cat rel aa ee ee ox 2 naman ict! GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1904 PIDS, DETROIT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,DETRO!T. erate y AGAINST ae PROTECT “WworTHLESS ACCOUNTS” - AND COLLECT “ALL OTHERS Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO. Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, ef- ficient, responsible; direct demand system. CoHections made everywhere—for every trader. Cc. B. McCRONH, Manage.r 22S We Buy and Sell Total Issues of State, County, City, School District, Street Railway and Gas BONDS Correspondence Solicited, NOBLE, MOSS & COMPANY BANKERS Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich, Wiillam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, 1st Vice-Pres. William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres. M. C. Huggett, Secy-Treasurer The William Connor Co. WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS 28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now showing Every kind ready made clothing for all ages also always on hand, Winter Suits, Over coats, Pants, etc. Mail and phone orders prompt- ly shipped Phone;, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957. See our children’s line. ee es © IF YOU HAVE MONEY and would like to have it BARN MORB MONBY, write me for an investment that will be guananteed to earn a certain dividend. Will pay your money back at end of year if you de- sire it. Martin V. Barker Battle Creek, Michigan eee Have Invested Over Three Million Dol- lars For Our Customers in Three Years Twenty-seven companies! We have a rtion of each company’s stock pooled in a trust for the —— of stockholders, and in case of failure in any company you are reimbursed from the trust fund of a successful —: The stocks are all ew withdrawn from sa ith the exception of two and we have never lost a dollar for a customer. Our plans are worth investigating. Full information furnished upon application to CURRIE & FORSYTH Managers of Douglas, Lacey & Company 1023 Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. SPECIAL FEATURES. ge. New Folder. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. Window Trimming. Editorial. How Shall They Meet. Meat Market. Butter and Eggs. New York Market. Clothing. Words in Their Place. Woman’s World. Spring Fabrics. Looking Backward. 28. Wardware. 30. Science of Saleswomanship. 32. Shoes. 35. Fire Insurance. 36. Secret of Success. 37. Hardware Price Current. 38. Dry Goods. 40. Commercial Travelers. 42. Drugs. 43. Drug Price Current. 44. Grocery Price Current. 46. Special Price Current. GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The nearest approach to boom con- ditions in the Wall Street markets since three years ago last May was} the result of the reaction from po-|} Prices were advanc- | litical activity. ed sharply in most leading lines and | trading became soO| the volume of great that on one day 2,325,000 shares changed hands. that only a few weeks have passed since 1,000,000 was considered nota- ble. The most reassuring feature of the situation is its universality. In- dustrial activity is increasing every- | where and with it a spirit of con- servatism in the prices which promise so well to safeguard against actual boom spec- ulation that it lends the greatest con- fidence. showed a steady average gain which has brought them up to within $13} per share of the high level of 1902. | It is impossible that this upward continue sharp reactions in many lines. movement can It is encouraging that the extra- ordinary demands consequent upon such a volume of trading have so little effect on the money market, es- pecially in view of the reduction of reserves in the associated banks. It illustrates the increasing skill of the} financiers and gives the increasing demands of the future. There is considerable complaint in | retail distribution in that the mild weather defers winter purchases. It is to be remembered that it also af- fords opportunity for securing late crops and making preparation for winter which will be reflected in later trade. Eastern distribution is dis- turbed by the severe conditions, in- cluding a storm which interrupts communication by wire more than} for years. Steady demand for iron and steel products keeps prices well sustain- It will be recalled | management of! Sixty leading railway shares | without | assurance for} led. Stocks are low and works are |resuming that have been’ idle for many months. Textiles are in a years. creasing activity in the face of stead- ily increasing cost of raw materials. ce eb RICAN SHRI A “bar which can not be sawed |through” has been patented by a Pennsylvania inventor, specially in- tended for use in penal institutions. | The bar has a number of longitudinal! holes near the surface, which are vere on the saw, and is counted upon such bars would be somewhat above those of pense of manufacturing low for the glass, an increase which would in itself deter most criminals |from attempting the task of cutting | through it. leading landscape architects of Canada, has found after careful investigation that | Prot. Vain, one of the ivy, instead of injuring walls, pro- tects them by absorbing the moisture Olm- 'stead, a landscape architect of Bos- ton, adds to this that he has yet to |from them. Frederick Law | lis absolutely certain to more favorable condition than for | Boots and shoes show in-| filled with glass. Phis is very se-| Old age is one of the things which come to every one who lives long enough. A European scientist named Prof. Met- chnikoff declares that old age is nothing more or less than a chronic disease and he believes that in time a cure will be found for it. A pan acea of this sort would prove e¢x- ely profitable, but the search for it is Hable to be longer than that for perpetual motion. The Bible speaks of three score years and ten and holds out the score years. To be sure, the same trem possibility of four |authority speaks of Methuselah and to discourage the sawyer. The ex-| the ordinary type, and the diameter | would necessarily be increased to al- | hundred Prof. Metchnikoff is holding out hope which is liable never to be others who lived several years. realized. It is easier to make pro- phecies than to provide for their ver- ification. During the past year diamonds, ru | bies and other gems to the value o $26,000,000 were imported into this country. In tg02 the importations | were $24,750,000, but in 1900 they were valued at less than $12,500,000. The quantity of uncut and unset dia- monds imported is steadily increas- ing. Formerly these gems were | brought into the country in settings see a single building of brick or stone | that has been affected by “Boston ivy” or the Japanese ivy, which has | become common in the last thirty} years. |add to the picturesqueness of the American city than the entrance of this Japanese vine. eNO CHOOT RIA AE Pajamas are to be supplied to the American troops in the Philippines unless there is unexpectedly strong They can probably show that the cost of pajamas will be heavy and that their use will render the sold- iers more comfortable than they should be while keeping the Filipinos| . , a i ! a : ;,| of whom one is a fertile son and one from having “free and independent” | ee |a fertile daughter, and he then cal- fights among themselves. Scan The craze for industrial trusts has about died out. Those that have sur- vived are in a prec y and must be largel order to get upon a