patie = eee ~ pit Pe IO ses et ee ee gr ey pe a aaa eee ee nate Sa SSRN nese oe SE EE GT. AONE a emepe Ane weeaes meee rams re oe neo VOL. 7 EED Write for jobbing prices on Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, Field Peas, Beans, Produce and WOOL. C. Ainsworth 76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids. BUSINESS UNIVERSITY West Michigan “,Xp Normat scnoot. (Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.) A thoroughly equipped, vermanently estab- lished and pleasantly i sated College. rooms have been especially designed in accord ance with the latest approved plans. The faculty is composed of the most competent and prac tical teachers. Students graduating from this Insti- tution MUST be efficient and PRACTICAL, best of references furnished upon application. Our Normal Department is in charge of experi enced teachers of established reputation. Satis- S | w The class | | Millinery to sell. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN Potatoes, Onions FOR WRITE TO PRICES, Wholesale Dealers BARNETT BRO CHICAGO. FOR SALE We have a stock of Dry Goods and Can be bought cheap for cash. Appraised value, $1,332. Can | be seen at our store. The | factory boarding places secured for all who} apply tous. Do not go elsewhere without first personally interviewing or writing us for full particulars. Investigate and decide for your | | selves. Students may enter at any time. Address | West Michigan Business.Univ ersity and Normal School, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. U. Lean, Principal. A. E, YEREX, Sec’y and Treas. Chas. Pettersch, JOBBER OF Imported and Domestic Cheese Swiss and Limburger a Specialty. 161--163 West Bridge St., Telephone 123 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 7 TE COUNTY SAVISGs BAS sst TROIT, MICH 500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school dis tricts of Michigan. Officers of these municipali ties about to is-ue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bond: and blanks for proceedings supplied without charge. All communications and inquiries wil have prompt attention. January, 1890. S. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer. BASEMENT TO RENT The large, light and dry basement under the Steele meat market, in the MeMullen block, 19 and 21 So. Division street. Large doors in rear open even to alley. Apply on premises to W. G. SINCLAIR & CO. - O. Voorheis, GENERAL INSURANCE AND LOAN AGENT, TELEPHONE 980. Widdicomb Buiiding, Grand Rapids. HARVEY & HEYSTEX, Wholesale Dealers in AND RE TO Picture ape ? Frame ‘ fn Mavldings | Also a oa line of PAINTS, O'LS an} BRUSHES Correspondence solicited. 74 & 76 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich 10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., } SPRING & COMPANY. aying Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel lynch, 19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WILLIAMS, SHELEY & BROOKS Suecessors to Farrand, Williams & Co., ‘Wholesale Druggists, AT THE OLD TAND Corner Bates and Larned Streets, Detroit. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTRH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, (Successors to Steele & Gardner.) Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials. Grand Rapids. TESD. AY, APRIL ¢ 2, 1890. In the Spring. In the spring the artful angler will begin to fish and lie: In the spring each dish of gravy drowning fly. will contain a In the spring we'll taste w tle bovine’s milk; ithe spring our wives new summer silk. ild onions in the gen will clamor for a brand Id th’ sprig by cold will settle very sadly id by head; In the spring our neighbor's poultry will destroy our posey bed. | In sy — to save house-cleaning, every one ill have to move; “Tn tl te spring ayoung m: ur s fancy lightly turns | to thoughts of love. — > << AN INVALID IN CAMP. | From the Northwestern Lumberman. In 1872, when ina Hoosier college, 1 |met aman who was apparently in the last stages of consumption. He was a |member of the junior class, or class of >¢?3. His purpose upon entering the col- | lege was to take a classical diploma and then enter the law as a profession. But Michigan Tradesman. student should do all the work while he looked on and bossed the job. In afew weeks his strength had in- ereased until he asked the foreman if he might not He was sistant some more vigorous task. ly promoted from as- cook to be assistant stable boy and groomer. Without a word of protest, to the barn he went. Only a few days were oceup vied in this capacity until he was given an ax and rapid pro- try according horse motion followed, until he was installed at one end of a cross-cut saw. He had in the meantime won the confidence of the boss and the good-will of the men, and his superior education enabled him to render valuable services in the way of jcounsel and planning the detail of the | camp. He was before long made boss of a gang, and in this capacity he passed the long, cold winter months in the woods. | peared at the college | bodiment of |too mild a word to express the i\his health failing him at the climax of his college career, he was compelled to | give up his fond hope of one day posing | time to settle |} more than surprised at his condition. }so. far i suce as a brilliant lawyer and politician. The doctors informed him that if he had any unsettled business affairs he had better look after them, as his days were few. | But the invalid had more grit than vital- ity, and determined that if death con-} quered him, it would not be without a} | hard-fought battle. He aecordingly | packed his grip and took the train for} ithe northern woods of Michigan, and ended his journey in a lumber thirty miles from any settlement. He appeared at the camp one afternoon and asked the foreman fora job. The l|iumberman looked him over and sized camp | but the results of him up with the intuitive instinets of aj } When in the summer he town, the health and vigor, following ap- very em- surprise is feelings which his friends greeted him. His who had given him but barely his business affairs, were He out on a farm, and, still a healthy and rower. with doctors, went as I know, is essful stock gt I believe the pine and rough camp life of the lumberman not been reckoned among the institutions of the country, and yet the experience of this student would seem to entitle them to such a position. gave up books, woods, the , have sanitarian I was at that time in health, woods life perfect my friend’s were deeply impressed upon my mind, and I resolved that if ever occasion arose I would follow his example. Ten years passed and my time came. I was filled with malaria and the lingering effects of what was ealled ‘Asiatic diarrhcea,’’ contraeted during a hot sum | mer passed in central China, and failing to getrelief from medicine in th I determined to e usual way, follow Smith’s example and try the woods. This was in July, 11881, and I took a steamer at Norfolk for New York, and thence by rail into the |; woodsman, and replied, ‘*You want a} job? What in the h—Ican you do ina} lumber camp? You had better apply to an undertaker for the job of furnish- | ing a stiff for a wake. However,’’ he went on to say, ‘I have a job for you. | We have a stiff on the rvof of the horse | shed, waiting an opportunity for sending him home to his friends, and we have a spare horse and a sled, and you will just | ill the bill to take this fellow to the rail- | road station and ship him to his The fact was, that one of the the camp had been killed tree a few days before, and had laid vent it from becoming offensive, by a falling the foreman and home.’’ | men in| at | either the corpse on the shed to pre- | was | waiting an opportunity of shipping it to} the dead man’s home, The following morning the spare horse | | was harnessed and the sled loaded with ithe ghastly freight, and Smith was di- rected to take the cargo to the railway station, thirty miles away, and ship it. The foreman caleulated that this intro- duction to camp life would end his as- pirations in that direction. He had accordingly sent to the keeper of the hotel at the station a note requesting him | to take charge of the horse if the driver |left by the train, until he had a chance |toreturn it to theeamp. This precau- ition, however, was unnecessary, as the driver carefully boxed and shipped the |dead man, and, after a night’s rest, or- dered his horse harnessed and returned to the camp. When he drove up and | handed the foreman the freight receipt, his stock went up in thatcamp. The men said, ‘‘That chap’s got grit, any- iway.’? So the foreman asked the stu- dent if he really meant to undertake the rough life of a woodsman. Being in- formed of the faets in the case, he told i Smith that he might begin his career as | assistant cook and dish-washer-in-chief. | Smith expressed his gratitude and went lat once to work. In afew days he had ishown such proficiency in his new char- iacter that he was accorded a hearty wel- | come by his superior in the kitchen, who | ‘evinced a surprising willingness that the’ Western at a small sawmill hid away base of two high ran hand, and = introduced to the mill owner by a half-drunken driver with hemlock hills of Pennsylvania. I appeared the res of hills on whom I had come from the railroad sta- tion, fourteen miles away. The driver did not know my name, so he called the | boss out to where we stood and said, “This ’ere feller is huntin’ a job, and | told him Le be w antin’ a few more men. I reekon he’! do.’ The “atl stood before me, clad in a straw hat with the crown torn out, a shirt and a pair of brown cotton overalls held up by one suspender, and shingle nails thrust through the cloth took the place of buttons. He was barefooted, and his overalls were rolled half up to his knees. In his mouth was a short- stemmed clay pipe, from which he pulled the cloud of smoke from a charge of the blackest and cmenet st tobacco. He sized me up with a brief glance as | stood be- fore him in Pluses Albert coat, patent leather shoes, ‘‘biled shirt’? and silk hat; a more striking contrast between two men could seareely be found. The lum- berman’s entire outfit cost less by half that either my shoes or hat, vet I stood before him in the relation of an appli- eant fora as alaborer. The ludi- ecrous situation was rather more than my sense of humor could withstand. But I was in for an adventure, and so 1 was going to have it out. The mill man invited me in to supper, and Isat down toalong table, around which remained in confused order about job a dozen dirty dishes, beside each of which was a mound of potato parings; the men had had their feed before I ar- 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. rived. A young girl came into view | from an adjacent shed with a plate of | boiled potatoes in each hand, and set one before me, and the other before Nate, the | teamster who had conducted me to the mill. Nota sign of either meat or bread | was in sight, so { followed the move- | ments of my newly-made chum, and/| piled the ‘‘tater jackets’ to one side of | my plate, and mashed the well-steamed | bulbs inte a paste, and flavored it with | salt and pepper to suit the taste, and | thus partook of my initial meal as a lum- | berman. The house stood about fifty steps from the sawmill, and was constructed of hemlock boards stood up endwise, and nailed to a crude framework, and the cracks were battened over with narrow strips of boards. The roof was likewise of boards, and no interior finish what- ever had been attempted. The ground plan of this house was of the plainest architecture — simply board partitions separated the family sleeping room in one end, from the sitting and dining room all in one, at the other end. A very plain but substantial stairway led to the second floor or loft, in which were six or eight beds. In this loft lived from ten to fifteen men. Iwas assigned to one bed with the engineer, who was the boss’ brother. The beds were simply big bags filled with oats straw, and the pillows were likewise of straw. As 1 laid my head upon my pillow to sleep, I could see the cheery face of the man in the moon grinning at me through the cracks in the | reof. The next morning the gang was sum- moned to breakfast bright and early, and we all sat down to partake of another meal of boiled potatoes, this time with a cut of fat bacon. After breakfast the miller came out into the mill yard, where I sat upon a hemlock log, and agreed to pay me $18 a month and board me if I wished to work. I ‘‘accepted the position’? with becoming meekness, and he then asked me where my working clothes were, adding that the duds I had on were hardly the usual thing in the woods. I replied that 1 had not provided myself with an outfit, but would try it as I was. So, divesting myself of my coat and vest, and appropriating a silk trav- eling cap which I had in my pocket, I shouldered an ax and marched to the ‘‘slashen,’’ as they called the fallen and skinned trunks of hemlock trees as they are left by the tanbark peelers. My first task was at clearing roads through the brush and bushes for the loggers. Be- fore noon my soft hands were swollen and blistered, but I kept at work. I did not require to be sung to sleep that night. As luck would have it, Nate came home the next night the worse for too much beer. He drove a mule team every day, to market a load of hemlock lumber at a small city fourteen miles away. At intervals of about every three miles along the road were hotels, at which stale beer and bad whisky constitute the stock in trade. Nate had imbibed too freely, and was unfit to take his trip the next day. My hands were so sore that I could searcely hold an ax, so the boss asked me if I could drive a team. I told him that I had grown up holding plow handles in Kentucky, and if there was one thing 1 could do better than another, it