The Michigan Trades
all.
VOL. 7.
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889.
NO. 316.
Yo 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.
Wm. 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.
HIRTH & KRAUSE,
DEALERS IN
Shoe |
| FRENCH TOILET, |
| SAFETY BARREL, |
{ GILT EDGE,
| RAVEN GLOSS, |
BIXBY’S ROYAL,
SPANISH GLOSS,
BROWN’S FRENCH. |
Dressings
Polish
Blacking.
New York (Joffee looms.
A bill of fare of over fifty different well pre-
pared dishes to select from, at only 5 cents each.
Ladies as wellas gentlemen have found that the
New York Coffee Rooms is the place to eat.
BIXBY Ss “Ss B,”
JACQUOT’S FRENCH,
BARTLETT'S ‘6 ”
GENUINE T. M.
Try our eatables once and you will always there-
after be a steady customer.
F. M BEACH, Prop,
61 Pearl Street.
Daniel G. Garnsey,
EXPERT ACCOUNTANT
Adjuster of Fire Losses.
Twenty Years Experience. References furnished
if desired.
24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Muskegon Paper Go,
Dealers in
FINE STATIONERY, WRAPPING
PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES,
WOODEN DISHES, ETC.
Mail Orders Filled.
44 Pine St., Muskegon, Mich,
Magic Goffee Roaster.
The Best in the World.
Promptly
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.
KDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
= Jeweler,
hh CANAL SY.
Grand Rapids, - Mich.
W arren’s
“Flixir of Lite
Cigar
Price, $55 delivered.
Send orders at once to
GEO. T. WARREN & CO., Flint, Wich.
186 EAST FULTON ST.
The heading Lavndry
IN GRAND RAPIDS.
Any one wishing agency in towns outside
will please write for terms.
OTTE BHOS., Prope.
Fing Millinery
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Bought Direct from Importers
and Manufacturers.
Adams & Co.,
90 Monroe St.,
Opposite Morton Bouse.
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.
Frank Cook,
{[Suecessor to D. D. COOK.}
MANUFACTURER OF
SHOW GASKS.
Lower than those of
Write for cata-
Prices
any competitor.
logue and prices.
106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich.
AND NORMAL SCHOOL.
(Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.)
A thoroughly equipped, rmanently estab-
lished and ameane eked comers The class
rooms have been especially designed in accord-
ance with the latest approved plans, The faculty
is composed of the most competent and practical
teachers. Students graduating from this Insti-
tution MUST be efficient and PRACTICAL. The
best of references furnished upon application.
Our Normal Department is in charge of experi-
enced teachers of established reputation. Satis-
factory boarding places secured for all who
apply to us. Do not go elsewhere without first
personally interviewing or writing us for full
particulars. Investigate and decide for your
selves. Students may enter at any time. Address
West Michigan Business University and Normal
School, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 South Division St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
J. U. LEAN,
Principal.
West Michigan BUSINESS UNIVERSITY
_A.E. YEREX,
Sec’y and Treas.
G. H. Behnke,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
OUOAL,,
WOOD,
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw, Ete,
30 East Bridge St., Corner Kent,
WEST SIDE YARD:
Winter St., one block south of Shawmut Ave.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
5. G. Ketcham,
Lime, Hair, Cement, Brick,
Stucco, Sewer Pipe, Tile,
Fire Brick and Fire Clay.
14 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Business Practice
at the Grand Rapids
De p a rt men t Business College. Ed-
ucates pupils to transact and record business as
itis done by our best business houses, It pays
to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewritin
also thoroughly taught. Send forcircular. Ad-
— A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens-
erg.
Fehsenfeld & Grammel,
(Suecessors to Steele & Gardner.)
Manufacturers of
BROOMS!
Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom
Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials.
10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids.
WM. M CLARK,
Manufacturer of
Gustom Made Shirts.
Fit and Quality Guaranteed.
Our cutting is done by Chas. R. Remington,
who was for nine years cutter for Gardiner &
Baxter, who will cordially welcome his many
friends in the trade.
Mich.
7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids,
Bartlett Pears
Are in good demand and we have
a large trade in them. Send us
what you have to ship to this
market. Write for quotations to
BARNETY BROS., Chicago.
MAN
coMPANY
Show Case
MAKERS.
Prices hower than Kver
QUALITY THE BEST.
W rite for Prices.
0
YOU
683—65 CANAL ST.
SR.
Over 5,000,000--five
million--of our Cigars
were made and sold
Jast year? Also that
it will increase a mill-
ion this year, for the
demand has been un-
precedented.
If you want the
TH AT best always ask your
dea'er for our
“BEN Fi”
1 op
“RECORD BREAKERS, ”
HEADQUARTERS:
CEO. MOEBS & CO.,
92 WOODWARD AVE., DETROIT.
ae
(Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.)
CONTRACTORS FOR
Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Plumbing & Heating Work.
Dealers in
Pipes, Etc., Mantels
and Grates.
Weatherly & Pulte,
GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH.
ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH.
Allen Durfee & Co.,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.
Pumps,
UTILITY OF THE BONUS
In Securing and Retaining Manufac-
turing Enterprises.
On September 2 THE TRADESMAN sent
out the following enquiries to a number
of representative business men in differ-
ent parts of the State:
1. What is your opinion of the bonus
as a means of securing manufacturing
enterprises ?
2. Do you think the bonus attracts the
best class of manufacturing enterprises ?
3. Is it your experience that concerns
bought in this manner stay bought, or
does it become necessary to make fur-
ther contributions in order to hold them ?
Responses to the above enquiries have
been received as follows:
GOVERNOR LUCE:
1. Localities can sometimes afford to
pay a bonus for the purpose of securing
manufacturing establishments, but, as a
whole, it can hardly prove to be a prof-
itable investment. The system is liable
to encourage investments where they
cannot prove to be profitable. Where a
favorable opening exists, local capital
and enterprise should step in and occupy
the field.
2. Observation convinces me that this
question cannot be answered by a ‘‘yes’’
or ‘‘no.’? Scme of the most valuable
establishments have been secured to
lcealities through the payment of a
bonus. But the plan has a tendency to
stimulate and encourage adventurers.
Good, sound judgment must be exercised
or a locality that has been generous with
its contributions may find itself with an
elephant on its hands that will require
constant feeding.
3. Answered in No. 2.
COL. GEO. G. BRIGGS, PRESIDENT GRAND
RAPIDS BOARD OF TRADE:
Without attempting to assign the
reasons which govern my conclusions, 1
make reply to yours of the 2d inst., as
follows:
1. Wrong in prineiple—unsatisfactory
in results.
2. No! Competent managers of man-
ufacturing enterprises, in determining
the question of location, would be gov-
erned by other and more ‘important con-
siderations.
3. No experience. Neither reliable or
desirable concerns can be thus bought.
Others not worth buying.
Possessing superior advantages as a
manufacturing center, we may augment
our growth in such direction by taking
personal interest in. and subscribing to
the capital of, such enterprises as prom-
ise satisfactory returns and are perma-
nent in character. Sucha policy upon
the part of our citizens will produce re-
sults more lasting and beneficial than
can be secured by any system of sub-
sidies.
JUDGE M. C. BURCH, GRAND RAPIDS:
lamin receipt of your circular com-
munication of September 2, asking me
for my opinion of the bonus as a means
of securing manufacturing enterprises.
I very much fear that my experience,
which is very slight, and my observation,
which is not much more extensive,
would be of little use to my forminga
judgment. My impression is that, un-
less tbe greatest amount of care and dis-
crimination is used in the bestowal of
bonuses, the enterprises secured do not
greatly add to the prosperity of the
places securing them. If you ask in re-
spect to small towns without competition
in railroad facilities and special natural
advantages, I should say, as a rule, I
don’t think concerns attracted in that
way are liable to be of much benefit. In
large towns, where there are such facil-
ities as competing railroad lines, healthy
general business, banking and other in-
stitutions such as to give enterprises a
fair show of success, and there is capital
waiting to be invested, I think, perhaps,
it might be well to attract business men
and business enterprises by contributions
of this nature.
It is plain that in these days manufac-
turing institutions which are successful
are of great benefit in improving a town,
but I think it is equally plain that such
as are not successful are an injury toa
town; and from these observations I
draw the conclusion that bonuses are de-
sirable or undesirable, as they depend
upon the opportunities for success and
upon discrimination with which aid is
bestowed.
CHAS. T. BRIDGMAN, FLINT:
1. I think the principle all wrong, but
asit has become the custom, and man-
ufacturers seeming to expect it, I should
consider it wise to grant a small bonus
for the purpose of securing manufac-
turing enterprises that are likely to
prove successful. For instance, enough
to furnish them with a suitable site, and
some other small concessions might not
be out of the way.
2. Not usually.
3. Have had no experience in that line,
but can see a great danger in paying a
large bonus to secure some manufactory
which may need more backing to make it
a success. And, in case of failure, the
town would be worse off than it would if
the enterprise had never been started.
HON. C. E. WEAVER, ADRIAN:
1. Have no faith in it.
2. Ido not.
3. Have mostly proved a failure here,
while most of our private manufacturers
have succeeded.
HON. T. J. RAMSDELL, MANISTEE :
If, in your first question, you mean a
bonus given by the public, that is,
through taxation, I should say such
means to secure manufacturing enter-
prises are utterly unjustifiable. I should
consider any attempt, by any legislative
body, to take the property of the indi-
vidual for the benefit of any corporation
in that manner, financial tyranny as well
as mnilitating against the organic law of
the State.
If the bonus spoken cf is to be ob-
tained through voluntary subscription,
then there could only arise the question
of expediency.
I donbt if any healthy business can
flourish that depends upon charity for
support. It is not economic in any sense
of the word, to invest money in any en-
terprise that will not be self-sustaining.
To the second question, I should say
that a bonus may, or may not, attract the
best class of manufacturing enterprises.
If aconcern that has made asuccess in its
business desires to change its locality to
obtain cheaper material, or better ship-
ping facilities, could take advantage of a
bonus, it would probably simply increase
the stockholders’ wealth, without stim-
ulating its industrial capacity. If it had
made a tat failure, it might be attracted
by the bonus, depending upon that for
its dividends, in which case the chances
are that the failure would be repeated.
It would be like giving a tramp supper,
lodging and breakfast, with an invitation
to call again, to wean him from va-
grancy.
To your third question, lam happy to
say I have had no experience in that
line and, as a taxpayer, am not ambitious
to try the experiment.
R. T. M NAUGHTON, JACKSON:
1. I think itis against public policy,
but it seems to be a necestary evil for a
tewn which would keep up its end.
2. The Almighty Dollar tempts all
classes if they can profitably and con-
scientiously receive it.
3. Ihave not had any lengthy experi-
ence.
WILBUR NELSON, ITHACA:
1. My experience has not been very
extensive on the subject of your enquiry;
I should say that the indiscriminate pay-
ment of a bonus to manufacturers that
has prevailed in this State is not profit-
able.
2. [ think. as arule, that the manu-
facturers that are seeking a bonus are
undesirable.
3. Il believe the concerns which have
been bought are more liable to go than
the ones that do not ask for a bonus.
CHAS. F. BOCK. BATTLE CREEK:
1. Asarule, I do not believe it advis-
able for cities, towns or individuals to
give a bonus to new manufacturing en-
terprises, without sufficient capital to
get agood start without aid. Old or
well established concerns seeking better
locations on account of shipping facili-
ties, it is usually well to secure.
2. The best class of manufacturing
enterprises are not attracted, nor do they
require, a bonus.
3. Coneerns which are attracted by a
bonus invariably need further aid. I
firmly believe in the old maxim ‘*Trade
that has to be purchased is not worth the
having.”’
HON. E. B. MARTIN, REED CATY:
I do not look upon it favorably for sev-
eral reasons: first, you do not, as a rule,
secure a reliable class of men at the head
of such manufacturing corporations;
second, you forever place yourself, ina
measure, under obligations to them: third,
give me aman or firm who relies upon
himself. As to my experience with such
concerns, it is quite limited, but my ob-
servation is that there is an unpleasant
feeling between the companies and the
people who bought them, which works
detrimental to both parties.
JCHN F. HENRY,
1. Quite effective.
2. No, I do not.
3. We have had little experience of the
kind, but that little would indicate that
further contributions are generally
necessary to hold enterprises founded on
a bonus.
Rw.
SAUGATUCK:
KANE, CHARLEVOIX:
1. I think the plan is a pernicious one,
but at present seems a necessary evil.
2. No.
3. Have no experience to relate, but
my observation, slight as it is, leads me
to think that such concerns like to make
money out of bonuses and want all they
can get.
A. L. SPENCER, BELDING:
In answer to the above, I speak from
local experience. With us it has been
the making of our town and the concerns
we have secured are first-class.
W. R. MANDIGO, SHERWOOD:
1. I do not like it.
. Ne:
3. I have no faith in buying friendship
in business or any other way. I believe
in letting every man or business stand on
his or its own merits.
E. J. LOCKWOOD, SOUTH HAVEN:
1. Only advisable where parties are
undecided as to location and then not as
an auction bid.
2. No.
3. No experience, but think no _ thor-
ough business enterprise will stay to its
detriment. In short, unless we have at
least equal facilities with other points
for material, power and shipping, we
can not get and hold them by bonuses.
wie
EX-JUDGE ISAAC MARSTON, DETROIT:
The questions you ask pertain to mat-
ters concerning which I have had no ex-
perience whatever, and I have no views
on the subject.
HON. N. A. FLETCHER, GRAND RAPIDS:
Ihave no knowledge on these ques-
tions which would warrant me in expres-
sing opinions on them.
CHAUNCEY STRONG, KALAMAZOO:
1. I think that the bonus, used with
discretion, is a means which can be
profitably employed to secure manufac-
turing enterprises.
2. The bonus will attract enterprises
of any and every class, and sound judg-
ment must direct as to the individual
eases which shall be selected for assist-
ance.
3. I think that the experience of Kala-
mazoo has been that it has never been
necessary to extend further help to any
concern which has been secured by con-
tribution, and the investment made in
such enterprises has been in every case
'a paying one, and we have lost none
which have been secured in this way.
E. A. OWEN, PLAINWELL :
1. In my opinion, the principle of
granting bonuses for the purpose of se-
curing manufacturing or other business
enterprises is radically wrong. It is an
attempt, on the part of the supplicant,
to get something for nothing, by posing
under the guise of a publie benefactor,
and, although in harmony with the ten-
dency of the times, is immoral and de-
ceptive. It is pernicious in its effect—
destroying self-reliance and promoting
an ever-increasing appetite for a nibble
at the publie crib. I believe that every
vigorous, able-bodied citizen of the com-
monwealth, acting individually or col-
lectively in any business capacity, should
be made to stand or fall on his own
foundation of self-reliance. This foun-
dation rock of self reliance will become
weakened and true manhood debauched
just in proportion as he be allowed to
appropriate the sustenance of others to
his own use. Feed an able-bodied tramp
onee, and you will havea lively run of
business ever after. Establish a prece-
dent of granting bonuses in your town.
and it will not be very long before your
cobbler will demand a bonus before he
condescends to put a patch on your
shoe. The principle vicious and
should never be indulged in.
2. I do not believe that the granting of
a bonus attracts the best class of man-
ufacturing enterprises. The men who
stand at the head of our great manufac-
turing industries in your own city and
elsewhere throughout the State are
brainy fellews, full of pluck, push and
energy. who, by dint of hard work and
perseverance, have overcome all obsta-
eles and reared their tall smoke-stacks
upon the only sure and safe foundation—
the rock of self-reliance. 1 do not think
that men of this caliber would be at-
tracted to any great extent by any gew-
gaw of a bonus held up by this village or
that town as a mother would hold upa
tin rattle to attract the attention of her
babe. This class of men, when looking
up new locations for business, drive their
stakes where the greatest natural advan-
tages are to be derived, such as motive
power, shipping facilities, cheapness and
quantity of the different kinds of ma-
terial needed, etc., and the little matter
of bonus has really nothing whatever to
do with it, although, I suppose, if a
bonus was tendered by the verdant tax-
payers, it would not be refused. This
class of manufacturers cannot be caught
by blowing on a tin whistle. If your
town is possessed of valuable natural ad-
vantages. advertise them, and you will
have no difficulty in securing the right
kind of men; but if your town is desti-
tute of these things, don’t try to cateha
sucker by offering a bonus. Simply give
up the idea of manufacturing and turn
your attention to something else.
