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‘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-
count 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.

 

Commercial
Oe | at Crops

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

We. furnish - protection

against worthless: -ac-
counts -and. collect —all
others.

 

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.

 

Do You
SAVE a Dollar?

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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.
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Martin V. Barker @
Battle Creek, [Michigan z
aiudcedd aiaumesa ail

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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

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1902.

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

2. Getting the People.
3. Punctured a Cash Scheme.
4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Poultry.

7. Unele Danny.

8. Editorial.

10. Clothing.

12. Hardware.

14. Dry Goods.

16. Shoes and Rubbers.

18. Store Wisdom.

20. Woman’s World.

22. Butter and Eggs.

23. The New York Market.

24. Bad Accounts.

25. Commercial Travelers.

26. Drugs and Chemicals.

2%. Drug Price Current.

28. Grocery Price Current.

29. Grocery Price Current.

30. Grocery Price Current.

31. Quaint Groceries in Italy.

32. The Grain Market.

 

 

 

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

The location of 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 ‘s 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 cyanide
plant which will cost about $500,000, and to do
this they are offering to original investors a
portion of its treasury shares at 5oc 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. Temple,
623 Michigan Trust Bldg,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Wanted

We want several small manufacturing
concerns to locate here and will furnish
a site and a small bonus if necessary.
This is an excellent location for a basket
factory, oval wood dish factory or handle
factory. Wealso 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

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

 

PROBLEM IN SANITARY SCIENCE.
It is said that among the Chinese it
is the business of the medical man to
prevent his employers from becoming
sick. He is paid to keep them in health
and vigor, and the pay stops when he
allows them to become sick.

The entire system of Chinese medi-
cine is extremely crude and _ barbarous.
The materia medica contains such ar-
ticles as dried spiders, cockroaches and
other such vermin reduced to powder
and many other substances nauseating
and _ shocking to the physical sensibili-
ties, and is in no more advanced state
than was the European pharmacopoeia
of a few centuries ago, when it pro-
posed, for internal administration to
human patients, an electuary of Egypt-
ian mummy and a ptisan of the ex-
crement of sheep or goats.

Whatever may be the beastliness or
the absurdity of the medicines them-
selves, however, there is a vast amount
ef wisdom and practical benefaction in
the idea that the prevention of disease
is of as much importance as is the cur-
ing of it. Thanks to modern sanitary
science, there has been great progress
in the practice of wholesale public
hygiene. Cities are drained and sew-
ered. Garbage and feculent matters are
disposed of so as to render them innoc
uous or they are removed from the lo-
cations where they could contaminate
the premises and bred infection. The
evil of crowding in tenement houses,
amid unsanitary conditions, large num-
bers of people is greatly mitigated.
The indigent sick are treated freely in
extensive and well appointed hospitals,
and sufferers with contagious and in-
fectious diseases are kept in isolation,
thereby preventing the spread of such
disorders.

Those terrible visitations of deadly

plagues which formerly, at frequent
periods, devastated the countries of
Europe and America have become

things of the past, thanks to modern
sanitation, and yet the most dangerous
and persistent cause of many serious
bodily disorders remains wholly un-
conquered, That is immoderate, im-
prudent and unwholesome eating and
drinking. In the November issue of
Munsey’s Magazine, Dr. John H. Gird-
ner lays all the blame on the human
palate or sense of taste.

The palate, he holds, is an absolute
ruler and despot over all the other or-
gans and tissues of the body. It prac-
tically holds over them the power of life
and death. The long-suffering stom-
ach, for instance, is obliged to receive
whatever the palate chooses to send it.
Like all down-trodden subjects, it pro-
tests from time to time, but, asa rule,
tbe protest only results in worse treat-
ment,

The digestive system of every animal!
—man of course included—is a chem-
ical laboratory in which the material
that is put into it is separated into all
the various substances required for the
maintenance of the body. These are
appropriated to their respective uses,
while those substances unfit for such
use are rejected. The stomach, with

 

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the intestinal glands and juices, digests,
selecis, absorbs and appropriates the
necessary quantity of essential prin-
ciples from the food taken into it, and
so furnishes the material required for
sustaining the vital forces
tions.

If the human being were always sup-
plied with the food which is easily di-
gestible, and which is best adapted to
the nourishment of the body, doubtless
there would seldom be any sickness ex-
cept from outside causes. But our civ-
ilization has invented and adopted nu-
merous seasonings and condiments
which are of no actual benefit whatever,
but are only intended to add zest to the
appetite and flavor to the food.

When a taste for these has been ac-
quired the palate demands them, and
the time comes when that demand must
be satisfied. ‘When an appetite for
liquors and drugs is also acquired it
make its imperious demands for grat-
ification, and so the poor stomach is
either loaded witb more food than it has
the power properly te dispose of, or it
is excited and inflamed by sauces and
other stimulants or is enfeebled with the
effect of opiates or other depressing
drugs.

In recent years great attention is be-
ing paid to dieting and to the prepara-
tion of foods that will give the greatest
amount of nourishment, with the least
degree of discomfort or injury, and in
some of the well-known sanitariums in
this and other countries only such foods
are permitted to be served to those per-
sons who are inmatesthere. The trouble
is, however, that such patients, after
leaving those places, abandon the sim-
ple habits of living that were required of
them, and return to those which had
injured their health, the imperious pal-
ate demanding gratification at any and
every cost.

It may not be out of place to mention
here that there are four classes of gub-
stances which are necessary for human
sustenance. First, water, which forms
70 per cent. by weight of the human
body, is the most important of this
group; others are the salts of lime,
soda, magnesia, iron, etc., which are
found in large quantities in the bones
and exist in almost all the fluids of the
body. We take these substances in
water and other liquids, and in the salt
we use on meats. They also exist in
vegetables; this is especially true -of
iron. They may be classed as minerals.

The second class is made up of the
hydro-carbons or heat-producers, em-
bracing sugar, fats and starch, which are
animal or vegetable substances.

The third class is made up of meat,
eggs, milk and the gluten, or ‘‘lean,’’
portion of grain in contradistinction to
starch, which is a form of sugar or
alcohol. These articles are known as
proteids or albuminoids. They feed the
muscles and the nerves. If people only
knew how to feed themselves, and had
the prudence and self-control to do so
with a due regard to health and vigor,
they would escape a vast number of
diseases, which, by their imprudence

or intemperance, they bring on them-
selves,

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Getting the People

The Mistake of Assuming Too Much.

Much as has been written on the diffi-
culty found in ‘‘seeing oursel's as ithers
see us,’’ a large part of the work of
publicity shows that a great proportion
of dealers stiil assume that the general
public is thoroughly cognizant of them
and their doings. The facts are so
familiar to oneself that his store has
such a location, that he deals in certain
articles—ali the general particulars of
his business—that he needs only to print
his name in large letters, and then say
as much as he will in the smallest, to
have all eyes interested in his line of
trade attracted to his effusions. He as-
sumes that it is not necessary to give
the location of his establishment, either
street or town, for surely there are none
to be reached that are ignorant of this
much about him.

 

 

Now this is assuming too much. As
a matter of fact the human animal
knows vastly more about his own affairs
than of such institutions except in so
far as these may come within the range
of his selfish interests. As a rule, the
buyer thinks vastly more of the things
he buys than of the man who sells them,
and however well known he may be
there is comparatively little magic in
the name.

After a name has appeared in adver-
tising for a long time, associated with
a certain line of trade and a location, it
naturally begins to seem as though the
constant iteration of John Smith, the
Grocer, 24 Woodiawn avenue, Sandusky,
Ky., becomes unnecessary. Surely
everybody in and around Sandusky
knows all that this phrase expresses by
this time. Now in this lies the mis-
take. In one's tendency to over-rate
his own importance the extent of the
publicity he has achieved is much
greater than the facts warrant.

experienced advertiser that it takes so
much of iteration before anything can
be pounded into people's heads. Why
is it? Because all are alike in that we
are concerned with our own interests.

One of the commonest criticisms I
have to make on samples that reach this
department is the obscurity as to busi-
ness and location, especially in the dis-
play. Frequently the entire display
will consist of the firm name and if in
small type there are interesting facts
about the business, the address is fre-
quently, I may almost say usually,
omitted. In the degree in which ad-
vertised individuality is attained ina
name it may serve the purpose of pub-
licity, but it is safe to assume that its
efficiency in this direction is vastly less
than the advertiser’s estimate of it.

It is undoubtedly a good idea to ad-
vertise the firm name to as great an ex-
tent as possible. But such advertising
to be of value must be more than the
bare reiteration of the name, I mean
in the display. To catch the eye of
possible customers there must be the use
of something relating to the line of
trade and it is this which makes the
display of the name of value. Artemus
Ward, the Grocer, may sound common-
place by constant iteration, but it is the
grocer which makes the other of signifi-
cance, Mr. Ward will only get his name
looked at because people are interested
in buying groceries. I do not mean that
the name of a business must always ap-
pear in the display, but there must be
some word that will interest in the line

of the trade. The best advertisements

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now to the best BARGAINS in

LEMON BROS.

Wish to call your attention especially just

 

 

UNDERWEAR

 

wear is always talked about.

We are offering GREAT VALUES in

NISHINGS AND SHOES

Ask to see it.

LEMON BROS.

a trade winner.

 

they have ever offered—and when they say
this it means something as their line of under-

DRY GOODS, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ FUR-

The Men’s Work Shoe, the “Ohio !dea,” is

Gluten
Corn Feed

The best and
cheapest food for
cows,. pigs and
chickens.

Sold At
$1.00 Per Barre}

On the car. You
furnish the barrel

Buckley & Douglas
Co. Store.

 

 

 

 

NEXT TO BARK,

NO. LANSING

 

 

 

 

About Winter

FURNITURE

And Other Things:

 

yOW when ole Jack Frost begins
poxiny his nose iu vur affairs we
begin to think of Winter and ‘Win.
ter things in earnest. We stay in
the house more, naturally notice the
furniture the, wall paper and the
curtains ‘more. And did you-ever
think what a difference a few new
pieces of furniture, a little fresh

Give Every-
one His Dues.

When you buy an article you
want the best for the money. 1
am doing that wiuh the finest lot of

Pocket Books, Memorandum
Books and Stationery
that was ever in -Fowler.

Are You Going to Paint?
If so, don’t buy your paint ‘un-
til you have seen me.

My stock of DRUS IS LARGE

the best money can buy all
the staple remedies.

Charles Wren,
Manufacturing Druggist,
Fowler, Mioh.

“Successor’ to
KING. BNELLING & GRULEw,

 

wall

paper or some pew curtains
would make io the i@oks of your
home and in your cheerfulness?

 

 

 

The Place to buy.

MPHIS'store bas been in Marion in reality for only six months.

During that time it has become quite widely and favorably
known. During the next six months it will be more’so. It is
owned by W, M. Dayis, who has a store at Evart and managed
by Mr. Geo. Grey a practical furniture man and. experienced
funeral director.

It is located in the opera house block—the corner of low prices
—and shows complete stocks of—well, unfold and.read on.

 

W.M. DAVIS,

a2m— Marion, Mich.

 

Slab Wood, Mill Run
Cut Stove Length

COOKE & WESTON

Phone 350—Three Rings

 

 

 

 

Have just opened.a fine
display of lamps, from plain
glassto the rickest porce-
lain. in thé most Beautiful

Colerings
and Adornment.

Shall be pleased to have
you order one sent home.

C. M. AMBROSE

Palace Grocery
and China Store.

 

  
 

 

   

Keep the
Cold Out.

  
   
    
   
 
   
      
     
 
 

 

Too much “ccld outside is
apt to mean a cold inside
the chest. And the angst
colds are not taken in ex-
treme temperatures, but
when the weather suddenly
¥ changes—something it is apt
to do often about now. Full
colds: often mean winter-
long coughs and permanent
lung or bronchial trouble.
The best defense for those
who take cold easily is a
good champis vest’ or chest
protector, We have the
good kinds. The cheapest
are good, the best are bee.
ter. Our prices are rea-
sonable on ail.

Drop in
and see them.

 

DESJARDINS’ PHARMACY
“417 K. Thirg Sz.

  

should assume that they will meet some
eyes that need to be informed as to
business and location regardless of the

degree of public eminence attained
through long heralding.
* + *

The advertisement of Lemon Bros.
has too large type for the body letter, so
that there is not white space enough for
the display. The panel as used, around
**Underwear,’’ should have been com-
plete. It would have been well to have
kept one style of type in the display.
The criticism I should make on the
writing is that it is too general. Bar-
gains mean little without prices. If the
shoe topic is to havea place [ would
also give prices and thus help sales.

W. M. Davis starts out with an inter-
esting and seasonable topic, but in pur-
suing it he failsto make clear just what
winter furniture may be. That which
he designates would apply to other sea-
sons as well. The point of improving
the cheerfulness of the home is well
made, but the introduction is not strong,
nor is the argument well sustained as
to the place to buy. The type used is
about as poor as could he devised, other-
wise the printing is much better than
the writing. A more direct, simple
style would be much more effective.

C. M. Ambrose shows a good exam-
ple of a general lamp advertisement
which is handled well by the printer.
To or three prices would have sold
moré goods. I would also have added
the address.

The Buckley & Douglas Co. shows a
simple and consistent specimen of feed
advertising. The addition of the loca-
tion would make it a model advertise-
ment of the kind.

Charles Wren makes the mistake of
putting three advertisements in the
space of one. I would have confined
my work for this week to the stationery
topic and next week take up paints and
follow that with the general advertise-
ment introduced in the last paragraph.
The writing is somewhat mixed by in-
troducing two topics, one of which fails
to agree with the statement, ‘‘I am do-
ing that.’’ The printer would have
done well to adhere to one style of type
if possible.

Cooke & Weston make a strong dis-
play of the subject of interest in their
space, but it would look as though their
customers all have phones, lf not, |
should add a location.

Desjardins’ Pharmacy is designated
in such small, poorly printed type that
it would take an expert to make it out.
The display of the lines at the beginning
would seem to refer to overcoats, but if
those who have excellent eyes succeed
in deciphering the paragraph they will
discover that the subject is chest pro-
tectors. I would cut out one-half the
matter, give the name and the business
some prominence, add an address, use
a smaller border and so make a good
advertisement.

 

 

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. Co.
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES

 

 

Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

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How Uncle Jim Punctured a Cash Scheme.

It was ina little Jersey village of, I
suppose, 400 or 500 people—one of those
quiet, sleepy little places where every-
body is ‘‘Jim’’ and ‘‘ Bob’’ to everybody
else.

It was a warm Indian summer day
and the proprietor of one of the three
grocery stores in the place was sitting
with me on chairs outside his store
door. We were talking business in
general,

“*See that old fellow coming down the
street?’’ said the grocer. ‘‘Look at him
as he goes by and I'll tell you some-
thing about him,’’

The old man was a typical country
village character. He had a set of
white whiskers and wore an old slouch
hat. He talked in a loud tone to a man
with him as he passed—in that air of
proprietorship that an aggressive old
resident in a small town is apt to as-
sume.

‘‘Hello, Uncle Jim,’’ said the gro-
cer, as he passed us.

‘Hello, Bob,’’ was the counter salu-
tation.

The grocer sat with a quizzical grin
on for a minute after the old fellow
had passed.

**D'ye see him?’’ he asked finally.

aie

‘“Well, you were talking about doing
business on a cash plana little while
ago,’’ he said. ‘‘That old fellow com-
pletely spoiled a scheme I started once
of changing my business from credit to
cash,’”’

** How could he spoil it?’’ I asked.

**Well,’’ he answered, ‘‘Uncle Jim is
a well-known character all through the
county. He keeps a farm implement
store down here near the station and
sells goods to nearly everybody in the
county. This was about two years ago,
I got to studying one day abcut my
trade here and thinks | to myself, if |
can get some of the money off my books
and keep it off, I’ll be in a pretty com-
fortable position with the business I’m
doing. So I decided, after a sight of
thinking, to start in to do a cash busi-
ness. So I put a card in the local paper
that everybody takes in the village and
got some circulars printed that I threw
around,

‘*Uncle Jim is one of the hardest men
to get money out of I know of. He is
good enough and sooner or later he’ll
pay, but it takes him an almighty long
time to doit. Asa matter of fact, he
was one of the customers that was the
farthest behind on my books. I had
him more in mind when | decided to
cut off credit than anybody else.

‘*Well, Uncle Jim thought the new
deal was a direct knock at him and he
started intodo me, He knows every-
body, as I said, and he made the new
scheme the subject of his darned con-
versation every day. Everybody he saw
he’d ask it they’d heard that I had got-
ten so I couldn’t trust the people of the
place any more. He took that tack right
along—that I thought the people were
dead-beats and so had decided to make
them all pay cash. Every time he went
by here he’d stand in front and holler
in, ‘Think we're all dead-beats, do
ye?’ or something like that, in a voice
that you could hear all the way to
Philadelphia, Why, he even put a card
in the county paper hitting at me. ‘If
a certain grocer didn't think his towns-
men honest enough to pay for a quar-
ter’s worth of groceries,’ or something
like that, ‘then he’d do well to move
out of town.’ A whole lot of people
saw it and rubbed me about it,’’

 

‘“What did the two other stores in the
place do?’’ I asked,

‘‘Well, they don’t amount to much,’’
he answered. ‘‘One is a little combina-
tion candy store and the other runs
more to dry goods, but they used it every
way they could, of course. All together,
I had a pretty tough time and when the
end of the first month came I had my
mind pretty well made up to quit it.’’

‘‘What effect did it have on your
business?’’ I asked.

‘'Oh, it made it fall off,"” he said:
‘‘I might have got some of it back in
time, but the first few weeks it cer-
tainly did go off.

‘‘Well,’’? be continued, ‘‘the upshot
of the matter was that after six weeks of
Uncle Jim I went back again to the
credit business, and have been there
ever since. I don’t believe the scheme
will go in a little town like this any-
how, so I guess it would have failed
even if Uncle Jim hadn’t done any-
thing.’’

‘*You seem to be friendly enough
with the old fellow now,’’ I said.

‘*Oh, yes,’’ he answered, ‘‘it didn’t
make any hard feelings, but he did me
up all right.’’

I strolled down the street toward the
station. Uncle Jim sat sunning him-
self before his door.

**Well, Uncle Jim,’’ I said, ‘‘so you
do not like cash stores, eh?’’

He grinned a toothless grin.

‘‘IT seen you talking to Jackson,’’ he
said; ‘‘did he tell you ’bout that?’’

**He did,’’ I replied, and Uncle Jim
would have told me all over againif my
train had not come along just then.—
Stroller in Grocery World,

 

Se
Cure For the Cigarette Habit.

The other day a wise New England
mother suddenly came upon her son and
heir, a youth of tender years, and dis-
covered he was indulging ina cigarette.

‘*My boy,’’ she said, ‘‘if you must
smoke, why not be manly and smoke a
cigar? Come with me,’’ and she led
him into the house and bestowed upon
him a large black fumer and brought
him a light and sat down by him while
he enjoyed the fragrant weed.

She was with him, too, when his lower
lip began to tremble and his eyes to
grow yellow and a wave of chalky white-
ness overspread his face.

‘‘Nice cigar, isn’t it?’’ she said, in
her pleasant way. ‘‘So soothing and
restful and enjoyable. Don't you find it
so?"’

The boy couldn't steady his voice
sufficiently to reply, but he forced him-
self to take another puff, and when his
hand with the cigar in it dropped he
gave the smouldering thing a glance
that expressed nothing but the deepest
loathing.

‘*T always liked the looks of these nice
large fat cigars,’’ said his mother.
‘*They seem so—’’

‘*P-p-please d-don’t, mother,’’ gasped
the boy. ‘‘I-I th-think I’m g-g-going
to d-die!’’

And twenty minutes later he promised
in a broken voice that he would never
again attempt to smoke until she told
him he was old enough to begin.

A Good Luck Key.

An Ohio merchant has purchased a
handsome toilet case, inside of which
he will place a $10 bill. This isin
addition to the toilet articles already
therein. He has had several hundred
extra keys for the case made at a cost of
about $1.60 a bundred. In his advertise-
ments he will announce that he will
give a key to this box with every pur-
chaser of $5 worth of goods in his store.
To each key will be attached a tag, on
which the purchaser's name will be
written. The person holding the key
which unlocks the box will receive the
case, money and all. The award will
be made on Christmas Eve,

 

An Experimenter in Metal.

James H. Duffy, the scientific black-
smith of Machbias, Maine, continues to
make surprising discoveries in his little
shop at Hadley’s Lake. Not satistied
with welding copper and tempering
lead, he has now discovered a_ process
by which, as he claims, brass can be
made from cheaper metals. The alloy
that he uses contains about 75 or 80 per
cent. of lead, and after passing through
the Duffy process it not only has the
appearance of brass, but it can be used
for all the purposes to which that metal
is usually put. He declares that by
this process brass can be manufactured
at about 20 per cent. of the ordinary cost
of that metal.

Blacksmith Duffy will next turn bis
attention to silver. He believes that a
process can be found by which an en-
tirely satisfactory substitute for silver
can be made. He has been conducting
experiments which, while not altogether
successful, have satisfied him, he says,
tbat he is on the right track, and he
proposes to keep at work until the
proper combination has been discovered.
Lead is the principal element in this
silver alloy, and Duffy believes that he
will be able to produce something that
can not be distinguished from silver and
will be as good as the pure metal for all
practical purposes.

>—__—.
Question of Cookery.

**Does your husband like your cook-
ing?’’

‘Well, I’m not just sure. He says he
does, but I notice he is usually detained
at the office so late that he has to get
dinner uptown whenever we are with-
out a girl,’’

   

A Postal Card
Will get you prices on the
best store stools made.
BRYAN PLOW CO., Bryan, Ohio

 

    

Manufacturers
ME ___ St6el Feed Cookers
eee, «Steel Tanks

| St66l Windmills

 

WRITE FOR PRICES

ARELOW WIND MILL GO.

KALAMAZOO. MIGH

 

 

The Imperial Gas Lamp

Is an absolutely safe lamp. It burns
without odor or smoke. Common
stove gasoline is used. It is an eco-
nomieal light. Attractive prices are
offered. Write at once for Agency

The Imperial Gas Lamp Co,
210 Kinzie Street, Chicago

 

 

BIG PROFITS

a good selling article is wh:
likes. Dutch Skates will give i
for illustrated price list and be c

      

Reason No. 4—Because being ground right

and Jeft it reduces the friction to a minimum.

J. Vander Stel, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Importer and Manufacturer, 33 Kent Street.

 

CANNED PEAS

The best peas in Michigan this year

were grown in the vicinity of Fre-

mont.

The pack of the Fremont

Canning Co. is from select stock and

prepared by the best process.
BRANDS

Extra Marrowfat

Standard Early June

Extra Sifted Early June
(Ask our salesman for prices)

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We guarantee these goods to give

satisfaction.

WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Hudson—Wm. O'Riley, baker,
sold out to Thos. Kane.

Olivet—J. M. Taggart, druggist, has
removed to Mt. Pleasant,

lronwood—Peter Oie has sold his
grocery stock to Anderson & Sjostrom.

Richmond—Phillips & Son have pur-
chased the meat market of Weeks Bros.

Dowagiac——August Hedrick, meat
dealer, has sold out to Beach & Bren-
ner.
Grand Haven—Jacob Braah has pur-
chased the grocery stock of John Ver-
kuyl,

lonia—Albert E. Taylor has purchased
the grocery stock of John E. Haber-
strumpf.

lonia—The Ionia Savings Bank has
decreased its capital stock from $80,200
to $65, 000,

Romeo—James B, Lucas has sold his
grocery and crockery stock to G. A.
Frost & Co,

Victorsville—John Hayman has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock of
J. W. Clark.

Morenci—Frances E. (Mrs. F. E.)
Benjamin has sold her grocery stock to
Dennis Bros,

Bay City—The Buck Grocery Co,
succeeds Buck & Meyers in the gro-
cery business.

Vicksburg—The Vicksburg Clothing
Co. has been organized with a capital
stock of $7,000.

Maple Rapids—Wm. Schneider suc-
ceeds Geo. Duncan in the grocery and
bakery business.

Bangor—Judd Lee has opened a meat
market in the building recently vacated
by B. K. Howell.

Manton—Jobhn E. Truman has _ pur-
chased the grocery and provision stock
of the Home Union Co.

Croswell—The capital of the Sanilac
County State Bank has been increased
from $30,000 to $35,000.

Muskegon—Hans Johnson has _pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the
grocery business of Johnson & Olson.

Akron—Ivor M. Lewis, dealer in
hardware, implements, carriages and
bicycles, has sold out to H. M. Woolley.

Durand—Alfred B. Evans succeeds
W. M. Harrington in the coal and wood
business and as proprietor of the Durand
Ice Co.

Muskegon—Peter S. Northouse has
engaged in the grocery, flour and feed
business, having purchased the stock of
Bachman Bros,

Muskegon—Jobn Post and E. E. Phil-
abaum have formed a copartnership and
engaged in the feed and wood business
at 34 Myrtle street.

Shelby—E. C. Wheeler has removed
his stock of general merchandise to this
place from White Pigeon, locating in
the Wheeler building.

Fennville—A. M. Hulsen has sold his
bicycle stock and tools to I. P. Rice and
son Harry, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Ludington—Abrahamson & Shappee,
dealers in paints and wall paper, have
dissolved partnership. The business is
continued by H. Abrahamson.

Manton—Dr. V. F. Huntley has pur-
chased the interest of M. J. Compton in
the Williams Mercantile Co, Mr. Comp-
ton retires on account of ill health.

South Haven—Carl Ely, druggist, has
exchanged his stock at the corner of
Center and Quaker streets with Chas, E.
Hesse fora similar business at Glenn.

Pellston—Hugh Vaughan has _pur-
chased a half interest in the drug stock

 

 

has

 

of Geo, W. Priest. The new firm will
be known as Priest & Vaughan.

Lewiston—Meyers & Lampke, dealers
in dry goods, furnishings and shoes,
have dissolved partnership. The busi-
ness will be continued by Louis J.
Lampke.

Jackson—The dry goods stock of E.
Dack & Co, has been turned over to
W. D. Ferguson, of the Ferguson Ad-
justment Co., of Chicago. The liabili-
ties are $15,000.

Kalkaska—Dr. J. A. Leighton, of
Grayling, has purchased a store build-
ing at this place and, after making im-
provements on the same, will open a
drug store therein.

Custer—J. B. Tracy, dealer in hard-
ware and implements, has removed to
Walkerville, where he will continue the
same line of business under the style of
J. B. Tracy & Son.

Manton—The partnership existing be-
tween Dr. Morgan and A. A. Clawson
has been mutually dissolved, the former
retaining the building and the latter
continuing the furniture business.

Imlay City—Haskin & Gavitt have
dissolved partnership, Mr. Haskin re-
tiring and D. T. Wherry associating
himself with Mr. Gavitt for the contin-
uance of the butter, egg and poultry
business.

Detroit—Delbert C. Morris and John
C. Turney have formed a partnership to
carry on a general brokerage business
under the name of D. C. Morris & Co,
Each contributes $5,000 to the partner-
ship funds.

Big Rapids—D. M. Groulx and Theo-
dore Bidwell have formed a copartner-
ship and engaged in the musical in-
strument, wall paper, book and station-
ery business under the style of Groulx
& Bidwell.

Stephenson—W. B. Winter, dealer in
hardware and implements, is erecting a
new brick store building. The new
structure will cost several thousand dol-
lars and will be ready for occupancy by
the first of the year.

Detroit—A young lady brought suit
for $15 against a man who courted her
for eight years and then failed to come
to time. She asks for only $15—prob-
ably because that represents the man’s
pile after eight years of courtship,

Mason—The retail lumber firm of
Hartwick & Mickelson has been dis-
solved, Mr. Hartwick retiring. C. P,
Mickelson will continue the business.
E. E. Hartwick bas purchased the
Jackson Lumber & Coal Co.,at Jackson.

Lansing—The Post Music Co. has
sold its stock to Grinnell Bros., of De-
troit, wholesale dealers in pianos and
supplies, who have nine branch stores
throughout the State. John W. Post
will remain as manager of the business.

Manton—john E. Truman has pur-
chased the interests of George McAfee
and Ernest Hartley in the Home Union
Co. and will continue the business with-
out interruption under the Management
of O. D. Park and Miss Lissa Truman.

Cross Village—D. LaCore and D.
Moore, of Harbor Springs, have pur-
chased the drug stock of A. D. Loomis
and will continue the business in a new
building to be erected adjoining the
general merchandise store of Wm. H.
Sbhurtliff.

Ludington—E. C. Allen, formerly of
the Carrom-Archarena Co., has engaged
in the whoiesale grain and flour busi-
ness. Mr. Allen conducted a feed and
gtain warehouse here prior to his con-
nection with the Carrom-Archarena Co,
eight years ago,

Newberry—Krempel & Taylor, gen-

 

eral merchandise dealers at Dollarville,
have opened a branch store at New-
berry, purchasing the stock of M. R.
Manhard & Co. The latter concern has
retained its hardware stock and will
devote its entire attention to that line.
Hillsdale—Wm. French has purchased
the interest of Lee Sturdevant in the
implement and hardware business of
Sturdevant & French and will continue
the business in his own name. Mr.
Sturdevant has accepted a position as
traveling salesman for an implement
and farm machinery house.
Owosso—The furniture and undertak-
ing business of Woodard, North & Jen-
nings and Foster Bros. will be united
Jan. 1 in a stock company to be known
as the Furniture-Hardware Co., Lim-
ited. W. A. Woodard retires from busi-
ness and A. E. Foster will remove to
Mt. Pleasant to assist his brother, of the
Foster Furniture & Hardware Co. The
officers of the new concern are George

W. Detwiler, President; C. W. Jen-
nings, Secretary, and G. F. North,
Treasurer.

Manufacturing Matters.

