= ~The Michigan Tradesman. 2R2 VOL. 6. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889. NO. 309. WATCH FOR LYNGH'S BRAUTY, Best $25 Cigar on the Market. D. LYNCH, Sole Owner, GRAND RAPIDS. HIRTH & KRAUSE, DEALERS IN Shoe | SANTLT EDGE, — | | | RAVEN GLOSS, BIXBY’S ROYAL, SPANISH GLOSS, BROWN’S FRENCH. or Dressings Polish Blacking. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. BIXEYS “3 5,” JACQUOT’S FRENCH, BARTLETT’S ff ” GENUINE T. M. A. J. Bowne, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of tee Merchants Solicited. Daniel G. Garnsey, EXPERT ACCOUNTANT Adjuster of Fire Losses. Twenty Years Experience. References furnished if desir 24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 186 EAST FULTON ST. The Leading Lavndry IN GRAND RAPIDS. Any one wishing agency in towns outside will please write for terms. OFTE BROS; Props. LUE 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. 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 power and less waste) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin's Middlings Purifier Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, kh CANAL SY, Grand Rapids, - Mich. BUY Muscatine ROLLED OATS Will not turn bitter in hot weather. Best the year around. ini an 7 1 SPECIAL OFFER-—This style of ovalcase; 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, cash. “eat same style of case as above, 17 inches high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot. Boxing and cartage free. >. DD. COOK, 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. To the Book and Stationery Trade: We are now State Agents for Messrs. Harper Brothers’ School Books and can furnish them at the publishers’ prices. Eaton, Lyon & Co., 20 & 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. Groskopf Bros., MANUFACTURERS OF Trunks and Traveling Bags Wholesale and Retail. Sample Cases and Traveling Goods a Specialty. REPAIRING NEATLY DONE. Grand Rapids, Mich. 91 Canal St., Telephone No. 906 Business Practice Department Si tines Golless ae ucates pupils to transact and record business as it is done by our best business houses. It pays to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewritin also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad- pacing A. 8. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens Tg. 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. comPAN Show Case MAKERS. ee Prices Lower than ker QUALITY THE BESY. W rite for Prices. 63—65 CANAL ST. THE “EDITOR'S CHOICE. 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 day selected the following, viz: EDITOR'S | CHOICE, ‘sent in by Sig Wolf, 0 r| | Toledo, Ohio. | | | | | FLINT, Mich.. April 9, 1859. | | | JouN 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- I 1 ferior tobacco, ‘‘ill- flavoring”’ or other in- jurious ingredients. QUALITY Wholesale and Retail COUNTS. HEADQUARTERS Gur “BEN BUR” 92 Woodward Ave. CIGARS have proved so popular over all (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) other 10¢ Cigars in the market that the de- mand overwhelm- ing. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. Ask for Geo. Moebs ond: Cols + BEN AUR” if you want the best. is CONTRACTORS FOR Galvanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, . GRAND RAPIDS, * - MICH. ~" 2A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Pumps, ALLEN DURFEE. 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. A GRAND SUCCESS. Fourth Annual Convention of the Mich- igan Business Men’s Association. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. ] Grand Haven (A. S. Kedzie)—We held a special meeting last week and appoint- ed three delegates. I was promised the statistics by our Secretary. They were to have been handed in yesterday; but I appear before you barehanded, as he did not doit. Our Association has done good service for its members. It has en- abled them to make collections of debts of which they had despaired, and has done it in such a way that no bad feeling has been created. The only difficulty we have is lack of attendance at the monthly meetings, and, if there is any method by which members can be stimu- lated to attend I hope it will be found out in this gathering, and it will be re- ported to our organization. We are abundantly satisfied of the success of the collecting system. Lansing (W. E. Crotty)—The Secre- tary has failed to furnish me with the data for a five minutes report. The re- port will be presented later. In the mean time, we have a delegate present who is loaded with ideas—E. R. Osband. We recommend him to the Association for some good remarks in regard to the Association coming in contact with the grangers. The President—Mr. Osband, we should be very glad to hear from you. Mr. Os- band is manager of the grange store at Lansing. Mr. Osband—I had a great deal of respect for Brother Crotty; but, on this occasion, I must say that my respect has been somewhat shaken. I am not prepared to make a report here. Ido not belong to the Patrons of In- dustry, but I belong to that Association that has been spoken of—the Patrons of Husbandry. We are endeavoring to run a co-operative store. Ido not care to say a great deal about that—it is not necessary. Weare not quarreling with the rest of the fellows who sell crackers and cheese, but are working with them and harmoniously. So far as our Lansing Business Men’s Association is concerned, I have been a member since starting. We are like the rest of mankind down at Lansing—some- times we succeed and sometimes we do not. Where we fail, we search out the cause and try to avoid it in the future. On the whole, our Association there stands as well as itever has stood. At our last meeting, there seemed to be more life than ever. There was a dis- position on the part of every member to come forward and do his duty. We found ourselves being bitten by the millers during the past year. Those who retailed flour found Gut that every sack of fiour and every barrel of flour we got from the Lansing millers was _ short weight. I was on the committee that investigated the question. We divided into squads and visited the retailers. We found that no flour they gave us was full weight. On an average, we found that a barrel of flour fell short from six to eight pounds. It makes quite a dif- ference in the long run. For instance, we found that it made a difference—at the rate of $4.50 a barrel wholesale—of 18.02 per cent. per barrel; the miller was stealing from the consumer that amount. There was, on an average, a shortage of six pounds to the barrel. This amount in a mill that manufactures two thousand barrels of flour per day, would make a difference to the consumer of $36.18 on each mill. Half a year would make a difference of $5,644. For a whole year, the miller was beating us out of more than $11,000—one mill! Over $40,000 in the aggregate! The Business Men’s Association set to work to remedy this. The millers were informed that legal steps would be taken, if no other steps would succeed, in giving us what we purchased—one hundred ninety-six pounds of flour to the barrel. One mill- er did not care to contest the case and the others fell in and gave one hundred ninety-six pounds. So our Association saves our people in bread alone over $40,000 a year by getting full weights. But other things that we have taken hold of as business men have brought prosperity to our city to a great extent. During the last year, we have organized a Board of Trade. (Perhaps, if there were some members of the Board of Trade here, they would say I was gen- erous). We have gone in together. Brought in several large manufacturing institutions, one putting up shops cost- ing $80,000, going into operation and em- ploying from three hundred to three hundred and fifty men. Another insti- tution, an evaporator eompany, also brought in through the efforts of the busjytess men of Lansing, is to employ a large number of men. We have others abdut to locate there. Another thing, it ‘is a help not only to Lansing but to the whole State of Michigan. We have established the State Fair in Lansing through the Business Men’s Association. Itis one of the most cen- tral points in the State as far as railroad connection is concerned. They have es- tablished the State Fair on a footing that cannot but be beneficial to every town. It had been an itinerant affair. They made money in the large towns, but in the small ones they found out they lost money. We took them in, a bankrupt institution, indebted quite a number of thousand dollars. We had a very fine fair ground, as good as anywhere in the State. The whole property was put at our disposal, and to-day permanent build- ings are being erected there. The State Fair is going to be better than ever be- fore; it is going to be centrally located. Other good things have been accom- plished. The collecting business has not been pushed to any great extent. The tendency is the same with us as with yeu—dead-beats are known and are not being trusted by the merchants. They pay for what they get. One thing is especially beneficial which we have added: If amanisowing Mr. A., amem- ber of the organization, $25, which he eannot collect, and he goes to Mr. B. to buy some article, even if he can pay eash for it, he is informed that when he pays Mr. A. he can have it, and not until then. It puts the man in such a shape that he is crowded out and must pay Mr. A. or go outside to buy. 1t works very well in certain lines in our town, and I do not see why it would not in other lines. A person who is not trusted by one member should not be by another until he has paid up his old account. We are organized for mutual benefit. As to rating and the business standing of men, it seems to me that it ought not to be necessary in our organization to go through this long routine of Blue Letter, and the one that follows, and the third. It seems to me that if business men were honest with themselves in any town it would not be necessary. Mr. Crouty will tell you more to-mor- row. Mr. Crandall—I have always under- stood that when a miller puts up flour in sacks he was entitled toashortage. I find my flour weighs twenty-four and one-half pounds to the quarter and forty- nine pounds to the half sack. We find that it is the old story—we supposed we had no right to kick; we supposed it to be legal; they said that the difference was to pay for the sack; we took our medicine without any complaint; we never supposed that twenty-five pounds of flour weighed over twenty-four and one-half pounds. Mr. Osband—A barrel of flour should weigh 196 pounds; a quarter of a barrel would be 48 pounds. The miller is all right. My brother is ‘‘off.”’ (Laugh- ter.) You cannot legally cut the amount of flour down below 190 pounds. Mr. Blain—I sometimes buy a little coal. I would like to ask the gentleman if he intends to insinuate that our Presi- dent has any difficulty in getting coal in Lansing. (Laughter.) The President—The difficulty has been in selling it, not buying it. We give 1,860 pounds to the ton always. (Laugh- ter.) Mr. Stowe—I would like to ask if any- one has ever weighed a barrel of flour to find out whether he gets 196 pounds? A voice—Yes, sir. Mr. Stowe—Did it hold up? Several voices—No, sir. A voice—We get 196 pounds of fiour to the barrel. Davison (C. W. Hurd)—The Davison Mercantile Union was organized a little more than a year ago and for the first year quite a little attention was paid to the collecting department and through its agency several merchants were en- abled to realize on old accounts long past due—in one or two instances accounts of fourteen years’ standing were collected through the Blue Letter system. For the past year, more attention has been paid tothe improvements of the town than otherwise. Consequently, through continuous efforts of the Mercantile Union, our town was incorporated in May last and at the present time ar- rangements are being made for fire pro- tection in the way of a fire engine and a hook and ladder company. Reservoirs are also being putin for fire purposes, also quite a little has been done in the way of sewerage,sidewalks, etc. Through members of the Union, we have also se- cured a newspaper, which bids fair to equal, if not surpass, any paper in the county. South Haven (E. J. Lockwood)—In making this brief report of our Associa- tion it will be necessary for you to over- look the fact that our Secretary, Mr. Ross, and also Mr. S. Van Ostrand, last year’s Secretary, and also one of the del- egates to this meeting, were prevented from being in attendance. This being the fact, my report will necessarily be short. We organized April 10, thirty-three members. took charter No. 77, with thirty-nine members. We have steadily held our own and have new applications on file. We have accomplished what could never have been brought to pass without organized effort. I mention a few of the most prominent: Wesecured a sash and blind factory that will employ fifty men; this of itself is worth its cost to us. Our collection department has been a success from the start. According to the Secretary’s report, there has been col- lected $878 through the Blue Letter, and through the Secretary, $100. Seventy- seven names, representing in round num- bers $1,200, have been listed as delin- quents. Eleven persons have been re- instated. This, understand, is for our fiscal year ending April 10, 1889. We expect to learn much at this con- vention and shall try and utilize it. Mr. Blain—I move that this convention invite Governor Luce to make us a short talk on ‘‘Legislation’? under the proper order. Carried. 1888, with In October we WEDNESDAY—AFTERNOON. At 2 p.m. the visitors were taken in hand by the Muskegon B. M. A. and given a ride to the Van Raalte down Muskegon Lake to the Life Saving Sta- tion, where an interesting exhibition was given by the crew; out on Lake Michigan to Lake Harbor and return; back through Muskegon Lake to Inter- lake park, where the lean men, under O. F. Conklin, played one inning of a match game of base ball with the fat men under the leadership of L. W. Sprague, resulting in the victory of both sides. The boat was then taken for the hotel, which was reached in time for supper. WEDNESDAY—EVENING SESSION. At the opening of the evening session, Governor Luce’s entrance, with Presi- dent Wells was greeted with prolonged applause. The President—I am late. I arolo- gize for it. My excuse is the large amount of Muskegon hospitality that has been showered upon me. The consideration of the report of the Committee on Transportation was an- nounced as the first in order. J. V. Crandall—I listened to the read- ing of that report and am interested; but I do not remember a word of it. I be- lieve that nine-tenths of us are in the same fix. I move that the Secretary re- read it. The President—The report has nothing to do with modern transportation. Mr. Crandall—I do not know that I can say anything on the subject that will interest myself—much less you. I saw it on the programme. Iam a shipper in a small way, both importing and export- ing. I was remarking to a gentleman this afternoon that I have bled at every pore this year on my freight bills. We have got so that we are ‘“‘sore’’ over it. I cannot tell you the remedy. I have asked our Association to appoint some man to visit our railroad and see if they could not do something. When we talk about a favor from a railroad, I would rather ask from our heavenly Father! He is nearer! (Laughter.) The mer- chants at our place are heavy hearted. We happen to live between two fires—or two railroads—and we find that we have no competition, either at Sand Lake, Pierson or Rockford. We are at the mercy of a corporation that has a heart as big as a grain of mustard seed. Some have been shipping hardwood to Chicago and have sent a check to pay the balance of the freight—what the load of oak did not pay. Some of the P. of I.’s have been shipping apples in the same way. They think a draft in some way means ‘to: enlist.”?' (Laughter.) If you can help us out, I shall be glad. When you undertake to enlarge the heart of a rail- road company, to do justice to all men up and down its lines, you cannot reach them; and I do not believe the 5,0v0 bus- iness men of Michigan can reach them, including the lumbermen. We have bucked against them for twenty years. We only brought them to terms once. In surveying a railroad, we got Joy to say he would iron it if we would grade it and furnish the ties. They gave us better rates. That was a young pup of arailroad then. It has got to bea full grown dog now and we cannot reach it. (Laughter.) I got nineteen pounds of cotton yarn the other day from Grand Rapids, twenty-five cents express—forty miles. If I order four bills of goods from Grand Rapids business men and four men deliver those to the Indiana Railroad Co., it costs us a dollar—pro- viding they don’t weigh over 100 pounds. Equal justice to shippers is what we want. I have asked our railroad to give us adivision equal with Cedar Springs. They said they ‘‘would consider the mat- ter when they made out their next tariff.’? I don’t know when that will be. The President—I wrote to the chair- man of the Committee on Transporta- tion, requesting a good, full report, especially about the inter-state commerce law and its effect upon transportation in this State. I regret that we have no report from him which can be acted upon. I hope there will be afull dis- cussion of the subject. I presume there are other grievances; perhaps somebody is wise enough to find out a remedy. L. W. Sprague—lI ean tell you how we help ourselves out. I have thought the matter over agreat many years. The trouble was in shipping in. If we lost a carload of goods, we could not find them. They would not look for them. They might be three weeks or three months on the road, as far as they were concerned. We had to pay fifteen cents from Detroit. We built another railroad. It would please you to see those local agents break their necks to see that we get our goods; and they will ask youif you can’t send more goods over their road. (Laughter.) Now the rate isten cents. If Brother Crandall is down there where he can’t have another railroad, he has got to stand it. (Laughter.) I think Crandall is pretty well satisfied that that is a fact. I would be very glad to help hig, i ft could, but I can’t. I might go over and help him kill them off sometime. (Laugh- ter.) Or, we might buy the road. Mr. Crandall—I had thought of that. Ishipped two carloads of wheat; shipped some to Detroit and paid eleven cents from our city; some to Grand Rapids and paid eight cents a bushel. Comment is unnecessary. The President—I think it will be well to hear from other delegates. I reside in a place (Lansing) which is getting to be quite a prominent railroad center: but all the railroads centering in Lansing are in a pool. We get no advantage from any other road than the Grand Trunk. It is the only road that offers any com- petition. The Michigan Central, D., L. & N. and Lake Shore are charging the same rate to competing points. There is no difference. The Grand Trunk, al- though charging the same rate, gives us the advantage of free cartage. This, I believe, it does notdo in all points of the State. I think a comparison of views on this subject might be interesting. I think there are gentlemen here, who have had experience with only one road, who can state that they have received more or less advantage when others have been built and competition established. It will be interesting to know that. 1 would like to hear from others on the subject. N. B. Blain—We have with us a repre- sentative of the Furniture Association of Grand Rapids, and while I am not connected with the furniture business, I have known of the Secretary’s work, and 1 know that the Furniture Association of Grand Rapids has done as much or more than any other in the State in this matter. I call for Mr. Asmus. I think he is also Secretary of the Board of Trade of Grand Rapids. H. D. C. Van Asmas—I do not know as I can say very much in regard to a reme- dy. I have been connected for several years with an official of two railroad companies, and Secretary of the Furni- ture Association, organized nine years ago. There has been a continual strug- gle in regard to freight rates and classi- fication, but we have generally accomp- lished what we set out todo, We have been very conservative with the railroad companies. We have looked from the standpoint of traffic managers, and traffic associations, and from the standpoint of shippers. We only ask for one thing at a time, and have not rested until we got that one thing, even if it was a year or two years—then started on another thing. With the efforts of good will and under- standing, and the combined work of the members of the Furniture Association, we have got what we possess to-day. I have a copy of the first way-bill of a car- load of furniture shipped out west. I have it framed and hung up in my room. I think we paid forty cents a hundred pounds to Chicago. To-day we pay twenty-seven cents. We first got the articles classified, then worked until we got three classifications. After that, we tackled the rates on the different commo- dities we ship. We got the rates in shape. To-day we are working on an- other reduction on the rates, and I think we shall accomplish it. You have got to make a combined effort if youdo it. It is of no use for one little town to tackle a railroad company. You have got to make a combined effort. through the State Business Men’s_ Association, through your Committee. You must bring your entire influence to bear upon the company you will accomplish nothing. It will then give you a respect- ful standing before the railroad com- panies. They will respect you, and if every one of the different associations through the State are at the back of that Committee, and the Committee does the work, not trying todo any underhanded work, just refer the railroad company to that Committee, and you will frequently succeed. You will see that the railroad company will listen to you; that is the main thing. We have brought things about through the Grand Rapids Furni- ture Association and the national organ- ization. We undertook to call a meet- ing in January in Grand Rapids. We had representatives from the different points in the United States. We have formed an association on the same _ basis that we formed our local association. We appoint our different committees. At the last meeting in New York we agreed that we would do nothing our- selves as local organizations, but that the work be done through the national association. We have been notified by the different men that were to visit the different towns manufacturing furniture in the United States. We told them they had better stay at home, we would not listen to them. We had no time to talk to them. We referred them to the com- mittee. The committee would answer forus. Appoint a good committee, woulé be my advice. Pay the expenses neces- sary and let them visit the different rail- roads in the State. Write to them, put the grievances of the different towns in the hands of that committee. I could give you many points, if I were prepared, or {CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE. | ge ante The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. E. F. Ketchum will engage in the gro- cery business at Rodney. I. M. Clark & Son furnish the stock. Jerry Hofman has engaged in the gro- cery business at Grand Haven. Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock. C. B. Stauffer, late of Piqua, Ohio, will engage in the fancy goods and notion bus- iness in the Bemis store, on Monroe street. A. E. Maxfield has engaged in the grocery business at Brutus and will add aline of hardware. The groceries were purchased here. J. C. West and Ben. E. West have pur- chased the Westlake drug stock, on Canal street, and will continue the busi- ness under the style of J. C. West & Son. The dissolution of the firm of Putnam & Brooks is imminent, as soon as the in- ventory now in progress is completed. The business will be continued by Ben. W. Putnam and a number of associates whose identity he is not yet ready to dis- close. AROUND THE STATE. Eastport—Wm. Zeran’s new drug store is nearly completed. South Boardman—Justin Johnston has opened a meat market. Corunna—H. H. Haney, tinner, is suc- ceeded by Haney & Harper. Sparta—Peter Johnson has sold his meat market to John David. Greenville—E. Parks succeeds Cooper & Parks in the meat business. Kalamazoo — A. Manning’s grocery store has been closed by creditors. Montague—Klett & Wurtzler succeed Geo. Klett in the harness business. Garden—The Garden Store Co.’s gen- eral stock is now owned by Bonifas & Cluin. Benton Harbor—John Gelhaar, of St. Joseph, has opened a bakery and restur- ant here. Laingsburg—John M. Bryson, the Ovid clothier, has put ina stock of clothing and boots and shoes. Jackson—Geo. W. Watrous succeeds Estella J. (Mrs. James F.) Shaw in the boot and shoe business. Cleon—John Dougherty has arranged to erect anew store building and will engage in general trade. Pine Lake—A. E. Andrews has sold his dry goods and grocery stock to L. R. Williams, late of Lansing. Wayland—J. C. Branch has leased the fruit evaporator of R. H. Olive and has already begun operating it. Bessemer—Jones & Watson are suc- ceeded in the drug, paint and wall paper business by Jones & Sheldon. Eastport—L. G. Evans has purchased the Rowe & Carmichael general stock and will continue the business. Plainwell—J. Parks has sold his meat market to Homer J. Brown and Ed. Parks, who will continue the business. Coldwater—White & Brown have ut- tered seven chattel mortgages on their grocery stock, aggregating $888.80. Mulliken—J. Doolittle and Chas. Cry- derman have formed a copartnership and will engage in the hardware business. Naubinway—wWill Kalmbach, formerly engaged in the jewelry business at Che- boygan, has opened a jewelry store here. Tustin—John Perry has purchased the drug stock of Dr. A. J. Thomson and will continue the business in the Deuel store. Lansing—Curtis E. Haughawout has sold his drug stock to C. Alsdorf & Son. He still continues in the grocery bus- iness. Oak Grove—L. E. Walker’s store and general stock was destroyed by fire last Friday night. Loss, $2,000; insurance, 31.000. Mendon—Lanning & Mawharter’s pro- duce store and meat market was burned out one day last week. Insurance, only partial. Laingsburg—C. A. Bacon having re- tired from the grocery business, the same stand is now occupied by K. 8S. Cook, late of St. Charles. Florence—George and Frank Roys re- cently sold 1,000 pounds of peppermint to Elkhart, Ind., parties, to be used in the manufacture of chewing gum. Galesburg—Oliver Evans has been ad- . mitted to partnership in the grocery and restaurant business of P. S. Evans. The new firm will be known as Evans Bros. Plainwell—J. M. Travis has bought the Masson building, on Bridge street, and will put in cold storage and engage more extensively in the shipping of farm products. Tustin—John Grove and Frank Edgett, Jr., have purchased the meat market outfit from G. A. Skaglin and are making preparations to open a meat market in the Estes building. Rodney—L. T. Wilmarth has sold his general stock to the Sullivan Lumber Co., which has removed the same to Sullivan. The store has been rented by E. F. Ketchum, who will shortly engage in the grocery business. East Saginaw—Burdick & Moore, gro- cers and meat dealers, have been damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000. Insured. Allendale—Geo. H. Walbrink is build- ing an addition to the front and side of his store, making it 20x40 feet in dimen- sions, and will also construct a ware- room, 8x24 feet in dimensions. Ithaca—W. F. Laughlin, who has been admitted to partnership in the gro- cery firm of Julius A. Laughlin & Co., is a brother of the senior member of the firm—not son, as stated last week. Tustin—Frank Compton has purchased John Spencer’s billiard and pool tables and N. S. Spencer’s stock of tobacco, cigars and confectionery, and will con- tinue the business at the old stand. Jackson—The grocery of C. G. Smith was closed Friday on a chattel mortgage held by his wife. Other mortgages are held by Clark, Baker & Co., wholesale grocers, and it is not yet decided how the matter will be settled. Dorr—Burglars entered the general store of E. S. Botsford last Friday night, taking only a pair of shoes and twenty- five cents in change from the till. The safe, which was unlocked, was not touched, nor was a showease full of watches disturbed. The same fellows broke into the postoffice and took about $7 in pennies, leaving $100 worth of postage stamps untouched. Grand Ledge—H. E. Ressegue uttered five chattel mortgages on his drug and grocery stock last Thursday, securing the following persons in the order named: Geo. N. Berry, DePuy Bros., Geo. L. Coryell, Jas. Winnie and Mrs. H. E. Ressegue. The mortgages aggre- gated $2,200, while the stock is not worth to exceed $1,500. I. M. Clark & Son subsequently placed an attachment on the stock for $62.57, on the ground that the last three mortgages are fraud- ulent. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Plainwell—H. J. Brown has sold his coal business to the Plainwell Lum- ber Co. Roscommon — W. W. Vaughan, E. Auger and M.S. Maxon are erecting a small saw and shingle mill. Bay City—The Keystone Lumber Co. has begun shipping stock. It has 4,000,- 000 feet piled on dock, and it will be moved as rapidly as possible. Muskegon—Martin Ryerson & Co. have shut down their mill, and are storing their logs. They have had an unusual proportion of stained lumber. Plainwell—Joseph Deal has purchased the entire interest of John N. Soncrant in the Hooper Stave Co., and will here- after conduct the business alone. Coleman—James Peters is operating a factory employing twenty-six men in the manufacture of barrel head linings. The output is 700,000 head linings daily. Perry—Both roller process mills are kept running twenty-four hours per day since new wheat has commenced to be offered in market. The two mills have a capacity of 150 barrels of flour per day. Cadillaece—Mitchell Brothers have dis- continued their night run, but turn out their usual quota days. This firm has graded between six and eight miles of road bed this summer for subsequent use in reaching its pine. Pineoning —W. G. Cogswell, whose mill at Loon Lake burned last week, will not rebuild, but will run his remaining mill night and day, cutting 90,000 shin- gles every twenty-four hours. His mill near here has not been operated this season. East Saginaw—At the rate the mills are operating at present, with a season of ordinary length, the output on the river will exceed 700,000,000 feet con- siderably, and unless shipments are ex- ceptionally brisk there will be a large stock on hand when the mills close. Bay City—Miller & Lewis are cutting a large consignment of logs from Georgian Bay for R. G. Peters and others. The timber is of good quality, and cuts out fully as good as expected. There is 25,- 000,000 feet of this stock being manu- factured at mills at this end of the river. East Saginaw—The N. & A. Barnard Co. has its electric light plant in full operation, and the mill and yard are brilliantly illuminated. The millis run- ning night and day. One-third of the eut of the mill this season is hemlock, the company having had an extraordi- nary trade in that class of stock. Bay City—Eddy, Avery & Eddy have been lucky this season. They sold their old stock early, and it was shipped. They have manufactured 12,000,000 feet this season, all of which is sold, and the 7,000,000 feet now on their mill dock is all sold. Mr. Eddy says that they re- ceived as good prices for the stock sold as were obtained last season. Marquette—Thomas McGraw, of Sag- inaw, and R. W. Hawley, of Cleveland, who own pine lands in this vicinity, have begun the erection of a sawmill at the mouth of Dead River, two miles west of this city. The mill will have a capacity of 30°000 feet per annum, and will be ready for operation at the opening of next season. Surveys are under way for a line of railroad from the mill to the timber lands which lie along Dead River, ten miles distant. Detroit—The C. C. Wormer Machinery Co. has filed articles of association with the county clerk, with a capital sgock of $15,000. The ineorporators are C. C. Wormer, Chas J. O’ Hara, Stephen Moore and Geo. W. Moore. Muskegon—The Thayer Lumber Co. is making preparations for its winter’s operatiens in Missaukee county, building several miles of new spurs to its logging railroad, and expects to have everything in readiness for operation September 1. The company will put in 25,000,000 feet next winter, if the demand is good. Bay City—Ross, Bradley & Co. have | j shipped over 30,000,000 feet of lumber | and bill stuff this season, nearly all of which went through the planing mill of the firm before shipment. They expect the shipments of the season will approx- imate 50,000,000 feet. Additional ma- chinery will be placed in the mill to facilitate handling of orders with prompt- ness. i Bay City—The Baker tract, a fine lo- cation, comprising about twenty acres at the south end of the city, will be occu- pied by Gamble & Vance, a new concern organized last week. Mr. Gamble is a well-known Detroit lumberman, and E. J. Vance has long been engaged in lum- bering here. They will erect a large planing mill and operate a lumber yard in connection. Muskegon—The assignment of S. S. Morris & Bro. to A. A. Wood, last Mon- day, was wholly unexpected. The lia- bilities were $28,000, $21,000 to the Mus- kegon National Bank and $7,000 to Ar- mour & Co., John Plankinton and Libby, McNeal & Libby. A settlement was reached on Friday, the Bank taking the real estate belonging to the firm and the fixtures and lease for its claim, while Armour, Plankinton and Libby took the stock in settlement of their claims. The assignment dissolved the partnership, but S. S. Morris has resumed business in his own name. Ionia—E. D. Voorhees has resumed business in the former location of the Michigan Overall Manufacturing Co. un- der the style of the Ionia Pants and Overall Co. He has added to his equip- ment anew boiler and engine, and all his machines—sewing, cutting and but- ton-holing—are new and of the latest and most improved designs. Mr. Voor- hees is making a line of overalls ranging in price from $4.50 to $9 and a line of pants ranging from $9 to $42. Two men are kept on the road to sell the produet of the factory, the capacity of which is $2,000 per week. East Saginaw—Lumber operations will be resumed in the woods by several firms early next month, and a large quantity of logs will be railed direct to this river during the fall and winter months. Sanborn, Merrill & Ring will operate on the Au Gres; Gubtil & Avery will cut 7,000,000 feet on the Frederic branch of the Michigan Central, all of which will be railed; Whitney & Batcheler will bring down a number of million feet from Clare county, and a large quantity will be railed from the Tobacco River tract recently sold by J. T. Hurst. The Saginaw Lumber & Salt Co. will operate on Fitzwilliam Island, in Georgian Bay. The Emery Lumber Co., operating on Wahnapitae, Georgian Bay, has increased its stock to $180,060, and will operate extensively the coming winter. This concern is looking for timber in that dis- trict, with the view of increasing its holdings. ———————.33. oe _____ Gripsack Brigade. M. Kerns, traveling salesman for Dil- worth Bros.. of Pittsburg, was in town several days last week. J. H. Brown, Michigan representative for P. Lorillard & Co., was in town a couple of days last week. Willis P. Townsend is confined to his house for a couple of weeks by reason of an attack of bowel trouble. Will Campbell asserts with great posi- tiveness that the boys must cease roast- ing him or that something will drop. John H. Miller, city salesman for Put- nam & Brooks, will take the territory formerly covered by Leo A. Caro, begin- ning next week. Henry Dawley is taking a lay-off for a couple of weeks on account of ill health. His route is being covered this week by John H. Miller. R. C. Mangold, a traveling salesman for W. I. Brotherton & Co., of Bay City, hasn’t been heard from in two weeks, and the worst is feared. W. B. Voorhees has gone on the road for the Ionia Pants and Overall Co., taking the trade of Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana as his territory. W. W. Richardson, formerly traveling salesman for the Diamond Wall Finish Co., but now on the road for Daniel B. Shipman, of Chicago, was in town several days last week. Chas. E. Watson went down the C. & W. M. Monday, expecting to reach Chi- cagoon Thursday. He will put in a week at the house, arranging his sam- ples for tle fall campaign. Cliff C. Herrick, for several years be- hind the counter for Herrick & Randall, has gone on the road for Ball, Barnhart & Putman, taking the territory formerly covered by Chas. M. Wheaton. Purely Personal. Homer Klap is now behind the counter for Sessions & Hanna. G. M. Huntley, the Reno general deal- er, was in town Monday. J. H. Edwards, the Newaygo hardware dealer, was in town Monday. Harry Gregory, the Fennville general dealer, was in town last week. J. C. Branch, the Wayland merchant, was in town one day last week. G. O. Adams, the Dushville general dealer, was in town over Sunday. Lester J. Rindge and family are spend- ing afew weeks at Nantasket Beach. Frank J. Dettenthaler is expected home from Colorado Springs to-day or to-mor- row. Fred. B. Clark went to Grand Ledge last Friday to gaze on the ruins of the Ressegue failure. Frank E. Powers, book-keeper for I. M. Clark & Son, contemplates building an- other house on Henry street. Geo. D. Comstock, the Fountain street grocer, recieved a visit last week from C. H. Comstock, dealer in grain, lumber and coal at Ashkum, II]. David Holmes, the versatile manager of the West Michigan Lumber Co.’s store, at Woodville, was in town over Sunday, on his way home from Saratoga. Cow Boy Millington and his big hat were in town one day last week. Both hail from Paw Paw and the former sells drugs and groceries when at home. Parke Mathewson, Michigan represen- tative for B. T. Babbitt & Co., was in town Monday on his way to Traverse City. He was accompanied by his son. Milton H. Butler is President and W. F. Street, of the Caro Exchange Bank, is Cashier of the Western Banking and Mortgage Association, recently organized in Detroit. Mr. Street will manage the Association. Geo. P. Gifford is spending most of his time at Muskegon at present, closing out the provision stock of the late firm of S. S. Morris & Bro. Armour, Plankinton and Libby will realize about 80 per cent. of their claims from the sale of the stock. i a a Death of ‘‘ Country Merchant.”’ The readers of THE TRADESMAN will be pained to learn of the death of F. H. Spencer, whose contributions under the head of ‘‘Leisure Hour Jottings’’ have been a regular feature of the paper during the past three years. The Grand Rapids Democrat of the 18th contains the following mention of the deceased, from the pen of a Saranac correspondent : F. H. Spencer, one of the leading druggists of this village, died at 4 o’clock p. m. Friday, of consumption of the bowels. Mr. Spencer was born at Roch- ester, N. Y., October 23, 1843. Some time before the war he removed with his parents to Otisco, in this county, and, although quite young, established him- self in the drug business. In 1862 he closed out his business and enlisted in the Twenty-first Michigan Infantry, serv- ing alarge part of the time as hospital steward, but toward the close of the war acted as assistant surgeon for the reg- iment. After the war he engaged in the drug business in this village in company with his father, but eventually pur- chased the entire stock, remaining in business until his death. Mr. Spencer was a man of more thanordinary ability. He was a ready, graceful writer and was for some years editor of the Saranac Local and was also for a time assistant editor of the Lansing Journal. The “Jottings of a Country Merchant,”’ a series of articles published in THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, were from his pen and have been read with interest by the business men ef Michigan and ad- joining States. In politics he was a Democrat, and in 1882 was the Demo- cratic nominee for Representative in the State Legislature, but in politics, as in everyday life, he maintained the strictest integrity. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and the Grand Army. The funeral and interment occurred on Sunday. 7 In Detroit During September. Michigan merchants should not forget that Chas. E. Watson will be at the Plankinton House, Detroit, all through September, with a complete line of S. A. Maxwell & Co.’s goods. Charley’s line is larger and finer than ever and his prices are right—the some as they have been in the past. Don’t fail to see his line. ——_—__—~. 2 << To Much Information. ‘Bub, did you ever stop to think,’’ said a grocer, recently, as he measured out half a peck of potatoes, ‘‘that these potatoes contain sugar, water and starch?’’ et “No, I didn’t,’’ replied the boy; ‘but ITheard mother say you put peas ard beans in your coffee, and about a pint of water in every quart of milk you soid.’* The subject of natural philosophy was dropped right here. Nee in aa Poor Reasoning. Would-be-purchaser—These cigars are smaller than usual. Tobacconist—Yes; you see the ciger manufacturer noticed that the last two inches of cigars are always thrown away, so he makes them now that much shorter. ——_—____ —~ -¢ No Meeting To-Night. On account of the number of members out of the city, it has been deemed ad- visable to omit the meeting of the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association this evening. —_— Oo 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. Attention, Printers! For Sate—A thirty inch Gem paper cutter, in first-class condition. FULLER & STOWE COMPANY, Grand Rapids. 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. BUSINEssS CHANCES, ANTED—TO EXCHANGE A GOOD STOCK OF general merchandise for a farm of 80 to 100 acres; thisis a splendid chance for some one as we will give them a good deal. Address at once 481 care Michigan Tradesman. 481 OR SALE—DRUG AND GENERAL STOCK IN A good farming community. No other drug store within nine miles. For particulars, address Drugs, eare Michigan Tradesman. 476 ONEY IN THIS—SHINGLE MILL AND FULLY- re equipped woods outfit, all running now, for sale ata bargain; owner going West. Write at once. C. L. Gray & Co., Evart, Mich. : 477 OR RENT—A GOOD DRY GOODS STORE IN GOOD business town; good opening for the right person. Address Box 85, Dryden, Mich. 478 ve 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 isnow doing a trade of $1,500 per month. 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. 419 OR 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 OR 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—STOCK OF GROCERIES in splendid location. Address No. 472, care Mich- igan Tradesman. YENERAL 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, Mich. 470 OR SALE—HAVING OTHER IMPORTANT INTER- ests, we offer for sale our stock of drugs, groceries, crockery, glassware, wall paper, paints, oils, ete.; one of the best stocks in best county seat in Michigan; will invoice about $7,000; will trade out $1,000. Address Bartram & Millington, Paw Paw. 463 SITUATIONS WANTED. \ JANTED—TO EXCHANGE—A LOT ON WHITE’S plat, South Division street, for lumber, mason work, plumbing or painting. No. 38 Ottawa St. 482 V J 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 ye es AS CLERK IN SMALL GRO- F eery or dry goods store by a reliable young man. Address O. D. Cleveland, Harrison, Mich. 469 MISCELLANEOUS. V JANTED—A GOOD LOCATION TO OPEN A HARD- +» ware store and tinshop, by an experienced tin- Address J. smith and hardware man. Covert, Mich. V ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214 OR 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, eare Michigan Tradesman. 286 es a. 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 country are now using them. 437 War Claims a Specialty, PENSIONS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS, their widows and children. INCREASE PENSIONS for those whose dis- abilities have increased, and for those who have become entitled toa higher rate by a depart- mental ruling, or by act of Congress. VETERAN BOUNTIES to all soldiers who re- enlisted on or before April 1, 1864, during the war of the rebellion, having previously served in the army at any time for a period of (or periods aggregating) nine months. OFFICERS’ TRAVEL PAY now collectable in every instance where a discharge or resigna- tion was based upon a disability incurred in ser- vice. ALL KINDS OF CLAIMS diligently and per- sistently prosecuted. Sixteen years experience. My fees and other charges are moderate and in accordance with the law. ADVICE FREE and CHEERFULLY GIVEN. REFERENCES in every County in Michigan on application. F. I. DARLING, Attorney, Late Special Examiner U.S. Bureau of Pensions, 46 Old Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. A. Childs, 480 Piumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Brooks’ Hand Foree Pump, In- stantaneous Water Heater, Hot Air Furnaces, Mantels, Grates and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Ete. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Plumbers’ Supplies. 184 East Fulton St, Head of Monroe, Telephone No. 147. 21 Seribner Street, Telephone No. 1109. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. ? Our Fall Stock Is now Complete and Ready for Inspection. F. A, Wurzburg & Go,, (Suecessors to F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co.) Exclusive Jobbers of DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 31 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RABIDS, - MICH. Jou Printing! We desire to eall atten- tion to our facilities for producing first-class job printing for the trade. If you live in a part of the State where you cannot get satisfactory work, write us for estimates. Samples and prices sent on applica- tion. Weearry a complete line of stationery, papers—in fact all kinds of printers’ stock. Send sample of what you want. Fuller & Stowe Company, 100 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS. LION COFFEE Merchants, YOU W.ANT THis CABINET Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. Beautifully grained and varnished and put together in the best possible manner. Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Kvery Wide- Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THE KING OF COFFERS. An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. only*in one pound packages. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of 120 one-pound packages. For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Packed Woolson Spice Co., TOL EPO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. WHEN THECOMMITTEE MAN MAKES HIS SPEECH THE SCHOLARS FEAR AND TREMBLE EACH, WHILE BILLY HANGS UPON HIS COAT THE GREATEST TRUTH HE EVER SPOKE; and will $2.5 Fond du Lac, Wis- Product of Our Factory at Dixon, Ill. In view of the fact that we have GREATLY INCREASED our FACILITIES for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson & Co. have concluded to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our goods, which ENABLE ME to make it to YOUR ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock NEARER HOME the coming fall season. Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONGOLA, GLOVE and OIL GRAINS to retail at $2, and FINER GRADES of GOATS and DONGOLAS, which consumers can buy at 0 and $3.00, together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S CALF, DON- GOLA, and KANGAROO Shoes of our own make, and all having the MERIT of SOLIDITY and STYLE—with CAREFUL CONSIDERATION. VEAL, and CALF BOOTS are UNEQUALED, and the ‘Celebrated Red School House Shoes’? AS USUAL takes the ‘‘First Place.’’ satisfaction guaranteed—will be worthy your Our heavier grades of SPLIT, GRAIN, KIP, G. M. HENDERSON & GO., Chisago. Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Goodyear Rubber Goods Willard H. James, Salesman for the Lower Peninsula. P. O. address, Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Factories: Til. Chicago, fl. Dixon, We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. and L. FERMENTUM The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. Grocers and Bakers not handling our yeast are requested to write for samples prices. One trial will convince all of its superiority for freshness and strength. WINTERNITZ, | State Jobbing Agent, GRAND RAPIDS, Special care given outside shipments. | Visiting merchants are invited to call at MICH. the distributing depot, 106 Kent St. * $377 ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. President—C. L. Whitney, ——— First Vice-President—C. T. Bridgman Flint. Second Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan. cs sgn — Rapids. Treasurer—H. W. Parker, Owoss Executive Board—President; ‘Frank Wells, Lansing; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N . B. Blain, Lowell Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; 0. F. Conklin, Grand pids, Secreta! Gomaittee on Tnsurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap- ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso. Committee on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Clio Committee on Trade Interests—Frank ‘Hamilton, Trav erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. . Sprague, ville. Geawies on Transportation—C. T. Bridgman, Flint; M. C. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B. Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con- nell, Muskege®?. 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: Ko. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President. J. x Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. o. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. “plain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A. President. B.S §. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. 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. M. A. President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger-. No. 8—Eastport B. M. 4. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M.A. Ereskdent, Mar a . 10—Harbor Springs B. M.A. piieiabee: ow. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. No.11—Kingsley B. M. A. President. H. P. W hipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. ~12—Quincy B. M. A. = 2 : Thos. Lennon. President, C. McKay; Secretary, No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. sident, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. President, H. B. Sturtevant ee LA. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15— Boyne City B. M.A. = R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. o. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, ; <. Crandall; Secretary, W. Rasco. 1B. M.A. No. 17—Plainwel President. Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. ™, A. President, Warren P. Woodard; Secretary. 8: Lamfrom: cians latins eee No. 19—Ada B. M. A President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. “Chapel. No. 20—Saugatuck B. M.A. President, Jenn * Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. 21—Wayland B. M.A. President, a # Wharton; Secretary, M. Vv. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M. A. President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. No. 23—Carson € ity B. M. A. ' President, John W. Hallett: Secretary, M A. Lyon. No. 24—Morley B. M. President. J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W- 7 Richmond. —Palo B. M. A, eee Chas. B. Johnson. President, H. D. Pew: Secretary, 26— ille fs. M. A. No. 26—Greenv ge President. A. = Satterlee: Secretary. E. 3 27—Dorr KB. M. A. President, E. Ss. See: Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. <2 President, A. J. Paddock; Se etary, H. G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M.A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M.A. President, A. G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A. President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, 4. G. Fleury. No. 32—Coopersville B. ¥ . 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. 7, Ww Villiams. No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A President, a pee eke Secretary, C. E. Densmore. 7 . 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. ey ee Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M.A President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, mW. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. 8. Willer; Secretary, r. “W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, W ill Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge b. ME. 4. resident, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M. A. President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, ¢- + J. A. Lindstrom. ee No. 44—Reed ¢ City B. M. A. President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A. President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, 5. M. Gouid. 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 President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. a. President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, Cc. Grannis. ae No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W- Cc. . Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. S. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos. ee ier No, 53—Bellevue B. x. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. No. 54—Douglas B. M. A. President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. 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. No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar3 ,C.= Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. Pies Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. . 62—East saginaw M. A. President, ce H Moore; Secretary, C. W. Muiholand. No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, C. 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, “AS G. Drake; Secretary, C. §. Blom. o. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Fra Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. . 67—Watervliet B. M. A. President, .4 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. Cc W. Hurd, No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A. President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. President, = 3. MeCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. No. 77—South Haven B. M. A. President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross. No. 78—Caledonia B. M. President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. Ne. 79—East Jordan and so Arm B. M. a. President, Chas. F. Dixon; Seeretary, 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. * SEE Secretary, D. W. Richardson. o. $5—Clio B. M. President. J. M. Peon: med earagee H. May. No. S6_ Bu rook and Blanchard B. M. A. President. eston: Secretary, H. P. Blanchard. ea —Shepherd B. M. A. ashe %. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst. President, Mm. 4. B. Waller. Association Notes. A.S. Burnell, who attended the recent con- vention of the Michigan Business Men’s Associ- ation, at Muskegon, recommends an insurance plan to the Iowa merchants the same as that adopted by the convention. W. R. Mandigo, Secretary of the Sherwood B. M. A., favors THE TRADESMAN with a copy of the catalogue of the Sherwood Normal Institute, which is backed by the B. M. A. The curriculum appears to be exceptionally complete, furnish- ing admirable courses of study. President Whitney suggests that a meeting of the Executive Board of the State body be held at Grand Rapids on Wednesday evening, Sept. 25. to consider matters of pressing interest. As many association men will be present in the city at the time, attending the fair, a general advisory meeting can be held. New Jersey Trade Review: The fourth annual convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association was recently held in Muskegon. The convention was a highly interesting one, and was attended by representative business men from all parts of the State. Michigan easily leads in the merchants’ movement, and many features of the organization might be introduced with advantage in the State associations of the East. Cheboygan Tribune: The Cheboygan Business Men’s Association held an adjourned meeting in the council room last Friday evening and but few of the members were present. The lack of interest shown by business men in the success of the Association—many of our prominent busi- ness men seldom putting in an appearance at the meetings—has had the effect to discourage those who do attend and there was a spirit mani- fested at the meeting to give up the organization. It was concluded, however, to wait until the next regular meeting, the first Monday in Sep- tember, and try, if possible, to get enough of the business men out to re-organize and endeavor to infuse more life into the organization. The Sec- retary was instructed to ascertain the entire indebtedness and assess the members a sufficient sum pro rata to pay all claims. Allegan Gazette: The delegates to the Michi- gan Business Men’s Association convention at Muskegon heard an interesting discussion of participating insurance policies, and came home full of ideas on the subject. The plan proposed was to have a Business Men’s Fire Insurance Co., the profits being shared among the various policy holders. An informal discussion of this at the meeting of the business men, Monday night, resulted in the development of several interesting bits of information. It seems that policy holders in Allegan pay higher rates than are charged in Grand Rapids and elsewhere, and much higher than before the fire.. The low rates in Grand Rapids are due to a war among the insurance companies there. Still the fact remains that Allegan is charged more than sim- ilar towns for its insurance, as was shown at the Monday evening meeting. In favor of the par- ticipating policies, Mr. Andrew Oliver showed thet he had secured a reduction from five to three per cent. by joining one of these com- panies. Allegan Gazette: There were only nine mem- bers at the Business Men’s Association meeting, Monday night, but all were very much in earn- est. For some time attendance on the meetings of the Association has been falling off, and it was a question whether the plan of uniting the business men was not a failure. The handful present Monday night were all strongly in favor of continuing the organization, making the changes in it necessary to render it more effec- tive. The collection department seemed espe- cially to neeckattention, and it was proposed to secure a Competent man to take charge of it, paying him for his work. This was handed over to Messrs. Pond, Clapp and Renihan as a com- mittee to propose some pian at the next meeting for a permanent collection department. The question of the removal of the cart factory to Hastings was discussed and the matter referred to the standing Committee on Manufactures. The name of Will Ryan was proposed for mem- bership and referred to a committee. The meet- ing then adjourned until next Monday night. It is to be hoped that the Business Men’s Associa- tion will not disband. They have already done good work for the town and there are many opportunities for effort in the future. $< Good Words Unsolicited. S, Henderson & Co., general dealers, Hol- “Your paper is a good one and is doing a good work. Every merchant should take it.” —— 6 A Fortune from Powder. Gen. Henry Dupont. the head of the gunpowder company bearing his name, died one day last week of heart disease. He leaves a_ fortune estimated at $15,000.000—all made from the manufac- ture of gunpowéder. oO “Will Be Greatly Missed.”’ From the Detroit Journal. F. Henry Spencer, a well-known bus- iness man of Saranac, and who at one time was editor of the Saranac Local, died Friday afternoon. He will be greatly missed in that village, as he has been actively interested in the advance- ment of the place for several years. ————_—»>-+>__——- The Merchants’ Masters. Owosso Correspondence Detroit Free Press. The Patrons of Industry held high carnival at Owosso to-day. Large dele- gations from the northern part of the county came in, headed by a band of wind instruments from Henderson. Speeches, etc., were in order. The ob- ject of the meeting was to decide for the merchants what prices they should charge for their goods. -$ 9 <—___—_ Founding a New Town. J. O. Nessen, the Manistee grocer, has purchased 160 acres of land in Colfax township, Benzie county, at the junction of the Manistee & Northeastern and Frankfort & Southeastern Railways, and has platted forty acres for a town, to be known as Nessen City. Mr. Nessen is building a store, 36x50 feet in dimen- sions, and a hotel, 34x50 feet in dimen- sions. A grist and sawmill are also in contemplation. 1 Half Rate Harvest Excursions Will leave Chicago and Milwaukee via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- way for points in Northern lowa, Minne- sota, South and North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, on August 6 and 20, September 10 and 24, and October 8, 1889. Tickets good for return passage within thirty days from date of sale. For further information, showing rates of fare, maps, ete., ad- dress A. V. H. CARPENTER, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis., or to Harry MERCER, M. P. A., 90 Griswold st., Detroit. 1r rk. ton cireulars A GRAND SUCCESS. [CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.] butIam not. paper and more fully stated the benefits the organization I am connected with has received. The railroads have under- stood us fully. business. We have in the main accomp- lished what we sought to do. A delegate—Can you tell us in regard They knew we meant} Mr. Crandall moved that all the invi- | tations be accepted, which was adopted. I might have prepared a ‘mind you all of the banquet. ‘after the banquet, anyway. to the new classification made in the con- vention at Grand Rapids? What became of it? Mr. Van Asmas—The classification is in the hands of the two main classifica- tion committees of the railway associa- tions—the western and the eastern—and we have the assurance of the chairman of the eastern classification committee | | | } | | that the recommendations of the asso- | ciation will be adopted. We have also assurances of the western committee that if the eastern committee adopts it, they will adopt it, giving a uniform classifi- | cation in the United States, except in the Southern States. We have labored as I said, since the furniture trade was in its infancy—eighteen years ago. E. W. Hastings—It seems to me that We may have had a good Committee dur- ing the last year, but it has not met the views of this Association. Now then, can we not have a Committee which we can bring our grievances before and they do some of this work? That is what this Committee is appointed for—not to give us a report at the end of the year of how of that kind. I do net against our present Committee, but let us have an earnest, live committee next year. Association has done, to help out our small towns that only have ‘‘stub’’ roads. It isa big thing to undertake; but the State of Michigan isa big State. And when the Business Men’s Association is Mr. Connell, continuing—I wish to re- I believe the railroad tickets are no good until (Laughter. ) A. O. Wheeler. President of the Manis- tee B. M. A., then read a paper on ‘‘The Best Method of Securing Manufacturing Enterprises,’? which was given in full in last week’s paper. The President — The invitation that was extended to Governor Luce has been kindly accepted by him, and I take great | pleasure in introducing him to talk on ‘‘Legislation.”’ Gov. Luce then spoke as follows: I am not easily embarrassed, but I am at a loss to know to-night what branch of legislation you desire to hear me talk upon. I notice by the programme that I ‘speak instead of the report from the Committee on Legislation. Whether you want me to go back and trace as best I can the history of governments, the dif- ferent methods of governing the people, ' or the necessity for governments; whether +| you want me to go back and treat of ‘things before the flood and the crossing | of the Jordan; or questions pertaining to the legislation of to-day, or the methods iby and through which legislation is ac- this gentleman has struck the key note. | i port or a treatise. complished, I am at a loss to know. You cannot expect me to present a re- I notice that there are two papers to claim your attention yet, so I promise to be brief. Governments have always existed. It is a necessity, growing out of human nature, that they should exist. The strong must be restrained and the weak | protected by and through the arm of the ~ i law. Different systems of government, Moses got across the Jordan or something | say anything. Keep at it, as the Grand Rapids | as we all know, have existed—the tri- bune; the parental law; kings and queens have ruled and princes have governed; but in our country our forefathers laid down anew law—the doctrine that the people should govern themselves. (Ap- plause. ) In the name of the people all legisla- tion is enacted. Now I would really like—if I did not feel that I was in the | way of important papers you ought to ' consider—to stop for a time and speak in thoroughly organized, as we hope it will} mittee that will do this work for us. (Applause. ) Mr. Crandall—I do not believe one in ten realizes anything about this matter. day or week or month and don’t /be brief and I will pass over that. 'a great thing to be authorized relation to this important branch of the be in the future, we should have a Com- | subject—what legislation is, and the leg- islator, whatis he? But lam going to It is by the 'eonstitution of a state and by the suf- frages of the people to be speaking in ' the name of the people of Michigan or of You pay your freight at the end of the: inquire | whether you are being swindled or not. : ‘but beyend the school meeting and the I believe that, or you could not sit still in your seats. I pay out hundreds of dollars for feight. I pay too much. I believe as the gentleman said, but it would be useless for you to make a com- mittee unless stand behind it. would be basswood, have got now, you stand behind them. Ido not know as you need a com- mittee. I do not know that have grievances except Crandall. are paying thousands and tens of thous- ands of dollars for freight—a large per- centage of it-unjustly. M. C. Kelley—I move that be referred back to the Commiitee. Mr. Whitney take in the situation. There is no mem- ber of the Committee here. O. F. Conklin—I was one of the mem- bers of that Committee. It has not been ealled together this year. you unless the report The gentleman does not; well to appoint one, and one alone, as a There has no} It just as the one we any of you, You | any other sovereign state. Primarily and originally it was the purpose to have the people govern themselves directly, town meeting, perhaps, this is impossi- ble, and the legislator comes in clothed with authority to speak in the name of the people. It is one of the proudest of life’s he hasthis right placed in his hands, this power conferred upon him, this duty | imposed upon him of speaking for and | in behalf of the people in making laws. The legislator differs from any oiled official. The only restrictions upon the | legislator in speaking in our name are the restrictions impesed by the constitu- tion. It confers no right upon the legis- lator. He comes out boldly, represent- ing the people in their original and sov- erign capacity. I believe they have two houses in all the states. Pardon me if I assert that in these western states, these new territories formed, they would legislative body in the State. (Applause. ) I served several long years in the Leg- islature, and from experience and ob- servation of other years I formerly be- ‘lieved that it would have been better to haveone housealone: butthat experience | t gentleman of this Association written to | ¢ C mi i cent years, have convinced me that if we | | had two houses in a state like Michigan, the Committee as to what he wanted us todo. To-day I hear that I am ‘‘bass- wood’? and have not done anything. did not know that I belonged to a com-} mittee, only this base ball committee. (Loud laughter.) E. N. Bates—I meve = on the table. . J. Connell—I move a be filled out and the questicn be} that the report referred back, with instructions to re- port. Mr. Conklin—I have just come from the Occidental and it would be impossi- ble to fill me out more than I am now. (Laughter.) We have not done anything —have not been asked to do anything. Mr. Kelley—I ask for information as to what the duties of the Committee are. Secretary Stowe read the article set- ting forth the duties of the Committee. Mr. Connell withdrew his motion. Mr. Bates—I move the whole matter be laid upon the table. Supported and carried. Mr. Connell—The local committee of citizens wish me to invite this Associa- tion to participate in a carriage ride around our city to-morrow. We set the time at 1 o’clock, so as not to take over half an hour of the time of the Associa- tion. In the evening, at 7:30 o’clock, or a little before, the Chemical Fire Engine Company, anew manufacturing institu- tion located in our city during the past year and now making fire engines, will give an exhibition of one of their en- gines. A building is to be erected di- rectly opposite the Occidental Hotel, which will be fired. Immediately after that, or before it, as the chief of the fire department may see fit, there will be an exhibition by our fire department in responding toa fire alarm, and also in using the Pompier ladder, which is also a new thing. To these exhibitions all are invited, whether delegates or visitors. Our citizens have tendered the use of their carriages and we wish you all to participate. After the firemen’s exhi- bition, the Muskegon Rifles, a military company we feel proud of, will give an exhibition drill in front of the hotel. | members, that the Com-! and observation, especially in more re- with two or three millions of people— | we can claim three million until next year. I donot think we have them, but we can claim it—I believe in such a} state if we had a House of Representa tives with 150 our institutions and the in-, terests of the people would be better se- cured and more safely guarded—with a! ‘large house and a small senate. | stop to tell you why—it has been forced upon me contrary to earlier convictions: As it is, legislators come together and make laws—legislate upon every con- | ceivable thing. Wehave toomuch legis- lation, too many laws. (Applause.) Many more laws are passed than ever ought to appear in the session laws. It is the evilof our times. A man sees something he thinks ought to be done, and he enacts alaw. I was surprised and pleased in the discussion you had that no gentleman suggested that you go to the Legislature and get a law. (Laugh- ter and applause.) We must have law, it is a necessity, and we must guard and protect the rights of the individual and restrain the strong by and through the force of law. Why Iwas glad you did not suggest going to the Legislature was not because 1 do not believe in law. I will throw out this suggestion for the benefit of places which frequently have grievances— like Sand Lake: If the railroads discriminate against you, and you feel that they are wrong, you can apply to the Railroad Commissioner, and he will see that the law on those points is enforced vigorously, as far as the law is concerned. I have less confi- dence in a law because it is a law than I had five years ago, or four years ago, or two and a half pears ago, when I went to Lansing to live. Not less regard for law, but less confidence in the efficiency of law that is not backed by the public sentiment of the people of the State, or the locality where the law is to operate. Of all the things we should educate our people to, it is in reference to respect for and enforcement of law. Law that you cannot enforce, that the public sen- timent will not enforce is worse, in my judgment, than no lawat all. This is one of theevils of legislation. A certain individual from a certain section thinks it will be a good thing to havea law. He gets it. Why does not the Governor veto them if he thinks them wrong and of no use, do you ask?, Oh, he does, but it is always an unpleasant duty to per- form. We have had agreat many dif- ferent kinds of men in the Legislature, {CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE. ] and a Senate with ten | I will | titles that a man can carry, that | | do! ' Dry Goods. Prices Current. UNBLEACHED coTTons. |Americanindigo.... 6% Aten AL... 2--: 7314|American shirtings. 5 Atlante A A... . 6%4| Arnold : 205 OF Archery Bunting... 4%4 “long cloth B.10%4 AIRGES cn re oe 74 se - i oe Beaver Dam A A. 5% ‘“ eentury cloth 7 Berwick Ee 26.515 - OM Fold BOREL. .- 10% Blackstone O, 32.... ‘'Purkey red. — CHaApmaAn. ..:..° <...- 3% Berlin solids........ Cohasset A..s. 5.55. 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Lonsdale Cambric..10%|Glenarven.... ...-.- 6% honeagie...00) 50. -: 814|Lancashire.......-.- 6% Middlesex... ...... 34 [Normandie..... ..... 