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Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1905

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

 

2. Window Trimming.
3.. Hardware Men.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Whisky vs. Success.
8. Editorial
9. Men of Mark.

11. New York Market.

12. New Pharmacy Law.

16. Clothing.

20. Change of Work.

22. The Small Baker.

24. Woman’s World.

26. Father Against Son.

28. Clerks’ Corner.

30. Preserving Eggs.

32. Shoes.

34. Wait Until You Win.

36. Men of Mark.

38. Dry Goods.

39. Hot Weather Advertising.
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

43. Drug Price Current.

44. Grocery Price Current.

46. Special Price Current.

 

 

Neck-To-Neck Strife At
Sale.

Homer, July 22—The auction sale
of the bankrupt general stock of
Amzy A. McDonnell was held, ac-
cording to agreement and advertise-
ment, at the store Wednesday after-
noon. It was magnetic enough to
bring to town prospective delvers
from Detroit, Battle Creek, Port Hu-
ron, Albion, Marshall, St. Clair and
other towns to the number of fifteen.

Mounting his pedestal as auction-
eer, Trustee J. S. Duffie, Detroit,
cried the desired cry—and the strife
was on. It was a strife. Feverish,
anxious, excited, fighting every inch
and leaving no leeway, the parties to
the fray offered their divers bids.
After a fierce, sweltering conflict the
stock was sold to W. A. Garrison, of
the firm of P. Medalie & Co., St.
Clair.

B. F. Warner got the bake-oven,
refrigerator and twenty-eight cords
of wood for a consideration of $175.
He transferred them to Mr. Garrison.
This puts the St. Clair man in pos-
session of the entire outfit. His bid
was $4,250. McConnell’s accounts,
running into $520, were placed under
the hammer, but nobody going above
$15, they were undisposed of. Later, at
private sale, Frank Shield bought
them for $75.

Mr. Garrison said that, although he
had been a buyer at many a bankrupt
sale, and an attendant of sales innu-
merable, this was the hottest one by
odds he had ever witnessed.

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Death of a Leading Kalamazoo
Grocer.

Auction

Kalamazoo, July 25.—Carl Meister-
heim, one of the most prominent of
Kalamazoo’s German-American
zens, and for twenty-six years a resi-
dent of the city, died last Saturday
morning at his home, 215 East North
At the time the cause of death
was not known and an autopsy was
held at 2 o'clock that afternoon by
Drs. Crane, Ostrander, Balch, den
Bleyker and Hochstein. The physi-

citi-

street.

to softening of the brain.
years old and had been ill but two
weeks, although his health had not

been of the best for some months
past.

He was owner of a grocery store
and was one of the members of the
Kalamazoo Retail

Grocers’ associa-

tion. He had held the offices of presi-
dent and treasurer of that organiza-
tion at various times and had also
been honored by his election to va-
rious positions in the state
grocers’ association. He was a mem-
ber of the local A. U. V. society and
held various official positions in the

official

lodge and was also a member of the
Piks lodge and of the C. M. B.A.
At the
trustee of St. Augustine’s church and

time of his death he was a

had long been known as one of its

most prominent and_ steady sup-
porters.

Funeral services were held Monday
morning at 9 o'clock at St. Augus-
tine’s church, Rev. F. A.

ciating. Burial

O’Brien offi-
was in Mt. Olivet
cemetery.
erie te

The widow of William Zeigler, the
Brooklyn man who made millions in
the baking powder business, has be-
gun a contest of his will, alleging that
he was incompetent at the time it
was executed.
tate under the will goes to an adopt-
ed son, who is instructed to promote
the search for the North Pole. The
widow is not with the in-
come of $50,000 a year provided for
her. She evidently thinks she could

satisfied

make better use of the money than

expending it upon Arctic expeditions.
——__+<- + ___

Forris D. A. Stevens,

ceeded Frank R.

who __ suc-
Miles as the head
of the cabinet hardware department
& Co.
latter retired to take the management
of the Miles Hardware Co., has re-
signed his position to engage in the

of Foster, Stevens when the

bond and brokerage business under
the style of the Heald-Stevens Co.
The vacancy is filled by Mr. Miles,
who returns to the old house and the
old position and has taken up the
work exactly where he left off three
or four years ago.
a a
Willey & Joseph, dealers in flour
and feed and hay at Mesick, have
added a line of groceries. The Wor-
den Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
a ea
H. Buist has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Fishers Station. The
Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.
—_. 2
Pontiac—The Rapid Motor Vehicle
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $250,000.

 

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Number 1140

The Grain Market.

There has been a general change of
sentiment in reference to the wheat
situation the past few days.
ports from the

Rust re-
Northwest are not
quite so positive. The weather in
Minnesota and North and South Da-
kota has been very favorable for the
growing spring wheat. It has made
well headed,
some sections of
Dakota would indicate’ that
cutting will begin by August 1 and
wiJl be August 10.
carried on

good progress and is
and reports

South

from

general by
Threshing is now being
throughout the winter

wheat states

and the reports of yields are very
liberal. The out-turn in Michigan is
running as high as thirty to thirty-
five bushels to the acre and the qual-
ity was never better except in cer-
tain localities where there seems to
be a little smut on the white wheat;
then, too, in some sections of the
southern part of the State the white
wheat started to grow in the stalk be-
fore cutting. The bulk of the crop,
however, is cared for and in fine con-
dition. Kansas is estimated to have
a crop of from 95,000,000 to 100,-
000,000 bushels and the wheat
is moving freely.

new
The visible supply
»293,-

000 bushels as compared with a loss

for the week shows a loss of
of 2,721,000 bushels last week, and 2
loss of 2,378,000 bushels for the same
The from
the milling and shipping trade is good
and the

week last year. demand

movement for the next
Some of
liberal ex-
port orders both for immediate and
future

month is likely to be heavy.

the larger mills report

shipments.

The corn market continues strong,
receipts are fair and demand good,
cash corn bringing from 62@63c per
bushel Michigan

delivered common

points. The new crop is making fine
progress and promises to be a record
breaker, but, of course, the final re-
sults depend entirely on the weather.

Oats have shown considerable
strength this week owing to light re-
ceipts and the fact that the new crop
as a whole does not promise quite so
much in quality and quantity as it
How-

ever, we will have a fair crop and
change the

did two or three weeks ago.

threshing returns may
considerably.
Millfeeds are in better demand and
prices are from soc@$1 per ton high-
er. L. Fred Peabody.

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outlook

John Schmidt has purchased the
stock of the Michigan Store & Office
Fixture Co. and will continue’ the
business at 79 South Division street
under the same style. He has also
purchased the property on _ Butter-
worth avenue formerly occupied by
the veterinary college and will utilize
same as a repair shop.

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

New Idea That Would Make Smart

Trim.

I have often queried why mer-

chants, town and country alike, do}

not rely more on the comic papers
and supplements, and on other print-
ed matter, for ideas for their window-
men to carry out. Advantage could
be taken of this source of supply and
many a window be gotten up at small
expense, and the wonder would stand
that no one else had thought of em-
ploying this clever means of drawing
attention.

so far, has essayed to use comic pic-

tures as a motif for window trims.
It is not to be imagined that any

great amount of merchandise would

be sold as a result of these exhibits, |
and |

but “anything for a change,”
during the dull summer days such un-
usual displays would keep a crowd of
people in front of your glass and your
name in everybody’s mouth. It’s the
out-of-the-ordinary that brings
toriety.

Along this line, you could not do
better, during the dog-days, than to

have a few windows devoted to the |

partings of Lucy and Sophie, the
two Chicago (and so typical of the
globe) young women whose fare-
wells to each other remind one of
the phrase, “linked sweetness long
drawn out.” These are so utterly ri-
diculous, but at the same time so dis-
tinctly feminine and actual to life,
that even the women laugh at them,
although they are laughing at them-

selves when they do so. Some of
the episodes depicted seem _ far-
fetched, and yet anyone who _ has

watched two persons of the Gentler
Sex trying to tear themselves away
from each other at the end of a pro-
longed parting can but say the sight
is one of common occurrence.

Lucy and Sophie, as those know |
who are acquainted with their pecu- |
liar tactics, ever have so many last |

words to say to each other that they
always end by blocking the way for
a crowd of people, causing delayed
departures for trains, etc. or else
bring upon one of themselves some
dire catastrophe, which, although ex-
tremely silly, is such a circumstance
as might happen.

Those last two words put me in

mind of that saying: “What is to be |
will be; and what ain’t to be might |

happen!” which is perfectly true
when you simmer it down.

Of course, all the details in the
pictures presented of Lucy and

Sophie might not be convenient of
accomplishment, but enough could
be utilized for all practical purposes.
All the dummies in the store could be
pressed into service to form the
crowd who are hindered by the girls,
and the former could be arrayed in
men’s apparel and a wig, and have
their faces turned from the specta-
tors, if it was desired to have men

The Giant, with its Buster |
Brown, is the only local store which, |

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| ae the group; or perhaps it - would
ae possible to borrow some men
| dummies from some clothing store
|for a few days. It is easy to get
nice sod or dirt for an outdoor set-
'ting and the other parts of scenery
not be difficult to pick up.
What was lacking to bring out the
idea could be painted in on a canvas
| background. Usually the accessories
lare very simple and any window
trimmer with a little ingenuity—and
this they all have to a more or less
marked degree—can think up sub-
stitutes if he can not acquire the orig-
inal article.

| would

In the last picture where the “sweet
things” say “Goodbye” a balloon is
in different stages of inflation, and
the usual workmen, and others who
/}are always more than willing to as-
sist at the exciting part of holding
| down the edges of the dirigible thing,
‘are engaged in this occupation. Lucy
/and Sophie, unconscious of the out-
| side world or of impending doom, are
|seen embracing each other fondly,
oblivious of the fact that the balloon
rope with its anchor is dragging be-
|tween them. The aeronaut appears,
solicitude in every feature, warning
them of their danger. As usual, they
|}hear nothing of what is going on
around them, with the inevitable con-
i sequence, this time, that Lucy’s frilly
| petticoats are caught by the anchor
jas the balloon springs from _ the
ground, and the last seen of her she
is dangling through space, with the
|ascensionist grasping the rope in a
| frantic endeavor to haul her in, while
|four of the workmen are running at
breakneck speed with an outstretched
sheet to catch her in if she falls at
lonce! At the last kiss—which would-
n’t be the last if they could help it—
Sophie is dragged from the ground
in the clasp of Lucy’s arms, scream-
ing, as she leaves Mother Earth,
“Oh, my face—let go!” Lucy drops
|her and she falls on her hands and
iknees in the dirt, saying, “Poor
Goodbye!” And Lucy, up-
| stde-down in the clouds, true to her
| habit, calls, “Oh, Goodbye, Sophie!”
at the same time reaching vain arms
to her hat, which is floating down
to Sophie.

 

 

| Lucy!

Without so very much trouble all
| this catastrophe could be shown in
ithe window; and the different acts
| could be presented on _ successive
i days, thus “lengthening the agony,”
las it were! Also a curtain could be
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adding to the curiosity of the crowd
lon the sidewalk, and the curtain
could be placarded as to what was
to happen next in the scene.

My word for it, the store that
| should experiment with such a repro-
duction would find itself muchly
talked about. It goes without say-
ing that publicity should be given
\the event in the daily or weekly pa-
jpers and the affair should be an-
nounced with the usual Balloon As-
cension scare heads—somewhat on
this order:

Balloon Ascension
At Our Store
August I, 2, 3, 4
Watch Out
!

Some Results Obtained from Gas En-
gines.

A Monroe street merchant whose
electric lighting bill was averaging
about $50 per month installéd a gas-
oline engine and generator in_ his
basement and succeeded in lighting
his store for $32 per month, introduc-
ing more lights and securing: a much
better result than under Edison con-
ditions. When the Edison Co. inaug-
urated its so-called-reduced rates on
May 1, the merchant was importuned
to change back to the Edison Co. on
the guaranty of an officer of the com-
pany that the charges would be no
more than under gasoline engine con-
ditions. The proposition was accept-
ed, but the first month’s. bill—as pur-
ported to be shown by the meter—
was $58. The Edison Co. accepted
$31 in full payment and is continuing
to furnish current on the flat~ rate
basis of $31 per month, albeit the
meter is claimed to show a monthly
consumption of about $60.

In view of the action of the Grand
Rapids Edison Co. in advancing its
rate to power users to $90 per horse
power per year, it is interesting to
note what results can be obtained
from gas and producer gas engines.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,
Ltd., operate their factory with a 35

gas furnished by the Grand Rapids
Gas Light Co. at a cost of $48 per
horse power. This is not an experi-
mental cost, but represents actual ex-
perience covering a series of years.

The Grand Rapids Brass Co. is in-
stalling a 150 horse power producer
gas plant at a cost of $10,000 on the
guarantee of the manufacturer that
the cost of operating the plant, so
far as fuel is concerned, will not ex-
ceed $10 per horse power per year.

The Thornapple Electric Co., which
operates a dam at La Barge, is furn-
ishing power to the Barber Bros.
Chair Co., at Hastings, for $30 per
horse power. The new dam recently
completed at Marseilles, Ill., is furn-
ishing power to the paper mills at
that place for $7.35 per horse power—
twenty-four hours per day.

With its new dam on Flat River—
constructed by Daniel McCool, who
enjoys the reputation of being one
of the most expert consulting engi-
neers in the country—the Edison Co.
should be able to furnish its day cus-
tomers with power and light at one-
half the price it is now charging
them, pay the interest on its bond is-
sue and still have something left to
apply as dividends on its enormously
inflated capital stock.

——_+ +2 —____
Believes Tan Oxfords Have Come To
Stay.

Grand Rapids, July 25—Your arti-
cle in the issue of July 19 on “Local
Shoe Man Who Regards Tan Ox-
fords a Fad” is worthy of comment
only as being a foolish and
brainless opinion. Surely it was
never written by any of our local
dealers, for in the first place the writ-
er is not abreast of the times and
familiar with the styles and popular
novelties as worn in the cities all
over the country. The fact that the

 

horse power gas engine, producing |
electric light and power from coal |

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manufacturers and dealers in some
instances have overbought is a poor
argument against tan footwear.

I am surprised at such an inferior
and trashy opinion as the
question receiving valuable space in
your publication. Tans are worn to-
day by everybody who
easy and fashionable shoe and, so far

one. -in

desires) an

as style and tastes are concerned, an_
one who has once worn a tan Oxford
is strong in his recommendation of
same.

Apart from this, ail the manufac-
turers are showing samples for next
summer > Wear and. the tanners are
short on tan stock and will be a
long time in catching up with orders

for next spring delivery. True some

dealers, or at least a few, have bought
‘too many tans for this season’s trade,
but it- was the limited consumption
and not the color that had to do
with the surplus.. Other conditions
had much more to do with it than
the fact that tans: had not been worn
few years. Our well-posted
friend will find, if he off the
back street and looks around, that the
world is full of “cheap skates” and
that his neighbors are going to show

and sell them right-along.

Metropolitan.
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To Quadruple Its Works.

Bay City, July 25——The World's
Star Knitting Co. will within six or
eight weeks begin the construction of

for 3
gets

additions to its present factory that
will nearly quadruple the present ca-

pacity, reducing. the present three-
story building to nothing more than
storage rooms. The company re-

cently increased its capital from $25,-
000 to $200,000, of which $150,000 is

paid in ana $50,000 is held as treasury

stock. The company will triple its
operating forces, giving employment
ultimately to between 250 and> 300

girls, besides a number of male oper-
The company
is a purely local institution and has

ators, machinists, etc.

had a wonderful growth, beginning
ten years ago when D. L. Galbraith,
the present secretary
with his father and

the manufacture of

and manager,

brother, began
with
The
father is now chief mechanician, has

stockings

three hand knitting machines.

made a number of important improve-
ments in knitting machinery, and con-
trols what is claimed to be the most

modern and labor saving knitting
machinery plant in the country. The
company has reorganized several

times, each time increasing, while it
has moved four times, each time into
larger quarters. Now it will — be-
come one of the big manufacturing
institutions. The product so far has
been stockings and socks only, but a
knit underwear line will be added.
——_.-~- 2

The Panama Canal Commission is
to employ 2,000 each of Italians, Jap-
anese and Chinese laborers to test
their comparative capacity for work

under tropical conditions. These
three classes to-day undoubtedly
contain the most efficient rough

workers of the world. Their strength
and endurance are marvelous. If
they can not dig the Panama Canal
it may never be dug at. all.

  

 

 

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Programme for Their Annual Con-
vention at Saginaw.

The following programme _ has
been prepared for the annual con-
vention of the Michigan Retail Hard-
ware Dealers’ Association, which will
be held at Saginaw Aug. 9, Io and II:

Wednesday, August 9.
(Open Session.)
© 2. m.

Meeting of the Executive Commit-
tee at Executive headquarters, Parlor
A, Hotel Vincent.

70 2. m.:

Reception of members and enroll-
ment of new members.

Payment ‘of dues and distribution
of badges.

2p. a.

Meeting called to order by the
President at the Germain Temple of
Music.

Address of Welcome—Hon. Henry
Lee, Mayor of Saginaw.

Response—J. B. Sperry, President
of the Association.

Appointment of Committees—On

Credentials, Constitution and By-
Laws, Resolutions, Question Box,
Legislation, Finance and Nomina-
tions.

Reading of minutes.

Reception of communications.

Annual address of the President.

Annual report of the Treasurer.

Annual report of the Secretary.

Address—“Our Friends,” T. Frank
Ireland, Belding.

Voluntary remarks by delegates.

Paper—The History of Our Asso-
ciation, Henry C. Weber, Detroit.

Reminiscences by members.

Address.

8 p. m.
Individual entertainment of visit-
ors at Germania Gardens.
Thursday, August Io.
(Open Session.)
© a, 2

Address—Subject to be selected, E.
B. Standart, Holland.

Discussion of the above address.

Address—W. P. Bogardus, Presi-
dent of the National Retail Hardware
Dealers’ Association, Mt. Vernon, O.

Remarks by members.

Address—Mutual Fire Insurance,
W. P. Lewis, Albany, Ind.

Discussion—Led by A. T. Steb-
bins, Rochester, Minn., and C. A.
Peck, Berlin, Wis.

Address—The Traveling Man, by
one of them.

2 p. m.

Closed session for retail hardware
dealers only.

Reports of Committees on Creden-
tials, Constitution and By-Laws, Fi-
nance, Legislation and Resolutions.

Consideration of Committee  re-
ports.

Unfinished business.

New business.

Opening of the question box.

Report of the Committee on Nom-
inations.

Election of officers.

Selection of the next place of meet-
ing.

Good of the order.

Adjournment.

8 p. m.

 

Bohemian Night for hardware deat | The Value of Interurban Roads. |

ers and friends.
Dutch lunch and vaudeville enter-

 

Battle Creek, July 23.—The Nichols
& Shepard Threshing Machine Co. is |

tainment given by Saginaw mer-| building a brick smoke stack 125 feet

chants, jobbers, manufacturers and
visiting salesmen at Germania Gar-
dens.

Friday, August II.

Jobbers’, manufacturers’ and trav-
eling representatives’ day.

The entire programme has_ been
turned over to the Committee of
Salesmen, of which T. J. Furlong, St.
Ignace, is Chairman, and announce-
ment in regard to the details of the
same for this day will be made at the
convention.

Members are requested to report
at the convention hall promptly at
the hour announced for each meet-
ing, and representatives of jobbers
and manufacturers are invited to as-
sist in having meetings open prompt-
ly by closing their parlors at least
five minutes before each meeting.

2
Hardware Trade More Active Than
Expected.

The volume of orders for general
hardware, now being placed with
manufacturers and jobbers by the re-
tailers in all parts of the country, is
considerably in excess of the usual
record at this time of the year. Many
retailers are especially
their demands on jobbers for quick
shipments from stock of
goods for which they have recently
been placing moderate supplementary
orders. The trade in sporting and
outing goods is very brisk and, al-
though business in these lines was
late in developing, the magnitude of
these transactions is now making up
for its tardy beginning.

Haying and grass tools continue
very active and the demand is being
maintained longer than usual, al-
though it started earlier than was ex-
pected and continued heavy through-
out the spring season. Binder twine
is being purchased freely owing to

the increased requirements resulting |

from an exceptionally good harvest
of oats and rye. Garden hose is not
very active owing to the continuance
of wet weather throughout the North
and Southwest.

Business in fall goods is growing
brisker every day, and it is believed
that retailers will begin to order sup-
plies in these lines much earlier than
usual.

Stocks of general hardware in the
hands of retailers are greatly deplet-
ed, although their purchases in the
spring were heavier than customary.
Wire nails and other wire products
are quiet, but the undertone of the
market continues strong and there
is less evidence of price-cutting by
jobbers. Builders’ hardware also
continues active. It is generally ex-
pected that the business booked by
the leading manufacturers and job-
bers during the current month will
be far larger than that in the corre-
sponding month last year, and the
outlook for the remainder of the year
is very promising.

———_+---»—___-

You can tell what a man’s fruits
will be if you know where he sets his
roots.

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high. These stacks are now built

round instead of square, as in former
years.
pense of constructing such an appar-
thing. This smoke

ently simple

stack will cost $2,400.

Few people realize the ex-|

The Advance Pump & Compressor |

Co. made
England and New Zealand, and have

shipments last

just received orders from Australia.
These orders were secured through
their exhibit at the St. Louis
This company has been obliged to

enlarge the steam plant, and install a |

week to|

Among the greatest aids to btsi-
ness are the interurban. roads.. The
Business Men’s Association has as-
certained that for: the
Jaly 1,

carried in and out of this city on. the

year ending

1905, 2,885,340 passengers were

Battle Creek & Jackson and the Bat-

tle Creek & Kalamazoo electric lines.

These lines bring so much business

to the city that the Business Men’s

Association will do all in its power to

encourage the building of three more
]

| proposed electric lines into this city:

|One to

Pair. |

new Sampson engine. For several |

weeks past the men have been work- |

ing nights to enable the firm to fill
orders.

A large refrigerating company, of
é é 5S 2

Chicago, has been looking over one}

of the vacant food company buildings, |

with the purpose of locating here.
No bonus or pledges are asked.

An Ohio shovel and stamping com-
pany, employing 200 men, is corres-

ponding with the Business Men’s as- |

sociation, with a view of locating

here. The company ask for some

Lansing, one to Coldwater
and one through the lake region of
Berry county to Hastings and Grand
Rapids.
———__. +.
Magnet Used in Surgery.

bids fair to
throne of the
knife, in the

The electro magnet

usurp the surgeon’s
manipulation of which
the contemporary physician is reput-
A case in
which a piece of a hammer head had

ed to take great delight.

| been driven into the muscles of the

privileges and the proposition is being |

considered.

patented by E. H.
will occupy the

Humphrey, and

building formerly

|used by the Knell Air Brake Co. The

different
styles, and are constructed upon an

tables are made in _ nine

entirely original and unique plan.
The American Stone & Construc-

which sold its

tion Co., plant and

grounds to the Grand Trunk, as part

lof the site to be occupied by the Grand

Trunk locomotive shops, has erected
a new plant in the southwestern part
of the city, at an expense of $20,000,
and is now turning out 26,000 brick a

day. There is no other brick yard in

| this section.

ltried. The
A company has been organized here |
| to manufacture a new extension table |
summer |

upper arm and another in which a
piece of a chisel had been imbedded
in the forearm, had been both left
without operation in the hope that
the pieces would work out of them-
selves; but instead of this the wound
festered and an electro magnet was
result was wholly suc-
cessful, the pieces instantly appear-
ing on the magnet. In another re-
steel

markable instance a chip. of

that had been imbedded in the palm

|of a man’s hand for a year and a half,
lanother piece of steel that had been

lin the back of a hand for
|years, and a_ broken

|exit through the

seven
sewing needle
that had been extremely painful were
all triumphantly removed through the
magical influence of the magnet.
They all seem to have made their
channel of their
original entrance. The most suita-
ble magnet for this purpose has a
core four feet long and six inches in
diameter, and is insulated with spe-
cial cartridge paper.

 

 

 

Wanted
Immediately

A few strong,

conductors.

ately, either by person or by letter.

 

Saginaw Valley Traction Co.
Saginaw, Mich.

honest, energetic,
capable young men of good char-
acter, to learn the operation of
street cars, either as motormen or
Good wages.
manent position.

Per-
Apply immedi-

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Slocum—C. L. Gold will remove
his drug stock to Mears about Aug. I.

Menominee — Frank Augur has
opened a new grocery store at 1109
Main street.

Port Huron—Lewis Manning has
sold his grocery stock to Wm. Duce,
late of Jackson.

Martin—Dr. George B. Nichols, the
veteran druggist, is very low and is
not expected to live many days.

St. Louis—Frank D. Bacon will
continue the agricultural implement
business formerly conducted by Ba-
con & Ulmer.

Hartland—Bert H. Marling has
sold his general stock to Geo. Weller,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Colon—C. W. Lanning, of Sturgis,
has rented the Stull store and engag-
ed in the cigar, tobacco and confec-
tionery business.

Brown City—Jesse F. Holden has
sold his drug stock to Peters Bros.,
druggists at Davison. They will con-
tinue both stores.

Nunica—Kinney & Gray have pur-
chased the general stock of Wm.
Barberich and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Boyne City—Mrs. S. A. Gaumer
has sold her grocery stock and bak-
ery to Mr. Bellmar, of Petoskey, who
took possession immediately.

Mt. Pleasant—Chatterton & Son,
dealers in grain and produce, have
merged their business into a stock
company under the same style.

Thompsonville—F. R. Northwood
has sold his drug stock to Dr. Geo.
W. Beaman, who was formerly en-
gaged in the drug business at Char-
levoix.

Lansing—L. Frank Morrison has
opened a drug store at 108 Michigan
avenue west. The store has been re-
decorated and new fixtures have been
secured.

Ishpeming—Ivar Johnson has re-
tired from the clothing and _ shoe
firm of Johnson & Peterson. The
business will be continued by O. L.
Peterson.

Adrian—Lewis F. Kaiser has pur-
chased the grocery stock of John
Limbacher on Seeley street and has
removed the business to 120 North
Main street.

Bangor—C. M. Wilkinson, formerly
of Berlamont, has moved this
place, having purchased Mr. Grills’ in-
terest in the former firm of Grill &
Powell, meat dealers.

Benton Harbor—J. M. Luce has
purchased a grocery stock on Pipe-
stone street and will remove to this
place from Hartford for the purpose
of conducting same.

Petoskey—George Eckel, Manager
of the Eckel Drug Co., died last Sat-
urday and was buried Tuesday. He
was an unusually successful druggist,
having made a remarkable record ina
comparatively short period.

Potterville—N. O. Merritt & Co.
have sold their grocery stock, fix-

 

to

tures and business to Albert E.
I.ocke, of Grand Rapids. They give
possession about Sept. 1. The senior
member of this firm has been in busi-
ness here sixteen years.

Orion—-Berridge & Berridge, the
oldest druggists here, have sold their
stock and rented their store to An-
derson & Son, of Davison, who take
immediate possession.

Grand Ledge—Sharpe & Co. have
|sold their furniture stock and under-
ltaking business to G. B. Johns, of
Milford, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Mesick—R. M. Harry has purchas-
ed the interest of his partner, Bruce
Preston, in the Mesick Furniture &
Hardware Co. and has moved the
stock into the Evitts building.

Gagetown—B. and S. Pearlman, of
Bay City, to be known as Pearlman
Bros., will take possession of D.
Burton’s block Sept. 1 and carry a
| stock of groceries, dry goods and
| shoes.

Rockford—J. A. Fletcher has re-
tired from the grocery firm of Mil-
ler & Fletcher. The business will
be continued by Homer Miller and
Leon Miner under the style of Miller
& Son.

Detroit—The Wayne Automobile
& Supply Co., with $10,000 capital
stock, $3,000 paid in, has filed arti-
cles of association with the county
clerk. John B. Farr, J. T. Chriselius
and A. W. Muer are the stockholders.

Vestaburg—L. L. Hart and E. C.
Hart, who have been engaged in
general trade here under the style of
Hart, Livingston & Co., are closing
out their stock and will retire from
business... They will take up their
| residence in Grand Rapids.
Jackson—Benj. Stern has formed a
| coger tacennep with Mr. Summerfield,
|of St. Louis, Mo., for the purpose of
engaging in the house furnishing
goods business under the style of the
|Stern Furniture Co. The stock will
be installed about Aug. 15.
Hartford—M. A. Engle and F. F.
Woolsey have purchased the drug
stock of W. A. Engle, and will con-
tinue the business under the firm
iname of Engle & Woolsey. These
gentlemen have been in active charge
of the business for the past
years.

Pontiac—-W. J. Tinney, whose gro-
cery store was recently closed on a
chattel mortgage foreclosed by J. E.
Carland, has resumed at the old
stand. Jas. Eno, of Cass City, has
purchased the stock and Mr. Tinney
his manager. Mr. Eno
comes to this city at once to take
charge of his property.

Howell—C. G. Jewett has sold his
hardware stock to G. W. Milner &
Co., of Toledo, Ohio, who are now
shipping the goods away. Mr. Jewett
has been reducing the stock for a
| year or more with the intention of
leo it out as soon as _ possible.
Mr. Jewett retains his plumbing de-
eae and will devote his entire
time to that work.

Sault Ste. Marie—A _ petition has
been filed for a receiver for the Blum-
rosen Co., a leading dry goods firm.
Moses Meserous and Joseph Carri-
veau allege that they were forced out

 

 

nine

will act as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of the company illegally and that
they received none of the dividends
granted or the value of their stock.
They make claim that they signed
papers for the purpose of securing a
loan, and it later developed that they
had turned their stock over to Bern-

ard Blumrosen by the signing of the

papers. Blumrosen denies the
charges.
Pontiac—T. H. Landon, junior

partner in the firm of Harger & Lan-
don, announces that A. C. Harger has
withdrawn from the firm and that he
will sell the stock and close the busi-
ness as soon as possible. Harger &
fandon bought the stock and busi-
ness of Turk Brothers about four
months ago, and the firm has been

 

conducting a grocery store with a
bar in connection at the old stand.
Manufacturing Matters.
Traverse City—B. Chervenka is

erecting a small factory here for the
manufacture of interior fixtures and
furniture.

Wolverine—The Custer Manufac-
turing Co. is negotiating for a site on
which to erect a factory for the man-
ufacture of clothespins at this place.
The plant uses beech and birch and
will employ seventy-five hands.

McBain—The Cromwell Lumber
Co. is operating its mill here night
and day preparatory to removal from
this place. McBain this
concern, which has paid out an aver-
age of more than $20,000 a year for
material and labor during the past
ten years.

Detroit—A corporation has
formed under the style of the Norse-
man Cigar Co. for the purpose of
manufacturing and selling cigars. The
company has an authorized capital
stock of $5,000, of which amount
$3,000 has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The
Manufacturing

will miss

been

American Specialty
Co. has been incor-
porated for the purpose of manufac-
turing vending machines with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50,000 com-
mon and $50,000 preferred, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Detroit—The Wayne Specialty Co.
has been incorporated for the pur-
pose of manufacturing and_ selling
scaffold brackets and other special-
ies.
capital stock of $5,000, of which
amount $2,700 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Detroit—Edward J. Woodison, Lo-
renzo A. Crandall, William F. Bart-
let, W. Bruce Howard and John A.
Preston have incorporated as the De-
troit Foundry Supply Co. and filed
articles of association with the coun-
ty clerk. The capital stock is $25,-
000, of which $16,010 has been paid
in in cash.

Detroit—Crosby & Co., manufac-
turers of stone enamel, have filed ar-
ticles of association, incorporating
for $100,000, of which $1,000 has been
paid in in cash and $19,000 in present
business property. The stockholders
are Charles F. Crosby, of Detroit:
George H. Hill, of Worcester, Mass..
and Andrew Cunningham, of Oak-
land, Cal,

 

 

The company has an authorized |

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battle Creek—The Korn Krisp fac-
tory will be sold by Circuit Court
Commissioner North on August 21 to
satisfy a ‘judgment given Edwin J.
Phelps, trustee, for $55,585 by the
Circuit Court June 26. Some attor-
neys are afraid of taking any chances
on a deed given by Mr. North, as he
has already qualified as circuit judge,
and it leaves a chance for a legal
fight.

Cheboygan—The largest sawdust
pile in the world, located in this city,
is being converted into charcoal,
ethyl, alcohol or oxalic acid. This
pile accumulated from 1877 until the
lumbering operations that made it
were suspended, a couple of years
ago. It is 1,080 feet long and 875
feet wide, is from twenty to fifty feet
deep and covers twelve acres. The
sawdust after the outer crust has been
taken off is found as bright as when
placed there.

——_+> +>
Fourth and Last Call.

Grand Rapids, July 25.—We again
approach you and through vou we
hope to interest your city in behalf
Day

and

of the Michigan Butchers’ and

Grocers’ picnic barbecue

Thursday, August 3rd, which will be

on

held in our city in connection with
the National convention of Master
Butchers of America.

In our previous series of letters we
have given the details of this occa-
sion, and will only repeat that they
are the most elaborate ever attempted
State.
will be a source of instruction to all
the
Speakers of national reputation will

in the The convention sessions

connected with meat business.
deliver addresses at each session and
the public is especially invited to at-
tend in the evening.

Michigan day will be devoted to en-
fun. Many
have arranged to run special trains,

tertainment and cities
and in many cities the butchers and
grocers close all day.

lf intend to
Rapids during that week, and there

you coming Grand
are no excursions from your city, ask
your ticket agent about the certificate
This
last call, so remember August I-2-3-4.
W. J. Kling,
Chairman Executive Com.
>
Kalamazoo After Another Industry.
Kalamazoo, July 25——There is an-

plan of reduced rates. is our

other new industry seeking a location
in Kalamazoo and the members of the
Board of Trade are quietly working
on a scheme to land it. They are of
the opinion that nothing will be asked
of the city by the company except @
free building site, and that can be
readily furnished.
The was
Grand Rapids, but a short time ago

concern figuring with
gave up their idea of locating there
and a letter has been received here
information. A special
committee has been appointed to cor
respond with the officials of the com
pany, and a report will be submitted
at an early meeting. The company '
an old established one and has the
largest plant of its kind in the world,
which is located in Cincinnati. If @

asking for

branch house is established here it
will mean much to Kalamazoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

 

 

 

The Produce Market.

Bananas—$1 for small _ bunches,
$1.50 for large and $2 for Jumbos.
They are moving freely at prices
that are practically unchanged. The
hot weather has had a good effect
on the demand, but bad on the fruit,
much of which arrives in an over-ripe
condition, causing loss to the con-
signee.

3eet Greens—soc per bu.

3eets—New command 2oc per doz.

Black Raspberries—$1I.50 per crate
of 16 qts.

Butter—Creamery firm and
strong at 20%c for choice and 21%c
for fancy. Dairy grades are even
stronger than a week ago, being held
steady at 17c for No. 1 and 14c for

is

packing stock. The demand for
creamery is enormous. Receipts of
dairy have decreased considerably

and the quality has suffered by rea-
of the hot weather which pre-
vailed last Very little stock
good enough for table butter is com-
ing in, which compels the trade to
turn to either creamery or process.

Cabbage—Muscatine fetches $1.75
per large crate. Home grown has de-
clined to 50c per doz.

Carrots—i1sc per doz.

Celery—zoc per bunch.

son

week.

Cucumbers—Home grown are in
large demand at 25c per doz.

Currants—Red fetch 9o0c@$1_ per
16 at. crate.

Eggs—Local dealers pay 15%c on

track for case count shipments, hold-
candled stock at 17%c. The re-
ceipts are not equal to the demand
and the recent hot weather has se-
riously impaired the quality of the
stock. There is a firm tone to the
market and a slightly higher range
would not be surprising. There is
no particular reason for this except
that the demand is heavy and_ the
supplies are none too large. The
shrinkage is very heavy just now and
the number of dirty eggs is increas-
ing.

Gooseberries—$I@I1.10 per
case.

Green Corn—r18ec per doz.

Green Onions—1se per doz. bunch-
es for Silverskins.

Green Peas—$1 per bu.

ing

76 qt.

Lemons—Californias are strong at
$6 and Messinas fetch $7@7.50. In
the light of the quotations of a few
weeks back $7 for a box of lemons
seems prohibitive, yet such is not the
case, as the hot weather made this
fruit an apparent necessity and the
movement has been steady even at
these figures. While the market is
not likely to be very much lower it
is probable that a more reasonable
basis will be reached soon, unless the
weather should run to the extreme
again.

Lettuce—75c per bu.

Onions—$1 per crate
das or Texas; $1.25 per 70 ib.
for Louisiana.

Oranges—Prices are steadily ad-

for Bermu-
sack

 

vancing as the demand is heavy and
the supplies are naturally short, as
this is the season of the smallest pro-
duction. Late Valencias are strong
at $4.60@5.25 per box.

Musk Melons—Rocky Ford canta-
lcupes are on a basis of $6.50 per
crate of 54 and $6 per crate of 45
size. Illinois Gems fetch 8oc_ per
crate.

Peaches — Elbertas from Texas
fetch 75c per 4 basket crate or $1.25
per 6 basket crate. Southern peaches
are in larger supply and the prices
are down to a working basis. Texas
and other Southern States promise
to be good shippers this year and
will be sharp competitors of Cali-
fornia in this respect.

Pineapples—Floridas fetch $4 per
crate of 30 and $4.25 per crate of 36.

Potatoes—New stock commands
$1.85 per bbl. or $2 per 3 bu. sack.
Most of the receipts are from Louis-
ville.

Pieplant—soc for 40 fb. box.

Pop Corn—goc for rice.

Poultry—The market is strong on
broilers. Local dealers pay as fol-
lows for live: Broilers, 15@17¢c;
small hens, 9@1oc; large hens, 8@oc;
roasters, 5@6c; spring ducks (white),

ti@i2c: No. 4 squabs, $1.50@1.75;
No. 2 squabs, 75c@$1; pigeons, 75c¢

(@$1 per doz.

Radishes—toc per doz. bunches for
round and 12c for long.

Red Raspberries—$1.50 for 16 qt.
crate.

Spinach—-soc per bu.

Summer Squash—6oc per basket.

Tomatoes—soc per 4 basket crate.

Turnips—i12c per doz.

Veal Calves—6@8c.

Water Melons—zo0@3oc apiece,
cording to size.

ac-
No complaint could
justly have been made by the melon
men against the weather last week.
It was just the kind desired for this
trade and as a consequence the stock

moved freely. The prices, however,
are still rather high and they have
retarded the trade somewhat. So

many of the melons are large that
it is hard to get any quantity that
can be retailed below 30 or 35c, and
this is a pretty high mark for this
season of the year.
Wax Beans—The
around $1 per bu.
Whortleberries

price ranges

 

$1.25@1.40 per bu.
——_—_-~-¢-___—

Amos S. Musselman has purchased
the eleven acres known as the Van-
Koovering place on the Robinson
road, opposite the Limbert place, for
$10,000 and will immediately begin
the erection of a handsome residence
at a cost of $15,000. This is one of
the best locations for a suburban
home in the vicinity of Grand Rapids
and those who know Mr. Musselman
and appreciate how long and faith-
fully he has sought a desirable resi-
dence location feel no hesitation in
stating that the place will be made
one of the handsomest properties in
Western Michigan.

—._.-~-—————

John Schmidt and August Pulte
have formed a copartnership under
the style of Schmidt & Pulte and

purchased the grocery stock of J. A.
Mohrhardt at 559 Cherry street.

|

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is without
practical change, so far as sugar it-
self concerned. Reports from
abroad are to the effect that the beet
sugar crop will be an enormous one
unless it is interfered with by bad
weather. The demand for refined
has held up well this season and will
probably continue heavy during Au-
gust on account of the great amount
of fruit. The transportation ques-
tion has been again changed by a

is

further reduction in the carlot rate
from 15!%4c to 13%c per 100 pounds.
This rate applies to all Michigan |
points, so that Petoskey or Grand |

Rapids can get in sugar just as cheap-
ly as Detroit. The same condition
Chicago and the West.
Marshalltown, Iowa, for instance, can
get in its sugar just as cheaply
Chicago can, which places the City
by the Lake at a great disadvantage
and practically compels the wholesale
grocers of that market to handle
much its stgar at a loss. How
long this condition will continue
what new developments may arise,
no one seems to be able to foretell.
Tea—Attractive offers of old teas
are being made and to some extent
they interfere with the trade the
new crop. In lower priced teas
there are also some good offers.
say that they do
teas can be produced at any
figures than

is true of

as

of

or

in

bers not see how
these
lower now
asked. If the Japan growers can not

get a satisfactory price for their leaf,

are

they will simply not pick it. On this la
assumption it is thought by many

that lower
on the low

prices will not be reached
grade teas and that they
are a good purchase now. There is
certainly a very short crop of the
first picking of Japan teas. This fact
is well established, but it has not af-
fected prices in this country material-
ly as yet, on account of the
stocks of old teas still held.
Coffee—Actual coffee

The Brazil

large

is unchanged
coffee situa-
tion is rather easy than otherwise.
Mild coffees are firm, and the assort-
ment is getting poorer and poorer.
The receipts are at present very
small and an advance throughout the
whole line may come later. Java
and Mocha are steady and unchanged.

Canned Goods—Packers the
Puget Sound are still waiting for the

and quiet.

on

run of Sockeyed salmon, which is
very late this year. Some low fig-
ures have been made of new red

Alaska and they will probably aug-

ment the sale in this variety. A good
business has been done in pinks. All
reports indicate that little interest

is being taken by retailers or jobbers
in the new pack of California fruits.
Northwestern jobbers, if not those
in all parts of the country, have good
supplies on hand at this time and|
they do not need to buy, especially
at the high prices asked for many
of the new fruits. Gallon apples have
advanced somewhat on the shortage
in supplies. Until the green fruit be-
comes abundant there will be a scarc-

ity in this line. Holders of canned

tomatoes are very firm in their views | keyless quarter oils.

and are slowly boosting the prices.

Job- |

being |

 

 

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ls
|

The demand is first rate and the con- |

tinued reports of short crop this year
are an element of strength in the situ-
ation. Just how much the pack will
be short of last year no one knows.
At the present time the reports have
become frequent enough to frighten
some of the buyers. Corn is selling
at unchanged
Reports as to the probable
definite and have
had no appreciable influence on the
market. There will undoubtedly bea
pack peas. In Wisconsin
it seems to be agreed that the out-
put will be not over 40 per cent. of

moderate manner
prices.

im. 2

pack are not very

short of

last year. The recent hot weather
has had a bad effect on the peas.
There is a fair demand for this line.

String and
moderately.
not

wax beans are selling
Other vegetables are
great demand at present.
Fruits—Seeded raisins are
dull at unchanged prices. Loose rais-
ins The price on spot is
but on the coast holders
1%4c advance. Currants are
demand. Pending legis-
lation in Greece has advanced prices
over there nearly tc and in this coun-
try about

in any
Dried

quiet.
unchanged

are
are asking

in ordinary

Apricots are selling
in a small way as to futures, but are
slow spot. Prunes slow
Futures are wanted
but can not be obtain-
satisfactory to buyers.
No packer is asking less than a 3c
and want 3'%4c. Spot
but futures
August and September shipment
have from bottom, and
the week. The
the advance is destructively
hot weather in California.

we.

on are in
demand on spot.
in moderation,
at

ed prices

basis, some

teaches are unchanged,
for
advanced
bout I

34¢
4c during

cause of

There is a decided shortage
in the present crop of rice and the
market is on a firm basis. It fooks

very much as if the era of low priced
rice that for the
year or two anyway this commodity
will cost than it has for the
The demand is of

were over and next

more

past two years.

| moderate proportions.

Syrups and Molasses—Glucose is
unchanged for the week, and so
The latter is

Sugar syrup is
for export. Prices
Molasses unchanged

and very quiet.

is
compound in
light
except

syrup.
very demand.
slow, are
unchanged. is
Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
and unchanged. In sal-
mon the failure of new Sockeye sal-
mon to appear has become a very se-
rious matter. About three weeks of
the already short season have passed
and practically no have shown
as yet. Shore mackerel
about $1.50 per barrel higher for
the week and Irish mackerel 50c per
barrel higher. Shore mackerel are
not scarce so far as the catch is con-
cerned, a percentage of
the receipts are being bought fresh
that the quantity left for salting is
very light. The demand for mackerel
is good, especially for Irish fish. The
general outlook is strong. As to
sardines, the Seacoast Packing Co.
has advanced quarter oils with key
Toc per case, which makes the price

neglected

fish
themselves

are

but so large

$2.60, and withdrawn quotations on
The other pack-
ers have not followed as_ yet, but

probably will as the supply is small.

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

WHISKY VS. SUCCESS.

 

trust. If he does not fail the firm
for physical reasons when he is most

Discussion of the Subject by One) needed he is quite likely to blab out

Who Knows.

Written for the Tradesman.

company secrets in some drunken
moment, just to show that he is

I notice that the daily newspapers | wise to what is going on.

are giving much space to John D.}
Rockefeller’s recent verbal raid on}
the liquor habit. There are editors |
who indorse the oil magnate’s ideas
and there are editors who dodge the
issue by throwing mud at Mr. Rocke-
feller and hinting that there are worse |
things in the world than the thirst
for strong drink, which is sneaking
and irrelevant.

I do not believe Mr. Rockefeller’s
personality or his commercial career
should enter into the dispute. He
said just what thousands have been
saying for hundreds of years and it}
seems to me that the question should
be decided on its merits. Anyhow, |
I do not believe in this hue and cry |
against the oil man.

