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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,

MAY 23, 1888.

NO. 244.

 

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MANUFACTURERS OF

mperial :
La Belle
BAKING. POWDERS

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Kinds of Extracts
and Flavorings.

JOBBERS OF

Yeas, Yoilet Soaps, Gigars

and Grocers Sundries.

ILD YALE & C0)

Ge"This soap may be used in ANY WAY
and for ANY PURPOSE that any other is
used, and will be found to excel all in cleans-
ing qualities, but if you will

FOLLOW DIRECTIONS

.| which are plain and stnale much rubbing,

and consequently much labor and wear of

clothes, will be saved.
The peculiar property possessed by our s0ap
isthat of loosening and separating the dirt

without injuring the fabric, instead of eating
up the dirt and thereby rotting the cloth. |

FAL OFFER. It makes retail profit very sat-
isfactory.

Central City Soap 60,

JACKSON, MICH.

 

fd, DRTYTENTHALER

WHOLESALE

Salt Lake Eis

AND OYSTERS.

Packing and Warehouse,
37 North Division Street.
Office, 117 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Telfer Spice Company,

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

ABSOLUTE SPIGKS,

—AND—

Absolute Baking Powder

 

JOBBERS OF

‘Teas, Coffees 2 Grocers’ Sundries,

SHEDS!

IF YOU WANT

Medium Clover,
_Mammoth Clover,
Timothy,
Alsike,
Alfalfa,
Hungarian,
Millet,
Red Top,
Orchard Grass,
Blue Grass,
Field Peas,
Spring Rye,
Spring Barley.

OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO

W. T. LAMORKAUX,

7x Canal Street, -

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Lalest ald. Best

Send Stamp fer sample of the

TRADESMAN
GREDIY
COUPON,

the best and newest system on the market.
Furnished in Denominations of $5, $10 and

$20.

EA STOWE & BRO,

Grand Rapids, - Mich,

 

 

46 Ottawa St, GRAND RAPIDS,

ESTABLISHED 1866.

Barney Bros,

152 80. Water Street, Chicago.

We do a General Commission Business

_and offer as inducements twenty years’ ex-

perience and clear record. The best equip-

as ped and largest salesroom in the business
" imthis elty. Ample storage faclities—fall

oor space in the center of

SOAPS!

They Please Everybody.

BEST FAMILY, —
HEADLIGHT and
— LIDTLE DAISY

SOAPS are conceded by all to be the best
soaps ever sold in Michigan.

Commendations are coming in daily. Send
for price list. , :

Order these goods of any jobber in Grand
Rapids

Grand Raps Soa) Co.
. REUBEN HATCH

‘Attorney at* Law,
Rooms 23 & 24 Widdicomb Bid. Monroe St.,

 

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Ask your wholesale grocer about our SPEC- |

RDMUND B, DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker.

= Jeweler
i CANAL SY.
Grand Rapids, - lic

SAFES!

Anyone in want of a first-class Fire or
Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe
and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to
his advantage to write or call on us. We
have light expenses, and are able to sell low-
er than any other house representing first-
class work. Second-hand safes always on
hand. :

C. M. GOODRICH & CO.,

With Safety Deposit Co., Basement. of Wid-
dicomb Blk.

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Voigt, Herpolsheimer & C0,

Importers and Jobbers of

DRY GOODS

Staple and Fancy. .

Overalls, Pants, Hitc.,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A Complete Line of

Fancy Crockery: Fancy Woodenware

- OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit
Prices Guaranteed.

BELKNAP
Wagon and Sleigh Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF
Spring, Freight, Express,
Lumber and Farm

WAGONS!

Logging Carts and Trucks
Mill and Dump Carts,
Lumbermen’s and

River Tools.

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

Special _attention given to Repairing,
Painting and Lettering.

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh,

CHAS. A. COYE

MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and Wagon Covers,
Awnings and Tents, .
Flags and Banners,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,
Wide Ducks, etc.

Telephone 106,
73 CANAL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

A. BE. WATSON, Trens..
S. F. ASPINWALLE, Secy.

_ CASH CAPITAL, $200,000.
STEAM LAUNDRY,
48 and 45 Kent Street,
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor.

 

WE DO ONLY FIEST CLASS WORK AND

USE NO CHEMICALS.
Orders by mail and express promptly attended te.

 

BOUGHT

RAGS, RUBBERS, BONES & METALS|

 

 

 

 

EDWIN FALLAS,

PROPRIETOR OF

VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

JOBBER OF _
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs
and Egg Crates.

No. 1 egg crates, 37c. No. 2 egg crates,
30c. No. 1 fillers, 13c. No. 2 fillers, 10c,

I have facilities for handling each line above
named that are unsurpassed.

I aim to handle the best that can be obtained.
Mail orders filled promptly at lowest market price.
liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in large lots.

NALESROOW, - No.9 Ionia 8t,, Grand. Rapids,

WANTED.

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

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

Karl Bros., Commission Merchants,

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

POTATOES.

 

 

We give prompt personal attention to:

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

Wo. H. Thompson & C0,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference i
FELSENTHAL, GROSS & MILLER, Bankers,
Chicago.

 

ASK FOR

MUSTARD
BEST INTHE WORLD,

S. T. FISH & CO,,

General COMMISSION Merchants

WHOLESALE

FRUITS and PRODUGE,

189 So. Water St., - Chicago.

 

We solicit your correspondence and will
make liberal’ advances on all shipments for-
warded to us. Send us yourconsignments and
we will render prompt and satisfactory re-
turns. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

A. J. BOWNE, President.
GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. P. BAKER, Cashier.

oe $300,000.

CAPITAL,
Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
ef Country Merchants Solicited.

SHOK DRESSINGS,

Brown's French,
Bixby’s Royal,
Eclipse Safety Barrel,
Raven Gloss,
Spanish Gloss,
Topsey,
Gilt Edge.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

JOBBERS,
118 Canal St, GRAND RAPIDS.

SYANTON, SAMPSON 00,

Manutacturers and Jobbers of
-Men’s Furnishing Goods,

Sole Manufacturers of the “Peninsular”
Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

 

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LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I have never heard or read that there was
any restriction on the sale of general mer-
chandise in England, France or Germany,
but, from what I have gathered from con-
versations with numerous intelligent emi-
grants from those countries, it is evident
that they possess a conservatism in trade
affairs that is totally unknown in America.
The merchant (of Michigan, for instance)
who can even approximate the result of his
labors for the coming twelve months has
yet to be discovered; yet there is abundant
evidence to prove that the income of the
trader in the countries mentioned is ordi-
narilye nearly as well fixed as that of the
bond holder or money loaner. This fact is
probably the result of three or four causes:
the steady adherance of buyers to their
favorite ‘‘shops;” the disinclination of for-
eigners to invest capital in doubtful enter-
prises; the almost undeviating custom of

every dealer confining himself strictly to}

his own line, and the absence of canvassers
and peddlers of sufficient pretensions to
perceptibly affect the legitimate trade.

* * *

* *

I don’t really admire the slow, plodding
and unambitious trader, but if the Yankee
speculators in merchandise were, en masse,
slower, more plodding and less mercurial,
the commercial interests of the country
would not suffer. <A little more slowness
would decrease the constantly swelling vol-
ume of business failures. A more plod-
ding habit would avert an immense amount
of disastrous speculation, anda less mer-
curial temperament would assist in a more
careful observance of the old adage that
asserts that it is avery sensible and com-
mendable idea.to let well enough alone.
And, if, in addition to the Yankee specu-
lator toning himself down, in the manner
mentioned. his tribe would decrease from
one-third to one-half, I believe the com-
mercial interests aforesaid would be greatly

advanced.

* * * *

The field of traffic in this country is
greatly and unreasonably overcrowded, and
the overcrowding process is going on reck-
lessly and unremittingly. Our population
is increasing rapidly but by no means as
rapidly proportionately as the dealers in
mercnantile commodities; and, to-day, it is
really astonishing that the vast army of
people whose daily avocation is the at-
tempted extracting of profits from every
grade and species of merchandise can sub-
sist off the balance of the population. In
Michigan, for instance, any practical and
intelligent observer of the situation would
decide that the regular trading establish-
ments of the cities and villages are greatly
in excess of the wants and needs of buyers;
yet to these you have added hordes of city
canvassers, hucksters and peddlers of every
imaginable variety; of foot and wagon
country peddlers, bearing on their backs
or in their carts every article that the bu-
celicicitizen is supposed to require, and of
“agents” of every conceivable kind, who
‘‘work” the cities and the country alike.

Let the editor of THz TRADESMAN step
into a buggy and ride twenty miles in any
direction, and I will wager him a respecta-
ble hat that he will meet one-third as many
peddling rigs as farmers’ wagons, and what
is witnessed in his vicinity ean be wit-
nessed in-every nook and corner of the
State. Traversing the country, wherever
there is human life there are dealers in
agricultural implements, medicines, . tin-
ware, musical instruments, clothing, dry
goods, groceries, patent knick-knacks,
books and stationery, boots and shoes and,
in fact, almost every species of goods,
aside from those designed for the wealthy
and __ultra-fashionable. And put it
down as an unpleasant but certain fact that
every one of this endless procession of
itinerant traders is, every day and every
hour, busily engaged in reducing the income
of you and me and our contemporaries in
various sections. And you and I and our
contemporaries—or many of them, probably
—if we had two-thirds of the dollars that
we have been assessed for National, State,
county and local taxes; for insurance,
charity, subscriptions for various purposes,
and repairs upon the premises we occupy,
might view the raids of these guerrillas of
trade, who bear no part of the public bur-
dens whatever, with much more equanimity.

There is said to be somewhere, among
the almost countless laws of this State, an
enactment providing for an annual tax of
$75 on peddlers, but if such a statute has
an existence it is only another of the dead
letter laws for which Michigan is famous.

* SEs; co Me *
Ina little village not far from Grand
Rapids, one of ‘dose chosen beoples” has,
on a license of $1 per day, made more clean

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‘money out of the community during the

past week than a store handling the same

line of goods and run at an expense of

probably fifteen hundred dollars pei
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weeks through the sale of “smuggled”
cloth and with no expense at all in the way
of taxes or license. (And, by the way, isn’t
it remarkable how that antique, moss-grown
smuggling dodge continues -in perennial
bloom?)

And, I could multiply cases that are
Similar to these, which have come to my
personal knowledge, by the dozen almost,
but I will only refer to one more that was
somewhat remarkable for its ingenious dis-
honesty and financial success. Some
months ago, a fellow appeared in the

neighborhood of the village mentioned with
a handsomely painted and decorated “rig”

and announced himself to the agricultural-
ists as an agent of ‘The Great Trans-
Pacific Tea Company.” He was Selling the
choicest pickings of Japan, such as no
country merchant had the faeilities of pro-
curing, directly to the consumer at whole-
sale prices. His tea was all put up in five
peund sacks and he didn’t break packages;
but he wanted every purchaser to steep the
tea from the sack he bought and then weigh
it before paying for it. Anything of a
connoisseur on drawing the herb could
readily perceive that it was a very choice
article. The weight was full and the five
pounds was offered at about twenty-five
per cent. below dealers’ prices. Nearly
every family took a sack, some two and
some aS many as half a dozen; and the
“agent” of ‘The G. T.-P. T. Co.” had left
the section some days before it was dis-
covered that the bag hada partition and
that the great‘bulk of ‘the choicest pick-
ings of Japan” was little better than clover
hay. But, of course, the stuff had to be
used to the last drawing and the tea trade
of the community was very limited for some

months.

* * * * *

Since writing the above, I have seen the
text of the law referred to some paragraphs
back. As amended by the present Legisla-
ture, it provides for a State license for all
hawkers and peddlers, exemptirg only the
class known as ‘commercial travellers.”
The money must be paid in to the State
Treasurer, who issues the petmits to sell.
Foot peddlers, or hawkers, are assessed
$15; one-horse ditto, $45; two-horse
ditto, $75, and those traveling by public
conveyance, $100. It authorizes any officer
or citizen to demand a sight of the
Treasurer’s receipt and impose a fine of
$10 for any refusal to produce it. Hawk-
ing or peddling anywhere in the State
without a license subjects the person so
doing to a fine not exceeding: $50 and costs
of prosecution, and in default of payment
imprisonment is provided for. In case the
hawker or peddler refuses to produce his
license and is arrested for violating the law,
he can recover no costs or damages. All
prosecutions for a violation of the act must
be commenced within sixty days after the
offense is committed.

Thus the law exists and its provisions are
plain and unmistakable; yet there is an
endless procession of hawkers and peddlers
on almost every highway of the State, and
the combined h. and p.’s of the State pro-
bably couldn't produce a_ solitary receipt

| from the State Treasurer.

> 2
How a Traveler Treated a Tricky Trader.

After being welcomed at the hotel of his
choice, Jim Holt recently sauntered out to
call on his trade. Stopping incidentally at
the establishment of aman who for some
years had been considered a bad risk, being
notoriously dishonest and tricky, he found
the proprietor ready to talk business, and
apparently willing to buy a large bill of
goods provided the ‘‘time” given was long
enough.

Jim quoted prices from ten to fifteen per
cent. higher than regular figures, and ob-
served with inward satisfaction that no ob-
jection was made.

At last the order was complete, except as
to terms, and the merchant asked for four
months’ credit.

‘I don’t really care for the time,” he said
carelessly. ‘‘I shall probably take advan-
tage of the discount and pay the bill at once.”

Jim told him that they never gave more
than sixty days’ credit except on notes with
good endorsement, but, of course, if he con-
templated paying cash anyway, he could
have the discount equivalent to four or even
six months’ time.

**You can have five per cent. off from the
whole bill for cash on receipt of the bill of
lading,” said Jim.

The dealer bristled up.

‘*What!” he exclaimed. ‘‘Do you mean
that you expect me to buy of you on C. O.
D. terms?”

**That’s about the size of it,” replied Jim,
coolly.

“Well, then, you can take your goods and
go to Ballyhack with them. I don’t buy
from houses that are afraid to trust me.”

“Quite likely,” said Jim, ‘‘It’s the way
of a great many.” :

“If you want to ship that bill of goods on
straight four months, open account, you can
send them along. If not, why, that settles
it. I don’t want them.”

‘Tell you what I will do,” said Jim; “Pll

give you ten per cent. off the whole bill, and’

you give me a certified check now for half
of it and pay the balance on receipt.” :

‘‘Why, you infernal. scoundrel, what do
you mean? Do you want to make me out a
swindler? Get out of my store!”

“Go easy over the rough places, mister |.

man,” replied Jim. ‘I don’t have the man-

1/ agement of your character, and am not re-
‘sponsible

for your reputation. I notice that
selling many
bought for

1 my boy.

articles at less than |
eset tea [acne

 

me for a big bill on four months’ time; and
long before that would fall due, you’d get in

. Other good orders on the strength of my

selling you, and you’d run the stuff off at
less than cost and skip out to Canada. But ..
Pve been dug up too long for these tricks,
Now, you'll take these goods that ‘
I’ve been to the trouble to show you, and
youll pay for them, too, or Pil put the
screws onto you so quick that it'll make
your head swim, and don’t you forget it.”

‘‘Why, this is blackmail!” gasped the
dealer.

“I don’t know just what color it is, but it
goes, just the same,” said Jim.

‘‘Well, I like your cheek.”

“So do I,” gasped Jim. ‘And my eyes
and nose, too, for that matter; but it’s my
tongue that’s the regular charmer. Does
the sale go?”

“Oh, you can send the goods, now that
I’ve ordered them,” was the sullen reply.

‘Thanks, kind sir. The total is $480,
and ten per cent. off leaves $432. elalf of
that is $216. Make out your check payable
to my house for that amount, and sign the
order, and we’ll go down and get the check’
certified. You can pay the balance on the
arrival of the goods.”

Jim pocketed the check which the dealer
reluctantly drew out, and lugged his cus-
tomer off to the bank.

‘“‘Now, a good many of the boysare afraid
to sell to you,” said Jim, in a burst of con-
fidence, as they left the bank a few minutes
later, ‘‘but you see I’m not.”

=e <a.
Short Trade Sermon.
From the Philadelphia Grocer.
“For no man can serve two masters.”

Whether it be consulted with religious
reverence, or with mere worldly wisdom,
the Bible is full of maxims and lessons of
the most valuable character. The text
which we select this week may be viewed
in the higher spiritual sense or-in the more
every-day outlook of a secular life.

It may not be amiss to explain that we
use these trade sermons as means of incul-
cating proper views of the minor virtues
without any attempt to enter upon the
broader and higher domain of theology and
religion. The columns of a trade paper,
read by Protestant and Catholic, Jew and
Gentile, believer and skeptic, alike, cannot
properly be made a medium for a discussion
of religious points on which there would be
a wide divergence of opinion. But we be-
lieve that very few of our readers question
the existence of a Creator or deny man’s
moral accountability or ignore the existence
within themselves of such a thing as a con-
science. These grounds are broad enough
for our trade sermon.

But to return to our text. “No man can
serve two masters.” It will not do to con-
fine the idea to the mere connection of ser-
vant and employer. he text refuses such
limited bounds. It includes the whole
scope of a life work. No man can success-
fully follow two theories. One of them
must suffer neglect.

The really successful merchant, the evi-
dently successful salesman, the really pro-
gressive clerk, all of these are men who,
like Paul, can say with their whole hearts, °
‘This one thing I do.” Yet the days are
full of men attempting the opposite course-
and the mercantile reports are also full of
failures. Not all of them reach that point.
Many linger half successful, or less suceess-
ful than they would be if they devoted
themselves honestly to one principle or to
one course. ‘Types of these experimenters
who damage themselves by their uncertain
and vacillating course are to be found on all
sides. The wholesaler who expects to re-
tain the friendship of the retail trade while
he sells directly to all the large consumers
and boarding houses he can secure—he is
one of the men trying to serve two masters.
The manufacturing peddler who seeks trade
at the same time by ringing door bells and.
by drumming up the retail trade, forgets"
that the division of his allegiance means the
weakening of his hold on both. Worst of
all, the trade editor, who flaunts at the top
of his columns, ‘‘Published in the interest
of the retail trade,” although all the while
he is thinking mainly of his wholesale back-
ers or manufacturing patrons. What gate
of success can he hope to enter in at? He
cannot serve two masters, the attempt is
idle, they will both spurn him in the end.

Yes, there is another, to come nearer
home—the speculative retailer. The busi-
ness of a distributor and that of a specula-
toris as far apart as the East is from the
West, and the man who is unwilling to ac-
cumulate his fortune or secure his necessary
living by the purchase and turn-over of such
supplies as his customer needs, but feels
that it is necessary to speculate at the same
time, had better abandon the one business
and adhere to the other—he cannot serve
two masters, one of them must be neglected.

We can rise higher still. No retailer
will be honestly, thoroughly, satisfactorily
successful who does not squarely serve his
customers. If they ask for one article and
he substitutes another, he may imagine that
he is serving himself, but he is not serving
the customer whom he undertook to serve
honestly when he hung out his sign. No
clerk can serve himself first and his master
afterward, and yet gain success through
such principles. By every hour of self-de-
nying, faithful service rendered to his em-
ployer he strengthens himself for a further
life work, and develops that condition of
mind which knows how to serve one end,
one purpose, one principle, one master,
faithfully and successfully.

A one-ounce dose of epsom salts recently

proved fatal. It was taken on an empty
stomach.

PERFECTION SCALE

The Latest Improved and Best,

 

 

Will Soon Save its Cost on any Counter.
GEO. C, WETHERBEE & CO..

HAWKING a FERRY, Grahe Ho
___. MeCAUSLAND & CO., B.

 

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Crawford county...... $

‘ought to fail.

year. alvetas

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to this paper are not ‘discontinued at ex- |
he subseriber.

iration, unless so ordered by the
Entered at the Grand. Rapids Post. Office.

"B. A. STOWE, Editor. _
_SepNEspAy, MAY 23, 1888.

 

 

 

 

 

_ SERIOUS ‘SHRINKAGE.

The Engelmann Failure Worse Than at
First Supposed.

© Messrs.’ E. N. Salling, Geo. A. Hart and

ms G. Filer, who were appointed to appraise

the: ‘assets of the Manistee Salt & Lumber

Co,, have completed the work of apprais-

ing. the property at its market valuation.

~ In connection with the appraisers’ estimates,
» @HE TRADESMAN herewith presents the

‘statement of assets as filed by the company

-when the assignment was made:

' Apppraisers’ M.S. & L.
; a Property. Valuation. Co.’s val.

Wagons, h’rnss, stock,...$ ca ~ $ 4,503.76

Camp outfit...............
a Tees 7908. 60 30,887.91

48,000.0 81,110.37
a 981. 25

Vessel property..........
“Machine shop, toole, etc. :
‘Mdse and provisions..... 2,788 54
Lumber, lath, salt, etc... 163, "437.10 202, 439.24
~ Bilis receivable, accounts

and stock.......... weeee 157,474.34 336,225.72

es

$387,503.88 $676,333.22
110,770.00 $ 214,542.00
Benzie ee 2,000.00 3.765.00
Missaukee ‘‘ . 310.00
Kalkaska “-.- ...... 101,265.00
Newaygo 3,750.00
Wexford 3,025.00
Mason 41,185.00
45,317.00
27,000.09

Lake ’

Upper Peninsula......
11,000.00
28,398 .00

Washington territory.
Manistee county......
Montmorency county. 15 000. 00
City of Manistee...... 197, 455.00 812,805.02
Int. S. Babcock & Co.. 151,454. 81 183,889.13
$1,225,433.19 $2,12 121,645.30

The total assets are thus shown to be
$1,612,936.57, a shrinkage of about a mil-
dion and a quarter dollars. The liabilities
sare in excess of $1,200,000.

R. G. Peters, of Manistee, says -he is
sthoroughly conversant with the value of the
various properties set forth in the schedule
-and that itis his belief that the creditors
will not realize over 50 per cent. of their
claims.

A similar shrinkage occurred in the ap-
praisement of the estate of S. Babcock &
‘Co.. The firm put its assets at $638,044.23,
while the appraisers shrunk them down to
$297,309.63. The liabilities of the firm are
$367,533.28.

” REAL ESTATE IN

Chicago Meats.
rom the Detroit News.

The butchers of Detroit might’ as well
ease their silly efforts to exclude dressed
meats trom Chicago or elsewhere from this
market. They will certainly fail, and they
The State Board of Health,

whom. they are are asking to interfere in
the matter, have power to condemn and
prevent the sale of diseased meat, but there
.ig no power in the whole United States
which can place an embargo on trade be-
tween one State and another—and that is,
substantially, what the butchers are asking.

It is idle to denounce the dressed beef

syndicate, of Chicago, as a ‘‘pool,” or
‘**trust,” or ‘‘monopoly,” and such denun-
ciation comes with particularly bad grace
from an organization whose sole purpose is
to monopolize the local market itself and
deprive the 200,000 people of Detroit of the
advantages of the competition which the
Chicago dressed meat affords them, not only
in respect to quality but in respect to price.
The butchers should remember. that the
whole meat trade exists for the benefit, not
of those who sell meat, but of those who
eat it, and it is the consumer alone who
must be considered by the public authorities
in their relations to and regulation of the
trade. Even under our protective tariff, the
consumer ¢an bring his meat, dressed, or on
the hoof, or cooked, or in any other shape
he pleases, from any point in the United
States. That is a right guaranteed him by.
the Federal constitution, and no State or
Jocal authority can‘abridgeit. The national,
State and local boards of health may pre-
vent the transportation and sale of diseased
food, but they can take no cognizance of
“**pools” or *“‘monopolies.” Everything but
sanitary considerations is beyond their jur-
isdiction. ._Though the sale of Chicago
dressed meat should ruin every butcher in
Michigan, it cannot be interfered with on
“that account by any power of or in the
“State.

