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WEAK IN THE UPPER STORY.

Mr. James Martin had been a prosperous
New York dry goods merchant in his day,
but at the age of fifty-five he encountered a
succession of misfortunes which ultimately
landed him in a state of bankruptcy.
When that crisis was past he went to live

in a small house in Brooklyn with his wife,.

his younger son, Silas, and one servant.
Not long after his wife died, and this last
blow reduced the old man to a complete
wreck. He became childish and lost his
memory so completely that he had no recol-
lection of ordinary events from day to day,
which was, perhaps, a merciful dispensa-
tion of Providence after all.

Silas Martin was now the master of the
house, although the house itself belonged to
the father, having been purchased with
some money belonging to Mrs. Martin.
Silas was a stock broker in a small way of
business, which might have been larger if
Silas himself had been fonder of work, and
had combined a little niore greediness for

the commissions of clients with a little less

faith in grand speculative coups on his own
account. He was addicted te grumbling at
the hardships of his lot, and more partic-
ularly at the burden of keeping ‘‘the old
man,” as he called his father. This, how-
ever, was as unreasonable as it was undu-
tiful, for not only was Silas living rent free
in his father’s house, but old Mr. Martin’s
maintenance was fully provided for by the
elder son, Alfred. Alfred, in his father’s
palmy days, had been put into the ministry.
He was now pastor of a small parish in the
western part of New. York State on the
princely stipend of $800 a year, out of
which he contributed $200 yearly to his
father’s support—quite ehough to leavea
margin of profit for Silas. If any one,
therefore, had reason to grumble at the pro-
longation of the father’s life, it was Alfred.
It must be mentioned, however, that there
was one small expectation for both the sons
upon the father’s death. James Martin’s
life had been insured in better days for
$10,000, and the premiums upon the policy
had been kept up by the joint contributions
of the two young men. But Mr. Martin
showed no immediate likelihood of enabling
his sons to realize on this investment. Since
the breakdown of his mind his bodily health
had much improved, as not infrequently

happens in such cases, and his mental in-|

capacity was not of a kind towause anxiety.
There had been at one time a question be-
tween the brothers about providing him
with an attendant, but Silas was opposed to
unnecessary expense, and pointed out that
the old gentleman never left the house un-
less by invitation, and that, while within
doors, he was perfectly under the control of
those about him, including even the one
maidservant of the establishment—a trust-
worthy young woman who had been with
the family for some years. The truth was
that the old gentleman was so submissive
that, if so ordered, he would remain in one
room for hours together, and under these
circumstances it really seemed that Silas
and the maid were quite capable of looking
afterhim. This idea, however, turned out
to be erroneous.

The Rev. Alfred Martin did not often
visit Brooklyn, but when he did so he
always endeavored to spend a day with his
father. On such occasions he would gen-
erally take the old gentleman out with him
for the day, professing to think that he was
too much confined to the house. One day,
about the middle of October, Silas Martin
informed the maid-servant that his brother
was coming to town, and added that, if
Alfred should take his father out, as he
sometimes did, she had better take a day’s
holiday.

In due time, the Rey. Alfred arrived and,
after spending a night at the house, he said
that he would take his father out for an ex-
cursion down the bay for the day. The
maid was accordingly informed that she
could have her promised holiday. Then,
however, a difficulty arose. The girl wished
to go some distance and could not be back
before 8 o’clock in theevening. Alfred, on
the other hand, had no intention of keep-
ing his father out until that hour and, besides
this, he had to return home that night, for
which purpose he must leave at about 7
o’clock. Who, then, was te take charge of
old Mr. Martin in the interval ?

‘‘] dare say 1 can get home,” said Silas.
‘““What time will you return ?”

‘“That depends on father. Notlater than
5 o’clock in any ease. As I have to be at
the depot by 7, I shall leave here before
5:30.”

‘I think I can manage to be back by that
time,” said Silas, ‘and. there is no harm in
leaving the governor for half an hour by
himself. If Iam not here when you re-
turn put him into that arm-chair, give him

his. pipe, and tell him in your most im-
: pressive voice that. he is not 2 stir on 2 NOY

the Central Police Station and asked for as-
sistance. He made, at the same time, a
statement from which, in addition to the
above facts, it appeared that in consequence
of business unexpectedly detaining him in
town, he had not reached home until close
upon 7 o’clock. He then found no trace of
his father or of his brother, and, after wait-
ing for the return of the servant and mak-
ing inquiries about the neighborhood, he
had come to the conclusion that, on being
left alone, his father had, for the first time
on record, taken it into his head to go out
by himself, and had either lost himself or
met with some worse mischance.

Subsequent events confirmed the latter
theory. The Rev. Alfred Martin, on being
communicated with by telegraph next day,
replied that he had left his father at home
in his chair at 5:15 on the previous evening.
On the same day Mr. Martin’s hat was
found near one of the ferries. A day or
two later a walking stick, which had cer-
tainly belonged to him, was picked up <in
the river. The police continued the hue
and cry with unabated vigor, but after
these discoveries only one theory of the old
gentleman’s disappearance seemed tenable.
There was no motive to suggest his having
met with foul play. He had neither the means
nor the strength to have traveled to any dis-
tance. The conclusion seemed inevitable
that he had strayed out for some purpose—
perhaps for no other reason than that his
day’s outing had unduly excited him—and
had somehow fallen into the river. It was
a considerable time, however, before the
discovery of the body put the old man’s fate
beyond question. During the interval, Silas
Martin was more than once summoned to
different points up and down the river for
the purpose of inspecting the ghastly human
floatsam and jetsam of the river, but with-
out result. Four weeks had nearly elapsed
when he received information that the body
of an elderly man had been found, the linen
on which appeared to have been marked
with an ‘“‘M.” The features were all but
unrecognizable, but, after such inspection as
was possible, Silas without hesitation pro-
nounced the remains to be those of his
father.

The inquest which followed, and which
was, of course, held in New York City,
added only one additional fact to those
above stated. The medical evidence showed
that there was a severe contusion on the
head, which had probably been caused be-
fore death, and the doctor was strongly of
the opinion that the deceased had been
stunned by this blow and then thrown into
the river. There was nothing, however, to
point to a definite conclusion, and after
hearing the evidence of the Rev. Alfred
Martin and his brother as to the mental
condition of the deceased, the jury re-
turned a verdict of ‘‘Found Drowned.” A
certificate of this verdict, together with
other documents relating to the death, was
subsequently lodged by the Rev. Alfred
Martin, as administrator of the deceased,
with the insurance company in whose office
the insurance on James Martin’s life had
been effected. |

About a week after this was done, Mr.
Morrow, the manager of the insurance
company, was shown into the office of Mr.
George Robbins, the company’s solicitor.

‘*Well,” he said, ‘‘any result from the in-
quiries in Martin’s case ?”

“Yes, a little,” replied Mr. Robbins; ‘‘but
I am afraid nothing that is of much use to
us at present.”

‘*Is it not a case of suicide ?”

“Judge for yourself. You remember
that at the inquest the Rev. Alfred Martin
stated that he returned with his father
‘about 5,’ and left a quarter of an hour later
in order to catch the 5:35 train west?”

a do. ”?

‘Very well. Now, I have ascertained
that Alfred and the deceased took a car-
riage not long before 4 p. m., but were only
driven as far as the Broadway ferry, where,
at their own request, they were put down.
Ihave found the hackman, who says that
he set them down about 4:30, and saw them
walk away eastward. We have also got
hold of an old woman who saw them near
Houston street ferry, but whether below or
above she cannot state, walking up First
street. She says it was within a few min-
utes of 5 o’clock, and just getting dusk.
On that day, October 18, the sun, you will
find, set at 4:57. Now, it is not impossible,
of course, that Alfred Martin may have
been up First street about 5 o’clock, and yet
have afterward caught the 5:35 train; but to
my mind this evidence throws grave doubt
on his story. Remember, we have only
Alfred Martin’s word for it that the de-
ceased ever went homeat all. On the other
hand, there is astrong presumption that
seme time after 5 o’clock that night he
found his way into the river, having been,
Ropanine to the medical eatniony, knocked

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sequently stated,
| Little came down stairs one morning with

e| his hat and overcoat 0 on. and evinced the

 

very convenient means of squeezing the
truth out of them.”

‘*Then what do you advise ?”

**Put all our information into the hands
of the police. We shall never prove suicide,
and if it be a case of murder, that does not
help the office. Itis, therefore, not worth
the company’s while to spend money on
further inquiries. On the other hand, if
there be any fraud in the case, the truth will
very Soon come out when one or the other
of these gentlemen is arrested on a charge
of murder, which I expect we shall see be-
fore another week is over.”

In this last conjecture Mr. Robbins was
not mistaken—he very seldom was about
such matters. Within four or five days
from the time when he forwarded his in-
formation to Chief Byrne, the Rev. Alfred
Martin was in custody, charged with mur-
dering his father.

When he appeared before the magistrate,
the facts detailed by Mr. Robbins were
supplemented by a piece of evidence of the
most damning character. A tramp named
Higgs was called, and he deposed to having
seen the deceased, whom he knew well by
sight, in company with another man, on
First street, between Houston and Green
Point Ferry, some time after dark; to hav-
ing overheard something like an altercation,
the old man apparently refusing to go on
and the young one threatening to chuck
him into the river if he were troublesome,
and, finally, to having heard loud cries after
he had passed. Higgs did not attempt to
identify the prisoner, but he was sure that
the man with the deceased was in a black
coat and closely resembled the prisoner in
height and figure. With regard to the time
he was uncertain; but it was clear from his
statements that it must have been within
five minutes on either side of a quarter to 6.
This left time, as the prosecution showed,
for the prisoner to catch the 7:10 down train
from New York west. On this evidence
the magistrate, without hesitation, commit-
ted the prisoner for trial.

Only one other piece of evidence was ad-
duced when the trial came off, but it had
an important bearing on the issue. It ap-
peared that when he had left college four or
five years previous, the prisoner was very
mueh in debt; that he had lately been
threatened with summary proceedings by
some of his creditors, and that on the day
of his arrival in town he had been to an ad-
vertising money lender to endeavor to raise
money on his small expectations from his
father. In this he had been unsuccessful.
Here, then, as counsel for the People did
not fail to point out at the trial, was a suf-
ficient explanation of the motive for the
diabolical act. For the defense, every at-
tempt possible was made to prove an alibi,
but none of the witnesses who thought that
they had seen the prisoner elsewhere were
positive about the time; and in the face of
the admitted fact that the prisoner had gone
over to and left New York on that night,
their evidence came to nothing. The judge,
who, unfortunately for Alfred Martin, hap-
pened to have areputation for hanging, of
which he was not a little proud, put it to
the jury that their verdict must practically
depend upon the weight they attached to
Higgs’ evidence, which was not only con-
sistent with all the evidence as to the pris-
oner’s previous movements, but was
strongly corroborated by the witness’s iden-
tification of the deceased. There could, in
fact, said his Honor, be no reasonable doubt
that Higgs had seen the deceased on First
street in company with some man who was
threatening him with violence. The only
question was whether that man was the
prisoner, in whose company the deceased
was proved to have been up to half an hour
previous, or somebody else whom no at-
tempt had been made to identify, and who
had no conceivable motive for the crime.
The jury naturally preferred the former
alternative, and returned a verdict of
“Guilty.”

* * *¥ * % * *

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were much pleased
with their lodger, Mr. Little, although they
felt rather sorry for the old gentleman, too.
It was very sad to see him sitting in his
room all day looking at the pictures or
gazing out of the window with that blank
expression on his face. But, on the other
hand, young Mr. Little paid Mrs. Jones an
extra stipend per week for keeping an eye
on the old gentleman and had also paid
several weeks’ board in advance. Moreover,
so far from requiring extra attention, Mr.
Little gave no trouble at all but did what-
ever he was told to do, and would never
even have asked for his meals if they had
not been forthcoming. That was why Mr.
and Mrs. Jones were so pleased with their
boarder. _

It, therefore, gave Mrs. Jones, as she sub-
“quite a turn” when Mr.

 

young Mr. Little had always repeat
instructions. It was, in fact, his intention
to take his father away to a quiet. resi

in the country as soon as he had co:
certain business which he had on hand.

Mrs. Jones accordingly placed. herself
before the door and explained to Mr. Little:
that he could not leave the premises at
present. =

‘*Please—please, ” stammered the old
tleman, in what was for him rather an ex-
cited tone, ‘can’t wait—my son‘ Alfred:
look!” He drew a newspaper from «his
pocket and pointed to something in it.’ 4 On
the pretense of looking at it, Mrs. Jones:
drew him into the parlor, where she saw
that it was a morning paper which he had —
somehow got hold of, and that he was
pointing to the report of the first day’s pro-
ceedings in the trial of the Rev. Alfred
Martin. As she read the passage
over to humor him, the old man kept on re-
peating, ‘“‘“My son Alfred—murder me?—
no, no—not Alfred. Mustn’t hang Alfred.”

Now, in the dining room with the door |
open between him and the parlor, sat Mrs:
Jones’ husband taking his breakfast, for he.
was a compositor in the office of a daily
paper and a late riser. Mr. Little’s utter-
ances made a deep impression on Mr. Jones.
He was a man of considerable intelligencé,
and, moreover, knew all the facts in the -
Martin case by heart, having been engaged
on the previous day in setting up in type a.
report of the trial.

‘‘He’s got some delusion in his head about
this trial,” said Mrs. Jones.

‘‘Not so sure about that,” replied. her. .
husband. ‘‘He never had one before. Ask —
him what he wants to do.”

Mrs. Jones did so. Mr. Little ‘smiled
feebly and said, ‘‘Going to. see Alfred—
mustn’t hang my son Alfred.” __

“What is your name, sir?” asked Mr.
Jones, in a loud tone.

“James Martin,” was the prompt Tes =
sponse.

‘*Precious queer delusion,” observed - Mr.
Jones. ‘‘Look here, Mr. Martin, how Oe
you come here ?” :

The old man passed his hand across his’
forehead and looked helplessly around him.
*“My son Alfred,” he said; then he paused ~
and shook his head. Presently he went on
in a rambling fashion: ‘‘Went out with
Alfred—Silas changed my clothes—close by —
the river—Silas pushed me intoa train—
no, no! Mustn’t hang Alfred !”

‘“There’s something in this,” said Mr.
Jones, decisively. ‘‘He couldn’t have got
all this out of a newspaper. How do we
know that this old boy isn’t James Martin, —
as he says? He was brought here on the ©
very night’ Martin disappeared. He had
nothing about him to show his name, you
remember. Young Little bought him new:
linen and told you to mark it. James
Martin was weak in his head; so ishe. The
name of James Martin’s second son is Silas;
and don’t he call young Little, ‘Silas 2? Put
on your things, Sally, and come around
with me to the police. They will havea
description of old Martin and will very
soon tell us what to do. Look sharp! They
may be sentencing that poor devil ® death
this minute.”

*£ * * * ae eae

It was a more than usually painful
moment when the jury gave their verdict.
Close under the dock sat the presiding elder "
of Alfred Martin’s district, who had. stood:
by him with touching faith and . whose
daughter was reported to be engaged to the
prisoner. He rose as the verdict was given
as though to comfort the unhappy man in
the box. Just beside him was Silas Martin,.
who had been one of the principal witnes:
against his brother. His position and the
emotion he displayed while giving his evi-
dence excited much commiseration. —
had grown deadly pale when the jury
turned, and when the verdict was given h
buried ‘his face in his hands. ; .

The judge, in the usual form, asked :
prisoner whether he had anything to sa
At that moment there was some stir. an
confusion in the center of the court, “two
three persons, escorted by a policeman, ;
pushing their way toward the solicitor for
the defense. The prisoner saw them and
a great change came over hisface.  .

“Only this, your Honor,” he said, ‘point
ing to where Mr. Little stood. between Mr.
and Mrs. Jones, “‘that there stands J
Martin, my father, whom I am agus -
murdering.” ‘

* * oe Hot ie oy

At the next session of the same 4
another member of the Martin. famil
in the dock. It was Silas this time, :
was indicted for perjury and for atte
to obtain money from the insurance
pany by false pretenses. He was.
guilty on both indictments and sentene
seven years at hard labor: for the: { firs
fense and five for the second, the. judg
serving that if he had the power
heavier sentence he should ha
pleased to exercise it. In this
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URRENT COMMENT.
The TRADESMAN.
-of the fact that whatever affects
‘and money affects trade, it will not be
d out of place at the present time
why the business of our country is
ably depressed during the years of a
ential campaign. Such, I believe,
in admitted fact. If it causes a loss of
e nce in various stocks and securities,
ay, in part, account for the stringency
‘the money market; and whenever money
igh, or not easily’obtained, the entire
kets of the country are. injuriously af-
ted, agriculture receives a check, and a
on of inactivity in all departments of
and commerce prevails. And after
President-elect has taken his seat, then
comes another year of anxiety, while thou-
sands of partisan removals and appoint-
its are being made.
Thus, out of every four years, we have
nly two in which the wheels of business
ve smoothly and regularly in their nor-
‘mal conditions. It is believed by many
hat the best interests of the country would
be better served by an eight or, still better,
a twelve years’ term of the office of Pres-
ident; and. evils arising—if any—by such
ehange could be more easily borne and com-
batted than under the present law. Still,
ust how or by what means such change
could be made, with the numerous aspir-
ants for that high and honorable position
always in Congress, is a leading question.
The lottery of opportunities would be ma-
terially lessened, and few indeed now living
eould expect under such a regime to preside
s the chief of this nation. But with our
present form of government, and laying
aside all individual aspirations, I press the
uestion—would it not be for the highest
interests of the people thatthe presidential

term of office be at least twelve years ?
*

Now and then the question is asked,
y are farming lands held at from one

to two hundred and fifty dollars an acre in
ome of the older states; for example, New
York and Pennsylvania, while in Michigan
they are so comparatively low in price? I
eannot answer. A few persons plead richer
lands ‘and better markets in the states
named. They cannot plead a better ‘or
more bealthful climate, better society or
privileges. The lands in the States named
are kept under a high state of cultivation
only at great, expense in order that they
may be made to pay interest and, if possi-
dle, a profit on the investment. Ours are
not worn-out lands, although for many pur-
poses they were never originally as produc-
tive, but by a proper system of fertilizing
may be vastly improved. The commercial
value of. agricultural land does not depend
upon its ability to produce a crop of every-
thing planted upon it, but, like a master
workman, the ability to produce one thing
ell! If a portion of our Michigan lands
will. not grow corn or wheat, they are
adapted to other crops, and more money
ill be made from such cultivation. The
f Michigan possesses greater resources
money making—particularly for the
man—than many other states in the

m. We have more harvests and better

ets for our products than three-fourths

sf all the other states. The great metropo-
lis of Chicago in many respects equals as a
‘market any city on this continent. We
have our harvests of wool, wheat, small
nits, autumn fruits, from the finest
hes produced to apples which few
ries in the world can equal; harvests
firewood, lumber, salt, oil, and

1r-people than does any.one of our
ses. the same number of

! ee on upon them
er similar products. If, then, the
New beaue pees Pennsylvania are

| Raguel.
|market. — }
I. M. Clark & Son have. shipped a. a com-

| plete grocery. stock to the Town Line Lum-

ber Co., of Lakeview.

’ Walter H. McConnell has pend a new
grocery store at Cedar Springs. L M.
Clark & Son furnished the stock.