Lake City—The Kneelan Shingle Co.
is succeeded by VanLew Bros.

Detroit—The Cadillac Automobile
Co, has increased its capital stock from
$60,000 to $3C0, o00.

Cheboygan—-—Harry Jefferson and
Frank Copp, both of Big Rapids, will
establish a veneer factory here.

Detroit—The Holley Heat Regulator
Co. has been incorporated with $25,000
capital stock, of which $2,500 is paid
in.

Hastings—The Wool Boot Co. will
build an additional two stories to its
factory building, making four stories in
all.

Kalamazoo—An increase of from
$600,000 to $700,000 has been made in
the capital stock of the Upjohn Pill &
Granule Co,

Battle Creek—The Flour & Cereal
Machinery Co. will remove from Jack-
son to this place as soon as its new fac-
tory building is completed.

Detroit—The capital stock of W. M.
Finck & Co, has been increased from
$40,000 to $60,000, and the entire
amount has been fully subscribed.

Detroit—The style of the Detroit
Leather Goods Manufacturing Co. has
been changed to the Detroit Leather
Goods Manufacturing Co., Limited.

Detroit—The capital stock of the Le-
land & Faulconer Manufacturing Co.
has .been increased from $100,000 to
$175,000, of which $146,500 is paid in,

Owosso—The work of excavating for
the new factory building of the Vigoro
Health Food Co. has begun and the
contracts for the brick, sand and stone
have been awarded.

Detroit—Amendments to the articles
of the Babbitt & Graham Co. have been
made by changing the company’s name
to the Babbitt-Taylor-Lane Co, and fix-
ing the capital at $50,000, fully paid in.

Menominee—S. Hermanson, of Men-
ekaune, has purchased the building
owned by S. M. Stephenson and C. B.
Knowlton and will remove his knit
goods plant to that location. Mr. Her.
manson expects to have the machinery
installed and operations begun in his
new location in about two weeks,

Pontiac—The Pontiac Spring and
Wagon Works has increased its capital
stock from $100,000 to $150,000. This
is the second time the concern has in-
creased its stock. The new issue will
be used to take care of increased busi-
ness, as the capital of the concern was
too, small to swing it since moving to
the present location,

 

Embargo Raised on Gasoline Lighting
Systems.

The embargo under which gasoline
lighting systems have suffered has been
raised,as will be noted by the following
circular letter of instructions to loca!
insurance agents, sent out under date of
Nov. 10:

Please take notice that the charge of
25 cents additional rate for permit to
use an unauthorized gasoline lighting
device is suspended until further ad-

vised. The blanks you have for per-
mits should be used in each case as
heretofore.

We do not wish to be understood as
authorizing permits for every device or
make of lamp that may be on the mar-
ket, but reserve the right to reject any
that may seem to us to be unsafe. That
we may be more fully advised as to the
merits of these systems, we shall be glad
to have our agents carefully examine
and report upon any lighting device
which comes under their notice that
does not now appear on the list of ap-
proved devices heretofore furnished
them.

+ 4+.
After Cheap Water Power.
From the Allegan Press.

At the last meeting of the village
Council,a communication received from
the Vicksburg Pant and Overall Co.,
stated that they wished to move because
they could not get sufficient help at that
place. They are now employing twenty-
five people, but could use from 200 to
250. Wages range from $3.50 to $7.50.
They would move to Allegan provided
the village would furnish them suitable
building, $10,0co and guarantee them
fifty giris as employes as fast as they
were ready for them. The Council
thought their demands excessive and
instructed the clerk to so inform them.

A communicatin was received about
a wood working industry that wished to
get away from the union labor despotism
of Chicago. Would like to issue stock
for $20,000 to $25,000. Matter referred
to Finance Committee and President.

—_>-2~.__

Grand Haven—P. H. Benjamin has
sold his interest in the American Brass
Novelty Co. to Rev. James A. Kennedy,
formerly of this city. Mr. Benjamin has

not decided in what other business he
will engage,
———->-4+.____

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades
and prices, call Visner, both phones.

 

Hickory Nuts
Wanted

| Hickory Nuts

 

¢
. Sd
$ Name us price f. o. b. your
station or delivered.
M. O. BAKER @ CO.
Commission Merchants :
@ I!9-121 Superior St, Toledo, Ohio
Soicsuneihbineaneidiaccuas

 

BELTING

 

  

We have all widths and lengths of belting in SU-
PERIOR QUALITY leather, rubber and stitched
canvas. Also a large line of Pulleys, : Shafting,
Hangers and General Mill Supplies. We solicit
correspondence,
GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY CO.
20 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

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 stronger
and slightly higher, commanding 19@
21c for fancy, 16@18c for choice and
13@15c for packing stock. Receipts of
dairy are meager in quantity and only
fair 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 $2.75 per box and $8.25 per
bbl. for Early Blacks and $3 per box
and $9 per bbl. for Howes.

Celery—Home grown is in ample sup-
ply at 17c per doz.

Dates—Hallowi, 5'@6c; Sairs, 5@
5'4c; 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 Io lb. box of Califor-
nia; 5 crown Turkey, 17c; 3. crown, I4c.

Grapes—Malagas, $5.25@5.75; Cali-
fornias, 20c per 4 lb. box.

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 1o@IIc.

Lemons—Californias,$5 ; Messinas, $5.

Maple Sugar—io%c per Ib.

Maple Syrup—$i1 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—F loridas command $3.75 per
box. Jamaicas fetch $3.50 per box.

Pears— Keefer, goc@$i per bu.

Potatoes—The market is not quite as
strong as it was, but buying is going on
at a lively pace on the basis of 35@45c
per bu. The State crop report for
November is as follows: ‘‘The potato
crop for this year is below the average.
Continued rain early in the summer
rotted the seed badly where planted on
low ground. In other cases it was so
wet that farmers could not properly cul-
tivate the crop so that eventually many
acres were abandoned. Insects have
done much damage and the crop in
many places has been affected with
blight. The estimated average yield
per acre, in bushels, is in the southern
counties 69, in the central counties 55,
in the northern ccunties 85 and in the
State 68.’’

Poultry—Receipts are small and not
equal to the demand. Live pigeons are
in active demand at 60@7o0c. Dressed
stock commands the following: Spring
chickens, 11@12c; small hens, 9@toc;
spring ducks, 9g@1oc; spring turkeys,
11@13c; small squab broilers, 12%@
15c; Belgian hares, 12%@15c.

Quinces—Scarce at $2.50 per bu.

Radishes—2oc per doz. for hothouse.

Spanish Onions—$1.25 per crate.

Squash—2c per Ib. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.50 per
bbl. ; Virginias, $2.25.

Turnips—4oc per bu.

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Hides, Pelts, Taliow and Wool

The hide market remains firm, with
no accumulations. Sales have been
moderate on a good demand. Prices
are full high. The country takeoff is
light and brings fuil prices.

Pelts are more plentiful, with a good
demand and no large offerings. Prices
are some higher.

Tallow is well sold up on previous
demand and still wanted at slightly

for Ohio.

 

easier prices for soaper’s stock. Edible
is not offered.

Wools are stronger and in good de-
mand, with a tendency to speculate
among dealers. Sales have been large
East and assortments have been broken
up. Prices are relatively higher West
than East. Large amounts have been
shipped out the past few weeks and
buyers are persistent. Some lots are
held above buyers’ views.

Wm. T. Hess.
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Cordial Greetings .To a Former Towns-
man,

When the news of internal dissensions
in the Globe-Wernicke Co. reached this
city, many Grand Rapids people re-
called Mr. Wernicke’s pleasant and
profitable associations with the manu-
facturing interests of the Valley City
and suggestd to the Board of Trade that
efforts be made to turn his attention in
this direction. In furtherance of these
suggestions, the following telegram was
sent him:

Grand Rapids will welcome you home
with open arms and warm hearts. We
admire your ability, respect your judg-
ment and will assist you in any enter-
prise you may espouse to the limit of
our resources. Sidney F. Stevens,

President G. R. Board of Trade,
Ernest A. Stowe,
Chairman Industrial Committee.

Mr. Wernicke acknowledged the invi-
tation, paying a graceful tribute to the
enterprise of Grand Rapids and the
warm heartedness of her citizens,

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The Legislature of the Danish West
Indies has refused to endorse a vote of
congratulation on the refusal of the
Danish government to sell the islands to
the United States. In Denmark itself
there is said to be now a feeling that it
was a mistake that the landsthing did
not ratify the treaty, as there is little
prospect that anything can be done to
improve conditions in the islands,
Meantime the administration at Wash-
ington has extended for one year the
period in which the treaty may be made
effective. Those islands may yet belong
to Uncle Sam.

—_ ~> 0 -~e

Since his recovery from the illness
that nearly ended his reign King Ed-
ward is reported to have displayed a
deeper interest in his duties and an in-
tense desire to accomplish something
by the exercise of the influences of his
position that will be of practical value
to the people. Edward's life as a prince
was passed in frivolity and it is well
that he should endeavor to be a serious
king. The world has advanced too far
to display any spirit of tolerance for
foolish men who happen to wear royal
crowns,

 

a
Orra Chadwick has paid the Bali-
Barnhart-Putman Co, the full amount
of the mortgage he recently uttered to
that house and subsequently pretended
to contest by alleging that it was given
under duress, thus virtually admitting
that the goods represented by the mort-
gage were stolen by Bert Rice.
i Eas
White & Story, formerly engaged in
general trade at Evans, have re-engaged
in business at that place. The dry goods
were purchased of the Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co,, the shoes of the Herold-
Bertsch Shoe Co, and the groceries of
the Lemon & Wheeler Company.
RO

Rowland Douglas has engaged in the
shoe business at Traverse City, purchas-
ing his stock of Geo, H. Reeder & Co.
Mr. Douglas has been connected with
the shoe store of A. V. Friedrich for
several years.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market con-
tinues firm, in spite of the weakness in
refined, and refiners were ready buyers
at quoted prices. Holders are firm in
their views, but very little stock is
offered for sale. On the other hand, re-
finers’ stocks are getting down rather
low and it is estimated that they will
soon be obliged to come into the market
for fresh supplies. The refined sugar
market is in a very demoralized condi-
ion, prices having declined 20 points
during the week. This decline is sup-
posed to be caused by the competition
of the beet sugar. There is practically
no demand at present for either Eastern
or beet granulated, buyers, as a rule,
holding off, awaiting the outcome of the
present war between the refiners in the
East and the beet sugar people.

Canned Goods—The canned goods
market is firm but quiet, buyers, asa
rule, now being busy receiving their
goods which were bought for future de-
livery. The demand is moderate on
most iines and the market is ina healthy
condition. The interest in tomatoes has
subsided somewhat. Most buyers now
have their present needs supplied and,
as the pack in Maryland and Indiana
turned out somewhat larger than ex-
pected, it is believed there will be
enough to go around, although packers
in the State of Michigan did not put up
nearly as much as they expected to
early in the season, Corn continues
firm, but rather quiet at present. The
market, however, is so lightly supplied
that prices can not change very mate-
rially, at least in a downward direction.
There is a very good demand four peas
of medium grades. Trade for the better
grades is good for what few lots of this
character can be found. Gallon apples
are moving rather slowly, demand at
present being light. There is some
enquiry for small fruits, but stocks are
light and desirable lots are difficult to
obtain. There still continues an excel-
lent demand for pie peaches. Stocks,
however, are very closely cleaned up
and it is practically impossible to obtain
any large sized lots. The goods are
very firmly held and orders are turned
down at anything less than full quoted
prices. Salmon continues in good de-
mand, with prices showing no change.
Sardines are moving out slowly at un-
changed prices.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
continues practically unchanged. Trade
on everything in this line is expected
to show a very material increase as
soon as cold weather begins. The warm
weather of the past few weeks has not
been conducive to the sale of dried
fruits. Considerable inconvenience is
caused by the continued slow shipments
from California but it is hoped this de-
lay will soon be over,as some shipments
are now on the way from the coast. The
market on both prunes and raisins is
firm, with fair demand. Seeded rais-
ins are particularly strong and meet with
a good sale. There is also a fair de-
mand for fancy cluster raisins for the
coming Thanksgiving trade. Prunes
are moving out slowly, but a little bet-
ter demand for them is experienced than
a few weeks ago. The small sizes con-
tinue in abundance, while there is a
marked shortage in the larger. sizes.
Peaches and apricots continue practical-
ly unchanged. Demand is moderate,
but is quite up to the usual average at
this time of the year. Currants are un-
changed in price and show a fair de-
mand. Figs are firmly held and are
meeting with good trade, especially for

 

 

the goods in cartons, which, to a great
extent, are replacing the goods packed
in layers. Dates are firmly held, with
stocks light. New goods are begin-
ning to come in quite freely. The evap-
orated apple market is exceedingly dull,
there being practically no demand at
all. Trade seems to have stopped very
suddenly. While there are not many
apples on hand in Michigan, offerings
from New York State are very liberal
and a continued dul! market is looked
for.

Rice—No changes of importance are
noted in the rice market, which con-
tinues firm in tone, with prices steady.
Offerings are moderate, but as demand
from the consuming trade continues
steady, stocks are well cleaned up and
no large lots accumulate, which tends
to keep the market in a good condition.

Molasses—Trade in molasses during
the past week has been rather light.
Prices are firmly held and a better de-
mand is looked for soon,

Fish—Trade in fish is good. Mack-
ere! continues very firm, with fair de-
mand. Trade in herring shows consid-
erable activity, with a somewhat higher
market. Codfish is in good demand at
previous prices.

Nuts—Trade in nuts of nearly all va-
rieties is good. Brazils are very strong
under an active demand. Almonds are
very firm, with prices showing a slight
advance. Walnuts show considerable
strength, but peanuts continue very dull,
with practically no demand at all. The
past season was an exceedingly unsatis-
factory one, so far as peanuts are con-
cerned,

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Attracting Customers by Bright Coins.

The fact that most people like bright,
new coins is largely responsible for the
success of a West Philadelphia grocer.
Although he has heen established but
little more than a year, he has built up
a very large trade,and this he attributes
not so much to superior quality of his
goods as to the fact that he gives noth-
ing but brand new coins in change.
Every morning he goes to the Sub-
Treasury and in exchange for the dilap-
idated currency he takes in at his store
he receives bright coins which have not
yet been put into circulation. These
he gives to his customers when it is
necessary to make change and his repu-
tation as ‘ the new-money man’’ has
spread throughout the neighborhood.
A

There are 1,470,c00 persons over the
age of ten resident in the United States
who can not speak the English language,
exclusive of 72,c0c0 Indians. This num-
ber is about 2 per cent. of the total
population. The largest number of non-
English-speaking persons is found in
New York, where they number 220,000
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas fol-
low. Texas has a considerable Spanish-
speaking population. So have New
Mexicoand Arizona. Inthe former there
are 16,000 persons not speaking English
and in the latter 27,000.

a —

Never mind the hair splitting advice
of the know-it-alls—just tell your story
in plain, unvarnished language, even if
you do it in monosyllables.

 

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.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Poultry

 

Prospects of Thanksgiving Turkey Mar-
ket in Gotham.

Thanksgiving, which occurs this year
November 27, comes so early in the sea-
son the weather is rarely settled cold
enough to admit of the young birds be-
coming plump and heavy enough to pre-
sent an attractive appearance, which is
a very essential feature at holiday
times. As long as the weather is rea-
sonably mild the young birds will run
and keep poor, but as soon as it be-
comes cold they huddle together and
fatten up quickly. Thanksgiving,
therefore, is generally termed a weather
market, as weather conditions for a week
or two before the time for dressing
make a great difference in the appear-
ance of the young birds, Under most fa-
vorable circumstances turkeys are rare-
ly in suitable condition to freeze as
early as Thanksgiving and the stock has
to be put on the market on the best
terms possible. Should the weather
prove mild while the stock is in transit
or during Thanksgiving week the tur-
keys have to be handled quickly, which
gives buyers the advantage, but with
reasonably favorable weather there is
nearly always a satisfactory market for
desirable stock that reaches here in
time.

From careful enquiries made in near-
ly all producing sections it is evident
that the crop is unusualiy light this
year. In some few sections of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there
appears to be a fair quantity, but ad-
vices from the Southwest, Far West and
nearly all Eastern sections report a
very light crop, Conditions were fa-
vorable for the early hatchings and the
birds are reported from most sections to
be in better condition than usual. It is
probable, therefore, that quality will be
in generally better condition than is
usually the case at Thanksgiving and
with reasonably favorable weataer con-
ditions a good market is confidently
predicted.

It is, of course, too early to make any
reliable predictions as to the course of
the market during Thanksgiving week
and to name prices expected would be
merely guess work. But from present
outlook all conditions would appear
favorable for an unusually good market
and higher prices than for several years
past provided the weather conditions
are reasonably favorable. from careful
enquiries among the larger receivers
here the general opinion appears to be
that fancy Western turkeys will bring
14@1sSc, and fancy nearby turkeys a
fraction more. Shippers, however, are
strongly advised to operate on a con-
servative basis and they can not be too
careful in selecting stock for this holi-
day. All classes of buyers are more
critical about quality and appearance at
this holiday than at any other time.

Monday and Tuesday preceding the
holiday are usually the best selling days,
although some of the larger buyers be-
gin to stock up the previous week when
weather conditions are favorable. Out-
of-town dealers are compelled to secure
their stock by Monday or early Tues-
day morning. Some local buyers are
inclined to hold off until the last min-
ute when stock appears to be plenty,
and prices are rarely as good on Wednes-
day unless there should be an actual
scarcity, which seldom happens. The
freight and express companies are taxed
to their utmost at holiday times in
handling the large supplies, and there

are, therefore, very often unavoidable
delays in deliveries. Shippers are
cautioned to time their shipments so as
to have them arrive here not later than
the Monday or Tuedsay morning pre-
vious to the holiday and to mak2 allow-
ances for ordinary delays in transit.

While Thanksgiving is largely a tur-
key holiday, there is always a call for
fancy, plump young ducks, and a few
fancy chickens are always wanted.
Fancy fat young geese have a fair out-
let for Thanksgiving, but usually sell
better at Christmas.—N. Y. Produce
Review,

 

>> —___
Relationship Established.

A farmer who happened to be a church
deacon was recently approached by a
tramp while he was eating his lunch un-
der a tree. The tramp remarked:

‘Sir, I’m very hungry.’’

‘*You haven't been shaved,’’ replied
the deacon,

‘““No, but I’m very bungry.’’

‘* You're very dirty, in the bargain.”’

“Yes, but I'm very hungry.’’

‘* Well, can you say the Lord’s prayer?’’

 G, 1 can’t,””

“Will you say it for a piece of
bread?’’

“i wil”

The deacon started in with ‘‘Our

Father,’’ at the same time cutting off
a slice as he enunciated the words, The
tramp repeated ‘‘Our Father,’’ then
suddenly asked:

‘‘Did you say ‘Our Father?’ "'

‘| Yes, “Ouer Father," °°

‘‘Stop just a moment,’’ continued the
dirty man. ‘‘You mean your father and
my father?’’

“‘I do,’” answered the deacon.

‘*Then we are brothers,’’ triumphant-
!y proceeded the unshaved.

| We ate,”*

‘Then, for our father’s sake, cut that
bread thicker and cut it quicker."’

Distance Kisses Raise ’Phone Rates.
From the Philadelphia Record.

A merchant from Uniontown talked
about telephones yesterday at the hotel
where he was stopping.

‘‘In my town,’’ he said, ‘‘the tele-
phone company is going to raise the
rates of business phones from $25 to
$45, and for residence phones from $18
to $32. Do you know why? It is to
keep sweethearts from monopolizing the
wires. It is to make telephones so ex-
pensive that the young men and women
who love one another will not bill and
coo over the wires all day long.

“‘In Uniontown now it is a wonder
that the wires do not blush red, the love
words that pass over them. The sound
that a kiss makes—that ph, ph sound—
is sent many times a day from one re-
ceiver to another. And such expres-
sions as darling, and deary, and honey,
and sweetheart drown out altogether the
plain business talk about the price of
coal, and the boom in steel, and the
bills receivable that are due,

‘“So in Uniontown because the young
men and girls have been monopolizing
the wires, with their sparking, the tele-
phone rates are to be raised nearly 100
per cent,

———__~>_2.___
Some Things Riverdale Wants.

Riverdale, Nov. 1o—We want several
small manufacturing concerns to locate
here and will furnish a site and 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 Improvem ent Association.

 

 

Thanksgiving Poultry

SHIP To

LAMSON & CO., BOSTON

 

Ask the Tradesman about us.

 

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ET. 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.

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We are paying this week:

FOR SWEET DAIRY PACKING STOCK BUTTER, léc, 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) 19c, 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 - - - -

Springs, No. 1 . 8c Ib. Old Hen Turkeys - - - + - Selb.

Old Roosters -— - - 4c Ib. Young Tom Turkeys (over 10 1b. and fat) 11e Ib.

Dueks fat, full feathered) 7%¢c Ib. Young Hen Turkeys (over 8 lb. and fat) 11¢ lb.
Geese (fat, full feathered ) 7c Ib.

10¢ Ib.

We charge no commission or cartage and make prompt re-
turns upon receipt of shipments. Prices are quoted for
Michigan shipments only.

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

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

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Actual sales—Fancy live Turkeys, young, 11@12.
Geese, 9@10.

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Chickens, 11@12.
Chickens, 12@13.

Fowls, 10@10%.
Fowls, 10@12.

Ducks, 11@

ra. Dressed Turkeys, 14@15. Ducks, 14@15.

We predict for Thanksgiving fancy turkeys will sell, dressed, 14@.16. Chickens, 13@14. Hens, 11
@12. Ducks, 15@16. Geese, 12@ 13. Live turkeys, 13@14. Chickens, 12@ 13. Hens, 10@11. Ducks, 12
@13. Geese, 10@11. Should be short supplies 1 to 2c more would be easy. Have seen seasons when

turkeys sold 18@20, others accordingly. Buffalo will pay up with any market in United States when
she has to.

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

Buy conservative—better sure margin on

—no exception—for Thanksgiving and

moderate shipments than loss on large ones. 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.

e

Consignments specialty of handling merchandise
consigned to us in bulk to be dis-

tributed to various firms here and outside, We will also act as brokers for

you here. Large storage warehouses, extra good facilities and prompt at-

tention to all business, Our many years’ experience enables us to look

after the business to the benefit of our customers. Give us a trial. Write

for full particulars and state what is wanted. We can help you.

Grand Rapids Messenger & Packet Co.
1-13 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Alex. McLachlin, Manager

   

of all kinds solicited We makea

         
             
      
 

 

 

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POULTRY. BUTTER AND EGGS

to Year-Around Dealer and get Top Market and Prompt Returns.

GEO. N. HUFF & CO.
55 CADILLAC SQUARE DETROIT, MICHIGAN

 
  
 
     

 

Uncle Danny’s Experience With a Brindle
Calf.
Written for the Tradesman.

The last time Uncle Danny Briggs
came to town he brought not only the
usual quantity of doubtful butter and
sullied eggs but a goodly assortment of
other produce as well. And after he had
selected what goods he needed for his
store at Wayback he paid the balance
due thereon from a wallet well lined
_ with bills. He said that trade was very
good with him and seemed quite pros-
perous from a worldly standpoint.

Yet there was evidently something the
matter with Uncle Danny, for his nose
was bruised, his face more or less dis-
colored, his brow seamed with furrows
and he limped painfully as he walked.
At last, in response to an interrogation,
he spoke as follows:

‘*Ye see, the starting p’int of the bull
business was a leetle brindle calf. It
was the cutest thing I a’most ever see,
and my datter Sairy took such a notion
to it that what I couldn't very well do
nothing but tell her it was her'n. And
ye better b’lieve she took all kinds of
pains with that critter, a feeding of it
when it was small and a nussing of it
when it was sick, till at last she fetched
it up to where it ought to of run alone
and eat grass and kinder took chances
with the rest of the stock. But that
wa'n't the style of that air calf of Sairy’s.

‘‘It had be'n pompered up so, and
kept around the house and petted until
it got an idee it was folks, and the’
wa'n't no fence on the farm it wouldn’t
crawl through. I put that air calf in
the paster arter breakfast an’ afore nine
o'clock it was up to the kitchen door a
blatting for Sairy to come out witha
bottle of hot milk. Course that was
cunning in a small calf and Sairy
thought an awful sight of it.

‘‘I’m busy in the store most all the
time only when I haf to help out on
spring plowing er seeding, er haying er
harvesting, er corn cutting er pitater
digging er suthing er ruther like that,
and the woman and Sairy most gin’ly
look arter the stock quite a bit, So tha’s
why I didn't take more notice to the
blamed calf. Butit never reely bothered
me till one day last week when I| was
working in the store part and thought I
heerd a noise in the back room. I
didn’t bother my head much about that,
cus I thought it was a passel of chickens
got in there which they do quite fre-
quent. Thinks, ses I, ‘soon’s I git
through waiting on folks I'll go and
shoo ‘em out.’

‘*Wall, some more customers come in,
and the’ was a party wanted to gita
letter registered to some of his folks in
Canady, and that allers takes me a good
long spell. I was jest a writing my
name with P. M. arter it, when the’
come the dog bastedest crash from the
back room like as if all the truck I had
there had fell down to oncet.

‘* *What the mischief!’ I hollered,
and then me and all the customers in
the store made arush, Jest what had
happened, | couldn’t ‘a’ told at first to
save my neck, but when I heerd Brin
a blatting in the cellar I commenced to
git an idee, and the investigations |
made arterwards put it as plain as the
nose on yer face.

‘*Brin come up to the house that morn-
ing a lettle arter Sairy’d gone to school
so being as ma was busy, she didn’t
pay no attention to the calf, thinking
it'd monkey around fer a spell and like
as not go back to where the rest of the
cattle was, But Brin come right to the
store, clumb up the steps into the back

 

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room and commenced to invoice the
stock. The’ was quite a high pile of
bags of flour on the floor and on a shelf
right over that was a lot of table salt in
sacks. Now I reckon that Brin smelt
the salt and then clumb up on the flour
to git at it. That worked all right fora
spell, cus she’d licked along on the
shelf till she got so high up on the flour
that the pile toppled over and pitched
her and half the flour and a pile of axle
grease and some canned tomatoes all in
a heap through the hatchway down into
the cellar. And when I went down-
stairs there was that blamed calf, rear-
ing and blatting and rampaging around
and stomping holes into all them sacks
of flour and a tromping of ’em full of
mud,

‘*I never wa’n’t no great friend to
house pets and when I see that calf rag-
ing around and carrying destruction to
my stock of goods, | want to tell ye I
was pretty tarnation mad, Then the
fellers upstairs commenced to laugh,
and I jest made a grab fer Brin, think-
ing I’d throw her out doors, and if |
happened to bust her neck or a lung er
do suthing to wound her mortal, it
wouldn't be no great loss. As luck'd
have it, 1 missed my holt and she give
a snort and sailed around the cellar
ag’in,ripping another sack of flour wide
open as she went by.

**l yelled ‘Whoa’ at her, and as she
come back my way throwed my arms
around her neck, cal'latin’ to stop her
unning orelst choke her to death. But
the’s quite a few things that’s weaker'n
a scared calf, and blamed if I wa’n’t
drug twicet around the cellar; but my
holt never broke till my head come up
ag'in one of the colyumns that holds up
the floor of the main part.

‘*T said that calf was scared afore,
but I was mistook. It was jest a play-
ing. It was like the gentle wind that
stirs up the placid waters of the lake
on a pleasant evening. But after it got
"way from me it was like a tornader—
swift, sassy and turrible. It fairly spun
around the cellar, knocking stuff over
and trompling of it down, and it hadn’t
no more jedgment ’na steam road wagon
in the dark. I commenced to git gen-
uine scairt and every time it made one
of them air revolutions I basted it with
a sack of flour or a can of tomaters,
thinking perhaps I could brain the
blamed thing or take its wind. But I
mout es well of shot peas at it witha
pop gun, fer things slid offen it like
water from a duck's back.

‘‘Then them big lummoxes upstairs
kept a yelling and hollering and taking
on and giving out free advice, till I got
so mad I] finally made a race fer the
Stairs, intending to give Hent Liscomb
the licking of his life. And that was
when Brin run her head into my stum-
mick. When I come to I was in the
yard and the fellers was sousing water
onto me with a horse bucket.’’

‘‘Hurt you much?’’ enquired an in-
terested listener.

‘*No, not so awful much,’’ replied
the merchant, rubbing his knee carefully
as he spoke. ‘‘It didn’t hurt as bad as
some things, but | be’n powerful weak
like every sence,’’

‘*What about the calf, though?’’

‘*About the calf? About Brin? Noth-
ing much, I guess. Come to think on’t,
though, I hain’t see nothing of that air
calf around lately. She mout of fell
into the stock well and drownded fer all
I know. I don’t take no pertickler
int'rest in that calf anyhow, fer she was
the property of my datter Sairy.’’

Geo. L. Thurston.

 

Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries, Oranges,
New Nuts, Figs and Dates

We are headquarters for these goods.
We want Potatoes, Onions, Apples and Beans.

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

 

 

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BUTTER AND ECCS

ie ul

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

and be sure of getting the Highest Market Price.

Cold 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 storing with us.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Meats.
stored with us, where desired.
information.

Grand Rapids Cold Storage
& Sanitary Milk Zo.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

We also store
Liberal advances on produce

Rates reasonable. Write for

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perfectly grown, perfectly cleaned, perfectly roasted and packed, con-
sequently a perfect coffee and at a reasonable price.

JUDSON GROCER COMPANY, Grand Rapids

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Published weekly by the
TRADESMAN COMPANY
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When writing to any of our advertisers, please
say that you saw the advertisement
in the Michigan Tradesman.

E. A. STOWE, Eprror.
WEDNESDAY - - NOVEMBER 12, 1902.

STATE OF MICHIGAN } -
County of Kent ‘lean

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
November 5, 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 eighth day of November, 1902.

