, and you
ask him if he has not found it a fact
that ‘the best goods are always done up
in the smallest bundles." Will you?’’

She said she would and she did; and
that Tom looked at her exactly as Swad-
ley did, only he did what Swadley
wanted to and did not dare: He went
around to her side of the table and gave
her a good smack plump on her sweet
lips.

There are two important facts to be
stated: the Berdans became constant
customers of the Fairweathers, and that
good-for-nothing Swadley had a stand-
ing invitation at the Berdans’ for Sun-
day dinner, which he just as ‘‘standing-
ly’’ and unblushingly accepted.

Richard Malcolm Strong.
——__> 2. __—_
The Crop of Calendars.

The dealers in calendars are now get-
ting ready for the great rush of business
that floods them at the first of the year.
There are a number of firms that make
calendars from one year’s end to the
other, and practically all the business
of their distribution for the twelve month
takes place in a few weeks. A calendar
dealer says that 40,000,000 free calendars
are distributed annually in the United
States. They range in cost from $10 to
$500 a thousand. A considerable pro-
portion of them are given away by the
insurance companies, one of which,
each year, puts out no less than
4, 000, 000,

Violent Contrast.

‘' How little we really know about our
neighbors, after all,’’ said the young
wife, musingly.

‘‘Yes,’’ replied her husband, ‘‘and
how much they seem to know about us.’’

 

 

 

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Commission Merchants
16 to 24 Bloomfield St. 17 to 23 Loew Avenue

West Washington Market

New York

Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions.

    
     
    
      
       

Specialties:
If you anticipate shipping any produce to the New York market we advise
your correspondence with us before doing so; it will pay you.

References: Gansevoort Bank, R. G. Dun & Co, Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency, and
upon request many shippers In your State who have shipped us
for the last quarter of a century.

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Sweet Potatoes, Spanish Onions,
Cranberries

Fine fresh stock constantly arriving. We are in the market to buy
ONIONS, WINTER APPLES AND BEANS

The Vinkemulder Company, Commission Merchants
14-16 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

old Storage

This is the time of year to store your Apples. Why not put
them where they are sure to come out as good as when picked?
Save shrinkage and sorting by storiag with us.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Meats.
stored with us, where desired.
information.

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Hardware
Remarkable Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Hammers.

The mechanic’s hammer of to-day is
essentially an American product. This
is the age of hammers, in view of the
fact that this age sees the hammer in its
greatest state of proficiency. Exactly
when the hammer came into use is not
told in history, but it is certain that
some rude form of the instrument
have been used in the earliest days of
handicraft. Of the hammers made in
America to-day there is no end. There
is the tiny little tack hammer which
weighs only a few ounces, and is indis-
pensable in house, store or factory.
Then there is the twenty and _ thirty-ton
hammer driven by steam and used for
making immense forgings. The num-
berless effects which are due to its re-
markable force of impact have made the
hammer a necessity in all trades. Im-
mense manufactories, employing thous-
ands of men, are grinding year in and
year out making hammers, while ten
times as many wholesale are
busy putting the product on the market.
The industry has advanced to sucha
Stage that many generai hardware firms
in the United States have thrown out
the hammer, leaving it to the houses that
deal in tools exclusively.

must

houses

Hammers are made in a variety of
shapes, the most in demand being the
clawhammer. This and the shoemak-

er’s hammer have retained their shapes
for hundreds of years. One gold-beat-
ing firm relies on them entirely. The
sheets or leaves of gold are hammered
to such exceeding thinness that two
hundred and fifty thousand are required
to make up the thickness of an inch.
Another odd product of the hammer fac-
tory is the butcher's hammer, used for
killing cattle. It is capable when
properly wielded of carrying a very
heavy blow. Then there are the stone
cutter's hammer, the carpet layer’s
hammer, the wood carver'’s mallet and
the plumber’s odd implement. All of
these have a good sale in the markets of
the world, because they possess a
‘*something’’ which users can not find
duplicated in the output of other coun-
tries.

In the South Sea Islands tree felling
contests are of such importance that
specially made axes are imported for the
work from America. It is reported by
way of illustration that a difference of
half an ounce in the ‘‘heft’’ of an axe
lost the championship to one skilled
chopper who had retained it fora quarter
of a century. He was compelled to ac-
cept an axe of European make, and al-
though it was to the eye of the layman
equal in every way to the Yankee prod-
uct, something was missing, and all sorts
of tests were made to discover what it
was. The heartbroken ex-champion
finaily agreed that the difference lay in
a slight curve of the handle and an ex-
cess weight of haif an ounce in the
head. So skilled are these woodmen of
the South Seas in felling timber that a
dozen blows on the trunk of a tree will
show but the one gash, as though done
by a single blow of mighty power.

In the manufacture of claw hammers
the American foundryman sees to it
that the instrument balances perfectly
before it is passed as being O. K. By
balancing is meant that the center of
gravity, when the hammer is standing
on its head, runs from the apex of the
claw diagonally through the handle, just
touching the very edge of the end sur-
face. If the instrument fails to pass

 

this test it is rejected and either sold
for a low price, without a name, or con-
signed to a scrap pile. Small assuch a
defect might seem in itself, the amount
of excess energy required to wield the
implement would run up into several
borse power in the course of the life of
one hammer alone. A mechanic of to-
day is a man of brains as well as muscle,
and the same tension or ‘‘edge,’’ requi-
site in artistic piano playing, oil paint-
ing or billiard playing is necessary in
the crafts, although naturally in a lesser
degree.

The manufacture of tools for the vari-
ous divisions of labor has, therefore,
become in this country something more
than an output of units in enormous
quantities. There must be a spirit of
harmony between maker and user, and
the needs of the latter taken seriously
into consideration. An illustration of
this was shown in England recently
where American bricklayers amazed the
native worker by laying fully 60 per
cent. more bricks in one day than the
best British record. Investigation dis-
closed the fact that the bricks were
made on the American plan, somewhat

 

 

C. C. Wormer
Machinery Co.

Contracting Engineers and
Machinery Dealers

Complete power plants designed
and erected. Estimates cheerfully
furnished. Let us figure with you.
Bargains in second-hand engines,
boilers, pumps, air compressors
and heavy machinery. Complete
stock new and second-hand iron
and brass and wood working ma-
chinery.

Large Stock of New Machinery

DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Foot of Cass St.

 

 

We have the Largest
Stock in Western Mich-
igan of

Sleigh Runners
Convex and Flat
Sleigh Shoe Steel
Bar and Band
lron

Send us your orders.

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

After 2000 Years

Science Comes to the Rescue

It is true that 7

All Stoves Waste Fuel

Fuel is scarce and high priced. To waste
fuel is to waste good hard dollars.
You wish to prevent such waste,
You wish to regulate the draft,
You wish to increase heat radiation,

You wish to solve the soot problem,
You wish to add comfort to your home,

Then you must use

Burton’s Fuel Economizer

Attached to a stovepipe it

 

saves one-quarter to one-half fuel

Price, made of Wood’s smooth iron, securely

crated, $3.75.

mm Sold under a positive guarantee. Order at once,
or write tor catalogue and testimonials.

Sectional view. ~%#

 

160 West Larned Street, Detroit, Mich.

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Things We Sell

Iron pipe, brass rod, steam fittings,
electric fixtures, lead pipe, brass
wire, steam boilers, gas fixtures,
brass pipe, brass tubing, water
heaters, mantels, nickeled pipe,
brass in sheet, hot air furnaces,
fire place goods.

Weatherly & Pulte
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Fire Arms

We have the largest stock of
Shot Guns, Rifles and Am-
munition in this State. This
time of year is the retailer’s
harvest on sportsmen’s goods.
Send us your order or drop
us a postal and we will have
a traveler call and show you.

Foster, Stevens & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co.

Paint, Color and Varnish Makers
Mixed -Paint, White Lead, Shingle Stains, Wood Fillers
Sole Manufacturers CRYSTAL-ROCK FINISH for Interior and Exterior Use.
Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio.
CLARK-RUTKA-WEAVER CO., Wholesale Agents for Western Michigan

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

smaller in every way than those in gen-
eral use in England. The cry went up
that no comparison was possibie, in
view of this glaring discrepancy, and
the trade press was occupied with the
controversy for many days.

Our English cousins failed to take into
consideration the fact that the extra en-
ergy required to handle a brick, some-
what unwieldy and over-weighted from
the American standpoint, would mili-
tate against the earning power of the in-
dividual and the corresponding percent-
age of profit of his employer. The won-
derful display of rapidity and mechan-
ical skill of the American artisans has
led to a more or less acceptance of the
American model of brick in factory
construction in England. The same con-
ditions exist in the realm of tool manu-
facture. It is true that finer grades of
instruments, those for the engineering
and kindred professions, are generally
imported from Germany, but even these
are having a difficult time of it in hold-
ing the premiership against instruments
of American make.

In the hammer industry, on the other
hand, the American product is par ex-
cellence. It is made to fit every require-
ment of a driving tool. One individual
of the family, the magnet hammer, has
a loadstone in its head, and every little
tack jumps at it. The magnet hammer
is very useful where canvas is being
tacked on the walls. It saves the user
the trouble of holding the tack and tak-
ing chances at smashing his fingers.
The magnet hammer is much in use in
tacking tin signs on trees. It is neces-
gary to secure the advertisement ata
height beyond the reach of the small
boy, and the magnet hammer answers
the requirement. A clip on the side
holds the card or sheet of tin while a

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netized head.
tack through the tin into the fence or
tree trunk and secures the sign suffi-
ciently to enable the workman to with-

mit him to drive a second tack.
handle is made on the extension plan,
similar to a fishing rod, and when not

space.
After the hammer that is driven by
hand comes the steam hammer.

was a hammer called the Hercules,

tached to a vertical guide rod, which

own weight.
for forging large anchors and for simi-
lar purposes, but the necessity for a
more rapid motion was soon felt.
lift or belve and the tilt hammer then
came into use. These were lifted and

power.
vention in the way of a hammer was
patented in 1842.

der such perfect control that a hickory
nut could be cracked without injury to
the kernel. The largest in existence are
the duplex hammers, which weigh as
much as twenty or thirty tons. They
possess two hammer heads of equal
weight, made to deliver horizontal blows

side of the forging. These are only
used for very heavy work.

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tack is retained in position by the mag- |
One firm blow drives the |

draw the hammer, clip and all, and per- |
The

in use can be carried in a very compact |
But |
before the steam device was known there |
which was a ponderous mass of iron at- |
was lifted originally by a gang of men |

with ropes, and allowed to fall of its |
This was an efficient tool |

The |

dropped at regular intervals by steam |
The first really remarkable in- |

The virtue of this |
hammer was that it was able to deliver |
blows the force of which could not be |
estimated, at the same time being un- |

Results of a Temperance Lecture.

Two maiden sisters of mature years

|had been to a temperance I<cture. To)
|demonstrate the disastrous effect of
|alcohol upon life, the lecturer had

which contained water and a mass of
lively animalculae of different unsightly
|shapes and sizes. The result of the
mixture was that the shoals of ugly
looking fishes were soon bereft of life
and were seen floating helplessly in the
water,

On the way home, when nearing a
saloon,one sister remarked to the other:

‘*Mary, will you go in and get some
| whisky?”

‘*Some_ whisky!’’
marked the other.

‘*Yes, dear, for I really can never
again drink water with all those hor-
rible things floating about. I would
rather drink them dead than alive.’"’

astonishedly  re-

poured a portion of whisky into a glass |

  
 
   

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Will get you prices on the
best store stools made.

BRYAN PLOW CO., Bryan, Ohio

Manufacturers

 

 

 

THE ALLEN LIGHT,

MPG. BY
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BATTLE CREEK. MICH

 

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Allen Gas Light Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

| Gentlemen—I have used your Little Giant Gas machine for about two months.
| have used two other makes of gas machines with not very good results.

 

Bellevue,” Mich., Sept. 2, 1902.

Prior to this I
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seen. As you know, I ilght two stores, fifteen lights and it takes about four gallons of gasoline
every three nights. I think that I have the best lighted store in the State of Michigan. Trusting

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No straps or other bungling devices are required to pre-
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Only one bolt is required to fasten
It may be observed from the cut that there
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Clothing

Fads and Fashions in Clothing and Furn-
ishing Goods.

Men interested in things sartorial,
who exploit English styles, show a
tendency to endorse an idea in a dress
coat for professional men, lawyers,
teachers and so on. This coat differs
materially from the conventional swallow
tail, The special feature is that the
coat has a pigeon-breasted front, the fore-
part meeting opposite the breast, so that
it can be fastened with hooks and eyes
if desired. These, of course, are con-
cealed, and al] that is seen in the way
of fastening is half a dozen buttons. The
neck has a standing collar. The skirt
is cut away like the morning coat. The
bottom is finished with square corners.

A yoke Raglan, recently seen on the
avenue, was from an English source.
The yoke and sleeves were cut in one.
The body of the coat was easy fitting,
and the pocktes had vertical welts. The
turn-back cuffs were faced with velvet,
and the velvet collar was edged with

 

 

the material in the coat. The edges
were double stitched and the seams
finished in the same style. The cloth

was a striped tweed.

Some of the latest dress trousers, seen
about town, are cut rather narrow in the
legs, and there is a piece of braid down
the side seam.

Modish automobile outfits continue to
be made of soft leather, lined with a
light woolen material. The coat fastens
up to the throat, and the neck is finished
with a Prussian collar.

1 understand that the double-breasted
dinner jacket has received the distin-
guished sanction of some of the smart
young men of Gotham, They are ap-
parently imbued with the idea that it
must be a very swell proposition, be-
cause Harry Lehr wore it at some high
rolling rout at Newport. What a man
wears in the summertime is nocriterion
for winter wear. A certain latitude is al-
lowed in the warm weather, and what a
man like Lehr can exploit would be
open to criticism if one wore it toa
function in New York in the winter
time. It can not be denied, however,
that the garment, so much discussed,
has a certain smart look, and there is
some vogue for it. Some of the coats have
been made by the smart tailors of Man-
battan, but, on the whole, it is not what
to-day is called either a fashionable or
popular garment.

Meanwhile the old fashion discussion
about when a man may and may not
wear a dinner jacket is going on. The
whole thing simmers down to what con-
stitutes full dress. The dinner jacket

does not. It is simply, as has been
pointed out, the negligee in evening
wear.

The soft hat is all the rage and it is
worn in a great variety of ways, from
the dignified crease in the center to the
slouch effect, with the brim pulled down
in front. Then there is the telescope
effect, and others too numerous to men-
tion. Not all these methods are fashion-
able, by any manner of means, but
there is no telling what a New Yorker
will do to produce an individual effect,

The trend of fall fashions indicates
an avoidance of extremes. We do not
see anything here of the tight waists and
padded hips that they are talking about
in London.

The new glove shades include Manila
tan, which is very light and smart look-
ing. It is in the cape leather walking
gloves. A new conceit in evening dress

 

gloves will be a compromise between
the dead white and the pearl gray.

Some fellows are wearing embroidered
backs on their gloves, but not many.
Still they are in the swell shops, and
we may get around to them later on.

The fashion is to wear four styles of
collars. The double folded collar for
every day business wear in the morn-
ing or the wing collar, the poke collar
for informal dress and tbe straight
standing collar for evening wear. Men
who are strict on matters of style have
taken to the wing collar and it is seen
about the exchanges, clubs and at other
places where men, who have the time
and means to think of dress, are seen.

The attempt to revive cross stripes
in shirts is not meeting with any dis-
tinguished success. Some of the ex-
clusive custom shirtmakers are pushing
it to detract trade from the ready-made
shops. Meanwhile the bosoms with
comparatively no fancy effects whatso-
ever—that is, with very smail figures and
very thin strips in unobtrusive colors—
are what people who know are wearing.

The black and white craze is as live-
ly as ever. It runs through all the de-
partments of furnishing goods. At the
same tim-, since the cool weather came
on, there has been no small degree of
favor shown brilliant and richly colored
neckwear. I think men are disposed to
receive favorably the weaves with fig-
ures and effects not in strong contrasts,
but rather in the same tones as the
ground colors,

Some very sumptuous neckwear shown
recently had a pattern which ran to
Egyptian effects. When folded up there
was just enough of the treatment to be
attractive, but in the full piece the
scheme was rather sensational looking.

The new collars and broader scarfs
look very well with the new double-
breasted sack coat. These are increasing
in number, One sees almost as many
double breasted as single breasted coats
in the uptown business district. The
popular color is the plain black, and
the trousers are usually in neat stripes.

Fancy vests are very popular. They
are in very many styles, It is quite the
thing to own several of them, and thus
change about. Those that are not loud
in pattern and color are preferred. In
waistcoats, as in everything else, the
mood of the moment is quiet and neat.

The principal change in the cut of

Is something more
than a label and a
name—it’s a brand
of popular priced
clothing with capi-
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Special Sale

Of the entire stock of the old reliable wholesale clothiers,

Kolb & Son. of Rochester

(now retiring from business)
The stock has been purchased in bulk by The William Connor
Co. and will be disposed of at a great sacrifice to the retail trade.
Sale begins to-day, Wednesday, Oct. 22. Call early as the
lots are going fast.

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Wholesale Clothiers
28-30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, [lich.

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Our $5.50, $7-00 and $8.50 lines have been “class
leaders” for years. Progressive methods and success
have enabled us to add QUALITY to our whole line.

$3-75 to $15 oo—Men’s Suits and Overcoats—a
range which includes everything in popular priced
clothing.

Boys’ and Children’s Clothing, too—just as good
values as the men’s,

Looks well—wears well—pleases the customer—
pays the dealer—and you want it.

“A new suit for every unsatisfactory one.”

 

 

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Building.
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15

 

waistcoats is the higher neck opening.
The attempt, made last spring, to force
waistcoats cut so that the lower button
could not be buttoned has fizzled out.
King Edward, of England, was respon-
sible for this style. He has grown so
stout that he has to wear his waistcoats
unbuttoned at the lower part.

I notice among middle-aged men that
there is a disposition toward cutaway
coats for business wear. These are worn
with the fancy vest and contrasting
trousers, the coats being in some black
cloth. The tendency is to make the
skirts of these coats shorter, with less
cut-off in the front. There are pocket
flaps on the waist line. This is a good
deal on the order of the English walk-
ing coat, and is quite generally becom-
ing.

The latest business suits that I have
seen were in very modest color tones,
with absolutely no distinctness in the
weave, but rather a blending of grayish
and brownish effects, with gray largely
predominating. In fact, all grays are
quite the thing.—Vincent Varley in Ap-
parel Gazette.

8

Get the Clerk Interested in His Work.

Does the average salesman understand
that he should speak with intelligence
concerning the article he is trying to
sell? Most of the prominent buyers
would hesitate if this question of in-
telligence were put to them, for the sim-
ple reason that they would not care to
acknowledge they have in their depart-
ment salespeople who are not well
enough posted to sell shoe laces; never-
theless, this is a fact. The ignorance
that a good many clerks display in try-
ing to explain some particular point of
merit in a shoe is appalling. There is
nothing technical about the terms re-
quired to answer intelligently in the
shoe business. In trying to sell a pair
of shoes very often the average shopper
is better posted than the salesman on
what is the correct thing; also the
different merits which the clerk (due to
his lack of knowledge) is unable to ex-
plain with any sort of intelligence.

Oftentimes a few suggestions of the
most simple kind will influence a cus-
tomer, and at the same time give him
more confidence in a salesperson. Few
clerks seem to care for little more than
to ascertain the price of the article they
have to sell, and this sort of indiffer-
ence is no doubt due to the fact that a
majority of the clerks are not receiving
living wages.

At the same time they are being paid
all they are worth, as these people have
nothing else in mind but closing time
and pay-day. Now, does it really pay
to employ such people? The man or
woman who is satisfied to work for such
a meager salary is the one, asa rule,
who very seldom has any future in
mind, This is more particularly noticed
in regard to the women, and they are
the ones who, in the majority of cases
(especially in the department stores)
seem to work without an aim. Of
course, there are exceptions in both
cases, but the point in question is this,
that the average clerk is not paid as he
should be, and at the same time he is
expected to be informed on the shoe
subject well enough to sell a shoe.

Now it stands to reason that the per-
son who will work for almost nothing
very often does not understand the sub-
ject at all, for he is never at any time
enough interested to learn the business
in all its details. The mere fact that
such a clerk makes a sale does not fol-
low by any means that he has done the

 

house any good or made a customer.
Sales to be of advantage in the future
to any house should be made to the satis-
faction of the customer in every partic-
ular, Fit is the most essential point,
and price an all-important factor.

These two important items go to
satisfy the customer and help bring him
back for the second pair. Can the clerk
who is unable to make anything like an
accurate suggestion as to what is the
correct thing to be worn with different
gowns, etc., influence any customer for
future trade in the house that employs
him? Certainly not.