The unwritten rules of commercial
life set forth that a man may get all
he can of this world’s good things,
provided he does not set a bad ex-
ample to his fellows by violating the
laws of the land. The oil man has
been successful—and success
enemies as well as friends. The men

| drink question.

| “chums” he
makes |

| himself?

and women who are slamming at him |
from a safe distance are, of course, |

models of moral and commerical rec-
titude. They wouldn’t take one of
his. tainted dollars for the world.
Many would doubtless prefer to sell

2 share or two of brewery or dis- |

tillery stock to help build a new

church edifice or send a missionary |
to carry the Bible into Africa. Or, |
perhaps, some of them, rather than |

take his money, would even go so
far as to turn in for a month or two
the rent of a house where red lights
burn in front of the door at night.
All this is not to the point. Mr.
Rockefeller said just what tens of

ihe begins to neglect his personal ap- |

thousands of business men are say-|

ing every day.
city, if you happen to be a man, and
ask for a position anywhere.
will question you first about
vious experience in the business you
wish to engage in. The reply being

You go to a large}

They |
pre- |

satisfactory, they will then ask you}

if you drink liquor. If you do, and
are honest enough to say so, you
must be a mighty good man to get
the position.

All through the business
there is a boycott on whisky.

the men who make it and the men |

spect of his
ilife, he may put his

If the drinking employe does ueith-
er of these things, but works along
with a “still” on, he is thick headed
iust like the rest of the boys, only
and never capable of doing his best.
He never has the keen, quick intelli-

|yence which certain positions de-
|mand. He is just a machine, capa

ible of doing only routine work, and
|not the sort of a man his employers

want. It is no wonder all the big

|corporaticus are laying off men who
| drink.
'ple since the day Noah lay asleep

Whisky has killed more peo-

in the sun than all the armies that
ever fought with spear or needle gun.

And there is another side to this
It is an old saying
that a convivial chap is “a good fel-
I wonder if he is? Whom is
he good to? To his wife or moth-

low.”

ler, sitting alone by the window at

for an. unsteady
Is he good to the
leads astray and
Is he good to
If he was, he would not
paint that nose so red. He would
not disgrace those who care for him
by going about with bloodshot eyes
You may de-
pend upon it that the man who drinks
“a good fellow.”

midnight, waiting
step on the walk?
first
then quarrels with?

and trembling gait.

is not
Young men can not afford to drink.
The associations of whisky are vile
and demoralizing.
The poison eats out the moral fibre.
It is almost as bad in this regard as
the cigarette.

When a young man begins to drink

pearance. He gets the saloon habit.
He likes to sit at a table with a lot
of loafers and listen to disgraceful
stories.

John D. Rockefeller is right.

If a young man prefers drinking
places and evil associates to the com-
pany of ladies and gentlemen; if he
is willing to shut music, and pretty
girl friends, and the love and_ re-
associates out of his
feet in the

|trough and drink himself to death as
|soon as he pleases, but if he wants

world |
Even |

}

who sell it object to their employes |

drinking it. A bar-keeper who does
not drink can command a

salary than one who does.

larger |

This boycott on whisky is not a}
| end.

matter of sentiment with business

men. They do not care what a man
does outside of office hours so long

as he serves them faithfully, loyally

and intelligently; but they know that |
a man can not serve them well when |
whisky,

his head is muddled with
when he has a way of coming to his

work in the morning with trembling |

hands and a stomach that feels like
a great aching void.

They know, too, that a man
drinks whisky is not a safe man. He
can not be placed in a position of

who

| self, sir.

to see this beautiful old world, and
be a part of it, and live with a clear
brain and an eye alive to beauty, he
must cut out the whisky. I have
used the word whisky here instead
of the words beer and wine because
the drink habit leads to whisky, and
usually barrel house whisky in the

Yes, Rockefeller is right. The
young man can not afford to drink.

Alfred B. Tozer.
2
Just Resentment.

Young Husband—Bertha, did you
ask the grocer to show you some of
hose seedless beans I was telling you
about this morning?

Young Wife—Yes; and if you want
your slippers warmed before you put
| them on you can warm them your-
I won't.

 

 

OUT OF THE RUT.

Novel Ideas Originated by New
England Merchants.
Written for the Tradesman. |

This novel and effective advertis-
ing dodge is being successfully used
by a large Boston drug firm: Every
once in a while they issue yellow
slips reading something like this:
“Read this offer: 24c value for Ioc.
bring or send this slip with Io cents
to our store before July 1 and we will
give or mail you a 9c insect powder
blower containing 15c worth of our
Magic Insect Powder, a sufficient
quantity to convince you that it kills
the bugs.” Below this is a space for
the buyer’s name and address.

The object of these slips is two-
fold. They not only advertise the
goods, but they also give the firm 4
very valuable mailing list. More-
over, they are never dropped on the
doorsteps or in vestibules, but are
distributed only by mail, which gives
them a distinct value in the eyes of
the recipients. Spring medicines,
perfumes, any articles, in short,
which it is desired to boom at a
special season, are advertised in the
same fashion.

Even the city directories, placed in
their waiting room for the conve-
nience of patrons, are pressed into
advertising service by one dry goods
firm. Every directory is furnished
with about a dozen narrow ribbon
bookmarks, each ribbon bearing at
the end an artistic little card adver-
tising some one of the firm’s spe-
cialties likely to appeal to this class
of customers. These cards are
changed from time to time, so that
in the course of a year quite a large
field is covered in this way, and that
without costing the firm a cent.

A ribbon store drew no end of
custom this season by having a deft-
fingered young woman demonstrate
the art of making ribbon bows and
trimming hats exclusively with rib-
bon. She answered pleasantly the
cross-fire of questions directed at

her, and offered to trim free of
charge any hat while the owner
waited, provided the ribbon was

bought at that store. It all looked
sc simple and easy as she did it, the
tying of chic bows, that her audience
watched her with fascinated atten-
tion, and went home perfectly satis-
fied that they had the art at their
finger tips—until they tried it.

In another part of the same store
another demonstrator showed how
to contrive numerous articles of fan-
cy work from ribbon. It goes with-
out saying that these schemes prov-
ed star attractions for drawing wom-
en into the store and increasing the
sales of ribbon.

A firm of furniture dealers recent-
ly celebrated their tenth anniversary
in unique fashion. The flyers by
which they announced the event
were profusely decorated with the
figure ten, and they advertised that
from 10 o’clock in the morning until
10 in the evening on that day every
tenth customer—the record to be
kept by the cashier—was to have
one-tenth of the amount of his pur-
chase refunded to him, while every

 

hundredth customer was to be given
a shining $10 gold piece. Also every
purchaser whose bill.amounted to
an even $10, or any multiple of that
sum, was to be given a rebate of Io
per cent.

Attention was still further drawn
to this event by the exhibition of a
huge “dummy” birthday cake in the
show window. Each slice was let-
tered in imitation of pink candies
with some pointed advertising
phrase, while a placard above read:
“We are ten years old to-day.” Can-
dles, with rose-colored shades, on the
cake were lighted in the evening and
gave a fine effect.

Apropos of the “tainted money”
agitation, a firm in Cambridge, Mass.,
recently advertised: “All kinds of
money accepted, tainted or other-
wise. Leave it with us and no ques-
tions will be asked.”

A shrewd merchant secured con-
siderable publicity for his depart-
ment of infants’ wear by instituting
a photographic baby show. Moth-
ers were invited to send in photos
of their children under three years of
age. Each picture was given a num-
ber, and the whole lot exhibited in
one big show window, under a plac-
ard reading: “Choose the prettiest.”
Every purchaser at the store, in
whatever department, was given a
ballot on which to note the number
of the photograph, in his estimation,
of the prettiest baby.

A first prize of a $20 gold piece, a
second of a baby’s handsome outfit,
and a third of a baby’s gold ring
were to be awarded to the three
heaviest vote getters, and a consola-
tion prize of a silver mug to the one
polling the least. These prizes were
all on exhibition in the window with
the photographs. Older brothers
and sisters hustled for votes in the
interests of the particular baby con-
testant in whom they were in-
terested. Maiden ladies of uncertain
age, childless couples, middle-aged
folk, the last occupant of whose cra-
dle had reached the courting stage—
all were canvassed for votes by
these youthful partisans.

At the close of the contest the
votes were counted in full public
in the window in which the
pictures had been exhibited, while a
couple of newspaper men kept tally.
The counting process proved a big

view,

attraction and drew a crowd that
blocked the sidewalk. As fast as
the individual votes were counted,

the results were chalked on a big
blackboard in the back of the win-
dow, and then things began to hum.
As to the ultimate value to any busi-
ness of such contests there may be
a difference of opinion, but they
certainly awaken enthusiasm, and as
a general thing give a wide publicity
at a moderate cost.
Bertha Forbes.

—— +2.

His Idea Of It.

The Minister—Young man, you
should be making preparations for
eternity.

Young Man—I am, sir. The git!
I am engaged to is taking lessons at
a cooking school.

 

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, July 26, 1905

 

 

CITY AND COUNTRY.

All the statistics and figures go fo |
show that the great growth of popu- |
lation in America is in the cities. To |
be sure there are more people in
what is called the country than ever |
before, but the proportion of urban |
residents is constantly increasing.
Some of the small cities are growing
smaller, but all the cities that have
reached forty or fifty thousand popu- |
lation are growing larger and_ the}
larger the city the greater the|
growth. Somebody has made a cal-
culation to the effect that at the
present rate Greater New York will |
have a population of forty millions |
seventy-five years hence. If this be
true, a proportionate growth will at-
tend Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia,
etc., reaching out in less degree to
take in all the larger cities of the
United States. The centers of popu-
lation are already so crowded that
comfortable living is interfered with,
rents are high and getting higher,
urban transportation

facilities are}

ficult of solution.

With the growth of the cities
there must, of necessity, be a corre-
sponding although not, perhaps, pro-
portionate growth in the distinctly
rural regions. If many millions are
added to the cities somebody must
grow the wheat, the corn, the pota-
toes and other agricultural products
for their subsistence. It is unques-
tionably an advantage to every farm-
er that the city nearest him grows
bigger. It means a bigger and a bet-
ter market for the products of his
soil and labor. Then perhaps before
this phenomenal growth to which the
fanciful calculator refers is realized
the pendulum may swing the other
way. Already there are a marked dis-
position and tendency on the part of
people to get out into the country
for residence. Farm lands near cities
are more and more owned and occu-
pied by people whose business must
be in town, but who prefer a resi-
dence away from its noise and bus-
tle. This is very much facilitated by
the rapid extension of the electric
railways. People can easily get sev-
eral miles out into the country and
can go and come to and from their

lly, constantly taking in

| understood or appreciated.
en said that agricultural prosperity |

|the growers.

|corn, which at 57 cents a
| would bring over $1,500,000,000, and
leven at 50 cents a bushel there is

ibring at $1o per ton.
more and more taxed and many prob- |

lems present themselves that are dif- |

 

 

business, not only readily but at
small expense.
development may proceed indefinite-
more and
more territory. The cities must al-
ways be the centers of business ac-
tivity, but the attractions of rural
residence are annually impressing
themselves more and more upon the

| people.

THE COUNTRY’S CROP.
The Government spends a _ good
deal of time and money in getting

statistics about the crops, not only}

after they are harvested, but before,

land the latter serve as a basis of es-

timate that is of value to the produc-

jer, the middleman and the consum-
er. The July report estimates that |
ithe aggregate value of this season’s |

crop in the United States will be
fully four billion dollars.
sum so great that it can scarcely be

is the real foundation of

prosperity and in that view of it}
certainly 1905 is going to be a very |

good year in this country.

| In detail the July estimate prophe- |
|sies that the yield of wheat will be}

over 705,500,000 bushels. Supposing

|that this will be so, at 87 cents a)
| bushel it means over $613,600,000 for |

The same report an-

| ticipates over 2,650.000,000 bushels of

bushel

for the farmers.
There will be very nearly a billion

big money in it

| bushels of oats, which at 32 cents}
would be very close to $304,000,000. |
In this part of the country barley is |

not one of the great crops, but the
United States is expected to produce
over 141,000,000 bushels of it, that
will be worth over $60,500,000. The
hay yield is figured at 65,000,000 tons,

land it is easy to see what this would

The much-

talked about cotton crop will proba- |
| bly be 10,000,000 bales and that means
| $500,000,000.

Besides. these leaders
there are a great many other prod-
ucts grown on the farms of the
United States, so that the aggregate
estimate at four billion dollars is con-
sidered conservative. This sum from

the soil contributed to the wealth of |:

the country is a big item in our na-
tional welfare.

 

They who wait for dead men’s

shoes too often find them without |

soles.

 

A man’s friends are generally as
good as he deserves.

 

Nothing grows like a_ grievance,
with proper nursing.

 

Brains are a good ballast for even
a beauty to have.

Flattery is the salt sprinkled on
the tail of vanity.

It is better to marry a housekeeper
than an heiress.

Good intentions are a drug on the
market.

A man is as big as his thoughts.

This progress and!

That is a]
It is oft- |

general |

| THE BOAT ROCKING FOOL.

| There are a great many fools at
large in the world and each succeed-
ing season affords special opportuni-
ties for the several classes and varie-
ties to exercise their foolishness.
| There is an old saying that a fool is
born every minute and there is good
for believing that the ratio
hxed is too low. The particular kind
laf fool that is most in evidence during
the months of July and August is the
one who rocks the boat for the pur-
pose of frightening the other occu-

reason

pants. This fool has been getting in
his work already, and the summer

season is only at its height, with five
or six weeks yet of opportunity. At
a place near New York a report the
other day told how a boat rocker up-
iset a craft and young girls
were thrown into the water. They
were fortunately rescued by a real

three

man who came along, while the chap
i who rocked the boat saved himself as
| best he could and narrowly escaped a
‘thrashing when he reached the shore.
A good sound thrashing comes as
near to making the punishment 4t the
|crime as any penalty which could be
imposed.

The most attractive summer resorts
are those which have lakes or rivers.
happens that
|people who go on a vacation go

where there is opportunity for boat-
ing. Thus hundreds of thousands
brought within
the dangerous sphere of the fool who
rocks the boat. A good boat on calm
water, with ordinary care and caution,
is reasonably safe, but when some-
hody, for mere bravado, rocks it,
straightway it becomes very danger-

Accordingly it

every Summer are

fous. There is another sort of allied
ifool, or, more strictly speaking, two
fools, and they are those who change
seats in a rowboat without getting
j|close to shore. things
| which people going on their vacations
ishould take into account, and by so
doing some may save their lives. The
| surnmer season never passes without
|its share of accidents caused by the
boat rocking fool, and those who
wish to live long and prosper will do
well to give him a wide berth. He is
everywhere, at the lakes. the rivers
and the seashore. Find him out and
sure him that his room is more de-
| sirable than his company.

These are

 

 

 

Evidently wearing a crown on the
jother side of the sea is dangerous
The Czar of Russia knows
| full well that several of his subjects
j are gunning for him all the time and
jhe dare not put his head out of the
|door. The Sultan of Turkey had a
close call the other day. A bomb
meant for him burst in the court yard
of the mosque just as he was leaving
and his escape is counted miraculous.
His imperial majesty is in constant
|dread of assassination. Everything
he eats and drinks is carefully in-
spected and it is said that he even
ascends to his bedroom by a ladder
which he pulls up after him. Guards
surround him constantly and he is
afraid of his own shadow. Abdul
Hamid is 53 years old and his contin-
ual state of fright is made a source

| business.

 

 

 

most |
| annihilation, and they will be later

 

 

 

 

of profit to some of the Turkish offi-
cers, who tell him fairy tales about
proposed assaults and then get re-
wards for saving his life. He is a
mysterious old chap
ahout whom little is known but much
has been written.

curious and

SR

The State census of Iowa shows a
loss of rural population without
any compensating increases in the
cities. It is a peculiarity of Iowa
that it has no great city and its
scores of little ones show only mod-
erate growth. They are even talk-
ing about the loss of one represen-
tative in Congress as a result of the
next redistricting. Iowa will con-
tinue, however, to be one of the best
and most prosperous states in the
Union. If it has no great manufac-
turing centers it has escaped the
evils of congested population and its
people are splendid American types.

ND

The role of peacemaker is seldom
a wholly satisfactory one to play.
Russian newspaper writers are now
saying a great mistake was madein
accepting Uncle Sam’s good offices
and that the United States is Rus-
sia’s real enemy and Japan merely
its puppet. As a matter of fact the
Russians should be very grateful that
somebody saved them from _ utter

 

on when they come to realize fully
their predicament.

ND

Postal conditions in the interior
of Turkey are still in a patriarchal
stage of evolution. When a postman
arrives in a village, on muleback, he
distributes the letters in
place, giving each his own, and then
putting the undelivered ones in the
hands of relatives or acquaintances
of those to whom they are address-
ed. Yet it is said that 99 per cent.
reach their destination.

 

a public

 

 

Money is more evenly distributed
in France than in any other civil-
ized country. According to the tax-
ation returns fewer than 20,000 per-
sons have property valued at $200,-
ooo. Of these only 6,000 have for-
tunes exceeding $350,000, while not
more than 100 have $2,000,000 or
over, and there are just ten fortu-
nate persons who have more than
$25,000,000.

Pe arEN OETA NT LRA

Though the Russian army in the
field has been reinforced and_ re-
1

equipped, it is reported that the sol-
diers have no appetite for more strug
gles with the Japs. Since they have
learned of the peace negotiations
their sole desire is to return to their
homes. it is quite natural. An army
that has never won a battle cannot be
expected to exhibit courage or con
fidence.

A a LN ONT

The German people are complain-
ing because operation of the high
tariff has made the price of meat ¢X-
cessively high and beyond the reach
of ordinary means. Public meetings
are being held protesting against the
prohibition of the importation of live
cattle. The prices of meat in Ger-
many are fully double those that pre-
vail in this country, despite our beet
trust.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

MEN OF MARK.

 

Samuel M. Lemon, President Lemon
& Wheeler Company.

Well directed and properly concen-

trated effort is the magic talisman

which opens the door to commercial |

or other distinction. It is a force
which may build up or destroy mag-
nificent undertakings. Only recent-
ly it has reduced a powerful nation
to a condition of pitiful helplessness.
However, at all times, when applied
in either a national or individual
quantity, the results are correspond-
ingly marvelous. It is an old saying
that things that are obtained with-
out effort are not greatly prized and
fortunes that come quickly are likely
to vanish into thin air as rapidly as
they Nothing that is
obtained cheaply seems to be worth
while in this day and age and only
steady, intelligently  di-
rected work makes life’s rewards of
real and permanent value.

materialize.

persistent,

It is often found that the young |

man who does not get along well
in life is lacking in definite aim. He
is like the inhabile marksman who
uses a big barreled gun and a small
sized shot and trusts to luck for his

quarry. He overlooks the facts that
the shot scatter and that if one or
two were to take effect they proba-
bly would not kill or even disable.

The true huntsman never uses bird-
shot when out after big game. He
carries a heavy rifle and depends up-
on his steady arm, practiced eye and
long years of training to speed the
bullet to its intended destination.
In everyday business life are ob-
served young men who fritter away
their best years in essaying a trade,
occupation or profession for which
have no taste or inclination.
try a certain line of work for
months or years and then an-.
and because they do not soar
to the top right away they become
dissatisfied and again go into a new

they
They

a few

s

other

kind of business, with the result that
they find nothing that suits them
and that they never rise above me-
They lack the absolute es-
sential to success in any undertak-
ing, which is constant and persistent
application. Failure is seldom _ re-
corded in the case of one who pos-
singleness of intent from
which he never The em-
ploye who simply does his duty and
keeps one eye on the clock never
amounts to much, while he who does
his whole duty or a little more per-
haps and takes as much interest in
his employer’s business as if it were
his own is always heard from. Te-
nacity of purpose and the concentra-
tion of all the powers of body and
brain are the goal winners of the
twentieth century and any _ success
that is not predicated upon these two
inspiring agencies is purely adventi-
tious and evanescent and of false or
unsatisfying nature.

Given constancy of purpose with
an intelligent direction thereof and a
lifetime of endeavor might amount
to but little were it not reinforced
by a necessary complement of brain.
Something of this happy combination
of a fixity of purpose and the men-

diocrity.

sesses a
varies.

 

tal capacity needed for its support is |

suggested in reviewing the career of
an eminent factor in the wholesale
grocery trade of this market; S. M.
Mr.

Lemon. Lemon is not one of

those who seek notoriety, is not at |

all vainglorious as to what he has
accomplished in a quarter century of

exceptional activity, but his very

modesty has attracted attention to|

his deeds in such measure that he is
known and honored in business, so-
cial and political circles throughout
a much wider environment than is
gained by most men of his age.
Samuel McBirney Lemon was born
November 27,
Ireland. His

of Armagh, parents,

Samuel and Rachael Lemon, were of
famous

the Scotch-Irish ancestry,

 

1846, at Corneycrew, |
Parish of Mullabrack, in the county |

was blessed only with the character-
istics which he inherited from such

a race, but although the record of

his life is short, it exhibits a single-
iness of purpose and a tenacity in the
pursuit of business which has com-

even under adverse
the intention of
should

| manded success

conditions. It was
that he prepare

for the ministry, but he early express-

his parents

mercantile
life and, after receiving the best edu-
cation his native country afforded, his

ed his desire to follow a

father apprenticed him at the age of
18 years to one of the largest grocers
in Ireland, at Potadown,
ounty. Here he
rs, without pay, working hard to
rfect his knowledge of the business,
; and

Armagh
cc remained for five
yea

per
soon after the completion of his

|apprenticeship, in November, 1870,

set sail for America. On landing in

 

 

 

 

Samuel M. Lemon

ing mark on American institutions
in the great names it has contribut-
ed to every department of American
life. As has been well said, “The
Scotch-Irish were the first to de-
clare independence from Great Brit-
ain and foremost in the Revolution-
ary struggle; leaders in the forma-

tion and adoption of the Constitu- |

tion and its most powerful defenders;
most active in the extension of our
National domain and the hardiest pio-
neers in its development.” The Puri-
tan, the Huguenot and the Dutch
must gratefully salute with admira-

tion this race which has given to the |

names. of
Jefferson,
Madison,

American Pantheon the

Patrick Henry, Thomas
John Paul Jones, James
John Marshall, Andrew
James K. Poik, James

Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln
and Ulysses S. Grant. Mr. Lemon

Buchanan, |

|New York, he secured a place with

the grocery firm of Acker, Merrill &

Condit, at the modest salary of $10}

per week, paying $8 of this amount
per week for his board. But within
seven months, so valuable were the

services of Mr. Lemon to his em-
| ployers, that his salary was raised
|three times. His next move was to

accept a position with A. M. Semple,
of Rochester, and after five years of

service there, Mr. Lemon had become |

manager of that extensive wholesale
and retail grocery business at a fine
salary. Tempted by a better offer, he
then transferred his services. to
Lautz Brothers & Co., of Bufialo,
{and for five years was engaged in

| selling their goods, with conspicuous
Jackson, }

Although drawing a salary
which was equaled by few in his line,

success.

ithe ambition which would not let the |

| Irish lad remain in his native land,

still impelled him on, and he decided
His
travels had familiarized him with the
growth and prospects of Grand Rap-
ids and, admiring its push and en-
terprise, he decided to link his for-
tunes with its future. Consequently
in 1880 Mr. removed to
Grand Rapids and purchased the in-
terest of John A. Covode in_ the
wholesale grocery house of Shields,
Bulkley & Co., which was then lo-
South street. On
the removal of the firm to the new

to begin business for himself.

Lemon

cated on Division

building in 1883, the firm name was

changed to Shields, Bulkicy &
Iemon, which afterward became

known as Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops.
On the retirement of Mr. Bulkley, the
firm name was changed to Lemon,
loops & | and on the retire-
ment of Mr. Hoops, the firm name
& Peters.
The copartnership continued until the
failure of Mr. Peters—which did not

involve the

eters,

was changed to Lemon

grocery house
related to it as
Mr.

ganized a corporation to continue the

except as
a partner —
immediately or-

he was
when Lemon
i business under the style of the Lem-

fon & Wheeler Company, which has

been one of the most prosperous
mercantile establishments at_ this
market. The company owns the

building which it now occupies at the
South Oakes
streets and its field of operations has

corner of lonia and

been enlarged from year to year un-

fil it now covers the entire western

portion of the State and the northern

portion of Indiana.

Mr. Lemon has made his influence
felt in other enterprises than the
wholesale grocery business. He has
long been a director of the Fourtl
National Bank and has taken no
small part in the work of develop-
ing and expanding that institution.
He is also a director in the Fifth Na-
tional Bank and the Peoples Sav-
ings Bank. Within the past year he

has purchased a quarter interest in
the Grand Rapids Show Case Co.,
which is one of the most progressive
manufacturing insti-
He is largely in-
terested in real estate and is a dom-
inating factor in any institution with
fortune.

Mr. Lemon has always been prom-
inent in the Grand Rapids Board of
Trade, having served as a director
since 1896 and acted on many of the
most important committees of that
organization. He has been a strong
advocate of river improvement and
has done yeoman service in the work
along educational lines.

Mr. Lemon been an adherent
of the Republican party ever since he
was admitted to citizenship. He has
several times for
mayor, and it is not unlikely that he

and prosperous

tutions in the city.

which he casts his

has

been mentioned
may be the candidate of his party for
governor at some _ future time.
He has been Collector of In-
| ternal Revenue for nearly eight years,
Senator

confi-

|owing his appointment to
Burrows, whose esteem and
dence he enjoys to a marked degree.

Mr. Lemon was married in Roch-
}ester, N. Y., January 17, 1883, to Miss
Mary M. Peoples. They reside in
| their own home on Jefferson avenue,

 

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which is one of the most unique and
homelike residences in the city.

In the prime of life, with a fine
presence and the qualities of mind
and heart which have made him a
host of friends, Mr. Lemon is one of
the business men of Grand Rapids
who believe thoroughly in its future,
and who show in their own lives the
advantages America gives, and what
may be done in a few years by a poor
foreign boy in this favored land.
Patriotic and public spirited, intense-
ly American because he knows per-
sonally the difference between a re-
public and a monarchy, it is from the
ranks of such men the high types of
American citizens are ever coming.

———_2.-->—————
The Eighth Wonder of the World.

Among other
wholesalers report great interest de-

current

veloping in Puffed Rice, an entirely
ready-to-eat
The product is said to be selling fast

new thing in cereals.

and advancing rapidly in public favor.

The marvel is that some such way of

transforming plain rice into a luxu-
rious article of diet was not invented
long ago.

The drudgery of cooking rice sev-

eral hours has checked the consump- |

tion of rice in this country for half a
century and sadly interfered with its

sale. The sterling qualities of a food

of the highest class, however, were |
Apparently it only re- |}

always there.
mained for an American by a trifling
idea to change the world’s most an-

cient and loved diet into a modern |

health food.

Just three years ago the scientific |
journals announced a novel method |

of cooking cereals by dry heat and
explosion. A visit to the
where this novel process is in daily
operation shows that dry rice kernels,
thoroughly cleaned, are packed into
a steel cylinder, which is thrust into
a furnace and heated to a high tem-
perature.

After the rice is cooked the cylin-
ders are withdrawn and locked each
in a closely screened cage. The cap
is removed from the mouth of each
evlinder, and instantaneously, one
hundred times quicker than lightning,
the natural moisture in the rice grain

flashes into a steamy explosion ex- |

panding each grain ten times and

dashing the ricy berries of milk white |

out into the cage. The transforma-
tion is complete. Puffed Rice, ready
for use in countless forms, lies before
the wondering visitor.

To the sightseer, this fairy-like
transformation is absorbing. The
furnace contains eight revolving

steel air-tight cylinders, and the cook-
ing time is forty minutes. The air in
the cylinders expands with the heat
and exerts a tremendous
preventing the natural water in the

pressure,

rice from turning into steam.
Cooking by explosion, truly, a won-

derful idea, and one that rendered the |

process the cynosure of all eyes
among the cooking and cereal exhib-
its at the St. Louis Exposition one

year ago, this being one of the three |

exhibits that Prince Ito, the Japanese
Prince, visited while touring the Fair.
The crowds of visitors never tired

novelties |

mills |

of watching the metamorphosis at the
exact moment when the rice changes
into dainty puffs. The cylinder has
been likenea unto a cannon by the
wordy curious public and the interest
is at boiling point from the moment
the steel cannon run on a track into
the oven, where they revolve cease-
lessly for forty minutes, until the ex-
plosion comes, starting little excla-
mations at the unexpected.

Handfuls of the flaky delicious pro-
duct were handed to the curious, and

 

 

ithey found that it would melt on the
The little party of investi-
gators wander on and view each part

palate

of the glistening steel mechanical out-
ft. No hand touches the rice from
start to finish

The great interest in the creation
of Puffed Rice undoubtedly centers
around its extraordinary finale—cook-
ing by instantaneous explosive flash
which robs the rice of its starchy
properties and renders it a king of
cereal foods. _

Much interest has been shown in
the invention by Western chemists
who are interested in the food ques-
tion. This product is so new and

novel, so different and vastly superior |

to any ready cooked food that has yet
been placed on the market, that the
United States Government has
granted The American Cereal Com-
pany a patent on it. The idea will
be of incalculable value to the rice
|growers of the continent, as it will
| increase the consumption of the high-
est qualities of rice several hundred
per cent. annually.

j

Recent Business Changes in the
Buckeye State.
Aberdeen—C. C. White is succeed-
ed in the drug business by D. P.

| Argo.

Dayton—The Globe Whip Co.,
which did a wholesale business, has
discontinued business.

Dayton—The National Art Stone
Co. has increased its capital stock to
$25,000 and will continue its manu-
facturing business.

Dayton—The Pneumatic Tire Pro-
tector Co. has been incorporated with
|a capital stock of $10,000.
Geyer—The Sheets Mercantile Co.,
iwhich does a_ general merchandise
business, has changed its style to the
Anglaize Mercantile Co.

Kenton—The furniture business
formerly conducted by E. Sorgen
| will be conducted in the future by
E. Sorgen & Son.

Newark—J. M. Edmiston will con-
tinue in the future the book business
| formerly conducted by Horney &
| Edmiston.

North Hampton—C. Zehring is
succeeded in the boot and shoe busi-
ness by E. G. Sutton.

Ottawa—The Rampe Store Co,
| which does a general merchandise
| business, has changed its style to the
New York Store Co.
| Peoria—L. N. Bechtel will continue
| the

general merchandise business
|formerly conducted by Bechtel &
| Hornbeck.

Springfield — Chester McNorton
| will continue the grocery business
| formerly conducted by the Bee Hive
Grocery Co.

Portsmouth—W. L. Harr is suc-
ceeded in the general merchandise
business by Grose & Laidley.

of trustees.
Toledo—The National Soap Co. has

Braun and also the business of the
National Chemical Co. at this place.

place.

| tilling Co.

applied for.
Cincinnati—A receiver has, been

appointed for the Cincinnati Tile &

Mantel Co.
Cleveland—Jacob Bliss,

 

of Jacob

son.

 

Springfield—The grocery stock of |
W. E. Blair & Co. is in the hands |

absorbed the laundry compound busi- |
ness formerly conducted by S. J. |

Toledo—David Cohen has discon- |
tinued his clothing business at this |

Cincinnati—A receiver has been ap- |
pointed for the American Fruit Dis- |

Cincinnati—A receiver for the Cin-
cinnati Fruit Refining Co. has been |

Bliss & Son, dealers in boots and |
shoes, has given a bill of sale to his |

|
Dayton—A petition in bankruptcy |

lhas been filed by the creditors of |
| Layton & Layton, retail milliners |

|and ladies’ furnishers.
Dayton—An attachment has bee

F. Tressler for the amount of $151.
ed

gruff with them?
—__—_>--e —_-
The best way to make
heaven is to make your homes like
heaven here.

made on the grocery stock of Harry |

| Can you expect your clerks to be
| models of politeness when you are}

sure of |

 

 

The Old
National Bank

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Our Certificates of Deposit
are payable on demand
and draw interest.

Blue Savings Books
are the best issued.
Interest Compounded

Assets over Six Million Dollars

 

Ask for our
Free Blue Savings Bank

Fifty years corner Canal and Pearl Sts.

 

 

 

 

Before Buying Your

Gas or Electric
Fixtures

look over our stock. We carry the
largest line of
Lighting Fixtures
in the State.
WEATHERLY & PULTE

Heating Contractors
97-99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 
  
  
       

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that our company and
our method and our
plan are not to be

We want it distinctly understood that we can
move a merchant's stock in 10 short, busy days with-
out resorting to any of the
methods of the fly-by-night boomer and that through
our Special Ten Day Sale System and our Expert Sales
Promotion and Publicity Plans, we will crowd your
store from the time it opens in the morning until it
closes at night, with not only citizens of your own city,
but thousands upon thousands of people from every
town and village within scores of miles of your city,
we will do it without compelling you to lose money on
a single article—allowing you to mark your own goods,
making them as high or as low as you please.
C : Our plans pull the people.
sends them away happy—full of praises for your mer-
chandising methods—and full of respect for your hon-

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Incorporated

HOME OFFICE, Contracting and Advertising Dept., Century
Bidg., St. Lonis, U.S.A

ADAM GOLDMAN, Pres. and Gen. Mgr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

1

 

 

 

 

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New oYrk, July 22—Coffee quota-
tions appear to be well sustained, but
there is not a very great amount of
activity to the market at the moment.
In store and afloat there are 3,761,-
713 bags—-almost a million more than
a year ago. At the close Rio No. 7
is worth 77%@8c. There is not much
doing in the speculative market, but
the situation is steady. For mild
coffees there has been a very satis-
factory demand and quotations for
desirable stock are well sustained.
Good Cucuta, 9%c, and good average
Bogotas, 11@11%c. East Indias are
moving with average freedom and at
unchanged rates.

There has been a fair movement in
refined sugar, but this volume con-
sists almost altogether of withdraw-
als under previous contract and there
is little new business beyond the daily
run. Freights have made a further
decline to interior points and this
may prove factor in stimulating
trade. Canners, too, are taking much
sugar, but their wants seem to have
been pretty well taken care of and
refineries are not reported much, if
any, behind in filling orders.

a

Dulness broods over the tea mar-
ket. Foreign advices are generally
strong, but seem to have no effect
on this market. Sales are of small
quantities and the whole outlook is
an indication of the “vacation pe-
riod.” True, there are some package
goods which are maintaining the
record, but these can hardly be said
to give an indication of the real
market.

There is a moderately active dis-
tributive trade in rice, but the gen-
eral trade is not as active as_ last
week. Sellers are confident, however,
and not inclined to make concessions.

In spices there has been a small
jobbing trade. Supplies of any kind
are not overabundant, but buyers
take only small quantities and there
is enough to go around without any
trouble. Pepper is the firmest article
on the list.

Molasses, it is needless to. say,
moves slowly. While the demand is
light, the few sales made are at full
figures and holders generally have a
good deal of confidence in the future
of grocery grades. Low grades have
met with some call and prices are
well sustained. Syrups are firm and
unchanged.

With a carry-over from last season
of some 200,000 cases of peas, and a
pack this year showing a reduction
in the West of from Io to 15 per cent.,
and in New York State perhaps as
much, the question is whether the
market will show any material ad-
vance as time goes on. The situa-
tion is firm and holders seem to
think the outlook is decidedly in their
favor. Other canned goods are mov-
ing with about the usual degree of

 

activity. Prices of tomatoes tend |
upward and 72%c seems to be well |
established. Bids of 7oc are said to |
have been turned down—something |
that could not have been said a
month ago. Corn is dull and quo- |
tations are nominal—Maine, $1.05@ |
1.10; N. Y. State, 80@85c, and West- |
ern, 80@8s5c. There is a “brooding
anxiety” over the non-appearance of
Sockeye salmon in their usual haunts,
and until it is known whether this
fish is to be “tinned” to any extent |
or not there will be some uncertainty
as to the general salmon market. The
total pack on the Columbia is very
likely to show a falling off. Fruits |
are steady and the supply and de-|
mand are about equal.

The butter market is well sustain-
ed, although a good part of the
strength is of a speculative character.
For current use the volume of busi-
ness is about as last week, Extra
creamery is quoted at 20%@zic; |
seconds to firsts, 18@20c; imitation |
creamery, 17%4@1oc; factory, 16@ |
1614c; renovated, from 16c up to as
high as 18%c for extras.

For fancy small, full cream N.
Y. State cheese there is a good de-
mand and the market shows an ad-
vance to 10c. The supply seems suf- |
ficient to meet the demand, but there
is no strplas. Large cheese are |
scarce and selling at practically the
same as small.

Eggs show the effects of heat and
arrivals from the West contain a |
large proportion of stock that will |
not bear very close inspection. If
the goods are really desirable, they
will fetch 19@19%c, but a_ large
part is selling as low as 14@ISc.
@15c.

ee
Recent Business Changes in the Hoo-
sier State. .

Advance—McDaniel & Leap are

succeeded by Ora McDaniel in the |

clothing business.

Indianapolis—R. T. Mullis is suc-
ceeded in the retail grocery business
by Wm. Cower.

Fort Wayne—The Angola Furnace
Co., which does a manufacturing

under the

| pany under the same style.
ital stock of the new corporation is

business, has increased its capital
stock to $100,000.

Fort Wayne — The Freiburger
Hardware Co., which does a retail
business, has been incorporated under
the same style.

Goshen—Oliver W. Cunningham
has discontinued his drug business at
this place.

Indianapolis—The Island Coal Co.

|has been absorbed by the Vandalia
| Coal Co.

Horace—The stock of general mer-
chandise of E. W. Cockrell has been
purchased by John Stites.

Indianapolis—The I. Grohs Jewel-
ry Co. has been incorporated under
the same style.

Gas City—O. R.

Handy is_ suc-

| ceeded in the grocery and meat busi-
iness by F. O. Marshall.

Indianapolis—The Indiana Lumber
& Veneer Co. will continue business
new style of the Indiana
Lumber Co.

Hartford City—-F. A. Clark has
sold his drug stock to Millard Cald-

Veneer &

| well.

Indianapolis—Mertins & _ Ehlers,
dyers, have merged their business in-
to a stock company under the style
of the French Steam Dye Works.

Evansville—W. H. Small & Co.
have merged their wholesale grain
and seed business into a stock com-
The capi-

$200,000.

Lafayette—Jas. Beck, Jr., will con-
tinue the grocery business formerly
conducted by Jas. Beck & Sons.

 

Princeton—-Robert Ingle is suc-
ceeded in the wholesale hardware
business by the Mlorgan-Barndol-
lias Co,

Anderson--The creditors of the
Columbia Cigar Co., of which Arthur
W. Morris is proprietor, have filed a
petition in bankruptcy.
has

Matthews—Major Eastman

been appointed receiver for the La-
ruche Window Glass Co.
South 3end—The creditors of

Wesley J. Brown, grocer, have filed

}a petition in bankruptcy.

|

Your Children’s
Health

IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE.

A large part of their time is spent in the
schoolroom and it becomes the duty of
every parent and good citizen to see to it
that the schoolrooms are free from disease
breeding germs. Decorate the walls with

Jiabastin

LAT RTT

Cleanly, sanitary, durable, ar-
tistic, and safeguards health.

A Rock Cement 2ucie’.3cs

delicate tints.
Does not rub or scale. Destroys disease
germs and vermin.

No washing of walls
after once applied. Any one can brush it
on—mix with cold water. The delicate
tints are non-poisonous and are made with
special reference to the protection of pu-
pils’ eyes. Beware of paper and germ-ab-
sorbing and disease-breeding kalsomines
bearing fanciful names and mixed with hot
water. Buy Alabastine only in five
pound packages, properly labeled.
Tint card, pretty wall and ceiling desig
‘Hints on Decorating,” and our artists
services in making color plans, free.

ALABASTINE CO.,
Grand Rapids, Mich., or 105 Water St., N. Y.

 

 

 

 

Twelve Thousand of These
Cutters Sold by Us in 1904

We herewith give the names of several concerns
showing how our cuttcrs are used and in what

quantities by big concerns. Thirty are in use in
the Luyties Bros., large stores in the city of St.
Louis, twenty-five in use by the Wm. Butler
Grocery Co., of Phila., and twenty in use by the
Schneider Grocery & Baking Co., of Cincinnati,
andthis fact should convince any merchant that
this is the cutter to buy, and for the reason that
we wish this to be our banner year we will, for a
short time, give an extra discount of 10 per cent.

COMPUTING CHEESE CUTTER CO.,
621-23-25 N. Main. St ANDERSON, IND.

 

AUTOMUBILE BARGAINS

1903 Winton 20 H, P. touring car, 1903 Waterless
Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, two Oldsmobiles, sec-
ond hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis-
tance with top, refinished White steam carriage
with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, allin good run-
ning order, Prices from $200 up.

ADAMS & HART, 47 N. Diy. St., Grand Rapids

 

 

“American Beauty’’ Case No. 400

 

 

“Colonial” Display Case No. 340

 

Made by the Mile

Absolutely no more Standard cases
than ours on the market.

Modern Outfitters
For Modern Merchandising

Send for copy of our catalogues ‘‘A’’
and *‘C.’’ The first shows 114 styles
of floor and wall cases, all original.
The latter illustrates our unsurpassable
line of Clothing and Suit Cabinets
that have revolutionized the handling of
ready-to-wear garments.

Grand Rapids Show Case Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.

New York Office, 718 Broadway, Same floors as Frankel Display Fixture Co.

 

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THE NEW LAW.

The Statute Governing the Practice
of Pharmacy.

Section 1. Act number one hun-
dred thirty-four of public acts of
eighteen hundred eighty-five, approv-
ed June eighteen
eighty-five, entitled, “An act to regu-
late the practice of pharmacy in the
State of hereby
amended by amending sections two,

eight,

two, hundred

Michigan,” is

three, four, five, six, seven,
nine, ten, eleven and twelve and by
adding thereto twenty-one new sec-
tions to be known as sections thir-
teen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, sev-
enteen, eighteen, twenty,
twenty-one, twenty-two,
three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twen-

nineteen,
twenty-

ty-six, twenty-seven,
twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thir-
ty-two and thirty-three, so that said
amended sections and said added sec-
tions thereto shall read as follows:
Sec. 2. The said board shall, with-
in thirty days after its appointment,
meet and organize, by the election of
a president, secretary and treasurer
from its own members who shall

hold their respective offices for the |

term of one year, and until their
successors are elected and qualified,
and shall perform such duties as
shall from time to time be prescrib-
ed by the board. The secretary and
treasurer, before entering upon the

duties of their respective offices, shall
give bond to the people of the State

conditioned for the faithful receipt, |

disbursement and accounting for, in
accordance with this act, of all
moneys that may come into

urer, in an amount fixed by the

board, undersigned by a responsible |

surety company at the expense of the
board, to be at all times under the

approval of the Auditor General and |

the Attorney General, which bond
shall be filed in the office of the
Secretary of State.

Sec. 3. The secretary of the board
shall receive a salary which shall be

fixed by the board, but the same shall

in no case exceed the sum of nine
hundred dollars per annum and the

treasurer thereof shall receive an an- |

nual salary which shall be fixed by

the board, but the same shall in no|

case exceed the sum of two hundred
fifty dollars per annum. They shall
also respectively receive the amount
of their traveling and other expenses
incurred in the performance of their
respective official duties. The other
members ofthe board shall each re-
ceive the sum of five dollars for every
day actually engaged in the service of
the board, and also all their travel-
ing and other necessary expenses in-
curred in the performance of their of-
ficial duties. Said salaries, per diem,

and expenses shall be paid from the |

fees received under the provisions of
this act. All moneys received in ex-
cess of the said per diem allowances,
salaries and al! other expenses above
State treasury at the close of each
fiscal year.
by the present or former boards of

pharmacy shall become a credit for |

their |
hands as such secretary or such treas- |

All moneys accumulated |

| eennipts of said board shall not be
| equal to its expenses so much of the
| seid accumulated funds paid into the
State treasury as aforesaid as shall
be necessary to meet the current ex-
penses of the board shall be subject
to expenditure by said board as in
this act provided. The secretary of
the said board shall at the close of
each fiscal year make an annual re-
port to the Board of State Auditors
and to the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association of all moneys
received by and disbursed by it un-
der the provisions of this act.

Sec. 4. The State Board of Phar-
macy shall have the power:

To make such by-laws, rules and
regulations not inconsistent with the

llaws of the State, as may be neces-
twenty-eight, |

sary for the protection of the pub-
lic health and the lawful performance
of its powers;

To investigate all complaints as to
quality and strength of all drugs and
|medicines, and to take such action
as said board may deem necessary to
prevent the sale of such as do not
conform to the standard and tests
prescribed in the latest edition of the
United States Pharmacopoeia;

To employ an attorney to assist in
the enforcement of the provisions of
/this act and assist in the prosecution
of any one charged with violating
any of its provisions;

To employ an inspector of phar-
'macies and one other person as the
'said board may deem necessary and
shall authorize at a salary not to ex-
ceed one thousand two hundred dol-
‘lars per annum, who, besides the
members of the board, may inspect
during business hours all
cies, dispensaries, stores or places in

pharma-

which drugs, medicines and poisons
|are compounded, dispensed or re-
| tailed;

To hold meetings at such places in
'this State as the board may deter-
imine for the examination of appli-
'cants for registration and the trans-
action of such other business as shall
pertain to the duties of the board,
five times each year, said meetings
to be held on the third Tuesday in
\the month of January, March, June,
August and November, and to hold
|such special meetings as shall from
|time to time be deemed necessary
| by a majority of the board for the
| due performance of the duties of the
board;

To send such representation from
| the membership of the board to meet-
ings of the American Pharmaceuti-
| cal Association as a majority of the
i board may deem expedient and nec-
lessary, if the board decide that such
| attendance will assist them in estab-

lic and aid the board in better per-
formance of its duties;

which shall be entered the names and
| places of business of all persons reg-

listered under this act, which book

| shall also specify such facts as all!
provided for, shall be paid into the |

such persons shall claim to justify
\their registration. The
said board or a copy of any part
| thereof, certified by the secretary to
be a true copy, attested by the seal

\lishing better protection for the pub- |

To keep a book of registration in|

records of |

competent evidence in all courts of
the State. Three members of the
said board shall constitute a quorum;

To examine all applicants for reg-
istration, and to issue two grades of
certificates, to be known respective-
ly as that of “Registered Pharmacist”
and “Registered Druggist;”

To investigate all alleged violations
oi the provisions of this act or any
other law of this State regulating
the dispensing or sale of drugs, medi-
cines or poisons, or the practice of
pharmacy, which may come to its
attention and whenever there appears
reasonable cause therefor to bring the
same to the attention of the proper
prosecuting authorities.