Itis true, the butchers have raised the
‘sanitary argument against the Chicago
“meat, but it has no foundation in truth.
Every one in Detroit who pays any atten-

~. tion to the source of the meat he eats can
--easily demonstrate to his entire satisfaction

‘that not only has the quality of meat gen-

erally sold in this city greatly improved
. -sinee the introduction of the Chicago meats,
_. ut also that the best and tenderest meats

* gold in Detroit to-day are Chicago dressed
meats. _

The most ‘prudent thing for the local
© Butchers to do is to get the best meat they
ean regardless of the place it comes from,
and conduct their business for the benefit of
- their customers and not for the benefit of
‘the drovers. They will surely be beaten in
- their present foolish undertaking.

é a
‘The new North End Loan and Building

eigen ot will be officered as.

to its full capacity two months.

time, in order to keep pace with orders.

grocery business at the corner of Stocking
and Fifth streets, have retired from trade.

Bridge street.
power.

ly engaged in the drug business at Petoskey,

about July 1.

grocery and meat business at Battle Creek,

engage in the same business.

running for three months to come.

Harrison Eddy has rented Ira Adams?
store building at Bellaire and engaged in
the grocery business. Arthur Meigs & Co.

20.00 | furnished the stock, M. M. Mallory secur-
166.562.90
3,354.00

ing the order.

Bernhardt Brogger, formerly of the firm
of Brogger Bros., is constructing a store at
the corner of Turner and Second streets,
and will occupy the same with a grocery
stock. Clark, Jewell & Co. will furnish the
stock.

C. H. Cornell and Geo. Kerry have
formed a copartnership under the style of
Cornell & Kerry and engaged in the pro-
duce commission business at 30 North
Ionia street, the former location of Ira O.
Green. Messrs. Carnell and Kerry both
have a somewhat varied acquaintance
among the trade and will undoubtedly one
ceed in their undertaking.

Henry J. Hartman has purchased a forty
foot frontage on South Front street, just
below the Fulton street bridge, on which
he has begun the construction of a foundry
building, 40x60 feet in dimensions. His
father, Frederick Hartman, has in contem-
plation the construction of a machine shop
on the same tract of land, 35x50 feet in
dimensions and two stories high. -

Hester & Fox were awarded a judgment
for $1,661.33 and interest in the Circuit
Court Saturday against John De Vries and
R. E. Werkman, of Holland. , The ground
on which the judgment was secured was
that De Vries used false representations in
persuading Hester & Fex to release their
mortgage on the Alba mill of the Werk-
man Lumber Co. for a similar security on
the Kalkaska mill property. Subsequent
to this release it was found that the Kal-
kaska property was already mortgaged for
all it was worth. Hence the suit.

T. J. Sheridan & Co. have made a con-
tract with Alexander Johnson; Sr., and
Peter Patterson, of Columbiaville, to log
and cut their large tract of white and Nor-
way pine situated on Eagle river, Oneida
county, Wis. The tract comprises 28,000
acres, located on a chain of lakes which run
back about thirty miles, and is estimated to
contain over 100,000,000 feet of timber. It
is intended to eut six or seven million feet
of lumber per year and about 15,000,000
shingles. The gentlemen taking the con-
tract remove their sawmill from Columbia-
ville and leave Mr. Sheridan’s shingle mill
on the ground. Operations will be begun
immediately.

AROUND THE STATE.

Cedar Springs—E. F. Chester, druggist,
is dead.

Azalia—R. G. Thompson succeeds Edwin
M. Lewis in general trade.
Menominee—Nelson Bros. succeed Blade
Bros. in the livery business.

Stetson—J. W. Robinson has moved his
general stock to Walkerville.

Greenville—J. A. Massie has sold his
grocery stock to M. A. Massie.

Detroit—Wm. E. Avery succeeds Knapp
& Avery in the stone business.

Stofflet in the bazaar business. —
* Saline—Chas. Burkhardt, succeeds Burk-
hardt & Aldrich in general trade.

line of jewelry to his drug stock.

his restaurant business to Luther.
Cheboygan—Geck Bros. succeed C. A.

Gallagher in the grocery business.

"| store building is nearly completed. on
- Medina—C. F. & C. ©. Morse. succeed

L, J. Morse in the milling business. Pa
7 ‘Menominee—Gus Nowack succeeds Hor-
“s nick hades in the Sania,

 

business at Whitehall. ‘Olney: Shields &
| Co. furnished the stock.

‘The Belknap Wagon. & “Sleigh Co. jag
| enough ‘orders booked to run the establish-

. The Telfer Spice Co. is running its ma-
chinery nights as well as during the day-

* Kruse & Gleason, who have conducted a
C. G. Baisch has put in an eight horse

power engine at his gun’ shop-on East
Hester & Fox furnished the

It is reported that A. J. Dayton, former-

will open a drug store on Weley avenue

H. E. Merritt, formerly engaged in the

has arranged to remove to this place and re-

H. Rademaker_ & Sons report enough
orders on their books for ball bats, croquet
sets and Indian clubs to keep their factory

Ann Arbor—W. F. -Adams succeeds F.

Coopersville—J. B. Watson has added a

Howard City—O. J. Mosher has moved.

Marion— McLennan & Creepér’s’ new

: n . well & Co., ot Milwaukee, for ($25 per M.,

y the Gunn
Climax — Willison & Aldrich ucone
hicle and agricultural implement business.

interest in his general stock to Chas. North.
The firm name will be Carrington & North.

Levering—A. M. LeBaron has sold his
general stock and rented his store to M. C.
& H. N. Crandall, who will continue the
business.

Muir—The stock of osds forneity owned
by Ely & Coffin was sold last Friday at
auction to Edson, Moore & Co., of Detroit,
‘for $2,325.

‘Sutton’s Bay—John Litney has been ad-
mitted to partnership in the general business
of W. 8S. Johnson. The new firm name is
W. S. Johnson & Co.

Vermontville—H. L. Curtis has sold his
interest in the hardware business of Curtis
&.Barber to D. F. Barber, late of Chicago.
The new firm will be known as H. G. Barber
& Co.

Hickory Corners—Jos. Roberts has
bought out Milburn Bros.’ harness busfness
at Lake Odessa and has moved his own
stock to that place. Milburn Bros. retain
their crockery business.

Cheboygan—E. H. Silliman has purchased
the interest of Randall Smith in the lumber
commission business of Smith & Martin.
The new firm will be known as Martin &
Silliman. Mr. Smith has gone into the
sawmill business.

Cannonsburg—C. O. Bostwiek & Son
have sold their grocery stock and building to
Geo. Hartwell, who will continue the
business. They have removed their drng
stock to Watrousville, Tuscola county,
where they will continue that business.

STRAY FACTS.

Edgewater—The Malcom McDonald Lum-
ber Co. has been merged into the Platte
River Lumber Co. G. H. Richley is Pres-
ident and Chas. Fults Secretary and Treas-
urer.

Saginaw—E. O. & S. L. Eastman have
bought out Judd. & Cross, the lumber
dealers. The Eastmans recently sold their
yard in East Saginaw to the T.,S. & M.
Railroad.

Carson City—Assignee Lawson, of Rooi,
Strong & Co., has been ordered to release
to F. A. Rockafellow all of the late firm’s
interest in the business of F. A. Rockafel-
low & Co., pay Mr. Rockafellow $3,000
from the money in his hands as assignee
and surrender two notes aggregating $2,443.
Rockafellow is to give a $50,000 bond in an
agre2ment to assume Rockafellow & Co.’s
liabilities and to secure Root, Strong & Co.
from obligation in that direction.

MANUFACTURING MATTERR.

Ferry—Mr. Bode has sold his shingle
mill to W. H. Davis.

Bay City—The big mill of Sage & Co. is
cutting 1,200,000 feet of lumber a week
now.

Battle Creek—E. C. Nichols has hought
the plant of the Pembroke Knitting Co., at
mortgage sale for $15,024.

Detroit—The Detroit Stay Co. has been
‘organized with a capital of $5,000, all paid
in. The company will manufacture gar-
ment stays.

Cheboygan—Wm. J. Hess has retired
from the manufacture of boilers to take a
third interest in the boiler shop of Wicks
Bres., of East Saginaw.

Carson City—lIt is cider, cider jelly, apple
butter, canned goods and anti-ferment
which E. J. Mason will manufacture at this
place—not evaporated apples, as proMously,
stated.

Burr Oak—The business men have raised
$1,000, to be given as abonus to any re-
sponsible party who will establish a manu-
facturing business that will employ ten to
twenty men all the year around.

Kent City—M. L. Whitney is refitting
his mill with full roller process machinery,
which will give him a capacity of about
forty barrels per day. He will continue the
use of stones in grinding feed and buck-
wheat.

Manistee—The Filer Town Manufactur-
ing Co. has not decided what kind of
woodenware it will manufacture, but is in
correspondence with persons skilled in that
line to take an interest in the factory and
act as superintendent.

Grand Haven—The Cutler & Savidge
Lumber Co. will commence operations at
once to eut their pine in Rose Lake, Osceola
‘county. The Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railroad will run a side track into Hogback
Lake. The firm have about 20,000,000 feet
of pine near that place. The logs will be
shipped on cars to Grand Rapids.

Muskegon—The Maxwell Lumber Co.
has been organized for the purpose of en-
gaging in a general lumber business, with a
capital stock of $50,000, which is one-
half paid in. The officers are as follows:
C. J. Hamilton, president; Patrick W.
Maxwell, vice-president; M. Wilson, treas-
urer; Leonard Eyke, secretary.
pany will build a planing mill next season,
if not this, and will ship by boat and rail.
' Manistee—The stock of 2,500, 000 feet of
cok pine lumber, owned by David Ward,
carried over the past winter on the dock of
Stokoe & ‘Nelson,

 

Stratton. & Willison in the hardware, ve-|

Trent—Geo. Carrington has sold a half

Theccom-.

and sold to Sawyer, Rock-

 

gan as his territory.

Henry Henkel, Jr., of Howard City, has
gone on the road in the interest of his
father’s butter tub factory.

Cary & Loveridge have cae Paul ‘aad
Henry Hirsch, of Milwaukee, to represent
them in Southern Michigan,

Jack Holland, who has made Grand Rap-
ids his headquarters for the past few
months, has returned to his home at In-
dianapolis.

S. A. Welling writes Tie TRADESMAN
from Jackson that L. R. Cesna will not
represent him on the road, as previously
stated in these columns. 7

H. Gebhart, formerly on the road for W.
F. McLaughlin & Co., of Chicago, is now
representing the Union Coffee Co., of New
York. He is due here this week.

Harry Gregory has returned from Mt.
Clemens, the physicians there being unable
to give him any encottragement. His con-
dition, while not critical, is serious.

Claude D. Freeman has taken the posi-
tion of book-keeper and house salesman
for the Telfer Spice Co. His territory will
be covered by H. R. Savage and J. B.
Josselyn.

Les. Freeman, house ee at Haw-
kins & Perry’s, thinks he issome pumpkins
behind his second-hand lunch counter.
The report that he intends to put in a line
of ‘‘soft drinks” is probably without
foundation.

Ezra Mansfield, traveling representative
for Bradner Smith & Co, of Chicago,
lost his youngest boy, a bright little three-
year old, last Thursday. Mr. Mansfield
has the sympathy of the traveling frater-
nity throughout the State.

Thompson & Chute have bought the soap
factory of John B. Bell & Co., at Toledo,
and will continue the business. B. F.
Pashby continues his connection with the
establishment and will spend this week
among the Grand Rapids trade.

W. W. Watson, a ‘traveling agent from
Chicago, was very much surpriged last Sun-
day morning when a cloud of smoke rolled
up in his face from some unknown source
beneath, and he was frightened half to
death when he discovered that the lower
part of his vest and his sack coat was in
flames. After a hard fight he managed to
smother the blaze, but he had a narrow
escape. He was in the act of leaving the
hotel Sunday morning on his way to church,
when he bought a few grains of chlorate of
potash at the news stand for the purpose
of relieving a sore throat. Without think-
ing of the danger, he slipped- the little
paper of potash into his lower vest pocket
where half adozen sulphur matches lay.
Of course, it was acase of spontaneous
combustion, and Mr. Watson narrowly es-
caped a severe if not fatal burning. The
moral contained in this piece of uews
teaches the great sore-throated public that
there are some things that will not mix.

i Sa Le ee
Purely Personal.

M. L. Whitney, the Kent City miller, was
in town a couple of days last week.

Ira O. Green proposes to take up his
residence in Denver in the near future.

Frank E. Piper, the Charlotte boot and
shoe dealer, was in town last Wednesday.

J. C. Bennett, the veteran Kalamazoo boot
and shoe dealer, was in town last Wednes-
day.

A. M. Todd, the Nottawa essential oil
distiller, was in town a couple of days last
week.

S. S. Morris, of the Muskegon provision
house of S. 8. Morris & Bro.,:was in town
last Wednesday.

B. F. Emery has engaged to represent
S. C. Bailey, the Chicago fish handler, in a
brokerage capacity.

E. L. Cole, of the firm of Cole & Bro.,
boot and shoe dealers at 57 Monroe street,
died last Wednesday.

W. T. Lamoreaux returned from Boston
Saturday night. He says the wool men at
that market feel decidedly blue.

Thos. M. Peirce, formerly book-keeper for
Olney, Shields & Co., is now Secretary and
Treasurer of the Central Iron Works, at
Topeka, Kan.

Frank Hamilton, President of the M. B.
M. A., was in town four days last week and
left Saturday night for Muskegon, whence
he went to Chicago Sunday night.

Alex. Keith, shipping clerk for Hawkins
& Perry, has returned from Elora, Ont.,
whither he was called by the serious illness
of his mother. He left her much improved.

F. L. Fuller, cashier of the Northern
Kent .Bank, at Cedar Springs, was in town
last Friday to attend the banquet given the
officers and committees of the M. B. M. A.

Chas. Kernan, bnyer for Horning & Hart,
the Woodville general dealers-and sawmill
operators, was in town a couple of days
last week. Mr. Kenan is a shrewd buyer

and a jolly fellow withal. =
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Vegetables by Weight.
On May 24, the New York Board of Al-
dermen will vote upon an ordinance pre-
scribing the following eens for vege-
tables :

Irish potatoes, 172 patie per barrel, 60
pounds per bushel; spinach, 40 pounds: per

barrel; sprouts, 50 pounds per barrel; tur-
| nips, carrots,
‘per bushel; onions, 55 pounds per bushel;
tomatoes, 60. pounds per bushel

a beans

parsnips and beets, 50 pounds

beans, 40 ]
_ bea:

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‘Bishop of

 

letter thon ‘Lodal " Setiebay Chambers was
presented :

CHEBOYGAN, May 17, 1888.
E. A. Stowe; Grand Rapids:

DEAR Str—Owing to unaccountable delay,
Teould not.write you before in regard to the
convention here.

At our regularmeeting, held a few evenings
ago, it was decided to ask the Executive Board
to fix thé date of the meeting some time in
August. Owing to our city hall being uncom-
pleted in July, it would not be convenient for
us to hold the meeting earlier than August.
The hall will then be completed and every-
thing willbe in apple pie order fora good time.

Our hotels will make a uniform rate of $1.50
per day. We would like to know about how
many we may expect, ladies and ali. Our As-
sociation instructed me to write the different
associations and ascertain as near as possible
how many would come. Could you not insert
in THs TRADESMAN a notice tothis effect, ask-
ing each local secretary to drop me a postal,
giving the desired information?

Hope all will be well and we will havea
grand time. Yours,

H. CHAMBERS.

After athorough discussion of the subject in
all its bearings, it was decided to hold the con-
vention on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7%
and 8. The President and Secretary were in-
structed to issue the proper cali, accompanied
by blank credential certificates.

A programme for both days’ sessions was
partially arranged, including a paper on
“Needed Reforms in the Commission Bus-
iness” by Irying F. Clapp, and a paper on
‘*How to Handle the Peddler” by F. H. John-
son. It wasdecidedio cut down the number
of papers, in order that more time may be
given the reports of committees and discus-
sions—especially the latter.

It was decided to employ a stenographer and
the Secretary was instructed to engage such a
person at a reasonable price.

The’ question of adopting a design for a
B.M. A. badge and securing 109 or more gold
badges was left with the President, with in-
structions to carry out his own ideas as ex-
pressed to the Board.

The State committees were requested to
make their reports full and complete-and to
have them ready for the second session of the
convention.

Pursuant to the resolution adopted at the
last convention, it was decided to ask that all
reports of delegates be made in writing, in or-
der that they may be published in the pro-
ceedings.

President Hamilton introduced a number of
letters received from local: presidents, noting
the suggestions made.

The Secretary reported the receipt to date of
$791, and exhibited receipts from the Treas-

-urer for $750 of the above amount.

Three bills to the amount of $61.95 were au-
dited, when the Board adjourned.
IN. HONOR OF THE BOARD.
From the Grand Rapids Eagle.

1n accordance with the announcement in the
Eagle yesterday afternoon, Messrs. E. A.
Stowe & Bro., of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN,
entertained the Executive Board anda tew
invited friends atasupper at The Warwiek
last night. It was a most delightful social and
gastronomic occasion; the ‘tspread’’ was dis-
cussed with a vigor that proved its excellence,
and the speeehes and toasts were well timed
and happily expressed. The table was pro-
fusely decorated with flowers and each guest
wore button-hole bouquets. N. B. Blain offi-
ciated as toastmaster and the following as as-
signed did justice to their subjects:

~The Grocer,”’ EB. J. Herrick.

**Political Aspiration,” Jas, A. Coye.

*“Butiding and Loan Associations,”
Fuller.

‘Local Option,” M. H. Walker.

“Reforms inthe Commission Business,’ I. F.

F. L.

pp. 5
“Legal Aspects of Organization,’ Judge
Hatch.
“The State Organizer,”’ E. A. Stowe.
“The State Asssociation,’’ Frank Hamilton.
“The Right of Way,” O. F. Conklin.
‘Sauerkraut,’ > L. Winternitz.

“Sawdust,” H. B. Fargo.
ao Meetings and Bad Debt Agonciéa
7. Crandall.

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Butter and Eggs in New York.
Special to THE TRADESMAN.
NEw YORK, May 21, 1888.

There is no accumulation of butter of any
kind. Fancy creameries and dairies are
easing off gradually, in anticipation of in-
creased receipts. Imitation creameries,
factories and Western dairies prices are
holding up remarkably well on an actual
scarcity. The receipts for last week
were 30,312 packages, or 3,600 packages
more than the week before. New York,
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Elgin cream-
eries are quoted at 25 to 26c; other West-
ern extras, 24 to 25c; State and Pansylvania
extra dairies, 24 to 25c; Western extra
dairies, 22 to 23c; extra imitation creameries,
22 to 23c; extra factory, 21 to 22c. There
isa very strong demand for baking stock,
and everything under 22@23c. is picked
up quickly. The general impression of the
trade is that the outlook now is fer higher
prices this season than last, even though
the export demand may (as it probably
will) .be light. Quick shipments are ad-
vised.

There is a growing confidence in better
prices in eggs, especially on strictly fresh
receipts, some buyers willingly paying 4c.
more than run the risk on any held stock,
even if fancy marks and well kept. The
recent light receipts have given considera-
ble strength to the market and a further
advance of about ic. has taken place.
Receipts for the week, 17,960 barrels.
Sales on ’change today, Ohio, barrels, 154¢;
returnable cases, 15¢; Michigan, (case in-
eluded), 15c.

OOO

A Philadelphia drummer saw a man ina
railroad car whom he thought he knew, and
slapping him on the back, asked him how
he was. The man looked up, and the
drummer saw that he was a stranger. He
apologized, saying he thought that he was a
friend of his. What followed is best told
by a Jersey newspaper: ‘‘‘I hope I ama
friend of yours,’ the man said, and they got
to talking, and the commercial man, seeing
the gentleman’s gripsack, thought he must
be a commercial man also, and asked him
what house he represented. ‘I represent, i
said the gentleman, ‘the largest house in the
world.’ ‘Well,’ said the traveling man, ‘if
you represent the largest house in the world
you certainly have a snap. What. house is
it?? ‘The Lord’s house,’ Said the gentle-
man; ‘my name’ is John Scarborough,

the Protestant Episcopal
Church.’ ”

ee rene
Henry Henkle has leased: his factory
creamery, at Howard City, to C. H. Bush-
ley, who began making cheese. therein on
May 21. He may make butter later on in

the « season.

 

Rapids on March 16, 1887, Percy F. Smith,
editor of the Pennsylvania. Grocer, in re-
“sponding to a toast on his native State,
claimed that to Pittsburg belonged the credit
of being the birthplace of the Republican
party. The claim was contested by James
A. Coye, of this citv, who asserted that
every historian of the Republican party

July 6, 1854. Not content with such an-
thorities, Mr. Smith continues to attempt to
| fortify his position behind newspaper clip-
pings and irresponsible newsmongers, al-
though the Jackson convention ahte-dates
the Pittsburg gathering two years. Having
grown weary of having his assertions in
behalf of his native State disputed, Mr.
Coye has prepared the following conclusive
proofs in corroboration of his claims :
GRAND RAPIpDS, May 15, 1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sis—Your favor of May 4, in-
closing note from Percy F. Smith, of Pitts-
burg, and an extract from the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette of May 2, received.
I had hoped that our friend would investi-
gate this subject and quote his authorities
before again asserting that to Pittsburg
should be given the honor of being the
birthplace of the Republican party. Now,
Mr. Editor, what are the facts relating to
this question ? Briefly, these: The coun-
try was torn by conflicting opinions. Blood
was being shed to perpetuate and advance
an idea. A selfish thirst for wealth and
power led men to endeavor to ride rough-
shod over all opposition. Might triumphed
for a time, but slowly and surely tae Amer-
ican love for liberty was asserting itself.
In the South the whole people, Democrats
and Whigs, were wedded to slavery and
nullification. The South was assisted by
Northern Democrats. Arrayed against
them were the Liberty party, Sons of Free-
men, Abolitionists, Free Soilers, and a host
of other local parties in the North, who
were opposed to the future extension of
slavery, each battling in its own way upon
its own platform, but all agreed: upon the
central idea. In the winter of 1853-54, the
Kansas-Nebraska bill was reported in Con-
gress. At once factional lines began to
melt away and the friends of liberty aban-
doned petty issues and banded together on
commun ground to give battle for a common
cause. Patriotic blood in the North was at
at fever heat. If the nefarious bill should
pass, slavery would be allowed to enter
every foet of free soil in the great terri-
tories, regardless of the fact that by the
compromise of 1820, that soil had been
made forever free. Meetings were held all
over the North and resolutions were adopted
by the hundreds. The outrage was: every-
where denounced. About this time in the
early spring of 1854, A. E. Bovay, of Ripon,
Wis., was urging Horace Greeley to put
forth the name ‘‘Republican” and the motto
‘*Exelusion of slavery from the territories,”
as a name and motto under which all might
unite who were opposed to the plans and
purposes of the Southern Democracy. Jacob
M. Howard and other citizens of Michigan
were also in communication with Horace
Greeley upon the same subject.