3. No, Ido not believe that the class
of manufacturing concerns that are
bought with bonuses will stay bought.
lt would not be fair, neither would it be
true, to assert that all concerns are bought
who have secured bonuses. Duplicity is
a very common ingredient in human
nature, and, no doubt, there are many
permanent and prospering enterprises
the projectors of which saw their chance
and took advantage of it by representing
to the over-confiding people that a bonus
was absolutely necessary to insure suc-
cess. As before stated, I am satisfied
that the offer of a bonus has little or
nothing to do in securing the better class
of manufacturers. This forces me to
the conclusion that all projected man-
ufacturing undertakings that are made
to hinge on the granting of a bonus are
frauds and, if taken in by any com-
munity, will have to be nurtured and
eared for during the whole of their un-
profitable career. The projectors of
these visionary concerns go about with
an eye single to the amount of bonus
that can be raised. They will not hes-
itate to guarantee to manufacture maple
sugar out of pine stumps, if the bonus
be made sufficiently large. The perma-
nent manufacturing enterprises in Plain-
well never asked for, or received, a
penny by way of bonus or aid and we
feel justly proud of them. No, I do not
think that any institution bought witha
bonus will stay bought very long.
The granting of a bonus is a violation
of true business principles and nothing
but positive evil can result from it.
There is no possible excuse, in my opin-
ion, for the granting of a bonus. To
argue that the concern will benefit the
town and, therefore, the town ought to
be willing to pay for it, is an insult to
every intelligent man. _<
Bank Notes.
H. R. Anderson has resigned his po-
sition as book-keeper for the Muskegon
National Bank to accept that of paying
teller for the new City Savings Bank of
Detroit.
E. K. Roberts has resigned the pres-
idency of the Citizens’ Savings Bank of
Detroit, and Christian Mack, president
of the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, has
been elected to fill the vacancy.
The Muskegon Savings Bank has been
doing business less than two years, but
its deposits already amount to $369,895.17,
of which amount $212,481.25 are the
savings deposits of 2,572 different per-
sons.
The failure of H. G. Packard & Co., at
Reed City, is a particularly unfortunate
one. The total assets are $57,290.80;
which ineludes the bank building, good
paper, $2,089,64 in cash, and $21,313
poor paper, $15,200 of which was con-
sidered wholly worthless. The liabili-
ties are $42,313.22. It is thought that
the assets will pay the creditors 50 per
cent., although the dividend may not
exceed 25 per cent. The bank building
and fixtures have been purchased by J.
M. Reed, who will continue the business
in company with his son-in-law.
The new City Savings Bank of Detroit
will open its doors for business on Oct.
21, having entrances at 147 Griswold
street and 461 Gratiotavenue. The Bank
will have a capital of $250,000, being
officered as follows: President, W. H.
Brace: Vice-President, Geo. R. Angell;
Second Vice-President, W. G. Vinton;
Cashier, Fred B. Harper; Directors, W.
H. Brace, George R. Angell, Thomas
MeGraw, Anthony Grosfield, James A.
Remick, George S. Davis, F. C. Pingree,
H. H. Humphrey, Ward L. Andrus, John
S. Gray, Bruce Goodfellow, W. G. Vin-
ton, George Dingwall, F. A. Noah, Henry
Andries.
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Gripsack Brigade.
Daniel N. Crouse succeeds Frank M.
Carrol as traveling representative for
S. K. Bolles & Co.
Will Spencer, of Detroit, is working
the trade of this territory for P. Lorillard
& Co., under the direction of Commodore
Welch.
Scott Swigart, who has been at Detroit
for the past seven weeks, returned home
Saturday and left for the Upper Penin-
sula to-day.
J. B. Josselyn, who has been confined
to his house for a couple of weeks by an
attack of sciatica, started out on the
warpath again on Monday.
Murray Sayles. traveling representative
for Allan Sheldon & Co., of Detroit, was
one of the few who registered a correct
guess on the weight of the big cake of
soap at the Detrait exposition.
Thos. Graham, of Belfast, Ireland, is
seeking a connection as a tea salesman
with some Grand Rapids house. He
occupied a similar position with a Lon-
don house for about a dozen years, coy-
ering the principal cities of North Ire-
land.
The Knights of the Grip secured the
following additions to their hotel list
during the past week: The New Har-
rington, St. Louis; Central House,
Corunna; Merrill House, Owosso; Whip-
ple House, South Lyons; Fenton House,
Fenton; Lawrence House, Plainwell;
Hudson House, Lansing: Dow House,
Sand Beach.
A Mecosta county merchant writes THE
TRADESMAN as follows: ‘‘I want to say
to you that the traveling man is a hust-
ler. Two of them followed me to a fun-|
eral yesterday and both succeeded in
selling me a small bill of goods, while
the corpse was being transferred from the
church to the hearse. I would like to
| From the Toledo Business World.
say that these two Detroiters, that I am
willing to swap average lies with them,
but if this thing occurs again, they will
sell me no more socks or laces.’’
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Owen
proved to be a very pleasant event, and
was participated in by nearly a hundred
friends and neighbors of the estimable
couple. Among the gifts received were
the following: Large decorated silver
stand and library lamp, from friends in,
neighborhood; elegant silver tea service, |
set of seven pieces, from the traveling
men; another elegant silver tea set, |
seven pieces, from J. Leo Kymer; ele-|
gant silver stand mirror, set fruit knives
and nut pick, from Boston; elegant sil- |
ver and gold fruit tray, from Detroit; '
silver cream spoon and case; silver and |
gold berry spoon; silver syrup pitcher, |
from Muskegon; silver butter knife and |
sugar spoon, in case; silver cold meat
fork, in case; silver and marble sugar
and pepper and salt set; china salad
dish; silver and glass fruit dish; silver.
olive dish and tongs; silver set salad
forks, in case; diamond ear rings; pearl
and torquoise finger ring.
———_—»> >
I. J. Quick, the Allendale general
dealer, spent last week in the city, ac-
companied by his family.
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‘ which has placed it far in advance of a
Art in Hardware. |
From the Iron Age.
It is generally recognized by those who|
have had the opportunity to compare our
work with what is being done in Eurepel
that we are not abreast of some European |
rivals in the grace and beauty of many |
metal articles which enter into furnish- |
ing our houses and decorating our build-
ings. Overlooking some painful eccen- |
tricities, it is evident to any observant)
person that since the Philadelphia exhi- |
bition, which furnished the first impulse, |
the taste of a good many people has risen |
to a high standard. Those who cater to)
it skillfully, whether they be manufac- |
turers or dealers, will reap the reward
for which all business men strive. We!
believe that we have passed the period |
when some clever mechanical device,
some neat knack of promoting comfort, |
was the best and only selling point. We}
do not desire to convey the impression |
that such features have lost or are likely
to lose their attractiveness to the average
American buyer. But we do firmly be-
lieve that, other things being equal, that’
article which possesses artistic merit will
be given the preference, even at a higher
cost. Beyond certain narrow limits man-
ufacturers cannot afford and will not
undertake to assume the part of educators |
of the public. It would be an unwise
business policy to aim too high. But it |
is certain that those who are nearest to}
the buyer—the retail dealers—must make
some efforts to promote a movement
which is in harmony with the evident
tendency of the times, if they want to|
participate in the profits which always
come to those who furnish the public
with what they want.
For the present, perhaps. the greatest
chance of success lies in giving attrac-
tive form to the higher class of goods,
but the day is probably not far off when
even the cheapest grades must be made
to cater to more than bold, ugly utility.
In sterling and plated ware, jewelry,
lamps, glassware and china there has
been quite a revolution during the past
ten or fifteen years. Any one who will
spend a few hours in the shops of any
town of moderate size will be quickly
convineed of it. The same movement is
beginning in other lines closer to the
hardware and metal trades, and, what is
more significant, it is reaching a far
greater fraction of our population.
—_——————> +.
Purely Personal.
C. H. Bayley is laid up with an attack
of neuralgia.
John Weimeister. the Howell banker,
who failed a couple of weeks ago, died
one day last week.
Frank D. Green, formerly city sales-
man for Jennings & Smith, but now con-
nected with a hotel at Galesburg, was in
town over Sunday.
J. T. Perham, the Kent City druggist
and grocer, was in town one day last
week on his way to New England. where
he will spend a couple of weeks. He is
accompanied by his wife.
Carl L. Maurer, of the firm of M. V.
Gundrum & Co., general dealers at Le-
roy, was in town one day last week on
his way home from Evansville, Ind.,
whither he had been to visit the senior
partner of the firm.
Walter A. Smith brought home a val-
uable heirloom in the shape of a violin
and case over 175 years old. They have
been in the possession of his family over
100 years, having been the property of
his grandfather and father, successively.
Both violin and case are in a good state
of preservation, despite their great age.
ee
Building and Loan Association Notes.
The Manistee association netted 1434
per cent. the first year of its existence.
The Frankfort association, which sus-
pended about eighteen months ago, has
been revived by the members, as the near
approach of arailway connection with
the outside world has caused the town to
take on a brighter aspect.
The Minneapolis associations, which
have done very aggressive work in this
State during the past six months, are
rapidly losing ground, as those who
joined the organizations are finding that
the percentage of expenses is so great
that it will be impossible for the associa-
tions to fulfill their promises.
“Par in Advance.”’
With its issue of September 18, THE
MicHIGAN TRADESMAN entered upon the
seventh year of its journalistic existence.
THE TRADESMAN is a model paper of its
kind, and while it has attained a success
majority of publications of its class, it is
a success richly merited because fairly
won. Now and then some offended jobber
arises with the avowed purpose of pre-
paring it for a place in the obituary de-
partment of newspaper history, but he
soon relinquishes the task as one which
makes too serious an inroad on his regu-
lar occupation, and it is abandoned.
Here’s hoping that the coming year may
be as prosperous as its predecessors, Bro.
Stowe.
“LION ”
IS CARRIED IN STOCK BY THE
Coffee
Telfer Spice Co.,
JOBBERS OF
Yeas, Coffees, Spices, Molasses and Vinegar,
1 and 3 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.
“LION”
IS CARRIED IN STOCK BY
Coffee
L. Winternitz,
JOBBER OF
Pickles, Vinegar, Mustard, Yeast & Saverkravt,
106 Kent
Street, Grand Rapids.
ESTABLISHED 1870.
CHAS. SCHMIDT & BROS.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in Foreign and
American
. Granite and Marble
MonUments ae Statuary
Having erected a New Granite Factory
with the Latest Improved Machinery, we
can Guarantee all Work First Class and
Fill Orders Promptly.
WORKSHOP AND POLISHING MILLS:
Cor. West Fulton and Straight Streets.
OFFICE AND SALESROOM:
93 Canal Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, = MICH.
WHOLESALE
Carpets,
Oil Cloths,
Rugs,
China Mattings
Draperies,
and
Parlor Screens
Smith & Sanford,
Ottawa and Pearl Sts., Ledyard Block.
Ma
LAL
IEE
TE
nel
ik
The Best 3-Cent Cigar
on the Market.
MANUFACTURED BY
J, K. DELBRIDGE,
341 So. Division St., Grand Rapids.
FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
Rees
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
I
Fo SALE—A GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS HAVING
the cream of the trade; best location in the city;
stock clean and well assorted; thisis a rare chance for
any one to get a good paying business; poor health
the only reason. Address S. Stern, Kalamazoo, —-
OR SALE—STOCK OF HARDWARE—WITH OR
without store building; arfexcellent chance fora
wide-awake party; good reasons given for selling.
Address at once Box 99. Fowler, Mich. 5168
rs SALE—GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF GENERAL
merchandise, consisting of dry goods, clothing,
boots and shoes and groceries; invoice about $10,000;
situated in the heart of the Michigan peach belt; best
location im town; store for rent; best of reasons for
selling. A B. Taylor, Saugatuck, Mich. 513
Vy SALE —GOOD PAYING BOOT AND SHOE
store in Harbor Springs. Address Box 118, Harbor
Springs, Mich. 512
Fo SALE—DRUG STORE AND STOCK SITUATED IN
a lumbering town; good farming country around,
a very desirable place for a good physician. Address
Box 442, Alpena, Mich. 509
Ke SALE—GROCERY STOCK IN GOOD LOCATION
Will inventory $700 to $800 and doing a business
of about $13,000. Address No. 502, care Tradeqman.
OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES, S1TU-
ated in No. 1 location in West Bay City. Address
Lock Box 92, West Bay City, Mich. 510
RS CHANCE—DRUG STOCK FOR SALE; WELL
_ located. thoroughly established and doing a good
paying business; stock new and well-selected; terms
easy; willlease Or sell fixtures; a fine opening for a
physician. Address Lock Box 142, Hastings, Mich.
506
OR SALE—A GOOD PAYING BUSINESS—GOOD
reason for selling out. Inquire of F. J. Detten-
thaler, 117 Monroe Sc.
OR SALE OR TRADE—GENERAL STOCK IN GOOD
location. Address No. 507, care Michigan Trades-
man. 507
\
ence.
SITUATIONS WANTED.
7 ANTED—POSIfION IN DRUG STORE TO FINISH
—s pharmacist t ade; one year’s experi-
ill, Howard City, Mich. 519
MISCELLANEOUS.
¥ ANTED—TO EXCHANGE KANSAS LANDS AND
real estate for a stock of groceries and general
merchandise. Address No. 517,care Michigan Trades
man. 517
\ TANTED—WIDE-AWAKE MERCHANTS TO COR-
respond with the “Gobleville Sign Works;” high-
way signs a specialty, Address Gobleville Sign Works,
Gobleville, Mich. 515
$500 —THE COMPLETE MACHINERY OF A
oO first class custom grist mill; two run of
stones, one feed, the other for feed; all in good order;
ready to deliver on cars. Address Geo. M. Sayles,
Attorney-at-Law, Flint, Mich. 514
V ANTED—A LOCATION FOR THE HARDWARE OR
furniture business. Would buy out asmall stock
ortake a partner in good location. Address, 8. A.
Howey, North Muskegon, Mich. 493
eS 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
WS MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 4
OR SALE- GOOD PAYING BUSINESS—BAKERY
and confectionery; first-class location; reason for
selling, ill health of owner. Address No. 511, care
Michigan Tradesman. 511
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
T PAYS TO SELL “OXYTOCCIA”—SEND FOR CIR-
culars, terms. Address, Geo. L. Hager & Co.,
South Bend, Ind. 494
Our Fall Stock
Is now Complete and Ready for Inspection.
FAA. Wurzburg & Go,
(Successors to F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co.)
Exclusive Jobbers of
DRY GOODS, HOSIERY,
NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR,
19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.
“Born, what are the styles in hats
this season ? ”’
We are asked this question every day, and this is our invariable
reply: ‘‘Many.
small, medium or large.
proper
very few worn.
lishment in Grand Rapids that gives you the value we do.
the way from one dollar and a half to five dollars.
in showing you our entire line, whether you wish to buy or not.
are recognized
THE
We can give you any style that is becoming to you,
So far as Color is concerned, Black is the
thing. There is nothing new in colored hats, and consequently
In qualities, allow us to say that there is no estab-
Prices all
We take pleasure
We
HAT: HOUSE
Of Grand Rapids and our elegant stock this season fully endorses that
reputation. You will appreciate the fact that it pays to buy from
BORK
The Hatter,
54 MONROE ST.
ASSOGIATION DEPARTMENT.
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
President—C. L. Whitney, Muskegon.
First Vice- President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint.
Second Vice- “President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—H. W. Parker, :
Executive Board—President; Frank Wells, Lansing;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell
Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Conklin, Grand
Rapids, Secretary
Committee on Insurance—oO. F.
Owosso.
Conklin, Grand Rap
ids: Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso.
Committee on Legislation—Frank W ells, Lansing;
P y Me Clio.
nk Hamilton, Trav
Ww.
7: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. Sprague,
T. Bridgeman, Flint;
Wheeler,
Transports ary
lle A.
Kingsley B. M. A.
Secretary
50 MAL
No. Boy ne © ity Bb.
Presid ident, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M, _ Chas 58. 1
No.
President, 4. ¥.0 .
Ne. 7 ae Bb. ¥
Anderson; Secretary,
—.
President, Geo. H. ary, J. iy! A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M, A.
Presi ident, WwW arren e. Woodard; Secretary. 8. Lamfrom.
No. 19—: Ada B. M.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. Chapel.
Oe
No. 20—saugatuck b. a A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, A Phelps. A
No. 21—Wayland B. M. A.
President, C . a. We harton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. cA
President, A. B. Schumacher; 3; Secretary, W- R. Clarke.
No 23—Carson City B. M.A.
President, John W. Hallett: Secretary, ‘s A. Lyon.
No. 24—Morley B. M.
