s 371 The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 6. F.J, DEYTENTHALER JOBBER OF Fresh and Salt ae =——AND— =—[egan Fish Mail orders receive prompt attention. See quotations in another column. GRAND RAPIDS. Millers, Attention We are making a Middlings Purifier and Flour Dresser that will save you their cost at least three times each year. They are guaranteed to do more work in less space (with less powef and less waste) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin's Middlings Purifier Co, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President. GEo. C. PreRce, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts ef Gounnes Merchants Solicited. Daniel G. Garnsey, EXPERT ACCOUNTANT Adjuster of ‘Fire Losses. Twenty Years Experience. References furnished if desired. 24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, Ah CANAL SY., Grand Rapids, - Mich, BUY Muscatine 186 EAST FULTON ST. The heading kavadry IN GRAND RAPIDS. Any one wishing agency in towns outside will please write for terms. OTTE BROS., Props. ROLLED OATS Will not turn bitter in hot weather. Best the year around. SFECIAL OFFER-—This style of oval case; best quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel or sliding doors; full length mirrors and spring hinges; solid cherry or walnut frame, with or without metal corners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings: 6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price, $11, net cash. : I make the same style of case as above, 17 inches high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot. Boxing and cartage free. Db. D. COOK, 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. Katon, Lyon & Go. Base Balls, Rubber Balls, Marbles. Base Ball Bats, Fishing Tackle, Archery. BOXING GLOWES. STATIONERY. Raton, Lyon & Co,, 20 and 22 Monroe St. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. WATCH -FOR LYNGH'S BEAUTY, Best $25 Cigar on the Market, D. LYNCH, Sole Owner, GRAND RAPIDS. TOURISTS’ MADE TO ORDER. The Largest Line of Traveling Goods in the City at the Lowest Price. Repairing neatly done on short notice at Groskopf Bros., 91 CANAL ST., TELEPHONE 906. Business Practice at the Grand Rapids Department Business College. Ed- ucates pupils to transact and record business as it is done by our best business houses. It pays to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad- dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens berg. ERRIES Are in great demand and we can handle any amount to good ad- vantage. Send us all the choice stock youcan. The sixteen-quart case is the best package. Prompt reports made. BARNETT BROS. CHICAGO. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1889. MAR toMPANY Show Case & Prices hower than Ker QUALITY THE BEST. Write for Prices. 63—65 CANAL ST. THE “EDITOR'S CHOICE.” | FLINT, Mich.. April 9, 1889. | To Whom it May Concern: |" We, the undersigned committee, se-| lected by Geo. T. Warren & Co. to can- | vas the list of names and select one for a | Cigar Label from the many names sent in by the contestants, have this da | selected the following, viz: EDITOR’ Cc CE, sent in by Sig Wolf, of | | Toledo, Ohio | JOHN J. Coon, Editor Flint Journal F. H. RANKIN, JR., of Wolverine Citizen | A. L. ALDRICH, of the Flint Globe. OUR NEW BRAND OF CIGARS, “EDITOR’S CHOICE” Will be ready for shipment in about two weeks. Price, Thirty-Three Dollars;per Thousand. We shall be pleased to receive a sample order from you. Yours respectfully, Geo. T. Warren & Co, That contains any in- l u ferior tobacco. ‘*ill- On| flavoring’ or other in- jurious ingredients. QUALITY Wholesale and Retail COUNTS. HEADQUARTERS Gur “BEN HOR’ 92 Woodward Ave. CIGARS have proved so popular over all other 10e Cigars in the market that the de- mand overwhelm- ing. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. Ask for Geo. Moebs and Co7s “¢ BREN AUR’ if you want the best. is vane @ (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR Galuanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work, Dealers in Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. Pumps, ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen: Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. W m.R. Keeler, JOBBER OF Confectionery «Cigars, 412 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. Penny Goods a Specialty. 1 have a complete line and will call on all trade within reasonable distance of Grand Rapids. A GRAND SUCCESS. Fourth Annual Convention of the Mich- igan Business Men’s Association. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. | Chas. Clarke, Commercial Agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, read a paper on “The Business man and the Railways and the Relative Relations,’ as follows: The interests of business men and the railways are so closely interwoven that any influence that disturbs commerce finds these two great factors in direct sympathy. The history of the business man antedates our civilization, our first knowledge of him being in the ancient marks of trade, always to the fore as the civilizer and promoter of commerce in all time. In the beginning of modern history, we find the demands of com- merce crowding out the military roads, and feudal authorities relinquishing their political system for a system of transportation followed by governmental action, to meet the demands created by this ‘‘irrepressible’’—the business man. Coming to our own time, the same elements exist but surrounded by mod- ern conditions, the demand augmented many fold; but the power of genuis has made it possible to keep abreast of the demand and in some respects outstrip it, until to-day we are conscious of the fact that the railways have aided very ma- terially in the great march of civiliza- tion, and have long since suceessfully passed the period of experiment. And. now, with our 160,000 miles of railway reaching the most remote sections of our country. governed by methods in opera- tion which have wrought achievements grand in practical results, a universal gauge (4.8!s), permitting unbroken transit between all points on the conti- nent, with a motive power and auxiliaries limiting the carriage of freight between here and the Atlantic seaboard to less then four days, with the finest passenger service in the world, furnishes to the man of affairs of to-day advantages un- surpassed in the history of all the busi- ness world, all of which contributes largely to his success in making such rapid distribution of products possible. Certainly, machinery and steam coupled with electricity, are performing their part in this branch of the world’s indus- tries. This great question of transportation is one of the problems that is ‘‘shaking the brain’? of the nation to-day and is commanding the attention of some of the most able men of bothcontinents. When we consider the fact that this question of transit is the factor that, in a great measure, shapes your business enter- prises, we believe it worthy your greater attention, for you should realize as forci- bly as possible that the railway is not simply a corporation with public func- tions, but that it the great public thor- oughfare, fixed as an investment, and cannot be closed or abandoned at will but must, if successfully managed, at- tract its business on principles of equity. You, as business men, are not bound by any law of business ethics to treat your customers equally, but the railway en- dowed with public functions, controlled by state and national laws, cannot vio- late with impunity its duty to the publie. The business men. in a measure, repre- sent in our body politic the silent class, not, as arule, voicing their sentiments: nevertheless, they are the active element of our commonwealth and contribute the bulwark of our industries and society, and we are glad that this element is gradually doing its part in assisting to eliminate the antagonism still existing to some extent between the people and the railways. May your efforts hasten the day when, by equitable laws judiciously administered, the whole country may be still better served and these two great factors harmonized more closely upon a basis of comity and mutual dependence, for it is only by such relations that we may hope for prosperity in the future. This is truly a practical age and the de- mand in all vocations is for men of broad views, who can be united upon a plan of harmony and unity of action. This being the purpose of such organizations as yours, you may expect better results, by broadening the circle of your endeavor and anticipating possibilities by cul- tivating a closer acquaintance with your twin factor, the railways, profiting by the experience of your co-laborers in other states and guarding the channels of commerce that they may not be un- justly abridged but that you may have the full measure of their utility. The President—Michigan has a Gover- nor. She has frequently had governors. There are degrees of Governors as there are of almost all other creation. There is the Governor who accepts the honor and the munificent sum of $1,000 a year salary which the State of Michigan has liberally given to those who held that position—and who have done little else than acceptit. There are other Gover- nors who have taken an interest in all social and material interests. None of them, perhaps, have taken the same de- gree of interest as the Governor whom you have recently honored with this high position. (Applause.) I think you all realize and appreciate this fact. Cer- tainly, your action at the last election in quadrupling his salary is indicative of your belief that he earns four times as much as any other Governor ever elected in the State of Michigan. (Applause.) I take great pleasure in introducing to you—if an introduction is necessary— Governor Luce. (Loud applause.) Gov. Luce thereupon said: I have enjoyed something of the pleasures and honors of the world. There are many honors I have never enjoyed. There are many points I have never reached, and prominent among | them is the fact that I have never been a | business man—and, too, I have never | been a politician. (Applause and laugh- ter.) Those two honors I have never enjoyed. But, to-day, I am informed I have been elected a member of the Mich- igan Business Men’s Association, and I am decorated with its badges, and I de- sire to tender to the members of the Association my profound and grateful thanks for the honor they have conferred upon me. This gives me ground for hope that possibly way in the dim, dis- tant future some association will elect me a politician (laughter), so that I can enjoy the other. I was surprised when the programme was placed in my hands to notice that I was down for an ‘‘address.’’ When any gentleman appears before an audience and the thoughts which he is to present are honored and characterized as an ‘‘address,”’ it is due to that audience that some sort of preparation for the presen- tation of thoughts worthy of considera- tion be made. But all the preparation I have made for this address has been made on the platform here this evening. It is true that your President indicated that he wished me to ‘‘say something,’’ but never once did he allude to the idea that I was to deliver an address. But I am before you and will take for the foundation of my remarks the funda- mental ideas of the eloquent address of welcome which was presented so hand- somely to-night. In talking now I talk as a business man to business men and shall in all my remarks to-night. First of all, I want to congratulate you that you met in this splendid, hos- pitable, generous city. Ihave been here before and enjoyed its hospitality, and when I listened to the remarks of my friend, | thought (after riding around, through the kindness of several citizens. this afternoon, viewing the beauties of the city, there was kindled in my heart pride and satisfaction that a magnificent library was being erected through the generosity of one of your citizens)—l thought, not half has been told. I agree in every respect with the gentlemen but one—and J dare not in that respect. standing within forty miles of Grand Rapids—that is, that Muskegon is to be the future great city of Western Michi- gan. What would Grand Rapids say to that? So I will agree on every other point. When I tell youthat I havemever been a business man, I am not quite right. Away back through the ages, along down, I have descended from business men. I come from a business family. I know something of business men. I know something of the duties devolving upon business men and of the cares and perplexities and anxieties the business manendures. I know something of the honor they confer upon a town, and I believe that the business men of this city have put forward untold benefits and honors upon this grand city. I am acquainted all over this broad state of ours. I know two towns where more than athousand people have mi- grated from all the other parts of the State. These men are comfortably situ- ated, well fed and clothed -and securely housed. It is true that many of them want to emigrate from where they are now. I have formed the acquaintance of these men and more than 500 of them are anxious that I should give them a ticket-of-leave, to go to some other lo- cality. I allude, of course, to Jackson and Ionia. In all the acquaintances of these two institutions, where the inmates are thus comfortably housed and well fed, Ido not happen to remember a sin- gle man from Muskegon. (Laughter.) Muskegon has become famous for the love and regard and veneration for law which control all your actions. The business men of this country, in their different localities, exert themselves to encourage home institutions. This solemn responsibility rests upon us as business men. Because we, in the various rela- tions in which we act, coming in con- tact, as we do, with the customers in the stores, do much to mould the morality of the towns. So there is imposed upon the business man a great responsibility. The growth of a town is largely under the control of business men. We under- stand something of what is required of a business man. Business men have existed through all the ages. I do not know that Adam was a merchant, but business men grew up pretty soon. They came as a necessity, and they will exist while man lives. They are needed, and will be needed while time lasts. I am not here to classify the honors which should be dis- tributed among business men, between the producers and consumers of the world’s wealth. We need them both. But, if atown wants anew enterprise, if a new railroad is wanted, if a manufacturing in- stitution is required—to whom do the newspapers appeal? The newspaper ed- itorial appeals to our enterprising busi- ness men to ‘‘take hold of the project and bring to this town increase of popu- lation and wealth and growth.’’ I could write one of those editorials myself. I know just how they read. They eall the attention of business men to the demands of the situation, to the new railroad that must be reached for and brought within the borders of the town; that if they will only put forth a gigan- tic effort and jam down their hands into their pockets and draw forth what is needed, it can be secured. This is true, and the growth of many towns has been stimulated immensely by the force of the business men in it. I live in a city now. I have almost always lived in the country. Next to Muskegon, Lansing is one of the very best towns, too. Here, too, we have these editorials. They are stereotyped, set up and kept standing—only changed to suit the name of the enterprise they want when they appeal to the business man. Iowea debt to saw dust. I come sawdust, and I enjoy it. There is an | element of growth and prosperity here. | I want to congratulate you that you | have a Business Men’s Association. It) is a power which impels and builds up. All is done by and through associated effort, hand to hand, arm to arm, purse to purse, shoulder to shoulder, step with step—that is the way mighty achieve- ments are accomplished. You are a ben- efit to other men. So you are to be con- gratulated that you have an Association. Associated effort is one of the latest out-! growths of civilization we enjoy. They are getting associations for all purposes. We have had only two away back—the church and the edueational. And a little farther back only one, and that was the ckurch alone. The association for edu- cational purposes is the outgrowth of the last few years, comparatively. Iam not here to instruct you. Your President talked wisely and well to-day in relation to the duties and responsi- bilities of men. (I presume he did—I did not hear it. I can imagine something of the line of policy he would advocate. I may repeat some things he said.) (Laugh- ter.) In relation to duties, there are influ- ences abroad in this land, influences in the life of the business man and of the bedy politic, which threaten society, but business men, more than any other. I do not know of a set of men and women who are required to use the sagacity, having it constantly at play, all the while in the observance of this eternal law of the survival of the fittest, that they do. Many of them would go to the wallif this were not so. They are a wonderful force in society to correct evils. Adulteration is one of the great- est. I donot believe you business men will submit to it. I believe you will only sell goods in the market for just what they are. If a piece of cloth is part cotton, sell it for part cotton. You have a duty to perform to suppress, as far as possible, adulteration. There is another point I want to talk about. I do not want to bore or tire you—it is dangerous to get me up. (Laughter.) It was suggested in your admirable address of welcome, and it is in relation to trusts. I believe in what he said. My forefathers came over here with the Puritans, almost 300 years ago. No other country on God’s earth has ever furnished the grand opportunities for the development of manhood and womanhood that ours has; but eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and we must guard our homes, guard our country, guard its interests in every way. I have been a student and watched the reasons why nations went up and nations went down, and one of the greatest evils that threaten on every hand is the system of combinations and trusts. (Applause.) We are just beginning to see it and to hear the voice of the siren. But, fellow citizens and countrymen, this system of trusts is a threatening menace to many sections of our country. ‘That system of trusts which reaches out and buys up the mills of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth and those which are to be con- structed at the Soo, is a threatening menace to the business men of this country, as well as to the consumers of the products sold by business men. You should set your faces against this slavery of America, and the best interests of hu- manity should be arrayed against the in- sinuating approaches of this siren, that goes on and makes immense fortunes for a few men who control it. I do not be- lieve we are to be overthrown by trusts. Active effort on the part of citizens is absolutely necessary. I believe trusts will be overthrown, because I tell you that while the school house and the chureh stand here, no great evil can con- front this American people but for a time. They will rise in their majesty and might and overthrow it. I trust you will pardon a story, as this question is aptly illustrated by a homely story I recently heard. A certain family, con- sisting of grandfather, grandmother and little boy, five or six years old, had a favorite cat which they esteemed very highly. It was acunning cat, and was known as ‘‘our ecat.”? One day Johnny said to his grandfather, ‘‘That is our eat, isn’t it?”? “‘Yes.”? “Grandpa, which part is yours?’ Said grandpa, ‘‘The head is mine.’? ‘*‘Which part is grand- mas?” “fhe body iS hers.”’ ‘And which partis mine, grandpa?’’ ‘‘Oh, the tail is yours.”