So much for: preliminary words. Now
for the decisive action. In the months of
May and June, 1854, a call was cir-
culated in the State of Michigan and was
signed by about 10,000 citizens of the State,
inviting (I quote the call) ‘‘All our fellow-
citizens, without reference to former polit-
ical associations, who think that the time
has arrived for a union of the North, to pro-
tect liberty from being overthrown and
downtrodden, to assemble in mass conven-
tion on Thursday, the 6th of July, at 4
o’clock p. m., at Jackson, there totake such
measures as shall be thought best to concen-
trate the popular sentiment of this State
against the aggression of the slave power.”
That convention met pursuant to cali and
there, Mr. Editor, under those grand old oaks
at Jackson, July 6, 1854, there was a State
ticket nominated with Governor Kinsley
S. Bingham at the head, which was elected,
anda set of resolutions atonied of which
the following was one:

Resolved, That in view of ihe necessity
of battling fur the first principles of repub-
lican government, and against the schemes
ot an aristocracy, the most revolting and
oppressive with which the earth was ever
cursed or man debased, we will co-operate
and be known as Republicans until the con-
test be terminated.

There was a party born and named and
started upon its mission amidst the cheers
and prayers of thousands of loyal voices of
Michigan.

Other States followed in quick successi::n
upon the heels of Michigan’s conventic.:
Wisconsin, Indiana and Vermont held their
meetings on July 13; Massachusetts on
July 20, and others later on, although in
most States the party name, Republican,
was used only in congressional districts,
notably soin Pennsylvania, whose voters
elected a Know Nothing governor, a Demo-
erat supreme judge and a Whig legislature
in 1854. Pennsylvania did not even give its
electorial vote to the Republican nominee,
Fremont, in 1856, but since then has stood
loyally by the party. The Pittsburg con-
vention on the 22d of February, 1856, was
but the gathering together of a family of
States already of sufficient Republican
strength to command National attention,
but in no wise was Pittsburg either the
mother, step-mother or wet nurse of the
Republican party. I beg to refer Mr.
Smith to the paragraph from Senator Chan-
dler’s speech in the Senate on December 14,
1859, in reply to Senator Mason, of Vir-
ginia; Henry Willson’s ‘‘Rise and Fall of
the Slave power in America,” Vol. 2, page
412; ‘‘History of the Republican Party,”
by Frank A. Flower, page 182; ‘‘America,
an Encyclopedia,” by M. Newman; ‘The
Inter-Ocean Question Book, or to any one
entitled to speak with authority. No, to
Michigan and her sons must be given the
honor and to the oaks at Jackson must our
friend make his pilgrimage if he would
worship at the shrine of the grand old
party of liberty, of equal rights, of exact
justice, whose advent brought about the
liberation of three millions of human be-
ings and made them citizens, created a
nation out of warring states, and brought
the ship of state safely out.of the troubled
sea of debt and anchored her fast to the
rock of prosperity with chains of confidence
and progress; andgfinally, that party of the
people that say to her own citizens.shall be
given all the protection necessary to enable
Americans to reap the benefits of American
pol ael-eaape ingenuity and industry, with the
freedom of speech and action to be enjoyed
‘by all alike, whether in the North or South;

{that party whose history is the history of
.| progress in our country; tha

that - party ‘for
‘Re

 

At the second banquet of ‘the Michigan
Business Men’s Association, held at Grand

placed its inception at Jackson, Mich., om

 

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‘The Future of Tin...
From London Iron. c : .

The day may yet be far distant, but we”
would not be surprised if this metal (tin)
should in the future take rank as one of the
precious metals. Silver is much more wide-
ly distributed over the surface of the globe
than tin is, which, in fact, is one of the
metals most rarely met with in deposits of
oe abundance to be available for

netallurgical purposes. The principal
tatstes of supply at the present time are
the mines*’of Cornwali, Australasia. and
the Straits Settlements. The insignificance
of other sourees muy be inferred from the
fact that last year. u-twithstanding the
improved value, out of a total foreign
supply of 24,076 tons, only 584 tons eame
from elsewhere than Au>tralasia and the
Straits Settlements. And even of that
quantity 111 tons reached us from Holland,
and may be considered as originally emanat-

ing from the Straits Settlements,
_— i -)-

Tock Him at His Word.

L. M. Wolf, the Hudsonville merchant,
did not believe his safe to be burglar-proof,
tied a card to the door knob, and wrote
upon it: ‘‘Please do not blow open; com-
bination not on. Respectfully yours, L. M.
Wolf.” The other morning he came down
and discovered *‘Thanks” written upon the
other side of the card. Then he yanked the
safe open and found that $76.38 in gash,
and papers valued at $1,500, had “been
stolen. However, he saved the safe.

—_——— +4 -<-

The Next Examination Session.

The midsummer examination session of -
the State Board of Pharmacy will be held at
the Star Island House, near Detroit, on
June 29 and 30. According to the law, the
session would fall cn July 4. Under the
circumstances, the Board would appear to
be justified in changing the date.

ay SB | <—$—_—_—_———

He was a grocery clerk, and as he seemed
rather uncomfortable in the Snyderly par-
lor Miss 8. kindly attempted to engage him
in conversation. ‘‘Have you read much,
Mr. Herron?” ‘‘Why, yes a good deal.”
‘Are you fond of sSatrieal writings?”
“Yes, they go pretty good.” ‘What do
you think of Pope’s ‘Dunciad’ and Byron’s
‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers?’ ”
‘‘Oh, they are all right, but I don’t think
they compare with the roasts the baking
powder companies are giving each other.

Buy flour manufaccured by the Crescent
Roller Mills. Every sack warranted. Voigt
Milling Co.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for léss than 25 cents. Advance payment.

 

 

FOR SALE,
Ee SALE—LIQUID EGG PRESERVER, BEST
known; norisk by using; simplest, most perfect
and most reliable process fur preserving eggs; costs
one cent a dozen; put down ten cent eggs now and sell
in the winter for twenty cents. John Giles & Co., Low-
ell, Mich., agents for Kent county. 244-246
OR SALE—STOCK OF HARDWARE, HOUSE AND
Ee three lots. Address B Box 527, Whitehall, Mich. 245*
Foe; SALE—A COMPLETE SAW MILL PLANT FOR
one-quarter of what it cost three years ago. Ca-
ee 50,000 per day. Will take part payin lumber.
oe Wormer, 57 Woodbridge St., West, Detroit, Mich.
244-247
ONLY REASON
Enquire 670 Cherry St.,

 

WOR SALE—STOCK GROCERIES,
for selling failing health.
or at 25 Pearl street. 246*
JOR SALE—GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES
in one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan.
Stock will invoice about $3,500. Terms, one-half down;
balance, good paper. Brick store, established trade
and cheaprent. Address H, Lock Box E, Muskegon,
Mich. ; 246*
OR RENT—PLEASANT BRICK STORE, WELL
lighted, at the corner of Fourth and Stocking
streets.. Excellent location for drug or hardware busi-
ness. Rent reasonable. Apyly to Thos. Maher, at
Police Headquarters. 244*
OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE
proprietor. I oifer for sale a small stock of drugs
and medicines; glass labeled bottles; biack walnut
front drawers; fire proof safe; jewelry; books; soda
fountain, ete. All or any part will be sold at a big
discount fer cash. W. R. Mandigo, Administrator,
Sherwood, Mich. 241-244
NOR SALE—GENERAL S!LOCK, CONSISTING OF DRY
goods, groceries and boots and shoes, located in
a beautiful village of 900 population, surrounded by
the bestfarming country in the State. Stock will in-
voice about $4,000. Would sell the whole or one-half
interest. A good chance for the right man. Address
No. 126 care Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids. 244*
OR SALE—THE DRESS OF TYPE NOW USED ON
“The Tradesman’’—600 pounds of brevier and 200
pounds of nonpareil. A good bargain will be given
purchaser.

OR SALE—WHOLE OR PART INTEREST IN A FIRST-
elass meat market ina thriving town of 1,000 in-
habitants with two railroads. Average sales $30 per
day. Good reasons for selling. Address H., care Trades-
man. 219-tf
NOR SALE—AT A BARGAIN. A CLEAN STOCK OF
hardware and mill supplies.® Address Wayne
Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 210-tf
OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN THE THRIV-
ing city of Muskegon. Terms easy. C. L. Brun-
dage, Muskegon, Mich. 193-tf£
GYOR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, FIXTURES,
etc., complete, on good line of railway, about 35
miles north of Grand Rapids. No paints or oils, but
could be added to good advantage. Poor health and
other business my only reasons for selling. No. 116
care Tradesman office. 232 tf

OR SALE CHEAP—ON fi 1,400 POUND MOSLER, BAH-
man & Co fire-proof safe; one set 240 ib Butfalo D.

B. scales; one 8 foot nickel show case and a quantity
of. miscellaneous hardw: re. Will be sold separately
orall together. Call on oraddress. H. E. Hesseitine,
29and 31 MonroeSt., Grand Rapids, Mich. 236-48
OR SALE—FRUIT FARM OF 736 ACRES, LOCATED

in Spring Lake. Ten minutes walk froin post-
office. Pleasant place. Nice buildings. Will sell on
long time or exchange fur stock of any kind of mer-
chandise. Place is valued at $3,000, will take $2,000 for
it. Address S.A. Howey, North Muskegon, Mich. 236-tf

WANTS,

W “traveling on the ro: WITH WHOLESALE HOUSE,
traveling on the road preferred. Have had ten
years’ experience in general trade. Best acquainted
with boots and Shoes, groceries and fur nishing goods. /
Address No. 127, care Michigan Tradesman, Grand
Rapids. 245*
V ANTED—SITUATION AS REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist by a man who is also a practical chemist.
Best of geferences furnished. R. W. Hazeltine, 22 Hen-
ry St., Grand Rapids.

ANTED—A FIRST-CLASS GROCERYMAN IN THE
most thriving cify on Lake Superior—married
man with best of references. Address ‘“D,” care

TRADESMAN office. 247*

Wa ‘(D—MANAGER. BY RELIABLE BUSINESS
firm. Will control stock of goods and handle
considerable money. Salary $1,800. References and
eash deposit of $500 required. Cail or address, a a
Loomis, 364 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

W ekep sea BY A REGISTERED aie
macist. Seven years’ experience. Best of refer-
ences. Address lock box No. 37, Midland, Mich. 233-tf

ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS
this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a
trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with
all your book-keeping, in many instances save yeu the
expense of one clerk, will bane your business down te
a cash basis and save you all the. worry and trouble
that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the 1st
of the month with the new system and you will never
regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds bg be sent
by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. = eee
Albany, NOY.

ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT aUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 225-tf

MISCELLANEOUS.

GENTS WANTED—LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO

sell ‘Electricity in a bottle.’? Send for price list

and 20-page circular. Address N. Van Derwerken, gen-
eral eral agent, Manchester, Mich. 246*

A “A SURVEYOR WHO WANTS & VERNIER TRANSIT
(Gurley) 6 in. needle, 12 in. telescope. in good
working order, and at half-price, can get it of me. My
work demands a different instrument. Geo, E. Steele,
Traverse City, Mich. 242-244
GEYTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. THREE NEW
. articles just out. Big money.- Exclusive térri- .
tory. Inclose stamp for particulars. Samples of all*
three 35 cents. Address Swineburne & Co., Mawates. 3

turers, turers, LaCrosse, Wis.
OM ea

(ity FLOURING MILLS OF FLINT aoe Fe
an | Seige suey with the latest E taciee

in first-claes
t-class reputation for.
venience for shippi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘ ard—President. Secs
- bard, t; W. E. Kelsey, lonia
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith
~~ City; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; H.
gon, : oats ee
Commmitte on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; W.

E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford. :
‘Committee.on Tr: ortation—J. W. Milliken, Trav-
erse City; Jno. P. Stanley, Battle Creek; Wm. Rebec,
--BastSaginaw. ~ ae
Committee on Insurance—N. B. Blain, Lowell; E. Y.
Hogie, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Cheboygan.
Committee , :
~~ Faller, iar te 8. E. Parkill, Owosso; Will Em-

ert, = :
Official Orgen—Tan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

Barnes, Tra’
: Fargo, Muske-

 

 

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

No, 1—Traverse City B. M. A.
- President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
: No. 2—Loweli B. M, A. :
« President, N. B. Blain; Secretary. Frank T. King.
No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. J orn.
No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M.A.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer.
No. 6—Alba &. M.A. ;
President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
: No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
F. H. Thurston: Secretarv, Geo. L. Thurston.
i No, 9—Lawrence B. M, A. :
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.
=o. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.
No.11—Kingsley 8. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H. Camp.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
No. 13—Sherman B, M. A. :
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
No. 15—Boyne City #. M.A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
No. 16—Sand Lake HB. M. A.
President, J. V. Crandall: Seeretary, W. Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell 8. M. A.
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosse B. M, A.
President, 8. E. Parkill; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—sSaugatuck 8B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
No. 21—Wayland 5. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A.
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke.
: No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.
President, F. A. Rockafellow: Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Morley &. M.A. __
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Palto B. M. A,
President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
No. 26—Greenville !. M. A.
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
No. 27—Dorr 4. M. A. __
President, E. 8S. Botsford; Secretary, L- N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A
President, J. H. Tuttle; Secretary, H.G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
No. 30—Oceana KB. M. A. :
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 5S. Houghtaling.
No. 31—Charlotte is. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersvilie B. M, A.
President, G. W. Watrous; Secretary, J. B. Watson. ,
No. 33—Charlevoix %&. M.A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M.A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams.
No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, G. J. Noteware.

President,

No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 37—Battle Ureek B. M. A,
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, W. F. Baxter.
‘ No. 38—Scoitville B. M. A. ae
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Chas. Coller.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President, W. 0. Watson; Secretary, C. E. Scudder.
No, 4%—#remont 5. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Seeretary C. J. Rathbun.
No. 43—Tuszin B. M. A.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes,
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
Neo. 45—Hoytville B. M. 4a.
President, D..E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. a. A.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
: “No, 47—Flint M. U.
President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardston &. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Lervy 5 M.A. _
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith. .
No. 56—Manistee B, M. A.
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, J. P. O’Malley.
No. 5i—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.
No. 54— Douglas B. M, A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
; No. 55—Petoskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Seeretary. A. C. Bowman.
: No. 56—Gangor B. wi. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, T. M. Harvey.
So. 57—Rocktord B. M. A.
President, Win. G. Jefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
- No, 53—Fife Lake B. M. A.
President, E. Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.
i No. 59—Fennville BK. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. 8. Swarts.
5 No. 60—South Boardman B. M. a.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M.A. |
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. G2—East raginaw M. A.
President, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.
No. 63—Evart BKB. M. A.
President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell...
No, 64—Merrill B,. M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Jas. Crawford; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, W. E. Crotty.
No. 67— Watervliet 4. M. A.
4 President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
ere No. 68—Allegan B: M. A.
@ 3 President, A. KE. Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
a No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M.A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
fe xe No. 70—Nashville Bb, mM. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W.S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
‘No.&2—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Seeretary, O. F. Webster.
No. 76—Tecamseh B. M. 4.
_ President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.

 

- Manufacturers Seeking New Locations.
Smith Middlings Purifier Co., Jackson.

? Lovell Retrigerator Co., Ionia.

“Clapp Shirt Co., Allegan. ,

_ David Woodward (plows) Clinton.

f Special Enterprises Wanted. |
Grist hoe Station,
~  Newspape Yorth Muskegon.
'. Gristmill—Bellevue. .
Wood working establishment—Quincy.
. Hard weod factories—Fife Lake. _ :
Tobacco fi swinewar and pickle factory,

on Building and Loan Associations—F. L. |.

| to get rid of the odds and ends to much better

| More think of sparing an evening totalk upon

Stil

all nonsense this fearing to lose a customer
because you make wn to hi
| and business regulations; but, of course, do
itina manly and gentiemanly way and give
a good treatment—be frank and honest with
‘him. ; tone f

ep 2
Con ucted to select a date
and make all the necessary arrangements.

The special Committee on Berry Packages:
reported that seyeral additional signatures

had been secured tothe agreement not to re- ;
tura berry packages to the growers. The re-
port was accepted and the Committee instruct-
ed to secure the siznatures of two grocers who
-had not yet signed. es

Geo. Lehman jnquired whether all the gro-
cers on the main streets had signed the agree-
ment and was answered by the chair in the af-
firmative. He said all the growers with whom
he had tulked were heartily in favor of the
proposed change, which would be a good
many dollars inthe pockets of the grocers, as
it would render it unnecessary for them to buy
buckets. i :

Thos. Keating. remarked that the new meth-
ed would also meet with the favor.of the con-
sumer, as he would get just what the dealer
bought, leaving no room for the suspicion that
the grocer was lengthening out the measure
during the process of transposition.

C. L, Lawton referred to the advantage the
plan would be by getting rid of all the old box-
es.

The Secretary reported that he had caused
notices of this action on the part of the Asso-
ciation to be placed in the local and Holland
papers; also that he had notified the berry
box factories in the vicinity to be prepared for
an unusually large demand for boxes. The re-
port was accepted.

The same officer reported that he had caused
the Blue Letter to be printed in both Hoiland
and German, pursuant to the instrnctions of
the previous meeting. The report was ac-
cepted and the bills for same ordered paid.

Chairman Herrick, of the special Committee
on the Appointment of an Inspector, reported
that the Committee had called on Mayor Wes-
ton in relation to the matter, accompanied by
similar committees from the West Michigan
Farmers’ Club and the Grand River Valley
Horticultural Society; that as a result of such
effort, the Mayor had recommended the ap™
pointment of an inspector in his inaugural
address, and that the Board of Health was now
firmly imbued with the idea that an inspector
was necessary and was taking steps to secure
such an officer.

On motion of Jas. A. Coye, the report was

130 STRONG. as

The Celery City Insugurates an Enthu-
: Siastic Association.
From the Kalamazoo Telegraph. ‘

The adjourned meeting to organize the Kal-
amazoo Business Men’s Association was held
at*the Recorder’s Court Thursday evening.

Dudgeon to the chair.
rollment had been able to cover but a portion
of the field in their canvass, muny of the best
men and concerns not having been reached at
all or not foundin when thecommittee called:
‘but128 names were already ontheroll. The
Committee on Constitution recommended the
new constitution adopted at Traverse City, the
oldest of the associations, with certain modifi-
cations suited to the needs of this city. It pro-
vides for committees on manufacturing (five
members, with power to aopoint sub-commit-
tees); on transportation, on insurance rates,
on trade interests and on entertainments, the
latter committee being charged with extend-
ing the hospitalities of the city when needed.
The Committee on Nominations made recom-
mendations for officers, the election resulting:

President—S. S. McCamiy. _

First Vice-President—A. K. Edwards.

Second Vice-President—E. E. Brownson.

Secretary—Chauncey Strong.

Treasurer—Sam. Foz.

Two members of the Executive Board were
elected, O..K. Buckhout for two years and
Julius Schuster for one year. The other mem-
bers of the board are the President and the
chairmen of the five committees to be ap-
pointed by the President. :

President Hamilton, of the State Associa-
tion, was present by invitation and related the
history ot this movement in Michigan. It
started with the organization of an assccia-
tion in Traverse City in February three years
ago, when a dull season was succeeding to a
prosperous one and there was a general desire
to do something to add to the business and re-
sources of the place and bring the advantages
of their locality before the world. Their plans
were not very definite at first but the work
they found profitable to do grew as they went
along. They had secured a reduction of 25
per cent. in freight rates, secured many im-
provements for their town and brought in sev-
eral live industries. The association became
the means of their doing a larger and better
business. The ideaspread and was taken up
‘by other towns, and two years ago a State As-
sociation was formed to establish co-opera-
tion and make their measures more effective.
The collection system saved many losses by
collecting bad debts and saved much besides
what was collected. It helped business habits
in a town, resulting in more cash buying aud
: : less call for credit. President Hamilton cited
accepted and the Committee instructed totake many Michigan towns which had taken hold
such further steps ss may be deemed neces- | of business improvements through the associa-
sary. ; tions, brought in manufacturing institutions,

Vee ete. Towns where Siness men unite and
Under the head of Good of the Association, eee oer ba 5

pull together prosper, and where they do not
Geo. Lehman called attention to the benefit | unite they go down. These associations need
arising from selling wax and string beans,

funds and brainsand.work. Afew cannotrun
Sie : . such an organization. All must take hold.
parsnips and cabbage by weight instead of | Our association makes money for us all, said
by measure. : Mr. Hamilton, and appeals to our best inter-
M. C. Goossen said that his firm sold two-
thirds of the cabbage handled by weight.

ests. One question the State Association
would probably take 1p was, dealing with ped-
diers; another, the encouragement of build-

Mr. Lehman said the nearer he could get to
selling nearly all vegetables by weight the bet-
ter his customers liked it. Such a method en-

ing associations which helped people buy and
own homes and thus make their towns more
ables the grocer te figure closer and helps him

prosperous.

Secretary Stowe, of the State Association,
gave a detailed account of the workings of the
collection system, which had proved surpris-
ingly successful, collecting 85 per cent. of the
bad accounts of members.

The Atsociation adjourned te next week,
Wednesday evening.

2
° To Make Money.
From the Kalamazoo Telegraph.

Mr. E. A. Stowe, one of the visitors at the
Thursday evening meeting of the Kalamazoo
business men, is widely acquainted with the
system of associations which has been exten-
sively adopted in the enterprising towns of
Michigan, and attributes their success to the
union of aims which makes them a source of
immediate profit to members engaged-in trade
and a useful agency in bringing new enter-
prises to their respective towns. Organizations
for either purpose alone have fallen into dis-
use, not having sufficient hold on their mem-
bers to make them live institutions. The fi-
nancial inducement to men in trade is that
the collection system of the associations prac-
tically cuts off all losses by extending credit.
It goes further than that, however, in that it
brings the spur of necessity into play as a mo-
tive to reinforce the moral sense. It reforms
delinquents or drivesthem away, usually the
former. Its moral advantage to a town is
great. It makes men of those who were not
always manly before. But the most potent
activities of the associations is their work of
bringing in new enterprises. These are a
source of prosperity which everybody appre-
ciates without argument. They show for
themselves.

The Michigan system of associations is
strong. It holds members by the pecuniary
inducement and by its appeal to their public
interest asan agency to promote the growth
of a place. Inthe latter respect it differs from
the business men’s associations of most of the
states. As about 120 Michigan towns possess
these agencies and their number is increasing
almost weekly, it is apparent that they give
Michigan a considerable leverage over most
other states in reaching out for business, pres-
perity and general growth.

s+.
Brutus’ Advantages as a Wood Working
Center.
Brows, May 16, 1888.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sin—The citizens of Brutus would like
to correspond with anyone wishing to finda
.ocation fora stave and beading mill, chair
factory or any wood manutacturing business.
We have, I think, as good a location and as
good advantages as can be found in Northern
Michigan—an unlimited supply of maple,
birch, elm, basswood, beech and hemlock, and
of as fine quality as can be found in the State.

Yours, H.W. MORFORD. .

—_—_— Oe
Association Notes.