Many of these difficulties could be
obviated toa great extent if the buyer or
manager would mingle more with his
clerks and often listen to questions
asked them by customers, and be ready
to explain, if necessary, any little diffi-
culty which might arise. Again, call
your clerks together now and then and
let them know you wish them to under-
stand every little detail, as far as pos-
sible, in order to be able to answer with
intelligence any questions which might
be asked them. Get their views on
different shoe points, and if they are
wrong, explain to them where they are
mistaken. Get them interested in you,
and let them see you are likewise in-
terested in them. When they learn this
they will take considerable interest in
your business and strain every effort to
please. —Shoe Retailer.

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An Unfortunate Suggestion.

‘'I—I have come,’’ he began, address-
ing her father, ‘‘to—to suggest to you
that a union of our families would—’’

‘“‘I’m not in favor of unions,’’ the
testy old captain of industry  inter-
rupted, ‘‘and I will not submit the mat-
ter to arbitration. Good morning.’’

 

Elisworth & Thayer M’n’f’g Co.

Milwaukee, Wis.

 

 

Manufacturers of
Great Western Fur and Fur Lined Cloth Coats
The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rip Kind.

We want agent in every town. Catalogue and
full particulars on application.

B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman.

 

 

The Peerless
Manufacturing
Company

Manufacturers of Pants,

Shirts, Corduroy and

Mackinaw Coats.
Dealers in. Underwear, Sweaters, Hosiery, Gloves,
and Mitts.

Sample Room 28 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Lot 125 Apron Overall
$7.50 per doz.

Lot 275 Overall Coat

$7.75 per doz.

Made from 240 woven
stripe, double cable, indigo
blue cotton cheviot, stitched
in white with ring buttons.

Lot 124 Apron Overall
$5.00 per doz.

Lot 274 Overall Coat
$5.50 per doz.

Made from 250 Otis woven
stripe, indigo blue suitings,
stitched in white.

We use no extract goods

as they are tender and will
not wear.

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16

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Rubbers

Pen Picture of a Future Merchant Prince.

The young man whom we find sitting
on the settee in the front part of the
village shoe store is none other than
James Brown.

 

He was the son of a prominent farm-
er from Gates township and he worked
on the farm summers and went to school
winters.

He is still the same son of the same
farmer, but he does not go to school any
more, neither does he work, unless you
would call being deck hand in a shoe
store work—simply getting down at 7
o'clock in the morning, before breakfast
is ready in the boarding house, where
the rooms are not heated because of
the scarcity of coal, sweeping out, split-
ting up shoe -cases enough to last through
the day and make the 500 pounds of an-
thracite go as far as possible, beating
out six rugs and sweeping two carpets,
dusting the store, putting up the stock
the second clerk left down after showing
the last customer of the night before,
carrving bundles all over town, waiting
on the No. 3 grade of customers and
being pushed one side when a really
pleasant buyer comes in, with other lit-
tle odds and ends which, of course, any
of our good readers who have occupied
similar positions in shoe stores will rec-
ognize at a glance as very far removed
from real work and not worth anything
like the $3.50 per week wages which
the kind-hearted merchant insists on
paying him.

His father was, and still is, one of the
good customers of the store, and the
merchant could not very well refuse to
give the son a_ position when the old
gentleman asked for it.

Young james Brown has quite an ac-
quaintance down around the Gates town-
ship way, and all of his old friends
come in to see how he looks without bis
overalls on, and by and by he will con-
trol quite a country trade, and when he
wants his wages raised from $12 ‘to $15
per week, and threatens to go over to
the other store, the kind-hearted mer-
chant will have to come totaw. But
young James Brown is not thinking of
any of these things now. He is simply
sitting on the settee. That is, he is
the sittee who is sitting on the settee,
James Brown, the son of a farmer from
Gates township, as I said before.

He is waiting for the second clerk to
come and let him go to breakfast. But
the second clerk does not come. The
second clerk knows that he need only
get in toree minutes before the first
clerk and the first clerk never shows up
before 8:45 because the boss does not
get to the store until 9.

James Brown has been working in the
position which the local correspondent
at Gates of the ‘‘Weekly Chronicle’’
has it that he ‘‘accepted’’ a little over
a week, and he is beginning already to
wish that there was a fourth clerk.

And all the time that I have been
writing this and you have been reading
it the second clerk has failed to come.

It is now 8:30 and any boarder who
tumbles into breakfast at Mrs. Hasher’s
finds most of the things cleared off the
table and has to be contented with a
piece of meat in which rigor mortis has
already set in, imbedded in gravy and
meat juices which are beginning to
solidify. Boiled potatoes ready at 7:15
a. m. are better then, if at all, than
they are at 8:45.

Only one thing is James Brown, the
son of a farmer, sure of: The butter at

 

Mrs. Hasher’s he knows will not lose

its strength.
And still

come.

The young man goes to the door and
looks up and down the street.

The second clerk has just come in at
the grocery store and the little clerk
there is just hurrying up the street to
breakfast. The bartender at the Palace
saloon has finished scrubbing out and is
standing out on the sidewalk in his nice
new clean apron, having fun with the
village drunkard who has already helped
in the scrubbing for one drink and now
desires another drink on the strength of
to-morrow morning’s scrubbing.

And still the second clerk does not
come.

At the hardware store two men are
wheeling a cook stove out on the side-
walk ona little platform truck to serve

the second clerk does not

 

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Geo. H. Reeder & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hard Pan Shoes

When in need of a shoe for boy or man,
That will wear longest in all kinds of weather,
Ask for ‘‘Herold-Bertsch’s Famous Hard Pan,”’
The greatest Shoe made out of leather.

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We would be pleased to have every shoe merchant in
the State carefully inspect and compare our

“Custom Made Shoes”

with any they may be handling. The season is fast ap-
proaching when such a line as ours will meet the de-

mands of those who are looking for a
FIRST CLASS WORKING SHOE

Waldron, Alderton & Melze,

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Rush
Your Orders

in now for Hoop and OLD
CoLoNy RUBBERS. You
will soon need them and we
can take good care of you
now.

Either mail them or drop
us a card and we will have
our salesman call on you
soon.

We are the main push on
the above goods for this part
of the country.

The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co.
Battle Creek, Mich.

 

     
 

Get our prices and try

our work when you need

Rubber and
Steel Stamps
Seals, etc.

Send for Catalogue and see what
we offer.

Detroit Rubber Stamp Co.
99 Griswold St, Detroit, Mich,

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500 Whittlesey St.,

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

YOU WILL FIND

We stand behind our assertions; if
remember that the railroad runs both

This cut on all our cartons.

gocds are not as represented,
ways. We will send the following shoes on approval because we
know you can not better them.
we are honest in what we advertise.

‘‘Honesty is the best policy,’’ so
Three of our good things made

by us at our Northville factory are:

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Each pair with a guarantee tag attached

The Rodgers Shoe Company, Toledo, Ohio
FACTORY, NORTHVILLE, MICH.

 

as an advertisement, and from the man-
ner in which they work the son of the
farmer who has just gone to work in the
shoe store knows that they have had
their breakfast. It makes him horribly
burgry just to watch them.

All summer long he worked in baying
and harvesting, pulled beans, plowed
the summer fallow, dragged in the back
lot, rode on the roller and cultivated the
corn both ways three times with a horse
who always stepped on four hills every
time he turned around at the end of a
row and some way young James Brown,
the son of a farmer, caught an appetite.

The conditions which gave it to him
are gone with last week, but the appe-
tite has not been cured yet even by
Mrs. Hasher’s famous treatment. He
longs with a fierce longing for the com-
ing of the second clerk and he feels a
sympathy even witb the town drunkard
who also bas an appetite of a differ-
ent sort.

By and by, after he has been a clerk
in a store for a little while, and the tan
on his face bas worn off and become a
dull white and maybe, if he learns to
smoke cigarettes, a pasty white, his ap-
petite won't be quite so strenuous. But
just yet his healthy big stomach has not
heard about the change in the life of
James Brown and it is putting up the
same holler it used to put up three times
a day when James was out in the air
and the sunlight and the dew and the
rain and working every muscle until it
in turn made demands on the source of
energy.

And so it runs along until 8:40. Five
minutes more. He knows that the sec-
ond clerk will not dare come in later
than the first clerk any more than the
first clerk would dare appear after the

boss has come down. How those five
minutes drag. The young James
Brown. sits down and takes another

whack at the cost mark, ‘‘ P-e-r-t-h-a-m-
b-o-y’’ it is. And the selling mark is
‘*S-t-u d-h-o-r-s-e.'' Some way the sell-
ing mark comes easier to him than the
cost mark, and he is so lately off the
farm that the fact that the selling mark
is not exceedingly refined does not oc-
cur to him. That selling mark hasa
history, and comes down to the present
proprietor of the flourishing little shoe
store through his father from his grand-
father, who kept a general store once,
away back when the country was new,at
a four corners in that same Gates town-
ship. It was a relic of the good old
days when a spade was a spade and was
so called even in business.

‘‘If a shoe costs $1.38,'’ thinks the
clerk, ‘‘and is to sell for $2.25, how
should I mark it?’’ And rapidly spell-

 

ing off the words while he checks the

letters off on his ten good fingers and
thumbs for each figure, he finally gets
down on the sheet of wrapping paper
the mystic cipher

Prb

TTh
Then he tries other combinations un-

til he can translate a good many figures
into letters without running the mark up
on his fingers at all, and it is as excit-
ing as a hot game of sclitaire.

And he gets so interested that he al-
most forgets how hungry he is when the
second clerk comes tearing in the back
door, and only just manages to get his
hat hung up and a shoe in his hand
when the head clerk opens the door—not
thirty seconds before the boss.

And as that is what we have all heen
waiting for James Brown, son of a farin-
er in Gates township and cabin boy
in a shoe store, will say ‘‘Good morn-
ing’’ to you and go to breakfast.—Ike
N. Fitem in Boot and Shoe Recorder.

oH  ~<
Nothing For Himself.

‘‘How much do you want for your
services?’’ asked the amateur sports-
man.

The guide noted the way his would-
be employer handled his gun and was
thoughtful.

‘*Nothin’ fer me,’’ he answered at
last. ‘‘It don’t look to me like I'd
need nothin’ by the time you're through
with me. But you'll have to take cut
an insurance policy on me in favor of
my wife an’ children afore 1”!] go.’’

> 2 > —--
Changing Fashions.

Mrs. Style—I want a hat, but it must
be in the latest style.

Shopman—Kindly take a
madam, and wait a few minutes;
fashion is just changing.

chair,
the

 

 

All parties interested in

Automobiles

are requested to write us.

 

We are territorial agents for the Oldsmo-

bile, Knox, Winton and White; also have

some good bargains in second- hand autos.
Adams & Hart,

12 W. Bridge St. Grand Rapids

COMFORT SHOES

Made with silk goring on the sides
and over the instep. All styles and grades. We
recommend them to-persons wishing easy wearing
and comfortable shoes,

They fit like a glove and always look stylish.
The elastic retains its strength until the shoe is
worn out. Price from $1.75 up.

If your dealer does not keep Mayer’s shoes, write
to us and we will help you get them. Look for the
trade mark on the soles.

F. MAYER BOOT @ SHOE CO.,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.

 

 

 

  
 
  

   
     
   
   
   
     
 

Shoes that
Have the Appearance
of Wear and Utility
and Seem to Possess Style and
Comfort

You Like A
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But what you want is the real thing,
shoes just as good as they look, and
honestly what they purport to be—
full value for the money asked. We
make no other kind. Our trade mark
on the sole is a guarantee of these
qualifications.

We are glad to call with the sam-
ples any time. Our Spring Line
possesses several new features that
will interest you.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Ce., Lad..,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—The general condition
of the market has undergone very little
change. The demand for home con-
sumption has been restricted mainly to
fiiling-in requirements while the ex-
porters purchase small quantities, not
enough to have any effect in the mar-
ket whatever; but up to the present
writing the sales of brown sheetings
and drill have shown no change. Sell-
ers are willing enough to fill orders
when buyers meet their demands, but
they are indifferent when it comes to
any bids below their quotations. So
far there has been no indication of an
easier tendency, although how long this
will be maintained isuncertain. There
has been a moderate demand for ducks
and prices are well in hand. Brown
osnaburgs are quiet and show no change.
The jobbers have heen buying printed
cottons in small quantities, but the
manufacturing trade has purchased in
rather better proportions. Prices are
firm. Wide sheetings are quiet and
without price changes. Cotton flannels
and blankets are firm, as are also coarse
colored cotton goods, and for the latter
there is a fair, general request.

Linings—The linings market has
shown a business fully up to the recent
average and there have been many reor-
ders for quick consumption and also
buying for next spring deliveries. Kid
finished cambrics have not made any
important change, either in the amount
transacted or prices, and the business
has been done on the basis of 35<c for
64s. The condition of the market for
printed cloths has had much effect in
maintaining prices all along the line.
The demand for silesias continues to be
for medium and lower grades. The
local buying is very smail, but with a
satisfactory amount of orders from the
Southern and Western parts. There has
been a quiet amount of business in per-
calines and stiff cotton linings. The
market fur high finishes in mercerized
and similar effects shows a moderate
business at steady prices, although the
best demand is for better grades, both
for staples and fancies. The clothing
trade has bought liberally of cotton
twills, Alberts, Italians, mohairs, al-
pacas and similar goods and the leading
domestic makes are well sold ahead.

Underwear—Reierring to the light-
weight underwear season conditions are
against easy trading forthe buyer. Prac-
tically all orders accepted now are at
an advance and some mills declare that
they are refusing further business, In
comparing the prices obtained to-day
by some mills with those at which the
Same goods were opened, one can not
help but feel that at the original prices,
in spite of the then lower prices for
yarns, there could not have been very
much of a profit; but it is also evident,
when figures are compared and analyzed
that to-day’s prices, if they are actually
secured in all cases, and we believe
they are, show a fair profit, not big, but
undoubtedly reasonably satisfactory.
There is also a growing danger of a
scarcity of light-weight underwear ow-
ing to the condition inthe yarn market.
A good many buyers have already dis-
covered this and uneasiness is being
felt. The principal topic of conversa-
tion, as far as the agents go, concerns
the new fleeced goods season. While at
present writing it has not yet opened,so
far as practical outward appearances
go, there is no knowing how soon it

 

 

 

may. It is notat all unlikely that there
is some truth about the rumors concern-
ing a few salesmen having already
started on the road, but two or three or
a half a dozen salesmen do not open the
season. Practically all the samples are
ready and it only remains to be decided
when the time is ripe for their exhibi-
tion. The moment a salesman from
some prominent house takes his depart-
ure from the city, it will be a signal for
a general start and a rush for each_ to
get ahead of the other. The only thing
that probably keeps many of the sales-
men home is the «fact that the agents
are fearful of not having set the right
prices and do not like to send their men
on the road and then be obliged to re-
vise their prices. After the first of No-
vember there is little doubt that many
lines will be placed on the market and
the 15th of the month will see every-
thing afloat. Referring to prices again,
it can only be said that the general
opinion is that they will be higher, but
how much is still vague.

Hosiery—In the hosiery market as
well as the underwear, the demand is
for immediate delivery and we also
find that there is a decided scarcity in
desirable lines becoming’ evident.
[here are buyers here whose sole busi-
ness is to hurry deliveries of early or-
ders. They are not interested in new
orders or in placing additional contracts,
but are trying to find some method
whereby they can obtain what they need
for the present time. Prices are, of
course, very firm. Many agents are
securing quite sharp advances when
they are able to make immediate ur
nearby shipments. Wool goods are in-
cluded in this demand for immediate
delivery and duplicate orders recently
received have put most of the mills in
a very fair condition. The business has
not been big this season, but it is stated
to be quite fair to most concerns and
some of them are even now refusing
further orders. Fleeces have sold up
and further orders are being refused by
a number of the mills. The demand
seems to be exceeding the supply this
year, which is something that has not
occurred for a long time past. The
initial spring business has been prac-
tically completed although there are
quite a number of buyers still to be
heard from ; some who have placed only
a part of their orders and some who

 

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We cater to first class trade and if you
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Wash Goods

We desire to call the attention of the trade to three main points on which
we base our claim to the success achieved in the past and on account of
which we look forward with confidence to the approbation of all buyers
during the coming season:
First—Exclusiveness in cloths, designs and colorings.
Second—Unparalleled variety and number of lines.
Third—The high average displayed in our choice of colors and style.
We come before the general trade with the greatest confidence that
our line of Wash Fabrics for next season is far better and more carefully
and tastefully seiected than ever before.

P. Steketee & Sons

Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Horse Covers, Wagon
Covers, Stack Covers;
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Cash Register Paper

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have placed practically none. Lace
effects have been well sold for spring,
and for immediate delivery, when any-
thing can be found, it is picked up
quickly.

Carpets—While carpet weavers are
keeping all hands busy, they are anx-
iously awaiting the outcome of the open-
ing of the new season, now about two
weeks hence. In the meanwhile old
business is being rapidly cleared off the
books and when the new orders are
ready to be taken, it is expected that
the new season can be started afresh,
Yarn orders in most instances have been
placed for the first few months’ produc-
tions, and weavers feel sure that the de-
liveries on the same will be made with-
out much trouble and inconvenience
to themselves, as was the case the past
season when a small yarn famine oc-
curred. On woolen values in yarns the
advance has been little or none at all
compared with prices six months ago.
Such is not the case on worsteds, and
goods made with worsted stock are like-
ly to show quite an advance over fall
prices. While woolen ingrain carpets
are expected to be quoted higher at the
opening, it seems to be well assured
that the advance will be considerably
under, relatively speaking, the advance
on worsted goods. New business in the
worsted yarn market has been taken at
prices current the pastfew months, On
some lines this means an advance of
about Ioc over prices paid six months
ago. With such conditions prevailing
previous to the opening of the new sea-
son, it would seem reasonable to believe
that the higher cost of yarns would be
made up in an advance in values of the
finished fabric. Whether this will be
so, remains tobe seen. In past seasons
higher prices were warranted just as they
are at the present time, but through
actions of certain factors in the busi-
ness, the needed advances were knocked
in the head. Higher prices to-day de-
pend upon what action will be taken by
these houses, unless the smaller manu-
facturers show a more independent
spirit. The jobbing business in carpets
is beginning to slacken up. Pretty
much all the season’s work has been
done and what is coming in from the re-
tailers is of a very meager character.
The retail business has been a very big
one thus far and stocks are being
cleaned out right along now. Ingrains
proved to be very heavy sellers. Good
all-wool fabrics retailing for about a
half-dollar were in big request, as well
as the cotton-warp fabrics costing about
37¢.

Rugs— Makers of rugs and art squares
are very busy making up for lost time,
due to the sirike some weeks ago. Or-
ders on the books call for heavy amounts
in almost everything. Small-sized
Smyrnas and Moquettes are having
a very large run, as well as the Wiltons,
Art squares are in fair to good demand.

NA
The “Mortarboard” Hat.

A novelty of the moment is the ‘‘ mor-
tarboard’’ hat, with flat four-cornered
crown in enlarged imitation of the aca-
demic headgear. Instead of being
mounted on a head size, however, it has
a wide brim, either round or square.
At first shunned as too ultra an innova-
tion, it has at last been accepted as one
of the ‘‘arrived.’’

+ ~~
A New Language.

‘‘That your wife in toe next room,
Smifkins? What on earth is that
language she's taking--Gaellic, Boer
or ancient Scotch?”’

‘*None of ‘em. She is conversing
with her maid with her mouth full of
hairpins."’

 

Not Competent.

A Reading, Pa., clergyman had been
making a call on one occasion ona
friend in the country. In order to get
there he had taken the train to the
nearest station and walked the remain-
ing distance, which proved to be much
greater than he had expected, and be-
set with difficulties, in the matter of
crosses and turns, for one not familiar
with that section. On returning to the
station he had decided to take another,
and, as he thought, a shorter route; but
bad not gone far before be became hope-
lessly confused and found himself eager-
ly awaiting the approach of a lumbering
wagon, driven, as it happened, by a
small boy of the country thereabouts.

‘‘My young friend,’’ he said, as the
boy drew near, ‘‘could you tell me the
road to Adamstown?’’ mentioning the
name of the place he had set out to
find,

The boy, with a look of surprise, told
him at once, and found the suggestion
that he ‘‘ride along’’ accepted by the
minister with alacrity. They rode along
for some distance, the boy answering
many questions all the while about his
life in the country and bis duties on the
farm until, his curiosity getting the
better of him, he enquired, ‘‘And what
do you do?”’

‘‘I am a minister of the gospel,’’
answered the other, impressively; ‘‘1
show people the road to heaven.’

‘‘Hully gee! Show the people the
road to heaven,’’ retorted the youth,
‘‘and don’t even know the road to
Adamstown !’’

Wanted to Thrash Him Once.

“‘She seems to have abandoned her
moral suasion ideas relative to training
children.’’

‘She has,.”’

‘*How did it happen?’’