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. = Richmond.
No. 25—Paio B. M. A,
President, = D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.
. 26—Greenville 8. M. A.
President. ze "C. Satterlee: Secretary. | E. J. Clark.
27—Dorr Bb. M. AL
President, E. 8. . Secretary, L
Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
lcm lta tnt et
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling.
TW Ne! Sa Ohaxlotte is, Mi) AL
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersvilie B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M. A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams.
ct No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore.
No. 38—Scottville B. M. A.
President, = E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, ay s. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont B. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary C.J. Rathbun.
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
iho demas a
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. me
No. 45—Hoytville B. M.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. rs Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.
President, t, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Goud.
No. 47—Flint M. we
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
Yo. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy B M. A.
President, = Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.
President, A. 0. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. “=
No, 53—Bellevue B. M.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. meet
No. 54— Douglas B. M. A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A.
President, L. 8. Walter; Secretar3,C.¢ Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt.
. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
President, = E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. a
o. 62—East saginaw M.
President, — H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Gidinatenia,
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
t, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
e, 64—Merrill B, M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet Bb. M. A.
President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A
President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, Wm. Boston; Secretary, Walter Webster.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
No. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
Trewin: 8. 8. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
o. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
eeu E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
a 79—Kast Jordan and so. Arm B. M.A,
t, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.
No. ae City and W. Bay City R. M, A.
F. L. Harrison; Thetis Lee E. Joslyn.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. = Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
. $2—Alma B M. A.
President, B. = webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky.
No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.
No. 84—Standish B. M.A.
President, P. M. ae Secretary, D. W. Richardson.
o. 85—Clio B. M.A.
President, J. M. ie ee Secretary, C. H. May.
No. Se Miihrook and Blanchard B. M. A.
President. xe . Preston; Secretary, H. P. Blanchard.
. 87—ShepherdgjB. M. A.
President, x D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst.
Pp
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Association Notes.
Big Rapids Bulletin: The Muskegon News
says ‘‘The Executive Committee of the Michigan
‘| Business Men’s Association has appointed Presi-
dent C. L. Whitney, of that city, special envoy
and minister plenipotentiary to the local associ-
ations of the State. Mr. Whitney’s principal
mission will be to — their drooping tails and
breathe a little o enthusiasm into
them, to the end — they may wax strong and
come out of their summer lethargy.’ If there is
than another w = can do the work
1. Whitney. He
1d successful
the elixir of
one man more
thoroughly, that one man is C.
is and always has been a au at al
» undertakes. When he gets the
SHE SWEETLY SMILED.
A Peculiar Episode in the Life of a
Traveling Man.
Thomas J. Vivian in the Argonaut.
The Saturday afternoon train at Point
Tiburon was crowded as usual, and peo-
ple were streaming through the cars in the
hurried search for vacant seats. Little
Mr. Tom N. Oddy, who was just set-
ting out on his two days’ vacation, knew
there would be this rush and so was
among the first to seamper off the boat,
clamber into the nearest coach, and pre-
empt the best middle seat on the shady
side of the car. Then, after the miser-
a 1e shonld ec e tr
ate ae “ | = eeu 8 able fashion of his kind, he proceeded to
act anton tie deal cover the entire seat with himself, his
ee overcoat, his cane and his valise.
Appointments’ for the State | This exercise of selfishness accom-
Lectt > | plished, he drew an evening paper from
|his pocket and pretended to be absorbed
- tin the base ball reports. As he read,
however, he could not help being con-
in | scious of a persistent shadow that fell
he!upon the sheet. Otler shadows went
iforward and backward like jostling sil-
| houettes, bat this one stayed. Glancing
lout of the corner of his rig So eye, tie
‘| saw a eee black-gloved hand resting
, {upon the top of the seat, just w where his
overcoat lay, and then, curiosity leading
S| him further afield, he glanced still more,
“ar pl ease
secure Mr.
uld do
associations
Those
Whitney's presence duri November wo
well to communicate with the Secretary without
delay.
=_> ¢ <->
Interesting Meeting of the: Sawdust
City Association.
From the Muskegon News, Oct. 11.
The Muskegon Business Men’s Association
held a lively and interesting session last even-
ing. Secretary Whitney introduced the ques-
tions regarding the granting of bonuses to man-
ufacturing enterprises, propounded by THE
TRADESMAN, Which was discussed at some
length.
The feculine factory matter was also intro-
duced, the inference from the discussion that
ensued being that Muskegon had better look out
or she will lose the factory.
President Miller introduced the question of
what shali be done to make the sessions of the
Association more interesting, and advocated the
discussion of special subjects.
W. J. McKenzie thought the suggestion a good
one and advised that the subject of water sup-
ply be brought up at the next meeting. The
Committee on City Improvements was requested
to make a report on that subject.
It was determined to appoint a special com-
mittee of three to consult with the Manistee
people who are interested in the construction of
a railroad from that place to Grand Rapids, and
see if the road could be diverted to Muskegon
and thence to Grand Rapids. Mr. Kelley stated
the advantages of such aroad. It would oper
up a new and valuable territory, covered with
hardwood timber. The chairman ap — as
such committee: Messrs. M. C. Kelly, F. H. Hol-
brook and Louis Kanitz.
The meeting then adjourned.
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Good Words Unsolicited.
Duncan McKellar, grocer, Saginaw:: ‘‘En-
closed find #1, for renewal of subscription to
your valuable paper. Ido not believe I could
keep store without it. I take several grocery
papers, but THE TRADESMAN, without any excep-
tion, suits me the best of all. Your articles on
the P. of IL. have been very interesting and I
would not miss any of them for twice the price
of a year’s subscription. If every merchant took
it, the trade would certainly be benefited all
around.”
i a
P. of I. Gossip.
Greenville Democrat: ‘‘The Stanton
Herald complains because the country
press does not give the P. of IL. swindle
an airing. Bro. Powell, it’s no good.
Too many suckers around waiting to be
gobbled up, no matter what the papers
Ssay.”’
Mecosta Courier: ‘‘It absurd fora
man to attempt to handle fruit, butter,
eggs, potatoes, meat and other perishable
articles on 10 per cent. profit, when
many times 30 per cent. of the goods
perish on their hands. We are the farm-
er’s friend and wish to work for his in-
terest; but we say to you, with all can-
dor, you will do better to go on the prin-
ciple of competition, and thus find the
lowest possible living prices.’’
ti ee
The P. of I. Dealers.
The following are the P. of I. dealers
who had not cancelled their contracts at
last accounts:
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—C. A. Verity, A. V. Young,
E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Ses-
sions.
Cedar Springs—John Beucus,
Fish, L. A. Gardiner.
Charlotte—John J. Richardson,
& Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
East Saginaw—John P. Derby.
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Gardner—J. B. Brice.
Grand Rapids—John
Beries, A. Wilzinski.
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Hubbardston—M. Cahalen.
Kent City—R. McKinnon, M. L. Whit-
ney.
Maple Rapids—L. 8S. Aldrich.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M.
Lee.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand Lake—C. O. Cain, Brayman &
Blanchard,
Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.
Sparta—Dole & Haynes, Woodin & Van
Winkle.
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson,
H. C. Breckenridge.
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What Worried the Client.
Spectator (to defendant)—Well, I guess
the jury will find for you. The judge’s
charge was certainly very much in your
favor. Don’t you think so?
Defendent (moodily)—Oh, I knew all
along that the judge’s charge would be
all right. It is the lawyer’s charge that’s
worryin’ me.
is
5. A.
Daron
Cordes, Joseph
FADED/LIGHT TEXT
been his undeserved good
i low,
jand found that the hand belonged to one
most charming women it had ever
fortune to
rather pale, almost
but lit up by a pair of great
were as luminous as a
child’s and gentle as a doe’ The
was short, straight, but rather too
stout; the mouth was full and red, with
a provoking little droop to the lower ilp,
and the chin was round and slightly
double. The eyebrows were heavy and
the hair was black, with,a coppery tint
at the edges. The was
of the
see.
Her sal-
indeed,
black
face was
eyes that
as S
nose
dress
bosom, and was so draped as to show,
with some degree of accuracy, a lithe
but well rounded figure.
It may be repeated that little Mr. Tom
N. Oddy felt that he had never before
seen so bewitching a creature,
black, re- |
lieved by three great damask roses at the |
and when |
she looked at him in a pleading, timorous |
way and asked inalow voice if ‘this
seat was engaged,’’? he swept his things
out of the way with a single movement
and declared himself delighted to be
able to say that it was not. She thanked
him with a little, faltering smile and sat
down.
She was unprovided with current lit-
erature, and so little Mr. Tom N. Oddy,
as the first advance toward making him-
self agreeable, offered her part of his
paper. At this she stiffened somewhat,
then prettily declined the offer, saying
that it hurt her eyes to read on the train.
As she said so she turned those beautiful
orbs of hers upon the young man, and,
just to show that he knew what was
proper under the circumstances, he re-
plied that no book or paper that had yet
been written was worth spoiling those
eyes over. She threw up the lids a little
more at this, then smiled again and
lifted her shoulders in something very
near a shrug.
Little Mr. Tom N. Oddy observed
this—he was a very observing young
man—and hazarded the remark that she
was a foreigner.
*No,’’ she replied, ‘‘I was born in Cal-
ifornia.”’
*-Ah, indeed !”’ said he, with fine spirit,
‘‘so was I—so that we are a native son
and daughter of the golden west, and,
therefore, related.”’
‘“That’s quite ingenious,’’ she re-
marked; ‘‘are you a lawyer 2”’
‘“‘No,’’ he answered, getting rather red
in the face. ‘‘I’m connected with Messrs.
Sock, Tie & Co.”’
‘‘T have a—a friend who deals there,”’
said she sweetly; ‘‘are you one of the
partners ?”’
‘‘No,’? he replied, feeling very warm
about the ears: ‘‘I have charge of the
suspender department.’’
“Oh, that must be very nice,’’ said
she; ‘‘such a pleasant, clean business,
ISH GA ce)”
‘““Yes,’’ he replied, but without any
very great enthusiasm, for this was a
subject on which he did not particularly
eare to converse. He did not mind it
when he was with the ‘‘fellows’’? who
earned their living in the same ‘‘state of
life,’’? but at present, when he was deeply
possessed of the necessity of making an
impression on this beautiful creature, he
felt that the topic was one that ought to
be changed as speedily as possible. So,
grasping his cane in such a way as to
bring a flashing ring within the range of
those lovely eyes, he asked their owner
if she was going far.
‘Po Santa Hosa,”
you 2”
“Oh, ’m going on back of Cloverdale
for a little roughing it,’? he said, with
delightful airiness, although he forgot to
add that the scene of the roughing was
his mother’s ranch.
“Does it hurt you—to rough it ?’’ she
asked, with such gentle interest that he
thought he had never met with anything
quite so tender end unsophisticated.
‘“‘Bless you, no,’’ he cried; ‘‘why, it’s
the pleasantest kind of a life. Fresh
air, fresh milk, and an occasional bear—’’
‘Bears!’ she cried. ‘‘But surely
those nasty, hugging things must be dan-
gerous ?’’
‘““Of course they are,’’ said he, val-
iantly, ‘‘but 1 go well prepared. I have
a revolver in my valise, and this cane is
a sword cane.’
“Ts it, really, now 2’? she asked, with
ready interest. ‘‘How does it work?
But perhaps it is not right to display it
here.’’
*‘T don’t know but what you’re right,”’
assented little Mr. Tom N. Oddy, ‘‘es-
pecially as that fellow across the way
has done nothing but stare at us ever
since the train started. I must say he’s
exceedingly impertinent to go looking at
people he don’t know.”’
“Ah, but that’s not all,’’ said she,
‘‘would you believe it, that man has fol-
lowed me ever since I left my house, got
on the same boat, and now heis on the
same train. Oh, if Ilonly— But there,
don’t let’s notice him. Tell me about
your bear hunts, and how you would use
your knife if you saw a bear going to
hug me.”’
Little Mr. Tom N. Oddy was trying
hard to remember the most exciting bear
adventure he had ever read of, when the
engine gave a shrill toot.
“Oh, my!’ cried she, laying her hands
on Mr. Tom N. Oddy’s arm. ‘I do be-
lieve we are going through a tunnel.’’
she said; ‘‘and
There was no doubt about it, and with
another toot the engine plunged into the
long, black hole. A wild, wicked hope
leaped up in little Mr. Tom N. Oddy’s
little mind, but it only lived a moment,
for there, directly over the next seat, was
hung a lighted lamp. It only burned
dimly, and the light it gave out in the
blackness of the tunnel was very
aincindesonactratndanatliiiaemi times iientielsicalail
faint,’
but it was quite enough to stop little Mr. |
Tom N. Oddy from doing the desperate
thing he had contemplated. He
see the pale outline of her face and two
lust: which showed where her
eyes were gleaming; but so, too,
see the ova! of that fellow’s face
the way, and was very sure that
upper half of that oval, just where
eut by thedark line of the hat brim,
were two other which were
persistently in his direction. There was
trying to talk against the roar
the tunnel, bu t when they were clear of
if and in the light once more, li Mr.
Tom N. Oddy gave vent his feelings
by
Ous spots,
across
in
there
eyes
no use of
tle
to
Say
id that lamp!’
smoke ed
Does
solicitudae
2° she ask
in both her 1
ar id tk ne.
“No,
lit, the car would
and then”’
what?’’
one
he replied,
7 he said: **but if it had not been
Nave
"2. Ben.
coy ell,
dark,”
evas
“Dow t
in the light?’’
ing arehness.
*‘Sometimes,”’
There was a short sile nee, during which
little Mr. Tom N. brought his dia-
mond ring into iew, and at-
tempted to find out whether her feet were
on the floor or on the rest bar.
‘That is the only tunnel on
of the road, is it not2?’’ she asked.
is so
Maebiavellian
iveness.
you think you are bold enough
she asked, with captivat-
he answered.
Oddy
better Vv
ay"
I
thisea
this
part
Little Mr. ‘Tom N. Oddy gave a start.
“No, indeed,’’ he said: ‘‘there are three
more between this and San Rafael.’’
She sat quietly again, looking pen-
sively at her folded hands.
‘Ts your sword stick hollow?’’ she
asked, with curious interest, considering
the apparent irrelevancy of the question.
“Stick hollow?” he repeated. ‘‘Yes,
it’s a Chinese bamboo—that is, with the
joints bored out. Do you wish to exam-
ine it??’
‘“‘No,’’ she answered,
a sunbeam; ‘‘only I was thinking that if
the ferrule, or whatever you call that
brass thimble thing at the end of the
stick, were eut off and the sword removed
it would make a splendid blow pipe.”’
‘Well, well,’? he stammered, confus-
edly, ‘‘what in the world do I want with
a blow pipe?”’
“On, notubime, 1
swered, with another
‘only I was thinking, also, that if any
one had such a blow pipe, it would just
about reach from here to that lamp, and
that a little, well-directed puff would
blow it out without any one being the
wiser.’
“Oh, you angel,”’ said little Mr. Tom N.
Oddy, and with two motions he whipped
out the sharp sword blade and slashed off
the ferrule.
As he did so, there came another warn-
ing toot from the engine and a little
smothered ery from his side.
“Why, here’s another tunnel,’
cried.
Then, in the gathering darkness. little
Mr. Tom N. Oddy cunningly laid the
bamboo tube along the side of the car
until the further end was just under the
lamp glass, set his mouth to the near end,
gave a sharp puff, and, presto! the car
was in what is sometimes known as
Egyptian darkness. There was a chorus
of cries and smacking sounds from all
over the ear, as the light went out, but
little Mr. Tom N. Oddy minded none of
these, but turned in a tremble of excite-
ment to snatch his reward from his cap-
tivating companion.
Ashe flung out his arms to make a
prisoner of the dainty beauty at his side,
they were seized by two hands of iron,
and then Mr. Tom N. Oddy felt himself
irresistably drawn down and doubled up
over two undoubtedly male knees. Then
one of those iron hands was swiftly drawn
away, and before little Mr. Tom N. Oddy
knew what was happening, he was
treated to a castigation of that basic order
which vigorous mothers sometimes ad-
minister to rebellious sons. Then he was
lifted up as suddenly as he had been
drawn down, and planted with a jerk in
his corner. Before he had recovered his
breath, the train was rushing into day
light once more, and there, sitting quietly
at his side and reading his paper, was
the stalwart young man of the opposite
seat.
‘‘How—dare’’—little Mr. Tom N. Oddy
began, witha fierce pant, when the young
man turned slowly on him and said, in a
ponderous bass voice, ‘‘Please accept my
thanks for your kind attentions to my
wife.”’