Bellaire Breeze: A committee fromthe Bus-
iness Men’s Association will help push the wa-
ter works matter, mention of which is made
elsewhere.

Detroit News: One hundred and twenty-five
business men of Kalamazoo united themselves
for better or for worse against the deadly
dead-beat and forthe good of the town last
night. They propose to let no guilty man and
no new factory escape.

Shelby Herald: Notwithstanding the fact
that the Oceana County Business Men’s Asso-
ciation is a good thing and has done a great
amount of work in its way, our business men

advantage. :

The chairman spoke of the desirability of
selling eggs by weight instead of count.

M. C. Goossen, of the Committee on Trade
Interests, presented the following report,
which was accepted:

Your Committee for some time past has been
wondering why it wus that more members of
the Association have not gathered together
with us, and your Committee has decided that
it cannot be von-interest in the welfare of the
Association, forthe business men of Grand
Kapide, we dare say, are certainly go-ahead
fellows and wouid do anything in their power
to advance a good caure; but it is very well
understood that selt interest and general in-
terest aretwo different opjects. As a rule, it
a@ member does anything of a credit business,
he has quite a number of pass-books, und it is
to his interest to see that they balance with
his ledger; and just think of it, where you
have a pile from six to eighteen inehes high,
as some Of Our Members can show you; and
those havine experience with them can tell
you that it is arare case when one will bal-
ance asit should. What a nuisance the things
are,anyway! They keepa man in hot water
allortthetime. Your Committee has come to
the conclusion that that is what keeps them
at their post behind the desk. They would no

business subjects than they could think of
flying; and a number of this sort of business
men who give pass books to Tom, Dick and
Harry, do su simply because they bring some
trifling excuse, tnus putting another burden
upon themseives by so doing. They want to
get credit only until Saturday night. When
that time comes, these men want to pay halt
of their account and pay the balance the next
week. Inthe meantime they generally get
goods right along, making no promise wheth-
er they will ever pay tor them. Such business
men, if they are not on their guard, will go fiy-
ing to the wall before they know it. The same
class of business men wiliargue that by giving
pass books they will sell more goods, but what
anargument? Put goods in the hands of con-
sumers in this manner and it conduces to ex-
travagance, for they will use more than their
incomes just because they can get it, and tor
this the dealer. becomes responsible. Your
Committee believes that dishonest people are
made by pass books, because when refused
the books they will learn-to live within their
means; thus economy is taught and a good
result is brought about. In consequence, a
dealer may have an evening once in two
weeks to attend the meeting ot the Mercantile
Association, while he may have a number or
evenings to enjoy with his family.

But speaking of selling more goods, is cer-
tainly a foolish remark te make. We have
heard such dealers remark that their losses
are from $100 to $500 per year. Consider the
amount of goods that. must be sold to make
such a profit, sold as closely as groceries are
generally put into the hands of the consumer;
the extra help needed to do this useless busi-
ness; the wagon grease used; extra horse
feed; whips, etc., ete., besides all the attend-
ant anxiety. If these things are all consia-
ered, would you not rather have a small bus-
iness, netting you a good liying margin, and
what gocds you don’t sell have the pleasure
of seeing on your shelves unti! they are paid
for? ‘This subject of pass books does not
mean that you cannot accommodate a man
who is industrious and .honest with a few
goods, but the refusing of the book will keep
dead beats from yourdoor. They will not ask
to get trusted, for they only want the pass book.

As your Committee has spoken of before in
another article, it should bea point of deep
thought with every business. man to abolis
the book system and enéer as much as poasibie
into a cash system of business.

We herewith will relate a circumstance in
regard to a customer of one of your Commit-
tee wanting a pass book. The party is a
woman who has dealt with this firm for years
and is honest and pays her bflls ghey don But
she wanted a book and asked the clerk for it.
It was refused, so she bought a book herself,
and every time goods were delivered.to her
she had the clerk mark them down. This was
done unbeknown to the proprietor part of the
time for the first and only week. Upon Satur-
day night as customary, the dealer made out a
bill, which was compared with the book, Find-
ing that 60. cents’ worth of sugar was charged
on the dealer’s book, which she acknowledged

we need is an association devoted to the inter-
terests of Shelby and the promotion of the
general welfare of this vicinity. Something
in this line should be done at once, as it will
not do to let our sister towns outstrip us in the
way of new enterprises which. are being
started through the instrumentality of their
Business Men’s Associations.

A ae ae a

Caution to Grocers.
GRAND RAPIDS, May 21, 1883.

E, A. Stewe, Grand Rapids:

knowledge that a certain local dealer has been
c selling pickles under the representation that
having received, while on her book were two| his barrels contain 40 gallons and his half-bar-
cans of rels 20 gallons. ; ue

or ought to know, that

}of tomatoes charged 25 cents, which she.
had also had but which were not chargedon| Ever grocer knows,
no AiepeoKndes are used among Western

dsaugr'aia? Ho" aimply took pel Perea See aie
rr , ae Simply ‘y for that | packers, except for what are called large
swith i on his own hove and told pickles, veer ei barrels of standard

 

her that their rule wasno pass Degree ee taak measure are used, containing about 45 gallons,
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m your rules:

The committee in charge called Hon. John.
he committee on en-

have about come to the conclusion that what.

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‘These prices. are for cash out ore, who pa,
promptly and buy in full packages, : E "|

60:
60}
60.

3
Cook’s ebb ees ues wh tee dis 40 |
Jennings’, genuine dis 25 |
Jennings’, imitation....:...... 0000" dis50&10

BALANCES, :

ok Sy ete Whe ws 6's cir ae 7 eek dis 40

BARROWS.

Raliroad ..5.60..2 hes ids iae erento Cai $ 14 06
Garden <0 15 2 ee net 33 00
BELLS.

Mand 3 ce Koo ee dis $ 60&10&10
COW 5 ee Oe ia 70
all a as, op ie 80815
Se eee on Baie os UES 25

60&10

* AUGERSAND BITS, —- hi

style. os eee a ee dis -
4 :

Spring............

Gong...
Door, Sarpent oe. dis
BOLTS.

ee eee dis $ 04
Carriage new list...... soto Uae dis. 76&10
ADWe ee is 50
Bleigh Shoes.7 dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis
Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis
Cast Square Spring................... dis
Cast Cugin dis
Wrought Barrel, brass knob.....___. dis
Wrought Square ..... ie esie ie poet. GIB
Wrought Sunk Flush.......:......... dis
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob ;

HO ee dis 60&10
Ives’ Door.......: fee ei ek dis 60&10

BRACES.

Barber ........ ee eee ses Gas ae dis $ 46
BIGkMB ei ee ae dis 50&10
BPOROTG. fee ee dis 50
PO eee dis net
So ae BUCKETS.

ONS DIB i ee Ae ae oe 3 56
Well, swivel............. ee So ae 7 4 00

BUTTS, CAST,

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed... dis
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint. .dis
Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, jJapanned..,.....dig
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver

tipped dis
Wrought Table... 050252 ..2 dis
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis
Wrought Brass. 2.200. i. dis
Blind, Clarkig. 2600008 dis
Bling; Parker's... 20 ae dis
Bimd; Shepard’s.. 6. s.0. dis

70&
0&
60&
60&10
60810
608 5
60& 5

60 5
60810
60810

75
70610
70810

70

Ely’s 1-10
HICKS CO. B oe a eee
ee a
MUISKOG Gi 2
: CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C.. & Winchester new list... ..50
Rim Fire, United States -Gi850
Central tires. 0h ee ee dis25
CHISELS.
Socket Mirmere so. dis
Socket Framing..................../..dis
Socket Corer... 0.000000. dis
BocketSlicks. oo. dis
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis
COMA Se eel eS net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s.................... dis
HLOtCHISS ce ee dis
COCKS.
Brass; Hacking’s 8.2208 8
Bibb’s
Beer

m $ 65
60
35
60

per

TO0&10
70&10
7&10
70&10

40
20

40&10

25

60
60
40&10
69
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. 2b
14x52, 14x56, 14 x60..... ee ea, oka ae
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.....0 00000777"
Cold Rolled, 14x48
BOuboms. ie Pe ete cae eee
DRILLS
Morses Bit Stock. 3) ais
Taper and StraightShank........._.. dis
Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis 40
: _ ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6. in....2............, agoz net $.75
COrrmueateg 5. ie ee dis20&101 &u
AGUUStAD One oo les ee dis W&lo
EXPANSIVE BI?S.
Ciaxr’s, small, $18 00; large, $26-00, dia
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30.00. dis
FILES—New List.
American File Asscciation List...... dis
PWBSEORIS CH ae dis
New American 2.600000 ee dis
RUCROISOWR, oe dis
HcHeIe oi Ss Fe dis

29
tes
31
29
5
ad

Sn
ou

40

40

ot
25

.| Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis

.
34

: GALVANIZED IRON,
Wos. 16 to 20,
i 15

b @and 24, 25 and 26,
List 12 13 4
Discount, 60.
GAUGES. :
Stanley Rule and Level! Co.’s......... dis

HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s
BP ee eg os dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................... dis’ 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 59
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
HANGERS.

Barn Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood track 50&19
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10
Kidder, wood track................... dis 40
HINGES.
Gate, Clark's, 1,2, 38. .0...005...2... 2. dis 60
DURLOR i sea ea per doz, net, 2 60
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

gud donger. 0. ie anias 3 7%
Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 70
Serew Hook and Hye %.............. net 844
Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 1%
Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net w%
Strapand To. loiacccf el dis 70
HOLLOW WARE.

Pots... ...: eee a ee eee
ACOTEOS 2) ae Ghd a ae
Spidens: ooo Genes I.
Gray enameled. .0)). oo
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list
Japamned Tin Ware.....................
Granite Iron Ware......................

HOES.
Gaaip, Ws ee ae $11 C0, dis 69
GPRD Boon oe ee a Ti 50, dis 60
GIUDS ieee 12 00, dis 60
KNOBS—NEW LIST.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.....
Door, porcelain, trimmings.............
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ...........
HOMACH so. ee dig
LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis
PPA ee dis
INNOOWHIE Se ee, dis
s LEVELS.
Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis

MATTOCKS.,
VAGINA eee a $16 00 dis

60810
60&10
60&10
50
70&10
25
25

65

PUMP VO oo lS $15 00 dis’

Pim .- $18 50 dis 20 & 10
MAULS.

Sperry & Co.’r, Post, handled............ dis 50
MILLS. 5

Coffee, Parkers Co.’8.........04....6.005.. dis 49

Coftee, P.S.& W.Mfz. Co.’s Maileables ... dis 40

Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.......... dis 49

Coffee, Enterprise........................ dis 25

MOLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern ............... a... 418 60810)

Stebbin’s Genuine...... 2 ............ dis 6010 |

Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis _ 25

— _ NAILS —TRON.
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3d fine advance..................c.0cce
Clinch nails, adv.......0 2... 0c. cc cc ccc ce cee
Finishin } 0d 8d 6a 4d.

i i 3 2% 2 1%

keg $125 150 175 200
Steel Nails—2 15.
OILERS,

Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&i(
Zine, with brass bottom.................. dis 60
Hens On Gopper:...... week eee “ 50

ORDO co is. oe re oe, -...per gross, net
Olmstead’s. ........5...55. . woes. 50810

s Z PLANES. pono
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....... potseecse dis:
iota Bench -

 

iron and Tinned......;

Copper Rivets and Burs...........1 di

Se PATENT FLANISAED TRON. fs

: AY Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 241027 10 26

‘B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 8 20

et _ Broken packs sc @ bextra.

Eee ROPES.

Sisal, 4 in. and larger:....__. eta he ere. i

Manilla DPE EE SS See aera Cee Ie
SQUARES.

Steel. and Iron........ ;

Try and Bevels..........: etal fo dis

Mithe oo ote eer fe eee as
SHEET IRON,

20

Nos: J0 t0/14. 2 oe:
NOS AR ONT so ee og
NOs. 18 tat. 0
NOs eet tho 4 20
NOS 25:10 96.0005 440
On Bens ee closs ie | 60
All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 2
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 Ds, ID
In smaller quansities, @ ....0.0...1.
TACKS,
American, all kinds........ ee
pteal, all kinds.,.....0.. 2k dis
Swedes, ali einds (22 dis
Gimp and Lace.................00077! dig
Cigar Bow Neila. 8 2 dis
Finishing Nails. ....00 01000200022 007" dis
Common and Patent Brads i
Hungarian Nails and Miners’
Trunk and Clout Nails................ is
Tinned Trunk and Clout N: Ms... dis
Leathered Carpet Tacks...........7" dis
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No.1, Refined.................. e eee
Market Half-and-haif......02 07700071 7""
Strictly Halt-and-haif......77°°777. 777°
eke on TIN oo :
xXi¢, Charcoal................ 6 0IG@s 2
10x14,Charcoal................... sag: 5
12x12, Charcoal...:................ 6 85
12x12, Charcoal ................00. 8 35
14x20, Charcoal......:............. 5 35
IX, 14x20, Charcoal......... es
IXX, 14x20, Charcoal........200007772777
TX + 14x20, Charcool....................
TXXXX, 14x20, Chareoal......1000070 777°
ix, 20x28, Charcoal.................... i
VE, 100 Plate Charcoal...........00. 001)
DX, 100PlateChareoal....../000 000777"
DX. 100 Plate Charcoal.....00000 0070707
DXXX, 100 PlateCharcoal.....) 101070" 7" 1
Retype Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to
rates. .
Booting, MeO. oe 5
Bochue Tir Wh ws a 7 00
Roofing, 20x28; 1G). +... 12 69
Roofing, 20x28, IX... ge ee 15 €0
TIN—LEADED.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne...........
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...._ |||). 12 66
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........ 18 08

TRAPS.
oe 60610

2
4 26

inches

Om
as

SER KESSSSSSSES

IC,
ix,
IC,
IX,
IC,

3 10
7 35

Steel.Game....20 06
Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s....._. dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10
Hotchkiss’ ‘ 60&10
S, P. & W. Mfg. Go.’s...0 00. 60&10
Mouse, Choker... 0.0000 18c @ doz
Mouse, delusion.................7777 $1 50 ® doz

: WIRE.
Bright Market

Annealed Market

Coppered Market

Extra Bailing...

Dited Morret. 6. oe
Tinned Broom....... .... peetece ec okre
Tinned Mattress..........5......000002°
Coppered Spring Steei.... -.. 2.271777"
Tinned Spring Steel..........00 0000070,
Piain Fence

Copper... ne new list net
Brass ee a new list net
: WIRE GOODS.
Bright. net ae eae ne dis 70&10&10
Screw TV OR Se pad eh ae dis %0&10&10
Hook Sry ee Resor a ee dis %0&108&106
Gate Hooks and Eves dis 770&10&10
WRENCHES.
Raxter’s Adjustable, nickcied.........
Coes Genuine). di
Coe’s Ptent A

is Bs
Joe’ gricultural, wrought, dis 35
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.............. dig

,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

0)
F

BirdOages.
Pumps, Cistern 3 3 dis
Screws, New Heb is
Casters, Bed and Plate............. Cisi0&}uerid
Dampers, American 40
Forks, hoes, r¢

Copper

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td
~

Bottom

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here vay as follows
for dry stock, measured merchantabie, mill
eulls out; :

Basswood, log-run................... 13 00G15 06
Binge, log-in si -15 0618 63
Birch, Nos.land 2...,.............., @25 00
Black Ash, log-run.......0.00...0 1 M4 00G16 50
Cherry, iog-run

Cherry, Nos.

Cherry, cull

Maple, log-run, 2 ade
Maple, soft, Jog-run......0..........3 1
Maple, Nos: land 2o.-0000..5..0. 02.”
Maple, clear, flooring.............. 1)
ae white, selected ol
Red Oak, log-run..................... 18 00@26 @
Red Oak, Nos.} and™.......... Boek 0025 i
Red Ouk, 4 sawed, 8in and upw’d..40 00@45 60
Red Oak,‘ * neswlar. 60. 4: 30 00735 00
Red Oak, No. l,step plank..........

Walnut, logrun. 6.0000

Walnut, Nos. i and 2

Walnuts, culls. (02) fi @25 00
Grey Elm, log-mun...............0... @13 00
White Ash, log-run.................. 14 010@16 50
Whitewood, log-run............0.. 29 00M22 00

OOBI13 GO
@20 00
@25 to
25 Va

White Oak, log-run............... .. 17 00O@18 60

pee ok dis 70x10 | AD)
60 |

Com. Smooth. Com. ae
$4 20 $3 GO fF

ALFRED J. BROWN,
|| FOREIGN,
TROPICAL =
AND pore.
CALIFORNIA

Sole agents for Chicago Brass R

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

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

Send for circulars.

Robi. §. West,

150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohic.

 

 

 

 

Bananas, Our Specialty,

16 and 18 No. Divisien St...

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

‘EGGS

ELEVEN GENTS

For all the Good Fresh Eggs
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Importers,
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Retailers of

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@lickmord & Seymonr, j
7 XFS. OF ALL KINDS
@ Packing Boxca,
Shipping Cases,
Egg Crates, ete.

; 4 and 6 Erie St.,
jf GRAND RAPIDS {fp

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Offer No. 171.

FREE—To Merchants Only: A
genuine Meerschaum Smoker’s Set,
(five pieces), in satin-lined plush case.
Address at once, R. W. Tansill &
Co., 55 State St., Chicago.

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SHELF BOXES,

Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods, ete.,
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For all} kinds of buildings re-
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Anyone can put it on,
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-.- of no other criticism.

the suspicion of a lingering doubt.

adepted a vigorous style of campaign-
1 which attracts widespread attention,
vhatever may be its failure of actual exe-

O08

_ James Anderson, of this market, and a

leader of the reform movement in question,

- §was interviewed yesterday by a Bulletin

representative as to the specific changes in

-. present Exchange methods desired by him-

self and party. Mr. Anderson said: ‘“My
general plea is for progressiveness, which
- element, indispensable as it is to successful
business operations, is rendered conspic-
- gous in our local market only by its entire

> absence. I say this regretfully, but in the

face of market conditions which will allow
Specifically, the re-
forms Iam specially interested in are as
follows:

- 4st. To establish a weight standard for
dealings in eggs, in place of buying and
selling by count as at present. 2d. The es-
tablishment of actual standards for butter
inspection, to take the place of the stan-
dard generalities now embodied in the Ex-
- change rules—generalities which mean dif-
ferent things to different people, and conse-
quently have or can have no business-like
exactness.

“On the subject of egg inspection, pur-
chase and sale by weight, I have already
written considerably and thought more,
with the result of firmly establishing my
belief in the equity of the method beyond
Among
the most important advances of the past
few years in commercial affairs, is the ten-
dency to purchase and sell goods and pro-
duce for ready pay, the shortening of the

hours for doing business, the stimulating of’

the farming community to grow better qual-
ities of produce and make better cheese,
butter, etc., etc., and the now almost uni-
versal habit of buying and selling all pro-
ducts of farm or dairy by weightin place of
measure. The basis of all honorable com-
mercial transactions should be absolute
equity, and to maintain this condition we,
as business men, must be careful to pay all

* producers the same for identical quantities
and kinds of product. If we sell any cus-
tomer fifty pounds of any given commodity
for a specified sum, it follows legitimately
that another customer should be allowed
to make the same purchase at the same out-
Jay.

‘Taking the above example as an illus-
tration of honorable dealing in the sale of
merchandise, it is only fair to accept its un-
derlying princible as equally applicable to,
and binding upon, the purchase of products
offered for sale. Equity is apt to be over-
looked in the face of long-established eus-
tom, and possibly no custom of the day is
more reprehensible than the one of buying
and selling eggs by count instead of weight.
The unfairness of carrying eggs of large
size to- market and receiving for them no
more than was paid an improvident farmer
for the same number of small ones must, I
take it, be apparent to even the most casual
observer of our present market conditions.
Let us reduce the above proposition to fig-
ures, aS algived at by careful and repeated

, tests: One dozen small eggs weigh 20
ounces; one dozen large eggs weigh 30
ounces. This shows a difference of 50 per
cent. and constitutes a stubborn fact ‘which
any dealer can readily verify for himself. I
think ail will admit that when a man pays
‘for 30 ounces of food and receives 20 ounces
he is the victim of a business method pal-
pably wrong. It isa method which works
its injustice both ways; on the producer, in

' the fact that he receives no more for his
30 ounces than his neighbor does for his 20
ounces, and on the purchaser, who, in buying
the dozen small eggs, receives 50 per cent,
less product than does the purchaser of the
dozen eggs of larger size. Apply the above
conditions to the purchase and sale of
meats. Would buyers consent to pay one
butcher 30 cents and another butcher 20
cents per pound for the same identical grade
of beef? Can any reputable dealer in this
market afford to attempt the cloaking of
this gross injustice under the cry of estab-
lished custom ?

‘I think not. The ‘usage’ under dis-
eussion has nothing to commend it but age,
and should be abolished in the name and in-
terest of reputable mercantile dealing. As
to the establishment uf standards for butter
inspection, my only point is to make those
standards fixed and certain:
present wording of our Exchange rules on
this subject, general terms are used, mean-
ing in a positive sense absolutely nothing.
For example, ‘butter shall be of a good
eolor for the season of the year at which it

<js made. Whatisa good color? Individ-

- ual views differ on color as on any and

every other point of judgment. What may
be good to you may be ordinary or even poor
to another. The above is an example of
the uncertain, poorly constructed character
of our butter trade rules, and should be re-
modeled on a basis of absolute certainty of

‘standards.

“The butter and egg trade of this market
lacks progressiveness, and only slowly re-
sponds to advance movements, even when
- absolutely pushed into line. The present

egg inspection system, now so popular, was.

introduced by me, and at the start was re-
pudiated by almost the entire trade; but, as
‘the result of slow growth in the face of

ey prejudice, it is at last recognized as a suc-

cess. I have made no direct-effort to bring
the proposed reform measures in question

-~ before the Exchange for official action, al-

though in conversation with individual
members I am cognizant of a majority sen-
timent indifferent to if not absolutely
against the mooted adjustment of business

-’ methods. ‘Nevertheless, I am convinced of

the justice of the cause I plead, and feel
that if the trade can be induced to make a

 strial- of the proposed methods their per-
-manency and universal popularity are as- |

“sured.”
_ ‘The medical journals

ed.

an intelligent ‘man, while in a
town, needed
to the

on “Tell no,” heunhd, ‘yy : ich

| Prompt At

|Hides,

Under the:

: have a story in cir-|
culation that bears repeating, and can be ap- |
i — as. well to druggists. They)

medical advice. He}.

NS & HESS

DEALERS IN

PEREI

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

“MOSELEY BROS.,
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters é& Produce,

ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY.

If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota-
toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

of 98, 30 & 32 Ottawa Stel, GRAND RAPIDS

 

s Wool & Tallow,

 

 

to.

Ob oe @ their Customers

support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom-
ises or Lottery Inducements.

——SELL——_
Which Holds Trade on Account of
Superior Merit Alone.

=

Unequaled Quality. Improved Roasting Process.
Patent Preservative Packages.

For Sale by all Jobbers at Grand Rapids, Detroit,
Saginaw, East Saginaw and Bay City.

DILWORTH BROTHERS, Proprietors, PITTSBURGH, Penn.

 

REEDER, PALMER & CO.
Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STATE AGENTS FOR LYCOMING RUBBER 60.,
24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.,

TELEPHONE
NO. 998.