‘“Well, I was largely instrumental in
bringing about the change. You see,
she bas no children of her own, and |
grew weary of her constant preaching
and theorizing, so I loaned her our
Willie.’’

**Loaned her your boy?’?’

‘*Yes. She wasto have him a week,
on her solemn promise to confine herself
entirely to moral suasion.’’

‘Did she keep her promise?'’

**She did, but at the expiration of the
week she came to me with tears in her
eyes and pleaded for permission to
whale him just once.’’

~<a —
A Happy Thought.

Subbubs (desperately)—Great Scott!
Mary, that cook is the worst yet. Why,
I'l] bet a thousand {dollars I can cook
better myself-without half trying, either!

His wife—Oh, Henry, 1 wonder if
she could do your work at the office and
let you stay at home?

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Weare wholesale jobbers for all manner of
lighting necessities and assure you that in purchasing
from our house you will receive the best goods the mar-
ket affords at lowest prices. Be wise and place your
orders immediately; raw material markets are troubled
and consequent rise on finished products is sure to result.
This week we would suggest Gas and Gasoline Mantles
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Woman’s Worid

Dishonest Mothers Filling the World
With Dishonest Sons.

Are women honest?

As a sex we are ready to rise en
masse and shout an affirmative answer
to the question. Furthermore,in proof
of our unimpeachable virtue on the sub-
ject, we point to the fact that burglary
is a profession monopolized by men;
that bank robbers, embezzlers and de-
faulters are invariably of the superior
gender, and even the confidential clerk
colony in Montreal is an Eveless Eden.

And the worst of it is that we honest-
ly believe that women are more honest
than men. We have stood upon a pedes-
tal with a ‘‘I am holier than thou’’ ex-
pression so long that we have come to
take ourselves seriously and actually to
think that we are setting an example of
high and noble principle, when the truth
is that most of us would be run in by
the police if we got our iust deserts.

Now, it is not my purpose to institute
a profitless comparison between the hon-
esty of the sexes, According to tradi-
tion Diogenes went about with a lantern
for the better part ofa lifetime, in a
vain search for an honest man. If he
were to Start out to hunt for a perfectly
honest woman, he would need a Govern-
ment searchlight and a couple of hun-
dred years of additional time, for in
nothing is modern decadence so appar-
ent as in honesty, and women share
equally with men in the loose ideas of
the times in regard to stealing.

It is true that women do not loot banks
or decamp, as men so often do, with the
funds of widows and orphans for whom
they were guardians, but women have
not yet been placed in such positions of
trust, and we have yet to see whether
their honesty will be able to stand the
test of opportunity. On the whole, I
think it will, for women have handJed
so little money they stil] have such a
Superstitious awe of it that it keeps
them from making free with it, even
when it is other people's. Business
men agree that women make more hon-
est cashiers than men, and it is a sig-
nificant peculiarity between the sexes
that, asa rule, men steal money and
women steal things,

Women’s dishonesty runs to petty lar-
ceny,and it is amazing what latitude in
the way of appropriating things that do
not belong to her a woman will allow
herself and still consider her character
for honesty above reproach. All of us
would hotly resent the fact that our
friends are rogues, yet we all know from
actual experience that it is safer to lock
up the silver trinkets on our dresser be-
fore we give a swell tea or reception to
which only perfect ladies are invited.
Nobody takes the things, of course, but
jeweled hatpins and stickpins have a
way of disappearing on such occasions,
while as for the Spartan principle that
would lead a woman to return a bor-
rowed book, nobody even expects i. |
know one woman who does, and not
only returns them, but in good order
and with the backs still on, but she is
universally regarded as peculiar.

One of the commonest forms of dis-
honesty among women is that which
masquerades under the euphonious term
of ‘‘collecting’’ things, and which en-
ables a woman to steal not only without
compunction of conscience, but with a
brazen effrontery that makes her abso-
lutely shameless, By what process of
logic or ethics a theft is deprived of its
dishonesty if the article stolen is called
a souvenir nobody knows, but the fact

 

 

 

remains that many women consider any-
thing they take in public places legiti-
mate loot if they denominate it a keep-
sake. The caterer in New York who
served the banquet that was given
Prince Henry was ruined because the
guests carried away the silver and cut
glass and china as souvenirs. A fash-
ionable athletic club in Chicago, a year
or two ago, gave a ‘‘ladies’ day,’’ and
at the end of it discovered that they did
not have a spoon left, while many of the
cut glass water carafes had been secret-

ly appropriated by the fair guests as me- }

mentos of the joyous occasion.

I have felt like crying out ‘‘Stop
thief !’’ to women who have showed me
collections of towels and napkins
marked with every hostelry from the
Waldorf to the Coronado, and one
woman once told me frankly that she al-
ways took the napkin, if the waiter was
not looking, as a means of getting even
with here restaurant bill. ‘‘If they
catch you, you can always look surprised
and apologize for being absent-
minded,’ she added by way of explana-
tion of how to do the trick. Strange to
say, these social bandits not only gen-
erally get away safely with their plun-
der, but suffer no social ostracism, al-

.though I know one girl who lost a rich

and splendid husband through her habit
of pilfering, for men seldom condescend
ot such small pickings, and the one who
might rob you of a fortune could still
be trusted with your spoons.

In this case, however, the man was
of high and inflexible principle and
scrupulously honest, and he was deeply
in love with a beautiful young girl
whom he thought an angel. He met her
last summer in New York, and asked
ber to lunch at Sherry’s. The girl was
charming, the lunch perfect and the

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invitation to the trade to
visit our store, where will be
found one of the prettiest
lines of Holiday Goods ever
shown in Western Michigan.
Complete in every respect.
Will make liberal allowance
for expense,

Grand Rapids
Stationery Co.

29 North Ionia St.,
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Made From

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formation as to amount
of carpet required free.

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21

 

proposal trembling on his lips, when he
observed her calmly appropriating a
quaint little silver pepper box, which
she slipped in the wrist of ber long,
loose glove. ‘‘Just for a souvenir,’’ she
murmured. ‘‘You do not mean to keep
it?’’ he asked incredulously. ‘‘Cer-
tainly, [ do,’’ she replied, ‘‘I have
guite a collection—one from the Waldorf
and the Normandie and the Alcazar
and’’—reeling off a string of well-
known hostelries. The man caught the
house detective’s eye and motioned him
to the table. ‘‘This young lady desires
one of these pepper holders as a sou-
venir,’’ he said. ‘‘See that it is upon
my bill,’’ and the discreet detective did
as desired. The meal was finished in
stony silence and, when it was finished,
the man put the girl in a cab and bowed
his adieu from the sidewalk.

‘‘Are you going to marry her?’’ I
asked him when he told me the story.

“‘What,’’ he cried, ‘‘marry a thief!
Never. ’’

Another form of dishonesty that
women gild over, but that is none the
less stealing, is the habit they have of
having things sent home from a shop on
approval, using them and then sending
them back to the merchant with a curt
message that they did not suit. I have
known women who, on the eve of a re-
ception, wou d order fancy chairs and
rugs and then return them the next day
because their husbands (poor, innocent
scape goats!) ‘‘did not approve,’’ while
it is a common custom with many wom-
en to have a fine French hat sent home
on approval, but really for a cheap mil-
liner to copy, or an imported gown from
which the dollar-a-day sewing woman
is to get new ideas. Women who do
such underhanded tricks as these would
be horrified at being classed with the
professional shoplifter, but they are every
whit as dishonest. They have stolen
the use of the merchants’ goods; they
have gotten things under faise pretenses
and they deserve to be shunned as com-
mon thieves.

Perhaps the most curious phase of this
matter is the way that women look upon
cheating at cards. No matter how dis-
honest a man is in other respects, no
matter how much he overreaches in
business or how much he takes advan-
tage of people in other ways, when he
plays cards with his friends he plays a
fair game or else he is ostracized. Men
steal every day to pay their so-called
debts of honor. The man who was even
suspected of cheating would be kicked
out of any club, and the most opprobrious
epithet in the whole language is that
men apply to the man who plays a dis-
honest game among gentlemen. A
woman’s virtue is no dearer to her or
more jealously guarded than a man’s
honor in sport.

Among women this chivalrous senti-
ment is totally lacking. Only let the
prize in a progressive euchre game be
pretty enough, and not one, but two, or
three, or even more women will be
caught ‘‘doctoring’’ the score cards,
with apparently no consciousness that
they are committing a crime that the
whole civilized world has agreed in
branding as the very quintessence of
blackguardism. Nor do other women
look upon it in the same light men do,
for you will hear women roundly ac-
cuse other women of having cheated at
cards, yet the offenders are not cut in
society or denied admission toa single
game.

That women are responsible for much
of the general dishonesty of the world
there can be no question. Men make

 

the laws, but women interpret their
spirit, and so long as women have no
code of ethics on this subject, just so
long will men steal. As matters stand
now, it is only too true that women are
disposed to look only too leniently on
dishonesty in themselves or others so
long as it is not found out, and that, in
effect, they say to the men of their fam-
ily, as the old man did tohis son: ‘‘Get
money, get money honestly if you can,
but get money.’’

Many a boy commits his first dishon-
est deed to get the means to gratify the
insatiable demands of the girls with
whom he goes—nice girls, too, but who
require a constant offering up of bon-
bons and theater tickets and bijouterie.
Many a man falsifies accounts and _ robs
his employers to get the money to in-
dulge his wife in luxuries beyond their
station. Few women ever ask or care
where the money comes from, so long as
they get it, and these women are acces-
sories before the crime of the dishonesty
of the man who steals for their sake.

Nor is this intangible moral influence
all. How does the woman who steals
hotel spoons and cheats at cards and
buys goods she never intends to pay for
expect her sons to be honest? She has
set them an example of thieving all their
lives, she has taught them by precept
and example to be dishonest, and she
has no right to turn anything but jail-
birds out of her nest. For my part,
when I hear people pitying the poor
mother of a defaulter or a young boy
caught tapping a till, I never waste a
Sympathetic tear upon her, for I know
that ninety-nine times out of a hundred
she is dishonest, too, and that the boy
learned his first lesson in stealing from
his mother’s lack of principle.

This may seem a harsh arraignment
of my sex, but it is no more than the
truth. What we need is a renaissance
of common, old-fashioned honesty, and
it must begin with women. A stream
can rise no higher than its fountain and
dishonest mothers are filling the world
with dishonest sons. Dorothy Dix.

 

 

      
 
  

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can get it
immediately and easily
when you want to use it.
Any person living with-
in the reach of a Post
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can deposit money with
us without risk or trouble.
Our financial responsi-
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$1,960,000
There is no safer bank
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and draws .

3% interest
Your dealings with usare
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“‘Banking by Mail?

is the name of an interest-
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tells how anyone can do
their banking with us by
mail; how to send money or
make deposits by mail;
and important things
persons should know
who want to keep their
money safe and well
invested. It will be
sent free upon request.

Old National
Bank,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

   
 
    
   
  
   
    
   

 

 

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1902 Jardiniere Assortment

Jardiniers, assorted blends, 2 dozen in a package.
24 dozen 7 inch assorted tints for $2.37
24 dozen 8 inch assorted tints for 3.00
24 dozen g inch assorted tints for 4.38

Total - - - $9.75
They sell themselves for 50, 65 and 75 cents each.
Write for a package now.

GEO. H. WHEELOCK & CO.
113 and 115 West Washington Street, South Bend, Ind.

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

_ Butter and Eggs

Water Content in Butter.

Upon the amount of water which can
be incorporated in butter depends large-
ly the over-run, Some buttermakers do
not forget to tell about their superior
ability in making butter which will
show about 20 per cent. moisture, and
they claim to be able to get about 25
per cent. over-run. One buttermaker
has even asserted that his butter con-
tained 40 per cent. moisture. Another
who was making such exaggerated over-
runs sent a couple of samples of butter
to the Iowa State Dairy Department for
the determination of its moisture con-
tent. On analysis it was found to have
less than 12 per cent. moisture. Pre-
sumably, on being nctified of his erron-
eous and exaggerated idea he had the
problem on his hands of figuring out
where his big over-run came from. The
writer thinks be could make a good
guess, It is no easy matter to get 15
per cent. of moisture in butter and still
turn outa salable product at fair prices.
With the methods now in practice in
America there is no danger of incor-
porating more than 16 per cent. and a
law limiting the content to that amount
would be unnecessary and superfluous.
Even in Denmark, where special meth-
ods for obtaining moisture in butter are
pursued—such as light salting, little
working, easy and careful handling,
and soaking in cold water between
workings—they are unable to incor-
porate more than about 15 per cent.,
except in a few cases. The Melkeri-
tidende says that ‘‘yet, no butter on
the English market has been found to
contain over 16 per cent. of moisture,
but from experiment station investiga-
tions we know such can happen.’’ With
such results from the Danish methods of
buttermaking, we need not fear that
butter made in this country will contain
more than 16 per cent. of moisture.
This, of course, does not include process
butter, as the methods of making that
facilitate greatly the incorporation of
moisture. The low percentage of moist-
ure in American butter is due chiefly to
heavy salting, much working in absence
of moisture, little variation in tempera-
tures of churning and wash water,and to
the violent concussion which the butter
is subjected to in our rotary combined
churns. The fuller the churn is at the
time of churning the less is the butter
hammered about, and the more moisture
will the butter contain. Butter churned
from a small amount of cream in a large
churn will contain very little moisture,
The minute drops of moisture have, un-
der the violent treatment during churn-
ing and working, been disarranged and
formed larger drops, in which form they
escape.—C, Larsen in Creamery Jour-
nal.

 

 

0
Brief History of American Cheesemaking.
Cheesemaking as an organized indus-
try, although practiced since the six-
teenth century in England, Holland and
other countries of Europe, is barely
more than a century old in the United
States. It began in 1800. Associated
with its rise is the story of the immense
cheese which, under the superintend-
ency of Elder John Leland, of Cheshire,
Massachusetts, was made in that year,
and subsequently sent to Washington,
where it was presented with the compli-
ments of the co-operators to President
Thomas Jefferson. This cheese, when
cured, weighed 1,600 pounds. Elder
Leland induced every family in his par-
ish and all the country around who

 

owned a cow to contribute the milk pro-
duced on a certain day. The oddity
of the gift to the President appealed to
the public imagination. <A great noise
was made about it in the newspapers of
the time and it had the effect of not only
illustrating the enthusiasm of Elder Le-
land and his friends for Jefferson, but
also of concentrating attention upon the
subject of cheesemaking, and stimulat-
ing a cheesemaking ambition in various
portions of the country.

A small wave of emigration from
Cheshire to Herkimer county, New
York, which occurred about that time
led to the establishment of a center of
the industry there, and a quarter ofa
century later it was planted in most of
the adjoining counties by skilled emi-
grants from Herkimer county. In 1826
Harry Burrell, of Herkimer county,
the first dealer on a large scale, inaugu-
rated the trade of exporting American
cheese to England.

Rude indeed were the conditions un-
der which cheesemaking was carried on
at that time. The milking was done in
open yards. The milk was curdled in
tubs, and the curd cut with long wooden
knives, or broken with the hands, and
pressed in log presses, which stood ex-
posed to the weather. The cheeses were
thin and small. They were held through
the season. In the fall, when ready for
market,they were packed in casks made
for the purpose and shipped to their
destination. Until Burrell took hold,
the shipments were mostly from the
makers direct to the consumers. He
followed the practice of contracting with
the dairymen for their whole supply.

The first modern cheese factory was
set up by Jesse Williams in Rome, N.
Y., in 1851. With this undertaking be-
gan the making of cheese upon fixed
principles, resulting in a product of uni-
form texture, shape and quality. By
1866 the number of factories, which
were mostly in New York,had increased
to 500. Williams is looked upon by
cheesemakers as the father of the mod-
ern American cheese industry. He in-
vented implements and appliances
which lifted cheesemaking to the dig-
nity of a branch manufacture conducted
by scientific principles. He took out
no patents for his inventions, which
were widely adopted. He gave to Amer-
ican dairying the impetus which has
carried it to the high plane which it
now occupies—higher than that which
has been reached in any other country
in the world.

From New York, cheesemaking was
carried to Ohio more than fifty years
ago, and thence gradually spread into
the Western States. In Wisconsin the
most revered name in connection with
the history of the industry is that of
Hiram Smith. Wisconsin has had a pe-
culiar advantage over neighboring
States in the number of experienced
Swiss and German dairymen who settled
within her limits in the early days, She
also has unsurpassed conditions of cii-
mate and soil. The spirit in which
Wisconsin cheesemakers have gone to
work is modern, scientific and practical,
and they have made a name for their
product not only throughout the United
States but beyond the sea.—Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin.

 

 

We can sell your

at top market prices. POULTRY

Write for stencil and quotations.

LAMSON & CO., BOSTON

13 Blackstone Street
Established over 50 years

(0,000 Barrels of Apples Wanted

For storage. Write to

R. Hirt, Jr., Detroit, Mich.

SEEDS

Clover and Timothy—all kinds of Grass Seeds.
MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST.

 

 

 

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POULTRY, BUTTER AND EGGS

to Year-Around Dealer and get Top Market and Prompt Returns.
GEO. N. HUFF & CO.

 

 

POTATOES

Carlots only wanted. Highest market price. State variety and quality.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 304 & 305 Clark Building,
Bell Main 66 Opposite Union Depot

Phil Hilber

Jobber of Oleomargarine
109 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

I have State agency for several manufacturers and am prepared to
quote factory prices.

 

We are in the market for

CLOVER. ALSYKE
BEANS, PEAS, POP CORN, ETC.

If any to offer write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
24 AND 26 N. DIVISION ST., 20 AND 22 OTTAWA ST.

EGGS WANTED

We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have ary to offer
write for prices or call us up by phone if we fail to quote you.

Butter

We can handle all you send us.

WHEELOCK PRODUCE CO.

106 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Citizens Phone 3232.

 

 

 

 

Beans

The bean market is very active. I can handle all youcan ship me. Will "
Write or telephone me for prices and particulars oe

Z. D. Crittenden, 98 S. Div. St., Grand Rapids

Both Phones 1300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

23

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Nov. 1—The coffee trade
was quite interested in the reports of
the destruction of the coffee zone of
Central America and is anxious for
further details. Little of this coffee
comes here, but the loss will be felt in
California and some European secticns.
The coffee is of a superb quality and it
is hoped the disaster is not as bad as
reported,

As to the coffee market in general,
the changes of the week have been few:
in fact, one hears only the sterotyped
reply of quietude, go where he will.
Rio No. 7 closes at 53¢c, as last week.
There is a slightly easier feeling and
buyers are not taking any stock ahead
of current wants. In store and afloat
there are 2,733,404 bags, against 2,236, -
658 bags at the same time last year.
Receipts at the primary ports of Rio
and Santos show quite a falling off from
the amount last season. Since July 1
only 5,311,000 bags have been received,
against 7,698,000 bags during the same
time last season. Mild coffees are do-
ing fairly well,but in some sorts there is
some unsteadiness. Good Cucuta, 8 %c.
There is little doing in East India
sorts.

Business in refined sugars has been
fairly active for this time of the year
and, upon the whole, the position is
fairly satisfactory to the seller. The
trust will, it is announced, give only
seven days now on- sugars as to the
guaranty of price, while Arbuckle con-
tinues to extend thirty days. Refineries
have about caught up and little delay is
experiencd in filling orders.

Teas are strong. Buyers are not dis-
posed to shop for bargains, as they real-
ize that prices are generally very firmiy
maintained and they take it or leave it.
The lowest rate on Congous in bond is
about 8%c. As a rule, orders are for
small lots, but in the aggregate they
make a good showing.

There is a better feeling in rice and,
taking the week altogether, the market
has been quite satisfactory. Prices are
firmly maintained and, while showing
no advance, there is a slightly stronger
undertone,

More business is being done in spices
this week than last and holders are firm
in their views. Quotations are not per-
ceptibly higher, but tend that way.

In molasses little is being done. Prices
are practically without change and
neither buyer nor seller is anxious to do
much until we have freer arrivals of
new goods. Syrups are in moderate
supply and are steady at former quota-
tions— 18@23c for good to prime.

The canned goods market is without
any great change. Prices are rather
easier for tomatoes and threes of Mary-
land pack are worth goc, less 1% per
cent, There is a wide difference in the
quality of tomatoes arriving. Corn is
scarce, of course, and for desirable
Maine $1.30 seems to be about the lowest
rate and from thisto $1.50. Such goods
as pumpkin, squash and succotash are
selling well and prices are firm. Pump-
kin, 3 !b., is worth 85@g5c. California
fruits are in request and are somewhat

firmer than a fortnight ago. Apricots,
extra standards, $1.35@1.40. Salmon
seems to show increasing strength,
Sockeyes, $1.35@1.37% for talls and
about $1.42 @1.45 tor flats,

Raisins have been advanced %c. The
market on almost all goods is firm and
the outlook is for a good holiday trade,
which will soon be manifest.