Sec. 5. Every registered pharma-
cist or registered druggist, who de-
sires to practice his profession shall
annually, from and after January one
of each and every year, register with
and secure a certificate of such regis-
tration from the State Board of
Pharmacy, and shall pay respective-
ly not to exceed the sum of one dol-
lar for each registered pharmacist’s
certificate, and not to exceed one dol-
lar for each registered druggist’s
certificate, the limit of time for pay-
ment of such fees and the amount
thereof each year to be in the dis-
cretion of said board.

Sec. 6. Every person receiving a
certificate under this act shall keep
the same conspicuously exposed in
his place of business, and every reg-
istered pharmacist or registered drug-
gist shall within ten days after
changing his place of business or

certificate, notify the secretary of the
board of his new place of business
or employment. The board shall pre-
serve and keep a record of all certifi-
cates issued by former boards and
keep a record of all certificates is-
sued by it, and such records shal!
at all times be open to inspection,
as are other public records.

Sec. 7. Any person who shall, at
the time this act takes effect, law-
fully hold a certificate as a register-
ed pharmacist or assistant register-
ed pharmacist, shall be entitled to
the privileges granted by such cer-
tificate until January one, nineteen
hundred six, and no longer, and such
persons shall be entitled to reregis-
tration on or before January one,
nineteen hundred six, without exam-
ination upon payment of the fees
herein specified.

Sec. 8. From and after the taking
|effect of this act, every place in
|which drugs, medicines or poisons
| are retailed or dispensed or physi-
|cians’ prescriptions compounded,
| shall be deemed a pharmacy or drug
store, and the same shall be in charge
_of and under the supervision of a
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ithe provisions of this act.

Sec. 9. Any person registered un-
der the provisions of this act who
| shall give, sell, furnish or offer for
sale, directly or indirectly, any mor-
| phine, its salts and its derivatives, co-

caine, eucaine or any of their respec-
| tive salts except to or upon the or-
|der of legally practicing physicians,

| dentists or veterinary surgeons, orig-

said board and if in any year the |of the board, shall be accepted as | inal prescriptions which shall not be

 

 

refilled or a copy thereof given to
any person, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction of
same shall be punished by a fine or
imprisonment, or both, as hereinafter
provided: Provided, That the above
provisions shall not apply to sales at
wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers and
manufacturers, to retail druggists or
legally practicing physicians, or to
each other or to druggists and phar-
macists, if sold in original packages
only, nor to sales at retail by retail
druggists to regular practitioners of
medicine, dentistry or veterinary
medicine, nor to sales made to manu-
facturers of proprietary or pharma-
ceutical preparations for use in the
manufacture of such preparations nor
to sales to hospitals, colleges, scien-
tific or public institutions, nor to
morphine when sold in the pill or
tablet form.

Sec. 10. Except as_ specified in
section seven of this act no person
shall be granted a certificate as a
registered druggist, until he shall
have made written application to said
board setting forth in an affidavit
that he is at least eighteen years of
age, and has had not less than two
years’ practical experience in phar-
maceutical work where drugs, medi-
cines and poisons were dispensed and
retailed and prescriptions compound-
ed, and furnished satisfactory evi-
dence to the board that he has com-
pleted the equivalent to tenth grade

work in the public schools, and shall
have paid such fees as shall have

; F | been fixed by the board, not exceed-
employment as designated by his |

ing three dollars, and shall have pass-
ed an examination satisfactory to
said board for the granting of such
certificate. A registered druggist
may be employed for the purpose of
dispensing, compounding or retailing
drugs, medicines and poisons, in any
pharmacy, drug store or place . in
which drugs, medicines and poisons
are compounded or retailed under the
management and supervision of a
registered pharmacist and during his
temporary absence therefrom.

Sec. it. Except as specthied m
section seven of this act, no person
shall be granted a certificate as a reg-
istered pharmacist until he shall have
made application to the board, setting
forth by an affidavit that he is at
least twenty-one years of age, that
he has had at least four years’ prac-
tical experience in pharmaceutical
work in a place where drugs, medi-
cines and poisons were dispensed and
retailed and prescriptions compound-
ed, and shall furnish satisfactory evi-
dence to the board that he has com-
pleted tenth grade work in the pub-
lic schools, or its equivalent, and un-
til he has paid such fees as shall be
fixed by the board, not exceeding the
sum of five dollars, and until he shall
have passed an examination _ satis-
factory to said board for the granting
or such certificate.

Sec. 12. In case of failure of an
applicant upon his first application to
pass a satisfactory examination be-
fore the said board, all subsequent
examinations shall be granted upon
the payment of three dollars by ap-
plicant for registered pharmacist and

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a fee of two dollars by applicant for |

registered druggist.

Sec. 13. The board may in its dis-
cretion also grant certificates of reg-
istration without further examination
to the licentiates of such other boards
of pharmacy as it may deem proper
upon the payment of a fee of not to
exceed fifteen dollars.

Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful for

any one but a registered pharmacist |

under this act, who shall conform to
the rules and regulations of the
State Board of Pharmacy to take, use
and exhibit the titles “pharmacist,”
“druggist,” and “pharmacy” and
“drug store,” to have charge of, en-
gage in or carry on for himself or
for another, the dispensing, com-

pounding, or sale of drugs, medicines |

or poisons, anywhere within the
State, but no registered pharmacist

shall have personal supervision of |

more than one pharmacy or drug
store at the same time.

.Sec. 15. Except as prescribed by |

the provisions of this act, it shall not
be lawful for any person to practice
as a registered pharmacist, registered
druggist, or advertise himself by sign
or otherwise to be such, or to engage
in, conduct, carry on, or be employed

in the dispensing, compounding or}

retailing of drugs, medicines or pois-
ons within this State: Provided, This
section and the preceding section

shall not be construed as precluding |

any person from owning a drug store
or pharmacy if all of the pharmaceu-
tical work in the same shall be under
the personal supervision and direc-
tion of a registered pharmacist.

Sec. 16. Unless otherwise  pre-
scribed for, or specified by the cus-
tomer, all pharmaceutical prepara-
tions, sold or dispensed in a pharma-
cv, dispensary, store or place, shall
be of the standard strength, quali-
ty and purity established by the lat-
est edition of the United States
Pharmacopoeia.

Sec. 17. Every proprietor of a
wholesale or retail drug store, phar-
macy, or other place where drugs,
medicines or chemicals are com-

pounded, dispensed or sold, shall be |

held responsible for the quality and
strength of all drugs, chemicals or

ee ° . |
medicines sold or dispensed by him, |

except those articles or preparations
known as patent or proprietary medi-
cines.

Sec. 18. Nothing in this act shall
apply to the practice of a practi-
tioner of medicine, who is not the
proprietor of a store for the dispens-
ing or retailing of drugs, medicines or
poisons, or who is not in the employ
of such proprietor, and shall not pre-
vent practitioners of medicine from
supplying their patients with such ar-
ticles as they may deem proper, or

to the sale of Paris green, white |

hellebore and other poisons for de-
stroying insects, or any substance for
use in the arts, or the manufacture
and sale of proprietary medicines, or
to the sale by merchants of ammo-
nia, bicarbonate of soda, borax, cam-
phor, castor oil, cream of tartar, dye
stuffs, essence of ginger, essence of
peppermint, essence of wintergreen,
non-poisonous flavoring essence or
extracts, glycerine, licorice, olive oil,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| sal ammoniac, saltpetre, sal soda and
| sulphur, except as herein provided:
| Provided, however, That in the sev-
eral towns of this State, where there
|is no registered pharmacist within
| five miles, physicians may compound
| medicines, fill prescriptions, and sell
| poisons, duly labeling the same as
| required by this act, and merchants
| ond drug dealers may sell any drugs,
medicines, chemicals, essential oils
and tinctures which are put up in
bottles, boxes, packages, bearing la-
bels securely affixed, which labels
shall bear the name of the pharma-
cist putting up the same, the dose
that may be administered to persons
three months, six months, one year,
|three years, five years, ten years, fif-

| teen and twenty-one years .of age,
| and if a poison, the name or names of
| the most prominent antidotes; and
to the sale by such merchant of cop-
peras, borax, blue vitriol, saltpetre,
|pepper, sulphur, brimstone, Paris
green, liquorice, sage, senna leaves,
| castor oil, sweet oil, spirits of tur-
| pentine, glycerine, glauber salts, ep-
som salts, cream of tartar, bi-carbon-
ate of soda, sugar of lead and such
acids as are used in coloring and tan-
/ning, paregoric, essence of pepper-
'mint, essence of ginger, essence of
| cinnamon, hive syrup, syrup of ipe-
|cac, tincture of arnica, syrup of tolu,
syrup of squills, spirits of camphor,
sweet spirits of nitre, quinine, and all

‘other preparations of cinchona bark,
tincture of aconite and tincture of
iron, or quinine pills, and to the sale
| of carbolic acid, laudanum, sugar of
\lead, oxalic acid, duly labeling and
registering the same as required by
this-act; and to the sale of any pat-

}ent or proprietary medicines.
Sec. 19. The State Board of
Pharmacy shall have the power to
| withhold a license from any applicant
| whenever it shall be satisfied that the
| safety of the public health will be en-
| dangered by reason of the habits or
character of such applicant. If any
registered pharmacist or registered
druggist shall have obtained a’ li-
cense by misrepresentation, error or
| fraud, or shall have become unfit or
|incompetent to practice pharmacy by
|reason of habitual intemperance, or
the use of drugs; or has been con-
victed of any crime involving moral
turpitude; or if any person, holding
j}a certificate as a registered pharma-
| cist or a registered druggist, shall
| have been convicted of a violation of
| the pharmacy law in any of the courts
| of the State, the State Board of
| Pharmacy shall have the power to re-
|voke or suspend such license or cer-
| tificate after giving any such person
| reasonable notice and an opportunity
lto be heard; and if any person li-
| censed under this act shall wilfully
and repeatedly violate any of the
provisions of this act, such board may
revoke or suspend his license upon
i sufficient evidence of such violation
in addition to any other penalty by
the law imposed for such violation.
Sec. 20. Whenever the _ board
shall revoke or suspend the registra-
tion of any registered pharmacist or
registered druggist it shall notify
such registered or licensed person of
such action and he shall immediately

 

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Dutch RusKs

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JacKson
Baking Powder

Royal Baking Powder
Ballou BasKets
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a tative his certificate or license of reg- | duly authorized representative. | word “poison” upon it.

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iq Sec. 21. Any person who shall at- any person or persons licensed un- | titious name to the apothecary, drug-

5 or Ww shall pro-| ;._ f ah simignoi | gis om whom such

i amet te a or who shall pro-| ger the provisions of this act to sell | gist or other Sa 7 Se aa ae

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if himself, or for any other person, named in the ochedales hereinafter |C¢ 2 misdemeanor, and the person

iy under this act by making or causing set forth without affixing or caus- |or persons guilty thereof shall, upon

i to be made any false  representa- |; és hin ll de te bottle box, | Conviction thereof, be liable to a fine

: tions; any licensed pharmacist who cal or package « label containing | "°t exceeding fifty dollars.

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

deliver to the board or its represen-

dispensing of prescriptions of medi-
cal practitioners in his store or place
of business by any person or persons
not licensed or registered under the
provisions of this act; any person not

| Michigan Board of Pharmacy or its

poison distinctly shown, together |

with the name and place of business

of the seller all printed in red ink, |

and the name of such poison printed

ble label or brand in red ink with the

vinous or malt liquors for chemical,
| scientific, medical, mechanical or sac-
ramental purposes, by druggists and
pharmacists, shall be subject to the
provisions of this act, and all such

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. : ; : or written thereupon in plain legible | © : Our line is complete. If you have not tried
re licensed by said board who shall pre-| , | : : he | liquors sold by druggists or pharma- | our goods ask us for samples and prices. We
ef : . ' characters, except when sold in the|~, 5 -_ | will give you both.
ef pare or dispense a medical prescrip- ii des of Ge mete (oO shall be, for the purpose of this
: ee oo. riginal pacKag 1 a a i. :
a tion or physician’s prescription or er, which coeform to the require act, considered as drugs, medicines Aikman Bakery Co.
2 ee nicn ont e
3} vai e Soi ~11 mimo’ a “ $
: dispense, give or sell at retail pois- sates fue tie ealensle Gealetc. os and for the use of arts only, and the Port Huron, Mich.
E ons or medicines, except under the |} -cinafter set forth. The following sale of the same shall be subject to
i immediate supervision of a duly li-
fl I € S ' : < i ue 4 ire the
4 censed pharmacist whose certificate, A?
i‘ license or registration is displayed in vu
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: . ih tee Arsenic, potassium, hy- tri rest now use the best
h the place where the same is furnished, | , : i ay You have tried the re b .
i : oe drocyanic nnia, and all
i prepared, dispensed or sold; any per- cay aa ‘
; " poIsONous an their saits,
: son not licensed by said board, who E nt re : : ;
E Om Oe bitter almonds containing hy-
shal ‘a, ct or have charge c : ; : a
E 7 ~,. , |drocyanic acid, opium and its prepa-
i any pharmacy or drug store which i : :
: : . a .|Tations, except paregoric and_ such
: is not under the direct supervision of : oo : :
; : ae sh thers as contain less than two grains |
H a registered pharmacist for retailing, | ~ . : ;
qi : : : ; ; | oi opium to the ounce. i
i dispensing or compounding medi- o
: ‘ : Sehoinie “AR?
hi cines Or poisons; any person who Schedule “B
: : oe vi me ]adonna antharides
: shall fraudulently represent himself belladonna, cantharides,
C ce eon atte root djioi-
E to be licensed; any person who know- ee ee es oe
a ; : : : ee hy-
F ingly refuses to permit any member ot, hellebore, henbane, _—
of said board of pharmacy employed | 'C/#C¢2, Strophanthus, ou or tansy,
: 7 o cele went eS
by said board to enter a pharmacy ee ee ee
k Oe ee ee a preparations, arsenical  so- . : : :
or drug store for the purpose of law- je a renee is made of the finest grain that grows. Made in a mill
; ee Whe Col a Ln | MONS, Carbone aca, choral hydrate,
E Ey mSpeciing the same; any person ie ' fi b iIt . h hi h
who directly or indirectly prevents or cort blimate, cre- as fine as was ever Duilt—-with machinery the most
E attempts to prevent the lawful in- i ;
ipts to prevent the lawi erfect ever invented. How can it, therefore, be other
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spection Of any place in whi ugs, . 5
medicines or poisons are re or than the cleanest and purest flour in the market:

dispensed or physicians’ prescriptions

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cense or certificate of it Golden Horn costs no more than many others, in ae
expired or has r : se
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Sec. 22. Any licensed under

   
 

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John G. Doan Company

Manufacturers’ Agents
for all kinds of

Fruit Packages

ushels, Half Bnshels and Covers; Berry Crates and Boxes:
limax Grape and Peach Baskets.

Write us for prices on car lots or less.

Warehouse, Corner E. Fulton and Ferry Sts., Grand Rapids
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

 

the same regulations and _ require-
ments as are herein contained rela-
tive to the dispensing of drugs, med-
icines, and poisons and the com-
pounding of prescriptions, and all
violations hereof shall be subject to
penalties prescribed by the general
penal clause of this act. A book shall
be kept and all sales of liquors shall
be recorded therein giving the pur-
chaser’s name, address, quantity and
for what purpose it is represented it
is furnished, said book to be open for
inspection to board of inspectors of
pharmacies of this State and to be
kept at least one year after date of
last sale, except such as is dispensed
on physicians’ prescriptions.

Sec. 28. It shall be the duty of
the Michigan Board of Pharmacy,
upon receiving bona fide information
of any violation of the provisions of
this act, relative to the sale of spir-
ituous, vinous or malt liquors by any

pharmacist, druggist or other person, |

to bring the offense, together with
all information relating to the same,
to the attention of the prosecuting
attorney under whose jurisdiction the
violation is committed, whose duty
it shall be to cause an investigation
of such alleged violation, and if suf-
ficient evidence be obtained, to cause
the prosecution of such pharmacist,
druggist or other person, operating
under the provisions of this act, un-
der the general liquor law of the
State or under the provisions of this
act. Upon conviction thereof the
person so found guilty shall be sub-
ject to the penalties contained in the

general liquor law, in cases brought |
under the general liquor law, and |

subject to the penal clause of this

act where action is commenced under |

the terms of this act.

Sec. 29. Every registered pharma-
cist or registered druggist dispens-
ing and compounding medicines, shall

be exempt and free from all jury |

duty in the courts of this State.

Sec. 30.
be construed to interfere with or pre-
clude any legally practicing physi-
sian from prescribing, dispensing,
compounding, or giving any medi-
cines or poisons to his patients in the
regular course of his practice as such
physician.

Sec. 31. It shall be the duty of
this board, upon obtaining sufficient
evidence of any violation of the pro-
visions of this act, to lay the same
before the prosecuting attorney of
the county in which such violation
shall take place and it shall be the
duty of such prosecuting attorney to
prosecute the same under this act or
other general laws of the State.

Sec. 32. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be sub-
ject to a fine of not more than one
hundred dollars and costs of prose-
cution, or imprisonment in the county
jail for not less than ten days, nor
more than ninety days, or both such
fine and imprisonment in the discre-
tion of the court.

Sec. 33. All acts and parts of acts
in conflict with any of the provi-
sions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved June 20, 1905.

Nothing in this act shall |

Evidences of Prosperity at Saginaw.

Saginaw, Mich. July 24—Some
time ago the Jackson & Church Co.
|bought from the Saginaw Valley
| Traction Co. the old street car barns,
| for years a landmark. The old car
|storehouse, I00 feet square, is now
| undergoing a renovation, and will
|soon give place to a new building of
isteel construction to be used as an
|addition to the already large machine
|shops of the Jackson & Church Co.
|The car barns proper will also be re-
/modeled and converted to the com-
pany’s use.

recently secured

the purchase of which
possession of the entire
square bounded by Hamilton, Madi-
|son, Niagara and Cleveland streets.
These old buildings are being im-
and the establishment will
| show a handsome growth from the
machine shop estab-
|lished twenty-five years ago by John
L. Jackson.

Another company that has shown
unmistakable evidence of substantial
|growth in the last few years is the
Herzog Art Furniture Co. on the
west side. This company is erecting
one of the finest factory buildings in
|the state, into which as fast as por-
tions are completed different depart-
ments of the business are installed.
| It was the intent to abandon the old
structure, when the new was com-
|pleted, but the amount of orders on
hand and being received insure the
operation for the present at least of
both factories.

A consignment of lumbering tools
was shipped Saturday morning by
Morley Brothers from this city to
Colon, Panama. It contained an as-
sortment of peavies, canthooks, etc.,
such as are manufactured at the firm’s
factory here. This is the first ship-
iment from Saginaw for use in the

The company
other lots
gives it

j
| proved

|foundry and

| construction of the Panama canal.

 

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$56.50 to Portland and Return.

$36.50 Chicago to Portland, Seattle
or Tacoma and return is the low
price for the round trip offered by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
way. Tickets are on sale daily until
September 30, and good for return
for 90 days. One may go via St.
Paul and Minneapolis, via Omaha and
Ogden, via Omaha and Denver, or
via Kansas City.
may make the going trip to the Pa-
cific Coast via one of these routes and
return via another—offering an excel-
lent opportunity to visit several sec-
tions of the West at greatly reduced
rates.

I.ewis and Clark Exposition book
sent for two cents postage. Folders
free.

R. C. Jones, Mich. Pass. Agent,

32 Campus Martius, Detroit, Mich.

Best of all, one

a
New Brick Factory Near Onondaga.
Jackson, July 24.—As the result of
the discovery of clay suitable for
the making of the best quality of
brick, near Onondaga, Jackson men
will organize a $20,000 company for
making brick. The factory will, it is
said, be located at Onondaga. Sam-
ples of the clay have been tested, and
completed bricks submitted to the in-

 

 

spection of, architects. The clay| That a boat transporting lady pas-
beds cover sixty acres and have an|sengers carries a precious freight.
average depth of fifty feet. | That a ball always lasts until the

Dalton Bros., owners of the Union| wee, sma’ hours.
block, have let the contract for con-
verting the property into a big Euro- |
pean plan hotel. New interior finish,
heating apparatus and many other
iinprovements are contemplated in
the plans for the rebuilding, the con- |
tract for which has been let to North
& Bradshaw of this city. This block
is directly across the street from the
Otsego, and will afford another hotel,
first-class of its kind.

The usual midsummer quiet has | jail is either representative or popu-
settled over the manufacturing indus-| lar, or both.
tries of the city. The general busi- |
ness situation is improving, however,

That a hayseed poet is always
equipped with a quaint smile.

That anything to eat at a social
gathering is a bountiful repast.

That an offhand speaker makes a
few well-chosen remarks.

That a society dame with a book
to publish receives many flattering
offers.

And that every citizen who is not in

 

 

and preparations are making for in-
creased business in all lines.
——_ 2
To Doubie Its Capacity.
St. Louis, July 24——The St. Louis |
Sugar Co. is increasing its capacity |
from 450 tons to 600 tons of beets per |

: | good habits. Experienced in all branches
day. The number of men employed | of the profession. Will conduct any kind

 

We face you with facts and clean-cut
educated gentlemen who are salesmen of

: : : . _. | of sale, but earnestly advise one of our
will be increased from 150 to 175.| “New Idea” sales. independent of auction,
: “ a. © |to center trade an oom business at a
The company has sieanasensinilants 6,000 profit, or entire series to get out of busi-
acres of beets this year, against 4,000 | ness at cost.

acres last season. G. E. STEVENS & CO.

: : : 209 State St., Suite 1114, Chicago.
from farmers in Midland, Isabella,) Wo BR” “you may become interested in
Gratiot, Saginaw and Montcalm coun-

The supply comes |

| =

|a_300-page book by Stevens, entitled
. : : | “‘Wicked City,’’ story of merchant’s
ties, the location of the factory being siege with bandits. If so, merely send us
so central that it is convenient to sec- | Yous, mame and we will te you re-

garding it when ready for distribution.
tions of each of these counties.

The company is planning a big
farmers’ picnic in September, to take |
place at the factory.
persons

 

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Last year 5,000
were entertained, and _ this!
year it is expected to double that
number.
——_2
The Reporter’s Glossary.

The young reporter should always
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high. asoiine anties

That an industry
leaps and bounds.

That two drunks and a disorderly
constitute a carnival of crime.

That a burned barn falls a victim
to the devouring element.

That a politician views every act P j . oa s CG U FY Ee D
of the opposition with alarm. |

That he points to the proceedings
of his own party with pride.

That every utterance of a preacher |
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and Children’s Clothing.

ed in the production and sale of

|

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j
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duced in the cheaper grades.
are difficult garments to make and
great skill is needed to produce the
proper fitting garment.
merchants have not plunged in these

| styles they have ordered liberally and
| will depend upon reorders if the de-|

| mand

exceeds their expectations. |

| The long loose Chesterfield overcoat |

The fall and winter season for 1905 |
has reached the point where manu- |
facturers, salesmen and others engag- |

ready-made garments feel that they |
are in a position to give a definite |

statement in regard to the condition
of the trade. The universal verdict
is that business is most satisfactory.
The advance sales have been greater
than ever before in the history of the
trade. The demand has been for the

will be worn very generally, especial- |
ly among the younger men. These |
coats are made of heavy Scotch mix- |
tures, showing plaids and_ stripes. |
The coat is made with and without |
the belt effect.

The increasing number of automo-

|bilists has created a great demand |
| for special garments suitable for wear |

when enjoying the sport. There are

| several manufacturers who are mak-

highest class of merchandise, and, de- |

spite the fact that prices were higher
than usual, the orders placed were
very liberal indeed. The season so
far has been marked with several
features which make it different from
others, the greatest being the fact
that the salesmen started to visit
their trade, with the heavyweight
samples, at least a month earlier than
ever before, and the second, and per-
haps the most interesting, is the sub-
stitution of swatches for made-up
samples. This last feature has been
gradually brought into
and it is expected will be generally
adopted with another season. By it
salesmen have been able to reduce
the amount of baggage carried al-
most one-half, and as
more used to selecting their
from swatches rather than from the
completed garments, reduc-
tions of the lines are looked for.

July

buyers” get
stock

further

During the months of and

ing a specialty of these garments, and |
they have prepared a line of suits and |
overcoats which in cut and _ fabric |
differ materially from the usual run

|of ready-made garments. The fabric |

prominence |

is prepared so that it is wind and
waterproof, and the styles are such |
as to give comfort rather than style. |
Each village has one or two enthu- |
Siastic motorists, and the number in-
creases as the towns increase in size.
The up-to-date merchant has already |
foreseen the demand for garments |
suitable for the man of the motor
car and although his department may |
be small indication points to
its rapid growth. Beside this the in- |
troduction of a few of these garments |
will create interest in the store and |
will doubtless attract trade
other departments as well.

every

to the

The lines of children’s clothing for

fall and winter are more extensive

|than ever before, and many new and |

August the markets will be visited |

by the buyers who desire to select
goods to fill out their fall and win-
ter stocks. The advance orders have
been so heavy that the house trade
will be smaller than usual this sum-

mer. Experience of past seasons has

demonstrated the fact that if buyers |

wait until late in the season to place

| overcoats for children have been pro-

their orders they are more than lia- |

ble to be disappointed, and the re-

| wear.

sult is that they place the bulk of |
their orders with the salesman on the |

road and only leave the “filling in”
part until they visit the market. Lots

i which expensive furs figure
inently as decorations for cuffs and

for special sales are purchased, or |

the novelties which always

appear |

late in the season are selected. One|

of the greatest features of the buy-
er’s semi-annual visit to the markets
which includes, of course, a few days

| children. The demand for these coats,
| despite their high cost, is large, es-
| pecially in the larger cities.

in the metropolis, is the fact that he |

gains many new ideas which are in-
stilled into his department when he
reaches home. His talks with other
buyers and his visits*to the large
stores in the cities, are as valuable to
him as the time he spends in select-
ing garments in the wholesale ware-
rooms of the manufacturing clothiers.

Advance sales for the winter dem-
onstrate that Paddocks, Surtouts and
Paletots will be very popular _ for
wear during the cold months. These
overcoats are very stylish and the
well-dressed man likes them for their
dressy appearance. Another feature
is that .these coats can not be pro-

|est season ever experienced by the
| manufacturers of wash suits for chil-
| dren.

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|in order to supply the goods needed

attractive features are now being}
shown by the salesmen on the road. |
Russian styles are the

leaders for fall, and there are many

and sailor

innumerable number
Military and naval de-
signs are also popular for children
and some very attractive styles have
been presented.

Many new and effective designs for

varieties of an
of fabrics.

winter
In the higher priced garments
some of the most artistic and beau-
tiful designs have been created, in |
promi- |

duced by the designers for

These coats are lined with
silk and are the most attractive ever
shown in ready-to-wear overcoats for

collars.

This summer has been the great- |

 

While it was expected that the
demand for little garments |
would be large and preparations were |
made to handle a large demand, the
plans were not extensive enough, and,
as a result, manufacturers have had |
te go to the limit of their facilities

these

and there were many orders that had |
to be refused. Almost every style |
of washable material was utilized this
season in making up the garments
and there were hundreds of different
styles.—Clothier and Furnisher.

   

They
While retail |

 
 

It doesn’t cost a cent more to

Make Clothes Fi
Right,

It is all a question of knowing how—having the

   

  

   

right amount of brains in the fingers and knowing

   

where to poise and balance a garment.
You will come across many makes during the

 
    

coming season, but you will find no garments that fit

   

the price so liberally and fit the figure so exactly

   

as ours.

   

The Wile-Weill way
Is the wear-well way

  

 

Cottonades
Worsteds
Serges
Cassimeres
Cheviots
Kerseys

Prices

$7.50 to $36.00

Per Dozen

The Ideal Clothing Co.

Two Factories

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

Style Tendencies in Little
Wearables.

Everyone engaged in the

Folks’

in fall trade. July first business in

hand was reported equal to the first | laying his

 

|

light; if there is an excess, the in-
evitable cancellation will follow.

manu- | There are buyers who have operated
facturing of clothing seems to have | lightly in
been affected by the general increase | upon one

expectation of realizing
of these contingencies.
3ut the smart buyer, who is de-

business to realize on his

of August of last year, and at the] expectation of the market taking a

end of this month it is figured that
the orders booked will be up to what
were taken to September a year ago,
making the season a month ahead in
the volume business done. Just
how much more trade manufactur-
ers will get is yet problematical. Du-
plicates

House

of

are yet to come.

active
the fortnight, and has reached its
height. Manufacturers urging

their

selling was

are
clothiers to place

|
|

|

| particularly if crops are good.

| will
during |

duplicates |

early, arguing that it is to their ad- |

the
market under

vantage, owing to uncertain
of the the in-
fluence of the normal consumption of
wool, its scarcity and attendant high
speculative price, and the difficulty
of obtaining piece goods from
mills, excepting at an advance which
affects duplicate orders for clothing.
There is no doubt that manufactur-
ers are desirous of taking care of
customers by selling goods they al-
to

course

ready own, as they would have
pay higher prices to-day.

If the clothing manufacturers can
hold the orders they have the year
will a record one. But cancella-
tions have to be reckoned with.

be

| the

the |

lies are plunging on

course that will give him merchan-

| dise when he is ready to use it, may

learn, when it is too late, that his
hindsight was not as good as a lit-
tle foresight might have been. And
If no

 

calamity occurs the normal business |

be large. Yet he argues

that |

buying now enough suits and over- |

coats for October—which is the first |
good suit month of the fall season— |

know what
sells best in suits, and then, while
retail demand has switched to
overcoats in November, he will
able to satisfy his stock by picking
up suits at short prices for Decem-
ber, when the suit demand revives.
the
ones who make the biggest fortunes
in this country.

Buyers for fine trade in large cit-
Norfolks and
and ordering fewer dou-
ble-breasted coat ‘styles than former-

in November he will

Optimists, not pessimists, are

bloomers,

lly. They are not buying any three-
piece suits. In the country, how-
ever, double-breasted coat _ suits,

| knee pants suits and three-piece suits

Al- |

most every manufacturing organiza- |

tion estimates that there will be

some shrinkage
although it is a loss they would all
avoid. Yet it is figured that such
shrinkage is at least from 3 to 5 per
cent. of sales, although there are a

from cancellations, |

continue staple and in good favor.
Yet all the big stores, doing a large
catalogue business, say they get lots
of country orders for bloomers and

| Norfolks, and attribute this business

to the inability of the buyers of bet-

iter grades to get their wants filled

few who do not accept cancellations. |
All clothiers have not bought lib- |

erally.

There are cautious operators |

in the big cities who have bought |

lightly. These buyers appear to have
faith in such likelihood as
scarcity of clothing. They
there will be plenty to go around,
and that later they will be in posi-
tion to trade on others’ losses, not-
withstanding the precarious
tion of the market. One contingen-
that they are counting upon

no a a

condi-

cy is

at the stores in small cities. This
should interest the country dealer.

of large quantities of
clothing, and especially those deal-

Buyers

ing with one house, say they have

taken no thought of. higher prices

| prevailing on duplicates and look for

think |

their manufacturers to take care of
them.

Clothiers, including those catering
to popular as well as the fine trade
houses, inform us that it is difficult

to obtain all-worsted suits and all-
|wool overcoats for boys at $3.75
from the large manufacturers, and

that the clothing manufacturers, en- |
| that they are getting their needs fill-

couraged by their successful selling,
may go into the piece goods market
and plunge more cloths
ticipation of lively duplicating, and

on in an-
the cautious buyers anticipate satis-
fying their needs at short prices in
the event of fall duplicates failing to
materialize. Another contingency
counted upon by them is cancella-

tions.

It will be some time yet before
cancellations can be even approxi-
mately estimated. They are never

known accurately. . The business this
season, as before stated, is large and
quite generally shared in. The or-
dering was done largely from
swatches. It is the modern and con-
sequently an easy, method of sell-
ing, and the quantities ordered do

not look as large in the swatches as |
the |

they will in the clothing. If
quantities bought are sufficient for
the season’s wants, the cautious buy-
er estimates that duplicating will be

ied through
| whom they have extended their busi-

 

small manufacturers, to
ness because. of their less expensive
manufacturing, which commonly
cheaper made goods.

Buyers are paying $4 net for boys’
to retail at the special

means

overcoats
price of $5.
Cottonades of a sightly character
and exact replicas of the best pat-
terns in good worsteds are finding
to 16

favor in three-piece suits, 7

sizes, with buyers ‘doing a _ popular |

class of business.

Wash suit stocks are low. Buyers
are obliged to place orders for what-
ever they want for immediate con-
sumption. There is very little tub
stuff to be had from manufacturers’
stocks, which are low. Weather con-
ditions have favored selling of large
quantities at retail, including play
suits of wash materials, drills, etc—
Apparel Gazette.

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Our salesmen cannot reach every town—the express
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Educating the Public the Wrong Way.

June, the month of long days, short
nights and straw hats, was with us
recently.
ing of warm days and sunny skies;

rather the other extreme, which fact |

called forth the remark of the

phrase-quoter, “What so raw as a day |

in June.”

that ends well,” the weather warmed

as the month proceeded, and business |
Straw hats sold particu- |
larly well, and each day witnessed a|

flourished.

decided increase in the number worn.
No particular styie of braid, or
shape, seems to be pre-eminently

popular this season for the reason |

that there is such a variety of styles
from which to choose.

shapes, sennits are more frequently |
seen, split braids having been forced |
A num-

to second place for a time.
ber of retailers are showing a variety
of effects in flexible straw hats made
with low crowns and brims about
three inches wide.
1 si : : stats . . as
blocked in imitation of the popular

low crowned soft hats, many having |
brims |
pulled down in front. Still others |
have the edge of the brims turned up |
all around and bound with narrow |

telescope crowns and_ the

black binding. Hats of these descrip-
tions have sold very well. Many
Panama hats are to be seen, and re-
tailers admit they have sold beyond
their expectations. They are this
season being more generally worn
throughout the country than ever be-
fore.
are a quantity to be reckoned with
each season.

About the middle of June the writer |

happened to occupy a point of vant-

age for observing things in the win-|
dow of a Broadway hat salesroom, |
and while there witnessed a sight that |
should have made any rash retailer |

sit back and think, could one have
been there. In the constant stream
of pedestrians that passed on that
warm day about three-quarters of the
men wore straw hats. A good show-
ing for the fifteenth of June. The

horrible part is yet to be told. At}

least seventy-five per cent. of the
straw hats were last year’s hats! A

thing almost unbelievable, but true}

just the same.
the matter there seems but one ex-
planation of this
Those men realized that aiter the
Fourth of July they could buy a good
straw hat at a very much reduced
price. They believed it because the
retailers who persist in the
cutting of prices have educated the
buying public to expect a reduction
of from one-third to one-half in the
price of straw hats early in July,
while the summer is still young.
Consequently many people will wear
an old hat during the first few weeks
of warm weather in order to save a
dollar or two. The retailer is un-
doubtedly the loser in such cases.

It is a fact that few could have
failed to observe, that during the past
few years the warmest weather has
been experienced from the middle of
July to the middle of September.
June is rarely a month of excessive
heat, but being considered a summer

state oi affairs.

early

Its arrival portended noth- |

However, as “all’s well!

Of the yacht |

These hats are}

Panamas are here to stay, and |

After pondering over |

'month straw hats are worn by many
|more as a matter of form than as a
| summer necessity. Exception to the
foregoing statement may be made in
ithe case of the Southern States only,
where the season is a much longer
‘one than in the more northerly sec-

tions of the country.

The statement being true, with the
exception noted, why is it that the
majority of the retailers allow them-
selves to believe that the summer is
at least half over and the bulk of the
straw-hat business is done when the
Fourth of July has come and gone?
For after that date the “slaughter of
straw hats begins, and
already in hand begin
away and finally when fall really does
arrive there are little or no profits to
show for the summer’s business, and

prices” on

the profits

simply because the number of straw
hats sold at cut prices was much
larger than the number sold at a
profit earlier in the season.

It is the belief of every manufac-
turer, and also of all of those in the
straw-hat trade, that just as many
hats would be sold, and at a greater
profit, if every retailer in the country
would wait until the first to the
tenth of August before making any
reduction in the price of his straw
hats. By that time of the season
everyone who wanted to wear a straw
i hat would have purchased one, and at
a profit-bearing figure to the retailer.

By that time also many of the hats
sold earlier in the season would have
become soiled, and those that could

| afford to would gladly purchase a
inew one at a reduced figure, and par-
ticularly so if there was a prospect of
|getting four to six weeks’ wear out
of it. The people who purchase a hat
in June and make that one last
throughout the season are not influ-
enced by the early reduction in prices
and would not be influenced at any
time, no matter if the reduction be
made in July or August.

The making of profits or losing of
profits in handling straw hats rests
entirely with the retailer, and if he
does not make money out of them he
has no one to blame but himself.

Dealers, and consumers as well, are
cautioned against the use of oxalic
acid for the cleaning of straw and
Panama hats. Oxalic acid causes the
hat to become discolored when ex-
posed to the sun after cleaning; but,
worst of all, it rots the fiber, causing
it to become brittle—Clothier and
Furnisher.

+ -
Circular That Kept Mail-Order Mon-
ey at Home.

C. HH. Detrick & Co., of Caldwell,
Kans., are country merchants carry-
ling dry goods, groceries, queensware
land hardware. The retail mail order
houses flood the country with cata-
logues and have done a good deal of
business in and around Caldwell.
& Co. in May issued an
&-page circular that was mailed to
every home that could be reached
through their local postoffice. The
circular is neatly printed and talks
prices—comparative prices. The size
of the pages is 4x5 inches. Detrick
& Co. in a letter say that “This season

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We Have Moved

We are now located in our large new quarters

31 North lonia St.

Right on the way to the Union Station

  
   
       
      
     
       
 

Where we will be pleased to meet all our old customers and
prospective new ones. We are now selling a line of

Clothing, Woolens,
Tailors’ Trimmings

Immediate delivery on Spring and Summer Clothing, as
we still have a nice line to select from for the benefit of our
Mail and phone orders promptly attended to.
If preferred will send representative.

customers.
Citizens phone 6424.

Grand Rapids Clothing Co.

Dealers in Clothing, Cloth and Tailors’ Trimmings
Grand Rapids, Michigan

One of the strong features of our line—suits to retail at $10 witha
good profit to the dealer.

   

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

we have had no sending away for
groceries among our customers
There is only one way to down the
mail order houses—that is, to meet
their prices. Any live, cash buying
rural merchant can do this and make
money.”

The circular was headed, “Harvest
Groceries at Mail Order Prices.”
Harvest Groceries at Mail-Order

House Prices.

It is much more convenient to buy
your supplies at home, and we are
making it just as cheap. No waiting,
no sending money in advance, no
ecads dimaged in transit, you see the
zoods before buying, thus insuring
your entire satisfaction.

Compare our pricés with’ your cata-
logue, add freight, and you will be
convinced that we are talking business.

Our prices are strictly spot cash.
In no case will we sell at our special
hervest prices unless cash accompan-
ies the order. Positively no excep-
+.ons to this rule.

Special Prices.
Searchlight matches, I dozen

BOS ee oe $ 37
25 lbs. granulated sugar......... 1.56

(only one lot to an order.)
24 cans standard tomatoes...... 1.70
Oh cans Sugar COER. 00s le 1.36
24 cans eatly June peas......... 1.40
ZA Cans POWAY... ce sien oa wiele aloe 1.05
25 Ibs. whole Japan rice........ 83
25 lbs. full, plump, sweet prunes .I.II
24 Ibs. navy beas..........----- 1.00
y bars Diamond C soap........ 25
Gallon can apricots. 0.6. .0000.. 35
Quart jar apple butter.......... 10
Quart jar peach butter.......... 10
Sugar cured bacon.......-.---+:. 124%

3 ten-pound pails table syrup.... 95
As the above are special prices we
cannot sell less than a whole package
at these prices. Prices good during
June.
Combination Sales

 

 

 

 

 

No. |.
2A CamS COTM....--.- ~~... <---> = $1.36
25 Ibs. Muscatel raisins......... 142
25 bbls. 60-70 prunes........---- tI
$3.60
Credit check, 3Ic.
No. 2
2s lbs. Muscatel raisins.......... $1.13
25 Ibs. 60-70 prunes.........--+-- 1.0%
25 Ibs. Snap coffee. ......------ 375
$5-99
Credit check, 57c.
No. 3-
2s Ibs. Snap coffee.....-.------- $2.75
25 Ibs 60-70 pruneS...----++++++ i
24 cans Of peaS...-.---+eeeeeeee 1.40
$6.26
Credit check, 59c.
No. 4
25 Ibs. 60-70 prunes....---+-+++ $1.11
23 Ibs. Snap coffee.....----++++-- 3.75
24 CAMS COMM....------- eee eee 1.36
$6.22
Credit check, 59c.
No. 5-
24 CAMS COMM. ...----eeee eee eees $1.36
25 lbs. Muscatel $415IS. os. 5.13
25 Ibs. Snap coffee....-.--++++- 3.75
Credit check, 50c. $6.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 Ibs! Japan fice... 60.6.0... 2... $ .83
an Ibs! Snap coffee. i... 5.24... - 3.75
25 lbs. 60-7o prunes........--.-- EIr

. $5.69

Credit check, 54¢.

The above combinations are adver-
tised by the largest mail-order house
in the world as special bargains.

We have added actual freight to
their prices and offer you the goods
We have the goods
also their catalogue. Come in and

 

at our store.

let us show you. Seeing is believing.
Granite Ware, Best Grade.

We have just received a large ship-

ment of A1 Granite Ware direct from

the factory. We give below a com-|

parison of our prices with those of|
a popular mail-order house in Chi-|
cago.
Remember: No money in advance;
no waiting; no damaged shipments;
no freight when you buy from us.
Chi- Cald-|

cago. well. |

No. 2 covered chamber, wt.

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no4 TBS. CE $50 $ .50|
1% lb. tea pots, wt. 1 lb.. .50 35 |
2 at) tea pots. sooo 60s 55 45 |
1t4 at. coffee pots........- .50 35 |
2 gt, coffee pots......... - .62 55|
4 qt. coffee pots.........- 70 55 |
8 qt. coffee boilers....... 1.10 .90 }
II qt. coffee boilers....... 1.30) 1.00)
No 7 tea kettle...... oe gS
No. 30 wash pan, 12 in... .26 = .22/
No. 34 wash pan, 14 in.... .38 = -35 |
to qt dish pan..........-- 59 -50 |
14 qt dish’ pan...........- 7k 60 |
17 gt. dish pan........... 84 75 |
ae at. Gok gam.....-.-... 96 80}
Ne. 16 Stewers........... .20 20 |
No. #8 stewers. 00.005... 25 25 |
No. 22 stewers..........- .33 -30 |
No. 24 stewers........ oo) ee -35 |
No. 26 stewers..... a ae ae
No. 28 stewers..0000...... i .50 |
3 qt. Berlin kettles....... .48 30 |
4 qt. Berlin kettles......... 57 40 |
6 qt. Berlin kettles....... 68 45 |
i$ qt. Berlin kettles....... 33 69 |
2 qt. preserving kettle.... .30 og]
4 qt. preserving kettle.... .33 .30 |

5 qt. preserving ketle..... .40 35 |
6 qt. preserving kettle.... .44 .40 |

8 qt. preserving kettle.... .52 .50 |
to qt. preserving kettle... 61 55 |
I qt. pudding pan........ LES Io |
1% qt. pudding pan...... 18 15 |
2 qt. pudding pan........- .20 18 |
3 qt. pudding pan........ 22 20 |
4 qt. pudding pan........ 23 23 |
5 qt. pudding pan........ 28 25 |
6 qt. pudding pan........ 30 30
to @t. water gail. .......-. 72  ~©60|
1? gt. water gash o 0... 6). QO .70 |
Pie plates, 9 m.........- a: 640i
Pint cups, 444 m......-:. 12 .10 |

Pint dipper, flat handle... ... 15 |
Pint dipper, round handle, .20 .18 |
Special.

20 dozen men’s work shirts, regular |
soc quality, full 36 inches long, wide |

yoke, gusseteed and double sewed;|
full sized. Our price 39c. |
We want your trade on the grounds |
that it will pay you to deal with us.
Our terms are strictly cash on de- |
livery of the goods. |
C. H. Detrick & Co. |

  
   
     
     
     
    
 

   
      
   
    
   
     
    
      
 

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Established 188.

Cash Capital $400.000. Assets $1,000,000.
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GEO. E. LAWSON, Ass’t Treas. E. J. BOOTH, Sec’y

DIRECTORS

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R. P. Joy, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar,
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Our line, which is the largest ever assembled in
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in price from $8 up.