 

"THE LAWRENGK,

Constructed Entirely of Steel.

“uae

3

5

ees

STEEL WHEEL, STEEL RAIL, STEEL FRAME,

Runs Noiselessly, Requires No Oil. Tse new and valuable points of the

Aré readily seen from the above illustration. The drop straps and front rider bar are
formed of one piece. The back rider bar circles at each end and fastens to the front,
making the frame perfectly rigid at every point.

Our new steel rail is the strongest made, is easily and quickly put up, and is the
only bracket rail made that will not sag vertically or warp horizontally.

PRICE List.

NO 1 20s ee ..e...+$14 Per Dozen. Length of Run, 6 Feet.
INOSO! ooo Foe eee se eee. ....++++2-$17 Per Dozen. Length of Run, 9 Feet.

Write for discounts to

evens k Go,

RAPIDS, MICH.

Lawrence Rail, 10 cents per foot.

Hoster,

GRAND

"LAWRENGE’ BARN’ DOOR HANGER

DONT WAIT

Chicago or Detroit Drummer!

. BUY YOUR SPRING LINE OF

MEN'S § BOY'S WOOL, FUR & STRAW HATS

LADIES and MISSES STRAWS

NHAR HOME.

Saving Yourself Time, Trouble and Expense.

THE ONLY

AOLESALE JIAY fIOUSE

In WESTERN MICHIGAN,

tc. LEVI

34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 Canal Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

 

 

. WEOLSON SPIGE
MERCHANTS!

 

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MocHA-; walo

WSOLSON
Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY HANDLING

oof i ) Vi
MGCHAr Zanio

COFFEE

WOOLSoN SPIGEC9-

TOLEDOG-OHIO.

FEE
SPICE, CO.

TOLEDO-OHIN.

LION COP PEE.

TT GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION

TO ‘Consumers, and is, Consequently. a Quick and Eiasy Seiler.

 

re ae regarding prices, etc. Convenient

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b all the wholesale trade evpry where. A

S Lion Coffee has more actual: Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers
ig Salers he \all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are not already

a: “A man

handling Lion are urged to give it a trial. We cheerfully
shipping ‘depots established at all prominent cities, securing
nufactured by the Woolson Spice Oo., Toledo, Ohio.

with GOOD COFFEE would do well| ¢
to avoid Brands that require the)

‘ JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS

Hosiery, Carpets, Ete.
D ad d Monroe St, Grand Rapits,

 

SWIEFTS

Choice Chicago Dressed Beef

——AND—-

MUTTON

Can be found at all times in full supply and at
popular -prices at the branch houses in all the larger
cities and is Retailed by all First-Class Butchers.

The trade of all marketmen and meat dealere is
solicited. Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift
& Co., located at Grand Rapids, always has on hand
a full supply of our Beef, Mutton and Provisions, and
the public may rest assured that in purchasing our
meats from dealers they will always receive the best.

Swift and Company,
Union Stock Yards, CHICAGO, ILL.

 

MOS §, MUSSELMAN & (30.

Wholesale Grocers,

21 & 23 SOUTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

DGE, BERTSCH & C0

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
D SHOES.
AGENTS FOR THE .

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.
14and 16 PearlStreet, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

DETROIT SOAP CO, *

DHETRO rT, MICE...

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of

QUEEN ANNE,
TRUE BLUE,

MONDAY,
AND OTHERS.

 

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MOTTLED GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,
PHOENIX,
For quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS

GEO. E. HOWES. eo.

MICHIGAN,
CZAR,
WABASH,

ROYAL BAR,
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

Salesman for Western Michigan,
5 Lock Box 173, GRAND RAPIDS.

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Cc. N. RAPP.

GEO. E. HOWES & CO.,
Potatoes Onions.
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

S. Aw HOWES.

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Apples,

 

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——— ae a. ga & Res, | of Contemplating a Change or Seeking a sain . ete (ii ( § 1 : ( UJ ri qt Pi
) tion opened fire upon the d.-b.’s and has | _ ne ‘The Most Popular 10 ci ar, soa ~ I F — | S 5 — wcveeeny ae -
5 apap cog: Sota Pp g I \ O I eM Y ‘ controversy as the Standard for excellence

: “hose Blue Letters will send a onl Phrpngh j ac [ } M ¥ U M o e i are ‘ - in every particular. ‘It is renowned for its
the form of aman who never knew fear fy ; 9. Regarding the prospects, opportunities and advantageous ae a sympathetic, pure and rich tone combined —
_ before, that is, in regard to a dun. ‘ Tene Situation of . Nn ae with greatest power.. The most eminent

Now, in as few words as possible, 1 want The Best Selling 5c Cigar in the Market. Send for trial order. 7 ss Zn ' pes and wausieiana: a6 woth a dice

Eeieiee- SS Rarms sccm GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN, Qe

were et WML SHARS & CO
y. He ’ th t class of : ' i :
Eine a ee Aas ° . As a site for a manufacturing town.
‘

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED -

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Sheet music and musical merchandise.
goods he can, and if he getsahard cus- Everything in the musical line.

tomer he. bids low; if not, he gets big

gmoney for poor goode, ‘He goes 10 the ux 3 Weber Pianos, Fischer Pianos
suspecting housewife and tells ber how ‘ EF REE SITHS Smith Pianos A B Ch as 6 Organs
cheap he is selling goods, and if that won’t Fst O ? ‘——s ™ rs Oo
5 Will be given you, whether you be of large or small capac- Stey Urgans, Hills rom Urgans,

do he bids one or two cents ever the market
for her eggs or butter and then he makes ity. As you are doubtless aware, GLADSTONE is the Lake

her pay double price for his goods. ) ts for Shipping Port for the Great “Soo” Railway and feeders, and

To still: another class belong the ones who ee situated es it is on the Little Bay Du ete, the ct har- JULIUS A. J. EF RIED RICH,
run the grocery wagons. They go to your A ' bor of deep water on Lake Michigan, offers un leled in- :
customers and sell them their tea, coffee, MBOY CHEESE. fe ee all kinds of IRON and WOODWORKING in- : (Successor to Friedrich Bros.)

Spices and that class of goods and leave the| . 7 ae dustries. ‘
Door Brocerymen to sell the sugarand goods | BY, BO & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 30 and 32 Canal St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

on which there is no profit.
And is this all? No, next comes the man

 

 

_ _ For particulars, opportunities for business, plats and maps,
call on or address :

LH merce] ERS eam RISING SUN my
oo ee am «EW. McKINNEY, —_|W, STEELE Packine & Provision Co,

Jisteners, and then he sells pens, paper,
needles, pins, etc., etc., etc., at twice what Agent Sault Ste. Marie Land and Improvement Co.,

On ae a ae the man ? | q = = ; i. a = . Grand : Rapids, Mich.
with a little sample case who goes from| @& . a= == @ sel Se GLADSTONE, MICH.
house to house on sells his th which ae | 2 = Gar alteed Absolutely P I G. :

he delivers at another time. Ee am" | ==: ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED.
Now, what is the result of all this to|

” H f 7 =r = ss
merchants who have to pay taxes, rent, | : Sacre Newayeo RouLER Minas, Fresh and Salt Beef,
keep a store in order, keep clerks, help pay = 2 = Fresh and Salt Pork,
for all improvements in the village or city | “NCR SRR e peewee ee Newaygo, - Mich, Pork Loins. Dry Salt Pork
. 9 2

and have to compete with these peddlers, who : H Should

are a class of worthless vagabonds who ams, oulaers,

prey upon the public in one place as long. VWIC+W AM ss] LePPHRsSs. . Bacon, Boneless Ham,

as they can and then go to pastures new, pe a j 5 Sausage of all Kinds,

just like d.-b.’s. One of this class said to & Dried Beef f, or Slicing.

me a few days age: ‘You fellows are afraid ip : 3

of competitors and you want to drive us e wwe a ee: W holesale Grocers

poor fellows out of town.” My answer was = =: 5 L A RD Strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, one-half
?

this: ‘‘We have no use for any of your barrels, 50 pound cans, 20 pound cans, 3, 5 and ro pound

: ails
class in our town. We are not afraid of| - : ee a IMPORTERS OF .
competitors, but your taking your stock in

trade upon your back and going from house Pern rene Peers co Twa. Pickled P igs’ Feet, Tripe, Ete.

: : , : eg ee 6 65
re aie Ap ee wate eee | Teas [ amons an Hore] ll ruts
Now, you say, ‘‘What shall we do? Boys and women’s ................-....2+4- 8 oot Children’s. .-........ 00. seeeee gee ee ee ee ee eB 50 3 ' Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class

j BR ce th ces 9 Wath SOlOS:. 3. 8 ie 6 50
We say to let the members and friends of wh ee scsi : in every instance.
the M. B. M. A. arise in their might and Woonsocket and Wales-Goodyear Rubbers, Boston Knit and Woo! Boots.

say to the peddler, ““You must travel the When in Grand Rapids give us a call and look over our establishment.

same road with your brothers, the d.-b.’s.”"|Gr. Et. MEA YER, Grand Rapids. A -. i | Write us for prices.
iis Wiles dol as oo teat ovexs anon. Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros.

dler in a section pays a license before he is |c. c. BUNTING. Cc. L. DAVIS.

allowed to peddle. If in the village, make ; : : Soaps and Niagara Starch. The Sta adard of Excellence
reach hin thet way, fake bim’ wader’ the BUNTING & DAVIS, 9
Be ce ait on con ae ‘ . ; K IN GSE ORD S
‘THE TRADESMAN, look up this law and 5 s Send or Ci rar atalo ue an ,
“ae wen OMMission Merchants. . ii ait

until a person, to peddle or canvass within ask for Special Inside Pr ices

this State, will be obliged to take outa
fo oe Se commerce, nd that for Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots,

-one year, the same as we have to take out
‘a tobacco license. Then and only then will

"we have this matter in shape to handle. 20 and e OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

 

SOLE AGENTS FOR

TENNIS SHOES IN FIRSTS AND SECONDS.

 

 

 

Oswego

on anything in our line.

How do you like the plan? What do

 

ie ‘you say to trying it? Will you help?
“These are the questions before us. I hope DO YOU WANT A
‘that this will start the ball rolling. Now, : an :
I hope some one who can handle the sub- wa me cA qe min i : : :
ject better than I will take it up and in this nnn rm en : Lorillard’s New “Smoking or Chewing”
way give us all some new points in which I- 4 Hi | i A | | ‘ii
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think we all have, or should have, an Hit CU va i! i | |
Anterest. ONE OF THE FAITHFUL. i af —— ee ELLOW ACKET ON ‘
See ea aes = =
“JES SO.” eae ote ;
“*How much is that yer handkerchief ?” —— A — : Packed in 3 0z., 8 oz. or 16 oz. Handsomely Decorated Papers.

““* Which one? ”
**'The one with the yallar posies.”

- . " : THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.
as wae with surprise. ne aN we eee Ga a Canal St 2 O CEN TS Pp er FOUN D s WILL PLE ASE . YOU EVERY TIME ?
_** Four cents,” mechanically. HHYM AN &S CO. Grand Bails. ey). oe ce wee ‘

“* yn how much for this one ?”
** Five cents.” Mildest, Smoothest Smoke Ever Offered for Less than 30 Cents per Pound.

oni —"""” CURTISS, DUNYON & ANDREWS tHompson & mactay, W. C. DENISON,

66 ” s i ji j
Yep.” Pause, in which she examines. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Geenisn weet aie

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings,
Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc. ©

To be had of all Jobbers at the very low price of

ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS.

 

 

 

** Will they wash out ?”

7 # oF
oe RO OFE RS Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Furuishme Goods, Etc,|Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers,

- .@ mop are heard, and asks:
19 South Ionia Street, -. GRAND RAPIDS. ay

**Say, Lizzie, will these yer handkerchiefs
~ ‘wash out ?” a
The sloshing stops, and Lizzie, wiping ‘

sher red hands on her blue apron, appears at Good Work, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices.

- the door, sagely looks at the article and sol-

eS a ~
e “They'll bile.” Another pause, during Grand Rapids, . Mich. | \\\\ 5 a BARLOW ii OS

_ -which two flies commit suicide in the pickle ee C > ae
barrel. | Withee a ND Papips
r Well,” deliberately, ‘‘I’ll take these yer. 5 Er me S a Er RR. Ee Oo Ser ; \ x SS a IOLGIR Ao |
‘two with the posies, and next week when an &z, , ee Ty SSE WA 6 HIGAN
) J Nh Ty {ha

* - Tehurn Pll give you butter for’em.” Manufacturers’ Agents for SS
|) + “Alright. That all?” IgauwraANn crr MILI: MACHINERY <4
“How each be they ?” G oT c ’ A

_ Takes lead pencil and figures ona bitof| endfor gaa : co A |
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ON Bight cant” » Piece a Aw WORKS A) Oa | Mee

“‘Well.” She goes out, and he wearily | INDIANAPOLIS, IND.,U. S.A. PLANS

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: : DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
in 1 ce Ee | Citron, in ee tease oe
held 1 a ers and_ sis ‘Smith @ Bristol, Ad ecg zs i ence Plainfield Pe ecureante Ht POXER: + 63; ite i
f, grew at the ry top of a tall pole, | Ge x ee. Belm eee ie |-Lemon Deel. Lee,
st. whieh ou Stender -vine-mother Densmore & Ric ” a} Gonen taiees. ‘Orange Peel.........-....-- id
r a es , it Was lovely there ! |} brink, Al'endale™ Prunes, French, 608......-.
could Took fat away, over the walls of}, oy See
ytoeienee ue sea, with its bright} ePree & Bro. Zeeland ‘© Imperial......... 6%
the sunlight, and its| # ert Se Homund City “” Turkey, old...... 4
ips s, riding at anchor.or rompeeit, Edgerton Hah ee eee
ae er the dancing waves. Those Sm, Sand M M Robson, ee Raisins, London Layers-.-. 3 00
= py days, and they passed ae to BG Date ce ‘: 4 59| Baising, California “ ....2 25
_ swifly. ‘The vine-mother fed us with-rich eee Pipp;Kalkaska «BR we TT B00 Raisins. Leose Museatels. 20k
_ juices, ‘which the sun turned to honey on on, Kala eee “Bulk... ..-....++- : 2 Raisins. Ondaras, 288 suas
9 a *
our’ vines, while, it changed the leaves from J G-Benbow, Cannonsburg A V Curtis, Holly - | Princess, aa emcee eet § 3 00 | Raisins. Sultanas....... @16
EE ak aay, (the GP fiten sand take DWatidmore Alto. ho BBeccoencie BM Meine, Valence. .8 ca
~ But at last, one sad’.day, there was a) XU ‘isa ono, White Jol Dametta, Gitchell sD foc rca ss 2g | Raisins. Imverials.......... %
t. com motion in our fruit vineyard. : Clo ud eS WH struik, Forest Gove is dienes : 85 oa. FISH.
n on, E 0! 2 3 eee APOIO. OR WD CALS, DU UVB... 0 BH fp WM OV BEAM ee ee ee ee ee eee
( drawn! ‘by long-homed: cattle came ES Botstord, Dorr. - -§ Sheldon, on oe é ae rae doz... "5 | Cod. boneless..... .... ae or
“tumbling through the gates; and gayly| 44 Weeks, Grattan W H Pardee, Loga “ Yow ge = 1 40| Halibut.................
dressed men and women trooped in with | Henry Bear, Grand Heres ieponngard, Le a ee 8 ay oe 2s ..1.2 40| Herring, round, % bbi. 2 75
” ‘baskets on their arms. Only too soon Wwe! Haven M A Hance, Olivet of Bots ss |. ..12 00| Herring, round, % bbl. 1 50
- found out whatit all meant! Beginning at) #F ee Roekford | Victorian, 1 (tall, )2 doz. 2 00| Herring, Holtand, bbis. 10 00
mu inl eee A ey Diamond, ‘“bulk.”........ 15 | Herring, Holland, kegs >
“the edge of the vineyard, the cruel vandals | 1 R Rogers, Irving pee Bert Byron Center Red Star % tb Gana 2 doz. 45 | Herring. Scaled........
led vine after vine of its treasure; | £!i Runnels, Coming Cook, Bener ee as ‘s “1! 85| Mack, sh’r, No. 1, 4 bbl....8 a
_ despoi A D Martin, Biteley i Thompson, Canada Cor A : J
and stopped only ‘when the shades of even-| Parker & Hobbs, Kalkaska ners wo Ga ge BO fat on oy eS
ing fell and kindly hid us from their sight. je re GL, Feonstse, Mokisene ae A ib cans, es _ a No.2 % bbls... 7 60
- Day after day the work went on. The vint- | 4 Purchase, SoBlendon, J ¥ Mann, Lisbon Absolute, 4 i cans, 50 | Trout, % bbls.......,....-.5 50
agers. laughed, and talked and sang ‘gay C H Joldersma, Jamestown Jos Raymond, Berlin cans in case............. 10 00 10 b kits............ 6
vintage songs, put the talk and laughter was | sidneyStark. Allendale | John A Miller, Muskegon | Absolute, 1 i cans, 50cans White, No.1, % bbls........ 15
[| Frank Narregang, Byron Carrington & ‘North, Trent] in case. ..........s.s++-: 18 75 | White, No. 1, 12 ib kits..... 1 20
- mournful to us. At last my turn came. ee 5B Pechom, Spring Lake nelte fer Sb canaédozin | White, No.1, 10D kits... 1 oe
~ ‘elung despondently to my brothers and Sis-| a G Goodson, Pierson WE Hinman, Spring Lake - 270 White, Family, % bbls i. 3%
ters, as we were tumbled into a basket, and Avene Alaska M M Robson, Berlin mottor’ si%ibeans,3dozin. | “  “ — kits........ 10
coville, Clarksyille Ww Vermeulen, Beaver Dam j 40i\*t 872” 2 55 FLAVORING a
then into one of the great carts. When the RB Gooding & Son, Lisbon i A ee Englishville relter SE 5 Jonmines poe ee
evi Geer. ansvL . : le
- gart was full the driver ee to Se GM Banticy, Rem. A e Cooper, I eg are dan | pCBSCrsertecyyeepeetct ee £0 | D.C., 2 02.....$ doz : ” 1 35
and we were taken away to a queer Wm Haney, Big Rapids oosinger. East Jordan eo Riser, Mss 4 doz case 45) “t 402........... :
John K: , Zutphi H Johnston, Shelb ‘ ok 7:
house, outside of the vineyard walls. Then | John Kamps, Zutphen opt aand Lake me ae TS AB Bon ets a 315
we were carried-into a great room, across] Es Burril, Ashland Center Henry Henkel, Howard Cy 8, «© No.4 Taper1 60 275
- —__2+—.___—_ + BLUING a . y 7
the ceiling of which poles crossed and re : Arctic, 4 oz. nd ® gross 3 oo| ‘ No.8 panel...275 4 »
_ erossed each other. On these we were sus y The Grocery Market. fo ee oo} ‘{ No. ao : ai _ $66
pended, and left to our ve Gace atia The advent of warm weather makes a po hoe oval...:.... 3 01 AEC e ee ie

Soon we commenced tos 12g | considerable improvement in trade. Sugar “ kde Pad 8 19 89| Standard Lemon. Vanilla.
My once plump sides were full of wrinkles | **"” ; : per gross.
and creases. I grew weak and faint; at) is still stationary. Coffee continues te ad- re CoM. a English 2 07 Oe 720. 9 60
last I could stand it no longer, and with a| vance and the manufacturers of package | N0-} HUt..--------------"9 9g ae pee By ee
sad farewell to tpi a : goods put up prices 1c. on the 15th. Cleese | No.2 cérpet ee 2 60 ee 18 0) 24.60
Jo0sed ay fiona Tost, consciousness, and| i8 lower, now being now quotable at 10@ | Parior Gens 220100. 00] waxing, i lpr Regs.

i isi ak - | Common Whisk....... oa iny, ®@ bbl.............
when 1 revived I found myself squeezed| 10?¢c. Valencia raisins have taken a con Fancy ie 125 oe - e
into a box, with a great many of my rela-| siderable jump. Other articles in the} Mill.....................--- 4 . "imported...10 @ll
HONS aed aay re air was ex-| St0cery line are without change. Wanciiis BO pean akg Ae
room to move 3 = ee : » GFOON. 23.6...
4 Vien.Sweet 22/| Peas, Split............ @ 3%
tremely close; and our stems were poked His Explanation. Runkle Bros’. en inn 33| Sago, German........ @ 8%
info one another’s ribs ina most uncomfort-| | ea acs . DG as os tapioca eon nil. - @ 05
able fashion. Henry, you were talking in your sleep, . i eee Gel Went bracken S,
In this shape we were put on board a ship| Said Mrs. Jones to her husband. porn etiis Vermicelli, import. 10 ou
66 7 ; i
‘bound for America, and, after a persome ety about ?” inquired Jones, Schepps, 18. vot ype 2 somes
voyage, we reached our destination. en ae eg a cho aig . 9) fs ey, | G-H- No. 8, square........ 95
a jolting wagon, car- ou spoke 0 : raking in e ps.” ee pe aa on “12 1G. H. No, square, 3 gro.. "110
a eee ann eA Feat: Ij ‘‘Ah, yes,” said Jones, with a relieved a : fe tin pail et G. H. No. 200, parlor....... i 63
heard some one drawing the nails which a o : ae YT Maltby’s, 18. ey BB 6. i. No. 300, parlor eos 2 215
-| dreamed I w 3 ve ao ie - H. No. 7, round......... 40
~ fastened the top cover. When I was un ; Ko in th She as : | Oshkosh, No. 2............. 25
ke in the chips. BER as osc an 24. :
covered, I mick eet I oe the one to rake p Manhattan, pails........... 20 oe INO: 8255 oe: 1 2
high with boxes an: : : PPCrIORS 5. 5. os sacs’ - cb . seep en sese assests ees
ee ening behind a counter. anerSiDn & Co., general dealers, Central Bulk, pails or barrels..16@18 sachanaseu's es Bae at a

By and by a woman, with a little boy, Rake: “nginses picece aes of A Baye COFFEE—GREEN Richardson’s No. 1% rnd..1 00
came in and inquired for raisins. She was for our next year’s subscription to THE} yoeha................ ...23@28 | Richardson’s No.7 rnd. 4 50
‘a nice, comfortable looking woman, and the| TRADESMAN. We like your paper and are sor- eee Saas oes Soon On ae eee eee 15

] ;j Bios ee te ose oe A
little boy was very plump and rosy. I took] ry to hear that — ee abel eer ocr Java, an ee -28@24 | Black Strap.............. 17@18
a great liking to them, and therefore I was| hands. Should it prove a blessing, as some li- | Waricabo.............- .16@19 | Cuba Baking... 22@25
overjoyed when the grocer came over to my| bel suits turn out to be when newspapers are Costes es = Borie eo gi a.
* : - RACATD og cba lowe «sine ‘8, SOOd...... oo
box, scooped me out, witha great — in the right, no one will be more pleased than aa oe 15@i8. | New Orleans, choice... 14050
others, intoa paper bag, weighed us and] your humble servants. Rio, fancy..... ..:-<.5 ee New Ore: be oe 5O@hs2
handed us to her. Rio, prime.. @ 4 bbls. 3¢ extra
Rio, GCommon......... -MM4@I5 OIL.