C. B. Moon has put in a grocery stock at
Pine Lake, near Cedar Springs. I. M.
Clark & Son furnished the stock.

The Grand Rapids School Furniture Co.
will get up steam in the new boilers for the
first time on Thursday of this week.

McAllister & Co. have engaged in the
grocery business at Hersey. Bulkley,
Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

Wm. H. Tibbs has purchased of Geo. D.
Sisson seven lots on Carpenter’s second ad-
dition for $2,200. The sale was made by
Rust & Edwards.

E. J. Roys has put ina supply store in
connection with his shingle mill at Lake
George, near Lakeview. I. M. Clark & Son
furnished the stock.

A. J. Dayton, formerly engaged in the
drug business at Petoskey, has opened a
drug store at 671 Wealthy avenue. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished
the stock.

C. H. Joldersma, whose store and general
stock at Jamestown were recently destroyed
by fire, and who had arranged to open
another store there, is considering the pro-
ject of establishing himself in the wood
and coal business here.

Geo. H. Gildersleeve has retired from
the real estate firm of Rust, Edwards &
Co., and the firm will hereafter be known
as Rust & Edwards, with headquarters at
the same place as before. Mr. Gildersleeve
has formed a copartnership with Chas. E.
Herrington, and the two ‘have engaged in
the same business under the style of Gilder-
sleeve & Herrington.

The sale of the Curtis & Dunton paper
stock to Julius Houseman has not yet been
confirmed by the court, but will probably
come up before Judge Montgomery to-day.
A differenee of opinion has arisen between
the purchaser and the assignee as to the
ownership of about $3,000 worth of com-
mercial paper lying in the Fourth National
Bank, the payment of which is secured by
a mortgage on the stock.

It is stated, on authority deemed indis-
putable, that the D., G. H. & M. Railway
will construct about two miles of road from
a point near Saddle Bag swamp to connect
with the Reed’s Lake branch of the D., L.
& N. Railway and thus run its trains into the
Union depot, returning to its main track at
the D. & M. Junction via the C. & W. M.
Railway. It is stated that such concession
on the part of the D., L. & N. Railway is
offset by an arrangement which enables the
D., L. & N. to run into the Grand Trunk
depot at Detroit.

AROUND THE STATE.

Lowell—J. L. Hudson has opened a dry
goods store.

Mecosta—M. Carman is closing out his
general stock.

Hesperia—D. Hoffman & Co. have opened
a new grocery store.

Reed City—White & Co. succeed HE. R.
White in the drug business.

Big Rapids—A. J. Sehm has opened a
confectionery establishment.

Bronson—Twist & Eldred have sold their
hardware stock te F. M. Rudd.

Pontiac—Darius H. Elliott succeeds J. WwW.
Ogle, Jr., in the furniture business.

Pontiac—G. W. Alexander & Co. are
closing out their hardware business.

‘West Branch—John Thrasher succeeds
Prien & Son in the butchering business.

Camden—D. G. Smith succeeds J. C.
Bradley & Co. in the drug and grocery bus-
iness.

Berlin — Oscar Monroe succeeds his
brother, Stanley Monroe, in the grocery
business.

Detroit — Herman Endriss succeeds
Tucker & Endriss in the wholesale liquor
business.

Ionia—T. B. Preston & Co. have closed
out their jobbing grocery stock and retired
from business.

Harrison—J. H. Canfield has. purchased
R. D. Curtis’ interest in the neue business
of Curtis & Co.

Big Rapids—F. Dodge is closing cout his
general stock, J. K. Sharpe taking possession

2 ‘tof the store and running the same in con-.
8. peter wae his present business.

The 2 tock was purchased at this

 

“Gharib Donovan & a suc-
ceed Donovan, Maurey & Co. in the furni-

| ture and undertaking business.

Hopkins Station—C. E. Woolfinger has
purchased © the Reynolds drug stock, at
Lyons, and has removed it to this place.

-Remus—Horton Bros have dissolved,

E. T. buying D.’s interest. The latter has
opened a grocery and the former continues
a general store.
- Muskegon—James Frazer has retired
from the drug firm of Fred. Brundage &
Co. The business will be continued by the
remaining partner.

Muskegon—J. R. Bennett, formerly en-
gaged ‘in the drug business here, but
for the past two years engaged in the same
business at Menominee, will re-engage in
the business here the latter part of July.

Battle Creek—J. M. Galloup has formed
a copartnership with his son, Wm. Galloup,
and purchased the jewelry stock of W. L.
Hollister, at 6 East Main street. The new
firm will be known as J. M. Galloup & Son.

Ionia—E. D. Welch has purchased the
grocery stock of Dye & Welch and will
continue the business. Mr. Dye has pur-
chased a half interest in John H. Welch’s
grocery store and meat market. The new
firm will be known as J. H. Welch & Co.

STRAY FACTS.

Detroit—Geo. W. Robinson & Co. have

opened a wholesale lumber yard at Huron,
Ohio.

Hersey—C. N. Leach & Co. have traded
their general stock with John Sweet for the
Hersey House property.

Hesperia—Myron Stark has closed his
meat market until fall, leaving Ames & Co.
alone in the field in the meantime.

Charlevoix—Perry Weed, who has sold
his drug and stationery stock, will establish
himself in business at Edgeley, Dak.

Detreit—The Gem Vapor Gas Stove Co.
has been organized, with a capital stock of
$25,000,, one-quarter of which is paid in.

Bear Lake—The Hopkins Manufacturing
Co., which failed about six months ago, is
offering a compromise of twenty per cent.
in full settlement. The business comprises
a general store and sawmill.

Detroit—The Detroit Paper Novelty Co.
has been organized with a capital stock of
$10,000—30 per cent. paid in—to engage in
the manufacture of paper pails, ice cream
holders, berry packages, etc.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

West Harrisville—Luther & Falkartz, of
Alpena, will erect a sawmill here.

Lowell—Nearly enough stock has been
subscribed to warrant the establishment of
a canning factory.

Detroit—Flavian L. Brooke, Aaron Men-
delson and Eugene H. Hill have incor-
porated the Globe Hosiery Mill, with a cap-
ital stock of $500.

Manton—J. B. Millard, late of. Niles, has
purchased the stave mill of Millard & Rich-
ards and will continue the business under
thestyle of J. B. Millard & Co:

Constantine—The Empire Furniture Co.
will erect a one-story factory building, 36x
120 feet in dimensions, making the fourth
structure of that kind used by the corpora-
tion.

West Bay City—F. W. Wheeler offers to
invest $200,000 in a new plant at his ship-
yard if the city authorities will relieve him
of acertain amount of taxation for a cer-
tain number of years.

Owosso—A. stock company with a cap-
ital stock of $1,000,000 has been organized
to manufacture the Steven patent car axle
oiler. J..W. Begole, of Flint, is President
of the corporation and Arthur Steven Sec-

retary.
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Drowning of a Butcher.

The recent drowning of Geo. Walz, the
Marshall butcher, in the Kalamazoo river,
was attended ‘by rather peculiar circum-
stances. Walz, together with another
butcher, was doing some work at a slaugh-
ter house two:miles out. from Marshall, and,
to add spice to their labors, had set a line of
fish-hooks acrosstheriver. Finding a large
fish had been hooked, Walz removed his
clothing and swam out to capture the prize,
but in his: efforts to dislodge it he became
entangled.in the lines and four of the hooks
caught in‘his ‘feet, holding him fast. His
companion threw boards into the water and
finally disrobed and plunged in to his as-
sistance, but was unable. to extricate him.
The unfortunate young man -clung ‘to the
boards. until he was exhausted and. then
went down, his body. being. recovered in
eighteen fest ot water. —

- An Expert Attorney..

Client to lawyer—I am afraid the phy-
sician’s evidence will convict me.

Lawyer, reassuringly—Don’t - be alarmed
about that. I’ll read up’a little about poison
in-the stomach, and-in ten-minutes Tl have

1 cold, sweat, and make the
ury think he’s a hired perjurer.

 

ub” Baker’ ‘has “purchased the hand

_ | some new residence at 4 Gilbert. street and
-will take possession of same on Friday.

Thos. A. Hazlett is now working the
Upper Peninsula trade for H. H. Freedman
& Co., the Reed City cigar manufacturers.

J. L. Strelitsky is now on the road for
the cigar department of Franklin Mac-
Veagh & Co., covering the same territory as
formerly.

Geo. F. Owen has returned from Minne-
apolis, whither he went to attend the annual
convention of the T, P. A. He reports an
enjoyable time and says that substantial
progress in the betterment of existing con-
ditions was made by the gathering.

T. G. Selleck, formerly engaged in the
hardware business at Rockford, is now on
the road for the Waddell Manufacturing
Co., covering the entire country. He
started out Monday for a ten days’ run
through Michigan, when he will begin on
an extended trip through the Eastern States.

Olney, Shields & Co. received a telegram
Monday noon, asking them to notify J. N.
Bradford that his son, Ray, had just acci-
dentally killed himself at Ravenna. No
particulars concerning the accident were
received up to the time of going to press.
The sympathy of thousands will go out to
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford in their bereave-

ment.
—————__—>_4——___—_

Purely Personal.

John Giles, the Lowell grocer, was in
town one day last week.

Frank E. Leonard spent a couple of days
at Orchard Lake last week.

H. H. Freedman, the Reed City cigar
manufacturer, was in the city last Thursday.

O. A. Ball and Oscar D. Fisher put in
two or three days at the Chicago convention
last week.

John Snitseler has purchased a lot on the
south side of Black Lake and is building a
pleasant summer cottage on the water
front.

John G. Shields, while fishing for white
bass at Macatawa last Friday, pulled a fish
into his boat weighing about ten pounds.
He thought it was a muskallonge—but it
wasn’t.

Frank E. Pickett, proprietor of the Cold
Spring cheese factory, at Hilliards, was in
town last Friday. He says he is now in re-
ceipt of 13,000 pounds of milk daily and is
turning out twenty-nine cheese per day.

John E. Thurkow, the Morley general
dealer, is about as tall a man as ever comes
to this market, but it comes to THE
TRADESMAN pretty direct that he has
grown at least a foot taller since the advent

of a son and heir at his house.
—_»>e¢ 2
A Thrifty Parson.

From the Northwestern; Lumberman.. :

The New England Furniture Co., of
Grand Rapids, has just had an interesting
experience with a rural preacher. Last
fall the company received a letter from a
minister living in Cheboygan, containing a
proposition to act asits agent in the pur-
chase of hard-wood logs, as he represented
that he had ample opportunity for selecting
good timber. The proposition was accepted
and the dominie was to contract for the
logs and forward to the company a state-
ment of the measurement, when a draft
would be forwarded. After the first lot of
timber had been purchased, a member of
the company visited the locality and found
everything regular. Further purchases
were made, and finally the diabemients ot
stock contracted for poured in upon the
concern to an extent that led it to believe it
was securing a large stock. A member was
sent to investigate. He found a few logs
only, but the preacher frankly pleaded
guilty to the soft impeachment that he had
only purchased one lot, but had sent in
fictitious statements in order to relieve his
temporary embarrassment. The preacher,
of course, admitted that he was guilty of
embezzlement, but pleaded his case so
earnestly that the concern let him off in
consideration of his turning over a saw-
mill and some other property to liquidate
the shortage. The next thing the company
learned was the news last week that the
mill and a lot of lumber had been destroyed
by fire. The preaclrer may have been suc-
cessful in obtaining a full stock of souls,
but as a lumber dealer his methods are
hardly commendable.

ccna A
Salaries Cut Down.

Wm. Ziegler gained his point in his suit
against the Royal Baking Powder Co.
Judge Cullen decided that the salaries of
the President, Vice-President and Treas-
urer must be cut down as follows: J. C.
Hoagland from $50,000 to $15,000; Dr.
Hoagland from $30,000 to $10,000, and
Raymond Hoagland from $6,000 to $4,000.

—— Oa
R. J. Williamson has been elected Cash-
ier of the Kalamazoo Savings Bank, vice
J. R. Monroe, deceased. Fred. G. Dewey
takes the position of Assistant Cashier.

—_—_—_— >_> __—_—_
Merchants should remember that the cele-
brated ‘‘Crescent,” ‘‘White Rose” and
‘‘Royal Patent” brands of flour are manu-
factured and sold only by the Voigt Mill-

 

over into the next seat ant i let down an open

window, notwithatanding the cutting. glance

of the lady occupant thereof.

“Laughing at a funny snap that took
place last week. I was at Benton Harbor,
and behind time, so I worked late. I got
through about 10 o’clock, and the last par-
ties I called on gave me an ‘order for ten
sacks of potatoes to be shipped p. d. q. It
is quite a distance from the hotel to the
depot, so I telephoned to the operator as
follows :

***Rowe & Horton. Ten bags early rose
first freight. Balance order follows.’

‘“The operatorrepeated the message to me,
so as to be sure there were no mistakes, and
I thought everything was O. K. Well,
when I got in Saturday, the office people all
laughed at me—had a horse on me, so to
speak, and said my handwriting was so bad
no one could read it. As proof, they gave
me the message sent from Benton Harbor,
and claimed the error was made through my
hen-scratching. ‘Here is the way the order
came:

‘**Roan horses.

Bed bugs early risers.
Feast fat.

Bully old fellows.’ ”

‘Talking about operators making blun-

ders puts me in mind of how a customer |

tried to get ahead of me once,” said a man
in a torn duster and a back number Cleve-
land hat. ‘‘I am somewhat of an operator
myself, and this customer had the Western
Union wire in his store. * Lemons were on
the rise, and my last quotations had been
$6.50 per box. Well, this chap wanted a
ten-box lot and wanted me to telegraph for
prices. I1didsoand hung around waiting
for the answer. In the course of an hour I
heard the call for his office, and he tuok the
message. Hecame to me and said: “They
say $5.50 per box, in any quantity.’”

‘‘Well,” queried the bald-headed man,
*did you sell him the ten boxes ?”

‘Not at $5.50. The fact is, the answer,
as I got it, was $6.50, and he would have
deliberately lied me out of a dollar a box.”

‘‘Well,” began the man with specs on,
‘to change the subject, some years ago my
house started in ona great scheme. First
time I caught onto it, I got a fearful shock.
I called on an old party in Hudson and sold
him quite a bill—must have been four or
five hundred dollars.” (The bald-headed
man and the tall passenger exchanged | 5
knowing looks, and the man with specs on
explained that this was quite a good many
years ago, when orders were orders.) ‘‘Well,
the party was good asthe wheat, you know,
and when I came around again I expected
to sell him some more goods. I didn’t.
Why? Well, here is what he got from the
house—this was their scheme: He got a big
printed circular, with places left blank to
fill in, and it was headed :

PROPERTY STATEMENT.
——188

To & Co.:

a reply to your request for a state-
ment of my affairs, in order to get a proper
rating on your books, I submit the follow-
ing:

Firm name ............ How old.....
Color of hair...... of eyes...... Do you
chew ?.... drink ?.... Married?.... if
so, why...... How much real estate have
you free from incumbrance?..............
Cash in bank...... on hand....... Any
children.... Ssex...... . How much stock
do. you carry ?........ Ever fail in bus-
iness?.... if so, what did you settle for?

What is your religion ?........
your politics ?........ Why 2... 5.6: —”

“Say,” interrupted the tall passenger,
“did the party fill that out ?”

**You bet he did net,” said the man with
specs on, ‘‘and the house never sent any
more to my trade. I quit them—they were
too inquisitive for this territory.”

OL got shocked once,” said the fat man,
‘seventeen hundred dollars’ worth. I had
a customer in B—— and he wasavery good
friend of mine. Well, he got. behind a lit-
tle, and the credit man of our house told me
he would have to cut my customer off, if he
did not pay up more promptly. Well, I
was hot. I told the credit man that I would
guarantee the man’s account, and that he
knew nothing about him; that he was not
fit to pass on the credit of a brindle pup,
and for over two years I never spoke tn the
credit man. We speak now. The party
failed and owed my house seventeen hun-
dred dollars, and for the last three years I
have been paying it up, at the rate of so
much a year out of my salary. 1 told the
credit man, after the failure, that I thought
he could pass on the credit of two brindle
pups.” JESSE LANGE.

en

Boston Grocer (to customer)—‘“‘Is that all
this morning, Mrs. Beacon? Are you sup-
plied with beans?” Mrs. Beacon (contem-
platively)—‘‘I am not so sure about our
supply of beans, but to be: on the safe side
you might send, say, a couple of barrels.”

 

| old man had @ fond eae of establishing

his son in-the business, so that the concern
would continue through the second genera-
tion, if not farther. One day it was noticed
that the young man refused to deal with
lady customers. His conduct was so mark-
ed that his father took him to task for it.
‘The fact is,’ said the son, ‘that 1 do not be-
lieve it is not right for women to wear jew-
elry, and I do not propose to abet or aid
them in wicked conduct. I will sell watch-
es, or ¢pectacles to men, but no frippery to
women.’ The father remonstrated in vain.
All sorts of pressure was brought to bear
upon him to make him see the unreasona-
bleness of his attitude. It was pointed out
that if it was wrong to wear what was not
necessary, it was wrong even for a man to
carry a gold watch; that the works might
as well be inclosed in a tin ease. ‘There’s

something in that,’ admitted the conscien-
tious man, and frightened at this result ot
arguments, he was permitted to take his
own course. Eventually he made up his
mind that if he could not conscientiously
sell jewelry to women, he could not conscien-
tiously share in the profits accruing from
such sales, and, accordingly, to his father’s
grief, he sold out his interest and establish-
ed a store for the sale of optical goods.
There he carried his ideas to the greatest
extreme. He would sell spectacles but no
eyeglasses, and the rims could not be of
gold. And he further declined to make
money; he put his margin of profit at a very
low figure, because he thought profit un-
just. The local trade was distracted at his
course. He got most of the business, and

| yet made no more than was sufficient for

hisliving. And, finally, lightning struck his
store and destroyed it. I am afraid that
his rivals in business look upon the event
as an interposition of Providence to con-
vince him of the error of his ways.
———_<9>-_+ Oa ___—_

The New National Cut Nail Schedule.

The following is the new schedule for cut
nails, which went into effect with Michigan
jobbers on the 25th. It will be noticed that
the base has been changed from 10d to 40d
to 12d to 40d :

ADVANCE ae ee —

FENCE, BRA ATING.
2 4d and 5d Secu aane
10 3d

Pua te 6

6d and Td..... 2...

coeyes BARREL.
4d and i Reon. oes

‘60 1% inch Roa oeu se
00 134 :

66
es
66
os
66

CUT SPIKES.
AIP sizes... 055... 2.
TORACCO HHD.

0 8d
5 6d and 7d
oD

CLINCH.
1% and 1% co
2 and 24
8 and 2% °
34% to 4% *
BOAT SPIKES.
All sizes... 2 a2 5.:. 15

Each half-keg, 10 cents extra.

TERMS—Note or acceptance at 60 days, with
current rate of Exchange on New York; or a
discount of 2 per cent. for cash if remitted
within 10 days from date of invoice.

An abatement of 10 cents per keg will be
allowed upon orders of 210 kegs or over.

Gale subject to strikes and accidents at
works

a a

Adulteration of Coffee.