We are prepared to fill your order for any ordinary
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

CHANGE OF WORK.

sibly Take.

will have to work with your mus-

aa |cies. If you do any kind of seden-
The Best Vacation a Man Can Pos- | i :

tary work, get a job outside—some
| place where you will have to keep
fairly busy. Just change your work

The prime reason for a vacation is

that the worker is tired out with the
year’s grind and needs a rest. The
object of his vacation is to get as
much eation into the
time allotted him as is possible. The
accepted way of doing this is to take

a trip into the country or the woods

rest and recr

or to some other place where
mer resorts obtain, to
put up at a hotel or boarding house

sum-
and resorters
for a week, and revel in the joys of
nature. And yet
if you are in the

these trips, do you
come back rested as

and truly,
habit of taking

feel that
you should be?

honestly

you

If you do, you are differently con-
stituted from me.
In all I have taken ten vacations

while employed in the city. Nine of
these were spent in the conventional
way. Sometimes
sometimes to Wisconsin,
diana. Always the
obtained. I stopped at summer ho-
tels or boarding houses, as most peo-
Always
the year
There is

once to

same conditions

ple do who take vacations.
at the vacation season of
these places are crowded.
invariably a crowd of young people
at each piace. This means dances
parties, boat rides and other social
pleasures. If a man gets to bed at
one of these places before 11 o'clock
he must play the crank who has no
care to take part in the activities. I
know I was always forced to be one
of the crowd, and vacation as a time

of rest was much of a farce. I took
fishing trips into the North woods
and it rained my entire week’s stay.

1

I hied myself off to a farm house
in Indiana one year, and the con-
venience of being without anything
that makes life worth living cured
me effectively of my rural
tions. I went to other places
found that recreating in them was a
hollow mockery, a fable devised by
the convention that sends
people to chasing frantically for
place to spend a vacation.

As I have perhaps intimated, I
got pretty tired of seeking rest and
recreation along the ional
Nine seasons did I go out of
like the others, and then,
fate was kind to me
to take
but which does

inclina-
and

mobs of
one

convent
lines.
the city
last year,
showed me how
that is not a vacation,
me more good than all the others I
have taken in my life put together.

Did you ever get tired of the kind
of work you were doing? Have
d come

and
a vacation

you
ever seen your vacation perio
around and wondered if
going through the same futile
after recreation? Or
been keyed up to that nervous
sion where you afraid of
dropping work all of a sudden? If
you have, then listen to me. Work
through your vacation. No, not at
the work you do the year
Get another kind of job temporarily.
Get some kind of light work, as
nearly opposite from what your
ular occupation is as possible.
If you are a clerk get a job as a

you were
chase
have you ever
ten-

really were

around.

teamster, or some place where you |

I went to Illinois, |
In- |

| delivered,

Stay
wages,

for your vacation.

the city and earn
weeks will go back
to work better satisfied than if
neighboring lake

This

end of two you

you

+

had to some

and loafed for the same period.

gone

statement is likely to arouse skepti-
cism, but it is teune. [| have tried. it,
and others have tried it, and it has

worked beautifully in
My regular

ae :
book-keeper.

every case.
occupation is tl
This

desk

means

work at the same from 8 until

5 each and every working day of the

have been at the work for
eight
that i do
for I would be a

i J

one will agree

vear |

the last years. i do not
not like my
fool to stay at it
did not like it, but almost any

that if work at

mean

to say work,

you

one desk for fifty weeks at a stretch,
you want to get that desk and your
work out of your mind as quickly

and completely as possible when the
annual two weeks period of vacation

comes around.

While spending my _ vacation at
summer resorts I found that I was
incapable of forgetting my _ work.

With long

ing before me ]

hours of nothing but loaf-
found my mind con-
stantly recurring to my

won-

work,

dering if I had entered such a charge,

such a credit, or recapitu-

}

9x made

lated my last statements, or any of
the hundred and one things that a
book-keeper has to keep in mind

while working would come to me

me. What
for my vacation was

while resting and trouble

I needed

 

sOnic-

thing that would make me forget ab-

ee el ce
solutely for two weeks that I had
ever seen a ledger or footed a col-
umn of figures. " And E sot it.

1
who

  
 
     
          
    
 
     
      
   
 
      
     
     
     
     
    

A friend otf mine

ceiving clerk in j
1

idea He went

as

and turned his

the time

 

position

began

 

ended at 6 at night.

about heavy enough to

 

every between

 

My work was to check

of boxes or packages

  

 

For

We have made Barlows’
fold Shipping Blanks for
of the largest shippers in
try.

 

We Keep Copies of Every
Form We Print

Let us sen
for parties
trade—you
way i 1 { » loo
and not much more if you buy.

      

1 COSsts

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Barlow Bros.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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The Grocer ;
Saves
Money

The customer is
pleased where the

O. K. Cheese Cutter

is used.

$20.00 net.
f. o. b. Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Cuts the cheese by weight, or money’s worth. Does

it better than any other.

Can not get out of order.

Is absolutely accurate,

Our testimonials come from satisfied users.
We could not spare a single Cutter to send to the
World's Fair at St. Louis—needed all we could make

to ll orders.

The Standard Computing Scale Co., Ltd.
Detroit, Michigan

Catalog supplied from Dept. S. Write for one. Give your jobber’s

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and carry them to the place allotted |
for them in the stock room.

I had anything
heavier than a baby carriage in my
life.

there

never wheeled
3efore the first day was over
was a dragging pain over my
Next my

my hands began to devel-

shoulders.
ed. Then

day arms ach-

op callouses the size of small hens’
eggs. But within the first week |
was thoroughly broken in and was

At the
when it

actually enjoying the work.

end of the two weeks, was

time to turn over the position to its

owner, I was feeling stronger and
better than | had for years, Uhe
trucking had given me just enough

exercise to do me good without tir-
ing me out, and the work had
had

position.

kept
hadn’t time
about my old
table to

benefited
Pe ae

me so busy that |
to worry

Here is a illustrate how

this novel vacation me:

Saved in railroad
Saved in HOLE By 30
Saved in other

CXPCTISCS...++..- 25

Drew two weeks’ pay..-.......- 25

Total
Gained ten pounds in weight.

financial benefit.........$05

Physical condition bettered 50 per
Cent.

When I went back to my work as
book-keeper it was with a zest that is
from tackling something
the

trucker and receiving clerk had made

derived

novel, for two weeks spent as

me quite forget that I had been a

book-keeper and it was as if I was
beginning at a new line of work. ]
had secured rest and recreation in

good measure by working during my
“vacation.” N. W. Ayres.
—_—— ~~ —____

Is Population Center Moving East?
There is a strong probability that

the center of the country’s popula-

from the beginning

had

reversed its

tion, which

along to 1900 been pushing

Course.

ob-

westward, has
will be

Some light on this point
i Many states

tained in a few weeks.
make a count of inhabitants halfway
the enumerations.

island, New
Florida, Michi-
North

Kansas,

national
Massachusetts, Rhode
Vork, New Jersey,
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
South

between

and Dakota, lowa,

Utah and Oregon do this in_ 1905.
Iowa is predicting a practically sta-
tionary population for itself. Only
a small increase is looked for in

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
An average is predicted for
On

gains

Kansas.
the Dakotas, Utah and Oregon.
considerable
Vork,

chusetts, New Jersey and Rhode I[s-

the other hand,

are expected in New Massa-
land. while Florida believes it shares |
in the expansion which is making the
South the most rapidly growing sec- |
tion in the country to-day.

All this indicate a move-|
ment of
ward the East for the first time in
the ceuntry’s annals.

The South is
unknown in its previous history, and

would
the population center to-

having a prosperity
is attracting settlers from the North
and West and from Europe. The |
National Bureau of Immigration is |
helping to divert immigrants to the |
South and thus relieve the conges- |
tion in the great Eastern centers. In |

Sold in barrels and cases, 3 and 5 |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

1900 the population center was close
to Columbus, near the middle of In-
diana, having moved Westward only

|
|
!
|
tourteen
|

miles in the ten years after
forty-eight |
immediately |

1890, as compared with

miles in the decade

previous, and fifty-eight miles in the |

ten years just before that. While|
this movement of- the population |
center to the West was_ steadily

slackening, a movement to the}
South, which brought the center two |

miles nearer to Mason and Dixon’s

line in the ten years ended with 1900,
still
The chances are that the pop- |

: ° : ~ |
lation pivot is new marching East. |

was in progress, and is under

way.
the course cf

ward, thus reversing

einpire hitherto, and that

the star of

it is slowly veering at the same time

This

it is really under way, will have vast

to the Southward. change, if |
social and political consequences .oFr
the country.
—_—_» 2 ____
Drives Back American Salesmen.

On account of the new

Canadian houses must

1

pay a license
nanv salesmen ]

from business houses |

in the United States have left Canada }

nd returned home When the law|
ent into effect on July 1 the com-

‘rcial men at once notified their |
Quebec customers that orders must be |
sent to the home office or a meeting
rranged in some city in Ottawa.
The penalty for breach of the law is|

fron $500.00 to S1.0c00.00.
————

Odd Order on a Warship.

One of the most curious orders
iven in the British navy is All
hands black faces,” a supply of pig- |
tpent for the purpose being carried |

by each warship Sur |

When a night
prise is intended, not only the vessels |

are made invisible as possible, even |

the faces of the men must be black-|
ned, for when powerful night|
lasses are used the showing of a}

white face is far more palpable than |

any landsman would suppose.
: |
Soul possessions are the only as-|

that

Se he at cape ae ee

count in heaven.

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Finest Toast in the World

A Health Food sold at moderate
prices

dozen cartons in case
Ask for prices

Special price in large quantities

Manufactured only by

DUTCH RUSK COMPANY
HOLLAND, MICH.

 

Fans

For

arm

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accoul f Canadian| §
law that all salesmen not representing |

 

 

Nothing is more appreciated on a hot day than a substan-
tial fan. Especially is this true of country customers who
come to town without providing themselves with this
necessary adjunct to comfort. We have a large line of these
goods in fancy shapes and unique designs, which we furnish

printed and handled as follows:

ay eS $3.00 Ms cs $ 7.00
gee. ..5.. 4.50 a a4 8.00
Se cs. 5-75 eee... ... 15.00

We can fill your order on five hours’ notice, if necessary,

but don’t ask us to fill an order on such short notice if you

can avoid it.

Tradesman

Company
Grand Rapids, [lich.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE SMALL BAKER.

 

He Is More Numerous Than Ten
Years Ago.

A few years ago, when machinery
began to be recognized as it now is,
as an important factor in lessening
labor and the consequent expense of
manual operations, not a few pre-

dicted that the days of the small |
numbered. It}

manufacturer were
was prophesied that the small baker-
ies would rapidly give place to huge
concerns, which would, by distribut-
ing agencies, have a monopoly of the |
bread trade in large cities; but the)
small baker still exists and is, prob- |
bly, more numerous than ten years |
ago, though individual trades are on
the average not so large.
of the small baker is confessedly one
about which there is some anxiety. |
If he is to go under, his undoing is |
likely to be brought about by the

competition of companies and facto- |

ries, which have built up a trade on a
competition the bakers themselves |
have created. The day is, perhaps, a
long way off, but if it comes, as is
not improbable, then, no doubt, the |
smail baker will need to give place to

the bigger concerns; but meanwhile |

he takes his place in the trade as a
net unimportant section,

bring his business, his methods, and
his premises thoroughly up to date.

The improvement of the trade, of|

which we talk, is not alone a fair
price for bread; but with many that is
the beginning and end of the objects
of organized effort.
ting out of old ruts, competition is

keen, and may be keener, labor is ris- |

ing in value, and must be recognized,
methods of manufacture are being

introduced which require intelligence |

and greater skill; and, in short, the
successful baker to-day needs to be a
tradesman who thoroughly under-
stands his business, and is able to
control its administration to a profit-
able issue.

It is clear, therefore, that there is
every probability of a greater change
coming over the trade in the future

than there has been in the past de-|

cade. It is probable that it will reach
a higher level than it has yet attained;

that business will be concentrated, |

and labor economized. The old con-
ditions as to employment are meeting
with the most strenuous opposition
on the part of operatives, and one ef-
fect of long hours and poor pay has
been to drive men to seek other occu-
pations, although there is no scarcity

of labor at the moment; but the cost |
of labor will operate against the |
sinall employer if his business does |
not permit of the employment of |
three or four men, whereas in a large |

concern the work is centralized and

divided into departments and is not}
nearly so_ costly. |
This is an item to be reckoned with, |sa

proportionately

which gives an advantage to the com-
petitor in a large wav of business, and
must not be lost sight of. There is,
however, plenty of room for the en-
terprising and intelligent tradesman |
who recognizes that to succeed he |
must produce a good article, display

The future |

and he|
should do all that lies in his power to |

The trade is get- |

it in a cleanly and bright looking
shop, be attentive to his customers,
and give good value for money. With
the disadvantages of a small business,

the small baker is not yet extermin-
ated: but he is threatened, and the
signs of the times point to the neces-
sity of his looking carefully after his
bakehouse and shop, and to the re-
auirements of labor. In these re-
|spects he is frequently careless, but
ithe public are exacting and inquiring. |
|The lower class trade has been di-
| verted to a considerable extent to the
| chandler’s shops, and it should be the
|business of the actual manufacturer
ito win it back. There should be an
| attraction in a bright, clean shop,
which there is no contamination as
ithe juxtaposition of objectionable
|soods; there should be an assurance
lthat the workers are fairly worked |
land paid; and there should be a guar- |
antee of purity, quality and weight. |
| A little trouble should be taken to in-
'form the public of these things, and
| to carry out all that is professed, and, |
| moreover, a little more attention to|
business directly done with the con-
sumer would be preferable to the anx- |
liety to make wholesale supplies for
| subsequent retailing.

 

 

 

The small baker has contributed |
very largely to that competition |
iwhich has placed the distribution of |
ibread in the hands of grocers and
chandlers; and the fact of so much}
bread being sold in shops other than |
| bakers’ has given the factories a field

ifor exploitation, although all of them
do not show a profitable issue. They
|are very important agencies in con-|
nection with the bread trade of large |
cities, notably in Glasgow and Bel-|
|fast; and what they are there they |
may become in London. It has been
shown to what extent they control
the price of bread, and it is not too
|much to say that without their co-
|operation the general trade could not
pace) 43,
| have not supplanted the small baker, |
it is evident that they have grown to|
be sufficiently influential to control
the trade.
enough for all, but

therefore, these concerns

There is, perhaps, room
competition is}
} : : |
| closing in, and the weakest must go to|

The baker is losing hold of |

 

ithe wall.
direct contact with the consumer, and
lwwhen the supplies are derived from a
middleman it is of small concern to

the consumer whence the supplies are

If the baker supplied direct
to consumers he would be less likely

derived.

to suffer from loss of trade through
\the defection of a few customers; but

when supplying a retailer the loss of |
one customer means a great deal at |
a stroke. It is the business of the |
firms to get these custom-|
ers, and it should be the business of |
the baker to sell direct from his shop |
to the consumer. Competition is now}

wholesale

to an extent centered in the whole
le trade, and as this form of busi- |
ness is undoubtedly growing the con- |
ltest for survival is keen. Even sub- |
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to lean to the side of the tradesman
of enterprise and capital.
and mechanical

aids to labor must

have their effect on industrial enter- |

prise, and in the future, however keen

competition may be, it must be regu- |

lated not only on the cost of mater-
ials but on the full discharge of due
obligations to the workmen.
the keenest rivalry between the
wholesale and retail sections of the

There is

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a
Painter Tells Grocer About Trades
Unions.

Written for the Tradesman.

“Yes, I was once a member of the
painter’s union, but I am not now. I
was forced into the union in the first
piace. It was either join or lose my
job. My employer advised me to
join, as he wished to retain me and
could not unless I were a union man,
and I joined.

“I attended five or six
and every time I heard
things that I- did not like.

meetings
and saw
The meet-

ings are almost invariably held in a |

room over a saloon. The union pays

no hall rent: in fact, there are no
expenses whatever in connection
with the meetings. The _ saloon-

keepers furnish the room free and

are glad to do so.
in the meetings, and the meetings
are usually held immediately follow-
ing pay day, so every man has money
on hand.

“Then there is the walking dele-
gate. He draws regular weekly
wages from the union. He is sup-
posed to help adjust disagreements

between the men and their employ- |

ers, or rather, perhaps, see that both
sides are their
ments. And he should notify men
who are out of work whenever he
learns of work to be had. He will
vacancy the man
I know

living up to agree-

recommend for a
that pays him a few dollars.
that to be a fact. When I brought
up the question whether the walking
delegate was running an employment
agency on his own account, I found
myself in bad favor with the leaders.

‘Oh, no, he never did such a thing!’ |

IT saw there was a ring that stood by
the walking delegate and, no doubt,
helped him divide the spoils.

“One union
wages up to 33 I-3 cents an hour.
worked for

spring the forced

The company that I
stood the raise, but they called the

men together and told them some- |

thing like this: ‘Now, men, we are
paying you more than we can af-
ford.
fall and winter on a basis of 30 cents
an hour. If we pay you the increas-
ed wages you will have to earn it
for us. We do not ask you to work
any harder, but we expect you to
try to work to the best advantage,
; much as

so as to accomplish as

possible.

in this direction we shall be glad to
have you give them here in the of-

fice. Then we will consider them

Education |

There are usually |
more union men in the saloon than |

union

jihe union at
| What is the money used for?

We took jobs on contract last |
|not lay up anything.
/submit to considerable for the sake

If at any time any of you |
have any suggestions that will help |

‘and if they appear practicable and
advantageous we will put them in
| operation. The man who does not
do good work or idles away his time
will get his discharge at once.’

“Well, we were assigned to differ-
ent jobs—a few men on each. I was
sent out with three others. I learned
that the men of that shop were all
in the habit of putting up ladders
three times to paint a house one
coat. First they painted the body,
then the trimmings, then traced the
window sashes. I carried two buck-
ets of paint all the time, painting
the body and trimmings as I went
along, and when I came to a window
I would go down and get my can of
paint and finish the sash also. In
that way I only moved my ladders
once where the others moved theirs
three times, and I never put up lad-
ders against newly-painted work, as
they did when moving the second
and third times.

“On Saturday the boss came over
to see how we were getting on with

ithe job. We were doing better than

he expected. He enquired why I
carried two buckets of paint. I ex-
plained the matter to him, and he
saw the advantage of it at once. He
adopted the plan among all the men.
It was not long before they all found
out where the idea came from, and
they were sore on me. They were
willing to put in time
moving ladders and making a job
last as long as possible. I was not.

“One thing after another gave me
an idea of what unionism meant. I
used sometimes to talk about living
according to the Constitution of the
United States and about individual
rights. I found that such talk was
not approved of at all. I was not in
the ring.

“The boss took on a non-union
man who had been out of work all
None of the men _ would
work with him, even although he
said he would join the union as soon
as he could raise the initiation fee.
1 took him out with me and got a
raking down from the Secretary
when I called on him at the end of
the first day’s work to get my fel-

perfectly

winter.

|low workman a permit to work with

men until he could earn
enough money to join the union. I
had laid myself liable to a fine of
ten dollars.

“Fifteen dollars initiation fee?
Yes, and there were 1,500 painters in
one time in Detroit.
I do
not know.

“Well, I finally went out of the
union and went to contracting my-
self. Last year I employed fifteen

|men, but I could not make it pay;

I made a living, but could
I am willing to

that is,

of peace and harmony. After grant-
ing all that was asked for as regards
hours and wages, then they wanted
ito run my business for me. Well,
|my parents were Scotch, that’s all.

“T believe a union or an associa-
tion for mutual benefit is all right.
| Tf good, competent workmen join
|together to protect one another and
| maintain good wages, that’s all

right; but as it is now, any fellow
that happens to be out of a job can
pay his initiation fee, buy a brush,
put on a pair of overalls and get just
as good wages as the man with years
of experience. He may not be able
to do anything but rough outside
work, but he is a union painter and
he draws the scale.

“There have been lots of
painters who have gone back on the
union in the past year or two. I
think it is losing its hold right along,
and it will not be long before it is
pretty well broken up.

good

“T have lived all my life in the
city until about six months ago. It

is the country for me from now on. [ |

have no employer but the man whose
buildings I paint, and I have no men

ito aversec, nO union men to inter-

fere, no figuring and furnishing esti-
mates on jobs with the almost in-
variable result of being underbid by
some one who is tricky enough to
put in poor material or slight the
When the weather is un-
favorable for painting I can _ find
plenty of other work to do, so I need
And I do not think that
in this community a painter would
be fined for repairing a window
screen or setting a pane of glass.
Well, good night.” E. E. Whitney.
—_>-

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How the Love of Being Loved Wins
Women.

|
|
|

|

When a man succeeds in impress- |
ing a woman with a firm belief in|
his own deep and intense love for |
her he has taken the first step which
counts, and a long stride it is on the
royal road to her favor. Women, |
even inexperienced girls, rarely fall |
in love with any man whom they do|

not at least imagine to be an ad-|
mirer of themselves. Unrequited at-
tachments are usually the result of
vanity, and of the ignorance which
attaches importance to empty com-
pliments or mistakes the attentions |
of triflers for love in sober earnest.

Barring the Modern Girl, with cap-
itals, a personage who is far and
away too sensible and too well in-
structed for such folly, the first idea |
of the emancipated school girl who
enters society is that she must forth-
with fall in love, as if by a sort of
predestined helplessness, and have a
lover. If neither of these events oc-
curs promptly she is disappointed, |
probably mortified, and in most
cases she has companions superior
to her in beauty, in wealth, or other |
attractions who inevitably deepen |
her chagrin by the display of their |
own triumphs. The temptation arises |
to fancy feelings which do not exist, |
to imagine admiration, and exagger- |
ate such attentions as she receives. |
She is apt to magnify casual courte-
sies into serious courtship, even to
construe commonplace
into avowals of love, and,
far worse, to mistake the flutterings |
of gratified vanity in her foolish lit-
tle head for the stirrings of love in|
her heart. Romantic day dreaming |
and unlimited
ish the fictitious sentiment, and it is |
well if the affair does not end either |
on the one hand in a hasty and ill- |
other |
cauced by |

compliments |
what is

novel reading nour- |

advised marriage, or on the
in vexation of spirit
pique and mortified vanity, which is
but too easily magnified into the des-
olation of a lifelong woe.

Once in a while one discovers
women who like to be “rushed,” who
enjoy being swept off their feet and
married vi et armis, as it were. But
delight arises chiefly
from the persuasion that the suitor
is madly in love, and too deeply in|
earnest to be The
majority of women desire the amen-
ities of courtship, atten-
tions, little courtesies, which repeat
the tale of love again and again. The
suitor who succeeds best with wom-

even then the

gainsaid. vast

delicate

en is he who has the genius which
consists in an infinite
taking pains. The
time and thought to his wooing, whe
devotes himself to the task of mak-

capacity for

man who gives |

-ing himself agreeable, who takes the

trouble to leave undone _ nothing |
which may convince a woman that |
for him she is the one and _ only |

“incomparable she,” is the one who

| vain.

 

is almost certain to win her in the
long run.

It may be objected to this state- |
| mance, however “deeply hidden from

ment that there are many women

who are attracted by a man’s indif- |

ference, piqued to the point that they
set themselves assiduously to win
him to themselves. But this is when
the woman possesses the hunter in-

| stinct, which is more masculine than
|feminine, when she is influenced by
|the desire to capture a prize for
| which other women have striven in

Usually when the triumph is
won her interest ceases, although it
sometimes happens that during the
chase she comes to value the quar-

|ry, or chances to awaken a passion

so strong and warm that it kindles

her own. Still it is scarcely safe for

|men to practice the tactics so often

women, and “be-
little “aversion;” on the
devotion, great and

recommended to
gin with a
contrary, it is

|exceeding, the love which shows its
[faith by its

works, which almost
without exception wins the heart of

any woman who is not already won.

| their

It is safe to say that no woman
lives, nor ever lived, in whose char-
acter there is not a vein of ro-
human eyes.” The practical lover,
however desirable, if he be wholly
practical, antagonizes this trait.
Some of the best men in the world,
they go a-courting,
sterling virtues, their honor
and integrity, to say nothing of the
worldly wealth which they may be
able to offer, to fascinate and com-

when

pel the love of the woman
they seek. Then they are outraged
and astonished when some graceful

and graceless_ ne’er-do-well, with

gentle manners and a sweet voice, |
wins the woman whom they desire. |

The trouble is that solid virtues,
however admirable, are more likely
to beget respect than affection. The
man who lays more stress upon the
amount of his income’ than the
warmth of his affection, who en-
larges upon the advantages of his
position instead of the depth of his
4

| devotion, is like a wet blanket on the

rely on}

whom |

enthusiasm of youth, and fails to
awaken anything more than calm
and prudent sentiment in the hearts
of older and more worldly wise
The good looking, charm-

women.
ing detrimental who spends his last
| dollar upon flowers for a girl, who

remembers her birthday, and always
call, although

is at her beck and
| business go to the dogs, is he who
\finds the way to her heart. “Weak,
ino doubt, but she is so human!”
| That “business comes first” is an ex-
commercial
|means to be disputed; also it is one

cellent adage is by n0
lby which all men who would suc-
must cut their hard _ path
straightly, saving only in love. For
i fact that all
women, with the exception of the
Modern Girl aforementioned, are

ceed

it is an undeniable

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under Bonnybel’s |
window panes, at midnight,’ is by
many times more likely to win favor
from the lady than he who
up to her door broad
bringing a barrel of flour.

‘There are many men who are as
tsue as steel, and as hard; true to
the heart’s core, but deplorably care-

lovesick strains,

drives

in daylight

less and neglectful of those little at- |

tentions which are unutterably prec-
ious to a woman. Such a man would
knock down for
to his love, but he would

rudeness
not think

any man

of helping her through a crowd with |

in
for

stride
himself

would
with

his) arm.) | Ete
front, satisfied

on

clearing the way for her to follow. |

Neither would it to Him to
remember her birthday with her fav-

orite flower, to wrap her cloak ten-

occur

derly around her, although he would

resent the act if any other man were

to do so. [tis a great charm in the

eyes of a woman when a strong man |

possesses the art of courtliness, when
he quietly takes it upon himself to
forestall her wants, to supply her de-
not
only feminine; to

ficiencies, which he does resent

but regards as

gratify her desires, which he does

the readiness of an

She

with skill and
accomplished tactician.
to f delightful

expect everything good, and her con-

learns

look or surprises, to

fidence in his powers, her pride in

his love, and her dependence upon
his ever ready help grow apace with
every fresh proof of his thoughtful

“He

show

would have
friend-

of

care for her. who

himself
the

friends must

ly; he who would win love

a woman must not only love her but
he must also show himself lover-
like.

There are girls in the present day
who can not or will not appreciate
attentions. They _ resent

imputation of

loverlike
them
ness.

aS an helpless-

When this attitude is taken,
no man
tinuing

understood.

for discon-
little
come

that

can be blamed
efforts which
The

women

are so
time may

when these will regret
he has forgoten the art.
Dorothy Dix.
—— ~~»
Business Men Slaves to Pet Super-

stitions.

Ninety-nine men out of a hundre¢
get mad, or scoff loudly, if they are

accused of being superstitious—yet
just as surely ninety-nine out of
every I00 are. superstitious— anda |
suspect the other fellow.

It is remarkable how little super-
stitions, little tricks which men_be-
lieve bring them “luck” or good

fortune, permeate the business world

It is my business to call upon busi-
ness men—not heads of departments,
but the heads of firms themselves— |
and I have, during the last four or
five years, since the matter was call-
ed to my attention by an observant
friend, made it a practice to watch

these laugh inwardly at

their pet superstitions. I have sel-
dom found a business man in whom
T did not little trick |
or some superstitious belief in some

men, and

discover some

ordinary or extraordinary fetish. |
confess that this has almost de- |
stroyed my belief that the dried uP |

| buckeye which I carry in my

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

trousers pocket will cure rheumatism

—or ward it off—and I know it has |

in my for I have carried that
buckeye for twenty-six years and
1ever felt a twinge of rheumatism.
One of my best customers, head of
a big department store, never will
contract until aiter he has
placed a small cross of ink down in
the lower left hand corner. I learn-
ed this one day when he signed a
contract for some work—and I start-
ed toward elevator congratulat-
myself closing a big deal.
While I was waiting at the elevator
he came rushing from his office:

case,

sien a

 

the

ing on

“Hey, come back’ he called) 1
went back.
“We'll have to make out a new

contract,” he explained.
“What’s the trouble?” I asked anx-
iously.

“T forgot to put my lucky cross on

that before I signed it,’ he respond- |

ed seriously.

“lm sorry to delay you, but it
might be bad tick to break that
habit.”

friend of mine, a whole-
saler in the clothing line, well known

Another

in the wholesale district, insists that
two crossed red threads be sewed in-
the right of coat he
out establishment. I
wondered at that for a long time
asked about it. He told
me that, once, when he was threat-

to arm every

sends of his

finally

and

ened with ruin, a gypsy fortune tell-
er told him that if he sewed two red

silk threads in cross shape into the
right arm of each garment they
would sell—and he vows that from

the minute he tried it he began to
pick up business.

“Of course, I don’t believe in it,”
he said. “but, still, whats the use
of taking any chances? And, _ be-

sides, it’s a good mark.”

left |

lrated a

merchant

|
One of my friends in the Board

of Trade district—-one of the biggest
traders in the wheat pit—never un-
dertakes an important deal until he

puts on shoes that are not mates. I

| have seen him go into the pit with

one patent leather shoe and one slip-
per—for luck, because the day
that he made his first big stroke that

on

established his fortune he happened
to be wearing mismated — shoes.
There is another friend of mine

who believes that he can not do any-
he
a red necktie, and I have another one
who never wears a hat that fits him.

thing successfully unless wears

He insists on buying hats a size too
large and then putting in felt fillers

|-just for tack.

There is a man in Chicago—who
employs hundreds of men
millionaire—who never sees
a white horse without spitting over
the little finger of his right hand to
ward off bad luck. Another man, a

prince, always carries a

bit of soft brown sandstone in his
pocket. He lives up my way on the
notth shore: He usually comes
downtown between 8 and g in the
morming—anad 1 seldom leave be-
fore to-30. [| was Surprised one

morning to meet him at a late train
and enquired the reason.

“I had to come back and get my
he explained..

“Tt’s my luck stone,” he explained

stone,”

“T have carried it ever since I was a
and it brings luck
time. I have an important deal on
to-day and I came away and forgot
another

boy me every

Bh

it, leaving it in the pocket o
pair of trousers.”

1 come
the

Most of these things, when

to trace them back, find are

iresults of early experiences in busi-

There is a big corporation
President

stenographer in his office

fess.

who will not have any

who is not

and. is|

25

fat. ‘He doesn’t want plump ones,
he wants girls who would make ad-
vertisements for fat producing medi-
No matter how old, or ugly,
incompetent a stenographer may
she can get 2 job

cines.
or

1

be, tf she is fat

there, and it is all the result of the
fact that a fat stenographer gave
him a valuable business hint early
in his career.

I know seven men who use rab-
bits’ feet, two who smear the caul of
a coon on the edge of their desk

blotters, and three who turn up their
left trouser leg before admitting an
important business caller.

But one of the queerest fancies is
that lawyer
with whom I have business dealings.
He will not attempt to write a brief
a petition or anything important
al

he

of a big corporation

or
the
his

unless, some time during

writing, plucks a hair from
puts it the ink, and makes
paper. I saw him
do it twice and enquired the cause.
Fie
that

head, in

a Blot on the

confessed, rather shamefacedly,

one time when he was a strug-

young lawyer his pen caught

in a hair and blotted the paper, and,
while studying over the blot the
whole situation suddenly cleared it-

the idea resulted in a big

has

always had infinite faith in the blots.
Harvey Coates.

ee a

self_and

legal triumph. Since then he

Norway may be forced to elect a

President if no Prince can be found

to sit upon its independent throne.
Lots of impecunious princes would
like the position, but it seems neces-

sary they should have the consent
of various other persons who are in
But
displeasure of
the Nor-
to

business as kings and emperors.
the
royal

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neighboring rulers
wegians would probably prefer

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FATHER AGAINST SON.

Former Sometimes Stands in Light
of Latter.

Written for the Tradesman.

Phil Wendall, whose back yard
abuts on the same alley as Richard
Strome’s does, had that gentleman
to dinner one Sunday and he didn’t
find him particularly entertaining.
Strome had spells of being put down
as an “odd stick.” but Wendall had
known him for years and liked him
and “swapping Sunday grub” was no
unusual occurrence with them. On
this day, seeing that something was
in the wind he hurried the dinner
along as fast as the proprieties would
allow and as soon as the coffee was
disposea of the men were out un-
der the big maple in the Wendall
back yard and with feet up and
heads back were soon enjoying their
usual after-dinner fireworks.

“Now, Dick, out with it. You
know my motto: If it’s anything
you can stop, stop it, and
can’t send it to the devil on the first
train!”

“You’ve heard me speak of Jack
Holland?”

else for the last quarter of a cen- |
|the boy go?”

tury! What’s he done—run away?”
“T’ve a letter in my pocket saying
that he wants to go back to schooi

in September and he’s afraid he can |
His father wants him on |

not go.
the ranch; but his three years at
school have given him glimpses of
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want has become an insistance. Nat-
urally enough the man wants his
way and the boy feels as if he must
have his because he is at the turn-
ing point of his life. He has found
out what the world knows, that
ranch life and the standing of the
people living there are not the class
he wants to. settle among. The
school has widened his world.
fivery instinct in him rebels at the
thought of staying there. He wants
to go back to school. I have an
idea that he wants to go to college
and then he wants a place where he
can show the world what he is
made of.”

“Is the man Holland well fixed?”

“W-e-ll, he never’ll starve to death
or suffer too much for anything
money can buy.”

“Can’t the boy get on without the
old man?”

“Yes: but if the boy breaks with
him I suspect the father will tell
him that’s all he wants of him. A

| young fellow of 19 rather hates to

| five

say good-bye to fifteen or twenty- |
when he!

thousand dollars,

| knows he’s going to want it within
“As if you had talked of anything |

a year or two.”
“Why isn’t the inan willing to let |

“He thinks the boy has gone to |

ischool long enough.”

“Well, hasn’t he?”
“Yes, if he is to be a cowboy; but

| Jack doesn’t want to be a cowboy

|or a ranchman.

and he |

He wants to be a
first-class well-trained man

doesn’t want any more of the old | | first- class well-trained men and that |

life there. TI suspect the

 

tion to help him.
his father is able to send him. He
wants a little more of the money
that will come to him some day in
order that he may take better car?

He knows that

 

 

“From year’s end to year’s end”
“Industrious?”

“As a beaver.”

“Swear?”

“Yes, if you get him mad—and so

of the rest and live a higher life |do you without!”

with it than the ranch with its sur-
roundings affords. That’s the fact
in a nutshell and the next eta is
to know what to do about it.’

“What sort of a fellow is
Jack, a two-for-fiver?”

“Not a bit of it. I never encour-
age spending any money on a ten-
cent boy;
at him.
weeks ago.
that;” and Strome placed a ae
in the hand of his friend.

“Why, this fellow is a man and |

this

a mighty good looking one, too.
How old is he?”

“Not quite 19.”

“Is it a military school?”

“His uniform tells you that; and

do you notice the two bars on his
shoulder strays? That means the
captaincy of the school, a place he
couldn’t get and couldn’t keep un-

lless he had the stuff in him.”

| The photo says he does. Is

“He looks it.
|row. Of course the picture is the
| result of posing; but does he look
you in the eye when he talks to you?

| right?”

among |

fattest | tee can’t be unless he has an educa-

“To a dot

“All wool and a yard wide?”
“Every thread.”

“Honest?”

“As the day is long.”
“Trustworthy?”

 

eg Cages cataetil

 

but this Jack—here, look |
The photo was taken a few |
See what you think of |

Straight as an ar-|

that |

| “If you had a mighty responsible
| place would you, aside from the nec-
lessary experience, put him into it?”
| “He should have the refusal of it
|as soon as a telegram could reach
| him.”

| Sis he a spendthrift?”

| “No.”

| “What’s his disposition?”

“The photo tells you. He’s as first-
big-hearted a fel-
low as ever lived, who does as right
as he knows how always. So much
ow that. The point is he wants to
|so on with his education because he
doesn’t believe that he can ever be a
ranchman and be contented. I am
|convinced the father is determined
| he shall.”

“What does the boy say?”

“‘T never felt so lonesome in my

class, level-headed,

| life as I have since I left school; but
lit is wearing off a little. I do hope
|I can go back this fall. ‘That's all

I look forward to. Father wants me
|to stay with him, but I will do what
I think is for the best. Say, I hope
| you will not forget that I am trying
|my best to go back to school.’”

| “How would it work, Strome, to
|suggest to Jack that he stay out a
| year and go back then to have the
| finishing up?”

“Tl tell you what I’m afraid of,
and what I believe the boy is afraid
Once he does that, it will be

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easy to fix things so he can’t go
back. The boy’s hands will be tied,
school tiem will be over for him and
the man the world wants and is wait-
ing for isn’t on hand and isn’t ready
for the job heaven made him for.”

“You're aching to tell Jack to go
to school and you'll see him through.
Why don’t you do it?”

“T suppose it’s because my name
isn’t butt-in-sky! I have said all
that I dare to say and have suggest-
ed to jack that i beheve tf he
should make up his mind to go ahead
somehow things could be managed
so as to come out all right.

“If the man Holland—the fact is,
there is another side to the ques-
tion; but let him take care of that.”

There was a long period of si-
lence which Strome made use of in
looking at the photo, while
Wendall sat still and chewed his ci-
gar until it went out. Lighting an-
other and taking the
from. Strome he gazed
and earnestly.

“Looks like a big fellow.”

“Six feet and weighs 185.”

“Read that again where he men-
tions his dad.”

“Rather wants me to stay with
him; but I will do what I think is
for the best.’ ”

For a minute Wendall’s mouth re-
sembled freight engine full
blast. Then he said:

“Richard Strome, you never’ll have

at it long

a in

Phil |

photograph | and then I could go back one year

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

out pushing the thought too far, do | he'll say if his dad tries the same |

you know that I’ve an idea that this
school business is a put-up job on
the part of Providence to find out
whether he is the real thing or that
little tin god on wheels that you
think he ought to be? Now, you
follow my advice and let him alone.
He’s up against it and he knows it.
‘To the victor belong the spoils.’ It’s
a scrap between him and his dad
and if the boy wins he has fought
the decisive battle of his life. If he
should fail the real battle is coming
later and I want to be kept posted.
“T had just such a fight with my
father when I was 18. I was need-

ied on the farm and I wanted to fin-

igame. Go to school? Of course 1 |
| did.

I had wit enough to know that |
I needed the schooling more than

I did the inheritance and I was}

| right; and if I hudn’t had the back- |
| bone then and there to take my af-|

fairs into my own hands I should
have been on that old farm to-day,

| keeping body and soul together with }

little codfish and salt pork and)

a

| baked beans; and all for the sake of

la little money that I could now dou-

ible up a dozen times and lose and

never miss! It’s all right to call!

such times the days that ‘try men’s

souls. Thats a part of 16 It’s

|heaven’s ways and means of finding

ish the course of the academy. We}

had come mighty near the ‘I
and ‘You won’t’ point when father

hit on a compromise.

|school for a year it would give him

| OF

 

a better chance to mind your own|

business and I advise you to make |

most of the chance. This boy
wants to be piously and religiously
let

the

alone.

That is what those square shoulders |

and two big fists stand for. Here’s
dollars to doughnuts that these and
the go-ahead will behind them are
responsible for the two bars on the
shoulderstraps. There hasn’t been
any ducky-daddles or ‘pull’ about the
getting them, I’ll be bound. He’s
earned them—that’s the fact about
the straps—exactly as he is going to
earn the rest of the good things that
Now this young-
kick whatever
comes in his way; but he isn’t going
to be much beholden to you or any-
body else for giving him what he’s

are coming to him.

ster isn’t going to

going to have anyway.

“I believe your intentions, Dick,
are the best in the world; but with-
out knowing it you are trying to
make a Molly-coddle of this young
Holland, and it’s altogether evident
to my mind that you can’t do it. You
get hold of his mother and you'll
find that never in his short but
strenuous life did he once come
home crying because a boy licked
him! And you get far enough into
Jack’s confidence and you'll also find
that the boy who has tried any of
his ‘shenanigans’ with him got the
‘stuffin’’ knocked out of him right
then and there and that Jack did it.

“You must have noticed that I

asked a lot of questions about the |

boy. Unless your coddling idea has
got the better of your judgment his
magazine is full of qualities that are
bound to win. Well, then, all he
wants is a fair field and no favor;
and why not let him have it? With-

That chin means business. |

land white;

1
|

 

a chance to straighten out things
a dozen if 1 wanted to. That
sounded all right; but when you re-
member that nine times out of ten
the 18-year-old boy who drops out
of school never goes back, it was
up to me to decide whether I was
the one in the ten or not. I took the
chance, but I kept my eyes open.

the game. The work piled up on me
until I didn’t have a chance to look
at a book from one week’s end to
another. Father turned over to me
this job and that month after month
until I was everything except the

had
have

I
which I wouldn’t

had if I had not had it down in black

my Wweees,

said

If I’d leave |

will’ |

out whether the souls tried are equal
to what’s coming and I can tell you,
Richard, that anybody or anything
that interferes with such trials are
interfering with Providence with a |
big P; and that’s all there is to it!
“For my part I hope old man Hol-

‘land and young man Jack will come

|
|

 

1

and when summer came |
round again not a word was

about my going back to the acad-|

emy.

“Fall terms in those days began
the first Monday in September and
as that date drew near, father plan-

ned to go off on a trip which would |

keep him away for six weeks. While
preparations were going on I said to
him, ‘Have you made up your mind
who you're going to leave in charge
of things?? ‘What you mean?’
said he. ‘What do I mean? I mean
that I’m going to school next Mon-
day. That’s what the bargain was
when I left, that’s what I’ve been
counting on all the year and I’m go-
ing back Monday.’ ‘Now, Phil, see
here.’—Gosh, if I wasn’t mad. ‘I’ve
been seeing here for about a year,’ I
said, ‘and I’ve seen a mighty sight
more than I expected to and _ it’s
enough. I’m going back to school
Monday. ‘Not by a_ long shot!’
‘Right you are! It’s going to be as
short as I can make it!’ ‘We may
just as well end this thing right here.
You leave home for school on Mon-
day and you leave it for good. I'll
have no more to do with you and
you needn’t expect to have the fin-
gering of my money after I get
through with it!’ and he went into
the house.

“That was the time I was ‘up
against it’ I thought of it when I
asked you if Jack swore. ‘D— your
money!’ was what I said and felt
better; and I’ve a notion that is what

do

 

together with a crack that will make |
them both see stars and if the young |
fellow does what I think will
there’s going to be a successful man
who some day will say as I say now, |
that he owes all he has that’s worth |

he

|anything to that fateful time back |
It didn’t take long to get track of|

in his teens when he had to
say, ‘I will,’ with the odds against
him and start out on his own hook |
to fight his battle with the world.
“I'd like to make this arrangement
Tf he goes back to school |

there

with you:

lin the fall or a year from now, I
| owner with all the work and respon- |
| sibility without the honor.

want him and I want him bad;’ and

don’t know a better way to end!

27

this than by saying that Phil Wen-
dall got exactly what he wanted so
badly and has had just that for a
number of years.
Richard Malcolm Strong.
—_—_e-2
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Act As Though You Owned the
Store.

A young man who had had but
small office experience moved from
an Eastern State to a Far Western
community. He had gone West to
stay and was willing to do anything
that promised a living. He answer-
ed an advertisement asking for a
man to take a position in a mill
situated some distance in the coun-
try—a man who was willing to live
and work away from a town.

He had forgotten the advertise-
ment, when, one day, he received a
letter asking him to come immedi-
ately, if possible, and to telegraph
whether or not he would come. He
went and found that the place was
a branch manufactory of a_ great
concern doing business all over the
world. To cut the story short, he
remained and worked himself into
a fine position—worked himself into

because he did all his work con-!

scientiously and completely, and did

it in a way that was different and |

more satisfactory than had before
been employed by anyone in that
department.

To use his own words, he “han-

dled more money in a month than he |
|ed by one person to another is work |
importance, no}

had before expected to
slip through anyone’s fingers.”
was placed in the supply department
place where’ everything was
bought for a big mill, a branch rail-
road, four great ranches and the ma-
jority of the goods necessary for
the maintenance of laborers on the
entire properties. He was rapidly
promoted to the head of the supply
department—promoted because _ he
did his work conscientiously and in
thorough and_ business-like
manner than it had ever been done.
Before his coming the supplies had
been bought by simply sending an
order to some concern handling the

ever see

oe

a more

goods needed, without a hint of what
the price was going to be, or with-
out an attempt to find out whether

some other concern might not un-
derbid.
The concern from whom _ goods

had been bought were surprised to

find in their mails not orders but
requests for the lowest prices. at
which they would furnish certain

goods that were listed and carefully
tabulated. They were further — sur-
prised to find that in many cases
they did not receive the orders, but
that the supplies were bought of
some other concerns that had here-
tofore been unfavored with business
from the company.

There was but one logical result |
to that kind of work—the company |

began to make money by saving it

through a few cents on one item, a |

He |

had been far greater than the salary
paid to the young man.

He did not consider that he had
done anything remarkable; he had
simply bought supplies by the thou-
sands after the manner in which he
had bought groceries for the family
back home—at the place where he
could buy the lowest and get the
right kind of goods. The company
looked at the matter differently, and
the general manager considered he
had caught a prize, although the
young man knew nothing of the
high estimation in which his serv-
ices were graded by the manage-
ment. So long as he cares to con-
tinue in his position he is sure of
the work and pay.