safe business ba- | sis. This country is too big for many monopolies to thrive in it. The small- er concerns are apt to be more eco- nomically managed and_ succeed | where larger ones fail. SN The dentists of the United States, . ‘it is said, annually put $2,000,000 of gold in the teeth of the people. The nation’s subsistence, if not its exist- ence, thus appears to rest upon a | gold_ basis. AAS We rather lixe to hear a man toot- ing his own horn, providing he does- jn't forever toot in the same key. arious condition | Nothing has done more to} opposition from the anti-imperialists. | 7 reorganized in| ready to wear. But the diamond cutting industry has advanced so wonderfully in recent years that our native artisans are now considered the equal of the best cutters of Amster- dam and other European countries. American jewelers are also recogniz- ed as leaders in designing novel and artistic settings for stones. NNN The average family consists of a father, a mother, two and a_ half daughters, and two and a half sons. Sir Francis Galton has just complet- ed investigations on the topic, and announces that each father or moth- er on the average has two and a half sons and two and a half daughters, culates that the average person has one father, one mother, two sisters, two brothers, four uncles and _ four aunts. ND An honest man never does lose out. His progress might not be as rapid towards the goal of success as is that of the man who uses ques- tionable methods, put it is usually discovered that when this goal is reached it is the honest man who finally gets there, while the other somehow has gone to pieces on the way. If you want to stick in busi- ness; if you want a reputation; if you want to inspire confidence in |others you must be honest. | Pull is the little path that leads straight up to the top of the hill called Success. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NEW FOLDER. Latest Acquisition to the Equipment to fold by hand of the Tradesman. When the Tradesman assumed its present form, some ago, it fourteen to its equipment a machine for years add to folding became necessary the sheets ready to be placed in cov- ers. The sixteen pages of which the then printed on one sheet and to prepare the edi- tion for the covers it was only neces- sary to use machine paper consisted were the one day. This gave the use of the machine the remainder of the time for such other work as it was adapted to do. When it became to increase the paper to thirty-two pages the de- mand on the folder was doubled, and by the necessary more increasing circulation. Then increase was made to forty-eight pages the ma- chine was given up entirely to fold- ing the paper. when later the bs : pss : | /of a character making it impossible | Public Disputes Should Be Tabooed \ . . | without reducing | their size, thus increasing the al-|} ready expensive hand work. The new machine, illustrated herewith, is so| constructed that it will fold any form or 3, 22, 12xi8 16, 24 or 32 pages on sheets up to 32x44 and that on any kind of paper. The invention making it fold a great number of pages of heavy paper per- fectly smooth is especially ingenious and consists of a perforating device which cuts the paper in the fold, thus | preventing the strain of the outer | sheets around the thick interior. An- | other ingenious device is for the pur- |! pose of retarding the speed of the | sheet of paper as it is first carried | inches, possible to Between Employes. Written for the Tradesman. It should go without saying that clerks should never “scrap” in the | presence of customers. One would naturally suppose that store employes would have enough discretion to keep their tempers “be- fore folks” ever if 1t were no rule of the store that there be no alterca- tions in the hearing of patrons. "Tis a most pernicious habit to fall into, one utterly without excuse |in so far as the work in a place is concerned. Flying into a rage de- tracts seriously from a clerk’s useful- ness to his employer, or employers, and the “family wash” of the store into the machine so there can be no | Should not be fluttered to the breeze rebound, which would be fatal to ac- | @"y more than that of private indi- curacy at the high speed. Another, the sheet is caught by and brought into a mechanical hand | The machine refered to was built | gardless of whether it is fed accurate- by the Brown Folding Machine Co., ly. It is only necessary to place the of Erie, Penn. The experience of the Tradesman with it was so satis- factory that when the requirements of general catalogue and_ booklet folding made it necessary to add an- other, it naturally turned to the Brown company in the confident be- lief that its output was superior in every respect to that of any other manufacturer of folding machines. The new machine was received with- in a week after it was ordered and was assembled and adjusted by Fred- erick Wendt, one of the expert me- chanics for which the Brown com- pany is so justly celebrated. The two machines are now running side by side and afford a good com- parison to show the improvements made in this line during the period mentioned. The demands of catalogue printing have greatly increased during recent years. More and more the work is coming to be done on the heaviest and finest paper, in large forms, often sheet so that it will be taken into the machine and the folding will be ab- solutely exact. i ZOO. The speed of the machine on the} finest work is only limited by the ability to place the sheets, from 2,500 | to 3,000 per hour. The Tradesman | is glad to show the operation of the new machine to any who are inter- | ested in seeing the newest and best | in use in this department of general printing. —_>~-~.__ City Advantages. “Have you any city advantages | here?” asked the prospective resident of the native of the country town. “We've got a telephone line and | electric lights,” answered the native, “and they’re going to tear up a Street next week.” —___ + ___ One good thing about living in air | |stand their counters; | viduals. Recently I have been the unwilling exact register re-| listener to several delectable differ- ences between members of the store force in as many sorts of establish- 'ments. These renegades chattered 'their scoldings like monkeys in the I especially recollect one oc- currence in a department store. The | battle was being waged between two girls working in the basement. To be sure, the combatants are scarcely |out of their teens, and, too, the dis- |mal lower regions may have some- | thing to do with their characters, as | the well-rounding of characters needs | just as much sunshine as does the i well-being of Nature’s plants, and the sunshine never reaches, from one year’s end to another, the particular part of the underground floor where but possibly their termagant dispositions are due jto defective home training. What- |ever the cause, the quarrel was “on” when I stepped out of the elevator land started in their direction. I could hear the disturbance distinctly castles is that the tenants are never | before I reached their special locali- evicted for not paying their rent. 