In butter, about the same conditions
prevail as last week. Supply and de-
mand are about equal. Best Western
creamery is still -quotable at 25¢, al-
though possibly some few lots have
brought a fraction more, while some
very good butter has sold for a little
less, Imitation creamery, 18@2oc;
Western factory, 17@2o0c, but it takes
very fine stock to bring the latter rate;
Western factory, 1734@Igc; renovated,
18@2Ic.

Cheese is rather quiet, so far as actual
business is concerned. Prices are prac-

 

 

 

tically without change and are firm, al-
though no advance is anticipated in the
near future. State full cream, 12%.

Western fresh gathered eggs, loss cff,
24% @25c; at mark, the range is from
I9@24c, the latter for fancy candied
graded stock.

Spaghetti as a Weapon.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

Judge A. M. Aucuin, of the Second
City Criminal Court, was confronted
with a delicate and puzzling question
in the case of Frank Klem, a German
merchant.

Is spaghetti a dangerous weapon?
That was the question. Mrs. Kiefer
charged that the merchant assaulted her
with a bunch of spaghetti, and the
corpus de licti was clearly proven.
Judge Aucoin, for the benefit and guid-
ance of jurists throughout the land,
held that spaghetti was not a dangerous
weapon, but that despite this fact an
assault with spaghetti could be made,
and the person so offending was amen-
able to the law the same as if the weapon
used had been a bludgeon or a meat ax.

The testimony showed that Mrs.
Kiefer sent to Klem’s place for five
cents’ worth of spaghetti; that when
she received it she considered it spoiled
and sent it back, and instead of getting
her money refunded she says abuses
were heaped upon her through her mes-

senger. Then the lady called on the
grocer in person, The merchant, it is
alleged, at some point during the

Babylonic collcquy threw the spaghetti
in the lady’s face and threatened to
throw a weight at her,

The Court thought this fact was clear-
ly established. ‘‘Spaghetti is not a
dangerous weapon,’’ said the Court,
‘‘but the defendant is guilty of the as-
sault and will be held for sentence.’’

—__» 4.
The English Style.

Frank was learning to ride a horse,
and one day somebody asked him if it
bounced him very hard when the horse
was trotting.

Oh, no,’’ he answered, ‘‘I don’t
bounce very hard, I stay up nearly all
the time.”’

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A Thorough Business Man.
First English lord—Did you propose
to Miss Porkpacker?
Second English lord—No, to her
father. I hate to have any business
dealings with a woman.

 

 

Established 1865

L. O. Snedecor & Son
NEW YORK

Egg Receivers

HAVE YOU EVER?
considered how necessary it should be for your
interests to ship eggs to an egg house that makes
a specialty of the one line throughout the year?
We want to double our business this year; we
have the outlet, so will rely on YOU to send
us the EGGS.

Reference: N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

Kent County
Savings Bank Deposits

exceed $2,300,000

 

3%% interest paid on Sav-
ings certificates of deposit.

The banking business of
Merchants, Salesmen and
Individuals solicited.

 

Cor. Canal and Lyon Sts.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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BUTTER EGGS
POULTRY

We expect to double our sales of poultry this winter. Why?
Because all our old shippers will stick to us and this advertise-
ment will do the rest. We can handle your poultry as well as
any one and be.ter than many. We are headquarters for Eggs
and Butter. Give us a trial. Prompt and honest returns.
Reliable quotations.

Buffalo market compares favorably with all others.

Rea & Witzig

Commission Merchants in Butter, Eggs and Poultry
96 West [Market Street, Bt FFALO, N. Y.

References: Buffalo Commercial! Bank, all Express Companies and Commercial Agencies.
Established 1873

 

 

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Grand Rapids Messenger & Packet Co.

11-13 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

We make a specialty of handling Merchandise consigned to us in bulk to
be distributed to various firms and residences. Our business in that line
increases every week. Contracts made for the delivery of handbills, cata-
logues, pamphlets, addressed or unaddressed circulars. Charges very rea-
sonable. Give usa trial. Write for full particulars, etc., TO-DAY.

Alex. McLachlin, Manager

    

  

 

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Butter

I always
want it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso, Mich.
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POULTRY CRATES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shippers of poultry will be interested in knowing that we are putting on the market
crates made especially for poultry. They are made of seasoned elm, are strong, light
and well ventilated. We have had nothing but words of praise from those shippers who
have used them. Ask us to send you booklet giving full information and prices.

WILCOX BROTHERS,

CADILLAG, MICH.
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24

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Girl Earns a Big Salary.

Miss Dorothy Ficken, the daughter of
a noted and wealthy architect of New
York City, and but 16 years old, earns
a salary of $3,5co a year by drawing
comic pictures. Her social position is
of the best and her family dates back to
the early days of New York. She is one
of the heiresses of the city and lives
with her father, mother and sister in a
great house at 7 East Eighth street,
which is filled with rare paintings and
works of art.

Yet it is not for these things that Miss
Ficken has attracted attention, but be-
cause of such marked originality in
drawing that she is already earning
$3,500 a year as the reward of her ver-
satility in the art of making people
read and be amused,

“Il don’t think it is cleverness,’’ she
said to a reporter in speaking of her
work, and then with charming naivete
added: ‘‘It really is not artistic work,
but people seem to enjoy it, and I have
stacks of fun in doing it, so why not?’’

When she was asked bow she had ever
conceived the idea of ‘‘Jim Dumps’’
and ‘‘Sunny Jim,’’ two of the advertis-
ing hits of the day, she remarked :

‘*Well, you know those funny looking
wigs they used to wear have always
struck me as being so extremely funny,
and so | thought that to express a very
sour old party it could be done as much
by having his wig hang as if it had
been soaked in water as by the expres-
sion of his face. And so, to make this
same old party look very chipper and
gay, much would be gained by having
the wig stick out straight and stiff.
Which I did.

‘‘In some ways I wish that I did not
make so much money, however, for I
really do not need it, and there are so
many others whe do, but if the com-
missions are large the fun in getting up
the designs is worth the trouble, even if
I were not paid. I commenced to draw
several years ago, but I have never taken
drawing lessons.’’

It is not at all surprising that the rea-
son Miss Ficken draws such ridiculously
funny creations is that she has never
taken drawing lessons. It was two years
ago that her father perceived that she
had talent. He is a prominent mem-
ber of the Seventh Regiment, and he
asked his daughter if she would not
draw designs on the various dinner
cards. Then he described the peculiar-
ities of a number of his friends, and at
dinner that night the cartoons of Miss
Ficken were the hit of the evening.

The little 16-year-old artist comes of
a family noted for its artistic tastes and
abilities. Her grandfather was a cele-
brated painter. Her mother has exe-
cuted some exquisite miniatures on
ivory and also paints on canvas, while
her sister, Miss Marjorie Ficken, is
quite a noted artist of the impression-

istic school.
Se
The Way of a Woman.

‘*T hate to be contradicted,’ she said.

‘‘Then I won’t contradict you,’’ he
returned,

‘*You don’t love me,’’ she asserted.

‘*T don’t,’’ he admitted.

‘“You are a hateful thing,’

‘‘T am,’’ he replied.

‘I believe you are trying to tease
me,’ she said.

‘Il am,’ he conceded.

*“And that you do love me.”’

Mig

For a moment she was silent.

‘*Well,’’ she said at last, ‘‘I do hate
a man who is weak enough to be led by
a woman. He ought to have a mind of
his own—and strength.’’

He sighed. What else could he do?

 

9

she cried.

A Business Hint

A suggested need often repeated creates the
-want that sends the purchaser to the store.

Every dealer should have his share of the
profit that reverts from the enormous amount
of money expended by the National Biscuit
Company in keeping their products constantly
before the eyes of the public.

These goods become the actual needs that
send a steady stream of trade to the stores that
sell them.

People have become educated to buying
biscuit and crackers in the In-er-seal Package—
and one success has followed the other from
the famous Uneeda Biscuit to the latest widely
advertised specialty.

Each new product as it is announced to the
public serves as a stimulant to business and
acts as a drawing card that brings more custo-
mers to the store than any plan you could devise.

A well stocked line of National Biscuit goods
is a business policy that it is not well to overlook.

 

 

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Sulius A. F. Friedrich

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30 and 32 Zanal st.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

Pianos, Organs,
Sheet Music,
Calking Machines, |

and all kinds of
Small Musical Instruments

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Che Good Food

Cera Nut Flakes

Is not recommended to CURE consumption, rheumatism, toothache,
etc., but the people who use it soon recover from all their ailments.
Made from nuts and wheat—Nature’s true food.

    
       
   

Rational Pure Food Zo., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

     
 

 

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Merchants

Have You
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245 Ibs.

 

3 Ibs.

 

Retail 25c

20 minute recipe on each pocket.

Trade supplied by

Phelps, Brace & Co., Detroit, Mich,
Lee & Cady, Detroit, Mich.
Taylor, McLeish & Co. Detroit, Mich.
Musselman Grocer Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Musselman Grocer Co.,

Traverse City, Mich.
Musselman Grocer Co.,

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
Worden Grocer Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Phipps-Penoyer & Co. Saginaw Mich.
R. A. Bartley, Toledo, Ohio.
Huntington Grocery Co.,

Huntington, Indiana.
Riddell Grocery Co.,
South Bend, Indiana.
Moellering Bros. & Millard,
Ft. Wayne, Indiana,

Rice Cook Book containing 200
recipes will be sent free to anyone
sending us trade mark cut from any
“O & S” rice pocket.

Orme & Sutton Rice Co.,
209 N. Peters St., New Orleans.
Branch Chicago.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the ~

President, JOHN A. WESTON, sing; Sec-
retary, M. S. Brown, Safiinaw; Treasurer,
JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;
Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. C. T.
Senior Counselor, BuRNS; Secretary
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

 

 

 

Five New Members Taken Into the Fold.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 3—The regular
monthly meeting of Grand Rapids
Council, No. 131, U. C. T., on Satur-
day evening, Nov. 1, was very largely
attended, with Senior Counselor Burns
presiding. In the absence of Past
Counselor Compton, Past Senior Coun-
selor Kolb filled the Past Counselor's
chair and J. Howard Rutka acted as
Page in the absence of Frankiin Pierce.

Five new members were added to the
Council by initiation, and each went
from the hal! glad with the thought that
they were members of the very best fra-
ternal organization in the world for
traveling men,as well as members of the
liveliest, most progressive and _ largest
Council in Michigan, for it isa fact
that No. 131 leads in point of member-
ship in the State, closing Saturday even-
ing with 184 members. Now, let us
keep on showing up to the traveling
fraternity the benefits to be derived from
being a U.C. T. for there are yet 400
traveling men living in Grand Rapids
who should be members of our organiza-
tion. The following five were initiated:
Henry F. Huntley, Harl. H. Hayes, J.
M. Kern, J. P. Halpin and Myron B.
Cook.

Campbell P. Jones was received into
No. 131 by transfer card from Terre
Haute Council, No. 188.

We had the pleasure of receiving fra-
ternal visits from Geo. A. Fricke, Flint
Council, No. 29; R. W. Bock, Colum-
bus Council, No. 1, and Past Senior
Counselor Eakin, of Beatrice Council,
No. 79, Beatrice, Neb.

The Entertainment Committee re-
ported all arrangements completed for
the winter series of dancing and card
parties, the first being a dancing party
at St. Cecilia Saturday evening, Nov.
8, with music by Newell’s orchestra.
The sale of season tickets is quite
large, which will ensure a good crowd,
and those not yet having secured tickets
should avail themselves at once from
any of the committee. The season
ticket, costing $2, will admit one
couple to ail the parties without any ad-
ditional expense, and to those not hold-
ing season tickets the admission will
be 25 cents for each person. Come
early and avoid the rush. Ja Dee.

—_—___> 2.
Quarterly Meeting of the Michigan
Knights of Grip Directors.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 3—At the regu-
lar meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Michigan Knights of the Grip,
held at the Morton House Saturday,
Nov. 1, all were present except Messrs.
Koster and Howarn.

The Secretary reported receipts of
$2,016 in the death fund and $6 in the
general fund, for which he held the re-
ceipts of the Treasurer.

The Treasurer reported receipts of
$3, 388.90 in the death fund; $279 52in
the general fund, $134 in the deposit
fund and $76.24 in the employment
fund. The disbursements have been
$2,018.32, leaving a balance on hand of
$1, 860. 34.

The fullowing bills were allowed :
Mork & Trower es $107.30

enn We. Seer, 40.44
Jonn A. Weaton..............-.. 485
Pames Cook,.......-...---+ ---- 6.25
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Geo, . Randall... 2.2... ....-. 9.76
Joba W, Schram: .......-.-./.... 8.08

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The death claims of Wm. H. Van
Derwegan, German S. Vallmore and
Peter A. Clausen were allowed.
The Treasurer was instructed to trans-
fer $450 from the death fund to the gen-
eral fund.

 

 

The Secretary was instructed to for-
ward with the next assessment notice
the following proposed amendments to
the constitution :

Resolved—That 50 cents shall accom-
pany each request of the Secretary for
change of beneficiary in each member's
policy. Money so received shall be
placed in the general fund.

Resolved—That Article IV.
amended to read as follows:

The Board of Directors shall consist
of the President, Secretary-Treasurer
and six Directors elected by ballot at
the annual meeting of this Association,
no two of which six Directors shall re-
side in the same village or city. Three
Directors shall be elected at each an-
nua! meeting to serve two years or until
their successors are elected.

Resolved——That Article
amended to read as follows:

The Secretary shall receive an annual
salary on all moneys received from all
assessments and dues collected and
placed to the credit of the beneficiary
fund and his bona fide expenses incurred
in attending Board meetings and for
postage in the discharge of the duties
of his office, to be determined and al-
lowed by the Board of Directors.

The Secretary was instructed to draw
on the Treasurer for $50 to pay postage
on the invitations to the next annual
meeting.

An order for $50 was ordered drawn
for postage for assessment No. 4, 1902.

An assessment was authorized Dec. 1
to close Jan. 1, 1903.

It was decided to hold the annual
meeting of the Michigan Knigbts of the
Grip at Battle Creek on Monday and
Tuesday, Dec. 29 and 30.

A vote of thanks was extended to the
Morton House for the use of the parlors
for the Board meeting.

Adjourned to meet at Battle Creek at
10 o’clock, Dec. 29.

M. S. Brown, Sec’ y.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Jas. A. Massie has signed with the
Woodhouse Co, and will cover his old
territory for the new house.

A. Lineweaver, who has sold hats to
the Michigan trade for the past eighteen
years, has severed his connection with
Langley, Low & Alexander, of Chicago,
to engage in the mining business at
Cripple Creek. He will be associated
with Judge Muilen, who formerly resided
at Newaygo.

Geo. H. Randall, who has served the
Michigan Knights of the Grip four years
on the Board af Directors and missed
but one meeting during that time—and
that on account of the illness of his
wife—is being pushed by his friends as
an available candidate for the presi-
dency. Mr. Randall has been a persist-
ent and consistent worker in the rank
and file of the organization, and as his
election to the presidency would crown
bis career asa faithful and conscientious
officer of the organization, his friends
insist that he make the run, which he
has reluctantly consented to do.

Patrick H. Carroll was laid up all
last week, for the first time in thirty
years, being compelled to sit in a chair
and be treated for a badly swollen
ankle. He had a distinguished corps of
nurses, including David Smith, W. R.

Dennis, Boyd Pantlind, Mort. Rath-
bone, Thos. F. Carroll and others—
mostly of the male persuasion. His en-

forced idleness afforded him ample op-
portunity to get on good terms with his
new possession in the shape of a solid
gold Waltham watch which was pre-
sented to him by Selz, Schwab & Co,
for being one of the seven men in the
employ of tbat house whose sales
reached the top notch. As the house
employs upwards of eighty salesmen,
the prize means much to the recipient
and he values it correspondingly.

Seventeen Traveling Salesmen.

The Judson Grocer Company is now
represented by seventeen traveling sales-
men, all of whom started out under the
new auspices Monday morning. Eleven
of the men were identified with the Ol-
ney & Judson Grocer Co, as follows:

B. S. Davenport.

John Cummins,

G. H. McWilliams.

David S. Haugh.

P. M. Van Drezer.

Jas. Van Heulen,

Peter Lankester.

Neal Cary.

Geo. T. Williams.

Clarence Haugh.

N. L.. Herres,

Six were transferred from the Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co., as follows:

Harry P. Winchester.

Chas. P. Reynolds.

Arthur A. Rogers.

Barney E. Stratton.

Ed. Dooge.

Wm. K. Wilson.

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In 1952.

He—Is she a good cook?

She—Lovely!
amount of hot water on the prepared
food.

She puts just the right a

The Warwick

Strictly first class.
Rates $2 per day. Central location.
Trade of visiting merchants and travel-
ing men solicited.

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

Livingston
Hotel

Only three minutes’ walk
from Union Station.

Cor. Division and Fulton Sts.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNSURPASSED POULTRY MARKET

 

Actual sales—Fancy live Turkeys, young, 12@13. Chickens, 12013. Fowls, 10@11.. Ducks, 11@12
Geese, g@i1o. Dressed Turkeys, 14@15. Chickens, 13@14. Fowls, 12@12%. Ducks, 14@15.

For fancy (scalded) poultry Buffalo will equal any market—no exception—for Thanksgiving and
Christmas. We are not prophets, but predict, just the same, as we have safely for years, that n« -
ket excels us on holiday poultry this season, because Buffalo has places for it. First, always big  holi-
day demand; second, the canners want very large quantities; third, cold storage speculators, an
amount; fourth, live, raffling trade, carloads; fifth, factory proprietors’ trade—thousands as gifts.
Hence no danger of sticking us on any poultry.

Thanksgiving can do justice to very liberal amount fancy turkeys, ducks, chick and man. lore
alive. Buy conservative—better sure margin on moderate shipments than loss on large one We
assure unsurpassed service, promptness, integrity, responsibility, conservative quotations and we be-
lieve an unexcelled poultry market, light freight, quick time, etc.

References: New shippers to old ones and Western shippers to Berlin Heights Bank, Berlin
Heights, Ohio, or Third National Bank, Buffalo; or anywhere on demand. Our 34th year.

BATTERSON & CO., 159 Michigan St., Buffalo, N. Y.

 

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Michigan shi

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T. W. Brown & Company

. Wholesale Poultry,
Butter and Eggs

Port Huron, Mich.

Fifty-two weeks in the year we are in the market for Poultry,
Butter and Eggs.
We are paying this week:
For sweet dairy packing stock Butter, 16c, f. o. b. shipper’s
station, Port Huron weights and 2 per cent. added account

shrinkage. Pack your butter in parchment paper lined sugar
barrels and head with wooden head.
For fresh gathered Eggs (cases included) 1gc, f. 0. b. ship-
per’s station, Port Huron count and inspection.
For Poultry Delivered Port Huron:
Fowls, No. 1 - - - 8c Ib. Old Tom Turkeys 8e Ib.
Springs, No.1 So I. Old Hen Turkeys - 9e Ib.

Young Tom Turkeys (over 10 1b. and fat) 9e 1b.
Young Her Turkeys (over 8 lb. and fat) 9c lb.
Geese (fat, full feathered ) 7c Ib.

Je charge no commission or cartage and make prompt re-
turns upon receipt of shipments.

We refer you to First National Bank, Durand, Mich., Jean,
Garrison & Co., New York City, St: Clair County Savings

If you are a carload shipper let us hear from you.
in carlots.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

 

 

Term expires
HENRY HEM, Saginaw - - . 81, 1902
WIT P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dee. 31, 1903

CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dec. 31, 1904
JOHN D. Murr, Grand — Dec. 31, 1905
ARTHUB H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dee. 31, 1906

President, HaNRY HIM,

Saginaw.
, JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.

 

Examination Sessions.
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

 

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—Lovu G. Moorg, Saginaw.
Secretary—W.H BuRKE Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F. HUBER, Port Huron.

 

Why

Some Druggists Don’t Sell More

Goods.
After dinner the other evening the
Observer strolled into the store of one
of his friends for a chat. Just as he

reached the door a physican came rush-

ing by him and hurried inside. ‘‘Have
you got any—?”’ he cried out to the Ob-
server’s friend, naming a new internal
antiseptic which has recently been put
upon the market, and which, unlike the
great majority of ‘‘new remedies,’’ is
bound to secure a prominent place in
the physician's armamentarium.

‘Certainly. *’

‘Well, I am deuced glad to know it.
I have been chasing around for an hour
to find some of it. I have been in five
stores, I guess. None of them had it.
Confound it!’’ (with a sudden. ex-
plosion) ‘‘you can't get what you want
of druggists half the time anyway.”’

This incident was full of suggestion
to the Observer, and, after the physi-
cian had left the store, he turned to his
friend, the proprietor, and remarked
that having things which people want
is a strong advantage in the battle for
success.