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

 

OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS.

There seems to be an unseasonable
coldness in the Northern atmosphere.
The wind from an iceberg could hardly
exceed the gathering chill that comes
to us from across the Northern lakes
and an occasional flurry furnishes. con-
vincing proof that we of the United
States are not approved of by our vigor-
ous Northern neighbors. The fact is
Canada does not like us. We have traits
that she does not admire. In the first
place we are an excessively selfish na-
tion. We like to reap where we do not
sow and we like to gather into barns
good fat hay loads that we have cut
close to the boundary lines with an oc-
casional clip over them when it can be
done without observation. Instead of
picking up the windfalls and throwing
them over the fence where they belong
we keep them and are not averse to an
occasional helping ourselves from the
apple bough that trespasses upon our
territory. We drop chicken feed al! over
our backyard and when the Canadian
hens get in and eat it somehow they
never get home until after they get
through laying. The fact is, even the
free traders over there have given us
up as a bad lot and instead of securing
closer commerciai relations with us they
have about concluded that they want no
more to do with us.

Candidly, the Great Republic has the
kindest feeling towards her Northern
neighbors. She has always had, In
their prosperity she has rejoiced and in
their adversity no sorrow has been more
sincere than hers. She has tried to be
a good, friendly neighbor and to the
best of her ability has kept up her fences
and her cattle out and paid promptly
whatever damages have resulted from
unavoidable neglect. There have been
differences and it can not be denied that
these have brought out the National
characteristics of each. From our side
of the boundary we are not able to see
that we differ greatly from those on the

 

other side. We want what is ours as
they want theirs. We are in business
for the same reason they are and like
them we want the best of the bargain
and are glad when we get it. We
frankly confess that we do not point out
the thin places in the cloth we sell them.
We are human and so have a leaning
to put the little potatoes in the middle
of the barrel and the big ones at both
ends, We insist to-day, as we always
have, that our Canadian cousins are
among the world’s most intelligent and
we are not so lacking in courtesy as not
to allow them the full exercise of that
intelligence in the sharpest horse trade
we can put up. In common with the
rest of the English family they like to
twit us with loving the Almighty Dollar
and we do not deny it. The facts are
all against us and there are ample evi-
dences of it on every hand; but—and
that word is a large one—we are not
willing to believe that we are its only
lovers. We like the gleam of the shin-
ing gold and after some pretty lively
scrambling for it with our Northern
neighbors we find that they like it, too,
and we find as well that they have in-
herited from good old Mother England
the same methods of securing it. The
American clerk is not the only one that
hides the thin places. The Canadian
Strawberry box is as shallow as ours
and has the same number of unsalable
berries under the big ones. Ina word,
the American pot is no blacker than the
Canadian kettle and the methods of fill-
ing both are governed by the same
standard of equity—with, as we believe,
at least a single difference:

Is not the standard of National char-
acter a little higher in the United States
than it is anywhere else--in Canada, in
England, in any of the European na-
tions? Are we, selfish and greedy as we
undoubtedly are, governed only by the
desire of gain regardless of right and
justice? Does our history show that we
have made might our only standard of
well-doing? Since history began with
government ‘‘Take and keep if you
can’’ has been the prevailing law of
nations except ours. It was not until
1876 that ‘‘Live and let live’’ became a
principle of international law—a prin-
ciple, be it known, that has been jiaid
down and upheld by the United States
of America and a principle that has put
an end to the law of grab which has
made monarchy the living contempt of
the latest modern civilization. Rich as
she is in territory, not a foot is hers by
force. She has bought and paid for
what she owns and with her title clear
she challenges history and tradition to
produce a similar record. Sure of her
own position she takes the stand that it
is the only right one and beldly asserts
that ‘‘the American continents, by the
free and independent condition which
they have assumed and maintained, are
henceforth not to be considered as sub-
jects for future colonization by any
European powers,’’ and that ‘‘she could
not view any interposition for the pur-
pose of oppressing them or controlling
in any other manner their destiny, by
any European power, in any other light
than as the manifestation of an un-
friendly disposition towards the United
States.’’

The doctrine was received with sneers,
but it stands. Looking upon it asa
dead letter, England, according to old-
time methods, proceeded to remove the
landmarks in Venezuela was called
sharply to account for it and ihe gald
fields remain Venezuelan, territory.
There is gold in the Klondike. Can-

 

ada, a British colony, had been playing
the monarchical game and regardless of
bounds proceeded to help herself to the
treasures of the Klondike mines. She
belps herself no longer. That same
evenhanded justice that proclaimed the
Monroe doctrine stands ready to back it
up with the vigor and the means the
Boers did not possess and our North-
ern neighbors are ‘‘looking upon the
United States as a supremely selfish
nation from which Canada can hope for
no kindly consideration whatever !"’

It is conceded that the question of re-
lations between the Dominion and the
United States is both practical and se-
rious. It is desirable that the two
countries be on friendly relations and
to this end both should be willing to
make fair and equitable terms,

Canada has not done this. She has
aimost invariably been exacting in her
demands and even in regard to her treaty
obligations she has not been bonest.
She always wants more than she is will-
ing to concede. While asking for free
trade for her natural productions she
has insisted upon discriminating in her
tariff in favor of British manufacturers
and in behalf of a preposterous and in-
defensible claim to American territory
in Alaska she has blocked ail negotia-
tion for a settlement of the questions at
issue between that country and ours.

It looks much as if the coolness of our
Northern neighbors is due largely, if not
wholly, to a_ difference of National
standard. We won't steal and we won't
be stolen from and we won’t have that
sort of business carried on in the
Western hemisphere. What is tolerated
in South Africa will not be tolerated in
South America, nor yet in Alaska, and
if this feature of national uprightness
has led to and is sustaining the existing
coolness the United States will endeavor
to bear it with composure and philo-
sophically take whatever consequences
may legitimately result therefrom.

 

 

 

 

They have been holding a ‘‘Congress
About Boys’? in New York City. It
was attended by the representatives of
many organizations which are working
to prevent the gamins in the big cities
from developing into loafers and crim
inals. Some interesting ideas concern-
ing the tendencies of boys were pre-
sented. Dr. Winthrop T. Holden made
this novel contribution to the discus-
sion: ‘‘It may be stated fairly that
every moral obliquity and mental! defic-
iency in a boy rest upon some physical
cause and basis. You can not separate
the moral and mental from the physical.
If the boy’s circulation is sluggish, he
learns slowly, and is called on that ac-
count stupid. This makes it easy for
him to lie. Lying becomes habitual, all
because of poor circulation, which
those in charge of him have not been
discerning enough to trace as the cause
of mental and moral defects.’’ Now it
has not been generally understood that
there is anything sluggish about the cir-
culation of the average boy. As a rule
he is criticized for being too numerous,
All stupid boys are not liars. Neither
are all liars stupid.

On 1,548 miles of trolley lines in this
country during the past year there were
160 persons killed and 867 injured. A
similar proportion of fatalities and in-
juries on the steam railroads of the coun-
try would give a list of 20,000 deaths
and nearly 100,000 persons injured.
Evidently there is need for the adoption
of more precautions in the operation of
the trolleys,

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

It is the unexpected that happens,
Many predictions were made that when
the public got through with the distrac-
tions of politics it would rally to the
support of the stock markets and the
long series of weekly declines would be
followed by another period of advance-
ment, Just why the weekly sag, culmi-
nating as usual on Monday, should
bring the sharpest reaction in the past
eighteen months is one of the puzzles
that none pretend to answer. The week
closed with active selling and this ac-
tivity was still more manifest on Mon-
day. United States steel led in the de-
cline, and at the lowest Amalgamated
Copper broke previous records over two
points. A notable and reassuring fea-
ture is that the reaction was unattended
by important failures,seeming to be de-
pendent on speculators taking advan-
tage of a widely distributed class of
holders. Since the lowest decline, on
Monday, there is a rallying tendency,
but upward movement is soon met by
realizing so as to prevent steadiness,
Confidence is manifested by foreign
centers and it would seem as though this
fact and the strength of general trade
would soon send the tide upward again.

Fall trade fully met all expectations
and preparations for winter are greater
than ever before. The continued mild
weather has delayed the opening of
winter trade in some localities; it is
early yet to have misgivings on account
of the weather. Tne main thing is that
the buying public has the money, work-
men are everywhere busy and the goods
are bound to be sold at good profits.
In view of the fact that speculation has
been quiet fur many weeks past, it is
remarkable that the volume of bank
clearings should be in excess of a year
ago when speculation was exceptionally
heavy. This argues that general trade
has been tremendous,

Industrial activity is nowhere lessened
except that the lack of coke is interfer-
ing with the operation of some of the
iron foundries, Prices of materials and
heavy steel are fully maintained, espe-
cially structural shapes and plates,
while all forms of railway equipment
are turned out as rapidly. as facilities
will permit. In other divisions, notably
tinplates, tubes and wire, the extension
of plants has continued until supplies
are burdensome and concessions in
prices are made. Textile mills are busy,
although buyers of cottons delay placing
contracts because of the weakening raw
material,and wool has risen stil! higher,
Eastern shipments of footwear again
surpass last year’s figures and full quo-
tations are easily held.

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The motorman of a car on Broadway,
New York, saved a woman’s life by
reaching over the dashboard and grab-
bing the woman just as she was about
to be struck by the fender. The woman
in a state of nervous collapse was taken
into a neighboring store. Then the
motorman banged his gong and the car
sped ahead. ‘‘My handsare engaged,’’
he said to passengers who wanted to
shake hands with him, ‘‘I can’t let go
of the power or brake, Besides, it's all
in a day’s work."’ Here is real mod-

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out of mind, a storehouse of delight. It
was, according to tradition, a Kalama-
z00 mayor who, blessed with a numer-
ous progeny, publicly expressed the
pious hope that his sons might grow u
better citizens than their father, an
his daughters more virtuous women than
their mother,

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Clothing _

Fads and Fashions in Clothing in Gay
Gotham.

We are well into the fali styles.
tober

Oc-

is the most modish month in the

year. The dry, cool days bring out the
very latest and the best in masculine
attire. Neckwear is especiaily interest-

ing at this time. The color schemes are
rich, rather than brilliant. Dark, rich

shades predominate and_ there are
sumptuous combinations in brown and
red and brown and green. There are

rich changeable silks in the broad four-
in-hands. In these there is a play of
purple with a shading to green. In the
better grades of silks one sees many
schemes in fancy weaves, very difficult
to describe except by such general
words as ‘‘rich, heavy,’ etc.

The most pronounced forms of wing
collars admit of smart adjustment in
the case of English squares. These are
folded over once and secured with a
large pin. Such an arrangement har-
monizes nicely with the long narrow
lapels and small collars of the new fall
coats.

And, by the way, lapels are becoming
as varied in treatment as the creases in
the soft hats. They run all the way
from the extremely narrow to the ex-
tremely wide, the latter in the double-
breasted sacks being considered very
fetching. If the young man who likes
something different from the rest will
put on a black serge double-breasted
coat with satin-faced lapels and gray
trousers he will win distinction. This
combination is one of the caprices of
the moment.

Some house robes recently displayed
by a local furnisber were very beautiful
conceptions in velvet and silk. One at
the exceedingly low price of $200 was
composed of a very superb quality of
silk velvet, of a deep shade of green,
with pure silk taffeta lining throughout.
The silk was of a pearl gray shade and
in combination with the dark green of
the velvet was indeed beautiful. An-
other gown, priced at $75, was a quilted
silk, very soft to the touch and not like-
ly to become wrinkled or creased
through the lounging about of the wear-
er. Such garments are well-nigh indis-
pensable to the man who likes fine
things, and yet I really can fancy the
ordinary man getting along without one
very nicely, Still it is so nice to be
nice, just for the sake of being nice,
that such extravagant propositions as
robes at $200 are really tempting, and
when you come to think of the incomes
of some folks, such prices are really not
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said to me the other day about keeping
horses and carriages: ‘‘The man who
maintains them should do it without
feeling the slightest inconvenience or
tug at his purse-strings or he should
dispense with such luxuries altogether. "’

An esteemed contemporary makes a
mistake in the assertion that cloth bands
will in no wise be worn on silk hats this
winter. They are not fashionable or
even popular, but there are some who
never change the shape of their silk
hats, always wearing the same block,
and these usualiy wear black bands,
They feel that it gives them a certain
individuality which they apparently en-
joy, so any man who feels like wearing
a black band on his silk hat may do so
without incurring a disposition on the
part of the police to lock himup. This
remark is made because so many writ-
ers, who are treating the subject of
men's fashions for the various trade and
daily papers, appear to think that if the
fashions are not followed to the letter
some awful consequence will ensue.
Like Tom Sawyer in ‘‘ Huckleberry
Finn,’’ they insist on everything ‘‘ bein’
done re’lar,’’

There is apparently no limit to the
variety of tancy waistcoats. They have
established themselves firmly in the good
graces of dressy men about town. Inthe
windows of the crack shops there are
evidences that the dealers are vying with
each other in an effort to bring out very
nobby and exclusive styles. In both
wash and other fabrics I am inclined to
believe that the modest, neat treatments
are rather better,in a fashionable sense
than the pronounced schemes. I have
seen nothing whatever (I say this in
answer to an enquiry of the leather
waistcoats with the stencil and shaded
figures. It may be good form to wear
such garments for their novelty, but I fail
to see their place or occasion. It has
always seemed to me that, so far as_ the
metropolis is concerned, the style and
dressing adopted by the better class
men of New York are to be commended,
not only to the middle-aged but to the
very young man. There is something
SO quiet, unobtrusive, so refined and
yet so cdrrect and exclusive about it.
The well-dressed, dignified-looking
man, be he young or old, like the well-
gowned girl or the well-groomed woman,
are expressions of conditions which are
found in the better elements of New
York society. At variance with this is
the big, round soft hat in gray felt,
punched in,the extreme high bad collar,
with the narrow four-in-hand showing,
a rather fancy shirt, the single-breasted
coat, unbuttoned above the first button,
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TRADESMAN 11

 

and the loose trousers turned up over
low-cut shoes, revealing unseasonable
half-hose. This is, perhaps, an extreme
picture, but there is a class of young
men who belong to rather good families,
who affect a certain pronounced style of
dress, just because it is conspicuous,
They know it is not becoming nor in
accordance with good taste, but they
throw down all consideration in order to
be distinctively youngish. The loose,
easy-going, slovenly principle is far
from the mode, so far as the best people
in New York are concerned.

The fad of turning down the wrists of
the glove still obtains,and the fancy has
led to the introduction of a glove with-
out fasteners of any kind. The wrist is
loose and not too long. The fastener
does not interfere with the fit or feeling
of the glove. The wrist may be worn
straight or turned up. This style is be-
ing exploited by a retailer of wide re-
pute. If clasps and buttons are not to
be used what is the sense of putting
them on? The innovation in question
is variously viewed, and | hardly think
that it will become immensely popular
unless some very clever fellow in the
smart set makes a hit withit. But then,
there are other things more important
in the style and economy of dress than
this glove. It is not without its advan-
tages,and as a high-class novelty should
have quite a vogue. The leathers are
a very fine sheepskin and chevrette. |
noticed that the backs are perfectly
plain; indeed, except in very restricted
quarters I see very little of the em-
broidered backs, which promised so
well early in the season.

All efforts to popularize the walking
stick have not failed, but there is no
widespread use of it, but if the stick is
not attracting much fashionable favor
the umbrella is, and there is evidently
no limit to the extravagance in handles
and mounts to which the chappies are
going. The silversmith has created
some dainty things for the season’s use
and handles in natural woods are most
exquisitely trimmed. The best taste
selects those designs in which the metal
treatment is not excessive, while the
mob which always runs to the extreme
of a style, is leaning to handles which
are so heavy with silver that it would
look as if the family plate had all been
melted up to decorate the rain shed.
Except among the older men and few
extremes among the younger, gold
mounts are not accepted. Buckhorn and
capehorn are immensely liked. They
are quite ‘'class.’’ Those with ivory
figures fixed in the buckhorn and cape-
horn are nobby,

The handkerchief of style is plain
white linen, with borders varying from
an eighth of an inch hemstitched. Very
dainty are the inner white taped bor-
ders. There are effects in wide tape
bars, crossing and forming various
effects, on the modest order. Those who
like fancy handkerchiefs would admire
the new natural linen shades with a soft
pongee finish. These goods are entirely
linen, The silk effect is not produced
by any mercerizing treatment, but is in
the natural finish of the goods. Sport-
ing designs and all pronounced print-
ings are out. The handkerchief, like
all the other parts of a man’s dress to-
day, inclines to the neatand sober, The
garish and obtrusive, from half-hose to
hat band, are distinctly out of it.—Vin-
cent Varley in Apparel Gazette,

na ey

It is a well-known fact that the free
puff and personal nuisance is one of the
most distressing features of the aver-
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Lot 275 Overall Coat
$7.75 per doz.

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Lot 124 Apron Overall
$5.00 per doz.

Lot 274 Overall Coat
$5.50 per doz.

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Hardware

Danger From Fires in Coal Substitutes.

So serious had become the coal situ-
ation in Boston not many days ago, and
sO imminent the danger of fires from
using substitutes for coal, that the
Massachusetts Board of Trade was asked
to investigate the matter and re port on
the degrees of hazard in the various
coal substitutes. Subsequently the
Board's Committee on Insurance re-
ported, first: That the special alarm
shown points to the more frequent use
of kerosene and gasoline for heating
purposes, and the possible dangers of
the numerous appiiances now placed on
the market for the use of these articles,
These in which kerosene is employed
and applied to cooking ranges would
seem from casual observation to be less
hazardous even than the ordinary kero-
sene oil stoves using wicks, the oil be-
ing conveyed to the stove in very smal]
quantities,

The use of gasoline for domestic or
manufacturing purposes seems to be ex-
ceedingly hazardous. The peril at-
tending the use of these products of
petroleum is well set forth by the in-
Surance companies in the permits
which they give for the use of kerosene
and gasoline on premises insured by
them. In regard to kerosene oil stoves
they say: ‘‘Permission is granted to
use kerosene oil stoves in the described
building, provided the kerosene oil used
is not less than United States standard
fire test. The reservoir of the stove to
be filled when cold and by daylight

only, and never when the stove is
lighted or near fire or light.’” The vio-

lation of these precautions has been the

 

cause of numerous fires and severe ac-
cidents to persons.

In regard to gasoline, where permis-
sion is given, usually for an_ extra
premium, the companies say: Per
mission is hereby given for the use of
one gasoline stove, it being warranted
by the assured that the reservoir there-
of shall be filled by daylight only, and
when the stove is not in use, that no
fire, blaze or artificial light shall be per-
mitted in the room where and when such
reservoir is being filled; that no gaso-
line except such as is contained in said
reservoir shall be kept within the build-
ing,and that not more than five gallons,
which shall be contained in an entirely
closed metal can, free from leak, shall
be kept on the premises connected with
said building.’’

Then follows the caution: ** The
danger from gasoline stoves is not so
much in themselves as in having the
material about. At ordinary temper-
ature gasoline continually gives off in-
flammable vapor, and a light some dis-
tance from the materia! will ignite it
through the medium of this vapor, It
is said that one pint of gasoline will
impregnate 200 cubic feet of air and
make it explosive; and that it depends
upon the proportion of air and vapor
whether it becomes a burning gas or
destructive explosive. Beware of any
leaks in cans, and never forget how
dangerous a material you are handling.’’

No greater precautions could be
offered than seem to be contained in the
above, furnished by the insurance com-
panies, who are experts in the mat-
‘cr.

: Notoriety is often mixed with adver-
tising—it is the art of attracting at-
tention. Nobody really misses noticing

 

a dog with a can tied to his tail.

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Could Not Hold Trade Without Giving |
Goods Away.

People said that ‘‘Old Mac’’ was
stingy. Old Mac was my employer back
in the eighties when I began my career
as clerk, He had come into Northern
Michigan when lumber was cheap and
only a few of the lumbermen were mak-
ing money, but as the country developed
and the industry became more profit-
able Mac's business grew. Finally the
small farmer appeared and began clear-
ing off forty-acre farms in the hardwood
belt tributary to the town. Mac’s trade
grew to olarge for his quarters. He ulti-
mately moved into a big brick, where
he was located when he hired me. |
was then 19. I had my high school di-
ploma,and my mother had me scheduled
for a lawyer. She was willing, however,
to let my brilliant mind delve in prunes,
Sugar, soap and lime for ‘‘experience."’
Later I was to go to Ann Arbor,
where they turn out lawyers almost as
fast as a Minnesota thresher does
grain. I never reached Ann Arbor.
Some of the fellows who did are bor-
rowing from their friends now, | may
not be much better off, but I have a
good business and enough to keep the
wolf from the door whether the country
goes to the dogs and trusts or not.

 

As I remarked, I began to work in
Mac's store for experience as well as
the stipend. I gleaned large harvests of
it. Mac got his share, too, Mac was a
good merchant. He grew foolish at one
time during the three years 1 was with
him and imagined that he was a born
lawyer. Two of us in the same boat,
you see. Mac began to do ‘‘convey-
ancing.’’ He hung out his sign, and
soon began filling out mortgages and

 

making out deeds at his desk, while
myself and the other clerks were

ill sill

run- |

ning the store. He managed to keep a
good eye out for the important features
of the business, but the details—well,
that’s the story,

Mac was particular, In early days he
had been a mate on a Lake Huron
steamer and the old captain who called
at the store once said that Mac always
had the woodwork clean and could
give orders in hissleep. He usually
arrived at the store about eight o'clock.
The moment he struck the door he be-
gan to look around. A few specks of
dirt was a crime. We played for Mac’s
weakness. The store was well swept
and the lamps always trimmed and
ready for the coming of the prophet.

The law department grew in impor-
tance and our trade increased. I was
‘‘strong’’ with the settlement west of
town, where my sister taught school and
“‘plugged’’ for our store. One of the
other clerks, a fellow about thirty years
old, and decorated with a flowing mous-
tache, was ‘‘keepin’ company’’ with
the muscular belle of the east settle-
ment. As Mac viewed the customers
from his desk over his spectacles he
could see the profits rolling up, and
must have congratulated himself upon
his good judgment in picking out such
good men for clerks. When he made
out the financial statement at the end
of the year the thing was different,
There were some bad accounts which
the clerk who was Strong in the east
settlement had recommended. Then,
too, there had been no remarkable per-
centage of profit on the sales. Mac was
disposed to blame it to the inventory,
Finally the old banker whose bank was
in the rear end of the building,and who
had a keen eye for economy in any
business administration, told Mac that
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partment the clerks had been giving
away his profits,

This was terrible—an insult to the
hard-working young men who were
bringing trade to the store. But Mac
gave it much consideration. He kept
his eye on the scales. While I was
measuring tea one day for a good old
farmer friend of mine, who always
waited for me when he came to the
store, my employer came forward with
an object lesson. I was popular because
I gave good weight. There was just two
ounces of tea too much. Mac emptied
out the two ounces and made the scales
balance at the proper figure. That night
he figured up to me what I| had been
losing for him, Instead of firing me he
remarked that I could correct myself
with a little care, I did go carefully
for a time, but the jolly from the man
outside the counter and the old ladies
who wanted to see their butter weigh
enough to buy a dress pattern was too
much, I fell into the old habits, kept a
lookout for Mac—and held onto the
trade.

‘‘What a stingy old cuss Mac is,’’
said the clerk who knew all of the peo-
ple ‘‘out east.’’ He was another money
maker, *‘Here I have been hoiding
this trade,’’ said he, ‘‘by being a little
bit liberal. I believe in giving the
trade something extra now and then to
keep them with you. If there is a small
remnant left on a piece of goods | usu-
ally throw it in. The women out east
know that I am not stingy and they
come here to trade. When I was abou:
to wrap up a piece of 40 cent dress
goods, on which I had given the woman
the last quarter yard, Mac comes along
and takes it out of my hands and con-
vinces the woman that she can use it at
regular figures. After she left he told
me that giving goods away sent mer-
chants to the wall,’’

My employer was right. Between us
we had given away a good share of his
profits. My carelessness was as much
to biame as the other fellow’s. The
second year showed that Mac had made

little money, although the store had done’

a good business. On one occasion the
butter we packed for the Detroit market
was refused because we had given it
too close an acquaintance with the ker-
osene and other merchandise which do
not help butter favor. Mac bought tan
bark. He had to take a certain amount
to hold some of the trade from the
north. Men were scarce and myself and
another clerk turned out to help load it.
We were sore because two gentlemen
clerks were forced to sweat ona car of
tan bark. In the meantime Mac was
sweating over a draft which had been
made on him that day and on which the
car of tanbark was to be applied in part
payment. We loaded the car as sore
clerks would. The first jolt given it by
the switching engine toppled the whole
mess over and Mac had to turn financial
somersaults to keep his draft from being
protested.

We had a good shoe business. While
the trade was satisfactory, Mac won-
dered why such a large investment was
required in that department. On exam-
ination he found that the shoe stock
was in a bad way. There were shoes
long out of date which had never been
turned onto the bargaincounter. There
were mis-mated pairs which could not
be mated. When the decks were cleared
the wounded were lying in heaps and
one of the clerks was among the miss-
ing.

Mac gave up the law department and
began to go through the store. From

 

that time on I felt the iron heel of the
ex-mate, It was a hard pull and he
fell short. The assignee came and I
went; but I had iearned much. I would
not have a law department in my store
and I would fire the clerk who could
not hold trade without giving goods
away.—Commercial Bulletin.

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A Boy’s Definition.

It was Tommy's first glass of soda
water that he had been teasing for so
long.

‘“Well, Tommy, how does it taste?’’
asked his father.

‘‘Why,’” replied Tommy, with a
puzzled face, ‘‘it tastes like your foot's
asleep.’’

 

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A Necessity in a Needle.
‘“How do you spell needle, Bobby?’’
asked the teacher,

N—e—i—d—I—e, needle,’’ was the
reply.
‘“‘Wrong,’’ said the teacher, ‘‘there is
no ‘i’ in needle.’’
‘‘Well, then, 'taint a good needle.’’

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No Wonder.

Jimpson—There goes a girl I never
speak to,

Simpson—Who is she?

‘‘T don’t know.’’

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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.
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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.

 

  

  

C. C. Wormer
Machinery Co.

Contracting Engineers and
Machinery Dealers

   
 
    

Complete power plants designed
and cacchia. 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
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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

 

 

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.

 

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Fuel Economizer

160 West Larned St., Detroit, Mich.

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Burton’s Fuel Economizer

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Wood's Smooth Iron, crated, $3.75.

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Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—So far the prices of
brown sheetings and drills have been
steadily maintained in all weights, and
although there are some stocks on hand
in places, the sellers have shown no dis-
position to force business. There has
been a limited demand from the job-
bers for bleached cottons, but the man-
ufacturing trade have bought in fair
quantities. Prices have been steady
throughout without exception. ‘here
has been no business of consequence in
wide sheetings and the buying of cotton
flannels and blankets has been small,
but this was owing to a lack of ready
supplies and there would have been
more selling had there been more goods
to deliver. Coarse colored cottons are
quite firm in price in spite of a rather
small purchasing throughout the week.

Linings—The market for linings has
not shown any marked change during
the week under review. The demand
has been fair and the orders of reason-
able number, but individually small.
Kid finished cambrics have shown no
change in prices and are sold satisfac-
torily on the basis of 35<c for 64s, while
buyers show no anxiety to do more than
purchase for their weekly needs. There
has been a good demand for the low
and medium grades of silesias, although
better grades have been quiet. Most of
this trading comes from the West and
South, as reported last week, which ac-
counts for the grades wanted. The de-
mand from this part of the country is
very small. Percalines have been sell-
ing in rather better quantities this week
and prices remain unchanged. Staple
cotton linings have been inactive dur-
ing the week. Mercerized goods and
similar finishes have shown a fair de-
mand for forward deliveries and it is
reported by some converters that they
have had a rather hard time to make
the required deliveries. The demand
from the clothing trade has reached
about the same average as last week
and the market has been exceedingly
firm for cotton Italians, Alberts and sim-
ilar lines, also for cotton warp Italians,
mohairs, serges, alpacas, etc. Printed
warp sateen sleeve linings are steady
and linen canvases and paddings are
firm.

Woolen Dress Goods—The initial
dress goods market is in the midst of a
growing quietness. There is business
doing right along, both for forward and
immediate uses, but as far as the jobber
is concerned, his buying of fall goods
is almost over, owing to the progress of
the season, and his initial spring selec-
tions have been almost completed. The
buying on lightweight fabrics that is
being done by the jobber at this time is
principally of a filling-in character and
of no great weight individually or col-
lectively. Such business as is coming
forward is being distributed among the
various fabrics in about the same pro-
portion as heretofore. The dress goods
trade, as a whole, has proved satisfac-
torily inasmuch as the mills have se-
cured a volume of business that is suffi-
cent to insure a substantial proportion
of them a good season. The majority
of the dress goods mills have secured
orders which would seem to indicate
that they will find an outiet for prac-
tically their full production, and in
quite a number of cases the orders in
band represent practically the full vol-
ume of production of which the mill is
capable. The cutter-up is the most

 

prominent factor in the women’s wear
fabric field at this time and between the

|orders that are finding their way in for

current requirements and for next season
a very fair trade is under way. Their
purchases include plain and fancy
goods. For current uses they continue
to take plaids, shepherd's checks, snow-
flake, pepper and salt and similar
effects, mohairs, cheviots, broadcloths,
thibets, etc. The uncertainty relating
to the plaid asa spring seller has not
been dissipated, and it is likely to re-
main a mooted point until the jobber
goes before his trade, and quite likely
the doubt may continue until the re-
tailer bas an opportunity to test the lean-
ing of the final consumer in that con-
nection, While plaids and shepherd's
checks have been purchased for spring
the buyer has shown a disposition to
keep on the side of conservatism. Some
neat plaid effects in sheer fabrics, twine
creations, etc., have found fair favor,
but there has been little opening for
pronounced effects. In suitings for
spring some good orders have been
placed for effects similar to those which
have made a successful run for fall. The
tailor-made suit of the walking pattern
has attracted striking attention this fall.
The instep length and the trained skirt
have shared favor. It is not unnatural
that goods men should be asking what
this means; does it mean that the elab-

 

 

 

DUSpenders
That

Move
“The Kady”

Moves in more ways than one.
When worn it adjusts itself to
every movement of the body.
When marketed it sells faster
than any other suspender you
ever handled.