was to drive ateam. I was sent with the loaded wagon that day, and, as I did not tarry by the wayside bars, I made a/| record by getting home a full hour earlier than usual, and upon careful examina- | tion the mules appeared to be none | worse for wear. My fortune was made. I was promoted to drive the mule team |; between the mill and the market. As I look back at those days I cannot suppress a smile. I was known among the other hands as “‘that feller.”” Iam sure the whole gang set me down asa fugitive from justice in hiding. But the chance afforded by my new position as teamsterof getting one good square meal every day was a great boon. As soon as I gota little better acquainted with the women folks at the ranch, I suggested that a sop of molasses for breakfast had always been a favorite dish with me, and | that I would bring home a jug of mo- lasses, if they approved. They approved. | Soon I ventured to bring home a roast of | beef, and we had a regular feast for Sun- | day. In the meantime, I had gained the ' |time of the men, and confidence of the boss, and he would ask me to collect money for him, where I sold the lumber, and to measure up cer- tain stocks, and to keep record of the step by step I worked up to be book-keeper, supply purchaser and a sort of confidential ad- viser. As winter came on, I got into high top boots, flannel shirts and coarse | clothing, and entered into the most | hearty sympathy with the new life. I | bought a gun and some traps, and made war on muskrats, squirrels and sundry |game thereabout. My Sundays were hunting days, and for months I lived without the sight of book or newspaper, and to this day 1 look back with a sort of longing for the free and unconven- tional life in the woods. No malaria could withstand the pure air, hearty eating and vigorous recrea- tion of that winter. My taste of the peculiar fascination in lumbering that fall and winter led me to seek further experience, and for three years subse- | quently I traveled around the Eastern | markets in search of buyers of white | opportunity | | came to get back to my first love, news- | pine lumber. Then the paper work, and I bade farewell to the lumber camp and the trade. But I shall ever feel a kinship to every man I meet with the rich perfume of newly-sawed pine or other lumber upon him. W. G. BENTON. Magic Coffee Roaster. The Best in the World. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—eapacity 35 Ibs.—I1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, 48-50 Long St., CLEVELAND, OHIO. Remus ROLLER MILLs, Remus, Mich., Jan. 20, 1890. Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. : Gentlemen—The roller mill put in by you last August has run from twelve to fifteen hours every day since it started and is giving entire satisfaction. Your Purifier and Flour Dresser are dandies. I have used nearly all the best purifiers and bolting machines made, and can say yours discounts them all. Any miller who intends making any change in his mill will save money to use your machines, for They Can Do the Work. Yours truly, D. L. GARLING. Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes AND General Sporting Goods Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s Sporting and Athletic Goods and American Powder Co.’s Powder. We have on hand a complete line of Columbia. 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GRAND RAPIDS, MICR ran kint a & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 ane 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MIET "Sn We Manufacture Everything in the line of ~ Gandy Correspondence solic- ited and prices quot- ed with pleasure. Write us. MOSHELEY BROS. ——_WHOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters: Produce All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St. - - GRAND RAPID: EDWIN FALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Eggs, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Froits, Mince Meat, Nats, Fi Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Dairy Butter. Special Bargain in Choice Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mic: Grand Rapids Frvitand Produce Go. JOBBER OF POREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Harriette—Garrison & Lee have opened a meat market. Corunna—Amsden & Ford have opened | a grocery store. Sault Ste. Marie—Andrew Hotton wil) open a meat market. Quincy—N. C. Pease has purchased the grocery stock of E. J. Clizbe. Kent City—John McKinnon has sold his meat market to a Mr. Price. Traverse City—L. Sabin has opened a grocery and boot and shoe store. Kingston—F. J. Gifford has general stock to E. E. Pulling & Co. North East Assyria—Mr. Hagerman | has sold his grocery store to Mrs. Kenyon. sold his South Haven—Ransom & Sons succeed E. W. Edgerton in the clothing business. Greenville—Ed. Van Wormer has sold J. H. Edsall. has business to Stewart his restaurant Bear i.ake—Geo. bought an interest in the meat business of D. Hi. Barr. Howell—Edward Gorton has purchased the undertaking business of S. B. Loek- wood. MecCord’s—Chas. F. ceeds Calkins & Freyermuth in general trade. Manchester—T. B. of Freyermuth sue- Bailey has sold his stoek groceries to Gieske & Dressel- house. Vermontville—Geo. S. Downs has sold his grocery and crockery stock to Cyrus Prince. Burnip’s Corners—C. W. Weaver & Co. are succeeded in the drug business by A. P. Sriver. Evart—E. F. stock of about April 1. Eaton Rapids—F. Z. his stock of jewelry and stationery to E. E. Trayer. Ellis—Martin E. Flynn has purchased sirdsall & Co., hardware will open a and implements Hamilton has sold Samuel Fox’s reneral store and will con- tinue the business. Bennett have dissolved, Mr. Norris con- Cambria & Norris, general deaiers, tinuing the business. Manisti have enl: & Co. their grocery business, and que—Klagstad, Larson irgea added a meat market. Rochester—Reimer & Taylor, hardware dealers, have dissolved. H. J. Taylor continues the business. East Tawas—Richards Bros. & Hub- bell succeed Richards, Hubbell & Co. in the hardware business. Haight «& The continued by Mr. Pitts. & Baler the Pitt business Owosso — s, druggists, have dissolved. will be Ludington succeed Ward boot and shoe business. Gary Gary, & Baker in tailoring, \ — Traverse City their Vinnie & Fleming have closed braneh Acme, and store, at removed the stock t Muskegon the clothing business of Brown & Friend. 0 this plac ec. Lou Brown has purchased and will continue at the old stand. Standish Blumenthal Goldberg, M. Blu- continue the business. Wilson J. Dunning in the « general dealers, have dissolved. menthal will has Hesperia—Robert pur- chased the interest of hardware firm of J. Dunning & Co. “A. om. & Coe, dealers in boots and shoes and dry goods. Kingsbury Edmore Slemons & Co. Cedar Springs—Ira Peck has his meat market toW. H. McConnell. Mr. Peck will do only a wholesale business. are succeeded by M. E. sold .Muskegon—Garrett Allting has sold his meat market to Martin will continue the business at the same place. Belding—L. L. and L. B. open, April 1, a line of gents’ furnishing Holmes will goods, under the firm name of Holmes | : : ok a wheat cleaning machine to their mill. Bros. W oodland—2J. Parrott vator and warehouse opens. Downington—Frank & Brophy, hard- W. Hathaway and L. have arranged to build an ele- as soon ware dealers, have dissolved. iness will be continued by W. W. Brophy. Blissfield—French & Crawford, dealers in agricultural implements, have dis- Rk. B. French continue the solved. will business. Hastings—E. H. Lathrop has sold his stock of drugs to Fred Hotehkiss, who formerly conducted the business for sev- eral years. Sault Ste. Marie—The | | } 3ros., who | |ing mill to Henry Dubbink. as spring | | Baffy, The bus- Thompson. | ber business. | has | stock of $50,000. ;}eompany of which he is manager for the furniture stock | of the late N. V. Gabriel has been pur- | chased by Gardner & Mondor, who will continue the business. Howard City—Geo. P. Bennett | Lewis or Bay City Lumber Co. has been has | withdrawn from the firm of Ashley &| Bennett, dry goods dealers. will continue the business. Otsego—Jos. : the grocery Derhammer. The tinued by Truesdale & Son. Gobleville—The Arthur B. Clark drug, grocery and crockery stoek was bid in at & will be con- from firm of Truesdale business | Lake, and will builda planing mill at | Works, a corporation formed for the pur- mortgage sale by W. S. Crosby & Co., | who will continue the business. Camden—D. G. Smith, dealer in dry goods and groceries, is succeeded by | Smith & Hubbell, which firm has pur- chased the drug stock of J. C. Bradley. and G. H. Bennink will shortly open a flour and Muskegon—John Stegink feed, hay and grain store, doing business | under the firm name of Stegink and Ben- | nink. Big Rapids—Roberts, Butler & Co., of Utica, N. Y., the parties who held the} mortgage on the ‘Ideal’? clothing stock, | have disposed of the same to Thos. Skelton, of this city. Big Rapids—Calkins & Warren have} purchased the interest of their late part- ner, Fitch Phelps, in the Phelps Lumber Co. and will continue the business under | the firm style above given. Adrian—The dry goods stock of F. J. | Taggart & Co. was sold at sale to H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, mortgage for $7,500. The purchasers subsequently sold the stock to Metealf & Co. Kalamazoo—J. W. C. Smith, who re- | Chapoton, Jr. cently executed mortgages on his oil bus- | iness to Schofield, $6,400, gave that firma bill of sale on the 25th, to avoid foreclosure. Big Rapids—Chas. E. Raper has _ pur- chased an interest in the grocery busi- Wm. A. Verity. The new firm will be known as Verity & Co. and will also embark in the bakery business. Sheridan—A. M. Stebbins, cently sold his grocery stock to Essex & ness of who re- Tryon, has moved his stock of jewelry, notions the Preste! dry goods, clothing, crockery and glassware. and boots and shoes into block and added lines of Saranac—The difficulty between John- son & Rogers, over the disposition of their grocery stock, has been amicably settled, being taken by Mr. Rogers. Mr. Johnson will re-engage in the grocery business at the old stand, adding a line of boots and shoes. the goods Shurmer & Teagle for | | oughbred horses and cattle on an exten- | has banke rer 65,000,000 feet of logs, Fred Ashley | has banked over 63,000,000 fe gs . | told. Derhammer has retired | jand lease cars for the transportation of MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Hamilton—S. Baker has sold his plan- Petersburg—Michael Kohler succeeds Kohler & Bro. in the lumber business. Portland—Newman & Rice have added Boyne—William N. White is succeeded by White & Co. in the sawmill business. Detroit—A. A. Gray succeeds Gray & furniture manufacturers and dealers. Sturgis—Whitmer & Wetmore, planing mill, are succeeded by Whitmer & Detroit—Lindsay & Gamble are suc- ceeded by F. W. Leech & Co. in the lum- Stave Co. a capital Haven with St. Clair—The Fair been incorporated, Richland—F. H. Read has organized a sale of hardwood lumber. Bay City—The capital of the Warren- increased from $25,000 to $40,000. Menominee—The Kirby, Carpenter Co. | and will likely get 75,000,000 feet, all PontiacS—tewart Bros. have sold their lumber yard to A. A. Corwin, of Grass Oxford. Perrinton — The Perrinton Novelty pose of manufacturing woodenware, is the latest addition the the village. Pentwater—A. J. Underhill has pur- | chased the Nickerson & Collister saw- | mill, and will bring his shingle mill | machinery from the country and put it | in the mill here. Yorkville—The Yorkville Milling Co. | is contemplating the sale of its finely | constructed mills and water power to an English syndicate if the syndicate ap- | to industries of pears with $50,000 with which to pur- chase the same. Baraga—The old Cook mill, at Han- cock, has been sold to William Coach, who has moved it to Sidnarr, on the line | of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantie Railroads, and will cut what timber he | has there with it. Detroit—Detroit is to have another ear company with $100,000 capital. Among the stockholders will be Joseph B. Moore, Brennan & Donnelly and A. The company will make live poultry. St. Ignace—The Mackinaw Lumber Co. proposes to go into the breeding of thor- | sive scale at its Carp River farm. A number of Percheron and Clydesdale | /mares and Durham cattle have been pur- chased as a starter. ' Muskegon—Hovey & McCracken have veen putting in condition the mill lately bought from A. V. Mann & Co. They | two mills this year and probably have plenty of logs to supply will operate both, if not to permit of operating one mill day and night. Ontonagon—The Diamond Match Co. | has three camps still running, but they | will probably go out before long. The} season’s cut on the Ontonagon has been | very satisfactory and indications al] | point to a successful drive and a pros- _ perous season for the year 1890. {number of men | countant, A. O. Hoyt. Wingleton—The W. D. Wing Lumber Co. has nearly completed cutting its tract of pine in this vicinity and will then transfer its operations to the Upper Peninsula. Allegan—The N. B. West planing mill has been purchased by Henry Cook, of this place, and S. Baker, of Hamilton, who will continue the business under the style of Cook & Baker. Bay City—Lindsay & Grant, who have been lumbering for Alger, Smith & Co., have gone to West Virginia, where they have a large logging contract, said to aggregate 300,000,000 feet. They took a and horses with them. Two car loads of horses and tools were shipped last week. Muskegon—C. D. Nelson has aban- doned the idea of establishing a lumber yard at the mouth of the lake, having sold the old mill site and 258 acres of land at the entrance to the harbor for $20,500. He will remove to Grand Rapids and retire from active lumbering opera- tions. Iron River—The Metropolitan Lumber Co.’s