The point to the story is obvious.
No employe who does all the work
placed before him in the most thor-
ough and conscientious manner he
knows, and without any other  at-
tempt than to do it right, can fetch
any other result than such as is in-
dicated in the success of this young
man. The clerk who handles. the
goods of the store and the custom-
ers of the store just as thoroughly

 

|and completely as he knows how to |

handle them can be positive that
|he is to be considered a prize by his
employers. He will be a prize be-
| cause there are so many of the tribe

| of clerks who are otherwise inclined |

|and whom it is impossible to teach
|any different.
Every bit of work that is entrust-

that is filled with
|matter what it may be. And the
| faithfulness with which it is done,
and the business-like methods of its
|accomplishment determine the  fu-
|ture as well as the present value of
|the one employed. The young man
|in the story here related did not fol-
low the methods of his predecessor,
because he considered those meth-
ods faulty and lacking the basis of
good business action in that the
goods wanted’ were not purchased in
the lowest market, but simply order-
ed with no thought of the price, the
former buyers leaving the possibili-

ty of an error or a high price to be
thought about and fought over after
the bills came in.

The clerk who handles
tomer with the idea that if there is
anything wrong the customer will
kick, by and by follows the same un-
businesslike plan of the fellow who
buys goods without first asking the
price and attempting to find the low-
est market. There is not the ele-
ment of business and thorough work
in that way of handling customers.
The customer who is waited upon by
the clerk who intends that that cus-
|tomer shall be perfectly satisfied
| with the service and the goods sel-
| dom comes back with a complaint.
Errors made in such work are sim-
ply errors of judgment and not of
|either intention or laziness.

The lazy clerk—the

the cus-

 

 

one who

dollar on another item, and five or|thinks that it will come out right

ten or fifteen dollars on an entire

bill. The individual amounts were
small, but when the _ purchases
mounted
month,

anyway and the boss can stand it if
it doesn’t—is about the worst bit of
animation in retailing. He is a dan-

into the thousands every | ger to the business in that he makes
the saving in the first year|the store pay the price of his lazi-

ample he offers to younger clerks
if they can not slip through some-

older shirks. Laziness
is a thing that every clerk must be
ashamed of and avoid, or find him-
self sometime tailing the procession.
Laziness does not go in the store,
anyway.
who is
satisfactory place elsewhere.

It is not always the amount of
work a clerk does that him
in the estimation of the
may accomplish the feat of waiting
on half the customers who come into
the store, but if half, or even Io per
cent., of those upon whom he has

raises

or with a complaint of incom-
the clerk has done al-
most as much injury to the future
business of the house as he has done
good by heavy sales. re-
corded in his column. The amount
of the work of one can be easily
overcome by the quality of the work
of another. It is not always the
| question of how many goods the
clerk has sold, for the house wants
to know how well they have been
sold.

| We once had a clerk who had a
| great inclination toward sending
i} goods out on approval
could not make a sale. Of course,
the goods had to be charged to the
customer, and the books showed, ap-
that this clerk was making

ror,
plete service,

present

 

| parently,

lenormous sales. He became so
enamoured of his scheme that he
fell into the way of sending the
goods on approval before he was

sure that the customer was not will-
ing to buy at once. The firm made
an investigation of results and found
that this clerk with apparent large
sales was wasting a big lot of time
of the store by failing to fetch re-
sults His total
sales were less than those of another

from his scheme.

tc so much approval work, and the

permanent sales of the
immediately
hand is

wants its

increased.

the thing
clerks to
to completeness

question

The
that any
work on. to do
and in the best possible manner the
work that

thing on
store

is right nose
the

business

under your
and within your eyes
is the which the store ex-
pects of you and which it wants you
to do perfectly. If it is handling a
difficult customer, the
is that you will do the work to the
ability and will fetch
a result that is as good as anyone
in the store can fetch. Not only
must it be done thoroughly, but with
self-confidence that it is going to
succeed.

The practicing of belief in your
own work will go a long way to-
ward fetching the result you want
and the store wants. You can not
go ahead with an amount of brava-
do and supreme cheek with the idea
of slamming the thing through any-

sight of

best of your

 

when he}

expectation |

ness and indifference, and in the ex- |

how. You have got to do it. the

| best you know how and do it with

who are always looking out to see | tl
iceed in your attempt.

thing as easily and smoothly as the |
of that sort |
you simply tell her that you haven't

The young man or woman |
looking for an easy time in |
the store can find a more fitting and |

e belief that you are going to suc-
If a customer
comes in with a request for a cer-
tain article that is not in stock, will

it and let her go out? Or will you
show her something else and _ at-
tempt to convince her that it is good
and may her purpose all
right? After she is gone, will you
forget all about her request and fail

answer

|to place the article on the want
book? Will you satisfy yourself
|with the thought that it is up to

house. He|

waited return for a correction of er- |

| person

the boss to keep goods on hand and
you can not sell what he hasn’t pro-
vided for you?

If you find something going
wrong in the business of the store,
something that might be easily put
right if the attention of the proper
were called to it, will you
simply pass it up with the thought

| that you have enough to think about

|without bothering your head
| that?

 

clerk whose every day column ran
much smaller than that of the very |
busy fellow. A stop had to be put

|the most

clerk in|

 

with
Tf there is an opportunity to
further the business of the store by
a little extra effort on your part,
will you attempt to do that or will
you let it pass as a thing that is not
particularly of your business? Dec
work for the interests of the
store or only for vour own conveni-
ence and pleasure?

Hardly a store in the country will
be found unable to show up from
one to five clerks of this kind. Why
is it sot It is so not because the
clerks are not intelligent enough tv
understand, but because they are in-
different to the interests and needs
of others, under the belief that it is
no concern of theirs how things go.
That is most false of delusions, yet
the one which leaves behind the
counter hundreds of clerks whose
natural intelligence and aptitude for
business ought to place them inthe
front ranks of business somewhere.

Absolute indifference of employes
toward the of the stores
where they work keeps the wages of
these employes low. It is a neces-
and the clerks who are

indifferent are almost in-
those who complain most

you

interests

sary result,
variably
against the lowness of their pay and
importune the oftenest for a raise in
Apply the business principle
of buying in the lowest market and
selling in the highest to all the work
of the store, and you will have less
cause to complain of results——Dry-

price.

goodsman.
—_—__~.2s___
The Gentle Druggist.

I 2m a gentle druggist who
Makes with care prescriptions.

I’m arxious for to sell to you
Fresh drugs of all descriptions.
I’ve epsom salts and ipecac,

And bromide for a head attack,
Porous plasters for your back,
And powders for conniptions.

If beauty needs some slight repair,
I have the stuff to do it:

Peroxide that will gild the hair,
And will not green or blue it.

T’ve facial cream and dentrifice,

And lip salve red and camphor ice;

You only need to have the price;
Your youth you can renew it.

I’ve soda-water and ice-cream,
And bouillon for cold weather;
I've paper by the box or ream,
And card-cases of leather;
I keep cigars; but, then, you see,
I’ve also the directory,
And stamps—my custom seems to be
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Make Change
Without Loss

Mistakes occur in making
change. These are avoided
by system. A customer of
Mr. Hardy’s volunteers this
reason why she trades with him: . HVA A=

        

‘If a mistake is made in making change, Mr. Hardy’s National Cash Register
always corrects it. I once made a |0-cent purchase and handed the clerk $5. He
handed me 90 cents. I did not notice the error until | reached home. I called
Mr. Hardy’s attention to it and he opened his National Cash Register and balanced
his cash. The record inside showed that there were four dollars more in the
drawer than called for by the sales record.”

A National Cash Register tells the amount of each transaction whether cash,
credit, money received on account, money paid out, or money changed.

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~ Address”
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30 MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

PRESERVING EGGS. be taken not to get too much of the

lime in—that is, not enough to settle
Methods Pursued in Different Parts | and stick to the shells of the eggs,

of the World. land

render them difficult to clean
First, one recommended by the De-| when taken out. I believe that the
partment of Agriculture, at Wash- |

\chief cause of thin, watery whites in
ington Water-glass or silicate of|limed eggs is that they are not prop-
soda is sold as a syrupy liquid at/erly sealed in the manner described.
wholesale as low as two cents per| Of course, another cause is the put-

 

pound in carboy lots. The retail|ting into the pickle old stale eggs
price varies, though ten cents ter|that have thin, watery whites. When
pound seems a common price. Dis-|the eggs are within two or three

solve one part of the syrup thick |
water-glass in ten parts,
of water. Much of the water-glass
offered for sale is very alkaline, which
is a decided fault. Pure water should
be used in making the solution, and it |

inches of the top of the cask or vat,
by measure,|cover them with a cloth, and spread
‘that settles in making the pickle.
is of the utmost importance that the
pickle be kept up over the lime. A

is best to first boil the water, then |tin basin (holding about six dozen |
cooling it. Place the eggs in a clean|eggs) punched oe full of inch holes, |
vessel and cover with the solution. | edge muffed with leather, and a suita- |

lf wooden kegs or barrels are used,
should be thoroughly
The eggs should be stored in a cool
It best

not to wash the eggs before packing,

will be found convenient to

put the eggs into the pickle.

they scalded. | tached,

place; this is important. is

pickle and turn the eggs out;
will go to the bottom without break-
When the
th must be taken out of

cleaned, dried and packed.

as this removes the natural mucilagin-
the outside the
One gallon of water-glass
said to be sufficient for dozen
eggs if they are properly packed.

ous coating on of ing. time comes to
sheli is gs ey

1
tne: ce

   

fifty the pickle,

on two or three inches of the lime|
It |

bie handle about three feet long at- |
Fill the |
basin with eggs, put both under the|

they |

use |

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

Will pay highest price F. O. B. your station. Cases returnable.

C. D. CRITTENDEN, 3 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Dealer in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce
Both Phones 1300

 

 

 

       
     

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

I am in the market all the time and will give you highest prices
and quick returns. Send me all your shipments.

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

 

TERT IE LE ES

Butter

I would like all che fresh, sweet dairy

To clean them, procure half of a mo-|

The next is a method given out on/lasses hogshead, or something like it,
the authority of the National Butter | filling the same about half full of}
Cheese and Egg Association: The|water. Have a number of crates of |
person using this and other methods |the right size to hold thirty dozen, |

will gauge the quantity of materials| made of laths or slats, placed about
by the number of eggs he wishes to|one inch apart. Sink one of these

preserve. c
To make the solution pickle
stone lime, fine salt, and water in the

into the half hogshead,

rates

use

take |
the basin used for putting the eggs |
into the pickle, dip the eggs by rais- |

If |

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

following proportions: One bushel/ing it up and down in the water.
of lime, eight quarts of fine salt,/ necessary to thorougly clean them,
twenty-five ten-quart pails of water.|set the crate up and douse water over |

 

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

The lime must be of the finest quality,;the eggs. lf any eggs are found, |
free from sand and dirt—lime that) when packing, from which the lime |
will slack white, fine and clean. Have}has not been fully removed, they
the salt clean and the water pure and|should be laid out and all the lime
sweet, free from all vegetable and/ cleaned off before packing.
decomposed matter. First slack the

lime in a large lard tierce or vat that Buyers and Shippers of

has been previously cleaned with |

scalding water; add the balance of the
water and the salt, stir well continu- |
ally that the lime may not settle in|

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

the bottom and clog and burn, other- |
it

is

wise cannot be used for pickle. |

 

‘This the most important stage of|
the pickle—to prevent the lime from |
clogging on the bottom and burning. |
If the lime has a yellow tinge, then |
proper precaution has not been exer-
Stir |
well until it has become of milky ap-|
all grit}
Let it stand until well set-
tled and cool,

cised in the stirring and mixing

      

pearance and free and clear of

and sand.

  

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or equal.’’ They excel all others

or the U. S. Government would not
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Horizontal type, 2 to100 H. P.,and are so
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same as in the famous Oldsmobile) the
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jack or direct-connected pump; or

our general catalogue show-

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Lansing,
Mich.

one
Either dip or draw off |
the clear pickle into the

which will require
or two days.
cask or vat |
the |
When the cask or vat is filled |
to the depth of two feet begin to put |
in the eggs, and when they are, say, |
about one foot deep, spread around
over them some pickle that is a little |
milky in appearance, made so by stir- |
ring up some of the very light lime}
particles that settled last. Continue
doing this as each foot of eggs
added. The object is to have the fine
lime particles drawn into the pores of
the shells, as they will be, by a kind
ef inductive process, and thereby
completely seal the eggs. Care should

     
     
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
    
    

in which it is intended to preserve
es

Zs.

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Fruit Packages

We handle all kinds; also berry crates and baskets of every de-
scription. We will handle your consignments of huckleberries.

The Vinkemulder Company

14 and 16 Ottawa St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

NEW SOUTHERN POTATOES

Carlots or Less
Clover and Grass Seeds

Millet and Buckwheat
MOSELEY BROS., cranp RaPIDS, MICH.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street, Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

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A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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PRODUCE COMMISSION

| 104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.
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We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Live and Dressed Pouitry,
Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns.
REFERENCES
Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, = ress Companies’ Trade Papers and Hundreds of
ppers
Established 1873

 

      

 

when wanted, the system generally |
getting all the blame.

Some prefer barrels, but the best |
plan is to have a proper brick recep- |
tacle. The proportions of lime and
other materials are as follows: Four-
teen gallons of water, four and a half
pounds of salt, one and a half pounds
of cream of tartar, and twenty-eight
pounds of lime. The lime should be|
added to the water, so as to cause it
to boil, when the other ingredients
should be added; when the solution
is quite cold, it should be poured care-
fully over each layer of eggs. stirring
the well it
poured on.

solution each time is

W. F. Naegle gives the following in
the Supply World.
cylic acid mixed with one gallon of
water will make a milky fluid, into

An ounce of sali-

which as many fresh eggs may be im-
fluid will Let
ther remain in the liquid for half an
hour, when they should be removed
and placed on shelves to dry without
wiping. The fluid not be
newed by adding more salicylic acid

mersed as the cover.

need re-
as long as it keeps its milky appear-
ance. No cut straw or hay should be
used for packing the e

Concerning the packing of eggs, the
Commercial Intelligence Branch of
the Norwegian Department for Trade,
Shipping and Industry sends out a
description of what is claimed to be a
new system of packing e

ggs.

This packing consists of thin card-
board with pressed hollow ovals. By
turning every other sheet 180 degrces
(half

porting tier of cells is formed.

round) a completely self-sup-

Each
tier can contain 750 eggs (25 trays of

\

30 eggs.)

The weight of the upper trays of
eggs is borne by the cardboard sheets,
and distributed by them alone. Thus

absolutely no weight rests on the

not even those of the lower

trays. The eggs are surrounded by
only few

elastic walls, and have a

millimetres play, which entails a

maximum of safety during transport.
The eggs cannot fall ovt of their hol-
low, and the protection is the same,
is turned

even when the whole case

around or placed on its side.

It is claimed that this system of
packing allows of the quickest ar-
rangement, as the place for each egg

is ready and the elasticity protects the

eggs from blows. Mistakes in count-

ing are impossible, as each tray holds

a similar number of eggs; and they

can be rapidly packed, as eggs and
trays can be removed as they are. |
Breaking is avoided, as the handling |

and touching of the eggs is unneces- |

sary. The less the eggs are touched |
the longer they keep fresh. Egg sort- |}

}
ing is easier, as the depths of the hol- |
lows of the trays form an easy meas- |

Tage iE tut: Meiko)

Ma \'A 4 QoS YL t eo al

Fine Feed Corn Meal

MOLASSES FEED

LOCAL SHIPMENTS ——

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

When the eggs

as before described, they can be set

!

i. |
are carefuly washed, |

in a suitable place to dry in the crates. |

They  shouid and be
In packing,

the same rules should be observed as

dry quickly

packed as soon as dry.

Vats built in a
around the walls, with about
half their depth below the surface,

in packing fresh eggs.
cellar

ibout four or five feet deep, six feet
long and four feet wide, are usually
the best for
‘ees in—although many use and pre-
fer The

considered

large tubs made of wood.

preserving |

place in which the vats are built, or|
the tubs set, should be clean, sweet,

and free from all bad odors, and

where a steady, low temperature can |

be maintained—-the lower the better:

that is, down to any point
freezing.

A writer in the British Baker says:
There are many ways of pickling or
preserving eg:

lass, gum arabic, to storing in dry

sand.

s, from dry salt, water-

 

There has not, however, been
found a system that for economy and
efhciency the

surpasses quicklime

method. If this method is adopted,
and care taken that no cracked eggs
put the baker will
much to complain of.
fault of

them that there are any bad ones

are in, not have

It is generally

the the man who is packing

ure to go by. Warehousing takes up

a mininium of space, as the trays can
be built up for several metres without
danger to the

eggs. The trays are
cheap, and made to stow away inside

each other, and are thus easy to re-

turn empty, which makes it economi-

above |

Creamery Butter

cal to use them. Trays of all sizes

are supplied. |
ee

Durme a long public. career

Chauncey M. Depew has been able
to steer a safe and the
main has escaped the harsh criticism
that has come to some bigger and
abler men. As the expression goes,
he has been able to “jolly” pretty
much everybody and meantime has
amassed handsome fortune and
twice secured a senatorship. He is

course in

a

mixed up in the life insurance scan-
dals and his stock is not just now

quoted as much above par as
would like to have it.

in for a generous share of criticism.

he |
He is coming |

At present he is in Europe, but ac- |

cording to all accounts he _ better
come home on a fast ship and see
if do
it.

—_+- .

what, anything, he can

about

There is no greater field for the|

| study of human nature than the mod-

ern department store.
+2»

It takes an empty head to rise to|

the heights of fashion.
———_+ 2. —

Men who affect virtues have no af- |

fection for them.

   

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Get in the Display Habit

Goods well shown up are quickly sold

 

Ask your jobber for these Display Trays

Don't take a substitute.
them write direct to

If your jobber doesn’t have

W. D. GOO & CO., Jamestown, Pa.

 

 

 

   

 

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Ice Cream

Dressed Poultry

Ice Cream (Purity Brand) smooth, pure and delicious. Once
you begin selling Purity Brand it will advertise your business and in-

crease your patronage.

Creamery Butter (Empire Brand) put up in 20, 30 and 60 pound

tubs, also one pound prints. It is fresh and wholesome and sure to
please.
Dressed Poultry (milk fed) all kinds. We make a specialty of

these goods and know we can suit you.

We guarantee satisfaction. We have satisfied others and they are

our best advertisement. A trial order will convince you that our goods
sell themselves. We want to place your name on our quoting list, and

solicit correspondence.

Empire Produce Company
Port Huron, Mich.

SUMMER SEEDS

Crimson Clover Dwarf Essex Rape
Turnip Rutabaga, Etc., Etc.

If in the market for Timothy Seed either immediate shipment or futures
let us know and we will quote you.
ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

    
 
   

  

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

How To Make Special Shoe Sales
Pay.

As the time approaches when the
regular mid-summer sales
ly held,
advantage of such means of publici-
ty begin to make their preparations
for that grand commercial fete. To

those merchants

those who have been through nu-
merous sales of one character and

another, what we are going to Say
may not be entirely new, but even
they may pick up a stray idea or two
that may be of use. To those who
have had little or no experience in
conducting special sales, we can only
say, read, ponder and digest thor-
oughly every hint here given.

It is one thing to hold a special
sale and an entirely different one to
make it successful. Many sales fall
flat because they have been entered
upon without due preparation and
without a sufficient reason for their
birth.

When a merchant finds he
over-bought on certain lines of
goods, when he has a lot of broken
lines and odd lots and sizes on hand;
when he finds he has goods that are
rapidly going out of style; or that
must be sold then or carried
for six months; when he buys up a
lot of “jobs,” stock
at an unusually low price; or when

has

over
or somebody’s

he wants to reduce stock before or

after inventory, the only logical
course for him topursue is to put
on a special sale. He must have

are usual- |
who take |

| quickly and not any deeper than nec- |
| essary, so as to avoid as much loss |
|as possible.
| must also be prepared. The lines to
|be offered
|to be added later must be selected |
|and the prices settled.

Other lines and leaders

first and those that are}

Goods to be}

|continued another season should be |

| withheld

|of the utmost importance.

an outlet for these surpluses that his |

usual routine trade does not afford.
He has it in the special sale.

Many special sales are
the flimsiest of
merchants, who, after a lot of extra
They

either

pretexes by some
work, wonder why they fail.
fail because’ the
rushes into them without reason or
lack of
safe to

merchant

because of
ion «6dlt Us

careful prepara-

say that most

floated on}

merchants should begin at least two |
weeks before to make their prepara- |

tions for a special sale if they

wish it to prove successful and pay
them for their efforts and expenses. |

In some of the highly organized de- |

partment stores it is an easy mat-

ter to put on a sale in some

tice, but in the exclusive store or in

par |
ticular department at a few hours’ no- |

the country general store where the |

help is meager and the system loose,
it requires much more time. Even
in the department store the large and
held there

successful sales

are

thought out sometimes many months |

before. There
things to weigh and consider,
unless properly thought out and ade-
quate preparations made, the sale
falls as flat as a pancake.

In the first place the whys and
wherefores of the sale should be
considered. If it is to reduce cer-
tain lines of goods, they must be got
out and re-marked. The prices must
be cut deeply enough to move them

are a great many

and

| have learned by experience that at

from the sale altogether,
or at least sold, when called for, with-
out any pretence of price cutting.

merchants think all they
have to do is to take a $1.50 line of
shoes and say: “Here’s a shoe worth
$2 for only $1.50, they’re a bargain

Some

while they last,’ and expect peo-
ple to fall over each other in a mad
scramble to buy them. They find |

to their surprise that the public is

“on to their little game,” and the
after effects of such an action are
most disastrous. The people know

value well enough not to be “taken
in’ in. that They _ have
bought just such shoes before and
know their worth.

manner.

After the lines to be placed on
have been and they
should be as numerous as it is con-
venient, the very first thing to be
thought of is a name for the sale

This, and the reason offered to the

selected,

sale

an excuse for the sale, is
In choos-
ing a name, one that will mean some-
to the public is most desirable.

public as

thing
Here are a dozen names of sales se-
H dozen nam pt Sal se
lected at random from recent news-
paper advertisements:
A Gigantic Sale.

A May Shoe Sale.

A Stupendous Shoe Sale.

A Thrilling Shoe Sale

A Mammoth Shoe Sale.

A $10,000 Sacrifice Sale.

A Phenomenal Shoe Sale.

A Money Saving Clearance Sale
An Expansion Sale.

Jobbers’ and Manufacturers’ Sale. |
Great Sample Shoe Sale.

The most of these names mean |

at all to the public. |
are remarkable more |

simply nothing
The first seven

from the use of adjectives than any- |
thing else. The others have some |
excuse for their use behind them. |

But all of these names are old and}

They
that the
them any more. A
“bankrupt
meaning wherever used, and people

been used |
take no
‘fire |

has ai

threadbare. have

sc often public
stock in
sale or a sale”
vill flock to such sales because they

are usually cut
pretty merchant desires
to “clean up” a lot of odds and ends
that accumulating for
years he had best have a “Rummage
Sale.” The public will then expect |
to get old styles instead of new, and
at prices reduced accordingly. What- |
ever the name selected, it should be
suitable to the goods to be sold, and |
show its meaning plainly to those
who read about it.

It is the same way with the rea-
son given to the people for the sale
--it must be reasonable and repre-
sent the goods offered. It need not
necessarily be the exact truth, be-
cause sometimes it is better to sup-
press disagreeable things.
stance, if a merchant

prices
low. if a

such sales

have been

|
|

For in-|
finds his

 

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We recognized that the boy had been

sadly neglected in footwear.

We have met the demand for a substan-

tial Boy’s Shoe.
Be sure and get a supply for your fall

trade.

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. 3

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Makers of Rouge Rex Shoes for Men and Boys

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
    
    

School

for both Boys and Girls made by us are
stronger, more comfortable and longer
lived than most others.

We know what these shoes have to
stand and use leather and workmanship
that insures your customer more than his
money's worth in wear.

Our trade mark is our guarantee.

If you don't know our line write
and we will call with samples.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

shelves full of merchandise and his | desirable to

cut the prices on new

bank account very low, bills coming | lines for any reason a sale put on

due and no prospects of meeting
them, and decides to put on a sale,
it is not necessary to tell the world
his troubles. On the other hand, he
should say, “We have made extra
heavy purchases lately at such low

|
1
|

|

prices that we are enabled to offer |
these lines at much below their mar- |

ket value. We are going to share
our extra profits with the public and
things will hum here for the next
few weeks.” Then he should cut out
his profits altogether and grin and

just when the demand is at its high-
est for those goods must of necessity

sell more of that class of goods, but |

there’s no profit in that.
be made profitable once in a while,
you know.

It is best to start a sale towards
the end of the week. Why this is
so is hard to tell, but it has been

proven time and time again that

| Thursday or Saturday are the best

| cause

days of all. Friday, of course, is
eliminated from the possibilities be-

of the ever-present supersti-

|tious awe of that particular day of

bear it. He must not put on dole-
ful looks because he makes a sale
of some line at no. profit. Who|

knows!
long customer of the purchaser. At
any rate, he will be able to meet his
bills when they come due and save
kis credit. He may then buy new
goods and start over again.

A must be advertised, and
largely advertised at that, if it is to
be made at all successful.

sale

Perhaps he will make a life- |

the week.

Besides, the regular goods placed |
'on sale there should always be

a

; number of leaders used to attract at-

|and popular priced lines.

These should consist of low
The prot-
be entirely loped off of

tention.

its must

| these, and in some cases part of the

The mer- |

chant must enter into the thing with |

enthusiasm, and try to make him-

|for use after the sale has begun.

self believe that it is a very good |

thing for the public. If he can make
himself believe that, he is more like-
ly to make the public think so, too.
The space taken in the papers should
be extra large, with the opening an-
nouncement, because “largeness” has
come to mean these days “truthful-
ness.” Large things enter into the
very spirit of the age, and the mer-
chant who can do large things will
If small spaces
likely to be
“simply an-

get the large trade.
are it
thought that the sale is
That feeling will
low

used, is more
other fake affair.”
kill no
prices have been cut.

The lines to be
prices must be properly displayed in
the store.

any sale, matter how

the windows and inside

eriginal cost. They should not all
be offered at the beginning of the
sale, but the best of them reserved
It

is not always possible to keep up

| the interest in a sale for one reason

or another, and these leaders are to

| be reserved for use in just such an

emergency. If it is noted that there
is a lull in the progress of the sale,
one or more of these leaders are of-
fered at their low prices as a “bait.”
In this way, interest in the sale can

be made to extend over a longer
period of time.
Some merchants, with a_ short-

| sightedness unworthy of them, try to

|the beginning of the sale.

sold at special |
ly

They should be placed where every |
cne can see them who passes the|
store, or enters it, and the “alluring |

prices” should be so plainly placed

that they will invite purchasers with- |
cut any effort from the salesforce. A |

|
|

large display of goods means a great |

deal to most folks this
should not be neglected.

and special motto cards should be

so

matter |
Price cards |

work off their “worst stuff’ right at
This
buyers

is

The early

a great mistake.

Sales can |

 

 

are the scouts of the regular army. |

If the values offered are particular-
these scouts
good news around very quickly.
they are not pleased with the offer-
ings they proceed to make it inter-
esting for the merchant by describ-
ing him as a “fake.” Such is life!
When should a sale be dropped?
Not until it will drop of its own ac-
cord. When every effort has been
apparently used up to keep it going

choice

and it is about to die a _ natural
| death it is time to “draw the cur-
tain.” A last great rally should be

largely used, and all should plainly |

show the old as well as the cut
price. Price is a great factor in a
sale, sometimes of more importance
than the quality of the goods of-
fered.

When to put on a special sale is
another thing to consider.
ly to try to run a sale of odds and
ends in the middle of a busy season.
If a store has its regular spring
stock to be disposed of at regular
prices and a special sale of odd lines
is sprung on the public just when
those spring goods should have the
call, the one would kill the other.
People reading the sale news will ap-
ply it to the new lines and there’ll
be “trouble brewing.” Just before
or after the height of a season is the
best time to hold a sale. When
the dull season comes around the
sale can be used to enliven things
up, and it will not interfere then with

regular trade. Of course, if it is

It is fol- |

 

made of all the forces to make the
“death scene” as brilliant as possi-
ble. Many people are always late,
and in the case of a sale the rule
Therefore, it is better
to advertising a closing date for a
sale that is gradually dying. In that
simple announcement there has oft-
en been an increased business suffi-
cient to pay all the ordinary  ex-
penses of the sale.

If any merchant contemplates en-
tering in a special sale soon, let him
take plenty of time to make his
preparations and enter upon it with
lots of vim and enthusiasm, and he
will “win out” every time—A. E.
Edgar in Boot and Shoe Recorder.

—_—_-~-

Many men mistake a disposition

to kick at everything for a divine

call to preach.
—_—_2+>—___
The itching palm tries to pass it-

self off for a helping hand.

holds good.

spread the |
If |

 

 

Blow Your Horn if You
Don't Sell a Clam

We are not so very long on the blow; but when it

comes to furnishing

Dependable

footwear to our customers we are there with the goods.

If you don’t believe it let us show you.

Our Leather Line We Know to be Good

Hood and Old Colony Rubbers
Can't be Beat

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Our “Custom Made” Line

Of
Men’s, Boys’ and
Youths’ Shoes

Is Attracting the Very Best Dealers in Michigan.

WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers
State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co. SAGINAW, MICH

You Are Out of
The Game

Unless you solicit the trade of
local base ball club

 

 

 

 

 
    
 

They Have to
Wear Shoes

Order Sample Dozen

And

SHOLTO WITCHELL
Everything in Shoes

Protection to the dealer my ‘‘motto,””

Be in the Game
Majestic Bld., Detroit

Sizes in Stock

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

WAIT UNTIL YOU WIN.

Do Not Quit at the

Time.

If you are in the game, stay in until
you win. Don’t quit at the wrong
time!

There are two kinds of men in the
world: The one knows what he is
doing. hangs on to his work with
bulldog tenacity until he accomplishes
something; the other-takes up work
in a haphazard way, gets discouraged
at every setback, quits at the wrong
time, and then blames fate when he
sees another, beginning where he left
off, succeed.

The case is exemplified by the
woman who, after feeding a fine lot
of poultry all winter, just at Easter
time sold them at half price to her
next door neighbor, who reaped the
profit, 40 cents a dozen.

Last year the management of a
book publication came from the east
to shut up their western office, as the
man in charge had written that the
field was played out. But just as the
office was being closed an assistant
came forward and begged that it be
kept open, declaring that in his esti-
mation the work was but half begun.
The second man was placed at the
head, and from that time on the sales
boomed.

There are still people in,the world
as senseless as the man who bought a
fine country estate and prepared with
immense pains and expense a squab
industry. After two years, just as he
had his plant in nice condition, the
enemy in the shape of a skunk ap-
peared and every morning dozens of
young pigeons were found with the
life blood sucked from their veins.
All precautions seemed futile.

In disgust the man sold out, but
such was his animosity toward the
animal that occasioned the disaster of
his hopes, that he took his shot gun,
and, finding a colony of the pests un-
der the summer house, exterminated
the last one, just before the new
owner took possession, thus destroy-
ing all excuse he had for leaving.

Many are the examples of a small
business growing to be a large one,
after the first man has sold out, just
because conditions were ripe for it.
Many a man fails of success simply
because he is afraid he will fail. He
advertises just long enough to make
the public aware -of his existence and
then, when all he needs is a little
longer keeping at it, to get the re-
turns he is after, he stops short,
afraid to waste any more of his capi-
tal. He doesn’t play the game out.
He sells out, and thus becomes the
servant and contributor to another’s
wealth; and is sore ever after because
he passed his opportunity on to an-
other.

It is reported of John Brown of
Balmoral, who was an ardent fisher-
man, that one day while employed in
salmon fishing a message came from
the castle on Dee side saying that
Queen Victoria desired his presence.
“Tell her majesty that I'll be there
quickly,” he replied, never stopping
his mighty struggle with an unusually
strong salmon.

Another anu more urgent summons

Wrong

 

came. “Tell her majesty that I have
a salmon on, but I’ll be there in a few
minutes,” said Brown, still playing the
salmon, which was still holding out
pretty vigorously.

A third and more imperative order
came.

“Tell her majesty,” shouted Brown
in his exasperation, “that it’s impos-
sible for me to leave without the sal-
mon.”

The laws of all true sportsmanship
commanded that the play be played,
the game be landed, and the fisher-
man not quit at the wrong time—even
though a aueen were kept waiting.

Never does business acumen or
shrewd judgment have a better chance
to display itself than when some un-
foreseen occurrence arises, calling out
all one’s resources. Then the caliber
or fiber of a man stands revealed—
whether it stiffens to the storm or
weakly wilts and bows before the un-
exnected blow.

A case in point happened recently
in a Chicago suburb. A new grocery
was started in a locality where the
ene store had been supreme. Dis-
satisfied patrons flocked to the new
caterer of kitchen supplies—a thing
which usually occurs in the business
world, for people always are curious
to see what the new man has. This
particular grocer, instead of meeting
new conditions by making better de-
liveries and bracing up generally to
compete with a rival, simply acted as
if the inevitable had come, and the
handwriting for him was on the wall.
He saw disaster, wilted, and drooped
in every fiber, and in a panic sold out
to his butcher, who, seeing his oppor-
tunity, grasped it, regained the lost
patronage and is now with an en-
larged business reaping the fruits of
the trade that his predecessor had
built up.

In contrast to this, another mer-
chant with twenty years’ successful
experience, one who had met and van-
quished many a competitor, at last
saw his Waterloo, as he thought, in a
new firm which started up just oppo-
site him, flaring in his face all sorts
of huge placards of cut rates. This
new force to combat was a syndicated
one, which, with its branches all over
the city and with its huge backing,
was no mean antagonist.

The usual sympathetic advice of the
croakers was offered, and the public
thought that the death knell was rung,
for the cut prices were put at too low
a figure to permit any profit. Now
was the time when the business sense

of this man dictated the only saving
course to be pursued, and that was
one of courage: “To keep the store
open until the business went to
smash, but never to give in.”

This business principle of not sell?
ing at prices that would yield no
profit was adhered to. Sales fell off,
and for the first time in twenty years
this man had nothing to add to his
nest egg in the bank, but he paid ex-
penses and made a living, and by
ineeting the enemy squarely and not
flinching, now finds his position
strengthened and old patrons return-
ing to deal with a house that is built
upon rocklike standards.

 

Vehicle Factories Run Extra Time.

Flint, July 24—After having ex-|

perienced the most prosperous sea-
son in their history, the local vehicle
factories are beginning to feel the ef-
fects of the usual dull mid-summer
time that is always counted upon as

the occasion for taking inventory and |

shaping matters for the ensuing

year’s business.

quiet season begins to manifest itself |

early in June, but under the excep-

tional conditions prevailing here this |
suinmer, its advent was delayed for |
The extra hours that |}

fully a month.
have been necessary to take care of
the unusual rush of orders are now
being dispensed with, and the factor-
ies are returning to an eight-hour day.
The taking of the annual inventory
will be commenced about August I,
and will occupy three or four weeks.
At all the plants the prospect is re-
ported to be exceedingly promising
for another big run of business during
the coming year.
a rs
Bancroft Gets the Crowds.
Bancroft, July 22—The Bancroft

business men have a novel means of |

getting the crowd in town for Satur-
day nights. They put on a free en-
tertainment every Saturday evening
for fourteen weeks, with complete
change every week. One of the
largest crowds Bancroft has ever had
on Saturday night was. here this Sat-
urday evening, when the entertain-
ment was moving pictures and _ bal-
loon ascension and parachute drop.

Ordinarily this |

 

Bob the Blacksmith

 

Bob the blacksmith is hearty and hale,

Makes shoes for horses that never fail,

Wears shoes that are shoes upon his feet,

That don’t set him crazy on account of
the heat.

They are made by a firm who calls them
HARD-PAN

And they are never bunched with the
“Also Ran.”

 

Dealers who handle our line say

we make them more money than

other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co,

Makers of Shoes

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upon a shoe is conclusive proof that it is the best

$3 shoe made.

In fact, it is so good a shoe that

it has become popularly known as the $3 shoe with a

$5 look.

We have a proposition to make to one retailer

in each town in regard to

interesting to the dealer.

one drop us a postal and
will call on you.

this shoe which is decidedly
If you want to be that
one of our representatives

Michigan Shoe Co.

Distributors

Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

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Oversight of Clerk Displeases Out-of- | the box and tying it so there was not |

Town Customer.
Written for the Tradesman.

| the slightest possibility of its coming | brought out a carpet sweeper,
| undone.

To make a sale is one thing. To|
so consummate it that the customer |
shall think only kindly of the clerk |
and desire to be waited on again by |

the same one is the acme of sales-
manship.

Sometimes a sale is spoiled by ab-
solute crankiness on the part of the

by rudeness, oftentimes by indiffer-
ence, carelessness or mere forgetful-
ness as to details of orders.

A case of the latter came to my
notice recently. It concerned only a
tiny matter and yet it prejudiced a
young lady against the place where
it happened. The one concerned is

Reaching her home in Grand Hav- |
en, the young lady undid the large |
Package, taking out her purchases |
before the admiring family and two |
or three neighbors who had happened

|in, and of course, there had to be |

|much talk about

the merchandise,

| which was all of a fine order, as the |
one behind the counter, sometimes |

girl’s family are well off. Everything |

| had been beautifully done up—tissue |
| paper around all the daintier pieces, |

| such as laces, gloves, etc.
| was comment on this, too:

from out of town; and that hurts the |

store all the more.

She had shopped around for two

| girl exclaimed:

hours, the last time she was here, |

trying to find a_ particular Oxford
with a cloth top. Just as she had
about given up the search she ran
across it in a popular store on our
principal street. She was overjoyed
to see it after so much tedious hunt-
ing, and still more so when she was
informed that exactly her size was in
stock The girl has such a small

;and this time the lid came off.

foot that she often has difficulty in |

being fitted.

She tried on four or five pairs and
the style pleased her so well and the
shoes felt so comfortable and looked
so stylish that she decided to take
two pairs instead of one as was her
first intention. Directing the young
man who waited on her to put in a
couple of pairs of common laces
(which she offered to pay for), a
buttonhook and to put a little more
pumice stone in the shoes, she paid
for the latter and went to another
part of the store to finish her trad-
ing. The clerk was to send the pack-
age from his department to the par-
cel counter, where she would have
the rest of her purchases sent so}
that they might all be done up to-
gether in order to facilitate her car-
rying them on the train.

Well, the clerk sent the wrapped
up boxes of shoes to the bundle
counter and those and the rest of her
goods were put into a large box. The
bundle boy did all possible to as-
sist her in getting home easily with
the results of her shopping, putting |
a good stout cord crisscross around |

 

and there |

“It was
not often,” they said, “that so much
pains was taken to make attractive
parcels.”

Then came the shoes. And it was
lucky they were last.

Opening one of the two boxes, the

"Oh, dear! 1 told that clerk to
‘put a little more pumice stone in the |
shoes’ and he hasn’t done so—not in
this pair anyway. Let’s look at the
others and see if he carried out my
instructions any better in those,” and
the young lady tried one corner of
the cover of box number two. But
it stuck. She tried another corner

As I said, it was fortunate the
shoes were opened last, for as the
cover yielded to the pressure of the
girl’s fingers, the box took a lurch
and fell onto the edge of the big |
one which had contained all the mer- |
chandise bought at the Grand Rapids |
store.

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A cloud of dust arose, and settled |
over the carpet.

“Well, of all things!” exclaimed the |
girl. “What does that fool fellow |}
think I want of so much shoe pow- |
der? Here he’s put no more in one |
pair than he tried them on with, and |
enough to send us out of the house |
in the other! He sprinkled in only
the merest speck when he put the
shoes on my feet, and I wanted a
little more, so told him so. I can’t |

|imagine why he has done this,” and |

she gingerly picked up the pair that |
gave the trouble, in each of which |

| there had been deposited as much as |

a tablespoonful of the pumice stone.

The floor was all covered with the
fine gray-white stuff and the Ox-
fords had the appearance of wedding |
slippers.

| got

|all traces of the

| Stone out.
| wiped off easier, but, by the time the
| erstwhile

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and
with

The girl went to a_ closet

| which she tried to remove the dust. |

It didn’t take it all up and so she
down on her hands
and wiped,it up with a damp cloth.
After much bother she obliterated
offending powder
and, red in the face from the exer-
tion, took the cloth through the
kitchen and hung it on a bush at the
back door to dry.

(She is one of those neat little
housekeepers who never leave a
squeezed-out rag resting on furni-

ture to ruin the polish with an ugly
wet white spot!)

And had to brush and brush
and brush the cloth uppers of the
pretty Oxfords to get the pumice
The patent leather vamps

she

shopper through re-

pairing damages all around, she was

was

so thoroughly disgusted with the turn

| affairs had taken that she vowed that

that special clerk should never again
see the color of her money!
“The idea of his putting in
much powder stuff! It looks
he thought I was a pig and he’d put

as

and knees

SO |
if |

|in a big lot!” and the angry flush
| that mounted the girl’s cheeks boded
no good for that shoe clerk. What-
|ever might have been his motive in
over-powdering the shoes, he has lost
| trade by it—‘‘enough is as good as a
J. Jodelle.

erect te fie nr

feast.”

Germans are laughing at a plan to
raise a $2,500,000 fund to be given
to the Emperor on his approaching
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, to
be used to aid those members of the
Prussian nobility “called to the army
as officers in pursuit of their histori-
cal mission” of upholding the army

and Prussia. Occasionally, it ap-
pears, these sprigs of nobility are
without the means to live in the

| style befitting their rank and their
; elevated calling. Germans have be-
come quite democratic. They fail
to see any reason why members of
the nobility should receive financial
assistance in preference to untitled
individuals.
The best way to pity a man is to
| pick him up.

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No prayer is lifted on_ stilted
| phrases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
Send for circular.

 

WE TOLD YOU SO

Glass Did Advance July 17th

after the Jobbers’ Meeting which took place on the 15th. Look back over previous numbers of the Tradesman and

see how true our statements have been.

again advance.

BUY

Another Jobbers’ Meeting will be held in about two weeks.
You cannot afford to disregard our advice to

NOW

Glass will

GRAND RAPIDS GLASS & BENDING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Most Complete Stock of Glass in Western Michigan
Office and Warehouse 199, 201, 203 Canal St.

Bent Glass Factory Kent and Newberry Sts.

 

   

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

MEN OF MARK.

 

John W. Blodgett, the Well-Known
Lumberman.

A popular notion is that the pros-
pects for rich men’s sons, in the way
of turning out well and making a
success of life, are poor by compari-
son with those of poor men’s sons.
Children of the rich are supposed to
be pampered and indulged and,
spurred on by no necessity to work
and save, they fall into slothful and
reckless habits, with the result that
they make a failure of life. But this
popular impression is too sweeping
in its conclusion. While anyone can
point to numerous instances wherein
the children of the wealthy have
made wrecks of character and ca-
reer, other numerous instances exist
in which the sons of thoroughgoing
men of business and professions, who
have amassed fortunes in pursuit of
their vocations, have made distinct
footsteps in which they have trod-
den and thus have reached the sum-
mit of an acknowledged success.

After all the outcome in each in-
stance depends on the native quality
of the son and the environment of
his early life, including the tuition
of precept and experience that the
father and mother have given him.
It is a feature of Western life, in
which to accomplish something is
considered a demonstration of man-
hood and character, that many of the
sons of men who have distinguished
themselves in amassing wealth or
reaching success of any sort have fol-
lowed the example of their fathers,
have made good use of the means
fortune has placed within their grasp
and have thus broadened and multi-
plied their wealth and power. Such
a “son of his father” is John W.
Blodgett, of Grand Rapids.

The Blodgetts descended from a
colonial family which settled in Mas-
sachusetts in 1838. John W. Blod-
gett’s father, Delos A. Blodgett, was
born in the State of New York and
migrated with his family to Harvard,
McHenry county, Illinois, in 1846.
When a young man he went to West-
ern Michigan and engaged in the
logging business on the Muskegon
River in 1848. His career as a log-
ger, lumber manufacturer, pine land
owner, banker, capitalist and distin-
guished citizen of Grand Rapids is
well known to all conversant with
the history of Michigan.

In 1851 the elder Mr. Blodgett
reached the conclusion that the lands
in the region of the Upper Muskegon
district were more available for ag-
ricultural purposes than heretofore
they had been reputed to be. Inspir-
ed by this belief he proceeded to im-
prove and cultivate a farm at Her-
sey, Osceola county, with consider-
able success.

pursued the lumber business.

On this Hersey farm John W.
Blodgett was born July 26, 1860.
There his boyhood was passed and
his education begun in the district
school. Thus he had the advantage
of an early country life and acquired
the habits of labor, endurance and

 

toward the formation of his charac-
In this he
was fortunate, as his father had been;

ter, physical and mental.

ror there is no nursery for the young
like the farm, as the lives of thous-

ands of America’s successful men
have exemplified. Doubtless to his
mother, who was. before marriage

Jane S. Wood, of Philadelphia, was |
Mr. Blodgett much indebted for hab- |

its of industry and economy. His

common school tuition was finished |

when he was 12 years of age. Aft-
erward he was enrolled in the Todd
Seminary, at Woodstock, IIl., where
he remained for two years, and then

he began a course at the Highland |
Worcester, |
and was graduated thence in|

Military
Mass.,
July, 1876. This was followed by a
course in a business college at Grand
Rapids.