“The adulteration of coffee is something
that can scarcely be prevented,” said an ex-
grocery merchant to a Mail and Express
reporter. ‘‘It is as much adulterated, per-
haps, as whisky,” continued the ex-grocer.
‘Recently an experiment was made and 48
per cent. of 85 samples of coffee analyzed
were found to be impure. This proportion
does not by any means represent the exact
amount of adulteration which prevails.
Among 41 samples of adulterated coffee it
was discovered that 19 were mixed with
chicory or other substance free from starch,
while 22, besides nearly all containing
chicory, had considerable amounts of roast-
ed grain, peas or beans in their composi-
tion.

‘*In every case it has not been possible to
distinguish the origin of the starch, and it
is quite possible that some ascribed to
roasted grain, has really been added in the
‘} shape of roasted peas. One of the chief
adulterants of coffee is ‘cracked’ peas. and
the business is so lucrative it is shipped to
Canada and other places for the purpose of
mixing it with coffee. There possibly way
be some excuse for using chicory, but tne
use of roasted peas is not to be defended
at all. It does not bring for the working
men such a reduction in the price as would
justify him in purchasing a mixed’ coffee
containing it. One of the paradoxes, 1
soon observed after I went into the -busi-
ness, was that the adulterated is almost as
much as the pure stuff itself. Like other
articles that are adulterated, it is done so
well few buyers, unless experienced, can
tell the difference.

———_"__»- >> ____—_

A Merchant Who Robbed Himself.

A country, merchant with a pretty fair
business had no safe, and he was in the
habit of hiding his money about in spots
for safe-keeping. Not long ago he awoke
one morning to find $195 gone. He in-
formed his neighbors that he had been
robbed, and 1t was suggested that Detective
Jones be sent for. The suggestion was no
sooner made than adopted. Shortly after
sending for him, a trampish-looking man
turned up in the neighberhood, and by all
but the merchant was eyed suspiciously.
The trampish-looking man was the detect-
ive. He made a thorough investigation and
quietly drew his own conclusions. Calling
up the merchant, he told him he had not

 

 

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ey in his Mm
See with him. "After considerable
between the two, it was found that the mer-
chant, having a number of hiding place:
had in his sleep taken the money from on
of his hiding places in the store and carried —
it to an old and discarded hiding place in
the barn, The money having been recov-
ered, the merchant gave the detective $10
and the latter left him. In the future the
merchant will have himself locked up in his
bedroom so that he can play no more such
pranks in his sleep.
—____—~<_-®--
Imposing on the Druggist.

Mechanic—I want a gallon of rum for
mechanical purposes.

Druggist—What is your business ?

M.—I am a painter. I’ve a job on hand.

D. (perfunctorily, as he proceeds to serve
his customer)—You use the spirit in your
business ?

M.—Yes. (Aside) You bet; Ill paint
this town red from one end to the other be-
fore I get through.

Ps

 

 

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 less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

 

 

FOR SALE,

GOOD HOOSIER FENCE MACHINE FOR
manufacturing combination fence, using pickets
and wire. Also one Gem City Fence Machine. These
machines will be sold at a bargain. Address No. 236,
care Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids. 236

OR SALE—TWO NEW SHINGLE MACHINES WITH
Saws ready to belt up andrun. Perfect in every
respect. Also one Syrup Evaporator. W. E. Water-
man, Thompson, Michigan, care Delta Lumber Com-
pany. 240

OR SALE—NO. 4 REMINGTON TYPE-WRITER.
Used only one week. Call on or address i B
Fairchild, Grand Rapids. 238

OR SALE—OF INTEREST TO FURNITURE, AGRI-

cultural implement or any Hardwood Manufacturer.
Ihave a factory nicely located, in good repair,dry kiln,
warehouses, yard room and ample power. There is no
furniture factory in this vicinity and there are sever-
al hardwood sawmilis, I will sell cheap and on easy
terms. Will exchange fur other desirable property.
Will take a silent interest or, if desired, will attend to
purchases of material and selling of. goods. [Tama
non-resident of the city and the property must be dis-
posed of. Address Box 44, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 239

FR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK OF WILLIAMS &
Wheeler, Ludington, Mich. Invoice $2,600; good
location; will be sold at a bargain. Harlin Aldrich,
Assignee.

OR SALE OR TRADE—FIVE ACRES OF aoa
brick land, boiler and engine, tile and brick ma-
chine and all equipment necessary to make brick ane
tile. Address O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, or ee
McNaughton, Coopersville, Mich,

OR RENT OR SALE—ONE-HALF OR THE WHOLE

Ras per oe ai full roller process, 100-barrel ca-
pacity, in first-class location, on easy terms. Add

W. F. Cowham, Jackson. Mich. : 231,

Ho SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF MY

husband, I offer for sale the gr ocery and tea busi-
ness at 89 Canal street. Stock will not inventory over
$2,500. Apply to Mrs. E. M. White, atabove address. 227

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. 206

Boe SALE—AT A BARGAIN. A CLEAN STOCK OF
hardware and mill supplies. Address Wayne
Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 207

OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, FIXTURES,

etc., complete, on good line of railway, about 35
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.

OR SALE—FRUIT FARM OF 73 ACRES, LOCATED

in Spring Lake. Ten minutes walk ‘trom 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 8. A. Howey, North Muskegon, Mich. 208

WANTS.

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 you the
expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to
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
regretit. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent
by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. fa
Albany, N.Y.

Vv 7ANTED—TO BUY A SECOND HAND NO. a x.
terprise Coffee Mill. Must be in good Pare and

not long in use, and price right. Address G. 8. Put-

nam, Fruitport, Mich. “2

A eee Scone -HAND PATENT THREE -SAW
Edger. Address, giving price and full particu-
lars, J. H. Parker, Alpine, Mich. 235

Wane. A GRIST MILL AT CONKLIN, SITUATED

in one of the best grain producing districts i in

Michigan. Located on Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-

road, both Grand Rapids and Muskegon markets are
easy “of access. Right party will get site and $1,000 bo-

nus. Address John Sehler, Grand Rapids, or Heo
232

OR SALE—

Miller, Conklin.
Wa bee AGENTS FOR THE MME. WIL-
’ liamson Corset. It sells at once; good satisfac-
tion. Liberal terms and good territory. Williamson
Corset & Brace Co., 18 S. Sixth St., St. Louis, Mo. 229
\ ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improv ed Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 9 OC CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI-
3 ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea-
sons‘ for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace,

Mich. 228
GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. THREE NEW
articles just out. Big money. Exclusive terri-
tory. Inelose stamp for particulars. Samples of all
three 35 cents. Address Swineburne & Co., Manufac-

turers, LaCrosse, Wis.

BAUWS

(,asiorin

AXLE
° OIL

THE ACKNOWLEDGED KING of AXLE
LUBRICANTS. Neither Gums nor
Chills, never runs off the axle
and outwears any other
known oilor grease.
PRICES TO THE TRADE.
Ponys, per gross, $19. Packedin3 doz. cases.
Retail at 10 ets. each.
Pints, per doz.. $2.25.
Retail at 30 cts. each.
Quarts, per doz., $4. Packed in 1 doz. cases.
Retail at 50 cents each.
Gallons, each, $1.20. Packed 6 cans in case.
Retail at $1.50 each.
Each case contains a liberal assortment of
advertising matter, lithographs,
show-cards, etc. .

THE TRADE SUPPLIED BY

OLNEY,SHIELDS & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Packed in 1 doz. cases.

 

 

 

 

an ‘on aeenerored ion—J. W. a eiltiken, Trav-
Ele Pee. Creek; Wm. Rebec,

i Ansurance—N. B. Lowell; E. Y.
[of t _M M. Clement, Cheboygan.
; ding an d Loan Assoiations—F. L.
“Ful rramitorts E. Parkill, Owosso; Will Em-

Ongen Tax Micucax TRADESMAN.

auxiliary associations are op-
mder charters granted by the Micki.
gan Business Men’s Association:

No. 1 verse City B. M. A.
President, Geo » Ep. steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
"2. No, 2—Lowell B. M. A.
President, N. = Blain; Secretary.
0. 3—Sturgis B. M.A.
President, H. a Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
"No. 4--Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick: Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
ee No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer.
No. 6—Alba 6. M. A.
: President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
‘o. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
- President. 7 M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
No. 9—Lawrence B. M.A.
Seaton, B M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.
o. 10—Harbor springs B. M. A.
presiaent, W.J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
No.11—Kingsley B. M. A.
President, #1 P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H. Camp.
o. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
_ President, C. oo 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, 8..A. Howey; Secretary, G. . Havens.
No. 15—Boyne City BK. M. A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
President, J. v. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.
No. 1 7—Plainwell B. M. A.
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso 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—Saugatuck B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
No. 21—Wayland B. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. = A.
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. -
No. 23—Carson Uity B. M.
President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Morley &. M. A
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A,
President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
No. 26—Greenville I. M. A.
oe $s. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
No. 27—Dorr B. M. A.
‘President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M.A
President, J. H. Tuttle; Secretary, H. G. wore.
No. 29—Freeport B. M
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. ea cmagh.
No. 30—Oceana Bb. M. A.
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8S. Houghtaling.
No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, G. W. Watrous; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
33—Charlevoix' B. M. A.
President, ike Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac 8. M. A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams.
No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. _
er eee ee
No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 37— Battle Creek B. M. AS
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, W. F. Baxter.
No, 38—Scottville B. M. aa
_ President, i. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39—Barr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. 8. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
0. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, G T. Hartson; Secretary, Chas. Coller.
. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C. E. Scudder.
No. 42—Fremont BS. M. A.
reasons, Jos. Gerber; Secretary GC. J. Rathbun.
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.
| President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes.
No. 44—Keed City B. M. A.
" president, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoyiville B. M. A
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.
‘President, ‘Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
No, 47—Flint M. U.
President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardston 8. M. A.
President, Boxe Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
,49—Leroy B. M. A.
President, A. Wenzel; Secretary. Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.
President, A. OQ. Wheeler; Secretary, J: P. O'Malley.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
- President, o M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
‘President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. ——
No, 53—Bellevue B. M.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John 4 York.
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, Cc. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. m. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, T. M. Harvey.
No. 57—Rockford: B. M. A.
> Exesient, Wu. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
- . No, 68—Fife Lake B. M. A..
“president, B. Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.
“No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. §. Raymond: Secretary, P. 8. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A.
President, Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt.
o. 61—Hartford B. M.A.
President, ¥. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
— No. 62—Kast saginaw M..A..
:  eauient, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
- President, W. M. Davis; ‘Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A-
President, C. Ww. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Jas. Crawford; Secretary, C. §. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
‘President, Frank Wells; Secretary, W. E. Crotty.
No. 67— Watervliet B. M. A.
" President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
: No. 68—Allegan B. M. A
© President, A. E.Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
~ No. 69—scotts and Climax B. M. A.
: President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville KB. M. A,
" President, ‘HH. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
- No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
> President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
ne: 72—Edmore B. M.A.
‘o, 73—Belding B. M. A.
" President, A. PP caer: Secretary, O. F. Webster.
: No. 74—Tecumseh B. M, A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
: ae 75—Davison B. M. A.
t, J. ( Sant Secretary. L. Gifford.

T. King.

R. Clarke.

 

 

 

) Paioreuas compiles the following ee
_of the gathering from the as and Jour-

nal of that city: |

Landlord Downey was wieaihed in smiles,
and well he might ‘When the Lansing Bus-
iness Men’s Association filed into the commo-

q ieee di hall of the Lansing House, Tues-
day night, their gaze met a ie t such as the
hand of a skilled artist tie ood The at-
mosphere was fragrant so e perfume of
roses, syringa and white carnations. ‘The ta-
bles were artistically arranged and beautifully
decorated with cut flowers and loaded down
with the choicest viands of the season. The

-| snow-white linen and the attractive side-

boards lent additional charm, and the electric

| light cast an unusual brilliancy over the scene.

After the members, their ladies and guests
were seated at the finely-laid tables, President
Wells read his annual address. It was a com-
prehensive and able paper and dealt clearly
and explicitly with the most important present
= questions. In conclusion, Mr. Wells
8a

“The wise business man is the one who is
quick to recognize all the influences which
may affect his business, utilizine those which
are favorable and resisting such as are not.
He will meet combination with combination.
If railroads, insurance companies, producers
and others join their forces, he also should be
prepared to show a united front to resist any

unjust demands or unreasonable methods they

may inaugurate. Our Association--and that
of the State, of which we are an integral oad
—has the accomplishment of ends by these
means in view. They have already achieved
not g few advantages, though both are yet in
their infancy. They promise more important
results.in the futnre. Shall we merchants of
Lansing use this instrument from which so
much may be expected in the promotion of
our interests and the upholding of our rights?

“Most of us have been quick to take advan-

tage of modern methods in many other ways;
sha'l we pass this by? :

“The large number who were quick to join
our ranks would seem to answer this question
in a very practical manner, but the subse-
quent lack of interest of a great proportion
throws at least a shade of doubt upon the _re-
sponse. The many questions and subjects
which affect business men in common should
make our meetings both interesting and pleas-
ant through their discussion and draw out on
such occasions a large proportionof our mem-
bership. They have not done so to the extent
that they should in the year that has just
closed. Shall we witness an improvement in
this respect during the year upon which we
are now entering? With rooms of our own,
which we hope soon to have, with a morethor-
ough understanding ofthe objects and possi-
bilities of our Association, with a better ac-
quaintance and higher appreciation of each
other, shall not the present year show in inter-
est and achievements results far surpassing
the one in honor of which we have assembled
here to-night?’

At the conclusion of President Wells’ ad-
dress, the following splendid menu wasserved:
MENU.

Chicken Salad, a la Mayonnaise.
Lobster Salad. Salmon Salad.
Cold Turkey, sliced, Fruit Jelly.
Sugar Cnred Ham.
Beef Tongue, sliced, Parsley Dressing.
Pressed Corned Beef.
Cold Chicken, sliced.
Chow Chow. Piecalilli.,
Spanish Olives.

Sliced Tomatoes.
Cucumber Pickles.
Pickled Peaches.
Chocolate Cake. Orange Cake. Cream Cake.
White Mountain Cake. Banana Cake.
English Walnut Cake. Cocoanut Cake.
Marble Layer Cake. :
Strawberry Ice Cream. Vanilla Ice Cream.
Wine Jelly.
Bananas. Mixed Nuts.
Pine Apple.
Chocolate. Java Coffee.
Iced Tea. Iced Milk.

When the many delicacies bad disappeared.
the tables were cleared and the programme of
toasts inaugurated, with H. B. Stitt as Toast-
master. With the modest air and suave man-
ner characteristic of the average newspaper
man, the gentleman set the ball rolling ina
few appropriate remarks and presided
throughout the evening with the most becom-
ing dignity.

**Lansing—Its Business Forces’? was_ re-
sponded to by Mayor Crotty in his usual ac-
complished and agreeable way. The business
forces, he thought, were any forces that
would tend to elevate and develop the city.
Spiritual, educational and mechanical forces
are necessary elements in every community,
and common interests will progress to the ex-
tent in which these forces are exercised. The
B. M. A. is a force in Lansing, andthe methods
of business introduced by it are of inestimable
value. Itsinterest embraces the welfare of
every business man and is deserving of the
hearty co-operation of everyone engaged in
commercial enterprises.

Ald. Chas. Broas responded to “The Council
and the B. M. A.’’; E. R. Osborn to ‘“The Asso-
ner te Present and Future” . and Supt. C.

A. Gower to “Albuminoia Ammonia and its
Relation to Local Option’’. The response to
“Our Silent Partners—The Ladies” was omit-
ed, on account of: the absence of Dr. R. J.
Shank, who had been assigned that subject.
In conclusion, Hon. O. M. Barnes was called
upon, and, in response, made a thoroughly
practical and encouraging address to the As-
sociation. Lansing, with all its advantages,
would only be, inthe end, what its business
men made it, and he urged the Association to
renewed efforts as one of the most valuable
factors in its advancement. Excellent music
was furnished during the eyening by ee
Composed of oo Pratt, L. A. Baker, J. P.
Leeand Glen L . Chapman.

It was long after midnight when the festivi-
ties were brought to a close. There have been
few pleasanter banquets ever given in the
city, the large number of members present en-
tering into the spirit of the entire programme
with a wide-awake zest that was in striking
contrast with the lack-of interest displayed at
some of the past business sessions.

At a business meeting held in the hotel par-
lors before the banquet, the proposed amend-
ment to the constitution changing the time of
holding the sessions to once a month instead
of every two weeks was voted down, and Hon.
Q. M. Barnes and Mr. Gower were made honor-
ary members. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:

President—Frank Wells.

Vice-President—E. R. Osborn.

Secretary—B. F. Hall.

Treasurer—M. J. Buck.

Executive Committee—President,Secretary,
C. F. Seeley and A. Aber.

Committee on Trade Interests - Chas. Broas,
B. F. Simons and Dr. Nottingham.

ee

Cheboygan Tribune: The special meeting of
the Business Men’s Association was remarka-
bly well attended on Monday evening. The
spirit of enterprise manifested by those pres-
ent was indicatiye of the constantly growing
determination of our citizens to push Cheboy-
gan tothe front. The special committee to
make collections reported good progress and
turned in a ‘‘wad” which, in contemplation,
made the newspaper men present feel tired.
The discussion was opened upon the formation
of joint-stock companies, participated in by
Messrs. McDonald, Reid, Fitzmaurice, Moloney
and others. Letters were read from parties
asking for information regarding industrial
locations here. The special committee to wait
upon Wm. McArthur, reported that gentleman
to be in thorough harmony with any moye-

ment looking toward the establishment 8

-| manufacturing industries in Cheboygan.

the whole, the meeting was expressive of vets

isfaction in the work of bringing ee

prominently peters the country. coming
eeting of the M Michigan Business Moo 's ASso-

Oranges. Figs. Dates.

atermelon.
Hot Tea.

; cutie on August 7 and 8 was discussed and

the committee further instructed in rd to

g | ite duties. It ote te to spare no time or

expense in this com convention
Chebo: the redt-lotter episodes in the panery of

 

- You are credited « on : the State membership

book with having .. members, which entitles

you to .. delegates. You are requested to se-
lect a full set of delegates as soon as conven-
ient; also, an alternate for each delegate, to
represent you in the event of the inability of
any regular delegate to attend. Please fur-
nish each delegate witl credentials, on blanks
enclosed herewith, signed by your President
and Secretary.

Also please designate a delegate to make a
three-minute report of the work accomplished
by your organization and its present status.
In accordance with a resolution adopted at
the last convention, this report must be in
writing, so that it may be incorporated in the
published proceedings of the convention.

The reports of officers and committees will
show that substantial progress has been made
in several directions since the last convention
—notabiy, in the abolition of combination in-
surance—and the coming convention will ena-
ble the organized forces of business men to
agree upon a plan of campaign for the year
to come.

In order that the Association may achieve
its fullest success, it is absolutely necessary
that it have the hearty co-operation of every
auxiliary body. In no way can the loyalty of
the local organizations be more thoroughly
expressed than in sending full delegations of
good men to the State convention.

The Cheboygan B. M. A. has made every
preparation for the proper entertainment of
the delegates and the convention will probab-
ly end with an excursion to Mackinac Island
or Sault Ste. Marie.