When they reached home, T was a ae TIME TABLES. To ascertain cost of roasted Michigan Test......... ...- 1044
on a shelf, in company with a paper 0 coffee, add 4c per bb. for roast-| Water White............... 113
candy and a bag of nuts. That night, Spied ation anes ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- OATMEAL :

= . , BS ee Seite eas ae 6
every one was abed, the comfortable loo rand Rapids & Indiana ate. : Barrels... 60
oe wean brought us out, and stuffed us,| au Trains daily except Sundny. COPFEES— PACKAGE, Poe: ier ee 3 a
together with a jackknife, apeg top, and GOING NORTH. | ok. 30 Ibs 60 tbs 100 bs ot a
various other articles into a long, red StOck-| verse City & Mackinaw Bx......8:0am 1130am|Yion’incab.., x4 | Barrels .. cjguettntstits 6.00
ing, which hung by the chimney-pieee. | Traverse City Ex........... ---++--, 7:00am | Diworth’s.... 20% | Half barrels...... ... see
2 t From Cincinnati........,....+-.+++- 7:30pm Magnoli 20 MSRER eo 2 2-@3
Then she took the light and went away. Ft. Wayne and Mackinaw Ex....... 3:40 pm 5:05 pm agnolis...... 01, 20% - 20 PICKLES.
After a long while the light began to} Saginaw Express................... 11:25 sm Lae ee ges 114 20% OMe 6 an
a ae es ae
stream faintly in through the enon | Saginaw express runs through solid. German, bins. 20% Small, bbl see ee oe 00
. Then I heard a soft patter of feet on . 7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City. Arbuckle s Ariosa 20%4 iol. ens 4 60
stairs. It came across the floor. Then the 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey anal Mack- ok ee ONEX api RICE.
stocking was pulled down by a pair of . oo a. train has sleeping cars for Petoskey and Honey Bee... 224 22Y% 99° Choice a Ses oe See > a
chubby hands. They belonged to the| mackinaw City. i Nox All...... 21%, 214 9] Prime Carolina........... Bs;
| tocki GOING SOUTH. 2 1, Mie 9 | Good Carolina.........:.... 34
plump little boy. He turned the stocking c 75am! Our Bunkum.204 20% es 5a
incinnati Express. ...-- = ‘OF FEES—50 LB. BAGS Good Louisiana............ %4
upside down, and the contents fell out on} Fort {Wayne Express......... 10:30 a a 11:45 eee cont _ ae =a B Gage 5 O6
the floor. ‘The little Eee aa cae in | Sraverse City and Mackinaw x, 31:00 p m iio |, GRRRgR ENS c= Aiea | eee) none ore %
7" ir car tor % ORR pGt RIQ se IGE | PRAV Gen oe cence cece cen ve ss areroe
the front of his night-dress, UP)" 75 a mtrain has parlor chair car, for Cincinnstl:| + Best Rig. 7... oe ee as ast
stairs, but I jolted out half-way up the) %: ‘00 b. mn. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama- Prime Maricabo.. "ais a ee 5
flight, and here Iam now. zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadivn . —— Pogipees ee 3
I don’t know what will happen next, but| points. arriving in Detroit * 10:45 46 es bhi, A wh : - Pe See eee PG a ene bu@E4
na. ae :
after what Pve gone oe sha’a’t be oe ee Grand Rapi n ical oF Sor c HOI: nS ae 6%
_ Oe V5 sein ies seneus nosed 10:10 50 foot Cotton : De ee
peg ammucr Gere ee top m | 60 foot Cotton... GHUEOHS casei cee cones 5
Jur b J s| 4f0Pm Wa... wena cecsesanne iene cea te se 8:80pm | 72 foot Cotton... ......--. Taylor's 6. 3 ee “5
The Best Guesser to Get a Jumbo Jarof| - Leaving time at prize street depot 7 minutes later CRACKERS. | —«| Dwight’s ................+++- e
L. Lockwoop, Gen’l Pass. Agent. | Kenosha Butter.........-+0.+ Sea Foam..............-.-+6 54
Pickles. Se B wi Cap Sheaf......... .....--++ 5
: : , ymour Butter. el 5 box ro
° J ay 2 Michigan Central. Buiter ek... os 5M “eC LESS a 5
eile eee ee G ft ivi Family Butter....... --+--5% | 69 pocket, FD. oe
Retail Grocers’ Association, Grand Rapids: | . Gran pi : Weney Guther......... 2... 60 Pocket, ee 26

nacre Detroit Express. oo. 6:45am Butter Biscuit.. A By 100 3 ib pockets... ue me : : a ‘ "2 25

Wuereas, In times past you have: f1@-| Hay Express. ........: . 1:10pm Pe cota pce t ce ee) ae ie Saginaw or Manistee...... 95
quently been confronted with an “onknown4 *Atiantic connor 10:45 pm | City SOGA.......----2-- ++ +++ “5y, | Ashton, bu. bags........... "5
quantity”.of pickles in the packages you| ™*° arena AnRIVE. ee ae Sova fancy... oes crseeesssot272 | aghton,4 bu. bags........ 215
have been buying; and *Pacific Rowese, Boo ee ae ue aie eos -. &: :00 am) §, Oyster. ee iigene be. bee ac ne ab

oe eee SO TESA r ; é es

Whereas, For years it has largely been ‘Grand Rapids Express...........02se.sessseeees . 10:15 p m oy 6 eee Peete rete ok rs 38 Rock, bushels...........-+. on
a matter of “‘guess-work” to determine how | Mixed ...0........cc.ccesceceesecenec ee eeeeseeee ne 6:30pm | Fancy dys ter vc? | Warsaw, bu. bags... 00... ab
many pickles you were getting for a repre- 2 aA ota oaths Bepross trains to pnd trom | Clams, 1, Little Neck....1 35 ee ee
sented quantity; therefore : : oer ee Par ae re on Day Pare eer, oo. peeling 2 sie os * a Londor Relish, 2 ie ee 250

rom etrol ct = 9 . :

We have coneluded to try the guessing fons ae at Detroit with all through trains East over Cove Ones, 2 b stand...1 790 | Acme English, pts......... 2 50
prochvities of our many Grand Rapids| y.c.rR., , (Canada Southern RY ket. Chicas, | Lobsters, 1b/pionic. ......1 75 soar.

friends by presenting you through our Mr.| 0. W- Roce Gen'l Awent. 6°. | Lobsters, 2 1, pienic.... oe: 2 65 | Dingman, 100 bars.......... 4 00
with a:large jar of our small] . Lobsters, 1 ib star.. ..1 95 | Don’t Anti-Washboard.. 45
WL. Winternitz gej Lobsters, 2 star 9 90) Jaxon. 456.02. vo. - lice 375
Gherkins, which poe will coe © ee Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25| Queen Anne..............- 4 00
exhibition in your rooms, and at the end o 2 : Mackerel, 1ib stand........ German Family............ 2 04
fone month present to .the lacky member Kalamazoo Division. pes Mackerel, 2m st nd. et ae SPICES—WHOLE. .
eceed ‘ 9 acKere. in Mustard... oO SPICO ove. s esse ba oe 3
Se a eno write as fe ee in on 2 m am Ae Mackerel, 3 ib soused...... 3 25 | Cassia, China in mats...... 1%
number in the jar. sjoacal is [10 3:00 7:45 Dp....Grand Rapids........... 9:45 6:10| Salmon, 1 Columbia...... 2 10 “Batavia in bund....il
expiration of above time and we will mene 3.95 4:12 9:02 ....Allegan........+--.0-0+5- 8:28 4:05 Salmon, 2 b z “ : 2 60 e “ Saigon in rolls Be .
‘kno > 6B: 0:00 Ar... JAMAZOO........000e0e ; 2 : amen 0. oves mboyna..........
ee “a ar a an Dade ts : - nies Ar. ++ ealamazoo..- eae eee 2:25 Snel a2 sgh 2D ai: ee es 23
ee eee F. &. J. HEIN 00 42:30 “ ....Elichart 4:45 1:e9| Sardines, domestic 4s. ..._ 7 | Mace Batavia..........-...+ 70
Yours respectfully, ‘ : 8:00 12: . Elkhart. .........20000005 4:45 1:00 Sa raines, domes tie Re. ‘bau Nutmegs, fancy i 0
ibition a 7:50 7:10 “ ....Chicago.............0.00+ 11:30 8:50| Sardines, Mustard %s... pb Ses ee

The above jar will ‘Ne on fess 3 pm 2 : Sardines, imported 4s. .12@1 13 ed NO. 2..6.. cen 60
the next meeting of the Association. In 10:25 5:05 so Toledo... 682s ii 11:25 10:00) Sardines, gpiced, %48..... 10@12 | Pepper, Singapore, eg var 2 %
the meantime, it can be seen at the store of 1:35 9:40“ ....Cleveland.............06 7:15 5: 45 Trout. 3 bb Brook... ge
L. Winternitz, loca] representative for F. wet ce a _ Baal, sgesai “puss ag, 12 a so Apples, gallons, stand. eS 2 i Sopa airs. sina.
i 3 > . sale ° a ° ae cek WU | ALISPICE........ cece en enee
& J. Heinz, where gue:ses can be recorded} ,7icke and Canada at Union Meket Offce, GEO. Wi: Ghorfics, ved-etandard... 1 G0] Cassia, Batavia. oe... 20
and i ANSON, Oe eas , Cherries, pitted.. .. = 85@1 and Saigon.25

oS a  ghapinaa A et, Bem a +i Cleveland, Ohio. Damsons... Ode 1 25@1 35 * Saigon.............. 42

“An original swindle was practiced re- ree Egg oe stand.......... = Cloves, Amboyna ene ieee a

i i Gooseberries............ wen Bee iets oe oe
“cently in Odessa. A young man staggered Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. Grapes - a ee 1 9% Ginger, African ies es 12%
<G WEST. reen GAages,.........-2.208 s
into a drug store, in which only a Sa ot pa : Arrives. Leaves. | Peaches, all yellow, stand .2 65 ‘ d (
present. He trembled in every limb and | syorning Express. teseeey 1:05pm «(1:10 p m| Peaches, seconds.......... 2 25 | Mace Batavia.........:..... 80
ati a ior pad or hhis chest, {ec ce ca: Ae Geter Peacnee, PIC...) x. 1 60@1 i Mustard, Mngiish., ._ ace =
and on the fipor, appar- Fire es oe oS «$40 ww POATES 1.2 be 3G aes ] dn .
gts t prod y, and convulsed Ais: qMlized. ees Ee io eee gee 7:30am Pineapples,........... 1 ‘G2 15 st Tetente ee 27
eniay Th: Frew To “bh 2 k uick, “GOING EAST. | QUINCES.. 2... ee eens ee eee eee 150} Nutmegs, No. 2............ =
head to foot. “For pel. baa “T have sem 7 | (etroit Express... .....+.-s+-eees 6:45am 6:50 aim | Raspberries, extra. siena 160 Pepper, Singapore se 3
° ¢Through Mail Se Sach cee pene “ho oe :30 a m> POG cin : :
& trig! | TEN arti fan ag oo Faveee 3:25pm. 3:50pm | Strawberries ......-....-+-+ 1 60 és Cayenne.......... 25
a the store. to|™ imnlted Express. -vvve- ss vonneor eg ee, 6:30pm | Whortleberries.......-.....1 W Absolute Pepper, doz...84
gees Sundays excepted. CANNED VEGETABLES. Cinnamon * .. 84
| — Detroit a parlor os "to Detroit, nd _Asparagus, Oyster Bay....2 00 “6 Allspice “y 00D
| -qiregt connections fora Pointed Express a Beans, Lima, stand ....,... 85 - Cloves eel 10
‘through sleeper Grand Rapids. to Niagara F a Beans, Green Limas.. @1 40 ‘s ee 2 ~ +18
~ | connecting at: ‘Milwaukee Junction with h | Beans, String........1 00@1 20 us ase
| sleeper to Toronto. Beans, Stringless, Erie.... 90 STARCH.
: pie ie Ry aa Sn eping cai. be ni ra cen Lat | Beans, Lewis’ Boe Bak.1 » Silver Glos 8 1 Ae
qe eee Parcverir ¢ Tro oh ilver Gloss, 1 ib pKgs...,...
: Bh re, Gity Pass Passenger Agent, | CQF. Annee Morn ry 11 , boxes. eek
= ; +. es Barly Gold 1b > “ ieee se eeee eee 3
e Be gee ure Dee ea ae
a Weer a full line of | Peas, extra marrofat.1 20@1 40| Corn, 1 b pkgs...... .. ciel
poe of Sana pscoket Peas, a tees at SUGARS.
june, stand... :
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Corn, kegs.. Le Coes
Pure Sugar, bi ee on OOH?

  

PureSugar,% bb! . - 0. BOQ44
SWEET Rope: ‘
+ Xe
Ginger Snaps Se Th 8%
Sugar Creams........ %4 8%
Frosted Creams...... 9
Graham Crackers.. 8%
Oatmeal Crackers... — 8h
TOBAGCOS—PLUG.
ear Heat)... Gk. 43
Phe re MORAG: 5 eo 42
ECGHDSOG.5. ow. 2.5. Reber ee 36
Holy Moses.......:........2.. 33
Blue Blazes................ Jen 82
eye in ee Set Ge oe ae 32
é Segue - -42@45
Clinper Sekine ep awee Boule sees 39
Climax... ee
Corner Stone.................
Double Peadrc............. - ‘b
Whopper........ 28 .48
Peach Biee u 34
Wedding Cake, blk.......... 40
TOBACCOS—FINE CUT.
Sweet Pippin................ 50
Five and Seven............... 50
Hiagwatha.:.........0.5....0., 68
Sweet Cuba.................. 45
Petoskey Ohler, 68
Sweet Russet................. 42
RISC. fo Or 42
Hioridae; 2.0 fee 5 eo eo. sy 65
Bose: Heat... he: 66
Red Domino.......... ....., 38
Swamp Angel....... be eae are 40
Bia ee ye ee 33
TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
ROD HOY. . 20s -.28
Peerless........ Bae ee 28
Unele Sam (35. 06255 08 eS .30
Jack, Pine?, 0.72. 5.4.4 poe 36
Sensation 220 ce 33
Yellow Jacket................ 20
Sweet Conqueror........ 20@2%5
TEAS.
Japan ordinary..... .... 18@20
| Japan fair to good......: 25@30
Japan fine................ 35@45
Japan dust............... 12@20
Young Hyson............ 20@45
Gupnor ier. ee 33@50
Oolong............ 38G55@60@75
CONGO oo. oie ne es 25@30
VINEGAR.
30 er 40 gr. 50 gr.
9% ly 13
Above are the prices fixed
by the pool. Manufacturers

outside the pool usually sell
5gr. stronger goods at same

prices. $i for barrel.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported...... 90
do American...... 75
Burners, No. 0............. 65
do NOs sold!
do INO Boe Ss, 95
Chimneys, No. ; paelese cs ae 38
BO a ne 40
of - 2 eee cues oe
Cocoa Shells, bulk Be oe eke
‘Condensed. Milk, Eagle....7 50
Cream Tartar ool. 52. 25
Candles Stare)... 2.00.75. 9%
Candles, Hotel. Dees 104%
Camphor, 02z., 2  boxes.. 3d
eee Goffee, Vie Oho 7a
Felix ..... 115
Yire Ghibker 8, per box....1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. 25
Gum. Rubber 260 lumps... 33
Gum, Spruce Des oe ae 30
Jelly, i in 30 b pails... .5 @ 5M
Powder, Ker... 20 5: ee 5 BY
Powder, % Keg............ 2 87
SAC tee ees oss 18

CANDY, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooxss quote as
follows:

STICK.
Standard, 25 i boxes....... 8%
Twist, do ee
Cut Loaf dO 2 10

MIXED,

Royal, 25 b pails . 84@
Royal, 200 Bons 20. a
Extra, 25 tb pails........... 10
Extra, 200 Tb Dbis. pee ee 9
French Cream, 25 Bb pails..11%
Cut loaf, 25 i cases........ 10
Broken, 25 Ib pails......... 10
Broken. 200 ib bb!s.. .9

FANCY—IN 5D BOXES.
Lemen Drops. 2.22. ).00.0. 21

  

SOUT DLOPS 350506) 6 netic eee 14
Peppermint Drops.......... 14
Chocolate Drops............. 14
H M Chocolate Prone ee 18
Gum Drops... wc. 6 or 40
Licorice Drops............... 1g
AB Licorice Drops.. a ke
Lozenges, plain.............. 14
Lozenges, printed........... 45
TMPpOrigdis Oro cee coe es 14
MOGLOCS ote. ccs. cake i

Cream: Bari... 26... .ck a: 13
Molasses Bar.................43
Carnmels (oo oi. bee. 18
Hand Made Creams.......... 18
Plain Creams................ 16
Decorated Creams....... ... 20
String Rock..... our 18
Burnt Almonds............. 22
Wintergreen Berries........ 14

FANCY—IN BULK.

Lozenges, plain in pails...12
Lozenges; plain in bbls....11
Lozenges, printed in pails.12%
Lozenges, printed in bbls.114%
Chocolate Drops, in pails..12%

Gum Drops in pails....... 6%
Gum Drops, in bbis........ 5%
Moss Drops, in pails....... 10
Moss Drops, in bbls........ 9
Sour Drops, in pails....... Be
Imperials, in pails......... 1
Imperials in bbls...... il
FRUITS.

Bananas ..25.25...--2, 1 00@3 00
Oranges, choice ..... 3 50@4 00
Oranges, Florida..... @
Oranges, Messina.. @4 25
Oranges, OO.......... @4 00
Oranges, Imperials.. @é4 25

Oranges Valencia ca. @
Lemons, choice:..... 3 25@3 50
Lemons, fancy....... 3 50@4 00
Figs, layers, new..... 12 "Gis
Figs, Bags, 50 Ib

Dates, frails do....- ‘ei o aK
Dates, '4do do...... 5%
Dates, Fard 10 hb box @ b..

Dates, Fard 50 h box # b.. a
Dates, Persian 50 ib box . 5@D%

NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona @1"
Ivaca...... @16
: California 18@14
Brazile. oh oo. oes @ 8%
Filberts, Sicily....... @ll
Walnuts, Grenoble.. @i8
Sicily...... 12
Ae French.. @ll
Pecans, Texas, H. P. 8@
Cocoanuts, # 100..... @4 50
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw # b @ 4
Choice do do @ 4%
Fancy H.P.do_ do @5
Choice White, Va.do @ 4%
‘Fancy HP,. Va do § @5%
Hy Piva. os ee. @5

OYSTERS AND FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as | INK

follows:
OYSTERS.
Fairhaven Counts.......... 40
FRESH FISH.
Black bass....-..-.------+-- RY
Kock paas..5..0).-.2:3-<:---4
Perch, skinned...........--++
Duek-bill pike....2..-...<.-- 8

   

Beef, carcass. .
“ aoe aug

240 |

f rater eee AO!
ve

 

Short ent... 62. -535.0..2..
Short eut. Morgan............ Sere ee 15 50
Extra clear pig, short eut..... en ease 16 50
Extra clear, heavy...... terune Reed oks aes 16 50
Clear quill, short ‘cut Woks os ok Poe eee ak 16 50
Boston clear, short cut........ eas 16 50
, Clear back, short-eut........0.0.0005 000005.
pendurg clear, short cut, = Siu faa eee 16 50
CAI ee eh ee ea a

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, average i ibs
bs

  

Deen kak ee. oo EE li
A es 2 tO 14s ee 11% :
oe DICUIO oe A 5
“best boneless). 2... oc ek, il
BhOuIderS coe ee [%
Bregktast Bacon, boneless.................. i
Drié@ Beet, ey 8%
* aM Prices. 0085 10
DRY SALT MEATS.
Long Ciéars, OAV fre ec e es 834
co ICGIUIN. | sa OS ee 834
Se oS ROBE eo 10%
LARD.

WMiere@ay:. see. 2 Ne . \ 8%
30 and 50 Tubs ..................00..., 84
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

3 tb Pails, 20 in a case................... 8%
5 Ib Pails, 12 in a case. ..............0... 8%
10 i Pails, 6 in a case.........5......... a

20 ib Pails, 4 pailsin case...............
BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 bs.............. 7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago Packing.............. 7 5S

** Kansas City Packing......... . 7 2d
PIAL cee cc ans oe ee, Soca 7%
Extra Plate.) aes ee 8 25
Boneless, rump DUES. ee ee 50

i Be Kan City pkd. .c..:. - 8 50
*“ ’%bb 15 600

SAUSAGE-—FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork Sausare ooo. 1%
Ham Sausage.e..........- Pejgieieisratae sd oiees Marae il
Tongue Sausage................. eee eee s 9
Frankfort Sausage..................... .... 3
Blood Sausage................000005 ee 6
Bologna, straight. eeceset sue eG
Bologna, (igen 8
Head Cheese... ee 6

PIGS’ FEET.

Inhalf barrels, 2:05 5 8029 8. 3 50
In quarter barrels... .. 02.00 0.500 50. 215
. " an TRIPE.

n BD). ee eee te eee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee ecto es
PNA BD cee a ee a : 1
In dite Reet Sea eee ee nies Sa

HIDES, PELTS A AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay | a owe:
Green....@2b4 @ tI Cait skins, green
Part cured.. - 5 @5%i or cured.. 56 @64
Fullcured.... 54@ 64|Deacon skins,
Dry hides and ® piece..... 10 @20
Kips 2.2.0.4 6
Fine washed # ib 18@20! cass washed.. ee
Medium ......... 20@23|Unwashed........ 12@16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sheep pelts, short shearing....... .. 5@20
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated. . 20@23

TaMOwa oe Meee 41
cireane butter “11 8MQ 4 5
@2 00

Smee ence cece ce aces er ccenes

PRODUCE MARKET.
Asparagus—Tie per doz.
Beans—Hand-picked mediums are very

scarce, readily commanding $2.25 per bu.

Beets—New, 50c per doz.

Butter—Good butter is easier. Jobbers pay
lic for choice dairy and sell at 18@19c. Grease
butter is slow sale at 8e.

Butterine—Creamery, 16c for solid packed
and lic for rolls. Dairy, I3%e for solid packed
and i4%e for rolls.

Cabba gr es—New Southern stock readily com-
mands $3.50 per crate.

Carrots—30@35e per bu.

Cheese--New cheese 1s held at about 1(@104%e

Cider—ive per gal.

Cocperage—Pork barrels, $1.25
rels, 25e.

Cucumbers—i0@7e per doz.

Dried Apples—Jobbers hold sun-dried at 7
@i%e and evaporated at 92914e.

Eggs—Jobbers now pay lic and sell at 12c.
The tendency is downward.

Honey—In plentiful supply at 15@16e.

Hay—Baled is weaker at $18 for No. 1 and
$17 for No. 2.

Lettuce—lue per lb.

Maple Sugar - New crop, 10c per Ib.

Onions— Young stock, I5¢ per dozen.
mudas are held at $3 per bu. box.

Peas—Green, 62. per 3 peck box.

Pieplant—2e¢ per lb.

Pop Corn—24¢e 8 bb.

Potatoes—Home grown are weak being nom-
inally quotable at 83c per bu.

Radishes—l5c per doz.

Seeds—Clover, $4.25 for medium or mam-
moth. Timothy, $2.80 for prime.