Academy, at

 

 

sides providing logs and manufactur-
| ing 50,000,000 feet of lumber annually
| John W. Blodgett acted for his fa-
| ther in the management of several
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other important interests.

In 1886 Mr. Blodgett was elected
President of the Muskegon Boom Co.
and added the conduct of this great
corporation to his other business en-
gagements. He continued to act in
|these various capacities until lumber
operations on the Muskegon River

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moved from Muskegon to Grand
Rapids and since has resided in that

city. During his residence at Mus-
kegon he was elected a Director of
the Lumbermen’s National Bank and
|of the Muskegon Savings Bank and
| was a stockholder and Director of

lthe Muskegon Valley Furniture Co.|to follow. He

John W. Blodgett

When young Blodget was about 18 |

years old his father bought an inter-
est in a sawmill at Muskegon, his
partner having been George J. Tillot-

son. In 1878 John W. Blodgett, the
son, went to Muskegon to act as
the agent of his father and to as-

sume the management of the man-
ufacture and sale of the product of
the plant. He continued in this em-
ployment at Muskegon during the
sewing season, spending the winters

There he established |in the woods in superintendence of
his family home for a time, while he | logging operations.

In the mean-

|time his father and Thomas Byrne

had been associated as Blodgett &
Byrne in the timber and_ logging
business. In 1882 Mr. Byrne died
John W. Blodgett
took Mr. Byrne’s place as manager
of the entire Blodgett logging and
lumber manufacturing interests, the

and thereupon

During the years covered by the
| activities portrayed the elder Blod-
|gett and his son John pursued an
| investigation of the timber resources
|of the Southern States and the Paci-
fic coast, with the result that they
imade large investments in yellow
pine and fir. Father and son event-
ually formed and incorporated the
Blodgett Company, Limited, which
combined a large aggregate of the
interests of both men.

John W. Blodgett, like his father,
is largely interested in banking, as
becomes one of his extensive mone-
tary interests. He is Vice-President
of the Fourth National Bank of
Grand Rapids and a Director in the
Fifth National Bank and the People’s
| Scions Bank of the same city.
| Mr. Blodgett married January 16,
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1895, Miss Minnie A. Cumnock, of

economy, which no doubt went far | firm name continuing as before. Be-' Lowell, Mass. Their children are

 

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Katharine C. Blodgett, born in 1808,
and John W. Blodgett, Jr., born in
1891.

Although Mr. Blodgett is a mem-
ber of no church, in that respect as
in business following the example of
his father, his ethical code is all that
the most exacting churchman carrre-
quire.

It was said of the elder Blodgett
by a friend of strictly orthodox be-
lief: “If all Christian professors liv-

led up to the golden rule as closely
declined to the status of a compara- |
tively unimportant industry, when he |

as my friend Blodgett they need feel
no shame in an agnosticism which

leads to such results in a well or-
dered life of uprightness and well
| doing to his fellowmen.” Judging

from his life the younger Mr. Blod-
get has concluded that a conscien-
tious course, such as his father has
pursued, is good enough for the son
doubtless concludes
that character and works are thetrue
measure of a righteous man in the
sight of God or his fellow beings.
Mr. Blodgett has shown his fra-
ternal relations with his contempar-

|aries by becoming a member of the

 

land as

 

Peninsula, Kent County and Lakeside
clubs of Grand Rapids; the Chicago
Club of Chicago, and the Republi-
can Club of New York. He always
has been politically affiliated with the
Republican party, but never a candi-
fi He was a member

date for office.

|of the Republican National Commit-

tee during the campaign that result-

led in the nomination and election of

President Roosevelt and was re-elect-
ed as a member of the Republican
National Committee for the succeed-
ing four years’ term. He is always

| consulted by the party leaders on all

matters of political importance in his
State and his judgment and advice
always are highly esteemed.

A friend has tersely characterized
John W. Blodgett as an individual of
character, of prompt and
accurate judgment, of kindly nature

vigorous

a man whose friendship is
thoroughly esteemed. To say more
would be but fulsome praise that he,
as a man of sterling good sense,
In business
life, as a citizen and neighbor, “by
his works ye shall know him,” and
the knowledge shall satisfy—Ameri-
can Lumberman.

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The Whole Pills.

“My dear,” Mr. Finnicky said to
his wife, “I don’t think those pills I
have been taking have done me much
good.”

“Why, you haven’t taken any for
three weeks.”

“Yes, I have. I’ve swallowed one
three times a day as directed.”

“You have? Then, why is it that
there are as many left in the box as
there were three weeks ago? What
box have you been taking them

would not appreciate.

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from?
“This one—marked for me.”
“Dear me, John! That is my shoe
button box.”
eed
Almost all croakers are like all
bullfrogs sitting with their feet in the
slime of some foul pool.
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It makes all the difference whether
life is a factory or a school to you.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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The Business of Living.
At this writing an army of youths,
with banners, is marching from col-

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lege to join the ranks of the fortune- |

hunters. Very many of these youths
came from country towns where life
has a wide and pleasant margin, and
is still democratically
with one honest man that can earn
a living as good as any other. But
not many of them will consent to
do their fortune-hunting at home.
Most of them will go to the city,

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They will nearly break their |

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and the professions will look as over-
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they will yearn for the shade of the
oak in the yard at home and a taste
of mother’s pie.

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Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs.of og.of Size er
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 a 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 : a 12 2 50
208 3 i 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 3% 1% 4 12 2 70

the fullness of time a certain |

proportion of them—let us hope it}

will be 99 per cent.—will succeed in
some measure, and by that time they

will find that their measure of suc- |

cesssis this: to be able to go back

to the country and live where they |

might have been all the time.

The country town offered
little. They could only get
est in a dry goods store,
mio a practice at law or
that would pay two or three thous-
and a year. But it required very lit-
tle, and the two or three thousand
would go as far as six or eight go
in the city.

They knew this very well,
seemed to them that life
city.

them
an inter-

it
the

but
is in

comes when it seems just as clear

or work |
medicine |

Perhaps it is—until the time |

is |

that life is in the country. § It
more and more a matter of every- |
day experience that country youth |

is no more anxious to get into the

city, where a man has a chance to|

do business, than city middle age is
to get into the country.

It hurts the small boy to get
stone-bruise on his heel. Also, it
distinguishes him. He can show it

to admiring companions who never
had a stone-bruise. When the man
has lived in the city and gets back
to the country he is distinguished. He
can show his stone-bruises.

——__~. 2.

Write Letters Well.

By good correspondence is meant
not merely ability to handle lan-
guage correctly from the standpoint
of syntax and good English, but put-
ting into it the excellent judgment,
sound sense, appreciation and under-
standing which talks straight from
the shoulder, and gets down to “brass
tacks” in simple language which
says what it means and _ expresses
ideas just as one would in a per-
sonal conversation.—System.

—___ -

You can no more measure a sin

by its size than a tree by its seed.

a |

Discount, one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

 

 

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64 |
Gunpowder
Bers 25 Wa. per kee... 2. 2... 4 90
1% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % kes ........ 2 90
1% Kegs, 6% thes., per 4 Kee .......- 1 60
Shot
| In sacks containing 25 Ibs
| Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85
Augurs and Bits
C—O eee 60
semmings Menmime ......0........... 25
i Jenmingw Woltation .................. 60
Axes
| Pirst Quality, S. @ Broese ......... 6 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronse. ..... 9 00 |
First Quality, S. B.S Steel ...... 7 00
First Quality, >. ©. Stee. ........... 10 50
Barrows
POG i cu an ae oe 15 00
Garmenm 20... 33 00
Bolts
[Stgue oe 70
Corveaee, wew Tee. ...-.-..-.-..-... 70
Mee 2... 50
Buckets
Wel, pam ...... i. 4 50
Butts, Cast
| Cast Looee Pin, Geured ............ 70
| Wrought, narrow. ..........-----.- 60
Chain
—* oe 8% in. % in.
Common. ..... 7 -6 6 ¢....@%¢
Be ........ aon, a. le%el.!.6 c
[Bee ..-...... S%c....7%c. gage. -64%c
cniibers
Caet Gee oer 5
Chisels
Socket Firmer. 65
| Socket Framing. 65
| Socket Corner. 65
| Socket Slicks. .......-....---seeseeee 65
| Elbows
| Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. ....net. 75
Corrugated, per Cee 1 25
Be@aetemie .. 2.8... dis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, = S Se oo. 40
Eves 1, $18; 2, $24; &. $30 .......... 25
Rant List
Mom Aymgeriean 62.4.6... 0. eos. 70&10
Deehcreene .....-............. 70
Heller's Horse Raspe. ........... . 70

 

Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 _ 26; 27, <3
List 12 13 14 16 i
Discount, 70.

Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s .... 60&10
Glass
Singie Strength, by box ........... dis. 90
Double Strength, by Dex ........ dis 90
By the Hight ..........-....-..... dis. 90
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s new list. ......dis. 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s ........ .dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark's 1, Z, €........ .....dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
en ,
Kettles. ..... See seclacneemcccccn. dua see
Ce

Horse Nalls

Au Sable. ...... -.-.dis. 40810
yoo Furnishin Goods

Stamped Tinware, new Bae eels 78

Japanned Tinware. ssccwedasivenres MD

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

  

 

 

“— | Crockery and Glassware
Bar Iron .......0..-ccecccvcecces 2 25 rate |
feet Bane _................. ..3 00 — STONEWARE
Knobs—New List | Butters
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings .... 7% | a Gol wer Gee... ...:..... lk... 48
Deor, Porceiaim, Jap. trimmings .... &| 1 te 6 gab per dos. ................. 6
ede | S get chen oe 56
Ss : 1 aon CA fe. 70
tanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis. o12 gal eden Ul, 84
Metals—Zinc ba ~~ ee —_ a
60 Cae a aay | 20 gal. meat tubs, cach ..
oo — : 3% | 25 gal. meat tubs, each -............ 2 25
un a ca i | 30 gal. meat tubs, each ........... 2 70
Miscellaneous | Chee
Bird Cages 2... 40/, to 6 gal, per gal 6
eee ao ae ee Churn Dashers, per doe ..........- 4
Casters, Bed and Plate ......... 50&10&10 | Milkpans
Dampers. AMO@RICAM ........5.0...4. 50 | % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Molasses Gates | 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stebbine)| Patter oo 6 60&10 | Fine Glazed Milkpans
| Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 | % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 69
| Pans |} 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
oe SE, 60&10&10 Stewpans
| Common, | potmhead 000000000000 70&10 | % gal. fireproof. bail, per doz ...... 85
Patent Planished iren | i gal. fireproof bail, per dow ...... ae
> owW Jugs
‘A’? Wood’s pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80 |
““B” Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80} | Rak per dom... 60
Broken packages lc per Tb. extra. | % gal. per eee 4a
Planes | = to & gal per get ls. 1%
| .
Obie Tool Ce's Ganey. oo... 5.00... 40 |. : Sonting Wax
Sead Benen oo 50 | 5 tos. in package, per Ib. .........-- >
sandusky Tool Co.'s fanecy.......... 40 | LAMP BURNERS
Bonen, tirst qualty.................. i | We € San... 3
Nalls | No 1 Sum ...--....... 2. se ee cane 38
a ft 50
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire| No. 3 Sun ............2...cseeeeeeeee 85
Steel nails, base ..........-.++.0e ee a 5b
ie ae, See .-..,..-.--... eine 50
oo MASON FRUIT JARS
Se ue With Porcelain Lined Caps
S SOa eee 20). Per gross
ae hl... Oe al 6 00
S aes 6 ee Guar . 3... eee eee uae 5 25
B Sewanee .. 2.6... eee eee 7) 4 Sallon. -...-........ Se wae ole old mi 8 00
Pine 4 aAd@wance............. Seecesucs OT a 2 25
OE dt 15 Kruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
Cnsiae- © agewanee. ................ 26 | LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Camm © amyanee. 35 | Per box of 6 doz
Pintsh 16 advanec............. oe 25 |
Binish @ Advance 35 | Anchor Carton Chimneys
Pree 6 Gece ................. 45 Each chimney in corrugated tube
Harve: & a@avarice .................. oo | We. © Crump top .............. ee
| No. 1, Crimp top. ........csssccvceeselh 1D
i at 4 Rivets 50 Me. 2 Cetme tom... 2... 2 75
Copper Rivets and Bure 2.002221." 45 Fine Flint Glass in Cartons
ee | No 0, Crimp top. .............--..---3 00
once Fates ve. 4) Crip tem TN 3 25
i4x20 iC, Charceal, Peam ........... 4 601) No. 2, CVring top. ........_- ieee.’ oe
i » <
ap es py aia | a. sce a siea cies F. | | Lead Flint Glass in Cartons
14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. : se} --% 9% Crimp top. ..... ee a aa 3 30
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00| No. 1, Crimp top. .........-.-++---.. 4 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00 | Ne 2 Crime the .... 6... 5 00
20x28 rx, Charcoal, Allaway Grade a 00 | Pearl Top in Cartons
Ropes | No. 1, wrapped and labeled. ......... 4 60
Sisal, % inch and larger .......... 9% No. 2, wrapped and labeled. ........ 5 30
Sand Paper Rochester in Cartons
: , No. 2, Fime Fiint, 10 in. (85¢ doz.)..4 60
oe ace, TSlCU Ctt#............ dis 50 No. 2, Fine Flint, 12 in. ($1.35 doz.).7 50
Sash Weights No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95e doz.)..5 56
Solid Ieyes, por tim .....0..0.... 2... 28 00 No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 doz.).3 75
Sheet Iron Electric in Cartons
Mos £6 ta 16. $60); Ne. 2 Eime (ioe dom) ............ 4 20
Nos. _3 76; No. 2, Pime Flint, @i5e dom) ........ 4 66
Nos $ 901 No. 2, Lead Fiint, (96e doz.) ........5 56
Nos 3 00 LaBastie
a 20-4 00 | No. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) ..... 5 70
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 | a a See ee ee eee ee ae
| inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. / pactagentnn 4 ;
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 2
a Shovels and Spades 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 2§
First Gumme, Bim oo. c. 5 50 | 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz 2 1(
socom Grams Pee. 2... .. 5 00 | 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 1
Solder 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 1f
l\y“w@% 21 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 76
“"The prices of the many other qualities | ° S@l: galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
of solder in the market indicated by pri- | oe oe 5 a
vate brands vary according to compo- TT i ii a ay
sition. * . ai LANTERNS
Squares No. 0 Tubular, side lift .. - 4 65
ite... 60-10-5 | No. 2. B Tubular ........ -+--6 40
No fo Tabi, Gases ............... 6 50
Tin—Melyn Grade No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ........... 7 16
gGxt4 FO. Charcoal ................. 10 60 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........ -.ote
aa = es eis <-cae = No. 3 Street lamp, ae Los oo
x MCORE ccccesscwccee LANTERN GLOBES
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25 No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 56
Tin—Allaway Grade No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. lic. 650
10x14 IC, Charcoal No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. eachl 25
| 10x14 IX, Charcoal . BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
14x20 [X, Charcoal 10 Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 | No in. wide, per gross or roll. 25
Boiler Size Tin Plate am - * = wide, per gross or po =
‘o. 2, n. wide, per gross or ro
14x56 EX, for Nos. § & 9 boilers, per ih 18 No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll 88
Traps
Steel, Game psc acta ora int 75 | COUPON BOOKS
pt cae ade a 50 books, any denomination ...... 1 56
Mania | iaieas per doz. holes a 25 | 100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
aiiwige aclieleu pa dox aL 25 | 500 books, any denomination ...... 11 50
, _ 2 ss ms —- | 1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
Wire —— —— are ar —
man, uperior, conomic or Universa
Annealed Market 22200000IIIIIIIIIE €0 | grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
Copperce Maree .... ct. 50&10 | at a time customers receive specially
Tinned Meret ................ .....50&10 | Printed cover without extra charge.
Ss. a eases ees i = Coupon Pass Books
ar ence, Vvaniz ew Cc b de t t denomi-
Barbed Fence, Painted ........ a nation from $10 d 5 Th pag lg oe
wi 50 boo —————————
Bright. A EE ocak
Screw Byes. ....0...0cessceseeees /BO-10 500 books bette eeeeeeenees seeeee1l 50
ee oo ee UL eee (2008 Deemm .-........ 2.2... --+-20 00
Gate Hooks and Eyes. seseceeeeee ss BO-10 Credit Checks
Wrenches 500, any one denomination ....... 3 0@
Baxter's Adjustable, Nickeled. eoecee = 1000, any one denomination ........ 8 00
oo 2000, any one denomination ........ 5 0
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought, 7emie Steel ROOM icccsceeeccececcsnaceced ||

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin- |

cipal Staples.

Brown Cottons—Are in very small
supply and jobbers and other opera-
tors must place orders some dis-
tance ahead and at advanced prices
in order to secure satisfaction. Ducks
in all widths and weights are well
sold into the fall months and the ad-

vances of from 4@'%c per pound
during the week will not, it is be-
lieved, have any influence in re-
stricting further business. Heavy |

drills, as well as medium goods, are
wanted very badly by numerous buy-
ers, but shipments for some months
to come will only partially satisfy
consumers. Standard twills and twills
of special construction are probably
as badly needed as any line in the
gray goods market.
ers are sold well ahead on finished
goods and, it is said, are not protect-
ed on business taken of late.
quently they are very persistent in
their efforts to procure gray goods
and are willing to pay a premium on
satisfactory deliveries.
and allied coarse grays and Southern
striped goods are urgently needed,

the cement and other heavy bag in- |

terests being in very short supply.
The supplies of 3-yard and 3.50-yard
brown sheetings in the hands of do-
mestic distributers are said to be un-
usually small and home buyers can

not find a way to relieve the situation |
Foreign |

for some time to come.
buyers got ahead of them some
months ago and it looks as if they

would be ahead of them for the bal- |

ance of the present year. At prices
ranging from 634@7c for 3.50 and 3-
yard sheetings there is evidence of
errors in judgment on the part of

home buyers in not stocking up when |

they had the several
months ago at from
than present prices.
Bleached Goods—Nearly ll
of ticketed goods
from %4
lines were

opportunity

were

withdrawn temporarily.

The bleached goods market is in an |

exceedingly strong position, little or
no surplus goods being in hand, and
demands growing each day out of
proportion to bleaching facilities.

Jobbers and other buyers feel dis- |
turbed at the advancing market, no |

doubt, but they are perfectly willing
to pay sellers’ prices, provided goods

can be delivered when wanted. In|}

the matter of deliveries more or less
trouble has come up, and as the time
draws near for the fall jobbing busi-

ness, this trouble is likely to grow. |

Well-known brands are _ practically
out of the market and those not so
favorably known will soon be. Furth-
et advances in prices may be expect-
ed-at any time. Stocks of gray goods
are small and bleachers are having
difficulty in producing necessary sup-
plies. Fine white goods are in ex-
cellent shape, cambrics, nainsooks
and long cloths having a very heavy

Lining convert- |

Conse- |

Osnaburgs |

1@1%c lower |

lines |
advanced |
@34c during the week, or else |
QV, g

| call. Batistes, lawns and muslins are
| well taken care of. Cutting-up trades
| are buying very heavily of all hard-
| finished goods suitable for lingerie
| purposes as well as waistings. For
|spring of 1906 another white goods
|craze is predicted.

Ginghams—The cost of raw mate-
rial has forced manufacturers of sta-
iple and fine ginghams to advance
'their prices sharply. Ginghams for
|fall needs will, according to agents,
|follow in price a close parity to the
price of cotton. As the movement
|in general lines of ginghams for the
| past six months has been normal,
|}and as manufacturers have not run
| on speculation, the stock of goods in
| first hands is small and capable of be-
ing handled at sellers’ prices. The
export demands recently have taken
}a considerable volume of goods in
| patterns that have become all but
| obsolete for domestic markets. This
| has-helped reduce the stock of sev- |
eral mills and has brought about a
the market.

| healthier condition in

| firm,

 

Coarse apron ginghams are being
bought in the South and West as
|freely as usual, the prevailing price
being 5c. Parkhill, Lorraine, Barna-
by and Lancaster ginghams are well
|sold ahead. These goods being of
ithe fine order, much is expected of
them for early spring needs. Fall
| lines in every instance are well cov-
|ered. Madras ginghams for shirtings

 

for fall needs are in excellent shape,
|particularly neat corded and striped |
goods in blacks, blues and, to a cer- |
tain extent, reds. Of the finer order, |

tons,

of the low and medium grades, in full
and half lengths; also in embroidered
half hose, lace full hose and tans,
plain and fancy.
Carpets—Manufacturers claim that
the prices of raw material are the
great obstacle to a large volume of
business. For a year consumers have
complained that wool was costing
them more than it was really worth
and that they could hardly get a
new dollar for an old one. In the
hopes of forcing down prices to what
they considered a fair level, manufac-
turers have pursued a policy of buy-
ing from hand to mouth. But to-
day the prices of wool are as firm as
they were a year ago. It is very
probable that if there had been a
strong demand from carpet yarn
spinners for carpet wools the prices
would be higher to-day than they
are, as the demand for the better
grades from clothing manufacturers
has been sufficient to keep the prices
and they would undoubtedly
advanced if the usual quantities
had been taken for carpet purposes.

have

| There is no indication that prices will
| ;
| be lower in the near future.

The de-
mand for Brussels and cheap tapes-
try is not up to normal. Some claim
that the prices of Brussels check
their consumption, while the cheap
grades of tapestry are not favorites
with the consumers. On the other
hand, high and medium grade Wil-
Axminsters and tapestries are
in normal demand.
_—_—.-—-—
You can not teach where you do

. . }
patterns are shown extensively with | not touch.

floating warp motifs and end in end |
effects. The fall shirt business, it is |
expected, will be in a strong posi- |
tion, but fancy woven goods makers |
| must pay much attention to fine per- |
cales and other printed shirtings, as |
| cutters of shirtings are very favorable |
to printed goods of the right sort.

Cotton Underwear—Buyers of cot- |
ton underwear, as usual, are just too |
late to grasp the opportunity they
had a week or two ago of booking
their orders at low prices, and are
|now placing orders for goods at sell-
ers’ best values. Until within the
week, underwear buyers had such a
control over the goods market that
isellers could not make a price that
was profitable to them. It looks now
jas if sellers had the upper hand and
that buyers were the under dogs.
This does not mean, however, that
| knit goods manufacturers will have
smooth sailing through the balance
of the present season, as it can not
be expected that goods will be quot-
ed on an equal basis with the rapidly
advancing yarn values, and because
of this there will be little, if any,
| profit to makers. Still the situation
|is much improved from what it was
a few weeks ago. Goods that are in
| greatest demand are balbriggans in
| the medium and better grades, lisles,
| gauzes and light ribs. Bals are in
| better shape than other grades and
a large business is looked for.

| Cotton Hosiery—Prices on all lines
| of hosiery have been advanced con-
| siderably, yet buyers have not re-
stricted business as the result. Good
orders are reported in staple goods

 

 

 

Duplicating
Sales

Our factory is
equipped with au-
tomatic machines

= for making all
standard tabs and order books. Sam-
ples free.
W. R. ADAMS & CO., Detroit
45 W. Congress St.

 

 

 

 

Don’t Buy an Awning

Until you get our prices.

 

We make a specialty of store, office
ind residence awnings. Our I905 Im-
oroved Roller Awning is the best on the
market. No ropes to cut the cloth and a
sprocket chain that will not slip. Prices
on tents, flags and covers for the asking.

CHAS. A. COYE

 

Il and 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Bed Blankets
and Comforts

We make a specialty of

Bed Blankets and Comfort-

ables and always carry a complete assortment.
Cotton, Wool (cotton warp), All Wool Blankets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knotted and stitched comfortables in print,

silkoline and silk coverings.

sateen,

Buy now and get in on the low prices as they surely

will advance.

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Dry Goods

 

 

 

 

Thing to Know Is What the People | ,,j,.,

Will Buy.
“There is a lot of money
in summer advertising,” said a

chant to me one hot day last week. |,

“We all want to keep our places of

business in the public eye, and in or- |

der to do this we must use the daily
newspapers, but the thing to know
is ‘What to advertise.’

“Many a time I have figured out to
my own satisfaction just what lines
could be run off by liberal advertising
and sweeping reductions in prices
Well, about half the time [ got it
wrong, and I am an old hand at the
too, Vou cant

business, forecast

what will take place this year by what |

I don’t attempt
1 merely state it as a

happened last year.
to explain this.
fact.

“There are

times when you

sell certain lines, and you don’t dis- |

that time is until after
you have spent your coin with the
newspapers. Brisk

cover when

advertising and

big cuts in prices do not always bring |

You can’t tell what people
do at a barsain sale time any

results.
will

can’t |

more than you can size up the result |

The ad-

vertiser who knows what the people

of an election in advance.

will buy at any given time of the year |

can get my money, and get it good
and plenty.
week

“Here's an illustration: Last

T advertised reductions in four lines— |

domestic fabrics, clothing, shoes and
On many articles I
You
may be sure I awaited the result with
no little curiosity. The clothing was
in all grades, heavy, medium and light

millinery goods.
cut the price exactly in two.

weight, and the sale price was below |

actual cost in many instances. The
shoes were in all sizes, light and
heavy soles, fancy and plain tips.

The domestics were new, fashionable |
in shade and design, and bought to|

sell for
The hats were in all styles, many of
then: for summer wear.

more than the sale price.

“My idea was that the millinery
goods and the domestics would go

best, being almost exclusively hot
weather goods. I had another guess
coming. The shoes drew the big

crowd, with the millinery a hot sec-
ond. There was a fair trade in do-
mestics and suits, but there was no
rush. It was the other departments
that paid for the advertising. Cus-
tomers were handing out their money
for shoes and hats at 7 o'clock in the
morning and they kept it up until
closing time.

“Now, this is what I am getting
200) ere nokby

were plenty ot

school suits for boys in the clothing |

were marked
School be-
the

yet

department, and they
away down below cost.
about weeks,
fitted
school

six and
be
very few
shoe department there
and

gins in
youngsters must out,
there were

sold. In the

were a lot of

suits

school shoes, neat
serviceable. Mothers and
bought the shoes for winter wear and
never looked at the suits. They
bought shoes for boys who came to
the store with bare feet and who will

came in

ling out why this is.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

HOT WEATHER ADVERTISING. | probably trot about the streets with

|bare feet until school opens. Now, |
should they buy the shoes and|

inot the suits? One line was just as|

wasted | cheap as the other.
mer- |

“Cool fall weather is only about |
ight weeks away and I figured that I
; could work off the heavy and medium

|

}stits so as to fill up with a new stock.

I cut $12, $16 and $20 suits down to|
|$7.50. The sale was only just a trifle |
labove the ordinary. |
lall right.
itil fall and put the old price on them.

| Regular customers who did not at-|
| tend the sale will drop in and pay me |
i $15 for suits they might have bought |

The goods are|
I shall carry them over un-

for $7.50 last week. Now, if people
| will buy winter shoes in hot weather

why won't they buy winter suits? |

They have me guessing.

“Then there are the domestics. I
iput prints away down. A. little
|tnoney would have bought a whole

lot of stuff that day, but the coin did |
jnot show. The people who will pur- |
these goods eventually

Suminier resorts.

| chase were

They
people of the middle class and}

| not away at
are
in the city, working }
were not broke. I
of them who have|
The goods are all |
there

| were right here
| steadily. Phey

know hundreds

bank.
still rush. |
Ilot weather goods at that. Why?|
| ‘I hat’s a good thing to keep guessing |

money in

lrighi, and was no

On, too.

I am puz-|
processes

“T am not finding fault.
the mental
which bring about such odd results.

zlme over

The sale was a successful one, on the |
but that the |
commercial problem.

“The four
and the
I know

whole, does not solve

lines were well adver- |

advertisements were |
this because three-|

fourths of the people who came in|

tised,

read.

that day asked for some article upon |

which a price had been fixed. Each |
department was handled fairly, no}
preference being shown. I. under-|

stand that if the fault had been with |
ithe newspapers or the wording of the |
advertisements the people would not}
have come at all. There would have
been no for goods
tioned in the advertisements.
“Of course there are some people
who have little money and can’t buy
both shoes and school suits at one
time. And there are ladies
can’t buy summer hats and domestic
at one time. But, look here,
all the people of this sort seemed to
come to my store that day! No, you
can’t explain it on the money basis.
There are times when the people will
not buy certain goods. I mean to de-
vote a little time to the task of find-}
As I said be-|
fore, any advertiser who can tell me}

inquiries men-

who

goods

 

what lines to push at any given sea- |}
son of the year can get my coin, and |
get plenty of it.” Alfred B. Tozer. |
a |
A man never gets much hold on|
heaven when he grasps humanity with |
just two fingers.. |
oo,
The wealth of a church depends |
on its work.
—__.<--.———

Real faith works too hard ever to |

 

get frozen.

O
OU

Sell

anvas
loves

Every general merchant
can and ought to sell canvas
gloves and mittens because
they are rapid sellers. See
to it, however, that you pur-
chase the well-shaped, good
fitting article because there
are so many of the scant cut

goods on the market.

We always have the good
fitting kind.

Prices range at 70, 75, 85

and go cents per dozen.

Ask our salesmen or write

us.

Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co.
Exclusively Wholesale

Grand Rapids, Mich.

39

 

We Carry in Stock

for quick shipment
a large line of

Buggies
Surreys
Driving Wagons
etc.

Holly
Farm Wagons

Brown & Sehler Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Only

 

 

 

 

| HARNESS

Special Machine Made
1%, 1%, 2 in.

Any of the above sizes
|| with Iron Clad Hames or
| with Brass Ball Hames and
| Brass Trimmed.

Order a sample set, if not
|| satisfactory you may return
at our expense.

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

oo a |

‘RUGS FROM

OLD
CARPETS f
4 THE SANITARY KIND

We have established a branch factory at
Sault Ste Marie, Mich. All orders from the
Upper Peninsula and westward should be
sent to our address there. We have no
agents soliciting orders as we rely on
Printers’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take
advantage of our reputation as makers of
“Sanitary Rugs’ to represent being in our

Write 4i
us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book-
5 let mailed on request.
Petoskey Rug M’f’g. & Carpet Co Ltd.
Petoskey, Mich.
ee we ae, eS

employ (turn them down). rect to

 

Belding Sanitarium and Retreat

 

 

 

 

 

 

ic *
| For the cure of all forms of nervous diseases,

| paralysis, epilepsy, St. Vitus dance and de-
| mentia, also first-class surgical hospital,

| ANDREW B. SPINNEY, Prop., Belding, Mich.
|

| CORL, KNOTT & CO.

Jobbers of Millinery and manufacturers of

Street and Dress Hats
20-26 N. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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PUR STT ICT

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

    

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

‘Secretary. Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, W. V. Gawley, Detroit.

Grand Counselor, W. D. Watkins, Kal-
— Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
int.

j

| good time.

“Old man,” he said, “I’m as hearty
as an ox and I’m going to have a
No more road for me; I

| don’t want to look an engine in the

face again as long as [ live!”
I had to go away on a trip right

|after that and I was gone six months.
President, Geo. H. Randall, Bay City; |

A. day or two aiter i sot back 1!

| dropped in where Bill worked to see

| him.
United Commercial Travelers of Michigan |

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. |

Senior Counselor, Thomas E. Dryden;
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

;}name why not?

The Iron Collar of the Road Hard

To Break.

| keep him,’

Boys, I believe I’m getting old. My |

friends are dying all around me—an-
other old salesman I’ve traveled with
for thirty years dropped out last
week.

Oh, well, it’s a dose we all must
swallow, although that does not make
it any more palatable.

The man who died last week was
past 70 years old, and he was choked
to death by the iron collar that the
road locks around a neck.
“Once a salesman always a_ sales-
a few exceptions, but
mighty few. Here and there you'll
find a fellow who wrenches himself
away from the road while he
settles down and never goes back.

3ut I’ve never found one who did
not want to go back at times, any-
way.

My old friend who has gone tried

man’s

man has

can,

to break away three times.
been on the road forty years, and
in that time he had the
whole United States as well as Mexi-
co and Cuba.

Take a fellow traveled
forty years and he’s a hopeless case.
The fever of his
blood. He can not settle down con-
tentedly to save his soul. He'll think
he can, and he’ll be tickled to death
when the chance comes to do it.

In a week he’ll he so sick with un-
rest that he’ll be nigh crazy. And
he won’t get over it, either, unless
he takes the only medicine his life
has left him—getting back on _ the

covered

who has

movement is in

_ toad again.

Yes, sir, my old friend Simpson
tried hard to make the break three
times. The first time I got him off
the road myself.

He was then past 60. “See here,
old man,” ! said to him one day,
“why in thunder don’t you settle
down? You’ve a nice home and you
have children and_ grandchildren.
You’ve earned your rest—throw this
grind up and get something where
you can sleep at home like a white
man. You can get a job, all right,
with your knowledge of chemistry.”

He traveled for a New York ex-
tract house and was one of the slick-
est chemists I ever knew.

Well” he said, “f think 1. will.
I’m getting tired of the road and I

family. I think I will.”
He kept his word and the next I

He had}

|was 69 years old and his
him one day he simply had to stop |
it. They were all making money and |

ito quit.

“He isn’t here any more,’
told me when I asked for him.
“Not here any more?” I said in
great astonishment; “in Heaven’s

they

?

was fixed for life here

“We'd have been glad enough to}

?

contented. He couldn’t at-
tend to his work—he was so restless.
I believe he’s back with ” (the
same New York people he was with

wasn’t

 

before).
I ran across the old rascal down in
Baltimore about a month after that.
“Say, what’s the matter with you?”
I asked him. “Don’t you know a
good thing when you see it?”
“Old man,” he answered, “I
not do it. I guess the road has
ed me—I’m a victim all right.
I wouldn’t have stayed in that
another week if they'd
given me $10,000 a year! I couldn’t—
I simply had to get away!”
Well, in a
of the road

could
spoil-

 

ed-up hole

year or so he got sick
again and this time he
book-keeper in a Phila-
delphia retail house. You
believe it, but he had
Same experience there. In a
months he back on the road
again, this time for another house.
After old Bill the
lessness of any attempt to
chains and he stayed on
until about two years ago.

got a job as
may
exactly the
was

this saw use-

they wanted him to spend the rest

of his days with them in peace and |
i quiet.

They were in earnest about

|it and they finally prevailed on him

He gave up his job again
and started in for the third time on

| the “peace and quiet.”

 

No use—this time he began to lose
flesh. Unhappy was no name for it.
One day his sons caught him answer-
ing advertisements—“Salesman want-
ed”—and in spite of all they could
do he made several trips into the city
to look up jobs.

I regard it as one of the most pa-
thetic things IT have ever known that
this time the poor old man couldn’t
find any job. Nobody wanted to put
on a man nearly 7o years old, and

 

| while he found one or two firms will-

i : : :
iing to give him a small territory on
J

| commission,

there wasn’t one who

1 .
| would guarantee him a salary or even

pay his expenses or give him a

drawing account.
That was surely the acme of cruel-

|ty. There was the old fellow, ruin-
want to spend more time with my |

knew old Bill had a good job in the |

laboratory of a Philadelphia chemi-
cal manufacturer.
He was tickled to death!

ed by the road for anything but the
road, only to be spurned by the road
because he had worn his life out in
its service!

Well, from then on he wasn’t well.
He always had a weak heart and the
despondency that came over him

Why, I thought he}

said the manager, “but he |

Why, |
coop- |

not |

few |

break his |
the road |
Then he |
sons told |

when he saw the hole he was in sim-
| ply knocked him out. He wasn’t able
| to take a stay-at-home job after that,
leven if it would have satisfied him,
for the shakings of forty years of
|railroad trains do not leave a man
ilike a 4-year-old.

The old man simply wore himself
|to death and last week the letter an-
nouncing that he was gone was for-
me down here in West

|
|
|
|

warded to
Virginia.
Poor old Bill—you were a victim
of the road, sure enough!—Stroller
in Grocery World.
—— > o

1

Spring Something New.

Po. large number of men who have
acquired much money in commercial
enterprises owe it to the fact that
| they produced something new for the
| public and knew how to attract the
| publie’s attention to it. If the en-
|terprise had any merit worth men-
| tioning it was almost certain to be
ja “so.” .The man who “invented”
the Rocky Ford melon that is so
pleasing to the palates of epicures
|merely did some serious thinking. It
first scheme. The same
grew in many localities. He
found a sandy soil in Colorado
where it could be grown easily in
abundance. Then when he had pro-
large crop he brought sev-
eral carloads to New York, gave the
melon a name and opened advertising
with a whoop. He gave away one
carload, sold several more immediate-
ily at a good profit and permanently

wasn't his

melon

| duced a

established a paying and continuous
for future years. its the
| thinking that counts.

| ——-~<-<——————

market

Opportunity wears rubber shoes.

 

 

LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-

gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wenderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP.DS, MICH.

 

 

Get our prices and try
our work when you need

Rubber and
Steel Stamps
Seals, Etc.

Send for Catalogue and see what
we offer.

Detroit Rubber Stamp Co.
99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich

 

 

 

 

A Whole Day for Business Men in

New York

Half a day saved, going and coming, by
taking the new

Michigan Central

‘*Wolverine’’

Leaves Grand Rapids 11:10 A. M.,
daily; Detroit 3:40 P. M., arrives New
York 8:00 A. M.

Returning, Through Grand Rapids
Sleeper leaves New York 4:30 P. M.,
arrives Grand Rapids 1:30 P. M.

Elegant up-to-date equipment.

Take a trip on the Wolverine.

Salesman selling Gro-
c

Wanted: ceriesor Grocers’ Spe-

cialties on commission to sell our well-
established and favorably-known brands
of flour as a side line. Address FLOUR,
care of this journal.

 

 

ey

Forest City
Paint

gives the dealer more profit with
less trouble than any other bran¢é
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

 

Our PAINT PROPOSITION
should be in the hands of every
dealer.

It’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint
& Varnish Co.
Cleveland, Ohio
Ce |

New Oldsmobile

 

 

Touring Car $950.

Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
safe. The Oldsmobile is built for
use every day in the year, on all
kinds of roads and in all kinds of
weather. Built to run and does it.
The above car without tonneau,
$850. A smaller runabout, same
general style, seats two people,
$750. Thecurved dash runabout
with larger engine and more power
than ever, $650. Oldsmobile de-
livery wagon, $850.

Adams & Hart
47 and 49 N. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

COLOR +4 Oh Os OF CHOROR OROROR

You Can Make Gas.

100 Candle Power
Strong at

15c a Month
by using our
Brilliant Gas Lamps

We guarantee every lamp

Write for M. T. Cat-
alog. It tells all about
them and our gasoline
system.

Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.

42 State St., Chicago

   
 

   
  

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Gripsack Brigade.

Saginaw Courier-Herald: E. A.
Williams, who has been with the
Phipps-Penoyer Co. for the past sev-
en or eight years, recently accepted
a position with the Bradstreet Mer-
cantile agency. He will continue to
make his home in Saginaw.

A Menominee correspondent writes
as follows: Will Hubbard, formerly
city editor of the Herald-Leader, but
for the past year or more employed
by the Sawyer-Goodman Co., has
been promoted to the position of
salesman for the company. He made
his first trip last week. His territory
will include Wisconsin, Illinois and
Towa.

Hudson Gazette: The Globe Co.
has closed a contract with William A.
Dwyer to act in the capacity of its
traveling salesman for the year be-
ginning August 1. Mr. Dwyer has
had long and valuable experience as
a fence salesman, and is credited with
being about as good a man in that
line of work as there is in the busi-
ness. Besides being a good _ fence
salesman he is an all-around good
citizen, and a man who can be de-
pended upon for a square deal in all
of his transactions.

Hudson Gazette:
of Detroit, general

R. N. Johnson,

the clam chowder and jellicon manu-

facturers of the United States, arriv- |

ed in the city Saturday and has been
kept busy ever since shaking hands
with his old Hudson friends and ac-
quaintances. The people here are al-
ways pleased to see Ray, especially
when he looks so well and rugged as
It will be remembered
that Mr. Johnson was in poor health

he does now.

for a long time, but he says he is
feeling better now than he has for
several years, and he certainly looks
as though he was able to do ample
justice to three meals a day and still
keep his successful career as a clam
chowder and jellicon salesman up to
the high water mark.

The members of Grand Rapids
Council, No. 125.0. C.F. have! de-
cided to abandon their club room and
have disposed of most of the furni-
ture and fixtures at private sale. This
is the third time the traveling men
of Grand Rapids have undertaken to
maintain a club room, and the result
this time is the same as it has been
heretofore. Ina city of homes, where
every man is expected to maintain
one, either in his house or in
a rented apartment, there is little de-
mand for a club room, because most
men would rather be with their fam-
ilies than with the companions they
are thrown in contact with five days
each week. The proportion of un-
married men among Grand Rapids
traveling men is comparatively small
—too small to keep up the expense
of a club room which is ordinarily
used but one day a week.

————— mm
“Join the

own

Kalamazoo Grocers To
Gang.”

Kalamazoo, July 25—At its meet-

ing last evening the Kalamazoo Re-

tail Grocers’ Association accepted the

invitation extended by the Master

agent for Burn- |

ham & Company, of New York City, | i il i
| here in a few days to bill the town

 

 

 

ibe a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Butchers’ Association of Grand Rap-
ids to go in a body on the excursion
of the Furniture City men over the
Grand Rapids & Indiana on August
3 to help celebrate the national pic-
nic and to witness the national con-
vention of the Master Butchers. The
Grand Rapids Association has made
arrangements with the railway com-
pany for a special excursion train for
the public at a dollar for the round
trip.

“They have provided a barbecue for
both morning and afternoon,” said
Secretary Schaberg of the Kalama-
zoo grocers after the meeting. “Then
they will have balloon ascension,
bicycle races, ten or more bands of
music and other features for the cel-
ebration. We had our annual
excursion, but have decided to accept
this invitation and will probably have
a big crowd to go along. Excur-
sions will be run from Detroit, Bay
City and other pointsin the State and
specials from Chicago and St. Louis.
St. Louis alone will send 120 dele-
gates and visitors to the celebration.

a

have

| The barbecue, which will be held on

the West Michigan fair grounds, will
novel affair for this part of the
country and will attract a good many
visitors.

“A committee appointed by
Grand Rapids Association will be
We
have unanimously agreed to close all
and meat markets all
day on August 3 and practically every
member will take the trip.”

Concerning the death of Carl Meis-
terheim, former President of the As-
sociation, resolutions of respect and
condolence were adopted and a com-
mittee was instructed to draft a copy
to be sent to the family as well as
one for publication.

and to boost their celebration.

of our stores

There was spirited discussion
over the matter of a public market,
the hucksters seeming to favor the

number of the grocers

a

plan and
looking at it askance. Several of them
intimated that they were doing well
enough without being obliged to rise
at 5 in the morning to visit the mar-
ket for the day’s supplies. The de-
bate was more speculative than prac-
tical, and the vote to appoint a com-
mittee to investigate the project and
report at the next meeting was adopt-
ed without opposition.

a

This committee, made up of H. J.
Schaberg, Lawrence Hoekstra and
William Brown, will make an investi-
gation of the workings of the city
market in Grand Rapids, and. will
write to other cities for data upon
the subject. After acquiring all pos-
sible information upon the advan-
tages and disadvantages of the sys-
tem, the committee will submit the
facts with their recommendation to
the Association. Business men who
deal with the farmers especially have
urged the establishing of a general
market, and the prospect is decidedly

favorable.
fit tif

A Pontiac correspondent writes as
follows: Frank Thomas has taken
a position as traveling agent for the
Art Bedstead Co., of Chicago, and
will commence his duties at once.

the |

| given here.

 

Speak Up or Be Counted Against Us.
Farmington, Iowa, July 24—A re-
monstrance is being signed by retail-

ers in every line, a copy of which is |
All retailers who favor |
| metic,” A.

this will please forward their signa-
tures to be added to the list.
full name and line engaged in
mail at once to W. HH. | Gentner,
Farmington, Iowa.
resented.
tion to this, as many retailers do not
carefully read trade papers.
papers are requested to please copy.
W. H. Gentner.
brought to

Whereas—It has 7
illed mail or-

our notice that the so-cz
der houses in the large’ cities, partic-
ularly Chicago and St. Louts, secure

their supplies of merchandise largely |

from the jobbers in those cities;

Whereas—These mail order houses
are invading our territory and selling
such merchandise, secured from said
jobbers, at prices in many instances
than
said jobbers for the same class of

less paid by the retailers

merchandise; and
Whereas—We consider this prac-

tice by said jobbers of supplying said

mail order houses with

as unfair, unjust and detrimental to |
the welfare and future success of the

retail trade throughout the country,
as well as threatening eventual in-
jury to the present jobbing interests;
therefore

the retailers
representing the legitimate retail in-

Resolved—That we,

terests of the country, do hereby re-
monstrate against this practice by the
jobbers of selling merchandise to or
supplying, directly or indirectly, said
mail order houses with
and request that each and every job-
ber who is selling goods to the le-
gitimate country retailers consider
this

lay, define his or their position upon

remonstrance, and, without de-
this question by stating publicly their
decision in the matter. Silence upon
this question shall be taken as ad-
verse to this request.
nn
Programme for the Pharmacy Con-

vention.

The twenty-third annual meeting of |

State Pharmaceutical
which be held
Kalamazoo Aug. 8 and 9, promises to
attended. The
arranged for the occasion is as fol-
lows:

the Michigan
Association, will

be well programme

Tuesday Afternoon.

Address of Welcome—Mayor
Kalamazoo.
Response.
President’s address.
Secretary’s report.
Paper—‘“Credit and Collections,” A.

L. Walker.

Report of delegates.

Memorial exercises for Dr. A. B.
Prescott.

Evening Entertainment.

Banquet given by the Upjohn Com- |

pany in Elks’ Temple at 7 p. m.
Wednesday Forenoon.
Report of. Board of Pharmacy.
Paper—‘“Dispensing Notes,”
ard A. Seltzer.
Report of Legislative Committee.
Report of Trade Interests Commit-
tee.

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Give |
and |
| mittee.
All lines are rep- |
Call your neighbors’ atten- |

All trade |

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ichange of thou
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merchandise |

merchandise |

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Paper—‘Three Es
A. S. Parker.
General business.
Wednesday Afternoon.
Paper—“‘Some Drug Store
H. Webber.
Report of Adulteration Committee.
Report Com-

ssentials to Busi-

ness Success,”

Arith-

of the Executive

Paper. by VW. EH.

Electic yn of

Blome.

officers.

Selecting place of next meeting.
Installation of officers.

Unfinished business.

In addition to the papers scheduled

there will, so far as time permits, be

discussion for a free inter-

ght and experience on
practical and helpful topics of daily
1

importance in the store. These will

prove of great interest and profit and
| will enhance the value of the con-
vention to progressive druggists.

Adjournment.
Entertainment Features.
Kalamazoo, July 25—On Tuesday
evening, August 8, the Upjohn Com-
pany of this city will give a banquet
to the the
State Pharmaceutical Association and

members. of Michigan

their friends. We sincerely hope that

attend tl

lyou will 1is banquet even if
at the
We
t will be a very enjoyable

those

ou unable

y
y are

to be present

remainder of the meeting. are
|sure that 1
lanai, AL were present
lat the banquet given by the Hazel-
ltine & Perkins Drug Co., at the Lake-

side Club at Grand Rapids last year,

who

can testify to the very great pleasure

to be had at an affair of this kind.
The banquet will be held at the Elks’
| Temple.

We have made. special arrange-
iments to entertain the ladies and
wish you would make note of this

fact,

| Besides the regular programme, we
are making arrangements for an au-
tomobile ride about the city and go-

ing through one of our numerous

| paper mills.
Arthur Royce, Local Secretary.

} a ene a
| Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

| Buffalo, July 19—Creamery, 190@
lorc: dairy, fresh, 14@17¢; poor, 13
(@15c

Eggs—Fresh, candled, 174@18'4c.
(Live: Poultry —Kowls, 124@13e;
|ducks, 12@I3c; geese, IO@IIc;
| springs, 15(@17Cc.
Dressed Poultry—Fowls, 14c; old
| cox, EOC.

Beans Hand picked marrows,
inew, $3; mediums, $2.15@2.20; peas,

kidney, $2.50@2.60;

| $1.80(@1.90; red
white kidney, $2.75@2.90.
Potatoes-—New, $1@1.50 per bbl.
Rea & Witzig.

| Only a man who has married an
intellectual woman can appreciate the
| monotony of having brains for break-
| fast three hundred and sixty-five days
in the year.

OQ
Most of us would be perfect if we

| followed the advice we give others.
| ——-_~-<>-

| The fellow who follows his
|inclinations is seldom in the lead.
ee

| Beware of effusiveness. The hand-
| Shaker may also be a leg-puller.

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MICHIGAN

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Harry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.
J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

W. E. Collins, Owosso.
Meetings for 1905—Houghton, Aug. 15,
16 and 17, Grand Rapids, Nov. 7, 8 and 9.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
ion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Detroit; Charles P. Baker, St. Johns; H.
G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.

Treasurer—E. E. Russell, Jackson.

Executive Committee—John D. Muir,
Grand Rapids; E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor;
L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and H.
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

Is Pharmacy Menaced With An-
other Danger?

Hitherto our boards of pharmacy
have had control of the quality of
drugs. These boards being elected
by pharmacists, and as a rule com-
posed of pharmacists, know well the
requirements of the profession.
Should they violate their trusts or
become tyrannical they are, as a
rule, easily removed from office by a
vote of the majority of pharmacists.
To change this condition of things
to that of being placed under the di-
rect control of men who know noth-
ing about pharmacy, either as a
business or profession, and whose
only interest in after the
quality of the stock of pharmacists
would be that of public censors,
would be a calamity of the worst
kind. It would lay open to. the
temptation of bribery and corruption
a host of public officers, many of
whom might have no more interest
in their work than the money they
could get out of it. Do pharmacists
want pharmacy to be brought under
such surveillance?

The Report does not desire, in the
slightest degree, to unduly alarm
pharmacists, but it does wish to call
their attention to a condition of af-
fairs that looks like the mutterings
of thunder in a distant cloud betok-
ening a coming storm. It may pass
away and amount to nothing, but it
will do no harm for pharmacists to
keep it in view and govern their ac-
tions by the impressions they may
hereafter gain from its movements.
Two leading American pharmacists
have already sounded warning notes
concerning the danger to which we
refer. In regard to it Prof. Edward
Kremers says: “Some years. ago,
when several of the states were es-
tablishing food and dairy commis-
sions, the writer sounded a note of
warning.” He then goes on to say
that “To-day there is at least one
state in which practically all au-
thority to control the purity of
drugs has been taken away from the
Board of Pharmacy and turned over
to the Food and Dairy Commis-
sioner.”

"On the same subject the venerable
Prof. Albert E. Ebert, of Chicago,
“The drug trade must arouse

looking

says:

itself from the lethargy into which
it has fallen, or it will soon have a
rude awakening, only to find. itself
in the grip of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, and at
the mercy of the hungry and med-
dlesome analytical chemists of the
various state agricultural stations.”
Prof. Ebert suggests a united effort
on the part of the different national
pharmaceutical associations to fight
this threatening evil. A strong ef-
fort is being made in North Dakota
to take away from the State Board
of Pharmacy its control of the drugs
of that State and put that control
into the hands of the Dairy and
Food Commissioner. Prof. Ebert
was called to North Dakota to pro-
test against the change, but came
away feeling that the chances were
against the druggists.

All such wresting of power from
pharmacists can only come in the
guise of pure food laws. Every
pure food law that has yet been pre-
sented to the Congress and Senate

ance of the officers of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, has been so
|framed as to give to that depart-
ment full control of drugs as well
as foods. The Society of Official
Agricultural Chemists is dominated
in ail its actions by the Department
of Agriculture, so far as this sub-
ject is concerned. The members of
that society aim at getting
state in line with a pure food bill
like that of the Department of Ag-
riculture.

The Washington bill is to be the
model bill for every state in the
Union. North Dakota is only seek-
ing to accomplish in advance of the
| other states what the chemists of the

every

 

| various experiment stations and
|dairy and food commissioners want.
| Druggists want pure foods and

| they want pure drugs, but they want
|them at a less crushing cost. They
|prefer to have the control of the
| quality of the goods they handle in
|the hands of men who know the re-
|quirements of pharmacists, the dif-
ificulties under which pharmacists
| work, and of men who are responsi-
jble to the honorable and conscien-
| tious majority of working pharma-
i cists, to whom they owe their posi-
tions.—Merck’s Report.
~~
Job and Daughter Go Together.
A young man out in Dubuque,
Towa, lost his job for a most pecu-
liar reason not long ago. He was
requested by his boss to marry that
autocrat’s daughter, who was_ ten
vears the employe’s senior and as he
says, “hard up for a husband.” The
proposition didn’t appeal to him at
all favorably, so he balked on it—
and soon afterward he had to make
room for a man who was willing to
take both job and daughter. Here is
his own account of the incident:
“T wouldn’t marry my employer’s
daughter, a lady of 37 against my 27
years. She was below the average
woman of 37, to put it mildly, so the
proposition didn’t look good to me
That is how I lost my job, and I
have been up against it ever since.
“It happened in Dubuque, where I

 

of the United States, under the guid- |

 

was employed in a planing mill. By
jumps I was raised to the position
of ‘estimator’ at a salary of $75 a
month. In the office was the daugh-
ter, an ‘estimable lady,’ in her fa-
ther’s words, but another lady had a
prior claim on my affections, and, try
as the old man would, he could not
shake it.
“The wires
laid eighteen months after I was giv-

en the position of estimating. I was

for my capture were |

 

|

The Drug Market.

Opium—Continues to advance for
reasons already stated.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Is steady.

Menthol—Has_ advanced
tending higher.

Elm Bark—The new crop has come
into the market at a lower price than

 

and is

last year.
Oil Cloves—Continues to advance

|on account of higher price for spice.

figuring on a bank roll, and had cut |
|crop has commenced and it will soon

out all save necessary expenses

There was reason for looking upon |

me as a model young man after such

a session, but T did not ‘get next’ |
until the old man asked me to dine
at the family mansion on the hill.

port

This happened so often that I soon |

had to have the excuse of a prior en-

gagement. This excuse took on a

chestnutty flavor, and so one morning |

when the boss and I

were talking |

over some business in his office, he |

crossed his thumbs and_ fired

shell:
“Jim, how’d like to
down in Dubuque for life?

you

Amy, and she thinks piles of you—

piles of you.” I got cold feet imme-

iately, anc was practically put out. | eee i i
diately, and I Pp wate {man landowner is introducing it on

this |

settle |
There’s |

Oil Peppermint—Distillation of the
be in the market. Lower prices are
looked for.

Coriander Seed—Has_ advanced.
Advices from the primary market re-
the crop practically ruined.
Higher prices are noted.

Fenugreek Seed—Will also be
higher on account of the small crop.

Linseed Oil—Has advanced twice

since the last report. The total ad-
vance is 3c per gallon.
_—_ o-oo

Egypt Is Growing Lighter.
Dark as Egypt will become an ir-
relevant phrase as the light of mod-

}ern days continues to be installed in-

I told him my mother was a cripple |

and that I could not marry; and as
he did not know any better he let it
go at that for a while. There were
more invitations to dine refused, and
soon, although business was as good
as ever, two months after the ques-

tion was popped I was released. I |
drifted down to St. Louis and tried |
any number of jobs, but have made |

| motor is
lady, |

no progress financially. The

| power as

| Upper

however, now has Mrs. tacked to the |

other man’s name.”
———_~+-~-e—_
Germany Begins Big Canal.

The Rhine-Weser canal, which has
been as much discussed in Germany
the United
begun, and

Panama canal in
has at last been
prove of a commercial impor-
tance difficult to gauge. It
ford a cheap mode of communication
direct with the sea for many places
not

as the
States,
will

will

served by the railway and _ is
bound to give a great impetus to
trade in Hanover. The plan for
building a tunnel beneath the river
at Hamburg for providing a more
convenient connection between the
principal part of the town of Ham-
burg and the many © shipbuilding
yards and other industrial ‘establish-
ments on the south side of the River
Elbe is another trade promoting
scheme soon expected to be execut-

ed. During the last. summer the
goods traffic on the Elbe between
Hamburg and Bohemia was_inter-

rupted. for nearly three months on
account of drought. The importance

of the Elbe navigation for Hamburg |

may be estimated when it is under-
stood that about one-seventh of
total value of all goods coming to
Hamburg by sea, land and _ river
come by the Elbe and that about
one-fifth of all goods exported go
out by the same channel.
_——o.o-————-

Man was not born to do. great
things so much as to be great by
doing things.

af- |

the |

to that ancient land. A large Ger-
his vast estates near the Barrage for
well as illumination. In
there is the
opportunity for motive power owing
to the situation of the Nile cataracts.
The use of electricity is limited ow-
ing to the large cost of production
due to the high price of coal. Petro-
leum is cheap, hence the petroleum
than the

Egypt greatest

more economical

|electric motor. On the other hand,
|considerations of cleanliness have
iled to the use of electricity. There
is a good opportunity for electric
elevators in the. large lodging
houses, where the rooms are high
because of the purer air and less

 

heat, discounted because of the
tiring stairways.

yet

There's a world of difference _ be-
tween preaching on tackle and catch-

ing fish.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Tablets, Pencils, Inks,
Papeteries
Our Travelers are now out with a
complete line of samples. You will
make no mistake by holding your or-
der until you see our line.

FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Drugs and Stationery
32 and 34 Western Ave.
Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

See our line of

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

before placing orders.

Special Prices on Hammocks

to close out line.

 

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
29 N. Ionia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE ~-E CURRENT

 

 

Advanced—
Deciined—
Acidum me 1 15@1 25
Aceticum ...... a Sie : aon =
Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 75] Evechthitos ...11 00@1 10
Boracic ......... 20) Prigeron)| |...) 1 00@1 10
Carbolicum ..... 26@ 29/Gaultheria ...... 2 25@2 35
Citricum ........ 42@ 45|Geranium ..... oz mle
Hydrochlor ..... 3@  5|Gossippii Sem gal 50@ 60
ee steeess ao 10} Hedeoma ....... 40@1 50
MaMCes 445... @ 12|Junipera 40@1 20
ie a2 oma dil. a S Lavendula ...... 90@2 75
Salicylicum ..... = 3) tions |... 90@1 10
Sulphuricum ....1%@ 5]/ Mentha Piper ...3 30@3 40
Tannicum ...... 75@ 80|Mentha Verid ..5 00@5 50
Tartaricum ..... 38@ 40] Morrhuae gal ..1 25@1 50
18 de aos ee 3 00@3 50
Aqua, eg @ Oe 75@3 00
— 20 “> in < Picis Liquida 10@ 12
arbonas 3G 2} Picis Liquida gal @ 35
Chioridum ...... 12@ 14|Ricina .......... 92@ 96
Black Aniline 00@2 25 Hosmer ...... @1 00
an ia de lk i os 4) Rosae of ....... 5 00@6 00
Brown ....-+-++- 80@1 00} Succini .......... 40@ 45
Red ...-----+-++- mote 8O1Sabing | ......... $0 1 00
Yellow ......-.-- 2 50@3 00} Santal .......... 2 25@4 50
Baccae Sassafras ....... 75@ 80
Cubebae po. 20 15@ 18] Sinapis, ess, oz.. a 6s
Juniperus ....... me Bree oe. ase, 1 10@1 20
Xanthoxylum .... 30@ 35|Thyme .......... 40@ 50
Balsamum Thyme, opt ..... @1 60
Copaiba as gma “2. = Theobromas .... 15@ 20
iy, @1 5 Potassium
Terabin, Canada 60@ 65] Bi-Carb ........ 5@ 18
Teetean on ac sn 35@ 40 Bichromate ..... 130 15
os — ig| Bromide ....-.-. 25@ 30
Abies, Canadian. Same 12@ 15
Cupeeee 2.2... .. 20 Chiorate ..... po. Ba i
Cinchona Flava.. 18] Cyanide ........ 34@_ 38
Buonymus atro.. SO UEogide eu 3 60@3 65
Myrica a 20| Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 32
Prunus Virgini. 15] Potass Nitrasopt 7@ 10
Quillaia, — : 12] Potass Nitras ... 6@ 8
Sassafras. .po 25 24| Prussiate ...... 23@ 26
Ulmus ...------- 40] Sulphate po ..... 15@ 18
Extractum Radix
Glycyrrhiza Gla. 24@ 30] aconitum ....... 20@ 25
Sa. po.. roe 7 lee a “a =
aematox .....- me 40) Anehusa .......- 2
Hinematox, is ... 13@ 14 poy Be @ 2%
Haematox, %s... 14@ 15| Calamus ........ 20@ 40
Haematox, 4s .. 16@ 1%|Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15
Ferru Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18
Carbonate _ Precip. 15 | Hydrastis, Pasa ' 1 90
Citrate and Quina 2 00 Hydrastis, Can. po @2 90
Citrate Soluble 55|Hellebore, Alba. 12@ 15
Ferrocyanidum S bana, pO) ls. 18@ 22
Solut. Chloride .. 15} Ipecac, po ...... 2 00@2 10
Sulphate, com’! .. 2 Iris plox a 35@ 40
Sulphate. com’l, by _. | dalapa, re 25@ 30
bbl. per cwt... 70} Maranta. Us . @ 35
Sulphate, pure 7 ee, po. 15@ 18
Flora aa 75@1 00
a Toe Tein cut ....... 1 0N@1 25
Authemis ......- Zea «Sot ae pV ........ 75@1 00
Moatricaria .....- 30@ 35 ta ar tae = =
— sanuginari, po u @ 2
5 Serpentaria ..... 50@ 55
a Hnten  - ° e 85@ 90
Cassia Acutifol, 15@ 20| Smilax. offs H oo
@ 20| Smilax, ‘ ( 0
Cae Reutitol, 28@ 30| Smilax, M Per we 3
a sie Seillae po 35 @ 12
— — 18@ 20|Svmplocarpus ... @ 25
WT ne rei (|) (S@ 46) Valeriana Ene .-- @ %
Te ennai i Valeriana, Ger. 1. 15@ 20
Gummi a area tag 12@ 14
Acacia, Ist pkd @ 65 | Zingiber j 16@ 20
Acacia, 2nd — @ = ae eouuaa,
Acacia, 3rd pk @ 5 : e!
‘Acacia, sifted sts. @ 28|Anisum po 20.... @ 16
Acacia, po........ 45@ 65|Anium (gravel’s) 120 1h
‘Rise, Bash. jo@ 14) Bid. Is |... ... 4@ 6
oo ee @ 25|Carui po 15 1@ 1
\loe. ees ce @ | Cardamon |....-. 70@ 90
tae 1) Gea 66) Cormnarum |... .. 12@ 14
Runfoctida lll. g3@ 40] Cannabis Sativa, 5@ 7
Benzoinum ...... 50@ 55 ee _.. — =
a 13 | Chenor } ave °
oe ee! @ 44| Dipterix Odorate. 80701 00
eas ‘ Foeniculum ..... am i
Catechu, %s_..- @ i6)° os
oe 1@ 35|Foenugreek, po. 7@ :
Sct eieen oe ' @ 40 Lini ie aoe bbl "O32 12 :
Gathanunt (| 21... ‘ @1 ee <a dig
Gamboge no... 5@1 3é et ie ae o a a
Guaiacum ag od @ = ogg Cana’n = -
Minh .-.... po 45c See eee ss a
ee ea. @ 60|Sinapis Alba oa a
Myrrh ..... po50 @ 45|Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 1
ME eles sence 3 35@3 45 Spiritus i
saat eet a ee 40@ 50|Frumenti W D. 2 00@2 50
Shellac, bleached 45@ 50|Frumenti ....... 1 25@1 50
Treasecentn ..... 70@1 00 a vor oF : eo =
Herba suniperis CO . i MH de pad «
Absinthium ..... 4 50@4 60 + a jeg eH . Se
Eupatorium oz p ae : "4 on@? 00
j . 9 Vini Oporto .--L 256@2
aa a ink Alte. ..-.-. 1 25@2 00
tra Pip. oz pk 23 Sponges
iaeetre vor. OZ ome 25 | Florida Sheeps’ wool i
Mie . wn. oz pk 39 carriage .......3 00@3 50
Tanacetum ..V... 22| Nassau sheeps’ au “
Thymus V.. oz pk 25 earriage 5
Magnesia Velvet extra sheeps’
Calcined, Pat .. we 6 wool, carriage.. @2 00
Carbonate, -Pat.. 18@ 20] Extra yellow sheeps’
Carbonate, K-M. 18@ 29 wool carriage.. @1 25
Carbonate ...... 18@ 20] Grass sheeps’ wool, aaa
i @1 2
Oleum carriage ....-. (
Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 00| Hard, slate use.. @1 00
Amygdalae, Dulce. 50@ 60 a Reef, for @1 40
Amygdalae, Ama 1 bol = slate . —
Ame 4... 5 : y
aa Cortex. 2 20@2 4601 Acacia ........-.. @ 50
Bergamii .......- 2 50@2 60 | Auranti Cortex... @ 50
a $5@ 20} Zingiber ........ . @ 50
Caryophilli ...... 90@ 95|Ipecac.......... @ 60
Cogan ...:.....<. 50@ 90) Ferri Iod ........ @ 50
Chenopadii ..... 3 75@4 00| Rhei Arom ..... @ 50
Cinmameni ...... 1 00@1 10} Smilax Offi’s 50@ 60
Citronella ....... 0@ 65! Senega ......---- @ 50
Conium Mac ... 80@ 90 Scillae .....----- @ 50

 

Setiae Ca .......
Tebtanm .........
Pronus vire ...
Tinctures
Anconitum Nap’sR
Anconitum Nap’sF
Aloes
Aymien 4...
Aloes & Myrrh ..
Asafoctida ......
Atrope Belladonna
Auranti Cortex..
Deane oo...
3enzoin Co
Barecma .......
Cantharides
Capsicum
Cardamon ......
Cardamon Co
Castor
Catechu
Cimchona ..._...
Camchona Co ....
Columbia
Capenee |...
Cassia Acutifol ..
Cassia Acutifol Co
Digitalis
Bree 22.4...
Ferri Chloridum.
Geman .........
Gentian Co ..
CHmace -...
Guiaca ammon ..
Hyosecyamus
Todine

YOO

Iodine; colorless
Mang .6 200. cl.
Lobelia
Ld oe
Nux Vomica

Opil

Opil, camphorated

Opil, deodorized.. 1
Quassia
Rhatany
Bae 2. eo.
Sanguinaria
Serpentaria
Stromonium
Tolutan
Valerian .........
Veratrum Veride.
Zingiber

Miscellaneous
Aether, Spts Nit 3f 30@

Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34@
Alumen, grd = a
Annatto .. os
Antimoni, po ....
Antimoni et po T 100
Antiovrin ...:... @
Antifebrin .... @
Argenti Nitras oz @
Arsenicum ...... 10@
Balm Gilead buds 60@
Bismuth S N...2 80@2
Calcium Chlor, 1s @
Calcium Chlor, %s @
Calcium Chlor 4s @
Cantharides, Rus @1
Capsici Fruc’s af @
Capsici Fruc’s po @
Cap’i Fruc’s B po @
Carophylius ..... 20@
Carmine, No. 40. @4
Cera Alia ...... 50@
cera Wiava ..... 40@
Croems .......... 1 75@1
Cassia Fructus .. @
Centrarta .._.... @
Catsecum ....... @
Chiorotorm ...... 32@
Chloro’m Squibbs @
Chloral Hyd Crssl1 35@1

Chondrus ““
Cinchonidine P- WwW 38@

Cinchonid’e Germ 38@
Cocaine -......... 4 05@4
Corks Hst D P CE
Creesotum ......
Greta... bbl 75 @
Creta, prep .. @
Creta, precip 9@
Creta, Rubra @
Crome ....00.. 90@1
a @
Cupri Sulph 6@
eerie ........ 7@
Emery, ail Nos.. @
Tamery, po .....'. @
Ergota -.po & Ge
Ether Sulph 70@
Flake White 12@
Gre ........... @
Camber. -....._. 8@
Gelatin, Cooper.. @
Gelatin, French 35@
Glassware, fit box
Less than box ..
Glue, brown 11@
Cue White ...... 15@
Cece ....... 15@
Grana Paradisi.. @
Pomme ......- 5@
Hydrare Ch ..Mt @
Hydrarg Ch Cor @
Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1
Hydrarg Ammo’l @1

iydrarg Ungue’m 50@
Hydrareyrum =... @
Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1
a 73@1
Iodine, Resubi 4 85@4
fogotorm ....-... @ 5
apn. 22. ounces

@
Lycopodium ....1 15@1
Macis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liquor Arsen et Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14) Vanilla ......... 9 00@
Hydrare fod .. @ 25; Saccharum La’s.. 22@ 26{Zinci'Sulph ..... 7@ 8
Liq Potase Arsinit 10@ 12} Salacm ....:...... 4 50@4 75 i
Magnesia, Sulph. 2@ 3)18apnenis Drac’s.. 40@ 50 bbl. gal.
Magnesia, Sulph bel @ ©£6:tSape, W :.-. 2... 12@. 14] Whale, winter .. 70@ 70
Manna, S © .... G@ SiSapo M ........ 10@ 2| Lard, extra 70@ 80
a 2 40@2 —iocoe, G ........ @ W%itard. Noe tft - oe &
Morphia, S P & W2 35@2 60 | Seidlitz Mixture 20@ 22] Linseed, pure raw 50@ 55
Morphia, SN Y¥Y QO235@2 60|Smapis -........-. @ 18] Linseed, boiled .. 51@ 56
Morphia, Mal. ..2 35@2 60|Sinapis, opt .... @ 30|Neat’s-foot,wstr 65@ 70
Moschus Canton. @ 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine ..Market
Myristica, No. 1 28@ 30 Bevecs _.-.._. @ 51 Paints ‘ bbi. L.
Nux Vomica po 13 @ 10 r S’h DeVo’s @ 51) red Venetian ..1% 2 @3s
- ie |... 6 Hicee” moe oe 4j | Ochre, yl Mars 142 @4
Pepsin Saac, H & Soda, Boras, po. 9@ 11|Ocre, yel Ber ..1%2 @3
 €e ...... @1 00 Soda. et Pot’s Tart 25@ 28 Putty, commer’] 21 4 2144@3
Picis Liq NN % Sousa, Cark ....-. 144@ 2| Putty, strictly pr2% 2%@3
eal dog... @2 00| Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5] Vermillion, Prime
Eiers Liq gts ... @i @i Soda. Ash ....-.- 3%@ 4|_.American ..... B@ 15
Picis Liq. pints. @ 60}]Soda. Sulphas @ 2| Vermillion, Eng. 75@ 80
Pil Hydrarg po 80 @ 50/Spts, Cologne @2 60|Green, Paris .... 14@ 18
Piper Nigra po 22 @ 18]|Spts, Ether Co.. 50@ 55|Green, Peninsular 1B3@ 16
Piper Alba po 35 @ 30|Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 00| Lead, red ...... 6%@ 7
Pix Burzum .... @ 7|Spts, Vini Rect bbl @ lead, white ....6%@ 7
Plumbi_ Acet 12@ 15]|Spts, Vii Rect %b @ Whiting, white Sn @ 90
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii 130@150|Spts, Vi'i R’t 10 gl @ Whiting Gilders _ @ 95
Pyrethrum, bxs H Spts, Vii Rtibegal @ White, Paris Am’r @1 25
| & PD Co. doz @ 75|Strychnia, Cryst’1105@1 25| Whit’g Paris Eng a
Pyrethrum, pv .. 20@ 25]Sulphur Subl 2% @ 4 cliff ay ee @1 40
Quassiae 1 .1..... 8@ 10|Sulphur, Roll .24%@ 3% | Universal Prep’d 1 10@1 20
Quina, S P & W 22@ 32|Tamarinds .-.... 8@ 10 Varnishes
Quina, S Ger. 22@ 32{Terebenth Venice 28@- 30 ' No. 1 Turp Coachl 10@1 20
Ouma. N. Y¥. 29) 29-1) 'Thenhramee 4h@ 5A Bextra Turn .....1 anal 7
Ihe Hazeltine & Perkins
is now complete and the most complete we have ever
shown. Our Mr. Dudley will notify you when to inspect
it. We give below a partial list of the goods we are
showing this season:
Albums Manicure Sets in Stag, Ebony, Cellu-
Ash Trays loid, Silver and Wood
Atomizers Medallions
Austrian Novelties Medicine Cases
Autographs Metal Frames
Baskets Mirrors
Blocks Military Brush Sets
Bronze Figures Music Boxes
Bouquet Holders Music Rolls
Candelabra Necktie Boxes
Candiesticks Paper Clips
Card Receivers Paper Files
Child’s Sets Paper Knives
Cigars Sets and Cases Paper Weights
Collar and Cuff Boxes Perfumes
Curios Photo Boxes
Cut Glass Photo Holders
Desk Sets Placques
Dolls Pictures
Fancy Box Paper to retail 5c to $3 each Pipe Sets
Fancy China Rogers’ Silverware
Fancy Hair, Cloth, Hat and Bonnet Rookwoed Pottery in Vases, Etc.
Brushes Shaving Sets
Flasks Stag Horn Novelties
Games Steins
Gents’ Leather Cases to retail 75c to Tankards
$10 each Thermometers on Fancy Figures to re-
German Novelties tail 25c to $2 each
Glove and Handkerchief Sets Toilet Sets in Stag Horn, Ebony, Ebon-
Gold Clocks ite, Cocobolo, China, Silver, Metal
Hand Painted China and Celluloid
Hargreave’s Wooden Boxes Tobacco Jars
Hovey & Harding Novelties to retail Whisk Holders
25c to $3 each BOOKS—AIi. the. latest. copyright
infants’ Sets Books, Popular Priced 12 mos., 16
Ink Stands to retail 25c to $5 each mos., Booklets, Bibles, Children’s
Japanese Novelties Books, Etc.
Jewel Cases Also a full line of Druggists’ Staple
Lap Tablets Sundries, Stationery, School Sup-
Match Safes plies. Etc.
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefuily corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled at

market prices at date of purchase.

Prices, however, are lia-

 

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By Columns
Cel
A
Axle Grease ......... a =
x
Bath Brick ......... — :
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Butter Caer ae ites .-
Cc
cue cas, 2
an .....4.4 2
3
3
3
8
8
4
F
——. -
Fish —c.. 2
Fishi Was ...:... «©
han ete ......--... 8
PD on ns ce csccess cote
. G
Gelatine ...... Seckebeces =
Grain Bags ........ co. 2
Grains and Flour ...... 6
H
0 ices eee ve 5
fides and Pelts ...... 10
i
BeeMEO 2.0 cc ccswccese sc
J
L
M
Meat Extracts ........ &
lasses .......2s- oon
MimstarG@ ......ccccccees 6
N
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Pipes ....-2% coe doeeet
Potash ..... ke —— 2
Provisions .......- cocci | a
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Saleratus ......... eit :
ke
@hoe Blacking ......... 7
SS oF
ee —— 2
— es onawne -- :
COB nc ccccsseces eseseoes
Sugar ..... sc eeceee
Syrups 8
Twine 9
Ww
Washing Powder ...... 9%
Woodenware .......+6--. 9
Wrapping Paper ....... 10
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AXLE GREASE

Frazer’s

1%. wood boxes, 4 dz. 3
1M. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2
— tin boxes, 2 dz. 4

Tb pails, per doz. ..6
ist. pails, per doz ..7
25tb. pails, per doz ..12
BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand
. Can, per Gos ....

SSSuans

2%. can, per doz ....1 40
Sth. can, per doz ....1 80
—e BRICK
eee... 15
Bae ...5. 06... 85
BROOMS
mee, 2 Copepee ..-....<- 2 75
No eS a 2 35
eo. 2S Carpet ........- 2 15
Peo. & Corpet .........- Lt
Parlor Gem ...--...-.. 2 4¢
Common Whisk ...... 85
Pascy Whiek ._...... 20
Wires... 2... 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solia@ Back & in ....- 75
Solid Back, 11 i ...... 95
Pointed ends .........- 83
Stove

 

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BUTTER COLOR

  

W., R. & Co’s, 15c size.1 25
.. 2s Co.’s, 25c size.2 00
CAN!HULES
Electric Light, 8s .... 9%
Electric Light, 16s 10

Paraffire, 68 .. 9
Paraffine, 12s .. .- 9%
Wire ........-.....- 20
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 tb. Standards.. 85@ 90
Gals. Standards... @2 65
Blac -errles
Standards ....... 85
ans
ae 80@1 30
Red Kidney 85@ 95
ae .......... 70@1 15
eee T56@1 25
Blueberries
Sian@erad ....... 40
Brook Trout
am «oc... 15
2tb. cans, s.piced 1 90
Clams
Little Neck, 1tb..1 00@1 25
Little Neck, 2%b.. 1 50
Clam —~ ge
Burnham’s % pt ..... 1 90
Burnham’s, pts ...... 3 60
Burnham’ . 2. perches 7 20
* Standards oS = 50
Wee ..:..:..-. 1 50
orn
or .......- i... 75@90
ee 1 00
Panty: .:.2......._.... 1 26
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine ...... 22
ctr Pee -......... 19
ae 15
ieee 2..2.-.... ..--. nH
Gooseberrles
Pienmae ..:.......... 30
Hominy
eee 85
Lobster
eae. Se Cj. ese 2 15
ee ee 3 75
Pieces Tee -..---<.-. 2 69
Mackerel
Masters, 7m. .-.-..--- 1 80
Mestard, Sm. .......-- 80
Pee OO oes 1 80
Souaee, 2a ...-...--.- 2 80
ee! 1... 1 80
Sek wee. -......... 2 8f
Mushrooms
Pees: 4.6... 15 20
ae... .... 22 25
ysters
oe 7 2... 90
aoe Se. ......- 1 70
Cove, 1fb. Oval . @1 00
Peaches
ON cece eke ce seen. 1 10@1 15
Tee ...-- ss 1 65@2 25
rs
Standard ........ 1 “2; 35
Phacy. .....-.-.-- 2 00
Mecty Sune ona - 1 00

 

 

Piums
ae... 85
Pineapple
ee .......... 25@2 75
= eee ee 1 35@2 55
Pumpkin
Pee 2... se 70

849
1 00
@2 60
Raspberries
ee
Russian Cavier
oe Coe 2... 3 75
oe. Coe ....... 2. 7 00
7 eee... le 12 00
Salmon
Col’a River, talls. @1 80
Col’a River, flats.1 ei 90
Red Alaska ..... 1 35@1 45
Fink Alaska .... $5
Sardines
Domestic, %s .. 3%@ 3%
Domestic, 4s .
Domestic, Must’d 6 @ 3
California, 4s... 11@14
California, 1%s...17 @24
French, 4s ....- @14
French, %8 ..... 18 @28
Shrimps
Standard ....... 1 20@1 40
Succotash
Pee cc. 95
eee oo 110
a 1 25@1 4¢@
Strawberries
BtanGara ........ 110
Pee ... 52.2555. 1 40
Tomatoes
ee ee se
een ...26 26... 85
ae 4... t. 1 15@1 45
coeeeesikes we 2 40@2 60
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ...... @1e%
Water White . @10
D. S. Gasoline .. ots
Deodor’d Nap’a @12
= becca: "29 @34%
Pueee .......... 6 @22
Black, winter .. 9 810%
CEREALS

Breakfast Foods
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 4 25

Bordeau Flakes, 36 1Ib 4

Mattia Vita, 36 1m ..
Grape Nuts, 2 doz. ..
Malta Ceres, 24 1Ib

Cream of Wheat, 36 2% 4

 

Eee-O-See, 36 pkes ..2 85
Mapl-Flake, 36 1fb ...4 05
Excello Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 75
Excello, large pkgs. ...4 50
ice. 36 pees ....-..- 2 7%
Force, 36 21D ......-- 4 50
eet, SO 2m ....--.--- 410
Zest, 36 small pkgs ...4 50
Ralston, 36 2% ...... 4 50
Dutch Rusk
meee ee 75
Bulk. = eee 6 .-.. 55
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avenna, bbls....4 95
Steel Cut, 100M sacks 2 50
Moar Ob. .......-.. 4 70
Monarch, 100%. sack..2 25
Quaker, cases ......... 3 10
Cracked Wheat
Be ok eos %
34 21D. packaes ....... 2 50
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts...... 450
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60
Snider’s quarts ....... 3 25
Suamers pie ........ 2 25
Snider’s % pints ...... 1 30
CHEESE
Ame oo lt @10%
caren Cy ..... @11
Peerless @10%
Elsie @12
Emblem + @12
meee cece @11%
a @11%
eae @i1
Riverside ....... @l1
Warmers _......; @aiu%
ee @15
ee ca,
ee, ee SS Sis
Re, cco 14%
Pineapple ....... 40 @60
DO. oncns 19
poten, domestic . @14%
Swiss, imported . 20

 

CHEWING GUM

American Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 60
Black Jack -....-.:.:. 55
ae Gum Made .. 60
pen em .......-.-..-- 55

Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 os

 
  

 

Sueer Lomt ........--.- 5
TR ne cn eo es ee 55
CHICORY
—— ..........-......- 5
BE vee esi c kc tins ee 7
Eagle i 4
Franck’s .... 7
aes ..... -.....-- 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s
German Sweet ........ 2
Premiam ......0.ce0-- 238
OIE pcb see eee ee 41
a 35
Me ks aint oases ee 28
COCOA
eg ee rela ean rae 35
(Clowemeee <..........-- 41
Colonial, 4s ....-...-.-- 35
eee. ae .. 6. 33
TS wwe ae ees + +o 42
Wavier Se detdie sates ee 45
Van Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten, \%s ...... 20
Van Houten, %s ...... 40
Van Houten, 1s ....... TZ

Mee oo et 28
i our, 06 .....--....- 41
Weitere, Ws. ..-.-.---- 42

COCOANUT
Dunham’s Xs ......-- 6
Dunham’s 4s & js... 26%
Dunham’s \%S .....- 27
Dunham’s 8 .....-- 28
ak... . 13
COCOA SHELLS
som. bees ......-..---- 2%
less quantity ....-...- 3
Pound packages ......- 4
COFFEE
Rio
COMmMOR.§ 2... ccc cesess pal
ee 12
US ok icc ee en ee 15
ee 18
Santos
COMMFAON 2... -cccceece- 11%
BEE, ccc ccc cctecccsass 12%
ee 15
WOMOT. occ cccs cco we+s 18
Peaberry ......---+----
Maracalbo
ee oe eee 15
OO oo oe ee ee owes ee 18
Mexican
RIOR coc ewe scenes 16%
PR wows wo os 19
Guatemala
Costes _.........-. <2 15
Java
Steam es. 2
Fancy ” aietoan : :
io & ..... Co.
eS & ...........
Mocha
Avabiem ...-..--+4-5-< 21
Packag
New York _— |
Arbuckle. § ....-ccecees 13 50 |
Dilworth. ...........- 13 00
ee 13 50
BE oh ee een e ee ee ee 13 50

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold

to retailers only. Mail all

orders direct to W. F.

 
  

McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
cago.
Extract
Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Felix, % gross ........ 16s
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin. % gro.1 43
ACKERS
National Biscuit Company’s
Brands
Butter
Seymour Butters ...... 6%
mY Sorters .....----. 614
Salted Butters ........ 6%
Family Butters ........ 61%
oda
Mw BC Sodas .......... 6%
REORe cee ee
Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
Oyster
Round Oysters ........ 6%
Square Oysters ....... 6%
— Lele e es eee as cies es ve
me ee te
al on 1%
Sweet Goods
Saree ge see
Assorted Cake ........ 11
Assorted Novelty ..... 8
ae Pre l.......-.. 10
Bagley Gems ......... 9
Belle Rose ......+2.-- 9
Bent’s Water ........- 17
Butter Thin ... oan
Chocolate Drops A?
Cie oar 4... ... ik
Coceanut Taffy ....... 12
Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Coffee Cake, Iced -10
Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
EEE oo eee as 16
Chocolate Dainty ....17
COP WReG §....-.---ss 10
te 14
auxts Cookte .,........ 9
i 14
Fluted Cocoanut ......11
Frosted Creams ......
Prosted. Gingers....... :
Ginger Gems ..........
Ginger Snaps, N . 1%
«it

Grandma Se :
Graham Crackers ..... 9

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Honey Fingers, Iced .12

Honey Jumbles ....-- 12
Iced Honey Crumpet .12
Imperials ........+e++- 9
Jersey Lunch ......-- 8
Lady Fingers ......-- 12

Lady Fingers, hand md 26

Lemon Biscuit Square 9
Lemon Wafer ......-.-- 16
Lemon Gems ..... occu
Rie WO cn eco ceee ce 11
Marshmallow .......-- 16
Marshmallow Cream ..17

Marshmallow Walnut .17

Mary ‘exe 8%
Malag: ti
Mich> Conn Fs’d honey .12
Milk Biscuit 8
Mich. Frosted Honey.12
Mixed Picnic pal
Molasses Cakes, Scolo’d 9
Moss Jelly Bar ......- 12
Muskegon Branch, ages
Newton
Oatmeal Crackers
Orange Slice “
Orange Gem .........-- 9
Penny Assorted Cakes 8

Pilot Bread 7

Pineapple Honey ...... 15

Pretzels, hand made ..8%
Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8%
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d i”

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Raisin Cookies. .......
I ok ceca ctw e es 18
RichMOend. ...cccccosce 11
a 8%
Rube Gears ......-.....- 9
Scotch Cookies ....... 10
Snowdrops ......-.<:. sae

Spiced Sugar Tops .. 9
Sugar Cakes. aad 9

Sugar Squares ........ 9
ee 15
SUPCTDA. <cccccccescecs 816
Spiced Gingers ......-. 9
OO a
Vienna Crimp. .......- 9
Vanilla Wafer ........ 16
Eo ———— 10
ee 10
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or drums ....... 29
Pees ..........- bepcc cee 30
Square Cans .......+0-e- 32
Fancy cadfies .......... 35
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sunariee ........4 444@ 5

Evaporated 64%@ 7
California Prunes
100-125 251tb boxes.
90-100 25Ib boxes
80- 90 25Ib boxes
70- 80 25Ib boxes
25tb boxes
25% boxes
25tb boxes
30- 40 25Ib boxes
Ye less in 50ID ca

Citron

992i OOH
2 a norcim m 00 6
SRR KF KF

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Currants

Imp d. 1ib. pkKe... @i7

Imported bulk .. 6%@ 7
Peel

Lemon American 1

Orange American ....1

Raisins

London Layers, 3 cr
London Layers 4 cr
Cluster 5 crown ...

Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5
loose Muscatels, 3 cr..
Loose Muscatels, 4 cr..6%
L. M. Seeded, 1 1b.6%@7%
L. M. Seeded, % Ib5 6
Sultanas, bulk .... 8

Sultanas, package . 8%

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
——_——————————
Med. Hd. Pk'’d. .1 ity’ =
Brown Holland .......

Farina
24 1Ib. packages. ....1 75
Bulk, per 100 tbs. ..... 3 00

Homin
Flake, 50%b sack ....1 00

Pearl, 200%b. sack ....3 70
Pearl, 100%. sack ....1 85
Maccaroni and Vermicelll
Domestic, 10% box ..

Imported, 25tb box ..2 50

Pearl Barley
Common.
Chester
aire ........... oe. =
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 15
= Scotch, bu. ...1 25

» 1D. seves seeescove

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East iia” gece ascce Boe
German, sacks ........ 3%
German, beam “pkg. 4
a
Flake, 110%b. oe ooo an
Pearl, 130%. sacks ... 3
Pearl, 24 1%. pkgs .... &

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foote & Jenks

Coleman’s Van. Lem.
a. Pend ...4.18 .:
Soz. Taper .... .2 00 1 50

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No. ¢ Rich. Blake.2 00 1 50

 

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon

Z.
No. 2 Fand 2 C.....4 %
No. 4 Panel D. C.......1 50

Taper Panel D. C..... 1 50
1 oz. Full Meas. D.C... 65
2 oz. Full Meas. D. C...1 20
4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..2 25
Mexican Vanilla

Doz.
No. 2 Panel D. C......1 20
No. 4 Panel D. C....:.2 00
No. § Fane. D. C......2 &
Taper Pan: D. C..... 2 00
1 oz. Full Meas. D. C.. 85
2 oz. Full Meas. D. C..1 60
4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..3 00
No. 2 Assorted Flavors 75
GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in baleld
Amoskeag, less than bi 19%
GRAINS AND FLOUR

 

 

Wheat

Old Wheat
Mo. 1 Waite .:...224.; 88
No. 2 Bee... cence 88

Winter Wheat Fiour

Local Brands
oe 5 50
Second Patents .......5 20
ee ~<a oO
Second Straight ....... 4 60
tO 4 00
ON ee ce 4 40
Buen weet ..6..u. + ke. ; 50
re ok

4 10
Subject to usual cash dis-
count.
Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
barrel additional.
Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand
Guaker paper ......... 5 00
Quaker CIOe .......... 5 20
Sprina Wheat Flour
Roy Baker’s Brand

Golden Horn, family ..6 09
Golden Horn. bakers ..5 90
Pure Bye, Hem ...... 445
Pure Hye, dark ...... 4 30
CO ee 85
Desareee  ....05. 0... 70

Clark-Jewell-Welis co! s

Delivered

Gold Mine, %s cloth...6 59
Gold Mine, %s cloth...6 49
Gold Mine, %s cloth...€ 39
Gold Mine, %s paner...6 25
Gold Mine. \%s paver. . .6 34

Judson Grocer Co.'s Brand

Deresota, Ge .. 2.2.6.2 6 BO
Ceeenee: Se ooo. cae 6 49
Ceresota. a 6 320

Temon & Wheeler's ~—
Wingold. %s

Wieeta. Ua .......... : Pa
Wires, ce ......... 6 20
Pillsburv’s Brand
Best. Se cyei........ € 45
Rest. “os Gain.......- 6s
Pest “We elom.......: ers
Peat, “oe waner,....... & 2"
ent, Us waper........ f 20
eer Ce ace § 45
Worden Grocer Co.’s eri
itauvel, *4a cei. ...:.
Taurel, tia cloth ..... 4 an
Taurel. %s & Ys paper § 29
Laurel oe oo 39
Wrvkes-Schroeder Co.
Sleeny Five, %*s cloth .6 39
Sleepy Five, %s cloth .6 29
Sleenv Eve. %s cloth .6 19
Sleepy Eve, %s paper .6 10
Sleepy Eye. 4s paper .6 19
Meal

aren. Sc 2 59
Golden Granulated ....2 65
St Cor Feed screened 23 £9
No. 1 Corn and Oats 23 59
Com, Crncwed .....-. 23 9
Corn Meal, coarse ..23 59
Oi] Meal. new proc ...27 09
OW Merl. old ae ..on 04
Winter Wheat Bran. .18 09

 

Winter wheat area 19.9"
Cow Feed 18 50

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Car lots
Corn
Corn Dew... 62

Ha
No. 1 timothy Pie lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 56

HERBS

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Laurel Leaves" --s
Senna Leaves

 

5Ib il a
pails, per doz
TSID PAlle «...ccencececs
Sm pats 2...
LICORICE

Calabria
Sicily
Root

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Condensed, 2 doz +4

Condensed, 4 doz .....3
MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour’s, 2 of .......4 45

Armour® Suing. ¥ on 76

e 8, cago,

Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 oz.