‘Moe bet it was the energetic
response. “‘It is one of the things that
I keep always in mind, and it has had
perhaps more to do with what success |
have achieved than any other single

oF
is,

element. I try never to be ‘just out’ of
anything that people cali for. Of all
suicidal things, that isthe worst! Some

times, of course, you will be asked for
something that you have never carried
in stock, but I never let the customer
escape me if I can help it. If I cannot
get the thing wanted at once by sending
the boy around toa neighboring drug-
gist, I send down town to the jobber for
it as soon as possible and deliver it to
the house of the patron. You can not
take too much trouble in teaching peo-
ple that they can get of you everything
they want in the drug and allied lines.

‘Especially is this of

true physi-

cians,'’ continued the Observer’s friend,
as he leaned over the showcase in the
rear of the store. ‘‘A reputation for al-
ways having what they want is worth

more than almost anything else. I have
built up a large patronage among physi-
cians largely by means of this alone. |

watch the new things, and those which
are sure to be in demand | get before

the demand comes Il am then ready to
not have to send my

customer to another druggist, from whom

supply it, and I do

 

house comes into my store and tells me
that he is going to sample all the
physicians in town with a particular
product which is a ‘winner,’ and a de-
mand for which is sure to be worked
up, 1 lose no time in getting a small
supply. I know that the name of the
house is itself a guarantee of success, I
know, further, from the methods of the
house and the tremendous advertising
machinery which it has at command,
that the product will be pushed in such
a manner that physicians will soon be
prescribing or buying it.

‘‘I can make no mistake. My path is
clearly blazed for me. When one of the
physicians in my neighborhood writes

a prescription I am ready forhim. |.

do not have to tell him that I have not
the product in stock. I do not have to
drive him into going to another drug-
gist, or make it necessary for him to
keep and dispense his own medicines!"’

As the Observer wended his way out
of the store and walked thoughtfully
down the street, he realized thoroughly
how it happens that some druggists
have to spend a good deal of time in
wondering why they do not sell more

goods.—Bulletin of Pharmacy.
ll a ea

Prescription Checks
Work.

Vincent Benedict, of Grand Rapids,
submits this interesting story of how
good came out of apparent evil:

In our prescription department a sort
of double-check system is used to pre-
vent Customers from receiving the wrong
medicine. These checks have the same
number at each end, are perforated
across the center, and are also of va-
rious colors. On receiving a prescrip-
tion from a customer, one-half the check
is given to the customer and the other
half pasted on the prescription. When
the medicine is handed to the customer,
the number and color of the two checks
are compared.

Well, as luck would have it, we were
very busy one afternoon and among the
prescriptions received was one presented

y an old Holland woman, calling for
one dozen suppositories, with a signa of

Use as directed." The store was
crowded with customers during a rusb,
and when I delivered the prescription |
failed to notice that although the cclor
of the checks was the same, the last
numerals of the numbers (five figures
each) did not compare.

The mistake was soon discovered
through the failure of another customer
to receive her prescription, there being
no duplicate of her check-number, In-
vestigation showed that instead of a box
of suppositories, the woman had _ re-
ceived a box of capsules. Well, the pre-
scription bore no name or address, and
on cailing up the doctor, by phone, be
er did not know where the woman

ived,

Here was a pretty fix! I can not say
how much I worried about the thing, nor
all the good resolutions | made: but
there was absolutely nothing to do but
wait until she should appear again.

In about two weeks the old lady re-
turned with a second prescription. I
listened to the old woman laud in vol-
uble but broken English the skill of the
physician who had prescribed the sup-
pository-capsules, to her great relief,
She had used every one as directed!

_ > >
The Old, Old Story.

Physician (at hospital)—How did you

happen to fall from the top of the lad-

How Semetimes

he may possibly forget to come back !| der?
Of course, one can not buy everv-| Patient—A pretty woman was pase-
y rv-| é TY F
thing insight. The woods are full of | i128 and while trying to get a good look
new remedies and egant harmacet at ber I slipped and fell.
es 4 nut — ee | | (Phen. AN the same old story —a
cale oh Nnronriera rx reer ro ) c i ;
, prietary preparations of | woman at the bottom of it.
every kind and sort lo buy them all cee ~
—- dy helves with a lot Natural Sequence.
‘uw which can not be sold. Here ie Kicker—Jones is a charitable fellow.
sip tion and wise buying He has endowed beds in three he Spitals,
= . ea ying | Bocker— That's not philanthropy; it's
Some | foresight. He's just bo ight an auto-
ing. and known

manufacturing | mobile.

 

“Pride Goeth Before a Fall.”

One Sunday morning I arrived at 8
a. m. to open the store, and after the
work of ‘‘cleaning up’’ had been dis-
posed of, attention was turned to the
making of ice cream. The boy reported
that we were entirely out of sugar.
Here was a nice situation. All the gro-
cers were enjoying that day of rest which
comes to nearly all save the druggist,
and it was impossible to get any sugar
from them. But we had to have ice
cream! In all great emergencies a man
arises who is equal to the occasion,
and in this instance I was the man.

**Saccharin,’’ thought I. ‘‘Just the
thing ;'’ and I patted myself on the back
and inwardly observed that it wasa
cold day when | got left. Knowing the
quantity of sugar needed, it was the
work of but a few moments to figure the
equivalent quantity of saccharin; and
having dissolved it with hot water |
mixed it with the cther ingredients—
cream, milk and arrow root. I tasted
the mixture and found it fine.

Again I took time to sing - praises of
myself. Alas!‘‘ pride goeth before a fall,
and a haughty spirit before destruc-
tion,”

Our boy bad a friend to assist him that
morning, and at 9:30 the work com-
menced. Half an hour passed and |
began to wonder why the ice cream was
not finished. Upon going to investigate
{ was told that it had not yet commenced
to freeze. After telling the boys to do
more work and less talking | returned
to my duties and left them.

At half-past ten they were still at it.
I found that there was an inner wall of
ice cream adhering to the sides of the
freezer as bard asa rock, This pre-
vented the mixture in the center from
freezing. I laid the blame upon the
boys and concluded that they had sim-
ply let the cream stand without turning
the freezer until this condition had re-
sulted. 1 emptied the freezer, melted
the bard layer, and set the boys at
work again, At twelve they reported
that things were in the same condition
as before and that they were exhausted.

I gave it up; and your readers can
take it as a straight tip that saccharin
cannot be used as a substitute for sugar
in the manufacture of ice cream!

Wise One,
vi i te
“Tasteless” Castor Oil.

Saccharin is used for sweetening cas-
tor oil and rendering it ‘‘tasteless;:’’
but the use of this chemical for the pur-
pose is patented. The next best thing
is dulcine. We can not tell you how
much of this you will need, but you can
readily determine for yourself by a little
experimentation. Perhaps the best pro-
cedure would be to take ten grains of
dulcine and dissolve it in a pint of the
oil with the aid of heat; and then use
this solution as the sweetening agent,
taking as much of it as a few experi-
mental trials will indicate to be neces-
sary. Dulcine is a powerful sweetening
agent,and only the faintest trace will be
found necessary. A little extract of
vanilla will add a pleasing flavor.

Castor oil, like cod-liver oil, may be
rendered nearly tasteless, it is claimed,
by treating it as follows: Into a mat-
tress of suitable size put 50 parts of
freshly roasted coffee, ground as fine as
possible and parts of purified and
freshly prepared bone or ivory black.
Pour over the mass 1,0co parts of the oil
to be deodorized and rendered tasteless,
and mix. Cork the container tightly,
put into a water-hath, and raise the
temperature to about 140 deg. Fahren-

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heit. Keep at this heat from fifteen to
twenty minutes, then let cool down,
slowly, to 90 deg., at which tempera-
ture let stand for three hours. Finally
filter, and put up in smali, well stop-
pered bottles.

Royal Copper Jewelry.

Copper is the latest of the common
metals to become the object of the
jeweler’s work. It is the most fashion-
able as well as the newest of the metals
so employed, and all the smartest things
in the way of sleeve links, card and
cigarette cases, belt buckles, v ases and
the like sbow it. It is highly orna-
mental, so used, and remarkably beau-
tiful. It holds the same relation to sil-
ver and gold as do gun metal, which is
ssentially steel, and kayzerzmu which
has block tin for its basis.

It is made up in combination with
silver, is reddish in hue, highly pol-
ished, and it costs just about the same
as would a similar article of solid silver,
It afford a relief from the sombre gun
metal and the shiny silver, and some
people think it is prettier than either,

Many of the new articles shown this
fall are delightfully artistic. Sleeve
links of the royal copper with silver
rims and silver-imposed heads and the
like were much admired. Silver vases
with copper holders, and especially sil-
ver and copper card and smokers’ cases
are among those most in demand. The
metal is also used for flasks, brushes,
whisks and toilet articles generally. It
is scarce at present, but will become
more plentiful as the makers are better
equipped for turning it out.

oe
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is steady and unchanged in
price.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is unchanged.

Citric Acid—Has been reduced
per Ib.

Bromides—Ammonium, Potassium and
Sodium have all declined on account of
lower price for metal,

Cod Liver Oil—Has advanced and
tending higher.

Menthol—Is very firm at the advance
noted last week.

Juniper Berries—Are a little lower on
account of arrival ofnew crop,

Oil Anise and Oil Cassia—Have ad-
vanced and are tending higher.

Oil Lavender—Crop is reported to be

very small and higher prices are looked
for. All the American oils are very
firm and extremely high priced.

Lobelia Seed—Is again coming into
market and it has been reduced about
$0 per cent.

 

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FRED BRUNDAGE

wholesale

* Drugs and Stationery «
32 & 34 Western Ave.,
MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

Don’t Place Your
Wall Paper Order

Until you see ourline. We
represent the ten leading
factories in the U. S. As-
sortment positively not

equalled on the road this

season,

Prices Guaranteed

to be identically same as
manufacturers. A card will
bring salesman or samples.

Heysiek & Canfield Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
  

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Myrica Cerifera, po =| Strat .. i0 a 7s
Prunus Virgt Ri ocae. = Prussiate.. [I] 23@ ~~ 2g | OP1, comphorated.. 50
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Ulmus...po. 20, gr’d 38 Radix ane 50
Extractum Aconitum............ 2Q 2 eects n 50
24 Althe . mis oe gumria 2... 50
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Ferroc anidam Sol. s His pio po. ‘BOR 35 ‘0 Alumen, gro’d.po.7 30 4 * We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
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Flora 75@ 1 35 | Argent! Nitras, oz.. @ 2 We are dealers in Paints, Oils and
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Folia Smilar, sitici 7 80 Calcium Chior., 18... @ 9
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Eupatorium ..oz. Pkg 20 | Vini Oporto... _.". 1 25@ 2 00 | Goatin. Doope = ol
3. oz. pkg 25 | Vini A I" 9 eb 2 oo | ee Poe ae &i
Few ‘oz. Dkg a . ylaseware, flint, box 7% & 3)
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 2 ‘Sponges Less than box..... 73
Sous Vir..oz. pkg 25 Florida sheeps’ wool Gine, brown 1@ 13)
dates oz. pkg 39 _ carriage. 2p 26) Se, eee. = 2
Tanacetis ¥ oz. ous 2 | Nassau sheeps’ wool Gaywerion..-_. = 5 ° ®
fhymus, V...oz. pkg 35 | _ carriage. 26@275 Grane tat... S a | 1 a
so ‘ Velvet extra sheeps’ ee ss © S
agnesin wool, carriage @1s Hydrarg Chior Mite Gis x
Caleined, Pat........ @ Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg ChiorCor. @ @
Carbonate, Pat...... i 2 wool, carriage. .... @12% Hydrarg Ox Rad’'m- I
Carbonate, K.&M..- 1a@ © Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati 12
arbonate, Jennings 156 2 carriage ......... @:o HydrargUnguentam | a rug O.
Oloum Hard, for slate use @ 7% @ & _ =
an xumza, Yellow Reef, for 7) =
Absinthiam ..... Sf 7 03 ate nse ' i oo ’ *
Aanpiee: nar a : "Syrups a 5 OG 3 : . <—
mare. a % 3
Amypt ee er agi Grand Rapids, Mich.
Auranti Cortex... 210@ 220 Anranti Cortez..... & Bw 7
a -- 23 2@ Zingiber....... @ B Macs ao ts J
Cajiputi ....... — mS F ale @o ww ii nor Arsen ot By
Caryopnail . 7 6 dor! I iii 3 | dearg lod. a om
COGS «ran eo % Riel Arom_. ws Liquor Potage Arsintt I a2
Sonat Soren. 2 2 tem 3 i ZAMBSSABSSDESSIEHSISIANN
pe 5 i @ Senegs ....... i 3 Magnesia, Suiph, 304 | le
enctia .. @ | Sette a a s STV YVSIVVVPIIS

 

 

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

Prices, however, are lia-

 

ADVANCED

Loose Muscatels
Cheese

Red Kidney Beans

DECLINED

Codtish
Currants
Rolled Oats

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

 

 

Lemons Dried Peas
Hardwood Toothpicks Pop Corn
Index to Markets i 2
By Columns AXLE GREASE La ie LANDEES
ee escalated cat ectric Light, 88.........,..12
A Gos. grom Electric Light, 16s. . 12%
PE . cones . oo 6 00
a me eee O.... cco & - a ee
Akron Stoneware. CU 15 ne “vem nonsseee oe 50 : + vw. "17
Alabastine . ee 9 00 CANNED GOODS
i oi ak on ene pene wees. 1} Apples
A 1 3 lb. Standards. ..... 85
B Gallons, standards. . 3 26
—_ Bootes Ld sebe sole aie : ; Blackberries
eos Senknses oh ouns .
SIE Liciah eanosannncet wsibs 1| it¥oand O\bets Standards .......... : 85
mresneeet Food.............. # TT Beans
a i 2 - aot Oe eee 1 00@1 30
oe a es a. 2 ee Rigney......... 75@ 85
Babbar Oober... ..... oo .00- 00-6 1 — 70
Oe cee 75
—— ee es " Blueberries
aes stlshs ones scones 9 | Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00/ Standard ..............
o,f ee 6 enti Sonal
Cheese OMB . 22. erase cece eee ; BAKING POWDER 2 Ib. cans, Spiced .......... 1 90
LE : E Gee.
3 Little Neck, 1 1b..... 1 00
3 37 Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50
crete is see wh ols Z 5 Ib. cans, doz. aA, 8 00 Clam Bouillon
SS aeRSRnC RRS I 3 Burnham's, “ pint ee 1 2
Cocoa Shell : urnham’s, pints. ees
——_ egecememabemenenentre: SO Od 8 a eo FS
Condensed Milk.............. 4) 1% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45 Cherries
Coupon Books............-+-- 15| 44 lb. cans, 4 doz. case... .... 85 Red Stenterte CS + B0@1 50
ae ao : £ TD. cheek, 2 Gen. ches......1 6) White............... .. 1 60
) a
— D Royal Fair Corn ~
Dried — Lil eis awk on 5 lOosise.... Goo - aero nen .
Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 34 Ib. cans 1 35 i ea
Fish and Oysters......... 6 oz. cans. 1 90/ gur Extra Fine..........-- 22
Fishing Tackle............... % Ib. cans 2 50| Extra Fime...............- 19
Flavoring Extracts........-.- 6 (1b 8 75 | Fime........ reese cecees cone 15
Oe PUR ee lL 6 % Ib. cans UN oc ceccc et u
ee ES EN 6 1 lb. cans. 4 80 Seidseeion
EE oop cs wen a ceeee Coes ceee 14 3 1b. cans 13 00 Gitano...
7 ‘ . an
es 6 5 Ib. cans. 2 M Hominy -
———— 7 Cie... ......
Grains and Flour ............ 7 BATH BRICK Lobster
H cies ce wore enue | oe, 1 .........- . 210
7 Pe ee 3 6¢
Lee ee cea eee ewe ae pe
Hides OE osc eb aan anes 13 BLUING vole ie
I Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 | mustard, 1 Ib 1 80
no ee ties ek 7 | Aretic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross6 00 ro. 2 80
J Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 | gonsed, 1Ib......---e 1 80
Jelly weer cces cosvereceeccrs coes 7 Soused, -_ i 2 80
L ee, 2 ........- 189
Leip Burners............ .... Tomato, 21b......... 2 80
Mushrooms
PE eee ee . 18@20
cc oe 22@25
ee aa 7 Oysters
BID. 0.5 oo occe cose ve cces cose 7 Conte
M ian see... 1 55
aa ee is : Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... 95
Seeks oles
Eo. hae coe s cose ae ion 8 — — 8E@ 90
N eee 1 356@1 85
i ee ce cee 14 Pears
Oo Standard ......... .. 1 00
ee ee. 15 ae... 1 25
GE no be cachinbelbe soscuseuece 7 | Small size, per doz..... . & Peas
P Large size, per doz.......... 761 Merrowfet ....... .. 100
i bnew 7 Barty June.......... 90@i 60
PE ase eees 7 BREAKFAST FOOD Early June Sifted.. 1 65
Playing Cards : OF Plows
SS es Pe 85
Soc a _ a 8 RA NUT FLAKES Piasesete
Ri 8 mar ng 1 25@2 75
BD onde cove c0e0 cece neces cecese Cases, 36 peckages.... ee 1 35@2 55
8 i ; 20 Paaitiie
ae eeeee....:.......... 9) o Fair 90
“oe TT —_ = OMS a 1 00
Bale 22 IIIITTIIIIIIE 8 | Ne! 2 Oarpt 22220002. 2000032 ap | Ramey 2000000000 128
en ee g | No. 3 Carpet.. coe ee 15 Raspberries
eT | MO. a Chrpee ek ee 15
ae SS g| Parlor Gem................. 2 40 eaten Gaston
oS ee eT 10 | Common Whisk. . -- 85/ x Ib. cans.. _ oo
ee 3 Fancy a 1 10/ i ib, cans......- - 700
Soda... Warehouse.. ose MOTT Oi le LL 12 00
2 sik ol tek oe eedieneeies 10 | mages Salmon .
eee ee neee woeees cone coos | Seru Columbia River, talls 1 85
Stove EE eee Ser 4 | gene oo. 3 sin... oo 45 Columbia River, flat flats a so
CCT ac n. ated
ao meee cees coeses cove secece 10 | Pointed a 85| Pink Alaska... @ 0
eee ee Shoe Shrimps
NN dupes ee 1 00 | Standard..... ...... 1 40
PN ois wciek pelt eves tances Oe Pikes ia bbe lee atk 1 30 Sardines
at shes Lele. i E 1 70 | Domestic, \s........ 3%
ee 1 90/| Domestic, 8S ....... 5
ci abled been wns i2| Sto Domestic, Mustard. 6
w a nat California, 4S....... 11@14
Washing Powder.............. 13 No. Shane aa elee nlett S ie mmm 7 | California 48........ 17@24
__ aE A SUT Bee reer rennenrentes 1 10/ French, 48.......... 7@14
Woodenware Le ces oe elas 13/| No.1 tessersereseeeeeel 75] Bronch, %S...-...... 1
Wrapping Paper............. le BUTTER COLOR Strawberries
¥ | W., R. & Co.'s, iSe size... 1 25| Standard ............ 1 10
Yeast Oake.................. 13 | W., BR. & Co.'s, 25¢ size.... 2 00| Fancy 1 40

 

 

 

 

Barrels
ee ee
feamealion.. :
Diamond White. ......
D. 8. Gasoline. . a
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder 29

 

  

 

 

Columbia, pints.............2 00
Columbia, «% pints... eset ones 1 25
CHEESE
Enea B13%
ES EE O13
Carson City...... @i3
cece coy @is
Emblem @i4
ie Qr4
Gold Medal.......... @i3

os ae
a NS di:

Riverside...........- 13%
rick .. 14@15
ns =
a ern es 13@14

Pineapple . 50@
a... =
CHEWING GUM

American Flag Spruce.... =

55

60

55

Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00

Sugar Loaf.. 55

ere............. eh 55

CHICORY
cc cic :
cucu
Fremeks el oe cas eens eee les 7
BORSROT'S..... 2.5. -ceccess woes 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet.

LIL cea
ei BeSbiis ual

‘ PAWS,
fo CLEANER

Sam. Cucans Every THING.
%s nae

  

6 oz. box, 3 doz., per doz...$
Qts box, 2 doz., per doz .
Gal box, % doz., per doz..

  
 
  
  
 

1 35

- 220

7 50

Samples and Cireulars Free.