Spinach—‘5e per bu.

Strawberries—Southern, 162 per qt.

String Beans—$1.30 per bu.

Tomatoes—$2 for 1-5 bu. box

Wax Beans— $2 tor % bu. box.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—City millers pay 90c for Lancaster,
Clawson and Fulse.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 67e in 100 bu.
lots and 61@62c¢ in car‘lots.

Oats—White, 45cin small lots and 4icin
ear lots.

Rye—as0c #8 bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ® cwt.

Flour—Higher. Patent $5.90 #8 bblin sacks
and $6.10 in wood. Straight, $4.90 8 bbl. in
sacks and $5.10 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $3.60 8 bbl.

Milt Feed—Screenings, $15 @ton. Bran, $17
# ton. Ships, $18.00 #@ ton. Middlings, $19
# ton. Corn and Oats, $23 8 ton.

3; produce bar-

Ber-

 

 

|THORBER, WHYLAND & C0,

NEW YORK,
RELIABLE
FOOD PRODUCTS.

It is both pleasant and profitable for merchants to
sens visit New York, and all such are cordially
invited to call, look through our establishment, corner

West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make

our acquaintance, whether they wish to buy goods or
not. Ask for a member of the firm.] :

 

   
 
   
       
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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It has come to our notice that unscrupu-| ~

lous manufacturers of cigars are putting an
inferior brand of cigars on the market
under a label so closely imitating our ‘‘Sil-

39 | Ver Spots” as to deceive the general public.

At first, we were inclined to feel flattered at
this recognition of the superior merits of
our ‘Silver Spots” by a brother manufac-
turer, knowing ful! well that itis only arti-
eles of standard or sterling worth that are
imitated, but we feel that we should be
derelict in our duty to the public should we
not warn them against this infringement,
and also to dealers in cigars, as we feel
positive that no first-class dealer would
knowingly countenance or deal with’ any
manufacturer who had to depend upon
other manufacturers to furnish him brains
te originate brands or labels for their cigars.

A counterfeiter is a genius, but amenable

to the law, but a base imitator who keeps
within the law, or just ventures near
enough to be on debatable ground, is not
worthy of recognition in a community of
worthy or respectable citizens. The ‘‘Sil-
ver Spots” are to-day the best selling five
cent cigar in Michigan. If you don’t be-
lieve it send us a trial order.

GEO. T. WARREN & Co.,
Flint, Mich.

 

BY. SELLING |

 

Composed of Guatemala, African ane
Mexican Javas, Santos, Maracaibo and Rio
selected with especial] reference to their fine
drinking qualities. The most popular brand
of Blended Coffee in the market. Sold only
in 50 1b. Cans and 1 ib. packages, 39, 60 and 106
lb. Cases. Mail Orders Solicited by the pro-
prietor 8.

J, H. THOMPSON & 6O.,

BEE SPICE MILLS,
59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Importers and jobbers of fine Teas, Coffees,
Spices, Etc.. Baking Powder Mfrs., Coffee

 

BOUK-KRKPING
WIPKD QUT!

No Pass Books!
No Charging!
No Posting!
No Writing!
No Disputing of Ascovnts!
No Change to Make!

TRADESMAN
Credit Goupon Book

THENEWEST AND BEST SYSTEX
ON THE MARKET.

We quote prices as follows:

 

 

 

$ 2 Coupons, per, hundred ee eee ie $2.50
ee 3.00
S10 “ . De eee 2 OO
$20 o a SNS see 5.20
Subject to the follcwing discounts:
Orders for 209 or over DG se 5 per cent.
DOD See ease: 1

ss oe 1000 oe ‘ 20 6s
Send in sample order and put your business

on a casi basis.
K & BRO, Grand Rapids.

BILL K

Wishes to say to the trade that
they will have to be a little pa-
tient with him in filling orders
for the

Bill Nye G
As he is shipping them out
just as fast as received, and the

factory is over one million be-
hind on its orders.

A. EATON & G6,

17 Canal Sireet, Grand Rapids,

UME THING NEW!

We have just received a large
shipment and wish to call von
attention to our

CELEBRATED
CALIFORNIA
. ORANGE
WINE.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Packed in 5 and 10 gal. kegs.

 

It is a delicious summer drink. Makes
a delightful flavor for Lemonades,
Milk Shakes. Etc., and when
frozen makes delicious Or-
ange Sherbet.

It may be served in almost any form,
may be drawn from a fountain-or .
from the cask, and for table use
ig unexcelled. Price, $1

_ per gallon.
TRY i KEG, - It Wik PRY YOU.
or |

EATON S& Pn
tt | 77 Canal ‘St, Grand hrsgiteet

 

Agents for Michigan,

 

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Roasters, Spice Grinders.

Read this dee

$11,550 Work af Real Estate

And personal property to be actually
given away to purchasers ot the celebrated

‘Golden-Red,’ ‘Presie’ and ‘Empress’
Cigars in 1888.

We have sold these goods for the past
ten years at the uniform price of $55 per
M. for ‘‘Golden-Rod!” $35 per M. for the
the ‘‘Presto” and $35 for the ‘tEmpress”
cigars, and. shall continue  to_ sell
them at that price, thus charging noth-
ing extra for the property we shall distrib-
ute. °

We have figured that by liberal advertis-
ing we can save the salaries and expenses
of several men on the road and that the dif-
ference will pay for this prope erty and the
purchasers of the goods will get the direct
benefit. Just look at this carefully and.
see a plain business proposition. We hand
over to you direct the amotnt tt would cost
us to seil these goods in the ordinary way.

We will distribute this
following manner:

We will start an order book at this date
with lines numbered from 1 to 3,600 and
each order will be entered in the book in
he order it is received at our office.

W antl
WEP Q

236

property in the

Every fifth order received will entitle the
party ordering to a fine gold handled silk
umbreils 2 which wili be sent with the goods.

Every 24th order reeeived will entitle
sender to a full tea set of 56 pieces Import-
ed China Ware, which will be sent with the
cigars.

Every 74th order received will entitle the

party ordering to a clear title deed of a piece
of real-estate. Either a building lot and

water privilege, at a summer resort, a city

lot in city of Sault Ste Marie, a house and
lot in St. Ignace, ora farm of 160 aeres.
There are 39 lots of the real estate and 720
articles of personal property to go with
8,000 orders, an average of more than one
in four.

An order will eonsist of 1% M. ‘Golden
Rod” cigars at $55 per M. or 1 M. ‘*Presto”
cigars at $35 per M., or 1 M. ‘‘Empress’’
cigars at $30 per Af. An order of double
this amount from one party wil! be entered
as two orders.

These cigars are not made of cheap ma-
terial, like the ordinary scheme cigar, but.
are First-Class Goods, made as we have
always made them, to hold trade.

The ‘‘Golden-Rod” is made from the finest
imported Vuelta Havana, long filler, straight
hand-made goods, without flavor, and as
fine as anything made in the U.S. Sold at
their market value, without regard to the
property given away. The “Presto” cigar
isa very niece imported scrap-cigar, gives
universal satisfaction and sells in many
places at 10c.

The summer resort lots are on the beau-
tiful Lakeville Lake in Oakland Co. on the
P.O. & P. A. R. R., ahandsomer lake with
better fishing than Orion, six miles distant.
Lots 40 feet by 80 rods with good lake front
privilege, value\$50 each.

The lots at the Soo are within 1% ofa
mile of the water power canal. In the
heart of the city, with houses all around
them, 40x124 feet, valued at $1,000 each.

The house and lot at St. Ignace is in the
third ward on Main street. House occu-
pied by tenant, valued at $1,000.

The farm is within two miles of Carp
Lake Station, on the G. R. & 1. R. KR. Six
miles from Mackinaw. City, hardwood and
cedar, good front on Carp Lake, seven acres
under cultivation, valued at $3,200.

Warrantee deeds of real estate will be
sent with the cigars, which come in proper
order.

When the property is all distributed, cir-
culars. will be sent to each purchaser of
cigars, showing name and address of par-
ties getting these presents.

Send in your orders, somebody will get
some good property for nothing. You ‘will
get warranted goods, worth the price put
onthem. The value of the presents is not
taken out of the goods.

Terms on cigars, 60 days.to responsible
parties, or 5 per cent. off for cash.

We give reference below as to our busi-
ness standing.

Citizens’ National Bank, Romeo; First
National Bank, Romeo.

Any business man in Romeo, and any

wholesale tobacco house in Detroit, Chicago, .

Louisville and St. Louis.
Yours respectfully,

H. Le Brae h Bro,,

, MICH se

ROMEO

     

     

INCREASE YOUR TRADE”

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-_ __, Cannabis Sativa..:.. 3%@ 4% | Rubia Tinctorum...._ | 13
8@, a donium. ‘%6@1 00 Saceharum Lactis pv ae 35
Jacin ..., 4 00

| Chenopodium .......° 10@ 12 | Sal ae egt a ee 3 50@ ; - "| e
Dipterix ‘Odorate. ..:1 75@) Sanguis Draconis. ... 50 |
Foeniculum....... =. Santonine............ @4 50 fe 5:
‘Foenugreek, po...... 8| Sapo, W.............. R@ 14 : yin +
Lini....... Bec pae 3% Sapo, M....... Nc 10 7a
Late Phe (bbl, 3).. .. eo S Ce 15

apo, G..........
Lo a. d Serdiitz Mixture
phe Canarian... :

| wou it licum ..........
luxuyiates; and if the Caer
__| the young shoots, so much more of promise | Hydrochlor .......... é
is there for the olive harvest. Propagated | Nitrocum ..... ...... Hay
chiefly by cuttings, the ‘‘willowy” looking | phosphorioum dil.)
twigs take root with a proud defiance | Salicylicum.......... 1

Be ea RSS

28
Sitfapis .........55.... 18
Sinapis, opt..... 30

»nt—Arthur Bassett, De
i ce-President—G. M. Harw.
Second Vice Prosident Fair

troit. > ¥ > ;
o gar iptker a 1 2 Bias Alb jena
ident—Henry Ki nll rrienSprings. | Of ordinary rules; and there is a whimsi- | Sulphuricum........ - 14@ inapis, Albu........ Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. \ oe
Secrotary--8. . Parkill, Owosso, | cally planted grove of olive trees of unusual | Tannieum............140@1 60} Nigra... u Voes................ 35 . aarti .
-. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. size and beaut ar the to of Messa. i Tartaricum .......... 50@ SPIRITUS. Snuff, Scotch, Do. . a
Executive Committee—Geo. Gundrum, Frank Inglis, e y ne wh ssa, in AMMONIA. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50} | Voes.............0.. 35 ° i ay! er
. 8@ 5/ Frumenti, D. F.R....1 75@2 0¢ | Soda Boras, (po 11).110 @ 11 1 aH A ec

bet oR fet
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decison Morocco, which illustrates this. trait in a| Aqua, 16 deg......... : §
Next Meeting At Detroit, September 4, 5, 6 and 7. eee Gcus fer : fe ere P07 cmd pate 20 24
poi npr » being on a military ex- MAUI os ese 4 ; r Soda, Bi-Carb..
ae es mtas One ea ey: | pedition, encamped here with his army. | On OY" rea, Baacharum Nali.....146@2 op | Soda Aches AB
UAGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1854. The pegs with which the cavalry picketed | Black................ +2 et Spt. Vini Galli......! 75@6 50 | Soda Suiphas......_.
7 ‘

4 s 1
President_—H. E. Locher. their horses were cut from olives in the ni Oporto....... + ++125@2 v0 | Spts. Ether Co...

> - a gs = Ay ¢ 9
neighborhood; and some sudden cause of Vini Alba.......... 1 25@ Spts. \vreia Dom... @z 00

5
: Frumenti ............ 11

4@
H@- 1h iperi .O.T.. 1-6 5 | Soda Carb...........,
L@ 1 Juniperis Co. O. T...1-75@t 75 r

 

Importers ald Jobbers of

78 Congress St., West, Troy, New York, January 28, 1888.

Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1888. | Specialty Depart. Ph. Best: Brewing Co,,
Speciaity Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co., DEAR Srrs—Your agent left me a sample of
GENTLEMEN—I duly received the case of | Your liquid extract, Malt, and as I use much
your “‘Best’’ Tonic and have since had a great | Such in my practice, I thought to compare
many in this institution. I must say that the | Your product with some from another house
beneficial effects on weak and debilitated | | had on hand; and finding yours superior in
patients have been most satisfactory, espec- | the great essential, the palifable nutriant as
lally to those in a stage of recovery after se- | Wel! as in tonic stimulant properties. felt anx-
vere sickness. ious to know about what it canbe furnished
I write this thinking you might like to have | the dispensing physician.
my opinion on its merits. I certainly shall Yours truly,
prescribe it in future, where the system re- E. Jay FIsK, M. D.
quires building up. eitherfrom constitutional :

 

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reasarer— . Fairch Spts, Myrcia Imp... @2 50
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. : ‘ * SPONCES 5 » Myr L Se
Board of Censors—President, Vice-President and Sec- ee sea he to the ~~ of nes Florida sheevs’ wool ee Rect. bbl. oo
“¢ retary. : position, the pegs were left in the ground, carriage.......... wo 2 25@2 50 | Fea) pee -- wanes aes. 3
Boand of Trustees—The Président, John. E: Peck, Geo. and, making the best of the situation, de- Nassau sheeps’ wooi Seeyonntaree ripe Ob
_wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Win_L. White. | veloped into the handsomest group of olives tee wo aoa 2 00 Suiph Le sunt. 9 ayy “er au
eer ee ObEa’ votters—Jonn Feek, ¥. J.Wurz-|in the district. Olives are mentioned in Posteariags 119 | Sulphur, Roll....1.. . 24@ 8
Committee on Legislation—J. W. Hayward, Theo. | the tarliest records of Egypt, and their in- eS Extra Yellow sheeps’ a deny Hcl 8@ 19 5
carriage..... 5 Pieabvamis., “oe ; |
M. B.Kimm. - : early as 1,500 years before our era. Thence CORTEX. | .~=~*| Grass sheeps’ wool i |y.- Ulae.........
Berth. Nee Taret: Thursday evening In each | their cultivation naturally passed into Italy, Abies, Canadian.....
Annual Meeting—First Thursday eveninginNovember | the Romans especially prizing them; while | Cassiae ..........-...

: irgi i ee : aes Cinchona Flava......
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. Virgil. mentions three distinct: varieties, Euonymus atropurp
ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883. :

Kemink, W. H. Van Leuwen. > =

Doimmittes Ga Pharmacy—W. L. White, John Muir, | foduction into Greece took place at least as oie aie he i

rea Grass sheeps’ wool Vanilla .......... 9 00@16 00

act fore nate pines aie eo 6 65 Zinei Sulph es 1@ 8

ard for slate use...

Yellow Reef, for slate OILS.

qIB@ 202 2 Le
“SYRUPS.

Aceacia. .o........ ees

 

 

: Bbl Gal
Whale, winter:....,.. 70 7%
Lard, exfa...... eo. 68. 2
Lard, No. 1........... 50

each of which had its own fastidious sup- Myrica Cerifera, po.
President—Frank Inglis.

Prunus Virgini......
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J. Crowley. :
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee.
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.
Central Michigan Druggists’ Association.
President, J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.
Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, H. M: Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.
Clinton County Druggists’ Association.
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8. Wallace.
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
President, H. W. Willard; Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.
- Jonia County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n,
President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote.

Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association. |
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.
Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, C.H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber.
onroe County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, 8. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon Courty Druggists’ Association,
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
Muskegen Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, Geo. L, LeFevre. ~
Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark.
Oceana County Pharmaceutical society.
President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady.
Saginaw County Pharmaceutical Seciety.
President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall.

 

CHAMOIS SKINS.

Some Hifts as to Their Use and Preser-
vation.

There are so many so-called chamois
skins in the market that look and work so
near to goat skins, remarks the Carriage
Monthly, that we are often at a loss to

porters in the ancient conflict of tastes.
Pliny also tells us‘that they also grew in
the heart of Spain and France though he
awards the palm tothe smaller olive of
Syria, the olive of which was at least more
delicate than that produced in the western
countries. So far as regards the oil of
Spain, and to some extent that of Italy, this
judgment stands good to the present hour,
for the reason that the Spanish olive is a
larger and a coarser fruit, while the Italian
growers are too apt to detract from the
limpid delicacy of the virgin oil by
the sacrifice of quality to quantity, for
the olive -like all generous _ givers,
demands that you should ‘‘squeeze”
him = gently. The oil is ‘expressed
from the erftire pulp and body of the fruit,
and its quality stands in inverse proportion
to the quantity produced. The first press-
ure yields a thin, pure liquid, almost color-
less; and with this even the most fastidious
of English palates rarely makes ac-
quaintance. As the pressure is increased
a less delicate product is the result; while
if it is still further prolonged a rank and
unwholesome residuum is obtained, wholly
unfit for edible purposes. It should be
mentioned that virgin oil does not maintain
its freshness for more than a few weeks
without the addition of a little salt or
sugar, and it is almost impossible for any
one to realize the exquisite delicacy of this
first expression of the freshly gathered
olive, unless he has sojourned in such a dis-
trict as that of which, say, Avignon is the
center. The oil of Aramont, in Provence,
was formerly supposed to have no equal in
Europe. Both the olive and the manufact-
ured oil of the southeast of France are, in-
deed, still unrivalled by those of any other

Quillaia, grd.........
Sassfras .......-..... 3
lms 533 cs
Ulmus Po(Ground 12)
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. 4@
66

po..... . 33@'
Haematox, 15 b pox.. 11@
ae BA oo 5 li
st
oe

Carbonate Precip....
Citrate and Quinia...
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidu Sol..
Solut Chloride.... .. q
Sulphate, com’l...... 14@
s pure....... @
FLORA, ae
APNICH. ok eke 2
Anthemis ............ 45@
Matricaria.,.......... 30@
FOLIA.
Barosma........-.... 10@
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
MIVENY . 05 owe ons
6s es Alx

Salvia officinalis, 4s

And Y48.........--+6

Dra Orsi 2.5 3.

GUMML.

Acacia, 1st picked...

ea. fs:

So er 88 eee

ef Sifted sorts.

*t PO. os c5 os

Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)..

© Cape, (po. 20)...

“ Socotri’, (po. 60)

Catechu, 1s, (348, 14
aoe AD), cs. te _@

Ammoniaze ........:.
Assafoetida, (po. 30). @
ae Be a ae
Camphorae .........-. 30G
Raphortium, po: .... 35@
agent a eae Se @

Gamboge, po.........
Guaiacum, (po. 45)... @

Smilax Officinalis. ae

Zingiber.......... Eee
IPCCAC.. goss.

erri Tod... 3.5 ....06. ss

Auranti Cortes.......

Rbei Arom...........
Co..

BONER. 65.0056. k
Dewiue.oe4 os

Prunus Virg..........

TINCTURES,

Aconitum N apellis :

AIOCR 22.3 cocks ac

“and myrrh.....

ATNIC@A) 2. Sos: es
ASsafcetida ............
Atrope belladonna...
BeNZ0IN: 0... cae. bs csc

Cantharides....... Ee
‘Capsicum............6
Cardamon BS aes

OR CG

WOREOR 20550 a ee

Catechu oo. ..........

Cinchona.............
oe

CO.e se:

Columba........... oe
COMMI (ko os Ss
Cubeba...... CG eis
Disitans 1c. ose. 50
Breet 2.2... 6s So
Gentian...... Aare

co
Gu aiea 3.

ammon.......

“Aingiber.....is.0.....

Colorless......

Ferri Cn: ridum..... ns

Nux Vomicx ....... oe

Dl oe oe;

4f
Linseed, pure raw .. 56 59
Linseed, boiled ...... 59 62
Neat’s Foot, winter
Strained........... - 50 60

60 | Spia.ts Turpentine... 43 48

PAINTS Bbl Lb
Red Venetian........1% 2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars..1% 2@3

Ochre, yellow Ber...1%
Putty, strictly pure. .24% 2%@3
Vermilion prime Am-
13@16
Vermilion, English...
Green, Peninsular... 16Q@17
4 6@6%
Lead, white, strictly c
UNG Bee
i @i0
Whiting, Gilders’.... @90
White, Paris Amer’n 110
ONT A. 148
Pioneer Prepared
Swiss Villa Prepared
Paints: 22. 320:.625., 1 00@1 290
No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Extra Turp.......... 1 J

é 2Q3
Putty, commercial. 214 24%@3
CVICAR fe. es co
QT
Lead, red strictly pur
6@6%
Whiting, white Span 0
Whiting, Paris Eng.
Panta te 1 A@i 40
VARNISHES.
Coach Body.

«

No.1 Turp Furn.....1 00@1 10

Extra Turk Damar..1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1
PBUTD ess ee 70@ %5

PATENT MEDICINES,

WEATHERLY'S

 

 

SUNDRIES.

DEALERS IN

PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,

WE ARE SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

MICHIGAN
CATARRH
REMEDY.

superior.

weakness or otherwise.
Yoars truly,

WM. GRAY, M. D.
Medical Sup’t.

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24, 1888.

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

GENTLEMEN—I think the “Tonic” a splendid
medicine for all forms of Dyspepsia and Indi-
gestion. It is giving me great satisfactiou.

Very respectfully,

J. M. JOHNSON, M. D.

Yardley, Pa., March 18, 188s.

Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

DeAR Sirs—I have given your “Malt Tonic”
a trial in several eases of Enfeebled Digestion
and General Debility, especially in the aged,
where the whole system seems completely
prostrated, with very satisfactory results. I
have used many of the so-called ‘Malt Ex-
tracts,” but believe your preparation to be
3 i In the aged where the digestive
functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of
the nerve vital force, I found its action to be
rapid and permanent.

ELIAS WILDMAN, M.D.

Work-House Hospital,

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co., S
GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of personal inter-
est, Ihave used your “Best” Tonic in several
cases of impaired nutritition. The results in-
dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless,
highly efficacious remedy. 1am,

Very truly yours,
: E. W. FLEMING, M. D.

 

East Genessee Street,
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best” Tonie
with most gratifying results in my case of
dyspepsia. My case was a bad one, 1 had no
appetite; headache in the morning; sour stom-
ach; looking as though I had consumption,
and after taking this tonic I never felt better
in my lite. I think it will cure a bad case of
dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that
case. Wo. O. JAEGER.

322 South Fifth Street,
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28 College Place, N. ¥.,
GENTLEMEN—I have tested: the sample of
“Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and
Hops” you sent me, and find in my humble
judgment that it is a very pure and safe arti-
cle. I will not hesitate to recommend it in
every case of debility where a Tonic of that.
kind is indicated. ’ .
f Respectfully.
E. H. BEL, M. D,

New Orleans, La., April 6, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co.,

GENTLEMEN—Having tried your “Best
Tonic to a great extent amongst my practice,
I will state in its behalf that L have had the
best results with nursing mothers who were
deficient in milk, increasing its fluids and se-
creting a more nourishing food for the infant,
also increasing the appetite and in every way
satisfactory for such cases.

Very respectfully,
D. BORNIO, M D.