8 ING Wame 4... %14|Renfrew Dress...... 8 Oak View. 6 Vor du Nerd......-_ 10 Our Own 6.00 be 544| CARPET WARP. Sunlight............- 444) |Peerless, Wwikte....-- 18% Wityard. 2.22)... -: 8 | — ie HALF BLEACH’D COTTONS| GRAIN BAGS Cabot 8. 7% ¢| Stark Bee dee eee oe 1934 Farwell..-. |... ... §44|American........-.- 16% Dwight Anchor... 7. ay alley City. 16 CORSET JEANS. Goorin 2 |. 15% Biedefora......:-... 6 tPeeme 3... -138% Brnnswick. .... ...- 644|Burlap...... ---- i Naumkeag satteen.. 7 SPOOL COTTON. Reckporty. 004: 634|Clark’s Mile End....47 PRINTS. Cons’. Jd. ab... - 47 American fancy.... 6 Holyoke...) i... 2214 Muskegon — Peter Wierenga has re- moved his hardware stock to the former location of J. Vanderwerp & Co., where he has much more floor and shelf space than before. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. dyes Old Sivie (2-08. 60 ' Snell’s Cee ee 60 ic. ................,....... 40 Jennings’, genuine..........--.--.++.-++ 2+. 25 es , PROM SPs os o0d. 0f6 6... 50&10 AXES, First Quality, $ Pe Bronze. & 7 00 D. iB. Browze 3. cs: 11 00 SB. So steer, 8 50 PB See 13 00 BALANCES, dis. SET ee ese ae 40 BARROWS. dis. Raprosg 392). $ 14 00 Garden 25.0... net 30 00 BELLS. dis. Pang — Ve Calls 2... ee ae coe. ee ee 25 Moor Sarees o) 6010 BOLTS. dis. 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TW& Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60810 WrOuUeGL DOGKC Pit. toe 60&10 Wrought Loose Vin, acorn tip,.......-...<.; 60805 Ww rought Loose Pin, japanned 60&05 WwW rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped. on Werouces fame... )&10 Wirouctt Inside Blind. 0028 rll 60810 Wronchs Brass. .-. 2. 75 Mita) Cites ee 70&10 Bing, Parmer 6 ooo ee 70&10 Blind Shepard se 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40 CARPET SWEEPERS. Bissell No. 5 Se ce ees per doz. . 00 Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ 9 00 Bissell, Grand Oe ee ge ects a - 36 00 Grand amiga (2 0 fe 24 00 ee eee . 15 00 CRADLES. Grate ee ee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Cant Sich ee per b 4% tron, Stee! Potmts.-- 3)... 2-2... 3% CAPS. Hive 1-10.32)... Be eae alae ec ae perm 65 Piers CR 60 ee vi 35 Re 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Rim Fire. United States................. dis. 50 Central Wire. 20. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Soewet Wimmer. (0008) cbs 70&10 Socket raming...........-. sp 70&10 Rechot Gurnee 2050 6s. se a li 7O0&10 Meemes Miers oo 70&10 Buchers’ Taneed Wirmer....-..--. -..... .. 40 Barton s Socket WiTmers.-.- se 20 Cela te ee net COMBS. dis. Curry, Lawrence's <-..5-. 2... ~~ Hotehkies ee. CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 cocks. oe. GCN VOO oo oo oe ce os S Bibb’ Rear. eee Wenig oe cn ae COPPER. Planished, 14 = cut tosize...... per pound 2% $4n5> 14556. F4e00 220 os oS. 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14%60.... ..........- 24 Gold Bolled $2545 2.06 oe ose a 24 TeGRtOIDR oss ds a a ee 25 DRILLS. dis, Moteas Bib StOGm ee 2 40 Paper and straight Shank......... Ue Mors@’s Paper Spank... oo ios. ke es 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound .....-..........2. 00+ 07 Large izes, per pound... -... 2.600505. 2.. 6. 6% ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece, Gin. ....0.... 2.555.654 doz.net 75 Corrugsted 7.25.26... eas 2&10&10 Atiiranee oo 6 a, coos ee os dis. 4&10 5 PEEL SCRAPERS. 6c No. 2 No. 3 5 “ No. 1 holds 7 feet of earth. 3 “ec “ee ec “é Foster, Stevens & Co., WHOLESALE 10 and 12 Monroe St. HARDWARE. 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clarks, smigtt, 616- lnrce, feu.) co 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 eee ee 25 FILES—New List. dis. American File Association List............. 60410 WIRSEONS oe 60416 Now Avaericgh 22.2... 01.6. 60&10 MICHONEOM A 000. co ee. 60&10 Hellers. 2.0... 50 Heller s Horse Haspe ..--..---. 1... 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; 25 and 26; 27 List 12 13 14 15) 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ..-...--. 50 HAMMERS, Naydele @ Ce/s. 2.1.2... = 25 Re dis. 25 Wernes & Planps.-. 0... 2 dis. 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Stee]l.............-... 30¢ list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 HINGES. Gate, Clarks, 1,23 -:.,.0 5-22. dis.60&10 Se Ss aay yer doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and TOMCe ee 3% Serew Hook and Hye %4.... .). 4... net 10 = - i ee net 8% . o eS Me ol ee net 7% " bi % ee net 7% Strap ac ee dis. 70 ANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Champion, anti-friction..................-- 60&10 midder wood (FAGE 2.00.50... 0 2k 40 HOLLOW WARE Pes. see 60&05 Mictgies. 60405 oe 6005 Gray ciamcicd 6... 2... 50 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.........:....-.. new list — dapanued Tin Ware........-...-./ 0... Granite iron Ware... 52... 5 new list sax&i0 HOES. Grup t...e $11, dis. 60 Saeed $11.50, dis. 60 Grape 3... eg $12, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. Aa Sample. ee dis. 25&10@25210£10 Ce oe aS ee dis. 5&10&24%,&2% North Wester... 2.22.6. dis. 1061065 KNOBs—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 5D Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings.,..-........-..- 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain Seo 70 Picture, 0. L. Judd & Cos. ......... . 40&10 ICWAACIEG ee ee 45 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler @ Covs..-...-.....--.-... 56 Beers oe 55 ee 55 LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............-.. 70 MATTOCKS. e@ge PVE. 2 #16.00, dis. 60 eG $15.00, dis. 60 ee . $18.50, dis. 20&10. MAULS. dis. wy a: ©O.'8, Post, Hang@led. 0.000006 sn 50 MILLS. dis. Coffee, Parkers Co ce 40 PS. & W. Site. Co.’s Malleables. ee 40 oe, Mery 4. Clare ss... 05.20.22 40 Mrerprise — 6... 25 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Stebbin’s Pattern. Nea . -0&10 Stebbin’s CA ee — Enterprise, self-measuring..........-..--..- NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. We 6O GO ee ce za 10 ee 10 er Sa i eee 25 Geen ee 40 ie ee ee 60 J 1 00 eee 130 FINE BLUED. Oe eo, 1 00 ee a 1 50 Oe 2 00 CASTING AND BOX. a te ee. 50 ee a 60 ss % 60 ig 10. es 90 Ce ee eee 10 Se a eee 1 50 COMMON BARREL. % IMCD... eee ee eee eee cree cette ees | ee eee sabe oe clon 2 25 CLINCH. 1% and 1% inch ee a a 1 3 SN ee 1 15 De ee 1 00 3 inch ee a 85 Se and 4% TBOR vis) ‘Each half keg 10 cents extra. OILERS. dis. Zine or tim, Chase's Patent.-....-........... 60&i0 Zine, with brass bottom.................-.-. 50 Brass OFCGpper 6s ys 5 eter per gross, $12 net Gimstese 6 ee ee 50&10 PLANES. dis. Olie Too! Cos, feney -.--.-. —— Sciors HCMC 0. ee ek Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.......-...-..--- 40@10 Resen frst queliby. 6 os a @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10 PANS. ey, Reme. 2. dis. 60 Common, polished. PS EE CS Abate Se dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. Yrou an@ Thined. 8 se 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 20 Broken packs 4c per pound extra. ROPES. Sisal, 24 inch and larger ....:............... 12 WEA a 14 SQUARES. dis. eect estee SRE ios Seen aes %5 Pry ad BOVIS. 66. ee ts ne oa ois 60 ERG ee ee eka ee 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Moe 1000140 oy Bw 800 bet 1 BG A ses oe ges tet eee tere 4 3 00 Ge OS BO hae ei Seeks ees e 4 2 3 10 OG lt ee 4 20 & 15 Wee: 25 60 26 6 oa cl oe. ee 440 3% No. 27 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER, Dipt 2060 19, (96.25 dis. 40 SASH CORD. Silv er Lake, White A list 50 Drab A ck 55 Wie Bo, . 50 rae r 55 i Wee ©. es f 35 iscount, 10. a SASH WEIGHTS, e WOG Ce per ton 825 SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. Miles’ “‘Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@5 Ferry... 2... per ‘doz. No. 1, 81D; — ee ee $21; dis Paw Cue NO. 4 0 each, a SOQsOds ae “i Cee dis. 20&10@30 Silver’s Wy tee reset eu eee es oo, dis. 0&10 SAWS. dis. Pisstore Carerlar 45@4545 . eae OGG 45@45&5 one... 25 *Extras sometimes given by jobbers. ——— Atkins’ Circular 32 dis Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... “20 Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 * Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. BY “© Champion and Electri¢é Tooth X Cats, per foot Pe TACKS. i American all kindd.... .. 1... ~~. in a ee i Swedes 60 Ce 60 Glan A ee 60 Gicar Box Nae a 50 Finishing Naiis...... ay Ce 50 Common and Patent Brads.. eg 58 Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks... ne 50 Bronk and Clout Wale 50 Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails ............. 45 eathered Carpet Tacks 000s 35 TRAPS, _— Gee wos0 neida Community, Newhouse’s........... Oncida Community, Hawley & Norton’s... 70 RRGGCHUIER oe ! a PS SW Mies Cot Monee choker aT 18¢ per doz Mouse, delusion. 300000 $1.50 per doz. WIRE. rich Maren 2 Oe Annealed Market 70&10 Copperced Maree 62% Bette eee 2) anaes Maree 62% Winsied Broom. 0.0 .. per pound 09 Tinned Matiress........ .... er pound Coppered Spring Saeed a a % Gave Sprime Sicer. wc. 40810 (eare WenNCe a, per pound : Barbed Hence, galvanized..............0. 1: 3 7 pate 3 00 Comper ee ee eae 1ew list net as. c _ = i WIRE GooDs. dis. ES a eeu uicaly -70&10&10 RC Ce aaa -70&10&10 Haak eg 2.3... . -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes...............-. ..2@&10&10 : : WRENCHES, dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..... =... .. 30 Coed Gennme e. S Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ (oes Patent, malleable 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS dis. er CN 50 Puiaps, Cistern: oe: 7 MCECWH, PUCW DING ce — Casters, Bed and Piste... -.....- 8... 18 Dampers, American.................... a - Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 METALS, PIG TIN. Rig Estee... 28¢ Pe Bee nese eee 30¢ COPPER. Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3¢ Manufactured (including all articles of which Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per cent ad valorem. For large lots the following quotations are shaded: INGOT. Pe 18% “Anchor Grad oe 18 ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2c per pound, Ce pOnnG Cashes 6% Per poune 1G@i% LEAD. Duty: Pig, # per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per pound. “Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound. American OE eee ces eet eae @ Be 6 SHCCE ee ee 8e, dis. 20 SOLDER. Ce ee eee -16 Extra Wi eee ete ed 13 4g The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Cogmage 2.0606 i. er pound 7 ROIOEU Rc . ¥ is TIN—MELYN GRADE, Oxi IC, Charcoal.) . 0... --8 6 00 14x20 IC, ee nes ceed coe. - oC 12x12 IC, Ee ee ey oa . 14x14 IC, et Suess vel goa cups ue soos 2 10x28 IC, ee auice bac 10x14 IX, ee ee . 7% Pe ce er occa ee 12x12 IX, eae a 14x14 IX, ee ee as wove 1a es Each idditional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Lee ice ole b oy peace aa #5 50 14x20 IC, 5 40 12x12 IC, 5 65 14x14 IC, 9 2 29x28 IC, o 1 80 10x14 TX. 6 90 14x20 Ix, 6 90 12x12 1, 715 14x14 IX, . 65 20x28 IX; en 80 Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Terne M. eo eee oct ot $7 60 eT ee eee ey 15 75 14x20 IC, : Weonesnies ees soceuedat ate 5 50 14x20 IX, ' ce ete aa aes 7 00 29x28 IC - Ce da weae cen 11 50 14x20 IC ' Alidway Grade... .0..2..; 49 SACO ee eae ues 6 40 20x28 IC, . . * Soscuececuas 10 50 20x28 IX, “ - oy cece ches 13 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. POR Ne eee $12 00 14x31 ini i: ceenek i = oie s eevee enna gee g 13 50 4x: a re or No. : oi lers, {per miata be 09 The Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post_ Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889. A JUDICIAL MURDER. The trial and conviction of Mrs. May- brick, at Liverpool, of the offense of murdering her husband by poison, nat- urally excites much interest in both countries, although much less in Amer- ica than in England, where it has been the chief topic of the week. The woman is a native of Alabama, and a former resident of Brooklyn, but not, as was asserted, a relative of Jefferson Davis. The trial brings into strong light the in- humanities of the English law, which places a_ person of a capital offense almost at the mercy of a single judge. There is no court of appeal to which the case may be taken, either to have the judge’s ruling reviewed, or the verdict set aside on the ground that he charged on the facts as well as the law of the case. The only place to which an appeal can be sent is to the office of the Home Secretary by and the rules of legal etiquette require that the Home Secretary shall act on the advice of the judge and the prosecuting at- torney. In any American court of appeal the verdict would be set aside and a new trial ordered without any hesitation, in view of the character of Justice Stephen’s charge. He virtually argued the case against the prisoner as though he had been retained for the prosecution, and harangued the jury with reference to secondary matters which bore very lit- tle upon the case. No doubt Mrs. May- brick is not a good woman, and was nota faithful wife; but the tradition that un- convicted persons shall be held innocent until convicted binds judges to abstain from such courses as those which secured her conviction. Should that rule be broken down, there would be no safety. It is its absence in French law which led the greatest of French lawyers to say that if he were charged with having stolen the Tuilleries, he would run away ! accused petition; ON THE WRONG TRACK. The prevailing sentiment of the con- vention of electricians at Chicago seemed to be almost wholly opposed to the use of that force in the execution of criminals. Not merely do they object to the un- pleasant associations of electricity with the hangman’s business, but they argue from the uniform experience of all who have received great electric shocks, and have survived the experience, that this mode of execution must be exceedingly painful. Letters received from nearly all the electric light stations in the coun- try, where such accidents have occurred, speak of the sensations attending the shock as terrific. The recipients de- scribe it as like being hammered to death, or crushed to death in a vise, or sawn in two by a buzz-saw, or dashed to pieces from some great height. No two accounts correspond, showing that the effects on persons of different temper- aments and constitutions are as different as possible. In view of this record of experiences, it is to be hoped that the electricians will exert themselves to diminish the number of those extra-legal executions by electricity, which have been by far too numerous in the past de- cade. This testimony, taken with that evoked in the Klemmer investigation, goes to show that our philanthropic people are once more on the wrong track. They have not found in electricity any more humane method of execution than hang- ing. Of course, some forms of poison- ing would be much more painless, but absolute painlessness is hardly consistent with the idea of death as a punishment. AUSPICIOUS ‘BEGINNING OF STATE- HOOD. The farmers of ‘the Northwestern wheat-belt may look forward to an au- tumn of exceptional prosperity. The new States are to have a good year in which to begin their corporate house- keeping. Their wheat crop is exception-| ally large, and at the same time that of the competing countries is very defi- cient. India falls more than twenty} million bushels behind recent years. | Hungary is so much behind hand that | the dual empire will have nothing to ex- port this year, and even may have to} draw on us, as Roumania, from which she | got her supply of coarse grain, has for-| bidden its export. At the same time, | the crops of the Western European states, | although not exceptionally bad, are very | far from sufficing for home demand. It is true that a large part of the profits | of this wheat trade are absorbed by the, middle-men and speculators, who come | between the farmer and his European | customers. But the remedy for this is} in the farmer’s own hands. By combin- | ation he has been able to put an end to. i the exactions of dealers in machinery and other kinds of farm-supplies. Let him combine, also, to come into immedi- ate relations with his customers in the Eastern States andin Europe. In this | way he would secure a better access to the foreign market, which sometimes is shut to him by the demands of the mid- dle-men for excessive profits, and he would reap the whole advantage of his sales. Nothing more than an extension of the Granger methods is needed for the purpose, and a great farmers’ associa- tion, like those which-underlie the land- bank system of continental Europe, could borrow all the capital needed to set the plan working. TRIAL OF THE CRONIN MURDERERS. The authorities in Chicago now believe they are in possession of facts enough about the murder of Dr. Cronin to pro- ceed successfully with the trial. They are especially clear that the man Burke, whose extradition from Canada they have procured, is one of the principals in the crime, he has been identified as the man who hired and furnished the house in which the murder wascommitted. At first there was some talk of having him turn State’s evidence, but this is now dis- missed as needless. It is a good rule in such cases to accept only accessories, unless the evidence against the prin- cipals is very weak. There is no reason to believe that Burke was less guilty than any other of the conspirators, and none that he would help to the conviction of any one not already under detention. The ability with which the prosecution of the Anarchists was conducted creates a hope that there will be no failure to bring the criminals to punishment in this ease also. There is no difference of opinion between the American people and our Irish fellow citizens as to the necessity of this as a means of preserv- ing the public peace, however much it may suit the prejudices of some news- papers to misrepresent the facts. It is noticeable that the Irish Nationalists are making great efforts to raise money to prosecute Dr. Cronin’s murderers. The receipts from the annual display of their national games were devoted to this ob- ject. as UNLOADING ON THE P1 PUBLIC. Evidence is not lacking that the time is now ripe for trusts to unload their stocks on the public. Their origin, growth and success have been paraded by the press before the people until the lat- ter hold exaggerated ideas as to the size of the profits. Legislation sufficient to deal with trusts is inevitable. Before that is enacted the managers will en- deavor to take advantage of the human greed and cupidity aroused by visions of fabulous profits and unload their stocks on the public. Some of those who have formerly been the loudest to denounce them will be the first to take advantage of an opportunity to invest in trust stocks. It is safe to say that these trust stocks will be a good thing to let alone. Com- binations formed for the purpose of rob- bing the people are not particular how they do it, whether by making wide mar- gins between producers and consumers, or by unloading watered stocks on the public. One great trust, capitalized at $50,000,000, is said to own or control property worth only one-fourth as much. A similar disparity exists between the capitalization and property of nearly every trust in the country. TBH SALT THUST. It having been reported that subscrip- tion books had been re-opened for the sale of stock in the proposed North Amer- ican Salt Co., at New York, THE TRADES- MAN requested its Saginaw correspon- dent to interview ‘‘President’’ Burt on the subject, with the result given in an- other column. Those who know Mr. Burt will appreciate the significance of his remark that the refractory manu- facturers will be forced into the trust. Those who do not know him would do well to make peace with the tyrant be- fore it is too late. Eighteen Cincinnati grocers have signed an agreement to make a discount of 3 per cent. on all purchases carried home by the purchasers. Now, if they will make a further discount of 3 per cent. on all purchases paid for at the time of purchase, their business will be on amore equitable basis than the pres- ent method of charging the cash cus- tomer and long-winded chap the same prices. It is claimed that ihe Patrons of Indus- try now have 713 Jodges in this State. As there is no central organization, to which the local bodies owe allegiance and from which they can derive instruc- tion and support, the entire fabric will necessarily soon fall by its own weight. As the ‘‘meat on the hoof inspection | law’? has been declared unconstitutional | by the courts of Indiana and Minnesota, | perhaps it is just as well that the Senate | killed the bill in this State last spring. In the death of F. H. Spencer, Saranac loses a representative business man, THE TRADESMAN loses a valued contributor and the business public loses a candid expounder of commercial ethics. HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out: Basewood, log run ak te: 13 00@15 00 Birch, log- PUG tee as 15 00@16 00 Hiren, Noe: bane % 0), @22 00 Black Ale: TOR PR se est = 00@16 00 Cherry, log- PU cc ee .-.25 00@40 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2 -.60 00@65 00 Cherm. Cult <...t., @12 00 Maple, log-run ....-... -12 00@13 00 Maple, soft, log-run.......... eae ae 00@13 00 Manic, Nos. 7 and? .::) 2.20... @20 00 Mapic: Clear, fisorming ..... .- 5... @25 00 Maple, white, Seteesen: 2 ee @25 00 Hoo Oak; loxra 2 | oo < 00@21 00 Red Oak, Nos. Pane 2 oo css lS 00G@2x 00 Red Oak, 4% sawed, 6 inch and upw’d. 38 00@40 00 Red Oak, & 4 sawed, TOsnian oo cl: 30 00@32 00 Red Oak, No. 1, step plank. ee coe @25 Walnut, log run....... @55 00 Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.. eo ae Gis 00 Walnuis cll ee @25 00 Grey Elm, MOS Tan 12 gis 05 White Aso, logan. 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, loz-run.. 2000060... 2 5: - 00@22 00 White Oak lop |... ee 17 00@18 00 White Oak, 4 sawed, Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00 For Lowest Wholesale Quotations on Best Scranton Coal Call on or address A. B. KNOWLSON, 25 Pearl Street, - Grand Rapids. Muskegon Paper Go,, Dealers in FINE STATIONERY, WRAPPING PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, WOODEN DISHES, ETC. Mail Orders Filled. 44 Pine St., Muskegon, Mich. WAX SYTARG The Best Thing on the Market. Promptly Over 100 Boxes Sold in Grand Rapids the First Week. Wax Starch is seld as follows: 50 %-lb. Packages, - - $4.00 16 2 Ib. Wood Boxes, } 30 %-lb. Packages, f $5.60 Fine picture with each 2-lb. box or 3 small packages. [. M. Glark & Son, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids. STAR FRRD MILb Just what farmers need. The Cheapest. Very Durable, Slightest in Draft and Most Rapid Grinder on the Market. Agents Wanted for Every County in Michigan and Wisconsin. FOR TERMS WRITE TO MELOY & RICH, 20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TOC Re) A aes Ae VAINS SANNA, Bel a SWCS, BRass RULE 7 Wood & METAL rete FWY V a SU Anat eee DETROIT SOAP CO., Manufacturers of the following well-known brands: a ES QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR, TRUE BLUE, MASCOTTE, CAMEO, SUPERIOR, H CENIX, AND OTHERS, For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current. quantities, address, W,. G. HAWKIN S, LOCK BOX 173, wen AND ‘RAPIDS. For quotations in larger ‘Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance C0 ORGANIZED 1881. CASH CAPITAL $400,000. CASH ASSETS OVER $700,000. LOSSES PAID $500,000. D. Whitney, Jr., President. The Directors of Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y. “The Michigan’’ are representative business men of our own State. Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates, Prompt Settlements, K. G. STUDLEY, Wholesale Dealer in Rubber Boots and Shoes Manufactured by CANDEK RUBBER CO. Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. TELEPHONE 464, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE Anthracite and Bituminous Coal. State Trade a Specialty. Before ordering your coal write to us for prices. 