Try “The Kady”—to wear or
to sell-— you'll like it either way.

Leading jobbers handle “The
Kady.”

The Ohio Suspender Co.
Mansfield, Ohio

 

 

 

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Rugs from Old Carpets §
i Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. j

Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well
as our endeavor to make rugs better,

closer woven, more durable than others. j

We cater to first class trade and if you
t write for our 16 page illustrated booklet

it will make you better acquainted with
our — — nets We —

no agents. © pay the freight. Larges

looms in United States.

Petoskey Rug Mfg. & Carpet Co.,
Limited

455-457 Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich.

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Mule Skin —

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Calf Skin +GLOVES Calf Skin ; MITTENS

Dog Skin | Buck Skin |

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Also a good assortment of yarn gloves and mittens. Write for sample line.

. P STEKETEE & SONS,

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Is good for another season. The
patterns are choice and values bet-
ter than ever. Your choice of eh
black or colors at $4.50 and $7.50 B

“and blacks at $9 and ¢12 per Ba
dozen. We have a _ new idea
in the muffler line—one without

lining tucked so as to fit nicely about the neck It

is a good seller. Price $7.50 and $9 per dozen. §

We also call your attention to our line of ‘“‘Way’s

mufflets” —the kind that look like sweaters. The

demand for this style is surely increasing, Prices
are $2, 2.25, 4 and 4.50 per dozen. Order now for &
the holiday trade.

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.,

Grand Rapids, Micb.
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Cheap as Dirt, Almost

50,000
DUPLICATE ORDER SLIPS

 

Only 25 Cents per Thousand

Half original, half duplicate, or all original as desired.
Larger quantities Proportionately cheaper.

 

 

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500 Whittlesey St., Fremont, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

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before an increased vogue in tailored
costumes? Does it mean that the cloth
effects, such as find their way into
tailor-made costumes, are to supersede
to a material extent the lightweight,
clinging fabrics that have been so
strongly favored of late? Has the tailor-
made costume reached the height of
popularity or has it over-reached it, as
some are evidently inclined to intimate?
These are questions that are more easily
asked than answered. The manufactur-
er of clinging fabrics contends strongly
that such goods have a good future be-
fore them. Their continued vogue
abroad and the fact that the goods of
the sheer character are difficult to re-
produce at all satisfactorily in cheap
lines are considered strong features in
their favor.

Underwear—The majority of buyers
seem to be in need of additional sup-
plies to carry them through this season
and it is not always easy to find goods
that will come near to what they want
and, in spite of all their efforts to hurry
deliveries on what they have placed or-
ders for, deliveries are very late. Mills
are running much later on all kinds of
heavyweight underwear this season than
usual, Mills that make both heavy and
lightweight must necessarily bring their
heavyweight knitting to an end soon in
order to make their preparations and
deliveries for spring. Some mills an-
nounce that they will continue on heavy-
weights as long as there is a demand
and curtail their lightweight production.

Hosiery—There has been a little busi-
ness transacted in _ spring hosiery
through the few buyers who are in town,
but this amounts to very little because
buying, as far as the initial part is con-
cerned, is pretty well over. The _ busi-
ness, in fact, has resolved itself practic-
ally into a period of waiting for the
duplicate season to begin. The business
so far has been very good and continues
to reduce stocks quite materially. There

 

have been considerable delays in deliv-
eries and the usual number of com-|
plaints in consequence and claims that |
much business has been lost through it. |
For immediate delivery wool goods |
have assumed a very firm position and |
stocks are very small, in all parts of |
the market. Fleeces are in an even
better shape and stocks are almost
cleaned up. The price situation on
these goods has shown little change, but
it is occasionally reported that small
advances have been obtained where im-
mediate deliveries could be promised.

Carpets— While the carpet situation is
still a waiting one, the opening of the
new season is looked for before another
week comes to pass. Manufacturers
are, asa rule, fully prepared to open
the new season at a moment's notice,
their samples having been ready for the
inspection of the buyers for some weeks
past. Until the high officials of the big
carpet corporations name the day of the
opening, the outside manufacturers
remain in the dark. Some are inclined
to believe that November 15 will be the
day of days of the coming season, while
others are inciined to believe that the
opening will occur some few days later.
While no one probably has direct infor-
mation, preparations are being made to
have everything in readiness at the
right time. Large yarn orders and or-
ders for other supplies are being booked
in anticipation of a large initial busi-
ness. Supplies of this kind have been
given out earlier and in larger quantities
than usual, so that deliveries can be
made at a time that will not embarrass
the weavers in relation to the fulfill-

 

 

ment of their orders, as was the case
last season.

Rugs—Everything in rugs continues
in excellent request. Jobbers are re-
porting an excellent demand for all
grades and sizes. Small Smyrnas and
also Wiltons are in good request. Art
squares find a fair sale.

Curtains—Makers of tapestry curtains
report a fair business, both in curtains
as well as table covers. Chenille goods
are also in better request.

0
It Was a Hopeless Case.

A balky horse is an annoying creature
under any circumstances, but the story
of an incident which happened during
a regimental drill raises the question
whether such a horse may not simply be
over conscientious.

The sun blazed down on a field of hot,
tired horses and excited men, all wait-
ing for a big, raw boned animal to suc-
cumb to the urgings of the starter and
get into line.

‘Bring up that horse!’’ shouted one
of the officers at last, his patience hav-
ing given out. ‘‘ You'll get into trouble
if you don't!’’

The youthful rider of the refractory
horse looked at his officer despairingly.

“‘I’m as tired of it as you are, sir,’’
he said, with dull resignation, ‘‘but I
can't help it. He’s a cab horse, sir;
that’s what he is, He won’t start until
he hears the door shut sir, and I haven’t
. any door to shut!’

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~ POSTAL SCALE $1.00

Tells ata glance postage in cents
on all mail matter. Capacity, 1 Ib.
by half ounces. 3 in. high. Cuts
down the stamp bill. Useful and
attractive present. We make sev-
eral styles from $1 in nickel, as
shown, up to $6in sterling. If deal-
er doesn’t sell it, we prepay on re-
ceipt of price. Catalogue P. free.
Pelouze Scale & Mfg. Co., Chicago

RUGS

Made From

Old Carpets

Any size desired at small
cost. Price list and in-
formation as to amount
of carpet required free.

Michigan Rug Co.
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For ‘Delicious Coast!

Che Fairgrieve Patent

Gas Coaster

Retails at 25¢

has been on the

tit may be a new articl

It is not new to the trade as it
market several years, bu
to you and it deserves your attention

It saves time by toasting

evenly and quickly on

»ves directly over the flame and is ready for use as soon as

gas, gasoline or blue flame oil st«

as. placed on the flame. It saves fuel by confining the heat in such a manner that all the heat

developed is used. It is the only toaster desig eer for use over oer which leaves the toast
free from objectionable taste or odor. Made of the best material, rivited joints. No solder;

will wear longer than the old fashioned wire toaster with ch better results. Ask the jobbers.

Fairgrieve Coaster Ifa. Co.
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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

 

price. With cheap wire and a cheap practical fence machine, the dealer
who follows this course will secure the farmer's trade.

prices and full information.

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IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS
135 JEFFERSON AVENUE

DETROIT, Miche,

November 12, 1902e

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Dear Friends:

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Rubbers
Some Suggestions on the Purchase of a
New Stock.

I have before me this question to
answer: ‘‘A men's outfitter in a place
of fifteen to twenty thousand population
intends to open a shoe department. He
intends to invest $2,500 in stock. How
would you advise him to spend the
money?’’

[ assume that this outfitter has had
no previous experience with shoes, that
he does not propose to handle women's
goods and that it is his object to build
up a good medium-class to fine trade.
Every community and every retailer in
a community have certain peculiarities
of doing business and it is manifestly
impossible to take account of all these
peculiarities in treating of a subject
of this kind. What will apply in one
case will not apply in another, and
every case of this kind requires special
study of conditions to adapt methods
accordingly. But so far as one can
deal with the case cited, I should pro-
ceed as follows in making purchases
for the new department:

I should get in touch with thoroughly
reliable shoe manufacturers and do
business with them. A reliable house
can be trusted to take an intelligent in-
terest in the new department and co-
operate to get it into good running or-
der, Until a dealer has gained experi-
ence in bandling shoes, he must large-
ly, if not entirely, depend upon the in-
tegrity of the people with whom he
does business, and he should, therefore,
deal with well established houses.

1 think that he should sell goods
marked with his own name, and in or-
dering he should specify that his name
appear upon the strap and shank of the
shoe. When he handles goods under
his own name, he has no difficulty if
he wishes to change manufacturers,
But if he builds up a trade for some
manufacturer’s brand, his business is,
in a measure, dependent upon that brand
and leaves him less at liberty. There
are two sides to this question, but I
think that a man will do better to
handle goods sold under his own name,

I have before spoken of advisability
of using cartons uniform in style in the
shoe department. If a sufficiently large
order is given a manufacturer, he will
ship the goods in cartons as per sample,
and in this way uniform cartons can be
secured,

In starting a department, it is well to
proceed cautiously. At the end of the
first season or the first year, you will
know things about the character of your
trade and the nature of its demands that
you can not know at the start. Sol ad-
vice that stock purchased at the start be
entirely confined to staple goods that
are not extreme in price or style. At
the end of some months, novelties and
extreme effects can be added if found
necessary. But money should not be
tied up at the start in goods of this
class. For example, in the matter of
prices,it may be found after a time that
there is a demand for $5 shoes. It is
not well to steck up with them at the
Start, in a town like the one specified,
under ordinary conditions.

I would advise the outfitter in ques-
tion to carry lines of men’s shoes to re-
tail at $2.50, $3 and $3.50 He can put
good substantial shoes before bis trade
at these prices. Cheaper shoes (unless
in men’s working shoes) he can not
handle to advantage, if he wishes to
build up a nice class of business, In
men's working shoes, I should advise

 

 

that he carry goods to sell at $1.50, $1.75
and $2, There are cheaper working
shoes to be bought, but working shoes
that can be profitably retailed at the
prices specified are good, dependable
shoes, that will give customers satisfac-
tion, It is a great mistake to sell any
other kind of shoe in a department just
beginning business. It is better to give
an unusually good value rather than to
run the risk of losing trade by being too
hungry for profits. In some communi-
ties, the working shoe may not be in as
much demand as in others, but if one
has any considerable degree of custom
from working people, the working shoe
should be considered an important fac-
tor in the success of the department.
A good trade in working shoes is worth
having.

Boys’ shoes should be carried to retail
at $1.50, $2 and some at $2.50. Not
many at the latter price will be neces-
sary, but good shoes fur the boys, at the
prices named, should be in stock. It
is your object to attract the trade of the
growing lads, who will later on be grown
up customers of yours, let us hope. If
more expensive boys’ and youths’ shoes
are called for, they can be added as oc-
casion demands,

It will be noticed that the range of
prices is not a wide one, and that they
permit of the sale of good, desirable
shoes, whether for working purposes,
ordinary day wear or for school use.

It may be well to say something
about widths and sizes to be bought.
Extra sizes and widths should not be
included in the purchase of a small
stock at the start. Confine the purchase
to those sizes and widths in ordinary
good demand. Sizes from six to eleven,
inclusive, in men's shoes, from two and
a half to five and a half inclusive, in

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,

A postal card to us will bring the line to you. Saginaw, Michigan

 

 

Rush
Your Orders

.in now for Hoop and OLp
CoLony RvuBBERS. 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.

 

 

 

BEST

$2, 2.25 and $2.50
WELT SHOE

on the market; in all the popular leathers.

 

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

 

The Lacy Shoe Company

Caro, Michigan

Manufacturers of

Ladies’, Misses’, Children’s and Little
Gents’ Shoes

Jobbers of

Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes

Better Late Than Never

Wait to see our line. In hands of
salesmen November to.

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

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

 

 

 

YOU WILL FIND

This cut on all our cartons. We stand behind our assertions; if
gocds are not as represented, remember that the railroad runs both
ways. We willsend the following shoes on approval because we
Know you can not better them. ‘‘Honesty is the best policy,’’ so
we are honest in what we advertise. Three of our good things made

by us at our Northville factory are:

No. 236. Men’s Boarded Calf, Heavy % D S., Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals.......... $l 50

No. 230. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals.... 1 60
; No. 231. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, Tipped, Bals.... 1 60

et

ue

i r Each pair with a guarantee tag attached

The Rodgers Shoe Company, Toledo, Ohio

FACTORY, NORTHVILLE, MICH.

 

boys’ shoes, from thirteens to twos in-
clusive, in youths’ shoes, and from
nines to thirteens in little men’s shoes,
represent the sizes that should be in
stock. Other sizes, if needed, can be
secured by special! order. Widths from
C to E will be needed in men’s shoes,
D to E in little men’s shoes, and C to
E in youths’ shoes. These are the
widths and sizes in most demand, or-
dinarily, and so the widths and sizes
which will best meet requirements. B
width shouid be carried in $3.50 shoes.
At the start it is weli to buy a few
rather than many styles and to have
plenty of sizes in the styles bought. If
a style is of a good average character,
it is pretty sure to suit most people and
the danger from loss by having odds
and ends left on your hands is mini-
mized,

It will be necessary to carry in men’s
shoes both a shape adapted for the
street and one lighter and more grace-
ful for dress wear. As to leathers, there
is a great variety on the market, and
different people have different ideas in
the selection of them, but 1 should ad-
vise that particular consideration be
given to corona coltskin, velour, calf-
skin, box calf, and enamel leathers.
The latter shoe will meet the needs of
most of those who might call for patent
leathers. For present purposes, it is not
necessary to take account of tan shoes.
They may be an important factor an-
other spring. For working shoes, satin
calfskin and box-grain leather are
both desirable.

Now for the division of the money
among the different classes of shoes to
be bought. Here is a most difficult mat-
ter to deal with, because the peculiar
characteristics of each store will be de-
termining factors in the relative amounts
and kinds of goods bought. But |
should say, in a rough calculation, that
about $300 should be put into men’s
working shoes; $400 into men’s shoes
to retail at $2.50; the same amount into
men’s $3 shoes; $500 into shoes to retail
at $3.50; $500 into boys’ shoes, and
about $400 into youths’ and little men’s
shoes; $50 would cover the cost of all
findings that might be needed. These
amounts will be differently distributed
according to the needs of yourtrade. It
will be possible to get most valuable
counsel from the wholesaler on the rela-
tive proportions of the different lines
and parts of the stock, and his experi-
ence and judgment will be worth much
to the dealer.

Someone may ask what I think of job
lots in shoes. I think they are all right

 

if one has an outlet for them. But the
man beginning to establish a depart- |

 

ment has not an outlet ordinarily, and
should confine himself to his regular
stock. How often stock should be turned
depends largely on the size of the busi-
ness. In Chicago it would be possible
for a man to turn his stock twelve times
a year, while in a town of the size men-
tioned in the query he would be unable
to turn it more than six or eight times—
which I think a reasonable figure for
him.

In conclusion, remember that you will
avoid heavy losses, and be able to do
much business with a comparatively
small stock, if you resolutely keep your
stock well sized up, forcing the slow
sellers off your shelves and ordering fre-
quently but not too far ahead. Keep
your stock clean and up to date by add-
ing new styles as you close out the slow
sellers, Keep slow sellers on your
shelves no longer than one season.

One of the causes of greatest loss in
the retail] shoe business is that a dealer
neglects to keep account of the sizes on
which he is running short and to fill in
his line with them by ordering so that
he will have goods to replace the sizes
sold. Then his line gets badly broken
up, he puts in a new line, and hasa
quantity of odds and ends left on his
hands that he finds it difficult to dis-
pose of, or which prove a dead loss.
To keep stock moving so that there
shall not be any odds and ends should
be the dealer’s object. He will have to
study his stock book to do this,and once
a fortnight he ought to order goods to
take the place of those sold.—Geo. E.
Leiser in Apparel Gazette.

 

 

It.
Certainly
Will

Be to your advantage to
send for samples of our
Over-gaiters, Jersey and
Canvas Leggins. Quali-
ties are A 1 and prices
right. Send for Catalogue
and deal at headquarters.

CHICAGO
hoe
tore
upply
COMPANY

154 Fifth av., Chicago

Should be handled by every shoe dealer because they
give satisfactory service and hold the trade. Six
hundred skilled workmen are kept busy turning out
all grades of shoes from the ordinary everyday shoe
to the finest for dress wear, suitable for all classes of

Mayer’s shoes give satisfaction where others
Write for particulars.

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

trade.
fail.

 

 

 

    
 
  

   

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We do not hesitate to strongly recom-
mend the heavy duck rubbers made by
the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

We know the workmanship and ma-

 
   
    

terial entering into their construction to

 
 

be the very best. We know they fully

 
 

meet the requirements of the wearer.

 
 

Bostons are always durable.

 
 

Prompt shipments.

 
   
 

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

  

18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

STORE WISDOM.

Observations Noted by a Backwoods Mer-
chant.

Fixing overa barrel of sp’iled pickles
is a good deal like poking polecats out
of a hole with a fishing rod. The more
ye stir "em up the wuss they air.

. €

 

Buying new goods and marrying a
woman is one and the same thing.
They're tempting to the eye and easy
to get. They may look like money-
makers and seem so reasonable in price
that ye hustle up and grab ’em quick
fer fear the other feller’l! get the start of
ye. But arter ye got em oncet ye have
to keep ’em, whether er no. They may
move slow or be off stock or back num-
bers, and nothing at all what ye cal-
lated on in the first place, but ye got to
put up with ’em all the same, and have
‘em around, and shelter ‘em, and take
care of ‘em, and let on to everybody
that ye think ye got the greatest bar-
gain ever come down the pike. And
then, sooner or later, there’s got to be a
settlement, fer the bills has to be paid,
and if ye make up yer mind to get red
of ’em at last, like as not ye got to sac-
rifice more’n the original cost to do it,
and there's allers the possibility of a
feller’s going broke over it in the end.
I’ve bought lots of goods and see a
good bit of marrying myself, and I tell
‘em to go slow—go slow and look out
what they're doing. ‘‘Young man,”’’ I
ses, ‘‘pick a gal that hain’t ashamed to
be seen in a gingham dish apron, pick
a gal that hain’t scared of a few berry
stains on her fingers, pick a gal that
hain’t never found hanging around town
gassing with fellers. And, young man,”’
I ses, and | ses it earnest, ‘‘you pick a
gal that’s good to her father and that
never sasses her ma. Geta gal like
that and be good to her and love her
with all yer heart and all yer might,
and show respect to her, and ye’ll have
a stock of goods that'!l never depreciate
on yer hands—that'll be worth more
every year ye have it around and that'll
fetch ye in better returns fer yer invest-
ment than any half auction stock that
was ever put up on the block. A woman
like that'll make a man of ye in spite of
yerself. That was jest the kind of a wife
1 got, and jest look at me!’’

: = +

Ginerally speaking, preachers is as
honest as other folks, but some on ‘em
has queer idees of business. I trusted
one oncet to a bill of groceries, he alleg-
ing that same would come out of his next
quarter’s pay. Arter a while, when I
wanted my money, he said as how he
‘lowed all along that the stuff he got
was to apply on his salary.

= + €

A woman would ruther see ye lick one
of her own young ‘uns than to have ye
quarrel with her butter. And the meaner
the butter the wuss she takes it to
heart. I've lost the trade of some good
cash customers in my time fer nothing
more than telling of ‘em that their but-
ter was dirty or that they was trying to
sell two pounds cf salt to one of butter
or that it was rotten enough to pizen a
crow. Now I don’t suppose I'll ever
live long enough to get onto all the
little whims of wimmen folks. I've
allers meant well by ‘em and when their
butter don’t suit me I try to let ‘em off
as easy as I kin; but I've learned one
thing and that is if I don’t want to see
Miss Wheelan or Miss Turner or Miss
Hent Liscomb toddle by with their
cash on the road to Central Lake, it
stands me in hand to either take their
butter when they come in and say noth-

 

ing, or else to tell ‘em that I hain't
a buying of it nohow, and let it go at

that.
¢ + «

There’s an old saying that ‘‘an egg
is an egg.’’ That air saw was promul-
gated by a feller that never bought hen
fruit from the residents of these parts.
I’ve been in the egg business going on
thirty year and 1 know better. Some-
times an egg is an egg and then ag’in
it hain’t nothing but a shell with the
juice blowed out of it. Sometimes it’s a
chicken, and sometimes it's nothing
but the first effort of a spring pullet,
and a dozen of 'em wouldn't fill a pint
dipper. There's hard shelled eggs with
no yoke into *em and there is soft
shelled eggs with nothing but yoke.
There's cracked eggs and dirty eggs
and fresh eggs and strictly fresh eggs
and eggs that go to pieces like a bumb-
shell when ye tetch ’em and fly all over
the store and drive yer customers out
into the fresh air. I see an egg wagon
team run away oncet, over two mile of
corduroy road. It was a good wagon,
only the box wasn't overly tight, so the
feller what owned the rig had nothing to
do but foller the yaller streaks in the
road till he finally come up with the
horses. Eggs was twenty cents a dozen
and there wasn’t enough bull ones left
in the cases to make a johnny cake.
Still the old saying is that eggs is eggs,
in which case his load orter been jest as
vallyble as ever. But it wa'n't. It was

 

 

The Government stamp on a gold
coin adds nothing to the value of
the coin, but certifies to the fine-
ness and weight of the gold.

“Ceresota”’

on a package of flour serves the
Same purpose. It is the manu-
facturer’s stamp guaranteeing the
quality and weight.

Northwestern Consolidated

Milling Co.,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Judson Grocer Company,
Distributors for
Western Michigan

 

 

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

     

Stock it Promptly!

——You will have enquiries for ——

~ HAND
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.

 

Enoch Morgan’s Sons Co.

 

MALT-OLA

The scientifically malted cereal
food, is the one that sells best
now. Once tried, always used.
Nothing like it. Malt-Ola gives
health, strength and vigor; re-
lieves constipation, enriches the
blood and tones up the system.
Put up in attractive packages.
Ready for use any time quickly.
Merchants, if you don’t handle
Malt-Ola write for free package.

LANSING PURE FOOD CO, LTD.
Lansing, Michigan

DELICIOUS

LANSING MICK.

 

 

 

 

NOT AT ALL
OFFENSIVE

SCH.

3# CIGAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

a total loss, the hall thing. And that’s
why I claim that I know more about the
egg business than the feller did what
said them words.
+ + £

I’ve see fellers afore now with a com-
ical idee that there hain't no work about
keeping store. And the more ye told
’em different the more they'd give ye
the big haha. I was ketched short of
help oncet when there was quite a bit
doing over to my store, and got one of
them air chaps to come in and assist
me. His name was Bill Short, but if
he was short of breath or short up for
cash, that was all there was short about
him. He was six foot three in his socks,
and broad according, and tipped the
beam at two hundred and ten. He was
waiting on the doorstep when I come
around to unlock in the morning and
he looked stout and durable as a steam
spil driver. ‘‘All ready fer business?’’
I asks, jest fer to start in pleasant and
agreeable. ‘‘Betcher life,’’ he says,
‘Never felt better in my life. Now
fetch on yer work if ye got any.’’ Sol
sot him to rollin gabout sugar barrels and
moving pork and flour and lugging stuff
outen the cellar and lugging of other
stuff back into it, till finally folks com-
menced to come in to trade, so I had
him rearing around, pumping coal ile
and unloading petaters and shoveling
feed and weighing out heavy stuff in
the back room. Then there was a lot of
goods to be put up fer Hennessy’s cedar
camp, which he had no more’n got done
when three freight teams come along
with more stuff to be unloaded and
stored away, and when he got through
with that I told him there was three
bushel baskets of eggs he could look
over and pack in crates while he was a
resting of hisself. ‘‘What time is it?’’
he asks, looking at me kinder queer,
‘‘Twenty minutes to eleven,’’ I says,
which was true. ‘‘Twenty minutes to
eleven,’’ he answers, kinder slow like.
*‘I reckoned it was four o’clock in the
arternoon and that ye never took no
nooning.’’ ‘*‘What's the matter?’’ I
asks. ‘‘Hain’t tired, be ye?’’ ‘‘Not
in petickeler,’’ he says,‘‘but I'm power-
ful lanked up.”’’ ‘‘Hungry fer yer vit-
tles?’’ I asks. ‘‘Hungry!’’ ses he,
‘‘why, I c’d eat a dromedary—a hull
one.’’ Arter dinner he said he had to
go up to his house fer suthing and he
sent a youngun back to say that he wa’n't
feeling none the best and wouldn't be
able to help me nomore. Some time
arter that I asked him whether he
thought there was any work about store-
keeping. But there was a crowd around
and all I could get out of him was that
he didn’t reckon he was cut out fer the
business.

eee

Selling goods on time is jest like
sliding down hill ona bob sled: It’s
slick and smooth on the start and the
furder ye go the faster ye go till ye get
down toward the bottom. Then’s when
ye want to look out fer chunks in the
road, cus if ye don’t, ye’'ll sure get
jolted. I knowed a feller oncet that
slode down hill on one of them air
credit automobeeluses fer a good long
spell. He kep’ going furder and furder
and swifter and swifter and yelling
louder and louder that he could go it
quickern’ anyone elst, till folks thought
he owned the hill he was a sliding on.
But there was a stone wall down to the
bottom, and he never see it till he was
right on to it, and it jerked him up so
quick that it stopped his hollering,
sp'iled his red wagin and busted up his
business. My idee is that, whena feller

 

 

tackles a pretty steep hill, he better be a
looking out fer a middling easy place to
light.
+ +s

Throwing in thread and buttons with
caliker dresses, galluses with overalls,
socks with shoes and matches and pipes
with smoking terbacker has sp’iled more
customers than it ever made.

me ae

It’s mighty poor business to open an
account with a poor devil just because
ye feel sorry fer him. Ye better put yer
hand in yer pocket and make him a
present of a shilling in cash and that’ll
be the end on’t. Mebbe he’!l spend
his coin somewhere else fer a kind of an
opening wedge to get trusted, but if he
does, he’ll be back and trade with you
as soon as he owes a bill and the other
feller wants his money back.

Geo, L. Thurston.
——__—__ —<--6-<——__
Always Progressive.

From the Allegan Press.

The Michigan Tradesman is always
progressive, and is again about to make
an important move. The establishment
will be moved from the fifth floor of the
Blodgett building to the first and second
floors of the Barnhart building, where
the room made necessary by increase in
business will be found.

 

 

Cheaper Than a Candle
fag and many 100 times more light from
Brilliant and Halo
Gasoline Gas Lamps
Guaranteed good for any —. One
™ agent in a town wanted. ig profits.
Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.
42 State Street. Chicago Tl,

 

 

 
    
 
   
  
   
 
     

Insurance
Against Fire

Is generally conceded to be
a necessity with every mer-
chant. It is just as essen-
tial that he should be pro-
tected against slow-pay and
bad-pay customers, which
can be accomplished by
maintaining a membership
in thee COMMERCIAL
ctinsr Co,

   

 

Estate
Matters

We give special at-
tention to estate
matters, and from
the experience
gained in many years
are able to handle
them better than in-
dividuals who could
not have a similar
training.

Che Michigan
Crust Zo.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Yes, This
Is Good
Value

The Toledo Coffee & Spice

Co.---be sure you get the name

 

 

 

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right---will send you this splen-
did 8-day Regulator (solid oak
h), with 40

pounds of purest spices at the

unusually low price for 10
both of - -

Toledo Coffee & Spice @o.,

Toledo, Ohio.

and 32 inches hig
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20

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Woman’s World

Some Reasons Why Men Do Not Marry.

One of the topics of vital importance to
their sex that the women’s clubs of the
country would do well to tackle is the
momentous question of what Mr. Wegg
would call the decline and fall off in
matrimony. Beside it the problems of
what Browning thought he thought, the
affairs of the ancient Byzantine Em-
pire, or even whether Mary MacLane is
a genius or merely indecent, pass into
innocuous desuetude, for marriage al-
ways has been and always will be the
chief end of woman. It is the career
for which nature destined her; it is the
profession she fills best and in which
she does most for the world; it is the
state in which she finds her own highest
happiness, and anything that bars her
from it is a subject worthy of the pro-
foundest study.

For many years, when we beheld the
increasing crop of old maids, we have
solaced ourselves with the thought that
it was a visitation of Providence, and
that inasmuch as heaven had seen fit to
send more girl babies than boy babies,
a woman could not be blamed for being
a spinster when there were not enough
husbands to go around. It appears that
this is a mistake, and that, like a good
many other misfortunes that we saddle
on the Almighty, the fault is really our
own. The recent census report shows
that in all but a few of the Eastern
States men are largely in the majority,
and so we are left to digest the cold and
unpalatable fact that the reason so many
of us are husbandless is not the result
of chance, but a settled and deliberate
purpose. Men could marry and they
will not,

That there is a growing disinclination
among men to assume the matrimonial
yoke is apparent to every observer. In
our grandparents’ time the ambition of
every young man was to marry early
and establish a home of his own. Now-
adays men like to put marriage off as
long as possible, and one witty bachelor
of my acquaintance even goes so far as
to define matrimony as that species of
insanity that leads one man to assume
another man's daughter's biils.