 

CLOTHES LINES
Sisal

60 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 1 00
72 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 1 40
90 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 170
60 ft, 6 thread, extra...... 1 29

72 ft, 6 thread, extra...... .-

Jute
75
90
1 05
1 50
Cotton Victor
oe... 80
cee 95
| 110
Cotton eutear
i a ce ae 1 20
es Lon ew creek acct eens 1 40
eee ye oa 1 65
ee 1 85
Cotton Braided

me... ~

 

 

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100 ft long....
No. 19, each 100 ft long....
veining
Cleveland...... ee
Pelee $06 ooo.
Colonial, “EE eS

 

 
 

noe

Dumber MA:...-+.-. - +... 26
Dunham’s %s and \s..... 26%
Dunham’s 148......... — =
Dunham’s }S8......- 28
acces ce, enicenes 13
COCOA SHELLS
. Bs BB ie oe sate cscs a 2%
Kose quantity. bind 3
Poun packages .. nekontes 4

COFFEE
ited

Roas
= Coffee Co. brands .

 

 

 

   
 

 

Kora
Delivered in 100 Ib. lots.
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands.

arr =,

a: See Tee

 

White House, 1 Ib. cans.....
White House, 2 lb. cans.....
Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans
Excelsior, M. & J. 2 Ib. cans

Tip Top, M. & J., 1 Ib. cans.
Reel eee. ............. ...-
Royal Java and Mocha......
Java and Mocha Blend......
Boston een. ae
Ja-Vo Blend

Ja-Mo-Ka Blend............

a by Olney & Judson

Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El-
lott & Go., Detroit, B. 'Desen-
berg & Co., ee Symons
Bros. & Co., = inaw, Jackson
Grocer Co., son, Meisel &
Goeschel, — City, Fielbach
Co., Toledo.

 

Santos
ae 8
ek oe bees eoc nae. 10
cc, 13
Peaberry... oe

Maracaibo
eo iia cick ces 13
Thoteca oo

Mexican

 

I ocak eon ec csce 13
Java
WN ee 12
Maney Seen .............- 17
ee 26
Soe eo 31
Mocha
Arabian....... oe ae oe one 21
Package
New fbosusges =e
Arbuckle....... ---.10%
Rc ee 10%
I ore. oh cae
i 10
McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to

retailers ‘only, Mail all orders

direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., Chicago.
Extract
Valley City % gross.. 75
Felix a.
Hummel’s foil” % gross. ee ce 85
Hummei’s tin % gross ...... 1 43
CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

 

6 40

5 90

470

A @

.-4 00

-__

3 35

-4 00

6 10

Tip — ee cane an be aie od 3 85

ss eee asec s) 42

Highland Cream............5 00

St. Charles Cream...........4 50

CRACKERS
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
on Butter

Ts, 6

eee ee. et

a EER 6%

TE Nn 6%
bo ee

 

 

Soda
ic reece 7
NC revi cies esse Gane 8
Long Island va Deweias 13
Zephyrette... ‘ec.

disid
TE oss vines eens Ga Th
ee 7
Extra Farina...........++. 7%
Saltine Oyecer..... ....+00. 7
Sweet Goods—Boxes
BG 6 ois vs sinensis 10
Aaeorted OARS... «cesar. 10
Be I, ons ok cwuc yee 8
Deets Waele... asks cscs. 18
Crnpamon Bar... ......010 9
Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
Coffee Cake, Java......... 10
Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18
Cocoanut Taffy - 10
I bos ce cece es os 16
ee a 8
ao oh ARIS ie te 10%
Cuban: (od ote
Gerrans ae 12
Frosted Heaey. ..... +0005 12
Frosted Cream............ 9

Ginger Gems, |’r; ea 8
. 6

Ce ee. 10%
Semis J eee 9
Graham Crackers......... 8
Grakam Warers,.......... 8
Grand Rapids Tea........ 16
Roser Fineers............ 12
Iced Honey eee a. 10
Imperials.. —— o-
Jumbles, Honey. Seer escee 12
Lady Piaeers.. ............ 12
DO EID, ooo ed as 12
Lemon Weerers..:.-........ 16
Marahmalow..... 6... sos. 16
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
mare aoe... 8
OG FOCI. oon ines ese 11%
FOU nis vec toes cs 7%
Molasses Cake............ 8
Molasses Bar...... ...<.0.- 9
Moms Jeny Par.... ........ 12%
Newton.. cece oe
Oatmeal Crackers......... 8
Oatmeal — aie s ao 12
Orange Crisp.. ES
Oranes Gem... ..:....5.... a
Pees (ORs. ......c. 5. Ss
Pilot Bread, 5h NE 7%
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8
Pretzels, hand made...... 8%
mOUtOn UGGMIGS.......:.+.. @
peere tee. 7%
er CR. sect ae 8
Rn@ar Cream. XXX....... 8
Sugar saree Se cess ples ees 8
Bamenes.... sc ae
Tate! Wrobel... 16
Vanilla Waters... ...:...... 16
Wiemee Cee. ..........,. 8

E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good
Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares.
Write for complete price list
with interesting discounts.

CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden — “ann 30
Bulk tn sacks.. ae

DRIED ‘FRUITS
Apples
Sundried . @5
Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. ‘boxes. 7@ 8
California Prunes

100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 4
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 54
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @é6
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ ln
ta. eet oe @ 8%
30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ...... 9

b.
ig cent less = 56 Ib. cases
California Fruits

@ 8%

 

ae o¥ package..

Impor 1 Ib pac on. 8

Imported, a i --
Peel

Citron American 10 Ib. bx...12%

Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13
Raisins
London Layers 2 Crown. 1 7
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown.........
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 74
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
in M., Seeded, ain oe deren
Selaaben — i
Sultanas, PRCERES ....;..... 11K
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dried Lim -- 5%
Medium Hand Picked” 2 50
Brown eee 22
ev
24 1 1b. pac uaa
Bulk, per 100 . coos ool On

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

 

29

 

 

6

 

 

 

ae
Flake, 50 Ib. sack. . ea 90
Pearl, BO es When's os bees ..5 00
Poarl, 160 TD. SOGR-... . ois. 2 50
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60
Imported 96 th. bor 2e
Peari Barley
CMU ise ccccetiiues 3 00
CUE oo cel csiney cueess 2 90
Pe 8 65
eas
Green, © a...
Green, Scotch, bu. . 1 85
Split, Ib.. 4
Rolled Oats

Rolled Avena, bbl.. -.5 40
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sacks... 2 75
Menerem, Waa... 6.52... e- 5 70 |
Monarch, % bbl.. at
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. .... ..2 50 |
Quaker, oe ice. “13 10

Walsh-Deltoo Co. *s Brand.

 

Cases, 24 2 Ib. packages..... 2 00
‘oO
Hage TR. ess esa e. ose 3%
German, GRONS +. .5.6.6..08%. 3%
German, eee package... 4
oca
Flake, 110 Ib. dacks ea oeee 4%
Pearl, 150 >. secks.......... Bq

Pearl, 241 Wheat =e 6%
eat

Cracked, bulk.. -
242 b. package 2 50
FISHING TACKLE
Ne ER oie ic oc eee. 6
1 oi eee... 7
156 00 2 I. 9
1% to 2 tecees............. 11
Si ec, 15
Seen ee 30
Cotton Lines
~~ 1, ee... 5
No. 2, on... 7
No. i ee ea 9
INO. 4, 86 GOG8., oo. es ees ee 10
eG eee... we. 11
No. 6, epee... 12
NG. 7, Se ee ow... 15
No. Ste eee... 18
No. 9, to fees... 6... coc ae
Linen Lines
a eee 20
MOGI. 6. 26
MB oo eee ee 34
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50
Bamboo, 16 fi. per doz.....: 65
Bamboo. 18 ft , per doz.... 80

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts
Vanilla Lemon
Lozfullm.120 i1ozfull m. 80
2 oz full m. 210 2o0zfullm.1 25
No.8fan’y 83 18 No.3fan’y 1 78

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

Vanilla Lemon
20Z panel..1 20 2ozpanel. 75
5 0Z taper..2.00 402 taper..1 50

   

°
Entaat’

FlavoRsce EXTRACTS
Folding Boxes

D. C. Lemon D. C. Vanilla
28. 7 76....... 1 20
£08.65. 1m s£o........ 2 00
-.... 2m Sos....... 3

Taper Bottles

D. C. Lemon D.C. —

oe Me es ones

S08. co. Em Oat. ...,;. : >

€@8....0,. Le Se. 2 40
Full Measure

D. C. Lemon Cc. Vanilla

lee... Oe ae.

a ee ; 6 2oe:.:.... 1 60
40z 6... 3a
Tropical Extracts
202. full measure, Lemon.. 75
4 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50
2 0z. full measure, Vanilla... 90
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80
RESH MEATS
Careass.. 4%@ 7
Forequarters . - 6 86
ee deleuas 6 @8
SS aE 9 @l4
ee i ue.., 7 @l2
54@ 7
Chucks a, © a oe
Plates - 44@5
Pork
Emenee .. - 74@ 8

oe eee @11%
om’ Butis.. bidala yee @10%
Shoulders .. oa 10
Leet Tere. 12

 

  

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 |
8
Mutton PES
Carcass.............. 44@ 5% (Ce, OO Ste 1
Lambe............... 7 @9 Clay, T. D.. foll connt.......
Veal oT, va *
wens com! PICKLES
Knox’s sGELATING 1 20} Medium
pera Barrels, 1,200 count ..... 8 00
Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross 14 00 | Fraip tye ey oe cette 2
Knox's Acwulaer 20 | Half bbis, 600 count... |<... 4&5
Knox’ $ Acidulat’ ‘d ,Pr gross 14 00 | Small
Cage. 75 | Barrels, 2,400 count .........9 50
Piventh Rock.. . 199 | Half bbis, 1,200 count . a 20
Nelson’ 's Pe eee race aaa ase 150 PLAYING CARDS
Cox’ iS, 200 Mize... 1 61 | No. 90, Steamboat......... 90
Cen's, -Gneiee. 0.5... 1 10} No. 15, Rival, assorted.... 1 20
GRAIN BAGS | No. 20, Rover, enameled.. 1 60
Amoskeag, 100 in bale .... 1514 | N5. 572, Special ............ 1 75
Amoskeag, less than bale. 153 | a i, bee finish... ; =
——2 FLOUR | No. 632; Tournam’t Whist. 2 25
Coo 71 . POTASH
Winter bes Flour oa rman 400
rands on | Penna Salt Go.’s............. 3 00
Patents... ae 435
Second Patent... ....77""7" 3 86 PROVISIONS
a 3 65 Barreled Pork
—— Serene. 2... oe @17 75
Se as od boone @2 00
Senhens: ewe d pe cous aocuce 8 40 | Clear back....... .... @vz1 59
ee c- S22 Gees ete @20 75
rece oe = anda eees caus ane. 24 00
Bubject’ ‘to Usual can Gn | heen... 19 00
unt. Fam Mess Loin.. 21 75
a in bbis., 25c per bbl. ad- | Clear................ @20 75
ditt w - ante |
ool Grocer Co.’s _— Bellies. . :
(JURROr 566.... 2... 3 60|S P Bellies... doe 13% |
Quaker 4s... 3 66 | Extra shorts......... 12
Cusmer 4s... ....... 3 60 Smoked Meats
Spring Wheat Fleur a, = . average, @ 13%
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand | Hams, l4lb.average. @ 13
Pillsbury’s Best %s....... 4 60 | Hams, 16Ib.average. @ 13
Pilisbury’s Best is... 4 00 + aay bomen average. @ 12%
Pillsbury’s Best %s.. Ham dried beef..... @ 12%
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) @
Pillisbury’s Best 4s paper. ‘ 0 Bac 1
Pilisbury’s Best ‘4s paper. 4 40/6 afr mg eee 15 @ 16%
Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand, a <_ ohegyageay g =
winged — = Pienic Bolle fiams © law
Wingold is......2....... 4 29| Berlin Ham pr’s’d. 9%@ 10 |
a ei egy | Mince Hams....... 9%@ 10 |
- Judson Grocer Co.’s —— a Sua |
eresota %8.. -_-- Al.
Ceresota is. ... 4 89 | Compound. . @ 7%
Ceresota \s..... J = a ee rereemtce a
wae Brand | | 90 Ib. Tubs..advance i
Laurel 48 le en y
eel ek ij ~~ 3 ae Pails. advance ¥
eect ae § pape | 5 1b. Pafls..advance 1
Meal | @™ Pells. advance 2
Bolted... 2 70| Vegetole............. Bly
Granulated .. 2 80} sages
Feed oak Millstatts DOMeee cL 6
St, Oar eed sareanad.... 2¢ 25 | Eiver...... ss... 6%
No.1 Corn and Oats... .. 24 25 | Frankfort as |
Corn Meal, coarse........ 24 25 | Fore .... 8%4@o |
Corn Meal, fine............ 24 00 | i cate 6
Winter Wheat Bran....... 16 00 | Tongue. see i
Winter Wheat Middiings, 18 00 | H cheese.......... 6%
om Wee. 17 00 | Beef
WT oboe ese cue 16 00! Extra Mess..........
Oats | Boneh... 11 75
Cor me ew... J... «Se bes New. co @i2 00
Corn Pigs’ Feet
ore, Gat ioe... | bbis., 40 ie... 1 75
Hay ee 3 26
No.1 Timothy car lota.... 09 50) 1 bbIs., Ibs.2....-.. 7 60
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00 ian oe Tripe i
AE
Sage.. — e 46 bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 50
ae % bbis., 80 Ibs. . 3 00
Laurel Leaves. ......-.. 0.0... 8 | Casings -
nie | or sere
Beef rounds. ........ 5
INDIGO Beef middles........ 12
Madras, 5 lb. boxes . -----55 | Sheep... 85
3. F., 2,3 and 6 1b. boxes......50 Uncolored Butterine
JELLY Sone. €ary.......... @Q12% |
5 Ib. pails. ~ oe... 1 8&5 Rolls, Ws ee @13%4
eee 43 | Rolls, creamery. .... 18%
oe OOe...22.,.......,. 80 | Solid, creamery. .... 16
Canned Meats
eo Corned beef, 2 Ib.. 2 50
Pure wees 30 | Corned beef, 14 Ib... 18 00
Calabria. srecsersaeee 23) Roast beef, 21D...... 2 50
Sicily .. sertseceseeeeeees 14) Dotted ham, Ks... 50
eos rere 10| Potted ham, \s..... 90
LYE ee a a. ~
Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 | Dev am, “8....
5 9 95 | Potted tongue, \s.. 50
Condensed, 4 doz............2 25 Potted tongue, %s.. 90
MALTED FOOD RICE
Domestic
M A LT A= 0 Carolina head.....-.........
»« | Carolina No.1. tae a
Cases, 12 packages......... 1 35/ Carolina No.2............
Cases, 36 packages......... 405) Broken .........--..-..-- “3%

  

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 0z. 4 45
Liebig’s, 2 0z.. a 2.

MOLASSES

New Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle........ 40
Choice 35
Fair .. 26
i eee rneescnoeee 22

Half-barrels 2c extra

MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 7&
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 78

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs........ Le
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs........... 1 10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs........... 1 05
Manzaniiia, 7 OZ. .......... 80
Queen, pinfts............... 2 35
es, 68... .., 215... 4 50
GQUSOM, ZB OZ... oe0. cece 7 00
Stuffed, 5 0z....... 22.0... 90
Gonmed, & Of. .... 2.0.20... 1 45
Stuffed, 10 0Z.... <6... e002 2 30

 

 

fSutton’s T. dle Rice, 40 to the
bale, 2% poond pockets... 714

 

   

 

Best grade Imported Japan,
3 —_—" pockets, 33 to the
c a. Dar caida cotton po
ets only 4c more than bul
SALAD DRESSING.

Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz. .1 85
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...1 90 |
Aipha Cream, small,3doz.. 95
| Durkee’ Ss, large, rar a 415
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz....... 4 85

SALERATUS

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
: 00

 

OME Bic ccc ee coca ll 3
Dwight’s Cow oe 3
ON 6. «on 0

Ma ae eG 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Xs .8 00

SAL SODA
Granginted, Biis........ 96
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 05
Lump, bbls. . <4 oo
Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs... lel eee 95

SALT

Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 100 3 ib. bags. 3 00
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65
Butter, barrels, 20 141b. bags. 2 85

 

Butter, sacks, a... 27
Rutter, sacks, 56 Ibs Reset eaps 87
etn ee 24%
Common Grades
00 3 Ib. sacks, woe ae
Cau. Seems... 2 15
ae Oe. SOO. sl .. 2 05
Cm ene. 40
2 eh MM 22
Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 40
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 20
Ashton
56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60
Higgins
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock
56 Ib. sacks.. a. 23
eine
Granulated = i ccumeme ac 75 |
Medium Fine.. 80
SALT FISH
Cod
Large whole. ......:... @ 54
mel WHOIG. .... .... @5i
pve ol or bricks. . .7 @s
POO. @ 3%
Halibut.
Ps oka cu es cd
Chunks ‘ se 13
Trout
No. 1 100 Ibs. .. 5 50
No.1 40 Ibs. . 2 50
No.1 10 Ibs. 70
No.1 8Ibs. 59
M
Mess 100 Ibe... ..
meee Cele, ee
meee Wie... c...... Eee
meee Sie ae
mee, 6 Ibe. 1S te
Ot COG ia. 7 ee
met We, oot 8
No.1 8slbs.. i119
ING. 2 100 IG, .... . i wecace
Pee OP oo. wece ue
No. 2 10 Ibs
Wo. 9 R The
Herring
Holland white hoops, bbi. 10 50
Holland white — 5 50
Holland white hoop, k @i5
Holland white ee mc 8. 85
POG ween wae
Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 60
Round 50 Ibs.. dees =e
NOE eee ote t us clus gal 11
Bloaters..... oi 2S
Whitefish
No.1 No.2 Fam
2 ie... .... 75 3 75
i oe......... 4 20 2 20
a ee... 63
we... 42

Noo

  
  

-1 00
.10
fn : ~~ psaepebogs i &
Mixed Bird.. es —
— white.. ae
ee os edna neo o
meee 4
Ou tla Bone.. .14

SHOE BLACKING

Handy Box, large. ........ 2 50;
Handy Box, smail......... i 25 |
Bixby’s Royal Folsnk......

Miller’s Crown Polish..... 85

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co. brands

 

 

 

 

100 cakes, large size.
50 cakes, large size.
| 100 cakes, small size..
| 50 cakes, small size. .
EZ.4
& S) N
| Single box.. a.8 20
| 5 box lots, delivered... -.8 15
| 10 box lots, delivered... .... 3 10
| Johnson Soap Co. brands—
capa. 2 3 65
Calumet Family.... ..... 2 75
gg ceca as 2 85
Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands—
Dasky Diamond... ........ 3 55
an Gone... ........ 3 75
Savon Imperial.......... 3 55
| White Russian .......... 3 60
| Exod, Oval bare... .._... 3 55
Retees Oval .........., 2 88
White Ci.......... 480
Lautz Bros. brands—
ee ee ooo, 4 10)
a 3 55 |
a 4 00
Master.. 3 70
Proctor & Gamble brands—
NO 3 10
Ivory, =. Lede ae celal as 4 00)
ory, or. 6 75
Schult a Co. brand—
ee 3 25
Search-Light Soap Co. brand.
“Search-Light’” Soap, 100
big, pure, solid bars...... 3 75
A, B. risiey brands—
\ Geoe (leer... 2. .... 4 00
Cie Comsiry.............. 3 40
chen, 8 de
Sapolio, kitchen, "3 2 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 .. 2 40
SODA
ET
Megs, Rete... ae
SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders.......... 87
acca oy es 35
French ene cane. .... 43
Whole Spices
BOO 12
C conn, China in mats..... 12
Cassia, Batavia, in bund.. 28
| Cassia, Saigon, broken.. 40
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.. 55
| Cloves, Amboyna.. co 17
Cloves, ZOnOeE..... 22... 14
onan 75-80... 50
Nutmegs, 105-10.. Sie 40
Nutmegs, 115-20.......... 35
Pepper, Singapure, black. 18
Pepper, Singapore, white. 28
— (oe 20
ure Ground in Bulk
Allspice.. - 16
Cassia, Batavia... ac 28
coe, eee... 48
Cloves, Ree 17
Ginger, African...:....... 15
Ginger, Coenin............ 18
omar — ae =
Sadana” 18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 17
Pepper, Singapore, white. 25
Pepper, Cayenne........ “e 20
e...... a e
STARCH

 

 

| Diamond A..........

Common Corn

 

10 Ib. cans, i doz. in case.. 1 85
| 6 lb. cans, ‘doz. in case... 2 10
| 2% lb. cans, 2 doz. in case...2 10
| Pure Cane
| Fair. ! 16

Choice ....! 25

| STOVE POLISH

<=... _ J.L. Prescott & Co.
ae

| Manufacturers
| pied

New York, N. Y.

    
    

 

, 8 doz in case, gross..
8 doz in case, gross..

SUGAR

 
  
    
    
 
   

SRSSRRSRRESTS

Confectioner’s A..
No. 1, Columbia A..
No. 2, Windsor A...