4 Monroe Street, KOAL|! GRAND RAPIDS IGE & GOAL 60., HESTER & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, BLATLAS a q 52 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Send for Catalogue and 2 Pric a INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. §S. S MANUFACTURERS OF Cazry Engines and Boilers in Stock pr for immediate delivery. Planers, Watkinrs, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working mcninces: Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Samph Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Lemon & Peters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOLE AGENTS FOR Lautz Bros. & Co,’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Amboy Cheese. GRAND RAPIDS. WM.SEARS & CO., Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. CURTISS & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle ever made. Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich. Insure in “The Michigan.’’| TELFER’S Absolute Japan Tea, Crop of 1889. This Tea was grown on the Kobe Plantation, picked in the month of May, cured and manipulated by the most modern machinery known to the trade, is without coloring matter, and is pronounced by experts to be the sweetest and best Tea produced. If you want to double your Tea trade, handle TELFER’S Absolute Japan Yea. YELPER SPIGK CO, -— - GRAND RAPIDS. FERRI NS & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE ez No Chemicals. Importers, Breakfast Cocoa Is absolutely pure and it is soluble. s To increase the solubility of the powdered cocoa, various expe- o dients are employ ed, mest of them being based upon the action of some alkali, potash, soda or even ammonia. Cocoa which has been prepared by one of these chemical processes can usually be recognized at once by the distinct alkaline reaction of the infusion in water. W. Baker & Co.’s Breakfast Cocoa is manufactured from the first stage to the last by perfect mechanical processes, no Chemical being used in its preparation. By one of the most ingenious of these mechanical processes the greatest degree of fineness is secured without th¢ sacrifice of the attractive and beautiful red color which i§ characteristic of an absolutely pure and natural cocoa. line, carry a heavy stock, W. Baker & Co., Dorchester, Mass. and warrant our goods to be STRICTLY PURE and CANDY les PUTNAM & BROOKS. S. Kk. Bolles & Co., 77 CANAL ST., GRANV RAPIDS, MICH. We manufacture a fall W holesale Cigar Dealers. ratio UF We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP” Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of excellent quality, equal to more than the aver- age ten cent cigars on the market. DEATH To the Pass Book. Such is the fate of the Pass Book System wherever it comes in contact with the Tradesman Credit Coupon Book, Which is now used by over 2,600 Michigan merchants. The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupens, per hundred en a $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: $5 seeseseeee 3000! Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per cent, $10 SS og 4.00 wh DO ee isa 10 . $20 . ee ca ce 5.00 fs Of 1000 eee 20 a“ SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS, KA. STOWE & BRO,, Grand Rapids, & » The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889. A GRAND SUCCESS. [CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE.] cluding the careless legislator. You will find representative men there. Next fall you will vete for members of the Legislature. If you desire to secure good and wise legislation select indus- trious. intelligent, honest men to repre- sent you. Then you will get wise laws. (Applause.) The people treat the mat- ter too carelessly. You have rights to protect, interests you do not want jeopar- dized. You desire to secure good and oe legislation. Still, we are too care- less in regard to the selection of men going to the Legislature at the capital of our State, clothed with these gigantic powers! I could dwell upon the character of men who have represented us and those who should be secured to represent the people of the State. I promised to be brief to-night. I really must not tres- pass (cries of ‘‘goon,’’ ‘‘goon’’). I have felt a sort of friendly obligation and have been impelled on by a feeling of thank- fnlness for the courtesies extended to me by your Association and the people of Muskegon. If I can say anything that will do any good, I am more than glad to doso. Of allthe things I detest, how- ever, itis being in the way of someone you want to hear. In reference to the selection of legislators to make these laws: I do not wish to discriminate be- tween classes, but I do ask you not to secure too many young lawyers. (Laugh- ter.) Throw into the Legislature more 6. real business ability. Select some business men. A man arose here to- night and I never saw him before to my knowledge, but from the very crisp man- ner with which the gentleman struck the question upon which he desired to ad- dress you, 1 said to myself, ‘‘That man would make a good legislator; he can get right up and tell what he wants to quickly and sit down again.’”’ The long, tedious talker is a bore, and they kill bores in the Legislature on almost all occasions. (Laughter.) The man who bores has no influence in a legislative body. Get, also, a man of conscientious fidelity who will discharge every duty with the fear of his conscience and of his constituency before him all the while. Pardon me for alluding to my own ex- perience. I served six years. My home was less than 100 miles from the capital. During those years, I never went home aoe a session but once. There is no roll call during those six years but what my name is recorded there. I will tell you one result. (Iam more timid about talking of myself than of anybody else) Ido not want to tell all I know about myself, (Laughter.) I went in there younger thanIam now. I was timid. I looked up to the men who went there to make laws. I wondered that so small a man as I was elected away back in 1855. Before the session closed, I won- dered that some of the rest were elected: but I was every day in the harness and could tell men who knew more than I— men of broad experience and more ability—the condition of bills and in re- gard to amendments of which they kept no track. I studied nights—went to church on Sunday—but at other times was working all the time, studying every single bill. The prosperity of the State is to a cer- tain extent in the hands of the men who make laws. For all our interests, manu- ¥ facturing, transportation, we look to the members of the Legislature. Almost anybody will do for Governor, but we want good men for the Legislature. (Laughter. ) Tie President—I think that is the best political speech Lever heard the Gov- ernor make. (Laughter.) He can make a good political speech, but there are de- grees in them—and this is certainly one of his best. We shall be very glad to hear any gentleman on this subject who has anything to say. I presume the Governor, if he were asked, would not admit that he has exhausted the subject, by any means. I certainly know he has not exhausted you. A Delegate—I think if the suggestion were made and carried out that the Leg- islature be instructed to withdraw free passes from the members there would be fewer adjournments and a better condi- tion of affairs. The President—Do you make that asa a motion ? Answer—No, sir; simply a suggestion that might be embodied in our resolu- tions. Mr. Connell—Are we not to blame for the free pass system? If we elected men who were honorable, we would have no free pass system. Many legislators refuse them. I donot think an henor- able man would be willing to sell him- self to a railroad company for a free pass; but we are willing to support any- one if he happens to belong to our party. Mr. Sprague—lI am a little afraid that my friend here is rather going back on the Legislature. I live across the street from one of these legislators—he is an old one—and he is as honest as any of them. Heisa good neighbor, anyway. He tells me they all ride on passes but three. I don’t know how he knew. I do not believe that the three are all the honest ones there. I believe there are more than three. (Laughter.) It has got to be a habit—you cannot stop it un- til there is certain legislation to that effect. Here is the trouble: If our body of legislators start partially bribed, how 2 are you going to get legislation to help my friend Crandall, of Sand Lake? If this Association can do anything to stop that, perhaps the Committee on Trans- portation will have a dreadfully good Start. we A Delegate—I would like to ask, if the legislators were paid acertain amount for a session, would it stop their going home so much? Governor Luce—I think if the mem- bers of the Legislature had a salary fixed in the constitution, so that they could not legislate upon it (loud laughter), equivalent to or greater than $546, which each member drew for his services this year, it would save from twenty to sixty days of the session. Each day costs $746. Ithink it would beasaving. I think one thing more—that the people of this State can secure the abolition of the passes at the very next session of the Legislature. lf the people and public sentiment concentrate and bring itself to bear upon this question, it is irresistible, and I believe you can secure the aboli- tion of passes. Ihave no doubt myself that if the Legislature had not been sup- plied with passes, it would not have had so long a session and the laws would have been less crude. Anything that would induce them to remain right there and attend to your businessis in the line of getting the best possible legislation. If you are willing, you will get rid of the pass system. I do not think it affects the votes of the members; but, at the same time, it takes them away from the capital. If the business men scattered all over the State will take hold, we can doit. There are many members of the Legislature who are anxious that this should be done. (Applause.) The President—I do not think it would be inappropriate for this body of repre- sentative merchants to pass a good, strong resolution upon this subject, and let it in some way come to the ears of the next session of the Legislature and the railroad officials. It might not ac- complish anything, so far as they are concerned, but it certainly sets us right— expresses our views. Mr. Crandall—l move that the Com- mittee an Resolutions be instructed to draw up aresolution to be submitted to that body covering this ground—the free pass system. Supported and carried. Mr. Sprague—I would like to enquire what the status of the railroad com- panies is, under the inter-state commerce law ? Governor Luce—That question has been considered by the railroad attor- neys, and by common consentitis agreed that the railroad company may give passes within the State, notwithstanding the inter-state commerce law. These passes, none of them go beyond the State line. They used to give them to go out of the State. I think we have the au- thority of our Inter-state Committee for the conclusion that was finally reached S. P. Hicks—Ashley Pond is consid- ered one of the great railroad lawyers. Two years ago this question was asked of him. He answered it, after consider- ing it a moment, by saying that ‘‘the railroad. company had an undoubted right to give passes to its employes.”’ (Laughter. ) Mr. Bates—I would like to say that there were a great many messenger boys at the last session who applied for passes, and they were answered that they could not be granted without violating the inter-state commerce law. A Voice—They were not employes. Mr. Bates—They were messenger boys. A Voice—Something rotten in Den mark. The report of the Building ayd Loan Association Committee being next on the programme, W. E. Crouty stated that the Committee had had no meeting and pre- pared no report. The President—I wrote to the chair- man of the Committee to be sure and have a good report. I regret that we have no report. It is a question that ex- cited a good deal of interest at our last meeting. I have no doubt a great many would like to have the question discussed. If they are prepared, we should be glad to have it discussed. Mr. Connell—It is a question of im- portahce to many of us. I know there are many towns which have associations in successful operation. It would be certainly valuable to us, if they would describe and tell us how these associd- tions are formed. Jackson has seven and Lansing one; Grand Rapids, eight. We have none in Muskegon. If I can get something of home manufacture, I prefer it. The President—We have one in Lan- sing that is successful. I regret that I am unable to furnish this Association with the details of its work. I had hoped the matter would be discussed fully by those who are posted and who take an active interest init. I know it works very successfully. Mr. Stowe—I think Mr. Blain is Pres- ident of the Lowell Building and Loan Association, which has had a successful eareer. I think he can explain it. Mr. Blain—Thanking Brother Stowe for the honor, I beg leave to state, at the same time, that Mr. Stowe is far more familiar with the workings of the build- ing and loan associations than I. I think he can enlighten you better than I can. Mr. Stowe—While I thoroughly under- stand the theory of the building and loan association, [ am not able to ex- press myself as clearly as I could wish. I think the work we did a year ago—the report made at that time and the dis- cussion which followed—has resulted in the forming of a good many associations in a good many towns, whereas the sub- ject would not otherwise have been brought to their attention. There are eight in Grand Rapids, all doing good work. Iregret to say that within the last two or three months two or three additional building and loan associations have been imported, coming from Min- neapolis and other outside points, making grand promises, proposing that men put in $300 and draw out $500, ete., remind- ing us of something which flourished for a time years ago called the ‘‘Bidwell Bubble.”? We feel that we have a good law for these associations—that the asso- ciations are essentially a local matter, and that they prosper because local men are in them. It is poor policy to send our money into other states to build them up instead of the cities of our own State. Governor Luce—Pardon me if I thrust myself upon you again. I visit every city in this State and I am somewhat acquainted, from choice or necessity, with the methods adopted in the various cities. I believe, from enquiries and in- vestigation given to this subject, that the institution of these local loan associa- tions is the greatest step in the line of reform for the laboring portion of the people that was ever introduced in this State. Ihave watched the workings of these associations. In Jackson alone they are putting more than $200,000 a year into homes—from twenty-five cents to $2 a week. The members labor in the shops and in the kitchens and are be- coming capitalists. The country and the government are dearer to them. They feel more of aninterest init. It is the best safeguard that can be provided. After they getenough to buy a lot accumulated, they will borrow money enough to builda home. They are thereby becoming house and home-owners. Home ownership be- gets patriotism and thus the people are safe from communism and the other ‘isms’? which come in to torment the laboring people. The men and women accumulate enough to put in twenty-five cents a week. We havea good one in Lansing. Encourage the local ones and discourage foreign ones. So far, I do not know of a single break in the suc- cess of these institutions. Mr. Stowe—I think Mr. Blain can il- lustrate the benefits of these associations by telling a story he related to me a few days agoin Grand Rapids—the story of the widow. Mr. Blain—For the benefit of Mr. Stowe and the Association, I will state that this is not the story of a grass widow. The story in question was something like this: We have in our town an old lady —a German woman—and she has been striving for years to make a living in one way and another. She has done wash- ing, would go out cleaning house, taking her little wagon and tub and go around the neighborhood to pick up swill to feed her pigs—all to get a little money. She would hoe in the garden, do any- thing we asked her todo. She had man- aged to buy alot. She had got money enough to build a stone wall. She came then into our association and borrowed $300 to put upon the wall ahouse. She had prior to this been paying $1.50 a week rent for her house. 1 said to her that the same money she was paying for her house would pay her dues to the association, pay the interest on her loan and in ten years would cancel her mort- gage. The association loaned her the money to build the house she is to-day living in, as comfortable a home as any- one need ask for in her circumstances. She has paid her dues and interest for a year and four months and is as happy a woman as there isin our town. While this is only one instance, yet I think that particular case is of more interest to us in our town than any other one. This matter of building and loan associations is very deartome and I feel a great interest in it, and if there is anything I can say to interest you gentlemen, I should be very glad to say it. Mr. Stowe was the first man who came to me and talked about a building and loan asso- ciation. I thought his story very ‘‘fishy,’’ but, upon further investigation, I found that by figuring the thing out, it looked more feasible, and through the assistance of many of our citizens we organized a building and loan association. Our plan is something like this: We pay into the association fifty cents a month per share, a member taking any number of shares up to forty. The limitis forty. A share is $100. When the amount paid in per month and the accumulations on that amount reach par value —$100 —the money is withdrawn. In the event ofa member borrowing money, he pays in his monthly dues and 7 per cent. interest, and the money is put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. If we have $500 to sell and any member of the as- sociation wishes to borrow that money, he bids upon it. It is sold at from 10 to 12 per cent. premium. The borrower receives the amount of his loan, less the premium bid. He then pays 7 per cent. interest upon that loan, which is paid monthly at the same time that he pays his regular dues on his stock. And the [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] 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., 501b. 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. GEO. H. REEDER, State Agent Lycoming Rubbers and Jobber of Medinm Price Shoes. Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘roqqny Baryoo4g Jur ~1B0 M 2% 3ur4417 ssog oy, “e, 3 tp eo, zw § © S \4 5 z 2 \\ Gt 3 a2 2k 3 2 S o a z i] = = Wz e &y S DIRECTIONS S e We hav cooked the cornin this cau B) sutticiently Should be Thoroughly Warmed ‘net cooked) adding piece ot Goo Butter (size ot hen’s egg) and gil: of fresh milk (preferable to water.) Season to suit when on the table. None Pe genuine unless bearing the signature vt ; Davenport Cannirg Oo, Davenport, Ia, H. Leonard & Sons. Grand Rapids, Mich. Near Union Depot, Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts. The Old Reliable. WE ARE Headquarters FOR Michigan.. 26,169 Quick Meal Stoves THE Quick Meal Gasoline Stove Has Safety Points Found in no Other Sold Stove. in 1888, Warranted to Give Satisfaction. List Price. Above Stove, with Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter - - - - $21.50 x a ‘¢ Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - - - 20.50 With Three Burners on Top, Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter —* = 23.50 se sie Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - 22.50 Send for Complete Illustrated 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 “M,C. OC.” * Yum yam” The Best Selling Cigar on the Market, The Most Popular Cigar, SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER. TLANE & BODLEY CO. AUTOMATIC CUT OFF ENGINES > UNRIVALLED for STRENGTH DURABILITY anD CLOSE REGULATION. |-THE LANE & BODLEY CO., 212,42, )0HN STREET ALFRED J. BROWN, | WHOLESALE DEALER IN Foreign, ‘Tropical and California FRUITS. Headquarters for Bananas. 16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. - - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peaches!? Peaches! Peaches! THEO. B. GOOSSEN, WHOLESALE Produce and Commission Merchant, Is bound to let you know that he will sell you peaches as low as any one. or wire for prices and same will receive prompt attention. 33 Looe GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BALLAS, Write EDWIN JOBBER OF Batter, Hoos, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Froits, Mince Meat, Nats, Ete. Will be prepared to fill all orders for his popular Solid and Daisy Brands of Oysters after Sept. 1. Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce 60, (SUCCESSOR TO GEO. E. HOWES & CO.) Jobbers of POREIGN 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., * - FRED CLOCK, Chicago, IIl. GRAND RAPIDS. F. J. LAMB & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich . Cc. A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. A LAMB & CO, Wholesale and Commission Fruits oy roduce. 56 and 58 So. Ionia St., Our Specialties: CALIFORNIA FRUITS, ORANGES, LEMONS, BANANAS AND BERRIES. Grand Rapids, Mich. Island City Coal. f you buy it, we Guarantee the Best Results. Buy and Try? STEAM PURPOSES. Best for DOMESTIC USE. Used by Principal Hotels, Leading Manu- GRATES. facturers and Railroads. LIGHT ASH. NO CLINKER. GIVE IT A TRIAL. A. HIMES, Sole Agent, TELEPHONE 490-1. MAIN OFFICE, 54 PEARL ST. 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 sizes, for fire protection. Our Priges are Rock Bo 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 SHEATHING, IRON FIBRE PAINT AND CEMENT. OF THE KIND IN USE. SAMUEL LYON. BEADY ROOFING, DEAFENING FELT AND BEST 22% 4 GROCERIES. Interview with the ‘‘ Salt King.” The Saginaw correspondent of THE TRADESMAN recently called upon W. Burt, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the project of forming a salt trust was dead or only sleeping. On be- ing asked if the report that books had been re-opened in New York for sub- scriptions to the trust, Mr. Burt replied: “No, sir; and I may add, that no such action is contemplated in the near future.”’ : ‘am I to infer from that that the pro- ject of forming a trust has been aban- doned?’’ asked the reporter. “By no means. We postponed the or- ganization of the combination because of the attitude of some of the New York salt concerns. A portion of them are already showing an inclination to lower the prices of their plants, but itis not likely that anything will be done very soon. There is plenty of money waiting for them as soon as they are willing to come down to the figures agreed upon when the matter was first talked of.”’ “Then you think the combination will eventually be made a success?’’ “There is no question about it. The New York manufacturers will very soon be forced into the syndicate. The present price of salt, 50 cents per barrel, is a losing venture for all manufacturers not operating in connection with sawmills and very few outside manufacturers will long be able to continue operations.”’ “‘Your policy will then be to force the New York men into the deal?”’ “Call it what you please—you have the facts.’’ And those who know Mr. Burt and his methods need not be told that those man- ufacturers who turn a deaf ear to the siren will find Jordan a hard road to travel. — -2 Wool, Hides and Tallow. The past week has been less in the wool market. failures caused a break buyer and seller Some cession in price, but not change the market price but le while wanted conceeded. against weak buying. The heavy and out of the market. per buyers not less than 2¢ The the failures shows that manufacturers; are getting fair margins on present prices, if judiciously bought and sold, and dealers must realize prices ruling on August 1 to let them out whole. outlook is that old prices must fore much wool changes hands, is not enough on this side of to supply the and prices are too high on the bring The next four weeks will tell which side weakens. Hides are some weaker in price, owing to large As the supply of short-haired plump stock is ample for al] demands, long-haired wanted at any price that would give the holder a new dollar for their old one. would flood market, as there are many large packs being held. Tall dull, with large offeriz rule be- as there the water mills, to other side offerings. the stock is not slight advance the ow is lower and ngs. oo 7? A Grocer Turns Undertaker. From the Benton Harbor Palladium. A good-natured groceryman of Benton | Harbor went out to a rural town the other day to collect an overdue bill for groceries agains st a furniture dealer. The country dealer protested that collections had been so poor he could not raise the | ‘-Haven’t you got something to! money. turn over?’ suggested the srocer. “Nothing but coffins,’ mournfully re- sponded the other. ‘Trot out your coffins, then,’”’? grimly answered our mer- chant. who soon afterward left for home in a not very satisfactory mood. To-day he received a consignment of seven cas- | by freight, and as the sadly sugges- | tive articles were dumped off the dray in | kets front of the grocery the. man of ‘provi- sions stood aghast at the startling spec- tacle. He is now wondering whether he will offer a ready-made coffin as a baking powder prize or use the caskets to pack , butter in for winter consumption. ——_» +>____ The Sioux City Corn Palace. The only one in the world. Opens September 23, 1889. Closes October 5, 1889. Corn is King and Sioux eapital of his Kingdom. The Corn Palace of 1889 will be larger, grander and more artistic than its prede- cessors. Reduced excursion rates on all prin- cipal railways. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway is the direct route to Sioux City. For all details relative to the Corn Palace, address Jas. V. Mahoney, Secre- tary, Sioux City Iowa. For rates, ad- dress Harry Mercer, M. P. A., C., M. & St. P. R’y, 90 Griswold street, Detroit. ——»>-—.__—— VISITING BUYERS. Bartram & Millington, Dr H S Baron, Forest Grove Paw Paw Walling Bros,Lamont Sevey & Herrington, Herrington E F Ketchum, Rodney J S Barker, Morley R R Edgell, Hopkins J C Scott. Lowell C P Judson, Big Rapids J H Edwards, Newaygo G H Spencer, Rockford Alex Denton, Howard City H Dalmon, Allendale JL Purchase, Bauer A Purchase, So Blendon A E Smith, Cadillac st McLellan, ee R Purdy RB Sooke yepon ,Gooding C Gregory, Fennville Eli Runnels, Corning wm ae Gd Haven J Kinney, Kinney City is the H Van Noord, Jimmoibows Carrington & North, Trent H Henkel, Howard City Ezra Brown, Englishville John Homrich, No Dorr L Cook, Bauer J Raymond, Berlin LN Fener, Dorr G O Adams, Dushville H Brownyarn, Ashland Lamoreaux & Beerman, Fruitport D W Shattuck, Wayland John Kamps, Zutphen Griswold Bros, Griswold H Meijering, Jamestown ES Botsford, Dorr Henry Baar, ‘Gd Haven 1¥ Hopkins, Muskegon AM Park, Westwood HD Harvey, Bangor G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove Gus Begman, Bauer J B Quick, Howard City DeVoist Bros. Alba L Perrigo & Co, Paw taw A Falls, Spring Lake GS Putnam, Fruitport Dr Peter Beyer, Sullivan The Grocery Market. Sugars continued weak all last week, but took an upward turn on Monday. Whether the advance will pe permanent is a matter of gravedoubt. The vinegar pool has finally been declared off. Oat- meal has advanced 30 cents per barrel. West Michigan "Sb 85: SABIE" (Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.) A thoroughly equipped, pee 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 isin 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 U fg and Normal School, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. FLOUR Owl, Grown Prince, White Lily, Standard, Rye, Graham. Bolted Meal, Feed, Etc. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS. J. U. LEAN, AL EY EREx, Principal. Sec’y and Treas. The Drenthe Cheese Factory. Well equipped for handling the milk of 400 cows. Termseasy. Address F J. LAMB & CO. Grand Rapids, - Mich. For Sale! New and Second Hand Machinery, Includ- ing: 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 Poney Planers, Two Railway Cut- ‘off 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. drove both, small sales were effected by a con-! sufficient to! lb, | The | mere. | A | dull and life- | —j-— Irving F. Glapp, GROCER. 27 Docust Strest. —¥ neta The market is strongly held! outcome of | Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods STAPLE and FANCY. Overalls, Pants, OUR OWN MAKE. Ete., A COMPLETE LINE OF Fancy Crockery and Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. | | | | Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De- troit prices guaranteed. +» Shipper of Fruits, Butter, Eggs, and Vegetables. < Selec Seasoning M Jers a Spices! : Prepared by PHOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY, Chicago. Is a Combination of The Finest Ingredients for use in eats, Poultry, | Game and Fish. ' SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Red Astricans, $1.25 per bbl. Beans—Dry stock is scarce, but there is scarcely any demand. J obbers pay $1.75 per bu and hold at $2.16@$2.15 per bu. Beets—40c per bu. Blackberries—$1.25 per 16-qt. case. Butter—While there has been no advance in price, butter is firmer and in a little better de- mand. Creamery commands 16@17c, and dairy 10@14¢, according to quality. Cabbages—Illinois stock is in plentiful supply at $1.45 per crate. Cheese—Lenawee and Allegan county makers bill their stock at 8c, while jobbers hold at Cider—10¢ per _,Cooperage Pork Race $1.25; produce barrels Cucumbers—1l5c per doz. Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried at 3@3%c and evaporated at 6@7c per b. Eggs—Jobbers pay 12%4@13c and hold at 14c. Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $ per bu.; medium, $4.85. Timothy, $1.75 per bu. Green Onions—1i2c¢ per doz. bunches. Honey—In small demand. Clean comb com- mands 15@16¢ per Ib. Musk Melons—#1.50 per crate. Onions—Southern, $2 per bbl. Sn s Early command #2.25@2.50 er DU PPears—California, $2.50 per crate; Bartlett, #2 per bu. Pop Corn—2%ce per lb. Potatoes—Southern or home grown stock, 35¢ per bu. or $1.20 per bbl. Squash—Crookneck, 75¢c per crate. Tomatoes—75¢e per 30-Ib. erate. Turnips—40c per bu. Water Melons 818 per 100. Whortleberries — Very scarce, manding $4.50 per bu. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co readily com- quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Meds New ss oe ae 11 00 Short cut Morgan. ......----.. sees cere eeee es 11 7% Extra clear pig, short cut.............-....- 13 00 Mxtra COAT, HOAVY . 666s ec sse wewiewe se 13 00 (Clear, fat DACE?... 52. = 12 50 Boston clear, short cut..... sdicsc cae do OO Clear hack, short Cub... ...-... <6... o-o 13 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.. Soo ace eS OO SMOKED iccues Caneneels or Pein. Hams, average - Re ee eee ee ae 10% Dene ag oy oles aa 1134 - Ci nie 14 Te. ee. 11% “ picnic se ee es ee a oe 8 (| (BeNUNOHCIGNR. 0-22-25.) a 10 Shoulders Ce oe a 6% MemCICHS ..4..2- 02-353. 8 Breakfast Bacon, boneless.......... Dried IBe@CE: GxtrR feo: ean POreOs. 22 le. Tonge Clears, Deavy. 62. 6 Briskets, micdigia. 2 6 ice POG es 6 LARD—Kettle Rendered. OO sce 7% PEO oe ae aes ecco a DE 73% Seb. Giese ss ee 7% LAaRD—Refined. (gic. eee ee eee Oa S6 and 5016 Whe 2225 2..es ses 6% Sib. Pails, 20 i a Gase. 22.22.24... . 5... Tg Sib, Pasis 121 8 Gane............2.-..-. 2-2... z 10 ib. Pails 6 ima esse... se 6% 20 10. Patis, 41m a Gane)... - 63% NT eae oe ee oe os cceece 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.............-- 7 60 Extra Mess, Chicago packing.............-.. 7 00 a ee 72 Petra Piske, og es ee ae Boneless, ramp butts. .-- -..--..-..--...--... 9 00 saAUsAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pork Sausuce (06. s ee ee 7 His Semeaee ee 12 Worse Savesee.--....-.... i a es o Hrankiors sugeere 3 8 Bised Sauseee 3 5% Bologuae, straieht........ 2.2... 5% Bowpend wWIekw 2. 2 5% Head Cheese. :... 2-6 ee 5% PIGS’ FEET. ip alt barrels... 0. eS 3 00 in quarter barrels... 22.22.06. 1% TRIPE. En halt barreig. 20.02... ts 3 00 i quarcer barrels. (0:2... .0°-----. 5 |. . <5 i Yo i oe ee 85 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beet, Caressa). 00.030 ss 444@ 6 { | MInG QUBFICTA. . 226.6. cs: 5 @ 6} | fore ee 3 @4 Oe ee @6 Perk (Oins. |... @& Shoulders. 2.00. -...2 12.0.0. @6 IBOIOPHA ee @ 5 Sausace, blood or head... -... ____-- @ 5 iver ae @5 iRranicfort:. 020... -. oo @ 8 Mugen: 2 6 @6% OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. WwW hitefish Se ee @ 8 smoked.. oe @i iM% a... @ 6 Banos oo @15 Frogs’ legs, per doz..-....-...--..--..-- 10@50 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 lb. boxes ee ee tl Twist, ee ee 11 Cut Loaf, 25 Fe ce cee ic cieiele aces a= 12 MIXED. Royal, 2b palis.i.:..-.--.----. -...-.-.. .. 11 i et Ia ee 10% Extra, 25 te pale... .-.... 12 si SNddm. Doigees-s..... 5... oe vuenad (ream 26 1b, paiis...... <.......0).. @ut Doar 26 Ib. Gases ...... 5... 3. Broken, 40 ib, BASK..:.......2...5..000 05.02... a MO 1b BOIS. Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Eeman Drops. (37°... fe 13 Sour Drops 003. se 14 Peppermint Drops........-..---esssee--e- 2-20 15 CHOCOIASe TOPS... 5.6... 51. 15 HM Onoeolate Drops...--..-- 3.02... 18 Gian raps 10 Dicertce DYOps.. |. te. 18@22 A.B. Ticetios RGM: 20 ge ed 14 Lozenges, pint ee 15 rence 8. 16 Pmepermsg i 15 MowOCS oe ee 15 Orcem Bar 14 Molasses Bar....... CES : Hand Made Creams ..-- ce 18 Plain Creams. oo ee 18 Decerscea Creams: 8. se 20 STIS TOC eee es eae 15 Burnt Ammones 2... 22 Winterercen Berries. -.) 3... 15 Fancy—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, = DAMS. fo 0 12% “ nee . printed, = ay cits ees oes doen a6 13% < Bes. 1234 Chocolate Drops, in ee cee se lass 13% ; Gum Drops, POE ee ice y we cy ae 6% oT Pie ea a ec 5 Moss Drops, oR oe 11% PGES 10% Sour Drops, in pails........---++++seee eee eee 13 Imperials, Tr PORI ce e 12% PRONG 8 ce cs ee 11% FRUITS. Oranges, fagey Kodi. ..... --....-.-. 5 25@5 75 Messina 200s CS UI ce Lemons, GCHalee. 2 eee T5@5 OOF TABOR @5 50 Hips, layers, Hew. <2 5.5250. -6 462. 9@11 eBags. SO a @ 6 Dates, frails, Oe ee @ 4% nf % frails, ee oe aes @ 5% se Fard, 10-1b. box Se ee ee cee ‘ ee 8 im Persial:, 50-1). box......-..- .-. 54@ 6 Mamnhae oo 8 Sols 1 25@2 50 NUTS. Almonds, Werrseauee 600s oe co a. WVQCR oe ees. coe S . Cantornia. : 220. . oo chs ees. SM Se ec hla tetas cas Biipets, SiGhy.:...:.... 55642. .3. 10%@11 Walnuts, APONOVIC. S00 kc. casas ens @i3 BONG ooo sce See @10 Peeans, Texas. HW. Pot oe oe T4@12 Cocoanuts, Perc 3. 62525 es case ee 4 25@4 50 CReREIS So ooo ee ks PEANUTS. Game COGKNc iio. ee en, @8 RRP ae ce ata. ble satan 7 ROERG oo ee ee a ee @6 Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. BAKING POWDER. DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. SALERATUS. ; Apples, sun-dried..... 3 @3 DelLand’s, Pure... 25-2... . 5 evaporated.... 6 @ i Church’s, Cap Sheat. ..-..—.. 5 _ 95 | Apricots, : 212 @as DONS ooo cs ese. 5 " 4 49 | Blackberries“ —.......-.-. 5 PRVlOP A es ooo oe 5 "4 99|Nectarines “ .......... 12 SYRUP. . 2 60 a Be pene sins = Corn, barrels.............. @26 ' ; = Raspberries ‘‘ Z fe eee 20 | Pure Sager, Dbl... 28688 nw DRIED FRUITS—Citron. half barrel... .30@38 "13 3 Th Grama os co se @s ed ""47 76 | Im boxes.....-.......-. @% SWEET GOODS. _ "39 99 DRIED FRUITS—Currants. : xX XXX Zante, in barrels...... @ 4% | Ginger Snaps.......... 9 9% “ in less quantity @ 5 Sugar Creams........ 9 9% DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. Frosted Creams: .:.... 9% gy PERRO oe ake. 44@ 414 | Graham Crackers..... 9 “lb. * Tl) ge PROM ess 54@ 6 | Oatmeal Crackers..... 9 1%} : ce te, ap Samperial:. 6 3.2 eo. SODA. ti fe 3.40 DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. OMCH es se ee ot o4 “ Sip 8 4 = ae Vegeneing. 2 oo. 6 es. @ etos "English ee 4% Absolute, % Ib. cans, 100s..11 ves) Onsraras.- 3 @1v%4 ee i b 50s. .10 00 — Layers, Cali- TEAS. “s wi is 18 Orig.) oS 4e@> 50 So Telfer’s, 4 Ib, cans a J 45 | London Layers, forn. @ a a @16 depo Oa. Muscatels, California. @2 00 Cae 18 @22 ‘ Tip eo DRIED FRUITS—Peel. . Ghee ea 4 @S ee EEO 8 oi. 1 Y ae ; Acme, = 1b. a 3 doz... a 50 Orange. 14 Choicest.. - 0 @H eg esa _ FARINACEOUS GOODS. Hulk 20 — 100 Ib. —— odes 04 ) s w%lb.cans, Ominy. per BL... 2.1. 50 DS Rea ~~ 4° | Macaroni, dom 12 ib box.... 60 om @ “ 1b 1 50 . imported ..... @10 (Cnoleest..:..-:--.-.°.. 30 @ AXLE GREASE. Pearl Barley.......... @3 BASKET FIRED pais Brvers (00 #2 60 | Peas, oe setteese eee = 40 | pair i? ing afi les aa eae bt be spli .. a 3 : Dette eect eee eee ee Qs ase he Sie ar ; 60 Sago, German......... @ 6% | Choice................. @25 aa aude ne Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl... @ 6% Choicest........ ee @35 English, 2 doz. in case..... go | Wheat, cracked....... @ 6% | Extrachoice,wireleaf @40 Bristol. Tice een vis Vi ermicelli, import. . @10 GUNPOWDER. American. 2 doz. incase... 70 domestic. - @60 | Common to fair....... 2 @ BLUING. Gross FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Extra fine to finest... oo @65 Arctic Liq, 4-02.........+-- 3 49 | Jennings’ D.C. Lemon Vanills | Choicest fancy.. : @85 e te eee 7 00} 202. Panel, doz. 85 1 25 IMPERIAL A ee eae eae 160TE , 12 2 25 | Common to fair.......20 @35 6 “8 oz paperbot 7201}297-, ,, Co 3 25 | Superior tofine........ 40 @50 “ Pepper Box No. 2 3 00| No 3; 1 00 1 60 ; a A oi 4 gen ne & * ‘ 2% 400] ., YOUNG HYSON, ‘6 4 | eB ggg | NGO, ‘ 450 6 00 | Common to fair....... 18 @26 eHOOMA No. 4, Taper, “ 1 60 9 5 | Superior to fine....... 30 @40 No. 2Hurl....... Pea 1 70| 2 Pt, Round, * 4 25 i= OOLONG. Noe ee 1941 gnnee aa 15 00 —— to fine. Sees, Sy @30 No eames 200]. —SALT. uperior to fine. ) @0 Nod 5c nes 2 25 Cod, whole Ca q 5 | Fine to choicest.......55 Ges lorGem. 0.0 1S 60 en ree een acres @ 7% s t Doumade Whisk fence. go | Halibut . GUK| vetr 8, 3 QW Fancy fe ec 1 00 Herring, round, % bbl. 2 Mi Ghote (in 30 G35 ee = ; aa 3 75 DICE... eee eee eee 3 s ae A ea) 2 3 Holland, bbls.. 10 00 Tea, Dose “8 ot eae sc 6 kegs, new @ 85 el a aa a Kings 100 Ib. cases .......... 5 00 ‘ Sealed.. eo Topaccos—Plug. 7) Se eaeee 4 25 | Mack. = No. 1,% bbl 1100] S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands. BUTTERINE a if B Ib Kit. q = Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x12....... 39 giry. solid packed.... ... 1 D 2eption, 22-5x12.160z...... ee 13 | rout, 3 bbls... G4 50| Winco, 1x6) 456 to hee Creamery, solid packed.. 15 10 Ib, Kits............ 78 | Big 5 Center, 3x12, 120z2...... a rolls... . ... 16| White, No.1, % bbls........5 50] Wheel, 5to ................3 CANDLES. : a = Ib. kits.....1 15] trinket, 3x9, 9 oz. eS Hotel. 40 Ib: boxes... ..-- - 10% oe 10 Ib. kits..... 90 Star. 40 oer 34 Family, % bbls.... .2 35 ronaccos—Fine Cut. pene 12 : i i i kits. eee D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands. Wicking 25 | Kegs GUN POWDER. ee 62 CANNED Goops—Fish. Bale bess eae | SO OO ad Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck..... 1 20 ‘LAMP WICKS. TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. Clam Chowder, 3 lb.. 218i Ne oe 30 | 8 2, per hundred ele ee 2 50 Cove Oysters, 1 Ib. stand.. ee ee Te 3 00 2 Ib. eee ee 4 00 Lobsters, 1 a picnic eos 1 50 LICORICE. ee. 5 00 : ie Pere 30 Subject to en following dis- uy rib. seal c Cotati Ee 25 —o, a setegcttts: Ser 4g| 200 or over. ....... 5 per cent. Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. ae MOLASSES, r ae Secs te — ad stand ae eee 1 = Black Strap 1 20 -< chimed 2060. oo * oe ‘ VINEGAR. Sib. soused._..._- 3 00 : i gee De j Salmon, 1 patan oa 3 00 | New Orleans, good... i 25030 oe Rieger aa 11D. Alaska. 0. .! 1 80 Se 10% Sardines, domestic %4s...... 5} One- half become 36 extra, A ‘for barrel. eae we Le @0 ¥ [oer Ey poate 4 § 7QSwseeee @ fi c t a > 7 . CRN ee ipod a 13% uscatine, ee a 3 00 Fermentum, Compressed. . ‘ spiced, 366:.---.. = 10 2 15@2 25 MISCELLANEOUS. Trout, 3 Ib. brook......... i OATS. 15@2 °5 | Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 3% CANNED GOoDsS—Fruits. Muscatine, Barrels _. @6 00 ly 30-Ib. pails....... 4 S@ 4% Apples, gallons, stand, 1. 22 40 Beis bbls. ||| Qa ae mention reas 15 seu berries, etand......... 90 Cases. 2 15@2 25 2 i er " Cherries, red standard...... 13 OrL. ~~ | PAPER & WOODENWARE pied: - 6. 2 00 nea ese. 3: 9 PAPER, Damsons ....- Silo ae gicr White |... 2)... 103 Curtiss & © + ee Egg Plums, Stand cnc 1 30 PICKLES, ; aes ie hated ini laal pag Gooseberries a ee 1 00 Medium ee 4% | OF PAped % bbl. ee 165 ore Cisee 1 Sofomall bee 50d: 7) Eient Weight... ..... 200 Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 70 Be ae | 185 SeeOnGs (21. |. 1 45 PIPES Hareware ooo 2% Re 1 15 | Clay, Lge ee 45 2M, Pears. a 1 30 4 fulleount.. |... 1 Dey GOOds ss Pimeappies 2.2... 1 50@2 50 | Cob, Nos 4g | Jute Manilla...... Guinces 1 00 RICE. Red Express No. Raspberries, = eee se 1 35 Carolina os ee 6% NG Soo. 4 FOG oe 1 6 Moot. oo 53 s Sirawerries. .. ........... 1 Neo 54@ . 48 ¢ ae Whortleberries.............- 5 { Ne 2 ae 5 Cotton, No. Semaine ey ale 22 CANNED VEGETABLES. Japan ee ee 542@6% ee 8 Asparé¢ Oyster Bay...... : ea a 40 inare go4 a a gg | Common Fine per bbl....... 80 No Jae oe is Green Limas.... @1 00 pi weet. 56 Ib. sacks..... oo | No 8 a 7 Strings.......2.- @ = 60 ea eee ae € 05 On eae an “73, Stringless, Erie....... Ae Se ee ee sit ‘ Lewis’ Boston Baked. .1 . ee 2 40 WOODENWARE Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... 1 00 Biceins Ree ei 49 | Tubs, No.1................. 725 ‘ Morn’g Glory.1 00 | y8Si0® eae Oh NO. . 6 5 i Harly Golden) OO. co i eit SO ers. se Peas Mrenea 1 68 DU Se eesee cee 20 Pails, No. 1, two- hoop.. 1 60 ‘ extra marrofat... @1 35] 74, ae i No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7 RO 0 eee area aca ncstasae tas 1% | Clothespins, 5 gr.boxes.... 60 Fane send es 135 Granulated, boxes.......... 2 | Bowls, 11 inch Ce 1 00 piffee le. 1 55 SAPOLIO. | (ee en 1 2 roneHl exival fine. || 41 50) marenen, 3 doz. in box..... 2 35 CE el is Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215|Hand, 3 on Se ST 2°75 umpkin, 3 lb. Golden...... 100]... : 8 8. assorted, 17s and 17s Secenteaky. standard...._..: 95 Mixed Wied 44 66 156 1% ave — 4 2 Syasen we 110 Caraway ee 10 ' Baskets, warkee Tomatoes, Red Coat.. @1 0 oe ae 4 1 bushel 2 1 60 . Good Hngueh 01 OO b ee ya eee 2 a ‘‘ with covers 1 90 Ben far (0, 1 00 | Anise..-..-----.-- 22-2 2+. 8% | ; Willow cl’ths, No.1 5 75 66 stand br.... @1 00 Rape en el EE ere ee 4% | — No.2 6 oF ea Mostara Ts oe “ No3 7 25 Michigan Full C @s SNUFP. « ‘splint “ Nol 3 5 Sap oo cer S164 Seoteh, in bladders: .....-..37 é -— . Now ; _ Ce ia i | OC CRON TE TAES J. s. 35 ‘ 66 No3 00 __ CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S French Rappee, in Jars.....43 EY oT German Weel... ...2 5. -5.. a SOAP. GRAINS and FEEDS >- ; ~ ove - ul NS aon or eee = Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. oe a ee : ery boacenne cree cece DESDE 3 30 a oo Cocoa......--- 48) G@ueen Anne 0 3 85 ! Old. New. TODA. ++. e+ eee ee eee eee 37] German Family.. .......... 2 40} White ............. 80 78 CHEWING GUM. Mottled German ...........; 3 (6) Hed... 80 15 Rubber, 100 lumps...-...-.-. 25 ts Gorman. 2 70 FLOUR fies 0 es. — U.S. Oe Bargain ee 1 = Straight, in sacks... ase one 1/0 : i i i A, a i a c arre. s See 5 00 Beli oo co 6 Cocoa a Castile, Fancy. a sg ACD 6 00 ee ae 74%4| _ Allen B. Wrisley’ s Brands, ee a COFFEE—Green. = py FE amily, GO tt 2 9% Bowed... 623,60. i a olde sila 2 a Rio faa 17 @19 did Country, Oo 20) Granulated... ......... a. 2045 +s good ee 18%@20 ng, 308) oe. ee 3 65 an eee @21 | Bouncer, 100.................3 15 MILLSTUFFS. ‘“ fancy, washed.. @22 __ sPicEs—Whole. Bra 12 He peaden 2 @23 eS ed 10 ADAG 12 5 Sauise @22 Cassia, China in mats....... (14 | SGreeniies 12 00 Mexican & Facheorsantene= @23 " Batavia in bund....11 Middlings.. vcooctl.. I Oe Peaberry 20 @23 a Saigon in rolis...... 40 Minced Weed... 3.0... 15 50 Java, Interior......... 20 @25 Cloves, Amboyna..........- 30 Coarse meni... 2... 15 50 6 Mandheling.. @29 ¥ i Pameieer 8 23 CORN. Mocha, genuine....... a @27 oe Ce a 80 Saal lots a 43 To ascertain cost of roasted | Nutmegs, fancy............. SO Ca 39% coffee, add 4c. per Ib. for roast- 1 gigs oa ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- f cs age, -- +18 muna! lets. 6202 les 33 coFFEES—Package. eee . white... 2% | C See eed aay 30 100 lbs DAs eee ewww www ener Nil gox |, sPices—Ground-—In Bulk. | ce ea eanieee a gaiz | Allspice .........-.-......... 15 | NO.1.... eee eee tee ee eee 35@40 McLaughlin’s XXXX....223; Cassia, Batavia............- 20 BARLEY Barham es 22% ds ee Saigon. = NOE, 13 Thompson’s Honey Bee....24%],. Saigon ..-..-...---. To. § A p coe We a Cloves, Amboyna. 2.00.20. eS | NOS. 8. 1 10 6 Wor All 2. .-. 2314 Panmae i... 26 HAY oar 2214 Ginger, Pea so. PMU NG fo... 11 50 COFFEE EXTRACT. . el eS a5 WG 10 00 Valley Cir 7 “Jamaica ........... 18 pe Mae 1 10 | Mace Batavia. .............. 90 1 gees Se en Mustard, English........... 292 | HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Cotton, 40ft....... per doz. 1 25 and Trie. .25 Perkins & Hess pay as fol- ‘ Bt... 1 50 i Trieste Cease dio 27 lows: ‘6 on... 6 1 69 | Nutmegs, ING 2 os oo 80 i &“ eft... iT 2 00 Pepper, Singapore, pisek....21 seme sé ate 6c 2 25 White. 2... = 4 @ 4% Jute 60 ft. F3 1 00 bi Cayenne... 65.3.2 - 4%4@ 5 “ ca « 3 95 | Herbs & Spices, Rimall. =: o 5 @5% CONDENSED MILE. large....- 125 5 @6 Bagie se 7 50 STARCH. 5 G6 Anolo Swiss) 00000550002. 6 00 | Mystic, 64 pkgs..........-.. 4 48 Calfskins, green...... 3 @4 japeeES ee Bee a 6 - : pe cured...... 44@ 5 = SUGARS. eacon skims, 2... 22. @20 ——— Butter. ..........-. : Gat Lost @9%4%| % off for No. 2. tae a =; PELTS. Oe Ro oe cee 6 pide see dH. & Es... ee Shearlings. 2... 204. 6... 10 @25 “* biscuit 7 gaia, eS Estimated wool, per b 20 @28 B t ecorcrcececcecese 8 Franklin.. @ 85% City Noda oe css age sie <5 cis hae 8 se Lakeside. . @ 8% MISCELLANEOUS. Soda Ee RST a RCI Ae 6% ie Knight's... @ S% | Tallow .....-..-..--+-- 3%@ 4 Stee g” | Confectionery A...... @ 8% | Grease butter......... 3 @5 aoe ¢: |i eh eae os eee Les: 2 @ 2% Sooke te NO. ‘” RAROIHE. sk <<: os oe OGD PICO ist se a 6 | No.2 Extra C......... @ 7% o & aeieig: CREAM TARTAR, No. 30, golden....:..-. DO % Bisieily Pures oi. se 38} No.4 C, Gark.....2.,.. OT WaHnOG css. es 25@30 CROCE io. ee. oe ee Ba TNO Ga il. ces ss ces @ 6% | Unwashed...... ..-....--- 12@22 G. M. MUNGER & CO., 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.,_ - . - Manager, LVER SYARS No Equal in the State. Wherever Introduced itis a Stayer! TO THE TRADE: I guarantee “SILVER STARS” to bea long straight filler, with Sumatra wrapper, made by union labor, and to give complete satis- faction i. &. IN TS, Sole Manufacturer, 127 Lovis St., GRAND ame Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co, Cash Capital, $200,000. HISTORY—Commenced Business Novem- ber, 1882: Assets Tote ee ee bee eo Surplus. 1882 $100,359 $. 2,578 $ 2,675 soe 1883 109,793 25,276 Tee 1884 40), 933 on 1885 51,054 aoe 2 1886 239,501 57,759 45,660 € 5,378 1887 5 102,181 66,558 20,695 1888 123,240 99,249 35,983 DIRECTORS: Julius Houseman, George W Mart'n L mweet FF M. iH. J. W Champlin, D. A. Blodgett, S. F. Aspinwall, James Blair, T. Stewart White, Philo C. Fuller. E. Crof- | Gay. Weston, Widdicomb, * ton Fox, A. J. Bowne, Thos. M. Peck. Francis Letellier, Grand Rapids; x A. Haven; F. C. T. Hills, Muskegon; Alger, Dwight Cutler, B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo: Barnes, Lansing: Detroit; Grand Oo. M. W. R. Burt, East Saginaw. JULIUS HOUSEMAN, President. S. F. ASPINWALL, Secretary. SEEDS If in want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St, GRAND RAPIDS. W.T.LAMOREAUX. 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. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapides. FIVE DOLLARS FINK, Or imprisonment for ten days, is the legal pen- alty for selling tobacco in any form to a minor without a written order frem the parent or guardian. To? ¥ ¢ nee, Conform to the haw,» 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 " . - 1 25 1,000 “ “ - 2.00 All orders must be accompanied by remit- tance. BE. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids, # f Magis Coffee Roaster. The Best in the World. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 Ibs.—l will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, 48-50 Long St., CLEVELAND, OHIO. gf » Drugs & Medicines. + e s - ® % a State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Three Years—Stanley E. Parkiil, 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. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. ‘President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. : First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles. Third Vice-President-O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. i Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. A. 