Many reasons have been suggested for
this change of conditions—women’s
growing independence, the selfishness
of man, the perfection of comfort to
which living has been brought for the
single men in cities, where, for less than
the cost of supporting a modest home,
a bachelor may indulge in all the lJux-
uries afforded by a_ well-run bachelor
apartment house. Without doubt there
is a grain of truth in all of these con-
tentions, but the real answer to the
question why men do not marry is to be
found in the modern girl.

Never before in the history of the
world was woman so attractive and so
little lovable. Never before was she so
charming as a companion and so unde-
sirable as a wife. Never before was she
so well educated and so utterly ignorant
of everything that goes to build up a
happy and comfortable home. Never
before did she devote so much time to
the abstract consideration of ethical
questions and the uplifting of the world
and never before was she so cold-
bloodedly selfish.

In this is to be found the answer, not
only why men do not marry, but why
they get divorces so often when they do.
The free bachelor looks around among
his acquaintances and sees this man

working like a galley slave to support

 

 

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the extravagance of his family, that one
crowded up with a wife and two or
three children in one room of a board-
ing-house because the woman does not
like to keep house, another one whose
conversation with his wife is a series
of bickerings and quarrels, and he ob-
serves nothing in the prospect to lead
him to go and do likewise, for it is a
solemn fact that nine-tenths of the
couples we know are nothing but an
awful warning against matrimony.

Probably the woman is no more to
blame than her husband, but under the
circumstances it can not be said that she
is a good advance agent for the attrac-
tions of matrimony for her sex. Still,
for all that, it is undeniable that nobody
yet was ever warned by the fate of an-
other or kept from doing the thing he
wanted to by another person’s failure,
and so we must seek deeper than the
family jar for the reason men do not
marry,

I have laid man's celibacy at woman’s
door. Why?

In the first place, I believe that the de-
cay of domesticity among women keeps
more men from marrying than all other
causes combined. Men are far more do-
mestic in their tastes than women.
Every man, deep in his soul, cherishes
the idea of a home that he hopes some
day will be his, He dreams of it asa
place where the hearth will always be
swept and the lovelight burning; where
the meals, however simple, will always
be well cooked and served; where he
will be able to indulge his tastes and
lay his burdens down. It is to bea
haven, a refuge, a heaven on earth,
but, being a man of affairs, he knows
that it takes a presiding genius to make
even paradise run smoothly and that no
man can have the kind of a home he
wants unless he has a wife who has in-
telligence, thrift, energy and enthu-
siasm,

With this beautiful ideal of a home
in his mind the man goes out into soci-
ety. He meets Maud and is charmed

 

 

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ing book we publish which
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 freeupon request.

Old National
Bank,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Write for a package now.

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with her beauty and begins tothink how
handsome she would look at the head
of his tahle, but before he can commit
the folly of asking her to share his

home, she chills his ardor by declaring.

in favor of hotel life. Soon after he en-
counters Sarah and is fascinated by her
brilliant wit and cleverness. ‘‘How
deiightful life would be with such a com-
panion ever by your side,’’ he reflects,
but just as the proposal is trembling on
his lips, Sarah gives him to understand
that she could never devote her great
mind to such a trivial subject as mak-
ing a man a comfortable home, and so
he sadly passes up matrimony with her.
A little later on he runs across dear lit-
tle kitteny Mamie, all innocence and
baby ways and artless sweetness.
‘*Here,’’ be murmurs to his heart,‘‘is a
household angel at last,’’ but alas,
Mamie boasts that she does not know a
thing about horrid housekeeping and
cooking and that she could not boil an
egg to save her life, and the man who
bas seen what incompetence can do in
business and is not enamored of it flees
for his life, with the sage reflection that
if he has got to live in boarding-houses
he will not pay anybody else’s board
bill but his own.

I honestly believe that if men had any
certainty that when they married they
were getting a wife who knew her busi-
ness as well as they know theirs—a
woman who couid manage a house with-
out waste or extravagance or friction
with servants—that there would bea
stampede into matrimony. The crying
sin of the day is the trifling way in
which girls are reared by their mothers
and the fact that they are taught every-
thing on earth but the things they ought
to know. Not one girl ina hundred
can make her own clothes or cook a de-
cent dinner, and it is because men know
it and do not want to burden themselves
with such helpless incumbrances that
there are so many old maids. If girls
were fitted to be helpmeets to their hus-
bands, plenty of men would be glad to
get such life partners.

Another reason men do not marry is
because of the extravagance of women,
Mothers, and especially poor mothers,
think they help their daughters to catch
husbands by dressing them beyond their
means and station. Never was a greater
mistake. The rich men in this country
are nearly all married and elderly. The
men who are to be the merchant princes
and financiers of twenty years hence are
clerking on small salaries or running
little groceries or offices; they can no
more afford the luxury of a magnificent-
ly dressed wife than they could afford to
drive an automobile or drink champagne
every day. These things may come to
them later on, but they know that if
they indulge in them now they will be
poor to the end of the chapter, and so
the ambitious man who means to get on
in the world would no more dream of
marrying such a girl than he would of
committing financial suicide in any
other way.

Times out of number I have heard
young men speak in the most disparag-
ing manner of girls who dressed finely
while their poor old fathers toiled and
strained, trying to make both ends meet.
‘“‘Catch me marrying a wife who will
keep my nose to the grindstone,’’ is
their invariable comment.

The most beautiful woman I ever saw
is passing into the sere and yellow leaf
of old maidenhood, a victim to this
fallacy tbat a girl should dress finely to
attract men. She belonged toa good
but poor family, and in order that she

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

might be adorned like Solomon in all
his glory her mother moved heaven and
earth to dress her and wherever she
went she was noted for the exquisiteness
of her toilets as much as her rare
beauty. Unfortunately for her, there
were no millionaires in the community,
and the moderately well-to-do men—one
of whom I happen to know she loved—
avoided her with fear. ‘‘What could we
do with a wife with such extravagant
tastes?’’ they asked themselves; ‘‘we
could not even keep her in silk stock-
ings and satin slippers,’’ and so the
poor, commonplace girls in homemade
frocks married all about her and the
glass of fashion was left alone.

Another mistake women make is in
thinking that men admire frivolity. Men
are seldom merciful to women, and in
nothing are they more crue! than this,
that they will teach her to do things
under the impression that she is pleas-
ing them and then break her neck for
doing it. The young girl, making her
debut in society, sees that the woman
who drinks cocktails and smokes cig-
arettes, and tells risque stories is sur-
rounded by a crowd of men wherever
she goes, and she thinks that is the way
to make herself admired. Possibly, but
it is not the way tc get married. When
a man starts out to hunt for a wife, he
seldom seeks her in the ranks of the
fast set. He amuses himself with one
type of girl, but he marries another.

When all is said, however, it is a
deeply significant fact that while wom-
an’s ideal of the sex has changed, man’s
ideal of womanhood has remained the
same. What he reverenced in the first
woman—gentleness, purity, tenderness,
love, the angel of the home and the
fireside—he worships stili and the closer
she sticks to that bill of particulars, the
more apt she is to get a husband.

Dorothy Dix.
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The One Thing Below Expectation.

‘‘l hope,’’ said the drummer, ‘‘ you
were quite satisfied with my report for
the past month.’’

‘‘Well,’’ replied the head of the firm,
‘*there was one part of it that really ex-
ceeded our expectations,’’

‘*And what was that?’’

‘* Your expenses, ’’

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The human race is divided into two
classes—those who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit still and
enquire why it wasn’t done the other
way.—Oliver W. Holmes.

NSSeSdcccecer

Holiday jy
Goods

We extend a very cordial

 

 

 

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.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

A National Cash Register
for $25

 

This is a picture of the machine we sell
for $25. It is a Detail Adder,

correct record of the sales for the entire

giving a
day, preventing mistakes in making change
and saving money and time every hour

you use it.

The sale of
proves that there must be something very desirable

300,000 National Cash Registers

about the machine.

Now, maybe you can get along without a Register
—we won't argue that point—the point is that when
you can get a Cash Register at the low price of $25
there is absolutely no use of your taking the chances

of the losses which might happen without one.

Our $25 Register is not a second-hand machine or
an out of date style, but a bran new thoroughly prac-
tical device.

We want you to send us a postal for further infor-

mation.

Isn’t it worth one cent to find out just how useful

the National Cash Register really is?

Your request on a postal will bring the proof.

National Cash Register Co.

Dayton, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

22

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Butter and Eggs

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

As the season advances the unhealthy
features of the storage egg situation,
which have heretofore been indicated
by the facts and estimates printed in
this column, become more apparent.
As previously indicated the reduction
of refrigerator reserves is proceeding at
too slow a pace to give promise of a
satisfactory remaining stock at the end
of the regular storage season, and the
probability is increasing that unusually
large quantities will have to be carried
over into the next year unless some
means is found to increase the demand,
or something happens to materially re-
duce the current supply of fresh col-
lections,

Our last calculation of refrigerator
heldings in New York and Jersey City,
based partly upon accurate reports and
partly upon estimates, placed the quan-
tity on hand Oct. 1 at about 355,000
cases, and indicated that a reduction
had been made during September of
about 60,000 cases. It was also shown
that if these estimates were approxi-
mately correct our trade must have con-
sumed about 60,000 cases of eggs per
week during the month of September.

Similar investigations recently made
indicate a total reduction in our refrig-
erator stock during the month of Oc-
tober of about 64,500 cases, leaving the
stock on hand November 1 at about
290, 500 cases.

Our receipts of fresh eggs during Oc-
tober were 209,000 cases, in round num-
bers, but on November 1 there was a
considerably larger accumulation of them
in store and on dock than the month
previous; estimating this excess accum-
ulation at 9,000 cases we would have
200,000 cases of fresh receipts and 64,-
500 local refrigerators to represent the
October consumption, equal to about
59,000 cases per week,

It will be seen from the above that
unless something happens to materially
increase the output of local refrigerator
eggs we shall have many more on hand
January 1 than is usually the case.

Boston reports are rather discouraging.
In that city the refrigerator stock was
reduced from 171,609 cases on Septem-
ber 27 to 150,671 cases on November
i—only 20,938 cases for the five weeks;
last year during the same time the re-
duction was 64,569 cases—from 177, 329
cases to 112,760 cases. It will be seen
that Boston had about 38,000 cases more
in store Nov. 1 than at the same date
last year, and that the rate of reduction
at present is very much slower.

In the Albany and Springfield houses
the total deliveries to Nov. 1 last year
were 72,0c0 cases, while this year they
were only 45,000 cases to same date and
the season's receipts at these houses
were only 5,000 cases less than last year.

Recent estimates from Chicago, from
the most reliable sources, place the re-
maining stock there on Nov. I at 450,-
000 cases—about 100,000 cases more than
last year,

Our October receipts were a little less
than last year, and yet we think the
quantity of fresh gathered eggs was
larger; the quantity of interior refrig-
erators sent forward was much less this
year than last.

There are now advices of decreased
shipments of fresh gathered eggs to this
market, but the production seems, never-
theless to be considerably larger than
last year in Southerly and Southwestern
sections,

 

From November 1 to January I there
are about nine weeks; if our trade re-
quirements continue as indicated for
September and October at about 60,000
cases a week we shall have an outlet for
540,000 cases; last year our November
and December receipts were about 330,-
ooo cases; if they are not larger this
year it looks as if we might expect to
reduce refrigerator holdings here to about
80,000 cases by January 1. This isa
much larger quantity than we have ever
before carried over the turn of the year.

Of course these calculations are liable
to modification by various possibilities,
but it may be added that the present
outlook for supplies of fresh gathered
eggs is more favorable than at this time
a year ago.—N. Y. Produce Review.

et te
How the Oleo Idea Had Its Origin.

During the Franco-Prussian war
Mege Mouries, forced by the conditions
existing in Paris, ascertained that the
oil extracted from the beef suet was a
very good substitute for butter,and oleo-
margarine was given to the world. This
product is chemically a butter fat, but
does not contain as large percentages of
butyric and other volatile acids which
give rancidity to butter. Therefore
oleomargarine keeps better than butter.
To the lumberman, the miner, the
sailor, is given a reliable supply of
butter food which he could not obtain if
he were dependent upon butter. The
animal oils are churned in milk,
worked, salted and handled precisely as
butter, and this product is butter made
by chemical methods rather than by na-
ture,

The attitude of the dairy distributing
interests of the country, as voiced by
congressional action, bas for the time
being possibly injured the oleomar-
garine business, but it is nevertheless
an article of merit. It seems impossible
to believe that the laboring portion of
the community is to be deprived of a
healthful and cheap article of food at
the instigation of the manufacturers of a
competing article, simply because of its
competition. The internal revenue laws,
controlling the sale of oleomargarine be-
fore the passage of the Grout bill, pro-
tected the consumer, in that they required
the original packages of oleomargarine
to be branded and a stamp tax of 2 cents
a pound to be attached to each package.
All this was under the contro} of the in-
ternal revenue department the same as
the manufacture of cigars and other tax-
able commodities. There was no pos-
sibility of the manufacturer selling
“‘oleo’’ as butter without incurring very
great risks and penalties, and it is safe
to say that no manufacturer attempted it,

 

 

All parties interested in

Automobiles

are requested to write us.

 

Weare 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

 

 

    
  
  
    
    
     
     

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 you can ship me. Will pay highest price.
Write or telephone me for prices and particulars

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

Both Phones 1300

SEEDS

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

26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST.

E. S. Alpaugh & Co.

Commission Merchants

16 to 24 Bloomfield St. 17 to 23 Loew Avenue
West Washington Market

New York

Specialties: Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions.
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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The New York Market

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

New York, Nov. 8--There is an evi-
dent desire among coffee speculators to
unload and the general situation of the
market is unsteady if not actually lower
than a week ago. Those who have big
stocks and have been holding fora rise
seem to think the ‘‘appointed time’’ is
yet some way off, and are glad to liqui-
date with the least loss. At the close
Rio No, 7 is quotable at 5%c. The
legitimate demand during the week has
been for small lots and buyers seem to
think there may be a positive decline,
so hesitate to take any stock ahead of
current wants. Receipts at primary
points continue fairly large for this time
of year. In store and afloat there are
2,735,073 bags, against 2,168,913 bagsat
the same time last year. As to mild
coffees there is little, if anything, do-
ing, offerings being small and quota-
tions practically without change. Good
Cucuta is held at 8%4c.

The guarantee of prices on sugar has
been stopped and the situation seems to
be a waiting one. It is felt that some
important move is about to begin and
the approaching ‘‘war’’ between beet
and cane sugar here is full of interest.
There may be no war, of course, but
those interested seem to think that there
will at least be some interesting per-
formances within a week orso, As to
actual business it is slow—decidedly so.
Buyers take only barely enough to last
from day to day, and seem to be sim-
ply waiting.

Low grade basket fired Japan teas
have sold at full market prices and, in
fact, all that has been offered seems to
have been quickly taken care of. The
general tone of the market is decidedly
nrm and, while no great amount of busi-
ness has been transacted, the outlook is
rather in favor of the seller. Dealers
anticipate a good trade after the turn of
the year when the duty is removed, and
in time they hope to see America a _ na-
tion of tea drinkers; but they do not
limit themselves to any stated period.

There is a firm feeling in rice and,
while the volume of business is not so
very large,there is still a fair movement
and sellers are very firm in their views,
Choice to head, 5%4@6%c; domestic
Japan, 4%@4 5c.

The receipts of molasses have reached
a fair aggregate and, with a pretty good
demand the market closes fairly firm.
This is especially true of the better
sorts, although sales are not large in any
one case. The many little calls make a
fair total. Good to prime centrifugal,
17@30c. Syrup refiners are firm, but
there seems to be a rather light call.
Quotations are practically without
change. Good to prime, 18@23¢c.

There is an easier feeling in the
market for canned tomatoes and, in
fact, the week has been rather quiet all
around. Corn ‘s in very light supply
and the same is true of peas. Tomatoes
are worth $1.12%@1.15 for New Jersey
standards. Salmon is firm and Cali-
fornia fruits are selling freely at quota-
tions,

The dried fruit market gathers
Strength steadily and the holiday trade,
already setting in, promises to be al-
most a record breaker. Raisins and
prunes of the larger sizes are very well
Sustained. Currants are moving with
more freedom and the whole situation
is in favor of seller,

Lemons and oranges are doing well
and quotations are strongly adhered to.
Orders have come in freely and from
many parts of the country. Lemons are
selling as well as could be expected at
this time of year and prices are practic-
ally without change. Other fruits are
in about the usual request, with pine-
apples and bananas at unchanged quo-
tations,

Strictly fancy butter is in moderate
supply and the demand is sufficiently
active to keep the market well cleaned
up. Prices are practically without
change, but an advance would occasion
no surprise. Extra creamery, 25c; other
grades from 2o0c through every fraction

 

 

 

 

to 24c; imitation creamery, 18@2oc, lat-
ter for finest stock; factory, 17@19c;
renovated, 17@2oc.

Country cheese markets are reported
stronger than this one and, while no
change is to be noted in quotations here,
it is very likely we shall have a firmer
undertone during the week. While
holders are not anxious to dispose of
stock at present rates, they could not,
at the moment secure any advance.
Full cream, 125c for either large or
small sizes,

Eggs are firm. The amount of really
desirable stock is in light supply and,
in fact, is too small to meet require-
ments by ‘‘quite a lot.’’ Fresh gathered
Western, loss off, 25c. At mark the
range is from !t9@24c, the latter for
fancy candled goods.

— ee nse
White Flour and Appendicitis.
From the American Miller.

It was thought that the limit of sensa-
tional advertising had been reached
when one ot the Battle Creek concerns
boldly claimed that appendicitis was
due to the use of white flour and similar
starchy foods. No doubt, most people
took the announcement with more than
the proverbial grain of salt. Evidently
one person did not He swallowed the
advertisement, hook and all, neat.

He is a doctor—one of the kind who
believe all they read and try every new
fad on their patients. Sometimes they
learn a lot—if the stock of patients hold
out. This physician, who practices in
an interior Illinois town, believes that
white roller flour is the cause of appen
dicitis, and alleges a variety of circum-
stances as proving his theory.

Firstly, people in agricultural com
munities did not have the disease until
the small mills were crowded out. Sec-
ondly, the negroes of the South were
free from the disease so long as they ate
corn bread. Thirdly, Germans, who
ate coarse bread, did not have appendi-
citis until they abandoned it for fine
white roller flour. Now, farmers and
negroes have appendicitis, and it has
also become common in Germany.

That is the whole case of the doctor
against roller flour as the cause of ap-
pendicitis. His reasoning is a fine sam-
ple of the post hoc propter boc sort of
logic. You can trace wars and famines
to eclipses and comets by the same style
of reasoning. And the doctor does not
improve his case by muddling _ the
facts as to the introduction of the new
processes of milling.

Appendicitis is an old enough com-
plaint, known under another name.
[hat so many people are operated upon
is due not to white flour, but to the
doctors. It is only the ‘‘wrinkle’’ of
curing inflammation of the bowels by
cutting off the vermiform appendix that
is new; the disease is old. Doctors used
to attribute it to grape seeds. Now it
is white flour; next it will be something
else. The doctors and the cereal spe-
cialists can unload all human ills onto
white flour. It is safe, if not honest, to
do so; for everybody uses white flour,
and therefore, the cause of anything,
from toothache to ossification, can be
located with dispatch. It makes diag-
nosis easy.

oe
An Unlimited Supply.

‘‘Everything is getting dearer,
the apprehensive citizen.

‘*No,'’ answered the man who has
heen reading about how to circumvent
the trusts, ‘‘advice is as cheap as
ever.

said

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Butter

I always
want It.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso, Mich.
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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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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. Wecan 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.

BUTTER EGGS

Rea & Witzig

Commission Merchants in Butter, Eggs and Poultry
96 West Market Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.

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

 

 

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.

 

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

WE QUOTE YOU THIS WEEK

Selects, per can, 23 cents Selects, per gallon, - - $1.60
Anchors, percan, 20 cents Perfection Standards. per gallon, 1.10
Standards, per can, 18 cents Standards, per gallon, - - 1.05
Favorites, per can, 16 cents Clams, pergallon, - - = || aaa

DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

BAD ACCOUNTS.

 

How a Theorist Would Handle the Dead-
Beats.

Written for the Tradesman,

The average merchant is always ready
to assert that about the meanest man on
earth is the fellow who will not pay his
honest debts. It is almost impossible
for the merchant in the smaller towns to
conduct a strictly cash business, and
therefore every store, before it has run
very long, has on its books accounts
that are worthless.

I was talking with the manager of a
department store in a small town a few
days ago and during our conversation
we touched on this question. 1 asked
him if the store suffered much from bad
debts and he replied that it did toa
certain extent.

‘‘We figure on about $300 losses a
year through this cause,’’ he said, ‘‘but
when we started in business a few years
ago we suffered more than we do now.
You see, we had not learned the charac-
teristics of the various people here-
abouts and therefore a good many of
them got the best of us before we dis-
covered they were no gcood.’’

‘*Then you are more particular in
giving credit than you used to be when
you first started?'’

‘‘Yes, but it makes no difference
how careful we are, some of them get
the best of us in spite of all we can
an."

And this is the story of nine-tenths of
the merchants who do a credit business.
Many of them have been driven to the
wall through the too liberal trusting of
people who were long on promising but
short on paying. Every merchant
must lose something if he trusts.

The handling of these fellows is a
serious problem and one that the most
shrewd merchant finds hard to solve,
but it seems to me that most of the busi-
ness houses make a mistake in allow-
ing customers to run too large accounts.
I have known laboring men to run gro-
cery bills until the debt amounted to

more than $100. How does the mer-
chant expect a man earning average,
wages, paying rent, buying coal and
clothing his family, to pay such a bill
as that? True, it is within the range of
possibility, but most men, when their
debts reach such a figure, will change
stores when they are dunned for what
they owe. It looks to a man up a tree
as if both parties are to blame. I do not
believe that the majority of men who
run bills at the store and fail to pay
them meant to defraud the merchant
when they open the account. They start
with the best of intentions, but when
the debt grows to such large proportions
they are staggered by iis weight, human
nature gets the upper hand, the mer-
chant gets mad and the bill is never
paid, at least in full. It would seem
that if both parties to the agreement
would have a better understanding with
each other when they begin business
together much of this trouble might be
averted,

The average merchant will allow a
man to start an account without asking
how much time he wants on the goods.
He can not buy goods of the wholesale
houses in this way. They have an un-
derstanding with him as to the amount
of time to be given and,if he is desirous
of keeping the good will of the house,
he will live up to the agreement. If he
does not, he can get no more goods,
But this same merchant wiil let Tom,
Dick and Harry have goods on credit
with the understanding that they may
pay when they get ready. For fear of

 

losing their trade and the account he
already has against them, he refrains
from pressing his claims for what is his
due.

Most laboring men are paid every
week and if the merchant will have an
understanding with the customer that he
is to pay his bill at that time there will
be little trouble. Then if he can not
keep his promise he will not expect the
merchant to trust him more until he has
paid up, unless he happens to be one
of the professional dead-beats who never
expect to pay a debt. If he gets mad
and shoots profanity at the merchant it
is a pretty good sign that he is no good,
for it is a well-known fact that the dead-
beat is loudest in his professions of
honesty and feels deeply insulted if any
one has the boldness to question his
motives. If the merchant will stop to
consider the matter he will quickly see
that an honest man will not be offended
if he is refused credit after he has failed
to live up to his agreement.

It is not to be denied, however, that
in the dead-beat line there are some
smooth propositions. I know an old gen-
tleman who has ‘‘done up’’ about every
storekeeper he has ever bought goods of,
and yet to look at him you would sup-
pose him to be as honest as the day is
long. He is a smooth talker and has a
faculty of sympathizing with every man
who has trouble, so that when he strikes
a merchant in the right mood he gen-
erally works him to the queen's taste.
The old man makes a practice of pay-
ing cash for his stuff until he gets well
acquainted. Then he gets trusted for a
little bill of goods, for which he is al-
ways prompt in paying. He then gets
trusted for a bigger bill, payment for
which is also made very promptly. This
he keeps up until the merchant swears
by him, and then he runs bills to beat
the band, never stopping until the game
has been worked to the limit. By the
time this merchant has come to realize
that he has been buncoed the old gen-
tleman begins to look around for another
victim. He lives on a farm from which
a short drive will take him to several
different towns. Generally, he takes a
merchant in a different town each time.
When he has gone the rounds he finds
that new stores have been started in
some of the places, and he begins over
again.

Of course, no merchant would be fool-
ish enough to claim to be proof against
these fellows. It is impossible to do
business and not get the worst end of a
deal once in a while but it would seem
that if the average merchant would pay
as much attention to the collection of
what is due him as he does to selling
the goods there would be less cause to
find fault because the dead-beat is
abroad in the land sapping the lifeblood
from the mercantile business. Of
course, a man to do this must have
backbone. He must be able to say
‘‘no’’ when the occasion demands. It
will take some effort to do this, but the
reward will amply repay the merchant
who looks at the credit question in this
light and stands by his guns through
thick andthin. Raymond H. Merrill.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the >
President, JoHN A. WESTON, nsing; See-
re . . 8. 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. 0. T.
Senior Counselor, W. 8S. BURNS; Secretary
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

 

 

Illustration of the Way Scandal Grows,
Scene I,

Mr Jones is a solemn gentleman with
a pessimistic view of life in general
and his neighbors’ actions in particular.
He looks sad ina pleased sort of way
as he speaks to his wife across the
breakfast table.

Mr. Jones—It is really too bad how
that young Ferguson is going on. Only
married a few months, and his wife is
such a nice girl. Poor little woman!

Mrs, Jones (with eager interest)—What
has he been doing? | have always had
my suspicions of him, but of course I
have said nothing.

Mr. Jones (attacking his omelette)—
Why, when I went down last night to
the board meeting, Ferguson was on the
same train and alone. He was beaming
inthe most undignified way, like a
schoolboy out on a lark. When I came
home I passed one of the theaters just
as it let out, and caught a glimpse of
Ferguson sailing away with a stunning-
ly dressed woman—most devoted, too.
They were on their way to supper, for
1 watched them turn into a cafe.

Mrs. Jones (ecstatically )—The wretch!
And I suppose poor Carla was sitting
patiently at home waiting for him, or
else crying her eyes out! It’s disgrace-
ful! I'll wager she wishes now she had
married Mr. Raymond instead, even if
he is old enough to be her father!

Sc ene IT.

Sitting room of Mrs. Smith, She is
almost touching heads with her caller,
Mrs. White.

Mrs. Smith—What! You haven’t
heard? Why, that young Ferguson is
treating his wife horribly, and she is so
brave about it. Poor thing; goes out
just the same, and never once drops
her pretty smile. Heis infatuated with
another woman—takes her to theaters
and wine suppers,and is out every even-
ing in the week. Mrs. Jones knows all
about it, and she says Carla bitterly
regrets her mistake in not taking that
nice Mr. Raymond instead. Of course,
he is dull, but then he would not have
neglected her. Ob, these young men!

Mrs. White—I always did feel that
he was not to be trusted.

Scene III.

Mrs, White has three women to
luncheon,

Mrs, White—And so Carla has reached
the limit of her endurance! She is go-
ing to get a divorce and marry Mr. Ray-
mond—he was desperately in love with
her before she made the mistake of
marrying Ferguson and has jumped at
the chance. {i admire her spirit, al-
though I hate to see a home broken up.
It serves Ferguson just right. I only
wonder why she delays leaving him and
going back to her father.

Chorus of Women—Yes, isn’t it odd?
Poor child, what an unhappy experience
for her—and how she keeps her troubles
to herself.

Scene IV.

The home of the Fergusons. Carla
and her husband are contentedly sitting
by the reading lamp cutting magazines.

 

Ferguson (suddenly)—Say, dear, you
know my _ new fall hat—the one I went
down on the train ahead of you to buy
the evening we took in the theater last
week? Well, I’ve splashed ink on it.
Can you clean it?

Carla—Yes, certainly. You look so
swell in that hat, Dick. I was proud of
you when you came to meet me at the
station, Say, what on earth do you sup-
pose ails all the women I know? They
have gazed at me with tears in their eyes
the last few days and patted me on the
shoulder. To-day Mrs. Jones said I
could always rely on her and there were
plenty of others to back me up.

Ferguson (amusedly)—Search me.
Why don’t you ask ‘em?

Carla—I’m going to.
uncomfortable.

They make me

She does, and Ferguson, coming home
next evening, is swamped with _hyster-
ical torrents of speech, in which in-
offensive Mr. Raymond, ‘‘gossipy, hor-
rid women,’’ coruscating wrath and

choking laughter are inextricably
mingled,
Ferguson (after three distinct at-

tempts to speak his mind, which end
failures)—And there’s absolutely noth-
ing we can do to convince people it’s
untrue! Carla, come weep on the
shoulder of your villainous husband—
and let's go to the theater to celebrate!

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Gripsack Brigade.

Hastings’ Banner: D. C. Bronson
started out Monday for the Mishawaka
Wooi Boot Co.

J. W. Simmons has been engaged by
the John T. Woodhouse Co. to cover a
portion of the city trade in conjunction
with Tony Quist. C. H. Stellman will
cover Southwestern Michigan for the
same house.

Geo, Liesveld, for twelve years past
house salesman for the Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co, and its predecessor, has
been transferred to road work, taking
the territory along the G, R. & I. from
Cadillac to Mackinaw City. George is
a steady-going sort of a chap and his
promotion is naturally tbe occasion of
congratulation among his many friends,

The first dancing party given. by
Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C.
T., at St. Cecilia Saturday evening was
largely attended and, as is usual at all
the U. C. T. parties, every one seemed
to have had the best kind of a time.
The St. Cecilia is always the place for a
good dance and, with music such as was
furnished Saturday evening, even dull
and quiet people could not help having a
bright and jolly time. The next party
will be strictly a card party, at the Coun-
cil rooms, 64 Pearl street, Saturday
evening, Nov. 15.

~~» 2.