4

For Sale By

ee ee Be ; Camphorated.
, (po. 45)... - @ 40 i er oF. eesti cce
aes 80) Pe 3 15@3 25| Auranti Cortex......
Shellac fe 23@ 33 MuUnssia 2
; ‘ HRAtARY .2 2. 2.65.25

secure what is really the genuine article. | country. The Italians pay more respect to
A true skin, if properly cured, is one of the| the commercial aspect of their production,
most useful, and, at the same time, the/and among them the number of olive far-
anost pleasant things to have in our POSS€S- | mers and merchants is very large. They “ bieached..... t
sion; we are, therefore, bound to try and| have a proverb, “If you wish to leave al Tragacanth.......... Ae pe ean
secure one. The best we have used, so far, | competency to your grandchildren, plant an| wrpa—In ounce packages. | ~ « es
are those which resemble the parchment olive.” Doubtless the advice is sound|Absinthium........ . “9! Serpentaria .........
order; there is little or no lint on them, and | enough, for the trees often flourish for more | Eupatorium .........
they seem to be all that ean be desired in than a century, and bear heavy crops to the ee oh .
lifting the water when drying off. A great/last. But to the peasant of south France | Mentha Piperita.....
many use an oiled skin. We prefer the| the olive is almost what the pig is to the “Vir .....-.+-
other, as the oil prevents the chamois from| English laborer. Prudent housewives there
leaving a perfectly dry surface. A chamois | are as averse to the introduction of a new
skin should never be left in the water after | fruit at table as their thrifty English sisters
using, but should be wrung out and hung | are to the “new” loaf. In fact, they habit-
up to dry; spread out carefully so as to| ually preserve the darker berries for every-
leave no wrinkles; neither should it be day use; for these not being so agreeable to Antimoni, po........ 4@ ;
_ used to wipe off color, as we have seen | the taste, ‘‘go” so much further—a neces- oem Fes eee eae "I Sol 0
Some painters do when striping or touching | sary consideration when they-oftener form ‘eiutnitem: ...5 00@5 50| Argenti Nitras, 3...
up; all paint stains not only make great|the staple than the accompaniment of the | Amygdalae, Dulec.... 45@ Arsenicum........... 5@
dard spots on the skin, but help to wear it | meal. Amydalae, Amarae..7 25@7 10) Balm Gilead Bud. ++, 8@.
out sooner. There is another thing that} lives intended for eating are gathered | ADISi---.---.-- +--+ 1 15@1 85| Bismuth 8. N 2 15@2
. : : ‘ d ie z ; Auranti Cortex...... @2 50| Calcium Chlor, 1s, (4s
should be avoided in using chamois, and| while still green, usually in the month of | AUraRt Cortex..-.-- 2 15@3 25| M1: 4s, 12)...
that is wiping the face and hands upon it| September. They are soaked for some Cajiputi 22.12.22... 90@1 00} Cantharides Russian,
when washing them. It was never in-| hours in the strongest possible “lye” to get ae iene Ps ee Aeris ee
tended that it should be used as a towel;| rid of their bitterness, and are afterwards Choanpedd = 2 Otel cannes Fructus, po.. @
there is always more or less soap remaining | allowed to stand for a fortnight in frequent- | Ginnamonii.......... 85 Capsici Fructus,Bpo @
‘on the arms or about the neck that is}ly changed fresh water, in order to be| Citronella .... @ Caryophyllus, (po. 25) 22@
wiped off onto the skin, which clogs it up perfectly purified of the lyé. it only then Sonia Mac......... oo ee Ne. ae re oe
}-and causes it to become greasy. You! remains to preserve them in common salt CGapebae ik WM Corn lava, ee
‘should never put a chamois skin iuto warm|and water, when they are ready for ex-| Exechthitos........... 90@1 00| Goceus ............... @
~water, not at leastin a greater degree than port. Among the Romans the olive held | Erigeron.............1 20@1 30/ Cassia Fructus....... @
Jukewarm; if you do, you will find it will | the privileged position of being equally re- fond eve a ie Pe ices @
all Curl up and become tongh and thick, | spected as a dainty accessory and an ordi- | @omemumy Sai: Chloroform :......" 60@
useless for any purpose to which you may| nary food. It was eaten at the table of the |Helesma 110@1 20| Chloroform, Squibbs @1
wish to put it. Now, if you should finda temperate and the luxurious alike; and, | Jumiperi.............. 2 U0} Chloral Hyd Crst.....1 50@1
‘chamois skin that, to all appearances, has | while dividing the highly flavored dishes of tN ree 4 oor ts| Clchtnding pew ee
become ruined by grease, paint stains, or| their extravagant suppers, formed a con- | Mentha Piper........ 2 25@3 3)| Cinchonidine,Ger’an  8@
has been used as a towel until its original | stituent of Hvrace’s pastorial meal—‘‘Of | Mentha Verid......:.3 00@3 25| Corks, list, dis. per
‘color has been lost, and it looks like a dirty | olive, endive, simple tastes, and mallow.” | Morrhuae, gal...2.". BOI 00) CONE «ee eeee eevee
: ; . . ¢ S r Myreia, 35. 22.-..<.4.-. 50} Creasotum ...........
old rag, and you are on the point of throw: ae a 1 00@2 %5| Creta, (bbl. 75)
Pee) oe ey, 50) 2 mapmcnt, end seo it we ; "| Picis Liquida,(gal.35) 10@ 12] Greta’ prep...0.....1.
-eannot, in a measure, bring it back so as to Minor Drug Notes. Binatone s. 1 18@1 26| Creta, precip........,
get good wear out of it before we finally | From the Druggist. 75@1 00} CretaRubra..........
‘discard it. ©The plan we adopted,| Cases of iodoform poisoning are not in- @B6 00) Crocus ......... ae
when we were so unfortunate as to find one | frequent. The carbonate of sodium is an 2
-of that description, was to take a bucket of | antidote in such cases.
“clean water, making it middling strong with} Iodoform and calomel are incompatible
ammonia, and allow the ‘skin to| when light and heat are brought to bear on
‘Soak in it over night; the next morning we | the mixture. Mercurie iodide is formed.

'_ Yinsed it out in pure water; after that z : be
“we used plenty of leah white castile soap When making emulsions do not use the Theobromas sete eeeeee 1@
r graduate for the water that you measured é
}'-and water. The result was that we secured the oil i nless it has been cleaned j POTASSIUM.
-a very good skin again, and used it for some | “© OU. 10, une : ee. Bi Carb...............
-considerable time, It didn’t take very long| Boric acid, according to Dr. R. G. Eccles,
to do the whole business, probably a quarter | has no value as a disinfectant, but a two | Garp... 222222202222 12@ 15 Fi: Pox cand ae
-of an hour or so. It more than paid for the | Per cent. solution is serviceable as an anti- | Chlorate, (Po. 20)..... 18@ 20 a oe geese ae
-trouble, for it really was a great deal better | Septic. Cyanide ae at ae. a Glycerina....100017. &
than when first used, as it beeame, through | Watch-glasses are used by Professor Potassa, Bitart, pure 37@ 39| Grana Paradisi...... 3
_ ‘that process, what we might call thoroughly | Hemm in weighing out solid extracts. They | Potassa, Bitart,com @ 15 ra ks Mité. ae
.. broken in, that means, free from lint or| are much easier cleaned than the scale pans. ada aoe opt... 70 x Hyarert Chie Cor. ©
, other impurities. Extract of soap is the scientific name for | Prussiate ............ 25@ 28 Bydrers y etapa ees e .
as ee : a mixture of two parts soap, with one part | Sulphate po.......... 1b@ 18] Pycrarg Ammoniati. @
_ & Convenient Blistering Preparation. | each of carbonate and biborate of sodium

Wee. Hydrarg Unguentum 45@ _
Some of our readers may have calls for | (borax).

: Hydrargyrum ....... @ i

see ste teteeee 20@ - Ichthyogolla, Am ....1 25@1 50

“chloral camphor.” It is prepared as fol-| Dr, Maillot (eighty-seven years old) is Boe $0
flows : : pensioned at the rate of $1,200 per annum

 

ELIE & PERKINS [RUG f‘0
yaaa fa PAINTS

We

Whiskies,
Brandies,
Gins,
Wines,
Rums,

Stromonium...,......
POMS 2.05 cc...
Valerian: 2203 oo. s.
Veratrum Veride....

MISCELLANEOUS.
Aither, Spts Nit,3 F.. 26@ 28
Aither, Spts Nit, it F.. 30@ 32
Alumen .:,........... 244@ 3%
Alumen, ground, (p-

O21) ye 3@ 4
ANNAttO, 23, 55@ e

 

 

 

Tanacetum, V.......
Thymus. V....<0- 5.5
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat........
Carbonate, Pat......
Carbonate, K.&M.. 20
Carbonate, Jennings 35@

Write for Sample Cards and Prices.
have Supplied our Trade with this

PP. RP

Brand and it is all the manufacturers

2

claim for it.

We sell iton a GUARANTEE.

Haxeltine & Perkins Drug Go.,

GENERAL AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

3

Weare Sole Agents in Mich-
igan for W. D. & Co., Hender-
son County, hand-made

SOUR MASH WHISKEY.

ad purly “Oud 2 AMOS ‘V a

OL I$ CNS LON wt

PIONEER PREPARED Panwes

Decxnans(R OUP |
rin ota [ap ha

GINSENG ROOT, [500 ker 3c

We pay the highest price for it. Address Peckham/’s Croup Remedy is prepared eg-

PECK BROS ' Wholesale Druggists, pecially for children and is a safe and certain
Ur Nduy «= GRAND RAPIDS. _| cure for Croups, Whooping Cough, Colds and.

all bronchial and pulmonary complaints of
1
Color Works,

 

Ide

T
&

1 iy Newlran ay 3
Angitine & Perkins Tire Go
Hargiine ii tel I ’
" GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

And the YVhoiesate Drnggists of Detroit
and Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

Cupri Sulph...
Dextrine......

 

Ether Suiph..........

Emery, all numbers.

Emery, po............

Ergota, (po.) 75....... 0@
Flake White......... Re
Galla::.. 2.35: ae oder @
Gambier -............ %@
Gelatin, Coopor......

Gelatin, French...... 40@ 60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.

Drggists Favorite Rye Whisky,

 

childhood. For attractive advertising matter
address the proprietor, Dr. H. C, PECKHAM,
Freeport, Mich. Trade supplied by whole-
sale druggists of Grand Rapids, Detroit and
Chicago.

CASH SALE CHECKS.

We Sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes

Idd ONY YONI CHNOWdW! NY MOA BAKA

 

only.

We Give Our Personal Attention tc

Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction i
“ Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of

running book accounts by using Cash Sale
Checks. For sale at 50 cents per 100 by E. A.
STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids.

LUCIUS C. WEST,
Attorney at Patent Law and Soliciter
of American and Foreign patents.

105 E. Main St.,. Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch of- ~
fice, London, Eng. Practice in U. 8. Courts.” Circulars

: = \\¥ fe | ; Ss WanreN’s. Whi Poet
Hazeltine te Se |<. a

Y i — , The best whips in the world, made in all grades. _

” ; i ; : = Buggy, Carriages, Cab, Team, Farm and Expres.

2 Darkine » Vic's
& P erkins a BED-BUG KILLER!

WITHOUT POISON.

“

All Orders are Shipped and Invoiced the

Aq 9u0 19.6 pus “Yorn ‘sp

same day we receive them.

 

SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER.

 

 

“TIVN NIOLT

 

Indigo: oes... ss
Iodine, Resubl.......
. ee i beac

. 4 inine i r upuline ... iouee

on ee 20 parte. for intros Ee ie remeanent of Beano ‘opin ga 0@ 12! Lycopodium ...-11. 7"

Chloral hydrate...... ..... 30.“ : : ener ee. 2). Ecce a

.__» Gantharides....... Se ae 10 * Some of the druggists in Geneva have ee oo poe Sl oie oe Up

| WF The pulverized camphor is mixed with the | combined to purchase goods in a: wholesale | 4'0: e, Aiba, po. fale Pataca Aus ni

chloral hydrate sed panthecidce ie ee. F. until | way and meet the cut rates of competitors. i... Pig es ines Aosta

- fused, the brui eantharides is then ; : : AG, NO). ee 2 i nesia. Sulph. (bbl

_ and the mixture digested at 140 deg. to 158 deg” This Swiss method has been proposed, but Tee ee 30@08).. Moncey Sulph, (bbl
‘F. one hour, with occasional stirring, then | never tried in this country. -| Jalapa, pr..........-. 25@ 30) Mannia,S.F.......... 90@100
oa and preserved in a glass-stoppered Pyridine tricarboxylic acid is recom-| Maranta, \8......... Morphia, S, P. 2 10@2 v5.

a ee a ae mended in gonorrhoea, typhoid fever, blood PaEny sie; BOs os Mere 8. N. Y.Q.
i The Drug Market. - polsoning, phenmonia al a. number ot hei .......... 000... ae Co... oie 2 soe 85
she 45 other diseases. is a crystalline body,} « Myristica, No.1...... 60@ 70
Alcohol was advanced by me aust, pn made by completely oxidizing qvinine with | Spigetia ............ Nux Vomiea, (po. 20) @ 19
‘Saturday 2cents more. The high price of permanganate of potassium. ganemnery (po. 25). Os. Sepia.......... . 27@ 29
-ecormn is given as the reason. Citric acid. . : : on ‘Pepsin Saac, H. & P. ie
ge es Two young men in Russia took prescrip- Smilax, Officinalis, H Pi co Ra ie + . @2 00
. tions toa drug store to be filled. One order oe es ae a eee
Manufacturers of the Ce ebrated

ACME PREPARED PAINTS,

Which for Durability, Elasticity, Beauty
and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed. - :

| called fora harmless mixture and the other | Scillae, (po. 35).......
for a poison. They changed the prepara- Syste: Foe-

H @ No Color, No Smell and No Damage to
tions and sued the druggist, but were de- | _ “dus. P0..........-. : ,
tected in the seoundrelism shogines g Seriaen. :

Bed Clothes or Furniture.
> Retails for 25jcents for large package.
| “Trade supplied through all wholesale drug- ~
Manufacturers. =

sists, or direot by the mk es
ROUSSIN & CO.,

and imprisoned.
1 idea that the |
lose who have

(aNod ‘CuooH Nos

Blum Cee
: 4 Lpecac et opil.
“U1 boxes. H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_ quest of to-day.

es ~~ but their own.”
“My! my! but you’re warm !”
-**Who wouldn’t be? Here is the best
customer I’ve got on the territory just lost
forever !”
_ *How’s that ?”
Well, he sent in for some goods last
“week. ‘The goods fell short, so many in a
package. Of course, he wrote in and com-
| plained and for consolation he received.the
answer: ‘You certainly are mistaken. ‘We
* don’t pack goods short. We have full cen-
: fidence in our packers. Some mistake of
» yours, ? ete. Nice, ain’t it? Called him a
- diar and insinuated that he was a thief. Of
course, he is hot. Next man 1 called on
- has bought of us exclusively for six years.
- Always paid one hundred cents on the
‘ @ollar. Trade is a little quiet just now and
he has been doing a little building and re-
5 ee so, feeling that his buying all of
‘his goods of us warranted him, he asked
- for an extension of thirty days. This is
3 Sele he got: : ‘Our terms are strictly thirty
: days. Your bill is past due now. Please
“remit at once and save further trouble.’ He
is hot, too. Don’t blame hima bit. Oh,
_ life on the road is a bed of roses—in your
mind.” :
“Well, that is bad,” said the man with
specs on. “Of course, these people in the
home office don’t understand the fact that

it’s hard work to sell goods without the |

_ pull-backs such lettersmake. They receive
_ and open a good many orders every day and
- sometimes forget that other houses are only
too willing to grant favors which they re”
fuse. The worst of it is that the traveling
_-man gets the blame from both sides. The
dtrade think he is to blame for the house’s
- refusal to listen to their complaints and the
_ house thinks the salesman to blame because,
_ ~he‘can’t hold bis trade. Nine times out of

_  #en the customer never answers such letters
and, consequently, the house that thinks
‘they have simply written a business letter
- doesn’t know cf the storm that has been

= by) z ‘ es

“Yes,” put in the tall passenger, ‘‘and

_ Bee customers who generally feel so ag-
~ grieved at such letters as these feel that the
- few hundred dollars a year they spend with
a firm is what has made that firm progress.
$0 they feel hot because their trade is not

appreciated. The firm, in a majority of |.

‘eases, don’t ever think of what a customer
‘has bought. They simply look at his re-
If I was the head of a
firm—” : ;

: “Come off!’ said the fat man. ‘‘You
- fellows are one-sided. If you people sat
» aman office year in and year out and re-

_ ceived on an- average ten letters a day

making some ‘fool kick’ about something,

_, or asking for ‘extension of time,’ and knew

that, half of these kicks were from chronic

_ -Kiekers: who lay awake nights studying how

to get arebate, or that you had certain notes

to pay. and had calculated on every bill that
was .due and eoming to you, you, too,
oe got hot under the collar and write
ee: letters: There is too much of this
extension’ business, anyhow. Men, in-
= > tale of laying up money to meet bills with,
, buy this or that, go on excursions, join dig
Secret nocleties and then they get hot be-

‘Of course, some men mean all right and are
eye hard up; but a house must make

r said fothing- ; the man
was doing some figuring in
’s expense book, and the bald-
ding clerk to wile a letter to

| will 8 save you ‘their cost at least

4 three times each year.

~ Ty ow holding forth at

ah Eaton & Co's

77 CANAL ST.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

(

 

WALES - GOODYEAR

—AND—-

GONNEGTIGUY

Rubbers.

Write for fall Prices and Discounts.

G. R. MAYHEW,

86 Monroe Street,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

PLACE to secure a thorough
and useful education is at the
GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) BusI-
NESS COLLEGE.: write for Col-
lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG.

 

They are guaranteed to do
more work in less space (with
less power and less waste)
than any other machines of
their class.

Send for descriptive cata-
logue with testimonials.

Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

OREGON AND WASHINGTON.

 

No section of the country is to-day attracting as
much attention as Montana, Oregon and Washington;
Montana, because it now ranks first in the production
of Seca ere: Oregon, because of its rich val-
leys, and Washington Territory by reason of its

ld climate, timber, coal, minerals and wonderful
production of fruits and: cereals. The rapid growth
of Spokane Falls, with a water power exceeding even
that of. Minneapolis, Tacoma, on Puget Sound, the
terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, with
12,000 inhabitants; Seattle 30 miles distant, an ener-

getic and thriving city, mark this section of the
Pacific Northwest as one that offers peculiar induce-
ments to those seeking new homes.

By writing Chas.S. Fee, General Passenger Agent,
Northern Pacific Railroad, St. Paul, Minn., he wil
send you illustrated pamphlets, maps and books
giving you valuabje information in feference to the
country traversed by this great line from St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluih and Ashland to Portland, Ore-
gon, and Tacoma and Seattle, Washington Territory.
This road. in addition to being the only rail line to
Spokane Falls, Tacoma and Seattle, reaches all the
principal puints in Northern Minnesota and Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, possesses
unequaled scenic atiractions, as well as superior
train equipment, such as dining cars, and colonist
sleepers for the use of intending settlers, neither of
which conveniences are to be found on any other
tine pees business to the States and Territories
name

D. D. COOK,

PROPRIETOR OF THE

Valley City Show Case Factory,

MANUFACTURER OF

SHOW CASES

——AND—

Prescription Cases,

My Prices are Lower than any of My Compet-
itors. Send for Catalogues.

 

21 Scribner Street, Grand Rapids.
TELEPHONE 374.

 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

COAL and WOOD.

E. A. HAMILTON, Agt.,
101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block.

Telephone 909—1 R.

 

 

eft FROM WATER + FREE Froy

OIREC TIONS
We have cooked the corn in this can

sufficiently.

Should be Thoroughly i

Warmed (not cooked) adding piece of
Good Butter (size of hen’segg) and gill
of fresh mi referable to

water.)

iN Season to suit when on the table. None
ir genuine unless bearing the signature of

Davenport Cannirg Qo,
Davenport, Ia.

 

BSS & McGURDY,

Importers and Manufackvrers’ Agents.

DEALERS IN

fassWalt,

| Fanny Bonds ff all ecu:

"ROTEL AN D STEAMBOAT GOODS,

| Bra a Library Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Rte.,
73 and % J efferson n Ave, :

 

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF
And Heavy Jobbers In .

Oranges, ‘Lemons,
BANANAS, NUTS.

Dates, Figs,

Citrons, Prunells, Ete,

PRICES QUOTED AND CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

13, 15, 17 South Ionia Street,
13, 15, 17 Railroad Place

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

ARTHUR MEIGS & GU,

17, 79, 81, and 83 South Division Street,

GRAND RAPL

 

DS, MICH.

(Gs One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street.

 

WHOLESALE GROCERS.

IMPORTERS OF

JOBBERS OF

Tobacco and Cigars.

SHIPPERS OF

VEGETABLES, FRUITS and PRODUCE.

PROPRIETORS OF THE

Rep Fox PLue TOBACCO.

AGENCY OF

Boss Tobacco Pail “Cover.

Full and Complete Line of FIXTURES and STORE FUR-

NITURE.

Largest STOCK and greatest VARIETY of any House in

City.

t LOOK UP OUR RECORD.

 

 

“NO -MORE SCHEMES.”

Red Star Baking Powder

SOLD AT ACTUAL VALUE

14 lb Cans
1g Ib Cans

Sold only in cans.

45 per dozen; - -
85 per dozen; 5
1 lb Cans 1.50 per dozen;

Retail 5 cents
Retail 10 cents
Retail 20 cents

QUALITY GUARANTEED,

- Aron MANUFACTURING
GRAND RAPIDS,

COMPAR,

38 and 40 Louis Street,

eee

a Orger : a ‘Sam-

 

HARK |

7

Wholesale Grocers,

\

HANDLE EVERYTHING IN THE PROVISION LINE.

 

Pork, Beef, Lard, Hams, Shoul-
ders, Bacon, Sausage, Pigs’
Feet, Canned Beef; Lunch
Tongue, Potted Ham, etc.

 

1. RONARD & SONS,

134 to 140 Fulton St, GRAND RAPIDS.

The “QUICK MEAL

Gasoline Stove.

SIMPLEST! SAFEST! BEST!

 

 

The “QUICK MEAL” is now the most popular Stove
made. Qne-fifth of all the Gasoline Stoves sold last year in.
the entire United States were of this incomparable stove.

BECAUSE
BECAUSE
BECAUSE

 

TIE PEOPLE LIKE IT

It is so Simple a child can understand it. The arr angement of the
Levers for Opening the Valves can be found on no other stove, and the
frame is so worded that no mistake can be made in opening or closing.

It is so absolutely safe that we have yet te hear of the first accident
from its use, and it is almost the only stove made that ABSOLUTELY
CLOSES THE VALVES and TOTALLY EXTINGUISHES THE
FLAMES while being filled.
It has more than every advantage claimed by any other stove, all sim-
ilar stoves being only attempts at imitation of the “QUICK MEAL’
which has jumped into popular favor, in such a surprising manner
solely on account of its honest merit.

PRICES

Are as low as any, ranging from $3 for Single Burners to $20 each for the larger burners, sub-
ject to regular trade discount. Ifthe “QUICK MEAL” is not sold in your town, write.to us
for Catalogue and prices.

 

P. STERETEE & SUMS,

JOBBERS IN

Peerless: Carpet Warps: send, Geese Feathers
. American and a a aed,

AND NOTIONS,

83 Monroe St.

AND * 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET,

GRAND aa MICH.

Ah Spey