'ty; my approach seemed to be no which I deterrent to their belligerent tenden- cies. They “scrapped” onand on and on. I hated to’ break in on them, but as there seemed to be no prospect of of hostilities, I saw 1 the to some other store to do my trading. | a cessation should either have to interrupt rapid firing artillery or retreat hate basement shopping anyway and my opinion was not being bettered by the ordeal I was experiencing. “Excuse me for interrupting your conversation,” I said in as careless a tone as I could command, and low- ering my eyes to an examination of the goods their counter. “Ex- cuse me,” I repeated, “but I would like to ask if you keep so-and-so in your stock.” It was gall and wormwood for the girls with their mouths open to have to shut them on my account. They glared at me like angry lions, as the obstruction of the tirade, and then, with a parting fierce glance at each other, submitted to the inevitable. They lacked the article which I was seeking, and I was glad of it, on although it necessitated more hunt- ing around on my part, for, if I had found it in those girls’ department, ever after would have clung to it the recollection of that unpleasant epi- sode of which I was a most unwill- ing witness. On general principles I dislike ex- ceedingly, say, to go to the basement part of a store, and espe- do I detest the of have been speaking, for I that alterca- not as f cially now one never think of it since without heard it. tion wishing I might have Another disagreeable experience | underwent lately was in one of the finest Detroit. | was on a visit to a friend in that beautiful City of the Straits and, hav- ing some shopping time on my hands and having heard this particular place spoken of as dealing in the newest haberdasheries in and most beautiful weaves in ties suitable for shirt waist wear, I hied me to the place, accompanied by my very agreeable hostess. Nothing had happened to mar the pleasure of my visit, either in her handsome home or out of it. I had planned to leave the next day and was thinking how I had only delight- ful memories to take home with me. My friend and I started on a personally conducted tour to the necktie department, which is next to the book-keeper’s coop. Here the head book-keeper and his assistant were having some sort of a fracas over an error which the latter had discovered in the work of his princi- pal and we were elected to hear the whole affair through the wire meshes of the enclosure. Both men were on their high horses and _ neither would come down for the other. So I have a miserable thought of that beautiful Detroit store to remain with me, and shall always remember the disagreeable circumstance when I think at all of the stores of the city. Clerks, don’t quarrel among your- selves, but if you must have differ- ences, don’t air them before the buy- ing public. J. Jodelle. a iene NERO TM EAPRUG TNE, ea MICHIGAN TRADESMAN | A Good Repeater A prominent grocer, when re- cently asked what kind of goods he liked to sell best, replied: “Give me a good repeater like Royal Baking Powder; an established article of undisputed merit which housekeepers repeatedly buy and are always satisfied with.” oe baking powders and new foods, like new tads, come and go, but Royal goes on forever. Grocers are always sure of a steady sale of Royal Baking Powder, which never fails to please their customers, and in the end yields to them a larger profit than 4 | cheaper and inferior brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK — eee aan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ISS: AROUND THE STATE Movements of Merchants. Albion—Frank Clark has _ retired the ice and coal business. stock of $10,000. Tecumseh—Wm. Willoughby has | ~ | tablished when the town was in its solid his bakery and _ confectionery | stock to Robt. McCoy and Don Reed, | who | of from the grocery firm of Sibley & Clark. Bellevue—J. B. Greenman is suc- ceeded by A. A. Doty in the meat business. Ganges—Chas. Bowles, dealer in| flour and feed, groceries. has put in a line of D. Rose & Co., succeeded by Sherman—L. gists, are Drug Co. Mt. Pleasant—Morrison have purchased the C. C. cery stock. Conklin—Chas. L. Bean succeeds Bean & Brevitz, dealers in hardware and implements. Bay City—The H. E. Meeker Seed drug- the Sherman & Dains Day ;}ings Bank jing recently will continue the business the same location. Sand Lake—Gilbert McCutcheon, Ensley, has exchanged his farm for T. J. Blanchard’s undertaking stock and will continue the business at the same location. Shelby—J. N. Nathan, of the Sav- store, ‘ak rented the build- occupied by Mrs. De- The new Pe e company has an authorized capital | have sold their stock of drugs, books | | | | | | at | business, and with his wife will spen |the winter in the South. | | { Groot’s millinery store and will occu- | py it with a bazaar stock. Flint—A. O. McNiel & Son have | moved their stock of hardware from 4 Grand Blanc to this city and are now | doing business at the corner of Sag- | Hudson in partnership Co. succeeds H. E. Meeker & Co. in| the seed business. Bay City—-E. F. Meisel, Jr., has| sold his meat market to Joseph Le- | roux, of East Tawas. Grand Blanc—A. O. Son, chants, McNeil & have removed to Flint. Climax—Tice & Carpp succeed Ly- man ducted a business. Gladwin—Fraser & Button are to be succeeded by Fraser & Tubbs, dealers in hardware and agricultural implements. general store and furniture hardware and implement mer- | | Mr. Cole, inaw and West Second streets. Ypsilanti—Clarence Bray has sev- ered his connection with the Franklin | M I. Carpenter hardware store to en-| gage in the hardware business at Brown. Maple Rapids—Cole & Crook, im- | will plement dealers, have dissolved part- | nership, Mr. Crook selling his interest | to Charles and Frank Cole, who will continue the busi- i ness with their father. T. Clark, who has recently con- | Pontiac—F. M. Kirby has purchas- | ed the meat market of Isaac Walters | and will continue the business at the same location. Cannonsburg—John F. Joyce, deal- er in groceries, and shoes, tition in bankruptcy. | ery dry goods and boots | has filed a voluntary pe-| Elk Rapids—Joseph Hoare sold his city bakery to E. E. Cooper who will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Hoare will re- sons of | operated day has | »| secured, which will be in a few move to Cadillac, where he has pur-| chased a bakery and grocery stock. Holland—-Slagh & Zuidewind have leased their store building to De- troit parties, John Notaras and Pet- er Spers, who will start a confection- They state that they ex- pect to install a $1,000 soda fountain. Lansing—Alec Cohen has chased the interest of C. K. Chapin store. lin the firm of Chapin & Cohen, coal Richmond—A chattel mortgage has | iV. Barry. been foreclosed on the Geo. M.| Greenis stock of dry goods, notions, groceries, crockery, etc. 