Reduced rates have been secured at the Che-
boygan hotels, and a one and one-third rate of
fare has been obtained over the principal rail-
roads of the State, providing reduced rate
certificates are obtained from the Secretary
previous to starting for the meeting, signed
by the railway agent at starting point and
countersigned by the Secretary at the conven-
tion. Holders of certificates pay.full fare go-
ing and will receive a return ticket for one-
third fare. ‘Tickets can be purchased on the
5th, 6th and %th, and the return Hmit will
not expire until the 18th.

As this will be the most important conven-
tion ever held by the State body, it is essentia:
that your organization have a fuil representa-
tion. E. A. STOWE, Sec’y,

FRANK HAMILTON, Pres., Grand Rapids.

Traverse City.
SE eS ee
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.

At the regular semi-monthly meeting of the
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association, held on
June 19, the first order of business was the
cpening of the box containing the guesses on
the contents of the Jumbo jar of pickles, con-
tributed by F. & J. Heinz, of Pittsburg. About
a hundred guesses were registered, Brink
Bros. & Quint being the highest—3,000—and A.
J. TenRae the lowest—480. A letter from the
contributors stated the contents to be 618,
which gave the prize to B. Zervalkink, whose
guess was 625.

A vote of thanks was tendered F. & J. Heinz
for the gift and the Secretary was instructed
to notify them of the result of the competition.

The Committee of Entertainment presented
bills aggregating $62.66,incurred in connection
with the picnic. Vouchers on the Treasurer
were ordered drawn for the amount of the
bills, and the Committee was praised for the
amount of entertainment it was able to pre-
sent at such small expense.

The following resolution was unanimously
adopted:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Associa-
tion be tendered to its Entertainment Commit-
tee, and the various sub committees appointed
by that Committee, for the effective manner
in which they discharged their daties in con-
nection with our second annual picnic;

To the Telfer Spice Co., for a liberal supply
of warm coffee, peanuts and cigars;

To Ball, Barnhart & Putman and Geo. E.
Howes & Co., for donations of prizes;

To all others'who contributed in any degree
to the pleasure of the occasion.

Jas. A. Stratton reported that the dago fruit
peddlers made life a burden in the Eighth
ward and expressed the hope that the Associa-
tion would do something to curtail the ped-
dling of half decayed fruit around the resi-
dence streets. It was decided to send a spec-
ial committee’ to the Mayor, to remonstrate
against the granting of licenses to dagos at
such small figures, and M. C. Goossen, J. Geo.
Lehman and C. L. Lawton were constituted
such committee. The meeting then adjourned
until July 17, as the first Tuesday in the month

‘comes on the eve of the Fourth of July.

eee
Will Be too Busy to Participate.

The committee having in charge the
Fourth of July celebration has sent the
following circular letter to the Grand Rapids
Mercantile ‘Association:

GRAND Rapips, June 23, 1888.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DrarR Srr—The Committee on Enter-
tainment selected by the citizens of Grand
Rapids forthe proper observance of our
national holiday, respectfully invite your
body to take some action previous to that
time, and report by mail, or otherwise, to
thesecretary of the Committee at the Claren-
don Hotel, your willingness to turn out in

| parade, and make this celebration the most

extensive display the city has ever wit-
neased. Yours apes ‘
-Mayor I. M. WESTON,
Chairman.
The matter was canvassed by several
members Monday afternoon, when it was
found that the wagons would be unusually
busy at the same time the procession would
be moving, which would necessitate the
abandonment of. the project.
—_——————_—_»>_o

Standard Weights in this State.

THE TRADESMAN is frequently called upon
to settle a dispute as to the legal weight. of
some article of grain or produce, and in order
to avoid such delays in the future has caused
the following table of weights to be compiled
from the statute:

eR err Barley............... 48

skids cesta acsess.00 Apples... °. 3 48
aioied [Corn.....-...56 Dried Apples......--.22
Corn in 70 Dried Peac

C8. ......8

y Oe ie
; t Potatoes... ....56

| ives, ola » 16. ates
N.H ste. .

‘| Picture, H. L. Jud

| Steel

 

UGERS AND BITS,

COONS 2 oe eee e Bovccn ss Ge

Jennings’, genuine........00.....

Jennings’, imitation.......... bacco dis50&.
BALANCES.

Spring 6.2 ae: eS ee .dis
BARROWS.

RAUTOAG 6. ae eee ca an ee $ 14 00
Garten ee tole net 33 00
BELLS.

WEARS ee dis $ oe

WOW se di
Sone oa
e080

6s

mists ui8
Bean PaPSent. oo. es es dis
BOLTS.
BIOVG: dis $
curniage new list..520 00.26.5222 dis ros0

Bich Shoe . . dis 70
Wrought Barrel Bolts............ ...- dis 60
Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis 40
Cast Barrel, brass knobs...........+. -. dis 40
Cast Square Spring.............. dco. G8
Cast Cisin 00 dis
wroeaut Barrel, brass knob.........dis
Wrought Square Bee evo sieeat Sebo. a8
Wrought Sunk Flush
Wrought Bronze and Plated knob

MISH 6 oe ee dis 60&10
AVES; DOOM, 222 ee, dis 60&10

BRACES.
BADER oe es dis $
Backus......

PAN A eS ee ui

BUCKETS.
Well pigin= oo ee $ 3 50
Well, BWivel of - 400

BUTTS, caer.

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

ai

tipped
Wrought Table. ico ioc. iso dis
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis
Wrought Brass: . 2... coc dis
Blind, Clark’s......... .. dis
Blind, Parker's: oes) eo oe dis
Bund, Shepard's... 6.2. .ccs. ccc esse dis

CAPS.
My S Ll0s e as. Der
PEGICS Co ee

G. D
MUSKCD ae ee a ee

CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list....50
Rim Fire, United BEAGCS. oe... ek 5 dish0
Central Fire..... og sr aliwcse she cia bab ceccks .dis25

CHISELS.
Socket Wirmer.... ...... S65 ...002.65 25 dis
Socket: Framing.....:............0..00- dis
BOCKECE COIMMCR. eis sol ke dis
SOCKCUDNCKS. 6 oo ei ce ee dis
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers......... ,.... dis
Colds ee sa ee net
COMBS.

Curry, Lawrence’s.................... dis 40&10
HHOTCRISS os cosa eee ee dis 2d
COCKS.

Brass, RACKING 8)... o.oo ee soe. eke ok.
ibb’s

70&

70&10

COPPER.
Planished, 14 vA cut to size.............. # Db
14x52, 14x56, 1 x60
Cold Rolled, Tees and Tex60 Seabee wale la.
Cold Rolled, 14548... 20 ce ccc icc c cee:

SBOLEOUIS es cet ese cc oa eed ak ele.

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stock... :2.5....02.0....5 dis
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis
Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in......0........... doz.net $.75
Corrugated ............. pwds ee ecules dis20&101 £0
PAGIUSIADIO 52 neon Coc oe ase dis %4&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; ene $26 00. dis
Ives’, 1, $18 60; 2, $24 0 0;. 3, $30 00. dis
FILES—New List.
American File Association ‘Dist PAA dis
DISStON’S 6535 eso. Sa cg ee. capes a. dis
New American... 52.0 0c cee cs wees coe dis
INICHOISORS. ee ee, dis
Helens oo a eee eee dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis
GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos.16to 20, 22and 24, 25and26, 27
List 12 13 14 15

Discount, 60.
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s

HAMMERS.
Moy dole & Co.’s
WSS a ee es dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s pee eens dis 40si0
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ec a shee 30 e list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
HANGERS.
Barn Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood track 50&10
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 6010
Kidder, wood Oe te Sees Ua one dis
HINGES.

Gate, Clark's, 1,2): 32.002. 00. eo dis 80
Spate. So oes: oe ccs per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

and longer... 3... kcsce ees one aoe
Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net
Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net
Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net
Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net
Strap and Be dis

HOLLOW WARE.
POUS ee a oes bees vey cee
MMOEUIOS cess ee oe oes «
BPIGOre eo ee ee oe
Gray enameled................0.0..00005
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list
Japanned Tin Ware.................008.
Granite Iron Ware.................cc00e
HOES. -
Grip lo a ce $11 00, dis 60
QUUD Oo. co alle hae feces cen 11 50, dis 60
GYD Soe ee ae ens se 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 ere porcelain bere dis
d & Co.’s..
Hemacite.. 0... 2. 26.2... s ... dis
LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’ 8 new list. .dis
Mallory, Wheeler & COU Roose: dis
Branton 6). 6.02 el ck. eee cee dis
Norwalk’s SOUR eas scaee's a alae CS
ELS.
Stanley Rule and Level COL8. ose dis
MATTOCKS.
BAZ EVC2 26s ois. cee $16 a dis €0
Hunt Hye. oe es $15 00 dis &
MUNG 8, hones ee ck ...-918 50 dis 20 & 10

55
55

Sperry & Co.’s, Post. h apdiod pueviseuc sce dis 50

MILLS.
Coffee, Parkers ©0.'8..). .. 005s. cece ee eacs dis 40
Coffee, P. 8.&W. Mte. Go. eMaleovios Le
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &Clar i
Coffee, Enterprise. ..............c02ccee0. dis 25

MOLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern .................02. dis
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ...
Enterprise, self-measuring..........dis
NAILS —IRON.
Common, Brad and Fencing.

4d and 5d adv......... he a ase eee
8d advance........ wine erates he ees ieee eee
SA FNS BAVANCE..- 2... ices cece se cescccene
Clinch nails, adv 1

Bize—inohos
Adv.

Peeceercesee cere ceveesoesecs

fe
$1 5 shot 1% 200
ails—2 10.

OILERS.
Zine or tin Chase's Patent.............dis60410
Zinc, with brass bottom....... :
Brass or Copper.. Sie a ogi oo
APET................ pi Ge 8 ne
astead’s ie . 50&10

ase ee

a

 

 

Re Wooa'tp . planished, Nos. 26 t:

Broken packs 4c 3 Be extra.
ROPES. oe

epee 3 in. and larger Sees eee Bocce e 10

Man: B

Steel and Iro ian era aa. “ai 70810
ni Mien eae ss esse) .

Pryand Bevela...: 2.

Mitre ..... Seago cy as ee edee tuber oes oe ais

SHEET IRON. :
m. Smooth.
Nos. 10 to 14........ See cue $4 20

3
3
3
3
4 60 3

ot sheets: No, 18 and lighter. over 2 inch
wide not less than 2-10 extra. .

SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 bs, We cice ein cot
In smaller quanaiies: 2 fhe: Bese
'ACKS,
American, all kinds. Bee atees s a5 ater ee dis
Steel, all kinds... 02 oe dis
Swedes, all kinds 0520628 dis
Gimp and Lace...... Meleeee: We dte dis
Cigar Box Nails... ..:...6...05.-2.3,. dis
Finishing Nails.:..............02. 05... dis
Common and Patent Brads.. dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks. dis
Trunk and Clout Nails dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis
Leathered Carpet Tacks ai
TINNER’S SOLDER.

No.1, Refined) 50
Market Halt-and-half
Strictly Porat nae

IC, 10x14, Charcoal Lecgeeisccs oe Se: 6 6 20
IX, 10x14, Charcoal Ne 7 85

ae
a

som RASSSSSSESS

za Chareoal... 0. ee :

arcoal.
100 io Plate Charcoal.......... Zeros i

 

ray
-
S

XXX, 100 Plate Charcoal 13 10
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 7 33

rates.
Roofing, PER IOee ccc cce oii. ee ee 5 40
Roofing, 14x20, 5D, a Rn ie SS 7 00
Rooting, 20x25, IC. oo cok eek. 12 00
Roofing, 20x28, Pel oc ere es 15 CO

TIN—LEADED.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 6 @0
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7 50
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........ 15 00

TRAPS.

Steel. Game. «se ce
Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. Boao
Hotchkiss’ 60&10

SP. & We Mie. Covs. , BOe10
Mouse, CROROR 3 2226 18¢e # doz
Mouse, delusion..................... $1 50 8 doz

WIRE.

Bright Market o253 2020s: dis 67%
Annealed Market........ Sister ec dis 7o&lu
Coppered Market.....................0. dis" 62%
Extra Bailing.........
Tinned Market.....
Tinned Broom... oc... ws 6.55 ako 2 bb
Tinned Mattress....................0.0.. ae bb 8%
Coppered Spring Steel.... ............ 50
Tinned Spring Steel.................... dis vos
Plain Hence... bl eck 42 Ib
Barbed Fence, galvanized... 2.202. .6.3 5.020: 4 06

PGHWGG. oo eo .8 25
COpper 2. new list net
BYASS ee new list net

SESSRGRER

MISCELLANE ae
Bird Cages.................. ous. pe
Pumps, Cistern.............. ‘
Screws, new list........
Casters, Bed and Plate
Dampers, American
Forks, hoes,
Copper Bottoms..

Cee scesoces

ree eee coe cece cens

HARDWOOD LUMBER, ;

The furniture factories here pay as foll
for dry stock, measured merchantable, 1
culls out;
Basswood, log-run
Birch, log-run
Birch; Nos. co
Black Ash, raligat a ‘
Cherry, log-run

Cherry, cullocs. oc) ‘
Maple, log-run

Maple, soft, log-run..
Maple, Nos. 1land2.......
Maple, clear, flooring..-.............
Maple, white, selected........... ...
Red Oak, log-run............2..... -..48
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2 -24 00
Red Oak, % sawed, 8in and upw’d. -40
Red Oak, regular........ «30
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank

Walnut, log-run

Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2

Walnuts, Ripe

veccene

 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

COAL and WOOD.

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

Telephone 909—1 Rk.

 

RAGS, RUBBERS, BONES & METALS
BOUGHT BY

Wr. Brummeler,
JOBBER IN
TINWARE, GLASSWARE and NOTIONS,
TELEPHONE 640.

79 Spring St,, - Grand Rapids.

 

CLARK & SON,

(Successors to Clark, Jewell & Co.)

Wholesale Grocers,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Will occupy this space next week.

GRAND RAPIDS

Paper Box Factory,

W, W. HUELSYER, Prop,

ee :
Payer Boxes of Every Description. Made to
Order on Short Notice.

We make a specialty of

Pigeon Hole File Boxes, Sample Trays
Sam ple Cases. Also Shelf, Shoe, Confec-
tionery, Millinery, Dress, Suit and —
Packing Boxes. Druggists’ Slides
and all kinds of Fine Work.

All work guaranteed first class and at low. oo
prices. Write or call for estimates on any- _
thing you may want in my line. Telephone 85Q ~

OFFICE AND FACTORY,

11 Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mik,
SHUK 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.

 

 

 

E&~ Send for circ ul rs and bock of testimonials.

FOR SALE BY

H. M. REYNOLDS.

Gran) Rapids

BLACK

DIAMOND
Puan

—

For all kinds ‘of buildings re-
quiring a good roof at less * cprica
than any other.

Anyone can put it on,

READY TO APPLY WHEN
RECEIVED.

 

 

 

 

 

Mich. Chic:

ET, Jr, & C0,

Sole Manufacturers,

ago and Philadelphia.

WOONSOCKET and RHODE ISLAND RUBBERS

Write for Fall Prices an¢
Discounts

b. R MAYHEW, ;

Grand Rapids,

 

Prepared ready for use.
the ORIGINAL, all others are IMITATIONS.

They dry hard in a few hours, and
More of our bra

have a beautiful and durable: gloss. : fi
nd sold than all the other brands on the mark

= GRANITE FLOOR nae

“durable.

Give them a tris F

 

of New York to. she |

by weight, which is gen-

the dealers and, it is

law. Can any just

rhy cucumbers and eggs of

2 sold by the dozen, Hub-
the pound, string beans

by measure—generally liquid
at—and young onions, aspara-
by the bunch—the size of the
nding upon the abundance or
the article? While there is

nitable ‘method -for producers, pur-
ad consumers of all food is buying
ig by” weight, few offer suggestions

iewed with some disfavor and,
niversal concurrence, are adopt-
Cannot the merchants of our
Men’s Associations of this State

e the principle, at least by adopt-
resolution as a body, to buy or sell no

the ‘same. time establishing the initial

per pound, in accord with the price
‘dozen at that time of the year? Thus, a

fent would be established by those

st competent to decide, which eventually

ht include all food products and become

aw of the State. Certainly such a cus-

pas ago, it was a common law in
omnia that all food products of the farm

{ Custom had Ssnctionod the
xi ption of three old California products,
Hi ei oranges, lemons and limes. These
‘were bought and sold, not by the pound or
jozen, but by the hundred. Even grapes
ere quoted by the ton, andI may gratify
0" ers of the delicious white Muscatel by
ying that so immense was the product of
vineyards there in 1876 that this variety
raisin grape almost went begging fora
market at $15 per ton! Itis unnecessary to
add that these equitable laws, regulating
the buying: and selling of produce in that
‘State, have never been changed.

“a

What i is to be the outcome of the present
sive competition in all trades and mer-
antile business? Will it be to increase the
percentage of failures, or will others be
wise in time, avoid the quicksands of trade,
lessen the number by. choosing that
‘most-honorable and independent of all avo-
cations, the cultivation of the earth? To-
ay, the net profits upon all ordinary com-
ercial sales are whittled down to so fine a
point that the grand truism of Darwin—the
‘survival of the fittest—will aptly apply.
nly those who have been reared in the bus-
iness—are true business men in all respects
@nd ‘have ample capital to keep up their
k—will be the tradesmen of the future.

t too often seems, to the uninitiated, to be
the. easiest thing in the world to “‘keep
store;” . to purchase goods without any
knowledge of prices or values, or even what

3 required in different localities; to renta
Duilding in which to sell them, and at the

xpiration of a year or two possess an am-

le income and an increased stock. Some
of his customers will astonish him by the
<.that ‘‘all goods cost next to nothing.
-a-days,” and that ‘‘a merchant’s sales
‘are about all profit, you know.” Others
will, in a general way, accuse all merchants
pf extortion and robbery. Sometimes, ig-
norant and vicious persons pollute the en-
eommunity in which they reside, until
almost every purchase at a store is made
der a protest. Such communities have,
es past, formed joint stock compan-

and opened a general store of their

, selling to stockholders at cost and to
ers at eight or ten per cent. profit. The
ies placed in charge of these stores

y possessed little or no practical
wiedge of the business. It was soon
ered that old merchants, born and

- the business, could buy and sell all

_ them and, what with dividends

: “barely paid interest, and often inter-

trife, such stores were not prosper-

Many will recall the desire for

the history of all community
ywhich ought to convince the
tical that years of preparation are

a , grocer that jobbers
eet peat s on sug-

No niggardly policy will long avail, yet

‘oe Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.,

e for profit?” Like the poor Indian with | \* |
| his buzzard in one hand, “customer talks} \ 4
turkey all the time.” Is it. strictly honest
to sellastaple article—an article as indis-
pensable as sugar—even at cost and then
place an extra percentage upon something
else to equalize the profit? Itis just and
politic for all to be generous in business,
but let there be equity with every customer.

AND OYSTERS.

“business should be business” and not| Packing and Warehouse,
child’s play, in all transactions. Those not
engaged in mercantile life hardly realize the
numerous sources which sap the business
of a merchant. First, the expens-
es of doing business, as interest, in-
surance, rents, taxes, etc., that often
increase out of all proportion with the
receipts; the peddlers and fakirs who swarm
before his very door, giving doubtful value
for money already his due, and, worse than
all, the abominable practice of a few whole-
sale houses we could name furnishing any
person with a single article from their stock
at the lowest (?) wholesale rate per dozen
or gross. Of course, no respectable mer-
chant deals with such a house, and it is
gratifying to know that such nefarious con-
cerns are des eminently successful.
FRANK A. Howle.