? The illustration I make strikes me as pertinent. I donot care about these men who go about enlisting capital to buy up breweries. I do not eare about that; but, when they buy our mills, they are the head of this cat. The manufacturers are the body, and the great mass of unoffending consumers are illustrated by the tail. ( Applause. ) One day, grandpa was reading the news- paper and hunting up his eyes, and grandma was in the back room, ard Johnny was playing, and the cat squall- ing. Grandpa said, ‘Johnny, what are you doing to that eat??? ‘O,I1 ain’t touching it, grandpa,’’ replied Johnny. Pretty soon it squalled again worse than ever. ‘‘What are you doing to that cat?’’ shouted grandpa. ‘:O, I aint doing any- thing only just standing on my part— and your part is squalling.’? (Laugh- ter.) Ido not know as I have illustrated it as clearly as it presents itself to my own mind; but, bye and bye, when this body gets tired and troubled too much by this head—bye and bye when the peo- ple stand upon their part, they will make the head squall. (Applause and laughter. ) I have made up my mind to stay with you here this week. (Laughter.) I thought I should when I took the ride to-day, and then when I listened to that address of welcome, I knew I should. I want to look over your beautiful water and am promised a boat-ride. I expect to stop two or three days yet, so I will not weary you longer. Again, I thank you. I have done enough business in selling the products of my farm and, over here to get the odorof pine and perhaps, I have in that way earned the NO. 308. title of ‘“‘business man.’? We are safe with honor and intellect and patriotism guiding and controlling the actions of business men. (Applause.) President Wells announced the follow- ing standing committees: Order of Business—H. W. Parker, Owosso; Jackson Coon, Rockford; F. H. Larzelier, Quincy. President’s address—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City: Jacob Jesson, Muskegon; Dr. H. B. Baker, Lansing. Finance Committee—C.H. May, Clio; C. L. Glasgow, Nashville; J. E. Thurkow, Morley. Resolutions — Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; B. S. Harris, Grand Rapids; P. F. Treanor, East Saginaw. After another selection by the orches- tra, which furnished delightful musie at intervals during the evening, the meet- ing adjourned. WEDNESDAY—MORNING SESSION. On reassembling, Wednesday morning, the Committee on Order of Business re- ported in favor of adopting the pro- gramme prepared by the Executive. Board. Adopted. The Committee on Credentials report- ed the following delegates present: REGULAR DELEGATES. Traverse City—F. Hamilton, J. Stein- burg, J. R. Gowdy, F. Friedrich, E. W. Hastings. Flushing — G. Sayre. Owosso—H. W. Parker, D. Burhans, W. A. Woodard, E. Wykes, N. McBain. Nashville—C. L. Glasgow, F. MeDer- by. Grand Rapids—O. F. Conklin, Thos. Keating, M. C. Goossen. B. S. Harris. Kingsley—Geo. L. Fenton. Ludington—Geo. B. MeMahon, L. K. Baker. Muskegon—J. A. Miller, M. C. Kelly, R. S. Miner, Jacob Jesson, S. H. Stevens, L. C. Mangold, Ernest Eimer, A. Towl, Wm. Peer, M. H. Deskey, Dr. C. P. Don- aldson, E. C. Misner. East Saginaw—P. F. Treanor, R. H. Williams, A. G. Bekrow. Sturgis—H. S. Church. Morley—J. Pierdon, J. H. Thurkow. Clio—C. H. May. Rockford—D. R. Stocum, J. Coon, W. Hessler. Quiney—F. A. Larzelier, E. J. Clizbi. Davison—I. T. Hurd, C. W. Hurd, J. W. Courtwright. Plainwell—Geo. N. Anderson. Greenville—E. S. Clark, H. B. Fargo, BE. Herriman, Ira T. T. J. Phelps, W. B. Wells, A. A. Sail son. South Haven—F. R. Cady, E. J. Lock- wood. Sand Lake—J. V. Crandall. Lowell—C. G. Stone, J. C. Seott, S. P. Hicks, O. C. MeDanells. Grand Ledge—A. B. Shoemaker, H. T. M. Treglown. Allegan — M. C. Sherwood, C. H. Adams, E. T. Van Ostrand, Jos. Reni- han. Cedar Haines. Millbrook and Blanchard—T. W. Pres- ton, C. E. Morse. Manistee—A. O. Wheeler. Tustin—F. J. Luick. Lansing—C. A. Gower, W. E. Cretty, EK. R. Osband, H. A. Woodworth, Dr. H. B. Baker. Bangor—Geo. Chapman, Silar DeLong. Grand Haven—A. S. Kedzie, Hi. Potts. VISITING DELEGATES. Grand Rapids Board of Trade—H. D. C. Van Asmus. East Saginaw B. M. A.—M. G. Smith. Michigan Dairymen’s Association— Hon. E. N. Bates, Moline. Grand Trunk Railway—Chas. Clarke, Ovid. Lehigh Valley Railway—Harry Dean, Detroit. Iowa B. M. A.—A. S. Burnell, Mar- shalltown. HONORARY DELEGATE. Gov. Luce, Lansing. We recommend that the regular dele- gates and the officers and committees of the Association be entitled to voice and vote and the visiting and honorary dele- gates be given the privilege of debate. FRANK FRIEDRICH, ALBERT TowL, HENry S. CHURCH, Committee on Credentials. The report was adopted and the Com- mittee instructed to continue its work. Treasurer Sprague presented his an- nual report, showing total receipts of $774.10 and disbursements of $734.74, leaving a balance on hand of $39.36. Chairman Caldwell, of the Committee on Insurance then presented his report, which is given in full on another page. The President—The report is an ad- mirable one. The members of that Com- mittee have spent much time with it, as Mr. Caldwell states. The subject was prominently discussed at our meeting at Cheboygan and I have no doubt you all take an interest in it. The plan and the means of putting it into operation should be thoroughly discussed by you. I sug- gest that the report be accepted and dis- cussed, either now or at some other time. The report was laid on the table until Thursday morning. The report of the Committee on Trade Interests was read by Secretary Stowe, as follows: Having been invited to prepare a re- port on ‘‘Trade Interests,’’ I will enter into the task—for such it is; the scope springs J. RK. Fox, T. B. {CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE. ] ast The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. M. M. Gould succeeds O. J. Merritt in the confectionery and cigar business. Frank Veltman has opened a grocery store at New Era. Lemon & Peters fur- nished the stock. Mrs. Allen Cooper has opened a gro- cery store at East Tustin. Amos S. Mus- selman & Co. furnished the stock. Ernest Burger has engaged in the gro- cery business at 346 Fourth street, cor- ner of Fremont. I. M. Clark & Son fur- nished the stock. The Jennie E. Westlake drug stock, on Canal street, was foreclosed on chattel mortgage Saturday night by the Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., who held a sec- ond mortgage for $400. The sale occurs on Friday. W. J. Page has sold his drug stock, at 501 South Division street, to T. Trow- bridge, formerly engaged in the drug business at Decatur. Mr. Page will spend a few weeks at the Soo and then take the management of his father’s drug store, on Plainfield avenue. AROUND THE STATE. Laingsburg—A. Throop has opened a meat market. Coral—Morgan & Snow have opened a new meat market. Paris—L. F. Judkins is arranging to open a new store. Harriette—Barry & Bro. have opened their new drug store. Shelby—D. A. Reed succeeds Bennett & Reed in the meat business. Sturgis—Nathan Frank has sold his clothing stock to Shackman & Nodel. Pontiac—J. W. O’Dell succeeds L. R. Lumby in the salt and cement business. Vicksburg—Wm. Garland & Co. suc- ceed Foster & Hamilton in the meat busi- ness. Marquette—Tonella & Tretheway suc- ceed John F. Mack, Jr., in the furniture business. Glen Arbor—Carl Walker is building a new store, which he will occupy with his general stock. Covert—J. A. Childs has sold his hard- ware stock to E. C. Shepard, late of Waterport, N. Y. Onekama—Gilbert & Kinney have their new store enclosed, and are pushing it rapidly to completion. Charlotte—R. S. Hovey has sold his restaurant and candy and cigar stock to Job Wildern, late of Tilsonburg, Ont. Mancelona—C. E. Blakely has bought E. R. Savage’s stock of books and sta- tionery and added them to his own stock. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell, general deal- ers, called a meeting of their creditors for August 9 and subsequently cancelled the call. Ithaca—J. A. Laughlin has admitted his son, W. F. Laughlin, Jr., to partner- ship in his grocery business. The new style is J. A. Laughlin & Co. Walton—A. W. Peck has sold his inter- est in the drug firm of Peck & Co. to his father, who will continue the business under the style of Horace Peck. Seottville—Burglars recently secured $150 in cash and $75 worth of jewelry in the drug store of Dr. Thomas and $6 in change in the store of D. E. Lattin & Son. Big Rapids—W. E. Overton & Son have sold their hardware store and block and everything in connection therewith to Mel. E. and Jeff Darrah, who have taken possession. Howard City—The Howard City Pack- ing Co. has opened a retail store, under the supervision of Frank E. Drew, the Newaygo meat dealer. John Kinney will manage the entire business and do the buying. Bay City—Broas, Galloway & Co. have filed articles with the county clerk, in- corporating with a capital stock of $15,- 000. The company will engage in the clothing business. Cadillac—Crawford & Hart assigned their grocery stock last Wednesday to D. F. Diggins, having previously secured the claim of Amos S. Musselman & Co. by means of a chattel mortgage in favor of D. A. Blodgett & Co. The total in- debtedness is about $3,500, with liabil- ities about half that amount. Aarwood—Allan F. Little’s store, gen- eral stock and household furniture were destroyed by fire on July 30. The loss is about $4,000, with but $1,500 insurance, which was about the value of the build- ing. Mr. Little will rebuild as soon as possible, in the meantime carrying on business and handling Uncle Sam’s mails in a dwelling house. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Breedsville—H. A. Brown succeeds O. M. Skinner in the milling business. Middleville—W. E. DeGolia is suc- ceeded in the lumber business by Walter Hayward. Brutus—John Dimling has engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in connection with the general store of C. A. Dimling. Oscoda—The J. E. Potts Salt and Lum- ber Co. expects to cut 90,000,000 feet of lumber this season, or 12,000,000 feet a month, running night and day. Jackson—The Isbell & Wilcox Manu- facturing Co. has been established with a capital of $25,000. The company will manufacture small articles of hardware. Mt. Pleasant—The basket factory con- sumes 1,250,000 feet of lumber this sea- son in the manufacture of baskets for the packing of fruit for one concern near Dubuque, Ia. About 60,000 baskets weekly is the output. East Saginaw—Merrill & Ring have let the contract to Thomas Toohey, a well- known lumber jobber, to putin 8,000,000 feet on the Tobacco river, and work begins this week. He is jobbing in the same region for 8. O. Fisher. East Saginaw—C. M. Hill has pur- chased theinterest of his partners, L. D. Sanborn and J. Beard, in the saw mill and salt works of Sanborn & Hill, at Carrollton, for $20,000. Mr. Hill will remove the saw mill, at the close of the season, to Duluth, where he has a large amount of timber, and, will build a plan- ing mill at the old stand to work in con- nection with his salt block. East Saginaw—C. M. Hill has pur- chased the interest of his partners, L. D. Sanborn and Joseph Beard, in the saw mill and salt works of Sanborn & Hill, at Carrollton. Mr. Hill will remove the mill to Duluth at the close of the season, where he has 200,000,000 or 300,000,000 feet of pine. Mr. Hill paid his partners $20,000. He will build a planing mill here in place of the mill. The firm of Sanborn & Hill will not dissolve, as it has a considerable stock of lumber and logs to dispose of. Mr. Sanborn is inter- ested in a tract of timber on the AuGres, which he will lumber the coming winter, and will begin as soon as he completes the work of putting in 10,000,000 feet in Gladwin county. ———»+ => They Demanded a Special Rate. Apropos of the present agitation over the Patrons of Industry movement, a good story is told by Chas. Clarke, Com- mercial Agent for the Grand Trunk sys- tem in this State. About eighteen years ago, while the Patrons of Husbandry were pursuing the same tactics now adopted by the P. of I.’s, Mr. Clark was local agent for the D., G. H. & M. Railway at Coopersville. Daniel Cleland, the mer- chant at that place, was then secretary of the Coopersville Grange organization, and in his official capacity demanded a rate of 35 cents per barrel on salt from Saginaw. As the regular rate was only 25 cents per barrel, Mr. Clarke readily secured permission from the general manager to grant the Co-operative Grange of Coopersville a 35 cent rate. Twelve carloads of salt were ordered, but, to the surprise of the grangers, they could not compete in price with the regular deal- ers, whose freight had cost them 10 cents per barrel less. —_————»>->__—- Bank Notes. Geo. W. Cadwell has resigned the posi- tion of cashier of the Carson City Savings Bank and Frank Hale has been selected to fill the vacancy. Atameeting of the directors of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Nash- ville, held on the 7th, it was resolved to call a meeting of the stockholders on the 16th, for the purpose of discussing the advisability of making a national bank of the institution, and of increasing the capital stock from $35,000 to $50,000. In the death of Nathan B. Brisbin, the Grand Rapids National Bank loses a man whom it will be extremely difficult for the directors to replace. Unlike most bankers, he was a student of men, instead of methods. He trusted men more from their disposition to meet obli- gations than their ability to do so, and made few mistakes. ———_—> o> Will Open Up at Detroit. Chas. E. Watson, Michigan representa- tive for S. A. Maxwell & Co., has ar- ranged to open his line at Detroit during the entire month of September. It will include all the novelties of the season and will be well worthy a careful in- spection. Michigan dealers who visit Detroit next month would do well to keep this in mind. >. — “This is what I call a home-like hotel,” said P. J. Coppens in the office of the Park Place, at Traverse City, one even- ing last week. ‘‘Everything is scrupu- jously clean and there is an air of con- tentment about the entire establishment which we find at few other hotels in the State. I think the Park Place comes nearer to being a home in the full sense of the term than any house I know of.’’ —»s-s>——_ P. J. Coppens has purchased the inter- est of Martin A. Zimmerman in the firm of Zimmerman Bros., handle manufac- turersat Augusta. The new firm will be known as J. N. Zimmerman & Co. Mr. Coppins will continue to handle the pro- duct of the factory in a jobbing way in this State. >>> A. E. Yerex has associated himself with Prof. J. U. Lean in the proprietor- ship of the West Michigan Business Uni- yersity and Normal School, which will now take rank with the leading schools of the kind in the country. Purely Personal. N. B. Blain, the Lowell merchant, is in town for a day or two. C. Ainsworth spent Sunday with his family at Macatawa Park. Geo. F. Steven, a pioneer merchant of Traverse City, died on the 4th. Wm. Harrison and family are located in their cottage at Old Mission, Dr. Henry Lever, the Newaygo drug- gist, was in town one day last week. M. S. Goodman is spending a few days at Traverse City, where his wife is located for the summer. E. E. Judd has returned from Traverse City, where he spent a week or ten days in search of rest and recreation. Carl L. Maurer, of the firm of M. V. Gundrum & Co., general dealers at Leroy, was in town a couple of days last week. I. M. Clark’s family are spending the heated term at Bay View. I. M. Clark went there Saturday for a few days’ re- spite. Geo. W. Albrecht, the erstwhile banker, boomer and publisher of Bel- laire, was in town a couple of days last week. Dan Steketee has returned from Mac- atawa Park, where he distinguished him- self by catching a string of perch five feet long. W. T. Meloy is spending a couple of weeks in Van Buren and St. Joseph counties, locating agents for the Star feed mills. Chas. W. Jennings and family have re- turned from Frankfort, where they spent about five weeks. C. W. is as brown as a berry and as strong as a lion. David Holmes, the versatile manager for the West Michigan Lumber Co., at Woodville, is spending his vacation at the former home of his wife, near Syra- cuse, N. Y. Wm. T. Hess has returned from Bos- ton, where he spent a couple of weeks among clams and wool merchants. He left Fred. Perkins and Fred. Tracy at Hyanisport, Cape Cod. Amos S. Musselman was in Cadillac a couple of days last week, being called there by the failure of Crawford & Hart. He was called there again Monday by the assignee to assist in taking the inventory. Geo. H. Minchener, Michigan manager for R. G. Dun &Co., spent several days in Grand Rapids last week. Mr. Minch- ener has grown grey in the agency bus- iness, having followed it as an avocation for over thirty years. S. Barnes, General Manager of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., at Trav- erse City, is arranging to take a trip down the St. Lawrence River, tarrying at the Thousand Islands and spending some time at the White Mountains. Samuel M. Lemon and wife went to Mackinac Island Saturday night, as the guests of Mrs. W. F. Bulkley. Mr. Lemon returned home Sunday night, leaving Mrs. Lemon on the Island for a fortnight. —_»> ea Gripsack Brigade. Frank Miles put in a week at Big Rap- ids, inventorying the Overton hardware stock. Will L. Curtiss sueceeds N. Stewart McConnell as traveling salesman for Curtiss & Co. : A. A. Howard, the Coldwater grip car- rier, claims to be the champion banana eater in America. Willard James, Michigan representa- tive for C. M. Henderson & Co., put in Sunday at Onekama, where his wife is located for the summer. Chas. G. MeIntyre, son of the veteran traveler, has engaged to travel for F. A. Wurzburg & Co., covering the territory formerly made by Ezra O. Phillips. Through an unfortunate circumstance, the Pipp House, at Kalkaska, was omit- ted from the hotel list of the Knights of the Grip last week. It is there all the same, however. A. D. Baker will reach Traverse City on his regular route on Friday, where he will be joined by his wife and take a lay-off of acouple of weeks. The son and heir has been there several weeks. Chas. S. Robinson is putting in his time at home this week, entertaining his father, T. B. Robinson, of Fayetteville, N. Y. His route is being covered by Will Granger, the handsome shipping clerk of the company. The following hotels have been added to the list by the Hotel Committee of the Knights of the Grip the past week: American House, Cadillac; New Everett, East Saginaw; Sebring House, Bangor; Depot Hotel, Hartford; Bond House, Niles. L. M. Mills and wife and A. F. Peake and family are along the upper lake shore this week, headed for Frankfort, where they will spend Sunday. The male mem- bers of the party will then work back south, while the ladies will go on to Traverse City by boat. Kither A. L. Braisted got hard up and needed money to pay his hotel bill or else his dog was not popular among Northern Michigan dogs, for he recently sold the purp for 75 cents. Braisted says he got disgusted with the dog—and per- haps the canine felt the same way toward Braisted. >. _—_—_ Vassar—Hollenbeck & Brown, grocers, have dissolved. No Room for Kickers in Heaven. Saint Peter, it is said, sits out by the Heavenly gates, his hands on the strings of his lyre, and he sings, as he sits, a low song as he waits for the souls of those who expire. He hears in the dis- tance the chorus of song, that swells at the foot of the throne, and he smiles as the music is wafted along, and warbles this lay of hisown: ‘‘There’s room in this region for millions of souls, who by sorrow and woe were bereft; ’tis for those who have suffered the molody rolls, but the kickers must turn to the left. There is room here for people who when they were young, persisted in sowing wild oats, yet who boomed up the city with sinew and tongue, but the kickers must go with the goats. There is room for the people who pointed with pride, to the beauty and growth of their town, who kept singing its praises and charms till they died, but the kickers will please amble down. There is room for the burghers who cheerfully paid their taxes for sewers and lights, but the kickers must stay where the drainage is bad, and burnt sulphur illumines the nights. There is room for the voters on whose loyal support their party could always rely, but the kickers must go to the sa- tanie court, a place they can’t ‘bolt’ when they die. There is room for all those who at last and at first, supported their tradesmen at home, but the kickers who branded home goods as the worst, from this mansion forever must roam. They’d say that the music was all out of tune, and the angelic robes hand-me- downs, and they’d send for a jeweler off to the moon, to sample the gold in their crowns. So, while there is room for millions of souls, who by sorrow and woe are bereft, we want no complaints of the music that rolls, and the kickers will turn to the left.’’ —_—-—— ——__.- << It Was an Old Loss. Brown—Yes, I know that I have run behind in my rent, but then, you know, I’ve hadahard time of it. Of course, you heard that Llost my wife ? Smith (sympathetically)—No, I hadn’t heard of it. My dear fellow, lam very sorry for you. Here,take this: it is a re- ceipt for a month’s rent; wish I could do more for you. I shouldn’t have sent you that note had I known of your affliction. Brown returns thanks and retires. Shortly after enters Jones. Smith—That’s asad thing about Brown. Jones—Sad thing about Brown? Why, what’s happened to him ? Smith—Why, haven’t you heard? He’s lost his wife. Jones—Why, man, that was ten years ago! I thought, by the way you spoke, that some new misfortune had overtaken him. Smith says nothing but thinks very rapidly. >. Free Passes to Legislators. From the Tustin Echo. It costs the people of this State about $700 for each day the Legislature is in session at Lansing, and the duration of our last Legislature beats all previous records. It is admitted on all hands that this would not have been the case had not the various railroads of the State tendered each member of the Legislature with a free pass over their roads, which, we are informed, were accepted in every case but three. The people of this State should rise up in their wrath and kick mightily against this unnecessary ex- pense. At the annual convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Asociation, held at Muskegon last week, a resolution was passed asking for a law to prohibit the railroad companies from granting free passes to members of the Legisla- ture. Thisisastepin the right direc- tion. ——»_2->__— Aphorisms. Nothing great was ever achieved with- out enthusiasm.—Emerson. The more we study the more we dis- cover our ignorance.—Shelley. Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.—Walt Whitman. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.—Longfellow. We do love beauty at first sight; and we cease to love it, if it is not accom- panied by amiable qualities. — Lydia Maria Child. ————>—____—_ He Made It. The Viennese journalist who under- took to drive in a cab from the Austrian to the French capital has completed his journey successfully. However, the two horses were completely exhausted after traveling 800 miles in twenty-one days. Herr Loewy could have reached Paris a day earlier, but his driver thought it un- lucky to finish a journey on Friday, so rested outside the city. The chief diffi- culty in the the journey was a terrific thunderstorm at Strassburg, which threatened to destroy the cab altogether. > ___—_ The Hardware Market. Bar iron is up $1 per ton. Wire nails are firm at the new card. Window glass is still very scarce, it being still impos- sible to get orders filled in any quantity. The steel nail manufacturers are expect- ed to advance prices this week. ———@“qoq989- VISITING BUYERS. J P Degan, Cannonsburg J DenHerder&Son, Overisel Sisson & Livingston, Ada H Dalmon, Allendale John Homrich, No Dorr Carrington & North, Trent W R Lawton, Berlin Walling Bros,Lamont Spring & Lindley, Bailey JC Benbow, Cannonsburg H Meijering, Jamestown W 4H Hicks, Morley John Giles & Co, Lowell Hessler Bros, Rockford DenHerder & Tanis, Sisson&Lilley,Sisson’s Mills Vriesland Dr J F A Raider, Newaygo RG Smith, Wayland A & E Bergy, Caledonia Wm Karsten. Beaver Dam W H Goodyear, Hastin C ECoburn, Pierson Adam Newell,Burnip’s Bos CK Hoyt & Co.Hudsonville R A Hastings, Sparta P Kinney, Altona JN Wait, Hudsonville J R Harrison & Co, Winegar & Clark, Lowell Byron Center ES Botsford, Dorr Brookings Lumber Co, M undrum & Co, Leroy Brookings Dr Henry Lever, Newaygo H Thompson, Canada Cors A Phillips, Walton H Morley, CedarSprings Silas Loew, Burnips Cors M M Robson, Berlin AJProvin, Cedar Springs Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland H Colby & Co , Rockford AC ee Crosby G F Cook, Grove 8 H Ballard, Sparta Cutler & Wright, Morley JH Manning, Ashland J W Lovely, Howard City C A Warren Jr, Oreno T H Condra, Lisbon G@ Ten Hoor, Forest Grove D F Clement,Spring Lake Jno Fitzgerald, Baldwin Struik & Bro, Forest Grove John Kamps, Zutphen J Heeringa, Saugatuck M A Side, Kent City _ J Raymond, Berlin W MeWilliams, Conklin O Christenson. Muskegon H Van Noord, Jamestown DC Blood, Whitneyville Struik & Bro, Byron Center L Maier, Fisher Station Smallegan & Piekaard, John DeVries, Jamestown Forest Grove John Gunstra, Lamont W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam 8 Cooper, Jamestown John Damstra, Gitchell P DeKraker, Holland A MChurch, Englishville Fine Goods. Jakey—I vas goin’ to tell you a shoke, fader. Der vas— Mr. Orpenheimer (excitedly) — Don’t you tell no shokes here, Jakey. Dere vas two gustomers in de store, and if dey laugh de new suits von’t last till dey get to de door. FOR SALE! The Drenthe Cheese Factory. Well equipped for handling the milk of 400 eows. Termseasy. Address F. J. LAMB & CO. Grand Rapids, - Mich. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. BT pce SALE—DRUG AND GENERAL STOCK IN A good farming community. No other drug store within nine miles. For particulars, eare Michigan Tradesman. ego IN THIS—SHINGLE MILL AND FULLY- i equipped woods outfit, all running now, for sale at a bargain; owner going West. Write at once. €:t.. Gray & Co., Evart, Mich. 477 re RENT—A GOOD DRY GOODS STORE IN GOOD business town; good opening for the right person. Address Box 85, Dryden, Mich. 478 re SALE—OR WILL TRADE OR EXCHANGE FOR property in some city of not less than 2,000 pepula- tion in Middle or Southern Michigan. Stock of drugs and general merchandise and store buildings, well located for business, and is now doing a trade of $1,500 permonth. Cash value of buildings, $2,500; stock, $5,000; can reduce stock to $2,500 in 60 days. Build- ings all in good repair; stock in good shape; satisfac tory reasons given. Address No. 479, care of Michigan Tradesman. 4.9 rT SALE—COMPLETE STOCK OF WELL-SELECTED general merchandise, including fixtures, aggre- gating about $2,500, situated at good trading point in the Upper Peninsula; will sell stock on easy terms and rent or sell building containing same. Apply to Lemon & Peters, Grand Rapids. 475 re SALE—TERMS TO- SUIT--HALF INTEREST IN one of the liveliest stores in the State; if you pay rent, or are poorly located, write me. Address No. 473, care Tradesman. 473 OR SALE—IN THE CITY—STUCK OF GROCEKIbS in splendid location. Address No. 472, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 472. Ere ye STOCK OF MERCHANDISE FOR SALE— A nice clean stock of dry goods, clothing, carpets, boots and shoes, furnishing goods and groceries ina good live town. Largest trade in the place. First- class investment. Address Knapp & Parker, Fowler- ville, 4 Fe SALE—HAVING OTHER IMPORTANT INTER- ests, we offer for sale our stock of drugs, groceries, crockery, glassware, wall paper, paints, oils, etc.; one of the best stocks in best county seat in Michigan; will invoice about $7,000; will trade out $1,000. Bartram & Millington, Paw Paw. SITUATIONS WANTED. ANTED—POSITION AS SALESMAN OR MANAGER dry goods or general store, by a young man of experience; best of reference furnished. Address, A. Robertson, Martin, Mich. 471 ee So AS CLERK IN SMALL GRO- eery or dry goods store by a reliable young man. Address O. D. Cleveland, Harrison, Mich. 469 MISCELLANEOUS. ys. GOOD LOCATION TO OPEN A HARD- ware store and tinshop, by an experienced tin- smith and hardware man. Address J. A. Childs, tovert, Mich. 480 SS MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214 r= SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF the most pleasant streets “on the hill.” Will ex- change for stock in any good institution. Address 286, care Michigan Tradesman. 286 YS A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COU- pon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y., for samples of the new Excelsior Pass Book, the most complete and finest on the market. and just what every mer- chant should have progressive merchants all over the 437 country are now using them. { ‘ BUSINESS UNIVERSITY West Michigan “axp Norwat scHoot. (Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.) A thoroughly equipped, permanently estab- lished and pleasantly located College. The class rooms have been especially designed in accord- ance with the latest approved plans. The faculty is composed of the most competent and practical teachers. Students graduating from this Insti- tution MUST be efficient and PRACTICAL. The best of references furnished upon application. Our Normal Department is in charge of experi- enced teachers of established reputation. Satis- factory boarding places secured for all who apply to us. Do not go elsewhere without first personally interviewing or writing us for full particulars. Investigate and decide for your selves. Students may enter at any time. Address West Michigan Business University and Normal address Drugs, 476 Address 468 School, 19, 21, 23,25 and 27 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. U. LEAN, A. E. YEREX, Principal. Sec’y and Treas. S. G. Ketcham, Lime, Hair, Cement, Brick, Stucco, Sewer Pipe, Tile, Fire Brick and Fire Clay. 14 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. FOR SEEDS, APPLES, PEACHES Write to GC. AINSWORTH, Jobber, 76 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. “COLUMBIA”? Steam and Hot Water Boiler for warming dwellings, etc. HUM & SCHNEIDER, Grand Rapids. For Sale! New and Second — Machinery, Inclad- ng: One 24-inch Planer and Matcher, Three Mortisers, One Tenoner, Three Band Saws, Three Sand-papering Machines, Two Jointers, Door Clamp, Pulley Mortiser, Two 24-inch Pone¥ Planers, Two Railway Cut-6ff Saws, One Swing Cut-off Saw, Three Re-sawing Machines, Universal Saw Tables and full line of small machinery and supplies. Will name low prices. F. B. WIGGINS & CO., EAST SAGINAW, - = = MICH. Cherryman & Bowen, Undertakers and Embalmers, IMMEDIATE ATTENTION GIVEN TO CALLS DAY OB NIGHT. Telephone 1000. 6 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS. Lady assistant when desired. Our Fall Stock Is now Complete and Ready for Inspection. FA. Wurzburg & Go,, (Suecessors to F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co.) Exclusive Jobbers of DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. EXCLUSIVE Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, China Mattings Draperies, and Parlor Sereens Smith & Sanford, Ottawa and Pearl Sts., Ledyard Block. ESTABLISHED 1870. CHAS. SCHMIDY & BROS., Manufacturers and Dealers in Foreign and American Granite and Marble MonUments an« Statuary Having erected a New Granite Factory with the Latest Improved Machinery, we can Guarantee all Work First Class and Fill Orders Promptly. WORKSHOP AND POLISHING MILLS: Cor. West Fulton and Straight Streets. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 93 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, a MICH. Cc OS one Product of Our Factory at Dixon, Il. In view of the fact that we have GREATLY INCREASED our FACILITIES for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR NEARER HOME the coming fall season. SOLIDITY and STYLE—with CAREFUL CONSIDERATION. Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONGOL and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson & Co. have concluded to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our goods, will ENABLE ME to make it to YOUR ADVANTAGE to purchase your which stock A, GLOVE and OIL GRAINS to retail at $2, and FINER GRADES of GOATS and DONGOLAS, which consumers can buy at $2.50 and $3.00, together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S CALF, DON- GOLA, and KANGAROO Shoes of our own satisfaction Our heavier grades of SPLIT, GRAIN, KIP, VEAL, and CALF BOOTS are UNEQUALED, and the ‘‘Celebrated Red School House Shoes”? AS USUAL takes the ‘‘First Place.”’ G. M. HENDERSON & CO., Chicago. Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Goodyear Rubber Goods make, and all having the MERIT of guaranteed—will be worthy your Factories: Fond du Lac, Wis. Dixon, I11. Chicago, {1l. Willard H. James, Salesman for the Lower Peninsula. P. O. address, |Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. Are in use all over the land. often seen on the floor of the average grocer. varnished and put together in the best possible manner. cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with serews. Merchants, YOU WANT THIS CABINET Thousands of Them It does away with the unsightly barrels so Beautifully grained and Inside each only in one pound packages. 120 one-pound packages. Rvery Wide-Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, YHE KING OF COFFEES. An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Woolson Spice Co., * TOLEDO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. Packed +. ° ‘a 44 ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. President—C. L. Whitney, Muskegon. First ote oS. Bridgman, Flint. Second Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan. tary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. Secre Treasurer—H. W. Parker, Owosso. Frank Wells, Lansing; N. B. Blain, Lowell; Conklin, Gran Executive Board—President; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; 0. FP. Rapids, Secretary. . Committee on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap- ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso. | Committee on Legislation—Frank | Wells, Lansing; HH. H. Pope, Allegan; C. Hi. May, Clio. Committee on Trade Interests—Frank Hamilton, Trav- erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague, Greenville. : ittee on Transportation. T. Bridgman, Flint; Oc Gherwood, ‘Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B. Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con- nell, Muskegea. " Local Secretary—Jas. H. Moore, Saginaw. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are Op- erating under charters granted by the Michi- gan Business Men’s Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M.A. | President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A. President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. ee es No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M. AS President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba B&B. M. A. : President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, Pp. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—EHastport B. M. A President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. No.11—Kingsley B. M. ae President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. i President. H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15—Boyne City B. 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.17—Plainwell B.M.A. |. President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. M. A. President, Warren P. Woodard; 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. 2i1—Wayland B. M. A. President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A. President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, WwW. R. Clarke. si lola er oe No. 23—Carson City B. M. A. President. John W. Hallett; Secretary, L. A. Lyon. No. 24—Morley B. A. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. ' No. 25—Palo B. M. A. President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville B. M. A. President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. E. J. Clark. No 27—Dorr B. M. A. i President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. i President, A. G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. No. 31—Charlotte B. M. a. President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson. No. 33—Charlevoix B. M.A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. a. President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C- E. Densmore. Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. See ee ae —— No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39—Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President. C. T. Hartson; Secretary. Will Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M.A. resident, C. H. Howd: Secretary, L. Waggoner. No. 42—Fremont B. M A. President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary C.J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M. as l fresident, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. ee No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. Président, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. No. 45—Hoyiville B. M. 4. i President, D. E. Halienbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. No, 47—Flint M. U. President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor. No. 49—Leroy B M.A. | President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. AS President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis. ——$<$<—<—$ _ 3. anrit No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, Ww. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. S. Kedzie; Secretary. F. D. Vos. ee : on No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. 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, Geo. Chapman. er No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake RB. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar} ..& Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. 8S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M.A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, s. E. Neihardt. (ee e No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—East saginaw M. A. President. Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, Cc. W. Mulholand. No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, U. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. No, 64—Merrill B. M. A. President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Alf. G. Drake: Secretary, C. §. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67—Watervliet B. M.A. | President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. No. 68—Allegan B. M.A. President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers. No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No. 72—Edmore B. M. A. No, 73—Belding B. M. A. President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. No. 74—Davison M, U. President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd. No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A. President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalama2zoo B. M. A. President, S. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. No. 77—South Haven B. M. A. President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross. hasten texted Sead hd arta hi. ecient alti ieee No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. No. 79—East Jordan and so. Arm B. mM. A. President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. No. 80_Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A. President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig. No. 81—Flushing B. M. A. President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom, No. 82—Alma B. M. A. President, B. S. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky. No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A. President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo. No. 84—Standish B. M. A. President, P. M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson. z No. 85—Clio B. M. A. President” J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May. No. 86—Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A. President. T. W. Preston: Secretary, H. P. Blanchard. No. 87—Shepherd B. M. A. President, H. D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst. Association Notes. The business men of Lake Odessa met last Thursday evening, listened to an address on the the subject of organization by L. M. Mills and concluded to forma B. M. A within tbe next thirty days. Allegan Gazette: A meeting of the Business Men’s Association will be held Monday evening at Pope & Hart's law office. Reports from the delegation sent to the State meeting at Muske- gon, questions of lecal improvements, and the new railroad matter are all to be considered at this meeting. Referring to the recent State convention, the Newaygo Tribune remarks: Through the apathy of our business men, Newaygo will have no rep- resentative. When our people learn to pull together our village will prosper, and not until then. Wesincerely hope that our burg will be represented at the fifth annual meeting. Muskegon News: In the absence of a board of trade, whose business it is, properly, to attend to such matters, the Muskegon Business Men’s Association is putting out considerable adver- tising matter concerning Muskegon. The News would suggest to the Association that several thousand badges be printed, duplicates of the badges printed for the press association, and distributed.to the visiting Maccabees next week. In these badges Muskegon is set forth succintly and advantageously. Tustin Echo: We had avery pleasant time at Muskegon last week, where we were in attend- ance at the annual convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association. The convention was well attended, there being delegates present from various parts of the State. Governor Luce was in attendance during the entire three days and added much life and spirit to the conven- tion by his brilliant speeches, good advice and wise counsel. Muskegon is one of the wealthiest and most beautiful towns of its size in the United States, and her citizens take great pride in her beautiful paved streets, fine buildings and commercial activity, and the handsome and royal manner in which she entertained her invited guests, on this occasion, speaks volumes for the city of Muskegon. It cost Muskegon people several hundred dol- lars to entertain their guests on the occasion of the recent convention of business men, but the chances are that the investment was a profitable one, afterall. A gentleman from Adrian was pleased with the appearance of the side tables turned out by a Muskegon manufacturer and bought two of them; a Traverse City boot and shoe dealer bought a dozen chairs for his store: several delegates bought Jumber and one bought a round order of machinery; two placed orders for flour and cigars of Muskegon manufacture, while others formed acquaintanceships which will undoubtedly result in pleasant business dealings lateron. THE TRADESMAN trusts that the next convention will be equally fruitful of good results to the local trade. ———__—-2- Will Picnic August 20. President Milliken, of the Traverse City B. M. A., recently sent out the following circular let- ter to the members of his Association: Will you please answer the following questions on the enclosed postal? a Is it, in your opinion, advisabie for the B. M. A. to hold a picnic this summer? Should the stores be closed for the entire day? If desirable, which day of the week would be best? Will you please indicate your choice, if you have any, of location for the same? An immediate answer will oblige and commit- tees can be appointed at once, if the answers re- ceived indicate a desire to take a day for rest and fellowship. L J. W. MELuIKEN, Pres. The replies were so uniformly favorable that it was decided to close all places of business on August 20 and board the steam barge Wescott for Omena, where the entire day will be given up to games, sports and merrymaking. As the Traverse City people never do things by halves, their sec ond picnic will undoubtedly be a grand success. ————»> += South Boardman Booming. SoutH BoaRDMAN, Aug. 12, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: South Boardman is on a genuine business boom. The town has secured the factory of H. P. Whipple, of Kingsley, and a hard wood factory from Whipple. owned by a Mr. Williams, of that place; also a large general store owned and operated by H. P. Whipple. These factories will employ sixty men and use three million feet of beach, maple and elm per year. Many new houses are going up this fall, and with the new roller mill, whichis now sure to come, South Boardman is going to be one of the best towns on the G. R. & L., north of Cadillac. S. EB. Nerranpr, See’y. ———_—»> ee _—_ A Market Worth Competing For. The Boot and Shoe Trades Journal, of London, gives this timely warning: ‘‘Like asin all new countries, the wear and tear of boots and shoes in Australia is immense, an account of the class of work in which the people are engaged; aud to this fact the manufacturers of England should be alive, for, unless they are. the shoemen of the United States will have the inner track, for which, in- deed, they are working hard. In England there is a general idea that the Australa- sian colonies are in some way bound to trade with the mother country under a kind of favored nation system of reciprocity, but there is no such treaty or law in existence, as the six leading colonies are almost independent; and in regard to tariffs and all other trade mat- ters do just as they cousider expedient, and England has, therefore, to compete for their custom like any other country. But they are, however, a market worth competing for, inasmuch as they will in a few years have large populations with language, customs and manners identical with our own—links that will bind them to us in that great band of sentiment founded upon racial origin and national feeling, and which is always stronger than tyrant laws or chains of steel.” a Electrical Exhibition. A proposal has been made to hold an exhibition of electrical engineering and mechanical inventions in the capital of Scotland next year, and “the influential support promised to the scheme augurs well for its financial success, while the scientists and engineers associated with it guarantee in a great measure that the exhibition will be worthy of the rapid development of electrical practice, which it is intended to illustrate. Every ex- hibition is associated to amore or less extent with a great passing event or with the celebration of past memorable oc- casions, and the promoters of this scheme have decided on the year 1890, as itis likely to see the completion of one of the greatest undertakings in a branch of civil engineering, in the opening for rail- way traffic of the Forth bridge. —_——_—_—_— > Reached His Business Majority. Geo. P. Glazier has been a banker, bus- iness man and success at Chelsea for twenty-one years, and his family re- cently celebrated the event by means of a huge picnic at Cavanaugh Lake. Cof- fee, tea, lemonade, music, boating and 1,000 guests had a hand in the affair. A GRAND SUCCESS. [CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. | of the two words having such a vast meaning as to include every move made by a business man—in such a manner as I ean best do in a few words. Brevity has been said to be the soul of wit: Now, while I make no pretensions as to wit, I will be brief because brevity —that is, sharp but brief and to-the- point words and acts—is among the car- dinal principles of the successful trades- man. The interests of trade are the interests of mankind, for commerce is the life plood of civilization and without it hu- manity stagnates and practically dies. From the earliest times until now the trader has been a benefactor to our race. In the entire history of the world there is only one exception—that was the time when Adam traded Paradise for a pippin, and, although he lost in the deal, he suc- ceeded in breaking the then existing corner in fruit. In my opinion, the one thing that should be most indelibly impressed upon your memory, gentlemen, is that a friend- ly feeling should always exist between shop-keepers of any and all kinds, for in this. as well as in all other classes of people, we must have unity in order to be successful. I mean to say that we should meet each other at all times with the feeling of brothers; we must con- verse with one another on vital subjects of direct interest to the tradesman; we must avoid petty jealousies; we must not allow the general public to know too much concerning our affairs, and yet neighbor merchants should be truthful and always on intimate terms with each other: we should lay our wares before the people in as bright, attractive and catchy a manner as possible, and, hay- ing induced the buyer to come to our counters, we should talk to them in plain, unvarnished language, always giving them a correct idea of the value and character of the article they are pur- chasing. Gentlemen of the Association, the sub- ject of ‘“Trade Interests’? is one alto- gether too broad to linger upon, and, as I do not propose to worry you with a lengthy paper. I will close by saying that nothing could be more conducive to the welfare of the merchants of Michi- gan than to join this Association. Truly, ‘Trade Interests’? is its prime object. It has at its head, from year to year, men of active brain, men who guard well against any and all pitfalls that may come before the trade of this section of country, and it has yet to be put on record where we have failed when hay- ing undertaken an important step. Every business man in the State is invited to join in our work, and I trust that you who are present who are not members will send in your names at the earliest opportunity, for there is a world of good to be accomplished for ourselves. You know that those who do not help them- selves are deserving of no help at all. Therefore, I again speak of the ‘wisdom of becoming a member of this Associa- tion and thus extending what practical aid you can in building up an organiza- tion that has for its one great object, ‘-Trade Interests.”’ Il regret very much my inability to be present with you this year. At Cheboy- gan, last year, I personally invited you to East Saginaw at your next annual meeting. This year, 1 am in favor of the same city, although under another name, that of ‘“‘Saginaw,’’ now and for- evermore one and inseparable. Should you decide to come, | can assure you that you will be royally received and en- tertained. It is to Saginaw’s interests that I, on the part of her merchants, ex- tend to you the invitation. Come, and rest assured that you will find that the salt of Saginaw has kept the milk of human kindness of her citizens from souring. GEORGE R. Hoyt. The report was laid on the table until the regular order, when the report of the Committee on Transportation was presented, as follows: MARQUETTE, July 26, 1889. FRIEND WELLS — Since writing you last, 1 have strolled up to Marquette. The means of transportation was such that I found thetrip convenient and pleasant. I thank you for your kindness in as- signing to me the subject of ‘‘Transpor- tation.’ for a paper to be read to the Association. It opens a broad field of thought. From the beginning of the world it has been a study for all man- kind. Adam and Eve had limited trans- portation in their first trip. Poor old Moses, loaded with Egyptian spoils, was not provided with water craft or land vehicles, and his excursion through the wilderness took more time even than the Michigan Legislature consumed in de- termining that ‘‘a blue trip slip is a two- cent fare.’?? Noah, it is recorded, as a transporter of valuable cargo, was aided from above in surmounting difficulties; and Jason, in his search for the golden fleece, used such means as the gods could suggest. Balaam, whose mode was rather simple, met with obstacles in his way and didn’t proceed until the com- mittee reported. So, transportation, from Adam’s day to our own time, has been a theme en- gaging the best thought of foremost men, else we should not now be the benefi- ciaries of the splendid results exempli- fied in modern methods. Lregret that I cannot make a study of to-day’s ways and report the outcome thereof to the Association. Circum- stances have turned my steps hither and my time is not my own. As chairman of the Committee on Transportation, let me report that I started early to obtain one-half fare to and from Muskegon for the members of the Association. Each official connected with the Michigan Central, Grand Trunk, Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern, whom I saw, gave me assurance that the re- quest would be granted; but, later on, our Secretary informed me by letter that through the G. R. & I. R. R. he had se- eured the reduction, and I was thus, by the kindly aid of the Secretary, relieved of the duty. It is my hope that the coming conven- tion will be one of pleasure and benefit to the members of our Association. Please present my compliments and regrets to the convention. Yours truly, JAMES OSBORN. The report of the Committee on Build- ing and Loan Associations was then called for, but one member of the Com- mittee stated that no report had been prepared. Reports of delegates were then called for in the following order: Grand Rapids (Thos. Keating)—I was not aware I was to make a report until our last meeting. I have procrastinated preparing for it and feel that I cannot do justice to our Association at Grand Rapids. We sent a large delegation to Flint two years ago. This year we have only three members present. Last year we had a full delegation at Cheboygan. We have added several new members to our Association during the last year, and lost some, some going out of busi- ness and others not paying their dues. We regret that our Association is not in as good standing as we could wish. We have sixty-five members in good stand- ing and ready to do their duty at the eall of the Association, no matter in what shape the call may be made: I have heard reports of inability to get out a quorum in other localities. We are no worse off in this respect, it seems, than some of our neighbors. If there is any- thing special comes up, like a picnic, it is gratifying to see our unanimity. At our last picnic, the stores in the city were allclosed buttwo. These affairs create a good feeling between the members. I can remember the time when this good feeling did not exist. One dealer would not accommodate another merchant who happened to get out of an article at one and a half the price—if he thought he was helping his rival merchant. We have early closing, some close at 7 o’clock, other places at 7:30, still others 2£4:30. We have reduced expenses, the dus now being $2 per year, making a very good protection very cheap. An- other thing our Association has accom- plished: Our combined committees waited on the wholesalers and jobbers to induce them to refrain from selling restaurants, boarding houses and hotels. We have the names of twenty-eight who have agreed not to sell to anybody, thus recognizing the power behind our Asso- ciation. The retailer is the proper chan- nel through which goods should reach the consumer. Some other towns might well follow our example in this respect. Our picnic was the grand success of the season. There have been great crowds at Reed’s lake, but this one outnumbered them all. The rule ‘‘always room for one more’’ did not apply to the street cars that day. One steamer carried over 2,500 people, and there are five steamers, so the crowd can be imagined. Every- thing was crowded. The day closed with a banquet. feed all—I was one of the hungry my- self. The jobbers say if another event like it takes place they will make pro- vision for feeding about 5,000,000. If every member came to the meetings, and did their duty, there would be no cause for the dead-beat list. We should try and have legislation so that a garnishee will reach some of the fellows who make $25 a week. You can get at the man who receives but $30 to $40 a month, while the man who gets $100, payable weekly, laughs at you. That is the way it works with us, you cannot reach him by lawsuits. Ido not know how it is in the country towns. Muskegon (John A. Miller)—We have 175 members in our Association—the leading business men of the city. We have accomplished a great deal of good, as we have shut off a lot of dead-beats from getting goods of merchants by our system of advertising our Blue Letters, reports every month, ete. C. L. Whitney made an additional re- port, as follows: Not being a delegate, Ido not know how I can officially make | As it has been requested, how- a report. ever, I will give you some data in regard to the Muskegon organization. I shall have to.do it entirely extemporaneously, as I have only a few documents in my hands from which 1 may glean a figure or two. Asthe President has said, our membership is 175, having neither in- creased nor diminished during the year. Yet it is probable that we have forty or more members to-day whom we did not have a year ago—and every one of the; forty is worth three old ones. Every organization with which I have been ac- quainted has had a similar experience. At the beginning of every organization, a great many rush in with some sort of a vague idea that something will turn up for their benefit. After awhile there come thedues. If it isn’t but fifty cents, or even a quarter, it is a pile. They have an idea that somebody is getting more benefit than they are and they find fault. We have had such. If you have not, L am glad for you. Some of these have quietly dropped out. In every report of delinquents, we have included those who have dropped out. Members who are coming in to-day are doing so because the Muskegon Association has been at work. The work has been systematic, thorough. The endeavors have been earnest, and there have been results. The meetings have, as arule, been quite well attended by those who are faithful. In a city of our size, with 180 members scattered over such a vast extent of ter- ritory, with no individual interests at stake and many of them in these close times endeavoring todo without clerk hire, it is not expected that every mem- ber will come out, especially when we hold two meetings a month. We have good rooms anda home. But one meet- ing has failed entirely, and that was on the night previous to the Fourth of July, and our members were so tremendously patriotic that they did not get out to it. The report of January 1 showed that we had reached through Blue Letters $13,- 850. I hope no other city has as much indebtedness on the books. Of this amount, $2,450, or 18 per cent. was col- lected, with simply the‘expense of post- age—less than $20. A cheaper system could not be gotten out. I speak of it as a system of bringing the result about quietly between man and man, without the world knowing anything about it. Added to the Blue Letter, comes a second letter. This many times brings about the work attempted to be accomplished by the first. I will say thatif half our members had reported to the Secretary and the Secretary had sent out the second letter, at least two-thirds that is not collected would have been reached [CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.] It was impossible to! Dry Goods. Prices Current. UNBLEACHED coTTons. |American indigo.... 64% ATIABEIC feo... 5. 74| American shirtings. 5 Atlanta AL AU. :... 6%4| Arnold - ...-.-..- 6% TICKINGS. Dwight Anchor..... 9 |Amoskeag AC A....18 o “© shorts. 8%|Hamilton N.......-- 7% Ma@WOrds, ........... 6 {Pearl Hiver........- 12% Empire: (2.02. .: 5... i. DEMINS. (arwerl. 3.2.27... -- 8 |Amoskeag......---- 13% Fruit of the Loom.. 8%|Amoskeag, 9 02..... 15 Mitcnville ..... .... Ti4{Andover........----- 11% Vivet Prise......-... iW coeeratt cu... ... kee Fruit of the Loom %. 8 |Lawrence XX....... 138% Pairmouns.-... ..--- 44% GINGHAMS. Lonsdale Cambric..10%|Glenarven.... ..-.-- 6% lonsdsie:...... . 2... 8144|Lancashire......---- 6% Mdclesex. 3. ...-.- 5144|Normandie......--- 8 Woe Name...) ........ 714|Renfrew Dress...--- 8 Ook View... 2+... - 6 ‘Toil du Nord.......- 10 Onur Own.......--.-. 5% CARPET WARP. Suuiient.........-..- 414|Peerless, white...... 18% Vinyard... .. - 8 colored....21 HALF BLEACH’D COTTONS GRAIN BAGS, Capese.:) coi. TA iStark 2-33 se 19% Rarwen. 2.2. 3. -- 814|American.......--.- 16% Dwight Anchor..... 9 |Valley City......---- 16 CORSET JEANS. Georgia .... .....- -- 15% Bid@etard... 2... ..-: G (Pace... .-.-.. .18% Brunswieck.»... ..-. MAIBuriap.......-.- |... it Naumkeag satteen.. 7 SPOOL COTTON. Hockport........ .--. 6%4|Clark’s Mile End... .47 PRINTS. Coats, Jd GE... ... 7 American fancy.... 6 |Holyoke........----- 2214 Laingsburg—B. W. Dennis has assigned his hardware stock to W. H. Hunt and will close up his entire business here, preparatory to going West. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Eves’ Gld Style 68 60 Gia oe 60 Cogs... 40 Jennings, genuine:......- Se 25 Jennings’, imitation .............--......... 5010 AXES. First Quality, S. B. Bronze...............--. $7 00 Sf be B Bronce... 11 00 o S&S Steel: 8 50 se me B Seen sc 13 00 BALANCES. dis. SE a aise cine oe BARROWS. dis. Raieosd ee 8 14 00 Garden) net 30 00 BELLS, dis. aoe) oe 60&10&10 Cc. 70 Ce ee es 30&15 Gone ose ee ee ee 25 Door Sareent 33 60&10 BOLTS. dis. Sigge 50&10 Carriage new list.................-.-..-..... 75 PIGW So ee Sleigh shoe... .- Wrought Barrel Bolts. .......-- eat Barre: Bole... oe 40 Cast Barrell brass Eanloebs.....-.........-... 40 Cast Square Spring..-.--. -- -.-.----_-....- 60 Oost Cnet (oe ee 40 Wrought Barrel, brass knob................ 60 Wiroueit S0UanC 60 Wroucht sank Plush... ... 3... 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush. . .60&10 ives DoOGe. ee 60£10 BRACES. dis. Barber. ee 40 oe ee ee 50&10 ear ee eo 50 Aja Bal net BUCKETS. [Well pit eee $ 3 50 Web. swivel... 5... 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin: firmred sl T0& @ast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...-........- 7& Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 69£10 Wrought Loose Fin. se . 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............-- 60&05 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned .............. 60405 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05 Wroucht Fable 60&10 Wrought baside Bind: 320020. : 60&10 Wrought Brass... .. . 75 Sind) Clann. 70&10 Bund Parbers -.:.-..-.. --. 70&10 Bind Seeparas 23 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85..........- 40 CARPET SWEEPERS. Bissell NG bi.) 60 per doz.$17 00 Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ " 19 60 essen Grane ee . 36 00 Grand Rapids. .-..:.._-. . 24 00 Marie oe 15 00 CRADLES, Cr es dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. ©gst Steet ee perib 4% iron, Stedl Poimis. 9-2... — 3% CAPS. a ee perm 65 tems Co Wee ee. sg 60 Ce ee . 35 Musket. ...s : 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Tie Fire, United States... 0.5.0 50 5.00: dis. 50 Contra: Pie. es at dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Soemen Wirmer 22. oe 70&10 SGGKCt Mrareen eee Secket Corner: (....-.... Socket Siicke ....:.1-..0. Boatehers’ Tangee Firmer...........--...4.. Barton a Socket Mirmers: 3.0.5 .--0.0 02... 20 Cee ee ee net COMBS. dis. Gurty, LAWLENCO'S 6.0 .0e seis eee. fa 40&10 FIOSCHINS oc 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 cocks. Brass, HACKING S..05.00255 0s 60 SDS i ee ee eae 40&10 OE EE EE 68 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28 S 4x5 14056, 34x60 2c... ees ain 26 Cold Rolied: 14x56 and $4x60.-.- ........... 24 Cold Rolled, $6045. cs es. 24 Bouoms 4.:.-2.-:- Cte o eee ees cui tees te... 25 DRILLS. dis. L Worse s iit S6OGKS 56020. oc ss 40 Paper and straight Shank. 40 Morse’s Taper shanks 602.2... 5... 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound 6.0. 602.0 os oa. 07 Large sizes, per pound...............:.-. oS ELBOWS. Coin, 4 piece Gi. ee oc ese: doz. net 75 ROPPUmOLCG oo. c dis. 20&10&10 Adpustable.:.. 6... sis pe cMoancubeugs dis. 4%&10 SEERA, SCRAPERS ALLL IELTPLPOPE DLLLEE No. 1 holds 7 feet of earth. No. 2 ce 5 ce ce Maa *: 2? ‘“ Foster, Stevens & Co., WHOLESALE HARDWARE. 10 and 12 Monroe St. 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EXPANSIVE BITS. @lark’s, small, $18; large @6................ 30 Ives’, 1, 818; 2, $24; 3, ‘ FILES—New List. dis American File Association List............. 60&10 MAREOIER 3 ee ew on 60416 New American..... NMichorsen’s .-........._,....-........- oo ee i Heller's Horse Haspe.-:.-......--..:...-..... 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; 2 and %; 2 2& List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... .....-... HAMMERS, Navydole & @oe.'s............,-.._.- coace dis. 25 A ela is, 2 Werkes © Puimbps..2)000 0 dis. 40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel. ............-._- 30¢ list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40&10 HINGES. Gate. Clark’s,1,2,5..........-.-..--.. dis.60&10 Sime... r doz. net, 2 50 pe Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and MOWBEE ee 3% Sercw HOO ana Hye, %4.........-5....... net 10 . . - ee net 8% . Hi . eee ee met (% “ i - i. net 7% Strep ene Po... se dis. 70 HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. ...50410 Champion, snti-friction..........-......... 60410 ha@der, wood wack .-... 40 HOLLOW WARE PO eae 60&05 Mowles 60405 ee esas so 60&05 Gray enmineied. 60.626. ote 50 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped ‘fin Ware........0....,..- new list 70&10 on Japanned Tin Ware...........-.-.-.-------- 25 Grantte Iron Ware -............-. new list 333510 HOES. Grub i... Lee #11, dis. 60 rae ee $11.50, dis. 60 Cane $12, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Aug Sable... 0...) dis. 25£10@25£10&10 Pugpem dis. 5&10&2%4&21%4 Nortwestern......--..--.. dis. 10&10&5 KNOoBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 5D Door, porcelsin, trimmings.............-... 55 Dragver and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 Picture, Ht. dudd & Co’s...........%..... 40&10 Howecne. 3... 45 LOCKS—DOOR,. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.s......-.-.......... 55 Preeeeers 55 Worwmulees 55 LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........--... 70 MATTOCKS. Agze Bye $16.00, dis. 60 fmt Hye. $15.00, dis. 60 Hunis...-.----- sl €18.50, dis. 20410. MAULS. dis. Sperry & Co.’s, Post; handled............... 50 MILLS. dis. Conec, Parkers Cos 0...) 40 “ P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 ‘© Panders, Ferry & Clark’s......._.._- 40 ( Materprine 25 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Stebbins Patserm 2.1050 60&10 Giopbin s Genuine. 2 20 60410 Enterprise, self-measuring..............-.-. 25 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. Se 25 ee caret eee 10 Raa GG 25 Gland ia). 40 AA ane Se ee 60 ee 1 00 ee 1 56 FINE BLUED. CE Gee Ge a ee a cane Se Tea 1 00 ....... ..... 1 50 eee 2 00 CASTING AND BOX. mein oe......... Le . 50 eee 60 ee ee 75 Glia ws. 90 eee iw Ce Ce OT a ee t 30 COMMON BARREL. ee Ne eee ciate eae cel eta a acids ae 2 2 CLINCH, 136 ari tA ICR ee 1 35 2 and 24% * 1p 24and2% * 1 00 Sipe 85 Shane 46 TCR 75 Each half keg 10 cents extra. OILERS. dis. Zine or tin, Chase s Patens....-...-......-.. 60&i0 Zine, with brass bottom...............-...-- 50 rans OrCopper. 600. 50 a per gross, #12 net Oimniceaa Ss ..5 5. 50&10 PLANES. dis. (jie Tool Co's fancy... ss 40@10 Seto Benen @60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.............-..- 40@10 Benen. first quality...........-.-... 2.0 +... @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20410 PANS. Rey, AGG ee dis. 60 Oommen, polished... ... 2... .--. dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. ion ae Tented. ee eo 50 Copper Rivets and Burs..................-.- 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “B’ Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 2 Broken packs 4c per pound extra. ROPES. Sinal. 4% ine and larger ....-...5.......... 12 sttE es 14 SQUARES. dis Stoel sm PG ok 75 ‘Pry gn@ BOVOM 2.4.6 s el 60 We eo ea ol eee 20 SHEET IRON, Com. Smooth. Com. Woes, 1010 14.000. cc $4 20 Ge 15 60 be cess ee oe ee 4 20 3 00 Woe 2600S ee cs 4 20 3 10 Ge: Pe OE i cl, ee 4 20 315 ie SOTO MG oes 4 40 3 35 AG ee ie ee boo 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. East acet. 19 86,2200 dis. 40 SASH CORD. Siiver Lake, White A... .........2.-.0.: list 50 e DADA _ 55 ‘ Wee Bl .. _ 50 . A ee o 55 Whee Co a“ 35 Discount, 10. i SASH WEIGHTS. Bou Wee per ton 825 i _ SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. Miles’ ‘“‘Challenge’’....per doz. #20, dis. 50@250&05 Perry oc. per doz. No. 1, $15; No. 0, i ees eee wee ees ee ee coe 21; dis. 0@50&5 Draw Cut No.4... each, $30, dis 30 Maerprise Mig. Co. .2..5 0.266. .38.. dis. 20&10@30 Silver s...... ee dis. 40&10 : SAWS. dis. Diestons Cirevlar: .. o.oo 45@45&5 : Croes Cut. -._......... 0 a o Mam@ 25@25&5 *Extras sometimes given by jobbers. AtKING) CCUM dis. 9 Silver Stee] Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 ‘ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... 50 ‘¢ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 “«« Champion and B&lectric Tooth X Cuts, per toot... TACKS. dis. momerican, atl kinds oo... 60 peel all kinds. .....__. Ses oO MWececn MIN HING@S. es 60 (rep ama eee 60 (tear Geox Natle. 3 50 Recess NAR 50 Common and Patent Brads............,.... 58 Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 50 rare gud Clant Nats... ..............-... 50 Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails .......::-..- 45 Beathered Carpet Taems... ....:....-.., 2. 35 TRAPS. dis. Secel Came 60410 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s ... 70 Hates NG 70 PS aw: Mie Cos ....... 70 Mouse, Chéker 0 18¢ per doz, Mouse delusion... $1.50 per doz. WIRE, dis. Bright Market... j-t e. 67% Aumesieod MALHCE. 2 70&10 Coppered Market... ee MOA Oe ee 55 nome Market. 624% Sioned Brogm .-....- ee per pound 09 Mined Matiress.... 3. isl. per pound 8% Copperca Spring Sicel.. 8 50 ‘Tinned Spring Steel................_.._.__ ae rag WenCG per pound 03 Harned Wence, gcalvanized......-...5..... 5.) $3 75 re Panes 0. 3 00 Cameer. se iew list net Mraes oe : WIRE GOODS. dis. Bright. ...-....--.-------.--+eeee ene -70&10&10 Serew Byes. 2 ee Gem . -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes............... ..70&10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..... ..... 30 Coes Gemime. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ %5 Coes Patent maticable. 3.8... 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Hrd Caged 2. cle Louee ley bumps. Cisco c , 75 Sarees NOW Pane ce 50 Casters Bed and Plate.........2........ 50&10&10 Hampers, AWCTiCAH 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 METALS, PIG TIN. A eee 28¢ Pie Bars... oo. ees eee aways -+ toot butter (size of hen's egg) and gil 4 o* fresh milk (preferable to water.) [4 Season to suit when onthe table. None Q genuine uniess bearing the signature ot q Davenport Cannirg Qo, Davenport, Ia. Se oo Op Ll EN at ruis ES? H. Leonard & Sons. Grand Rapids, Mich. Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts. The Old Reliable. WE ARE Headquarters FOR Michigan. 26,165 Quick Meal Stoves Sold in 1888, Near Union Depot. THE Quick Meal Gasoline Stove Has Safety Points Found in no Other Stove. is Warranted to Give Satisfaction. List Price. Above Stove, with Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter ~ - - - $21.50 ey ay ‘* Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - ~ - 20.50 With Three Burners on Top, Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter - - 23.50 ee . ee oe Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - 22.50 Send for Complete Lllus'rated Catalogue and write for Factory Discounts, “Useful Hints to Dealers in Quick Meal Oil Stoves’’ sent free on request. Every dealer should have a copy. H. Leonard & Sons. MICHIGAN CIGAR CO., Big Rapids, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED “7. €. ©..." ") am Yum The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market. SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER. SHAFTING, HANGERS, AND PULLEYS A SPECIALTY. 7FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting. THE LANE & BODLEY CO. 2 to48 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, 0. CURTISS & CO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. W. STEELE Packing and Provision Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing. LARD strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 56 1b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc. Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are -warranted first-class in every in- stance. When in Grand Rapids, give usa call and look over our establishment. Write us for prices. Fiuckleberries Wanted! THEO. B. GOOSSEN, WHOLESALE Produce and Commission Merchant, IS MAKING A SPECIALTY ON HUCKLEBERRIES. If you are in the market to either buy or sell, or send on commission, will be pleased to hear rom you. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Go, (SUCCESSOR TO GEO. E. HOWES & CO.) Jobbers of RPOREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MOSELEY BROS, ——_WHOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters: Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., “ - C. A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich. 33 OTTAWA STEET, Telephone 269. GRAND RAPIDS. F. J. LAMB & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich . C. A. LAMB & C O., Wholesale and Commission Fruits a FRED CLOCK, Chicago, Ill. Our Specialties: CALIFORNIA FRUITS, ORANGES, LEMONS, Produce. BANANAS AND BERRIES. 56 and 58 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. EDWIN BPALLAS, Batter, kegs, Oranges, Lemans, Bananas, Mince Meat, Nuts, Figs, Ete, Eggs Crate Factory in connection. Price List furnished on application. Mail Orders Filled Carefully and Promptly at Lowest Market Price. Cold Storage at Nos, 217 and 219 Livingstone St. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ALFRED J. BROWN, WHOLESALE DEALER IN Foreign, ‘Tropical and Galitornia FRUITS. ——— = | Sines amemee a a= = Headquarters for Bananas. 16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. - = - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Island City Coal. If you buy it, we Guarantee the Best Results. Huy and Try! | STEAM PURPOSES. Best for DOMESTIC USE. Used by Principal Hotels, Leading Manu- GRATES. facturers and Railroads. LIGHT ASH. GIVE IT A TRIAL. A. HIMES, Sole Agent, TELEPHONE 490-1. MAIN OFFICE, 54 PEARL 8ST. FIRE! FIRE! We are selling the BEST RUBBER HOSE in 3-4, 1, 11-4, 11-2, 2 and 21-2 inch. Cotton Mill Hose, Rubber Lined; also unlined Linen Hose, in all NO CLINKER. sizes, for fire protection. s (ur Prices are Rock Bottom We have the Best Lubricators, Grease and Oil Cups,"Lath} and Fodder Yarn, Saw Gummers, and the best General Stock of Mill Supplies in this State. AGENTS FOR STEWART’S BEADY ROOFING, DEAFENING FELT AND SHEATHING, IRON FIBRE PAINT AND CEMENT. BEST OF THE KIND IN USE. SAMUEL LYON. a GROCERIES. How the Sugar Trust Was Formed. The series of able articles now ap- pearing in the Baltimore Sun, from the pen of the Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, Repre- sentative in Congress from West Vir- ginia, are attracting a good deal of atten- tion, and are the most searching papers into the true history of trusts and monop- oliesthat have yet appeared in any quar- ter. Having thoroughly exposed all the ins and outs of that gigantic monopoly, the Standard Oil Company, which is the his- tory of a great commercial crime, Mr. Wilson turns to the great Sugar Trust and tells the whole story of how that trust was formed, uncovers the first machinery of monopoly, and shows us the business application of the rule of addition. subtraction and silence and how great riches are made for the skill- ful few. Sugar is of daily use in every household. Its average consumption in the United States is fifty pounds per capita. requiring nearly one-third of the product of the world. Of this vast amount we produce, chiefly in Louisiana, a variable fraction, averaging about one- tenth. and import the resiaue in the form of raw sugars, which are refined in this country, our tariff duties being prohib- itory on the refined grades. When, therefore, it became known that a large majority of American refiners had formed a ‘Sugar Trust,’? and its opera- tion was brought sharply home to every household by an immediate and conse- quent rise in the price of an article of universal consumption, public feeling was at once excited to the point where legislatures and courts were invoked to uncover, and, if possible, to suppress this new form of secret combination. The Sugar Trust was framed very closely upon its model, but some differences must be kept in view from the beginning. The Standard Oil Trust was simply a new and more perfect organization given to an already existing combination. The Sugar Trust was the adoption of that organization for the purpose of forming a combination out of hitherto independent and competing companies. The deed under which the Sugar Trust was organized was made in October, 1887. it provided that all parties to it, not already corporations, should first become such, and thereupon that all the shares of stock in all the corporations should be transferred: to the board of trustees, eleven in number, designated as ‘The Sugar Refineries Company,” in lieu of which stock certificates declaring that the holder was entitled to so many ‘shares of the Sugar Refineries Com- pany’? were to be distributed by the board to the several corporations, to be by them re-distributed to the parties en- titled to them. The amount of these certificates was not to exceed $50,000,000, and the quota allotted to each corpora- tion was to be ascertained by appraise- ment and agreement as to the actual value of its property, including good- will, patents and the like, and pnggen regard to its capitalization. Of th shares allotted, 15 per cent. were to ee left ih the board with which to acquire other refineries becoming parties to the deed. to pay for additional capacities or to appropriate to the several refineries. Each corporation preserves, as before, its identity and separate management, but the board, as the common and exclusive stockholders of them all, elect their @irectors and receive all the dividends, | out of which in turn they declare and, pay dividends on the trust certificates. The parties executing the original agreement included nine in New York, headed by the great Havemyer & Elder concern, whose refineries have . capaci- | ty of 8,000 barrels, or nearly 2,500,000 pounds daily, and three in Boston. Later : it was signed by one in St. Louis, two in New Orleans and one in Portland, Me., and possibly others in recent months. These sixteen refineries first forming the ‘Trust’? produce two-thirds of the re- fined sugar of this country. Among the declared objects of the deed were to} communicate to all the processes Or ap- , pliances possessed by any; to maintain the standard of refined sugars; to pro-! mote economies, so as to keep the price’ of sugar as low as consistent with rea- sonable profit, and to protect against unlawful combinations of labor. The deed under which the Sugar Trust was formed, while more clear and ex- plicit in many respects than its proto- type, was more general in prescribing the duties of the trustees, doubtless tv avoid any conflict with the laws against combinations in the State of New York. Its trustees denied, with much emphasis, ' any attempt or purpose to control pro- duction or enhance prices, but a few facts cannot be explained in any other way. Here were sixteen of the largest refineries in the country, engaged m eager competition in the manufacture and sale of sugars, that by a single agree- | ment entered into a “trust.”? Almost} immediately five of these refineries w ere | closed, three in New York and two in| Boston. Oneof the New York refineries, the North River, was sold to the city for | park purposes, another and very large} one, the Oxnard, was directed to be dis- } mantled. Various excuses were alleged! for this prompt diminution of production, | but itis hard to explain why the only | shutting down in the country was among | the trust refineries. Another immediate | result of this combination of late rivals! to ‘maintain the standard of refined | sugar’’ was an increase in its cost to the} consumer. When the trust was formed | the difference between the price of fair! refined raw sugar and refined granulat- | ed sugar was 1 9-16 cents per pound, a| difference, which, on examination of cor- | responding prices in London, allowing | all that was claimed for increased cost of production in America, would afford a fair profit tothe refiner. In three months’ time the difference had become 2 1-16 cents per pound, one half cent more, for which there can be no explanation ex- cept the power of the trust to increase the price of its product to the consumer, especially when the Government stands guard to keep away all outside relief that cannot leap over a high-protecting wall. Let us see what an additional half cent apound meant. We consume annually about 3,000,000,000 pounds of sugar. Of this quantity the refineries in the trust produce, nearly, if not quite, two-thirds, the other third being produced by out- side refineries, the sugar houses of Louisiana and a few unimportant mo- lasses houses. An increase of half a cent a pound on two-thirds of our consump- tion, to-wit, on 2,000,000,000 pounds, would give an added profit of $10,000,000, which is 20 per cent. on the certificate capital of the Sugar Trust. The quotations in New York for June 20 of the present year show a difference between the two grades of sugar I have selected, which are standard grades for comparison, of 2%¢ cents per pound, which is even greater than the amount above stated, and shows the steady main- tenance of the power of the Trust. In- deed, its pecuniary success has been not less brilliant than that of the original Trust. It was capitalized at $50,000,000. As the quota allotted to the North River Refinery, which subsequently sold in open market for $325,006, was $700,000 in certificates, and its owners were dis- satisfied with their share as compared with others, it is safe to say that this capitalization was nearly if not twice the actual value of the properties put into the Trust. The certificates began at $79, and reached at one time $126, although a later reaction brought them some points lower in anticipation of an adverse de- cision in a case affecting the Trust, of which I shall hereafter speak. After payment of dividends last year, it had, according to the circular of Wil- lett & Hamlin, a surplus of $10,000,000 in its treasury. The same authority gives its earnings between January 1, 1889, and June 13, as $15,000,000 more. Thus, its surplus from last year, with its net cash profit for less than six months of the present year, amounts to $23,000,000, probably the full value of the plants put into the Trust and nearly 50 per cent. on its watered capital. No wonder the other industries of the country are rushing pell-mell for this new invention, which in a single year showers upon those who ean skillfully and effectively use it, riches not only greater than the ordinary profits of legitimate industry, but even beyond the wild dreams of speculative adventure. But who can effectually use it, and, more important still, who pays the piper ? ——___—_<—< >< Wool, Hides and Tallow. Wool is a stagnant article in the mar- ket. Dealers have it ata high cost and hold, as a rule, firm; but since the heavy failure of Brown, Steese & Clark (or Riverside mills), manufacturers hold off entirely, some wools being offered at lower prices without takers. Offers on some lots of X wools on which had been offered 30 cents and held at 31 cents, were withdrawn and lowered to 28 cents, holders being willing to accept 30 cents. How far this may extend remains to be seen, but as one holder after another weakens on this pressure, so is the mar- ket likely to be, and in reality is, 2 cents lower, if sales are effected. It is hard to brace up a market already above buyers’ views after so disastrous a failure (run- ning into millions) in the trade, even if not wholly caused by that trade. Again, there is the uncertainty of how many other failures must follow as the result of this. some redounds in good te others, as the Riverside mills have been a thorn in the side of worsted manufacturers for years, as their pecuniary demands were so great that no one knew at what time their goods were coming on the market, at a price below any reasonable profit or cost, which has been a frequent occurence during the past two years. They are now outof the way. Another element which does not give dealers much hope for the future is the enormous importa- tion of worsted cloths and yarns, which have been brought in during the past year on old classification and are now on the market. On the whole, the market is actually lower, being braced up to old prices by talk, with large offerings and light demand only at a concession. Foreign markets are strong and advanc- ing. Wools cannotnow be brought over Our home supply is not sufficient for ou wants for the year to keep mills running but they cannot run ataloss. Dealers must wait or take a loss now, and what the future will bring is uncertain. Hides are unchanged in price only as they are of better quality, which makes them in more demand. ‘There are large quantities of old hides in the country that are not wanted only at much lower prices; these are at a higher cost to dealers than the present market and are held in hopes of an advance, which is not likely to come in the near future. The leather market is well stocked, trade is good, supplies ample and prices are low. The disastrous year of the trade is about over. Failures have been numer- ous and large, leaving present houses with reduced capital but on a firm basis. It is conceded by all leather dealers and manufacturers that the low prices have come to stay, and a healthy trade looked for. Shrinkages in value have been enormous, and, coming in so short atime, no other line could have held it so well. We look for a fair demand, but it must be at low prices only. Tallow quiet with fair demand. ————q@r7r-oo__— His Honest Pride. Respectable Old Merchant (who has failed for the twentieth time) to book- keeper—Well, Mr. Book-keeper, how much can we pay ? Book-keeper—I don’t think we can pay more than twenty-five cents, sir. Respectable Old Merchant (indig- nantly)—Nonsense! I have always paid forty cents, and I shall do so now, even if I have to pay the other fifteen cents out of my own pocket. ——_—_——_ 2 Attention is directed to the business opening advertised in another column by Lemon & Peters. The stock is an ex- ceptionally good one and the location is unsurpassed as a trading point. is a > 4 Irving F. Glapp GROCER. 27 Locust Strest. a 2) tS er ee es * 5 Bbllegan, +> Shipper of Fruits, Butter. Eggs, and \ Vegetables. < a Hoch roe Seon LL ae Cai ef tr 7 f , Ly 4 | On the other hand, the loss to PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Red Astricans, $1.40 per bbl. Beans—Dry stock is scarce, but there is scarcely any demand. Jobbers pay $1.75 per bu and hold at $2.10@#2.15 per bu. Beets—30c per doz. Blackberries—#1.50 per 16-qt. case. Butter—While there has been no advance in price, butter is firmer and in a little better de- mand. Creamery oo 16@17¢e, and dairy 10@14e, according to quality Cabbages—Southern Tlinois stock is in plenti- ful supply at $1.35 per crate. Cheese—Lenawee and Allegan county makers a stock at 8c, while jobbers hold at L 2 Cherries—About out of market. Cider—10c per gal. ——— Te barrels, $1.25; produce barrels Cucesihees abe per doz. Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried at BezKe and evaporated at 6@7c per b. ggs—Jobbers pay 12%4c and hold at 14c. re d Seeds—Clover, mammoth, = per bu.; medium, $4.85. nag $1.85 per bu. Green Beans—Wax, 50 ¢ per bu. Green Onions—i2¢ per doz. bunches. Honey—In small demand. Clean comb com- mands 15@16c per Ib. Musk Melons—#1.50 per crate. Onions—Southern, #2 per bbl. Peaches—Choice varieties command 50c per basket. The ey will probably go to $3 per bu. before the end of the week. — $2.50 per crate; Bartlett, #2 Tr bu. Peas—Green, 40¢ = bu. Pop Corn—2%e pe Potatoes—New Sawa stock, 35¢c per bu. or $1.20 per bbl. Radishes—10@12¢ per doz. bunches. Squash—Crookneck, $1 per crate. Tomatoe#—75c per 30-1b. crate. Turnips—50c per bu. Water Melons—#18 per 100. Whortleberries — Very scarce, manding $3.50 per bu. readily com PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess, new. Short cut Morgan. Extra clear pig, short cut....... Mxuire cient. BeAVY.. 9-22). 13 00 Oledr tut Deeks te 12 50 Boston iPléar SbOrt Wb. 22020 .6) ck 13 00 Clear back, ered 13 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 13 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average OO FO 10% $0 POS os 1114 . e 12 06 14 i 11% sn ee eee 844 est ace eee ee 10 Shoulders Oe 6% DGREICRS coco 8 Breaktast Bacon, bonciess............--..:... 10 Dried CCU GMiAs ee e Hom praees (22 10 Lomo Cleare: MEANY 9 2 8 6 IBrigkeis, WREGANMA 2.0222: 2s 6 . Lo ee ee 6 LaRpD—Kettle Rendered. IPICTCCS ee ssi eee cee eee ee 7% OS) Se ee 1% BO ib Pins se 734 LARD— Biaaanae phe ee ee ee 63g 30 ane 500 Vaeus oe ee 6% 3D. Pais, 20in 8 Case... .-.- 5... i 5 1b. Pails, Dele. 10 lb. Pails, Bin gence 6% 20 1p. beatie 43m 2euse. 2) 8. 6% pelo Came .. 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 60 Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 00 Te ome eee 7 2 Miro fice ee ec Nap Boneless, rump butts.. 9 00 " SAU’ adn SPecela aaa Smoked. Rock Sameeee oe eee. Haid Sansace..-3........ ae Tongue Sausage... .:..... Eronmtore Sotisaee. § Breed SGUSHee 2 5% IBGIOPHA RUrAISEE 5% TCLS ce ee ee ce aoe 5% ee 5% PIGS’ FEET. In half barrels. .... ee alee eee ae 3 00 in Quarter baErelg.:-... -- 1% TRIPE, im Half parrets, 3.2.2... 3 00 in quarter barrels. .._.. .. in kits: ce FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, Vee eS 444@ 5% hind Quarters. .-: ..-- 6 @t "4, ... <..... 5 5 Chureh’s, Cap Sheaf......... 5 TIWEEMEG A 2s ee 5 TAWIOE Boo ss ie ec 5 SYRUPS. Corn, PAPTGI. 4... .... o... @% ‘* ~ one-half barrels.. @28 Pure a | Tee RE aires : 28@36 half barrel... .30@38 SWEET GOODS. xxx Ginger Snaps...-.....- 9 9% Sugar Creams......... 9 9% Frosted Creams. . : 9% Graham Crackers..... 9 Oatmeal Crackers..... 9 soDA. OWOG oo es 54 Mees: Bustish.. (502... os. 4% TEAS. JAPAN—Regular. MOR ooo ce 14 @16 GOOG oo a, 18 @22 MTONOG is at 24 @20 CHOICCNE ses 30 @34 SUN CURED. ee 14 @15 MOOG © 25. etc 16 @20 CHOE eos. pic: 24 @2B Chotecat ..:... .:. 30 G33 BASKET FIRED. Mair 2. @20 OCHeIeG 0 osc. @2 OChoreert. ... 52-225 @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest fancy........ 7 @s IMPERIAL. Commion to fair. ...... 20 @35 Superior tofine........ 40 @50 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine......-. 30 @40 OOLONG. Common to fair... ..... 25 @30 Superior to fine....... 30 @50 Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. ae 23 @30 CHOICE. elas: 380 @35 DB a Ne ee 55 @65 ‘Tea Dash. 2.10... 8 @10 ToBAaccos—Plug. S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands. Nimrod, 4x19 and 2x12... ..... 39 Reception, 2 2-5x12, 16 0z......39 Vinco, 1x6, 4% to b ea 32 Big 5 Center, axb2, 1202... . 36 Wheel Sip 39 Prinket, 2x0, 9 oz. -.... 5... 25 ToBAaccos—Fine Cut. D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands. Higwesns 2.000. ..005.. 62 Sweet Cuba..........- 37 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. $ 2, per hundred Be oe coe 2 50 Ce eS 3 00 $10, ia ll : 00 . — 5 00 D, Subject to the following dis- counts: 200 or over. 500 1000 ‘‘ . 5 per cent. “ec $1 om barrel. YEAST, Fermentum, Compressed. . MISCELLANEOUS. Cocos Shells, bulk......... 3% Jelly, 30-Ib. pails....... 4 @ #4 Se PAPER & WOODENWARE PAPER. Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- lows: Siew ow. 8. 165 - “Light Weight cou coe 200 = 185 PISPOrWALe 2 ec. 2% Sees 2% fry Goods .::.. 3... 5 jute Manitia 8 Red Express No. 1......-- 5 IO 4 TWINES, 45 Cotton... Cotton, No. 2 Sea Island, assorted....... No.5 Hemp .. oe. m66 Le Weer 7% WOODENWARE, Tubs, eq 1 eee tec. 723 Nee 6 25 6 Me a, 5 as Pails, ~ 1, two-hoop.. 1 60 No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 % Clothespins, Sgr. boxes.... 60 Bowls, fines: ........... 1 00 Fe eat etait a 1 2 ee 2 00 _ a 2% ‘* assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 . ‘* 15s, 17s and 19s 2 75 Baskets, mismices se 40 eishel 3... 1 60 . ‘* with covers 1 90 willow cl’ ths, aes 5 ia i No.2 6 25 ae _ Bi No. 3 7 2 = splint “Ne. 350 " i # No3)/4:95 “cr se ac No. 3 5 00 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. Old. New. White 2.3. 82 "5 eee 82 73 FLOUR. Straight, in sacks ........ 4 80 - PSrreis.... 5 00 Patent = sacks. ........ 5 80 . Darreis...._.. 6 00 MEAL. BOC 2 2 Gruniseet. 62)... 2245 MILLSTUFFS. Bran............--...---.;- 12 00 12 50 NCECCHIMES 200. 12 00 MAAGHNeS: 22062 .. 13 00 Meese Weed... . 15 50 Coarse meal... >... 5... 15 50 CORN. Soanll lets. 000... oe, 43 Car Pe ee loa 39% OATS, Sma tie. 2s): 33 Car eae eda eee 30 RYE. ING foo, ee ele 35@40 BARLEY. NO Ee 12 OS 2 ee ee ee 110 HAY. IG fe ko, 11 50 OO ee 10 00 HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Gree 05 -. 5 Part Care. ois05.5.... 5 Me ee aa 534 Es cy @ 6 Dey Wipes... 2.65.2... 2 @ 6 Calfskins, Sreen.....- 3 @4 cured. - 4%4@ 5 Deacon skins:......... “10 @20 ¥ off for No. 2. PELTS. Sheaylimes.<. 2: ...< 5... 10 @25 Estimated wool, per ib 20 @28 MISCELLANEOUS. WAIOW osc ce 38%@ 4 Grease butter.. «cd @5 Switches ........- -- 2 @2% Ginseng. .6...5-5) --.- 2 0O@2 2 WOOL. Weasned 6 oo. on. ee oe se 25@30 TYE WRRHOCOS uci 6 > V+ ins 12@22 The Finest 6- ct, Cigar Manvfacivrtd LONG HAVANA FILLER. THEY HAVE NO EQUAL. A. Ss. Davis, 127 Louis St., Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co, * Cash Capital, $200,000. HISTORY—Commenced Business Novem- ber, 1882: - Assets Total Total . Year. Dee. sist. Income. Expend’s Surplus. 1882 $100,359 8 2,578 $ 2,675 - i 1883 109,793 20,276 Ce 1884 115,670 40,933 Sree neous 1885 126,257 51,054 aoe 1886 239,501 57,759 45,660 $ 5,378 1887 275,595 102,181 66,558 20,695 1888 300,227 123,240 99,249 35,983 DIRECTORS: Julius Houseman, George W. Gay, Martin L. Sweet, I. M. Weston, H. Widdicomb, J. W. Champlin, D. A. Blodgett, S. F. Aspinwall, Jame Blair, T. Stewart White, Philo C. Fuller, E. co ton Fox, A. J. Bowne, Thos. M. Peck, Francis C. T. Hills, Muskegon; Alger, Dwight Cutler, Grand F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo; O. M. Barnes, Lansing; W. R. Burt, East Saginaw. Letellier, Grand Rapids; kr A: Haven; Detroit: JULIUS HOUSEMAN, President. S. F. ASPINWALL, Secretary. SEEDS If in want of Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millett, Orchard or Blue Grass, Seed Corn—Early Yellow or Dent, Turnip or Ruta Baga, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St, GRAND /RAPIDS. W.T. | AMOREAUX, WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. HARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. FIVE DOLLARS FINE, Or imprisonment for ten days, is the legal pen- alty for selling tobacco in any form to a mingr without a written order frem: the parent Denne guardian. To; Conform to ‘the Law, Merchants should procure a supply of blank orders, which will be sent postpaid on receipt of postal note, as follows: 250 TOBACCO ORDERS - .75 500 “ “ _ 226 1,000 “ “ - 2.00 All orders must be accompanied by remit- ” tance. K. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids, Magis Coffee Roaster. The Best in the World. s Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 lbs.—1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, OHIO. 48-50 Long St., G. M. MUNGER & CG, GRAND RAPIDS. Successors to Allen’s Laundry. Mail and Express orders attended to with _ promptness. Nice Work, Quick Time Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. E, HALL, Jr., * 3 - CLEVELAND, Man » Drugs & Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Next Meeting—At Lansing, November 5, 6 and 7. WW Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. *President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. 4 First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. : ¢ Jecond Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles. Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. . urer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; WA. Hall, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson. Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit. ‘Annual Meeting—At Detroit, Sept. 17,18 and 19. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. President, F. 5. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, Ww. F. Jackman. -reeiden’, <- Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. 8S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. The Drug Market. Opium is very firm and advancing. Morphia, as yet, is unchanged. Quinine is steady. Iodine has declined and all preparations of iodine are lower. Cassia @puds are advancing. Turpentine is higher. oO Hades is Full. Secretary Blaine is responsible for the following story: In conversation with some gentlemen, reference was made to the religious Irishman’s persistent thought about the hereafter. ‘‘Yes,’’ said Mr. Blaine, ‘‘and there’s good reason for it. ThelIrish people have such in- fernal torments at home that they can’t be blamed for wanting to avoid any in the next world. If they could believe there was no hell, they’d rather die than live. Once in Dublin, toward the end of the opera, Satan was conducting Faust through the trap-door which represented the gates of hades. His majesty got through all right—he was used to going below—but Faust. who was quite stout, got only about half-way in, and no squeezing could get him any further. Suddenly an Irishman in the gallery ex- claimed, devoutly: ‘“Thank God, hell is aly 7 ———_ <_< Value of a Trade Paper. In the advertising pages of the trade paper you find the most reliable informa- tion in regard to novelties, seasonable and new goods, as well as the staples, without which you could not hope to carry on your business. But staple lines, however necessary they may be, are sold on aclose margin, and without the novelties and seasonable articles your profits would be greatly reduced. For this reason, the advertising pages should receive as careful attention as the reading matter, which, while more inter- esting to you, perhaps, for the moment, may not be as valuable in a business sense. The advertisements are meant to draw your trade, and inquiries from dealers are never overlooked. And when writing to advertisers. do not neglect to mention the name of the paper you saw the advertisement in. ———__~ e a Progress of the Metric System. At a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, M. de Malarce, speaking of the extension of the metric system of weights and measures, made the astounding statement that only about 42,000,000 of inhabitants of the civilized world have systems which are neither metric nor decimal. In 1887 the aggre- gate population of the countries in which the metric system was compulsory was over 302,000,000, *eing an increase of 53,000,000 in ten years. In 1887, in coun- tries with a population of close on 97,000,- 000, the use of the system was optional; and the countries where the metric sys- tem is legally admitted in principle and partially applied (as in Russia, Turkey and British India) had, in 1887, a popu- lation of 395,000,000, being an increase of 54,000,000 in ten years. The increase is due to the growth of population in the countries which have already adopted the system, and toits adoption by new countries. The systems of China, Japan and Mexico are decimal, but not metric. The metric system is thus legally recog- nized by 794,000,000 of people, and the population of the three last-named coun- tries is about 474,000,000. > Shoddy Rubber. A writer in the Tribune advances these reasons for the desirability of forming a rubber trust. There is pinchbeck in rub- ber as well as jewelry. Anindustry has grown up during the last few years, em- ploying large capital, whose sole bus- iness is the gathering up of old rubbers and converting them into shoddy. or ‘‘re- claimed rubber,’’ so called in order to take off the curse. This shoddy is sold to the manufacturer, tons at atime, at from eight to eleven cents per pound. But this shoddy is too expensive to be used alone, so it is adulterated with lampbblack, litharge, tar, etc., and this product is used to make rubbers. Who of your readers have been able to get a good rubber shoe in the last few years ? What one of them has had a pair last a whole winter? Who would not be willing to pay more money and get a good article? Yet the public, under the present ruinous system, of ‘‘competition among manufacturers,’’? can have no assurance of getting a good shoe at any price. 1 believe if the public under- stood that the grade of rubber boots and shoes was to be raised, and that they were to be given value received for their money, they would gladly welcome a trust or anything else that would accom- plish it. Two years ago an association of rubber clothing manufacturers was formed, and prices were advanced to a figure where good goods could be sup- plied the trade, yet the public, following the lead of unwise counselors, condemned the organization so severely that it was dissolved, with the result that to-day there is being placed upon the market a lot of rubber clothing that is simply a dis- grace to thename. Coats are to-day being made and sold that contain no rubber— nothing but ‘‘shoddy’’ or ‘reclaimed’? — because of this ‘‘competition among man- In manufactures of this kind I believe in any organization that ufacturers.”’ will keep up prices to a point where the manufacturer can make a fair profit and supply the consumer with good, honest goods. ANNUAL REPORT Of the Insurance Committee of Mich- igan Business Men’s Association. The report of your Insurance Commit- tee will not, perhaps, meet your expec- tation. At any rate, we cannot tell you that we have in operation cur insurance company, which you might reasonably expect from the sentiment and resolu- tions passed at Cheboygan one year ago. Those of you present to-day who were at Cheboygan will remember we had in mind then but three things—first, that, as business men, forced by competi- tion in our line to accept small profits, we were paying too much for the fire protection we have; second, that the joint stock companies seemed bound to protect themselves and possess a combi- nation against us, and, third, that our only remedy lay in our organizing an in- surance company of our own and, so far as practicable, insure ourselves. With this beginning, the work came to us, and we have sought to analyze these resolu- tions and formulate a plan free from sentiment, practical in application and having the desired result, namely, fur- nishing good insurance at cost. Why the company was not long ago in existence, and why we are not able to report Messrs. A., B. & Cc. as policy holders saving for themselves one-half they had previously paid for insurance, is partly because most of the local bodies did not understand the plan of insurance sufficiently well to help the Committee to organize, and partly because the plan was thought to be too new and too full of “sentiment”? and entirely in the interest of capital. The Committee, conse- quently, have let the question rest for the last six months, awaiting this time when we could tell you here in a body what we recommend, why we recommend it and give you an opportunity to act each for yourself and your own locality in arriving at a final conclusion. The Committee lost no time in com- mencing their work. We met together three times. Our first meeting was at Grand Rapids, September 19, when, as- sisted and made comfortable by Secre- tary Stowe, the situation was considered, the question analyzed and the present plan discussed. It was at this meeting that we met some of the officers of the Grand Rapids Manufacturers’ Mutual, and John Widdicomb, a director in the Protective Mutual of Chicago, also mem- bers of stock companies holding partic- ipating. policies. Our second meeting was held at Lansing, Dec. 20. We were assisted at this meeting by President Wells, Secretary Stowe and the Insur- ance Commissioner. It was here that we became fully acquainted with the insur- ance laws of this State regulating the business of both stock and mutual com- panies, and found that there was no law permitting the operation of either a premium note mutual or an assessment mutual company to write mercantile in- surance throughout the State, and that if this plan was adopted we could operate in only three contiguous counties. We again met January 16, at Lansing, with the Executive Board, when our plans for an insurance company herein recommend- ed were carefully considered and finally approved. Antecedent to these meetings and during this time we were privileged to meet many insurance men, both mut- ual and stock, examine reports of In- surance Commissioners of different states and meet the Secretary of the Millers’ Mutual of Lansing. We were supplied with reports of mutual com- panies now in operation in the East, South and West, and upon request many companies furnished us with copies of their charters and by-laws. From this analysis we arrived at very much the same conclusion reached at Cheboygan, namely, that the expenses of conducting fire insurance could be reduced, that by proper attention to the moral and ma- terial hazard the fire losses could be re- duced and that all of this saving could be saved to the policy holders without diminishing the indemnity furnished at present by the best insurance companies. We differ from the sentiments expressed at Cheboygan only in the way we pro- pose to reach this result. Our recommendation, then, is that the Michigan Business Men’s Association or- ganize a fire insurance company, the membership and benefits of which can be enjoyed by all property owners whose risks will pass our standard of inspec- tion; that we organize as a joint stock company, for the purpose of eonducting fire insurance exclusively, under Act 136 of the laws of 1869, being chapter 133 of Howell’s Annotated Statutes; that the capital stock be $100,000 divided into 4,000 shares of $25 each, and that this stock be taken by members of this Asso- ciation and by capital where these asso- ciations are located, so far as we are able, the remainder to be raised among Michigan capitalists friendly to our Asso- ciation. : We recommend that the location of the home office of this company be at Grand Rapids, Kent county, Michigan, that being a point most central to all our associations, with abundant facilities for transacting the business, at which point a large amount of the capital can be secured. We also recommend that the corporate powers be exercised by a board of twenty-one directors, who shall be chosen by the stockholders, at a meeting to be called by the Insurance Commissioner when the stock is subscribed, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. After the first election, the Board of Directors shall be elected at the annual meeting, which shall be held the third Wednesday in January, at which time seven shall be elected for three years, seven for two years, seven for one year and seven each year thereafter. Each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote at any meeting of the stock- holders, and said stock shall be entitled to not more than 10 per cent. of the profits of the business of any one year. At the first meeting of the directors following the annual meeting, they shall elect a President, Vice-President and Treasurer from their number, and they may appoint a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, an attorney, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary, who shall hold their office until their suc- cessor is chosen, or during the pleasure of the Board. We further recommend that the poli- cies of this company be issued upon the participating plan and at current rates, or such as may be determined upon by the management, and only after taking a signed application from the party desiring insuranee and after making a personal inspection of his risk. Each policy holder shall participate pro rata in the profits of each year’s business, the term ‘profits’? to mean whatever remains after paying interest on the. capital stock, losses and expenses. All dividends shall be declared by the Board of Directors at their annual meet- ing, provided no dividends shall be de- clared except on policies having been in force one year; provided, further, that if any year’s dividends to policy holders are not paid in cash, serip shall be issued, redeemable at the option of the com- pany for cash, or at any time in payment for new insurance, which scrip shall draw interest at 6 per cent. per annum. We also recommend that the officers of the company co-operate with the In- surance Committee, or officers of each local association; that they be furnished with blanks for making applications for insurance and for reporting the character, standing and responsibility of all appli- | eants, which, together with the commer- cial reports, would furnish a company ample protection and a good class of members; that they aid all local associa- tions to in every way reduce: the fire hazard, and that they aid in the repeal- ing of obnoxious and in the enactment of wholesome insurance laws. By this co- operation with the active associations of the smaller cities and villages, we would have no use for local agents, leaving the inspectors and solicitors to work the large cities and give more time and care to the inspection of risks. We would recommend the inspection of each mercantile or dwelling hazard as often as twice each year, and of every special hazard quarterly. When each risk is inspected, a report shall be made to the Secretary of the company, which he shall compare and file with the as- sured’s application, notifying the assured of any improvements or changes to be made, or of any violation of his policy or failure of the assured to comply with the requirements of his original application. This feature of inspection is the one great feature of success in reducing fire losses and accounts for the low ratio of fire losses of many manufacturers’ mut- uals and the numerous Eastern mutuals. This constitutes our recommendation for operating a Business Men’s Insurance Company. It is nothing new excepting in this State, In the East, South and West, these companies are becoming very popular, and, more than that, very suc- cessful. The Mutual of New York re- turned 40 per cent. last year and 45 per cent. the year before. The American Mutual, of Cleveland, returns 50 per cent. on its participating policies. The Mutual Fire, of Shelby, Ohio, 60 per cent., after fourteen years life. The Phenix, of Cincinnati, thirteen years average of 40 per cent. These are but illustrations of what we recommend to this body and is nothing more nor less than a stock company issuing a participating policy, in which we say to every policy holder, ‘‘Take care of your risk, make such improvements as you can afford, and your reward will bein divi- dends.’’ Can you furnish an illustration of any plan of conducting fire insurance where ‘“‘Incendiarism”’ is more completely destroyed and the interests of the insurer and assured are more mutual? Is this in- surance in favor of capital alone? Let us see. Thefeatures of such a company are these: First,not tosee how large a dividend can be declared to the stockholders, but to the policy holders, while the interest of the stockholders is all the time sufficient to promise policy holders good management; second, a mutual company, but not an assessment company. In this the mem- bers are liable for their premiums only. There is no premium note to be given nor assessment to come up in after years, as the result of poor management or ex- cessive losses, for I assume that, under any system of insurance, whether joint stock, purely mutual or participating, the premiums received must pay both losses and expenses regardless of capital. Had the joint stock companies kept down their losses and expenses to anything near the figures of the well-regulated mutuals and, rather than turn their atten- tion to the organization of boards, com- pacts and the like, compelling the mer- chant and manufacturer to make im- provements at their own expense and, at the same time, compelling him to pay the same rate as his negligent neighbor, and had they paid more attention to the ma- terial and moral hazard, mutual insur- ance would not be organized and con- ducted to anything like the degree it has attained, neither would we have just cause to complain. We have no desire to manage any insurance company con- ducted as are the majority of companies, nor do we desire to, in any way, do any company or the insurance business an} Rue injury. We cannot expeet insurance companies to carry our risks, pay our losses and furnish us security without fair compensation, neither do we recom- mend the patronage of companies of small responsibility, which refuse to comply with our insurancelaws, because they are cheaper. On the other hand, we recog- nize extravagance and we well know we are among those who pay for it. This and the other reasons given is why we recommend our going into the insurance business and by this plan. It is simple and bread enough for all and, if adopted and put in operation, will furnish you absolute security at cost. Besides having to do with the organ- ization of an insurance company, the Insurance Committee were early called upon to consider the advisability of adopting a Michigan Standard fire insur- ance policy for the use of all stock com- panies. We were first offered the New York Standard Form as the form we wanted in Michigan. Not feeling com- petent to handle this question alone, involving, as it did, many points of law, and affecting, as it would, many thou- sands of people, the Association engaged the Hon. N. A. Fletcher, of Grand Rap- ids, to assist us. This he did witha zeal peculiar to himself and worthy of the commendation of this body. But for this Association and him, we would, undoubt- edly, have had the New York Standard Form. As itis, we have the Michigan Standard Form, with several advantages r to the assured, brought out by Mr. Fleteher in his criticism. This work prosecuted by this Association of less than 3,000 members will annually save the insuring public much expensive and unsatisfactory litigation. I feel in duty eral associations which responded to our bound to say that, of the many thousand | request for stock subscriptions. It was LIQUOR k POISON REGORD ‘“THE OLD ORICINAL.” insurers in this State and this Associa-| encouraging, and we hope that your in- tion, none of you were present at the|terest still exists and that we will : COMBINED. RE-PAINT — - oat _ oe for = ey pe , Pe hes Acknowledged to be the nal consideration 0 is question ex-|the end. alter not, but stan y cepting Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Stowe and my-|the cause and the new Committee. Beston the Market. self, while, on the other hand, the insur-|To the many associations which re- E A STOWE i BRO 100 Louis St., ance fraternity were largely and ably| sponded to our circulars, saying, ‘““We|'~‘ 1) GRAND RAPIDS represented. It is deplorable on the part | will insure with you, but have no funds of the insuring public and Michigan busi- | to invest in stock,’’ let me say this: Con- ness men to see so little interest mani-| sider what you now pay annually for in- : 8 fested by you in dealing for an article | surance, divide it by two and invest one- I f that costs you annually so much as does half in the capital stock of this company e this article of insurance. and the other half in an insurance policy. In conclusion, should this report re-|The company will forthwith possess Pana iar ceive your approval and you decide to $100,000 capital and will continue to an- Ww D RELAIS LOCA NECTAR organize this conpany, we hope you will; nually save you a respectable sum of Sn oO r Op - BE take action at this time; that a Commit-|money. If you have not means to invest | A Fine Water White Oil, High Gravity and Fire oe tee be appointed to raise this stock, and | in even one share of stock, lend us your So to those wishing a High ACME x 'that the Executive Committee provide | influence in securing stock and business i White Lead and ‘that Committee with funds from this | when organized. Red Cross. a? al n /body to’ complete their work, which Respectfully submitted. (SPECIAL) Coler Works money is to be charged to the Insurance Gro. B. CALDWELL, Water White—A splendid oil. : ee Committee and to be replaced by the OREN STONE, G Li DETROIT, MICH. a company when organized. W. S. POWERS, asoune. Finally, let me thank the officers Insurance Committee. Our XXXX Red 7 _eae is ae. War- and Executive Committee for the consid- ranted to Give Satisfaction. eration and assistance heretofore shown CINSENG ROOT. Napth ae a ae pig oe e — eagle goes We pay the highest price for it. Address Sweet and Free from Oily Matter, and has met ommittee x PECK BRO Wholesale D ts, | the approval of many of the largest consumers. old one. We would thank the sev- sy GRAND RAPIDS. Red Cross Paint Oil e Is full of merit and needs but a trial to convince Wholesale Price Curren ts all of its great value. For mixing with Linseed itis without a tee as it greatly reduces the i i J cost of same and without injuring its quality. Advanced—Turpentine. Declined—Iodine, Iodide Potash. M in er Tu s al rT Dp ° : i Its peculiar composition is such that it can be ACIDUM. Carb..-,.- eae aie te 12@ 15| Antipyrin............. 1 35@1 40| used with turpentine in fair proportion, the lat- CURES Chl 1 Aceticum ...... --.-+- 3B 10 aoe (po. 18)...... oa = pow ae games ounce A = ter retaining full possession, and with perfect " — — Fodide eens: 2 sq? 40| Balm Gilead Bud....., 38@ oc ALL KINDS Liver and : a 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 27 2 feimath SB. Noo)... 5@2 25 a 2 a. on 55 Potassa, Bitart, com... Rs 15 = Chior, 1s, (4s as Lubricating Oils Kidn ey Troubles ee 5 | Petass Nitras, opt....- Sigs, fo. i 2 ——— ae ao 12 Fotses ieee Se = = Cantharides Russian, ane Constanty in stock, all at our Covans prices, Blood Diseases eas a ne 14 | Prussiate ............-- - z ee 5 us saving you time and freight. e e ae a 3@ 1 | Sulphate po..........- 156 18| Capsici Fructus, af... @ 18 ; a Constipation Salicylicum ......----- 1 490@1 80 RADIX és “ : Grand Rap d Y k ky f i oe 5 : po. @ 14 LS epg as sae ae 1 xe gp | Aconitum .........--.- 2@ 2%5| Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 23@, 2% 8 dl ie 0, Tat. 40@ 43 | Althae.........--.---+- 25@ 30) Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 WORKS—D. & M. Junction. ane —-. eT: 15@ = — oe eet — bs OFFICE ROOM—No. 4 Blodgett Block. e In ale A x é BO cee) | A ee ee ee ee one te 4 CeieamNES 22) mm ou] Coccus....... @ 0 Aqua, 16 deg...------- 8@ 5) Genti ie a = age Branch Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle, c 1 s t RE rama ag 8 | Gontiane: (Po) g5.. io 18|Centmarianen ss @ Cleveland, Ohio. ompiaints aan 12@ 14 — Canaden, me —— aie @ 3 ( RT cic iit iaita ol oie orm SS WOFOLOTHE 2.2 cee wine ANILINE. Hellebore, Ala, po.... 16@ 2 squibbs .. 1 00 * aa 2 00@2 25 Inula, Bo. : 15@ 20 Choral Hyd ~ Saar 1 500 %5 i og composed entirely of HERBS, it Sone gee OST 30@1 00 —— - Ca ae ose a = — eee ee oe 1 12 e ° is the only perfectly harmless remedy on = aR ES , £8 = sg a = — oC = “= = 1 the market and is recommended by all MEOW cess ror “ Maranta, %48.........- @ 35| Corks, list, dis. per who use it. BACCAE, Podophyllum, po...... a a — eo aaa @ 60 Retail D ist il find i aoa 1 85@2 00 | Rhei....-...-----. sees. 75@1 00| Creasotum ............ @ #0 i etall Druggists will in it to 10 ng @1 %%| Creta, (bbl. 7%) ........ @ 2 This is the Time to Paint. their terest to k the DIA- Juniperus .-------++++ ee “ist < we... B® 5 car Interest 60 Keep =H Xanthoxylum ...------ Spigella Dee aoe 53 u DICED. 22.2.6... 8s@ 10 The Best is Alwa 3 the Chea est MOND TEA, as it fulfills all that BALSAMUM. “i ———— (po 25).. = = o—- Es <2 2 Y pest. is claimed, making it one of the 3 ee Serpentaria............ 39@ 40; Crocus ................ sts i i er a @1 30|Senega .......... STII @@ 65| Cudbear 2120000000000 @ 2% ee Terabin, Canada . 50 | Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Cupri Sulph........... 8@ 9 a Place your order with our Wholesale Tolutan ..--------- wO iy . M @ 2} Dextrine .............. 10@ 12 House. Scillae, (po. 35).....---. 0@ 12] EtherSuiph.-......... 68@ 70 5 i CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, all numbers. @ 8 ; oe Abies, Canedian...:.->----- i ae ay eae @ 6 amon p 11h Gassine _..../-.-------+----- 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 25| Ergota, (po.) 45....... 40@ 45 ‘ Cinchona Flava .-.--------- as German... 15@ 20| Flake White. 122@ 15 Euonymus atropurp...----- 30 Zingiber @.....-..----- 10@ 15 Galla . pacer @ 2 For many years and PROPRIETORS, Myrica Cerifera, po.-------- 20 Zingiber j.-...-.--.-.- 25| Gambier......... 9@ 10 Prunus Virgini a : ce Gelatin, Cooper ee 90 GUAR ANTEE DETROIT, - MICH. Quillais, grde-------77°770) 33] amisum, (po. 2) ...-. @ 15| Glassware flint; 7 & 10 per Same to Ulmus Po (Ground 12)... 10 —— ae “ - on a oe 70 less + it i i Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., BXTRACTUX. a a ee a | Satisfaction. ee : i 24@ 25 | Cardam 251 Glyceri : LESALE AGENTS, Glycyrrhiza Glabra..-. Jar on... lycerina .........-.-. R@® WB : : : : : acral en 33@ 35 | Corlandrum..... Grana Paradisi........ @ 15 Dealers in paints will find it to their GRAND RAPIDS, _ MICH. Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11@ 12] Cannabis Sativa. Humulus.:....-...-... ax a0 interest to write us for prices - is... -2-- 13@ 14) Cydonium.... .. 5 Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 9 d 1 d gpa « -Y%Sl.s. sees 14@ 15] Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 . a. a —_— Se THE MOST RELIABLE FOO & tee 16@ 17 — ae 1 — = : = Rubrum @1 00 ’ Q sak oearenes ang eeneelaae oeniculum..... eee 5 mmoniati.. i 10 7 ualifi a. 15 Foenugreek, po....- 6G 8 rae Unguentum. 450 55 HAZELTINE k PERKINS DRUG C0., } Secned” Jot, called to’the weakest Carbonate Precip. sees ee @ 50 Dimi .......... no eee es i @ 4% Hydrargyrum re cil a asa @ 80 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH stomach. Take no other. Seld Citrate and Quinia.... @3 Lini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 44@ 4% Ichthyobolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50 " druggists. In cans, 36c. and up’ 4 Citrate Soluble....---- @ = Hobelia SQ) 40 Indige! a 75@1 00 sosmton £00.28 Se) Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Pharlaris Canarian.... 34@ 4% | Iodine, Resubl........ 3 00@3 10 Solut Chloride. @ 15| Rapa ........-..------- 4 6) tedoform.! 00060). @5 15 Sulphate, com’l .14@ 2] Sinapis, Albu......... So Ot Rupalin 85@1 00 ‘6 pure.. a ec Np ol 11@ 12] Lycopodium .......... 55@ 60 Wes 2s 85 FLORA. i + : = Liquor Arsen et Hy- 80@ Arnica ... ----2---29*° Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 TREE TOG... @ Anthemis ......---+++- 30@ 35 “ oe Be, 1 75@2 00| Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Matricaria ....-. ----- WH@ 3 ee 1 10@1 50} Magnesia, Sulph (bbl FOLIA. Juniperis Co. 0. T....1 T5Q@1 75 eo a 3s = 10@ 12 7 aces 1 75@3 50} Mannia, S. F.......... 45@ 50 on ‘acutifol, Tin- eee og as ; foo = => = W...2 55@2 80 * ’ | Viet Gollt.-: 2: 7 : Le ee MOE = a — = Vini Oporto ........--- 1 3@200) ©. Co 2 55@2 70 Salvia officinalis 48 Vint Alpa...-......-.- 1 25@2 00; Moschus Canton...... 40 and Y48....-+-+- a 10@ 12 ‘items! ee 60@ 70 Importers and Jobbers of Ura Ursi.....2--eeeees 3@ 10 oe oe Florida sheeps’ wool Ss. Sepia iS diels/Sicke saan sie 28 GUMMI. “ carriage 0.2.00) 2 25@2 50| P — Saac, H. & P. D. Acacia, ist picked.... @10C} Nassau sheeps’ wool CO... once ees ence ees @2 00 “” Od pm ls.) @ «(90|” carriage oe 2 00| Picis Liq, N. C., % gal sc oe @ 80| velvet extra sheeps’ OZ ..- ss. sees sees @2 00 « gifted sorts... _@ 65) wool carriage....... 1 10| Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00 em, an at | ee PO ee caeiae 75@1 00} Extra yellow sheeps’ : pints ....... @ 70 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] carriage .-......----- g5| Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)... @ 30 «Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ 18 “ Sooatet, (0: 0 @ BD are coo ew a aaeeee 65 ee -- @ - Catechu, 1s, (48, 8, ard for slate use.... 5 irgun..........- i a ee @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for slate Plumbi Acet ........... 14@ 15 C : : ’ Ss ao 1) Pulte pees tii ings | Chemicals dnd Druggists’ Sundries. SS. o i ») Tl 300@ 55 SYRUPS. & P. D. Co., doz..... @1 25 Camphor®......---++++ 350, 33) Accacia .............--- 59| Pyrethrum, pv........ 35@ 0 : Euphorbium po ....-- 35@ 10| Zingiber ....... 50 | Quassiae .............. 8@ 10 Dealers in Galbanum. ...--.----- @ °80 | Ipecac......-. 60| Quinia, S. P. & W..... 39@ 44) Gamboge, po.--..---+: 80@ 9%] Ferri Iod....... 50 __ 8; German.... 2%6@ 35 Guaiacum, (po.45)..-- @ 40] Auranti Cortes.........----- 59| Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 af 5 5 i Kino, (po. 25).--.---+- @ 20) whet Arom. 200.0. ile. 59| Saccharum Lactispv.. @ 35 Mastie 2) ts. @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... go | Salacin............-.-. 2 2@2 35 . Myrrh, (po, 45) ..----g @ . : “ een Gena 50 —— sone = = ’ ’ ’ ii 2°). aoe ee s 2 ae ee ee ~ 3 ea | Sole Agents for the Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. . ae bleached aa = eas BO 50 UL Meets eerste eres ~~ » ragacanth .....------ ‘ Olutan ......-.--2e seer eee ees mee —= ounce packages. a Pris VES. ee 50 Scares. ree os g = Absinthium ....-...--------> TINCTURES. 7 OPt . 2306.0... 30 ° Eupatorium .....----+--+++++ 20 : ee Snuff, Maccaboy, De = We are Sole Proprietors of Popelia. oo. cs. ot 25 Aconitum Napellis R oe Coan nein i @ 3 ee Sisccit icine wis cccie se po ‘ie Po a a @ 3 ‘a ent a per ccc csesae SOC race cesinme T e eg ci So a Oras, E a 4 i1 12 utha Piperita. se sr00) ge] and myrrh... 20. to| Soda Boras, (oo. ué 2 | WERATHERLY'S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. eee ne eat 30 os Se a 50] Soda Carb............. 2@2% Tanacetum, V..-.-----:-++*: 22 | Asafcetida.........------+--+ 50] Soda, Bi-Carb......... 4@ 5 Thymus, V.....---------007" 25 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60| Soda, Ash...........-- 3@ 4 Benzo... .....-.-.-..---.. 60) Sada: Guinh ¢ MAGNESIA. eC 50| 2° a, Sulphas......... @ 2 i CO... een e cece ceces Spts. Ether Co ........ 5B0@ 55 ——— “ eee mm = ——- ES - “"Myreia Dom @2 Carbonate, Pat......-- z SrOSIDS ..2. 2-2-5. +--+ 6 Fi ae ere | c * * Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25} Cantharides.........-------- 7 “ a ae PEL @ 50 We have in stock and offer a full line of Carbonate, JenningdS.. 35@ 36 o— eee Ol Sigay iy ae Te ardamon MS oe ee ce aelnn ee 2 Less 5c gal., cash ten days. — OO... eee 75| Strychnia Crystal... i 10 Whiskies, Brandies, Absinthium ......-.-.-- 5 00@5 50 | Castor ......-.0+---+-eee sree 1 00] Suiphur, Sub 2u@ 3% . Amygdalae, Dulce... -. 45@ 75 | Catechu.......--.+-.+sseeee+ 50 aie” = SE 22@ 3 Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 50 | Cinehona ......-.----++++++- Wii 8@ 10 Gins, Wrines Rums. ease 1 85@1 95 cece a8] tschaath Veuics. 23@ 30 3 3 Auranti Cortex.....-- @ Columba -........-.-.---..-. 50) whasbromne| 01.) 50@ 55 a aes 2 pea = Conium =. .5.-....- eS _ Tani ne 9 00@16 00 ajiputi .......-------- See "i Caryophylli........--- @1 50 a eee 1@ 8 @edar 202 .-:. 2.2: 35@ 65 50 OrLs. ee aioe i eo = 50 ee = a ANNAMONII ....-++2--- 2 ee ‘ 7 + 7 Citronella 200000000) 3 gp | Lard, extra... 0000000) =o Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co., Conium Mac........-- 5 60 , NG. J... -..1-- Copaiba (2551. 5.05-% os 1 00 59| Linseed, pureraw.... 62 65 2 2 saa ae ié onets 30] Tindseed, boiled... 65 68 Henderson*County, Hand Made Sour Mash Exechthitos Ae : we 00 7 oni Na weer rigeron .......-.----- 5 eee fetes oc 7 ; + ’ ; Gaultherta ees 2 10g? 20 | Ferri Chloridum............ | e Whiskyjand Druggists Favorite Geranium, ovfmce..... 7 PO ee 50 ° . . Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ %5| Lobelia............++---++++- 59 | Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 * iodeauin oe ws ..1 15@1 25 Myer oe 50 | Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 Rye W hisky. Juniperi..... * 50@2 00 | Nux Vomica................ 50 Ber...... 1% 2@3 Lavendula .. D gig? OO POmiE lala g5| Putty, commercial....2%4 24@3 Limonis ..... """"450@1 80} “ Camphorated........... 50 strictly pure.....2%4 2%@3 Mentha Fiper. ac uosace sae 8) Deodar. = -o-- 00-0007 2 00 ——— Amer- ‘sacs entha Verid......... 50@2 nranti Cortex.....-........ . ee eee Seis _ : 2° Morrhuae, gal.......-. B01 00 | Qnassia -... 2-0 ees econo: co] Yocaiien, See. ee We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. ; Peninsular..... ‘ 2 : 2 BORE alg lee oe) tae, rel 2 6x@7% We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar- Ee a. (gal..35) = 12 | Cassia Acutifol .. so ee 50 ius aus aiae oe oa antee Satisfaction. es OA ee asin - e o..-3.. =. 50 oT ee on 2 : Rosmarini......... 75@1 00 | Serpentaria ........ 2.20.00. a we, Se | All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re= Siac, OB o ig ieee ks | ee Pe Ene ceive them. Send in a trial order. MeN 32. ons sae 90@1 00 | Valerian ............- ME) 1 40 No.2: < eee ce, Se 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Buiter Crocks, per oal- 0 eco 06% Jugs, 46 Gal. perder 2 65 eee Pee Ge sige Gee ccs che eels 90 2 | el etree cae cade et Cale 1 80 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60 = o i o , | fe)... @ FRUIT JARS—Per gro. Mason's, pits. 00000) #10 50 e GUATES es 11 00 ay poor. S000 14 00 Pightnine, quarts. 20066 12 00 a Pe PROM coe Seca Coe ee 16 00 WHY WEAR PANTS That do not fit or wear satisfac- torily, when you can buy the Detroit Brand, that are perfect in style and workmanship. . JacoB BROWN &COS. coe ad 41 aoe ee 0 ete Superior Make Jee OVERALLS. ASK FOR THEM! HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS Water Motors and Specialties Send for New Catalogue. Tuerk Hydraulic Power Co. NEW YORK: CHICAGO: 4 12 Cortland St. 39 Dearborn St. AWNINGS AND TENTS. = = Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Bugry Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc, Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone 106, 11 Pearl St, Wm. Brummeler JOBBER OF Tinware, Glassware end Notions, Rubbers and Metals bought at Market Prices. 76 SPRING ST., GRAND RAPIDS, WE CAN UGNDERSELL ANY ONE ON TINWARE. y Shar ZS ct “ve THE ALDINE FIRE LACH : Before Buying Grates, cet our circular, Sent Free. The Aldine produces Warm Floors, Perfect Ventilation; keeps fire over night, andis cleanly. Burns coal, coke, wood or gas. Can be piped to com- mon chimneys, or set like other grates, and can be run at half the sey cost ofany other. AddressALDINE MFG. CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Rags, 9 Gace Se rs CONOMY, e iN e IS REACHED E SAME 1S } [ hon. LI. 580-30 _—WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.—|! OP PRA me! ‘ Every garment bearing the above ticket is WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re- presented, you are requested to return it to the Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive anew garment. STANTON, SAMPSON & CO., Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich. $1,000 REWARD, THE LARGEST AND BEST CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED, SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR SOLD FOR 5 CENTS. ! We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any person ; proving the Filler of these Cigars to contain anything} but Havana Tobacco. DILWORTH BROTHERS. Amos $, Musselman & Co. SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials. 526 and 528 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00 am 7:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 9:30am 11:36am Traverse City Express............. 3:05 pm 4:20 p m Petoskey & Mackinaw..... ....... 8:45pm 10:30pm 7:30a mand 11:30 a. m. trains have chair cars for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 10:30 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express................ 6:25am 7:00am Fort Wayne Express... -..11:45am 12:45am Cincinnati Express.... --. 5:40pm 6:00 pm Citeagoand Sturgis... 10:40pm 11:05pm 7:00am train has parlor chair ear for Cincinnati. 6:00 p m train has Pullman sleeper for Cincinnati. 11:05 p m train has Wagner sleeper for Chicago, via Kalamazoo. Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Chicago, Petoskey or Mackinaw City; $2 to Cincinnati. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave Arrive. are ee 10:15am Ce ee on el 3:45 pm Sa I ees eae cg 8:45 pm Leaving time at Brid e street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. GEO. H. REEDER, State Agent Lycoming Rubbers and Jobber of Medinm Price Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘oqqny Zuryoo4g Zur “180M 2 SUI}ILT ssog OTL, We are wholesale agents for the Faney California Mountain Seedlings and headquarters for all kinds ef Messina oranges. Uranges | sess WHO URGES YOU TO BREEYPE SA POLIO’? THE PUBLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. TRAVENRIGH BROS. WV holesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing AT LOWEST PRICES. 138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit, MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION. P. STEKETEE & SONS, WHOLESALE Dry Goods ? Notions, 83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St, Grand Rapids, Mich. Comforts and Blankets, Yarns and Woolens for Fall Trade. aus Warps, Geese Feathers, AMERICAN, i PACIFIC. d § Waddings, Batts verte : and Twines, Agents for Georgia and Valley City Bags. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. +tDaily, Sundays excepted. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New 60ING WEST. | a Arrives Leaves. | tMornme Expross................. 12:20pm 12:25 p m | +Phrough Mail... .... . 4:23pm 4:39 pm | +Steamboat Express 16:40 pm 10:45 p m | *Night Express...... -. 6:50am 7:00am Seco 7:30 am | GOING EAST. +Petrom Express... 6:45am 6:50 a m Through Mail.. 11:35 am 11:40am #Evening Expres -. 3:40pm 3:50 pm *Limited Expres -. 6:45pm 6:50 p m *Daily. York 10:10 a. m. next day. | Limited Express has parlor car to Detroit. making close connections for all points East, also makes direct connections at Durand with special Pullman through ears to New York and Philadelphia. Steamboat express has parlor car to Grand Haven, making direct connec- tion with steamer for Milwaukee and the West. Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St.,and atthe depot. | JAS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. | | | 1 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take | the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- | way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections | at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin- | nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- | nent points on connecting lines. : A. J. PaisLey, Gen’] Pass. Agent Our lemons are all bought at the cargo sales in New Orleans Prints, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear and full line of Staple Notions. and are as free from frost or chil] as in June, WKMUNG |e WM.SEARS & CO. Gracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. Improved “Rival” Fount Fitted with Diamond Pointed Gold Pen. Length, 7 Inches. We will send you sam- ple pen for $1.75. If pens It Stands atthe HEAD! Price, $2.50, do not prove ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY, MONEY REFUNDED. best, sell best, and to be the best and most perfect pen made. 3 roe Laughlin Pen Company, Antwerp, Ohio. ain Pen, Guaranteed to write Write for circu- Liberal dis- count to the trade. Special Inducements to partiesintro- ducing this system of store- fitting in any O0 locality. e Manufactur- 0 0 d by KOCH A. B. CO., 354 Main St. PEORIA, ILL BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts., 48-50 Lake St., Chicago; 114 Water St., Cleveland al BLANKS. <*%°Fo, SAMPLE SHEET4%5PRICES. The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co., GRAND RAPIDS, Manufacturers of Delivery Wagons of Write for illustrated catalogue and price list. The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co., MICH. all deseriptions. Also manufacturers full line of Delivery and Road Sleighs. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Michigan Trust Company. 19—21 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. Capital $200,000 Additional Liability of Stockholders LEWIS WH. WITBEY, President. WILLARD BARNHART, Vice-President. DIRECTORS: DANIEL H. WATERS, JAMES M. BARNETT, WM. SEARS, CHARLES FOX, T. STEWART WHITE, R. B. WOODCOCK, NL AVERY, D. D. CODY, 2d Vice-President. A. G. HODENPYL, Secretary. LEWIS H. WITHEY, WILLARD BARNHART, THOMAS D. GILBERT, DARWIN D. CODY, JULIUS HOUSEMAN, ALFRED D. RATHBONE, HARVEY J. HOLLISTER, Ss. B. JENKS, JOHN W. CHAMPLIN, HENRY IDEMA, A. G. HODENPYL, W. W. CUMMER, Cadillae, JOHN CANFIELD, Manistee, CHAS. H. HACKLEY, Muskegon. This Company is now established in the offices formerly occupied by the Hartman Safety Deposit Vaults, 19-21 Fountain Street, Shepard-Hartman Building. With ample Capital, a Board of Directors composed of men of established character and recognized financial responsibility—thus securing conservative management—with every facility for the prompt and careful administration of its business, this Company presents its claims to this community and to the people of Western Michigan with confidence, and solicits the patronage of all who have occasion to require the services of such an institution. : Under the laws of the State of Michigan, this Company is authorized and will undertake To Loan Money on Approved Real Estate Security. To Loan Money on Approved Collateral Security. To Act as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee, Assignee, Receiver, Fiscal and Transfer Agent and i Stocks and Bonds. 8 Registrar of To Act as Agent for other persons or corporations, in the transaction of any business that may be committed to it, to care for property, collect interest, dividends, coupons and rents. _ To Execute Orders for the purchase and sale of all kinds of investment securities, making a Specialty of Local Stocks. _ . To Receive Deposits of trust monies on certificate or sub- ject to check. To Receive Deposits of Court Funds. To Maintain and Manage Safety Deposit Vaults. And to Transact a General Trust Business. The affairs and business of this Company are subject to the supervision and inspection of the Commissioner of the Banking Department of the State of Michigan, and for the still further protection of its patrons THE COMPANY IS OBLIGED TO DEPOSIT $100,000 WITH THE TREAS- URER OF THE STATE. : We are prepared to act as Trustee for bondholders on Railroad or other mortgages. To act as agent for the purchase or sale of all classes of INVESTMENT SECURITIES. ‘RAILROAD BONDS, STATE, CITY, TOWNSHIP, SCHOOL or other bonds. the entire issue of any of the above classes of bonds, IN OUR SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT we offer to the people of Grand Rapids and Western Michigan, ABSOLUTE PROTECTION for the safe keeping of their Notes, Deeds, Abstracts, Insurance Polices, Bonds, Stocks, Leases, Wills, Money, Jewelry, Silver, Private Papers and valuables of any and all kinds, by every known device. and will undertake to negotiate Paintings, Our large steel vaults are protected The heavy steel vault is fitted up with small safes which are rented at $5 and upward (according to size) per year. Each safe has a different combination or lock, and it is impossible for any officer or employe of this Company, or any other person, excepting the renter or duly appointed deputy, to gain admission to a safe, on account of the great precaution taken to insure the complete identification of the renters. In the storage vault underneath the safe vault, large packages, such as trunks, valises, boxes of silverware, paintings, bric-a-brac, sealskin garments, laces, and other bulky valuables are cared for. All bulky articles are taken for safe keeping at very moderate rates, a¢cording to value or space occupied. This vault is absolutely dark, drytand. moth-tight, making it a perfect receptacle for the storage of fur garments. The officers and employees of the Company are under strict injunction not to impart to others any information of its transactions with its customers. CORRESPONDENCE AND INSPECTION INVITED. Rindge, Bertsch & Co. Carry in stock the best line of Women’s - and - Misses’ - Low - Gut - Shoes AT THES MARKET. 12,14 & 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. AGENTS FOR BOSTON RUBBER CO. Seventeen Years on the Market With a steady increase in demand. Jennings Flavoring Kxtracts ARE ALWAYS RELIABLE AND UNIFORM IN QUALITY AND PRICE, BEING MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT BE OTHERWISE THAN THE FINEST FLAVORS PRODUCED. Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable goods to add to their stock. Orderthrough your Jobber or direct from Jenriings & SMith, Grand Rapids, Mich. SEE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER. Eves~ THK OLD RELIABLE Wy SHOULD USE = FRAZER'S LE GREASE WHAT IS ‘es a . y DO.AFTER THIS PUT UP IN | Boxes, Cans, Pails, Kegs, Half Barrels and Barrels. Send for sample of the celebrated Frazer Garriage Grease The Frazer Goods Handled by the Jobbing Trade Everywhere. Wecarry a large stock of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are at all times prepared to fill orders for car lots or less at lowest prices. Nut Putnam & Brooks. gs $200,000 @ > &