‘““Your wife!’ gasped little Mr. Tom
N. Oddy, and, glancing wildly across the
aisle, he saw the lovely creature sitting
demurely in the young man’s seat. De-
murely only for a moment, however, for
then a merry, wicked light sprang into
those ravishing eyes, and—
The lady smiled.
VISITING BUYERS.
Walling Bros., Lamont S H Ballard, Sparta
D E Watters. Freeport EL Boynton, Griswold
JN Wait, Hudsonville Geo A Sage, Rockford
R B McCulloch, Berlin Eli Runnels, Corning
G E Swarthout, Union City Geo Robson, Muir
G M Harwood, Petoskey Riley Reed, Mulliken
E S Botsford, Dorr RB Gooding&Son,Gooding
Maston & Hammond Gilbert Bros., Trent
Grandville J W Pollard, Ashland
W N Hutchinson, Grant H Van Noord, Jamestown
John Graves, Wayland Jno Farrowe, So Blendon
JL Ash, Parmelee A Purchase, So Blendon
sj Koon, Lisbon L Cook, Bauer
L M Wolf, Hudsonville J R Harrison, Byron Center
JT Perham, Kent City Wm Reiley, Dickenson
Carrington & North, "rient 8 oor, Jamestown:
John Crispe, Plainwell H Deming, Dutton
W H Hicks, Morley Avery & Pollard,
W MeWilliams, Conklin Slocum’s Grove
Brookings Lumber Co, A Evers, So Blendon
suppose,’’ she
flash of smile,
she
— W H Watts, Gd Junction
CS Comstock, Piers E Young, Ravenna
Herder & Lahuis, asta Silas Loew, Burnip’s Cors
J V Crandall & Co.,Sand Lk C A Brott, Moorland
W H Harrison, Harrisburg M Minderhout, Hawley
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove A May Frankfort
Frank Cornell, Sebewa John De Vries. Jamestown
Mills & Mills, Ashland B Steketee, Holland
Ezra Brown, Ballard LC Granger, —
H Dalmon, Allendale C F Sears, Rockford
HD Plumb, Millbrook W FWillemin,OakdalePark
Smallegan & Pickaard, W 8 Adkins, Morgan
ForestGrove Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam
AH Baker, Saranac John Smith, Ada
John Damstra, Gitchell
8 A Bush, Lowell
D W Shattuck, Wayland
Keeler Bros., Middleville
H Meijering, Jamestown John Gunstra, Lamont
Isaac Quick, Allendale J Raymond, Berlin
John Cement. Middleville W H Btraik’ Forest Grove
A J White, Bass River J a Newaygo
WH Lambert, Baldwin erce, Moline
RH Adree, Jenisonville $ MecNitt, Byron Center
B Albertson, Woodville Lee Deuel, Bradley
N Bouma. C R Bunker, Bailey
sher
AM Church, Englishville
with a smile like
fixed |
an-!
could |
he could |
Dry Goods.
Prices Current.
Cee ED COTTONS.
mAdlantic Ac... {Integrity XX........ 54
Atlanta A. A. es 6 ine, Bo rg 64
Archery Bunting.. aig Rx aS 6144
Amory. Sea f° 6B Caen
Beaver Dam AA... | 44 )\L awrenceLL....... 53
Berwiek |b... .. 2. Gg] New Market B.--_ 5,
; Blackstone O, 32.... : |Noibe R: %
Chapman... .. [Newt Pore ses i —
CORMSEGLA. 20.2 02.4 7M Our Level Best. 7
Comes ses. oo. 7 * Riverside RX et. oO
| Ciittere 66. 22285: 6%iSea Island. R........ . 6%
Conducror Xx... °. S (Sharen 8:00... 7.2: 634
Dwight Star 714\Top of the Heap.:.. 74
the | 3
it was |
ake
. 6%| Williamsville.
. 64/0 fomet, 4) in.
arlisk
a rA.
Full ¥: ard Wide.
Great F alls E
| Honest Wieth...... j Nei ry Market L, ¢
' Mertrora A... 54%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Blackstone A A.. S First Prize: 2s: 5: 7
Beats: All. ane Fruit of the Loom %.
Cl ois airmount
Cx z
Ca
Dwi eht Anchor... -,
shorts. 834
Edwards, ... ok ?
Minpire co es. 7
K 11. 8
F f the Li $34
Fi Bt a
been dark in the} Cal
BLEACHED
HALF COTTONS.,
%14|Dwight Anchor..... 9
si
D CANTON FLANNEL.
UNBLEACHE
4 ¥14{Middlesex No. 1.
ii a 3.
AT 8 7
Mes G 8
NO: 25 9
BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEI
Hamilton N iis... Ci Middlesex A A... 11
Middl ol da 8 e z ,
CA 9
~. 475
SEWING SILK.
Corti¢celli, doz::-.. -: 85 (Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball......30
50 yd, doz. .42
HARDWARE.
The Hardware Market.
Everything in the hardware line is firm
and advancing, in sympathy with the ad-
vance in the price of pig iron and steel
billets. Jobbers have advanced bar iron
to $1.90 rates, steel nails to $2.20 rates
and wire nails to $2.55 rates. There is
every indication that this is but the begin-
ning of a very rapid advance all along
the line, as prices are all subject to
change without notice. There is no
change in the glass market. Manillaand
sisal rope are firm.
Prices Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Ives’, old style .........<; ee ee a ne 60
Sn ie 60
Cocks Se coe tes ees Oe dee cee e dec menece eae 40
Jennings’, genuine. Ba oa o teisee es saute dasa 25
Jennings’, WeAMO 3s. ss ge 50&10
AXES.
First eae Se Preane 2. ics. $7 00
B. B jieeueeeee 11 00
a 8 30
RE 13 00
“a dis.
uri oe ee ee ee
Abie: dis.
Waliroad 6.5 och ee es $ 14 00
Garena net 30 00
dis.
60&10&10
OO ooo ce ek ease eee - 70
@alk ea Cea 30&15
GON oes oo. cone sete ese we ae Bele
BOLTS dis.
SOTO. oie ae ra is sas oe ee a ee ok 50&10
Carriage nee Tee. eo Seas vt]
Ue es seccces =
Sleigh BGG os re ees eae le
BUCKETS.
MPGH. MIAH... 0.62. Spe clei ss oe Oe Oe
WG AWligels ooo eo ie 400
THE RICKARD LADDER.
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SOLD BY
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FOSTER, STEVENS & CoO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Write for Circular,
BRACES. is.) 3 COMMON BARREL,
Barer a0) A Ce
BAGS ee SEO ce eee , 20
Se 50 | CLINCH
Tue Bake 6. Sone tan see aa ta G Pa fis ons x in ch. ee 1 35
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ ee a : S
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast t joint. eee 69010 | 8ineh. sc Reese ” gs
—, Loose Pin......... Ce eee eee eae 3
rought Table.. eae | Mihaltkec ijcenisexia | [
Wrought Inside a 60810 | Dene ee eet ee
PONS TH Be 75 | ‘
BE 0410)... , He Lt aa An dis.
ed) Pare se 70410 | Qhio Tool Co.’s, fancy ........... --40@10
Bind Shesarae 70 | Sciota Bench.......... a oe ie @60
a. | ee ae = S Eaney--.... 7: i _—
: a i reapracieeeicnea ois : fone URI a 260
Ordinary Tackle, SS gO ese dae 40 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... "20810
Sr ae Loe dis. 50&02 ition
CROW BARS. "| Fry, Acme.. dis, 6O
Oe per 4% Common, polished .. dis. 70
CAPS i RIVETS. dis.
ag ; « | tron ang Tinned... ...._ ... 50
Tielke CP Go| Copper Rivets and Burs. agent 50
Ce ee PATENT FLANISHED TRON.
Maneenl cn “ 60 ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
a aie cial y ceca ea es Wood's ag pisnished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
J FES. r nies ike
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 oo = = nee
s . a.
pete United § ee ener eet dis. = panel, 16 ine and lareer oe. |e. 11%
Coe ae (ee ee
CHISELS. dis. -
SOCEC. Fates 70&10 | | SQUARES. dis.
Socket Mraming. 70&10 | Steeland Tron..... ........ se eee eee eee 75
SGCkCLOCORNCE. oo 70&10 | Try and Bevels......................2. --+-. 60
See 70&10 | Mitre ..........-........-.- 20
Bmteners Pangea Firmer . 40 SHEET IRON.
COMBS. dis. : Jom. Smooth. Com.
Carry, EAwrenees 40&10 | Nos. 10 to 14................ -++++++-84 20 $3 00
ee ET 25 | Nos. 15 to 17 -... 2... eee eee eee eee 420 300
CHALK. mame ae 3 10
White Crayons, per gross.......... 2@12% dis. 10 | NOS. 2200 24... AO 8S
: P ae at —— 26 . ee . 440 3
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... rpound 2/| No. 27......................-.... 460 33
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ..... pe io con 96! All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 2.2.2.2... 24 | Wide not less than 2-10 extra
old Tobie) fe 2h ee
Se ee ee dis. 4010
DRILLS, dis. SASH CORD.
Morse’s| Bit Stocke 0000 us 40 | Silver Lake, White A.................05. list 50
Paper and sicaignt Shank 6...) . 40 Drab Aq... . 1... cee ee eee 99
Mores Taper Shame 40 = eosge ee ee i 30
DRIPPING PANS. - oe UG
Small sizes, ser pound .....-..........+..++. 07 Discount, 10.
Large sizes, per pound:..._..-......... ..... 6% pie SASH WEIGHTS.
ELBOWS. oli een. ee. per ton #25
aa “Gis, 20810610 eer onanians
MEG dis. 40410 | Miles’ “Challenge”... per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Pey . per ‘doz. No. 1, $15; No. 0,
Clark's, small, 818; large, 826.......--...--- ea eat i elated ete ate la 821 ; ‘dis, 50@50&5
wa at once 95 | Draw Cut No.4............ 220... each, 830, dis 30
eas ei dis =o fe Co. dis. 20&1
De ia a ae —_
TNC ARC 60&10 SAWS. dis.
ene -_ Hand ..-- ss eves essen ee noes —
EGER iil s0],, Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................ os . es Cuts, per foot... 50
pi aN To : cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
“ C ampion and Electri¢ Tooth X
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 —_ 2f- and 26: 22 28, Cults, per fegt.
List 12 14 15 18
TRAPS. dis.
Discount, 60 l Be 60&10
GAUGES. dis. Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s . i 35
Stanley Rule and Leyel Co.'s..... ......__. 50 | Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s... 7
HAMMERS. Oe 7
moxie eo dia $6) ES OW Mie Corn aes 70
CE ee an, . | ete, Cake 18¢ per doz.
mish [ll dis, 40&10 | Mouse, delusion...... 00.00.0000... $1.50 per doz.
Mason's Solid Cast Steel................- 30¢ list 60 WIRE, dis.
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... :30e G10) Bright Market............................... 67%
HINGES. AMBeRICE MRERCG 70&10
Gate: Clarke 1.28 00 dis.60&10 | Coppered Market............................ 62%
2 er doz. net, 2 50| Tinned Market..........................-0-. 6238
— Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and Copperca Spring Steet...
eo a 34% | Plain ONCE. oa snvvvs =O pound OS
Screw ‘Hook and Eye, 8 net 10 Barbed Renee, palyvanized....... i... $3 45
SE net 8% Da 2 80
- re e =... net 7% WIRE GOODS. dis.
= ‘ EN net 74 | Bright...............2.--.eeee ee eeeee .---70&10&10
Strip and Fo dis. 70 a EE caeeeenae
: Ce ee 10&10
HANGERS. dis. :
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes............... - ++ -T0&10&10
Champion, anti-friction.........0... 20... 60&10 | i WRENCHES. dis.
Ridder wood trace Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
oe Coes Genuine... -
Pot HOLLOW WARE e0é05 | £22’S Patent Agricultural, wrought,........
Kettios Se a 60d&05 | Coe’s Patent, MACAO a 75410
Ce ee. MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Gray Dee Bird Cages ...........--.0. s++++- stat tenes
Pumps, Cistermm...-... =
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Berows, New Uist.)
Stamped Tin Ware............. ... new list 70&10 | Casters, Bed and Plate........... ae sié10810
Japanned Tin Ware.......... See ete eee 25 Dampers, PMC RCO ae oak
Granite fron Ware ..............- new list 3314 £10 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 6
Sabl wate a 25&10@25&10&10
Ausemc. 8... dis.
me dis, 5&10&2% 424% —-
Northwestern ee dis. 10&10&5 iia PIG TIN. ase
KNOBS—N ew List. dis. CeO ee OR RHEE OR Oe OEE EOE OH eee HOH 2
Door, mineral, JAP. tri ee 55 | Pig bate... ol. — oe oo 28¢
oor, porcelain, jap. trimmings ae 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 | Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
Door, porcelein, trimmings... 01... .... _.. BB | 660 pound Oia RED AER EET 64
Drawer and Shutter, menceiata 0000000) a 6%
LOCKS—DOOR. dis. !
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55| Duty: Pig, $2 per 100° pounda. Old Lead, 2c per
Mallory. Wheeler & Co/s_...........:... 55} pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.
ee ee ee ee RL Bere ee
Worwelk 6.00 es ee @
LEVELS. dis. ee
Stanley Rule and Beco! o's. | .....3-.... ee eee see 8c, dis, 20
MATTOCKS. SOLDER.
dee Bye. SiG OO Gig GO) GGG dt 16
Fe aces 815. 00, dis, 60 | Extra Wiping ..................--.-+--++0020- 13%
a 818.50, dis. 20&10.| The prices of the many other qualities of
ae dis solder in the market indicated by private brands
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... (hee eeeeteente sera
MILLS. dis. en
Coffee, Parker Coce .2.00.....0...00....... 40 Cookson ee be eee cdo ee eee eds ale per pound 14%
P_ Ss. & W: Mfg. Co.’s e.. Ne EE 11%
ss Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............ 40 TIN—MELYN GRADE.
+ Mee oc. ce ceee ees 25 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal..............ss.eseeee eres $ 6 00
MOLASSES GATES, 14x20 IC 6 00
Stebbin’s Pattern ogt0 ieete ix ° 7%
Stebbin’s Gemuine........5.........-. . .60&10 | 14x20 - 7%
Enterprise, self-measuring.................- Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
NAILS TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
Advance above 12d nails. = io Charcoal eee ieee dk ogee: $05 40
wEnon Lo RADE. Nate e eee ee eset ee eeeeeeee eee 5 40
50d to 60d 25 10x14 IX, Sig dole oie hue decay coca 6
et 25 | 14x20 Ix’ EE arent ie Pena RN
eee ee Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
Ol OG 0 ee 40 ROOFING PLATES
— Teas a ae. Terne M.F a 87
eee e meee sere seers see es ee ees ee eeseseeeeEeseees 20x28 i ec ig al 15 7%
ee eee eee ce cee 150|14x901C) “ Worcester.................. 5 50
FINE BLUED. 14x20 IX, “ ees dies dae. 7 00
et ace oees uae 11 50
Ne eeu 150/14x20IC, ‘ Allaway Grade a 4 90
Ee «-- 2 00| 14x20 oe er eee a mee ia 6 40
“cs ce “
soa to 20a... CASES AxD BOX. eee. + 5.8 Dee
a eee eekeeees = ieee iain a
Ne A <
Paper bottles are growing in popularity
for travelers’ use, especially on ship-
board, where the pitching of the vessel
is so destructive to glassware.
AWNINGS
AND TENTS.
bE ft 4
t Lit?
Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Burry
Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc. Send for Illustraved
Catalogue.
Chas. A. Coye,
Telephone 106. 11 Pearl St.
Grand Rapids Fire Insnrance Co.
Cash Capital, $200,000.
HIsTORY—Commenced Business Novem-
ber, 1882:
ua s Ss ~
Year. pee gist, Income. Expend’s SUrPlus.
1882 $100,359 $ 2,578 Sse o. :
1883 109,793 25,276 ioo0o | jo
1884 115,670 40,933 Sofas i
1885 126,257 51,054 Sti
1886 239,501 57,759 45,660 $ 5,378
1887 275,595 102,181 66,558 20,695
1888 300,227 123,240 99,249 35,983
DIRECTORS:
Julius Houseman, George W. Gay, Mart n L.
Sweet, IL M. H. Widdicomb, J. W.
Champlin, D. A. Blodgett, S. F. Aspinwall, James
Blair, T. Stewart White, Philo C. Fuller, E. Crof-
ton Fox, A.J. Bowne, Thos. M. Peck, Francis
Cc. T. Hills, Muskegon;
Weston,
Letellier, Grand Rapids;
Rk. AL Dwight Cutler, Grand
Haven; Oo. M.