two new mills that are being put in iat Paint River will each have two bands, two circulars and a shingle machine and be ready for operation in May. The total capacity will be about 300,000 feet of lumber and 250,000 shingles. The company already has two mills that cut about 200,000 feet of lumber daily. East Saginaw—The Hollister Bros., Co. purchased last week of Salling, Han- son & Co., of Grayling, 5,000,000 feet of standing pine in Crawford county. It will be cut at once, and the logs will be brought down over the Mackinaw divi- sion of the Michigan Central to Saginaw river mills to be manufactured. The stock will then be shipped to Tonawanda for the company’s trade. Fremont—The Fremont Furniture Co. has elected officers as follows: Presi- dent, Joseph Gerber; Vice-President, H. J. Dudley; Secretary, George Plow- man; Treasurer, A. O. White; General Manager, W. F. Pumfrey; Superintend- ent and Foreman, George Brackett; Ac- Work commenced on the factory building on the 24th. and will be pushed until the institution is completed. Kalamazoo—Kalamazoo is to have an- other new enterprise—a factory to manu- facture a patent railroad surface cattle guard, which was invented by Col. P. Merrell, of St. Louis, who formerly re- sided here. Frederick Bush has charge of the work here, and states that the new guard will be manufactured in the shops . i" |of another company, but ultimately a factory will be built. About $50,000 will be invested in the business. Manistee—Pardee, Cook & Co., of Lud- ington, have sold this season’s entire lumber cut to Higbee & Peters, of this city, which will amount to about 25,000,000 feet, on private terms, the price, however, being reported as favor- able as that obtained for last season’s cut, which was a better figure than the average price for the season. It is said, also, that the Ludington concern has sold all its standing timber except what will be required this season, amounting to from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 feet, to J. H. Stearns. The price is thought to be $7.50 a thousand, or more. The tim- ber will probably be laid down at the purchasers’ mill at Stearns’ siding, on Flint & Pere Marquette road. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Ocker, Mowers & Co., dry goods dea!- ers at Shipshewanna, Ind., have added a line of groceries. Lemon & Peters fur- nished the stock. The Michigan Can Manufacturing Co. has given the Southwestern agency of its goods to the Ridenour-Baker Co., of Kansas sas City. Grocery The Olney & & Judson Grocer Co. has attached the general stock of Wm. M. Berridge, at Mecosta, on a claim for $235, and the same is advertised for sale on ' the 3d. It is reported that Walter E. Cum mings, manufacturers’ agent for ecrock- ‘ery and glassware, proposes to remove his business to Chicago the near future. W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg have ar- ranged to remove their wholesale jewelry business to Chicago about May 1, having secured rooms in the MeVicker building, on Madison street. in Jonker & Bruqma, druggists at the corner of West Leonard street and Alpine avenue, are arranging to open a second drug store in that vicinity as soon asa suitable location can be secured. D. D. Cook, who has secured a patent on afolding bed of novel design, has associated himself with W. S. Gunn, Will Gunn and Edwin F. Uhl, who will form a stock company to embark in the manufacture of the bed. The options given on the plaster quar- ries in this vicinity expire on June 1. It is generally thought that the sale will be made, for American investments continues in London for a month or six weeks longer. Hawkins, Perry & Co. recovered a judgment for $60 and costs against the | purchasers of the Laughlin stock, at Ithaca. As the purchasers of the stock | obtained their title from W. J. Gould & | Co., of Detroit, the defense was con- ducted by that firm. Nick Miller has purchased an interest in the drug stock of Ella Kellogg, on West Bridge street. The new firm will be known as Kellogg & Miller and the stock will be removed this week to a new store building lately completed at the eorner of South Division street and Tenth avenue. Geo. G. Steketee has sold his interest in the firm of Geo. G. Steketee & Co., druggists at 89 Monroe street, to Geo. E. Steketee and P. S. Fancher, who will continue the business under the style of Steketee & Co. Mr. Fancher THE VISITING BUYERS. MICHIG AN _TRADESMA i: Cl eo | H Van Noord, Jamestown WmVerMeulen,BeaverDam | CF Freyermuth, MeCord M S Brownson, Kingsley Sisson & Watson, Ada CL Wilson, Saranac L M Wolf, Hudsonville JN Wait, Hudsonville Munger, Watson & Devoist, J B Watson, Coopersville Sullivan Dr H C Peckham, Freeport Mrs M E Rudd, Pewamo R A Hastings, Sparta Ashley & Bennett, F Narregang, Byron Center oward City GH Walbrink, Allendale GTenHoor, Forest Grove Eli Runnels, Corning Smallegan & Pickaard, Mrs E Scott. Dunningville Forest Grove W H Morris, Evans J W Mead, Berlin R Gannon, White Cloud S MeNitt, Byron Center Watrous &Bassford, WTroy . A Side, Kent City E E Hewitt, Rockford N F Miller. Lisbon J Phelps, Ada A Vandenburgh, Carman & Childs, Rowland H ward C.ty M Carman, Mecosta Matthews & Chappel, John Goodyear, Hastings W Troy Robert Rouse, Pearl E L Boynton, Griswold JL Farnham, Mancelona W R Lawton, Berlin Peter Beyer, Sullivan John Kamps, Zupthen M Minderhout, Hanley Frank Cornell, Sebewa John De Vries, Jamestown S H Ballard, Sparta JF Harvil, Hopkins Station J R Harrison, Sparta J T Pierson, (rving CC Barten, Big Rapids H Dalmon, Allendale J E Parcell, Casnovia W S Adkins, Morgan ie Damstra, Gitchell J Raymond, Berlin Geo Meijering, Vriesland J Homrich, No Dorr H Meijering, Jamestown Jorgensen & Hemmingsen, Grant Pickett Bros., Wayland J Reddering, Drenthe Si s, Shelbyville C B Shaver, Kalkaska W H Watts, Bowne Center Fred Herrick, Custer Geo Lentz, Croton Geo Cook, Wexford Field & Ballard, Sparta E L Bausill, Bellaire Bentley Bros. & Wilkins, tastings W D Hopkinson, Paris <-> @ <> Good Words Unsolicited. W L George,BentonHarbor | W B Reynolds,EatonRapids | Lemon & Peter WHOLESALE GROCE SOLE AGENTS FOR RS. Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, | Amboy Cheese A. Kuppenheimer, cigar manufacturer, Grand | Rapids: ‘‘Your paper has done me more good in my business than all other papers put together.” | FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. ae a a ae Advertisements will be inserted under this head for | two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise ment taken for Jess t than 25 cents. Adv ance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, GRAND RAPIDS. BGG CASES & FILLERS. ry\O EXCHANGE—80 ACRES OF HARDWOOD TIMBER | land for stock of drugs, balance cash. No. 11, care Michigan Tradesman. ore ERIES WANTED—TO THE VALUE OF ~ $600 X for two Grand Rapids city lots, or I will sell my grocery and provision business situated in the fruit belt of Oceana county. Address E. S. Houghtaling Hart, Mich. 13 NRAND OFFER—IF TAKEN BEFORE MAY 1, X willsell my stock of drugs and groceries at a dis- count of $1,000; a rare chance for some one. Vicksburg, Mich y.OR SALE OR RENT—FOUNDRY AND MACHINE | shopinone of the finest villages in Michigan. enn solicited by R. Baker, Vicksburg. | Mich. 6 OR SALE—STORE, DRU G@ STOCK AND FIXTU RES, providing the present craze | | was form- | igan Tradesman. erly engaged in the drug business at Mt. | Pleasant. Mr. Steketee, Sr., will devote his entire attention to his patent med- icine business. The suit brought against Jas. N. Brad- ford in the Kent Circuit Court at the in- stance of S. P. Swartz, which was trieda few days ago, resulted in a verdict of no} cause of action. Swartz claimed that Bradford guaranteed the payment of the lumber used in the construction of his house on James street, which was built on contract by an irresponsible fellow named Hitchcock. to substantiate the claim, however, and Swartz must pay the costs of the litiga- tion. A The law compels no one to do impossi- bilities. The evidence failed | | only a few copies left; sent postpaid | copy. V including postoffice fixtures, for sale on easy terms, owing to ill health; only drug store in town, situated in center of fine ‘fruit section, 8. J. Koon, Lisbon, Mich. j,OR SALE—AN ATTRACTIVE DRUG FOR | a sale or exchange, situated on a principal business street of Grand Rapids; good reasons for selling. Ad- dress Phy siciz an, care Carrier No. 15. 7 | WASTED— GROCERY STOCK; MUST BE forcash. Church & Fenn, Ch: trlott: > N: ASHVILLE, MICHIGAN, OFFERS FIN ducements te manufacturers looking for desir- | able locations. Address C. W. Smith, Secretary Im- | provement Cc Jommitte 6, for particulars. 599 ANTED—TO EXCHANGE FARM OF 120 ACRES OR | village property for stock of goods, hardware preferred. Address No. 573, care Michigan Tradesman. 573. J,.0OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, INVENTORING | about $4,000, doing a very prosperous business: ean reduce the stock to suit purchaser; best of reason for — Address A. L. Paine & Co., Reed City ic 568 \ \\7 ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST OR ASSIST- | ant. A. E. Gates, M. D., Crystal, Mich. 594 V T ANTED- SITUATION BY REGISTERED ‘PHARMA- cist; two years’ experience and graduate of | oe College of Pharmacy. Address Box 94, Rich- an 1 \ macist; would prefer one who speaks the Hol- land language. Jonker & Bruqma, Grand Rapids 8 ANTED—POSITION BY FIRST-CLASS DRUGGIST; nine years experience. Address C. M. Shaw, Sparta, Mich. 2 STORE CHEAP Mich. 596 HELP WANTED. a SITUATIONS WANTED. MISCELLANEOUS. engage in the meat business. Address No. 7 care Mich i 7 YOMPLETE HISTORY OF THE PATRONS OF IN- dustry, from the inception of the organization; for 10 cents per Address The Tradesman Company, G’d Rapids EGIN THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING THE Se Pass Book System and adopting in its place the Tradesman Credit Coupon. Send $1 for sample order, which will be sent prepaid. E. & Bro., Grand Rapids. Wated.-Potatoes I want potatoes in car lots, and solicit | correspondence with those having stock | | in that quantity. W. T. LAMOREAUX, 71 CANAL ST. Address | 118 R. Baker, | 5 | Address Dr. | NCIAL IN- | ANTED—A REGISTERED OR ASSISTANT PHAR- TANTED—EXPERIENCED MAN, WHO WILL FUR- nish outfit, wants partner with $500 or $1,000 to | A. Stowe | Having taken the agency for Western and Northern Michigan for the LIMA |EGG CASES and FILLERS, | quantity. we are prepared to offer same to the trade in any Lots of 100, Less than 100, Ne.) tee Cases, COMPDIECE oo. 35e. NG. f wilers, Her sen 937 ¢. 10e. Parties ordering Fillers have to buy one a with every 10 sets of Fillers (no | broken cases sold),making 10 sets with Case $1.25 (10 Fillers and 8 Dividing Boards | constitute a standard set). Strangers to us w il please remit money with their / orders or give good reference. W. T. LAMOREAUX, 71 Canal St.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Kqual to Custom ‘Made means a great deal. It means that extra care is taken ‘in the cut; that great pains throughout is required in the ' stitching; that everyjjportion 0. une work must receive the closest attention; that the garment when completed shall be ‘perfect. You do not often get these qualities in the shirts you buy. Itis just that fact that gives us (Michigan Overall Mfg. |Co., Ionia, Mich.) such a trade on our shirts. We not only try to turn out a perfect shirt, but we DO. Our shirts are immense in size. Large enough to fit a _ double-breasted man, and fit him easily, too. Long, wide, ample, three big things in a shirt. | These qualities,;when combined in a well-made, neatly- fashioned garment, make shirts that sell--sell easily and at _good profits. Our line of fancy chevoits and domets range from $4.50 to ‘87. 50 per dozen. The styles are exquisite, all the new patterns and pleasing combinations of handsome coloring. We should like to have you ask us to send you, at our expense, samples of our line, that you can compare them with your present goods and see the difference in every way. Will you? THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Dry Goods. A Departmental Mushroom. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript calls attention to the interesting manner in which the Census Bureau has recently, like a mushroom, sprung up suddenly from apparent noth- ingness into gigantic proportions. The public, perhaps, are not generally aware that when Mr. Porter was appointed superintendent, a few months ago, it was represented by asingle individual, known in the Interior Department as the ‘‘cen- sus clerk.”” Within afew weeks from now it will have 2,000 employes in its offices here and 45,010 men in the field, not counting the thousands of special agents. It will spend on paper and print- ing, $700,000, and for other expenses nearly $6,000,000 more—for it costs about ten cents a head, for every man, woman and child, to take the census of a people. Finally, it will publish twenty-five vol- umes, and then, like a mushroon, it will go out of existence, leaving not a trace behind, save one solitary census clerk sitting at a desk in the Department of the Interior, until the year 1900 shall arise and another census shall be in order. Then the mushroom will sprout again. ———_— + > A Black Bootblack’s Black Eye. As I was walking down Second avenue, the other day, I saw two bootblacks ply- ing their blacking business at a street} corner. One was a white bootblack and | the other a black bootblack, and both} had got black boots as well as blacking and blacking brushes. Well, in the ab- sence of customers, the black bootblack asked the white bootblack to black his (the black bootblack’s) black boots with blacking. The white bootblack con- sented to black the black boots of the black bootblack with blacking. But after he (the white bootblack) had blacked one of his (the black bootblack’s) | black boots with blacking, the white bootblack refused to black his (the black bootblack’s) other black boot with black- | ing, unless he (the black bootblack) paid | him (the white bootblack) as much as he | (the white bootblack) got for blacking | other people’s black boots. Whereupon | the black bootblack got still blacker in | in | the face and called the white bootblack a blackguard, at the same time booting the white bootblack with the black boot the} white bootblack had already blacked with blacking. In reply to which, the white | bootblack proceeded with the blacking brush to give the black bootblack a blaek eye. i ot tie oe Tragic Scene in a Shoe Store. | ‘“‘A pair of gaiters, James,’’ said Mr. Golding, affably. | The young man hauled a half-dozen | boxes off the shelf and knelt in venera-| tion at the feet of his patron. ‘Fine weather we’re having, James,” | the customer observed, with no less! cheerfulness. “Yes, sir,’? said the shoe man, tremulous but delighted tone. trust that Miss Golding is well.’ “Tes, sir.” “‘J—] have been thinking of calling on Miss Golding,’’ the young man hazarded, timidly. ‘“‘Take those gaiters away and bring me some heavy boots with pointed toes!’ the old man said, explosively. And the young man, with a crushed and despairing look on his face, silently | supplied the order and then went into/| the back office to weep. ee Some one has said: *‘An appointment | is a debt.’’ If one makes an engagement, he owes something and cannot be free | until it has been discharged. No honest | man will fail to fillan appointment with- | out a good reason. > > Cannot some one produce wagon wheel than at present While American wheels are the best in| the world, American roads are in the same or a greater proportion the worst, and there is needed a wheel which will have a strong yet elastic tire, something | that is more enduring than the rubber | tire, which is in use to some extent, but | not with every degree of satisfaction. ’ ina ai | } j j | | a better | exists ? | Fall River is the largest cotton manu- facturing center in the United States. The local census for 1890 shows that | there are forty corporations with sixty- five mills, and an incorporated capital of | $20,650,0v0. 2,128,228; looms, 49,586: number of em-| ployes, 21,750; weekly pay roll, $145,405; weekly production, 221,000 pieces, or 597,850,000 yards of cloth per annum. | The a of cotton per annum is | The mills employ a total | This is furnished | in | 244,850 bales. of 47,435 horse-power. in part by twelve water wheels and part by 108 steam engines, the latter con- suming 174,750 tons of coal annually. AWNINGS TENTS Flags, Horse and Wagon’ Covers. Seat Shades, Large Umbrellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete. Send for llustrated Catalogue. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street. Telephone 106. Volgt, Herpolsheimer & Co,, Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Manufacturers of ‘Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Ets. Complete Spring Stock now ready for inspection. guaranteed. Chicago and Detroit prices 52 48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. :: Note quotations Are You :: of TRADESMAN *: COUPONS in the «Using Coupons ? : | Grocery Price Cur- : : rent. Send in sample ; | If Nat, 2 lorder, and put : | You Are your business on ia CASH BASIS. . Money! TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. Cook & Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF THE SHOW GASES. Prices Lower than those of any competitor. Write for cata- logue and prices. 406 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. | j The number of spindles is | Prices Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Atlantic Co . Cilittoe CCCc.......-. 6% Bs 63% iC onqueror XX...... 4% Ka eS 6 |Dwight Star......... 7% . x... 6%|Exeter A.. ao. Coe Se ‘Full Yard Wide. a+ Atlanta A. A........ 6% Great Falls B....... 7 | Archery Bunting... /Honest Width....... 6% Ae ; 4 eeverora A.......... 54 | Beaver Dam A A nig Integrity XX........ 5 | Berwick L. : 644|King, ae... 6% | Blackstone O, 32... 4% ee 6% [eaeek Boek ........ 7 ~~ 2m... 5 mee Pe 6%| |LawrenceL L....... 5% "2A. 4.......... @ teem eee. ..... 5 - a 54 |Noibe Me eck ees 5 ee a ae 7% ‘Newton ...... ... i. . PL, 40 inch. " gig Our Level Best..... 6% Continental, i 7% Riverside XX....... 4% D, 40-in 84%|Sea Island R........ 6% _ E, 42-inlt ey _ 6% - w, 45-in11 iw hed the Heap.... 7% ° H, 48-inl2 |Williamsville. ...... 7 Chereae...... ..... = Womet, @in........ 814 Comsesec A.......... rcearoee Cw’... .. 7% oe. 7 |New MarketL,40in. 7% BLEACHED COTTONS. Amsburg ... + ¢ Meee we... 7 Blackstone A A..... S iGold Medal......... 7% A as 4%) Green Ticket....... Sg Cceveland ...... ... \Great rae... 64 Cones. ........5.-.. 7% ie 7 Looe, &..-....-.... 6%) idust Out...... 4%@ 5 Dwight ee aoe 9 |King Phillip ee eee horts. 8%} —.... 7% wares, . vs. 6 (Lonsdale coemnas. -10% ee... 7 |Lonsdale...... @ 8% Parer.... ........ 7%4|Middlesex.... .. @5 Fruit of the Loom.. 8% | iNo Name....... ates aan Poe... -e- TM) Oak V ee 6 Birst Prise. ......... Sano Ce... 5% Fruitofthe Loom %. 8 |Prideof the West .12 Fairmount... ..... OG eoekiing............ 7% Pou Vese.......... 6% |Sunlight ............ 4% Geo. Washington... &4/|Vinyard............. 8% HALF BL EAC HED COTTONS. Ree... 4. Mareen. ...... ..... 7%) a4 Dwight Anchor..... 8% UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Tremont N. . 5% Middlesex No. Lt. ..- Hamilton N. i os en be ee si - f.... Middlesex ‘AT oo. 8 . ea a Bosc... ; ' ° ¢..... . No. 2. 9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Hamilton N. -. T%|MiddlesexAA...... ll Middlesex PT...... 8 . 12 - 7. ....: 9 - ac. 13% ' co... 9 ce 17% wis ze ....., 10% SL 16 DRESS GOODS. Hamilton : ; Raee...... ...., 20 a. oe oa oie scee ays Ce “s0% a 27% GG Cashmere...... 21 ’ a Nameless ne 16 esau 32% eee Coe 18 rf ties peas cou cee CORSET JEANS. Beeetrord........... 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Brenewsck. .... .... 6YIE Romper... 6% PRINTS. Avion, staple........ 544|Merrim’ck shirtings. 4% . aes... 54 ' ae furn . 8% . robes........5 iPactie fency.. _s American fancy.... 6 ee SE eines . 6% Americanindigo.... 5%|Portsmouth robes... 6 American shirtings. 445|Simpson mourning.. 5: Arnold e 6% igi "i en ae ves long cloth B. 10% _ Solid black. ee - 8%¢|Washington indigo. 6 “century cloth 7 7 “Turkey robes.. 7% * =gold geal,.... 10%| ‘* India robes.... 7% “ -Turkey red..105¢; “ plain _ "ky - % Bs Bertin eotias, ....... “no - of eee...... o% * Ottoman —" . aoe. C4 sevred............ Cocheco fancy...... _ 6 |Martha Washington ms madders... 6 Turkey red &..... 7 Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha a Hamilton fancy. 6%| Turkey red.. - 9% staple . 544| Riverpoint rebes.... 5 Mane hester ancy. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6% new era. 6% . gold ticket Merrimack D fancy. 64%} indigo blue....... 10% TICKINGS. amereee ACA... Cc A... _ Masstiton N......... Pemberton AAA....17 Dy . a et 10% _ Awning. .1 Swift River a Were... .-. ees 8 |Pearl River........ - 12 Pies Frise.......... 1144, Warren........ 14 COTTON DRILL, Atlanta, D.. oe Stark el abies cuee ua. 7% ee ae ce 7 Clifton, K... = ee 10 DEMINS. Amoskeag ne oe eee Te eres ........ ..... 11% eon... 5. 1444iLancaster........... 12% . brown .13 |Lawrence, 90z...... 13% oe... 11% “ no. S....8 Everett, blue.. . 12 2 No, 250....11% . brown. ....12 No. 280....10% SATINES. Simpson Les ees l eee S) Geepertal.:...... ..... 10% cette eoe 18 Black...... «ass oo Oe ee eee me oo, 108 meee 10% GINGHAMS. Cieeerven.... .....- 6% Lancaster, staple... 6% Lancashire. . -- 6% ancies 7 Perwenae..... .... ; - Normandie 8 Renfrew Dress...... Westbrook bios Gu oes Toil du Nord.. * i6@10% Lele. 10 Amoskeag eee ones ee 6% ave...... 1% a 6% Pereen....... .... 8%|Windermeer.... .... 5 eee 6%|Cumberland.... .... 5 Warwick.. ben I ee 4% CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 18 {Peerless col 4d. GRAIN BAGS. Aroonkoas?...........805 my Oley -.....-.. 16 Harmony i 18H NO, 5. cca. 16 ee... , ... Saeeee...... .-...- -14 Seen... 5... ;|Burlap TSH SN 11% ee Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour’s...... ee Coeur. 2 &P....... “5 iMarahairs.... .....- 88 ee 22 KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored. ao 66. oe ink Mw... 42 6... 34 a 43 - 35 — tl... ae 44 . =... 36 -— i ee 45 CAMBRICS. 4%4|Washington......... 4% ome Geer......... Gilet Coes... ........ 4% mid Giove..... ..... Silwoekwoeod.... ...... 4% Dewmereet......... Silweoees........._.. % Bere. .......-... 4% |Brunswick ......... 4% RED FLANNEL. POOR. sis cee a RE ce RY Cecomeure......... Brae .......... . 5... 32% Teo ane... LL. - PEP aas......... 35 Mamelees .......... 276 Buckeye.... .... ... 32% MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Uae 22%%| Western W ......... 18% Windsor.. ssc.) i r.. .--.18% 6 oz Western........ 21 Flushing XXX. eal 23% re ee 2244| Manitoba... <4 ae. 4 40 3 40 a e 60 3 0 4 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra 81.50 = doz. Bright Market. Annealed Market... Piece ee eee Coppered Market. . 60 Tinned Market...... feeeu ess | Barbed fi Spring ET fl 50 ed Fence, galvanized 4 00 paintes Ley 3 40 HORSE NAILS, AuSable .......... .. dis. ee Peeeee dis. 05 Nowtnwemters..... .........._.. dis. 10&10 WRENCHES. dis Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. Z Coen emie Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, Coe’s Patent, malleable .... : T5&10 MISCELLANEOUS. _ . Pumps, Cistern..... Le 7 Screws, New List... ' 5O Casters, Bed and Plate 50810410 Dampers, American... 4 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods 65 M TALS, PIG TIN. Pig et roe 26¢ Pig Bars. . 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound. Cou pound Caska. (2... .... i oo Per pound.. ; : 7 SOLDER. on, 16 fixtra Wiping a i 13% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market Indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTLMONY. ooeeoe............ per pound 16 Memes... |. 13 TIN—MELYN @RADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal....... .... ooo 14x20 IC, . as , 6 60 10x14 1x, . " : 2 8 35 14x20 IX, . 8 35 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal —. $600 14x20 IC a Cece eee : 6 00 10x14 IX, _ “ ; 7 © 14x20 IX, bea 7 50 Each additional X on this grade 81.50, ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, ‘“* Worcester 6 00 14x20 IX, . . 7 50 20x28 IC, . ’ 12 50 14x20 IC, ‘““ Allaway Grade 5 14x20 IX, “ ' “ 6 75 20x28 IC, - _ . 11 00 20x28 IX, . . ‘ 14 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. 14x28 IX. ee $13 a ; .14 50 preares a for No. : Soile rs. ( per ani % ROPE | pOPE The rope market is high and advancing, ard the price at present is as follows: SAL - MANILLA - - 13c pound. - 16c pound. If you cannot stand these prices, we have in stock what is called New Process Rope Which we guarantee is equal to Sisal. following sizes and quote: 1-4, 5-16, 3-8 - 7-16 and 5-8 - WILL YOU TRY IT? We have the - 9 1-2c pound. - 9c pound. Foster, Stevens & Co., Wholesale 10 and 12 Monroe St., Hardware, 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41;Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 8 Che Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. THE The Tradesman Company, Proprietor. ing Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St Entered at the Grand Rapi E. A. STOWE, Editor. is Post Office. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1890. HARD ON THE PEDDLER. The Michigan Supreme Court has long been on record as declaring the peddler to be a nuisance and has invariably sus- tained local laws compelling him to pay alieense fee for the privilege of pur- suing his nefarious calling. The Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania has gone one step further than the Wolverine tri- bunal by declaring that laws which pro- hibit peddling altogether are clearly con- stitutional. resulted in The circumstances which so sweeping a decision brought the peddling from door to door at Mahoney City. were *‘Soapine’’ The was conducted by paid agents but on about by of peddling of the manufacturers of ‘‘Soapine,’’ court eonvicted them a county a eharge of violating the local statutes of Schuylkill county, which prohibit ped- dling. The Soapine company carried the case to the Supreme Court, taking the ground that the suppression of Rhode Island products in Pennsylvania was con- to Williams, who wrote rary inter-state commerce. Judge the opinion, which was concurred in by the Court, denied the claims of the defendants. laying down the law relating to the peddlers in the following terse manner: The peddler is a transient with no fixed place of business, who seeks cus- tomers by invading their homes and makes sales by persuading people to buy what they do not need, and who, by the time he wanted to answer for his representations and engagements, is out of sight. Itis this matter of tracking a laboring man or woman into house and laying siege to him or her by an un- scrupulous and self-possessed stranger who is after money and has no delicate scruples about the manner in which he gets it, that has made the peddler a dread in the country and in the villages. I do not regard the sale of the natural products of the by the farmer or gardener by whom they are raised as af- fected by the law relating to peddlers. Farmers are not within the mischief which these iaws are intended to remedy, except as they are victims that mis- chief. The earriage of the surplus produets of the farm or garden to a mar- ket town or from house to house is not peddling, but is incidental to their busi- ness as f Peddlers are forbidden wares and merchandise.”’ These words never intended to in- clude farm products in the hands of the farmer, nor is the transportation of such products to a market, for sale, or to reg- ular customers who are supplied by the grower, the sort of business at which the laws relating to peddling are directed. It is broadly asserted that our laws on eddling are an invasion of the exclusive is the soil or armers, to sell *‘roods, were 1 p r ight of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. We have understood inter- state commerce to refer to the free inter- change of commodities between citizens of the different states without regard to state lines: laws relating to peddling erect 1 the state line, provide for no inspection or stoppage, and levy no tax on the introduction into or trans- portation through the State of any sort of property whatever. The citizen of another state may come into Pennsyi- vania when he will and where he will, our 10 barrier at THE MICHIGAN TRADE | stay as long as he chooses, open as many | iplaces for the sale of his goods as he; |may see fit and enjoy the same measures of freedom in regard to the conduct of his business as a native citizen. But when he comes within the State perma- nently or temporarily, he is under the protection of its laws and the correlative duty of obedience rests on him. His rights are equal to but not above those of the citizen. It is true, as is now asserted, that the itinerant stranger who treads the country roads carrying a pack or box filled with sham jewelry and worthless watches to sell to those who are credulous enough to believe his representation, for many times their real value, and who, as soon | as he has ‘‘gone through’? a neighbor- hood, moves quickly out of reach—if it | true that such a person is a ward of the Federal Constitution, engaged in in- terstate commerce, with the power of the Government of the United States inter- posed between him and the police power of the State, it must be admitted that we | is have stumbled on a startling and un- looked-for result of the investment of the general Government with the power to regulate commerce. OUTLOOK FOR THE PEACH CROP, Reports from the principal peach rais the State are somewhat as is usual at this of | THE TRADESMAN’S Corre- | at South Haven that the crop in that vicinity will be fully up tot but the indications are that the Saugatuck region will not have over half Further away from ing sections of conflicting, the spondent season year. asserts ne average, a crop. the Lake—all through the central por- tions of Allegan county—the crop will be nearly a total failure. In the fruit section in Northern Ottawa county about of the blossomed on | all | through Northern Muskegon and Oceana | life and 90 per cent. buds show being artificially counties the of proportions from the trees. indications are that a crop | unusual will be taken | NOT TOO HONEST. The Grand Rapids Workman, the organ of the trades unions of the city, in the | eourse of an editorial on the labor situa- tion, remarks: It wont do to be too honest in handling this labor question. The Workman is right. It doesn’t pay to be too honest in advocating the rights | of labor—only just honest enough! Which Is in the Right? A business house of this city recently sent a couple of sight drafts to Elliott & | Son, the Middlebury, Ind., bankers, for In time a remittance somewhat in excess of the amount of the drafts but accompanied the remittance to show who had paid or much had been paid. Elliot & Son were notified of the collection. due | was received, no statement how receipt of the draft and asked to report on the eollections. This enquiry evoking no reply, another request of the same na- ture was promptly forwarded, which met the same fate as its predecessor. Not being able to secure any information at the hands of the bank, the business house did just what any other establish- ment would have done under the cireum- stances—credited the accounts with the amounts of the drafts and remitted Elliott & Son the balance. In the mean- time, the bankers discovered that the re- mittance made the Grand Rapids house the | The that number of | sent to the bank | three months previously and that, in the! and demanded of the was aclerical error immediate return amount. house here replied a sight drafts had been | within | **T made drafts remittance The | return mail brought the original drafts— absence of any on the the had been used as above described. report proper time, the unhonored and probably unpresented. These the business house declined to re- ceive, holding that a bank which held sight drafts three months, before report- ing on same, should be responsible for their payment. Elliott & Son decline to recognize this claim, and assert that they will proceed to enforce payment by legal process. What Tue ‘TRADESMAN would like know is, which is in the right—the bank or the business house? to —— Greetings from XXXX. Curcago, March 25, Editor Michigan Tradesman: We had intended to extend our congratulation some time ago on the new “spring dress” of THE TRADESMAN. It is both handsome and handy, as wellas upto its high grade as an interesting, newsy trade journal. ' Long may she live to bring joy to your enter- prising Michigan grocers. Truly yours, W. F. McLaveuuin & Co. —> > 1890. Lucky Man. exclaimed the retail grocer. sugar “Good 1’ 10 cents on a barrel of | this morning.’’ ‘How ?’? demanded the wholesale grocer. “] sold the empty barrel for 10 cents.” turned green The wholesale with envy. grocer The origin of the silk manufacture, is without doubt, to be found in China, and the classical scholar will readily remem- ber allusions to it by ancient writers. For ages it would seem that the nature and source of silk were utterly unknown to the western nations; indeed, it was not until about the sixth century that Europe possessed the worm whieh spins the fiber of silk. — ~~ o> Robert Rouse, who recently engaged in the grocery Pearle, was in town last Friday. business at EB. J. Mason & Co., Proprietors of Old Homestead Factory GRANT, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF Preserves, Evaporated Apples Jellies and Apple Butter Our goods are guaranteed to be made from wholesome fruit and are free from any adulteration or sophis- tication. See quotations in grocery price current. The Grand Rapids trade can be sup- plied by GOSS & DORAN, 138 South Division street. Telephone, 1150. (ur Leader’ Goods. Having stood the test of time and the battle of competition and come off victorious, we have no trade our line of hesitation in recommending to the Qur Leader Cigars, | Our Leader Smoking, Our Leader Fi Our Leader Baking Powder, ne Cut, Our Leader Saleratus, Ovr header Brooms, WHICH LEADERS In hundreds of stores throughout the Sta send in sample order for t ARE NOW IN FACT te. If you are not handling these goods, he full line and see how your trade in these goods will increase. I. M. CLARK & SON. NO DEALER EVER LOST A AreyouSour? Lost Trade? Cheap Grease! CUSTOMER BY SELLING HIM THE FRAZER ALWAYS UNIFORM. KNOWN EVERYWHERE. Cood Crease Makes Trade. Let Petroleum and Imitation Greases Alone, and Buy the CFTEN NO TALK REQUIRED TO SELL IT. Genin RAZER IMITATED. Cheap Crease Kills Trade. Every Package Bears our Trade Mark. Put up in Boxes,Cans,Patls, Kegs & Bbis- P. of I. Gossip. It is reported that the County Treas- urer of the Ottawa P. of I. is a defaulter to the amount of $32. Geo. H. Rainouard has cancelled his contract with the P. of 1. at Bridgeton. No money is in it for him. John FE. Parcell, P. of [. dealer at Casnovia, declines to renew his contract. He knows when he has got enough. Huntley Russell, whose grocery store on North Canal street is managed by Geo. W. Davis, has parted company with the P. of L, having satisfied himself that the contract system is a source of loss, instead of a medium of profit. The P. of IL. are organizing a stock company at Kingsley and propose to em- bark in general trade. That is a first- rate thing for the Patrons to do, as it will satisfy them that the margins inci- dent to legitimate are none too great. Detroit Journal: ‘*Two Clio Patrons of Industry were rejoicing over the success of the order, and one insisted that the sociability which grew out of the lodge meetings was worth all it cost. Shortly afterwards the men quarreled and one of them received a black eye, and the socia- bility racket is doomed, so far as he is econcerned.”’ A Patrons of Industry lecture at Cen- tral Lake, last Wednesday evening, was well attended, and a number of persons joined the society. The next day, Henry Sissons, a merchant of that village, an- nounced, of his own motion and without request, that he would sell goods to the P. of 1. at 10 per cent. advanee upon the eost; and he is now running his store upon that plan. A *‘Farmer,’’ in Davison Index: ‘*The Patrons of Industry order is claimed to be the poor man’s friend. a moment if that claim is substantiated by the facts. In order to trade at the contract store, one must have the cash or equivalent. The ‘equivalent’ means but- ter and eggs taken at two cents per pound and two cents per dozen less than can be obtained for them at the ‘corner grocery; and the goods you get are no cheaper, and in many cases not as cheap, as in other stores—tobaceo, probably, ex- cepted. I frequently hear the P.’s of I. boast that they save enough on their to- bacco purchases alone—if they use enough of it—to more than pay their dues. This is one enticing bait thrown out to catch candidates to join, thus en couraging the use of the vile stuff among our young men, while at the same time they will vote in their lodges to reduce the use of sugar one-third or one-half, so as to cut down on their expenses; for the children like sweet cakes, but they can do better without those things, so that their father and brothers can use more tobaceo. They talk about combating trusts and monopolies. Now, in my es- timation, that is all right. But is that what they are doing? No! They are trying to form one of the most gigantic trusts in the country by buying from one grocer in each town !”’ SN ee Purely Personal. Chas. F. Freyermuth, general dealer at McCord’s, was in town Saturday. J. F. Trout has gone to Missouri to buy another tract of pine land. John A. Wade, who has conducted a store at Cadillac and a bank and shingle mill at Marion, has jumped the country, probably to escape arrest on the charge of stealing timber. merchandizing Let us see for THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. W. A. Feazell, the Grand Junction general dealer, is the happy father of a pair of twins of the female persuasion. Warren M. Wigton, a prominent. busi- ness man of Hart, died at that place on the of pneumonia, attack of la grippe. Henry Williams, of the firm of Wil- 23rd, induced by an liams Bros. & Charbonneau, vinegar, pickles and preserves manufacturers at Detroit. was in town last Friday. E. G. Pipp, formerly engaged in trade at Howard City, is now conneeted with the wholesale hardware establishment of W. H. Miller & Co., at Bay City. Geo. Arnott, Secretary and Treasurer | of the Priestley Express Wagon & Sleigh Co., has returned from a flying trip to the jobbing centers of the West and Northwest. P. W. Travis, the Otsego general dealer, is spending a month or six weeks in Louisiana, North Carolina and Georgia. Mr. Travis aspires to rank as the *‘Great American Traveler,’”’ as he takes tended trip every year. Fred H. Ball and Walter McBrien have gone to New York, where they will meet their sisters, both of whom are attending school in the vicinity of Boston. They will visit Philadelphia before returning, expecting to reach home next Monday. an ex- It is reported that a young gentleman closely connected with one of the jobbing houses of the city has become an adept in the manipulation of card games and that an occasional visit to an outside town augments his finances to the turn of a thousand or more. The Mecosta County Mutual Insurance Co. has been organized at Big Rapids, with Luther Cobb as President and R. D. Ladner as Secretary. The company is organized on the same plan as the St. Joseph County Mutual Insurance Co. and starts out with flattering prospects. Col. J. D. Billings, formerly manager of the Park Place Hotel, at Traverse City, has taken the management of Han- nah, Lay & Co.’s block, at Chicago. The building and ground cost the owners about $1,500,000, and enough leases have already been executed to bespeak an an- pual rental of $225,000, which is equiva- lent to15 per cent., or about 12 per cent., taxes and insurance. ——~_ -@- HA WKINS Salesman for Western Michigan, oe ° rm 3 LOCK BOX 173, GRAND RAPIDS A. E. BROOKS & CO.,, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF ure Candies. The Only Hovse in the State which Puts Goods Up NEf WEIGHT. NO CHARGE FOR PACKAGES. CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING 6O,, HOLLAND, MICH. ODaily Capacity. _ 400 Bbls. — i — BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, DAISY, POURETY, MORNING STAR, IDLEWILD, DAILY BREAD, ECONOMY. SPECIALTIES: Graham, W heatena, Buckwheat Flour, tye Flour, Bolted Meal, Rye Meal, Wheat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pear] Barley, Oat Meal, Rolled Oats, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED, 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Meetings during 1890—Star Island, June 26 and July 1; Marquette, Aug. 13 and 14; Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. 3ec’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detreit. Jecretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. Webb, Jackson; D.E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc- Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday of September, 1890. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. _— Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. sident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower. net wd OD »3 00 Detroit Pharmaceutical Society President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. 'Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. STRIKING BACK. Official Replies to an Anonymous Cor- respondent. THe TRADESMAN recently felt im- pelled to defend the officers of the Mich- igan State Pharmaceutical Association against the groundless charges of an anonymous correspondent of the Western Druggist, and the current issue of that journal contains strenuous denials of the statements made from the President and Secretary of the organization. President Inglis’ reply is as follows: In the February number of your jour- nal, your Michigan correspondent makes some statements which I, as President of the Michigan Pharmaceutical Associa- tion, feel called upon to make reply. In regard to the delay in appointing the delegates to attend the meeting for the revision of the pharmacopeia, I will simply say, that the Association left that matter in my hands, not in his. The names have been forwarded and I think will prove satisfactory to most of our members. He thinks it extravagance to pay the Local Secretary $50 for his ser vices. Why does he not invite the Asso- ciation to meet in his town, serve as Local Secretary himself, ‘‘without money and without price,’’ and save the Asso- ciation this great expense? In speaking of the matter of expense we have been at in hall rents, he has not confined him- self to the truth. We have never paid $250 for the rent of a hall. The highest rent ever paid was $125, and the average rent paid for this purpose is less than $60. What he refers to in speaking of “the spread eagle nonsense in the pro- ceedings,’’ Ido not know. Heshould be more explicit, and sign his name. In regard to our published proceedings, I can only say that they compare very favorably with those of other associa- tions. Our Secretary is aman whe has worked hard for the Association, and earned more than he has received, and who will continue to work for the good of the Association even after he has ceased to draw a salary. Secretary Brown comes to the rescue in the following manner: In the February number of the Western Druggist your Michigan correspondent indulged in some rather serious criti- cisms of our State Association—some of which are so unjust and untrue that I beg leave to correct or deny his state- ments. The§ delegates to the pharma- copeial convention, which he says Presi- dent Inglis is having such difficulty in appointing, were appointed about the first of January, certainly before the 10th, and their names were published in the February number of the Era, which is issued on the first of the month. There was no occasion for haste in making the appointments, and Mr. Inglis did not intimate to me (and he conferred with me about the matter) that he had any serious trouble in finding men who are willing to go at their own expense, if need be. Your correspondent says the Association is short of funds because its money has been extravagantly spent, and cites the payment of $50 for the services of a Local Secretary as aninstance. It may be true, but we have never found it very easy to get competent men to do the work for the pay attached to it. We have had good and efficient men, but they have worked, I believe, with no thought of the compensation, but solely because of their interest in the Associa- tion, and I think most of our active mem- bers have always felt that $50 was very inadequate pay for the great amount of work required of our local secretaries, especially those years when exhibitions have been made. I presume your cor- respondent must be ignorant of the fact that the 1888 proceedings were cut down to sixty pages less than the 1887 volume, and the cost reduced from $450 to $275, and that the 1889 proceedings were still further condensed, both in size and cost. His last statement, in which he de- clares that it ‘‘was simply an outrage’’ to pay $250 for hall rent one year, is a most remarkable one, to say the least, coming from amember of the Association who presumably has copies of the proceedings at hand to verify any such statement. I fail to find any year when over $125 was paid for hall rent, and even then, if I am not greatly mistaken, the owner of the hall made a private subscription of $50 toward defraying the expenses of the entertainment. If your correspondent is a member of our Association, why has he not done his duty by protesting against the so-called extravagant expenditures, at our meetings? It would be a more manly way than attacking the Associa- tion in this way. Our Association is not bankrupt by any means, and considering all the work it has accomplished, the amount of money used is not large. nell Exit John J. Dodds & Co. As foreshadowed by THE TRADESMAN of last week, the wholesale drug stock of John J. Dodds & Co., at Detroit, has been sold to the new firm of Farrand, Williams & Clark, who will remove it to their store on Woodard avenue. Mr. Dodds will go with the new house for three months, in hopes of diverting the trade of the defunct house to the pur- chasers. It is stated that Mr. Thayer, Dodds & Co.’s leading salesman, has received offers from every drug house in Detroit. Last Respects to a Deceased Druggist. The Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical So- ciety attended the funeral of the late John S. Page, which occurred last Satur- day, in a body. A post mortem examination of the re- mains disclosed the astonishing fact that all the organs of the body were in a normal condition, leading to the con- elusion that death must have resulted from mental, rather than bodily, ailment. —————qr18»>-9- > ____ The Drug Market. Quinine is dull. Foreign brands are unchanged. Domestic is lower. Gum opium and morphia are steady. Castor oil has declined. Turpentine is lower. English chemicals continue high, on ac- count of strikes. Cubebs are lower. Gum galbanum is very scarce and high. Jalap root has advanced. Celery seed is higher. Wood alcohol has declined. —_—_ oe 7 No More Contract for Them. MARSHALL, March 27, 1890. Editor Michigan Tradesman: Being a subscriber of Tue Trapesman, I deem it but right to take an interest not only in read- ing its contents, but to help it all I can in obtain- ing for it reliable information, especially in busi- ness matters; hence it is that I write to inform = that, in course of conversation with Richard Butler, grocer, John Butler, boot and shoe dealer, and Charles Fletcher, manager for John Fletcher, clothier, all of this city, I learned that these gentlemen had severed their connections with the so-called Patrons of Industry long ago, one of the said gentlemen having remarked to me—in which I heartily agree—that the society isafraud and a disgrace. I may add that, if there are any of our so-called merchants who re- tain their connections with such a palpable fraud, they have not the respect of our thought- ful citizens and neighbors. Yours truly, WiLiiam Connor. How to Keep Leeches. From the Pharmaceutical Record. We give our experience, as carried through some twenty-five years. The first ten years, during clerkship period, it was the custom of the stores in which the writer was employed to keep them in a jar of water witha piece of muslin tied over it changing the water every two or three days, and the jar was placed in a cool, dark location. Later experi- ence tried a large broad stone jar, a tightly-fitting cover of tin was made slightly conical and perforated with numerous fine holes. The jar had native earth or muck in which the leeches were imported, which was kept quite damp, while an inner jar contained water and a coarse sponge init. The use of this was beneficial apparently in cleansing the leeches as they crawled through it. In the fifteen years during which the latter method was used, the loss of leeches was almost nothing—not 1 per cent.—while by the former method, as far as my observation and memory serve me, it was certainly over 10 per cent. ———»> + Re-opening of the Old Sore. From the Detroit News. Will there be war to the spatula be- tween Detroit retail druggists and prac- ticing physicians, and will surgery cut- lery receive an ominous flourishing ? Probably not, but there is trouble be- tween the docters of pharmacy and the doctors of medicine, growing out of the same causes which promise a disturb- ance in hardware circles. The whole- sale druggists are alleged to sell goods at retail, and a determination to boycott such dealers as sell direct to physicians was recently passed by the Detroit Phar- maceutical Society. The doctors have now begun to talk back and threaten to buy stocks of drugs from outside firms and do their own prescription com- pounding. oi 2 The Superintendent of the Census has issued a special schedule to manufac- turers and the drug trade for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of alcohol, cologne spirit, high wine, whisky, brandy, rum, gin and wine used in the arts and manufactures and medicine in the United States. i i — ec eay cece ates oe T5Q@1 35 ae 48@ 53 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ Ww perpemearig............ 40@ 45 ee a, 45 50 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 6“ “ M @ 20 Beiiae, (po. W).....-... 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- me, Oe... @ 3 Valeriana, =e. 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D Codes..... @1%) " Boll.... 24@ 3 | Whiting Paris Eng. ae ard ae : | Pyrethrum, pv. 30@ 35| Tamarinds..... toe ee ee ee et ee eae i | Quassiae . ‘/.) “S@ 10) Terebenth Venice..... 238@ 30 Siviss Villa” re} Paint! 20@1 4 Castor ..... -.1 00 | Quinia, 8. P.& W 41@ 46|Theobromae .......... 50@ 55 | Swiss Villa — ' Catechu..... iT ‘ §& German. a do] Vanina.. |... .....- 9 00@16 00} Paints. a --1 00@1 20 oak. 7 Rubia Tinctorum a 12@ 14| Zinei Sulph........... 7@ 8 VARNISHES. ' Ceo... ' | Saccharum Lactis pv. @ No.1 Turp Coach....i 10@1 20 ae | Salacin.. <0...) Ge OO OrLs. Extra Torp............ 1 60@1 70 Ce 8 | Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bil. Gal |Coseh Body........... 2 75@3 00 Re i | — a. a @4 50; Whale, winter........ 70 7 | wo. t Turp Form...... 1 00@1 10 — ee... 5O | Sapo, W _.......... a wie oe....... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 ae. 50 | -............... Oe ites we t.t..... 45 50 | Japan en No. 1 a eee 50 | go @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 62 65 we 70@ 75 te ne a 50 —— 7 ore... 60 | eee 50 PyOscyamnem ................ 50 | Todine....... cee ee % | vr Coloriosg. 0000.0... % | : — Onioriggm............ 35 | Kino . 4... a Lobelia. . ee P R iE j +g Byer .. ol Nux Vomica. 50 | a 85 | ' Camphorsted........... 50 | D OO 2 00 #® Auranti Cortex.. Loecc es —— eee oe OO eee 50 che” reas ae Importers and Jobbers of Cassia Acutifol.. _. ... a Co.. kt wees 50 Derpenceree <.-.............. OO Ce 60 en bee a 60 (aleriam .........._. . - ‘a Veratrum Veride............ 50 ae a MISCELLANEOUS. AXther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 62@ 2 - ‘ é “ 4F 30@ 32 umen ......-.......- 24@ 3% Ch ]1 a D - ? S ad hs se outa, Go.“ | Chemicals an ruggists’ Sundries, CF eebeeeveeseces coes oe « Aymetio..........-.... 55@ «60 Antimont, po.......... 4I@ . " et Potass T 55@ 60 Dealers in Amsipyroy........._... 1 35@1 40 Axtirenein ............ @ Argenti Nitras, ounce = 68 e a 5 1 a Areenicam ............ a Balm Gilead Bud..... eo 40 d d g a a .2 10@2 2 J 5 j a Ca ee Cc hlor, 1s, (4s . 11; 4s, 12 9| Sole Agents$for the Oelebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints. canduartace ‘Russian, eee @1 75 Capsici Fructus, ae. @ 18 “ “ iS : ° = Caryophyllus, pe: POO) 15@ Is We are Sole Proprietors of Carmine, No. 40 oe @3 7 Cera Alba, 8 S ae..... 50@ 55 } Gera Flava........... 3@ 3) WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY. Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 rr. ............. @ 10 Coeecoer.... 8... @ 35 Chloroform . 55 i in squibbs .. @t = oe 1 9g = We have in stock and offer a full line of Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 2 c German 4@ 10 Cuan, let, de per Whiskies, Brandies, Creasotum ............ @ Ww ee. S? Gins, Wines, Rums. Waele we ew oe ee G « ' precip... ee ee 8@ 10 . ubra . @ & oe ................ 35@ 38 Cogreem...... 16... @ x« Curet Sulph........... 8@ 9 ee i 10@ 12 WwW S 1] A t i. Mi hi W Miner Selpn........... 68@ 70 Rther Sulph----, ®&@ %| Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.. Me cca 6 Ergota, (po.) 60.. @® 55 Flake Ww ite... 122@ 15 MeO gl, @ 3 omen. 6... 8 @9 Gelatin, Cooper. ...... @ 9 Preven... .... 40@ 60 Glassware flint, 75 per cent. by box 6224 less Glue, Seen.......... 9@ 15 13@ wee. le. GIVORTINE ....<........ 2@ 2 Grana Paradisi........ @ 15 Humulus. . i 23@ 40 Hydraag Chior. Mite.. @ % @ 8 big Oz siete @1 05 lem Ammoniati. @l1 15 " Unguentum. 45@ 55 Hydrargyrum ......... @ 80 Ichthyobolla, Are, 1 25@1 50 eee... 75@1 00 lodine, Resubl. .3 75@3 85 |... @4 70 Sapa ............... Sen oO Lycopodium ......... 55@ 60 WO ea eee 80@ 85 Liquor Arsen et Hy- ro toa... @ 2 Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 ae Sulph (bbl 14 wane, 8, F......... Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention antee Satisfaction. to Mail Orders and Guar- All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we res ceive them. Send in a trial order. Hazelting & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, # F 12 GROCERIES. Gripsack Brigade. J. R. Dykhouse now covers trade for John E. Kenning & Co. Leo A. Caro is rapidly recovering from | his recent illness. He expects to be out again the latter part of the week. the city H. P. Nicholson, traveling represent- | ative for Curtiss & Co. Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, is in town to-day. Frank E. Chase is confined to his idence on Barclay street, of an Ada. Oscar D. Fisher severed his con- nection with Phelps, Brace & Co., of De- troit, the change April 1. W. W. Gorball is no longer ploy of Lemon & Peters, having ceased to represent that house on the road week before last. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. now sends a copy of Tue TRADESMAN to each of its traveling men—an houses could follow to the all concerned. A. O. Freeman, formerly on for the Detroit Safe Co.,. travel for the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., taking the territory formerly covered res- in consequence accident he recently met with at has having oceurred on in the em- example other advantage of the road has engaged to by Sam. B. Morrison. The latter will take a position in the house. P. H. Carroll and Samuel Pike, who represent Selz, Schwab & Co. in this State, are spending a couple of weeks in the house, posting up and getting out their lines of samples of fall goods, which they enthusiastically claim are finer than ever before. The sympathy of the fraternity will go out to Peter Lankester death of his sister, who was for several years con- in the nected with the retail department of P. Steketee & Son’s dry goods establishment. The was held on Saturday, was largely attended by the relatives and and funeral friends of the deceased. The neighbors of ‘‘Hub”’ gave him a Saturday evening by in- vading his residence at 4 Gilbert street and presenting him with a handsome upholstered chair. The occasion of the invasion was the forty-fifth birthday of the genial grip carrier. Mrs. Baker was ready with a fine supper and all off as merry as a wedding bell. _ e —_- Wool, Hides, Pelts and Furs. Saker surprise The scarcity of some grades of wool | As- | makes it bring a fairly firm sortments of nor have manufacturers any supply on. price. Nor do they want it, so long as the goods | hold | pass | are free | The coming clip will rule low | in price, or seek new buyers, as the past | few years have been disastrous to the old | better. Some dealers firm, believing the new tariff will and help prices, while others trade is no sellers. dealers. Bottom has apparently been reache d| on hides, but they are firmly held at the | The demand is but fair, with | low price. no excitement. low, seanned. Tallow is weak at the low large supply and light demand. The London fur sales, ending on ult., show kinds. Prices nominal decided indifference as to buying. As usual when price is price, another are worth, but how low will one sell or the other venture to pay. There has no home trade or demand from Canada. | £0 still passed | grades are some broken, | selections and conditions are closely | with | 28th | heavy decline on all | and with a) It is no longer a question of what they are/ been | THE The Grocery Market. Sugar is a little lower and is likely to lower before the end of the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Squash—Hubbard, 2¢ per Ib. Sweet Potatoes—A bout out of market. Tomatoes—Early Southern stock commands $1 per peck (7 gts.) box. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisior Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. | 7 : Turnips—25c per bu. oe oe 11 00 | week, asthe refiners are evidently for- CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Short Cut -...-.--. --.. eee eeee weer eee econ ee 10 7% cha Che iten Gee 4 oe i Tt : ' re Cheer wie, ort Cut.................... 12 00 g e price down in order to secure 1e€ Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows Duis Chhee, belys..... i2 00 large supplies of raw at a low figure. | standard, 25 Ib, boxes anna 9 ee ete tees . = I ee tt enone se a ; 3 a ce Saleratus and starch are each c higher. | TWist, HS eee eee eee - 4s 2 Clear Week MRORBONE Us dl 12 00 é Loaf, “ y ni : Cut Loa 35 ta eeeeeeeees -10’% | Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 2 00 | Dried fruits continue to advance and are dis » , MIXED SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. boun vi ‘a pails . . 9 | Pork Sausage..... 7 nd to go very high. EG ee 8% | Ham Sausage... S > o —> Extra, + = 1b, pa ee ee ea bee ee oe Tongue Sausage 9 ssbb mee hk wh ek mw cal 2) Frankf: Saus i Association Notes. Freneh Cream, 2 Ib eS a. Sate 5 Muskegon News: “Owing to the press of other FANcY—In 5 lb, boxes. NN aise acta sc business, the Muskegon Business Men’s Asso- | Lemon Drops....... ee “ste CR MMe css 40 5 cctvinknonices ‘esa sgn 5 ee : : ee ee 13 Head Cheese.. 5 ciation has decided to postpone consideration of Peppermint Drops 14 ie etna : r ft ttt eter ee eee e ee cece ee eee ee LARD—Kettle Rendered. the report of the committee on the employment | Chocolate Drops......................00cee0ee- le 74 of a collector anda system of collecting until — —: a Dette eee ee eect eee tees = Lg EE Te 734 the next regular meeting, which wiil be held the | Licorice een ns "18 50 1b. Tins....... cue 1% first Tuesday in April. A. B. Licorice Drops............ ea 14 | Tierces . 5% ek ee ude ola d 5 Bancroft correspondence Owosso Times: “The | Lozenges, —* crea ers SO and 60 Ib, TUS ....... 062.125 cereeeeees 5% members of the Bancroft Business Men’s Asso- ae eee lei rt = a = ae cl es eons einen ae 6% ciation haye a weather eye out for the interest | Mottoos.....................- -15 | 10 Ib. Pails, ae acon Le nen ro of Bancroft. They have regular meetings the es tts oe = Sy Te ee CR 5% first Friday evening of each month, and specials | Caramels ............................., .. .16@18 30 Ib. Cans... ioe CC 57% as Often as the occasion may require. The offi- ew — ree 18 Extra Mess, warranted ; wie 6 50 cers of the Association are: President, L. C. ain Creams. ......-..----- 02... sesee eee. --16 | Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 00 Gj mi . : Poceresoe (FORM -20 Boneless, ru butt Shelly; Vice-President, W. E. Watson; Treas- String Rock. 15 lati segue ee pe ah ee lee ea & 50 . ng a : eee ae SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. urer, E. Sherman; Secretary, Walter M. Strong. | Burnt Almonds... 22...0000 0000222 ve Hams, average 20 Ibs........ 2.2.2... 0.02.05. 9% A move is now being made to unite with the | Wintergreen Berries.......................... is BBO less ee ir a tai 10 ‘“ Sikes Anunmiabsis Lozenges plain, ‘in pails. bulk. en i ea 12 to 14 lbs.. ee. -10% ee } : ' aa ae Sa Geo. Gokey, general ike at West : printed, - -—- ---12 | Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 8% Olive, died on the 18th ult., of congestion | chocolate Drops, in ‘pails. Se a 5% of the brain, after an illness of only four | @2™ Drops, “0 = rire tla tie aise nian ni inl — Briskets, a oe -- & ee Ce a i. days. The interment occurred at Grand Moss Drops, in bbls Cee OYSTERS and FISH, ne a . scttataacrat TT 9 F, J. Dettenthaler quotes Haven on the 21st, being conducted un-| sour PM o% canons aa ee der the auspices of the I. O. O. F. Imperials, —— eerie e ea —. es Lele ee a lee @ 7% eee ey @8 } ee... ; — : iia ET @ 6 PRODUCE MARKET Oranges, Messina, choice.. a @ 3% a @15 Apples—Golden or Roxbury russets or North- oe @ 4 00 | Haddies............ eee eet eee cieme aa ai @7 ern Spys command $3.50 per bbl. Florida, choiee.......... . 3 %@ 4 09 | Ciscoes to Sr ie oie oie oi ie aie get a @a4 Beans—Dealers pay $1.25 for unpicked and “ ae 4@ 4% oYSTERS—Cans, #1.35 for picked, holding at $1.50@31.65 per bu. Riversidé, fanty........,...., 3 75@ 4 09 | Fairhaven Counts...................... @35 Beets—40c per bu. a A 3 50@ 3 75 | Selects... 2.0... cece cece cece ee eeee eee BD QMO Butter—Good demand for choice. C reamery is Wash. Navals, ey 4 50@ 5 00] F.d. D'S. -.... eee ee cee cee e eee ee @ in fair demand at 26c. Choice grades of dairy are Valencias, large.. es @ 6 00) Anchors...............-- @18 in active demand, dealers paying 15@16c and Lemons, Messina, choice = @3 50| Standards ........... 0... @i6 holding at 17@18e a. : @ ae @14 Buckwheat Flour—#1.75 per 100 Ibs. fancy, -— @4 00 oYSTERS—Bulk. Cabbages—88@9 per 100. “ “ me... @4 50 | Standards..................., @81 15 Cheese—Fair stock of full cream commands Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers ..... @i5__| Selects @ 1 60 11@12c. “ caiics * |... 12%@ 13 ae. an @l 5O Cider—10@11e per gal. * ehoies Jib, oo @ Shrimps. nde eee Vek bed Lekewe eee cus @1 50 Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels | Dates, frails, 50 lb.................. . a game oe teen eA ee ae esas os se ce eee 9 50 c, ‘ % frails, —s....... .. . ed sees cs ll, Cucumbers—Too high to quote. |= Fard, a ee o.0 Shell oysters, per 100.......... 02. 22... 1 ong 5) Dried Apples i. Ev ‘aporated are held at 9@; “ te @8 hehe aed iene a ag @ 10c and sundried at 5@6c. | = Persian, 50-lb. box.. i al, Eggs—Dealers now pay 12cand hold at 13@14C«. | NUTS. oe Swift and Company duote as foliows: ——— isenormous and the tendency is Almonds, ‘a eee eae @16 ee es 54@ 6% | eet 5 Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, 33.50 per bu.: . Colrorme. 2... — oi _ a hae LOE Meee = medium, #3.50. Timothy, $1.50 per bu. ee @i1% a ett 4@ 4% Honey —Scarce and nearly out of market. Walnuts, Grenoble. Co @15% a a renee see tine one @10 Lettuce—1ée per lb. for Grand Rs ipids grown. ss ask @13" “ tongues ee @ 8% Maple Sugar —8@i2ce per lb., according to | Pecans, Texas, H.P......... ......-.... 28 (ee . 2 quality. PEANUTS. Bologna Se - ae Onions—Dealers pay $1.60@$1.75 and hold at Fancy, H. P., Bells .. ee ee @ 5 #2 per bu. ' | “ Roasted. teens G10 ig ap ly @ 7% ieticane aeateee Fancy, H. P.,Suns ......... @9 | Sausage, blood or head. ../..../.°/27777 =e Potatoes—The market is higher. Dealers pay | cee @10% “liver. es ae 35¢ and hold at 40e per bu. “ | Choice, H. a. o tue. 8 r - Frankfort. ern g 2 crested aie conan i _ “we Roasted i. @ dr Mottoe ......... a v 8 @8% j a ae ORAL RAST TIADRE NERS Linen x ot es ae é Fi aw é PREM pay: Whew | | | | For Sale ie ‘anil Wholesale Grocers. THE MICHIGAN TRADES) Wihelcuale Price CSennenes ¢. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers wh- pay promptly and buy in full packages. APPLE BUTTER. E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 AXLE GREASE. rae #2 60 ee 8 1% Mae... 1 60 BAKING POWDER. Absolute, 14 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75 Me » 50s..10 00 C « Se. . iS Acme, \ Ib. cans, 3 doz.. zw % Ib. 2 150 . ai, “ :*-.. se ' a 20 Our Leader, gid. cans etas 45 ie ak. 90 . Tib. wenn 1 60 Telfer’s, 4 1b.cans,doz.. 45 “ % lb. “ee “cc Be 85 “ im ° 2 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case _ 80 Bristol, 2 a. 7 American. doz. incase... 7 BLUING. Dozen Mexican, a .........,. 30 os... .-._.... 60 [ eee 90 BROOMS No. 2 Hurl De ceed ee eee ee 75 No. 1 ae ....-...- “ Warehouse.......- i BUTTERINE Dairy, solid packed.... ... 12% VOR... 1k... _- Cri reamery, — packed.. -. 13% CANDLES Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes ae 10 ee ay Paraffine . eee 10 Wie... cee s-es 25 CANNED cia: aii, Clams. 1 Ib. Little Neck. .... 1 2 Clam Chowder, $ Ib......... 210 Cove Oysters, | 1 lb. stand. 1 io 2 Ib. 1 oo Lobsters, 1 Ib. ‘picnic Depeee ee 1% Mm” Cae 2 65 c 1 ib, Star.. 2 15 a” 2 Ib. Star.. 3 15 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85 1 Ib. fend........ 1 20 ‘ ao 2 00 “ 3 lb. in Mustard... 2 85 . Sib. soused....... 2 85 Salmon, 11b. Columbia... ..2 00 Tih, Aieeee........ 1 Sardines, domestic aes... .- 5 48. ..@ 9 . Mustard \s.. @ ° imported \s.. 10%@ 16 . spiced, 348......-. 10 Trout, 3 1 . brook oS es 2 60 CANNED GooDs—FTuits. Apples, gallons, stand. 2 & B ackberries, and 80 Cherries,red standard 1 _— 20 - watlom:. ..-..... es 1 40 ee ee it Egg Plums, stand.....1 15@1 35 Geoseberries ..........-....-- 1 00 GEAPES 2.2.20 .ccrce cece ce seee Green Gages.........- 1 15@1 35 Peaches, yellow, stand1 75@1 85 . seconds ...... 1 10@1 45 . ee 100 Peers... 22... ae Pineapples ........-... 1 10@1 50 a 1 00 Raspberries, Oxtre.......... 1% 7ee.......--..-.- 1 40 Strawberries .......... J i561 1 35 Whortleberries............-- % CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... Beans, Lima, ee -- ey 85 ‘© Green Limas. @1 % ai Siaee......---- @ 90 ‘* Stringless, Erie. 90 ‘“ Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Archer’ sT rophy ciaees 90 Morn’g Glory. 90 _ . Early Golden. 90 Peas, French............-+-- 1 68 ‘* extra marrofat... @1 2% +. —_ — —————ee—— 80 « Jane, mane. ..........- 1 40 ies = ‘Stee...-..- 1 — 85 ‘“* French, extra fine... .1 50 Mushrooms, extra fine...... 2 15 Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden. . @ 10 Succotash, standard.. —_— 40 SquMel ..... 5. 3 e252 ----- os i Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 95@1 00 Good Enough®@! 00 . Ben Har ... 95@1 00 ' stand br.. 95@1 00 CHEESE. Fancy Full Cream.. @12 Good be. @11l% Part Skimmeod......... 9 @10 a a SSA yn 16 @18 ee wales @1 00 gone 8. German Sweet.. .......... wo Premium”........ 28 Sega es eens sas sues 38 Breakfast Open. 6.4... 48 ee 37 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, — bunsueeee es p-3] os taee 35 Pe 25 CHICORY. RE RS an Selecta 6 Re COFFEE EXTRACT. bam MO, 85 ee ee. hm cOFFEE—Green. Rio, - ....... @21 —_— se 21 @22 eee... .... @23 3 | oy washed.. @2A4 i 23 @24 MOMNOe. oo 22 @& Mexican & Guatemala23 @2 cave, toberior......... 24 @26 e Mandheling +27 @30 Peaberry . ea 22 @24 Mocha, genuine. beeas 26 @28 To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \e. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEE oe McLaughlin’s XXXX....254% Purheam...... . oe CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 401....... per doz. 1% " wt... 130 1 a0 ft. [ If . woe... .... . 2 00 . 80 ft. c 22 Jute ar....... . 1 00 . _ i ...... ° 115 CONDENSED MILK. —s.. 7 50 Anglo Swiss.......... 6 00@ 7 60 COUPONS. courons—‘‘Superior.”’ $1 per hundred eee 2 50 ee 3 00 7. " ee oe S10, “* 50 " assorted, 17s and 19s 2% | . 156, 17s and 198 2 7 | Baskets, market.. . = bushel | 1% | , “with covers 1 90 | . willow cr ths, No.1 5 %5 | o No.2 6 25 | ‘ Nos 7 | splint No.1 3 50 e 242 . * Nos 5 00 | GRAINS noe F EEDSTU FFS WHEAT. Pwee 78 | Red... ......