Football has become the great college
game, but yet it is not wholly satisfac-
tory, as the contests between teams rep-
resenting rival institutions are not
wholly representative. ‘ One critic says
that modern athletic customs at college
are wrong because a score or so of men
are assigned to represent the college in
a contest, while all the rest of the
students are expected to sit on wet
benches, smoking cigarettes and watch-
ing the same. What is wanted is a new
game in which all the students can par-
ticipate, and which induces the entire
student body to go in for regular gym-
nasium_ practice. Modern invention
ought to be equal to the production of
such a game, but new ideas in sports
are evolved more slowly than new ideas
in other directions,

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Saginaw—Roland H. Fried, who for
the past twelve years has held a responsi-
ble position with H. Watson & Co., has
resigned to accept a position with the
Handy Wagon Co.

Manton—Chas. L. Moody, formerly
manager of the grocery department of
the Sands & Maxwell Lumber Co., but
for the past four years connected with
the mercantile department of the Bay
Shore Lime Cc., at Bay Shore, has
taken the position of superintendent of
the Williams Mercantile Co., at Man-
ton.

Petoskey——-James Tryon, formerly
with B, C, Levinson, has taken a posi-
tion in the Petoskey Grocery Co.’s
warehouse force.

Traverse City—C. F. Hunter has re-
signed his position which he has held
with the Hamilton Clothing Co. for the
past seven years to take charge of the
clothing department in the Boston store.

Charlotte—Roy Pugh has taken a po-
sition in Newton's grocery store.

Manton—O. D. Park, formerly sales-
man at the Williams Bros. Co.’s store,
is now a salesman at the Home Union
Co.'s store.

Newaygo—W. Ralph Wagers has re-
signed his position in the W. W. Pear-
son store to take a similar position in
the general store of Johnson Bros., at
Sparta.

Traverse City—Nicholtas Comeau has
resigned his position in the clothing
department of the Boston Store to take
a similar position with the Hamilton
Clothing Co,

Saginaw—E, W. Goff, for many years
connected witht he drug business in Bay
City, bas moved to Saginaw and taken
the management of the Parkinson Phar-
macy. Mr. Goff was manager of Fenner
pharmacy in the opera house block,
when it burned August last.

Sturgis—F. T. Cooper has taken a po-
sition as salesman in the new clothing
store of H. Stern & Co,

Cadillac—The retail clerks of Cadillac
have organized for mutual benefit and
joined the Retail Clerks and Interna-
tional Protective Association, with
twenty-five charter members, and elected
the following officers: President, Fred
A. Nye; First Vice-President, B. Ol-
son ; Second Vice-President, Jas. Sayles ;
Treasurer, Geo. Tappe; Financial Sec-
retary, R. C. Snider; Recording Secre-
tary, Gust Nelson; Guard, A. Dahn;
Guide, N. Laney; Advocate, J. A. Van-

dervest.
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Singing in the Army.

In his annual report to Secretary
Root, the head of the War Department,
Adjt. Gen. Corbin, makes various sug-
gestions and recommendations, about
some of which there may easily be a va-
riety of opinion, but there is one of
them at least which will seem literally
to strike a popular chord. He urges
very earnestly :

Every man ina post must sing. The
poorer singer he is, the greater amuse-
ment for his comrades. It is the best
form of entertainment for the men. It
is a part of every man’s military duty.

Every British regiment has a march-
ing song and every member can and
does sing it or sing at it. The English
have found vocal music a very valuable
feature, not exactly of discipline, per-
haps, but of army life. Gen. Corbin
thinks that there should be some regular
practice along these lines, and argues
very sensibly that it would be produc-
tive of good reuslts.

The idea is certainly a commendable
one, and has many arguments in its

 

 

favor. No one need be told of the pleas-
ures incident to singing as a pastime.
It whiles away many an idle and other-
wise irksome hour. In an army post
one of the difficulties is that the men do
not have enough to do to engage their
time and attention. The hours drag
heavily and wearily. There are many
desertions prompted by no other desire
than that of leading a life of greater ac-
tivity. If the men get together and sing
their songs there are‘an enthusiasm and
a comradeship which can not be other-
wise than productive of good results.
The tedium of a march is much relieved
by a regimental song, even if it is not
sung with operatic accuracy. In the
campaign and both before and in the
battle, if the men can sing, it creates
enthusiasm, diverts their thoughts from
danger and makes them more courage-
ous. Singing and good fighting are
more closely related than most people

think at first glance.
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The Postoffice Department will soon
issue a new postage stamp of the two
cent denomination. Washington’s por-
trait, which has appeared upon the
common letter postage stamp since the
beginning of the use of stamps, except
during the single year 1869, will again
occupy the position of honor upon the
label, but the bust of Washington, so
long familiar to the public, will dis-
appear, probably forever. The portrait
of Washington drawn from Jean Antonie
Houdon’s profile cast is abandoned to be
succeeded by a photo direct from Gil-
bert Stuart’s famous painting which'now
adorns the National capitol building.
This photo will occupy the central oval
somewhat smaller than the oval in the
current stamp. Above this, in a panel,
are the words: ‘‘United States of
America’’ and draped upon either side,
occupying two-thirds the length of the
stamp, are two flags, forming a back-
ground against which the oval seems to
rest. Immediately beneath the bust of
Washington appears his name and at
the side in small figures the dates of
Washington's birth and death, 1732-

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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

Term expires
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
Wrst P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dec, 81, 1902
CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dee. 31, 1904
JOHN D. MUIR, Grand Rapids Dec. 81, 19ur
ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906
President, HaNRY HIM, Saginaw
Secretary, JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.

 

 

 

Examination Sessions.

Detroit, Jan. 6 and 7.

Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4,
Star Island, June 16 and 17.
Houghton, Aug. 25 and 26.
Lansing, Noy. 3 and 4.

 

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.

President—Lovu G. Moork, Saginaw.
Secretary—W. H. BuRKE Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F. HUBER, Port Huron.

 

 

 

Advertising For the Trade of Physicians.

In the course of a druggist’s advertis-
ing he should occasionally make appeals
to the physician for a share of his
patronage, Cultivate a feeling of con-
fidence between your business and the
doctor's, and you will find that the re-
sults will be beneficial. It not only gets
the good will of the physician, but wins
you many customers among his patients.
A good word in your favor, spoken by
the physician to his patient, will often
do your business more good than a
whole column advertisement in a news-
paper.

In the first place, have your prescrip-
tion department well stocked with the
highest standard pharmaceutical prod-
ucts obtainable, and have this part of
the store neat in every particular. If
the physician once sees where his pre-
scriptions are compounded and the de-
partment appears to be carelessly con-
ducted, his impression may influence
him to transfer his patronage to another
Store. First impressions are created by
appearances, and the physician's first
insight into the methods employed in
filling his prescriptions generally de-
termines whether or not his orders shall
be entrusted to you.

It is a good plan to send out letters to
the doctors now and then, inviting them
to call and inspect your stock and pre-
scription department, inform them of
every added improvement and of some
special methods used in this depart-
ment, such as avoiding mistakes by the
use of your double check system, etc.
Do not make an announcement in your
advertisement or letters that you can not
live up to. Truth and sincerity in ad-
vertising are absolutely necessary, and
one false statement may ruin your
chances materially.

Advertising to the physician is an
invitation to investigate something you
have to introduce to his notice, and if
he finds that you have misrepresented
anything, no matter thereafter how at-
tractively you may word your advertise-
ments, you may never expect to have
his support. Keep the physicians in-
formed as to everything new that comes
out, and they will respect you all the
more for it, and not look upon you asa
mere merchant but as a_ progressive
pharmacist and a friend to their profes-
sion.

Find out, if possible, what prefer.
ences the physicians have for different
makes of pharmaceuticals and chemic-
als, and keep these in stock in order
that they may be dispensed without
any unnecessary delay, when so speci-
fied by the physician on his prescrip-
tion. The druggist should issue pre-
scription blanks with his name printed
on them, and keep every physician in

 

his neighborhood well supplied. Some-
times the patient, seeing your name on
the prescription, will naturally take it
to your store. Of course you will find
a limited number of physicians who
have an aversion to using any particu-
lar druggist’s blanks, but you will soon
learn who these are by watching the re-
turns. Have cards printed to be sent
out at regular intervals, announcing the
birth of a new chemical or preparation,
leaving a blank space upon which you
may write out a full description giving
its derivation, properties, dose, etc.

There is another thing which might
bave a place in the drug store and to
which too little attention is paid, and
that is a department of urinalysis.
There is but small expenditure attached
to the necessary outfit, and such an ad-
dition will elevate the pharmacist in the
estimation of the physician. Physicians
are generally too busy to devote much
time to urinalysis and if they can place
the work where they can depend upon
its being accurately and properly per-
formed, their obligations to you for
your services will be many. Have
printed forms with blank spaces left for
the recording of every stage of the re-
search, and properly fill out these and
return to the physician when the
analysis is completed.

A druggist may also get up a line of
his own pharmaceuticals and take sam-
ples of each to the physician, and if
they possess merit, it will be more than
likely that he can prevail upon the
physician to give them preference in
his prescriptions. Let every prescrip-
tion that leaves your store bear a neat
appearance, Often a well-written label
or a capped bottle will impress the pa-
tient or physician that you are a careful
and painstaking pharmacist.

—_~_>2—._
Thirty-Seven Out of Seventy-Three.

At the regular meeting of the Michi-
gan Board of Pharmacy, at Lansing last
week, seventy-three applicants were ex-
amined, sixty-one for certificates and
twelve for papers as assistants. Of these
twenty-nine were granted licenses and
eight granted papers as follows:

Registered Pharmacists—C. B. As-
pin, Midland; F. C. Ballintine, Port
Huron; A. C, Briggs, Plymouth; R. E.
Bolton, Imlay City: B. A. Benson,
Cadillac; Horace Cobb, Cassopclis; M.
J. Chapin, Detroit; R. A. Carmichael,
Sault Ste. Marie: C. G. Foster, Ot-
sego; John T. Fowler, Jr., Mason;
Thomas Groshaw, Emmett; E, A, Gast,
St. Joseph; F. E. Holden, Brown City;
William A. Howell, West Branch; H.
F. Kloeffler, Armada; W. E. Loebrick,
Saginaw; D. R. Landsborough, Dag-
gett; F. J. LaVigne, Negaunee; Wil-
liam E. MclIntosh, Imlay City; A. E.
Moore, Marlette: E. S, Nivison, De-
troit; Percy S. Peck, Grand Rapids;
Louis F. Storz, Royal Oak; C. J. Shain,
Birmingham ; Joseph Taggert, Marlette ;
H. B. Walker, Albion; C. W. Wilcox,
Flushing; W. A. Zincke, Chelsea; F.
E. Hutchings, Grand Rapids.

Assistant Pharmacists—C, W.
Bay City; N. J. Eckburg, Grand Rap-
ids; B. F. Gain, Port Huron: Henr
Pyle, Grand Rapids; F. S. Schloeder,
Detroit; Albert Tilly, St. Josph: H. j.
Wilson, Big Rapids; Edith Wilson,

Avery,

Big Rapids.
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Formula For Kerosene Liniment.
via ee 2 ozs.
AMmice timetame 5 drs.
ree WO 4 drs,
Stramonium tincture........... 4 drs,
Arom. spts. ammonia........... 6 drs,
ee OE ce 5 drs.
Pe Mramen 4 drs,
Bc ae ca 3 drs,

Rub in twice during the twenty-four
hours or when required. Wm. Mixton.

 

 

Lister’s Antiseptic Solutions.
Peeeeee WESG 64 grs.
a 64 grs.
Be 128 grs.
Ne 20 grs.
Pucagren ON 5 drs,
Waintertereen of... 5 dps,
PepRCeRMME OM 3 dps.
‘Thyme oil (white)............. I dp.
Fld. ext. wild indigo.......... 20 dps.
ei 6 ozs.

Distilled water, sufficient.

Dissolve the two acids and borax by
the aid of heat in 8 ounces of water,
also dissolve the thymol and oils in the
alcohol, mix the two solutions, agitating
frequently during mixing, add the fluid
extract and then enough water to make
16 ozs. ; set aside for 24 hours, and filter
through purified talcum.

Bere Ree 128 grs,
Page es 20 grs.
Ce 5 dps.
WINCeMBRCeN ON 5 dps.
schon. spinisnegaalfloatt Dera near 3 dps.
cnyme ol (white)... 8... I dp.
Pid. ext. wild indigo....._... 30 m.
PCO ee 3 ozs,
Distilled water to make,....... 16 ozs.
Dissolve the acid in some of the

water, add the other ingredients to the
alcohol, dissolve, mix the two solutions,
add the remainder of the water, let
stand for 24 hours, and filter through
purified talcum, H. W. Sparker.

How Kumyss Is Prepared.
Into one gallon bottle introduce the
following mixture:

Presn Cow Smt. 0.20. 80 ozs.
ed I oz.
ee 2 ozs,
Water, boiled and cooled........ 40 ozs.
RE PO ie eee cutie eee bla 5 grs.

Triturate yeast in a mortar with a
small quantity of the mixture, add this
to the contents of the bottle and agitate.
Transfer to regular kumyss bottles,
which should not be completely filled,
and immediately close them with per-
fectly fitting corks that have been kept
in boiling water for a short time before
use. Secure the corks with twine, and
seal the bottles by dipping the necks
into melted paraffine.

Place the bottles in a horizontal posi-
tion and allow fermentation to proceed
at a temperature ranging between 70 to
80 deg. Fahrenheit for 48 hours, during
which time they should be occasianally
agitated. If a higher temperature is
employed the fermentation will proceed
too rapidly and an unsatisfactory product
will result. After the fermentation is
over, place the bottles on ice and allow
them to remain there for at least twelve
hours before dispensing.

Kumyss prepared in this manner will
keep for at least a week if stored on
ice. In preparing kumyss the milk
should be pure, the bottle sound and the
yeast cake fresh. H. W. Sparker.,

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White Wood Cure For Tobacco Habit.

The Liriodendron tulipifera, also
known under the names of white poplar
and white wood, is probably the larg-
est of the lumber-producing trees native
to this country, excepting, of course,

Y | the giants of California. The inner bark

has been used to a considerable extent,
in years gone by, as a domestic remedy
for malarial conditions, or infused in
whisky as a tonic or bitters. -This bark
also constitutes a very efficient cure for
the tobacco habit. The fresh, inner
bark may be chewed, or the powdered
bark may be mixed with sugar and ex-
tract of licorice and pressed into a
tablet, say of five grains of the bark,
These tablets are to be allowed to dis-
solve in the mouth whenever tke desire
comes to take a chew ora smoke. The
man who made the discovery cured him-

 

self, and he was a most inveterate
chewer. He also gave it to dozens of
his friends, with fine results, finally
selling his receipt to a large drug house
for $1,500. While the remedy is cheap,
it is also harmless, and at the same
time a fine stomachic, resembling gen-
tian in its action upon the gastric or-
gans.

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Good Itch Ointment.
Mercury perchloride............ 16 grs,
Powd. ammonium chloride..... 16 grs.
Ammoniated mercury.......... 40 grs.
ene See 40 grs,
Sulphur precipitated........... 2 ozs.
VereunOn oe q. &.
lard, benzoifiated...... 0.000... 16 ozs,

Triturate the powders together with
sufficient vermilion (1 dr.) to impart a
pink tint to the ointment, then work
in the benzoinated lard gradually to
produce a smooth preparation. Per-
fume with lavender oil and ess. bou-
quet. To be applied at bedtime and
after washing in the morning. It is
recommended as a certain cure for itch
and many other skin disorders, but care
should be exercised when applying it to
the face. Wm. Mixton.

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The Drug Market.

Opium—Is a little firmer, but un-
changed in price.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is weak. The bark sale at
Amsterdam last week was at a decline
of nearly 12 per cent.

Pyrogallic Acid—Is tending lower,
on account of reduced price abroad.

Bromides Ammonium, Potassium and
Sodium—Have again declined and are
tending lower.

Cocaine—Is very cheap at present
price. An advance is looked for,

Cocoa Butter—Is below average price
and tending lower.

Cod Liver Oil—Is very firm and ad-
vancing.

Haarlem Oil—Has advanced toc per
gross.

Lycopodium—The market is very firm
and an advance is looked for.

Juniper Berries—Continue to decline
as the new crop comes in.

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

Lobelia Seed—Is a little more plenti-
full and prices have declined.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm and has ad-
vanced.

FRED BRUNDAGE
wholesale
® Drugs and Stationery «
32 & 34 Western Ave., ;
MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

 

 

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factories in the U. S. As-
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equalled on the road this
season.

Prices Guaranteed

to be identically same as
manufacturers. A card will
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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Menthol............. 7 50@ 8 09| Seldiitz Mixture..... <0@ 22| Linseed, pure raw... 45 48
Morphia, 8. B 5 2 4 : S 8 is . $ 18 eens eae ie 46 ad
ame z orphia, S., ~-@.21 30 | Neatsfoot, winter str 59 85
Advanced—Linseed Oil. Turp
Declined—Juniper Berries, Bromides. ooo Canton... . 7a " o @ 41 — — - -
——— stica, No. t..... 65D «80 @ 41 Paints BBL. LB
Meta : Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 @ /
cidum (onto Mac - 80@ 90/ Selliz Co.. @ 50| Os Sepia... 35Q@ 37 9@ i1| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8
Aceticum ... .$ 6@$ 8| Copaiba - 1 18@ 1 25| Tolutan.. i @ 50| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. 2@ 27| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75 os bee . 1 30@ 1 35| Prunus virg......... @ 50 ee. @ 1 00 1%@ __2| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
perenne... ..... @ i7 —— -- 150@ 1 60 Tinetures Picis Lig. N.N. % gal. 3@ ~=sés«#5 | Putty, commercial. ha 2%4@3
Carbolicum . 24@ 29} Erigeron - 100@ 1 10 At doz @ 2 00 3%@ 4/ Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Citricum.... 40@ 42 Gaultheria - ... 2 20@ 2 3)| Aconitum Napellis R 80 Peis Liq., , quarts .. @ 10 @ = 2) Vermilion, rime
Hydrochior 3@ «5 | Geranium, ounce.. @ 7 —_— —" 50 | Picis Liq., pints. .... @ 8 @ 260; American. 13@ 15
Nitrocum .. 3@ 10 pomtoee. ‘Sem. eal. 50@ 60 ae 60 | Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80 @ wo 50@ 55| Vermilion, Engiish. . 70@
Oxalicum...... 12@ 14| Hedeo . 180@ 1 85 Aloes a and Myrrh. 60 | Piper Nigra -po. 22 @ 18 @ 2 00 | Green, Paris........ 144@ 18%
Phosphoriazn, d @ 15 Juntpera -.ee. 1 50@ 2 00 | Arica .............. 50 | Piper Alba ae @ 30| Sp @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Salicylicum .... 60@ 53| Lavendula .........” 90@ 2 00 Assafcntida nesses sees 50 | Pilx Burgun..... @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect. “gpbi @ eis, coe $ @ 8%
Sulphurioum 1%@ 5 | Limonis. .. 1... 1 15@ 1 25 | Atrope Belladonna... 60 | Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12/|Spts. ViniRect.10gal @ Lead, white......... 6 @ 6%
Tannicum . 1 10@ 1 20| Mentha Piper....... 5 60@ 6 0° ee — toeee 50} Pulvis Tpecne ¢ et Ops 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ Whiting, white _ @ 9
Tartaricum 38@  40| Mentha Verid....... 5 00@ 5 50 oe 2 tenes 60 Feeiren, ve xes Strychnia, Crystal... 80@ 1 05 | Whiting, gilders’. Q@ %
i aie Merrkum, Bal... .... 2 00@ 2 19 | Benzo Ce 50 &P. D. Co., doz.. @ 75) Sulphur, Sub 2%@ 4| White, saris, Amer. @ 12
rele . E | 4 00@ 4 50 eee 50 | Pyrethrum, pv...... 23Q aes, Roll 24@ 3%) Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ Clee 75@ 3 00 Cantharides......... | Gussie 8@ 10/ Tamarinds.......... 8@ 10 i secu ee @i4#
Aqua, 20 deg. Ce 6@ 8 | Picis Liquida.... ||.” 10@ 12| Capsicum............ 50 | Quinia, 8. P. & W 28@ 38|Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30| Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Carbonas.... ....... 13@ 15] Picts Liquida, gai... @ 35|Cardamon.... 20... 75| Quinia,S. German.. ‘8@ 38 Theobrome.... we  45Q 50
Chioridum........... 12@ 14| Ricina...............  92@ 9g | Cardamon Co........ 75 Quinia, N. Y......... 28@ 38 Vanilla. LIT 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
Aniline Rasmentn @ 1 00 — a, ste cece weeees . ubla Tinctorum 2 14 | Zinei Sulph.. i 7m ¢ ee
se, OUNCE......... 6 50@ 7 00 e 3 22 0.1 oach... 1 10@ 1 20
Black....... 2? Soe... 40@ | 4 | Clnchona .. 50 | Salacin.............. 4 50@ 4 75 ous Extra Turp...---.... 1 60@ 1 70
Brown 80 Se 90@ 1 00 | Cinchona a. 60 Sanguls, Draconis. 40@ 50 BBL. GAL. | Coach Ke 2 mS 3.
te of oF = Banta oo. e+ oo. oe 2 78@ 7 00 | Columba seeses 50 | Sapo, W.... 12@ 14| Whale, winter........ 79 | 70| No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
Yellow... * Sassafras... 55@ «BO a saaperneor Gane 10@ 12 ex 85 90| Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Baccse are. @88., OUNCE. @ 6 Gan on he taseee 50 | Sapo G..... @ | lard, No.t.......... 680 65/Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 78
Cubeb2........ po,25 2@ 24 ee 1 50@ 1 60 Digitalis cut! eaheonss 50
Juni oe 62 a was Peccccceveccce ce 0@ 50 50 hgh ain Sune srlagrsa ee
Xanthoxylum ....... 1 50@ 1 60 a oe @ 1 60 2
0 = eobromas ........ 15@ 20 50
Copaiba. . 50@ 55 Potassium 60
Peru @ 1 70| BiOard.............. 16@ 18 50
Terabin, Canada 60@ 65 | Bichromate 1B@ 15/5 80
folutan.............. Se 36@ 33 | Hyoscyamus... 50
“Cortex 12@ 15 odine a 75
16@ 18 ioe, coloriess..... 75
Abies, Canadian..... 18 H@ 38 ON cee ce 50
Casshses ona oo 12 . 20g 22 Lobelia a 5 a
na : es
Euonymus atropurp. 80 Fae eo y 7@ 10 | Nux Vomica.. 5o|
Myrica Certfera, po. 20! Potass Nitras. 6@ = | OPIl.....-.--...-- 020s 75
Prunus Virgini...... 12 | Secaiein 23@ 26 | OPi!, comphorated .. 5o| Ra
uillaia, gr°’d.. 12 Sulphate po.. a 15@ 18 Opil, d orived. .... 1 Bo
as afras...... po. 15 Ee erie ste ae 50 kp
Ulmus...po. 20, gr’d 38 Radix ——-- fo
Extractum aen............ Sh Bi gees
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 30 AMID ovecesseeccses BOD 88 mee fo
cyrrhiza, po.....
Hamatox, 15 \b.box 11@ 12 Arum Do. . 1. e
Heematox, 1s........ 13 14 mus. 2@ 40) Valerian 70. 5p
femae cc: i lS ig BB | eas
Hematox, 4 ae Hydrastis Canaden. @ 75| Zingiber.. 29
bonate Pr i 15 By irestis “Alba a = Miscellaneous
Jarbonate Prec ellebore, Alba, po. 12@ 15) Atther, Spts.Nit.? F 30@ 3
cane and Quinta. 2 2 ome a os ane ; = a Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
© SOMDIC...... . I ie occa 3
errocyanidum Sol 40 | Iris plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40/ Alumen, gro’d..po.7 eo We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
Solut. Chloride. ..... 15 | Jalapa, pr........... 25@ 30 ee ne SO : _
Sulphate, com’l..... 2| Maranta, \s........ @ 35/ Antimoni, po........ 5 Chemicals and Patent Medicines.
Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyilum, po... 22@ 25/| Antimoniet Potass T 50
on a ¢ Retaees . or as ee eee . 7 : sian Anti BD now on «oes @
ulpha nme. c.... ee 25| Antifebrin .......... . : .
- . Flora hae 75@ 1 35 Argent! Ni Nitras, aor $ = We are dealers in Paints, Oils and
sce ug linia pce “SB S|MOR A ics BBB
LS eee tan oe alm G a 4
Ankbemsle-s.--------: SB ge | Serpentaria........ 50@ 55 | Bismuth 8. N........ 1 65@ 1 70 Varnishes.
ALTICATIA. ...----. +. Seneg: 75@  80| Calcium Chior., 1s.. @ 9
Folia Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40/ Calcium Chlor., s.. @ 10 , a
. 40 | 5m 2 alcium C or., igs. 1 eC have a iu ine O apie ru 1StS
iii 5@ Smilax, M.. @ 2 | Calcium Chi @ 12 Weh full | f Staple D t
Cassia Acatifel, Tin- Sell . “BO. 38 10@ 12|Cantharides,Rus.po @ 80
nevell 20@ 25 Symplocarpus, F etl- Capsici Fructus, @ 15 Sundri
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 25@ 30 ee. @ 25| Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 unaries.
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 @ 25) Capsici Fructus B, po @ 15
ne Mee 12@ 20 Valeriana, German. 15@ 20] ¢ Caryo hyllus. -pe- 1b 5 1g 4
can 161 Deemer as... ...... Carmine, No. 3 i .
Uva Ursi....... 8@ —_- was om oe We are the sole proprietors of Weath
Gammi s Cera Flava.. 40@ 42
Acacia, ist picked... @ 65 — Joccus ...... @ #0 erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
Acacia, 2d picked... ® 45/ Anisum. .po. @ 15! Cassia —— @ 35
— = picked @ = . ae (eravaivons), = 15 oo @ 2
cacia, s sorts. @ rd, is. 6 | Cetaceum...... . ;
Acacia, po. . 45@ 65/Carul.......... ‘po. 15 10@ 11| Chloroform .... oo 60 We always have in stock a full line of
— Barb. po.18@20 12@ = ae. tee c ee cee d a 1 75 sae sia on 1 10
ioe, Cape 10. 15. @ Prneram.......... 10 | Chlora’ rs 1 1 60 iskj i i i
Aloe; reoiri .po. 4 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa... ob 6 | Chestres.. 20@ 25 Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines
AmONG,.. ..24 .2.. 55@ 60) Cydonium. <icce Cote Cinchonidine, P.&W BQ 48 ‘
Assafertida....po.40 25@ 40| Chenopodium...” 15@ 16/Cinchonidine,Germ. 38@ 48 and Rums for medical purposes
nzoinu 50@ 55/ Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine ............. 4 05@ 4 25
Cateenn, ts.......... @ 13; Foniculum.......... @ 10} Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 75 1
Catecbu, %s8......... @ 14/| Foenugreek, po...... 7 91) Oréecsotum........... @ 4 only.
Catechu, 4s.. “s wiles... 8. 4@_ 6| Creta. . bbl. 75 ea 3
phon. ase ons 4 : Spee? ee ee Le 46. C6 oon prep. bk se tees ef 5
uphorbium.. — eee 1 50@ 1 55 | Creta, precip........ 11 i i i
Galbanum.. @ 1 00 Pharlaris Canarian.. 5 @ 6 Creta, — Cee @ 3 We give our personal attention to mail
Gamboge......... "po 80@ | Rapa - & @  6&/j Crocus . . =. & ve ‘
Gualacum......po.35 @ 35/|Sinapis Alba....:::' 9@ 10| Cudbear...........:: @ 2 orders and guarantee satisfaction.
mo... po. $0.75 @& 7| Sinepis Nigs....... tig 12] Capel Suiph......... B44Q 8
a de uch ce aaa @ = Spiritus ees ae 7@ 10
an €0i.50 3 004 3 10 | Frumentl, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 nelle nuimibécs. - 7 . All orders shipped and invoiced the same
33@ 45 ee D. F. B.. : po 2 25| Emery, po. .
40@ Rees 25@ 1 50 : °
700. 1 oo | Juniperis Go. 0. T... 1 65@ 2 00 Ergota -- DO. 90 ' = = day received. Send a trial order.
Juniperia Co........ 1 75@ 3 50} Gallia @ 2
aa Saacharum N.E.... 1 9@ 2 10| Gambier 8 «8
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galll....... 1 75@ 6 50} Gelatin Cooper. see @ 60
—— .0Z. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 0 | Gelatin} French..... 35@ 60
ae oz. pkg 25} Vini Alba............ 1 25@ 2 00| Glassware, flint, box 75 & 5
eens... pkg = Sponges Less than box..... 70
Mentha Vir-.oz: Dk 2a a a
ee) Oe ey Ghaeda* wee Gigeerina............ 17%%@ 2 e e
Tanscotiim Vor. pkg 92 | Nassau sheeps’ wool : jist,
Thymus, V...oz. pkg 25 | _ carriage... , 2 @ 2 75 Grana Par Pee: ue ie aZe ine er ins
Velvet extra sheeps
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @150 Hydrarg Chior Mite @i00
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow neue Hydrarg —. — @ #”
Carbonate, Pat... 18 20 oro. carriage ai, @ 1 2% face jp esate = : * Dru ( O
‘arbonate, K. . 20| Grass sheeps’ woo
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20! carriage... . @100| HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60 = -
Oleum Hard, for slate use. @ 7 @ -
Yellow Reef, for 85@
Absinthium......... 6 50@ 7 0)| slate use @140 75@ 1 00 b
Amvetsie’ Amara. « sof 8 3 “Syrups mG 3 Grand Rapids, Mich
» AMare. 2 p a
a 160@ 1 65| Acacia .............. @ 50 @ 50 ’
Auranti Cortex 2 10@ 2 20| Auranti ous. @ 5 ae 70
Bergamil ..... 2 ee 2 & i Beger............ @ bso a 75
_ Cajiputi . 30@ 85 @ 6 Liquor’ Arsen et Hy-
Caryophyill. 75@ 80 S@ 50 a @ 2
Cedar 80@ 85 @ 50; Liquor otags A ratait 10@ 12
Chenopadi cccenin @ 275 50@ 60 esia, Sulph.... = 3
©! Seiieca te 110 @ wk Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 1%
Oltronelia . 22222227. rr) M® | Mannie. 8, Fy... 75Q 80

  

 

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ica ctaeceues 1s
| RE cies ease 8 00
ADVANCED DECLINED CARBON OILS
i
Cheese’ Sal Soda ies Barrels o13%
Round Herring Granulated Sugar Perfection . ek - gis
3 ; Seeded Raisins: Diamond White.......
ris Rai Oranges iD. &. Gasotine......... @14%
Cranberries & Deodorized Naphtha.. — eu
— Se pees ean
a 16 @22
| Black, wae eee 9 @i0%
| CATSUP
Index to Markets | i 2 Columbia, pints............-2 00
By Col Columbia, % pints........--- 1 25
7 AXLE GREASE mectrie LoANDEES é CHEESE :
| " ectric Lig covcece 213
a doz. gross | riectric Light, 16 16s. bee Coes O14
Col. | Castor O11... -.16a =: 7:00 | Paraffine, 6s... ser eeeeee 96 Carson City.. @i3
A Diamond ‘150 «4. 25 | Paraffine, 12s ae ee @14
ne one as... 9 00 | Wicking 1? | iepiem 2... @14
ee... | tr oe tin boxes 75 9 00 CANNED GOODS a Q14%
SO Ee On 1] . Apples aan @13%
ARES GrOROS. ......20 0000 2.0... 1} 3 1b. Standards...... 85 | Taeal " @13%
B Gallons, aie. We ce ol4
Baking Powéer............... 1| Blackberries Riverside. CE HN ouB
_— rick Tee e ewe ee ee eee eee ; \y I>. S Pe Standards a ! 85 —-.- 14@15
EEE 00 ++ anne cn oneeeencee gees | cr ek
Brositast ae ee 1 ie Beans Leiden @17
TOOMS........ 1) a iceman + 100@1 80| Limburger........... 13@14
Brushes ..........--++--+--+++ 1; §& Red Kidney......... 75@ 85| Pineapple 50@75
Butter Color........---------- | ee oi sep Sogo... @19
Cc | ——...........,. 75 CHEWING GUM
Candies...........-...--+--=- 14 | ttre tnn ntaeon...- a
Canned Goods... 2.22, 2 | Mites, tin boxes. . etiet ..--.-.-.. Beeman's Pepsin......--. 60
Catsup a 3 | Brook Trout ee ee oe
IE CI oes ween os enes onan 3) BAKING POWDER 2 1b. cans, Spiced.......... 1 90 ody isnot ey AGE 55
ee 3 | Egg ea ag a nae NE
Chewing Gum................ 3/34 1b. cans, 4 doz. case in ae. 55
ec 3 % Ib cans. 2 doz. case Little Neck, — a 5B
Oe SE re 3 1 Ib. cans, 1 doz. case Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50 ** paene
Clothes Lines........... 2.02: 3! 5 1b. cans, % doz. case. Clam Bouillon CHIC 5
GOGO. ..0.- oo vnee cesses cece cons 3 . eeiiinath hee nx: 1 92 EE :
EE EEE EG: 3 ho B G0 | ROG. ---- reese cree eeerersees
Cocoa Shei mUAXKON Ee — ‘
—. Burnham’s, quarts........ 7a... 7
mean Milk.............. 4) 4% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... Cherries a 6
Coupon Books...........-+--- 15/ % lb. cans, 4 doz. case Red Standards....... -1 B0@1 50 CHOCOLATE
OU 4/1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case ae 1 50 Walter Baker & Co. ‘s.
EE 5 ent iii ua Ga. : 93
- ee. . Pee 31
Dries Praits........--..--.-- ' 10csize.... 99) Good ................ _. 85 | Breakfast Cocoa............. 46
F Ib. cans 1 35 Fancy ewe ae 10 @1 20 CLEANER & POLISHE
Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 14 1D. em pee
conte CL Ne NT : 6 oz. cans. 1 90) Sur Extra Fine............ =
ishing Tackle............... ¢ ib. cans 2 | Extra Fine................
Flavoring Extracts........... 6 | : Ib. cans 3 75 = i Ce 15 x SLU ae A
A cn ep he 4 a ieee 11 a ieee pre
Fresh Meats ee ae 6) 1 lb. cans. 4 80 Sapte
ee 14) e 31b. cans 13 00 Goo ' °C TEANER
| a Standard ...........
G 6 | 5 5 Ib. cans. 21 50 Hominy a apenas.
EE Ee j )
G oe we : <0 cee 85
Ee ENE ~n= mn oon American. a 75 | Star, % Ib i 2 10 | 6 02. box, 3 doz., per doz...$1 35
H English... ch i, +, “eae 8 60 | Qts box, 2 doz., per doz... 2 25
i icsaar diesen Z Star, 1 Tb. -.....-.. o6i Ts to cae pe ane
Hides and — os 3 tet Buu NG a ee Samples and Circulars Free.
| Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 E
Indigo ceneceone cece bese cece cous z Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross6 00 | Mustard, ilb sncccoee 1 80 CLOTHES LIN s
eee, oe........ 2 80 Sisal
J Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 aan ee i 1 90 | 60 ft. 3 thread, extra 100
EE ae 7 +... : 3 80 eS peene, 38
L Tomato, i Ib......... 1 8° | 90 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 170
Lo? Dereers................ = Tomato, 21D......... 2 80 60 ft! 6 thread, extra...... 12
Lamp — . Mushrooms 72 ft, 6 thread, extra...... cos
Lanterns. ...... . 15 cea ES ° 18@20 zute
fantern Globes. <a Buttons. ...........-- ainsi, ee NE RatneS 75
SEE EN ES 7 | Oysters
ee 7 ions... 85
M FE coy ts 1 85
Meat Extracts................ : | Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... 8
oe EE 7 itis
ee 7 Be er 8E@ 90
N [Wale os. 1 36@1 85 | 7
I a eo os wees 14} ce
° | Standard ......... .. 1 00
ee 15 po 1 2
NE Leen Come Le z Small size, per ae 40 | eas
Y | Large size, perdoz.......... 75! Marrowfat....... .. 100
——— ee 7) | ly a 1 6C
— CD 7| BREAKFAST FOOD | | Early J z Sifted _ “ae 65
Playing Cards.. 8) ce
oT 8 | | Plum i me
ics bias pace benmice 8 | Pine l Galvanized Wire
R capple No. 20, each 100 ft long.... 190
ee 8 | Cases, 36 ackages......... ‘ m0 | | Sliced: COLL 1 g5@e 56 | NO 19, each 100 ft long... 2 10
Five case lots. . pS Pumpin COCOA =
Saleratus.-.-22sccccc 8 BROOMS ee 20 | Colonial, (6 0.
——— =| me tee... 2 70| Good ............ ... 1 © | Golontal, %s 33
— g | No. 2 cunet ee 2s yee .......-....-.. 1 25 econ e 42
et se i cues oe 2 15) Raspberries OS ea ee 45
g | No. ea ramen enw enn 1 % ieee 15 Van Houten, ee lu
Piece eee cue an Houten
4g | Common Whisk: ani % Ib a ee te -_ 40
* “g| Fancy be eg eee elie 1 10 aaa 7 09 | Van Houten, 1s 70
19 | Warehouse. . seeeeeees+3 BO) Ty’ can. af 12 00 | Webb..... 36
10 ' Wilbur, s. ae
4h 10 BRUSHES: Col bia ae @1 8 [CO on 42
a um ver, s 1
EE 10 | Sona ak on 45 | Columbia River, flats @i 20 mania aa NUT “
cee eee be = Solid Back, 1lin............ Sine ieee... o1 =» | Deana’ ss sa seme a.
SYTUPS....-----s.--- eee eeeees Poeies Mates, 85 | Pink Alaska : @ 9% | Dunham's %s ae
Shrimps Dunham’s %s 2
so Cee... _--.... DT I ier reese veciine 13
1 30 Sardines COCOA SHELLS
1 70 | Domestic, %s........ Oe TO cee eens cece 2%
--190 Domestic, is jodie, 5 eee PE n° 002 3
Domestic, Mustard. 6 | Pound packages ......... 4
5 California, Be cscuss 11@14 COFFEE
- - Song 1 10 ca eS = Roasted
Oe es hee teens ere ae rene co, 4
Woodenware................. 13| NO.1........+.....---.+.++.+.1 75 | Breneh’ fe va 13@ze Tair Coen Ce. Seats 9
Wrapping Paper............. 13 BUTTER COLOR Strawberries DM soca s: shipae Dieescen 10
¥ ze & Co.'s, 15e size.... 125/ Standard............ Obese 12%
Woast Oake.........-....0... 18 Wik & Co.'s, 25¢ size.... 200| Fancy .............. 500) WR acs i decs vc cin sieais 4

 

 

 

 

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

LU-~WwRIGHT
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White House, 1 lb. cans.....
White House, 2 lb. cans.....
Excelsior, M. & J. 1 Ib. cans
Excelsior, M. & J. 2 1b. cans

Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans.
aoa eas...
Royal Java and Mocha......
Java and Mocha Biend......
Boston © ne boc caet
Ja-Vo ag :

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

end
Distributed | . Olney & Judson
Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El-
liott & Co., Detroit, B. Desen-
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons
Bros. & Co., Saginaw, Jackson
Grocer Co., Jackson, Meisel &

Goeschel, Bay City, Fielbach
Co., Toledo.
Rio
am Sd caedvsuece clesanuas :
Ghetes. sadn ys Oe begs Sie pauewcced “.
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Santos
Common...... pe ceaeeesee vce g
ee oe c-
EE SE eT 10
eS 13
Os os oo cee i ll
Maracaibo
NE cena cress, acces ond 13
Thotce co 18
Mexican
eerie 13
I ecu cease ea, 17
Guatemala
CO al 13
Java
WU aids cide, 12
Peney Anes i... 5.5... 17
Be chee occrek weer sc muae 25
Prhots decues bo peume esned 31
Mocha
Arabian....... ie dapeeacs sae 21
Package

 

McLaughlin’ s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to

retailers only. Mall all orders

direct to W. F. McLaughlin &

 

Co., Chicago.
Extract
Valley City % gross.. 75
Felix % gross.. a
Hummel’s foil % gross... een 85
Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43
CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case,
Gail Borden Eagle .....,.... 6 40
ae teat CE,
en, EG 470
— M ° «4 25
} ED os 00 none 00 eoeee sove &
Ohelionwe . > on 4 0
Dime -8 35
Peerless Evaporated Cream. 4 00
Milkmaid... --6 10
Pe BO bb eo red cen cain 3 85
Ce Ee 425
Highland Cream............ 5 00
St. Charles Cream...........4 50
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Butter

I eee oe isncs oobi 6%
ee eS ae 6%
DE oicbscubanes cobs coca 6%

hikerhsdes bichianbia es 6%
Wolverine,........... veais F

 

   
 
   

 

 

 

  

Soda
eee BO. .2 ol 7
een, eee... 8
Long Island Wafers....... 13
(OO
Oyster
UE cee kcc cucu ek Th
i beset e see 7
SOR POE. 22. os ea cess 7%
i I 7
Sweet Goods—Boxes
10
10
8
16
9
Coffee Cake, Ieed..... cose
Coffee Cake, Java..... 10
Cocoanut Macaroons 18
ocoanut Ta: 10
Cracknells 16
Creams, Iced 8
Cream crisp 10%
Cubans... 11%
Currant Frui 12
Frosted Honey 12
Frosted Cream.. 9
Ginger Gems, Vege c or sm'll 8
bam ond Snaps, N Sra 6%
ie ies 10%
oe hoe tS 9
Graham Crackers......... 8
Graham Wafers........... 12
Grand Rapids Tea........ 16
i i 12
Iced oa
SCEING 6. co... . x
Jumbles, Honey..... 12
7 Fingers oe 12
one eee... oe
meen: Waele... 5... 16
| ee. 16
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
ary Ane. .... &
Mixed Picnic 11%
Mik Biscuit 7%
Molasses Cake 8
Molasses Bar. 9
en POP TO oe ics ccs 12%
I eb ivievcucatacss 12
Oatmeal Crackers......... 8
Oatmeal Wafers........... 12
Creme OFM... 2. 9
Orange Gem... . 2... 3
Penny Cake........ 8
rams prea, 52 %......... TH
Pretzelettes, hand —-- 8%
Pretzels, d made.. 8%
Scotch Cookies. . i 2
Beare Me Th
EO cae cute 8
Sugar Cream. XXX....... 8
8 RE no. sco nose 8
PO ee 13
ree Pree... css... 6... 16
Vase Werers.............
Vignes COND. .....+. 005.

E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked mee
Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares
Write for complete price list
with interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR
5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes...
Be te ea

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sundried . @5
Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. ‘boxes. 1 8

California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ......

 

8
1g cent lass in 50 Ib. cases
California Fruits

 
  

MOONE ie ec cca 8
Blackberries .......... —
Nec es. ‘ 8%
Peaches .... ua. < OO
Sere... %
Pitted Cherries.....
eS
Raspberries ..........

Citron
Oe ee
Corsican ............+. 12K%@13

Currants
California, 1 1b. package....
Imported, 1 lb package - 6%
Seperte ted, bane ‘akebee 6

Citron American 10 Ib. bx...
Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..1
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..

Raisins

London Layers 2 Crown. 1 75
London Layers 3 Crown.

Cluster 4 Crown.........

Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 74
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib..... 9{@
L. M., Seeded, % 1 8
Sultanas, bulk .... a |
Sultanas, package .. 11%

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Dried Lima.. -- 5%
Medium n Hand | Picked” 2 50
weet SUGUNOE . c 223
oa
2411b, potoase vine wi wenice 1 56
Bulk, per 100 Ibs.............2 80

 

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Hominy
Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... ..... 90
Ponti, 2e0 i. Os... .... 5 06
Pearl, Wei. anee......-..-: 2 50

Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. a... 60
Imported. 25 Ih. bo

— ‘Barley
Common . oe ado
CE iii seed beac saices

60
00
90
Empire.. 65

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“Peas”

Green, Wisconsin, - Ce

Green, Scotch, bu.. 1 &

Split, tb.

Rolled Oats

Rolled Avena, bbl.. ..5 40

Steel Cut, 100 Tb. sacks. . |. 5 27
0

Been Cee... 2
Momarem, % DDL. .... 5... 5... 2 75
Monarch, 90 Ib. ee <2 OO
Quaker, — oa ..-8 10

Walsh-Deltoo Co.'s Brand.

 

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German, broken package.. 4
loca
Flake, 110 lb. sacks......... 44

Pearl, 130 lb. sacks.. cs oo
Pearl, 24 1 Ib. wheat cos 6%

   

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Cracked, bulk.. a
24 2 tb. packages
FI HING. TACKLE
ROUND BOE ie pie css peekes 6
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BM OS MUCHO, ccs oa css i es. 9
196 60.2 Ueno... ll
i tae cs nee 15
ES a ne 30
Cotton Lines

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OG ness oe 9
No. 4, ies was cy 10
ie 6 9m er. cs cs. a cs il
Pres G, 16 fee... ... 12
WG To Ten cee ea ee. 15
io. S, 05 eet... . 18
8, pe ee se 20

Linen Lines
ae 20
Medium. . 26
Large ... one 34
Poles

Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50
Bamboo, 16 ft. per doz...... 65
Bamboo. 18 ft, per dot......:. 80

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

Vanilla Lemon
1ozfullm.120 10zfull m.
20zfullm.2 10 2o0zfullm.i
No. 8fan’y.8 15 No.8fan’y.1

 

 

 

 

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25
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Lem
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2 0z bine gs 1 30
3 oz taper..2300 40z

   

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Folding —
D. C. ae

D.C. baa

 

Taper Bottles
D. C. Lemon D, C. Meee

 

“Tropical Extra
2 oz. full measure, Lemon..
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..
4 oz. full measure, Vaniila., 1
FRESH MEATS
Beef

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Mutton PIPES
Carcass .. tuseeee Se Oe | Ce, Wee 1
Pe @93 Olay, ae D., full connt pal
eal Cob,
. a "PIOKLES
Medium
Knox’s Sparkling........ 1 20 | Barrels, 1,200 count 8 00
Enon: : Sparkling Prgross 14 00 | Half bbis, 600 count... -... 4
Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 4 00 Small
Creed. cl a ei oe 75 | Barrels, 2,400 count .........9 50
Plymouth Rock.. 1 20 Half bbis, 1,200 count .......5 20
a 1 50 PLAYING CARDS
Cone, 206 se... 1 61} No. 90, Steamboat......... 90
Con's, £06 dime... 5.50... c. 1 10} No. 15, Rival, assorted.... 1 20
GRAIN BAGS No. 20, Rover, enameled.. 1 60
Amoskeag, 100inbale .... 15% N5B. a 1 79
Amoskeag, less than bale. 153 = pal a finish.. : =
GEAING SND FLOOR | No. 682, Tournam’t Whist. 2 25
eat
Wee. ..... |... 71 aeons incase.

Winter Wheat Flour =| Babbitt’s inns
Pid Brands 45 | Penna Salt Co.'s. ooo 3 00
Par ata ee as PROVISIONS
Straight. 3 65 Barreled Pork
Second Straight. 3 35 @i7 7%
Clea 3 20 @29 75
G@ meas 3 40 @z1 5)
— > 4 = =

2

RE ubject to usual cash - 19 00
count, 21 76

Flour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- @20 75
ditional. Der Salt Meats

Worden Grocer Co.’s _—! Bellies. oes 12
Cros ae... tL. 30 |S P Bellies... a 13%
een Se ; 86 | Extra shorts......... 12
ee ee 3 80 Smoked Meats

Spring Wheat Flour ions, = >. . average. @ 13
. : , ams, average. 13
Pilsborys Bost i. 0o."s — Hams, 16lb. average, 3 13
Pilisbury’s Best %s. . 4 $0 | Hams, oe «oss
Pillsbury’s Best %s....... 4 40 a sme NW T eaii @i2 |
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 449 | Shoulders(N.Y.cut) = @ |
Pilisbury’s Best 4s paber. 440 Califor a eee 15 @ 16% |
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand, aa wae 9%
Wingold 4s Te Bo ams. 18
Wingold 4s.......... pe Picnic Boiled Hams @ 13%
Wingold ts Ee ae 4 99 | Berlin Ham pr’s’d. 9%@ 10

ee Mince Hams....... 9%@ 10
J Judson ae - 3 ‘a tod
eresota 448.. Sodeouay | Mee | a "
Ceresota Aha c 4 49 — proce ce cece >
ereso 8 4 a
Worden Grocer Co.'s Brana = _ oo %
Laurel 48 cnn Oe » ZEns..aevance 4
BE Rocce cin cea 4 40 | 50 Ib. Tins...advance s
Laurel \s. 4 30 . ee %
Laurel %s and {s paper.. 4 30 - en niges ses "
Meal 2 Palle. advance i
Bolted .. * 7a) Vemotgic............. 8i¢
Granulated .. 2 80 Sausages
Feed aa Milistusts Boe. 6
St. Car Feed, screened.... 24 25 | Liver ................ 8%
No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 24 25 | Frankfort 2s
Corn Meal, coarse........ 24 2% | Pork ... 8&4@9
Corn Meal, fine. . cu ce A OO) IO o.oo 6
Winter Wheat Bran....... 16 00 ent wencenes n8 9
Winter Wheat Middlings. 18 00 | Headcheese.......... 6%
Cow Weed. ise... 17 00 | Beef
—_——————— 16 00 | Extra Mess..........
Oats Boneless..... 11 75
Cn Dee ew cl... 34 Rump, New . @i2 00
Corn a Feet
Cer, Gar io... J... 68 14 bbis., 40 Ibs.. 1 75
Hay \lbbls., i i tc ol 3 26
No. 1 Timothy car lots... 09 50| 1 bbls. Ibs......... 7 50
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00 —— Tripe és
8, Oo
Sage.. ee os 136 DDISL, @ Tes. 1 50
Hops vesscessescecs ceed | %& DbIs., 80 Ibs.. 3 00
Laurel Leaves...........0+.0.- 15 Casings
%enna Leaves.. seve ees 28 | POTK . sete eees 26
I Go. Beef rounds......... 5
Madras, 5 a. 55 _! Meroe. ....... s
e : ae a eeD
8. F., 2, 8 and 6 Ib. boxes.. eae 50 Uncolored *Butterine
JELLY ere Gees... wo. Qi2%
5 lb. pails.per doz........ 1 85 | Rolls, —— Caauce @i3
We acs cass 43 | Rolls, purity.. 18%
oe ee ee een ae 80 | Solid, ra. ss ae 16
Cann ea
ee 30 Corned beef, 2 Ib.. 2 BO
i apa --++++ 80) Corned beef, 14 Ib. - 17 69
Calabria. seccccones 33 | Renet Neat, 21D... 2 50
Sicily .. esies b6e0seee ie Potted ham, %s..... 50
Root. ...... wee as ceive bie Potted Cee cL, 90
ie ——e- &
Condensed, 2608............ 1 20 am, *S....
2 25 | Potted tongue, \s.. 50
Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 2 Potted tongue. i¢s.. 90
MALTED FOOD RICE
T= A Domestic
A —- — Sea ca etnies cael ;
Cases, 12 packages.. 1 35 cnesien No.2. i."
Cases, 36 packages......... 4 05 Broken .......... : 13%
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 0Z...... 4 45
Liebig’s, 2 02Z........-. +... 2 75
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle........ 40
WO cee eos y cmnee 35
ee i oe lt 26
Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 7
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 75
OLIVES
Bulk, 1 eal. kegs. ........ its
Bulk, S gal. Kogs,....-..... 110
Bulk, 5 -_. PO ics ces ee 1 05
Manzanilia, 7 OZ. .........- 80
Queen, DIME. 65.0.0 os 0.0 2 35
NOEL, TO Ri oti cue tae e : =
gaeen BD Oe eia co ee wuness
A RGR, ots ec. 90
Stuffed: B OZ... ce cece onveee 1 45 | Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the
Stuffed, 10 0Z........+++.-. 280' Dale, 2% pound pockets... 734

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

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Best grade Imported Japan,

— pockets, 33 to co

Cost of packing in cotton
ets only %c more than bul
SALAD DRESSING
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz.
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz..
Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz..
Durkee’s, large, i ee, a
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz.......
SALERATUS

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm _ ne

Deland’s
Dwight’s Cow..

| Embiem..

L. P
Wyandotte, 100 ¥s..........

SAL SODA

Granulated, bbis............
Granulated, 100 Ib. case:

Lump, bbis.

Lump, 145 Ib. ‘Kegs...

SALT

Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes.
Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags.
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. b
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bu
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs..
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs ral
ee ee,

Common Grades

  

 

 

 
 

 

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-1 85
1 90
95
41

5
4 85

3 15
--3 00

-1 40
3 00
«2 75
-2 65
‘=

 
  

100 3 Ib. ==. 25
60 5 Ib. sacks 15
28 10 Ib. sacks....... 05
Ce ae 40
BO EE SAO G te 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
me. meee...
Common
Granulated Fine,........... 75
Medium Fine..... 80
SALT FISH
Cod

Large whole........... @ 5%

Smail whole........... @db

Strips or bricks.. t @9

le @ 3%

Halibut.

ee i.

Chunks eee ace 13

ut

ro. 1 00 Oe... a 5 50

od Ce

we. t 100m oe eo, 70

ee OO i ok. 59

Mackerel

meee OO eS ss S . 14 60

eee OP a de

Mess 10 Ibs. 60

eee Oe nn cc 1 30

ea, 5 Oe ok 13 cO

No.1 60 lbs co

No.1 10 Ibs 1 45

No.1 8lbs 1 19

No. 2 100 Ibs

No.2 5) lbs

No.2 10 ibs - 4

“ao 9 ee
Herring
white hoops, bbl. 10 50
white i 5 50
white hoop, Kkeg.. @75
white hoop mechs. 85
kage, ee a

Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 80

Moume 00 ths... ....;... 2 10

i, TE 13%

Bloaters.. i eae 1 65

Whitefish
No.1 No.2

Se ee... .... 75
60 Ibs. 20
10 Ibs. 93

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SEEDS | Common Corn

Anise. oto: Lae Ee. PeCkeere.......... 8
Canary, Smyrna.. . 3% | 40 1-Ib. packages.......... 5%
Caraway - 734 |
at, Malabar | | “Corn
Hew >, Russian . 4 | Barrels... sete ced ee cues ce al
Mixed Bird..... (CE 29
Mustard, white .. 7 |101b. cans, % doz. in case.. 1 85
ee: caconesces © | OUD, COmG, P doz. In cass.... 2 16

a cae, | 2% Ib. cans, 2 doz. in case...2 10
Cuttle Bone.. oo ie Shea hie

SHOE BLACKING | so | alr... f 18

Handy Box, large......... | Good 20
Handy Box, small......... 1 2 | Choice 25

Bixby’s Royal Polish......

 

Miller’s Crown Polish..... 85 |
SOAP
Beaver Soap Co, brands
100 cakes, large size......... 6 50

50 cakes, large size.........;
100 cakes, small size....
50 cakes, small size..

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No. 6, 8 doz in case, gross..

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Coarse Powdered......... 4 75
Single box.. «sa 20} SAME Powdered......... 4 80
5 box lots, delivered .... 1... 3 15| Fine Granulated........... 4 85
10 box lots, delivered........ 3 10/| 21b. bags Fine Gran... .. 4 &
Johnson Soap Co. ——* 5 Ib. bags — = oe 4 80
pwc eiben st coosesee 8 65) Mould a 00
Calumet amily .. Goss cen 275 | Diamond A.. 4 65
Gooten Pamiy..... ...... 2 85 | Confectioner’s A. 4 45
Came... .... -....... .... 200| Ne. 1, Oana A. | £2
Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands— No. 2, Windsor A......... 4 30
Dusky Diamond.......... 3 55/| No. 8, Ridgewood A...... 4 30
OD ONE cece sees cass 3 7| No. 4, Phonix A......... 4%
Savon Imperial.......... 355) No. 5, Empire A.......... 420
White Hussian........... foie, &................ £m
Dome, oval bars.......... 3 55 415
Satine, oval... ... 2... . 3a 4 05
Were Ciood............. 410 400
Lautz Bros. brands— 3 95
410 3 95
a 8 90
. 400} 3 85
3 75) 3 75
Proctor ‘& Gamble brands— 8 80
eee ose ae ee | . .r,rlClc
“mn (oe. 4
Ivor ry ea te 8 8 TABLE SAUCES
Sehultz Ss “Co brand—
BEBE ccna Copan 8 28 LEA &
arsed g joap Co. bran >
big Bt sangeet —— 100 PERRINS
ure, SO a 3 75
a B. Wrisiey brands— SAUCE
eee 4 00
Olde Country: eae 3 40 The Original and
uring Genuin
Sapolio, eine » Gon... .... 240 w : hir
Sapolio, hand, 3doz......... 2 40 Lehane men
SODA Lea & Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00
Boxes.. 5% Lea & Perrin’s, % i: 2 75
ish. Halford, large. . _—« oon
Kogs, English ===. icss-0--- 48 | Halford, amall. 20022072. 2 25
Scotch, in bladders.. 37 | TEA
Maceaboy, in jars. 35 | Japan
French po in jars 43 | Sundried, medium .......... 81
| Sundried, choice............ 83
whole. en _| Sundried, fancy.......
Po a 12 | Regular, medium.
Cassia, China in mats..... 12 | Regular, choice ............. 33
Cassia, Batavia, inbund... 28/ Regular, fancy.............. 43
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 40 | Bask Ket-fired, medium....... 31
— - on, in rolls... aI Basket-fired, choice......... 38
OVves, AMDOYNA.........+ Basket- fired, oer... 5... 43
Cloves, Zanzibar........... OS) agemtaam RTIELT 30
BOO .. 2.2. eee eeceeeee ted ET 19@21
Nutmegs, 75-80............ 50 | Fannings................ 20@2
Nutmegs, 105-10.. 40 = —
eee, 115-20.. 35 Gunpowder
Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 | Moyune, medium ........... 29
Pep] a Sngnpere, white. qa) Moyune, choled ....... . 00. 38
Penoer enee............... ao) Moyune, faney...... 52.0002, 53
ae ‘Growad f in Bulk | Pingsuey, medium.......... 28
Allspice........ 16 | Pingsuey, choice............ 8&3
Cassia, Batavia... . - Pingeuey, faney......... 2... 43
aoe, pee...
Cloves, Pace ae 7 Chote Young Hyson
nger, ans | CHOICE... ... 0. ee eens eeee eee
Ginger, Cochin............ 18 | Peaey......,.. Cevce secces cos's 36
Ginger, Jamaica.......... 25 | Oolong
ee cle uae . | | Mormons, tatiey,...:......... 42
Mustard... | Amoy, medium.............. 25
Pepper, Singapore, black. i7 Pe Ee 32
Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 |
a Cayenne eeeeasus 20 | — Breakfast
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t Coptem, GROleG......,.0.. 0045 82
ON Sb eset cc ccc ck. 42
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40 1-Ib. pac 7 33

ateuumeed’s. Silver Gloss
40 1-Ib. packages........... 7&3
6 Ib. packages........... 33

Common Gloss

5%
8%

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Daily Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00
Fine Cut
Ee 54
Poe coe 33
Hiawatha, 5 ib. ae “6
Hiawatha, nO i. palis......- 54
eee. 22
ee 31
iiimitedtiknce» <n dy
ee ea 37
Ee 42
eee 38
Plog
~~. 36
Piper Heidsick.............. 61
OE I ence oe oh cee wane 78
ener Dip wet............ 38
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Nickel Twist. Se
Smoking
— _ ie cect ee eee 34
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eee 25
pemee Men............... 24
rx So 26
1 X L, 160z. ee 30
Gold bioer eee eee oe 35
ne Seen... 36
een 38
ca... a ci 32
Kiln Dried ....... |

Duke's 20... a

Myrtle Navy ..... 39
um Yum, 1% 0z......