Barnes, Lansing; W. R. Burt, East Saginaw.
Alger, Detroit:
F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo;
JULIUS HOUSEMAN, President.
S. F. ASPINWALL, Secretary.
SEEDS
If in want of Clover or Timothy,
Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top,
Kind of Seed,
send or write to the
Seed Store,
71 Canal St, GRAND RAPIDS.
W.T. LAMOREAUX,
or, in fact, Any
S. P. Bennett,
The “Live GOAL Man.
Wilkesbarre and Pittston Anthracite
Coal, Cumberland Blossburg Smith-
ing Coal, 72-hour Connellsville Coke.
A large supply of the above coals on track the
year around. Write for prices.
§. P, BENNETT, Grand Rapids, Mich.
es e
Special Notice!
All smithing coals sold by us we guar-
antee to be mined from the BIG VEIN
in the Georges Creek District. ‘This is
the coal so favorbly known as Piedmont
or Cumberland Blossburg, and stands
unrivalled for smithing purposes.
AND
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, - MIOH.
“COLUMBIA”’
Steam and Hot Water Boiler for
dwellings. ete.
HUM & SCHNEIDER, Grand Rapids.
warming
Something New
Bill Snort
ALL KINDS OF
Brass and Iron Polishing
AND
Nickle and Silver Plating
ic orner Pearl and Front *ts., Grand Rapids.
E,W. HALL PLATING WORKS,
|
|
We guarantee this cigar the
best $35 cigar on the market.
Send us trial order, and if not
ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY
return them. Advertising mat-
ter sent with each order.
Charlevoix Cigar Mfg 6o.,
CHARLEVOLX,
WANTED.
POTATOES, APPLES,
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.
If you have any of the above goods tw
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you.
made when desired.
EARL BROS.,
MICH.
157 South Water St., CHICAGO
Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago.
MANUFACTURERS
DRIED
Liberal cash advance-
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapide. |
Putnam Gand
“THE ACME or UTILITY ano
IS REACHED
E SAME 1{S
well
=
o
Zz
Liberal dis.
count to the
trade. Special
Inducements
to partiesintro
ducing this
system of store
fitting in any
Ot 0
locality.
M ee 0 i
ed b
KOCH A. B. CO.,
354 Main St., PEORIA, ILL
BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts.,
48-50 Lake St., Chicago, 114 Water St., Cleveland
SO,
| =
OF ALL KINDS OF
CANDY,
13, 15.17 South lonia St, Grand Rapids.
Manufacture
INDIANAPO
Planers, aeidateiied Moulders and all
Write for Prices. 44,46 and 48
MANUFACTURERS OP
Ce>ry Engines and Boilers in Stock
for immediate delivery.
BESTER & POs,
rs’ Agents for
SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY
ATLA
ENGINE
WORKS
LiS. IND., U. &. A.
kinds of Wood- Working Machinery.
Saws, Belting and Oils.
And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Samp)
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDs, WICK
GRAND
Lemon & Peters,
WHOLESALE
GROCERS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Lautz Bros. & Co’s Soaps,
Niagara Starch,
Amboy Cheese,
RAPIDS.
KOAL
GRAND RAPIDS IGE & COAL CO,
WHOLESALE
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal.
State Trade a Specialty.
Before ordering your coal write to us for prices.
52 Pearl Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREE
PHREINS & HESS
DEALERS IN
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
T, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.
S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN,
S. K. Bolles & Co.,
77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
W holesale Cigar Dealers.
"a4 Uao 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.
deadquarters for Syrups and Molasses!
We began handling Syrups and Molasses on Feb. 11, 1889, since which time we
have received
Nineteen Carloads
Of these goods. Our goods are right and our prices are low, and merchants will
consult their best interests by comparing samples and prices before placing their
orders for fall stocks.
Telfer Spice Company.
1 AND 3 PEARL STREET
2 GEO. H. REEDER,
State Agent
Lycoming Rubbers
and Jobber of
Medinm Price Shoes,
1eqqny Zary004g Bur
~1B0 M 2 3ulz417 ssog ony,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
No Chemicals.29
Breakfast Cocoa
Is absolutely pure
and it is soluble.
To increase the solubility of
the powdered cocoa, various expe
S dients are employed, most 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
1s 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 proces~es the greutest dezrce of fineness is
secured without the sacrifice of the attractive and beautiful
red color which is characteristic of an absolutely pure and
natural cocoa.
W. Baker & Co., Dorchester, Mass.
TRAV ANRIGH 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.
——_— THRe—
Selected Herbs a Spiges|
Prepared by
THOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY,
Chicago.
Is a Combination of
The Finest Ingredients for use in
Seasoning | Meats, Poultry,
Game and Fish.
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS.
@
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¢
mee
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paragraph of the constitution so pre-
tire seven sessions comprising much less
Going Like Hot Cakes.
NRHA
. ones ao
; z : = Secretary—Peter Scott, Romeo. HARDWOOD LUMBER. \ ’
The Michigan Tradesman The furniture factories here pay as follows for ; Peaches! Peaches: Peaches!
Sentinel—H. A. Daniels. Elva. — stock, measured merchantable, mill culls
The sixth session invited ‘‘Grand Presi- Basswood, log-run .......... -.-.--.. 13 00@15 00
WEDNEsDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889. a : Birch, toesan 15 16 00 PUT UP IN
dent’? Vertican to ‘texemplify the secret Bireh, goat and? = 00 THEO. B. GOOSSEN,
’ : : ae Black MSR TORTUN 14 00@16 00 * r
THE FIRST FARCE. work” at the following session and ap- Cherry, caer ee ea aa 25 00@40 00 | 30xes, Cans, Pails, Kegs, Half en
pointed county delegates to the ‘ma- Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2....0--00--.-. 0. 60 0086 00 Barrole and Barrels Produce and Commission Merchant,
The State Convention of the Patrons | tional’’ convention. Maan oe 0013 00 : ; : ; : ie La i
of Industry. At the last session a special committee Maple, see Petty 8-2 ee- eee tee a= 11 Hon @ Send for sample of the celebrated ——" = —* sie = = ea ae a ee
st sess sp Maple, Nos. Vand? Pe 0 s p or wire for prices and same will receive prompt attention.
on inventory reported that the associa- ao clear, flooring..........-...--. 25 33 OTTAWA STREET
CHAPTER II. : 7 mae Maple, wh white, selected... 0... ........ @25 00 ' hie - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
he ees 4 already shown in the pre- tion had property in fixtures and supplies | Red Oak, log-run................---+-- 20 00@21 00
ae oN of ee History of the | t® the amount of $198.19. Every one was Hed eo a oueca = and upw’ d33 38 W0G40 0 ED WIN EB
. TS cee iven av : Es vas | Red Oak’ Aoeeiiee =. 3 32 00 A J J
Patrons of Industry. the constitution and given a vote of thanks end the tree we Red Oak. : pape med eee 5 00 the Wecanie Chendis Sieied 6 the Sontiin AS,
; der were prepared in the | ** 3@ end. Wetenk, lonteb. 25... 532. @55 00 y z :
ritual of the order were preparec ‘ Such, in shor : tl : lings Walnut, Nes. fang = 03.50.02. @75 00 Trade Everywhere. JOBBER OF
ee oe 1k Bese a6 Pet Hee, OO Oe ee Se Srey Bi (ull neve eseeseee sence: i oe
: f irst ‘‘state’’ conv ion of re oe Pate : . ' ’
saving been unsuimogsty “adopted” by |", tee Srtt “state” ebavention of ie |/ Gemma 07 ore Batter, Egos, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Frnits, Mince Meat, Nuts, Ete.
K «= Vertican snd Wadsworth. One Patrons of Industry. Much of the pro- ba Lassies foe ane 20 00@22 00 ’ ; § 5
rause, Ve < : : ceedings was mere child’s play, the en- White Oak log-ran 0060000200... 17 00918 00 :
5 White Oak, 4 sawed. Nos. 1 and 2....42 00@43 00 Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Butter and Sweet Potatoes
pared read as follows:
The state convention shall meet on
the third Wednesday in April, 1890, and
on the same date every four years there-
after. The national convention shall
meet on the first Wednesday in May,
1892, and every four years thereafter on
the same date.
By placing the date of the ‘state’ and
‘“national’’conventions so far in the fu-
ture, the wily originators of the move-
ment assumed that they would be able
to squeeze the lemon dry before they
would be compelled to render an
counting to their constituents; but they
reckoned wrongly, as the farmers who
composed the membership of the order
suspected that the trio were enjoying
rather too many emoluments and _ per-
quisites, and so long ago as last fall be-
for a ‘‘state’’ meeting.
During the winter months the farmers
became thoroughly that the
three men were living in clover at the
expense of the ruralists, they
brought continual pressure to bear on
the Port Huron contingent, finally re-
sulting inacall fora state convention,
to be held at Port Huron on April 17, 18
and19. Thetrio conceded the demand
for the meeting very reluctantly, as they
realized that a gathering of farmers
would very soon put an end to the fat
salaries and other perquisites they had
been the recipients of up to that time.
The call for the meeting appeared in the
April issue of the Patron’s Guide, each
chartered association in good standing
being entitled to delegate. The
opening meeting was called to order by
“Grand President’? Vertican the
morning of April 17, three sessions being
held both that and the succeeding day
and one session the morning of the
19th. In describing the temper of the
men composing the gathering, Krause
recently remarked to THE TRADESMAN’S
detective:
‘Before the first meeting was called to
order, we plainly our jig was up.
The farmers came to the meeting with
blood in their eyes, bent on reducing our
salaries to a hard-pan basis or throwing
us overboard altogether. It seemed
pretty tough that the originators of the
order should be compelled to take a back
seat, but it was back seat or nothing—
we could take that or step out altogether.
The fact of the matter was, the scheme
which we hatched with so much care
produced so numerous a brood that we
could not control them. Instead of be-
ing looked up to and praised, they ac-
cused us of being embezzlers, appointed
a committee to go through our books and
intimated that several instances of crook-
discovered. It pretty
hard to be. disowned by the child you
have nurtured since infancy, but that’s
just the shape we’re in now.”’
At the first meeting of the convention,
F. S. Porter, of North Branch, was made
chairman, and Lewis Baker, of Lexing-
ton, was selected to serve Secretary.
Committees on credentials, order of busi-
ness, permanent organization and resolu-
tions were also appointed.
At the second session,
tary’? Wadsworth was asked to state how
many members the order numbered in
this State—a task he was unable to ac-
complish—so an expert was appointed to
go through his books and report at the
“*national ”” Resolutions
were adopted condemning the binder
twine trust and approving the bill which
subsequently passed the Legislature, pro-
viding for an increase in the bounty for
the destruction of English sparrows.
The third session was taken up with a
wrangle over the question of rey resenta-
tion in the ‘‘national’’ convention, result-
ing in the defeat of the report of the
Committee on Resolutions, that the
**state’? convention select the delegates
to the subsequent convention.
The fourth session was occupied by
the election of two delegates to the
‘national’? convention, when a commit-
tee was appointed to confer with the
‘‘grand officers’’—the mercenary trio—
for the purpose of ascertaining whether
such delegates would be permitted to
serve.
The fifth session ordered the Patron’s
Guide sent to every local member in
the State; decided to make the ‘‘state’’
association permanent and hold the next
convention in Flint the last Wednesday
in February of next year. Amendments
to the constitution were referred to the
*‘national’’ association, and the following
officers were elected:
President—F. S. Porter, North Branch.
Vice-President — A. F. _ Partridge,
Flushing.
ac-
gan clamoring
convinced
and
one
on
on
saw
is
edness were
as
“Grand Secre-
convention.
effective work than would be accom-
plished by a convention of business men
within the space of a single session.
Next week the inside history of the
so-called ‘‘national’’ convention will be
given.
>
What’s the Use?
The daily press is striving hard—
But what's the use?
That folks their follies may discard,
But what’s the use?
For people still blow out the gas,
And trains at crossings try to pass,
While ladies still chew gum, alas!
So what's the use?
The farmers still are signing notes—
So what’s the use?
And buying wild Bohemian oats,
So what's the use?
For though we warn them day by day,
Yet suckers still will dearly pay’
For every ‘‘snap” that comes their way.
So what’s the use?
——_—_—_—~ -2
A Sure Sale.
Polite Clerk (showing goods)—Here is
a shoe I would like to call your attention
to, lady. It’s the very latest thing out.
Mrs. Rounder (absently)—If there’s
anything out later than my husband I’1]
take it, if only for a curiosity.
K. KNUDSON,
MERCHANT TAILOR
And Dealer in
Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
Fine stock of Woolen Suitings and Overcoat-
ings, which I will make to order cheaper than any
other house in the city. Perfect fit guaranteed.
20 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids.
FOR SALE
Or exchange for stock of general merchandise,
a perfect title to 240 acres of clay and clay loam
soil, 160 acres of which is in a first Class state of
cultivation. The land is slightly undulating,
free from stumps and can all be operated by ma-
chinery: is well fenced with board fencing and
watered by living stream of spring water, “filled
with trout, planted about 8 years ago. Comfort-
able house, good and commodious barns, auto-
matic water works in stock yards and stables.
Thrifty fruit-bearing ore shard of moderate size,
and well provided with shade trees.
This farm is situated in the Michigan Fruit
Belt and is only 4% miles from two thriving
towns with first-class Lake Michigan harbor and
good rail accommodations, is a model farm for a
retiring merchant interested in stock or fruit
raising. The present owner is young and acti-
vely engaged in business with no time to devote
to its management and will dispose of it at a low
figure and on easy terms. Enquiring parties will
please address No. 474, care Michigan Tradesman.
FLOUR)
Owl, Grown Prince, White Lily,
Standard, Rye, Graham.
Bolted Meal,
Feed, Ete.
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED.
NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS.
Good
Morning!
I have just eaten a delicious
dish of
Muscatine
ROLLED
OATS
Millers, Attention
We are making a Middlings
Purifier and Flour Dresser that | 4
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., |i
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
F. Raniville,
Manufacturer of
LEATHER BELTING
JOBBER OF
Rubber Goods and Mill Supplies.
1 to 5 Pearl Street,
GRAND RAPIDS,
Voigt, Herpolshelmer & C0,
Importers and Jobbers of
Dry Goods
STAPLE and FANCY.
MICH.
a Pants, Etc.,
OUR OWN MAKE.
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Fancy Crockery and
Fancy Woodenware
OUR OWN IMPORTATION.
Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De-
troit prices guaranteed.
Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS.
No OSG ee 45
Not ee: 48
Nee 70
Oo ee con
LAMP CHIMNEYs.—Per box.
6 doz. in box.
No. 0500... 1 90
Oe 2 00
Nos ee 3 00
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp _- pee eee eee ee ce ee 215
No.1 bee ees Cy ea oe ee ee
No.2 ¢ ee ee 3 25
xx Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top Lee deceee cuss Lele ace 2 58
ed ed ed 2 80
No.2 “ i ee oe
Pear! top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled..............3 70
Te 47
No. 2 Hinge, - . eee 47
La Bastic.
No. _-" plain bulb, per doz Se a 12
No. Fe llr 1 50
No. 1 setae Per GOZ ee ee 1 40
No eee 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Croeks, per gal......-.. -.......... 06%
Jugs, 6 cal perdaz 65
— i eect eee ee 90
2 - ye 1 80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60
“ce “é 1 “a “cc ( 66 90¢) i 78
FRUIT JARS—Per gro.
Mason's: pints...) 8 9 50
. GWarts 2000 ee
i i eaion Ss oe 13 00
Lightning, quams 12 00
ie eon | tt 16 00
KENDAL
Millinery.
Wholesale Department.
hargest Stock in the City.
Goods Direct from the Manufacturers
and Importers. Merchants and Milliners
will find our prices this season as low as
any house in the trade.
J, C. Kendall & Co.,
75 MONROE ST. 8 FOUNTAIN ST.
Cir
Fala te
BL PN LS reeeans
SAMPLE SHEET PRICES
BARLOW BROS.GRAND eae
LECTROTYPERS
w)
; Bh 1a <0) Aarts
pete aatelehvata cated
nae SUE: cae ace RULE a <~s
Ve ert Oe FURNITURE ve
ood
S
“Woop
eS HT TY
aon
To the Pass Book.
Such is the fate of the Pass Book System wherever it comes in
contact with the
Tradesman Credit Covpon Book.
Which is now used by over 2,600 Michigan merchants.