ALFRED J. BROWN,/)s

FOREIGN,
TROPICAL
AND
CALIFORNIA

FRUITS.

37 North Division Street.

Office, 117 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

 

ene

WARRANTED TO BE T

FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE

For the money in the U.S. ("Put up 0in a box. Ask
ur ee er fort a Manufactured only by
OHNE. G & CO., Grand Rapids.

meee) for prices.

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1866.

Barnery Bros,

159 So, Water Street, Chicago.

We do a General Commission Business
and offer as inducements twenty years’ ex-
perience and clear record. The best equip-
ped and largest salesrocm in the business
in this city. Ample storage facilities—full
20,000 feet of floor space in the center of
the best market in the West. Ample capi-
tal and first-class references on file with
Toe TRADESMAN. Write us if you wish
information, whether to buy or sell. It

Bananas, Our Specialty

16 and 18 No. Division St..

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

JODDYD c& CO.,

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

 

will gost you nothing.

BARNETT BROS.

 

 

THE GENUINE ANTI-WASHBOARD

SOAP

, QUICK, EASY, CHEAP.

Saves Rubbing, therefore saves Labor & Wear

, Cheapinitselfi it more than saves its cost in sav-
ing of the clothes. This Soapmay beused in
any way and for any purpose that any other

soap is used and excels all. YOU will secure
COMFORT and make money by its use. Try

it once and if the claims made for it are not true don’t
use it om If they are true you ought and want to

Your grocer will get it if he hasn’t it.

 

Lorillard’s New “Smoking or Chewing”

YeLLow JACKET [ONG UT.

Packed in 3 oz., 8 oz. or 16 oz. Handsomely Decorated Papers.

To be had of all J obbers at the very low price of

20 CENTS per POUND.

IT IS THE
Mildest, Smoothest Smoke Ever Offered for Less than 30 Cents per Pound.

THOMPSON & MACLAY,

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Furnishing Goods, Ric,
19 South Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS.

No Goods Sold at Retail. Telephone 679,

IRMHDER, PALMER & CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.
SYAYE AGENTS FOR LYGOMING RUBBER 6O.,

TELEPHONE
NO. 998.

 

 

 

11, 19,8, a 03S Din sr
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

(@ One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street.

 

WHOLESALE GROCERS.

IMPORTERS OF

i.
JOBBERS OF

Tobacco and Cigars.

SHIPPERS OF

VEGETABLES, FRUITS and PRODUCE.

PROPRIETORS OF THE

Rep Fox Prue ToBAcco.

AGENCY OF

Boss Tobacco Pail Cover.

Full and}.Complete Line of FIXTURES and STORE FUR-
NITURE.

Largest STOCK and ereeier VARIETY of any House in
City.

t= LOOK UP OUR RECORD.

The Standard of Excellence

KINGSFORD'S

 

A i

PP anuFACTURED ovAReaN “
TAKINGSFORD&SON
ad ps ==

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings,
Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.
THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.

WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME!

ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS.

Exclusive Agents for

The Labrador
Refrigerator.
White Mountain
Freezer.
Dangler Gasoline
'  S$tove.
Crown Jewell
Gasoline Stove.
Summer Queen
Oil Stove.

Send for

MITE, rere
CREAM FRE $

. a ts fe
mi

Foster, Stevens & Co,

10 & 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 & 41 Louis St,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

VW BeBe R
Grand, Square and Upright Pianos.

The Weber Pianois recognized beyond
controversy as the Standard for excellence
in every particular. It is renowned for its
sympathetic, pure and rich tone combined
with greatest power. The most eminent
artists and musicians, as well as the musi-
cal pnblic and the press, unite in the ver-
dict that

The Weber Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet music and musical merchandise.
Everything in the musical line.

Fischer Pianos,
A. B. Chase Organs,
Hillstrom Organs,

Weber Pianos,
Smith Pianos,
Estey Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor to Friedrich Bros.)

30 and 82 Canal St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

L1O Jixic

COFFEE

WOOLSON SPICE CO.

TOLEDO-GHIO.

MERCHANTS!

ON
FFEE

Woolson SPICE CE CO.

Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY HANDLING

- JAVA
MocHA, JERIO

WOOLSON SPIGE C®-

GANSAS CITY-30, TOLEDO-OnI0.

HAr ERIC

LION COPE HE.

IT GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION

To Consumers, and is, Consequently. a Quick and Hliasy Seller,

 

 

enient |

Lion Coffee has more cast Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulkand storekee
| over the State of Se and seen bon are not already

handling Lion are urged to give it a irial We cheer!
ping ie Stele at all prominent cities, Be

shi

 

to ay that ae no instance have I

a to that important adjunct

‘known as the sutler. Multi-

writers of various grades have
‘multitudinous shoulder-strapped

r en of various grades and, in some
instances, have ventured to bring un-
er-strapped fellows before‘ the read-

if public, but the sutler appears to be
ally and studiously ignored. Why is
this? Have the years that have elapsed
ce the ‘‘shebang” was the magnet that
attracted everybody with cash or credit

"evaporated. the admiration and deadened

the gratitude with which the man of army
traffic once inspired us?. Or, are the writers

aforesaid, collectively and individually, per-

-meated with such patrician ideas that an

allusion to a trading individual is distasteful

tothem? I pause forareply, and, in the

meantime, with the permission of the pilot
of THE TRADESMAN, will venture to sup-
plement a former article on the sutler with
an additional tribute to his merits and use-
fulness.

; * % * * *

Before I proceed with this self-imposed
duty and before I forget it, I want to

. Speak of a little circumstance which shows
that patrician ideas in America are not

-mecessarily germinated under the golden

sun of Mammon. I will not give the real

~ names of the parties in the case, but the

- facts are as narrated.

- Robert Hackett was the sutler of a
‘Western regiment which, during the whole
year of 1863, was brigaded with the —st
New York. The latter corps was a sort of

a dude organization’ and was commanded
“by a descendant of one of the f. f’s of New
York City. Nothing could be said against
ol. Knickerbocker’s courage, but out of
the line of duty he was nothing but a reck-
Jess spendthrift and inveterate gambler.
Singularly enough, he formed an intimate
friendship with rough Bob Hackett, and
the friendship progressed to that extent
that when the brigade was broken up he
swas Hackett’s debtor to the amount of some
thousands.

Two or three years after the war, Hackett
found himself temporarily residing in New
York, with a comfortable balance in his
favor at the bank. He met Knickerbocker
ccasionally, but that gentleman’s notorious
impecuniosity rendered even the suggestion
of an adjustment of old matters perfectly

aseless, and he even had the pleasure of q =

occasionally adding a little to the original
amount.

It occurred to Hackett one day that he
would like to join acertain club and, as
Knickerbocker was a member thereof, he
wrote that individual, requesting him to
present his name at the next meeting. A
_ reply to his note was soon received, and it

read somewhat as follows:
. My Drar FELLOw—Id awfully like to
oblige you, but I can’t, you know. The fact
is—you’re not to blame for it, old . boy, it
was your infernal destiny—you’ve handled
and sold crackers and cheese and herring
aand other vulgar articles of that sort, and IL
-eouldn’t and wouldn’t do what you ask for
“that nice little balance at your banker’s.
Awfully sorry you thought of it, you know.
P. S. Big swell party at Blewblud’s
to-morrow night, and my dress coat is up
‘the spout. Now, couldn’t you help me to
-$25 for the sake of old times, Bob?

: * * % * *

Iclaim that the sutler was an important
factor in the suppression of the rebellion.
“To be sure, he wasn’t belligerent, and
“usually had an instinctive and unconcealed
| dislike for carnage and bloodshed, but he
_ formed the connecting link between the

comforts and conveniences of home life and
_ the semi-savagery of army existence. The
young’ recruit, fresh from his comfortable
quarters and generous fare, found in his
*shebang” the articles which reconciled
his stomach to his change of avocation;
_ gradually fitted his unprepared body for its
change of wearing apparel, and gave him
_ some little chance to adhere to a semblance of
_ toilet decency. And I honestly believe that
_ the list of those who succumbed to home-
“sickness, became practically imbecile or
went on the role of deserters, would have
«been materially enlarged but for the ‘‘cent
per cent.” trafficer. 5

But in this, his very-far-from-unselfish

lission, he was a necessity only so long as
the volunteer remained unseasoned and
regretful for the duties he had assumed.

and experience soon made him a
. and when he became a genuine

the balance in his pocket on ‘‘pay

Ce * * *

" gueceeds fairly well in
y trade, but a party of
“mever succeeded as a
is. financial interests push,

 

ey when on B active service—he found little

trouble in keeping his shelves loaded, but

‘when there was a tumultous and almost.
frantic demand for everything eatable and_

drinkable, he usually found himself on ex-
tremely limited rations. It was a truly
affecting spectacle to witness a sutler with
an empty tent on pay day, and especially a
pay day that occurred at the conclusion of

a long march.

* * * * *

'I have said that the average sutler was
not belligerent, but there were notable ex-
ceptions to the rule, and if, at some future
period, my fellow citizens, with anything
like a reasonable unanimity, should con-
clude to send me down to ornament the
National Capitol, one of my first public acts
will be to introduce a private pension bill
for ope of these exceptions. As a rule,
politicians are ungrateful, but I am no poli-
tician, and I appreciate the fact that the
said exception once saved me about a couple
of hundred dollars.

During the Spring of 1864 the trains be-
tween Chattanooga and Nashville were often
derailed and plundered by guerrillas, and
the practice became so frequent that, later

 

capture by the enemy, a excepting for
the presence of an Indiana sutler, myself
and hundreds of other soldiers would have
been irretrievably ‘‘out.” This individual
hurriedly but quietly collected the train
hands and stragglers, got them into the
express car, and, after rapidly cutting loop-
holes in its sides, a deliberate and telling
fire was opened on the assailants. The

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ae

If so, send for Oatalogue and Price-List to
63 and 65 Canal St.,
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bushwhackers numbered ten to one but
were unable to dislodge the defenders.
They finally decided to roast them out and
set fire to the rear cars, but before the
flames were near enough for serious dis-
comfort a regiment of Federal cavalry put
in an appearance, and the sutler, his garri-
son and some $40,000 were saved.

And had I time and space I would like
to relate, in the interest of the unappre-
ciated army trader, how one helped to save
a provision train that eventually saved a
beleaguered force from semi-starvation, and
how another kept an important depot of sup-
plies from falling into the enemy’s hands.

I have always regretted that Gen. Sher-
man and myself differed so materially on
the subjects of the war correspondent and
the army sutler.

 

 

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Should be Thoroughly
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Warmed (not cooke
Good Butter (size of

of fresh mil

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Fresh and Salt Beef,
Fresh and Salt Pork,
Pork Loins, Dry Salt Pork,
Hams, Shoulders,
Bacon, Boneless Ham,
Sausage of all Kinds, a
Dried Beef for Slicing. 2

Strictly Pure and Warranted, in

tierces, barrels, one-half
at 50 pound cans,

20 pound cans, 3, 5 and ro pound

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in every instance.

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support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom-
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DILWORTH'S COFFEE,

Which Holds Trade on Account of

Veerened Quality.

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

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ng, which is: . thick
abounds in an austere astrin-
ards a oe oe
separating into valves from
eloses a scarlet, net-like mem-
only called mace, investing a
shining shell, which contains
or nutmeg. s
eg tree is a native of the Moluc-
other neighboring islands, and
especially in that small cluster dis-
d by the name of Banda, whence
supply of nutmegs was long de-
ut the plant is now cultivated in
Sumatra, Java, Singapore, Penang, Ceylon
and other parts of the East Indies, and has
{mtroduced into the Isles of France,
inborn, Cayenne and several of the West
Islands, A: fine tree in Jamaica has
four thousand nutmegs on it yearly.
ee begins to bear when ten years old,
3 on improving for a hundred years.
fruit is gathered two or three times a
- Three sorts of nutmegs are dis-
ished, namely, the male or barren,
royal and queen, the last of ‘which is

11 and round.
he nutmeg is propagated from seeds
qnutm and these vary in sizeand shape,
just as apples and pears do when raised
from seeds. There can hardly be a more
profitable crop than the nutmeg at present
Prices. The annual yield of a good tree of
sixteen years’ growth,is about ten pounds,
‘covering about 500 square feet surface,
which, at an average ef forty cents per
pound, gives a value of produce per acre
periannum of over $300, including mace.
‘The fruit of the nutmeg takes nine months
to mature, and 100 pounds of nutmeg pro-
_@guce one pound of mace. A good nutmeg
should be round, large and heavy, of a drab
erilight brown color, and finely marbled in
the cross ‘section. Its virtues are extracted
by alcohol and ether. Eighteen ounces of
good, sound nutmeg will yield four ounces
of oil. The volatile oil is obtained by dis-
#illation with water. By pressure with
heat an oily matter is procured from the
‘kernels, which becomes solid on cooling,
‘and is commonly though erroneously called

mace.

“Nutmegs have been punctured and boiled
in order to extract their essential oil, and
the orifice afterward closed so carefully as
not to be discoverable unless by breaking the
kernel. The fraud may be detected by their
_ Jightness. The Dutch were formerly said

to heat them in a stove in order to deprive

them of the power of germinating, and
thus prevent the propagation of the tree.

The Dutch used to have all the nutmeg
- trade, as they owned the Banda Islands,

and conquered all the other traders, and de-
_stroyed the trees to keep the price up. They
"mee burned over three piles of nutmegs,
gach of which was as large as a church.
Wature did not sympathize with such mean-
mess. The nutmeg pigeon, found in all
India islands, did for the world what the
Dutch had determined should not be done—
-earried these nuts, which are their food, into
all the surrounding countries. Trees grew
again and the world had the benefit.

~The practice of liming nutmegs has been
‘sadly abused. It is used principally for

making sightly and marketable those nut-
‘megs which at one time would have been
altogether rejected. The long or wild nut-
‘mez is distinguished from that described by
its much greater length, the absence of the
@ark brown veins, and its comparatively
feeble odor and disagreeable taste. It has
been called male, wild, or long nutmeg, the
other being designated as the female or cul-
tivated nutmeg. The concrete or exposed
oil of nutmeg, commonly called mace, is
obtained by bruising nutmegs, exposing
them in a bag to steam, and then compress-
ng them strongly between heated plates.
_ A liquid oil flows out which becomes solid
when it cools. Nutmegs are said to yield
from 10 to 12 per cent. of thisoil. The
‘Dest is imported from the East Indies in
Stout jars; it is solid, soft, unctuous to the
uch, of a yellowish or orange yellow
celor. more or less mottled, with the odor
ad taste of nutmeg. An artificial prepara-
fon is sometimes made from the genuine
oil. it is made by mixing fatty matters,
eh as suet, palm oil, wax, etc., adding
‘coloring substance, and giving flavor
the mixture by the volatile oil. Nutmeg
es with the medicinal properties of the
+ordi ary aromatics considerable narcotic
ower. In the quantity of two or three
‘@rachmes it has been known to produce
mpor and delirium, and dangerous if not
tai consequences are said to have followed
nse in India. It is employed to cover
taste or correct the operations of other
icines, but more frequently as an agree-
dition to farinaceous articles of diet,
to various kinds of drink in case of

id appetite and delicate stomach.

tmegs imported to this country are.

lly limed and packed in cases of
nd half piculs (a picul being 1231¢
md the mace in half picul cases,
very tightly; but the finest and
nd, which is usually shipped to

is not so

‘price. |

. Bennett before Brooklyn Retail

 

ires as an Attraction.
as become a custom among dealers to
goods at some odd prices, such
98 cents. Said a Broadway
day: ‘‘You would be sur-

how much of an inducement

three cents in change seems
but long observation has
many a person will buy an
example, which he
mar! cents.”

so closely pressed and com- |p

"4 D cans, 3 doz...

dime size...... i
Arctic, % ] cans, 6 doz....
“ i “ Eat
% 2 so 3
e ] 2 “es
6 5 1 oc
Victorian, 1 % (tall,) 2 doz. 2
Diamond, “bulk,’’........
Red ee bb cans 2 doz..

66 1)

Absolute, 4% i cans, 100

me

cans in — ee eases ll %5

Absolute, Tb cans, 50
Cans in Case.........---- 10
Absolute, 1 i cans, 50 cans
in case.
Telfer’s 4
ASB oe os a se ea ce
Telfer’s 4 Ib cans, 3 doz in .
CASE’ **** "ee ee ee eee Laie
Telfer’s 1 h cans, 1 doz in
CASE. 66.552. ion ae se ene
Early Riser, 4s, 4 doz case
es Ys. 2 o6 “6
of 1g, 1 rT os
BLUING
Arctie, 4 02. r’nd @ gross
of oz, ** 4

-

3
6

8 OZ.
Pints r’nd........

BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl...............---
No.1 Hurl.........-. ee
No. 2 Carpet.........-- ----
No. 1Carpet ........--------
Parlor Gem .........--.----

Boot
SISNS ZBBSS Sas

G9 69 39 099

Common Whisk........-.-- 1 =
3 15
3 00

fj

Fancy Whisk .......--.----

Warehouse ........-.------s

CHOCOLATE.
Runkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet
a 2 Premium...
Hom-Cocoa
Breakfast..
COCOANUT
BGs ewes 27
1s and 448........- 28
27

Boo 525s eos ore
1s in tin pails....
a8 ot See
$6 ee eee
1s and \%B........

se
se

se
oe

Schepps,
66

ée
td

Maitby’s,

a a eee y-
Manhattan, pails..........- 20
Peerless ..........2+--+-2:-- 18
Bulk, pails or barrels. .16@18

COFFEE—GREEN~ .-
Mocha........--. 22.00 «- 20@28
Mandaling...............-25@2
OG Java....-.--:-.---- 24@25
AW AS 6 ooo w eo oceeel 23@24
Maricabo...........--e- 16@19
-.e @I9

eocee

Santos. .....-. . ...20006 -15@18
Rio, fancy..... .....- -18@19
Rio, prime............ 16@17
Rio, common......... ..1M@15

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c per Db. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.
COFFEES—PACKAGE,

30 Ibs 60 Ibs: 100 Ibs
19%
20%

EON. co os 6-e .
Lion, in cab...
Dilworth’s....
Magnolia......
ACME......... 19%
German ......
German, bins.
Arbuckle’s Ariosa
Za Avorica
McLaughlin’s XXXX
Honey Bee...22%4 22%
Nox All....... 21% 21%
Our Bunkum.204% 20%.
COFFEES—)0 LB. BAGS.
Arbuckle’s Avorica. .

19%

Best Rio............

“ Prime Maricabo.. .22%4

CORDAGE.
60 foot Jute..... ......6.
72 foot Jute ....

49 Foot Cotton. . ae

50 foot Cotton.............

72 foot Cotton............--.
CRACKERS.

Kenosha Butter: ............. 1%

Seymour Butter.............6
Butier 4.50.5. 50. 6: 3... 26
Family Butter.......

Eee
Fancy Butter................- 5,
200%
Boston ....... eae ees eas 1% 4

6 >

Butter Biscuit.........

City Soda...-.......-.2.222..
RG sn a A

eo eeec ce ccece

Pienic ....... Fe eee es

Fancy Oyster. oe 5%

..1 35
BIDe sie cc 215
Cove Oysters, 1 & stand...1 on

CANNED FISH.
Clams, 1 b, Little Neck..
Clam Chowder,

Cove Oysters, 2 ® stand...1
Lobsters, 1 picnic. .....

Lobsters, 2 ib, picnic....... 2 =
Lobsters, 2b star.... 11212 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce 25

Lobsters, 1 Ib star.........

Mackerel, 1 stand........
Mackerel, 2 stand...... Ss

Mackerel,3 ib in Mustard. 2 a

Mackerel, 3 ib soused..
Salmon, 1b Columbia......
Salmon, 2 b ee

Salmon, 1 Sacramento. .
Salmon, 2 ib * ae
Sardines, domestic 448.....
Sardines, domestic %s...1
Sardines, Mustard \s...

pt OS BO
agsss

woe

Trout. 3 brook.........
CANNED FRUITS.

aru gallons, stand..... 2
Blackberries, stand........1
Cherries, red standard.....1
Cherries, pitted...... 1 8@1

AMSONS...........2 -1 25@1
Egg Plums, stand...-......
Gooseberries..............-
TODOS. 65st. 2 eee es os
Green Gages,.............--
Peaches, all yellow, stand.
Peaches, seconds..........
Peaches, pie.......... 1 &6@1
PeRIAS C2 5S os pi bee 2
Pineapples,....... 2 ee

in:

ces
phe
rly

pat ee

R909 et
BERRSKRS

@arececece

saved DD
‘Strawberries ......... 1 25@1 40
Whortleberries............. 12

'D VEGET 8:

ene wus, O Bay....2 00
: Ss, rpay....
to purchasers. The re- ones, tin bend : 85

atively | Peat

 

RSSESATRVASRVSSH

oS BY
1 * oe 4 % 1 5O

18 %5
2 70

e a

= Sago, German........

37
48

2A

. 18%
Quaker City.......18%
204%

11
i 9@10
Sardines, imported 4s. .12@18 |
Sardines, spiced, 448..... 10@12

S8u

RS

=
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40@2
pace see cee hese 15
es, extra.........1 50

Raisins, California “ ....2
Raisins, Loose Muscatels..

Raisins, Ondaras, 288. 9

Raisins, Sultanas.......

Raisins, Valencias.....

Raisins. Imverials.......... 3
FISH.

Cod, whole............. 34@5

Halibut.................
Herring, round, % bbl.
Herring, round, % bbl.
Herring, Holland, bbls.
Herring, Holland, kegs
Herring, Scaled

Mack. sh’, No. 1, ae

10 bk
White, No. 1,

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Jennings’ Lemon.
D.C.,20z.....@doz 90

$82 ROL ose disc en 1 40
2 20

Or
»
6s

8 OL 22025. sss %

No. 3 Panel...

No. 4 Taper..1 60

No. 8 panel...2 %5

To a ne a4 _
pint, r’nd..

I “oe 66 9 00

Standard

os

50

5
75
75
50
50
50
00

66
oe
oe
6s

TD > OO GO tO et

ce 1
Lemon. Vanilla.
per gross.
English{2 0z...... 7 20 9
** 3 OZ

o

66

Farina, 100 lb. kegs.........

Macaroni, dom 12 Ib. box..

* imported...10 @ll
Pearl Barley......... 5
Peas, Green..........
Peas, Split............

Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl..
Wheat, cracked......
Vermicelli, import...
. domestic...
MATCHES.
G. H. No. 8, square........

G. H. No. 300, parlor....... 21
G. H. No. %, round......... 1
Oshkosh, No. 2..........-.-
Oshkosh, No. 8..........-.- 1
Swedish

Richardson’s No. 8 8q...... 1
Richardson’s No.9 sq......
Richardson’s No. 7%, rnd..
Richardson’s No. 7

MOLASSES.
Cuba Baking... ee

New Orleans, fancy.....
\% bbis. 3c extra

OIL.

Water White............... 113g
' OATMEAL

OATS—ROLLED.
Marvels... 25.2 -.5-5----+2-56 g
Half barrels ...... ...-..-.- 3

PICKLES.

Small, bbl.......
“ ” Ye bbl......

RICE.
Hea G os ee ew

RAngooD........-..---22-2 00> 5

BBrOKON 2 2... 2 woos 7 = 00

JAPAN. ...2---.--.-2---6-
SALERATUS.

@hureh’s —.............2.-02 5
Taylor’s G. M...........---- 5
Dwight’s .........6.----ee eee 5

Cap Sheaf......... .+..---- aco
4c less in 5 box lots.

‘Saginaw or Manistee......
Ashton, bu. bags.........-.

| Higgins’ bu. bags.........-
American, % bu. bags...
Rock, bushels..............
Warsaw, ere bags Sed sie .

SAUCES.

SOAP,
Dingman, 100

SPICES—WHOLE.
AlSNICO 2.5.6. 3555265225 -. 8
Cassia, China in mats......
«© Batavia in bund....il
© Saigon in rolls.....

Cloves, Amboyna. .28
* Zanzibar..

‘Mace Batavia....

Nutmegs, zane

No. 2...

66

shot. .....-:-+4-4-4b
SPICES—GROUND—IN BULK.
AMIBDICE. 2-5 5 ees wes = ii
Cassia, Batavia............. 20
” “* and Saigon.25
f° RIPON. 6505555 so 42
Cloves, Amboyna......... "85
Se GANZIVOl. .. 5.0.55 5 30

“sf hin. 6.3 .205...545
Mace Batavia.......
Mustard, English

“se
Nutmegs, No. 2....
Pepper, Singapore

we wceee
eo eecce

iseees 740

black. .22

u white..

: Cayenne.......... 5

Absolute Pepper, doz...
. Cinnamon “..

Alispice Boe

Cloves ee

- Ginger

Mustard

: STARCH.

Desa oe
Eee fe. DUUK. | 2, .. +00 OM
Pure, 1 pkgs.............. bY
Corn,! Db pkgs...... ‘eeesan

cry

‘ord’s
Silver Gloss, 1 Db
ry) 6e 6 Db

 

2 10
Raisins, Loose California. .1 90
@9%

@i%
35

4
Cod, boneless..... ..... 64O14
7d
7 50

0 Florida..........
59 | Rose PiORL os 3 a8 ee ee 66

... 85

White, No. 1, % bbls........ 6 75
12 b kits..... 120
White, No.1, 10 ® Kits..... 1 05
White, Family, % bbls..... 3 %5
ee so KATA oc. 70

Vanilla.

Hominy, # bbl............. 4 .

@ 3%
@1 40

95
H. No 9, square, 3 gro...1 10
G. H. No. 200, parlor.......1
a
75 | Candles, Star...............
50 ndles. Star
75
00
50

rnd..J 50
Woodbine. 300.............. 114

Black Strap...........-.- 17@18
22@25

Porto Rico.............--+ 24@35
New Orleans, good...... 33@A0
New Orleans, choice..... 44@50

50@52

Michigan Test.............- 10%

Marrels 0-25. 22s: 5. iss 6 25
Half parrels..:...........-. 3 25
Cases. ....-.:- Soa eoe ecm ces 2 35

00
25
VORBOBR 6. cc. oko. 22 2 25@3 35
.-.6 00
..d 50

7 00
sone: 4 00

Wale... 265... se see S4OSA

SAVOs 65-3. Se ene 64
WPAGNG:. .- 052562 o see eee ce 5%

@6 7A
DeLand’s pure.............. 5%

Sea’ Foam ............s2e-eeee 544

SALT.

| 60 Pocket, FF D........... 215
OS POCKSL ©. 2... 255s -? ee 2 05
1003 pockets.............- 2 =
76
Ashton,4 bu. bags........+. 2 75

7
sey 20 2 ; .

55 | Lozenges, printed in pails.12%
36
19
London Relish, 2 doz... ... 2 50
bars........-. 4 00
Don’t Anti-Washboard....4 75
Saxons = 65.56 2.622. cs os 3 Td

Queen Anne..........---.- 4 00
German Family............ 2 49

TH

E 60°
Pepper, Singapore, plack..18%
» - white.

Ginger, African............12%
be Coe.

Jamaica........ .- @18
. 80

% | Frogs’ Legs

Graham Crackers....
Oatmeal Crackers....
TOBACCOS—PLUG.

Eclipse.......... bei cene ee cas 36
Holy Moses................+. 33
Bite HIAZES.... . . 5s. 3. cose f 32
Eye Opener................-- 32
Star :

P:
Wedding Cake, bik.......... 40
ROG HOR oe ee ae oe o 45
Sweet Russet ............ 30@32
TOBACCOS—FINE CUT.
Sweet Pippin................ 50
Five and Seven............... 50
PIAWAUNE. 6 5 ese oc se se os 68
Sweet Cuba................6. 45
Petoskey Chief............... 55
Sweet Russet.............40@42
PHISKC. 5 2a ess es eee i

Red Domino.......... .. ..... 38
oo ANVOL, = ke css. 40

SO a og hoe tae
Capper 222-2 --22..: ee 42
TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
ROD ROY... sors e sess oes 28
Peerless: 22). e.2..6.33 pokes 28
Wee Sam oo oes oo a se 30
SACK PANG. 3.55506. es a, oe 36
Sensation.............. Bocas 33
Yellow Jacket..............0
Sweet Conqueror........ 20@25

TEAS.

Japan ordinary..... .... 18@20
Japan fair to good....... 25@30
PAVANANE.... 5... cscs 35@A45
Japan dust............ +,. .12@20
Young Hyson............
Gunpowder...............

35@50
60 | Oolong...... Se 338@55Q60@75
25@30

CONZOs. 6. os ovo ae chess

VINEGAR.
30gr. 40 gr. 502r.
9% 11% 18

Above are the prices fixed
by the pool. Manufacturers
outside the pool usually sell
5 gr. stronger goods at same
prices. $1 for barrel.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bath Brick imported ...... 90

do American......
Burners, No. 0

G0. Noo Fe

do. (Nos2. 3... oe
Chimneys, No. One oes ae 38

ee oo

Cocoa Shells, bulk..........
Condensed Milk, Eagle....
Cream Tartar. .:........... 25

Candles, Hotel..............
Camphor, 02., 2 ib boxes. ..35
Extract Coffee, V. C.......
do Felix .....
Fire Crackers, per box....
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps...
Gum, Spruce............... 30
Jelly, in 30 bb pails.. .5 @ 5%
Powder, Keg............... 5 50
Powder, % Keg............ 2 87
ORPD oo eee ess eu a 15

CANDY. FRUITS and NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as
follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 ib boxes....... 814
Twist, do 9
Cut Loaf do
MIXED.

Royal, 25 ib pails..... 8%@ 9
Royal, 200  bbis.......... oe
Extra, 25 Ib pails..........-10
Extra, 200 ib bbis........... 9
French Cream, 25 b pails. .11%
Cut loaf, 25 ib cases........ 10
Broken, 25 i pails......... 10
Broken. 200 b bblis......... 9
FANCY—IN 5 ib BOXES.

Lemon Drops...............- 13
Sour Drops... 4: 2 .: 2... .2-2s 14
Peppermint Drops.......... 14
Chocolate Drops............. 14
H MChocolate Drops....... 18
Gum Drops: .-....:.......... 10
Licorice Drops.....+........- 18
AB Licorice Drops.. Sea
Lozenges, plain.............. 14
Lozenges, printed........... 15
Imperials .............c02000- 14
INNOULOCE, = ooo. 5. cbs ose s see 15
Cream Bare. ...2.-2..6550. <2: 13
Molasses Bar................- 13
@aramels: 62>... 6. ss eos 18
Hand Made Creams.......... 18
Plain Creams..............-.. 16
Decorated Creams....... ... 26
String Rock. ..:.:.....-...-.- 13
Burnt Almonds............. 22
Wintergreen Berries........ 14

FANCY—IN BULK.

Lozenges, plain in pails...12
Lozenges, plain in bbls....11

%

Lozenges, printed in bbls.11%
Chocolate Drops, in pails. .12%
Gum Drops in pails....... 6%
Gum Drops, in bbls........ 5%
Moss Drops, in pails....... 10
Moss Drops, in bbls........ 9
Sour Drops, in pails.......
Imperials, in pails.........
TImperials in bbls...... 1

FRUITS.
Bananas.............- 1 25@3 00
Oranges, choice ..... @
Oranges, Florida..... @
Oranges, Rodi........ @s 00
Oranges, OO @
Oranges, Imperials.. @
Oranges Valencia ca.

Lemons, choice...... @6 50
Lemons, fancy....... @6 50
Figs, layers, new..... 122 @16
Figs, Bags, 50 ib @6
Dates, frails do......

Dates, 4 do do...... %
Dates, Fard 10 b box # b.. 3
Dates, Fard 50 bh box @ b.. 6%

2% | Dates, Persian 50 ib box ..5@5%

NUTS.

Tarragona @1"%
Ivaca...... @16

2 California 18@14
Brazils 202.93. cs @8
Filberts, Sicily....... @l1
Walnuts, Grenoble.. @13

: Sicil. 12
Pecans, Texas, H. P.
Cocoanuts, # 100.....

PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw # Db
Choice do do
Fancy H.P.do do
Choice White, Va.do
Fancy H P,. Va ‘do 5
WP VAs ease.

OYSTERS AND FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as
follows:
2 OYSTERS.
Fairhaven Connts......... ¢ 40
FISH.

Almonds,

@
8@12
50.

%
7
*%

Rock bk

Duck-bill pike.......:....... 6

t RG os edness ga ba bo aie speech
Whitefish

fish. 12... sccsees .) 8
as Se
seaeeneessp 2 BO@TS

 

Short cut
, | Short cut
3% ‘Extra clear

40 | GinBeNE, LOO... 2... sce eee eee ec ee te

4% |)
5

NG ae oS oak fae eee aes

Standard clear, short cut, best............
Beans... Se eise orks cass eas este bee

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.

bed bt to tt

42 Hams, average 20 IDS oo ei ac oe et et ene il

6
oe
bie est boneless...............
PHOUIGECIS ooo oie eee eee ee weed
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................--
Dried Beet, Cxtra. . 5. 3s esc se eben cee
s ham prices..... eee seie ae obs

. DRY SALT MEATS. '
Long Clears, heaivy........... a Gees
an = MICMIUIA. es Sh eae es
- AUG ce as aac ce

LARD.
MIGVCOR oe ioe aes cee aces osees
80 and 50 ® Tubs ................2...0.05

LARD IN TIN PAILS.
3 Ib Pails, 20 in a case...................
5 bb Pails, 12 in a case. .................-
10 Pails. 6in a case...................
20 Ib Pails, 4 pailsin case...............
BEEF IN BARRELS.

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

Be Kansas City Packing......... - 7% 25
PASEO 27 ois cose ic cece cect le cccescee eS
WUXATO PLATO es ee ace es al ww case

5
v5)

33 Boneless, rump DUGG. oe es 9 50

“* Kan City pkd........ 8 50
be oe “ oe @ “ee % bbl. 5 00

. SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

POEk SPAUISAPO) else os cele s k ean ge ee %

HUAI OAMBACO ee i ec cee eee ll

TONGUG SRUSALC.: .. 2... 6252... cco e ese oes

Frankfort Sausage.................0005 cece 8

6

20 PIOOG SAUNSHLO. 6 oc oe cei ie ccc cescue cc acces 6

Bologna, straight............... ee oe ieeasecs 6

Bologna, thick....... Wate aos ea cele tein crsie/ Seals 8

Head Cheese ee. .  ee eee es 6
PIGS’ FEET.

UM Balt DAPVO6 ooo es sae oe cas cae aecte esos 38 00
in quarter Darrels.. 66.3.5. .625. secs c eee 2 00
TRIPE.

Dm te Bie ee eS *....0 00
Un SAB hs ses ee eels ek ase a eee ee 1 75
MAUS ee ee Sa oes ese ce ces cee ce 85

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:
HIDES

TIDES.

Green ....@b4 @ 4%|Calf skins, green

Part cured... @5 or cured....5 @6

Fulleured.... 54@ 6 |Deacon skins,

Dry hides and e 8 piece..... 10 @20
Kips 222705 .. 6

WOOL.
Fine washed # ib 18@20|Coarse washed..
Medium ......... 20@22|Unwashed
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sheep pelts, short shearing....... ... 5@20

Sheep pelts, old wool estimated....... 20@23

Tallow...... Oe ee 3 @3%

Grease bittter................ ar ae ee @ 5
@l1 75

PRODUCE MARKET.

Asparagus—a0c per doz.

Beans—Hand-picked mediums are very
searce, readily commanding $2.25 per bu.

Beets—New, 30c per doz.

Butter—The market is well supplied. Large
handlers pay 12@14c for choice, selling again

99 | at 15@16c.

Butterine—Creamery, l4e for solid packed
and 15c for rolls. Dairy, 18¢ for solid packed
and 14c for rolls.

Cabbages— Illinois stock readily commands
75e per doz. .

Cheese—Even: good stock is a drug in the
market, commanding only 8@8\%c per 1b. It
will probably touch 7c before taking an up-
ward turn.

Cider—1l0c per gal.

Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce bar-
rels, 25c. :

Cucumbers—30c per doz.

Dried Apples—Jobbers hold sun-dried at 7c
and evaporated at 9c.

Eggs—Jobbers now pay 18@l4c and sell at
15@léc.

Honey—In plentiful supply at 15@16c.

; Ha oe is weak at $16 for No.1 and $15
OF NO. 66 OKUS Bill, aA

Lettuce—about out of market.

Onions— Young stock, 8c per dozen.
mudas are held at $2. per bu. box.

Peas—Green, 60¢ per bu.

Pieplant—lc per Ib.

Pop Corn—2%ec ® b.

Potatoes—Home grown are weak, being quot-
able at 60c per bu. New, $3 per bbl.

Radishes—iec per doz.

Seeds—Buckwheat, $1 per bu. Millet, $1.50.

String Beans—‘5c per bu.

Strawberries—Home grown are in fair sup-
ply at 6@8c per qt.

Tomatoes—$l1 per 14 bu. case.

Turnips—25 per bu..

Wax Beans—$§1 per bu.

Watermelons—Georgia, 25¢ apiece.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—City millers pay 82c for Lancaster,
Clawson and Fulse.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 55c in 100 bu.
lots and 50c in car lots.

Oats—White, 45cin small lots and 40cin
ear lots.

Rye—50c #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, $3.00 # bbl.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $16 @ton. Bran, $14
# ton. Ships, $14.50 @ ton. Middlings, $17
# ton. Corn and Oats, $23 #2 ton.

EDWIN FALLAS,

PROPRIETOR OF

VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

JOBBER OF

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs
and Egg Crates. :

Ber-

 

 

No. 1 egg crates, 3%c. 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. A
liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in large lots.

SALESROOM, - No. 9 Ionia St, Grand Rapids,

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.
Transacts a general banking business.

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

 

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SSSSSSSRS

Importers, |
Jobbers and
Retailers of

BOOKS,
Stationery & Sundries,

20 and 22 fonroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

WALES - GOODYEAR

AND

GONNKGTICUT

Rubbers.

 

Write for fall Prices and Discounts.

G. R. MAYHEW,

86 Monroe Street,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

The BEST CRACKER Made.
‘CILIOLIOS WACO TWILL

We also manufacture a full line of Sweet
Goods. Write for quotations
and samples.

Jackson Cracker C0,

WANTED.
Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota-
toes, Beans, Dried Fruit,
Apples an:
Produce.

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

Rarl 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 & G0,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference
FELSENTHAL. Gross & MILLER, Bankers,
Chicago.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

The most practical
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—giving satisfac
tion. They are simple
durable and econom-
ical. Nou ocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
and pea-nuts to per
fection.

Send for circulars.

Robt. §. West,

150 Long 8t.,

JACKS
MICH.

 

 

 

 

all kinds of

a three-foot, French glass, oval-front

 

I have a Choice Lot of Buck-
wheat for Seeding purposes, of
the SILVER HULL and GRAY
varieties, that I offer to the
Trade at $1 per bu.

Bags, extra, 18c. each.

In lots of 5bags at a timel
will deliver free to cars. Less
than that amount, cartage will

be charged.

W. Y. LAMOREAUX,

71 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

BEST FAMILY, =

 

 

MPRON
MECHANICAL
BAKER

We have just put in a new and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

complete set_of machinery, and
now have as fine a Bakery as
there is in the State and make
as large a variety of goods at as
low prices as our competitors,

A.RAYON & 60,

(Successors to Eaton & Christenson)

TT Canal Street, Grand Rapids,

SOMETHING NEW!

We have just received a large
shipment and wish to call your
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 _
is unexcelled. Price, $1
per gallon.

TRY AKEG. IY WILL PAY YOU.
EATON & CO.

Agents for Michigan,

77 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

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STRENGIY-4

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“fl PURE:

NW; {TRIPLE STRENGTH)

THESE GOODS ARE “PAR EXOELLENOE’

Pure, Healthful and Reliable, warranted to give satis-
faction in every particular. For sale by wholesale and
retail grocers throughout tht United States. VOUWIE
Bros., Manufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

 

Offer No. 170.

FREE—To Merchants Only: A
Show Case. — Address at once, R, W.
Tansill & Co.,

55 State St., Chi

 

"They Please Everybody. —

HEADLIGHT and
LIPTLE DAISY

SOAPS are conceded by all to be the best oy
soaps ever sold in Michigan. ee
Commendations are coming in daily. Send
for price list. ;

Order these goods of any jobber in Grand j
Rapids. :

Grand Rapids Soap Go.
GIGAR DEALERS

Read this Scheme.

$11,550 Worth of Real Estate

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

‘Golden-Rod,’ ‘Presto’ 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 $30 for the ‘‘Empress”
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 property and the
purchasers of the goods will get the direet
benefit. Just look at this carefully ané
see a plain business proposition. We hand.
over to you direct the amount it would cost
us to sell these goods in the ordinary way.

We will distribute this property in the
following manner:

We will start an order book at this date
with lines numbered from 1 to 3,000 and
each order will be entered in the book in
the order it is received at our office.

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

Eivery 24th order received 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. Hither 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, or a farm of 160 acres.
There are 39 lots of the real estate and 720
articles of personal property to go with
3,000 orders, an average of more than one |
in four.

An order will consist of 14% 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 M. An order of double
this amount from one party will 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 nice imported scrap-cigar, gives.
universal satisfaction and sells in many
places at 10e.

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 ¥% of a.
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. & I. R. R. 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 wilk
get warranted goods, worth the price put.
on them. 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--
riéss standing.

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

Any business man in Romeo, and any~
wholesale tobacco house in Detroit, Chicago,.
Louisville and St. Louis.

Yours respectfully,

H.W. Bradley % Bro.,.
nun,
D. D. COOK,

Valley City Show Case Facto

MANUFACTURER OF —

SHOW CAs

 

 

 

Detroit. SESS
t—H. B. “Grand Rapids.
=H. B. Haivonild Grand Rapide

cee ial Gree

mimi ‘Geo. Gundrum, Frank Inglis,
t, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.

ir, Detroit. .
tember 4, 5, 6:and 7.

. s Pharmaceutical Society.
d Rapids PI sey ty

r—Henry B, Fairchild.

Censors—President, Vice-President and Sec-

f Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, Geo.
ketee, A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg.

Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. te.

ee on Trade Matters—Jonn Peck, F. J. Wurz-

y S.

‘burg. W. H. Tibb:

ittee on
‘emink, W. H. Van Leuwen.

Legislation—J. W. Hayward, Theo.

Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, John Muir,

_\ M. B. Kimm.

‘Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each
~ month. :

: ananat Meeting—First Thursday evening in November.

‘Clinton
| President, A.

 

Proctdent, JW, Dunlop; ,
“Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society.
* | President, H. M. Dean; Secre'
County Druggists’ Association.
oO. md Secretary, A. 8. Wallace.
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
President, H. W. W: Secretary,
Ionia County Pharmaceutical Society,
President, W. R. ie Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.
Jackson County Pharmace
President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary,
Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.
Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber.
Monroe County
President, S. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon County Druggists’ Association,
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
Muskegon 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.

in J

; ineach m
Druggists’ Assoc
Secretary, R. M. Mussell..

tary, Henry Kephart.

illard

P utical Ass’n.

C. E. Foote.

Pharmaceutical Society.

iation.

Geo. W. Crouter.

| their relative value as solvents.

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

Advanced—Cubebs.

Declined—Opium, opium po., gum camphor, quinine German, saffron, linseed oil.

 

ee ACIDUM.

Aceticum ............ 8@

| sme ia German 80@1
45@
60G
3@

: i

- xalicum

~~ Phosphorioum dil...

Be eeu Sree. 1 70@2 05

Sulphuricum........ - 1%@5
i 1 40@1 60
‘Tanni e

10
00
30

12

ee AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg......... 3@ 5/7
es AS GOr....-....

ie

- Carbonas.............

* Chioridum........... 2@ 14
j ANILINE

BACCAE.
Cubebae (po. 1 66....

- Juniperus ........
Xanthoxylum a
e BALSAMUM.

Abies, Canadian.....

MCASBIAC ......---000---

incbona Flava......

‘EKuonymus atropurp

“Myrica Cerifera, po.

Prunus Virgini......
uillaia, grd.........

fras

; eS ists tke as :
imus Po(Ground 12)
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. 24@
e De.-5.

<Carbonate Precip....
Citrate and Quinia...
“Citrate Soluble.......
- Ferrocyanidum Sol..
-Solut Chioride.......
Sulphate, com’l...... 1%
i “ pure.......
: FLORA.

Arnica... Spgs ss =~ =
-Anthemis ........---.
-Matricaria....
: - FOLIA.
- Barosma.........-.--.
Gansin Acutifol, Tin-

nivelly..: Seeos Re

Salvia officinalis, 4s
a...

10@

: GUMML.
Acacia, Ist picked...
ea oe -9nd “...
ora 8 a.
Sifted sorts.
po
_Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)..
** Cape, (po. 20)...
* Socotri’, (po. 60)
-“atechu, Is, (346, 14
448, 16)......-----++-
Amumoniae .........-
Assafoetida, (po. 30).
' Benzoinum ..........
Camphorae ........--
Euphorbium, po.....
-Galbapum...........-
‘.Gamboge, po.....-..-
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...
Kino, (po. 25)

Mastic
- . Myrrh, (po.45)....  -
opi. (po. 4 40).......
 $Shellac...........---

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oe

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89@
@
@

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‘2 85@3 00

8

ina.) BO

: bleac eonleet

> “Tragacanth ........-- 30@ %5

. HERBA—In ounce packages.

 _Absinthium........ ae
one ep es
“Dobelia ........------

&

~Majorum .......--..-
- Mentha Piperita.....
eee ee 7 WAP... .-.-20

RBRVS RVSRSBRS

 

+ Potass Nitras, opt...

Veratrum Veride....

8@
Potass Nitras........
Prussiate ............
Sulphate po...... ee
- RADIX.
Aconitum... ...... B
AINE 2 ooo. svaa s>e
Anchusa .............
ATUM, PO0...-......<.
Calamus............:.
Gentiana, (po. 15)....
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).
Hydrastis Canaden,

«po. 55)....... Se
Heliebore, Aiba, po.
MUIR, PO... .-..2--..-5
Ipecac, po............ 2 25@2
Iris plox (po. 20@22)..
JRANS, Pr.........-2-
Maranta, 48.........
Podophyllum, po....
Rhei eee eee ae cco eee

B8od

SRSSRBSS SESRSEN

Wie ee
Spigeia ee
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).
Serpentaria..........
Senega,..... fee Dd@
Smilax, Officinalis, = @
Scillae, (po. 35)....... 10@

Symplocarpus, Eoe-

tidus, po............
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @
“6 G 15@

@
3W@

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erman..
Zingiber a............
Zingiber j............
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20)......
Apium (graveleons).
aI AS. eee
Carui, (po. 18)........ 122@
Cardamom ........... 1 00@1 25
Coriandrum..........
Cannabis Sativa..... 3%@ 4%
Cydonium............ 75@1
enopodium ....... 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate....1 75@1 85
Foeniculum.......... @ 15
Foenugreek, po...... 8
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Frumenti ........ .-1 10@1 5
Juniperis Co. O. T...1 75@1L 75
Juniperis Co.. -1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. --1 T5@2 09
-1 75@6 50
..-123@2 00

ini Oporto...
1 25@2 00

Vini Alba..........
SPONGES
Florida sheevs’ wool
carriage.......... «0.2 20@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wooi
Carriage............ 2 00
Velvet Extra sheerzs’
wool carriage......
Extra Yellow sheers’
carriage..........
Grass sheeps’ wool
Carrlage............
Hard for slate use...
Yellow Reef. for slate
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ACCACIA. -. oo 20es0-585
Zingiper..........-.-.
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Auranti Cortes...... 5
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Tolutan.............. .
Prunus virg..........
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and myrrh.....
Arnica .......... cease
Asafoetida .......... pe
Atrope belladonna...
Benzoin SG oc cues oo 050 ee

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‘Barosma............ es
Cantharides....... oe

Capsicum............ e
Cardamon Bt Sae ees oae
CORSON Soo oss sco s os —
Catechu ..............

Hyoscyamus .........
Todine........... Bos cics

© Colorless......
Ferri Chi ‘ridum....
Kino os

Auranti Cortex... 9
Quassia.............. <
Rhatany ............ os

Serpentaria..........
Stromonium........ os
Polntan. .....2.5.+-.

WAOTION |... 02. 320s
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Spts Nit, i F.. 30@

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Capsici Fructus, af..
Capsici Fructus, po..
Capsici Fructus, B po
Caryophyllus, (po. 25) 2
Carmine, No. 40
Cera Alba, 8. & F.... 50@
Cera Flava...........
WOceus 2255.3.
Cassia Fructus.......
Centraria ............
Cetaceum............
Chloroform .......... 60@ 65
Chloroform, Squibbs @1 00
Chloral Hyd Crst..... 1 50@1 75
Chondrus ............ v
20
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10@
Cinchonidine, P.& W 15@
Cinchonidine, Ger’an 5@ i2
Corks, list, dis. per
cent 40
Creasotum........... @ 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)........ @ 2
5@ 6
8@ 10
@ 8
18@ 20
@ 2A
%
12

Creta, precip.........
Creta Rubra..........
STOCnB 32... .k ks),
Cudbear... 2.0.2.2...
Cupri Sulph..........
Dextrine.... 6... ..2.;
Ether Suiph..........
Emery, all numbers.
Emery, po............
Ergota, (po.) 75.......
Flake White.........
ABA oo
Gambier .............
Gelatin, Coopor......
Gelatin, French...... 40@ 60
ere flint, 70&10 by box.
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6@
10@
68@ 70
@ 8
@ 6
10@ 5
R@ 1b
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7@ 8

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Glycerina......
Grana Paradisi......
Humulus..... ......
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite.
Hydrarg Chior. Cor.
HydrargOx.Rubrum @
Hydrarg Ammoniati. @1 10
Hydrarg Unguentum 45@ 55
Hydrargyrum .......
Ichthyocolla, Am....
Indigo......- bye cee lee
Iodine, Resubl.......
Iodoform ... ces
Lupuline ...
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Liquor Arsen et Hy-
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Moschus Canton .... @
Myristica, No. 1...... 70
@ 1s
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Nux Vomica, (po. 20)
Os. Sepia........... :
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
MOCO eee .
Picis Liq, N. C.. % gal
DOA 3 to .
Picis Liq., quarts....
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..
Pix Burgun..........
Plumbi Acet......... u4@
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.1 10@1
Pyrethrum, boxes, H
& P.D.Co., doz... .
Pyrethrum, pv.......
Quassiae.............
Quinia, S, P. & W....
Quinia, S, German...
Rubia Tinctorum....
Saccharum Lactis pv
Salacin....... Saar 3 40
Sanguis Draconis....
Santonine............
Sapo; We... 665.3200;
Sapo, Me

Sapo, G
Seidlitz Mixtyre.....
Sinapis
Sinapis, opt..........
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do.

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Soda Boras, (po 11)..10
Soda et PotossTart.. 33@ 35
Soda Carb............
Soda, Bi-Carb........
Soda, Ash
Soda Sulphas........
Spts. Ether Co.......
Spts. %.vreia Dom...
Spts, Myrcia Imp....
Spts =o Rect. bbl.
2. aD

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Strychnia Crystal... @1 10
Sulphur, Subl ....... %@ 3%
Sulphur, Roll........ 2%@ 3
Tamarinds........... 10
ferebenth Venice ..
Theobromae......... 5B@ 55
Vanilla ...... oa 9 00@16 00
Zinci Sulph.......... 7@ 8

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Ochre, yellow Mars. “te 2@3
Ochre, yellow Ber. ..1%
pues ee a 2403
y,8 ure... 3
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Whiting, white Span 70
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6/iaining magnesium

Mention the offici

 

sment of the pro- |

aporation. Say
are necessary for
es. we acted up. Name the
class of drugs which can be exhausted by
percolation. What kind of liquids pass
through most rapidly, and what care must
be exercised with ‘very porous drugs, such
as contain a very: large proportion of ex-
tractive matter, and with others which are
compact and of close texture, and in case
of excess of the menstruum? How can
the proper strength of the preparation be
preserved when it becomes necessary to
evaporate part of the liquid ?

2. Name foursolvents frequently used in
the practice of pharmacy, in the order of
Explain by
example the drugs best adapted to each.

3. Spiritus—W hat is the difference between
a tincture and aspirit, U.S.P.? Namethe
five modes recognized by the Pharmacopeeia
for preparing spirits, naming one of each
kind. é

4. Tinctura—What are tinctures? Name
three processes ordered by the Pharma-
copeia for preparing them. Name one
made by each process. Mention a tincture
made by simple solution. What is the
formula for Tincturee Herbarum Recentium ?

5. Fluid Extracts, Solid Extracts, Ab-
stracts—Give a general formula for prepar-
ing them. Describe them as to strength of
drug, menstruum, dose, etc.

6. Metrology—What is measure? What
is weight? Name the system of weights
used in the U.S. P., based on the grain.
Give the table for apothecaries’ weight.
Give the table for wine measure, U. S. P.

7. Nomenclature, U. S. b.—How are the
titles of medical substances indicated in the
U.S. P.? Give an example of each. Why
is the Latin language employed for the
Officinal names? What is meant by the
‘botanical name?” When should the
officinal name be used ?

8. Syrupus—Give the process for making
the following officinal syrups: Syrupus
Aurantii, Syrupus Aurantii Florum, Syr-
upus Ferri Iodidi, Syrupus Pruni Virgin-
iane, Syrupus Tolutanus.

9. Name one each of the following offici-
nal remedial agents, giving the formula for
its preparation, and its use: Cerata, Un-
guenta, Emplastra, Confection, Masse.

10. Extemporaneous Pharmacy — State
what class of preparations come under this
head. Write a paragraph outlining your
idea of the requirements of a dispensing
pharmacist.

, CHEMISTRY.

1. Definitions—What do you understand
by organic and inorganic chemistry 2? Give
an example of each. What is meant by
chemical action 2. Describe a case in which
chemical action occurs. What is an acid?
What is an alkali?

2. Name five. metals the salts of which
are frequently.used in medicine. Namea
leading salt of €ach, and describe how they
are obtained.

3. Potassium— Give the source and char-
acter uf carbonate of potassium. How is
the chlorate of potassium prepared? De-
scribe the appearance and properties of
iodide of potassium. What is cream of
tartar? Describe the officinai article. -What
acid does it contain ?

4. Mercury—Name the principal ore of
mereury. Describe a process by which the
metal is extracted from the ore. ‘Describe
the physical and medicinal properties of
mercury. In what preparation of medicine
do we use metallic mercury? How is cal-
omel prepared, and what care should be
used in prescribing it with other remedies ?

5. Oil of Vitriol—Give the officinal name,
and tell what you know about it. What is
White vitriol? Blue vitriol? Green vit-
riol? How are they obtained? What per

9}cent. of sulphuric acid is contained in

aromatic sulphuric acid ?

6. Acid Tannicum—Describe a process
for the preparation of tannic acid. What
preparation of tannic acid is contained in
nutgall ? Mention other officinal substances
whose astringency is due to tannin. What
are the officinal preparations ?

%. Magnesium—Give the natural source
of the various salts of magnesium. Give
the process for the preparation of Epsom
salts. Name the officinal preparations con-
carbonate. How
would you prepare the liquor magnesii
citratis, U. S.?

8. Arsenicum—In what form does arsenic
occur in nature? Describe the character
and appearance of White arsenic. Mention
the officinal preparations of White arsenic.
How is the liquor potassii arsenitus and the
liquor acidi arseniosi U. S. prepared ? What
would you give in case of poison by ar-
senic ?

9. Aceticum U. S.—What is it? Name
an officinal preparation containing it. What
is the source of citric acid? Name its
officinal preparations. Give the origin of
tartaric acid and other tartrates.

10. Poisons—Give the best and speediest
antidote for the following poisons : Hydrate
of chloral, nitric acid, caustic potash, and
aqua ammonia.

MATERIA MEDICA.

1. Foxglove—Name it officinally. Give
its habitat. What part of the plant is used
in medicine, and’ what are the special direc-
tions for gathering it? Mention its uses in
medicine. Give the officinal preparations
and doses.

2. Hydrastus— Give the common and
officinal names. What part of the plant is
used? - Mention its active constituents,
giving the color of each. Give medical
properties and use. Officinal preparations.

3. Animal products—Name five used in
medicine, as follows: One a fixed oil; one a
glutine; one an acid; one an escharotic
poison; one an emulsifying agent.

4. What are resias? What are gum
resins? What are natural oleo-resins ?
What are balsams?:. Name one of each
class. ee :

5. Camphor— What is gum camphor ?
Describe it as found in the market. From
what plants is the officinal camphor ob-
tained? Where do’ we obtain our supply ?

al preparations and med-

6. Castor Oil--Gi \e officinal name of
the plant produ¢ing it. Give its habitat,
describing the. plant. From what part is

the oil obtained, and how? Give its med-

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Minor Drug Notes. ~
__A Georgia farmer made $100 off an acre
planted in water melons, and a neighboring
doctor made $200 off the same acre.

The value of lactic acid as a remedy for
the diarrhceas of children seems to be fully
established. It is given ina dose of one
minim of the concentrated acid, largely di-
luted and sweetened, repeated every five to
sixty minutes, according te the severity of
the symptoms. :

A safe and efficient preservative for solu-
tions disposed to ferment or putrefy, or to
develop fungus growths, is chloroform, of
which a very small proportion is required.
Its use is limited by the fact that it has
somewhat active physiological and thera-
peutic properties.

Five per cent. solutions of carbolic acid
in water, even in the presence of ten per
cent. of alcohol, deposit a portion of the
phenol if exposed to a low temperature. If
such solutions are used, containing no gly-
cerine, care must be taken not to allow them
to become chilled, or at least not to use
them without making sure that all the car-
bolic acid is in solution.

An igem has been going the rounds of the
papers regarding a superior insect powder
consisting of a mixture of one part of naph-
thaline with 100 parts of pyretheum flowers,
which may be themselves old and inert.
That such a powder would be efficient, we
do not doubt, but a good many housekeepers
would as soon have the moths as the odor of
the naphthaline.

The health officer of Cleveland reports
that there have been no less than six cases
of serious poisoning in that city recently
with compound licerice powder, which was
found to have been supplied by several re-
tail druggists. The symptoms were the
Same in each case, and were described as
“violent pains in the abdomen and painful
dilatation of the eyeballs.” Obviously, the
powder came from some common source of
supply, which at latest advices had not been
traced. A case of poisoning by this same
preparation was reported not long ago from
Detroit, in which the article sold as com-
pound licorice powder turned out to be sim-
ply white hellebore. The retail druggist
who could dispense such an article without
noticing anything wrong about it should
brush up his pharmacognosy. ,

—_———— +o
How Patent Medicines are Sold.

Prof. Chandler is pretty hardon the man-
ufacturers of patent medicines, if the fol-
lowing statements, which are attributed to
him by an exchange, are authentic:

These firms of manufacturers of pro-
prietary medicines, nine out of ten, live
solely by the newspapers and sometimes
are admirably managed. I know some es-
tablishments in which there is a regular
staff employed; 1 know something about
them, because they try to ‘bribe me to cer-
tify to the value of their concoctions. AsI
say, there is aregular staff. There is the
literary man, who writes the letters, giving
marvelous accounts of marvelous cures;

‘there is the artist who shows the patient

before and after taking twenty-two bottles
of the medicine; there-is the poet, who
composes poems upon the’ subject; there is
the liar, who swears to what he knows isn’t
true, and the forger who.:produces testi-
monials from his own imagination. .-With-
out exaggeration I should’say fhat nine out
of ten of these proprietary medicines are
frauds, pure and simple; the real business
is advertising for dupes. The medical part
of it is but a side issue. I am pretty sure,
if I were to pound up brickbats, and spend
$100,000 in offering it at a dollar an ounce,
as a sure cure for some disease which can-
not be cured, I should get back at least
$110,000, thus giving me $10,000 for my
trouble. Nine-tenths of the medicines sent
out in this fashion have no more curative
properties than brickbat dust.
: a
The Drug Market.

Gum camphor has declined. Quinine is
lower. Opium is steady at last week’s de-
cline. Morphia is unchanged. Cubebs are
higher. - Powdered opium has declined.
The demand for Paris green is very large at
unchanged prices. Nitrate strontia is
scarce and will be higher. Oils peppermint
and pennyroyal are higher. Oil wintergreen
is advancing. Saffron has declined. Lin-

seed oil has declined. :
—— oe -
He alone is happy and great who needs
neither to obey nor to command in order to
distinguish himself. |

qq) - ae —
VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

J K Flood, Hart Earle & Esmon, Rodney

L F Davoll, Boyne Falls Alex Denton, Howard City

G Sinclair, Bangor FR Hurlburt, St Ignace

Henry Strope, Morley Geo P Stark, Cascade

A Oppenheimer, Bangor KG Smith, Wayland

Morley Bros, Cedar Springs Jas Broderick, Summit Cy

H Colby, Rockford S A Bush, Lowell

Utter Lumber Co, Sullivan Martin Gezon, Jenisonville

G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove Knapp & Baidwin, Chippe-

C P Lillie, Coopersville wa

T M Reed, Coopersville John Gunstra, Lamont

Henry Mitchell, Lowell Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland

H M Lewis, Ionia B Gilbert & Co, Moline

John Giles & Co, Lowell Mrs M A Side, Kent City

HB Fargo, Muskegon 8 McNitt & Co, Byron Centr

Nickerson & Collister, M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe
Pentwater C K Hoyt, Hudsonville

Jay Marlatt, Berlin CV Hane, Remus

SH Ballard, Sparta F Cornell, Griswold

JL Thomas, Cannonsburg F Narregang, Byron Center

CS Judson, Cannonsburg

Cole & Chapel, Ada

Watson & DeVoist, Coop-
ersville

John Kinney, Kinney

JE ota & Co, Sand

Lake
Fred Kieft, Grand Haven
HH Childs, Rockford
H VanNoord, Jamestown
DenHerder & Tanis, Vries-
land
D Warren, Martin
F &WPConklin,Ravenna

Eli Runnels, Corning

D CCarlin, Greenville

Geo A Sage, Rockford -«
DrS J Coon, Lisbon

JN Wait, Hudsonville

RB McCulloch, Berlin
Conrad Bros, Otsego
Walling Bros, Lamont

G Sinclair, Bangor

RA Hastings, Sparta

N Bouma, Fisher
Carrington & North, Trent
A A Weeks, Grattan

O BGranger, Plalnwell

E Young, Ravenna

Will Otto, Middleville
AW Blain, Dutton

John M Cioud, Cadillac
John Canfield, Olga

Julius Phelps, Ada

T VanEnenaam, Zeeland
W E Haney, Big Rapids W H Struik, Forest Grove
T J Sharp, Big Rapids HC Spaulding, Wayland
JH Megargie, Big Rapids John Kamps, Zutphen

A Purehase, S Blendon W C Hinman, Sparta

JL Purchase, Bauer A Harris, Big Springs

H Dalmon, Allendale Geo H Walbrink, Allendale
L Maier, Fisher Station. -
W Karsten, Vriesland

J Raymond, Berlin’

Spring & Lindley; Bailey.

S Botsford, Dorr

C Benbow, Cannonsburg
C Barkley, Crosby

R Stocum, Rockford

‘J Butler, Sand Lake «
aS Riley, Dorr

M Church, Englishville

PSB UPoROy

Joh Smith, Ada
B Volmari, Fillmore Ctr
H Ade, Conklin

 

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78 Congress St., West,
Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1888.
pecialty Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

GENTLEMEN—I duly received the case of
your “Best” Tonic and have since had a great
many in this institution. I must say that the
beneficial effects on weak and debilitated
patients have been most satisfactory, espec-
ially to those in a stage of recovery after se-
vere sickness.

I write this thinking you might like to have
my opinion on its merits. I certainly shall
prescribe it in future, where the system re-
quires building up. either from constitutional
weakness or otherwise.

Yoars truly,
Wo. 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,

ae J. M. JOHNSON, M.D.

Yardley, Pa., March 18, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

DEAR Sirs—I have given your “Malt Tonic”
a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion
and General Debility, especially in the aged,
where the whole system seems completely

rostrated, with very satisfactory results. I

ave used many of the so-called ‘Malt Ex-
tracts,” but believe your preparation to be
superior. 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.,

GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of personal inter-
est, [have 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,
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Troy, New York, January 26, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,, ee

Dear Strs—Your agent left me a sample of
your liquid extract, Malt, and as I use much ~
such in my practiee, I thought to compare

our product with some from another house —

had on hand; and finding yours superior in. .
the great essential, the palitable nutriant as ~
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx-
ious to know about what it can be furnished
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly, :
E. JAY Fisk, M.D.

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

GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best” Tonic —
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 Ne
in my life. I think it will cure a bad case of
dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that.
case. Wm. O. JAEGER.

322 South Fifth Street,
. Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co., 23 College Place, N. Mics
GENTLEMEN—I have tested the sample of
‘Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and
Hops” you sent me, and find in my humble
judgment that itis 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.
Respectfully,
E. H. BELL, 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 I 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.

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and Econpmy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.

WURZBURG,

 

 

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BED-BUG KILLERI

WITHOUT POISON,
No Color, No’ Smell and No Damage ta

Bed Clothes or Furniture.

Retails for 25 cents for large package.

‘Trade supplied through all wholesale drug:
gists, or direct by the manufacturers. _-

ROUSSIN & CO.,

Ludington, - Michigan.

PIONEER PREPARED PAINs

Write forSample Cards and Prices. We
have Supplied our Trade with this

P. FF.

Brand and it is all the manufacturers
claim for it.

We sell iton a GUARANTEE.

Haxelting & Perkins Drug 6o,,

GENERAL AGENTS,

GRAND RAPID§, MICH.

 

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Peckham’s Croup Remedy is prepared
pecially for children and is a safe and certain
cure for Croups, Whooping Cough, Colds am
all bronchial and pulmonary complaints 6
childhood. For attractive advertising mat
address the proprietor, Dr. H. C. PECKHAM
Freeport, Mich, Trade supplied by whole-
sale druggists of Grand Rapids, Detroit an
Chicago. : ;

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CASH SALE CHECKS

Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of
running book accounts by using Cag! o
Checks. For sale at50 cents per 100 by
STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids.

 

 

the question as to whether
rotective association have or

ht to circulate and publish
nembers only, the names of
sbtors. The decision will be
great deal of satisfaction by

ers of the State Association of
xy, asa division of opinion has
as to the legality of the delinquent

se of them, fearing that by so doing
ould violate the law, and thus leave
mselves open to prosecution.

3e case referred to was that of a saloon

r of Jersey City, who sued the Morton

ing Co. for $2,000 damages to his bus-

ness, resulting from having his name pub-

lished as a delinquent debtor in the delin-

jaent lists of the Brewers’ Mutual Protec-

tive Association. This Association organ-

ed on a plan similar to the Retail Mer-

‘chants’ Association, and its by-laws contain

ause which prevents any member of the

Association giving credit to anyone who has

yeen reported asa delinquent, the conse-

‘quence of which was that the saloon-keeper
was unable to get credit, hence his suit.

‘The issue turned upon the question as to
whether such communications among mem-
bers were privileged, and whether or not
mutual protective associations are legal or-
ganizations. Judge Douglass decided these
points in the affirmative, which decision, it
is understood, will not be appealed from, all

“precedents sustaining his ruling.

There were other cases pending of a simi-
Jar nature, but they will not now be brought
to trial, as it is regarded as useless in the
face of the decision rendered.

A Drummer’s Story.

Among half a dozen commercial drum-
mers who occupied seats in a smoker re-
cently, relating their accustomed yarns for
their own edification, was one who had
made himself conspicuous by his silence.
He sat in a thoughtful mood with his smok-
_ ing cap drawn down over his eyes and with
a large sample case in front of him; he did
not look like a deceiver.
- The conversation had turned on their
‘hair-breadth escapes from railway accidents
“and while each went the previous one a lit-
tle better, this modest one did not wonder
at any of the stories or essay to question
them. But his turn came and he had his

revenge.

“Speaking of hard riding,” said he, as a
- hardware drummer had finished a blood-
-eurdiing recital of a lightning ride on the
- Michigan Central, ‘“‘the fastest traveling 1
ever did was onastub road down in the
edge of Indiana. We had just rounded a
--gurye when the conductor entered the car
hurriedly and cried: ‘Shut your eyes and
hang on to.the seats.’ We all did as we
were bid. A moment later and we were
experiencing an awful sensation. The car
seemed to shudder, the windows to creak
and then all wasover. A moment after-
‘ward the conductor entered and gave the
order: ‘Open your eyes and let go the seats.’
“Everything looked natural, but the
queer preceeding had aroused my curiosity,
and I was led toask the conductor what

- had taken place.
— “Not much’ said he. ‘This is a single
track road and we just jumped a freight.’”

———————»> 2a
As Viewed at New York.
- -¥rom the Produee Exchange Bulletin.
Grand Rapids has awakened to the iniqui-
ties of the farmers and has passed a local or-
dinance to regulate the sale of milk, bob
veal, rotten butter, etc. Strict rules are
| prescribed by which it is intended to pre-
--¥ent the usually dirty practices of the milk
venders and producers. The regulations
against milk frem diseased or freshly calved
eows or from filthy receptacles or surround-
ings or that has been contaminated through
‘proximity to infectious diseases or places
are all very strict. This is all in line with
‘a very necessary reform as to dairy produce,
and if the officials of Grand Rapids do their
fall duty much bad milk and butter will be
ented from being a menace to the pub-
Hic health of that city. ‘
; : —____—_—_2_2<____

Why the Impostor Succeeds.

“Jt is a curious thing in public life,” said
_ Wiggins, as he laid his newspaper on the
- table, ‘‘that a windy, loud-mouthed impos-
tor often succeeds, while men of great
--‘mnerit are passed over.”

‘Not at all,” replied Bobley, ‘‘it’s the
most natural thing in the world to put the
Dlower before the grate.” é
: een te a

Worse than Tight Shoes.

_ Ona street car—Griggs—What on earth
is the matter with the lady over there?
Has she the St. Vitus dance? :
_ Briggs—Oh, no; she’s trying to put ona
pair of new gloves.
———
_ ‘The United States is the largest consum-
‘ing country of raisins in the world, and re-_
Hable authorities estimate the consumption
mt about 2,050,000 boxes of twenty-two
pounds each, which, at an average of $2
per box, shows an expenditure of $4,000,000
annum for one article in dried fruit.
} amount referred to represents, say,
,000 boxes of Valencia, 750,000 boxes
California, 200,000 boxes Malaga and
100,000 boxes of Smyrna. The crop of the
for the present season is estimated in
umbers at 6,350,000 boxes, about as
Valencia, 3,000,000 boxes; Malaga,
00 boxes; California, 750,000 boxes,
Smyrna, 2,000,000 boxes. The ship-
is of Valencia raisins to the United
date sp 500,000 boxes, 300,000 of
oe Sat.

peri
butcher has just worked off a
municipality. ne of his oxen
ral death awhile back, and the

des cis SF abrty
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex......9:05 a m 11:30 a m-

es. Leaves.
Traverse City Ex.........-. ...+s+++ 7:00am
From Cincinnati.............- ssseeed 0PM :
Ft. Wayne and Mackinaw Ex.......3:40 p m
Saginaw Express...... ssoosecseese ell 258M

ECE UN ween enone ee 2-6-1030 pm. 4:10pm
Saginaw express runs through solid. :
7-00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City.

train haschair @ar for Petoskey and Mack-

5:05 p. m, train has sleeping cars for Petoskey and
Mackinaw City.
GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnati Express....... we 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express. . ..10:30am 11:45am
Cincinnati Express..... .. 4:40pm 5:00pm
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .11:00 pm

7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 p. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama-
zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadien
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. OUR LEADING BRANDS:
tea om wioam Roller Ch: : : :

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‘ieaving tin ¢ Bridge street depot 7 min’ wer tater.
a me a! ge s epo utes later.
C. L. Lock woop, Gen’l Pass. Agent. ae ne
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Michigan Central. Harvest Queen,

Grand Rapids Division. Snow Flake,
° DEPART. White Loaf,

oe Express........-++ So uswmss cies cocueeeeee - 6: Reliance,
FAdlantic Express...-.scssssss0-. : Gold Medal,
Mixed a : Graham.
OUR SPECIALTIES:

Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Granulated
*Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars Meal, Bolte eal, Coarse Meal, Bran,
rfin on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from | Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.
Detroit. Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand - :
Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec- Write for Prices.
ve Lae at apetyar seb all a trains East over
-C. , (Can: outhern Div. * : 2
0,8: R., (Canada Southern Dir), cuicago, |Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Cuas. H. Norris, Gen’! Agent.

 

- PUTNAM & BROOKS

Have special programmes for public display. Send
for price lists and get best discounts before buy-
ing. Carry nothing but best makes.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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Horse and Wagon Covers,

Awnings and Tents,

Flags and Banners,

eae ee Oiled Clothing,
= : .-..Cleveland...... oct heae es P. Feed Bags,
se ae Be ete eases in show. 5 Wide Ducks, etc.
Mexico and Canada at Union Ticket Office, GEO. WIL-
LIAMSON, Agt., Depot Office, M. Boortz, Agt. : Telephone 106.

A, J. SMITH, Gen’l Trav. and Pass. Agt.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

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- : 73 CANAL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.
Arrives.

Morning EXpress. ........2-+sse-e 1:05 pm
¢Through Mail.............seeeseee 5:05 pm
+Grand Rapids Express..........- 10:40 pm
*Night Express......... .-.eesseee 5:25am

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Detroit Express...

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t+Evening Express. bee

‘Limited EXpress. ........0.e+--0+¢ 6:25pm

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. : ~~
Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making 14 ? 20otT 4 Vv =e ¢
direct connections for all points East, arriving in New ’ ) A) hs
York 10:10 a. m.nextday. Limited Express, East. has ; ont

through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falls, | i@ Ko To. & VAIS eat <a) ala

 

connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through a ico , = Bi
sleeper to Toronto. fae oe aot | Cam NUS Seues one Ne eee

rough tickets and sleeping car berths secured a’ aie
D., G. H& M.R’y offices, 28 Menroe St., and at the depot. | Misi) avy NTS al ae TE Ne a

Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Ro a ae ai yn RA P ID 5 Ni tes ;

We carry a full tine of Sole agents for Chicago.Brass Rule Works,
Seeds of every variety, | cor Stats of Michigan.
both for field and garden.
Parties in want should
write to or see the “VV EL T ~— S
1 71 CANAL ADDRESS
Grand Rapids Nall Store, Street. |GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

BULKLEY, LEMON & HU0RS,

Wholesale Grocers.

IMPORTERS OF

Teas, Lemons and Foreign Fruits,

SOLE AGENTS FOR
“A cme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. .

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

 

Send for Cigar Catalogue and
ask for Special Inside Prices

on anything in our line.

“NO MORE SCHEMES.”

Red Star Baking Powder

SOLD AT ACTUAL VALUE

14%IbCans_ 45 per dozen; - - Retail 5 cents
1g lbCans_ ‘85 per dozen; - Retail 10 cents
1 lb Cans 1.50 per dozen; Retail 20 cents
Sold only in cans.
QUALITY GUARANTEED,

Arctic MANUFACTURING GOMPANY,

38 and 40 Louis Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Very Attractive. Full Weight, Full Strength. Order a Sam-
ple L

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Square Dinner Pails Fly Tra Safety Pins
Heavy Tin and Adamantine Pins

Jelly Tumblers
and
Table Tumblers

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Sa

wu Lemonade Tumblors
“Jim’s” Toasters. The best toaster ever shown Hotel Goblets—every style .

Baskets of our own Taienation “ore catalogue “Francis” Fire Proof Baithiern Tea Pot
From our Illustrated Price List. Sent to Dealers only
on application, Three Hundred Pages of Bargains.

H LAINARD & SONS, ows

 

P, STERETER & SONS,

JOBBERS iN

DRY GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,
8383 Monroe St.
AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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SWIFTS

Choice Chicago Dressed Beef

—AND—

MUTTON

Can be found at all times in full supply and at
popular prices at the branch houses in 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

@ 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 beet.

 

 

HOY
Vent ARK

AT LAST.

LARGE DEMAND FOR
Of all kinds.

I offer a good quality saleable
pattern Seersucker Coats and
Vests at from $12.50 to $13.50
per dozen, geod sellers for gener-
al stores and pay a good profit.

Send for sample half dozen.

6. LAW,

3, 36, 38,40 and 42 Cau St

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