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. B. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. President, J. \:* ee) Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. Diarrheea Mixtures. The following, from the Formulary. are popular: Tincture of opium.... .-.--------+--- Tineture of capsicum.......---------- Tineture of rhubarb.........-.-----+: Spirit of camphor.....----- Spirit of peppermint........ Mix and filter. The formula above given, which ap- pears to be that in most general use, is also known under the name of ‘‘sun mix- ture.”’ Of other similar preparations, in more or less general use, the following may be mentioned: LOOMIS’ DIARRHGA MIXTURE. National ...a a equal yolumes Tincture of Opium... 4.) ae fi. oz. wiuetaive of THUbAED....--..-.--.-- 0-8 fi. oz. Compound tincture of eatechu (U. Se ii: OZ. iba of aassatras 0.00000) ceo) aan. Compound tincture of lavender, ee fl. oz. enough tomake........----+-+++---- SQUIBBS’ DIARRHGA MIXTURE. Tincture of opium.........---.--------- 1 fi. oz. Tincture of capsicum..........- ---+-- i fi. oz. Spirit of camphor.....---.---+--++++++++ 1 fi. oz. Purified chloroform.........-....-..---180 mins. Alcohol, enough to make...........--.- 5 fl. ozs. THIELEMANNS’ DIARRHGA MIXTURE. Wine of Opillm .-— ....----.-......_.-. 1 #02. Tineture Of valerian .-.....-...-.--.- 1% fl. ozs. Hiner |. Y% fl. oz. Oil of peppermint.........-..-----++-- 60 mins. Fluid extract of ipecac.... ......-... 15 mine. Alcohol, enough to make.........---- 4 fl. ox. This preparation is practically identi- cal with the Mistura Thielemanni of the Swedish Pharm. VELPEAU’S DIARRHGA MIXTURE. Tincture of opium..... eee cece Compound Tincture of catechu (U. Se ee Spirit of camphor............. aa equal volumes. Mix. ——»?->——" A Cheap Elevator. A Berlin inventor has devised a simple and inexpensive elevator for private dwellings, in place of the ordinary stair- case, which may suggest to some inventor a better means of accomplishing the same object. The Berlin invention is on the principle of the inclined railway, and the motive power is furnished by the city water, which is applied in the cellar; each flight has its separate chair, so that, for example, one person can ascend from the first to the second story while another is on his way from the second to the third, or still another is descending from the fifth to the fourth. The chair, being only the width of the human body, leaves a free passage for any who wishes to walk up or down instead of riding. It is set in motion by a simple pressure of one of its arms, and after it has been used it slides back to the bottom step, its de- scent being regulated in such a manner that the passenger is carried with entire safety. The motive power is, of course, more or less expensive, according to the cost of water, this being, it is stated, at Berlin, at arate of a little more than one-tenth of a cent only for each trip. —_—>-- > A ‘‘Pennyroyal! Pill” Promulgator Gets Her Just Deserts. From the Indiana Pharmacist. For some mouths past the English Specialty Co., of this city, has been ad- vertising by circulars and through the daily papers a pennyroyal pill for crimi- nal purposes. The ‘‘Co.’’ was a Cathar- ine Paxton Ray, sometimes Kate Ray. She was indicted by the U, S. grand jury for sending criminal letters and circulars through the mails to patients, and when first arrested stoutly maintained her innocence. When she found that the Federal authorities had conclusive evi- dence against her, she concluded to plead guilty. Judge Woods gave her six months in the Reformatory, and she was taken to the institution without delay. If the law can punish one person for swindling in this manner, why are others allowed to flourish and spread their gaudy advertisements over the pages of drug journals that otherwise are respect- ably conducted? ————————> - 8 a The Latest Trust. A New Yorker was stopping for a day or two atasmall town on the shore of Lake Huron, saw many fish caught, and naturally became enthusiastic to make a few choice hauls himself. Going down to the only wharf, he asked about lines and bait, anu a 12-year-old boy replied: “J furnish everything and charge 25 cents per hour.”’ “But isn’t that high?’’ No, Sir” “TJ think it is downright robbery, and I’ll try some other place.”’ “All. right,’’ responded the boy. ‘“‘There’s this wharf, that old wreck, and that slab pile, and they are the only places to fish from. We’ve formed a trust and made the price, and if you want to fish you’ve got to come to it.”’ ———_»> a __—_ After Five Years. Same kind—First benedict—So you’ve been married five years, too, Bobbs? Well! well! well! And what kind of a wife have you got? Second benedict (without enthusiasm) —O, she’ll answer. First benedict—Of course, dear boy. Did you ever know of a wife who wouldn’t? i The Drug Market. Opium is very firm and advancing. Quinine is also higher for German brands. Iodine has again declined and all the preparations of iodine. English vermillion is higher. Another advance is probable in mercurials. The Watering of Trust Stocks. from the New York Shipping List. It is rather amusing td see how the speculators in railroad stocks and other securities have recently taken fright at their own shadows, and the conflicting re- ports that are now being circulated with great earnestness as to the dangerous and enormous over-capitalization of the so- called trust stocks are really calculated to create a panicky feeling among those who may have invested or traded in these securities; but this outbreak of indigna- tion, however well merited it may be in the present instance, lacks the element of consistency, and for that reason is fairly open to criticism. According to the figures published in our last issue, which, it is claimed, are authentic, the Lead Trust has been capitalized at eighty-three millions, and the Sugar Trust at fifty millions. There is no means of ascertaining with any degree of accuracy the actual value of the property which this capital represents; all sorts of estimates have been made, some of which are only shrewd guesses, others being rough estimates based upon more or less intimate knowledge of the trades in question, and others are noth- ing but the gossip of speculative traders in the certificates, who have talked in harmony with their speculative interests. Be this as it may, those who pretend to know claim that the actual value of the properties taken into the Lead Trust does not exceed twenty-five millions, while the Combined Sugar Refiners are put down at twenty millions. This is supposed to include plant, patents, good-will and every other realizable asset, and if the estimate be true, the Lead Trust con- tains 70 per cent. of water, and the Sugar Trust 60 per cent. of water, a dilution of substantial assets that is truly of a homeopathic character; but, in order to estimate the true value of this operation for stock jobbing purposes, it must be compared with some of the other great stock watering schemes that have not only survived the deluge that overtook them, but are to-day pointed at with pride by stock operators as being gilt- edged securities. First of all, there is the New York Central Railroad, into which the elder Vanderbilt pumped millions of water with an audacity that has been rarely equaled, and that since then has been plentifully diluted by the acquisi- tion of many new schemes. Then there is the Manhattan Elevated, which is nothing but water pure and simple, and Western Union also stands in the front rank as an elegant example of what can be accomplished by an artistic and skill- ful application of the financial water pump. Whois there that believes that its millions of capital stock and bonded indebtedness bears any relation to the actual commercial value of the property, good-will and patents which it owns and controls ? Take, again the anthracite coal stocks, and is there a single one of them that has not been vastly inflated from time to time by the injection of an unwarranted supply of the intangible represent- ative of value called water? Take, in fact, the majority of modern built rail- roads, and does the stock represent any- thing besides a huge bonus, that has been divided up among contractors, pro- jectors and bankers and other camp fol- lowers who were in search of boodle? The bonds represent the actual value of the property, but it is the stock that is traded in upon the Stock Exchange, that is offered to investors and that in several of the instances cited above is denom- inated upon Wall street ‘‘gilt edged.” In the light of these facts, which might be enumerated to avery much greater extent. does not this attempted expose of the Trust stocks look a little inconsist- ent? Itissafe to say, within the past twenty-five years not a single financial scheme has been floated in Wall street, wherein this method of inflation has not been practiced to a greater or less extent, and furthermore that the public did not rush to invest in, notwithstanding a full knowledge of the fact that they were purchasing all the way from 50 to 70 per cent. of water. The shadow of over- capitalization has hung over Wall street for more than twenty-five years; now and then it grows a little darker and then the stock market experiences a chill like- that of the spook-frightened boy. who on adark night feels something creep up his back every time the wind rustles the leaves, but, like the boy, it regains cour- age after these terror-stricken specu- lators find they have only been fright- ened by the same old scarecrow that has so often been used upon them before. In the light of past events, the Trust stocks ought to be considered as the creation of artistic and accomplished financiers and as on the road to the front rank of good, well-watered securities, such as Manhat- tan Elevated, Western Union, etc. —_——>->__— A Valid Reason. ‘“Wasn’t that a button you put into the contribution box?’’ asked a traveling man of afriend whom he had accom- panied to church. Vies 7” ‘“‘Mistake, no doubt?”’ “Not at all.’’ ‘Well, I must say that I never thought you would flim-flam a contribution box.” “T wouldn’t; the money goes for mis- sionary purposes, doesn’t it?’’ Mes.” ‘‘And one of the great fields of mis- sionary work is making red shirts for the heathen?’’ “*T suppose so.”’ ‘Well, what is there more conducive to impiety than a shirt without buttons?” >< Rather Not Be a Partner. Henry—‘‘What makes you look so gloomy, Dick? Anything gone wrong?’ Dick—‘‘Aything gone wrong? Welll should say so. I asked old Giggler for more pay to-day, and the old skinflint responded by taking me into the firm on equal sbares. That means five hundred off my salary if it means a cent.”’ —————V3q.]4.—- a __ A Profitable Investment. Aunt—Can’t you get your cod liver oil down, my child ? Little Patient—It tastes horrible; but mamma gives me five cents every time for my savings bank. Aunt—And whatdo you do with the money, my dear ? Little Patient—Oh, mamma buys cod liver oil with it. BLEED THROUGH The Adulteration of Food.* I suppose that no one doubts that there is a very general custom of adulterating such articles as pepper, mustard, spices, coffee—in fact, all classes of articles of food susceptible of adulteration. Noone doubts that we. the people who consume these articles, have to pay for the vast quantities of raw material used for such adulterations, and also for the labor of mixing it and hiding it in the various articles in which we buy and use it. I assume that, morally, we all want to stop the great waste of money and time em- ployed in the businesses of adulterators, and we especially want to stop any risks to health or life involved in these adul- terations. Practically, however, looking at the subject from a social-science stand- point, there does not seem to be much prospect of immediately stopping these very general customs. The food con- sumers. and not the food sellers, are the classes of people most interested in hay- ing these adulterations stopped; and the food consumers are not organized and do not co-operate for their own protection. Many of the members of this organiza- tion are in those branches of business in which the classes of goods now under dis- cussion are bought and sold. It would be much more pleasant for them, no doubt, to buy and sell unadulterated goods, but that is not practicable except in so far as their customers, the consum- ers, co-operate with them. Toa very great extent the dealers must conform, not to the custom of adulterating, but to the general custom of buying and selling such goods as are on the market. Ido not suppose that it is now possible for one to make a living selling such goods in an absolutely pure condition. And it is probably asking to much of human nature to expect the dealers to take all the risks of legal interference with their business, while the majority of the peo- ple do not appreciate the importance of stopping these adulterations. Some may think that the people are represented on this subject by their offi- cers—that the State Board of Health should see to it that, at least, dangerous adulterations are stopped. But the State Board of Health is a creature of the law and cannot be expected to do, without legal warrant, what the people are not yet ready to have them do. Some years ago, I put much labor into the prepara- tion of a bill to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs. It was presented to the Legislature by a representative. But on the part of the people there was not much demand for such legislation, and what little demand there was seemed, apparently, to the Legislature, to be met by another bill which made no provision for any officer to carry out and enforce the law: and that other bill became alaw and a dead letter. Possibly, that was the intention of those who advocated it, but it is more charitable to believe that it was only an error in judgment. A bill which had been drawn with great care was introduced during the last session of the Legislature. In the prepartion of that bill, the remarks made at the last meeting of this Association were held in mind by at least one person who helped to perfect the bill, even if not all of the ideas there expressed were embodied in the bill. The bill wasentitled: ‘‘A bill to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulterated articles of food, and to pro- vide for their inspection.’’ The bill pro- vided very careful definitions of adul- terations, and provided for officers espe- cially charged with the fulfillment of the act, without which no act would be of use. It made “provision for the sale of all sorts of mixtures, but required them to be distinctly labeled as to their con- stituent ‘parts. In this way, and by means of the analyses made by the direc- tion of the commission provided for by the act. by the publication of its annual report and by the general attention which would almost necessarily be called to the subject, from time to time, by the news- papers, ample provision seemed to be made for the more general education of the people throughout the State in regard to the character of the adulterations which are now so common, and which might be expected to be gradually re- duced through the operation of these causes. This bill provided a way whereby any dealer who could not ascertain from the wholesaler the constituents of a mix- ture, could secure at cost a statement of the results of the examination or analy- sis by competent authority, namely, the director of the laboratory of hygiene at the State University, or the director of the chemical laboratory at the State Agri- cultural College. It seems to me that great good can come through the enactment of such a bill as this into law, and that the gain to the people of the State would be vastly greater than the few thousand dollars required to carry out its provisions. Ture TRADESMAN published the bill, and spoke in its favor; but there was no general cordial support of the movement. The people generally do not seem to ap- preciate the fact that they are paying large sums of money, and incurring some risk to health, and occasionally to life, by permitting the continuance of these common adulterations of foods. WhatI have observed leads me to think that, although we all talk as though the adul- teration of food should be prevented, when it comes to endorsing any particu- lar bill, most men in active business feel that there is no prospect of much gain to them more than to other classes of peo- ple, and considerable danger of loss by disturbance of trade. If 1 am wrong in this, there are those here who can correct the impression. But, it seems tome that the case is somewhat analogus to that of the physicians throughout the State— they all speak well of the proposition to regulate the practice of medicine, to re- quire of physicians certain minimum qualifications, but 1 notice that, when- ever a billisintroduced before the Legis- lature, there are always enough objectors to defeat any legislation. But, even although the people are not clamorous for protection from the adul- terators, there is great educational force in a good law, and if one can be secured I think it will soon demonstrate its use- fulness to business men and all classes of people. To business men and to this Association belongs the credit of pub- licly calling the attention of the people to the need of such general co-operation as can only be maintained through the enforcement of a good law for the pre- *Paper read by Dr. Henry B. Baker, Secretary of the State Board of Health, at the fourth annual conven- tion of the Michigan Business Men’s Association. vention of the adulteration of food, and I look forward to a time when the repre- sentatives of the people will act upon your suggestions and will enact a useful law on this subject. Governmental Statistics. Some interesting statistics may be gathered from the late statistical abstract of the United States. Itappears that the revenue of the government amounted in 1888 to $6.32 per capita of population. The expenditures of the government, not including payment of the national debt, amounted to $4.47 per capita. The national debt per capita amounted to $17.71, and the interest thereon to 65 cents. The duties collected on imports amounted to $3.47 per capita, and the internal revenue amounted to $2.07 per capita. of duty on all imports in 1888 amounted to 30 per cent. and the average ad valor- em rates on all dutiable imports amounted to 45.63 per cent. The per capita esti- mates above given are based upon an es- timate of a population of 60,018,000 made by the late actuary of the Treasury De- partment. This estimate is in all proba- bility too low. An increase of the figure The average ad valorem rates | for population would of course require a slight reduction in the per capita esti- mates. The statistics regarding savings banks over a period of five years show a steady growth in the number of deposits and in the aggregate amount of deposits, with but a slight change in the average amount due each depositor. In 1887-88 the aggregate deposits amounted to $1,364,196,550, the number of depositors amounted to 3,838,291, and the average amount due each depositor was $355.41. —— >_< Adulterated Tea. In the Paris shops have recently been found specimens of tea which are wholly spurious, and which were naturally brown, but had been colored bluish green, and rolled to resemble gunpowder tea. The leaves had been so trimmed as to acquire the long ovoid form of the | genuine leaf. Strange to say, they were |found to contain small proportions of 'theine. They are apparently from a | shrub of the camelia family. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address | PECK BRO L Wholesale Dru; GRAND RAP ists, 8. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Opium, Opium (po.), German Quinine, Turpentine, English Vermillion. Declined —Jodine, lodoform, Iodide Potash. ACIDUM. CArD 00-8. see 19 15| Antipyrin:.:........... 2:1. 40 Aeticum ee. seh S s@ 10] Chlorate, (po. 18) .....% 16@ 18| Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 68 Benzoicum, German.. 80@1 00 Cyanide .......-....--- 5 55} Arsenicum ............ 1 eeeee wee 39 | lodide.............-.-- 1 75@1 85| Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40 Gaclietie +. 40@ 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 2@ 29) Bismuth S. N......... 2 10@2 20 Pete 50@ 55 | Potassa, Bitart, com... 15} Calcium Chlor, 1s, (%s iH ‘drochlot a 3@ 5 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Sls a68; Ie) tis... . 9 eon 3. te 10@ 12| Potass Nitras.......... 7@ 9| Cantharides Russian, doe shea a aloes 13@ 14 Prussiate Soyo bes ceed 25 28 DOs, - cu - @1 7 Phosphorium dil...... 29 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18| Capsici Fructus,af... @ 18 RADIX. es 6s po. 3 a Aconitum 2... 25... 20@ 25} Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 2@ 25 AlNGe: 2. ol es 25@ 30| Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 Amenhosa §.. 2)... 15@ 20! Cera Alba, S. & F 50@ 55 — POL 2. ct a @ = ee Flava... 2B@ 30 : Galamas) <.0.. 23:. ae <3 20@ GOCE is. Sas. 40 Aqua, = cae a a4 ; Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12| Cassia Fructus. : 2 15 Carbonas ae dig 1S Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 Centraria... : @ 10 Celestia goes 12@ 14| Hydrastis Canaden, Cetaceum .... @ 35 are area EE sles @ “fa; CHlororom®! | -: oe co ANILINE. Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2% - squibbs .. @1 00 mela. pe... 3... 1 20{ Chloral Hyd Crst......1 50@1 75 Ipecac, PO. ...>. 5: - 2.40@2 50 | Chondrus .& ..-2. 23. .< 10@ 12 45@ — plox (po. 20@22).. 18@ = Cinchonidine,P. &W 15@ 2 2 50@3 aiapa, Prec s.t ee 250 . German 10 Netlow: occ schar ta 00 | Maranta, ea @ 35| Corks, list, dis. per eu BACCAE. oe HO. 6.4 =: = : cent 60 _..1'85@2 00 CE eee TH, vreasotum ............ 50 untperas ane ~ ' 8@ 10| ‘“< Cut............... So % Creta, (bbl. 75)... 2 eer ne BO ee 5) oo? Prep. 5 Xanthoxylum ..------- ts spigelia Te 48@ 53) “ i 10 BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2 . 8 Copaiba ....--------++- 55@ 60} Serpentaria............ 35@ 40! Crocus ..... 38 Pera oi ccc ate @i 31 Senega ...5 02... oe 6o@ 6o| Cudbear.......:......: 24 Terabin, Canada ....- 45@ 50} Similax, Offcinalis, H @ 40 Cupri Sulpi....-). J 8@ 9 Tolutan...---..+---+--- 4G 50 : M @ Wi Dextrine........ 10@ 12 Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12) HtherSutph........ 22. 68@ 70 CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, all numbers... @ 8 Abies, Canadian.....------- 18} ‘dus, po......... -..- @ 3 * DOe es. @ 6 @assiae 22. .)..--8.----->-- 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 25/ Ergota, (po.) 45....... 40@ 45 Cinchona Flava ..-----++--- se German... 15@ 20| Flake White.......... 12@ 15 Euonymus atropurp..------ 30 | Zingiber a.........---- ie 15) Cae eee @ 2 Myrica Cerifera, pO.--.----- 20 1 Zingiber j.-.-.-.-..... 22@ 2a) Gammer oo. 10 Prunus Virgini....---+------ 12 SDE Gelatin, Cooper....... 90 Quillaia, grd....-.+--++++--- 12 Uneaten © Prenen 0... 60 Sassafras ..-----------7°°°"" 12] Anisum, (po. Oy sos: @ 15| Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per Ulmus Po (Ground 12)....-- 10| Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12 cent. by box 70 less Bird, 18.9.5... 4, 6} Ginue, Brown.........- 9@ 15 EXTRACTUM. Carut (po. 18)-.....-..- oe | | Witte... 13@ 25 Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 2@ 25 |Cardamon...........-. ft OOGhE 25| Glycerina ....-.. |. R@ ee PO. cee 33@ 35] Corlandrum..........- 10@ 12} Grana Paradisi........ @ 15 Haematox,151b. box.. 11@ 12 Cannabis Sativa....... S4@. 4; Humulus.. 0.0200 |. 5@ 40 se ia... 13@ 14] Cydonium.... ....-.... 75@1 00} Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 9 ‘ ae 14@ 15} Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 . Cor... @ 80 $ toto. . 16@ 17 | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 75@1 85 fe Ox Rubrum @i 00 a Voeniculum.......... @ 15 its Ammoniati.. @1 10 —* Foenugreek 6@ 8 eel a oe 5 i 1512022 g ; po...-- : nguentum. 45@ 55 Carbonate Precip..-.--- @ 50 a @ 4%| Hydrargyrum......... @ 8 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50|Tjini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 4%@ 4%4| Ichthyobolla, Am.....1 25@1 50 Citrate Soluble.....--. @ | Lobelia...........----- 5@ wali 75@1 00 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 | PharlarisCanarian.... 34:@ 4% | Iodine, Resubl........ 2 15@2 25 Solut Chloride....