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on

 

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No. 3, Ridgewood A 30
No. 4, Phoenix A... 25
No. 5, Empire A.. 20
ee 15
a ce cece 15
No. 8 05
Ne © 00
No. 10... 95
No. i1.. 95
be 90
Se 85
No. 14,. 75
No. 15.. 80
a 75

 

 

Kingsford’s Corn
40 1-lb. packages... .. 733
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 1-lb. packages........... 83 |
6 Ib. packages........... 8 33 |
ckages Gloss ‘ |
Le. peekewos............. j
eb. packages... . oe |
. packages. Geka ke
and b0-Ib. boxes......... 4
Barrels — ececccecee = 6§&

  

 

 

TABLE SAUCES
’
PERRINS
The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00
Lea & Perrin’s, % _—- 2 75
Halford, large. . ag 75
Halford, small... Se ee ea 2 25
TEA
Japan
Sundried, medium bits ceouse 81
Sundried, OMRON. ...4... a... 83
| Sundried; ee 43
| Regular, medium. hn ecw 31
| Regular, choice .. oe etn ae ee
| meas, flee... 43
| Basket- ion, medium....... 31
Basket-fired, choice......... 38
| Basket-fired, fancy.......... 43
ee use, os. 30
| Siftings..
| Fannings..
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ........... 29
Moyune, OO oc. we, 338
| meewane, finee.. wo: 63
| Pingsuey, medium.......... 28
| Pingsuey, choice............ 33
| Esmpeuey, fiiey.... 43
Young Hyson
Crees a
Paser......... bodes te eede cogs 36
Oolong
Wormoes, tego... ........... 42
Amey, BOee............. 25
| Amoy, cholos................ 82
i English Breakfast
Bet.
Choice. a 84
icici cece cecuca 5. 42
India
Cegion, Choies............... 82
FOUN See eeed ce ccuuacas 42
—
}
i ELer. Drug ¢ Co.'s a
| Fortune —- ose. Oo
| Our M . 3% 00
| Quintette.. . 8 08

a. J. Johnson Cigar Co "a brand,

Oe Wil anne chase wasn an! A OO
igar Cippings, perlb..... 26

oz

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

i2

Lubetsky Bros. brands
35 00

ecm es core coeeee coe ewees

  
  

 

   
   

Dally Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00
Fine Cut
CE occ 54
eee Ce 33
Hiawatha, 5 lb. pails .......*6
Hiawatha, 10 Ib. pails...... 54
eee 22
cee 31
Ne eee ee 49
eee... ce 37
ee 42
EE Se a 38
Plug
Red Cross...... “a
.... 3
wee. ....< .3
Hiawatha.. --4i
ie ccoies 33
American Eagle............. 22
Sinadand Navy.............- 36
Spear Head, 16 0z..........-. 41
Spear Head, 8 0z.. sco
obby Twis t ol kes coe wee ee 48
aS ES a 36
Old ow pete eee ores eee 42
Toddy.,.. be ce eee ee
ee oes 36
Piper _ —————OO 61
ae. 78
~ ae i, 33
peek eaeere.............2 38
Cc — ee ee ee eee 38
Nickel ee 50
Smoking
meet Gare... .... 34
ais 32
ost Waey.....-._....---..- 34
aoe... 25
yea » OE eee ee ee 24
IXL See
cai. or Eas cee 30
ae — Seer eee 35
Lee cee cee ket 35
Siaes woke bubs cee 38
ee 32
Kiln ‘pried peek eke pen 21
Doke’s Mixture............. 38
a — bas eels Sos cue =
—
am oe 1 oe..........<. 39
— Yum, 1 Ib. pails cca seee 37
ae 36
Gorn Cake, ee... 24
Gere Cake, ii>............-- 22
Plow Boy, 13 eos e oc
Piow Boy, 336 O2........-++--38
Poeerioss, 54 08........--.... 32
Peortees, 1% OZ........ 02.02. 34
ar eee... -...... . 36
oe oo................8 30
Cometcy Cee. ...........- 32-34
Pees 2 k...............28
——————————— 23
oon oeeeer................ Bere
Seer Pee... .-....-..- 34
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply....... i
Cotton, 4 ply -16
Hem Ta =
emp, 2
oat a ~ bag 20
Wool, 1 Ib. balls. 7%

VINEGAR
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8

 

 

Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand... .11
Pure Cider, Red Star........11
Pure Cider, Robinson. ......11
Pure (ider, Siiver........... ll
WASHING POWDER
Diamond Fiake......... .. 2 75
I
Gold Dust, regulsr.. hi SOE 4 56
ae oe o............... 4 00
Rirkctine, 224%b...........
oS ee 2%
— ee 4 10
a 3 75
—— 3 50
hn ose nc 3 7
i
Lica eee Ske ee eee 3 80
ee 3 50
nub ie tions PS ee 37
WICKING
No. 0, per gross.. oe
No.1 , Der gross... ae
No. 9, per gross.. os fB
No. 3. per gross.. -- 55
WOODENWARE
Baskets
ee
Bushes, _ —_- Lee eee 1 =
Splint, aang cccacee ces ces 6 00
a aoe... 5 00
= — ..4 00
illow Clothes, large. --8 00
Willow Clothes, m tum... 5 50
Willow Clothes, small....... 5 00

Bradley Butter Boxes

2. e208, iinease........ 72
3 Ib. size, 16 in case......... 68
Sib. cian, 12 i obee......... 63
10 lb. size, 6 in case......... 60
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 40
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 60
Churns

Barrel, 5 gals., each...
Barrel, 10 gals., each..
Barrel, 15 gais., each. .

Clothes Pins

 

Round head, 5 gross box.... 50
Round head, cartons........ 7
Ege Crates
Bumpty Doamwty ........... 22
De. 1 Cee... , .... 29
No. 2, complete ..... bow sipau 18

 

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Faucets
oe oe............._

 

  
 
 
 
 

65
on eo eee...
orn eee, .......
Ce OB oc 65

Mop Sticks
Trojan spring .. ——.
Eclipse patent spring . . 85
Poteeen .....s 75
No. 2 patent brush holder... 85
12 ®. cotton mop heads..... :1 25
ees...
Pails
2-hoop Standard............. 1 BO
3-hoop — -.1 65
2-wire, Cable... ok oe
3-wire, Cable .. a8
Cedar, all red, brass 1 bound.1 25
Paper, Eureka -2 25
Fibre. . 12212 40
Toothpicks
ee}: ee
Softwood . 2
—- Sec eee ees 1 60
ee 1 50
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes........ 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes........ 45
Mouse, wood, 6 holes........ 70
Mouse, Gan,6 holes....:..... 65
oe... ..... 80
aoe... 75
Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2..... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.....5 00
20-inch, Cable, No. 1.........7 50
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.. oe
16-inch, Cable, aaa 3.. --5 50
No. 1 Fibre om es
No. 2 vaee.. 7
No, 3 Fibre.. -
Wash eis
Bronze Globe.. oo
Dewey . bei bees
Double Acme........... +2... 2 75
Single Acme.. — =o
Double Peerless........-.. 3 2
Single Peerless.. boos cn ae
Northern Queen .. ieee eee 2 50
Double Duplex ............-.5
Good Luck ..... eco
Re ities cee 2 25
Window Cleaners
RM. ce
ee 1 85
Oe ke ne
Wood Bowls
hh, See ......... a
13 in. Butter.. PE ane
in Balbee a ee
7 Beeee..... ........... ve
pe eaeee................. 3
Assorted 13-15-17.... ........1 75
Assorted 15-17-19 ............ 3 09
WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw...... 1%
Fiber Manila, white... 3%
Fiber Manila, colored x
No. 1 Manila.... 4
Cream Manila... i =
Butcher’s Manila.......... 2%
Wax Butter, short count. 13
Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20
‘Wax Butter, rous........- 15
YEAST CAKE
a
ee 1 00
Nuniignt, 156 God... .... 2.2... 50
t Cr a 1 00
Voeast Foam, 8 @os.......... 1 00
Yeast Foam,1% doz........ 50
FRESH FISH
Per tb,
Wate te......:......08 fi
out.. a oS
eee De... ce oar il
Halibut .. @ i4
Ciscoes or Herring. . @ 65
Bluefish . &
Live a - 2
Bolled Lobster ........ @ 2%
es @ 10
See... Se s&s
No. - roe @ 3%
pes ceibick eens = 7
Pasch. ao $ 5
Smoked While. Sesion 11
Red Snapper......... @
Col River Balmnoai.. == 13
eee... 18
HIDES AND ieee
Hides
Green Me. t....:.. @7%
oon me 8... @ 6%
Cured No. 1. @a
Cured No. 2.. @8
Calfskips, green 'No.i @ 2%
Calfskins,green No.2 @s
Calfskins,cured No.1 @10%
Calfskins,cured No.2 @3s
Pelts
ORR Welk ons enc 50@1 50
Lee 45@ 75
Shearlings .... ..... 40@ 75
Tallow
a2. @ 6%
No.2... @ 534
“Wool
Washed, fine........ @z0
Washed, medium @23
Unwashed, fine..... @is
Unwashed, medium. 16@18
CANDIES
Stick on
bis. pails
ree @7
Standard H. H...... @7
Standard _— ooo @s
Cut Loaf.... aah @9
cases
Jambo, 32 ib>..... .... G7
Extra H.H.. aoe @10%
Boston Cream. . 10
Beet Ron x

 

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Grocers... .
ee ‘.
Spec!

 

Conserve.............
essere
Broken....

eee e ee wees

xed .
Crystal Cream mix

Fancy—In Pauis

Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony Hearts........
Fairy a eee
Fudge
Peanut

6s, prin
Champion Chocolate
Eclipse Chocolates...
Quintette Choc......
Gum Drops..........
Moss Drops..
Lemon Sours...
Imperials......
Ital. Cream ‘Ope: me
Tal. a Bonbon

Molasses ¢ Chews, “5
Ib. pails
Golden Waities ... ok

Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes

Lemon Sours.
cones i Drops.
Chocolate Drops..
H. M. Choe. Drops..
H. M. Choe. wed and
DK. No. 12..
Gum Drops.. -
Licorice TODS. iabips
Lozenges, plain. .
ae . Printed.
erials..

Im
ottoes .
Cream Bar..
Molasses Bar. .
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and Wint..... bocene
String Rock.........
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels
Clipper, 20 Ib. ~~
Perfection, 20 pls

Amazon, Choc Gord
Korker 2 for ic pr bx
Big 3, 3 for ic pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for ic pr bx
Favorite, 4 for 1c, bx
AA Cream Car’ls 31b
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett......
Florida ——-
Fancy Navels.......
Extra Choice........
sees. - -

  

 

 

Lemons

Verdelli, ex fey 300..
Verdelli, fey 300. .
Verdelll, ex chee 300
Verdelli, fey 360.....
Cali Lemons, 300.....
Messinas 300s.......
Messinas 360s.......

Bananas
Medium bunches....
Large bunches......

Foreign Dried Fruits

8
ae, Fancy.
Cal. p! Kg. 10 Ib. Sonas
Extra Choice, Turk.,

19 Ib. boxes........
Fancy, TkErk., 12 Ib.

ee
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Nai turals, in —

Fards in 10 Ib. boxes
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
ewe... .....-...

Ib. cases, new.....
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....

NUTS

Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Ivica .....
Almonas, an

soft an. ech

ee
ie
Walnuts. Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled

Cal. No. 1, new.
Table Nuts, faney...

 

‘ecans, Jumbos
Hickory Nuts per bu.
ihio, new.
full sacks
a...
eanuts
Fancy, :.. —
Fancy, H Ps

ted .
Choice, H. P., ‘Jumbo
Choice, H. P., Jumbo
Boas!

ted
Span. Shild No. in’w

Cocoanuts,
Chestnuts,

Mixed Candy

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@i2

@50
@60

80

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s

3 4 50
3 4 50

1 50@2 00
@
@1 00
@

134% @15

@ 6%
5 @5%

 

 

 

STONEWARE
Butters
Oe, a oes coins potas
1to6 ‘gal., it ~ Se one ewe cokes
8 gal. each.. eet ous
ON
ee ON

15 gal. meat-tubs, each.....
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.

oo el, mens onbe, oneh...... ........--

2 to 6 gal.,

Churns
er gal..

‘hurn Das ers, per a a

% ga
1 gal.

Ye gal.
1 gal.

% gal.
1 gal.

% gal.
iq gal. per
Tiere. a a

Milkpans

at or rd. bot., per doz. ........
Nat or rd. bot,, each

Fine Glazed Milkpans
flat or rd. bot., per doz.... ....
Gat or rd. bot., eaon.........,..

Stewpans

fireproof, bail, per doz.. oe
fireproof, bail, per doz.........

Jugs
- a aes tae enee Cee nce

Sealing Wax

G ibs. in package, ver th-...,..........

LAMP BURNERS

 

oe... gs
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined —

  

. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢
. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each,

r bbl..

  

NN

Sk

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NNO

ne

SSRESE

ee a 4 25 per gross
Quarts ..... eles eee oo
Oe ce ck, 50 per gross
Fruit Jars packed 1 danneiie box
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of doz.
OO oo 162
te 1 84
OO 2 80
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated carton.
eee 174
Pe eee 1 96
ee Se 2 90
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 18
No. 2 Sun; crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 08
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, beh oe ed - lab. 3 75
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00
Pearl —
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped pe pyr eon ct ci 5 30
No. 2 hinge, wrap labeled..... 5 10
No. 2 Sun, “Smal Bub: ” for Globe
Lae 80
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 25
No. 1 Crimp, ee 1 35
Poe. 2 Ce, Pe Oe... 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime cee) OTE EEE 3 50
No. 2 Lime (75¢ — 400
oe, 2 Penk Gee ee 4 60
Electric
No. 2 Lime = doz} Sis Saailnciee oe oie es 4 00
mo. 2 Pent (ape Gee)... ..... 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 13
1 gal. galy. iron with spout, per doz.. 1 59
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. . 250
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 50
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 4 50
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 8 75
5 = aly. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 00
5 gal —. OM 7 00
5 4 galv. iron Naceias.............. 9 00
LANTERNS
me. 8 Tubeies, oe ee... :. 5... 4 75
ie 7 25
me. 1 oper, Oeee...... 8... 7 26
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain... 7 50
No. 12 on side — a cdbekeccce 13 50
No. 3 Street eee 3 60
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 45
45
75
25

. 0 Tub., "Bull’s eye, cases i

oz. each

1
1

BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS

Roll contains 32 yards in one

‘oa

No.0, %-inch wide, per gross or rol 18
No. . 5¢-inch wide, per gross or roll. . 24
No. 2,1 inch wide, per gross or roll. 34
No. 3, 1% inch wide, per gross or roll.. 53
COUPON BOOKS

50 books, any denomination.............. 1 50
100 books, any denomination.............. 2 50
500 books, any denomination.... .... .... 11 50
1,000 books, any denomination .............. 20 00
Above quotations are for either Tradesman,
Superior, conomie or Universal grades. Where

ceive specially printed cover without extra

 

charge.
Coupon Pass Books

Can be made to represent any denomination

from $10 down.

50 books .... » 2
100 books ... 2 50
500 books ... 11 50

Ae ee 20 00
Credit Checks

500, any one denomination................ 2 00

1 ,000; any One denomination ..............0. 3 00

2,000 any one wemencsreeceal ies voces tune 8

NA icctcacetssciceccs oo0eseessssnos 7%

Stel Tanks
ot6él Windmills

WRITE FOR PRICES.

GELOW WIND MILL GO.

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Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
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MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN

31

 

Window Dressing

Brief and Unsatisfactory Experience With
a City Artist.
Written for the Tradesman.

A man wafted himself into Hank
Spreet’s grocery at Kelley Center the
other day and introduced himself as E.

. Tutch, window trimmer, of New
York City. He told Hank that he was
just behind the times, that unless he
hired a window trimmer immediately
his business would go to the dogs—or to
Beeneville, which people in Kelley
Center consider the same thing. Hank
was not disposed to dispute the value

f window trimming as an advertise-
ment, nor to belittle its importance and
value as an art. He had had some ex-

erience in window trimming himself,

it had not met with any encouraging
legree of success. There was, for in-
stance, his display of cottons,  sur-
nounted by a bowl of gold fish intended
attract attention. Ali would have
een well had the gold fish been less
ctive or the colors in his cottons more
stationary. One night the gold fish
started out with the apparent belief that
he store was on fire and by flashing
their tails with untiring industry all
night threw enough water from the bow!
flood the window and to produce
such kaleidoscopic effects in cottons
as the weaver had never dreamed of.

‘* However,’’ said Hank to Mr. E. Z.
Tutch, of New York City, ‘‘I’ll give
you a trial, if we can get together on
the question of salary. I kind of need
a man to trim windows and take care of
the horse, and I don’t know why you
won’t do as well as anybody. What
might you be asking for your services?"’

‘“Well,’’ said Tutch, ‘‘in New York
: window trimmer gets about forty per

and | think that amount would hold me
for a while,’’

‘I didn’t mean | wanted to take you
into partnership, { can't pay the salary
2 man would naturally expect if he was
President of the steel trust. However,

you think $6 a week would be all

right, you can hang your hat in the oil
room and buckle in.’’
The stranger seemed to be easily per-
uaded, for he was soon behind the
ounter ready for business. Hank was
anxious to see the expression of his
‘rt; so the next morning he decided to
make a display of Hank’s shoe stock,
vhich embraced fully 100 pairs of shoes
‘early all of which were of a different
‘ze and pattern, and in some cases not
ven two alike,
‘Got quite a collection of broken
airs, haven't you, Mr, Spreet?’’ re-
arked Tutch.
‘“Yes,’’ replied Hank, ‘‘and I’ll tell
u how that came about. You see, my
‘her owned this here store before I be-
‘me the leading and only merchant
rince of Kelley Center, and when the
it broke out he took a company out to
ght for the Union. The Kelley Center
clunteers marched away together on a
oright May morning, but they didn’t all
come back together. There was old

hn Ferefite, for instance. He came
ack all together but one leg, and that

e left at Antietam. Some leit their

‘ms down there and they say that a few

ven left their rifles on the field of Bull
un, When father marched the com-

any back into town, be was too good a
‘tizen and too good a merchant to re-
‘sé tO accommodate his customers, and
hat is how this store got all them broken
nizes,""

The new man, however, managed to
make a collection of about twenty pairs

 

 

 

 

of shoes ranging in Price from $1 up to
as high as $2.25, and these he prepared
to display in the window.

‘Have you got any crepe paper?’’ he
asked of Hank,

‘You must be thinking that you will
soon be the whole thing in this here
store, ’’ teplied Hank. ‘‘You ain't go-
ing to tle any crape on the door for me
right away, I can tell you that,’”’

The window trimmer explained as
sently and ag composedly as he could
that the crepe paper was a crinkly kind
of material that he desired to use asa
grcund for his display. Hank, how-
ever, forced him to be content with
some badly wrinkled white tissue found
in the shoe boxes, which, he said, inan
energetic and unmistakable manner,
was plenty crinkly enough for Kelley
Center. The window was really a fine
affair when complete, with those twenty
pairs of shoes drawn up in exact bat-
talion formation in rows of ten shoes
each so that they resembled Hank
Spreet's father’s brave volunteers as
they marched away to put down the re-
beliion and anything else that could be
had from the commissary.

Bill Blivens was disposed to admire
the window very much and Bill Bliv-
en's daughter felt some similar sensation
when she beheld its author, the window
trimmer himself. This individual soon
became a popular man in Kelley Cen-
ter, but, strange to say, the man with
whom he achieved the least popularity
was the man who had made his presence
in the village possible. Mr, Tutch was
generous with his means and in giving
other people a high estimate of himself.
There were even people who said that
in time he would become so popular
with the people of the village that he
would start in business for himself and
run’ Hank Spreet out of the town,

Hank himself was a little puzzled to
see how he could do this on six dollars
a week; in fact, it was a matter of some
debate to him how Mr, Tutch could be
so lavish with his salary when it was not
so lavish in itself. Hank is naturally a
suspicious character, not in the sense
which the police use, but one who en-
tertains suspicion rather than creates it.
Mr. Tutch got on swimmingly in the
store. He sold more goods than even
Hank did, for when the young dam-
sells of Kelley Center came to buy,
they bought of Mr. Tutch because,
while he was a_ bachelor like Hank, he
seemed more susceptible to the charms
of the fair maidens of Kelley Center.
This popularity bestowed on Mr, Tutch
gave Hank a little more time for his
book-keeping and his well-known philo-
sophic cogitation, The public had de-
clared that the presence of Mr. Tutch
would increase Hank’strade. Mr. Tutch
had modestly declared that his window
trimming would do so; but, strange to
say, while Hank’s trade undeniably did
increase, his resources did not do so
apparently; a great many more goods
were going out of the store, but no
more money was coming in than before
the days when E. Z. Tutch’s window
creations set the people of Kelley Center
in a flutter. Hank did not possess any
elaborate checking system by which he
could balance his sales and his receipts ;
he had never invested in a cash regis-
tel, because he was honest enough so
that he did not think it necessary to
watch himself, but the idea kept grow-
ing in Hank's mind that the stranger
who had demanded $40 a week for his
distinguished services was coming pretty
near to getting it. Things came toa
climax at a time when Mr. Tutch had

 

reached the pinnacle of his popularity
in- Kelley Center. Mr. Tutch had fallen
into the habit of helping himself to such
of Hank's stock as appealed to him as
the thing which would be considered
proper on Broadway, a place, by the
way, Hank began to have doubts Tutch
had ever seen. In time a derby hat, an
unlimited number of boiled shirts and
eventually lurid red neckties disappeared
from Hank's stock in trade and ap-
peared upon the person of the window
trimmer,

One morning there was surprise in
Kelley Center, Hank Spreet’s store did
not open as usual for the day. There
was a resplendent display of the win-
dow trimmer’s art in Hank's window.
Perhaps it would not have met the crit-
ical judgment of a metropolitan mer-
chant. The display, however, went for
naught for the place was tightly locked.
The citizens of Kelley Center gathered

to wonder and advance numerous
theories.
‘‘If Spreet ain't here,’’ said Bill

Blivens, ‘‘why ain’t Tutcb here, and if
Tutch ain't here, why ain’t Spreet?”’