'Cohen & Barry. Lexington—A. McNinch & Son, of | Sanilac Center, have opened a new! store at Applegate, which will be! in charge of C. W. Fox. Plainwell—L.. A. Arehart has sold his bakery to C. H. Leach, of South | Haven, who will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Lowell—C. M. Foster has _ pur- chased the grocery stock of C. O. Lawrence annd will continue’ the business at the same location. Monroe—The firm of Keegan Keegan, dealers in bicycles, & | sporting | goods and cigars, has been dissolved, | Frank T. Keegan continuing the busi- ness. the interest of M. Deyoe in the gro- cery firm of Wochholz & Deyoe. The new & Gress. Detroit—Referee in Bankruptcy H. Bath and having for his associate James The new firm dealers, ness, will Hudson—Mead & Adler, duct clothing and men’s furnishing goods stores at Jackson, Mich., Dayton, Ohio, have rented the N. J. i Holmes store, formerly occupied by A. & D. Friedman, clothing store there. Traverse City—Louis Greilick has purchased the interest of Frank and opened a Friedrich in the shoe stock of Frank | F. Friedrich & Co. be composed of Louis Greilick, the latter manage the business. Detroit—The Sanitarium & Mineral Co. has filed articles of associa- and Alfred continuing to | tion with the county clerk, placing Albion—Fred Gress has purchased capital stock at $60,000. The stock- |holders are Dr. Edgar B. Smith, Dr. | John firm will be known as Wochholz | P. Davock has declared a second divi- | dend of Io per cent. on all proved claims of the Cleveland Silex Stone Co. Lansing—The Clear-Bauer Co. suc- |has sold out. F. MacPherson, derman and Frank T. Lodge. Hillsdale—W. C. Westover, has who been store here for the past four months, Frank E. Smith, who was formerly a partner in the firm of Smith & Forbes in the same loca- tion, is again at the head of the busi- ceeds the Lansing Coal & Ice Co. in| ness. | bankrupt by default by Judge |on petition of the Pittsburg Shafting | pur- | |}and cider mill with Chas. | Lake Odessa—O. C. Russ & Co. and stationery to Smelker Bros., of | Freeport. The Russ store was ¢€s- infancy. Dr. Russ will retire fror Bay City—A syndicate of | will change ownership and manage- C. L. Fox is one of the new Mr. Bialy has purchased ment. company. an interest in a Chicago hardware | store and will move to that city. Manufacturing Matters. Jackson—M ortimer E. manufacturer of confectionery, succeeded by Hugh D. Bartlett. Boyne City—The City Chemical Co. has increased its capi- tal stock from $100,000 to $125,000. Hartford—O. M. Smith and is Boyne business. Menominee—Donovan & O’Connor not dismantle their as previously sawmill, reported. that the plant will be used in the fu- | ture. Wausaukee—-The sawmill of the sird & Wells Lumber Co. will be the necessary crew of men shall be days. Chassell—The Worcester Co. closed its sawmill usual fall repairs. It will operations in two months, Lumber the resume has for again giv- ing work to the seventy-five men laid off. A band mill will be installed. Detroit—The Detroit Brass & Iron Novelty Co. has been adjudicated a Co. et al. The company had previous- | |ly filed notice of assignment with the | county will continue the busi- | | Co. be | } | chase of a large tract of cutover land | < who con- | and | |in Menominee county, between the | Chicago & North-Western and the| Wisconsin & Michigan railroads. Hartford—The firm of Wm. M. Traver & Co., proprietors of the} | measurements. Frank R. Al- | |chinery for the Cooper } j proprietor of a grocery | clerk. Menominee—The Peninsular Land | Lilly | is negotiating with the Lumber Co., of Talbot, Traver canning factory and cider mill, has been dissolved, the interest of Wm. M. Traver having been purchas- | ed by the other member of the firm, W. Traxler, who will continue the The new firm will teness Caro—The Peninsular Sugar fining Co. weighing Re- has decided to place a station at Gagetown for the better handling of beets and that the farmers may move the crop more rapidly, and also to satisfy the grow- ers that they are getting Thompson—The last lot of sawmill has arrived and the work of installing it is being pushed. It is | thought that the mill will be ready | for operation by November 25. Tt will be one of the best equipped plants in the Upper Peninsula. Hudson—The Lenadale Paint Co: been has organized by Edward nm d| young | | business men have closed a deal by} | which the R. C. Bialy hardware stock | Bartlett, | It is possible | and night as soon as} Swan, | for the pur-| correct | ma- | & Johnson | | Frensdorf, H. R. Letcher and H. Hardie. The corporation authorized capital stock has an of $50,000. | It will manufacture a high grade oil S paint. The formula for this paint is | the result of years of research | Detroi of association | have been filed by the Frank A. Hutchinson Co., maker of _ stoves, etc. Of the $15,000 capital stock, all has been paid in, consisting of the etc., at 34 Fort street west |The stockholders are Frank A. Hutchinson, William 3ryant and A. J. Groesbeck. Port Huron—Several creditors the Port Huron Steel & Screw Ltd., filed petition to the adjudicated a rupt. about $125,000 and that its property is not worth more than Frank E. has been temporary | stock, G. of Uo., have have a company bank It is alleged the company owes $50,000 Beard appointed receiver. Wm. | Traver have formed a copartner- | | ship to engage in the apple shipping Wylie & Buel which has been operat- 3ay City—The Lumber Co., ed since the company was organized land bought the old Halli mill, is run ning steadily | during the winter. and will be operated The company will | furnish all the logs the mill can | with its capacity increased to 15,000,- |}o00 feet by the addition of outfit. cut anothe | band saw Alpena—The Alpena Cedar Co. has incorporated with $25,000. The pany are J. A. Widner, and Widner. on a capital stock oi members of the 1. EK. The more com Gustin George concern continue extensive the which Mr. Widner has built up and carried on a number of years. Alpena has been a large shipping point for cedar, many being every season, and besides large will a scale cedar business long cargoes shipped out quan- tities are handled by rail. City—The and car famine is be- lumber = shippers are up against the usual fall and win ter proposition. During the | months when there was not so much Bay |; coming acute summer | business offering there were cars to ell, but when trade begins to bright- en up in the fall and lumbermen have opportunity to do they are confronted with the difficulty of getting cars. All of the roads ap pear to be in the same boat. It is a most annoying position because the lumber sold to go forward is wanted and wanted badly, and the man who has sold it wants to ship it and get his money, but cars and there you are. an some business can not get the And the bad feature is that there is no immediate prospect of any change for the bet- ter. he Oeynnraer) (Ora oe Widdicomb SIV ea eLe-Tave Rapids WYaereia Opera House Block, Detroit but debtors pay Good slow mB pon receipt of our direct de- | mand Send all other accounts to our offices for collec- anata) letters. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 J. H. Van Oost succeeds Jno. Kub- ler in the meat business. Green & Son have engaged in the grocery business at Nashville. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. R. Houston has opened a grocery store at Hopkins Station. The stock was furnished by the Musselman Gro- cer Co. LD. store A. Sturt has opened a grocery at Pomona. The stock was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. I. S. Flannery & Son have engaged in the grocery business at Pellston. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. 2 2 + The Produce Market. Apples—Winter stock is moving freely on the basis of $1.75@2 per bbl. The market with up- is strengthening, every indication of a continued ward movement. Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch- $1.50@1.60 for Jumbos. Prices of this fruit are slowly advancing. The cs; trust complains of a short crop and keeps putting a dime on the price every day or so, until it is getting hard to see any margin for the jobber. Stock keeps up well. is first-class and the demand Beets—4oc per bu. Butter—Creameries are steady in price and active in demand on the same basis as a week ago—25c for ahc for fancy. Dairy grades are stronger and higher than choice and ago, in consequence of the of in all As winter cows are beginning to come a week dearth stock sections. in it is expected that dairy grades will be more plentiful within a fort- night. No. 1 has advanced to 23@ toc and packing stock to 14@I5¢c. Renovated is strong in price and active in demand at 19@2oc. Cabbage—35c per doz. Carrots— 4oc per bu. Celery—tsc per doz. bunches. Cranberries—Cape Cods have ad- vanced to $7.50 for late Blacks and $8 for Home grown = are in moderate demand at $2.35 per bu. Eggs—The market on fresh is still firmer and higher than a week ago, due to light receipts and also to the fact that nearly all receipts of al- leged fresh eggs contain a large pro- portion of held stock. The hens are moulting and strictly fresh eggs will be at a premium for some weeks. The movement is very brisk and a good deal of storage stock is sold each day. It is now getting to the point where these eggs can be profit- ably withdrawn and put on the mar- ket. Case count, fresh, 22@23c; can- dled, 25c.. Storage stock, 20@2tc. Grapes—Malagas, $5.50@6 per keg. Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@ 12c and white clover at 13@IS5c. Lemons—Verdillas and Californias command $4@4.75 per box. Howes. Lettuce—Hot house fetches per ib. Onions—The price is strong and higher, choice stock fetching 75c¢ per bu. Oranges—Floridas fetch $3@3.25. Jamaicas, $3@3.25; California Navels, $3.25. Parsley—25c per doz. bunches. Pigeons—Local dealers pay 6oc per doz. I5¢ Potatoes—Local dealers pay 25@ 30c and outside buyers are taking in large quantities, ranging from 23@28c. The market is easier. The cause may be assigned to the fact that the deal- ers have their cellars pretty well filled up and the weather has been such as to bring out heavy receipts from all farmers that do not hold their spuds. The car-lot trade is keeping up well and shows some in- from certain districts. It probable that the market will not show much change now until well in- the crease is to winter, unless some unusual circumstance should arise. Pop Corn—goc for old and 50@6oc for new. Poultry—Live is in active demand. Spring chickens, 1o@1ic; hens, 8@ gc; coarse fowls, 6@7c; spring tur- keys, 12@14c; old turkeys, 10@I2c; | spring ducks, g@toc for white; Nes- ter squabs are dul! and slow sale at $1.25. Dressed poultry (drawn) ranges about 2c per tb. higher than _ live. Shippers should bear mind the injunction given in this department some time ago and get their turkeys in early. Thin stock should not be shipped at Thanksgiving time. Radishes—2o0c per for house. in doz. hot Squash—tc per th. for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes — Virginias steady at $2.25 per bbl. advanced to $3.25. are Jerseys have Turnips—4oc per bu. s,eans—The demand is not strong and farmers are not free sellers. Lo- cal handlers pay $1@1.40 for country picked, holding city picked at $1.50. —_—__» 2 ____ Hides, Tallow, Pelts and Wool. Prices of hides are to such an ex- treme high value that it is dangerous to deal in them. The supply is lim- ited and demand good, but the price prohibits trading only as one _ is obliged to have them to keep his works running. At the extreme high price one finds advocates for still higher values. Dealers claim to be sold ahead. There are no large offer- ings. There is no apparent increase of the country take off. The warm weather may retard country kill. Re- ceipts are small. Tallow, while firm, does not ad- vance, nor is it likely to with the large production of cotton oil for soapers’ use. There is less edible used as beef is low. Sheep pelts are scarce and wanted both for wool and leather at high values. The demand is greater than the supply at the high price. Wool continually goes up in value on a strong market and good demand, with small supply, Wm. T. Hess. —_--—> 2. Lake Odessa—Fred Jury has sold his general stock to Daniel Shepard. The Grocery Market. | Tea—Very little of choice May | picked Japans are to be found in the primary markets, and the chances | are strong that they will be at a de-| cided premium before the next crop. But this is the old story. Demand continues to be god in all grades} excepting the very lowest, and they | show fair activity. Coffee—The outside speculative public is beginning to take interest | in the market, and apparently think | they see a chance for a radical ad- vance during the winter and spring. The daily deliveries in New York for | the month of November, up to date, show a very large increase in the purchases for the interior. Coupled | with the falling off in the receipts | in Brazil, this indicates a larger de- | in the world’s visible supply. seems to be no doubt in the of dealers that a steady ad- | vance in coffee will occur from now on. This is expected to be helped | along as each month makes its re- | port, showing a probable large de- | crease in the world’s visible supply as the season progresses. Milds are firm and unchanged. Javas and Mo- chas are both very firm. crease There minds has been no change in glucose up to the writing, but the market unsettled, and some change may be} expected in the near future. Com- | in Syrup and Molasses—There present is | pound syrup is unchanged and light demand. Sugar syrup shows no change and the demand is quiet. Mo- | New Prices are So-called new crop molasses can be bought at | any price from 30c up, but lasses is in fair demand. crop is coming along slowly. much very disorganized. much of it is new and old blended. Genuine choice new crop costs in a_ large way 35¢. Dried Fruits—Prunes are in fairly active demand. Stocks on spot are light. There has been no change | in price except in 30’s, and the mar- | ket is steady. Size 30S are very scarce and the market rules probably 3c above a week ago. Peaches are | very strong and stocks are light. The future of the market depends whether the large California shippers, who now hold all stock in their own hands, get tired of holding. If they do not there will undoubtedly be an | advance. If they do prices will like- | ly remain steady. Apricots are very | quiet and unchanged. Seeded raisins | are unchanged and recent receipts | have been larger. The demand takes all coming, however. Loose raisins are in the same condition, except that | stocks are light. Currants are especially good demand, particularly for cleaned goods. Fish—The demand mackerel has been unusually good and the ad- vance legitimate. Sardines are unchanged and_ quiet. Codfish is in a very unsatisfactory Stocks are very low and | on | in for seems entirely condition. the market still rules at its highest | point. Nothing new has developed | in salmon. The market is quiet. | |Canned shrimp is very scarce | shortage | ers | clared by the | The bloaters, are in light supply and rule at high prices. Rice—The demand for rice contin- ues to be excellent. Primary markets are firm and possibly a little higher comparatively than the distributing points. Advices from the South show that the harvest is nearly com- pleted under favorable conditions. i The yield is turning out to be some- what of a disappointment, however. Canned Goods—Salmon continues to hold its place at the head of the canned goods list in the matter of price and shortness of pack. Colum- bia River and Puget Sound salmon are well out of first hands, and there is only a limited quantity of pink to be had. What will happen next spring when the heavy demand strikes the trade is problematical. and The pack of French sardines seems to be bet- hard to get at any price. |ter than was anticipated and these will not be so high as was thought. Tomatoes and corn show no new fea- tures. It seems that there is more i|and more corn coming out from cov- er and the probabilities are that the Maine New York will have very little ultimate effect on the market. 30th lines are moving well. California filling in and packers are |orders for fruits to the best of their ability. It is likely that the pack will be even better cleaned up than it was a year ago on practically all lines. Everything is. selling well, even including the high lemon cling |peaches and the apricots. Foreign canned fruits are in better demand as the holiday trade approaches. There is always a call for these lines around Thanksgiving and Christmas. —_+ 2 >__ Ask for the Perfection Brand. Those dealers who have not yet arranged for their Thanksgiving oys- do to communicate Dettenthaler Market at once, with a view to securing a suffi- cient supply of the Perfection brand, which would well the ters with has long been recognized as the leading brand handled at this imarket. The Dettenthaler Market | has made its plans so as to have a | full supply, adequate to meet the de- | mands its customers, matter how exacting they may be, but deal- should not until the but their plans and complete their of no wait last minute before ordering, make ar- rangements as far in advance as pos- sible. —__» 2 —___ Sunfield—The Deatsman & Mapes will mailed dividend creditors be | checks for 20 per cent. of their claims the first dividend de- trustees of the estate. stock being out at wholesale cost, plus the expense of to-day, being is closed doing business, giving ground for the belief that about 75 per cent. will be realized by the creditors. a Galesburg—M. A. Douglass has purchased the stock and fixtures of the business formerly conducted by Wm. H. Smith, and will carry 2 Whitefish is almost out of the East-| line of cigars, tobacco, fruits, candy, ern market. Scaled herring are weak and dull. | Newfoundland herring, na stationery and notions, with soda fountain in connection. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN A Good Quartette of Windows on the River Street. Four Canal street stores have mer- itorious window dispiays this week: J. C. West & Co., Rindge, Krekel & Co., The Giant (A. May & Son), and the W: G. jarvis Co. Ltd. In each of West & Co.’s windows they show what may be accomplish- ed in the way of effect with just one sort of object or a series of allied objects. In pushing the Owl cigar, a quantity of pasteboard birdcages of two sizes are suspended from the ceiling. In each one is a “too-hoot- er” on a perch made of a big Owl cigar. The cages are not round but flat, the whole thing being printed The two exactly alike, so that, whichever one on pasteboard. sides are is presented to the eye, a realistic owl appears. Various other owls appar- ently sitting in old brown tree-knots are ingeniously arranged. pkg, per case..2 60 35 42tb pke. per case..2 60 38 %tb pkg, per case..2 60 16 %tb pke. per case. .2 80 FRESH MEATS Beef arcane. 2. 4 @7T% Forequarters. ... 4 @ 5% iMingguarters ....5 @ & Pane 713@12 Meee 7 @10 ermes ... Slow 6% i 4 @ 4% aes @ 3% Pork 1 Loins. | COFFEE Roasted Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds. ELL- WRIGHT 2) TON il | cae 4 White House, 1 IDb...... White House, 2 Ib..... i. Excelsior, M & J, 1 tb.. Excelsior, M & + 2 tb.. ‘Lip Top, M & J, 1 th.... Royal eee Royal Java and Mocha. - Java and Mocha Blend.. Boston Combination .... Distrivuted by Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; | National Grocer > troit and Jackson; ders & Co., Port to Symons Bros. & Co., Sagt- naw; Meisel & Goeschel Bay City; Godsmark, Du- rand & Co., Battle Creek Fielbach Co., Toledo. CONDENSED MILK 4 doz. in case Gail Borden Eagle....6 40 Cree oe. 5 90 Cele 4 52 Pew ee 4 70 [ares Co: 4 00 [Creme 2 4 40 pie 2 3 85 Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 uv SAFES Saun- Full line of the celebrated | Diebold fire and _ burglar roof safes kept in stock y the Tradesman Com- | pany. sizes on hand at all times —twice as many safes as Twenty different | are carried by any other | house in the State. are unable to visit Grand Rapids and line personally, write for quotations. STOCK FOOD. Superior Stock Food Co., Ltd. $ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80 1.0@ carton, 18 in box.10.s¢ 12% Yb. cloth sacks... .84 25 Th. cloth sacks... 1.65 50 Tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15 100 Th. cloth sacks.... 6.00 Peck measure ....... -90 % bu. measure...... 1.80 12% Th. sack Cal meal .39 25 tb. sack Cal meal.. .75 1 F. O. B. Plainwel. Mich. SOAP Peaver Soap Co.’s Brands | 10: cakes, large size.. | 50 cakes, large size.. | +0 cakes, small size.. 50 cakes, small size.. Oa tan RRS If you | inspect the) Tradesman Co.'s Brand Blick Hawk, one box..2 50 Black Hawk, five bxs. : = Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 TABLE SAUCES Halford, large ........ 3 75 E.alford, small ........ 2 25 Place Your Business ona Cash Basis by using our Coupon Book System. We manufacture four kinds of Coupon Books and sell them all at the same price irrespective of size, shape or denomination. We will be very pleased to : send you samples if you ask us. They are free. Tradesman Company Last Call —— If it’s this year’s Holiday Profits you want Already the experienced eye notes here and there the signs that Holi- day trade this year will be large and begin early. Holiday time is the year’s one period of profits big and easy to get, if you’re really ready when the rush begins, Getting ready right takes time. The 1904 period of easy busine:s ends in 4o days, The longer you postpore buying the more likely you are to be disappointed. Small lines of Holiday goods have begun to break. Large lines will show gaps before the end of November. Even our line, vast as it is, must break before the terrific buying onslaughts now being made upon it. Of course we dare to carry the largest stock complete long after the drummer’s season is over be- cause we sell by catalogue only. But—buy now and be surely safe. Our current catalogue lays before you every new or old thing that sells and at the lowest net prices. For merchants only, and free to all who mention Catalogue No. J520. Butler Brothers Who'esalers of Everything By Catalogue only New York Chicago St. Louis Grand Rapids New Oldsmobile Touring Car $950. Noiseless, odorless, speedy and safe. The Oldsmobile is built for use every day in the year, on all kinds of roads and in all kinds of weather. Built to run and does it. |The above car without tonneau, | $850. A smaller runabout, same ‘general style, seats iwo people, '$750. Thecurved dash runabout with larger engine and more power 'than ever, $650. Oldsmobile de- ilivery wagon, $850. Adams & Hart | 12 and 14 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. erent City Paint gives the dealer more profit with less trouble than any other brand of paint. Dealers not carrying paint at the present time or who think of changing should write us. Our PAINT PROPOSITION should be in the hands of every dealer. It’s an eye-opener. Forest City Paint & Varnish Co. Cleveland, Ohio CORORO FLOROROC BOROROROHOHE We get cash out of your goods Cost out of ‘‘un- desirables” and a profit out of better goods, by our NEW IDEA SALE C. C. O'NEILL & CO. 270-272-274-276 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO. “*Oldest and most reliable in the line.’’ SHOROE CHOHOE OE CHOHOROROEROR Make Your Own Gas ; From Gasoline one quart lasts 13 hours giving 100 candle power light in our BRILLIANT Gas Lamps Anyonecanusethem. Are bet- ter than kerosene, electricity or gasand can be run for less than half the ex- pense. 15 cents a month is the average cost. Write forour M. T. Catalogue. Every lamp guaranteed. Brilliant Gas Lamp Co. 42 State 8t., Chicago, III. 100 Candle Power A PP oa me esl Pith: a 5: ag oa RES MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 47 BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents subsequent continuous BUSINESS CHANCES. Wil Sell—A good flouring mill and busi- | ness in live town, fine location, 18 miles to nearest mill, Northern Indiana. Now making $100 per month. Can be easily doubled. Price right. Might exchange for up-to-date stock merchandise or good farm. A. W. Howe, Dansville, Mich. 13 Groceries—A No. 1 clean stock. Good cash business. Best town in the State. Owner wishes to change business. Ad- dress Lock Box 24, Hart, Mich. a1 For Sale—Stock of dry goods, fixtures, lease. Best location in Dayton, Ohio, or | year insertion. No charge less For Sale—A clean new stock of cloth- ing, shoes and furnishings in a hustling town of 1,300. Two good. factories and a frosperous farming country. Trade last | over $15,000 cash. Stock will invoice | about $9,000. Ill health the cause of selling and must be sold quick. Cash | deal. Address No. :61, care Michigan Tradesman. 961 For eral Sule For Cash Only—Stock of gen- merchandise with fixtures. Estab- lished ten years. Good country trade. | Reason for seiling, other business. Don’t | write unless you mean business. ©. F.| Hosmer, Mattawan, Mi tich. 959 | will sell lease and fixtures without stock. | kind of Dayton, busi- Ohio. 14 Location suitable for Atlas Dry any ness. Goods Co., Wanted—Experienced laundryman with $2,000 cash to take half interest in steam laundry and manage the same. Address Snow tlake Laundry, Lebanon, Ohio. 16 The well-known Dibble flint, Mich. Owned Offer For “Sale Hiouse property of and operated by over twenty years. This hotel has been remodeled and kept up-to-date; is doing business at full capacity of the house. It Is Situated on a corner lot and paved streets, being centrally located one block from opera nouse, two blocks from city hall and two blocks from postoftice. tel is a three-story brick of fine tion; it has 35 rooms and a seating ca- pacity in the dining room of 120. consider part exchange for other prop- erty. Address C. B. Dibble, Proprietor, Flint, Mich. 15 Farm of 80 or 120 acres in Shiawassee | € ; Lansing, | for price. the present owners for | Ho- | construc- | Would | Ce., Mich. Wil trade for @ruze stock. Address No. 20, care Michigan Trades- | man. 20 For Sale—Furniture store and new home—net profits $100 to $160 per month. rart time given if desired. N.| dress Box 117, Ypsilanti, Located in |— small manutacturing town—Central Mich- | |} out for igan. No competition. Address for par- ticulars, 426 W. 7th, Traverse City, Mich. 19 For Sale—A good clean stock of hard- | Ware With tin shop in — m 2 town of 1,500 population. ing farming country. A bargain for the right man. Address A. K. 7, Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids, Mic h. 17 For Sale—$4,500 stock of meats. Illinois town of 8,000. profitable business of $45,000 a year. location. Address No. 998, Doing Tradesman. 998 Wanted—To buy clean stock general merchandise. Give full particulars. Ad- dress. No. 999, care 999 One of its health. L For Sale—New York Racket Store. of the best businesses in Saginaw, size. Reason for selling, poor 810 Genesee St., Saginaw, Mich. For Rent—The best good Upper Peninsula town. No grander chance for a hustling hardware or gro- cery man. Address No. 2, care gan Tradesman. For Sale—Shoe store, all Location the best. Gysie, Columbus, Will new goods. Write or see John _Indiana. 976 _ pay cash for stock, with established town. Address No. 977, = ‘radesman. . id trade in good Michi- | 9 | sires a Care ee ae | Good surround- | | eral merchandise. | Butterfield, Minn. groceries and | Good | care Michigan | Michigan Tradesman. | iin one of located store in a/| | Ne. 47 Bast Sth SE. | vator; -| Possession 200 Ferrets For Sale—Best stock. Write Lewis DeKleine, Jamestown, 936 Mich For Sale—Stock of hardware, paints and wall paper, invoicing $1,5¢0. Town | 500 pepulation, surrounded by best farm- ing country in the State. Best of reasons for selling. Address No. 969, care Michi- gan Trée desman. 9h9 For Sale—Foundry and Everything in running order. cider mill. First class location. Harrison & Moran, Chelsea, Mich. 945 For Sale—Shoe stock, invoicing $3,000. Splendid opening in good city. Best of reasons for selling. Address No. 955, care Michigan Tradesman. 955 Por Rent at Holland, Mich. Brick store 20xS0 inside. Plate glass front; ex- cellent location on main business street. Has freight ele- now occupied by 5 and 10c store. given Nov. ist. Address C: J. DeRoo, Cor. Ottawa and Grand Sts., Mich. 928 A desirable party to invest from $5,000 to $20,000 in a business that nets 100 per cent.; no chances, no competition. Ad- Mich. 929 stock—Or we will close your own place of busi- sale to reduce your stock. Yost & Co., Detroit, Mich. 2 We have some “good farm lands for ex- change on cash basis for stocks of gen- C. N. Sonnesyn & Co., 897 Cash for your you at ness, or make Write for information. C. L. BT _West Forest Ave. Sell cash. your real estate or business for I can get a buyer for you very promptly. My methods are distinctly dif- ferent and a decided improvement over those of others. It makes no difference where your property is located, send me full description and lowest cash price and I will get cash for you. Write to-day. Established 1881. Bank references. Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express Building, Chicago. a 899 FB or Sale— A good clean drug business the best towns of Michigan. Gocd reason for selling. Address No. 873, care Michigan Tradesman. 873 | 2 ___ Manufacturing Matters. Hudson—Referee in Bankruptcy Davock has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. in the bankruptcy case of the Bean-Chamberlain Manufactur- ing Co. : McDonald—The McDonald Cream- ery Association has been organized with a capital stock of $5,000, of which $4,800 has been subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Home Soap Co. has been organized to manufacture soaps and perfumes. The capital stock is $15,000, of which $3,500 has been paid in in cash and $2,000 in property. Lansing-—-The Lansing Manufac- turing Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $50,000, of which $40,000 has been paid in in property A. ‘A. Wilbur, A. L. Harlow and A. C. Davis hold all the capital stock. Jackson—A petition to have the Her Ladyship Corset Co. adjudicated a bankrupt has been filed in the United States District Court at De- troit by Edwin T. Muir, of Detroit, and Frank A. Moore, of Chicago, who present alleged claims amounting to $1,185 for services and commissions. Manistiaue—The Chicago Lumber- ing Co. has finished the construction of two lumber camps in the Upper Peninsula. They are situated in pine forests which have never been touch- ed by the lumberman’s hand. There is enough timber on the land _ to give employment to about I00 men for four or five years. Bay City—-The Kern Manufactur- ing Co. has been cutting timber all summer for the Ward estate, the logs coming here by rail. The output will approximate 18,000,000 feet for the year. The lumber cut by this firm is piled in the yard and is mostly han- dled in the yard trade. One cargo of about 700,000 feet was shipped last week to Tonawanda by boat, the rest of the output for the year being mov- ed by rail in car lots. Ionia—The Ionia Electric Light Co. has been re-organized and will hereafter be known as the [Ionia Motor Power Electric Co. The capi- tal is $60,000, all paid in, and the offi- cers remain the same—H. R. Wagar, President, and O. S. Wood, Secre- tary. The work on the dam ap- proaches completion, and the com- pany hope to turn on the incandes- cents and have all the lines operated from the new power house by Nov. 20. ——_—_+- 2. —____ Validity of the So-Called Contract Note. Petoskey, Nov. 15—Is a contract note, given in the purchase of per- sonal property, sufficient to hold title to the property or must there be a chattel mortgage executed and re- | corded with the city clerk? I have in trade, but he refuses to give a chattel mortgage on the ground that the recording of the mortgage would affect his credit. Please reply in the next Tradesman. The validity of a contract note has decisions by the Michigan Supreme Court, beginning with the case of Couse vs. Tregent, 11th Michigan, page 65, handed down in 1862. In this decision the Court held that a vendor may reserve title and that a purchaser from the vendee takes no title until the conditions on which sale is made are fulfilled. These contracts are not chattel mort- | gages and do not have to be filed | with either the city or township clerk to protect the vendor’s lien. Michigan is one of the few states in the Union in which this condition exists. Wisconsin, Illinois and other surrounding states provide for the filing or recording of all documents involving indebtedness protect the rights of the vendor in property sold. You need feel no hesitation in tak- ing a contract note of this character, because it will be sustained not only by the Circuit Court, court of last resort as well. 2-2 but by the} | empire. in order to} Enough Power for Continent. “Smoke which makes a noise” is the meaning of Zambesi, the South African falls which have five times the power of Niagara or 25,000,000 horsepower, and whose flow of wa- ter is double that of Niagara. It is thought eventually these falls will supply power to all of industrial South Africa, thus transforming its immense solitude into a prosperous The most promising field for exploitation is believed to lie in the operation of gold mines, driving the stamps, pumps and other ma- chinery. As is the case in all South Africa Rhodesia is not irrigated nat- urally, and it will be necessary to in- troduce artificial irrigation, using the Zambesi for the force and_ water. | Difficulty in constructing high ten- Buffalo Market on Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Beans. Buffalo, Nov. 16—Creamery, fresh, 22@26c; storage, 20@23c;_ dairy,} fresh, 16@2Ic; poor, 12@15c; roll, 18@2o0¢. Eggs—Candled, fresh, 27@28c; cold storage, 20@2Ic; at mark, 19@2oc. Live Poultry — Chicks, 1I1@1I3¢; | fowls, 1o@11%c; turkeys, 18@I19c; ducks, 134%4@1I4c; geese, 12@I3c. Dressed Poultry Turkeys, 18@ 20c; chicks, 12@13c; fowls, 11@12c; old cox, 9@toc; ducks, 15@16c. higher prices are predicted for next week. Beans—Hand picked. marrows, new, $2.75@2.85; mediums, $2@2.15; peas, | $1.80@ 1.90; red kidney, $2.75; white kidney, $2.75@3. Potatoes—Round_ white, mixed and red, 40@45c. Rea & Witzig. —_.-+-.——__— How to Clarify Cider Vinegar. A good method for handling vine- gar is to clarify it with fish glue, 43@50c; ter still, milk, in the proportion of | gown one pound to 30 gallons. The vine- sion lines in the neighborhood of the falls is anticipated on account of the enormous volumes of spray sent up there. This spray attains a height of 500 feet, falling in a fine rain over the surrounding territory. these columns of spray and the noise of the falls can be heard nine miles. British engineers have already made pioneer developments. ——_~+ 2+. In periods of high water over | Simple Fake in Maple Syrup Adul- Still | terating. For the purpose of flavoring glu- cose and cane syrup to imitate ma- ple table the sophisticators or counterfeiters use an aqueous ex- tract of guaiac wood. Two processes are in use for making the flavor. In one the wood, shaved or otherwise finely comminuted, is boiled with wa- syrups, |ter and the extract freed of the resin- |ous material taken up in the process by washing with ether or alcohol. In the other an alcoholic extract or | tincture is made and water added un- one-half ounce to 75 gallons; or, bet- | |ed off and is ready for use. gar, after the fining has fairly well | settled, should be filtered, bottled and the bottles sterilized at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, in a water bath. In ster- ilizing, a check bottle, placed in the water bath, should be left open and a thermometer placed inside. temperature of that thermometer should be watched, and as soon as it reaches 140 degrees the bath should | be allowed to cool down gradually before taking the bottles out. The remainder of the bottles should be corked and the corks held in position with a string or other device during the process. 2-2. Moorestown—Godfrey | erecting a new store building, 24x80 made a sale to one of my neighbors | feet in dimensions, which he will oc- cupy with a general stock as soon as the building is completed. The gro- cery stock at Stittsville, which he recently purchased of the M._ E. Stitt estate, will probably be removed | to this place. been established by a long chain of | — E. F. Meisel, Jr., meat dealer, Bay City: “I have been a subscriber to the Tradesman for four years and feel no hesitation in stating that it is the best paper for business ever published in the United States.” Hirzel is | The | til the resinous contents are thrown The liquid is simply decant- Our in- claims to have been em- ployed in one of the largest concerns engaged in the business, and declares that when a mixture of cane sugar and glucose, in proper proportions, is used the imitation can not be told from the genuine. formant BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Up-to-date stock of staple and fancy groceries in best location in city of 3,600. Business established for over 20 years. Cash sales annually from $22.000 to $25,000. Reason for selling, other business from city. Address X. Y. Z., care Michigan Tradesman. 10 For Sale—Good paying stock of gen- eral merchandise. Invoice $5,000. Best location in town of 1,190. Good reason for selling. Price right. Clarence G. Stevens, Flushing, Mich. 21 For Sale—Large new store, best of lo- cation for hardware, also improved farms from $12 to $20 an acre on easy terms. Jno. W. Curtis, Whittemore, Mich. 22 For Sale—Summer resort. Beautiful lake, hotel, bowling alley. Choice lots, 20 acres. All or any portion of the property on easy terms. full description on ap- plication. H. W. Hagerman, Sturgis, Mich. 23 HELP WANTEC. Wanted—Salesman for Kentucky and Southern Indiana with established trade, on commission. John Strootman Shoe Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 25 POSITIONS WANTED. Wanted Position as clothing salesman. Several years’ experience and the best care 24 of references. Address Clothing, Michigan Tradesman, _ — gE