---- @ e Rape S@ 6] lodoferm @2 75 Sulphate, com’l.....-- 1%@ 2] Sinapis, Albu......... Sa. 0) tae 85@1 00 “ pare. ee @ i “ Miers. 0). 11@ 12] Lycopodium ........ .. 5@ 60 FLORA coe ee eet 85 ' 16 SPIRITUS. — Liquor Arsen et Hy- Arnica ... -.------->-- 14@ Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 rare lod)... 2... 27 Anthemis .......-----: 30@ 3 “ D. F. B.....1 75@2 00| Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 Matricaria ....-- ----- 30@ 3 eee 1 10@1 50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl FOLIA. Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 75 We a a 3s Saran 12 ‘ at ] a a 7 50 7 5. es Sone 45@ 50 : eos oe eo aacharum N. E...... T5@- orphia, S. P. & W...2 55@2 80 renee! a3 | Spt. Vini Galli...2°... 17@650) “ SN.Y.QE& : “ Ai. $5@ 50) Vim! Oporto ........--. 1 25@2 CC, 2 55@2 70 gies Vini Alba............. 1 25@2 00} Moschus Canton...... 40 Salvia officinalis, 148 0@ 12 Myristica, No. 1...... 60@ 70 we oe BPONGES. Nux Vomica, (po). @ 10 i Florida sheeps’ wool Os. Sepia......-.-..... BQ 28 a @1 0 Carriage. 00.22.64 08 2 25@2 50 a Saac, H. & P. D. a Acacia, ist ieked.... Nassau sheeps’ wool Dae lg gt ce lg 2 00 ear Sek oe ae carriage a 2 00| Picis Lia, N. C., % gal sc 3 be Secs @ 80 Velvet extra sheeps’ doz settee cece ee eres @2 00 “« giftedsorts... _@ 65] wool carriage....... 1 10} Picis Liq., quarts..... @1 00 oe. . .--- 1%@1 00) Extra yellow sheeps’ nna pints ....... @ 7 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] carriage............. g5| Pil Hydrarg, (po.80).. @ 50 “’ Gape, (po. 20).-- @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- Piper Nigra, (po. 22)... @ 18 | Saeate (po GO). (OO SO) mage Te g5| Piper Alba, (pog5).... @ 35 Catechu, is, (48, 14 4S, Hard for slate use.... 75| Pix Burgun........... a £ 16) 222 ee = @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for slate Plumbi Acet ....... -. | tai 1b Ammoniae .....-.--++- 23@ 30 Hee ee 1 49} Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 ‘Assafcetida, (po. 30)... _@ Pyrethrum, boxes Benzoinum.......----- wW@ 55 SYRUPS. & PD Co:, doz..... @1 25 Camphore®.....---++++- So@ SS WAceacia 0 59| Pyrethrum, pv........ 3@ 0 Euphorbium po ...--- So@ FO Aiupiber oe 50}; Quassiae .............. 8@ 10 Galbanum. ....-.----- SS ameene ce iy ee 60} Quinia, S.P.& W..... 39@ 44 Gamboge, po..-.------ SO Di Mer fod 50 _ 8. German.... 27@ 35 Guaiacum, (po.45)..-- @ 40) Auranti Cortes.............. 59| Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 Kino, (po. 25).------++ @ 20| Rhei Arom.............----- 50| Saccharum Lactispv.. @ 35 Masten (gous e @1 00] Similax Officinalis.......... 60| Salacin.......... eee 2 25@2 35 Myrrh, (po 45)..------ @ 40 sé “ Ga 50 | Sanguis Draconis..... N@ 5 Opii, (pc. 4 85).------- 3 35@3 45 | Senega ......-------. eee ee 50| Santonine ............ @450 Shellac .. ...--.----+- oe | SO Seminar 50 | Sapo, W...----..--- +e 12@ 14 «" pleached.....- ee Ao ee BO] Meee eee seer eee 8@ 10 Tragacanth ....-----+- 30@ 75| Tolutan ........-.---2-. +205: sae waceas @ = HERBA—In ounce packages. Prous Vitg...... 2.0... 2.6.5 50 Sinapis........... ‘ Y : i : : : 8 Absinthium ......-.--+-+++°: = TINCTURES. __‘ OPt.........205 @ 30 oa. Ce 25 Aconitum Napellis R eae. 60 — ee: De @ 3 Majorum..... Ef auetng ede Bed Se rere 50} Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 Mentha Piperita.....-.----- 23] Aloes.......---.---- esses eres 604 Soda Boras, (po. 12). . 11@ 12 ct a ae 9 | “ and myrrh............ 60! Soda et Potass Tart 30@ 33 a ice niece e 30 Arnica ee cscs ccc ate aes as BO Cade Gach @ 2% Tanacetum, V.....-----+++:- 22 | Asafcetida.............--.--- 50| Soda, Bi-Carb......... 4@ 5 Thymus, V....----S+-+++--°° 25 | Atrope Belladonna.......... OO} Sodal Aah? 3@ 4 MAGNESIA. —G ocelot a eee S Soda, Sulphas Cae @ 2 Calcined, Pat.......--- 5o@ 60 | Sangiimaria 93.0000 0 5100. 50 OP encia Dia i ance “S. a Carbonate, Pat ....... 2m. 22| Barogmia 00 62s. 50} « Myrcia Bas @2 50 Carbonate, K. & M.... 20@ 25| Cantharides..............-.. Cen ines aie Rec. bbL Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36| Capsicum ..............----- OT se. ee) ‘ eae ——— ae a = ess 5e gal., cash ten days. Absinthium.........-- 5 00@5 50| Castor ....-........0scceeeees ia. a oe Amygdalae, Dulce... -- 45@_ 75 | Catechu..........-+++- +++ e+. 50 SS rae be 3% Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 50 | Cinehona ............-----+- Sia anag ee s@ 10 eS a 1 85@1 95 ‘ Ge. aa week ao 30 Auranti Cortex....--- 2 00 | Columba 202.000. ee SO) awennenwiae 55 Beramit, :.....6.....+ 2 Was 00 | Contam 60. .0000020 bo. a DO wai 9 00@I16 00 Cajiputi........+---++- Si 00) Gabeba 50] Zinei Sulph.......... 17@ 8| Caryophylli .......---- @1 50 | Digitalis ......... eo ena ' Gegnr i)... te. 35@ 65 | Ergot.........-.-. 50 CTLs. : Chenopodii ........--- @i %| Gentian |... .1.... BO : Bbl. Gai Gimamoni oi) 0...... 1 20@1 25 eee g9| Whale, winter........ © @ Gitronelia 10005002 @ G Gades.....:.... : 50 | Lard, extra........... 55 «60 Conium Mac.........- 5 ce | NOW. go| Lard, No. 1........... 4 50 Copaipa tl. S0@! 00 P)Zingiber (2.0.24...) ... 11) 50| Linseed, pureraw.... 62 65 Gupenae 00 16 00@16 5) | Hyoscyamus ................ 50 | Lindseed, boiled .... 65 68 Exechthitos.......--.- oet MA dade 7%5| Neat’s Foot, winter Hriperon 00). ) ssl 4301 30{ “Colorless. ...)....2..: 75| _ Strained ..... write 5069 Gaultheria..). 02. 2 10@2 20| Ferri Chloridum....... "* g5| SpiritsTurpentine.... 49 55 Geranium, ounce..... @ 75|Kino..... ea CS _ Paints. bbl. Ib. Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75 | Lobelia... 00.0.1... "? 59] Red Venetian.......... 1% 2@3 Hoedeoma 200500000050. 1 1ogpd 25) Mveck co ‘. 50| Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 ipeEh vee 50@2 00|Nux Vomica....... Se Ber...... 1% 2@3 Lavendula i201 .0..3.).. Nae 00 | Opie ". 35] Putty, commercial....2%4 2%4@3 Eimonig 005.043). 1 50@1 80| ‘ Camphorated.. Le Spt — pure..... 2% 2%@3 Mentha Piper......-..- 2 35@2 40} “ Deodor...... “*2 09| Vermilion Prime Amer- Mentha Verid......... 2 50@2 60 | Auranti Cortex... "*" 59] _icam ..-.....--. eee 13@16 Morrhuaze, gal.......-- 80@1 00 | Quassia ........ 59| Vermilion, English.... 70@75 Myrcia, ounce......... oO | Riatany .--..-- 50| Green, Peninsular..... 10@i Olive Ee. 1 00@2 "75 | Rhelo 21.8 50| Lead, red.............- 64@14 Picis Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12) Cassia Acutifol.... 50 * _, White ......-.--- 6%4OT% ictal. >to... 1 A@1 32 66 “ Cc 59 | Whiting, white Span... @70 MOsmarins --.. 25. - 75@1 00 | Serpentaria .. 50 wae Gilders’...... @90 Rosae, ounce.......... @6 00 | Stromonium 60| White, Paris American 1 00 Sueeints..... cs. s+» 40@, 45) Tolutan.... 69; Whiting, Paris Eng. Sabin ee 90@1 00 | Valerian ......... T) 50] cliff .....-----.-- 3: 1 40 Samtat cup oosce ce 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride............ 50 | Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4 Sacunteas. £0.20 3.0. 55@ 60 Swiss Villa Prepared Sinapis, ess, ounce.... @ 65 MISCELLANEOUS. Pepiis 1 00@1 20 Tighti...6....02--200+0s @1 50| mther, Spts Nit,3F.. 2@ 2 VARNISHES, Thyme rack gigs a ceateia loa “<< a i. 66 cg bh a. = No. 1 Turp Coach..... 1 10@1 20 han ses A ee : Myo oe ss 4 Mare Eur. 6. oe 1 70 ‘TREODTOMAS.......5... 15@ 20 6s gr and, (po. Coach B Pos 2 00 POTASSIUM. 76 EN een ay 3@ No. 1 Furp Turn. ..... 1 00@1 10 Hi Carp... -:.....5--.- 16m JSP Ameetie ees 55@ 60} Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 Bichromate ........... 13@ 14} Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5! Japan Dryer, No. 1 Promide.:.6 52.5.) 52s 37@ . et PotassT. 55@ 60 WIPO. oo ee asus Moda ores 7@ 75 ee LIQUOR & POISON RECORD COMBINED, Acknowledged to be the Best on the Market. 100 Louis St., KE. A. STOWE & BRO., ckanp Ravibs OILS! Snow Drop. A Fine Water White Oil, High Gravity and Fire Test, and recommended to those wishing a High Grade Burning Oil. : Red Cross. (SPECTAL.) Water White—A splendid oil. e Gasoline. Our XXXX Red Cross brand is unexcelled. War- ranted to Give Satisfaction. Naptha. Sweet and Free from Oily Matter, and has met the approval of many of the largest consumers. Red Cross Paint Oil Is full of merit and needs but a trial to convince all of its great value. For mixing with Linseed itis without a peer, as it greatly reduces the cost of same and without injuring its quality. Mineral Turps. Its peculiar composition is such that it can be used with turpentine in fair proportion, the lat- ter retaining full possession, and with perfect results. ALL KINDS Lubricating Oils Constantly in stock, all at our Cleveland prices, thus saving you time and freight. Grand Rapids Yank Line 6o., WORKS—D. & M. Junction. OFFICE ROOM—No. 4 Blodgett Block. Branch Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle, Cleveland, Ohio. Polishina This is the Time to Paint. The Best is Always the Cheapest. WE HAVE SOLD THE Pioneer Prepared Paint For many years and GUARANTEE Same to Give Satisfaction. Dealers in paints will find it to their ’ interest to write us for prices and sample cards. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO,,) GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “THE OLD ORIGINAL.” Neal's RE-PAINT for 75 cts. (arriage MADE ONLY BY ACME a a Pai nts DETROIT, MICH. Senramemsaentnttoamre AMOND ThA CURES Liver and Kidney Troubles Blood Diseases Constipation Female Complaints Being composed entirely of HERBS, it is the only perfectly harmless remedy on the market and is recommended by alk who use it. Retail Druggists will find it to their interest to keep the DIA- MOND TEA, asit fulfills all that is claimed, making it one of the very best selling articles handled. Place your order with our Wholesale Diamond Medicine Go., DETROIT, = MICE. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., WHOLESALE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH, THE MOST RELIABLE FOOD) For Infants and invalids. & . Used everywhere, with unqualified} | success. Not a medicine, but asteam-| cooked food, suited to the weakest} stomach. Take no other. Sold druggists. In cans, 35c. and upw: OOLRICH & Co. on every label. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of --DRUGS-~ Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries. Dealers in Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Sole Agents for the Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. We are Sole Proprietors of WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. We have in stock and offer a full line of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines, Rumse. Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co., Henderson*County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whiskyjand Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar- antee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re= ceive them. Send in a trial order. Hazelting & Perkins Drug 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ba The Michigan Tradesman RANDOM REFLECTIONS. Now is the time when the salesman feels that he is called upon to put his shoulder to the wheel of trade with all the ‘push’ that is in him. It is the “tug of war’? with rivals, with compe- tition, with prices, with everythimg. We are happy to say that he is ‘‘on deck,” as usual, with considerably more experience and energy, as well as better goods, than ever before. Much of the success of the season depends upon him, and from what we have observed we predict that he will sell more goods, and that those who buy them will feel no hard feelings toward him when the end of the season has been reached. * & & No one will dispute the statement that merchants, as a class, are a very hopeful people. No situation is so bad that they cannot extract some encouragement from it, and when the outlook is altogether favorable they give scope to their efforts with a strength of purpose which is in- spiring to behold. This is as it should be. Growls and gloom should be asso- ciated with trade as little as possible. Certainly, they need not be with the new season, for it promises to be one of satis- factory returns after cheerful and ener- getic efforts. Beginning with this hope of good results, the season is likely to show in all the important branches the happy realization of extended and prof- itable business. * * * It is hardly necessary to say so, but we may remark that the buyers who come to market should, in all cases, receive a fair and frank explanation of the state of the markets here and abroad. Thisis the best encouragement which can be given them to make purchases. Some- times there is an indifference about this matter because prices are firm, which may lead to the buyer going elsewhere and buying after he has become better satisfied. We have known of good sales slipping through the fingers of a house by just such an oversight. 2 or Buyers in the marker speak favorably of the prospects of trade in their own sections. The statements they make in regard to the enterprise which is going on in their cities and towns show that they have abundant cause for confidence in both the present and future, without regard to any of the smal] matters which may from week to week show unfavor- able features in finances or trade. They fully believe with the most intelligent trade writers and merchants _ that there is an active and profitable season of business before the entire country. xe x It appears that, notwithstanding the falling off in the national bank circula- tion during the last fiscal year, there were 156 banks established, with a cap- ital aggregating $15,970,000. 3ut twen- ty-nine new banks were incorporated east of the Ohio and north of the Potomac, with an aggregate capital of $2,525,000, while 127 banks, with a cap- ital of $13,445,000, were established west of the Ohio and south of the Potomac. The East has but seventy of the new in- stitutions, with a capital of $6,245,000, while the section west of the Mississippi incorporated during the year eighty-six banks, with an aggregate capital of $9,725,000. Texas heads the list of all the States in the number of new banks with seventeen of them, while Missouri stands at the head of capitalization with an aggregate of $2,950,000. Kansas in- corporated during the year twelve banks, with a capital of $835,000; Nebraska twelve, with a capital of $695,000, and Towa six, with a capital of $600,000. Washington Territory stands first among the new States, with nine banks anda capitalization of $860,000. These facts are full of significance in regard to the development that is going on in the newer sections of the country, which has already shown amost important influence in the course of all trade. This is only the growth of acommon country, but it is very evident that the portions spoken of are passing rapidly into a condition of great independence, in every material relation, which is likewise a certain in- dication of still faster and greater ad- vancement. ace Utilization of Running Streams. The utilization of running streams is the object of many recent devices, among which may be mentioned that of M. Tayn, a Russian engineer. His appara- tus consists of an endless cable, carrying aseries of canvass cones, which open and shut like an umbrella. The cable passes over adouble drum on board a pontoon, and at the other end over a pul- ley suspended from a buoy. On the lower part of the rope the cones are opened and forced forward by the cur- rent, thus setting in motion a shaft or drum. > _ 4 a Work of Electricity. There are now in use in the United States more than 5,650 central electric stations for light and power. ‘There are 210,000 are lights and 2,600,000 incan- descent lamps. There were fifty-nine electrical railways in operation in March last, and eighty-six roads in process of construction. The increase of capital in electrical investments during 1888 was nearly $70,000,000. These are very sig- nificant figures, and they point unmis- takably to the course of future inven- tions and discoveries. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, No. O Sai oo eee eae anaes 45 NO Ve a i eas 48 ING. Fi ee nae on ahs scge WO WNIAT cto ceo 5 te tee aces 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. No 0 Suh ee 1 90 Oe ae ear eceisles 2 00 ee et ee 3 00 First quality. No: OSun, crap top....:.....2.---- 2 -..2..: 215 Not = - a ee ee 2 25 Na? = " Me ce eae apie toe oem 3B XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top..-.......--.-. coeui ie: aus 2 58 No.3 * - Ps ecu ce Suis Web sista ap 2 80 Nes * ™ ee aac aieuce 3 80 Pear] top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 70 Ne. 2 * . a. ee 47 No. 2 Hinge, ‘‘ . eee eee ce ee 47 La Bastic. No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......... . 1 ao No. 2 “ “ec ae sé et 3 50 ING, 1 Crimp, per doz. -.-......----. ok 0 No.2 * oo ee 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, per wal:........ -....-..---« Jugs, % gal., “ 1 oe “ ae 80 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60 se “cc z “i “ ( ce 90¢) ie vie} FRUIT JaRs—Per gro. Mason's, pie. ce $10 50 Es Guaree 6s 11 00 ' Me PaO 2 28 14 00 Eipnining quarts. ..... 202.2... 12 00 es Se ORIG ee 16 00 S. G. Ketcham, Lime, Hair, Cement, Brick, Stucco, Sewer Pipe, Tile, Fire Brick and Fire Clay. FOR SEEDS, APPLES, PEACHES Write to C. AINSWORTH, Jobber, GRAND RAPIDS. 76 South Division St., “COLUMBIA” and Hot Water Boiler for dwellings. etc. HUM & SCHNEIDER, Grand Rapids. Steam warming Cherryman & Bowen, Undertakers and Kmbalmers, IMMEDIATE ATTENTION GIVEN TO CALLS DAY OR NIGHT. Telephone 1000. 5 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS. Lady assistant when desired. I, 2 +s s if 2 . ” eon 4 E ‘ | 3 5ize89-30 : z | 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) & C@., Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich. HYDRAULIC Oe | ELEVATORS 2 Water Motors and Specialties | Send for New Catalogue. Tuerk Hydraulic Power Co. =3 NEW YORK: CHICAGO: =4 12 Cortland St. 39 Dearborn St. $1,000 REWARD!: THE LARGEST AND BEST CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR SOLD FOR 5 CENTS. Gebeaguecuae We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars te any perso! proving the Filler of these Cigars to contain anythin, but Havana Tobacco. DILWORTH BROTHERS. Amos, Musselman & Co, SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. F.J. DETYENTHALER JOBBER OF Fresh and Salt Lake Fish—— =—=(eean Fish See quotations in another column. GRAND RAPIDS. WHY WEAR PANTS That do not fit or wear satisfac- torily, when you can buy the Detroit Brand, that are perfect in stvle and workmanship. JacOoB BROWN &COS + PeRrect Fir. - tented uel te | A . TS and ONT ara ASK FOR THEM! AWNINGS AND TENTS. Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc, Send for Illustraved Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone 106, 11 Pearl St. THE ALDINE FIRE PLACE = oo Before Buying Grates, get our circular, Sent Free. The Aldine produces Warm Floors, Perfect Ventilation: keeps fire over night, and is 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 > cost ofany other. AddressALDINE MFG. CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Brummeler JOBBER OF Tinware, Glassware and Notions. Rags, Rubbers and Metals bought at Market Prices, 76 SPRING ST., GRAND RAPIDS, WE CAN UNDERSELL ANY ONE ON TINWARE. 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. Wm. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am 7:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw.........- 9:30am 11:30am Traverse City Express.........-.+- 3:05 pm 4:20 pm 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 p m Chicago and Sturgis. .......-----++- 10:40pm 11:05pm 7:00 a mtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 6:00 p m train has Puliman 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. POO BT oo a cosas cope uecccesceuetiaseessccces 10:15am 29298 BM. 6c. .cccc cece ceo. oan p ae B40 DMM, nono c ccicecineewecces sess ---- 8:45pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. +Morning Express. .......2----+es- 12:20pm 12:25pm +Through Mail. ..... 22.2. ccesseece 4:25pm 4:30pm +Steamboat Express............+- 10:40pm 10:45 pm *Night Express........ ss.ssseeeee 6:50am 7:00 am POG se cc ese enime serena 7:30am GOING EAST. +Detrott. EXDPIOsS...........0-.-.<2 6:45am 6:50 am 4Througnh Mall... .- 5... i. ee 11:35 a m 11:40am fEvening EXpress............ssee 3:40 p m 3:50pm *Limited Express. ........2+2+++-0« 6:45pm 6:50 p m +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New 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 at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. 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 The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of Delivery Wagons ofall descriptions. Also manufacturers full line of Delivery and Road Sleighs. Write for illustrated catalogue and price list. Uranges | We are wholesale agents for the Fancy California Mountain Seedlings and headquarters for all kinds of Messina oranges. PUTNAM & BROOKS, Fac Simile of the Label of The Best Scouring and Cleaning Seap inthe World Costs as much to manufacture as Sapolio, yet sells at about half the price (82.75 per box of 72 cakes). Can be retailed for as much with equal or better value to the consumer, although it is generally sold at 5 cents a cake. Cut this out, and ask your Jobber to send youa box of Pride of the Kitchen. It is worth trying. WHO URGES YOu TO HhEEP SA POLIO‘? ae. SU BEC" 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 BEGLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. TRAV ENRICH BRUS. 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 Fowntain St,, Grand Rapids, Mich. Comforts and Blankets, Yarns and Woolens for Fall Trade. STARK, _», |Warps, Geese Feathers, AMERICAN, | § Waddings, Batts BURLAPS. I and Twines, Agents for Georgia and Valley City Bags. Prints, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear and full line of Staple Notions. LKMUNS| Our lemons are all bought at the cargo sales in New Orleans and are as free from frost or chill as in June. PUTNAM & BROOKS. Improved “Rival Fovntain Pen, Fitted with Diamond Pointed Gold Pen. Length, 7 Inches. We will send you sam- Price, $2.50, ple pen for $1.75. If pens = ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY, MONEY REFUNDED. Guaranteed to write 1 best, and to be the best and most perfect pen made. Write for circu- : -Langilin Pen Company, Antwerp, Ohio. It Stands at the HEAD! do not best, se lars. Rindge, Hertsch & Go. AGENTS FOR Pfister & Vogel’s Milwaukee Oil The most durable button shoe made. Strong, stylish and water proof. Made in women’s and misses’ sizes and put up in individual car- tons. Pfister & Vogel also make a line of men’s oil grain top and three-sole bals and congress. 12,14 & 16 Pearl St., GRAND RAPIDS. AGENTS FOR BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. Seventeen Years on the Market With a steady increase in demand. Jennings Flavoring Kxtracts Sour o ™ 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 Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich. SEE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER. FERN, THE OLD RELIABLE SH FRAZER'S LE GREA PUT OP EN WHAT | SHALL DO.AFTER. THIS | 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. Wecearry a large stock of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are at all times prepared to fill orders for N lit car lots or less at lowest prices. Putnam & Brooks. The Michigan Trust Company. 19—21 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Capital = - - - - - $200,000 Additional Liability of Stockholders - ~ $200,000 * LEWIS H. WITBEY, President. D. D. CODY, 2d Vice-President. WILLARD BARNHART, Vice-President. A. G. HODENPYL, Secretary. DIRECTORS: LEWIS H. WITHEY, DANIEL H. WATERS, S. B. JENKS, WILLARD BARNHART, JAMES M. BARNETT, JOHN W. CHAMPLIN THOMAS D. GILBERT, WM. SEARS, HENRY IDEMA, He DARWIN D. CODY, CHARLES FOX, JULIUS HOUSEMAN, T. STEWART WHITE, ALFRED D. RATHBONE, R. B. WOODCOCK, HARVEY J. HOLLISTER, N. L. AVERY, 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, 19-2: 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. Assignee, Receiver, Fiscal and Transfer Agent and Registrar of Stocks and Bonds. 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, and will undertake to negotiate 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, Paintings, Silver, Private Papers and valuables of any and all kinds. Our large steel vaults are protected by every known device.