It was 9:30 exactly when the mystery
was in a measure solved. At that hour
Hank Spreet was seen to come riding
down the west road on his bay horse,
which showed signs of having been
long and hardly ridden.

‘‘What’s the matter, Hank?’’ asked
Bill, ‘‘has your trimmer left you?’’

Yep.

‘‘S’pose you'll get another?’’

““1 don’t know.”’

‘“Have you been after one?’’

‘*T should say I had.’’

“Well, where have you been?"’

Hank reached down into his pocket
and produced the familiar red necktie.

‘I bave been trimming that trim-
mer,’’ he said.

Hank Spreet has not forgotten the
value of window trimming as an adver-
tisement, but he is content to take his
suggestions from the trade journals and
the next trimmer who applies fora posi-

 

recommendations from John Wana-
maker, Marshall Field and a few other
merchants before he gets a job.
Douglas Malloch,
Too Great a Risk.

She met him at the kitchen door with
a rolling pin in her hand, and she
brandished it menacingly.

‘“Madam—”’ he began.

“Well, what do you want?’’ she de-
manded aggressively. ‘‘What are you
snoopin’ ‘round here for?’’

‘‘Madam,’’ he explained, backing
away, ‘I called to see if { could place
an accident insurance policy on your
husband, but, after seeing you, 1 am
Satisfied he is too great a risk.’’

——~>-2 <> —_____
Too Much For the Barber.

‘You can’t guy that fellow,’’ said the
barber, as the bald-headed customer left
the shop.

‘*Did you try it?’’ asked ‘‘next.’’

‘*Yes. When he got into my chair I
asked him if he wanted a hair cut, and
he said he didn’t care if I cut both of
them.’’

 

 

—> 9
A New York auctioneer announces for
sale ‘‘oil-paintings by some of the an-
cient masters of the day.’’

 

BARRON’S BARGAIN LIST.
If interested in any of the following
propositions write at once for full partic-

ulars.
Folio

hardware
Texas.

42—Wanted,
and

partner in well paying
implement business in San Antonio,

Folio 63—For Sale, well selected stock milli
nery and notions, enterprising Iowa town.

Folio 128—For Sale, general store: New York

 

State; city of 4,000; Sales $15,000 per annum;
profits 25 percent.

Folio 190—For Sale, stock of genera
chandise, Clinton county, Michigan;
big profits, no competition.

Folio 195—For sale, cream separator manu-
facturing business and patent rights.

Folio 64—For sale, patent rights on eave
trough; simple, easily applied, cheap, big money
if pushed.

Let me sell your farm, residence, store
building or stock of goods, anywhere; I
am a specialist in this line. Send two
stamps for booklet and learn how.

Address, A. M. BARRON,
South Bend, Ind.

 

tion in Kelley Center will have to bring

 

 

For a roofing to replace shingles use

H. M. R. Brand
Asphalt Torpedo Gravel

as applied to both steep and flat surfaces.
See local hardware or lumber dealers or write us.

H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
LTA TAAL TERT NMEA LCE SMO TROLEN ELE EIS

 

 

 

All Kinds
of
Solid

rare

 

 

 

All Kinds
of
Folding

BOXES

 

 

 

 

Do you wish to put your goods up in neat, attractive packages? Then write
us for estimates and samples.

 

GRAND RAPIDS

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

PAPER BOX CO.

 

 

Box Makers

 

Die Cutters

Printers

 

 

 

 

DUTCH SKATES—Just received from the

Netherlands a case of genuine Dutch Skates.

Remember we make them as well as import

them. If interested write for price list.
Reason No, 3

3ecause it has a long runner, thereby greatly

increasing the speed.

J. Vander Stel, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

32

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The Grain Market.

Wheat, as predicted previously, ow-
ing to the fine weather, has been rather
easy, and when Mr. Patten dumped
6,000,000 bushels on the market every-
one supposed that the market would go
all to pieces. However, it was all ab-
sorbed by different parties—a good share
supposed to be by the Armour interest,
but no one knows that. In spite of all
the bear cry and the bear stories which
they invented, claiming immense re-
ceipts and no exports, the market for
cash wheat remains exactly where it
was two weeks ago. December options
are about 1c lower, but cash is strong in
all positions—East, Northwest, South-
west and throughout the Middle States.
The visible, to be sure, made another
good-sized increase of 2,283,000 bushels,
which still leaves our visible supply
9,009,000 bushels less than last year.
We also note some of the short sellers
have been trying to buy back their sales.
If such an onslaught as was made dur-
ing the last two or three days had no
more effect than it did, it certainly goes
to show that there is some value to
wheat. We might also mention that since
July 1 exports from the United States
have been over gI,000,000 bushels,
against 105,000,000 bushels for the cor-
responding time last year, which goes
to show that we have exported only
14,000,000 bushels more last year, and
that was one of the heaviest export
years we have experienced, This means
gt,000,000 bushels in four months. We
could not go on exporting at the same
rate for the crop year. There may ‘not
be much of an advance, still I doubt
whether there will be much of a decline
in wheat on the present crop.

Corn, owing to the dry, clear weather,
has sagged off a couple of cents from
top. Should the present weather con-
tinue we look for more of a decline,
which is sure tocome. While corn does
not turn out in quality or quantity as
was expected, still the quality is good
enough to use for animal food and there
will be plenty of good, merchantable
corn to supply the demand. Of course it
will take a few weeks before the market
will get settled down. 1 think we have
seen the high point in corn on this crop.

Oats, as usual, followed corn and a
decline of fully 2c per bushel can be
recorded. For some reason oats de-
creased 320,000 bushels during last
week. Still we have nearly as many on
hand as we had last year, so prices will
not vary much in the oats market, as
there seems to be enough to go around,

Rye, in the face of corn and oats re-
ceding, has advanced a tritle and re-
mains firm. While the demand is not
urgent, there appears to be enough taken
to absorb the offerings. | think exporters
must be filling up somewhat, as _ distill-
ers still seem to be out of the market.
The price seems to be high enough and
we look for a lower price before long.

Beans, owing to the extremely high
price a couple of weeks ago, slumped
off fully 20c per bushel. Report has it
that there is going to be quite an impor-
tation of beans. We made mention of

this about two weeks ago and it seems
to be verified. It is ever thus. When
any commodity is getting too high, with
our transportation facilities the world
over, it does not take Ipng to move a
commodity from one pgint to another.
Thirty years ago it would have taken a
long time to move beans from Europe,
while to-day they can be bought and
put on the market in about ten days.
Thus prices are kept at equilibrium.
While some predict higher prices, we

 

look for lower prices. Some few are
looking for $3 beans, but they will prob-
ably drop to considerably below $2.

Flour has been in excellent demand,
both local and domestic. The mills
have had ajl they can doto keep their
orders filled and are probably consider-
ably bebind now. Prices have not
changed. We look for a steady demand
for flour from now until after the holi-
days.

Mill feed remains steady. 1 can not
say that prices have advanced, but re-
main at $17 for bran and $19 for
middlings.

Receipts have been about normal, as
follows: wheat, 69 cars; oats, 12 cars;
rye, I car; flour, 2 cars; beans, I car;
bran, I car; hay, 4 cars; straw, I car;
potatoes, 44 cars,

Millers are paying 71c for wheat.

The writer has just returned from
Tennessee and Kentucky, where they
were all talking about Michigan pota-
toes. They seem to get them exclusively
from Michigan. C. G, A. Voigt.

a
Deny Charge of Intimidation.

Plainwell, Oct. 31—In the Michigan
Tradesman of Oct. 29 there appeared an
article which stated that Parr & Dewey,
liverymen at Plainwell, attempted to
intimidate the merchants of this place
by denying them the privilege of pur-
chasing goods of those traveling men
who do not patronize their livery. We
wish to inform the public that such is
not the case, We have never been guilty
of any such thing and have always con-
sidered that commercial men had a
right to hire rigs wherever they chose,
and we shall continue to do all in our
power to please those who patronize us.

Parr & Dewey.
> © 2
Just Like Women.

**Yes,’’ said the engaged girl, ‘‘ Dick
is very methodical. He gives me one
kiss when he comes in and two when he
goes away."’

‘*That’s always been his way,'’ re-
turned her dearest friend. ‘*I’ve heard
lots of girls comment on it."’

Thus it happens that they cease to
speak to each other,

ey
Won By a Faint Heart.

‘“‘I can never marry you,’’ said the
beautiful blonde.

**But,’* pleaded the wealthy old man,
“won't you make my life happy for the
few short years I will be here? I am
troubled with a weak and faint heart.'’

‘In that case I accept you."’
And yet they say faint heart never
won fair lady.

— > O-e
Mince Pie Recipe.

A German gives the editor this recipe
for mince pie: ‘‘Get one piece of rub-
ber and cut de under crust, scallop the
edges mit de shears; buy four pounds
of cow's neck; chop up von peck of
apples, basket and all; add von yard of
red flannel and a peck of sawdust; give
it two coats of varnish ; cook von hour.’’

Busines Niinlés

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insertion and one cent a word for each
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i BUSINESS CHANCES.

ok SALE, BARGAIN— ONLY DRUG
stock in thriving town; involces #800; going
to school November 11; must be taken at once.
Address No. 830 care Michigan Tradesman. 830

\ ’ ANTED—TO LE? CONTRACT FOR CUT-
ting cedar shingles near Mackinaw. Tim-

ber for 5,000,000 cut and skidded. F.C. Miller

Lumber Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 828

OR SALE—A GROCERY BUSINESS IN

Houghton, Mich.; $75,000 to $100,000 business

yearly; $5,000 stock; can be reduced to $3,000.
Address Geo. Williams, Houghton, Mich. 827

{UR SALE — MEAT
slaughter house in connection; a good first-
class trade and cash business; town of fourteen
hundred inhabitants and the only market in
town. Reason for selling, have other business
in larger place. M.A. Mahoney, Box 246, Belle-
vue, Mich. 843

 

 

MARKET AND

 

F YOU WISH TO SELL A BUSINESS OR
any kind of real estate anywhere in America,
for quick cash, give description and price. I
will send free booklet telling how itis done. No
commissions. Emerson De Puy, Specialist, Des
Moines, la. i 829
VOR SALE—THE ONLY DRUG STORE IN
a thriving Northern railroad village of 300;
stock inventories about $800. For particulars
address No. 840, care Michigan Tradesman. 840

NOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—STEAM

flour mill in good running order on railroad.

Will exchange for city property. R. M. Grind-
ley, 171 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. 839

OR SALE—$3,000 GENERAL STOCK AND
$2,500 store building, located in village near
Grand Rapids. Fairbanks scales. Good paying
business, mostly cash. Reason for selling, owner
has other business. Address No. 838, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 838

N ACCOUNT OF POOR HEALTH I WILL
sell my three stores—one shoe store, one
dry goods and grocery store and one dry goods,
carpet, shoe and grocery store. Would like to
-— _—— Dee. 1. George H. Nelson, Whitehall,
ch. 837

{OR SALE—A NICE, CLEAN STOCK OF
hardware and farm implements, tinner’s and
pump tools, good location, good busi ,» good
reasons for selling. Address Lock Box 107, Hol-
land, Minn. 836

ro CLOSE OUT—ALL OR PART $350
stock rubber boots; new goods, mostly
Stout’s patent — proof, hip, thigh or knee.
Will sell cheap. rite for stock list and prices.
This is a bargain. Address Box 115, Charles-
ton, Mo. £35
ANTED—EVERY ONE TO KNOW THAT
there ts one honest commission man on
earth. What have you to offer? A.M Bentley,
Saginaw, W.S., Michigan, Distributor of ‘Best
on Record” Fiour R34
{OR RENT--GOOD BRICK STORE BUILD-
ing, 20x60 In dimensions, with 20 foot store
room in rear, located at Montrose; population
1,500; one of the best business points in Genesee
county; living rooms overhead; price $180 a
year. For particulars write Mrs. E. Van
Wegern, 523 Genesee ave., Saginaw, Mich. 833
{OR SALE— STOCK OF BAZAAR AND
holiday goods; best town in Northern Michi-
gan; will invoice about $1,000; good location.
brick building; rent reasonable; good reasons
for selling. Address No. 831, care Michigan
Tradesman. 831

oo SALE—THE JOHN ROTTIER MEAT
market. One of the best locations in the
city. Good paying business established. Must
sell quick on account of death of owner. Apply
to Mrs. Rottier, 67 South Division St., Grand
Rapids. 844
j}OR RENT—NEW DOUBLE BRICK STORE;
one of the finest locations in Southern Mich-
igan for any dry goods or general store business;
wilt be ready for occupancy about Noy. 15. Ad-
dress No. 809, care Michigan Tradesman. 800
SOR SALE—-ON ACCOUNT OF ILL
health, long established furniture business
in finest town of 7,000 in Southern Michigan; sold
at discount if taken at once. Address No. 816,
care Michigan Tradesman. 816

FS® SALE—A NEW AND MODERN FURN-
iture delivery wagon cheap if sold at once.
Address No. 8'7, care Michigan Tradesman. 817

5,000 TO $8,000 DRY GOODS STOCK FOR

sale; town 3,500 population; good manufac-
turing; will seil reasonably to right party; can
reduce stock if desired. Good reason for selling.
Address No. 822, care Michigan Tradesman. 812

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

er ~ SALE—STOCK DRY GOODS, MEN’S
furnishings, novelties, groceries — about
$2,500; net profits 1901, $2,250; twenty per cent.
increase in trade 1902, Removal from place rea-
son for selling. E.C. Simon, St. Clair, Mich.
820

 

ANTED—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise for cash: must be cheap to be
removed. Address Reval, 221 Fifth Ave., Chi-
eago, Ill. 819

HOICE FORTY ACRE FARM IN EMMET
county to exchange for merchandise. Lock
Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 82
io SALE — AT A BARGAIN, STEAM
- fiour mill In good running order, on railroad.
Will exchange for city property. R. M. Grindley,
171 Griswold St.. Detroit, Mich. 827
— SALE OR TRADE FOR A STOCK OF
general merchandise—farm of 100 acres, val-
ued at $3,000; mortgaged for $1,100; located in
the northeastern part of Ionia county. Address
No. 795, care Michigan Tradesman. 795

 

 

 

IGAR AND GROCERY SALESMEN TO
C sell our cigar slot machine, as side line; sells
on sight toevery cigar and a. store; big

rofits; write to-day. Michigan Novelty Co.,
Vicksburg, Mich. 779
NOR SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF
the best business towns in Western Michi-
gan; good chance for a physician. Enquire of
No. 778, care Michigan Tradesman. 778
7ANTED—QUICK MAIL ORDERS.
Overstocked; must keep the factory run-
ning; telescopes, suit cases, whips; low prices.
For special discounts and illustrated descriptive
list address Olney Telescope & Harness Co.,
Box 155, Olney, Ill. 769
NOR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIX-
tures; only one in good prosperous town on
railroad; good business; stock about $1,200;
eash, no trades. Address George, care Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

y TJANTED FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL
kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con-

—< mill cuts. Belding-Hali Mfg. Co., aie,
ich. 7

 

OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE
millinery business in Grand Rapids; object
for selling, parties leaving the city. Address
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman.
 AFES—NEW AND SECOND-HAND FIRE
and burglar proof safes. Geo. M. Smith Wood
& Brick Building Moving Co., 376 South Ionia
St., Grand Rapids. 321
Ko SALE—DRUG STOCK‘AND FIXTURES
invoicing about $2,000. Situated in center of
Michigan Fruit Belt, one-half mile from Lake
Michigan. Good resort trade. Living rooms
over store; water inside building. Rent, $12.50
er month. reason for selling. Addres
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 334
WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS
and residence (not connected); what have
you to offer? Give full description and price.
A. M. Barron, Station A, South Bend,Ind. 745
HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE IN GRAND
Rapids. Will trade for a stock of general
merchandise. Address No. 751, care Michigan
Tradesman. 751
RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN A GOOD
live town of 1,500; will invoice about fifteen
hundred dollars. Reason for selling, other busi-
ness. Address No. 738, care Michigan Trades-
man. 738
ILL PAY SPOT CASH FOR STOCKS
dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware,
furniture or groceries. Lock Box 74, Ypsilanti,
Mich. 715
ARD TO FIND—A FIRST CLASS DRUG
store in city of 50,000 ——_ in Michigan for
sale. Best of reasons for selling. Address Mrs.
B., Room 801, 377-9 Broadway, New York City. 694
YOR SALE CHEAP—SECONDHAND NO. 4
Bar-Lock typewriter, in good condition.
Specimen of work done on machine on applica-
tion. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST,

temperate habits. Address, with refer-
ences and salary expected, S. H. Benham & Co.,
Trufant, Mich. 842

EGISTEKRED PHARMACIST WANTS PO-

 

 

sition; 13 years’ experience; references.
Address F. W. H., 749 S. Division St., Grand
Rapids. 841

 

ANTED—YOUNG MAN OF PLEASING

address who can speak good German and
thoroughly understands selling and holding
trade to take charge of grocery department in
generai store; good salary to right person. Ad-
dress C, care Michigan Tradesman. 832

wy A FIRST-CLASS CLOTHING
and furnishing goods salesman and win-
dow trimmer; a young unmarried man, stead
and reliabie; references required. Address H.
C. Co.. Traverse City. Mich. 812
WI ALESMEN, IN EVERY STATE, TO CARRY
as a side line on commission an article of
proved merit handled by druggists, grocers,
general stores and feed dealers. American
Glutrose Company, Camden, N. J. 825
Wy Aare 4 MAN TO DELIVER AND
work in grocery store. Must be of good
character,a worker and oe temperate; a
steady = for the right man. Address No. 823,
care Michigan Tradesman. 823
ye — FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS
man for Northern Wisconsin; good salary
to the right man. Address No. 821, care Mich-
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OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH
the whole or part interest in the best wall
gover business in Sault Ste. Marie. A. M.
athews Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 805
j;OR SALE—2% HORSE POWER GASOLINE
—— with dynamo sparkler complete,
in g condition; cost $270, will sell for $90.
The Evening Journal, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich 806

ANTED—STEAM HEAT FOR CHURCH
aitm 30x60, with basement. Box 8, Benzonia,
I . 798

Fe SALE- GARDEN, FRUIT AND POUL-
try ranch, Constantine, Mich Address Con-
stantine Med. Co., Constantine, Mich, 799

R SALE—TWO LAND CONTRACTS.
Bato each, for land valued at $!,000 and draw.
ing 6 per cent.; must be sold at 20 per cent. dis-
count from face. Also four “forties” fine wild
land in Fruitport ee Muskegon county,
Mich., at a great sacrifice if taken at once. W.
W. Barcus, Muskegon, Mich. 8il

Fok SAtE—two BUSINESS BUILDINGS
in best location in town; cost $3,800; also a
stock of men’s furnishing goods and shoes in first-
class condition; will invoice $3,000; if taken with-
in 30 days both can be bought for $4,500 cash.
— a —— a pig savemes here before
xt spring. or further particular

Box 343, Munising, Mich. ” , =
—— MANUFACTURING PLANT;
on ood business aan een capital can

m session th st .
Address Box 253, tings, Mich. v Te

 

 

 

~ are Auctioneers
and Special Salesmen

and can reduce
or closeout
your stock with-
out one cent of
loss to you by
our New Idea
Sale.

We take sales
on a commis-
sion basis, al-
lowing you to
set the price on
the goods. This
is the very best
time of the year
for sales and we
would like you
to call on us or
write at once.

C orrespond-
ence confiden-
tial. We buy
and sell store

 

Cc. C. O'NEILL
fixtures or take them on consignment.
c. C. O'NEILL & CO., Chicago, Ill.
356 Dearborn St., Suite 408 Star Building