The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern ip
the market, being sold as follows:
$ 2 Coupons, per hundred.......... $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS
$5 EN 3.00 | Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per cent
$10 - es 4.00 . oT OOO ee 10 ia
$20 hi ni seacee as 5.00 | . ee 20 °
SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS.
B.A. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids.
H. Leonard & Sons.
aosininaa —— Mich.
Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts.
Near Union Depot.
REDUCED PRICES
MASON
Porcelained Top Fruit Jar
For immediate orders we quote Mason’s Fruit Jars at the following Reduced Prices,
Terms Regular:
$ 950|HALF GALLONS, Gro, $13.00
PINTS, Per Gross,
QUARTS, Per Gross, 1000! RUBBERS, for any size, 55
No Charge for Case or Cartage.
Jelly Tumblers: | Stoneware:
2¢_Pint, Tin Covers, 6 doz. in ¢ase.........- $1.80 Jugs, Butters, Churns & Milk Pans, per gal..3 (6
1 o ee ee | %4-Gallon Tomato Jugs and Corks, perdoz.. 90
re eo ee 1-Gallon Tomato Jugs and Corks, per doz.. 1.40
14-Pint, Tin Covers, 20 doz. in bbl , per doz.. 25 | 14%4-Gallon Preserve Jars, Stone Co ae perdoz 90
Ff : 1-Gallon Preserve Jars, Stone Cork, per doz 1.40
ig- overs . in DbL, 3 : : i
+ Pint, Tin Covers, dem. ee POL et Es = Wax for Sealing, 5-lb. Packages, perlb...... 03
No Charge for Package. Shipped Loose Without Packing.
H. Leonard & Sons.
DIRECTIONS
We nav’ cooked the corn in this cau
sufficients Should be Thvroughly
Warmed ‘uot cooked) adding piece vt
oor Buiter (size of hen’s sees) and gil.
of fresh milk ( —— to waiter.)
Season to suit when on the tabie. Nune
genuine uniess bearing the signature u
Davenport, Ia.
ys
EN ar ruis ©?
SHAFTING, HANGERS,
a AND PULLEYS A SPECIALTY.
| FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT.
Send Specifications for Estimates before Contractirg.
THE LANE & BODLEY CO.
2 t043 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O.
Let your orders come.
Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
brand Rapids Frvitand Produce Go.,
Headquarters for C. WILKINSON & SON’S
Fancy Jersey
Sweet Potatoes.
3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
MOSELAEY 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,
pleased to hear from you.
26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St. -
a
z
<
will be
GRAND RAPIDS
PRKACHES
I Am Headquarters.
Alfred J. Brown,
16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
NELSON BMOs. & CO,
Wall Paper and Window Shades
GRAND RAPIDS,
A. HIMES,
Shipper and Retail Dealer in ( () | :
MICH,
Lehigh ValleyGoal Go. s
Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE ABOVE COMPANY'S COAL IN CAR LOTS ALWAYS ON TRACK READY FOR
SHIPMENT.
pneu
7) J. H. My
ee, ° e Crs,
FINE
SINGLE HARNESSES A
SPECIALTY.
TRUNKS AND TRAVELING BAGS. "=: :3etyc8est
DETROIT SOAP CO.,
Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:
AAT RTT
QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR,
TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, CAMEO,
PHCENIX, AND OTHERS,
_ NRRL ORA MERE
For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current.
quantities, address,
W, G. HAWKINS, vock sox 13s. "GRAND ‘RAPIDS.
BLIVEN & ALLYN,
Sole Agents for the Celebrated
“BIG F” Brand of Oysters.
In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make
a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit
consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete.
H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. 63 Pearl St.
MICHIGAN CIGAR CO,
Big Rapids, Mich.
MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
“AF. ©... CA." * Yum ¥Y um”
OThe Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.
For quotations in larger
SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.
qa
A Glimpse at a Potato Starch Factory.
An Aroostook county, Me.
ent writes a Boston paper as follows;
Starch factories are so thickly se *ttled |
throughout Aroostook, and the industry
has become thoroughly a matter of
our everyday life, that seldom think
of it as a matter of interest, except
general way, a pass the eho ap,
painted buildings, with a glance,
haps, bui hardly ; but aha
hour of clo: r well
spent in on our ey
open, may aio art
instruction.
Potato starch,
much ¢
of
easily
potato
and water.
The machinery
simp! ing ¢ I f
it is insoluble in ‘old vater and much
heavier.
Let us go to the steep platte
leads to the front door ant
selves on e
weighed and recorded as they come in,
and inaroom some forty or ! f
Square, with sever: : hie
where the potatoes are dumped into the
bins b< \ w ‘ome in the b
season we ofte find them ten feet
more deep
me. We pas
flight of stair
You m
a trap and
toes, the was
eorrespond-
GROCERIES. fi
|
sO
we
in a}
cE
per-|
lf- |
eS
a tnougi
be}
CS
{ some
of
}
onsequently |
e .up
oarse
is more
the
less value than other Kind
separatec
rolling dow
I did the
these days of dynamite
seare the workmen and is < the
ter to go down the stairs. > we find |
a man shoveling the tubers into the |
washer, which is shaped like along bath-|
and
lengthwise
has at the
and re-
tub with a round bottom
top a shaft running
volving slowly. |
The shaft has arms projecting from it
which reach nearly to the and
sides of the tub, and these as it revolves
stir the potatoes in water, which is
constantly running through the tub, and
at the same time gradually force them
around toward the other end, where a
large flat arm, at every revolution,
throws some of them, now thoroughly
elean, over the side into a kind of hop-
per. Here they fall against the grater,
which is precisely like the round potato
grater we have all seen, only that it is as
large as a barrel and about four feet
long.
This is revolving rapidly and the pota-
toes melt away before it as fast as a man
ean shovel them in at the other end of
the washer.
Here we lose sight of them, but pass-
ing around the machine we find the pulp
has dropped from the grater on the up-
per end of a large wire screen or sieve
some six or seven feet long and made of
brass wire cloth as fine as that used in
milk strainers. This screen is not level,
but the end where the pulp first falls isa
little higher than the other and it is kept
shaking endwise so that the pulp grad-
ually works down and off at the lower
end, but as it passes along it is washed
by hundreds of fine streams of water
falling on it from above, and this water
washes out the starch and carries it
through the screen where it falls ona
tight floor and runs down into the spout
which we see coming from under the
lower end of the machine.
The pulp drops from the lower end of
the screen and is thrown away, as it is
here considered worthless, though in
Germany and the older countries it is
used for pig feed and as a fertilizer.
Having gotten so far, we come to the
open spout which carries away the starch
mixed with a great deal of water. This
spout branches a little way from the
machine and leads to the settling vats,
some four or five in number, and each
one as large as a good-sized dining room.
Here the starch, being much heavier
than the water, settles and forms a de-
posit some six or eight inches deep and
hard enough for a man to walk on,
although it is easily broken up with
shovels. The starch here is quite im-
pure, and in settling has taken with it
some dirt and some of the coloring mat-
ter of the potatoes, which must be
washed out. To do this it is shoveled
into the stirrers; smaller vats with up-
right shafts having across piece at the
bottom, which, being constantly turned
by power thoroughly mixes it with clean
water, after which it is again allowed to
settle.
As we come along, the water has just
been drawn off from the stirring vats
and men are hoisting the starch, which
is now perfectly white, and looks as it is
shoveled up. like densely packed snow,
in baskets to the floor above, where it is
loaded on barrows or trucks and wheeled
over a long bridge to the dry-house.
Following the trucks we enter the dry-
house on the upper floor, which, all ex-
cept a few feet around the sides is made
of slats an inch or more apart, over
which the starch is spread. Through
this immense register pours the heated
air from four furnaces which are kept
roaring hot all the time. The starch, as
it dries here, crumbles up and drops
through the cracks to another rack or
register below and from that to others,
some three or four in number till it
reaches a tight platform about three feet
from the floor. Below the racks and
furnaces are walled in from floor to ceil-
ing, leaving a passage way or corridor
six or eight inches wide around the
building. At the ends the furnaces are
fired and along each side is a trough, ex-
tending the whole length, into which the
starch is drawn, when dry, with long
bottom
the
scrapers. From these it is shoveled into
the casks, weighed, marked and ready to
ship.
+=.
Compulsory Fraud.
Georgia Cracker (in Atlanta)—You say
it ain’t wuth nothin’ ?
Storekeeper—Not five cents. It’s con-
federate money. Where did you get it?
Georgia Cracker—Hank Uplans passed
iton me, ’way backin’62. I’vehaditina
stockin’ up-garret ever since, a savin’ of
it up.
Storekeeper—Can’t you pass it back
on him ?
Georgia Cracker—Not easy. Yer see,
Hank kinder held back on givin’ of it
up, an’ I hed t? gun him. He never
| and the
| ers have
| Veo
| the Chinese
| mysteries
PACIFIC INQUIETUDE.
The Childlike Chinaman Threatening
the California Canning Business.
The Pacific coast fruit packers are far
from the enjoyment of the quiet content-
! ment that the eastern packers associate
in their minds with the glorious climate |
California. They have their troubles | '
just like their eastern brethren, and in|
addition to ordinary disappointments
of
they sometimes find it difficult to make |
| the railroads give them reasonable rates
on their products coming East. But
now the greatest of all evils seems to
i threaten their business The Chinese
have developed a taste for canning
| fruits, and they are going into the busi-
ness at a rate thé it is sufficient to alarm
isome of the packe During the few
Chinaman has been
eanneries he
eyes open and learned all
he 1}
in th
fik LUC
servation
t suffice
ve held soo ) i on j » Herald
f Trade has the following to say on the
: ‘When it was first announced
lished two fruit
san
e Chinese had estab
ies in Ca
other
lination to Ke
Jose
an
ine matter quiet; but
it was soon noised abroad, and now the
daily newspapers are discussing the situ-
ation. Several prominent manufactur- |
been interviewed, and the can-!
scored for first engaging
and letting them into the
fruit ing. To seme
they justly have been subjected
public criticism of their course in
It is afact that they have been
one at
iformia,
canner
i this city, there Was
ep coe
ners have been
of pack
extent
to the
the past.
employed about the fruit canneries for |
years, although they have never been}
allowed to handle fruit, at least in the;
They never should have
an entrance to the canner-
History of |
city canneries.
been allowed
ies under any consideration.
|
1
all California industries in which Chinese |
have been engaged repeats itself. In
cigar making they have driven out the;
American manufacturer. In boot and}
shoe making the trade has had the same}
experience. In clothing manufacturing |
the Chinese have built up a business at
the expense of the Americans engaged
in the trade. To look for anything else
but a steady increase in the number of}
Chinese canneries, if they are allowed
to continue in the way in which they}
have commenced operations, is simply a|
mementary evasion of a disagree sable |
situation. If the industry isto be turned |
over to the Chinese, there is no occasion |
tor any alarm, but if it is to be preserved |
and protected against the threatened in- |
road, action must be taken immediately, |
|
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'
and decisive action, too.’
Checking Off Goods.
Many merchants are unpacking cases |
preparatory to filling up stocks with fall |
and winter goods. There are not a few}
retailers who are careless about this}
matter, and leave the work to be done by
clerks who are not familiar with figures,
quantities and goods, and who have not
bright heads on their shoulders. The
writer has known of many examples
where the checking of goods has
been perforined in a shiftless and neg-
ligent manner, to the loss of the pur-
chaser.
Mistakes will occur even with the
most careful clerk; then how much
more frequent must the mistakes be when
the clerk either does not understand his
business or is careless. One bill which
the writer checked back after a clerk had
gone over it had the following errors:
Two-thirds of a dozen, when there was
only one-third; one dozen, when there
was only eleven-twelfths; and one-fourth
gross, when there was nothing. The
clerk had checked the bill O. K.
There are too many merchants who
check off goods intoo much hurry. They
wish to put the goods on sale quickly,
and they rush through the bill without
that careful study which is its due.
Some merchants, on the other hand,
take time, and when they check off they
put the selling price on the goods, and
forthwith they can go over the counter
without any more delay. If there was
more care in checking bills, there would
be less claims for ‘‘shorts,’’ and some-
times less crow to eat when, after a
claim has been made, you find the goods
all right in your store, just on account
of careless checking.
> _____
Ambition in Business.
When a great lawyer was once asked
to name the quickest way to success at
the bar, he answered: ‘‘A partnership
with an old established firm.”’
This is practically true of almost any
mercantile pursuit; yet the opportunities
are rare, and to the young man whose
ambition is not to profit by the labor and
reputation of others, the idea is not alto-
gether agreeable. He desires to start on
an independent basis, and be able to say,
when he has reached the goal of success:
“Whatever of wealth and reputation I
have, I owe to no one but myself.’? The
ambition is not only laudable, but prac-
ticable: for many a merchant has nursed
and developed his small capital until it
has finally rewarded him with wealth and
fame.
Indeed, ambition is a greater friend to
youth than is a large capital. Without
it, the rich man may be made poor. With
it, the poor man may make himself rich.
The desire to gain only a decent living
is not ambition. ‘‘Ambition should be
made of sterner stuff.”’ It is pushing,
mounting, towering, soaring, ever onward
and upward.
The city affords a larger sweep and
scope to the aspiring man, and yet it is
hardly as good a beginning place as a
smaller town. In a village, small capital
may be used to greater advantage; and
comradeship, character and personal
popularity affect the sales more directly
than inacity. Besides, competition is
not so formidable. To stand high in city
trade, one must have a mastery of the
art of advertising, and a good location,
come to.
besides plenty of money. Of course, few
FADED/LIGHT TEXT
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are blest with all these and other desir- | ‘““SOMETHING GOOD.”
|
able qualifications at first. and Dame | i oe %.
Necessity must have her way. Her de-| Remarkable Success of a Leader in
cree to the young man is: ‘Get your the Plug Tobacco Line.
start in the country, and after that you! a e 1889, at the any of _ -
i ave ti 2 " » an ‘established- | Butler & Co., St. Louis, a new brand of plug to-
oe - e =e ie pre eS ; ee | baceo. which has been christened “Something
for-thirty-five-years firm’ in the city. Good.” E
But wherever you go, or whatever you
do. never embark for yourself in a busi-
ness which you know nothing of. A very favorable auspices, having had the |
foundation of experience is indispens-
able. Theory is good in some respects, | was entrusted to the care of competent
but practical knowledge is a firmer rock |
on which to build. Any one ean form |
air castles, but the form: ition of the more
such }
with the}
attendants only. As a result of
painstaking attention, together
benefit of good parentage, and the oe at
|
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‘Something Good’? began life wages | demand at 2@23¢
25¢.
a
PRODUCE MARKET. i
Apples—Dealers pay #1. 25@$1.50 for good fruit
in the orchard. Snows, Kings, Pippins and Wag- |
ners are now in market, commanding #.50 per
bbl.
Beans—Dealers pay $1.40 for ee and
$1.60 for picked, holding at $2 per bu
Beets—40c per bu.
Butter—The market is firm; dairy has ad-
vanced to 16@17c, while creamery is in good
Cab bages—Home grown, fine in quality, com-
ean $1 per crate.
© — ikers are holding
jobbers holding at 114%@
- sider 10¢ per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;
September stoc k
@12¢c.
produce barrels
Cranberries—Cape Cod are #1 higher,
readily
comma nding .73 per bbl. |
material structure requires netic ity. ‘inherent merit of the infant itself, the) —New ev aporated are held at 7 T14(
Lie as = nt child of January has developed into the Heoal aud boll at!
u " : ie giant of autumn. From asale of 25,000) ~0 > stock commands |
Wool, Hides s and Tallow. pounds in January, the demand has in-| noth, $4.75 per bu.;
Wool does not change mueh from the! creased to 230,000 pounds in August, and | Honey_—In small dema oe Ye Seunb etl
past few weeks. It is a deadlock between | General Agent Ford stat 1ds ready to wager | mands 1 ai ibe a :
oe ‘ ‘ i ate | Musk Melons—About out of market.
dealers and manufacturers, with the! that the indicator will reach an even | 1ions—Deulers pay 35¢ for clean stock, hold- |
occasional weakening of the dealer to} half million pounds per month by the} ' Late Crawfords have
etfec hi } sulk is firmly | end of December. ie
hel neet the buyer and Users of plug tobaceo are not ata loss |
close wet be said to! to account for the remarkable success of | !
b ‘Ss favor, i «Something Good.’? While the name! Dealers pa
Mi i s ea a |
and lower. None are} and shape have something to do with 1, |
ted at an ancy pt s, and predic-jto the high quality of the stock used, | oa ene
on nade that ( int yy low and the ductive. sweet and eatehy Green command per bu ipe, }
if is certai hat tanners only buy as; flavor are largely due the unbounded | / 0c per bu.
they are obliged to have. and then only | popularity of the brand. To the good | erie pti Sa
as the price is low enough. management involved in placing the PROVISIONS.
is quiet. with little d and ct : The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisi ‘o |
Hew 8 ue brand on the market is due the early dis- rhe Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co
ee a quotes as follows:
The Grocery Market. covery of its superiority by the con- eS
Sugars are about %e lower and a‘ sumer and to the energy used ‘in puShime | SFCSs, BOW 8 ee ere ee . ni
| 36 aot
further decline is expected re the its sale to all parts of the United States 11 50
oe , : : : 7 : 12 00|
end of the week. Coffees are about the is due the prominence it has acquired as ru 11 75|
same. Canned goods are without partie-; one of the leading brands of plug to-| } ston clear, short Cut. . 12 00
: Clear ba short cut. a0 50
ular change. New currants are now in| bacco on the market. Standard cle ur, short cut, best........-..--. 12 UO
market Cheese is ec higher and will —____<_9- -2— SMOKED ci ek Cumvainell or Plain.
; ca : College Graduates as Drummers. Hams, average SIS. 2 ec 1034
probably go 1ge higher before the end of : : 16 lbs.. i1
: é i [tis sometimes asserted that graduates ck 14
the week. Pickles are likely to be very; . ; ae : ue ie eee eee AZ
: ’ of colleges are not often successful in Cn 6%
searce this week, owing to the early ap- i oe i ! : « ‘best boneless. 260020
, a ees : trade, but this opinion, like many others Shoulders ........ 5%
pearance of Jack Frost. The local crop i a Hee 8
: ae ii i which are eurrent, seems hardly war- Br akf os doe neless: ee eee ere 1
is almost a total failure, and reports from | a ae : _| Breakfast Bacon, boneless. ay
i ie |ranted by actual experience. Scores of} Dried ota ham prices Lee ae ate ee
other markets are by no means assuring. instances to the contrary might be cited oa Deeg goaceealy A ea :
Present quotations are for old stock. | in this and other leading cities. It is a CTT Ee ee ns
New pickles will be worth $5.75 @ $6 per | Well-known fact that in the ranks of the Lanp—Kettle Rendered.
barrel. commercial travelers of the country May | Fiercest %
ee | be found former representatives of the Tubs...... CS 1%
aes Superior Ore Output. | bar, medicine and of the church, who be lh. Tins: 3 De ce od w%
The total shipments for the season | have found in mercantile lifea more con-| ee
since the opening of navigation in April! genial occupation. There are, it is said, nee 614
up to Sept. 30 amount to upwards of | employed in this capacity by a large! Sp. Pails Q0an 6 case I,
5.000.000 tons, divided as follows: Mar-| wholesale dry goods house in New York _- Pails, 12 in a Case.........-- 26+ e+eeeeee es a)
quette, 1,915,000; Menominee, 1,275,000; City, several lawyers, two doctors, and a og Lar gy a és
Gogebic, 1,450,000; Vermillion, 685,000. | retired clerzyman who formerly OMici-|) sip Cans) 6%
Total, 5.325.000. Should the present per-| ated in a Western city with mar ked sue- BEEF IN BARRELS.
centage of increase over 1888 shipments | cess. The truth is, the commercial trav-| Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.............-. 7 00
continue till the close of navigation, the|eler must bea man of great versatility, Extra Mess, Ce iaeped eee ee 7 00
four ranges would ship upwards of | and to those who possess good natural aera ie ee ee
8.000.000 tons: but as this is not likely, | abilities the benefits of a liberal educa-| Boneless, rump butts. ..............-2.-2--++-- 9 00
the amount of ore mined and shipped | tion are unquestionable, no matter what SaUSAGE—Fresh and ied
will be about 7,500,000 tons. | vocation they may pursue. POPE SHUSHDO 7
—— rn rene ren nmr a —_—$—$———— | Ha Sausage... esse ee ee sees cere eee eee 12
Mongue sausaee...- 5. 9
Rraiaterk salsaee -o 8
I 5 t Blood Sausage. ¢....-.... 5%
Holomua, Serateht 5%
Bologna, thick.. Ce oo oe
Head Clicene: 5%
t PIGS’ FEET.
in Halt bartels. .§ .... 3 00
. a o a in quarter parcels. 2) ee
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: LE a
The firm of Putnam & Brooks, consisting of the undersigned In half parcels)... .. 00-02: 8s 2 75
: a ; : In Quarter barrels..:..-.-..--. 1 50
menwbers, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent of all the mem- ee ean eta 15
bers. Said firm is succeeded by the Putnam Candy Company, an FRESH MEATS.
incorporated company, which will continue the business formerly car- Swift and Company quote as follows:
ried on by said firm, and to whom all bills due said firm must be paid, Beef, CarCass..........--- +++ eres steers 4 @6
a ; : : : “| tend quarters. .........:....-... 0 3b @ aa
and all claims against said firm should be presented to said Putnam CE en 3 @3%
yy / fois ee. 7 @%%
Candy Company. CETL 6 @ 6%
Dated September 21, 1889. Ty) COMSUCS eee ee _ @10
ne i oe Hock: eee 5 @5%
BENJ. W. PUTNAM, Rare lon... @8
A. E. BROOKS, ec anonigers. @ 5%
OK: BolegnA .... ... et @ 5
H. C. BROOKS. Sausage, plood er heag. 000 @5
Heer. bla @5
Leena eee ea - — ee @8
Mutton . Le ee a ae oie
OYSTERS 28 and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH. i
Whieusn.....-. @i%
e Smiomed §.....-:.....-. 5... @8
rene ee ee. @%™%
Eiaiioec @15
OYSTERS.
‘| ~ > 1S a Mairhaven Counts.............--...-... @35
GRAND RAPIDS, SEPT. 21, 1889. Ni i ls we ee ee 27 )
. Re ee 2
We take pleasure in announcing to our friends and patrons that the pe bee Ce
i d C CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
r cz t Nn a mm a Nn y O mm p a nN y 9 The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK.
. . ard, 25 lb. boxes Se eee ae 10%
Incorporated under the laws of the State of Michigan, succeeds to the — aoe a”
: + : ra i: : : i Cut Loaf, 2 ae 11%
business of PUTNAM & BROOKS, and will continue the te
Royal, 25 lb. a 10%
Wholesale Manufacturing and Jobbing Business a.
0 esa. Ee ie Extra, ib, ee 11%
Sip. DGtn ee 11
Formerly carried on by the late firm. We hope, with increased facili- French Cream, 25 lb. pails.. tereteresse 12%
rancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
ties, to retain for the new firm the same generous patronage, confidence — Drops. :..--- ee 18
ee
and pleasant business relations heretofore enjoyed, and to this end we Repperming Drape 15
L OChecelate Preps... 15
pledge renewed and redoubled exertions. HM @hocolate Dropes 18
Gum Drape... .2. ee 10
Licorice Drops.. ...--..--++--++seeeeeeeeee —
THE PUTNAM CANDY COMPANY eo
' Lozenges, ee is
. ECCS 15
Grog BOE. 30. 66.5. u
M@lesses Har .- ts . a
Caceres isis
Mang Sade Crome: (tS et. 18
Plats Crcamn. ee 18
Decorated Creams.......5.....-+6: canis a stan wg 20
Sie BOGK se 15
Wueot Almonds. (22.5... Soe. boos oe 22
Wintergreen Berrieg 00 ie 14
Fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, = palig 2500 tae 12%
99 14.2 PER CENT. PURE HDDS. 12
Ss printed, = a -13
o . .-12%
Chocolate Drops, in meu ee coe ha seke
Gum Drops, = RM 6%
Me 54
We Have secured the sole agency for the Dry Rock Salt er heen he in 2 ggg ieerasemme > -- > ___—_—_
Next Meeting of the State Board of
Pharmacy.
Detroit, October 1, 1889.
A meeting of the Michigan Board of
Pharmacy, for the purpose of examining
candidates for registration, will be held
at Lansing, Wednesday and Thursday,
November 5 and 6, 1889.
The examination of both registered
pharmacists and assistants will com-
mence on Wednesday at 9 a. m., at which
hour all candidates will please report at
Representatives’ Hall. The examination
for registration for all candidates will
occupy two days.
Special railroad rates for this meeting
could not be secured, owing to the action
of the last Legislature, which caused the
Railway Association of Michigan to
change its rules relative to reduced rates
for assemblies.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES VERNOR, Sec’y.
—_—___—>_-.
The Drug Market.
Gum opium is steadily advancing.
Morphia has advanced 10 cents per ounce.
Quinine is steady. Gambier is higher.
~ Turpentine has advanced. Rape seed is
higher.
7. >____
French hospital operating tables are so
arranged that the tops may be inclined
when a chloroformed patient shows any
untoward symptoms, the head is lowered
until he assumes a nearly perpendicular
upside-down position, which has the
effect of fully restoring the heart’s
action.
| ole patriarch, and make him
they an’thing in this here Braunsquard
‘lixir thet the papers is all talkin’ ’bout
jest now? Ken yo’ put a few drops un-
der the hide of a shriveled up, wrinkled
es friskey
es a spring lamb? Could yo’ insinivate
a drop inter the veins of a toothless ole
woman, so old thet her nose en’ chin
teched, en’ she hed t’ sneak ?long on
crutches, an’ make her so glibsom thet
she could raise the front gate latch with
her toe er climb a six-rail fence ? Ef y’
was ter rub some onter the edge of a
spring zepher, would it git up en’ hump
like er Dakota cyclone? Cause ef it
does an’thing like that, I want about
four ounces. Y’ see, me en’ Lem
Ketchem—him as married Lize Slocum,
half-sister to ole Ben Slocum as was
strung up by the boys of Snakynook fer
ho’s’ stealin’ "long in the fall of *84—
this same Lem en’ me hes traded ho’ses
nigh unto eight years, en if he don’t git
the best of me every. time I hope I may
become an alderman; Lem is young en’
takes advantage of my ole age to shove
off onto me any durn ole bone-yard he
has a mind t’, en’ I dassent say a word.
Now, doc., Lem’s in town t?-day, en’
when we meet he’ll want to trade ho’ses,
en’ I would like ter git inter condition t’
put his whole family inter mournin’ ef
he don’t give me suthen t’ boot. Don’t y’
think about four fingers of this 7 tixir Of
life would be about the proper caper a
IL had none of the ‘‘’lixir,’’? but wish
ing to humor the old man, I gave him
hypodermically a few drops of ether
sulph. and told him that I thought that
would about fit his case. Thanking me
profusely, he bowed himself out and I
soon forgot all about him. It must have
been nearly two hours afterward, when I
was aroused by the tramping of feet in
my outer office, and soon the door swung
open, revealing half a dozen men bear-
ing what appeared to be the senseless
form of aman, who, after they had de-
posited him on a sofa, I recognized as
my caller of a couple of hours’ back.
One eye was closed; a piece of his left
ear hanging: his face barked in patches,
and his shirt in ribbons. I instantly set
to work to revive him and soon had the
satisfaction of seeing him open his well
eye. He looked steadily at me for a few
moments, then said, faintly :
“Say, doc., heard anythin’
four-story buildin’ fallin’ 2? ft said &
had not. ‘Bin arunaway of three or
four teams, p’raps 2”? I had not heard
of any runaway.
“No c’lishin on the railway! No
airthquake nor nothin’ Nothing that
I knew of out of the ordinary had oc-
eurred. ‘Then, doc., and he fixed that
one glittering eye full upon me, “that
Braunsquard ’lixir of life en gineral in-
vigorator is a durn fraud.”?. Why,
what has happened ?’”’ I asked. eh
>pout a
wearily; ‘‘l only know that
traded nags en’ I was feelin’
i kittenish en’ thought I was gitten’ in
-about proper trim to accuse Lem of lyin’
len’? cheatin’ en’ sich like little pleas-
|antries. Lem sed I was an oldass. I
‘reached out a lefter en’ caught him one
under the chin, en’ then a load of bricks
en’ aice wagon run over me en’ I disre-
| member anythin’ else. D’ye think, doc.,
|ye gave me enough of thet stuff ?’’ i
| told him that I thought I had, but he had
not waited long enough to get the full
benefit of it.
“Wall, I dunno,” he replied, sadly,
“but thar don’t seem to be no simmer-
ality a’tween Lem en’ me when it comes
to tradin’ ho’ses.”’
I dressed his face and helped him to
his feet. He walked slowly toward the
door, paused with his hand upon the
latch, and, half turning, said: ‘*Dec.,
don’t y’ think there should be er law
agin these newspapers tellin’ sich gol
durn whoppers as they hev about this
Braunsquard business en’ misleadin’
common folks?’ I said I believed there
should.
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A Menace to the Churches.
Minister—Johnny, is your father a
Christian?
Johnny—Not since last week, sir. Be
has bought him a cheap typewriter.
——_—=>e>_—_—_
A Financier.
| he replied,
| Lem en’ me
‘““BENNIE” STANDS FOR B.
' But an Enquirer Had to Buy a Pair of
Shoes to Find it Out.
From the New York Times.
“| want a pair of girl’s shoes,” said a
man to the floor walker of a big Sixth
. avenue shoe store a day or two ago.
“Last aisle on the left, sir, if you
please.”’
The man stumbled over a door mat,
struck his shin against the sharp edge of
a settee in his effort to avoid running
over a diminutive mother who was help-
ing fit a large-sized child with a pair of
shoes, said something inexcusable not
far enough under his breath to escape
the ears of the diminutive mother: she
said, “Oh, my!’ to which the man re-
sponded, ‘‘Don’t mention it, pray,’’ and
tipped his hat, hurried along, and finally
| got within one of the last aisles.
To him a sub-floor walker: ‘*Been
waited on2” ‘‘Neow, I hain’t,”’ with a
dash of sarcasm that passed undiscov-
ered. ‘Miss Terwilliger, wait on this
gentleman.”’
Miss Terwilliger was a pretty little
the man’s tones. She looked up, a long
way to the man’s eyes and asked:
“What kind of shoes do you wish, sir 2’’
She looked as full of fun as last week
was of weather. He said: ‘“*] want a
pair of girl’s school shoes.”’
‘What size, please ?”’
‘Number four and a half Bennie.”
That word ‘‘Bennie”’ acted like an in-
troduction from their best friends on all
the salesgirls within earshot. It was
fired off with a good lung pressure, and
half a dozen who knew what it meant
looked up and laughed and cast pleasant
glances at the big man.
Little Miss Terwilliger laughed and
turned away quickly to a dumb waiter
connecting with the stock room in the
basement. Send me up 4 pair of girl’s
schoo] four and a half Bennie.’’ she
called, and then turned her head away
to conceal her mirth. Presently she re-
turned with a pair of shoes, sizes 416 B.
The man said, ‘‘These are too narrow.”’
“But you called for Bennies, didn’t
you ?”’
“Yes: but I didn’t know what it
meant. I heard one of the salesgirls
call for a ‘Bennie,’ and an overpowering:
curiosity to find out who ‘Bennie’ was or
what ‘Bennie’ meant led me to eall for it.
I saw by the commotion it made that you
have a shop meaning for it. 1 suppose
‘Bennie’ is your love name for B,
isn’t it??
“It is the name we use in this store
for B widths.”’
‘Well, then, what does C stand for
‘sCharlie.”’
“And D2?’
‘‘Davie.”’
“And E?’’
‘“Eddie.”’
‘Bennie. Charlie, Davie, Eddie.
A, does that stand for Andie ?’’
“No: A stands for itself. You see all
the other letters have the E sound, and
in calling through the speaking tube for
them we had the same trouble in dis-
tinguishing between them that you have
over the telephone. So we invented
names to distinguish the widths of the
shoes that correspond in their first letters
with the size letters.”
“But why did you give them boys’
names? Why didn’t you call them
Bessie and Clara and Dolly and Emma ?’’
“Oh, they come quicker when we call
them by boys’ names.’’ This was deliv-
ered as a parting shot, but the mischiev-
ous little clerk remembered that she
hadn’t sold her shoes yet, so she added,
“What size do you want, sir?”
“Well, you see, my daughter had the
misfortune to be born out West—in Chi-
cago, you know.”
“Then you want 4% Eddie, I sup-
pose,” the salesgirl interrupted.
“The same.”’
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99
And
Electric Bell Swindlers.