Liebig’s. Imported, 3 os.

Liebig’ 4

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Fancy Open Kettle 40
Caine ool l... 36
ee ees. ee
Goee ... . 22
Half barreis 2¢ extra.
MINCE MEAT
oer te te
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75
Horse Radish, 2 dz. .. = 50
Bayle’s Celery, i, as.
OLIVES
gal. kegs ...1.00
gal kegs .... 95
gal kegs. .. 90
. <:. 4. 90
eee ic... 2 35
ie Oe ........4 50
On 5.4... 7 Ov
S Of ........ 90
Pao, 2 OF ......... 1 45
Stared, 20 of ......... 2 30
PIPES
Clay, No. 216 ........1 1
Clay, T. D., full count 65
Cob, No. eee oks a. 85
PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count ..4 7
Half bbls., 600 count ..2

Smaili
Barrels, 2,400 count ..7
Half bbis.,, 1,200 count 4

PLAYING CARDS

No. 90 Steamboat ... 85
No. 16, Rival, assorted 1 20
No. 20, Rover enameledl 60
No. 572, Special ...... 1 7
No 98, Golf,satin finish2 00
No. 808 Bicycle ...... 00
No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25
POTASH
48 cans in case
eRe ..............6 00
Penna Salt Co’s ..... 3 00
PROVISIONS
Barreied Pork
MW oe 13 00
Mat Beem ........... 14 00
ee 14 50
Ree Cot ..........- 13 50
pees ................ 12 50
BE a vemeceeeccacasc uke OF
SE cn cn... 15 00
Clear Wamily ........ 12 50
Dry Salt Meats
Oe 9%
Be ce eee, 9%
Extra Shorte ......... 8
Smoked Meats
Hams, 12Ib. average...11%
Hams, 14Ib. average...1llle
Hams, 16Ib. average...11%
Hams, 18Ib. average.. 11%
SHinned Fiams .......- 12
Ham, dried beef sets ..13

Shoulders,

Picnic Boiled Ham
Benoe Fae ...........
Berlin Ham pr ‘a... 8
Mince Ham

. advance
- advance
advance
20%D. pails ..advance
10%b. pails ..advance %
6Ib. pails ..advance 1
3Ib. pails . advance 1

Sausages

   

Tr
Kits, 15 Ibs.
%bbis., 40 KBs ........ 1 50
Mbbis., 80tbs. ........ 8 00
u Casings a

ogs, eae

Beef sate, emt ..... 26
Beef middles, set ..... 45
Sheep, per bundle .. 70

Uncolored Butterine

Solid, dairy ....
Rolls, ae. ...10%@11%
Canned Meats

Corned beef, ae... "17 5
Roast Beef ......2 00@2 3 80
Potted ham, %s .... 45
Potted ham, %s .... 85
Deviled ham, %s .... 45
Petia wanes, Bes
Potted tongue, core 85

 

 

Round, 40Ibs ...
Scaled

No.
No.
No.
No. 1, 8Ib

Mackerel
Mess, 100Ibs.
Mess, 40Ibs.
Mess, 10!Ibs.
Mess, 8Ibs.

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Anise
Canary, Smyrna .
Caraway
Cardamom, Malabar .
Clery ...-......-. :
Hemp, Russian ..
Mixed Bird

 

   

Poppy
Rape

Cuttle Bone
SHOE BLACKING

Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 50

Handy Box, small ....1 25

Bixby’s Royal Polish .. 85

Miller’s Crown Polish. 85
Ss

Scotch, in bladders 37

Maccaboy, in jars .... =

French Rappie, in jars.
SOAP
Central City Soap S

Ro ee ccc oe ne 85
bore Naphtiiea ........ 4 60
J. S&S. Kirk & Co.
American Family ..... 4 05
Dusky Diamond, %50 80z 2 80
Dusky D’nd, 100 60z...3 80
Jap Rose, 50 bars 3 75
Savon Imperial pe ites 3 10
White Russian ........ 3 10
Dome, oval bars ...... 2 85
Satinet, oval ........-.- 2 15
Snowberry, 100 cakes. 4 00

LAUTZ BROS. & CO.

Acme soap, 100 cakes 2
Napthe szoap. 199 cakes 4
Big Master, 100 bars 4
iadiiek White soap.4
Snow Boy Wash P’w’r 4 00
Proctor & Gamble Co.
Lenox .. 2 85

Tvors, € o& ...........8 06
Ivory, 10 om. .........6 16
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RICE
Sereenings ........ 24%4@2%
Pair Japon .:... . 3%@ 4
Choice Japan .... 4%@5_ |
Imported Japan .. @ |
Fair Louisiana hd. @4¥ |
Choice La. hd. .. @5
Pancy La. hd ..|: @5% |
Serolina ex. fancy WMbYy |

SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint ....2 25
Columbia, 7. pit... G6
Durkee’s large, 1 doz.4 50
Durkee’s small, 2 doz.5 25
Snider’s large, 1 doz.. 2 35
Snider’s small, 2 doz...1 35

SALARATUS

Packed 60Ibds. in box.
Arm and Hammer vr
PO 3 00
wirets Cow ......... 3 15
ae 8 2 10
ee ee 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s ...3 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis ..... 85
Granulated, 100! casesl 00
Sump, Gee . oo... 75
Lump, 145Ib kegs 95
SALT
Common Grades
200 Gy sacks ......... 1 95
Go Sip sacks ......... 1 85
20 £056 sheks ........ i@t®
oo m Sache ..._.... 30
ae 0 Sheks 2... 15
Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
eos. SGCKe _.......... 20
Common
Granulated, fine ...... 80
Mdedium fine. ......... 85
SALT FISH

Cod
Large whole @ 6%
Small whole : @ 5%
Strips or bric ks. 74@10
Penecek ......... @ 3%

Halibut
Cereee oo 14
CMUMEM 0.0. 14%

Herring

Holland
White Hoop, bbls
White Hoop, % bbls.
White Hoop, keg. @
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A. B. Wrisley TOBACCO Pails “ cases
| Good Cheer ........... 0 | Fine Cut = heop Standard ..... 1 6 | | Jumbo, am. a oscces -- 8
Old County 60000000): $40) Caatibe Org iy 54 | 3-hoop Standard ..... . 73 Ext H. ......... 9
Soap Powders | Sweet Loma ....... 34 | 2-wire, Cable .........1 76 aaaoa cicue dee ae 10
c | Hiawatha, 5Ib pails -56 | o-Wire, Cable ......... 1 90} = Time Sugar stick
entral ae Coap Co. Hiawatha, 10% puils | Cedar, all red, brass ..1 25 CABO oc eccceeees
| Jackson, 16 oz ........ #40) Pélegeam L000 | Raper, urea ........ 2 25 | Mixed Candy
Gola eat 7 large ..4 5 Pay. Car oe cB | Fibre... 22. sees eeeeeee 2 70 | >, oc alla Leese pads. :
S.A naa .......... * tne 26... le
| Kirkoline, 24 4Yb. 4 = | Sweet Burley ........ 4 |) Softwood 22.1...) .. 1s ge | COnMAEVe occlu tT) i?
| Soapine a Ce le 10 | Tiger slg diane oe deine age 40 | Banquet Wee deeweae ud 1 60 | Royal COCHOEOC OCC HOES Os 8
Babbitt’s iste e Plug a i RNS RRR 1 60 | Ribbon .........-.+....10
Rue 2 | Rod Crease 0... 31 | Beemee oe ccs ks 3
oseine .... 2 peig 35 Traps | Cat See oo uy 9
Armour’s 3 70 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes . 22)
Winder ca — Sc S lease wean 4 bel 45 Pee se eeees eeceweee 8%
PAO se 35 ' ; 7 | Kindergarten ......... 10
Soap Compounds | Bettie Aa 37 | Mouse, wood, 6 holes . 70 | Bon Ton Cream 2... 9
Johnson’s Fine ........ 5 10| American Eagle ...... 33 | Mouse, tin, 5 holes .. 65/ French Cream. ....... 10
Johnson’s XXX 1.1.2! 425|Standard Navy _...., 37 | Rat, wood ............ MONE ae pec e ruse tnaes 11
Nine O'clock .......... 3 35 | Spear Head 7 oz. ....47 | Rat spring ........... 15| Hand Made Cream .-15
Rub-No-More .........3 75 | Spear Head, 14% oz. ..44 Tubs | Premio Cream mixed 13
Scouring | Nobby Twist. 20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 00| O F Horehound Drop 11
Enoch Morgan's Sons. | Joily Var. . .- 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00 | Fancy—in Pails
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 | Old Honesty 16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00; Gypsy Hearts ........ 14
Sapolio, half gross lots 4 50 | | Today Ce 20-in., Cable, No. 1. ..7.50| Coco Bon Bons ...... 12
Sopelie, sta stnaie boxes 3 9500) Se 3 a Gable ae = : = oo ——- steeeee 12%
apolio, hand ......... 2 25 | | Piper Heidsick ........ are PPh smnsull ye css: aee lea ct
Scourine Manuticturing Co | [Boot Ise Ts No. 1 Fibre .......... 10 80 | Sugared Peanuts .....11
Scourine, 50 cakes ..1 8¢| Honey Dip Twist ....40 me 2 Bees oo: 9 45 | Salted Peanuts ..... oak
Scourine, 100 cakes ...3 50| Black Standard .......49 | No. 3 Fibre .......... $ 65 | Starlight Kisses. .....11
SODA — ee ee -soe xi ae ae Boards ae patie — ft =
Ome cae au i | oe nets soreece nicole laa ety , pri {
K “Nickel i | oe 1 75 | Lozenges, printed ..... 10
cus, Wngliah ... 52... . 4% | eo pee Double heme 2 75 | coe een : a
UPS | Great De TE ingle Acme .......... 3) ee
Columbia Smoking 35 | Double Peerless ...... 3 50 | Bureka Chocolates. ...13
Hed Petter 00. 90 | Sweet Core se a4 | — oe eee 2 75 | an oe . a4
Peas Cay orthern Queen ...... 2 75 | ee
SPICES VU ucla. 25 | Double Duplex’ ...... 5 60 | Re OEMS senses
Wels Semen | Bamboo, Ppa a abi 25 Goda tae 9 7: | Lemon Sours ........: 10
Allspice 12 | ES a ae 27 wos eC eccessececce 2 65 | ae nO hil ns na a Z
ECS nw ccc cccacccees dow Cleaners au ream pera ..
Cassia, China in mats. 12 | 1% UL, 16 oz. pails ....31 | 4, ,)¥!" 5 | Ital. Cream Bon Bo
Cassia, Canton (0/0); 16 | Honey Dew ........2.. — (ae ee 1S Sh oan ad
Coam See, - 2 | Gold — a ee 2. 1 85 | ~ ge Whang
Ga Ps tag onan Z| Flagman i aa 40 ee veee-2 30) —- Chews, seanwe
Cassia, Saigon’, i i RE eee cleo ae 3 | Golden Watha
aa aaa aan ee Swe lw Some oe
Cloves, Zanzibar .. 14 | i ee oe = is in. Patten 115 Fancy—Iin 5tb. Boxes
Mee... 2... 5 | CO s-eseee - weer 4.8... |
Nutmegs, 7-80 27! = |Myrtle Navy ......... 44 (117 in: caer 3 25 oon Ops |... $e
Nutmegs, 105-10 2121. 35 | Yum Yum, 1% oz ...:39 | 19 in. Butter ...2121°4 75 | Chobolate nae
Nutmegs, 115-20 ...... 39 | Yum Yum, II. pails ..40 Assorted, 13-15-17 ....2 25| H. M. Choc. Drops ..86
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15 | Cream. ................ 38 Assorted 15-17-19 ....3 25|H. M. Choc. Lt. and
re. = Singp. white. 25 | —o — — WRAPPING PAPER | Dark Me 2a 1
enper, hee 17 eee, 1 o.oo. | Bitter Sweets, ass’d ..1 2k
|Plow Boy, 1% oz Common Straw ...... 1 ;

Pure Ground in Bulk | Plow a sie oz. Fibre Manila, white . 2a | aay ge mae 90
Mee 16 | Peerless, 3% oz. ...... 25 | Fibre Manila, colored . 4 | Lozenges, plain ab 55
Cassia, Batavia ...... 2g | Peerless, 1% oz. ...... 3g | No.1 oe 2... | Lozenges, printed ..... 55
Cassia, Saigon .....).. a | Ale Mirae. ..... 28... 36 | Cream Manila [iapertaie C0)

| Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 18 | —— Pigote 30 | wat tte a a Monies i %
inger, African ....... 5 | Country Club. ........ i short cn ae ie ou,
singer Soa occ: fp SOMA <i Soe War BAM Pat gg Sieg a
— Jamaica ...... 25 | Good Indian ee Wax Butter, rolls ....15 | Hand Made, Gr'ms. 8009
ee 65 | Self Binder, 160z, 80z 20-22 YEAST CAKE |Cream Buttons, Pe
’ Pp.
Mostar 18|Silver Foam .......... 24 | Magie) 2 doz. /0 00... 15} and Wintergreen. ..66
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17|Sweet Marie .......... 32 | Sunlight, 3 doz. .....: 1 00 | String Rock .......... Q
Pepper, Singp. white . 28| Royal Smoke ......... 42 | Sunlight, 1% doz.. 50 | Wintergreen Berries ..60
Pepper, Cayenne ...... 20 | TWINE | Yeast Foam, 3 doz ....115)| Old — Assorted, 25
ee 26 Cotton, 3 nig 6.) .0 20 | Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..100|_ tb. case ............
STARCH Cotton, Pa ae " Yeast Foam, 1% doz .. 58 | — ‘Brown Goodies
Common Gloss Hemp, 6 ply ........113 FRESH FISH | Up-to-Date Asstnt. $3
1tb packages ........ 4@5 | Plax, medium ..... ||| 20 ib. | Th.) ease) 00
stb. packages. «1.0... 4% | Wool, 1b. balls 21.2.. [SS @12% | Ton Strike" Aasort.
achoees .......... o Whitefish ..10@11 |
40 and 501. boxes 2%@3% | Malt White Wine 4ogr g | ETOUt sees eee S4@ 9 | Ten Strike No.8 72.2°8 00
ee @z% | Malt White Wine, 80 gri1 | elbee 2260... 10 | Ten Strike No. 3 ...... 8 00
Common Corn Pure Cider, B&B ..11_ | Ciscoes or i 5 | Ten Strike, Summer as-
20Ib packages ........ 5 | Pure Cider, Red Stari | Bluefish. -10%@1l | sortment. ...........
| 40Ib packages /1.14%@7 | Pure Cider, Robinson jo | Live Lobster .... = Kalamazoo Specialties
ese Pure Cider, Silver ....10 — Lobeter. G12 | eee oer
CL, | Chocolate Hip
aud ‘me on aa na | Noe Dickerei eee aus gs : —- Nene "sealed
| - © per stom ...... ee ...... I | Simones 22... 2... 18
Barre oo, a2 «|| NO. FT per gross |.) | 40
| ait Barrel 02000000) 24 |No. 2 per gross ..... 50 | Eeeth. eeu ao @ 7 | Chocolate Nugatines ..18
th cane i ei No. ae ae MGGSGE .... @ 7 | Quadruple Chocolate .15
| z in case 1 55 Sroes ....... | Smoked White .... 12% | Violet Cream Cakes, bx90
| 10% cans % dz in case 1 50 WOODENWARE | Red Snapper . Gold Medal C
| 5Ib cans 2 dz in case 1 65 Baskets |Col. River Salmon. @11 | _ pail Lo
216tb cans 2 dzin case1 7@| Bushels. .............. 110 | Mackerel 6 er Siete 3h
ei ean. a eh 18) - os Same
— — pe ea, 35 | OYSTERS | Danay Smack, 2s... 65
eee 20 Splint, — ee eeiaie gi 6 00 | Cans 7 —— J 2 as
cen = | Splint, medium ....... 5 00 | Per a vt
Choice ............ 7 a can 4 80 | F. H. Counts ........ “40 D/P op Corn Toast, 166s =
TEA Willow, Clothes, large.7 00 | Bul | Cracker Jack ......... 30
teu Willow Clothes, med’m.6 00 | ulk Oysters | Pop Corn Balls, 200s ..1 or
p Willow Clothes, smalls 50 |: H- Counts ......... 2 25 Cicero Corn Cakes .... 5
Sundried, medium ....24 Bradley Butter Boxe | BCE Dox ..... 1.04... 0
—— — ee = 2% size, 24 in case oT 12 — rr 100 | NUTS—Whole
mnd@ried, fancy ...... 6 . Al d is
Regular, medium ..... 24 stb an id in om i 63 Geom a of Almonds, ‘Avica s+. -
Regular, choice ...... 32 101b aan sae coun _ 4 WSEOEM coi 25 | | Almonds, California att
Regular, fancy ........ 36 Butter Plates HIDES AND PELTS_ | _ Shell, new ..... 16 @16
Basket-fired, medium .31 | No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 40 Hides | Bvesiie 22. ...,53, 13 @14
Basket-fired, choice ...38 | No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate 45 | Green No.1........... 14) |) | ere 13
Banket- -fired, fancy ...43 No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate 60| Green No. 2........... io |c  2 @15
ee a, =oe No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate 60| Cured No.1 .........2! 12% — =< stielled
Fannings .........12@14 Barrel, 5 a 1.2 40 Galfskins, green No. ie | Table nuts. a Sia
Gunpowder Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 | Calfskins, green No. 2.11% | Pecans, Med. ... 9 @11
Moyune, medium ..... 30 | Barrel, 15 gal., each :.2 70 | Calfskins, cured No.1. 13% | Pecans, ex. large @i2
Moyune, choice ....... 32 Clothes Pins Calfskins, cured No.2. 12 | Pecans, Jumbos. . 33
ee. —, aoe. - ee a or 5 — bx 55); Steer riides, 66% over i2% | Hickory Nuts pr bu
ingsuey, medium . oun ead, cartons . 15 Pelts oe ........... 76
Pingsuey, choice ..... 39 Egg Crates Old Wool. ........ | Socoanuts pgtigcass
&' Y, fancy ..... Humpty Dumpty ..... 2 (lambs 9... 02. -49@1 00 | sekar a Ps ork
Young Hyson No. ft, complete ...... 32 |Shearlings ...... 5@ 50| ee tees
Choice ....2...0..000- 30 | No. 2 ——-: 18 Tallow ye
ek ts cets N | Spanish eanuts. 7447 8%
an imate... a @ 3% | acan Halves |... @43
Formosa, fancy. ..... 42 Cork lined, 9 in. 27122! ee Walnut | Halves. . oe
Amoy, medium ....... 35 | Cork Hned 16 in. |. ||| $5 | t-nw Weel | Filbert Meats ... es
Amoy, choice ..... “* "139 Cedar, & in. 55 Unwashed, med 28@30 | Alicante Almonds 33
ney aaa a Unwashed, fine ...23@24 |Jordan Almonds . 47
English Breakfast Mop Sticks | Peanuts
omen o eeescoeecea ea. = Trojan aoa ee a ee 90 CONFECTIONS | Fancy, H. P. Suns 6
ong ge etapa ea 0 TT. — spring . = ect - Candy 7) eS P. Suns, ‘
ce ecccees seeceee . 1 common ...... 5 a seco seceeeees
india No. 2 pat. brush holder se | Standard Hi. sess. 8 |Choice H. P. Jbo. @7%
Ceylon, choice .......82 | 12%. cotton mop heads 1 49 | Standard Twist willl] 8% | Choice, H. P. Jum-
ORS. 6 ese ee eee Ideal No. 7. ......0.. 9@| Cut Leaf ............ 9 bo, ted .... Os8%

 

 

 

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Dressed @ 1%
Boston Butts ... @10%
Shoubiers |... 0s @ 9
ANDAR C eet Lard. ...... @ 7%
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Cox’s 1 qt, sime ....... 110
Cox's 3 Gt sige <..... 1 61

Knox’s Sparkling, doz1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, gro 14 00
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz ..1 20
Knox’s Acidu’d. gro 14 00
NE oes own cc can 1 50
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tb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85 GOR SYRUP
1tb. cans, 2 doz. case 1 60
24 = ee a cos : =
Royal 423 26c Cans .......----
. 0c size 90| © 50c cans ......... 2 30 — aa at i ——s.
%Ib cans 1 35 CLOTHES LINES | stock by the Tradesman
ena oon ree on ek ee
Mid cans 250 | Soft. 3 thread, extra. 1 40 | times—twice as many safes
%Ib cans $75 | 90ft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70 | }8 Bre carried by any other
soft. 6 thread, extra..1 29 | house in the State. If you
1m cans 480|;9f¢. 6 thread, extra.. | 2@ unable to visit Grand
- : |Rapids and inspect the
2 3Ib cans 13 00 Jute line personally, write for
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BLUING goft. eecececscooereevcercs 2 05 | SOAP
ee ne acca eec 1 50;| Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

Arctic, 40z ovals, p gro 4 00
Arctic, 80z ovals, p gro 6 00
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G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd Halford, large ........ 3 75
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500 or more ...........-- 32 | >
1,000 or more ........... 31 |
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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

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For Sale—Nice clean stock groceries,

—________________ | located in Newaygo county, town of 2,000:

For Sale—Cheap for cash, drug “stock, good location; good business; with or

loe: ited in Kent County, Mich. <A bargain | without building; stock invoices about |
if taken at once. Address No. 803. eare | $1,800. Reason, Owner wishes to retire

Michigan Tradesman. 803 Address E. J. Darling, Fremont, Mich. 756 |
For Sale—First-class combination sheet Merchants, are you overstocked? Yes!

metal and plumbing shop; invoice $3,000;

can cut down to $1,000; best of reasons
for selling; only shop in city; fine busi-
ncss and mostly cash; rent and living
cheap. Address Geo. J. B. Wright, Or-
ange, Texa 802

   

Chadron, Nebraska. P opulation 3,000.
Wants general department, dry goods and
furniture stocks. Merchants can
finest quarters for such.
Nelson. 799

Wanted to
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particuars, Address
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sale—Con fectionery _ and
doing good business in town of
Address No. 791, care Tradesman.
7191

store,
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Hotel Locations—We will locate
hotel men in best locations in new
at good terminal points on Great North-
ern extensions being built. Liberal dis-
count allowed on price of lots,
good hotels are built at once.
farming country in state. Best
tunity for profitable hotel
Write at once to The Dakota
ment Co., Willmar, Minn.

For Sale—A stock of hardware

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mazen. Good location. Good reason for
selling. Address Hardware, Kalarmiazoo, |

Mich 797
eent. gold bonds, interest pa
and July ist; safe investment
fir trust funds. Americ: an Underw: iting
Company, 802-843 Majestic Bidg.. Detr
Mich. 793

For Sale—A_ 100-horse-power
boiler and 250-horse-power engine. both
guaranteed to be in first-class condition;
can he seer: at our factory. Sligh Furni-
ture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 804

To Rent—Large store room, 75x100 feet,
with basement of same size, Sixth
and Hampshire street, Quincy, Ill. Best
and most central location in the city.
Equipped with fixtures; has been used for
the past 20 years as a dry goods and de-
partment store. Address T.
Co., Quincy, Til.

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Livery for raging
in other business, I offer for

 

ery business and mail route. Address
30x 218, Clarkston, Mich. 780
For Sale—Good up-to-date drug store

in one of the best growing towns in

Michigan of about 4,000 inhabitants. Do-
ing good business. Will sell for part cash,
balance in monthly or quarterly payments,
or exchange for farm property. Invoices
$3,500. Address Pill Roller, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 773
For sale for cash; small stock of clean,
new, up-to-date general merchandise;
only store in town. Postoffice in connec-
tion. Two rural routes; in as good a
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Address Ed. Hough, Mount Hamill, Iowa.
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Bakery—Good business, price $700.

Cash or easy payments. Address Emil
Kuhr, Rock Island, Hi. a Ti

For Sale—General merchandise; inven-

tory eight thousand dollars; store 70x20;

flour house 20x20: shoemaker employed;

fine opening for. shoes
twelve hundred; big

shoes a specialty;
exclusively; town

country trade; best location and trade in |

town; stock reduced half if desired. No
trades. Health failing. Address F. F.
Frazee, Seneca, IIl. 6
$2,000 buys splendid, well-established
bakery business and ice cream parlor lo-
eated in prosperous Central New York
city. Monthly receipts $1,500;
expenses $137. No competition in neigh-
borhood. Good reason for selling. Cor-
respondence solicited. Albert J. Baechle,
Real. Estate, Utica N. Y 770
For Sale—Bakery, confectionery, ice
cream, canned goods, cigar and tobacco
business, located in thriving town of
1,200. Established about ten years.
Reason for selling. owner going in other
business. G. A. Martin, Flushing, —:
779
For Sale—A Vincent gas lighting ma-
chine and fixtures. In good condition. Call
or address Dudek & Kage, Petoskey,
Mich. 7
For Sale—Profitable pharmacy. ® Will
give you a bargain this month. Must go
South. -. Write 30 North College Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 784

 

 

 

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Richest |

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business.

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sale my liv- |

monthly |

Then employ us to conduct a special 10-
day sale for you.
tem never fails to-realize the Quick Cash
with a Profit on Your Old Merchandise
All correspondence confidential. Refer-
lences given. C. N. Harper & Ca
|; Sale Promoter, Room 211, 87 Washington
i St., Chicago. 755

 

For Sale—One ot
|} general merchandise
}gan, in farming community
[oe ‘st lake in Michigan.

the best stocks of
and on
Address No. 758,
| care Mich igan Tradesman, 758
For Sate—General stock “merchandise
| invoicing $3,000. Good business. Best
reasons fur selling.. Address J. Norris,
R _No. iL, Walkerville,

  

 

 

Our new and only sys- |

For Sale or Rent—Cheap, good general

| cated, doing good business in live town;

will sell stock if you prefer to rent; have

| owned and operated shop 33 years. Rea-

 

son, poor health. Address H. Wills,
Plymouth, Mich. 701

For Sale—First-class general stock,

$3,500. Live town, 25 miles from Grand

| Rapids. Apply E. D. Wright, care Mus-

|selman Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
576

Quick |

in Northern Michi- |

the | ceries,

|for selling will be entirely

For Sale-—One of the nicest little drug |
| stores ‘in the best business city of 30,000
in Southern Michigan. Rent $35. Have

| bought and paid for $2,000 home off this |

store the past year. June sales
$800. Address No. 764,
| Tradesmiz an. 764

For Sale—Modern meat market,
voicing about $1.500 in
Michigan town of 1,500 inhabitants.
son, if health Address No. 741,
| Michigan ‘Tradesman.

Sale—The D. Robeson ship chand-
awnings, sails, paints,
2 business; established
years, at Port Huron, Mich.
tate and business must be sold owing to
i health. Apply to Schoolcraft & “ee
Port Huron, Mich. 743

For Sale—Harness business in one of
} the best harness towns in Western Penn-
|} svIlvania. Good _ schools. County seat.
Stock and fixtures $2,000.

 

in-

Rea-
care
741

 

 
  

over 30

 

|for selling. Investigate. Address Lock
Box 182, Ebensburg, Pa. 742
For Sale-—Bazaar, dry goods and no-

| tions in Central Michigan.
| business.
| voices $6.900 to $7,000 cash.

Ten years in

The chance

 

}of your hfe. Write No. 760, care Mich-
igan Traaesman. 76
For Sale—My drug stock and fixtures

over |
care Michigan |

| adjoining dwelling.
thriving Central |

oils and wood- |

Real es- |

Best reasons |

| lation
|} farming community.
Mich. 749 |

~ For ‘Sale ¢ or - Trade—One ‘hundred ‘shares
of the Watson, Durand-Kasper Grocery

 

Co.’s capital stock, of Salina. Enquire |
W. J: Huehes, Box 367, Enid, O. T. 598
For Sale--A good clean stock of gro- |

lamps and crockery, located in
one of the brightest business towns in
Central Michigan. Has electric lights,
water works and telephone system, popu-
1,500 and surrounded by
Store is situated on
of the street and one of
locations on the street. No
will be entertained, but reasons
satisfactory to
Address No. 422, care
Tradesman. 422
Sale at a bargain, small stock of
n general merchandise and store with
Wish to go out of
September 1. —
21

popular side
the finest
trades

the purchaser.
Michigan

For
clea

 

business before

Bargain, care Tradesman.
For Sale—Wholesale and retail b: aes

confectionery and ice cream plant in the

 

| heart of the largest coal field in Colorado.

Also in the oi] belt. Invoice $2,500. Will
sell for $1,400 if taken at once. Box 403,
Florence, Colo. 726
For Rert—Store building
ed: live town of 1,000 inhabitants; Ber-
rien county; good country; large
Icts of business. Address Lizzie Wigent.
Watervliet, Mich. 761
For Sale—Grocery and crockery stock.
A good clean stock, good store building

“just complet-

 

| Situated in best of location and on popu-

| lar side of the street,

Sufficient profits to retire. In- |

|

lor exchange,
| Frank P.

of about two thousand dollars. Very
|} cheap if taken at once. Good reason for
selling. Hackett, Wolverine,
Mich. 46

For Sale—Dirt Cheap, cheese factory,
skimming station or creamery at North |
Dorr. Zeeland Cheese Co.,

Zeeland, Mich.
786

 

For Sale-—A good paying drug stock in
Michigan. Will sell for invoice price
Address No. 788, care Michigan Trades-

me
de

man.

Hand Laundry for
business; established ten years;
for selling, poor health. Address Box 425,
Fowlervile, Mich. 787

For Sale—Drug stock in town of 700.
Nearest drug store 12 miles. Reason for
| selling, am not registered. Address ae
789, care Michigan Tradesman. 78

Wanted—To buy stock of ee

 

sale, doing good

 

 

j}from $4,000 to $30,000 for cash. Address
| No. 253, care Michigan Tradesman. 253

Wanted—Stock of general merchandise
or clothing or shoes. Give full particu-

lars.. Address ‘‘Cash,’’ care Tradesman.
| 324
|

Cash for your stock. Our business is

| closing out stocks of goods or making
sales for merchants at your own place of
| business, private or auction. We clean

; out all old dead stickers and make you a
| profit. Write for information. Chas. L.
| Yost & Co., Detroit, Mich. 250 |

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
|} wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
}sonville. House and barn on_ premises.
| Pere Marquette Railroad runs across one
__| corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 28 Morris Ave., South, Grand
Rapids, Mich. 835

For Sale—Factory doing a good custom

business. Plenty of work on hand. Pres-

ent owner has age and infirmities. Ad-

dress Jackson Rug Co., Jackson, Mich.
tie

~ For Sale—General stock, store building,
| dwelling and barn located in thriving por-
| tion of Holland colony. Only store within
four miles. Enquire 240 Alpine avenue,

‘eee Rapids, or Michigan ae

reason |

in active up-to-date
town of 1,500 in the midst of good farm-
ing country. Address No. 666, care Michi-
gan Tradesman.

 

 

For Sale—A large se and. safe,
fire and burglar-proof. Write or come
and see it. H. S. Rogers Co., Copemish,
Mich. Tis

Stores Bought ‘and Sold—I sell stores
and real estate for cash. I exc hange |

| stores for land. If you want to buy, sell |
it will pay you to write me.
Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Bide., Chicago, TL 511
For Sale—$8,000 stock of
and rubber goods.

 

boots, shoes

 

splendid |

jand Indiana.
| services

}answers guaranteed by

Wanted—Salesman
confectionery

wholesale
trade to handle excellent
side line. A winner. Address No. 796,
care Michigan Tradesman. 796
Wanted—Experienced traveling sales-
men of good ability and clean record
who are now employed and holding good
positions, but wish to better themselves.
A large Chicago specialty house desires
the services of several men for Mich‘gan
Good salary and expenses
advancement assured if
satisfactory. No  ‘‘flash-
“has beens’? need apply. All
the Michigan
Trad esman to be strictly confidential. Ad-
dress No. 757, care Michigan Tradesman.
Wt
Wanted—An experienced man for cloth-
ing and furnishings. Good permanent po-

making

 

and
are
lizhts’’ or

to start

 

sition for a good man. Address ‘“Cloth-
ing,’’ care Michigan Tradesman. 7129
Wanted—Salesmen to carry double tip-

ped silk
side line.
Fulton 8St.,

gloves to the retail trade as a
Address Manufacturer, 51 E.
G loversville, mh. YX.

Salesman to carry a good side line that

 

 

will pay traveling expenses. Sells to
house furnishing, general and hardware
stores. Pocket model free. Season now

on. Novelty Mfge. Co., , Ottawa, = 339 |

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS.

 

Ferry Auctioneers.

a & Co., The
leading sales company of the U. S. We
ean sell your real estate, or any stock of
goods, in any part of the country. Our
method of advertising ‘the best.’ Our
*“‘terms’’ are right. Our men are gentle-
;men. Our sales are a success. Or we
will buy your stock. Write us, 32
Dearborn St., ue h lic Ago, Il. _490_

resort; |

Good established busi- |

ness and all new desirable goods. Only |
exclusive shoe stock in city. Owner's
health failed and stock will be closed |
cut for cash or good securities. Thrifty
town of 3,000 in Central Michigan. <Ad-
| dress Lock Box 83, Corunna, Mich. 641

~ Wanted—Established mercantile or
| manufacturing business. Will pay cash.
Give full particulars and lowest price. |
Address No. 652, care Michigan Trades-

 

man. 652
Pacific Coast. Terminus of Grand Trunk
Pacific. Skeena River Route.
Powerful stern wheel steamer,
Bunt by C. P. BK. Co. in 1898. Klondike
rush. Cost $30,000. Will pay for herself
in a2 year. Price $5,000. Particulars, H.
«A. Jones, 405 Cordova St., Vancouver,
> 764

 

 

POSITIONS WANTED

 

For sale— |
Hamlin. |

Young lady desires a position in dry |
guvods or general store. Has had experi- }
ence and good references to show upon}
request. Address No. 801, care Michigan |

Tradesman.
Situation

801
Wanted—Position wanted by
young man to do some light work at
home, like copying letters, folding
lars, ete., good reference. H. C.
Cameren, Wis. 192

 

 

 

HELP WANTED.

Wanted At Once—An experienced
clerk. Must be of good character,
and young. A good place for the
man. Address No. 794, care
Vradesman.

 

 

drug
active
right

734

 

Wanted—An experienced clothing sales- |

man as head clerk, one who can assist in
buying. Must come well recommended,
of good address, neat attire, a mixer, gen-
tlemanly, active and energetic, good
stock-keeper. Young man prefrered. Ad-
dress F. B. Baldwin & Co., Muskegon,
Mich, 778

Michigan |

| closing out any odds and ends on hand?

Want hd. Sielatiteaed on nid page.

 

 

WE ARE EXPERT
AUCTIONEERS

and have never had a fail-
ure becvause we come our-

selves and are familiar
with all methods of auc-

tioneering. Write to-day.

R. H. B. MACRORIE
AUCTION CO..
Davenport, fa.

MAKE US PROVE

 

 

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I. S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH

MERCHANTS, “HOW IS TRADE?” Do
you want to close out or reduce your stock b
We
| positively guarantee you a profit on all reduction
| sales over allexpenses. Our plan of advertising
is surely a winner; our long experience enables us
| to produce results that will please you. We can
| furnish you best of bank references, also many
| Chicago jobbing houses; write us for terms,
| dates and full particulars,

Taylor & Smith, 53 River St., Chicago

 

AUCTION SALES

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conducted in your
own store

are a success.

Auctioneering is
my business.

 

THATS ALL
A. W. Thomas, Auctioneer
|477 Wabash Ave., Chicago

 

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INTER-STATE COMMERCE.

 

How Grand Rapids Is Interested in
the Subject.

“Are the business men of Grand |
Rapids interested at all in all this
mental, moral and political commotion
over the great problem of interstate
commerce?” was asked of one of the
leading shippers in Grand Rapids.

“Interested at all!” he replied.
“Well, I should say we are! Why,
it’s the biggest proposition now be-
fore the people of America and Grand
Rapids and the whole of Michigan
are especially interested.”

“In just what way?” was the next
inquiry.

“In every way. We are, all of us,
discriminated against in one way or
another either on service, rates, re-
bates or time. There isn’t anything
certain as to what we are going to
get, when we are to get it, what con-
dition it will be in when it is received
or how much it is going to cost us.
The whole thing is simply rank.”

“Such a generalization has no value.
Are you able to present full details
as to a specific case or do you know
of any individual or firm who can do
so?” was asked of the gentleman,
who, by this time, was in a fever of
indignation.

“Yes, I know of specific cases, |
dozens of ’em! But what’s the use
of going up against a corporation

combination? No person, firm or com-
paratively small corporation, has the
ghost of a show of winning out in a
fight with the great trusts. They
not only own and control the best |
legal talent in the country, but they
control all means of communication
—telegraphs, telephones, the Press—”

“Hold on,” interrupted the Press
representative, “you are getting be-
yond your depth. Wade out.”

“IT am not beyond my _ depth!”
warmly responded the big shipper.
“The Press is subsidized, muzzled,
they dare not say a word.”

“That’s just like the wild wander-
ings of the average business man,”
replied the interviewer, who by this
time was experiencing a rising tem-
perature. And then the man seeking
the interview proceeded to show the
shipper that the present phenomenal
revelations as to municipal and state
corruption, as to the leaks and thiev-
ery in governmental departments at
Washington, as to the Standard Oil
“System” and the Life Insurance
business, are due very largely to the
untrammeled, impartial and fearless
work of the Press as an entity.

“T’}] tell you what you producers
and shippers lack,” continued the rep-
resentative of the Press, “you lack
accurate and authentic knowledge of
the subject you are so ready to dis-
cuss.”

 

“What do you mean by _ that?”
asked the big shipper.

“JT mean that the average shipper
never thinks of looking at any phase
of the problem except the little lim-
ited feature of the question that rep-
resents his own business,” said the

newspaper man. “This question of

transportation is one that is so big
that it reaches every section of the
country. And it is to be looked at

from that standpoint. It is a ques-
tion certain to go before a_ special
session of Congress next November
and it is one which is liable to call
upon any producer or shipper for
such testimony as they may be able
to give to the Congressional Com-
mittees having the investigation in
charge. In consequence of these facts
it is plainly the duty of every pub-
lic spirited citizen to ‘get next’ to this
matter to the very last limit; find
out their exact rights and the rights
of common carriers, learn what is
going on in the various legislatures
and what the courts all over the land
are doing in the premises. Then
when a man thus informed charges
this or that or the other thing he
will not find himself ‘talking through

his hat”
“IT guess you're pretty nearly
right,’ commented the big shipper

as the two men approached the cigar
counter.

—_—__.> + >
Experiment in Co-Operative Distri-
bution.

Detroit, July 25—Co-operation in
the purchase and sale of groceries,
meats and all household supplies is
the plan of the American Family
Supply Co., which has opened stores

at 441-443 Grand River avenue.

The company has been organized
under the laws of Michigan with a
capital stock of $10,000, and the pur-
chase of one of its $10 shares entitles
the stockholder to a discount of 5
per cent. on all of the goods bought
at the store. The sale of stock is
limited to ten shares to any one fami-
ly, but the holder of one share is en-
titled to the same discounts as the
holder of ten. The stock is expected
to pay an annual dividend of 7 per
cent.

“T have made a careful study of the
methods of co-operative stores and
other industries in this country and
in England and Australia,” says
Charles V. Kerns, Vice-President and
General Manager of the company.
“Nothing of the kind has ever been
tried in Detroit, and I believe that
the plan upon which our company is
organized will prove most successful.

“Twenty-five per cent. of the sales
of the stock is to be set aside as a
sinking or self-insurance fund as a
protection against any loss on our
zoods. I have been working on the
idea for many years and I think I
have it worked out so the company
will be one of mutual benefit to all of
the stockholders.

“Alfred Eades, President, A. F.
Posselius, Secretary and Treasurer,
and myself own a majority of the
stock, so we can control the affairs
of the company. If the plan works
out the way we expect it to do, we
will increase our capital stock, and in
addition to the large stock of gro-
ceries and meats we now have, we
will add house furnishings and
ciothing departments to our store.”

Manager. Kerns was formerly in the
preserving business until forced out
by the trust, and recently he has been
employed by the Union Trust Co. as
2 copyist in the County Clerk’s office.
President Eades formerly ran a cigar
store at 62 Gratiot avenue.

 

REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

T. J. Milliken, the Pioneer Grocer of
St. Clair.

St. Clair, July 25—T. J. Millikin
as just passed the 57th milestone of
life. He was born in Canada, July
11, 1848. His father, John Millikin,
a native of North Ireland, settled in
Sherbrook, Ont., 1840. The
elder Millikin was a man of force and

about

oi much influence with the settlers
in that region. He was prominently
identified with the intellectual life of
the community, being an_ efficient
school teacher, popular local preach-
er and farmer. His life was a busy
one and his early death has been
ascribed to the hard work he per-
formed for others.

T. J. Millikin was the youngest of
a family of nine. He was educated
in Canada and after leaving school
served a four years’ apprenticeship in
In 1870

His first six

a drug store in Chatham.
he came to St. Clair.
years here were spent with Henry
Whiting & Son.
saved he then opened a small drug

With the money

and grocery store on Jay street. The
business was a success from the be-
ginning and in 1881, a change of lo-
cation and larger quarters being de-
sired, was moved to the site now oc-
cupied by Millikin & Son. Since the
destruction of his stock by fire the
whole interior of this building has
been remodeled, a new front put in
and an addition erected in the rear,
which makes it one of the best, if not
the best, business sites in the city.
His son, M. H. Millikin, was taken
in as partner with his father after
the fire and a look at their store will
at once commend it as one in the
highest degree creditable to St. Clair.

Mr. Millikin has done business in
this city for thirty-five years, all but
six of which have been for himself.
In that time he has gained an envia-
ble reputation for skillful manage-
ment and courteous treatment of and
fair dealing with others. The firm
carries a large stock of the best
drugs and groceries to be had in the
market.

Mr. Millikin was married in De-
cember, 1872, to Miss Anna Fox, of
St. Clair. To them have been born
five children, of whom one, Ray, died
in infancy. The survivors are well
known to our people, especially Mor-
ris H., who is in business with his
father, and Miss May, who keeps
books in the store and is a popular
music teacher in the city.

Mr. Millikin is a prominent mem-
ber and trustee of the M. E. church
and Mrs. Millikin is one of the stew-
ards.

He is also an active worker in fra-
ternal societies. He is a Past Chan-
cellor in the Knights of Pythias, a
worthy patron in the order of the
Eastern Star, a Worshipful Master
in Evergreen Lodge and has served
a number of terms as High Priest in
the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons.
In 1878, 1879 and 1880 he filled the
position of City Clerk. He is a pub-

 

lic spirited citizen, always ready to
aid in pushing anything that will ben-
efit the town in which he lives.

—_-- >
Muskegon Grocers and Butchers to
Picnic Aug. 3.

Muskegon, July 24—Mona Lake
has been designated as the place for
holding the grocers’ and _ butchers’
picnic on August 3. Frank Scott,
proprietor of the resort, made the
committee a liberal offer in turning
over the grounds and buildings for
picnic purposes. The larger part of
the number of features of the day

have already been selected.

This is to be a basket picnic for
grocers and butchers and their friends
in and around the city. Ample pro-
vision for all comers will be made.
The resort features, controlled by Mr.
Scott, will be running in addition to
the affairs arranged for by the picnic
committee. In charge of the arrange-
ments are Oscar Peterson, Henry
Ringuette and Ed. Sturgiss.

Two balloon ascensions will be
given—one at II a. m. and one at 5 p.
m. There will be dancing from 1:30
until late in the evening.
band will be on the

Beerman’s
Muskegon
grounds all day and there will be
special music for the dances.

give
complete car service all day and even-
ing and boats will be running on the
lake.

The grocers and butchers are en-
thusiastic over the prospects for a
success of their
picnics a few years ago was pro-
nounced and the experienced men of
the old times are getting busy for the
occasion. Lake Michigan
park was under consideration but the
prevailing sentiment of the dealers
as elicited by an informal canvassing
committee was for Mona Lake.

—_+

Leslie—The management of the
McLaughlin & Ward elevator has
changed hands, D. C. Morea retiring
at the end of his contract year. E.
W. Potter, the produce merchant,
takes the management of the same
and will handle his hay and produce
business in connection at the eleva-
tor.

=
=,
BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Good clean grocery stock;
Southeastern Nebraska; town of 13,000;

The traction company will

good picnic. The

coming

 

 

 

 

 

 

spleudid iocation; stock and _ fixtures
$1.60); cash only. L. R. Stevens, Beatrice,
Neb. 751

 

For Sale—Number seven Blickensdorfer

typewriter; just the thing for country
merchant. Ernest McLean. Livingston
Hotel Grand Rapids, Mich. 740

 

For Sale—Only harness shop in town of
2500 inhabitants, at invoice. Address Ed.
Cordeman, Chetopa, Kansas. 769

For Sale—Clothing and shoe business
in a lively up-to-date town of 2,000. Stock
will invoice about $9,000. Annual sales,
$18,900. Good reason for selling. Ad-
dress No. 768, care Michigan a

 

 

The store vacated by Gitts & Co., at
Marsnall, Minnesota, is for rent. En-
quire or write M. E. Mathews, Marshall,
Minnesota. 760

Wanted—Merchandise for cash and lots
in a city of 7,000. Address No. 763, care
Michigan Tradesman. 763

Chance to sell for cash, all machinery
in your factory or mill mortgaged or
otherwise. Hastings Metal & Machinery
Co., Hastings, Mich, 680