Yum 3 1 - —

Cream. .

   
  
  

Plow Boy, 1% 0z.
Piow Boy, 345 0z
Peerless, 34% oz.
Peerless, 1% 0z
Air Brake
Cant Hook.

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Good Indian .

Self Binder .. 20-22

ee ee 34

TWINE

Cotton, 3 ply.. a

ee oo... 16

Jute, ta oo 12

Hemp, 6 oo owls

Flax, m te aeons oe 20

Wook, 1 t. balis............. 7
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. -
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Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 Dates ice
Mouse, wood, 4 holes..
Mouse, wood, 6 holes........
Mouse, tin, 5 holes..........
Rat, wood
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Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.....
20-inch, Cable, No. 1.......
18-inch, Cable, No. 2........
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13 in. Butter.. oi
15 in. Butter........ en oe
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Assorted 13-15-17 .... ........1 75
Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 3 09
WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw............
Fiber Manila, white.......
Fiber Manila, ee i
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Manila.
Butcher’s Manila..........
Wax Butter, — —-
Wax Butter, full count..
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Pure Cider, Red Star.. nt
Pure Cider, Robinson. ......11
Pure Cider, Ee ll
WASHING POWDER
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Gol ric sie aoe
Gold Dust, regular.......... ‘oi. —_ >
Pe I a ein. he en 4 00 Black Bass 0@ it
—* _e........... 3 80 ie @ 14
— ~ eee eee : = Ciscoes or Herring: = @ 5
ee ve ee eases se eeteeees no sate
Bat ite [o...... : = Live Lobster ee
ee es rene >, | Boiled Lobster........ @ »
eee cea 3 70 Cod. @
eee ee... 3 35 ie @ 8
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Rub-No-More................ ‘~~ 3 ;
WICKING ie —— i $ ll
gTOss.. coccelS | OS GROPP... .......
~ 4 oe gross.. a Col River Sa Salmon. . —= 13
No. 2, per gross.. — ............... 18
No. 8. per gross... .... -- 55 aaa _— ae
DENWARE es
woopENw Green No.1 ao g 7™%
Bushels .. ee —o ie 23
— wide band as 1 25 2...
Marke <cnssocsae SOLO Oe 8..... @8
Splint, o— a 6 00 | Calfskins,green No.1 @ 9%
Splint, medium . 5 00 | Calfskins,green No.2 @s
Splint, —_ 4 00 | Calfskins,cured No.1 @10%
Willow Clothes, large. ......8 00 | Calfskins,cured No.2 @ 2
Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50 Pelts
Willow Clothes, small....... » oP. Ok Woel............ 50@1 50
Bradley Butter Boxes Lamb................ 4 75
2 Ib. size, 24in case... ... 72} Shearlings .... ..... 75
3 Ib. size, 16 in case......... 68 Tallow
5 Ib. size, 12 in case......... cms... @ 6%
10 Ib. size, 6 in case......... mas @ 5%
Butter Plates Wool
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate. 40 | Washed, fine........ @z0
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate. 45 | Washed, medium... @23
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 5¢ | Unwashed, fine..... @ié
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 60} Unwashed. medium.  16@18
pane CANDIES
Barrel, 5 gals., each......... 2 40 Stick a
Barrel, 10 gals., a. --2 5 bis. ?
Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 70 nn 7
Standard H. H @7
mound honk Ge Pina Standard Twist @8
un aoe... Bins +. 9
Round head, cartons........ 75 Loat............. @9
Egg Crates Jae, 22%... ...... 7
Humpty Dumpty ........... 2 25 Mei cas Oui
No. 1, complete ........ --- 29] Boston Cream...... 10
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English Rock..... @°9s
indergarten . @92
Bon Ton Cream..... @ 8%
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Hand ” Mads Cre-™
4%
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Fancy—In Pauis
— Gums. B4y
fe nay ice ee 6. 15
Fairy Cream! Squares 12
Fudge Squares...... 12
Peanut Squares..... 9
Si = ‘eanuts 11
ted Peanuts...... 10
Starlight Kisses... 10
San jes..
Lozenges, plain .....
Lozenges, printed @10
Champion Chocolate @l1
Eclipse Chocolates... @13%
Quintette Choe...... @iz
Gum Drops.......... @ 5%
Moss Drops _ @9
Lemon Sours... @9
— heen 9
Ital. Cream Opera 12
“ae Bonbons
ieee @u
— Chews, 15 @
sl 13
Golden Wafties bic : @12
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes
Lemon Sours. @50
Feepermint Drops.. @60
Chocolate Drops.. yo
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@60
@60
@55
@55
80 @90
@65
@65
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Caramels
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Korker 2 for ic pr bx @55
Big 3, 3 for ic pr bx.. @55
es, 2 for ic pr bx @60
Favorite, 4 for ic, bx @60
AA Cream Car’ls’31b @50
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett...... @
Florida Bright...... @
Fancy Navels....... @
Extra Choice........ @
Valencias...... g
Medt. Sweets... @
ere @i 00
Sco con . @
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. @
Verdelli, fey 300..... @
Verdellf, ex chee 300 @
Verdellil, fey 360..... @
Lemons, 300..... @
Messinas 300s... 3 4 50
Messinas 360s....... 3 4 50
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 1 50@2 00
Large bunches......
Foreign Dried Fruits
Figs
Californias, Fancy @
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes @i 00
Extra Choice, Turk.,
=. Semes........ @
Fancy, Tkrk., 12 Ib.
eo... 13% @15
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards in 10 Ib. boxes @ 6%
Fards in 60 Ib. cases. @
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Ib. cases, new..... @
Sairs, 60 lb. cases.. @
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Almonds, 16
Almonds, Ivica ..... g
Almonas, Oalifornia,
soft shelled.... 15@16
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ae 13
Walnuts. Grenobles. 13
Walnut, ——

Cal. No. 1, new. @l4
— Nuts, fancy... 13%
Pecans, Med.. 10
Pecans, Ex. Large... @13
Pecans, Jum @14

Hickory N en per ‘bu.
Ohio, new. ais @
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Chestnuts, Oe co @
F; a 9
ancy, H. P., Suns 5%@ 6
ancy, H. P., Sun ou
Roasted ........... 6% 7%
Choice, H. P., Jumbo
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2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galy. iron with faucet, per doz..

5 gal.
5 gal.
5 gal. galv

STONEWARE
Butters
+o oer Oe 48
core ec... 5%
son a Oe 48
ae eee. 60
a 72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 12
i oer. Woes ce, Geom... ............ 1 50
25 = oe oer... 2
30 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2 55
Churns
2 to 6 gal., re. peu eses Ws deeee 6
‘hurn Das om per oan... 84
Milkpans
% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 48
i pal. Gat or ra. bot,, cach............ 5%
Fine Glazed Milkpans
% wal. fat or ra. bot., per doz.... .... 60
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot., each............ 6
Stew pans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.. ne 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 110
Jugs
ee 56
ee ee nee 42
oe ee, Sere... 6.1.6... LL. 7
Sealing Wax
5 ibs. in package, por ID. .............. 2
LAMP BURNERS
tee.......... 35
PO oe ci ee 86
ee 48
a ooee.......... 85
Ce ee os 50
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MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
PE ccs ee 4 25 per gross
Quarts o ...4 50 per gross
ae 6 50 per gross
Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen i: box
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of : doz.
me Oe... 162
No. chee ce eae 1 84
POs 2 80
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated carton.
eee 174
ee ve cone sete 1 96
re ee 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, wra = - lab. 3 75
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00
Pearl ag
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and Payson a 5 30
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled..... 5 10
No. 2 Sun, “Smal Bulb ” for Globe
Lamps ee 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
Pe, 3 Crim, Per Gee. 1 60
Rochester
oe. 6 Loe ee oe 3 50
at og Ss ae occas 4 00
mee. & Peet (Oee Gok) 4 60
Electric
No. 2 Lime (70¢ = pose kbe see chase 4 00
Pee. 2 eee Cee Gee). 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 30
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 50
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50 books, any denomination
100 books, any denomination

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LANTERNS

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LANTERN GLOBES

0. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c

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

0Tub., "Bull’s eye, cases i oz. each

BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one _

. 0, %-inch wide, per gross or rol
5¢-inch wide, per gross or roll. .

inch wide, per gross or roll.
1% inch wide, per gross or roll..

COUPON BOOKS

500 books, any denomination..

1,000 books, any denomination.............. 20
Above = tations are for either Tradesman,
Superior, nomic or Universal grades. Where
1,000 books are ordered at a time customers re-
ceive specially printed cover without extra

charge.
Coupon Pass Books
Can be made to represent any denomination
from $10 down.
ee 1 50
i 2 50
ee. 11 50
Re 20 00
Credit Checks
500, any one denomination................ 2 00
1,000, any one denomination 3 00
2008, any one denomination - 500
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Down

Standard D Crackers have
been manufactured for years
and have never been com-
plained of by retailers.

Standard D Crackers are
manufactured in an up-to-date
factory by the most modern
process.

Standard D Crackers always
please, and once a customer al-
ways a customer.

Standard D Crackers are ex-
tensively advertised, thereby
helping the retailer’s sales.

Standard D Crackers sell at
a good profit to the retailer.

Don’t you think it will pay
YOU to investigate?

E. J.
Kruce
& Co.

Detroit, Mich.

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It is the only representative of
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It sells more goods than any
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Its prices are guaranteed and do

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It tells the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

It never wastes your time or
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Quaint Groceries in Little Italy.

Many a fastidious, thrifty American
housewife in New York refuses in these
days to buy olive oil of her regular
grocer, and even the more-or-less swell
groceries have in consequence found
their sales in that commodity gradually
dropping off. The hard-to-suit house-
wives now go in large numbers to the
little Italian grocery shops down town
for their oil. They say it is better and
vastly cheaper than the bottled goods
kept on American grocers’ shelves; and
not a_ few of the Italian, Sicilian and
Greek fruit stands now keep olive oil
in tin cans and jugs and sell it to their
customers by the pint, half- -pint or
quart, always guaranteeing it to be
fresh, And the wine vinegars of Italy
and Greece now find favor with hun-
dreds of American consumers,

Just as German immigration has made
us familiar with the delicatessen shop,
the Italian is doing with his grocery.
In the six colonies which are established
in New York each has a full comple-
ment of these establishments. The
largest and best are in Mulberry Bend;
next are those in Little Italy on the
Harlem east side, and in the settlement
near Catharine Ferry in Brooklyn.

These shops are neat and interesting.
Their stock is somewhat like that of an
American store, but full of articles un-
familiar to Yankee eyes. One of the
noticeable displays is in macaroni. Of
this goodly edible forty varieties are
shown, ranging from a hair-like vermi-
celli to huge, clumsy chunks called
cornarini. Tomatoes and cheese are
near, The former appear ina tinned
preparation of tomato paste. This is
the vegetable, plain or spiced, boiled
down until it is asolid. The long cook-
ing brings out the flavor, but increases
the acidity. It is used for tomato sauce
and soup. The favorites in cheese are
Parma and Gorgonzola. Other varieties,
Italian and French, are in stock, but do
not compare with these in popularity,

Almonds and Lombardy chestnuts are
always in demand. Besides the sweet,
bitter and paper shell almonds are paste
and flour made from the kernels, and at
times the rich cake known in English
as march-pane. Dried chestnuts and
chestnut meal are employed in thicken-
ing soups and making purees and vari-
ous kinds of breads and boiled pud-| |
dings.

The sausage exhibit is worthy of Ger-
many. The Italian sausage is usually
harder and drier than the German, and
possibly higher flavored. The oldest is
the Bologna, in which the peppercorn
and garlic add zest to the meat. The
Italian salami comes second, and then
follow a long series, all of which are
nutritious and appetizing. Occasionally
the famous Spanish dainty, the Vichb
sausage, is offered for sale.

In the better stores in Mulberry Bend
may be procured the delicate wafers and
biscuits of Florence, Venice and Milan,
which are the originals of the Vienna
and Champagne wafers so largely used
in American society. In the main, they
are sweeter than the latter and a trifle
fuller flavored. Noticeable are the grace-
ful baskets in which wine, oil and vin-
egar are put up. They are of the same
general type as the Chianti flask, and
differ chiefly in the style in which they
are ornamented by straw wrapping foil,
label and tasselled cords.—N. Y. Post.

A Cold World.
Tramp—Please, mum, have you any
cold vittles?
Housekeeper—I am very sorry to say,
sir, that everything is hot, (Slams the
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i Levels
Hardware Pr ice Current Stanley Rule and Levol Co.’s.......... dis 7
Mattocks
Ammunition idee Wye... 2.2... 6. 3... See 68. dle 68
ini
Metals—Zinc
G. D., full count, per m. . 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m. ; 50 | 800 pound casks.................. 7%
Musket, , Per th nly Pe ee pl | ke TI aR 8
Ely’s Wa! rproof, ‘per’ m. oes 60 Miscellaneous
Cartridges Bird Cages .
No. 22 short, per m eocceee 2 50 Pumps, Cistern.. 75&10
No. 22 long, per m. es ee ca 3 00 | Screws, New List . 85 &20
No. 32 short, per Meee asec, 5 00 | Casters, Bed and Plate... 50810810
No. 32 long, og AS Sn ens 5 75 Dampers, American.............. i
Primers
Molasses tes
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 40 | stoppins’ Pattorn.......... on es. 6o&10
e nehester, boxes 250, per m.. 1 40) Enterprise, self-measuring...... 1...” 30
Gun Wads P
Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M. C.. Ol es, tan eee
ae ge, Nos. 9 and 1 res. dt o-ring eth geel
Black edge, No. 7, per — ea 80 Conimon. “polished - “* .
Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron
New Rival—For Shotguns ““A”’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 80
r “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 80
Drs.of oz.of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100| Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
= 4 s 10 10 $2 90 Planes
4 1 9 10 2 90 1
4 = ££ * te 50
126 4 1% 8 10 2: 90 | Sandusky Tool Go.°s, fancy... 40
185 434 1% 5 10-2 95 | Bench, firet yuality...............0..06 45
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00 ai
200 3 1 10 12 2.50 Nails
208 3 1 8 12 2 50 Advance over base, on both Steel and —
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 Gs | Gecek eee, DANO FO
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70| Wire nails, base..........--..--.. ones 3 20
2 3% 144 4 12 270 miog@advanes....... Base
Discount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance.............. ho ea 5
Paper Shells—Not Loaded ; — et aca Seed cade dees os a adie =
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100... 2 Gite 3¢
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. Ce Te 4b
Gunpowder a oe EE Re eo Oe aia 70
Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg....... a. 4 00 . VANCE... -- 220200 eene es one 50
4 Kegs, 124 | ., por a6 Keg... ...... 2B eee a
i kegs, 64 Ibs., per 34 keg. 2.002002. 1 25) Casing 6 advance..........22.222..227" 3B
Shot Winn Wadveres 2B
In sacks containing 25 lbs. Pree se aeyenee 35
Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 150 oe Tao 45
arre vanee.. 8B
Augurs and Bits
i, a ” oid ees beet og ues 60 Rivets
Jennings genuine..................... a) rn ae Pe 5C
Jennings’ imitation................... 50 | Copper Rivets and Burs.............. a
Axes Roofing Plates
First Quality, S . = NN ocala 6 50 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 7 &
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. .... 9 00 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.. aa 9 00
First Quality, 8. B. S. Steel. . 6 06 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. ian 15 0
First Quality, D. B. Steel. . 10 50 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 7 5
Barrows | 14x20 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 9 60
Dee. so... ie 13 00 ae Charcoal; Allaway Grade... 15 00
Garden.. --net 2900 X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 18 0¢
Stove. ee
Garriags, bow fie TTI oo * | Sisal, 4 tneh and larger... 10%
a . 50 Man fla... cocee seeenes 15%
iitiaies Sand nee
Well, oti... ... fe $4 00 | List acct. 19, 86. . ese | 5
att; Cast
Vast Loose Pin, figured .. 70 Sash Weights
Wrought Narrow . pi TE oo | Solid Byes; per tom.................... 30 00
‘Chain. Sheet Iron
%in. 616in. %in. In. com. smooth. com
Com 7 6 Se... Se... ee SO te $3 6f
ee Bq a“ “i ..¢é wee Pei 87%
ree 8% a |. 4 ee ee es 3H
Cooma ee See ee 3
Jast Steel, per Ib.. Oc 6 a ee ee eae a -.? +s
‘Chines t All Sheets No. 18 and ‘lighter, o over 30 inches
Hoaket Wirmier ee 65 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Socket Framing.. eee 65
= > soa sie wae Oey gel ale 65 First Grade a — 7 00
sp iron ager tenoanady 5} Second Grade, Doz....00000000000I 8.0
Elbows la
Com. 4 piece, 6 -. a .. .-net ee i th al dees
Aajustapie’ ap doz... totes eens 1 25 *on prices of the many other qualities of ile
us ssesseeeeeeesGl8 40810 | in the market indicated by private brands vary
Wiiseisdien Bits according to composition.
Clark’s small, $18; —— e, $26 .. 40 Squares
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; : wae 26 | Beeel Oe Wet oo oe 60—10—5
iy List| Tin—Melyn Grade
Nicholson'esn.- 0222000002000 818 | sox14 10, chareoal.. 1 $10 56
Heller’s Horse Rasps... 2. 70 | 14x28 IC, Charcoal... i a
Giieiatiind Teens 20x14 rx, Charcoal. . 12 00
Wide Siti Sire aa: Shaun om oe Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
os. an : 28
List 12 13°14 15 16. 17 Tin—Allaway Grade
Discount, 6&&10 ieee i), Cusmeee..... 9 Ot
Gauges 14x20 IC, Charcoal.................-20- 9 oO
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... “ee” CCS
Glass “loa additional X on this grade, $1.50
Single Strength, by box. . -dis 85820
Double Strength, by box....22202220" Qis S582 | 55 1x 2.
y the dis  85&20 ' ' ’ + per pound., 13
‘Sida 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, i
Maydole | &, Co.'s, new list. seeet, @ Traps
aoe Solid Cast Steel... Onelda Community, “Newhouse’s...... 40810
Hinges —* Community, Hawley & Nor- “
i ee
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3.. ++eeeee-sdi8 60810 | Mouse, choker per d0z............... 18
‘Meliew "Ware Mouse, delusion, per doz.......  ..... ay
a . oe a 50&10 Wire
etties . eh ethics ewes deere Lage 50&10
rigs Market... ........... debe asae 6t
oe ars ete OR en a So ape eR 50&10 ‘Annealed Market... ee 8
Horse Nails COG PORN oo cok awe 50&10
Au Sable . 40810 oe Miareet.........,.... 50810
House Furnishing aa Cop’ — da aivanid =
8 men Re kk. ence, van
— Mee — smate | Barbed Fence, Patnted....0000000001 2 60
org Wire ‘Goods
PE RS ee lice ce Oe OC RNRN | Ee ce Soe ae 80
ee 8 c rates — HEYOB.... 20.000 eves cove coos cone =
Knobs—New List setececer coeens
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75 Gate Hooks and Eyes. ipsa pecdedreos 8¢
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 85 Wieuubets
— pos Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30
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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.

Co Saginaw Mich,
. 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” 1ice pocket.

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

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The Grain Market.

Wheat has been very strong during
the whole week, notwithstanding the
visible made an unprecedentedly large
increase of 3,900,000 bushels, which
would usually be considered a very bear-
ish argument. While the shorts jumped
on the market with both feet, they were
not able to reduce the price. Instead,
there was an advance of fully 1c for
December and 2c for May options, Cash
wheat also showed a great deal of
strength and an advance of fully 1%c
can be recorded for winter wheat. Itis
hard to explain the cause of this upturn,
We have always contended that wheat
around present prices was too low and
it looks as though we were right on that
point. We might add that conditions
are somewhat different from what they
usually are. We hear—how true it is
we are unable to say—that wheat east
of the Rockies is being shipped to Cali-
fornia for export to the Orient and other
wheat importing countries on that side
of the globe. California is about 12,000, -
ooo bushels short of last year’s crop in
that State. Taking all things into con-
sideration, wheat will remain at present

prices. It may be possible that it will
be elevated a little, but it is all mere
guesswork. It all depends on how the
Chicago talent feel on the subject.

They seem to have more to do with the
ups and downs in wheat than the supply |
and demand. lf the natural supply and

demand were taken into consideration,

wheat would certainly be higher than it

is at present. Our views on the subject
have been expressed very often, so we
need not go into details again.

Corn, owing to weather conditions,
has been weak. Considerable corn will
be on the market before the middle of
December that will grade, which, of
course, will have a_ tendency to lower
the price. At least, our opinion is in
that direction. When anything is ab-
normally high, there are always ways
found to substitute other cereals, which
is the case with corn at present, so
there will be no advance. The visible
showed an increase of only about 200, -
ooo bushels.

Oats were considerably stronger than
a week ago. They have gained fully tc.
The visible increase was only 117,000
bushels, which was very much smaller
than was anticipated. We have just
about as much on hand as we had a year
ago, which is something remarkable.
Farmers seem to be willing to part with
oats in preference to wheat or corn.
Prices are high and there is plenty of
room below for a drop of a few cents,
Whether this will be realized is hard
to tell.

Rye is slow sale. To-day’s quotations
are fully 1c off from what they were.
Exports have been very small and the
cereal does seem to be generally neg-
lected. We thought, on account of the
shortness of the rye crop in Germany,
that we would have a better demand,
and we may get it later. For the pres-
ent rye looks like being depressed and
as if lower prices would prevail.

Beans have been rather strong, with
more enquiry, but the market lacks
snap, as they have only advanced 2@3c
since last week. The demand, however,
seems fair. Should the prediction of a
large importation prove true, we may
see a drop of fully 50c per bushel before
long.

Flour remains very steady, with no
shading in price. There is a good call
for it, both local and domestic. Present
frices will be sustained, if not ad-
vanced befofe Jong.

 

Mill feed seems to sustain present
prices. While the Northwest is offering
a trifle more than it was, the dairy
sections in this country are taking all
the offerings. It is surprising how many
more dairies there are in the United
States than there were a yearago. Prices
will not be shaded just now.

Receipts of grain have been normal,
being as follows: wheat, 60 cars; corn,
2 cars; oats, 4 cars; flour, 2 cars; bran,
I car; straw, I Car; potatoes, 33 Cars.

Millers are paying 71c for No. 2 red
wheat. C. G. A. Voigt.
Co-operation Which Proved Expensive.
From the Copper County News.

The directors of the Finnish Work-
men’s Mercantile Co. have ordered an
inventory taken of its stock of merchan-
dise for the purpose of knowing exactly
what their financial standing is. They
have called a meeting of the stockhold-
ers for Saturday evening, at which time
it is expected that the shareholders
will vote to elect a new and competent
manager, They will also call an assess-
ment to liquidate the outstanding in-
debtedness. The assets of the concern
are about $12,000 and its liabilities be-
tween $5,000 and $6,co00.,

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millionaire who bas become a citizen of
England, is reported to have received
notice to drop the prefix of ‘‘ Honor-
able,’’ which he has been using before
his name. As an American he was en-
titled to use it, having been a member
of the New York Legislature. But from
the moment he became naturalized as an
Englishman he became subject to the
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kind, which provide that no one shall
style himself ‘‘The Honorable’’ unless
he happens to be the son of a peer of
the realm, or the member of certain
colonial legislatures.

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BUSINESS CHANCES.
ANTED—TO BUY A SMALL STOCK OF
drugs. Address No. 847, care Michigan
Tradesman. 847
SALE—STORE AND STOCK OF GEN-
eral merchandise, situated at one of Michi-
gan’s most popular summer resorts; a good
trade established; store runs year round. A
money maker. Investigate. Termscash. Also
farm of 240 acres, “five miles south of Petos-
key.” Good buildings, well watered and most!
improved. . vn for cash. Address A. E.
Hass, Walloon Lake, Mich. 852
VOR SALE—STOCK IN UNITED STATES
Robe Factory. Inquire of F.M. Kilbourn,
Secretary, Corunna, Mich. 854
N UP-TO-DATE RESTAURANT AND
er doing a profitable business, can be
bought right. Address B., care Michigan Trades-
an. 861

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OR SALE AT A BARGAIN IF TAKEN
at once—Nice, clean stock of groceries, in-
cluding fixtures and soda fountain. Will invoice
about $1,500; brick building; rent $15 per month;
best town of 1,200 population in Southern Mich-
igan. Further particulars address No. 860, care
Michigan Tradesman. 860
a FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE
for merchandise; 80 acres muck soil, 1%
mies from town. Address 321% Lake, Petoskey.
857

 

O RENT $7—BUILDING FOR MEAT MAR-
ket or other business, with three living
rooms, also barn; location good on South East
St., Grand Rapids. James Campbell, Room 6,
Giant Block, Grand Rapids. 850
Vj J] ANTED — UP-TO-DATE SHOE STOCK,
invoicing about $2,000, in town of about
1,500 inhabitants. Will pay spot cash. Address
E. C. Apsey, 157 Sixth Avenue, Grand —

 

 

VOR SALE — GROCERY AND NOTION
stoek; good lively town in Southern Michi-
gan; good location; will invoice about $800; good
reason for selling. Address Owner, Box 193,
Lawrence, Mich. 855

Ko SALE—HARDWARE AND IMPLE-
ment stock in the best agricultural district
of Northern Michigan. Good reason for selling.
Address No. 846, care Michigan Tradesman. 836
POR SALE OR EXCHANGE--$12,000 STOCK
of dry goods, shoes and clothing at Mason
City, Ia.. one of the best towns in the State.
Will accept part In good real estate. Address
No. 845, care Michigan Tradesman. 845

ge SALE—A TWELVE HORSE POWER
boiler nearly new for $100, if sold before
Jan. 1, 1903. Address F.
Mich.
re 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
Wy Asse 20 LET 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

 

 

W. Brown, Ithaca,
853

 

 

SALE — MEAT

| Se MARKET AND
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
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. 829
Re 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
“yN ACCOUNT OF POOR HEALTH I WILL
sell my three stores—one shoe store, one
dry goods and grocery store and one 7 goods,
carpet, shoe and grocery store. Would like to
= _— Dec. 1. George H. Nelson, Whitehall,
ch. 837

 

 

 

 

YOR SALE—A NICE, CLEAN STOCK OF
hardware and farm implements, tinner’s and
pump tools, good location, good business, good
reasons for selling. Address Lock Box 107, Hol-
land, Minn. 836
ANTED—EVERY ONE TO KNOW THAT
there is one honest commission man on
earth. What have you to offer? A.M. Bentley,
Saginaw, W.S., Michigan, Distributor of ‘Best
on Record’’ Flour. 834

| Oa SALE —STVCK 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
OR 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

VOR 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 sell reasonably to right party; can
reduce stock if desired. Good reason for selling.
Address No. 822, care Michigan Tradesman. 822

 

 

 

 

)}OR 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. ©. 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-
cago, Ill. 819

HOICE FORTY ACRE FAKM IN EMMET
county to exchange for merchandise. Lock
Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 2

| ye SALE — AT A BARGAIN, STEAM
fiour mlll 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 81,100; located in
the northeastern part of Ionia county. Address
No. 795, care Michigan Tradesman. 795
ANTED—STEAM HEAT FOR CHURCH
30x60, with basement. Box 8, Benzonia,
Mich. 798

j}OR SALE—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.
Real estate will have a big advance here before
next spring. For further particulars address
Box 343, Munising, Mich. 781

OR SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF

the best business towns in Western Michi-

gan; good chance for a physician. Enquire of
0. 778, care Michigan Tradesman, 778

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 ANTED—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, Il 769
OR 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, ee.

 

 

ye FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL

kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con-
tract mill cuts. Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., Belding,
Mich. 764

JOR SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE
millinery business in Grand Rapids; object
for selling, parties leaving the city. Address
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 507
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
a 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. G reason for selling. Address
Vo. 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 —
merchandise. Address No. 751, care Michigan
Tradesman. 751
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 people 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

HARMACIST SITUATION WANTED; EX-
perienced; references; state salary paid.
Write Box 39, Lisbon, Mich. Cl aan |
jy TANTED BY EXPERIENCED SALES-
man-—Permanent position in general store;
references.
blown ll Ea a
WANTED BY EXPERIENCED SALES-
lady—Permanent position in dry goods
store. References if required. Address No. 858,

care Michigan Tradesman. 858

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
general store; good salary to right person. Ad-
dress C, care Michigan Tradesman. 832

y+ FIRST-CLASS CLOTHING
and furnishing goods salesman and win-
dow trimmer; a young unmarried man, stead
and reliabie; references required. Address iH.
C. Co., Traverse City, Mich. 812
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

:.* MAN TO DELIVER AND
work in grocery store. Must be of good
character, a worker and strictly temperate; a
steady job for the right man. Address No. 823,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 823

WANTED — FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS
man for Northern Wisconsin; good salary

to the right man. Address No. 821, care Mich-

igan Tradesman, 821

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address N. B., care Michigan
859

 

 

 

 

 

Cheney & Tuxbury

Real Estate Dealers
Timbered and Farm Lands a Specialty.
24 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

ane Auctioneers |
and Special Salesmen

aT

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.

Correspond-
. ence confiden-
tial. We buy
and sell store

 

C. C. O’NEgILL
fixtures or take them on consignment.
Cc. C. O'NEILL & CO., Chicago, M1.
356 Dearborn St., Suite 408 Star Building

 

 

 

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