People who are building houses for
themselves or others, and people who
are ambitious to provide their homes
with the modern improvements, should
be on their guard against the electric
bell swindle. Electric bells may all be
very well when they are properly put in,
but probably half of them are a weari-
ness to the flesh, a cause of social mis-
understandings, and an unmitigated
nuisance, because they are not properly
put in or properly cared for afterwards.
The electric bell swindler is a person
who presumes upon the general ignor-
ance of electrical appliances, and the
general ambition to be well up towards
the head of the procession. He has a
card. He ostensibly has a place of busi-
ness where he may or may not be found.
He hasasmall kit of tools, a smaller
knowledge of the rudiments of an elec-
trician’s business, and the glib tongue
and boundless assurance of the old time
lightning-rod agent. whose residuary
legatee he is. You may know him from
the fact that he solicits business after
the manner of the party who once se-
cured a big job from that emeinent po-
litical economist, Mark Twain. He in-
vades your home when you are away,
tells your wife all about it. puts in a
poor bell and a foot-push under your
dining room table, establishing ¢om-
munication with your barn if you have
one, fortifies you, so to speak, with burg-
lar alarms, sees that things work until
he collects his bill, guarantees satisfac-
tion for a year, and then fades into the
imperceptible.
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Not That Kind of Men.
A recent news item states that of the
1,060 men in the eastern penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, only nineteen were bred
mechanics. The inference which is too
plain to be missed, is that men who are
trained to work seldom become criminals.
There is a good deal of significance in
these figures, and a good deal of truth in
the conclusion reached. Work, especially
manual labor, is the great preventive
against mischief and crime. The old
‘Dorothy, I think you are dreadfully
extravagant to buy all those groceries.”’
“But, my dear Rufus, I had them
charged.”’
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Aman in Philadelphia has been dis-
covered to be the possessor of five living
wives. It would bea just punishment
to compel him to buy each one a sealskin
jacket this fall.
nursery couplet, about the employment
| which Satan furnishes for idle hands, is
| quite true. Men who have been reared
in idleness often turn criminals. Men
who have been educated in the learned
professions sometimes turn criminals.
| But men who have been taught a useful
trade, and have learned to support them-
| selves by the labor of their hands, very
seldom appear in the criminal courts.
_ An Ointment Wrinkle.
Under this caption, John E. Ryder
communicates the following to the Chem-
ist and Druggist:
I find that aqueous liquids, such as liq.
plumbi, can be incorporated with adeps,
ungts., ete., in a marvelously short time,
as compared with the ordinary method of
using the flat of the spatula, by simply
adding the liquid to the adeps, etc., on a
slab, and scoring it with the edge of the
spatula. It is taken up almost immedi-
ately, in that way, and saves a lot of
time, and also prevents the liquid spurt-
ing about. I would advise dispensers to
try it, and see what a lot of time and
patience a little wrinkle of that kind
saves.
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Polishina is clean and easy to use, as full
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Polishina is put up in LARGE BOTTLES,
Twenty-five Cents,
and is sold at the moderate price of
Polishina is the Best Furniture Finish in the
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PENSIONS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS,
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Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Mould
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and even dealers themselves fail to recognize
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The Michigan Tradesman
MY PRETTY TYPEWRITER.
My office of late has seemed brighter,
lore cheerful by far than it was;
It may be the pretty typewriter
Who sits near my desk is the cause.
A radiant, dashing young Creature;
In typewriting circles a belle;
Although I’m unable to teach her
To punctuate rightly, or spell.
Her mouth like a half-opened rose is,
Her hair rivals gold in its hue,
Tip-tilted her dear little nose is,
Her eyes are a heavenly blue.
I really should feel lost without her;
For, while there's no cause for alarm,
There’s something attractive about her,
A thrilling, intangible charm.
Her typewritten letters are fearful:
With errors they thickly are strewed:
1 seold her and she becomes tearful
And thinks I am awfully tude.
She breaks into silvery laughter,
As soon as forgiven. and I’ve
Rewritte: no end of them after
She's gone—she leaves promptly at five.
My wife, who is somewhat suspicious,
Dropped into my office to-day,
And found—well. | thought it judicious
To send my ty, ewriter away.
I really shall feel lost without her,
For, while I intended no harm,
My wife noticed something about her
That filled her dear soul with alarm.
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THE FOLLY OF LABOR.
Living on the Fatof the Land at Others’
Expense.
¥rom the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Here in New Orleans ti ere is a woman
who seems bent on demonstrating the
folly of labor: nor does she waste any
of her energies on precepts. but by prac-
tical living proves what one can do if he
refuses to permit the lack of money to
embarrass his proceedings and bring the
ealling commonly called deadbeating
down toascience. Three months ago
the landlord of a cottage on Magazine
street was approached by a plainly
dressed but highly respectable-looking
woman about years of age, who
wished to rent the place. She confessed
herself unable to give security, but gave
dignified assurances of her propriety and
punctuality asa lessee. After a brief
consideration the gentleman consented
to a few weeks’ trial, and delivered over
the keys.
About ten o’clock the next morning a
slender woman in a neat guinea-blue
bress and white sunbonnet stepped
briskly out of the alley gate and walked
off toward the nearest grocery. The
corner merchant was civily addressed by
this supposed maid-servant, who said
her mistress. Mrs. H., had rented the
eottage and wished to make arrange-
ments to have him furnish her with cer-
tain articles by the month. The grocer
declined to give such extensive credit at
first, but finally consented to send up the
rather heavy amounts asked for in sugar,
bread, crackers. sardines. lobsters and
butter, and let the account run up till
the end of the week. That afternoon
the same genteel girl stopped a milk cart
and said the lady of the house desired
five cream cheeses and half a gallon of
milk left daily.
That night there was no light any-
where on the premises, and though child-
ish voices could be heard with great
romping indoors the backyard was life-
less, no window ever frankly opened,
and, strangest of all, not a wreath of
smoke could be seen issuing from any
of the chimneys. A whole week went
by, and in all that time there was never
a light, a glimpse of any living soul,
save the trim servant as she went back
and forth. Cooking was an impossibility
without either fire or smoke, and yet
from daylight till dark it sounded as if a
drove of young mules had taken posses-
sion of the cottage, such screaming,
whistling and general row as went on
inside. About 11 o’clock one night the
back door opened very gingerly on a
crack. Soon a curly head peeped out,
evidently taking observations.
The jolly little face was shortly fol-
lowed by the absolutely nude body of a
boy of 5 years old. He slipped through,
and in a couple of minutes, the advance
guard reporting all safe, another and an-
other stark-naked child appeared, till
the five boys, ranging from 3 to 11 years
of age, came out to frolic in the warm
moonlight. The alleged servant sat
placidly on the doorstep, thoughtfully
regarding the hilarious, rosy-limbed
eupids. For a while the spectators were
too amazed for speech. But finally, with
an ejaculation, one of the party turned,
and as she did so the remarkable natur-
alistic picture dissappeared like magic.
Skit! Five bare bodies positively fiew
past the now alarmed maid, who peered
anxiously about before the door was
elosed and locked.
This last disclosure was rather too
much for the neighbors. The idiosyn-
erasies of the new family furnished an
unfailing source of interest and nothing
went on among the cottagers that keen
eyes and ears could not graphically re-
port. Finally a lady discovered that
from an upstairs window, by mounting a
chair, it was possible to see between the
blinds opposite. And such a sight as
was revealed—ludicrous and pathetic as
well. There they were, five naked boys,
scrambling, fighting, sleeping and eating
as normally as children wearing clothes.
The living room apparently, not a stick
of furniture could be seen, neither bed
nor board, nothing save a heap of gunny
sacks bundled up in one corner. The
mantel shelf served for storeroom. Here
they ate the stuff gotten from the milk-
man and the grocer—sardines, milk,
crackers and cheese, none of it requiring
the wood and stove that were lacking.
The weeks passed and then the fun
began. Negotigations for further sup-
plies from the groceries up and down
the street proved futile, and, suspecting
some crookedness, the merchants de-
manded instant settlement for provisions
already furnished. But the richest part
of it was the training of those children.
They would be yelling and fighting like
young imps when the door-bell would
ring and before a new breath was drawn
they would rival death itself in stillness.
Like a shot every one of them would
drop at the sound of the gong, no matter
how fast or wild their revelry; let knuckles
thunder on the back gate and one could
hear the crickets in the grass, so deep a
quiet reigned about the place.
For nearly two weeks longer the fam-
ily lived on peaches, pears, watermelons
Qr
ot
and bananas. Then the dago was added
to her ever-increasing list of daily call-
ers and she had graduated up toher third
milkman. It was after a more than ordi-
narily trying morning, when the frisky,
unclothed youngsters had not dared
move hand and foot, that during a lull
in the storm one of the wagons from a
confectionery down town stopped and
deposited a five-gallon freezer of ice
cream and a great tray of fancy cakes.
Too stunned to take in the situation, the
neighbors saw the cause of all the uproar
issue calmly forth in the inevitable blue
robe, and taking up cream and waiter,
relock herself away from annoying at-
tention. When grocer, dago and milk-
man refused assistance, she patronized
the ice cream shop. Next morning
freezer and waiter were neatly deposited
on the front gallery and the cottage re-
lapsed into its gloomy reserve.
Seven weeks had now elapsed, and in
that time six people had been well fed
on the uncooked fat of the land, and not
asingle penny spent. The boys, as a
peep through the window showed, were
plump as young pigs and the mother un-
concerned. If the wretched men had
not been so boisterous, all might have
yet been well. Some friends of the wid-
owed landlady notified her of the pe-
culiarities of her new tenants, and she
straightway tried to dislodge them. It
was unavailing till the month was up,
and then. with an officer, she was forced
to vacate. At the last minute the mother
begged for grace. Her children were
naked, she had not one cent for ear fare,
and some mode of conveyance must be
fonnd.
Time was granted, and in a quarter of
an hour a big double carriage. drawn by
a pair of spanking gray horses, dashed
up to the door, fresh from the livery
stable. One at a time the poor little kids
were brougnt forth, wrapped in the ever-
useful gunny bagging and wearing, in
turn, the inevitable white sunbonnet.
Having no worldly goods but her bare
boys, they were all bundled into the fine
coach, to the intinite disgust of the
driver. Madam entered last, gave the
order to Carrollton, and the last seen of
the party was a lot of rough heads peer-
ing up from the floor of the vehicle,
where the lads were crouched.
The lady who told the story concluded
by saying that her quandom neighbor
was no ordinary woman. Where ninety-
nine others ‘vould have given up in de-
spair, she industriously beat her way.
Fortune was flouted, luck ignored; she
and her boys had to live, and if the
world was grudging they would take
what they needed without asking leave.
She was honest in the main. She had
not descended to the lowest vices. She
never took anything but food. and who
can blame her for keeping her fatherless
babies? It is genius of a certain sort,
and if she began manipulations at the
barracks. working slowly and system-
atically up to Carrollton, her eldest boy
would be grown before the city was
thoroughly worked.
WHY WEAR PANTS
That do no’ fit or wear satisfac-
torily, when you can buy the
Detroit Brand, that are perfect in
stvle ard workmanship.
. JacoB BROWN &Cos
+ PERFECT Fir, -:-
Superior Make-
“ANTS and
OVERALLS.
ASK FOR THEM!
THE ALDINi& PLN 2 wAUS
SSeS Before Buying Grates, get ou:
= circular, Sent Free. The Aluine
produces Warm Floors, Perfect
Ventilation; keeps fire over night,
and is cleanly. co coal, coke,
wood or gas. Can be piped to com-
mon chimneys, or set like other
grates, andcan be runat half the
cost ofany other. AddressALDINE
MFG. CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect Oct. 6, 1889.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive. Leave.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00 am 7:20am
Traverse City Expresas............. 9:304m 11:30am
Traverse City & Mackinaw..........3:05pm 4:10pm
from Cinemuati.... <2. 8:45 pm
GOING SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express................ 7:00am
Port Wayne Express. .............. 11:45am 12:45am
Cincinmats Texpress................ 5:30 p m 6:00pm
Kalamazoo and Chicago........... 10:40 p m 11:05 p m
Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving
from Cincinnati at 7p. m., runs daily, Sundays in-
eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:20 a.m.
and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for
Mackinaw City. South—7 a. m. train has chair car and
6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati; 11:05
p. m. train has Wagner sleeping car for Chicago.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Leave Arrive.
ee eee rececieens 10:15am
U0 A ne cnc aec reer csseccenscceses 3:45 pm
GAO 0 Mh. nnn. eee cere er we eseceecessesensens 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.
Siorniie Rxpress. ooo eS 12:20pm 12:25pm
7througn Mail. .......... 4:25pm 4:30pm
+Grand Rapids Express. 40 pm
*Night Express........ . 40am 7:00am
Oo 7:30am
+Detroit Express... 6:50am
+Through Mail... 11:35 am 11:40am
+Evening Express 3:40pm 3:50 pm
agus Magee... 10:30 p m 10:55 pm
tDaily, 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.
Grand Rapids express has parlor ear Detroit to
Grand Rapids. Night express has Wagner sleeping
car between Grand Rapids and Detroit.
Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe 8t., and at the depot.
Jas. CAMPBELL. Citv Passenger Agent.
Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit.
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
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GOWANS & STOVER, Buffalo, N.Y.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. BOWNE, President.
GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier
CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.
Transacts a general banking business.
dakea Specialty of Collections. Accounts
ef Country Merchants Solicited.
FOR
Lowest Wholesale Quotations
ON BEST
Scranton Coal!
Call on or address
A. B. Knowlson,
25 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.
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—WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.—
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Every garment bearing the above ticket is
WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re- |
oes, you are requested to return it to the |
erchant of whom it was purchased and receive |
a new garment.
STANTON, SAMPSON & €O.,|
Manufacturers, Detroit, Wich.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Ionia Pants& OverallCo.
E. D. Voorhees, Manager.
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MANUFACTURERS OF
Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Rts.
Warranted Not to Rip. .
Fit Guaranteed.
Workmanship Perfect.
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Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him
to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices
sent on application.
IONIA, MICH.
RG. SYUDLEY,
Wholesale Dealer in
Rubber
Boots and Shoes
Manufactured by
CANDEE RUBBER 60.
Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue and
Price List.
A Commo
TELEPHONE 464.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
CURTISS & CoO.,
WHOLESALE
Paper Warehouse.
We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle
ever made.
Houseman Block, -
No. 4 Monroe Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Job Printing!
We desire to call 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.
Wecarry a complete line
of stationery, papers—in
fact all kinds of printers’
stock. Send sample of
what you want.
Fuller & Stowe
Company,
GRAND cucnenes
BP. J. DETTENTHALER,
Uysters
Salt Fish.
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column.
CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED.
The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
a
Manufacturers of
Delivery Wagons of
all descriptions. Also
manufacturers full
line of Delivery and
Road Sleighs. Write
for illustrated cata-
logue and price list.
BROWN & SEHLER,
DEALERS IN
Fngines, Bollers aud Will Machinery, Farm Machinery,
Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages.
in RY
asa | bo
ridge and North
joe
Corner West B Front Sts. GRAND RAPIDS.
P. Steketee & Sons,
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
Sell the following well-known
brands of calico:
ALLEN’S, AMERICANS, SIMPSON’S, HAMILTON’S
WASHINGTON’S, WINDSORS, MERRIMAC, COCHECO,
RIVERPOINT, STEEL RIVER, ST. LEDGER, EDYSTONE, e
CHARTER OAK, ANCHOR, FRANKLIN, HARMONY,
IMPERIAL BLACK, BERLIN SOLIDS, SLATER SOLIDS,
COCHECO SOLIDS, SUTAN SOLIDS. SATIN STYLES OF SIMPSON & GARNER.
Also Comforts at All Prices.
83 Monroe and 10, 12,14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts.
Grand Rapids.
Rindge,
MICHIGAN
Bertsch & Co.,,
AGENTS FOR THE
BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CoO.
We carry a full line in stock and guarantee terms and prices as good as any house
selling the line. Correspondence solicited.
14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Seventeen Years on the Market
With a steady increase in demand.
Jennings Flavoring kxtracts
ARE ALWAYS RELIABLE AND UNIFORM IN QUALITY AND PRICE, BEING
MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT
BE OTHERWISE THAN THE FINEST FLAVORS PRODUCED.
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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.
WHO URGES YOU
TO hEEP
=A. -OLtO*?
ie PUBLIC!
By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
rinnarm Candy Co.,
JOBBERS OF
FOreloD Fruts, Nuts aud Oysters.
13, 15, 17 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids.
WM.SEARS & CO.,
Cracker Manufacturers,
37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.