- % All wheat bought on 60 Ib. test. MEAL Beate 2 1 00 aeaieie................ 1 FLOUR. Straight, i SACER......... 410 Derreis,....... 4 30 Patent “ sacee....... 5 10 ' ' barrels... m train. : a | PD Nashville—Powers & Stringham. EN ar tuis € ne eT Olivet—F. H. Gage | : Cincinnati Express... sees 7:15am at. ¥. Sanher & 0 | ceeanne Gee aes Tose . 7. rder & : | neinnati Ex _ . 8: Pm Otisco—G oS : " ' From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler. | Wren CA@e. 9:55 am Reed City—J. M. Cadzow. | WH R¢ \ & VY Train leaving for Cincinnati at 6p. m. and arriving Rockford—H. Colby & Co. | from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in- eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. St. Louis—Mary A. Brice. | \ Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:00 a. m. Sand Lake—C. 0. Cain, Frank E. Shat-| TO BHEEP Sue tas tae Sate eee tuck, Brayman & Blanchard. and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati. ¢ Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Springport—Cortright & Griffin. > i ae Arrive. Sumner—J. B. Tucker. = 11as om... L $:45 pm Williamston—Michael Bowerman. Lonving time at ridge strect depot? minutes later. ' a | Through tickets and full inf i ; A Father’s Advice. ‘. PUBLIC ! calling upon. A. Aimauist, tioket agent ‘tt depot, oF | le “ t . é . onroe . “My boy, pay your bills promptly,”’ | : . oa Grand Rapids, Mich. : ' said an old merchant to his son, who was | By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre 0. L. Looxwoon, Gen'l Pass. Agent. just about to launch out into his first | ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods iL Detroit, Grand enn Milwaukee venture, a country store. “I have been| Stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort ' aucun. . } in the business a good many years, and/ on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- lite italia jAirives. Leaves. have seen a good many fellows who! org to the store, and help sell less known goods. A... teem see started out with as good prospects as | ' tGrand Rapids Express. ...10:40 pm Po nae mxpress......... . 6:40am 7:00am ours, but before long they had to give | , Te oun. ‘Nobody seems io know why, but} ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. |" sie aaa. om the fact was they didn’t think enough of | (Mhrough Mallow. .cveees 09 0.m oa j ve! oo ence cwee 3: their credit. Their bills ran over time a iNight Express soem Be ge t week or so, and pretty soon the jobbers | A H T M sS +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. nla b got tired of it, and marked ‘slow pay’ | * 9 Detroit Express and Evening Express have parlor : Ss cars attached and make direct connections in Detroit opposite their accounts. They wrote to ieegie meee eubieenetnuias — oll : ee , dunia is " : orning express and Grand Rapids express have par- the city houses to enquire why their or-| Wholesale and Retail Dealer in lor ears attached. Night express has Wagner sleeping ders were not filled promptly. T hey | ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m. wouldn’t have asked twice if their ears Lime, Cement, COAL AND WOOD aus as meee ae ee “a - had been long enough to overhear the | : B ; D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot : i | . ' . . shipping clerk talk with the book-| Fire Brick, etc Jno. W. coun! A SaMEnELL. Clty Passenger Agent. keeper. This is what they said: ‘Shall 1 | Main Office, 54 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Yard and Warehouse on Line of fill the order of Mr. Y.?’ ‘No hurry. | G. BRB. &L, C.& W. M. and L. S. & M. S. Rys. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. t Take up A.’s order first; he’s a spot cash | SHIPMENTS MADE MP1 For Toledo and all points South and East, take man! That’s the reason the merchant | ALL SHIPMENTS MADE PROMPTLY. the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- 1 I way from Owosso Junction. §S i didn’t get his goods—that’s one reason | at above point with trains of DG aM. and i why he sold out and made an application connections at Toledo with evening trains for fora place on the road. Look out for | ee {| d il d {l wot Suakacr Gabe bees a ch ee your credit, my son, and you will never | 1 nent points on connecting lines. — } regret it” oe | WHOLESALE A. J. PaisLey, Gen’l Pass. Agent Peter C. Brooks, of Boston, who left | one of the largest fortunes ever amassed in that city, was once asked what rule HEADQUARTERS FOR FWP AE Oranzes, MICHIGAN CENTRAL e ;, he would recommend to a young man as MANFS. Lemons, The Niagara Falls Route.’ most likely to insure success in mercan- B DEPART. 2 r . ARRIVE tile life, and his answer was: ‘‘Let him 1890 ananas;, Reteelt Engen. . 6:45am 10:15pm mind his own business.”’ Nuts etc Day. aoe a ORIN ‘eae 10:00 nm i > e *Atlantic & Pacific Express. 10:45pm 6:00am meer One. MRP ORE.. ck. ccs s 5:40pm 1:35pm Crockery & Glassware "Daily All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express LAMP BURNERS. : trains to and from Detroit. i No.0 Sun... ee 36 Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand Rapids No.1 “ 38 Express to and from Detroit. No.2 < 58 * FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent. 85 Monroe St. ’ pole ioe 5 > — ~~ a bape Depot. & ci ie : rons rt aly oa . W. Munson, Union it 0. , 67 i sia we aaa CHIMNEYs.—Per box. E. 1). Voorhees, Manager. O. W. Rueeias. G. P. & T. wa ” No.0 Sun...... He 1% a. ee ee y, > rs as 3 saciid li BEFORE BUVING GRATES First quality. zet Circular and Testimonials). Sent Free. eee esp miewoees ohenue 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Deer eee, wer OL .....-.- -. <2... Jugs, % gal., per doz.... ri. « co No. 0 Sun, crimp top........ 2 DB Economical, Sanitary, Cleanly and Artistic. | —- 2 ALDINE FIRE PLACE, GRAND RAPID;, MICH. | hee ‘Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Bt mp ee ants, UVerars, (ats, JacKers, If 8, KE6. P a i Pena op : — ca siti , 83 3k Of No. 3 Nngpees eee 4 | Warranted Not to Rip. en ee... “a Fit Guaranteed. Wich Woda da i a elie aaa aaa 1 50 Workmanship Perfect p : No. 1erimp, perdoz..........200 0.02 .:eseeee ee 35 P t Siereoty per it aAPs 06% Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him 7 to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices anette Pal Xee Sal t= hval Aq” NZAVS COME <1 kane ae ! i. co ner | “se sent on application. conan Diy rhleiias FURNITURE eee eee 5 IONIA, MICH. rte LY ae —~ eo ee a / ~ ~e§ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 15 The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: Ada—L. Burns. Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle, L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros., Sharp & Baker. Allendale—Henry Dalman. Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Armada—C. J. Cudworth. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Aurelius—John D. Swart. Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co. Belding—L. S. Roell. Bellevue—John Evans. Big Rapids—W. A. Verity,A. V. Young, EK. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson. Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carlton Center—J. N. Covert. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Ses- sions. Casnovia—John E. Parcell. Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, B. Tripp. Central Lake—H. Sissons. Charlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron & Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock, F. H. Goodby. Chester—P. C. Smith. Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell. Clio—John W. Hurd. Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin. Conklin—Wilson McWilliams. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. Dorr—Frank Sommer. Dushville—G. O. Adams. Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt. Eaton Rapids—Knapp & Rich, H. Kosit- chek & Bro. Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. Fenwick—Thompson Bros. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon. Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford, Jas. Croskery. Gowan—Rasmus Neilson. Grand Ledge—Frank O. Lord. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil- zinski, Brown & Sehler, Volmari & Von Keppei, Houseman, Donnally & Jones, Ed Struensee. Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg. Hart—Rhodes & Leonard. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City — O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E. Pelton. Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan. Imlay City—Cohn Bros. Ionia—H. Silver, Wm, Wing. Jackson—Hall & Rowan. Kalamo—L. R. Cessna. Kent City—M. L. Whitney. Laingsburg—D. Lebar. Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co., E. F. Colwell & Son, Fred Miller. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All & Bro. Langston—F. D. Briggs. Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Israel) Glicman. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen- nings. Lowell—Patrick Kelly. McBride’s—J. McCrae. Mancelona—J. L. Farnham. Manton—A. Curtis. Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- per & Son. Mecosta—Robert D. Parks. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. 8.) Knight, Chas. Gauntlett, Jas. Gauntlett, Jr. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Morley—Henry Strope. Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett & Son, F. H. Cowles. Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara. Nashville—H. M. Lee. Newaygo—W. Harmon. North Dorr—John Homrich. Nottawa—Dudley Cutler. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Onondaga—John Sillik. Orono—C. A. Warren. Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co. Etta (Mrs. Furniture, See what they can do Richmond—Knight & Cudworth, A. W. Reed. Remus—C. V. Hane. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sebewa—P. F. Knapp. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sheridan—M. Gray. Shultz—Fred Otis. Sparta—Dole & Haynes. Springport—Powers & Johnson, Well ington & Hammond. ‘ Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & 0. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Traverse City—John Wilhelm, 8. C. Darrow, D. D. Paine. Trufant—lI. Terwilliger. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson. H. C. Breckenridge. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haver- kate. Williamston—Thos. Horton. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. SEEDS! Iffin want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St,, GRAND RAPIDS. W.T. LAMOREAUX., Nelson, Matter & Co., FOR WM.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manviactvrers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. Houseman Block, - CURTISS & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE KEYSTONE BINDERS’ TWINE. Grand Rapids, Mich. FRUIT SEND FOR PRICE LIST. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR Oranges, Lemons, Nuts, Bananas, Peanuts, Figs, Dates, Gitron, te, The Putnam Candy Co. Duplex Pleasure Business and cheapness of price. for pleasure. Wagon One of the most perfect wagons ever produced, combining strength, durability Just the wagon for light delivery, farmer’s run-about, or Send for price list and description. THE BELKNAP WAGON & SLEIGH CO., Grand Rapids. 1eqqnyY Zury004g Zur “180M % 301}431g S80g OTT, GEO. H. REEDER, State Agent Lycoming Rubbers and Jobber ef Medium Price Shoes. Grand Rapids, Mich. for you. 12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., RAILROAD GRANDi RAPIDS, MICH. BALS. The best shoe made for railroad men, truckmen and wherever hard wear is required. As durable as a plow shoe and as good style asa light shoe. Made in flesh split veal calf and Milwaukee grain,in bals and congress, two soles and tap. Rindge, Bertsch & Co, ee CRC AN TRADESMAN. ev & Judson Grocer Co, IONIA STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. The youngest grocery jobbing house in the city, but we do a business Fqual in Volume to Any in Western Michigan. We carry as complete a stock as any in Michigan. We sell three times as many new stocks as any other house in this market. Why? Because we hold out induce- ments to buyers that our competitors cannot, or at least do not. We guarantee to our patrons, at all times, ‘‘Rock Bottom” prices, courteous treatment and a ‘‘Square Deal.” The trade appreciate our efforts and to their appreciation we owe our phenomenal success. Peo yvy, 1) FIND US: As you leave the Union Depot, on your way toward Monroe Street, Stop Where You See the Most Business Going On, The most teams loading, the most stir, the busiest place,in fact,and we will be there to meet you. YOU CAN MAKE NO MISTAKE. We respectfully call your attention FIT FOR Or O to the fact that we carry the most SPOKE, complete stock of seeds in E™. weno, Set! A Gentleman’s our wholesale price and catalogue Ei, a ONION SkTS, Met tp. All goods bearing the In fact, everything Ete., Y in our - " lowest 1) Ete, name of ZY J a. Thurber, Whyland & Co. ; Browns Seed Store, S on GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALEXIS GODILLOT, Jr. ee DRYTENTHALER seat A eatery S. K. Bolles & Co., Bill Snort no 77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, hace Fresh and Salt W holesale Cigar Dealers. i g cee ne a We guarantee this cigar the ake Fish a $6 best $35 cigar on the market. Send us trial order, and if not Cr ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY return them Advertising mat- eM inina i ter sent with each order. — oo (eean Fish We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP” oe es Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of excellent quality, equal to more than the aver- ‘ ' F Mail orders receive prompt attention. Charlevoix Cigar M f | Co., See quotations in another column. age ten cent cigars on the market. CHARLEVOIX, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS.