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DRY GOODS MEN IN SESSION.
Second Annual Convention Held in
Saginaw.
To-day and to-morrow promise to
be red letter days for the Michigan
Retail Dry Goods Association, which
is now in session at Saginaw. The
convention was called to order this
by Julius B. Kirby, Manag-
ing Secretary of the Saginaw Board
of Commerce, in the following well-
chosen words:
The honor of calling to order the
second annual convention of the Mich-
igan Retail Dry Goods Association
has been conferred upon me by virtue
of the position I hold as managing
secretary of the Saginaw Board of
Commerce. Ordinarily I regard these
matters perfunctory, but in this in-
stance, I asume this responsibility
with keen appreciation of the trouble-
some times the merchants of this
country have recently experienced
and are now passing through.
War always has and will ever con-
tinue to unstabilize and jeopardize
merchandising business, and, in fact,
all other enterprise not particularly
adapted to the needs of war. It is in-
deed gratifying to know that so few
of our business institutions failed as
a result of our great war. The rep-
ae of the various dry goods
companies are to be congratulated
in the a conduct of this vast
enterprise in our State during these
uncertain and troublesome times.
Personally, I regard the dry goods
business as the leading and most im-
portant branch of retail merchandis-
ing, and owing to the variety of stock
always needed to meet the present
day demands, it can be readily under-
stood you have had your many dif-
ficulties in° keeping up stock, meeting
the changes of production costs, the
many substitutes necessarily forced
upon you resulting from Government
demands in respect to the use of
manufactured products, and the taking
over of industries for war purposes.
You, who have met all of these unfor-
tunate conditions and emerged with
vour business and the good will of the
public, are now entitled to great con-
sideration. Your business is essential
to the welfare of every community and
will always continue to be so.
We are now entering upon a new
business era. In my judgment, you
are practically through with the en-
tanglements and uncertainties grow-
ing out of the war.
forenoon
Strong belief in a gradual and na-
tural readjustment of business condi-
tions without financial disorder or
any sudden economic calamity is ex-
pressed by the Committee on Statis-
tics and Standards of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States of
America in its semi-annual bulletin
on crop and general business condi-
tions, issued last week.
tee finds a wide-spread feeling that
business will continue good for the
remainder of the year.
Conventions of this. character re-
sult not only in benefits to be derived
by you as members of one of our
great business enterprises, but the
public becomes beneficiary in that it
directly receives the benefits and ad-
vantages in the re spective communi-
ties represented by you, derived and
growing out of an exchange of busi-
ness views, interesting discussion of
important trade matters, and impreved
and advanced ideas concerning the
business generally.
1 am sure this meeting will be suc-
cessful in every way and the benefits
anticipated not only by me but by
every delegate present will be satis-
factorily realized, and when you re-
turn to your respective homes, you
will have a feeling that it was well
to be present at this your second an-
nual convention.
Rev. Emil Montanus, rector of St.
John’s Episcopal church, pronounced
the invocation.
Mayor Mercer gave an address of
welcome, which was responded to by
President Christian.
At the afternoon session, Manag-
er Hammond presented his annual re-
port, as follows:
The year that has passed since the
convention held at Lansing in Sep-
tember, 1919, has been a very busy
one for the officers and manager of
our Association. We now have 339
members, and at the beginning of the
organization two years ago forty-
seven men were present.
The work of adding to the member-
ship was carried on during the fol-
lowing winter by correspondence by
the Secretary. At the time of the
Battle Creek meeting, in March, 1919,
there were seventy-nine members.
Last September at the time of the
State convention in lansing there
174 members and in March, 1920, at
the time of the Grand Rapids conven-
tion, 250 members. We had hoped
and expected to increase the member-
ship to 350 by the time of this con-
vention, but have fallen slightly short
of that number, although we have no
doubt that before this convention
closes the membership will equal 350
or more.
This indicates a very substantial
growth and I am very much pleased
to report that only two or three mem-
bers have shown a _ disposition to
terminate their membership. One
store at Muskegon, one at Ovid, and
one at Quincy have changed owner-
ship, but we have every reason to be-
lieve that the new owners will con-
tinue their membeship with us. The
branch store of the Michigan Stores
Company located at Charlotte, has
been discontinued, as has the Empor-
ium at Detroit. To this extent we
have lost in our membership.
I have traveled almost constantly
during the past year, calling on our
members and soliciting new ones, and
at this time it is fair to say that the
territory of the Lower Peninsula has
been well covered. There is some
territory, however, in the Northeast-
ern part of the Peninsula and some
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on the opposite side that should be
canvassed. It will soon be desirable
to extend our membership campaign
to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
and also to more thoroughly solicit
members in the city of Detroit, where
[ have every reason to believe there
are 50 to 100 members that could be
secured.
I have only made one effort to
solicit members in Detroit and that
was in the summer of 1919. I was
told at that time that the Detroit
merchants would be more interested
in our organization if we could come
down there and show a membership
of 300 or more, and I was given as-
surances that some of the prominent
merchants there would assist in a
membership campaign when this re-
sult could be obtained.
In view of the fact that Detroit is
the chief center of commercial ac-
tivity of the State, and the further
fact that many of our members would
prefer to travel by rail than by auto-
mobile in March, I would recommend
to the members of the Board of Di-
rectors and to the Convention Com-
mittee that the convention of March,
1921 he held in the city of Detroit.
I believe that many of our members
on t*e Western side of the State
would gladly pay the extra traveling
experses for the privilege of ta
ing a live convention in the metropolis
of our State, and I am very certain
that the support that would come to
the Association and the interests in-
volved, by reason of a convention in
Detroit next Spring would be of great
value.
The Michigan Legislature will
be in session and we will. by that
time, begin to realize what legislative
problems are before us and no effort
should be spared to make this meet-
ing, wherever it may be held, a big
success. It will certainly be an epoch-
marking event in the history of our
Association work.
Mutual Fire Insurance
I have communicated regularly to
the members of our Association re-
garding the Grand Rapids Merchants
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and
if you are familiar with the bulletins
which have been sent, very little need
be said in this general rcport regard
ing the affairs of this company. As
you all know, four of the eight men
bal comprise the Board of Directors
(7. Trompen, of Grand Rapids; F
EB. Mills, of Lansing: |. B. Sperry, of
Port. Huron, and C. P. Lille. of
Coopersville) are all members of the
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion. I am very happy to state that
the directors of our Association, as
well as the directors of the insurance
company have unanimously recom-
mended that our President, D. M.
Christian, of Owosso, be elected to
fill the first vacancv which may oc-
cur on the Board of Directors. This
vacancy will probably be created very
soon and we will then have five of the
six members of this Board of Direc-
tors. In matters of general policy the
insurance company is, and will be in
the future, controlled by dry goods
men.
It requires no eulogy from me at
this time to impress upon your minds
that our insurance company is in good
hands, esnecially with Mr. Christian
added to the list above given. I am
very pvleased to sav, also, that more
than one and one-fourth millions of
insurance is now carried upon the
stores and property of the members
of our Association and it is my
opinion that the company is gradual-
then
ly growing in favor throughout the
State. Under the above management
we should, during the ensuing year,
easily double the amount of insurance
from our Association alone. The to-
tal amount of insurance in force Au-
gust 31, 1920, was $3,313,262.00.
Our Secretary, John DeHoog, act-
ing under the advice and direction of
the Board of Directors, has canceled
a considerable amount of insurance
previously written on property that
was not considered desirable by our
directors. We have a very much bet-
ter class of risks now than we had
one year ago and with a little more
elimination of unfavorable risks that
were placed previous to this year, our
policies will be first class in every re-
spect.
The expense of conducting our 1
surance company is very small, in-
deed, compared with the expenses of
similar organizations. By re-insuring
with other companies. our net losses
are kept within a $3,000 limit and the
premium income has been thus far
very largely in excess of our fire
losses and expenses. Mr. DeHoog its
in attendance at the convention and
anxious to give information
and answer any and all questions re-
garding this work.
Our Bulletin Service.
spe cific
During the twenty-four weeks
which have elapsed since the Grand
Rapids convention, we have issued
from this office forty-five ‘atlesins
and four or five general letters. This
indicates that we have communicated
with our members during this period
twice each week.
We have reason to believe that the
merchandise features of
bulletins have been very well pa-
tronized and that many of our mem-
bers have disposed of some superflu-
ous fixtures and goods at a reason-
able figure to themselves and at a
verv substantial prafit and advantage
to the purchasers.
[ wish to urge our members to read
these bulletins more carefully. I have
found in my travels that many of our
members are ignorant of some of the
information that has been furnished
them through the medium of these
sulletins. and while the majoritv of
them, T believe, give them careful at-
tention. it is my belief that vour in-
terest in the Association and the bene-
fits derived therefrom would be very
much increased by giving more
thorough attention to the subject mat-
ter of these communications.
This was emphasized upon my mind
very forcibly by the operations of the
bad check artist who appeared again
in Michigan this summer. Last sum-
mer, as many of you will remember,
her onerations were very thoroughly
advertised by bulletins from this of-
fice and I had reason to believe at
that time that she disappeared fr-m
the state because of publicity which
was given her through the medium
of our bulletin.
After being arrested a little later
and given a nominal fine and therebv
getting her picture in the rovcue’s
gallery, she operated in the Southern
states. and it will be remembered that
a bulletin giving her picture and des-
cription was issued in Michigan earlv
in June. Almost simultaneously with
the issuing of this bulletin she ap-
peared again in certain portions of
the State and actually made victims
members of our Association
who had been vigorously warned
against her method of doing business
It is not necessary, nor would it
for me to mention the
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names of our members who were vic-
timized by this woman, but in some
cases, I am sure, if they had read our
bulletins a little more . thoroughly,
they would have been on _ guard
against her. .Im.a certain portion of
the State where we at that time had
no members, she secured, after a stay
in the community of about two weeks,
payment of worthless checks to the
amount of approximately $1,700. Iam
pleased to say that we were success-
ful in securing new members in that
locality and my only regret was that
I had not had the time to solicit their
membership previously.
Michigan Merchants Association.
I am very enthusiastic regarding
the organization and operations of
the so-called Michigan Merchants As-
sociation. At the suggestion of one
of the directors of the Michigan Re-
tail Dry Goods Association, I issued
a call last January to the officers of
certain mercantile associations of the
State to meet with the Attorney Gen-
eral of the State in Lansing to dis-
cuss matters pertaining to profiteer-
ing. This conference was well at-
tended and was the subject of a para-
graph in my report last March.
As a direct result of this confer-
ence and upon the call of Lee H.
3ierce, of Grand Rapids, the Michi-
gan Merchants Association was or-
ganized with a hardware man _ tor
President, a wholesale grocer for
Vice-President and two association
secretaries for Secretary and Treas-
urer respectively, with the President
of each Association as a member of
the Board of Directors.
I have advocated to our Program
Committee that a thorough discussion
of the plans and purposes of this
Federated Association should be had
at this convention and Lee H. Bierce
and Geo. A. Murphy, of Grand Rapids,
are on our program. It is unneces-
sary, therefore, for me to comment
further regarding this Association.
mention it here to give ourselves the
credit of taking the preliminary steps
which has led to its organization, al-
though we are indebted largely to
Lee H. Bierce, of Grand Rapids, for
the splendid results which have been
thus far obtained.
Michigan Fair Price Commission.
I agree with the gentlemen who
gave the address of welcome this
morning when he says that in his
judgment we are practically through
with the entanglements and uncer-
tainties growing out of the war and
that there is at this time and will con-
tinue to be a natural readjustment of
business conditions without financial
disorder or economic calamity.
We were favored by the selection
of William Brogan as member of the
so-called Michigan Fair Price Com-
mission. This is in my opinion an-
other indication of the value of or-
ganization, as I have reasons to be-
lieve that Mr. Brogan, who is a suc-
cessful business man of good judg-
ment and a credit to any organiza-
tion of this kind, was selected because
of his connection with the organized
business interests of the State.
It is not my purpose to comment
regarding the official conduct of this
Commission. The merchants of
Michigan have not been troubled as
they have been in other states with
the foolish and perplexing rules and
regulations by their commissions. |
would suggest that at our experience
meeting and smoker Mr. Brogan be
called upon to make a few statements
regarding the results, if any, that have
been obtained by the appointment of
this commission.
Controllers Congress.
At the request of Lew Hahn, Man-
aging Director of the National Retail
Dry Goods Association, our Presi-
dent appointed a committee to attend
the Controllers Congress held in
Cleveland, June 7 and 8. L. G. Cook,
of Jackson, was the chairman of this
committee, and with one of his as-
sociates, attended the convention
throughout its entire session.
Mr. Cook will report on this con-
vention and his remarks will be sup-
plemented by C. B. Clark, of the J.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
L. Hudson Company, of Detroit. This
is another substantial part of our pro-
gram which, I believe, should result
in great benefit to the Merchants of
the State.
In my report last March I referred
to a blackmailing case similar to the
one which we had just disposed of in
the Gratiot County Circuit Court.
One of our members, A. J. Larsen, of
Hastings, a man of unquestioned
character, received threatening letters
from a certain debtor of his, demand-
ing that an account should be cancel-
ed. The nature of these threats were
very serious and would have resulted
in much harm to Mr. Larsen had they
been carried out. For several weeks
I gave the matter careful attention
and was finally able to bring about
a sattlement of the case that was en-
tirely satisfactory to Mr. Larsen.
In this connection I wish to refer
also to malicious gossip that has been
perniciously promulgated throughout
the State that certain merchants in
certain localities have been arrested
and fined for profiteering. I have
given considerable time to this kind
of work, but have found in nearly
every case that it has originated from
some disgruntled debtors who have
been required to pay their honest
debts and who for petty reasons have
had a certain grudge against the mer-
chant charged with profiteering.
Our members will remember the
case in one of our smaller Michigan
cities, where rumors were circulated
to the effect that one of the promin-
ent clothiers of the town had been
summoned to Detroit to answer a
charge of a federal agent on profit-
eering and had been required to pay
a heavy fine and also to pay a con-
siderable sum of money to keep the
matter from becoming public. This
rumor I followed to some irrespons-
ible parties and was surprised to find
that in several other localities in that
portion of the State similar reports
had been circulated concerning several
other well-known and highly respect-
ed merchants. In following these I
found that there seemed to be an or-
ganized propaganda at work and in
every instance the parties starting the
rumors seemed very glad, indeed, to
retract.
So far as I know, nothing of this
kind has occurred very recently and
doubtless this method of attacking
merchants as alleged profiteers has
abandoned so far as our State
is concerned.
In conclusion, permit me to say that
I desire to be useful to each and every
member of our organization. No sug-
gestion or reauest, however simple it
may seem, will be passed by thought-
lessly. Communicate freely with the
office and let us make the Association
a nower for good to the merchants of
Michigan.
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Welching On Sugar Contracts.
Without minimizing the seriousness
of the sugar situation for many a
grocer, there is something ludicrous,
and by no means creditable, to some
of the wild scrambling of grocers to
“get from their engagements
“welch” on their plain,
simple contracts with the refiners un-
der the camouflage of having been de-
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under
and actually
ceived into their predicament by the
refiners,
That the grocers, the great bulk of
them, bought sugar too freely because
of a panicky fear of a sugar famine
and out of a genuine desire to pro-
tect themselves against the legitimate
their customers cannot be
But it is also true that most
of such grocers are not the ones who
are wailing the loudest just now; the
injured innocent party is the one who.
tried to “get his while the getting was
good,” and undertakes now to plead
having been victimized by the wicked
refiners’ salesmen. Since when did a,
needs of
gainsaid.
sugar salesman possess the power to
pull the wool over the eyes of the
wily jobber? The meeting reported
called in Georgia for the purpose of
hunting up evidence for a test case,
but which apparently did not event-
uate, was an episode in point. There
are evidently bad losers in the specu-
lative game. It is all very well to
speculate when one wins—when one
shows one’s “business acumen” and
“sound judgment”—but in the end the
facts will probably prove that the job-
ber was as much to blame for guess-
ing wrongly as any one else.
The lamentation by the mercurial
president of the Southern Wholesale
Association is characteristic; so is his
barrage of abuse and recrimination of
every one who doesn’t agree with
him—both in and out of the Govern-
ment—but it is not surprising that
September 15, 1920
the rank and file of his followers
know when to take their medicine
and keep calm.
It may be that a meeting of protest
can result in some united attempt at
action, but it is doubtful if anything
sensational will come from the ¢all,
which reads in part as follows:
Bring all papers in your possession
bearing on the sugar situation. Bring
contracts that you may have signed
for sugar already delivered and yet
dre. Bring letters and circular letters
that you may have received from s8u-
gar brokers and refiners. Bring every-
thing, in fact, that you havé in the
way of evidence which bears at all
on the subject.
Edgar Watkins our counsellor, will
be at the meeting. He has been in
close touch with the whole situation
and has made a study of your posi-
tion. We believe that he has some-
thing to tell you that may make you
look at things in a different light.
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Everybody is watching the
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urday Evening Post and
in leading women’s maga-
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They are constant re-
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increasing the already tre-
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Every Carnation adver-
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Are you taking full ad-
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GOOD GOODS
One of the outstanding features of the readyjust-
ment period is that competition is again entering the
business world—we mean the real competition where
quality and service count.
During the last few years the demand for mer-
chandise has been so great that many people have
been compelled to accept goods of unknown or in-
ferior brands in order to supply their trade, but these
days are passing.
To meet competition as we pass through this
period, it is absolutely necessary that the live, wide-
awake merchants use their experience and their knowl-
edge in selecting the best goods the market affords
During this period we have maintained our stand-
ards, and we are still in a position to continue to give
you the best goods that the world’s markets can
produce.
Buy GOOD GOODS to go with your good
service and have no fear of the future.
W ORDEN ( ;ROCER ( OMPANY
Grand Rapids—Kalamazoo—Lans'ng
The Prompt Shippers.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Movement of Merchants.
Henderson—Leon Smith succeeds
C. W. Wilcox in the drug business.
Cadillac—Slatts & Joseph succeed
A. Elenbaas in the grocery business.
Scottville—William F. Pasch suc-
ceeds J. A. Hubbell & Son in the gro-
cery business.
Fennville—M. E. Parrish & Son
succeed A. M. Hulsen in the jewelry
chinaware and crockery business.
Douglas—L. W. McDonald has sold
his stock of general merchandise to
Roy J. J. Rutgers, who has taken
possession,
Belmont—B. C.
grocery stock
will continue
same location.
Marquette—Mrs. C. M. Farrell has
opened a store at 108 West Ridge
street, carying a full line of clothing
for women and children.
Ludington—L. W. Secor has sold
his interest in the Star Laundry to
Raymond Whalen and the business
will be continued under the same
style.
Lyons—James B. Ludwick has sold
his store building, stock of general
Jones has sold his
to Daniel Koert, who
the at
business the
merchandise and store fixtures to
Emery S. Danner, who has taken
posession.
Woodland—The Woodland Farms
3ureau Exchange has been incorp-
orated with an authorized capital
stock of $40,000, $20,000 of which has
been subscribed.
Chesaning—The Farmers Meat &
Produce Co. incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$30,000, of which amount $17,500 has
been subscribed and $3,000 paid in
in cash.
Negaunee—The
Co..
has been
Bess M. Leonard
of Marquette, manufacturer and
dealer in women and children’s cloth-
ing, has opened a retail store at 302
East Main street, under the manage-
ment of Mrs. W. H. Yates.
Lansing—The Grand Leader Co.
has been incorporated to deal in
clothing, dry goods, shoes, millinery,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, $32,000 of which has been
subscribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit—The P. J. Schmidt Co., 32
Michigan avenue, is again operating
in the regular way, although under
new ownership and management. The
space, however, is only one-half of
what it formerly was, the old store
being cut practically in half.
Plainwell—H. L. Bliss, who has
been engaged in the shoe business
here for thirty-seven years, has sold
his stock to Hamilton & Son, who
have moved their own shoe stock to
the Bliss location. Mr. Bliss leaves
soon for Florida, where he will spend
the winter.
Bay City—The Munley O’Keefe
Co. has been incorporated to deal in
coal, coke, wood, boulders and ma-
sons supplies, with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $12,700 has been subseribed
and paid in, $3,200 in eash and $9,500
in property.
Detroit—Alterations to the fronts
of the Regal Shoe store and the
Walk-Over Shoe store, both on
Woodward avenue, between Grand
Circus Park and John R. street, have
been completed, and materially im-
prove the outside appearances of
these establishments in addition to
giving more room for window dis-
play.
Conklin—The name of the Harris
Mercantile Co. has been changed to
tie R. H. Smith Co. The present
alignment of officers is as follows:
President, A. C. Smith; Vice-Presi-
dent and Manager, R. H. Smith; Sec-
and Treasurer, E. A. Stowe.
The capital stock of the corporation
has been increased from $8,000 to
$10,000.
Detroit—Within thirty the
Endicott Co. expects to
announce the formal opening of its
new corner building at Grand River
and Woodward avenues. The shoe
retary
days
Newcomb,
department will be located perma-
nently in the new part with more
space and larger stocks than ever
before. As in the past, the company
will feature the Sorosis shoe.
Detroit—The R. H. Fyfe Co. staged
some record clearance sales in differ-
ent departments during August. One
sale in the consisted of
odds and ends of women’s shoes at
ne. Bor the crowds
were so great that it was necessary
to close the basement entrance. The
reports that the August
sales have about cleaned
up its stocks of summer footwear and
that, as a result, orders for next sum-
mer will be larger than ever before.
basement
several hours
company
clearance
Manufacturing Matters.
Lansing—The Rikard Lumber Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$150,000 to $250,000.
Jackson—The Frost Gear & Forge
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $400,000 to $1,500,000.
Galesburg—The Battle Creek Job-
bing Foundry has removed its busi-
ness offices to Battle Creek.
Big Rapids—The Machinery Co. of
America has increased its capital
stock from $90,000 to $300,000.
Lansing—The Peez-Cronan Oil Co.
has been incorporated with an auth-
orized capital stock of $20,000, $11,-
200 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.
Detroit—The Federation Electric
Construction Co. has changed its
name to the Federal Electric Supply
Co.
Lansing—-The George Lawrence &
Son Baking Co. is erecting a néw
plant at the corner of Shiawassee and.
Cedar streets.
Detroit—The Wolverine Enameling
& Japanning Corporation has chang-
ed its name to the Wayne Enameling
& Japanning Corporation.
Detroit—The Fornian-Evans Drug
Co. has been inéorpérated with an
authorized éapital stock of $10,000,
$5,100 of which has been subscribed
and $1,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit — The Westfall-Swayzee
Chemical Co. has been incorporated
With an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $1,265 paid in cash
Detroit—The Detroit Carburetor
Corporation has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $100,000,
of which amount $60,970 has been
subscribed and $10,000 paid in in cash.
Marshville—The Marshville Milling
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000, of
which amount $12,010 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $10 in cash and
$12,000 in property.
Pontiac—The New Era Bakeries
Corporation has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $5,000 in cash
and $45,000 in property.
Detroit—The Bruce Kannemeyer
Co, has merged its business into a
stock company under the style of the
Bruce Products Corporation, to manu-
facture and sell metal cleaners, polish-
ing materials, ete., with an author-
ized capital stock of $40,000. of which
amount $20,000 has been subscribed,
$805 paid in in cash and 315,35 in
property.
Review of the Produce Market.
Apples — Sweet Boughs, $1.50;
Strawberries, $1.50@2; Wealthy, $1
@1.25; Wolf River, $1.25@1.40.
Bananas—10ce per tb.
Beets—75c per bu.
3utter—The market is active at
the same price as a week ago. There
is a reported shrinkage in the make
of butter and the consumptive de-
mand continues to be good Che
quality arriving is very good for the
season. The market is in a healthy
condition on the present basis of
quotations, but we do not.look for
much change in the immediate future. |
Local jobbers hold extra creamery
at 55c and first at 53c. Prints 2c per
Ib. additional. Jobbers pay 36c for
packing stock.
Cabbage—Home grown, 75c per bu.
and $2 per bbl.
Cantaloupes—Home grown Osage
stock is now selling on the following
basis:
rate, 22 te 14 $2.50
Rete, 30.00 16 2.00
Benton Harbor and home grown
command the following:
eiepeerns 2. $2.50
Oe 2.25
PRS oo 1.00
Carrots—75c per bu.
Cauliflower—$2.50 per doz.
Celery—40c per bunch.
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September i5, 1920
Cocoanuts—$1.20 pér doz. or $9
per sack of 100.
Cuéumbéers — Hoiiie
house, 75e per doz.
Eggs—The market is firm on néw-
laid eggs. The consumptive demand
has béen very good and thé proditic-
tion is reported to be falling of. The
quality arriving i8 good. We are like-
ly to have a continued good déman‘4
without much change from the pres-
ent prices. Jobbérs pity 50¢c £. o. B.
shipping point for fresh candled. in-
cluding cases. Storage operators are
feeding out their April and May eggs
on the following basis:
gtown hot
Candied Hxtrag 22 | 49c
Candied Seconds 20025 0 45c¢
Cheeks 20 39c
Egg Plant—$2 per doz.
Green Corn—Il5ec per doz. for Yel-
low Bantam, 25c for Evergreen.
Green Onions—20c per doz. bunch-
es for home grown.
Green Peppers—$1.75 per bu.
Lemons—Extra fancy Californias
sell as follows:
S00 Size per box 2 $5.50
od size, per Wox ..0 0 5.50
700 size, pet box ooo 5.00
Fancy Californias sell as follows:
we Per Dok 205. $5.00
or0 Oe, pet box 0. 4.75
oa) Re er Bek 20 4.25
Lettuce—Home grown, $2.25 for
head and $1 for leaf.
Onions—Spanish, $2.50 per crate:
California, 100 lb. sacks, $3; home
grown, $2 per 70 lb. sack.
Oranges—Fancy California Valen-
cia now sell as follows:
Lease Saves Sr ee $9.50
ER Pcs En a In emer 9.50
OT ee 9.50
Re 9.50
200 a 9.50
OO 9.50
BO 6 9.00
Oe 8.50
Oe 8.25
Parsley—50c per doz. bunches.
Peaches—Champions, $2: Prolifics
and Kalamazoo, $3@3.50; Elbertas,
$3.25@3.50; Barnards, $2.50. The
crop is so large and the buying ex-
changes and growers’ association are
so hampered by lack of transporta-
tion that a large portion of the crop
is destined to the lost. The so-call-
ed grading of the above organiza-
tions prove to be a joke, due to lack
of care or inexperience of handlers.
The demand for peaches is
small, for some reason.
Pears—Bartlett, $2.25; Clapp’s Fav-
orite, $2; Sugar, $175.
Pickling Onions—$1.60 per box of
16 Ibs.
Pieplant—$1.50 per bu. for home
grown.
Plums—Bradshaws, $2; Guiis and
Green Gages, $1.75.
Potatoes—Home grown command
$1.25@1.35 per bu.
Radishes—20c per doz. bunches.
Spinach—$1 per bu.
String Beans—$1.50 per bu.
Sweet Potatoes—$3.25 per 50 tb.
hamper.
Tomatoes—Ripe, $1 per %4 bu. bas-
ket; $1.75 per bu.; green, $1.50.
Water Melons—50@60c_ for
diana.
Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu.
very
In-
September 15, 1920
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.
Sugar—Refined is still on the
down grade. Some refiners have re-
duced their price to 15c in a large
way and speculators are making still
lower prices to close out. Raws are
still very weak, the lowest price
reached being 9c for future delivery.
Nobody is buying any sugar which he
doesn’t have to have and as the time
goes on it is becoming clearer than
ever that a large number of the large
buyers stand to lose very heavy sums
of money on their contracts with the
refiners. Local jobbers are holding
standard grades of refined at 18c.
Chicago jobbers are offering “cane
sugar’ at 15@l6c, but most of the
offerings turn out to be cheap and
unattractive Java and Porto Rico
sugars which are very unsalable. This
is a good time for the grocer to in-
sist on knowing the name of the
manufacturer before placing his or-
der for sugar.
Tea—The market continues weak,
with no indication of any improve-
ment. Certainly the demand is no
better than it has been for some time.
Summer had doubtless interfered with
this to some extent and if this is the
only cause, we will probably see an
improvement from now on. There
is some pressure to sell, which is giv-
ing a weak tone to the market. There
is more tea about than can be con-
sumed in the near future and the
whole situation is a bit sluggish.
Coffee—No change has occurred in
the market for Rio and Santos coffee
during the week, except a slight de-
cline in Santos grades. Rio grades
are about unchanged. Milds, however,
are somewhat easier and, generally
speaking, the market shows no im-
provement and very dull demand. The
world’s visible supply of coffee is in-
creasing and it ‘is still decidedly a
buyer’s market, and only a market for
the buyer who wants to buy his im-
mediate wants.
Canned Fruits — California 1919
packs are moving in a small way.
Peaches are steady on the best grades,
of which there are but few on spot.
Standards and water fruit go at heavy
discounts. Apricots are not salable
except in a small way. New packs can
be bought at 15 per cent. under the
opening prices, but the demand lacks
force. The entire California line
shows stagnation. Old pack Hawai-
ian pineapple is almost all cleaned
up, but new crop is arriving in a
small way but not in large enough
volume to relieve the shortage. The
market continues strong in old and
new packs. Gallon apples of 1920
pack are easy and not salable except
in small blocks. Prices are at least
$2 a dozen under opening, but that
signifies little with the buyer. Spot
sales are infrequent.
Canned Vegetables—The principal
change in the canned food market is
the tomato situation, which has im-
proved in outlook as well as in prices.
The pulse of the market is stronger,
as one operator put it, although the
normal mid-September activity is
lacking. As it is believed that No. 2s,
in passing from 80c factory to 85 @
90c, have passed bottom and may be
headed toward a flat dollar figure in
the near future, under ordinary busi-
ness conditions a great increase in
buying orders would occur, but as
they are lacking it is evident that even
the chances of paying higher prices
later on are not causing action. Tight
money is the real reason for the re-
stricted demand. A buyer who has
faith in the market at 85c and who
wanted to secure 50,000 cases at that
figure passed up the purchase as he
could not swing the deal, and many
others who want varying amounts un-
der the same conditions are doing the
same thing. The market, however, is
by no means stagnant, for the ad-
vance could not have occurred unless
there was sane buying. Trading, how-
ever, is restricted and of the small
lot order type and not speculative or
even normal in the way of contract-
ing against actual distributive require-
ments for the fall and winter. No. 3s
have improved along with No. 2s and
closed at $1.25 @ 1.30 for full stand-
ards f. o. b. factory. No. 10s are not
so active at $4 @ 4.25. The pack is
at its height, and as the number of
canneries in operation is limited and
the capacity of those running below
average, it is a foregoing conclusion
that the total pack in the tri-States
will be much lighter than normal.
This fact, coupled with the lght re-
serves of old tomatoes, is a favorable
sign for better prices later on. The
new freight rate on California to-
matoes and the higher prices at which
they are offered on the Coast have
been too much of a handicap to allow
them to sell readily in the local field.
Southern are considered the best buy
and Coast packs go begging. Spot
tomatoes are moving in a nominal and
routine way on the basis of prices on
new pack. Corn was inactive all week
and easy in tone. It is salable only
in a small way to meet urgent jobbing
demands. Standards are the only of-
fering, and while some $1 factory
goods are offered in the way of Maine
style Southern, the careful buyer is
apt to pay 5c or 10c more for gilt
edged brands. Western are moving
slowly. With a large pack in sight
there is no disposition to buy heavily,
while canners are not forcing their
goods on a reluctant trade. Small
sieve Western fancy peas are the only
offering in the line in which there is
active buying interest. Canners are
not carrying a large surplus over their
contracts and offerings are not heavy
but a car here and there is available.
Extra standards, for the buyer’s own
label,
straight standards.
all grades are offered but are not mov-
ing. Trade channels have been tem-
porarily filled. While the situation
favors the buyer, he is looking for
are not in demand, nor are
Southern packs of
lower prices than the canner will ac-
cept.
Fish—Chief feature is the
opening prices on Alaska salmon is-
Canned
sued by a number of packers and all
about on the level except in
pinks and chums, which were shaded
The
judged when it
same
by one operator. tendency of
the market
is remembered that last July, when
one packer named his opening prices
on pinks and chums, they proved to
be those now current. At the time
they were named other canners said
that the market was too low and fore-
casts of higher ranges were made.
Now the market has settled on the
basis of the early named prices and
there is no noticeable reluctance to
confirm subject to approval of price
contracts. Red Alaska at $3.25 Coast
is considered a good buy, but to get
the fish some pinks and chums must
be taken and with a large carryover
of both, the buyer does not want new
goods of grades which are already in
surplus and slow sellers. Medium
reds are also neglected. The spot sal-
mon market is inactive and only of
casual interest to the buyer. Maine
sardines are taken in small lots by
the domestic and foreign trade, but the
tone of the market still remains weak.
Keyless oils are procurable at a wide
range and at what appears to be fav-
orable prices, but they go a begging.
California ovals are not wanted even
at heavy concessions. Foreign sar-
dines are of nominal interest and im-
portance. Tuna fish of the 1920 pack
is in no better jobbing demand.
Dried Fruits—The monotony of the
dried fruit market was broken last
week by the announcement of open-
ing prices on Oregon Italian prunes
packed by the Oregon Growers’ Co-
operative Association of Salem, on a
basis of prices considerably below
those previously declared by other
competing independent packers. At
the higher range previously made pub-
lic there was little buying interest
shown and with the market automatic-
ally lowered by the association the in-
dependents have now switched from a
premium over the organization to %
@lc under the Association, depending
upon the size. Confirmations of As-
sociation contracts are slow in com-
ing in while brokers representing the
independents complain that they are
unable to book any business at con-
cessions. In cases where the buyer
is interested and is quoted a cut in
price, he very often fails to take the
goods when he sees that he can get
his own figure. This indicates some
weakness or at least an inaction which
is in line with that shown in Cali-
fornia prunes and in other dried
fruits. The Eastern trade is not buy-
may be
ing and there is no getting around that
fact nor disguising the real situation.
5
As pointed out frequently in these
columns, it is not a question of price,
nor of needing the goods later on. It
is purely a matter with the
trade. is frowned upon
by the banks and as money is tight,
the kind of dried fruit
buying is indulged in at present,
whether it be prunes, raisins or other
money
Speculation
only barest
are in-
active among the independent offer-
products. California prunes
ings which are the only ones urged
old
crop fruit is being bought for prompt
shipment from the Coast, but this
business is limited. The California
raisin market has been somewhat up-
set by the proposed action against
the California Co.
as set forth on page 30 of this week’s
to sale at the moment. Some
Associated Raisin
issue. No further raisins on the
first allotment are available and
what will be done with the subse-
quent offerings and what prices they
will bring is unknown just now. Cal-
ifornia spot are firm and
are but not
New crop foreign are
raisins on
scarce. Foreign steady
overly active.
regarded as too high for free buying.
Apricots are sparingly offered on the
Coast by all packers and interest in
them is nominal. The spot market is
tame and featureless. Old crop cur-
rants are urged to sale to clean up
the stock new goods arrive.
Smyrna figs are selling better than
California, although the demand is
be fore
hardly normal.
Sugar market has a
weak tone, owing to limited buying
consumption. While
prices not quotably changed,
there is no doubt that they are shaded
where necessary to secure an order.
Molasses—Between dull-
without influence upon the
tone of the market; light stocks, with
new crop still some weeks off, induc-
ing holders to adhere firmly to their
quotations.
Cheese—The market is firm, with a
Syrups—The
for domestic
are
season’s
ness is
light consumptive demand, at prices
ranging about %4c per pound higher
than a week ago. Considerable cheese
We do
not look for any change in the near
future.
Provisions—The demand for smok-
ed meats is falling off to a consider-
able extent and the market is fairly
is going into cold storage.
steady at a decline of lc per pound
Pure lard is steady,
with a light demand, at prices rang-
ing about the same as last week. Lard
light demand.
There is reported heavy stocks and
over a week ago.
substitute is in very
the market is weak at about “ec de-
cline from last week. Canned meats,
dried beef and barreled pork are in
light demand at unchanged prices.
Salt Fish—-No improvement has oc-
curred in the demand for mackerel
during the week, but the trade are
expecting an improvement in the de-
mand on account of the cooler weath-
er. Prices are unchanged, with hold-
ers steady to firm in their ideas.
eee
The Roden Leather Co. has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the style of the Roden Leather
Corporation, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $150,000 common and
$300,000 preferred, $275,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.
erga a TSN
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
September 15, 1920
AROUND THE WORLD.
Impressions Graphically Recorded By
Noted Globe Trotter.
Nara, Japan, March 5—The scenes
change so rapidly here in Japan and
one hears and sees so much that it is
dificult to collect your thoughts.
Some of our first impressions still
remain with us, while others have
undergone great changes, if they are
not entirely lost. The longer we stay,
however, the more we are impressed
by the poverty of the country. There
is progress, of course, but not in the
sense we understand progress, nor
to any similar degree. -Electric cars
and electric lights are really the only
things we see that in the least remind
us of home. The Russian war was a
very expensive glory and even a
short trip through Japan should con-
vince any one that the “yellow peril”
scare we hear so much about is politi-
cal buncombe, pure and simple. These
people have more than enough to do
to look after themselves without
bothering about the possessions of
others. True, China is keeping them
busy just now: in fact, only to-day we
met troops on their way to China, but
I take this to be a concerted move in
which other nations are interested
and for such purposes Japanese forc-
es are the most available.
Talking about Japanese soldiers,
my information is that a _ private
makes six sen (three cents) a day,
first lieutenant, three hundred and
sixty yen (one hundred and. eighty
dollars) a year, and the commander
of an army division six thousand yen
(three thousand dollars) a year. Ser-
vice is enforced upon all for three
years, with the exception of those who
can pass a mental examination of
fixed standard, and these serve only
one year and then become part of the
reserve army. Our guide tells me
that 160,000 regulars, with a reserve
running it up to a million men, is
about the estimated number. It is
also hard to learn anything in refer-
ence to taxes, except the general
statement that they are very high. In-
formation that I‘ have gathered varies
so greatly that I cannot give any of it
credence.
In my last letter I spoke of not see-
ing any real Japanese life as being
one of the drawbacks of this method
of traveling. I had the pleasure of
meeting an attache of one of the for-
eign embassies and he relieved my
mind by telling me that in spite of his
long residence in Tokio, no oppor-
tunities were ever offered him to ob-
serve Japanese life of the higher
class. The high officials have two
homes—one continental and the other
Japanese. In the former they do their
entertaining in true European style
and in the latter they do not enter-
tain at all. Their entertainments, ac-
cording to this gentleman, are very
formal, dull and considerably of a
bore.
Coming back to our trip from Nik-
ko to Miyanoshita; after seven hours’
trip on the railroad we alighted at
Kozu, a small fishing village. There
we were met by special trolley cars,
which carried us about twelve miles
—an hour’s run. Rain had continued
to follow us; the air was quite chilly,
but the ride was interesting, the car
running mainly through a number of
small fishing villages and very close
to the houses. It was dark and dreary
when we reached Yumoto, the end of
the trolley line, where we took rick-
shaws for a four mile ride up the
mountain to the Fujia Hotel, at Mi-
yanoshita, about fourteen hundred
feet above the sea.
The road, as you can well imagine,
was very steep. Each rickshaw was
supplied with a pusher, but before the
end of a mile I decided that walking
was preferable, as I have not yet be-
. come fully accustomed to a two leg-
ged animal as a beast of burden. Each
rickshaw (there were about eighty in
all) being supplied, as is the custom,
with a Japanese lantern hung on the
shafts, made what otherwise might
have been a dull scene a very wonder-
ful picture.
ere
On the way up, I was joined by an-
other member of the party. With
our pusher to carry my coat and
sweater, we made so much’ better
time than the rickshaws that we ar-
rived there twenty minutes before
the remainder of the party. We were
not exactly fit looking subjects to
enter the dining room, but as no one
looks very “fit” after traveling a
week, mostly in the rain and- with
suit cases as our only luggage, none
of us were particularly presentable.
The hats of the ladies have long since
passed the stage of shabby gentility
and are bordering on, if they have
not passed, the disreputable stage.
The Funa Hotel is all that we
could wish for under any conditions.
It is under the same management as
the Hotel at Nikko, but is much larg-
er. During six or seven months of
the year, Miyanoshita is crowded with
tourists and is considered a_ very
fashionable resort. They have every
convenience that summer or winter
hotels offer in the states and more,
the hotel is better conducted. Labor
is so cheap that a servant is at your
beck and call any moment
On Saturday, we awoke to find the
sun shining for the first time in sev-
eral days and a welcome sight it was,
particularly as it brought out to great
advantage the wonderful mountain
scenery—comparable, I should say,
with any that I have ever seen. The
mountains are entirely of volcanic
production and the vari-colored soil,
mingled with forests, flowers and
cultivated land, is a sight that I shall
not soon forget. The weather was
mild; so mild, in fact, that we enjoyed
a swim in a very large tank, situated
on a hill about two hundred yards
from the Hotel. This tank is fed
from springs, one hot and one cool,
giving the water a temperature of
about seventy. It pours into the tank
in great volumes over a waterfall of
picturesque design.
After a leisurely breakfast, we start-
ed with our guide on a trip to Lake
Hakone, about twelve miles through
the mountain passes. The women of
the party were carried in chairs (four
coolies to a chair) and the men rode
on horseback. The horses, or rather
ponies, are of a rugged Russian type
and ambitious as well as sure footed.
At that, however, in the twelve miles,
the horses outfooted the coolies only
by about half an hour, reaching Ha-
kone in less than an hour and a half—
the coolies in about two hours. At
Hakone you are supposed to get a
fine view of Jujiyama, but Fuji being
13,000 feet high, is not influenced by
the weather of the country in the
lower altitudes and easily kept out
of sight all day. in fact, I am. told
that at this season of the year he is
seen only on rare occasions. Lake
Hakone is itself about twenty-four
hundred feet above sea level and well
worth the trip, even without Fuji.
We had luncheon at the Matsuzaka
Hotel, a small place, but much better
than one would expect. Then again,
after a twelve mile horseback ride,
and a row on the lake, you are not
very apt to be finicky about food.
The Emperor has a Summer Castle
on Lake Hakone, which, he never
uses. The Crown Prince, however,
spends much of the Summer at his
palace at Miyanoshita. After lunch-
eon we were taken part way across
the lake in a flat bottom boat and
from this point started home, arriving
there a pretty tired lot of men, wo-
men, coolies and horses.
Sunday we had rain again and a
regular mountain rain at that. We
spent the morning pottering around
in the neighborhood of the Hotel,
visiting several very interesting and
seductive curio shops. The entire
party was booked to leave at 6 o’clock
in the evening, but at the suggestion
of our guide, our party of ten started
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon in order
to get the benefit of daylight in our
ride down the mountain. In making
the down trip, we fully realized what
the up-pull had been, for in many
places it took all the strength of our
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two coolies to keep the rickshaws
from running away.
We arrived in Kozu about 6. Our
guide had telephoned (this is one of
the marks of Japanese progress I
have overlooked) to the Kyokatu
Hotel for dinner. The rooms were
cold and we were quite chilled, but
with the aid of hot Scotch and the
Japanese charcoal stoves, all were
soon warm as toast. At our request,
country Geishas were brought in to
entertain us while at dinner. They
brought all they had in town and sor-
ry looking Geishas they were, but
they did their best and really helped
us pass quickly, if not altogether en-
tertainly, our two hour wait for the
remainder of the party. If nothing
else was accomplished, we certainly
amused them and also a large part
of the population of Kozu, who in-
sisted on peeping through the sliding
shutters ahh are used instead of
windows.
That night we had our first experi-
ence in Japanese sleepers. They were
not so awfully bad—four sections at
one end, a compartment in the center
and six sections at the other end. We
had the compartment; that sounds
grand, but differs only from the sec-
tion in point of more privacy and less
air. When the berths are not made
i, the seats, as in most first-class
cars, run narallel with the car, the
same as the seats in our street cars.
The beds are not bad, but quite nar-
row. There is one wash room in the
car, but in the morning they apolo-
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towels (meaning fresh) were no
more.” Julius Fleischman.
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THINGS THAT WILL NOT WORK
To those who, because of some de-
certain
lines of business, are inclined to be
their there
should come a measure of reassurance
pressing circumstances. in
pessimistic in outlook,
and a feeling of confidence from the
study of the crop reports which the
Government is issuing. The predic-
tion made of a record corn yield and
of ample supplies of wheat and other
grains, as well as of bountiful crops
of cotton, fruit and animal feed, is
bound to inspire confidence. Trans-
portation difficulties, which have pre-
vented the movement of commodities,
are also being rapidly overcome, and
this means a speedy return to ade-
quate’ distribution.
these basic conditions is of more im-
portance than the temporary disturb-
ances due to the shrinkage of market
result of the deflation
which is now in progress, but which
is unevenly operating. In _ certain
lines the shrinkage has been greater
than in others, but in nearly all, con-
siderable time elapses before the de-
clines are apparent in the retail mar-
kets. The general public is naturally
impatient at the slowness of the pro-
cess and seeks to hasten it by a re-
fusal to purchase unless concessions
Soundness in
values as a
are made, while producers and dis-
tributors are loath to take a loss and
do business on the basis of the lower
So there
remains a kind of deadlock which is
sought to be overcome and which
must be disposed of before business
can
levels of replacement cost.
move in any kind of satisfactory
volume.
Now, no one expects that prices are
to be reduced to anything like pre-
war levels for some time to come, if
But, on the other hand, people
are not going to be content with a
reduction of 10 per cent. or so on the
Cver.
cost of articles which have been sell-
ing at three or four times the prices
of half a dozen years ago. Nor are
certain claptrap methods, which work-
ed for a while after the armistice,
likely to prove successful if they are
repeated now. One of these, for in-
stance, was the offering of goods at
a comparatively low price at the open-
ing of a season in order to stimulate
buying, and then, after this had been
accomplished, run up prices as the or-
ders came in and a demand had been
created. This device is as out of date
and the use of a
pretense of scarcity such as was em-
ployed to induce buyers to bid up
prices against one another. The time
has come for fair play on the part of
all concerned, with the cards displayed
face-up on the table. There will have
to be a scaling down of profits all
along the line, from producer or
manufacturer down to the retailer, if
the consumer is to be induced to buy
than reluctantly and for
immediate and absolute needs. This
is especially the case at the moment,
not only because the general public
refuses to be further exploited but
also for the reason that it has been
taking to heart the lesson of economy
which has been inculated by force of
circumstances. Even though prices
should be reduced quite sharply, it
does not seem likely that this will be
followed by profuseness in buying. A
great many have been learning the
discredited as is
otherwise
value of a dollar in bank or invested
at interest.
In primary markets, under condi-
tions of this kind, a little more atten-
tion than usual is being paid to what
the retail stores are doing. The com-
paratively cool weather of the last
fortnight has been an incentive to
buying for Fall. The close of the
vacation period for most people has
been hastened by this and by the
prospective opening of the schools
all over the country. This has made
it necessary to resort to the stores for
all kinds of supplies in which articles
of wear figure prominently.
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count Rate.
The Federal Reserve Bank dis-
count rate having been raised to 7
per cent. on collateral paper, a dif-
ficult situation has resulted in such
states as New York, where the high-
est legal rate of interest is 6 per
cent. Houses which are using trade
acceptances drawing 6 per cent. inter-
est are subjected to a loss when this
paper is discounted at 7 per. cent.
Question has been raised by some
business houses as to. why the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank is permitted to
charge 7 per cent. when the law of
the state establishes 6 per cent. as the
highest rate. The answer is, that a
bill of exchange or other form of
negotiable instrument, valid in its in-
ception, and which has been once ne-
gotiated, may be sold at any dis-
count that the holder sees fit. Where
the sale of a bill of exchange is a
mere loan, a rate of discount higher
than the legal rate effects usury.
The usury statutes, it will be remem-.
bered, forbid only the loan or for-
bearance of money at more than the
established rate of interest. A _ bill
of exchange, having once been ne-
gotiated becomes a chattel in the
hands of the holder, and may be sold
for as low a price as the holder is
willing to acept. Thus it is that a
trade acceptance drawn by A and
accepted by B may be taken to the
bank by B and sold or discounted at
whatever price the bank will pay.
Where, however, a bill of ex-
change has been endorsed or other-
wise guaranteed by the seller, the
seller becomes contingently liable to
yay to the purchaser at a future day,
a sum greater than that received with
legal interest. “As to the character
and effect of such a transaction the
authorities present some four differ-
ent views: 1. Some courts have
held such a transaction to be clearly
usurious, and that the usurious in-
dorsee takes no rights against any of
the parties to the instrument. © 2.
Other have held that while the
transaction between the indorser and
indorsee is usurious, the defense of
usury is personal to the indorser and
not available to the prior parties. 3.
A third view limits the right of re-
covery against the vendor-indorser to
the amount received by him with
lawful interest, and thus makes the
transfer not usurious and gives the
Surchaser recourse against prior par-
-es to the full amount of the obliga-
tion. 4. But in accordance with
the clear weight of authority, such a
transaction is regarded as a valid
sale of a chattel with a warranty of
its soundness, and the purchaser is
allowed to enforce the obligation to
its full extent against his own in-
dorser and all prior parties.” (39 Cyc.
Page 933.) Among the courts which
have held such a transaction usurious
are those of Massachusetts, New
Jersey, South Carolina and Virginia.
New York permits the recovery
against the vendor-endorser of only
the amount he paid with interest.
Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee have all held a transaction
of this sort to be only a sale of a
chattel and valid and enforcible.
Were A to give his promissory
note te B, and B to discount the
same at more than the legal rate, the
transaction would not be a sale, but
a usurious loan; and in all cases
where the taker knows that the pa-
per had no prior inception, the courts
are in agreement in declaring the
transactions usurious. Where a taker
does not know that the paper had no
prior inception a (difficult question
arises, New York holding the loan
usurious and the ignorance immate-
rial, while Pennsylvania and Illinois
have held the contrary.
Where paper has been endorsed
by A tor the accomodation of 8.
and there has been no negotiation of
the paper, it falls into the class of
paper which has no legal inception,
and until it is negotiated for value it
cannot be discounted for more than
the legal rate. Where the discounter
is ignorant that the paper is accom-
modation paper the conflict above
noted again occurs, New York hold-
ing that the transaction is usurious
and Towa, Kansas, Minnesota, Penn-
sylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin
among others holding the contrary.
In Holmes vs. State Bank, 53 Minn.
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350, the court said, “We are aware
of the doctrine of the courts of New
York and some other states, that ac-
comodation paper in the hands of
the payee cannot be the subject of a
sale; ‘that, to be a subject of a sale,
the paper must have a pre-existing
vitality’; that an accomodation note
having, in fact, as against the maker,
no validity and no legal inception,
anyone who buys it of the payee
takes the precise place of the payee
in respect to the defense of usury,
although he purchases in ignorance
of its true character, and supposing
it to be, as it appears on its face,
business paper, and given for value;
and hence when such note is sold,
even to a bona fide purchaser, at a
discount greater than the legal rate
of interest, the transaction is usurious.
The same courts hold, as do all
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payee an accomodation note for its
face, he can recover on it, and that
the fact that the maker received no
consideration will be no defense; also,
that after paper has had an inception
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a person may buy at any discount he
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the purchase of a note into_ what the
purchaser never intended or supposed
it to be, viz., a loan of money, with-
out which there can be no such thing
as usury. Undoubtedly, if defendant
had purchased this note knowing that
it was accomodation paper, and hence
had no vitality while still in the hands
of the payee, the transaction would
have amounted to a loan of money. .
But the better rule, and the one as
we think most consonant with rea-
son and justice, is that if the holder,
at the time he bought the paper, did
not know that it was not already a
valid subsisting security in the hands
of the payee, there can be no inten-
tion of lending money, which is the
very essence of usury, and he may
recover upon it of the maker. He
must assume that the apparent rela-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13
tion of the parties and character of
the paper is the real one.”
The penalties for usury are severe.
In some states the lender forfeits
double or triple the amount of inter-
est so taken or received, in other
states the transaction is void and the
lender loses both the principal and
interest, while in others the lender
forfeits double or triple the amount
of interest so taken or received, and
at least one state adds the penalty of
fine and imprisonment.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
September 15, 1920
LURE OF THE WILD.
Captain Belknap’s Experiences Near
To Nature.
For about a quarter of a century
ex-Congressman Belknap, of Grand
Rapids, has spent his summer vaca-
fionms in a cabin at Onota, about
twenty-two miles West of Munising.
This season is no exception to the
rile. The
prevailed upon its erstwhile contribu-
general Tradesman has
tor to write a series of letters detail-
ing his experience in the wilderness.
The first letter is submitted herewith,
as follows:
Antler’s Cabin, Onota, Sept. 10—
The cabin where I am living the true
life of my vacation days is on the
West end of the lake of the two hills.
White men call it Deer Lake. In the
Chippewa Indian days it was Squaw-
aw-ga-nong, the waters of the two
hills. It is two miles long, one mile
wide and the bay at the West end is
“The Haunted Water.” It is a place
where, once upon a time, many moons
ago, the foundatidn gave away, letting
the surface of this rock land sink be-
neath the waters of Lake Superior, in
some places to an unknown depth,
and since that day it has been a lake
by itself. The big lake is dammed by
a ridge of water washed sand stones,
overgrown by birch, cedar and hem-
lock, with once and awhile a white
pine standing guard like a soldier over
all the vicinity.
There is no bottom to one end of
the lake, near the cabin. Its scaley
inhabitants do not speak our dialect.
If they did, there would be many big
fish stories told by the city man who
has the luck of always losing the big
ones.
There is an outlet from the lake to
the big lake, its course so winding
that it is a mile of adventure. It re-
quires a mile of distance to the canoe-
ist in which to display its wonderful
art gallery. It is like wandering
through the galleries of an exhibition
of the world’s finest things. In the
beginning of this canoe trip it is best
to whistle a tune or two. If not, you
are liable to surprise some of the na-
tives enjoying their morning baths.
Here lives Mrs. Muskrat and family;
Mrs. Mink and her kittens which she
is training to catch suckers, like pro-
spective oil well stock brokers; and
right here is an untrapped lot of
suckers more innocent than those fish-
ed up by the late lamented Ponzi. It
is claimed that a sucker is born every
minute. Here they must beat that
record ten to one—a happy hunting
ground for that string of men known
as financiers.
And here live the beaver, the dam
builder, who by the way is a damned
good builder if let alone for a couple
of nights.
It is a favorite place for Mrs. John
Doe, whose kids wear polka dot
clothes and look at you with eyes that
charm away the evil thoughts of
wicked man. And when the sun is
going down behind the hill the ducks
come, sailing in from the big lake to
discuss the latest style of fall feathers,
pull a few aquatic weeds and open a
iew clams which they swallow with-
out pepper or salt. The odors of wild
fern, wild roses, high bush cranber-
ries and cedars in their bloom fill
your nostrils and make one forget all
else but the “Lure of the Wild.” The
whir of a partridge brings you with
a start out of your dreams. We never
fish for suckers while there is a trout
or black bass in the waters and the
sucker soon is forgotten as a creation
that cuts no ice when he has checked
out all his savings deposits.
The cabin is in the forest of 65,000
acres of heavy timber, where the run-
ways of the Michigan deer make the
only trail. Here in this country no
man need starve. With a shot gun
and fish line he can get the very best
in the market. I know a fellow of
this sort and he seems to be getting
fatter all the time. He has some
money in the bank—he doesn’t know
how much—and I don’t care to get
him to thinking about it.
At the cabin there is quite a settle-
ment, none of whom pay taxes or
rent. I sat out on the steps last night
visiting some of these wild fellows. I
save up all my dry bread, all the table
leavings and often an extra loaf to
make a banquet for these trusting
neighbors.
Mrs. Woodchuck with her three
young chucks occupy a place under
the woodshed. She is very trusting,
not knowing that there is a bounty on
her pelt. She is a high liver, she
feasts on canteloupe shells and green
corn cobs. Mrs. Molly Cotton Tail,
when I came here a month ago, had
two additions to her family—twelve
in all. Now she comes out with six
more. There are four generations,
from the big old lady with a pair of
ears almost as long as those growing
on a Missouri mule to the young ones
of the last generation, which are be-
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ing brought up on rye bread crusts.
They are very cute now, but I fear
they will all grow up to become a part
in life of that great drama, “haussen-
peffer.”’
There are alsoalot of chipmunks and
some Canada Jays, called in the old
times Whisky Jacks. All these folks
get on without any social squabbles
until the sun casts a few shadows.
Then a lot of ill mannered owls set
up their evening anthem. Then the
wild folks of the cabin wake up and
take notice. The owls set up a ses-
sion of the Echo Bay Police Court,
with the addition of the echoes from
the hill sides. The rabbits scatter to
the shelter of the undergrowth and
where but a few minutes before were
a lot of confidential neighbors, there
is nothing in sight but the woodchuck
hole leading under the wood shed.
Referring to the echoes from the
hills, there is an Indian legend that
came to me many years ago from a
Chippewa medicine man. “He was
good medicine” and I have faith in
the tale.
“It was many years ago. All the
shores of the great lake were the
hunting grounds of the Chippewas.
There was a village at Munising, an-
other at Au Train, another at Laugh-
ing Fish and one at Shelter Bay. At
the one at Shelter Bay, there was one
woman who was a gossip. Many
times all the men of the village were
away on long voyages for furs, on
discovery and adventure. When they
returned there was a glad welcome.
Then was the time for this trouble
maker to practice her art. Tales of
visits to the squaws and maidens by
the young men from the other vil-
lages led to many jealousies and much
trouble in the family customs of the
Chippewas.
At a time when all the men were
away the young women of the vil-
lage made many buck skin bindings,
with which they bound, hand and foot,
the trouble maker, placing her on her
back in a canoe, with many ceremon-
ies of the tribe. All the women of
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15
the village took their seats in other
canoes and the fleet paddled away to
the far end of the lake, where it was
believed there was no bottom; that 0 Fi 1 , ' F
all was water until the land of the sun ver Ive Mi lions Insurance in orce
was reached on the other side.
At the bay all was silence except |
for the wails of the condemned squaw.
e e
Then it was believed a spirit from the M h Sh D | M f |
deep upset the boat and, as the body IC igan oe Ca ers u ua
sank from sight, the wails aroused all
the spirits of the woods and to this e
day in the evening hours the bay has Fire Insurance Company
been haunted. The spirits of the
woods and waters are not at rest.
From my cabin my voice calls back Fremont, Michigan
from three directions in three distinct
echoes; and so with the owls. There
may be one or a dozen, but, as the
young rabbits have never been told
the legend of the bay, they think Insurance in force August 1, 1920 $5,331,050.00
there is an owl on every side, hunting New Business during August 237,350.00
a supper, and at the first hoot, they TOTAL $5,568,400.00
run home to mamma. Sometimes in
the quiet of the night, as I am sleeping Cash on hand August 1, 1920 $22,942.37
in my bunk in the upstairs of the Cash received during August -_. 6,276.50
cabin, where I can look out on the
bay, the owls will start the trouble.
I imagine a voice from the waters Cash paid out in August, 1920 3,437.69
Ke-naw-we-shin-che-mo-ka-man.
TOTAL ; : $29,218.87
: , Cash on hand September 1, 1920 $25,781.18
(How do you do, white man.) I know
it is the trouble maker calling. May Insurance in force September 1, 1919 $2,894 ,925.00
her voice never grow less, for there Insurance in force September 1, 1920 5,568,400.00
is a charm in knowing she is where GAIN IN ONE YEAR $2.673,475.00
she belongs. I would believe some
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do it no more, less I hook this trouble average stock company. Associated with the Michigan Shoe Dealers are
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and almost before the last echo comes kinds of mercantile Stocks, Buildings and Fixtures at 30 per cent. present
out of the glen, I have left Old Man dividend saving.
Trouble far behind. And before he
catches on to the canoe, it is time to ONE OF THE STRONGEST COMPANIES IN THE STATE
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September 15, 1920
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Sida eK
SRS” 7 LK,
] about our $250,000 CITY DAY to be held
tin ls ee eos Tuesday September 21, Wednesday Sep-
Something of the Wool Situation.
Wool dealers seem to believe that
prospects of doing business have been
helped by the opening of the woolen
goods market for Spring, although it
is a little difficult to see on what their
hopes are based. The mills seem to
be well supplied with raw material so
far as quantity goes, but they may,
of course, come into the market for
special varieties if orders for fabrics
are sufficiently large. The prospects
for this at the moment do not seem
to be very bright, but no one can tell
what a day may bring forth, A
bright spot was the upholding of
prices for the finer varieties of wool at
the London auction sales, but even
there the quantities were not very
large and much of the demand was
from Continental buyers. Apropos of
these London sales, it is worth re-
calling the clamor made by the Ameri-
can Free Trade League when Great
Britain took over the Australian and
New Zealand clips for the period of
the war and a year thereafter. This, it
was vehemently declared, would give
the English manufacturer of woolens
a decided advantage over his com-
petitors in this country because the
former would get his wool cheaper.
What really happened was that the
British Government got so much wool
that it has been only too willing to
sell it to whoever needed it, and
Americans have been large purchas-
ers. The British even went so far
as to send a large quantity here to
be disposed of at auction. It is an-
nounced that auction sales of Aus-
tralian wooll will be held next month
at Melbourn, Sydney and Adelaide,
but that the quantity will be limited
to 100,000 bales. The prices obtained
at these sales will afford a good line
on the market. In the local clothing
field the principal topic of interest
during the past week has been the
resolve of a large manufacturing con-
cern to have all its work done out of
town in order to avoid the excessive
expense here because the union mem-
bers have been “laying down” on
their work and producing only about
45 per cent. of their former output.
Whether the example will be largely
followed or not is still a question. But
it will certainly cause the workers to
cease asking further concessions.
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Cotton Consumption and Fabrics.
Weather is the thing which seems to
be the most prominent as a factor just
now in determining the betting in the
cotton exchanges. Every inch of rain
is potential and made the most of.
As a result there were some quite
violent fluctuations in the quotations
last week, each upturn being counter-
ed with a downward plunge. Basic-
ally, these are of very little value ex-
cept for the opportunity they afford
for the speculative contingent. Un-
less an early frost comes the cotton
crop of this year will exceed the aver-
age of the last four years, and, with
the carryover, be more than ample
for all needs. Consumption is not
keeping pace. The old theory was
that each year should show a certain
percentage of increase in consump-
tion over the year before. This does
not seem to be borne out by the facts.
People in poverty stricken countries
are managing somehow to do without,
and this is by no means the exception
in countries which are not poverty
stricken. The continued upward trend
in the price of cotton was stopped
some time ago and is not likely to be
resumed in the near future unless
there should be a failure of the crop.
The belief in this helps to account
for the dropping in the prices of cot-
ton fabrics. In some constructions
of gray goods it would look as though
bottom had been reached, but buyers
are not yet sufficiently convinced of
this to order with freedom and make
commitments far ahead. Buying of
wash goods for Spring will now be-
gin in some volume, and the next
week or so should show how retail-
ers feel on this subject. In knit goods
the situation shows no change, al-
though Spring prices, now so long
delayed, ought to be set before the
end of the month. Hosiery prices still
remain in doubt, with the general im-
pression that they will be lower.
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Prices Made For Spring Woolens.
As to the prices determined on for
the Spring fabrics, one thing alone is
indisputable, viz., that they are lower
than they have been officially for sev-
erally years. This must be further
qualified by saying this is the case so
far as made public, because every ef-
fort seems to have been made to keep
secret the prices fixed. Such a course
always provokes the suspicion that
prices may not be the same for all
customers. A cut of 20 per cent. or
so is shown in certain numbers, but
there is no real way of making a com-
parison because prices were not quot-
ed for the Spring of 1919 and 1920.
When the prices are compared with
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tember 22 and Thursday September 23.
With market conditions more or less un-
settled and most merchants knowing not
what to do, it will be well worth your while
to visit us during this sale, for the following
reasons:
1. In order to instill confidence in merchants that the basic
fundamental conditions are sound, we have a proposi-
tion which will get you the business at a profit, without
any risk on your part. Our salesmen can tell you about
it or you can find out about it when you are in the
House. We have not space here to go into further
detail.
2. We want you to come and see what we are doing to
better serve you, especially now when we are doing our
remodeling and redecorating. We want you to see and
know that we have as modern and up-to-date a plant
as there is in the country.
3. The West Michigan State Fair will be held at that
time and it will be well worth your while, also the
merchants of Grand Rapids will hold Dollar Day, which
is a merchandising event well worth your study.
4, Regardless of alf other reasons our biggest reason is
to sell you all the merchandise you need for Fall, during
this sale at prices which you cannot get anywhere else.
So come prepared to buy your wants in a large way.
We are going to have such a REAL SALE that you
will not be able to resist making large purchases at
that time.
In as much as we are going to serve
lunch and provide entertainment, we wish
you would sign and return the attached
coupon accepting our invitation to attend
this sale. It will only take you a minute
to fill it out and mail to us and it will enable
us to make our plans so as to adequately
take care of you and your friends at that
time.
GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Exclusively Wholesale No Retail Connections
Date...
1 will attend your $250,000 CITY DAY SALE on Tuesday, September
21, Wednesday, September 22, Thursda Septembe ;
under date or dates you will ‘be here.) o . — a?
| will be accompanied by friends so that you can get ready for
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We have the following suggestions to make:
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September 15, 1920
those for the Spring of 1918, which
is the latest to be had, they show in-
creases of from 25 to 30 per cent., and
those in turn were about 150 per cent.
above those of two years before. Much
was made of the quotation on the
Fulton 3192 serge, an 1l-ounce fabric,
which used to be regarded as a kind
of key to values, although it is no
longer so. The reduction in price of
this was only seeming because com-
parison was made with the peak price
asked for this Fall. Compared with
the price for the Fall of 1919 it is $1.05
greater per yard, or 40 per cent. more.
This fabric was priced for the Spring
of 1914 at $1.071%4 per yard. The new
price is $3.6713. There does not seem
to be sufficient reason for the jump
this Fall to $4.50 per yard, or even to
the reduced figure for next Spring.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Similar comparisons might be made
for certain other fabrics the prices of
which have been made known, al-
though no uniformity is shown in the
reductions made. One theory in the
trade was that the best reductions
have been made on goods for which
there will be least call. Another was
that the company wished to protect
customers who still have much of
certain fabrics left over. But nearly
all agreed that not much business will
be placed at the new figures and that
the next set to come out will be on
lower levels.
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American Woolen Conjipany’s Posi-
tion.
More interest than usual attached
to the formal opening last Thursday
of the Spring offerings of the Ameri-
can Woolen Company. Two days be-
fore the company published page ad-
vertisements explaining its position
and incidentally urging the merits of
the extra $20,000,000 of common stock
which it recently issued and which it
regretfully stated was quoted at 20
per cent. below par. It also stated
that the indictments against the com-
pany were “notice to the trade by the
Government that the prices for wool-
‘This, it
was asserted, caused cancellation of
orders despite the fact that the indict-
ments were dismissed. The total of
en cloth must be reduced.”
such cancellations on the books of
the company amounted to more than
$40.000,000, or, as stated, “sufficient to
give employment for two months to
all our workers.” Apparently, to
even up things, the company shut
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down its mills for two months so as
not to produce any goods for which
it did not have an order which stuck.
The company’s announcement led the
trade to believe that there would be
some drastic cuts in prices for Spring
fabrics, and the opening attracted
attention than it otherwise
Aside,
from this there was a conviction that
more
might have done. however,
prices would have to be reduced, not
only because of the great drop in the
cost of raw woool but likewise be-
cause there would be no market for
woolen fabrics at the old prices. Re-
cent auction sales of woolens also in-
dicate thet cutters would only buy at
reductions.
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Small things become great when a
great soul sees them.
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Brown Sheetings
Silk Hosiery
PAUL STEKETEE & SONS
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Printed Lawns
Silk Lisle Hosiery
You can buy here a Complete stock of Dry Goods, Draperies, Hosiery, Underwear, etc.
All goods first-class in every way and up-to-date—the reliable products of dependable mills
the following lines are shown in great variety, ready for shipment:
Bleached Sheetings Galatea Nainsooks
Wide Sheetings Woolen Dress Goods Piques
. Storm Serges Bed Spreads
Sheets and Pillow Cases Pouline Tissisabee
Cotton Ducks Suitings Laces
Tickings Flannels Handkerchiefs
Denims Outing Flannels Crinoline
Prints Wool Blankets Linings
Percales Comfortables Underwear
Ginghams Taffetas Knit Goods
Organdies Messalines Sweater Coats
White Goods
Cotton Hosiery
During Fair Week—Sept. 20th to 24th we will offer merchandise from all our departments
at special price reductions.
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September 15, 1920
Examination of Results of Frozen
Egg Products.
A recent bulletin (No. 846) of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture by H. W. Redfield, is entitled,
“Examination of Frozen Egg Prod-
ucts and Interpretation of Results.”
its ninety-six pages are filled with the
results of elaborate investigations,
conducted by the author with the as-
sistance of a number of members of
the Bureau of Chemistry, to study
critically the methods of analysis ap-
plied to frozen egg products, to as-
certain whether these methods might
be standardized so as to give concor-
dant results when a number of an-
alysts examined the same _ product
simultaneously, and to learn whether
the results of standardized methods
would truly reflect the known quality
of carefully prepared samples.
The research was conducted in the
summer of 1917, the details being fully
described in the bulletin. A series of
samples was prepared from the dif-
ferent grades made commercially, al-
lowing the breakers to follow their
usual system of grading; a similar
series in which the grading was done
by members of the Bureau of Chemis-
try; and a series including a com-
posite sample of each class of eggs
considered inedible in so far as they
were obtairable.
The preliminary investigation in-
volved the bacteriological, chemical,
physical and microscopical examina-
tion of absolutely fresh eggs, yolks
and whites mixed under aseptic condi-
tions, of fresh eggs yolks and whites
separated, also of cold storage eggs
considered edible after similar meth-
ods.
The results of these analyses are
given in the first seven tables of the
bulletin, which record the results in
detail and in averages.
In the discussion of the results of
this preliminary investigation atten-
tion is called to the fact that the an-
alytical results agreed remarkably
whether the samples were purchased
and examined in New York, Phila-
delphia, Washington, Chicago or San
Francisco, indicating that but one
basis of judgment as to quality is
necessary for the whole of the United
States.
In the progress of the investigation
frozen egg samples were prepared in
four commercial houses. The manu-
facturers are said to have shown a
gratifying spirit of co-operation. As
nearly as possible identical types of
samples were prepared in different
houses with different raw materials,
different equipment and_ different
breakers.
The results of the analysis of this
multitude of samples occupy some
thirty-six pages of the bulletin, in
which are given the physical condi-
tion of each sample and, in particular
and by averages, the findings as to
total solids, ammonia nitrogen, acid-
ity of fat, reducing sugar, indol, ska-
tol and the number of organisms per
gram, including specification of acid
producers, alkali producers, and con-
firmed B. coli.
Among the exhaustive conclusions
drawn from these tabulations (as to
which those most particularly inter-
ested are referred to the bulletin) we
may mention here the following:
That several analysts when exam-
ining the same samples at the same
time, by methods modified during the
investigation, and fully described in
the bulletin obtained results in close
agreement.
Differences. in analytical results
parallel to a marked degree the re-
sults of physical examination of the
eggs composing the samples.
Eggs showing practically no de-
composition occur in ordinary break-
ing stock, even in August, implying
that the degree to which such eggs
are present is proportional to the care
with which they have been gathered,
cocled and handled.
The products prepared experiment-
ally by the investigators showed some-
what less decomposition than those
prepared commercially from the same
raw materials.
The analyses show that leakers
should be opened in the breaking
room rather than in the semi darkness
of the candling room where proper
grading is declared to be impossible.
A comparison of results from first
grade whole egg with those from
second grade (when two grades of
edible porducts are made) leads the
author to the conclusion that such
grading is impracticable with break-
ing stock eggs. It is stated that in
the samples of commercial second
grade the figures for nitrogen am-
monia, acidity of fat, etc., indicate an
unsatisfactory character of the prod-
uct.
Analysis of the drip from breaking
knives and trays showed that it was
unfit for food.
Interpretation of Results.
The author has worked out an in-
genious plotting of analytical results
to derive a line of demarkation be-
tween samples deemed edible and
those deemed inedible; also mathe-
matical formulas to express this line
from the elements of the analyses. He
says that in deciding whether or not
a frozen egg product is edible it is
only in extreme cases that depend-
ance can be placed upon the deter-
mination of any one constituent. In
all ordinary cases all the analytical
figures must be considered in their
relation to one another. It was im-
possible to devise a composite form-
ula which would separate absolutely
the two classes of products but by
giving the manufacturer the benefit of
the doubt a formula was devised
which is said to serve admirably for
white, whole egg, yolky mixtures and
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unsugared yolk prepared from either
fresh or storage eggs. This formula
and the method of its determination
are fully described in the bulletin. It
is said to separate the samples into
edible and inedibic groups which
agree with the classification based up-
on the known quality of the raw ma-
terials from which they were made.
The bulletin gathers together in
tables the average results for the dif-
ferent groups of egg products, with
their formula values.
Methods of examination of samples
are clearly and minutely described in
the bulletin, dealing with each partic-
ular determination; also methods of
taking and handling samples, the lat-
ter including eggs in the shell as well
as liquid or frozen eggs. This de-
partment of the bulletin is exhaustive,
occupying some twenty pages. It can
but prove to be a most valuable com-
pendium.
a
Apples Can Be Made Into Cider
Vinegar.
Washington, Sept. 13—Growers of
grapes, apples and other fruits which
will produce juice which will in turn
produce alcohol are deeply interested
in and somewhat confused by recent
rulings of John F. Kramer, ‘Prohibi-
tion Comniissioner. One thing that
is certain is that a grower can turn
his apples into cider and let it turn
into vinegar without fear of getting
into trouble regardless of the percent-
age of alcohol “that may develop dur-
ing the vinegar making. Selling the
cider will be a different process be-
cause even sweet cider may have more
thati one-half of one per cent. alcohol,
and this will be contrary to law.
Because of this ruling various State
officials in apple regions are advising
farmers to make cider and put it away
to become vinegar, which is a safe and
legal process and will probably yield a
satisfactory profit, especially for low-
grade fruit.
A person producing home- made bev-
erages from fruits will have to use
his own discretion in determining
whether the alcoholic contents is in-
toxicating in fact. The prohibition
people will not lay down any percent-
age such as 2, 5 10 or 15 per cent. of
alcoholic contents in home-made bev-
erages.
If a person can drink a wine with
15 per cent. of alcohol in it, and it is
not in fact intoxicating—that is, if he
can walk out the front door of his
home and down the steps without at-
tracting attention such as staggering
or calling the neighbors bad names,
all well and good. If arrested and car-
ried before a court, the judge wiil be
the person to determine if the bev-
erage was intoxicating fact.
Beverages from the ordinary fruit
juices are capable of “kicking” up
quite a lot of alcoholic content when
let alone and with nothing added to
make them ferment, and under this
recent ruling it will be unlawful to
add anything. Nothing but the natural
fermentation of fruit juices is to be
allowed.
Only a fruit juice that ferments by
i orderly process of standing is
lawful. Here is the way some of the
juices act when left strictly ,alone,
without addition of sugar or applica-
tion of heat:
Blackberry juice will contain as
much as 4 per cent. of alcohol.
Concord and similar types of grapes
can be hardly expected to register
higher than 10 per cent.
The muscat grape of California,
having a higher sugar content, will
go to 15 or 16 per cent.
The berry juices generally have the
alcoholic content nearest the limit set
by the drys. Loganberries and the
sweeter variety of cherries come in
the same class. All contain about 4
per cent. of alcohol. :
Prohibition officials are going to be
strict for the prevention of home man-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
ufacture of beverage in which sugar
or anything else has been added to
aid the fermentation. Such action is
forbidden under the revised statutes.
Anything added makes ‘a mash fit
for distillation” which is absolutely
prohibited. Preparation of such a
mash would make the holder liable to
both arrest ahd imprisonment and the
home a seizure as a distillery. The
offender would be liable for an occu-
pational tax and for a tax on the
product.
Here is the law on this point:
“No mash, wort, or wash, fit for dis-
tillation or for the production of
spirits or alcohol, shall be. made or
fermented in any building or on any
premises other than a distillery duly
authorized according to law. :
and .no person, other than an author-
ized distiller, shall, by distillation, or
by any other process, separate the al-
coholic spirits from any fermented
mash, wort, or wash. Every
person who violates any provision of
this section shall be fined for each of-
fence not less than $500 nor more than
$5,000, and be imprisoned not less
than six months, nor more than two
years, provided, further, that nothing
in this action shall be construed to
apply to fermented liquors or to fer-
mented liquors used for the manu-
facture of vinegar exclusively.”
Persons desiring still further in-
formation on the cider situation
should write to John F. Kramer,
Prohibition Commissioner, Washing-
too, D. C.
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Plums Pears
Grapes Onions
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
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Michigan Retail Ha’ ware Association.
President—J. H. Tae, Muskegon.
Vice-President—* vu.1:" G. Popp, Sag-
inaw.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott,
City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Marine
Guarding Against Danger of Waste
in the Tinshop.
Written for the Tradesman.
If the tin shop doesn’t pay the
hardware dealer, it is probably be-
cause of little, undetected leaks that
eat up the potential profits. That, at
least, is the view of experienced hard-
ware dealers who have studied the
problem.
“Waste is the entire trouble,”
stated one hardware dealer who has
a successful tinshop department.
“You have got to watch the shop
closely to make it pay. But it is a
useful department and can be made
a good money maker.
“The first waste,” he added, “is in
material. That is, in raw stock. At
the present time, when there are so
many uses to which sheet metals are
put, it pays to keep almost every scrap
of galvanized iron, tin or black iron.
As it is, it is no unusual thing to
find pieces of scrap that might be
used thrown heedlesly into the dump
box. Pieces of scrap quite big enough
and good enough to be used for re-
pair work, such as bottoms for pails,
lanterns, or for covers, etc. Some
workmen seem to think that any-
thing like this must be cut out of a
whole sheet. It is just in this very
item that a lot of waste is involved.
“All this scrap should be put away
until slack times, as during the win-
ter months, and then cut up by the
apprentice into step flashing, outlets,
end pieces, ferrels, etc. Or another
good use for scrap galvanized iron,
or, in fact, iron that has been used,
is to cut it up into roof patches, about
3 x 7 inches, and tie them in, say 10-
lb. bundles. I find that my carpenter
customers are glad to buy these at-a
fair price to do repair work on shingle
roofs.
“There are several other things in
connection with material that it will
pay to watch. Thus, you should save
all pieces of scrap brass, copper, zinc,
lead, etc., old or new, and sell to the
metal man. it pays. Then, too,
watch carefully for possible waste in
solder. There are apt to be serious
leaks in that one item, particularly
where. inexperienced helpers are in-
volved. I find that in a shop where
gas or gasoline is used for heating
solder, iron, etc., it is quite easy to
save, by careful oversight, at least 25
per cent. of this expense. This ap-
plies also where charcoal is used.”
Another important item is waste
time. Most hardware dealers agree
that this is the most serious item of
waste.
“Did you ever stop to think,” asked
one dealer, “that one non-producing
hour out of every eight means that
you’ make practically nothing for
that man’s time, after allowing for
the cost of doing business? This is
not so noticeable where you have
only one or two employes, but it
looms up a large item where you
have a big stafft. Ef you expect to
make anything out of the tinshop,
this matter of waste time must be
watched very closely. I know of no
better way of doing this than by a
proper system of keeping track of
every five minutes of the day and
seeing that it is properly accounted
for. This can be done by the time
card. You then have the whole thing
right in your own hands.”
This dealer enumerated a number
of possibilities of time waste, which
every tin shop should aim to avoid.
They include:
Late starting, waiting a half hour
for the shop to warm up.
Lost time through poor lighting
facilities.
Lost time going to and from jobs.
Lost time through employes leav-
ing their jobs 15 or 30 minutes be-
fore the proper time for quitting,
when they think the boss will not
know it.
Lost time through allowing visitors
access to the work shop to talk with
employes.
Lost time through cutting out un-
necessary patterns, when only one
article of its kind is needed.
This dealer told a story to illustrate
the last mentioned class of waste.
Some years ago, a supposedly A-1l
mechanic had a furnace repair job to
do in which case a taper 90 degree
elbow .10%4 inches to 8 inches was re-
quired. It took him two hours to
lay off and make this elbow. A short
time after another job somewhat
similar came along and was given to
another employe drawing the same
wage, and in less than half an hour
the elbow was finished—in one fourth
the time and this without a pattern at
all. This waste.could have been saved
by giving the right job to the right
man.
“If you have a number of em-
ployes,” added the hardware dealer,
“and are not a practical mechanic
yourself, or find that you cannot
spare time to oversee the department,
secure a good, live, competent man
as foreman and put it up to him to
make good, giving him all the en-
couragement you can. Then, do as
few ‘thank you’ jobs as_ possible.
Have work planned ahead so that no
man is kept waiting for a job, when
he is through with the one he has.
Finish up every contract job as much
as possible before beginning another.
This applies especially to furnace
work, roofing and troughing, where
materials and tools have to be carted
to and from work.”
Another phase of waste is in poor
figuring on jobs. This is a sort of
underdrain on the business, not so
easy to detect as waste in time and
materials.
“Do you know,” said one man
whose tinshop is a profit maker “I do
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SIDNEY ELEVATORS
Will reduce handling expense and speed
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each elevator. Write stating requirements,
giving kind machine and Lag platform
wanted, as well as height. We will quote
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Jobbers in All Kinds of
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Junction
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Are
Electric Signs
Progressive merchants and manufac-
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Advertising.
We furnish you with sketches, prices
and operating cost for the asking.
THE POWER CO.
Bell M 797 Citizens 4261
Michigan Hardware Co.
Exclusively Wholesale
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Brown & Sehler Co.
‘‘Home of Sunbeam Goods’’
Manufacturers of
HARNESS, HORSE COLLARS
Jobbers in
Saddlery Hardware, Blankets, Robes, Summer Goods, Mackinaws,
Sheep-Lined and Blanket-Lined Coats, Sweaters, Shirts, Socks,
Farm Machinery and Garden Tools, Automobile Tires and
Tubes, and a Full Line of Automobile Accessories.
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believe that comparatively few of our
ordinary tinshops ever take the
trouble to figure up to see if they
have made anything on contracts
taken and completed. In fact most
of them could not if they would, as
no record is kept of time and material
on the job. What is the result? Why,
when the next job comes along for
a price, the proprietor says, ‘Well, I
guess I came out all right last time,
so here goes on this one’—and all the
time, quite likely, he is losing money
on both jobs.
“The taking of contracts foo cheap
is, to my mind, a very serious leak,
and a quite common one, too. Fail-
ure to charge work done is another
leak. If we only had the value of
all work done and not charged,
through oversight or forgetfulness,
it would enable us to take a few
weeks’ holidays with plenty of spend-
ing money.
“Failure to collect and bring back
materials left over from jobs is an-
other frequent source of loss. I, per-
sonally, have discovered goods left in
other people’s cellars when jobs were
completed—stuff forgotten for years,
and found only through accident. The
loaning of tools is another leak that
could be remedied easily enough by
. charging them against the borrowers
and giving credit when they are re-
turned.”
It is important to charge against
each job everything done in connec-
tion with it. You may trim the price
or rebate if you feel like it; but at
least you know then what the job
cost you and what you are making,
and the customer gives you credit in
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
good will for what you allow him.
When you merely overlook an item or
two, it means that you don’t know
what the job is costing—and ten to
one the customer who is getting a
low price through your oversight
kicks on what you charge him.
Then, put your best and _ highest-
priced men where they will make you
money. Don’t put a $6 a day man
on a $3 a day job.
Don’t set your best journeyman to
do something that can be done just
as well by a beginner.
Another item is cartage, which
should be charged against every job.
It is an item in the cost that is very
often overlooked.
It will pay, even with a first class
foreman, to know your tinshop de-
partment thoroughly, and to check up
its operations from time to time to be
sure that everything is running satis-
factorily. A good tinshop in connec-
tion is an asset to any hardware
store; but efficiency and economy
can hardly be obtained without a
certain amount of care and watchful-
ness. Victor Lauriston.
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Woman.
Burden-bearer and born to bear thy race,
Patient, willing , loving and with grace
Ever bringing comfort to thine own
Knowing they are but thy very bone;
Never taking only pleasure’s way
But unselfifishly by night or day
Turns't a listening ear to catch some sigh
which thou feign would’st stop by being
nigh.
Nor with all thy countless cares anew
Do thy service days bring ‘ere to you
Aught but joy—which joy the greater
grows
Even though thy service suffering knows—
Thou indeed dost seem a very part
Of that Great Eternal, Loving Heart
Which—when first the world its courses
ran
Fashioned fair a comforter for man.
Charles A. Heath.
Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
wt
157-159 Monroe Ave. —::
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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This glass front counter shows the goods.
displayed are half sold. Are you interested? If so, let
us give you full particulars and price.
DETROIT SHOW CASE CO.,
Grocers’ Display Counters
Goods well
Detroit, Mich.
Don’t Fail to Visit the
West Michigan State Fair
Sept. 20-24---\isisisee~
The Fair Association Announcements show that the fair
this year is to be a notable EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION
with most unusual displays and contests among the AGRICUL-
TURAL, ANIMAL AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS, because
the premium awards are higher than ever and very attractive.
NO FAIR WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT
AMUSEMENT FEATURES AND THIS WILL BE THE
GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT SEASON EVER OFFER-
ED TO OUR VISITORS. AMONG THEM WE NOTICE:
Slide for Life by a Japanese
Athlete
Automobile Show (free)
One Ring Circus
Girls Swimming and Diving
Exhibition
Hawaiian Village Southern Plantation Show
Building Material Show (free)
ETHEL DARE, the only
woman aviator to change
planes in mid-air
Army Display of War Relics
and Moving Pictures (free)
Aviation Exhibits by five
aeroplanes from the Grand
Rapids flying field. Horse Races by the fastest
horses in the State, Large
Purses.
Fireworks! Pageant of the
World War Magnificently
Portrayed, Four Novelty Clowns to
Flying Trapeze Artists please old and young
In addition to above and other novelties you can
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With the best and highest class shows on the road.
THE FAIR IS OPEN EVENINGS
We are glad to help advertise the FAIR because we think
it will be worth while—enjoyable and instructive. And we
especially invite merchants to come in and inspect in person our
great exhibit of
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and Games from over
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September 15, 1920
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Grand Junior Counselor—A. W. Stev-
enson, Muskegon.
Grand Secretary — Morris
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Grand Treasurer—Harry Hurley, Trav-
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Heuman,
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Grand VPage—George E. Kelly, Kala-
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Salesmen’s Suggestions Should Be
Unselfish.
wholesale salesmen have
an “axe to grind” in making sugges-
tions to retail dealers that good ad-
vice often falls on deaf ears. This,
at least, is the opinion of a retailer
who is constantliy on the lookout for
information he can use in his business,
but who admits having difficulty in
separating the wheat from the chaff.
Salesman stated further,
has suffered considerably from efforts
made in past months to sell goods be-
cause the price would be higher later
on.
“The merchant turns a deaf
ear to the counsel and suggestions
of salesmen visiting him,” he
“may seem rather unprogressive, but
the fact is that the often
put their own ends above the inter-
ests of their customers. And it is a
fact that friendly co-operation be-
salesmen and merchant has
a hard blow in the events of
the last year. From every side, the
merchant was urged to buy goods be-
fore the next advance came
Now that the price bottom has drop-
ped out of many articles, it will not
be an altogether pleasant task for the
salesmen to go back and meet the
customers he fooled.”
So many
counsel, he
who
said,
salesmen
tween
suffered
along.
“The salesman who honestly wants
to give the benefit of his experience
to his customers,” he continued, “will
try to avoid the suggestion of plans
too evidently based on selfish motives.
Thus,
will only go out of his way to pick up
information on
if a salesman selling clothing
improved ways of
selling furnishings, the merchant will
be more apt to consider what he has
to say. In the same way, the neck-
wear salesman ought to pass along
a few tips on clothing, and not re-
strict his efforts entirely
to pushing
the sale of neckwear.
not the doubt
slightest
in my mind that the merchant recog-
“There is
nized that an observing salesman, who
visits several retailers in the course
of a road trip, must come across in-
formation which is invaluable to him.
But when the dealer grows suspicious
of the salesman, even the profitable
suggestions are not considered. That
same dealer will travel miles and
spend good money to attend a con-
vention at which he will get only a
couple of ideas that he can apply to
his business. yet he is apt to spurn
the same ideas if they come from a
salesman who has not been establish-
ed in his confidence. The answer is
that when the wrappings are removed
from what the salesman has to say
there is often disclosed the usual
colored gentleman in the woodpile.
“So, for the benefit of salesmen who
often find customers stubborn about
adopting new ideas, my advice is to
be sure that the suggestion ventured
The selfish
worked in, but they
ought to be coated with some others
that are more disinterested.”
is not too selfish a one.
ideas can be
at ati
Where Are They Located?
The Tradesman would like to as-
certain the whereabouts of the fol-
lowing gentlemen. Can any of the
readers of the Tradesman help us lo-
cate them?
Ht),
Creek.
Walter Nelson,
Rapids.
W. oH. C.. Beatham,
Terre Haute, Ind.
Max Nowaczyk, formerly of Grand
Jones, formerly of Trout
formerly of Grand
formerly of
Rapids.
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lac.
Badgley, formerly of Cadil-
Reuben R. Sliter, formerly of Cad-
illac.
R. L. Lorraine, formerly of Bellaire.
Lewis E> Davies, formerly of Grand
Rapids.
F,. E. Ingraham, formerly of Berla-
mont.
Jas. A. Keane, formerly of Grand
Rapids.
Don. M. Coon, formerly of Cros-
well.
ita A,
sa, Wis.
Bean, formerly of Kaukaun-
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ED CROWN Gaso-
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It starts quickly, it accel-
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. tels may remain open until Oct. 1, if mone can deny that Herbert is our authorize the removal of the stigma,
Grand Rapids, Sept. 14—C. A. the late season proves to be as warm Chesterfieldian representative in the would it not be conducive to greater
Marsh, Manager of the J. S. Ball and conducive to pleasure riding as_ best sense, reflecting credit alike on care both on the part of owner and
Grocery, Battle Creek sends the ‘September has been this year, _ himself and on his house.” of driver? Leta third offence involve
Tradesman the following story on Jacob Phillips, the First Citizen of When the hotel clerk tells you “I the forfeiture of license and of car.
George B. Monroe, of the Jennings Lamont, is looking forward to Marne’ have no $4 room for you now but I —__~+-.—__
Extract: Ca: of Grand Rapids, who is
well known both in the Upper and
Lower Peninsulas: “While in St.
Ignace during July I noticed some
one fishing on one of the piers and,
having nothing better to do, I walked
out to watch him. It proved to be
George B. Monroe. He was all set
for catching fish; a fine rod and line,
plenty of bait (not the liquid kind)
and lots of water to fish in, but the
wind was blowing from the wrong
direction, I guess, because George had
about given up the ghost when, bing!
he got an awiul bite. Say, it was
sure some bite. It bent his pole al-
most double and strained his line al-
most to the breaking point. George
tugged and pulled and he yanked and
he tried to coax it and he even used
some language bordering on profanity.
Finally, making a superhuman effort,
he brought out his catch, which prov-
ed to be a second hand shovel. This
was a perfectly good shovel, even if
it was a second-hand one, but George
was so disappointed that he cast it
back into the water and hastily pack-
ing up his fishing tackle, he beat it
to shore and we filled up on near
beer.”
There is no use of offering are-
ward for a lost opportunity.
Criticism, as well as charity, should
begin at home.
lt begins to look as though it will
soon be easier to go out and earn
a dollar than to borrow one.
Push clear the track; people get
out of the way of an energetic man.
Even small ability with great energy
will accomplish more than the great-
est ability without energy. If fired
from a gun with sufficient velocity, a
tallow candle can be shot through an
inch board.
The Bible has the greatest record
of salesmanship ever written. St.
Paul sold religion to Athens when it
was fearfully overstocked with relig-
ions of its own.. And he did it by
making a survey of the situation and
utilizing conditions at hand, just as
a modern salesman must do.
John D. Martin has returned from
an extended automobile trip through
Northern Michigan. He is loud in
the praise of the beauties of “around
the horn” route.
George Whitten, whose grocery
stock at Howard was recently des-
troyed by fire, has re-engaged in the
grocery business at Evans. The Wor-
den Grocer Company furnished the
stock.
Clarence J. Farley, President of the
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co., is in
Saginaw this week, attending the an-
nual meeting of the Michigan Retail
Dry Goods Association.
Muskegon is now marooned on
three sides—all the sides she can be
reached by automobile—on account of
the construction of new roads, nec-
essitating wretched detours which
would wreck the patience of a saint.
It is very reprehensible on the part
of the contractors who are construct-
ing the cement road South of Mus-
kegon Heights that they do not in-
dicate where a cross road can be
taken West to the North and South
road which crosses Mona Lake on the
float bridge and thence leads to the
city via Beidler street. If such direc-
tions were established at the point on
the road from Ferrysburg, the auto
driver would not be forced to traverse
the worst stretch of road ever per-
mitted to exist in a Southern Mihi-
gan county.
The early closing of all the resort
hotels on Black Lake this season
works a hardship on the hundreds
of tourists and pleasure seekers who
throng the resorts every Saturday and
Sunday only to find that reasonably
decent accomodations are not to be
had at Ottawa Beach, Macatawa Park
and Waukazoo. It is to be hoped
that another season one of these ho-
fair week after next with fond an-
ticipations. He has already selected
the horses which he expects to win
in the track contests. Deacon Phil-
lips will not wager on a horse race
himself because of religious scruples,
but he does not deny that he furnish-
es his close friends with first-hand in-
formation on the relative merits of
the different horses which enable
those so favored to make a nice
clean-up every year.
William H. Borrough has engaged
in the grocery business at Greulick-
ville near Traverse City. The Wor-
den Grocer Company furnished the
stock.
R. M. Beardsley, Manager of the
Michigan Motor Garment Co., Green-
ville, was in town Tuesday in consul-
tation with Ben Dean on the coming
season’s advertising campaign. Mr.
3eardsley was very fortunate to fall
into the hands of so able and capable
an advertising expert and copy writer
as Mr. Dean, whose good work in be- .
half of the Motor line has had much
to do with the remarkable success of
the company devoted to its manufac-
tuUEE.
The last issue of Pot and Kettle,
published by Chase & Sanborn, con-
tains the following reference to their
long-time Michigan representative,
Herbert T. Chase, whom we all de-
light to honor: “The town of Har-
wick dots the coastline of the old his-
toric State of Massachusetts. It -is
located on the southerly shore, or
what is known as the ocean side of
Cape Cod—that strip of sand and bush
that stretched a welcoming arm to
the Pilgrims who sought a haven and
refuge on a stern and rock-bound
coast. Harwick is the mecca for city
folk with jangled nerves. Each sum-
mer they flock there, finding in the
invigorating ocean breeze grateful
relief from the oppressive heat and
grind of the city. Indeed the salt
tang of the sea air of Harwick is a
tonic that produces deep-chested,
clear-eyed, clear-visioned men. Here
it was some half century or so ago
that Herbert raced and romped as
a boy, building a sound body for
subsequent success. As a youngster,
a goodly share of his time was spent
in anticipation of that annual Lucul-
lian feast, historicaly and _ gastro-
nomically known as the Thanksgiving
Day Dinner. On old Cape Cod it
had and still has, of course, a special
and significant observance. No vil-
lage youth boasted a lustier appetite
than Herbert and his taste and capac-
ity ran the gamut from soup to coffee.
It is recorded that while he enter-
tained no special grievance for the
cranberry sauce he always exhibited
a prodigious fondness for celery. ‘So
it was perhaps natural that in later
life he should forsake the cranberry
bogs of the Old Bay State for the
more inviting and promising celery
patches that have made the fame and
the fortune of Kalamazoo. When it
was suggested that Herbert wander
in these fertile fields he accepted with
celery-ty. And so for the past thirty
years he has been educating Wol-
verines to the use of good tea and
coffee as fitting accompaniments to
the celery and the cranberry sauce of
every well ordered meal. Herbert be-
lieves in keeping just a little in front
of the procession. His territory for
the most part is covered in his trusty
six-cylinder roadster. There is not an
inch of Michigan road from Muske-
gon to Detroit, or from Battle Creek
to Mackinac that has not heard the
warning “honk” of this traveler’s car;
or that does not bear in its dust the
track of his wheels. Herbert is in
the prime of his life. The glint of
silver is in his hair. His carriage and
bearing is that of the chevalier. He is
the embodiment of the Gallantry and
the Chivalry of an earlier and a bet-
ter day. It has been said that the
apparel oft proclaims the man and
can give you something at about half-
past eight,” he is calculating on the
law of averages. Experience has
proved that of each hundred guests in
a transient hotel, a fairly definite num-
ber of these $4 rooms will check out
each evening.
—_—_-~-~____
New Penalty for Reckless Driving.
Grand Rapids, Sept. 14—Fatalities
and accidents from automobile traffic
are so numerous and the percentage
of accidents due to reckless or care-
less driving is so great that any
scheme, any suggestion, offering a
partial solution should be carefully
considered. The average motor car
owner is as human, perhaps as hu-
mane, as the rest of us; at-any rate,
he takes pride in his possessions and
neither seeks nor wishes undue no-
toriety. He is usually in possession
of means, and the payment of a fine
now and then for account of himself
or his hired man means little to him
except the trouble and inconvenience
of appearing in court.
Why not attack his pride, his sense
of shame, by labelling the car driven
by a reckless or careless driver? Sup-
pose the law provided that, ace the
fair conviction by a. special judge, the
car itself should be prominently lab-
elled with some insignia or device
which should be easily apparent to
other drivers and to pedestrians also.
Let such device be afhxed by a
proper court official and let it be a
misdemeanor, punishable by imprison-
ment only, for the device to be taken
off excepting by the court. Ifa period
of, say, three months careful driving
for the first offense and six months
for the second were provided for, at
the expiration of which the court, in
its discretion, according to the nature
and seriousness of the offence, could
There are a hundred successful men
for one that is contented.
Foundry Equipment
For Sale
One Erie City Iron Works Wa-
ter Tube Boiler 150 H. P. in
90°, condition.
One No. 10 ga. steel stack 36 in.
diameter x 58 in. long, almost
new.
One Erie City Iron Works Wa-
ter Preheater.
One M. T. Davidson Steam
Pump size 6 x 4 x J0.
One No. 6 Jewel Dutton Steam
Engine 40 H. P.
One Whiting 24 in. Cupola.
One Buffalo No. 5 Cupola
Blower.
Two Brass Furnaces.
One S. & R. Tumbling Barrel
size 24 x 28, complete with
countershaft.
The above equipment is prop-
erty of this company and is of-
fered for sale F. O. B. cars
Vicksburg.
Peck Iron & Steel Works
Vicksburg, Mich.
MATCHES
All Types and Sizes to Suit Every
Requirement
American Safety Strike
Anywhere Match
The Most Popular
Home and Smoker’s Match
American Strike-on-Box Match
Both square and round splints
Diamond Book Match
An excellent advertising medium
Made in America, by Americans, of American
Materials, for American Users.
We pay City, County, State and Federal Taxes.
Why not patronize Home Industry?
The Diamond Match Co.
26
MICHIGAN
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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—H. H. Hoffman, Sandusky.
Secretary and
Koon, Muskegon.
Other Members—E.
City: James EK. Way,
Cahow, Reading.
Next Examination
Rapids, Nov. 16, 17 an
T. Boden, Bay
Jackson; F. C.
Session — Grand
18.
Reciprocal Relations of Drug Jobber
and Retailer.
Mr. Webster says a jobber is one
who usually buys in large quantities,
for the purpose of selling the same
goods again to other dealers, without
alterations. He is a promiscuous, in-
discriminate dealer, in that he gathers
together the individual preparations
from the various manufacturers and
sends them in a body to the retailer.
He is the first transfer station the
goods reach after leaving the main
station (the manufacturer) where
they are sub-divided and these sub-
divisions are consolidated so that a
small quantity of each manufacturer’s
goods are sent in one large aggregate
to the sub-station (the retailer) for
further distribution; from which
point they reach the consumer, from
whose standpoint the jobber is the
least known and the least tangible
factor in marketing. Therefore, the
consumer has little general interest
in the jobber. He has a hazy idea
of a middleman who takes a question-
able profit and who is criticised on
guesses and vague suspicions without
well defined ideas of the profits the
jobber makes.
My purpose in this article, “Why
the Wholesaler?” is not a long-wind-
ed discussion, but in a condensed
way analyze the jobber’s service to
the consumer as well as to the re-
tailer and manufacturer. First, what
does he do for the manufacturer?
Does he earn his pay? He makes 15
to 20 per cent. gross, which is a small
profit when one considers the neces-
sary expenditures of his business and
notes the value of his services to the
manufacturer, retailer and consumer.
Out of this gross profit he must pay
expenses of conducting his business;
he must earn a return on capital in-
vested; and he must have something
left as net profit if he is to continue
to run the risk of his calling. What
return does he make for the amount
he is paid? To the manufacturer, the
services of the jobber are that of a
specialist in distribution. He knows
the trade intimately, the demand, the
goods that will sell; he has a clintele
of permanent customers and a ready-
made sales force that cultivates the
market extensively. Again the job-
ber’s services are used in the way of
storage, shipping and the carrying of
small accounts with the added re-
sponsibility of collecting same. By
this I mean the goods of a New Eng-
land manufacturer are stocked by
PONE MIE
Treasurer—Charles 5S.
the jobbers throughout the country
and can render to the retailer im-
mediate service; in many cases, a
response to a telephone call. In some
cases the manufacturer has such ar-
rangements with the jobber that he
can make use of “Drop Shipments,”
which are made direct to the retailer
by the jobber or manufacturer’s sales-
men; enabling prompt delivery. These
shipments are billed to the jobber and
he must run the responsibility of
collecting same.
If the manufacturer is not repre-
sented through the medium of the
middleman it would be necessary for
him to maintain distribution housés
of his own or compel the dealer to
wait until he could send an order to
the factory and obtain the goods in
return. This, the dealer would not
like to do, because of the time that
would be lost in transportation of the
goods. If the manufacturer did main-
tain these distribution houses, there
would still be a great disadvantage to
the retailer in that he could only se-
cure the products manufactured by
the one house, thereby requiring a
very large buying force.
Are not these services rendered by
the wholesaler worth 20 per cent. to
the manufacturer, who could not per-
form the same_ services for this
amount?
The jobber’s services to the retailer
are that of a banker. If a man of
reputable character wishes to start
a retail business, the jobber will
credit him and furnish him with most
of his capital until the retailer can
get on his feet. His services make
possible the thousands of neighbor-
hood retail stores which our buying
habits demand. An illustration just
at this point will give some idea of the
services rendered by the jobber to the
retailer. The store has many differ-
ent brands of goods on its shelves.
They are manufactured by many dif-
ferent firms throughout the country.
The store has been doing business
with some two or perhaps more job-
bers. The retail merchant wakes up
some morning and finds the whole-
salers have been eliminated. He must
now buy every item direct from the
manufacturer. In a great many cases
the retailer would go out of business.
He who held on would find the fol-
lowing situation: He would find great
difficulty in keeping up his stock of
goods when ordering through the
manufacturers after having been used
to the simple method of giving the
jobber’s salesman the order on his
frequent rounds. This would neces-
sitate ordering in larger quantities,
and in order for the retailer to do
this, he would have to increase his
capital and introduce an expensive
record and purchasing department.
TRADESMAN
The actual time spent in seeing the
many salesmen or ordering by cata-
logue would be enormous. By or-
dering in larger quantities it would
demand more storage space. The re-
tailer would find great difficulty in
keeping a well-balanced and a well-
selected stock because he would not
have the specific knowledge of the
quality and selling value of every
competing line in his stock, importun-
ed by a horde of salesmen to stock
large quantities of one line at the ex-
pense of another. Inevitably, he
would find himself overstocked in
some things and understocked in
others. The jobber does not push any
one kind of goods ordinarily; he tries
to build up the retailer’s business as
a whole and he renders valuable ser-
vice by aiding him with all kinds of
buying and selling plans. With such
a situation confronting the small re-
tailer what would be the outcome,
since he has more capital invested, a
greater overhead expense, and less
turn in capital? He would either
have to go out of business, or the
prices to his customers would have
to be greatly increased.
Without the jobber there would
probably be a cessation of the credit
arrangement that now practically re-
sults in the jobbers furnishing many
a retailer with most of the capital with
which he conducts his business. The
jobber is the prime factor in stopping
many of the daily leaks of the retail
drug store. His presence makes it
possible for the retailer to buy perish-
able goods only as he needs them.
The same with goods that sell slowly.
This prevents dead and spoiled stock
on the retailers shelves.
The jobber’s services finally reach
the consumer—even though they be
indirectly and somewhat foreign to
the consumer. He renders them the
greatest service of all. He creates
harmony between them and their deal-
September 15, 1920
COMPUTING SCALES
overhauled and adjusted to be sensitive
and accurate, wiil weigh as good as
new. A few for sale at discount prices.
W. J. KLING
843 Sigsbee St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
CANDY
TRADE
Mark
The “DOUBLE A” Kind
Made by
People Who Know How
Our record of over fifty years of
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United States, speaks for itself.
You take no chances when you
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TRADE
The AN Good
Sign of Candy
Mark
Made in Grand Rapids by
NATIONAL CANDY CO.
PUTNAM FACTORY
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ask for a copy of our
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We are agents for LOWNEY’S
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The 1920 Holiday Line
EARLY BUYING.
ENCE.
WILL SOON BE ON EXHIBIT IN OUR SUNDRY
SALESROOM HERE IN GRAND RAPIDS ON
AND AFTER SEPTEMBER 7TH. WE ANTICI-
PATE THAT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON WILL
BE THE LARGEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL
IN EVERY WAY IN THE EXPERIENCE OF
THE DRUG TRADE, BOTH FROM THE VIEW-
POINT OF THE RETAILER AND THE WHOLE-
SALER. OUR STOCK OF MERCHANDISE IS
ABSOLUTELY INTACT. WE ARE, HOWEVER,
AS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, SUGGESTING
GET IN TOUCH WITH MR.
HOSKINS AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENI-
WHOLESALE ONLY
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
September 15, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
er by making it possible for the re-
a
Wholesale Drug Price Current
tailer to carry the goods desired by oe .
the consumer. In the small towns, Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
the oe sb — many articles Acids Almonds, Sweet, ee Tinctures
that could not be obtainable were i i y imitation | ----. 5
‘ oo ere Borie pha ae Amber, crude __ 3 ig 3 25 a -----+-- gi =
not for the jobbers being able to sup- Garholia Lt | ““35@ 40. Amber, rectified 3 50@3 75 a es i 4
ply the retailer with the desired goods. “nace 7 fniso = 9 00@9 28 © Asafoetida ——_—- g3 7
ee : RMariatic 2. @ pee Belladonna .--. 1 4u
He permits the existence of the ae mas a oa. Bees g2 40
neighborhood store which is demand- a ‘4 Gaer.___ 21lga 4 «Bens Cees. =
‘ pre 3 152310 3 ig tng merce eS @ . 9 fay 9 Ge RCT en nee ‘
ed by our modern buying methods; Wartaria Lo: 0 98@1 10 — ee ene a Cantharadies ~. gi 00
he is an effective factor in creatin Ch | { Cloves _.....--. 450@4 75 Gapsicum --.... 2 30
ee 2 Mana — OCO a es Ammonia Cocoanut _.--. 10g 59 Cardamon --____ 1 50
place and time utility; he provides Water, 26 deg. -- 12@ 20 God Liver _.... 3 50@3 75 Ss Comp. 2
for many manufacturers an economic- ———— wee’ ia — 1 7 ig eae aa 2 as - Cinchona —___-_- 2 40
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tends to hold down prices; he en- Package Goods of : ny ea 8 tat ie a oe
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courages retail competition; increas- ‘ rn Hemlock, pure 200@225 Ginger _~--~~~~
pray : wits Paramount Quality Copaiba -.....- 1 00@1 20 Juniper Berries 8 00@8 25 Gusiac 227777 OF 80
es retail efficiency; tends to weed out Fir (Canada) -- 2 60@2 75 Juniper Wood 3 00@3 25 Guaiac, Ammon. @2 50
the unfit in merchandise and to en- and ol aida 4 097 35 Lae 7 i $0 2 io JOee anne @1 50
courage the sale of goods of quality. i 2 00@2 25 Lavender — mn aes 2 a... i 50
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public in such a variety of ways that, Cacti, (ordinary) 45@ 60 Linseed boiled bbl. @1 47 Nux vomica = $1 90
| Cassia (Saigon) 75@ 85 Linseed bld less 157@167 Opium @4 50
if he were to disappear from the mer- Sassafras (pow. 70c) @ 65 -remni awe _, @145 Opium, Camph. 1 25
pie a ainseec raw less 55@] 5
chandising field, we should find our- wae i 30@ 35 Mustard, ‘true, oz, g2 93 Opium, I Deodors'a @ *
selves seriously inconveni WE ea eas FeCl
should be cue ree aan ee Dens TUN See pica Gave oa cee 5 Ros 20
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‘ 7 POISON LABELS Cubeb -------- mete Give Wega Paints
abandoning old buying methods and joe ee 10@ 20 yellow --_._.. 4 00@4 25 Lead, red dry -. 15%@ 16
forming new habits with the source In conformity with the require- | ‘prickley” Ash § 30 Te ees 2, bead, white ary 15% 16
of supply. ments of the new regulations of Extracts Orange, Sweet 12 50@12 75 Ochre, yellow’
4 » yellow bbl. 2
. : Origanum, pure 2 50
Now to sum up in a few words: the Internal Revenue Department, La Rawal jaa $091 ¢ Origanum, com'l 1 25g 60 ane eo 3
“Why the Wholesaler?” He is because we are prepared to furnish special FI Perrtat "zo" oagta rH aa vouee = 3g ;
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of the fact that down through the poison labels for use in selling De- hae — 15@ 80 foe mig hy ‘a Red Veuctn Enc. 26 §
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ages past it has been a human instinct natured Alcohol, printed with red | Chamomile (Ger.) S001 - Sanaateccd = @ Whiting, bbl. --_- @ 4%
: Chamomile Rom 40@ 45 T, 15 00@15 20 Whiting --______ 10
to formulate ideas whereby man may ink on regular gummed label paper, - Sassafras, true 3 0G@3 a. Prep. 3 “is@4 ”
best serve his fellow man. Is it not as follows: a hseaieae in“ neat Meare a6 di
’ ~_ ist Spearmint _.. @ 20 i
true that the wholesaler’s forefather a. Cae eo $1.25 oe a. S50 oo Soom 2 75@3 00 2 ohpaanaaiast! i.
formed this idea, hence his existence Acacia, Sorts --_. 33@ 40 Tansy _..--__ 10 50@10 75 Acetanalid ---_- 95@1 15
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hold of the real reasons so you can Cuties «Cl lL ce NF. Q 85 Wormwood - 16 00@16 25 Glmnine __ aah ao =
overcome them. ino; powdered 0 Cassia Buds _.. 50 60
vere 1 40 Potassium Cloves
BO ei ccacieerciden 67 75
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‘ Opium, powd. 13 00@13 60 poe OS ee ee 02 ¢
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you will ICTO oo 2 1602 a — xtal or a . Corks, i er “
: : . Tragacanth powd. eo a ee ee >
eventuall | Cyanide _. 55@ 70 Copperas, less .. 6%@ 12
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‘ powdered .._.__ taneq 0 3 75 fpsom Salts, s 5
sold at a minimum cost. Insect, Powder = $391 25 Blood, aes 60@ 75 Epsom Salts, less 54g 10
a > / r ea, rsenate Po Calamus ._ 35@1 00 NMG cise oestrone
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Dey 7" 27 Gentian, powd. 27% 36 Flake White ... 15 20
cannot purchase _ better Paris Green“. 48@ 68 Ginger, ’ African, Q 1 Formaldehyde, 1b, 60g ¢
powdered ....... Gelatine .............. 2 25 40
ré ice Cream Ginger, Jamaica 57% 65 Glassware, less 53%.
alue. Arctic Ice Cream Co. Ginger, Jamaica, _ Glassware, full case 68%.
powdered _... 5714%@ _ 65 Glauber Salts, bbl. @03%
i — ee ------ 2 Goldenseal, pow. 8 60 8 0 Glauber Salts less 04@ 10
M. V. Cheesman, State Distributor, fae Ge. 1@ tone oad ae ae oe es a SOG
’ e€, pow 35 40 Glue, Brown Grd. 19 25
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» Yanda -... ee Menthol .....
Bulk, Chocolate . Squills, powdered eo 70 Morphine _-.. 12 50@13 20
Bulk, Caramel — 130 Tumeric, powd 30 Nux Vomica -... 30
Bulk, Grape-Nut -... 1 30 Valerian, powd. 2 00 Nux Vomica, pow. 266 35
Bue Seereery te a epper tack bow. #2 a
5 Brick, Vanilla .--.. 1 40 ‘. 23@ 25 epper, aan gy 3 3
Anise _._. 3 25 Pitch, Burgundy 20 25
ed Brick, Chocolate .... 1 60 Anise, 1 1 38 40 Quassia 12 15
iy Brick, Caramel _---~ 16 are” wow! ae 3 p 40 Quinine -_----— 1 22@1 72
y : Brick, Strawberry - 160 Cinsry "~~~ 13@ 20 Rochelle Salts _ 60@ 55
Ww) Brick, Tutti Fruiti z- 1 60 Carauas Po 30, 23 25 Saccharine wu... 40
r) Brick any combinat’n 1 60 Cartanon ___ $60 Salt Peter _...._. 20 30
Ney Celer owd. ae = 45 Seidlitz Mixture 40 45
ie : f the Road Leaves Coriander powd .25 16@ 20 Soap, green ----_.. 25@ 35
S Champion of the Roa Buchu —.-- sazza® 5°9S 08 Din 5@ 25 Soap'mott castile 22%@ 26
ucht, pow ere Noob " agsomatdeig i 40 oap, white castile
‘‘First Because They LAST’’ — bulk ~~~... oe 2 Vas 2... 12% 18 COC acne @25 00
—— Sage, % loose -.. 72 78 ¢ -. 12%@ 18 Soap, white castile
Sage, powdered -_ 55@ 60 eee woo. “to 20 less, per bar -._._ @2 75
Senna, ‘Tinn. 7 300 se HeMP -----------; 10g 18 Boda 2 3% i
BRAENDER RUBBER & TIRE CO. Senna, Tinn. pow. 35@ 40 ie ie ae eo 240 6
Uva Ursi ------- 30 Mustard, black _. 30@ $5 Spirits Camphor _@1 50
Factory—Rutherford, N. J. Pou @ 7 ene erg 5 2g a
Branches — New York, Philadelphia Almonds, _ era eerie 2 7 1 = amet pone # 30
; Chicago, San Francisco true 16 00@16 26 Sabadilia —------ 35 Tartar Hmetic 1 03@1 10
Braender Bull-dog bent Wiles, Sabadilla, powd. 30 35 aoe Ven. 50@6 00
Extra Ply Cord Tire artificial "2 50@3 75 oer le 14@ 20 Witchy Hag aes 1 & ; bm
Almonds, Sweet, Worm American 5e
true . 1 16@2 00 Worm Levant 1 0g1 90 Zine Sulphate — ib
FN
28
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
September 15, 1920
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-
ing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however,
are liabie to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED
DECLINED
Baskets Canned Apples
Citron Rolled Oats
Ground Cloves
AMMONIA - Blackberries CHEESE
Arctic Brand 3-lb. Standards ..... Big 31
12 oz., 2 doz. in carton, No 1) @13 00 Wisconsin Flats —____ 31
mer Gon, oo $1.65 bonphorn BL
a New York 22 oe 30%
Beans—Baked sph le : 30
Moore’s Household Brand Brown Beauty, No. 21 35 Michigan Full Cream
. 2720 Campbell, No. 2
ee Fremont, wos 1 60 CHEWING GUM
AXLE GREASE Van Camp, No. % -- _ 90 Adams Black Jack ____ 70
Van Camp, No. 1 _-_. 1 25 Adams Bloodberry ____ 70
Van Camp, No. 1% --160 Adams Calif. Fruit ___ 70
Van Camp, No. 2 _... 1 30 Adams Chiclets 80
Adams Sen Sen 76
Beans—Canned _ Adama: Yucatan 22." 70
Red Kidney --__ 1 35@1 60 American Flag Spruce 70
String ---------- 1 35@2 70 Beeman’s Pepsin ______ 80
Wax 1 35@2 70 Beechnnt 90
Lima 1 35@2 35 Douoenint .... 70
Red @1 10 saicy Frat .... 70
i Spearmint, Wrigleys —. 70
Clam Bouillon Teng oe 8
Burmhams { oz. .... 250 = =: = = :
CHOCOLATE
Corn e
Standard ______ 1 50@1 65 Walter Baker & Co.
Country Gentleman —_ 1 90 Caracas 20 43
Maine oo 1 90@2 25 Premium, %s or %s —. 50
or, Ih a 1 25 10 Walter M. Lowney Co.
2 ib. pails, per doz. 25 : Hominy Premium, % 50
lew ee pei . Premium, S56 (200 50
OTAA WSR
BLUING oe se hain
pster :
Jennings’ Condensed Pearl 1, jp, __ Ce ae 319 National Grocer Co. Brands
Small, 3 dot. box . 265 % 1b, 550 HE er Diplomat- “ Favorita Extia, a 33 50
r aC ces 410 Michigan, No. 2 .--.. 4 25 residents, Be
a ON Pale Pie, ae eee 12 00 Royal Lancer Line
Toasted Corn Flakes : Favorita, 50s .---.. 75 00
individual ......__ 2 00 Pineapple Imperiales, 50s -..... 95 00
c Ss ated, No. 2... 4 00 Magnificos, 50s ~... 112 60
Reemhics 460 Gr . -
a Sliced No. 2 Extra __ 5 25 La Azora Line
Krumbles, Individual 2 00 Washington, 60s .... 75.00
Beck 2 00 Pumpkin Eeashie ¥ou, 50s .. = -
i z ristocrats ane
et ne beg oe? ag : eon 2 > Perfecto Grande, 50s 97 50
se .? ik aoe es is oak Oe
No. 1412, doz. —-----— 2 25 Vesper, No. 10 6 60 Sanchez & Haya Clear
be 2 60 : ae Havana Cigars. Made in
Ci Saimon . Tempe, Syocids a
Warren's 1 lb. Tall __410 Diplomatics, 60s —
ieee Warren’s % lb. Flat 260 #Rosa, 20s _..-________ 115 00
Standard Parlor 23 lb. 5 75 Warren’s 1 ib. Flat _ 4 26 Bishops, 50s soceeee 115 00
las 6a ae Reina Fina, 50s Ting 115 00
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib... 8 00 Red A
4 coat Med. Red Alaska ---. 350 Queens, 50s ........ 135 00
Hx. Fancy Parlor 26 Ib.9 60 Dink “Alaska -. 225@2 40 Worden’s Special __ 160.00
Ex. Fcy, Parlor 26 lb. 10 00 rea ne ignacie an oe
ade in Tampa, or
BRUSHES een #5 =~ , = : = Extra Fancy Clear aa
Scrub Domestic, 48 6 @8 00 Delicados, 60s —--_- 140 00
aes “ aa Primeros, 508 ~.-._
Solid Back, 8 in. ---- 160 California Soused .. 2 00 pare
Solid Baek, 11 in. 1175 California Mustard — 2 00 Rosenth ct
Ponted Hinds _______ 125 California Tomato —. 2 00 a nee a
Stove Sauerkraut Lewis Single Binder 58 00
7 Manilla Cigars
NO) oo 110 Hackmuth, No. 3 —... 1 50
a.) -._185 Silver Fleece, No. 3 1 60 = ae. oes
Shoe Shrimps Other Brands
No. 1 90 Dunbar, 1s doz. —____ 2 45 = t 0a 2 __ 66 Ot
No. 2 ____________ 1 26 Dunbar, 1%s8 doz. -_- 3 75 Hemmeter Champions,
renee ies El Dependo, 30s La. 81.80
BUTTER COLOR woes 375 Court Royal, 50s _-- 61 00
care et 3 i? © Court Royal, 25 tins 61 00
Dandelion, 25c size _. 2 80 Fancy, No. 2 ------_ Knickerbocker, 50s _.. 58 00
Perfection, per doz. -. 1 76 Boston Straight, 50s 58 00
Tomatoes Trans Michigan, 50s 60 00
CANDLES -. 1 35@1 78 — Perfecto, a
Paraffine, 68 ..-.-.~. 16 Na FC Loot e a a 58 0
Paraffine, 128 _.__.__ 18% No. 10 2 @5 75 q (oe ea
Ieee
! CATSUP tn 6
CANNED GOODS Snider's 8 ox. 220 Twisted Cotton, 60 ft. 3 26
Apples Snider’s 16 oz. -.cs2. 3 35 $Twisted Cotton, 60 ft. 3 90
3 Ib. Standards _.._.@ Royal Red, 10 oz. _..1385 Braided, 50 ft. -..... 4 00
NO. @6 00 Royal Red, Tins ._.. 10 00 paen Com o.oo 6 25
COCOA
Bawers 202 53
Bunte, 15¢ size —...... 55
Bunte, 4%. Ib. 2 50
Bmunte: 4 1B. oe 48
Cleverang 41
Colonial, 482. 35
Colonial, %8) 2c 33
TOON oe 42
HMersheys, 45:2. 42
Hersheys, Ys) 2 40
Ager ee 36
Lowney, %8 48
Lowney, “Ys —.. 47
Lowney, 468 2.0 47
Lowney, 5 lb. cans __.. 48
Van Houten, %s --_-_-
Van Honten, 48 22. 18
Van Houten, %s -__-_- 36
Wan: Houten, 16 2: 65
WWan-tia oo 36
Weep 33
ayilbur, 268) 33
Wibur, 5 820 2 33
COCOANUT
4s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 48
148, 5 1b. Case 22. 48
“4s & ws, 15 Ib. case 47
6 and 12c pkg. in pails 4 75
Bulk, pails
Bulk, barreis 35
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 50
COFFEE ROASTED
Bulk
Rig 22050 a7
panos cee fe 380@32
Maracabo 2.200 35
MAPKIGAh 8 ee 38
Gqltaibemaia 36
SOM ve 46
Bozveta {20 36
Peanerry 2280 33
Package Coffee
New York Basis
Arbuckie 2. 36 50
McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX pack-
age coffee is sold to retail-
ers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaugh
lin & Co., Chicago.
Coffee Extracts
NN; ¥.. per 100 .... 10%
Frank’s 250 packages 14 50
Mummel's 50 1. th: . 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Haeie,; 4.007%. 12 85
Leader, 4 dog: ...... 10 65
EVAPORATED MILK
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 7
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 6 85
Pet a
Pet, Baby. oe
Van. Camp, Tail
Van Camp, Baby ._.
Dundes, Tall, doz, ._
Dundee, Baby, 8 doz.
NAIRATNIN-A
bw
on
Silver Cow, Tall 2.2. 7 60
Silver Cow, Baby --- 5 10
MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tail, 4 doz. 6b 85
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. -_ 5 70
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 5 70
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound o.. 35
Standar@: 22 35
Cases
Boston Sugar Stick.. 40
Mixed Candy
Pails
Broken ooo 37
at Seat es 36
(rocers. ooo 25
Mingergarten 37
ioeager: 36
Premio Creams —__... 49
Boga oe 33
Re 8s Oe 29
French Creams —.._.. 39
Specialties Pails
Auto Kisses (baskets) 36
Bonnie Butter Bites_. 36
Butter Cream Corn —. 41
Caramel Bon Bons -. 40
Caramel Croquettes__ 35
Cocoanut Waffles -_. 38
Coty Tolty oo 42
Fudge, Wainut —.. 38
Fudge, Walnut Choc. 39
Champion Gum Drops 30
Raspberry Gum Drops 30
Iced Orange Jellies __ 34
Italian Bon Bons ---. 34
AA Licorice Drops
b> 1b. Bex, 2 2 15
MiAmCRAIR 34
Nut Butter Puffs -_.. 36
Snow Flake Fudge —. 33
Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. .._... 44
CAIRO 2 oe 40
Honeysuckle Chips —. 54
Klondike Chocolates. 47
NaAvObS 47
Nibble Sticks, box —. 2 85
Nut Wafers 47
Ocoro Choc. Caramels .
~ Peanut Clusters -_--.
Guimtette = 23 ee 44
Bering oo 39
Victoria Caramels -.. 45
Gum_ Drops
Champion. 2s 30
Raspberry «oo 30
Havyorite. 2220200 32
Buperor 2 31
Orangze Jellies: 2.2... 34
Lozenges
A A Pep. Lozenges __ 36
A A Pink Lozenges 36
A A Choc. Lozenges 36
Motto Lozenges —__-. 41
Motto: Hearts 41
Hard Goods
lemon Drops 2. 39
O. F. Horehound Drps 39
Anise Squares —_____ 39
Peanut Squares -__.__ 40
Rock Candy 22 50
Pop Corn Goods
Cracker-Jack Prize _. 7 40
Checkers Prize ______ 7 40
Cough Drops
oxes
Putnam Menthol -___ 2 25
Dmith Bros, 2 2.00
COOKING COMPOUNDS
Mazola
Pints, tin, 2 doz... 7 06
Wuart, tin, 1 doz. 2 § 56
% Gai. tins, 1 doz, . 49 25
Gal. tins, % doz... 11 80
5 Gal. tins, % doz._. 15 30
COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade _. 2 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.
CREAM OF TARTAR
6 1b; (boxes (2G 75
S ib, boxes (22 0S 76
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Evap’ed, Choice, blk __ 17
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice ___ 36
Evaporated, Fancy ____ 45
Citron
AQ) Ib. bom 2 es
Currants
Packages, 15 oz: . 3. 22
Boxes, Bulk, per lb. _. 22
Peaches
Evap. Choice, Unpeeled 24
Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 26
Evap. Fancy, Peeled __ 28
Peel
Lemon, American
2 ae
Orange, American
——— (36
Ralsins
Fancy S’ded, 1 lb. pkg. 29
Thompson Seedless,
2 1D. DRE, 31
Thompson Seedless,
Di 30
California Prunes
80-90 25 lb. boxes -__.@15
70-80 25 lb. boxes 16
60-70 25 lb. boxes
50-60 25 lb. boxes ___
40-50 25 lb. boxes -.__@24
30-40 25 lb. boxes _..@28
amit
0
FARINACEOUS
Beans
Med. Hand Picked ___ 8
California Limas 5
Brown, Holland —. ___ 6%
GooDsS
Farina
25 1 Ib. packages
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. —___
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sack —_ 5 60
Macaronl
Domestic, 10 lb. box__ 1 10
Domestic, broken bbis. 8
Skinner’s 24s, case 1 37
Golden Age, 2 doz. _. 1 9
Would's, 2 doz) 1 90
Pearl Barley
PORTER Se ee 6 00
Peas
Peptch, Thy oo 6
DOUG, Ibs 8%
Sago
eeet Indie 11
Taploca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks ____ 10
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 35
Dromedary Instant, 3
doz., per case —..._ 2 70
FISHING TACKLE
Cotton Lines
No. 2, 15 feet
No. 3, 15 feet
No. 4, 15 feet
No. 5, 15 feet
No: 6, 15 feet 223
Linen Lines
Small, per 100 yards 6 65
Medium, per 100 yards 7 25
Large, per 100 yards 9 00
Floats
No. 1%, per gross .. 1 60
No. 2, per gross —... 1 76
No. 2%, per gross —. 2 2b
Hooks—Kirby
Size 1-12, per 1,000 .. 84
Size 1-0, per 1,000 .. 96
Size 2-0, per 1,000 _.1 15
Size, 3-0, per 1,000 — 1 32
Size 4-0, per 1,000 __ 1 65
Size 5-0, per 1,000 —. 1 95
Sinkers
No. 1, per gross -.... 668
No: 2, per ETross ...-. 72
No: 3, per ross 2... |. 86
No. 4, per gross -..._ 1 10
No. 5, per gross ~..._ 1 46
No; 6, per fross 1 85
No. 1, per eross oo 2 30
No. 8, per gross ~__..3 35
No. 9, per gross ____ 4 66
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings
Pure Vanilla
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
Per Doz.
i Dram 20 Cont 3 1 65
1% Ounce 25 Cent __
2 Ounce, 37 Cent 2
2% Ounce 40 Cent ___
24% Ounce, 45 Cent __
4 Ounce, 65 Cent
8 Ounce $1.00 2.
i Dram, 20 Assorted__ 1 65
1% Ounce, 25 Assorted 2 00
Van Duzer
Vanilla, Lemon,
Strawberry, Raspberry,
Pineapple, Peach, Coffee,
Peppermint & Wintergreen
1 ounce in cartons __$ 2.00
Almond,
2 ounce in cartons _. 3.50
4 ounce in cartons __ 6.75
SOunce | 13 20
PORES oe 26.40
Quarta foo 51.00
Gallons, seach 2) 16.09
FLOUR AND FEED
Lily White, % Paper
sack 14
Graham 25 lb. per ewt 6 00
Golden Granulated Meal,
25 lbs., per ewt. ___ 6 60
Rowena Pancake Com-
pound, 5 lb. sack __ 7 20
Rowena Buckwheat
Compound, 5 lb. sk. 7 7@
Watson “i Milling
O.
New Perfection, %s 14 00
Meal
Gr. Grain M. Co.
Bolted oo 5 40
Golden Granulated —. 5 50
Wheat
No. t Regs 2 40
NGO. Ll White 23 23
Oats
Michipan Carlota 0 70
Less than Carlots ____ 75
Old) Oats soo 85
Corn
Caries 22 1 75
Less than Carlots ___ 1 80
Hay
pariote 32 00
4ess than Carlots __ 36 00
Feed
Street Car Feed ___ 68 00
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 68 00
Cracked Com | 6
~
8
Coarse Corn Meal _. 68 00
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gross 8 75
Mason, qts., per gro 10 00
Mason, % gal., gro 14 00
Mason, can tops, gro 2 85
Ideal Glass Top, pts. 10 00
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 12 00
Ideal Glass Top, %
gallon
GELATINE
Cox’s 1 doz. large —. 1 46
Cox’s 1 doz. small _. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 26
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. 2 26
Minute, 8 doz. ...___ 4 95
Nelson's ooo cou BO
ORIOPG ee a
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 5§
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 36
Waukesha -_ oe oe
it
September 15, 1920
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Green, No aie TROLEUM PRO CHIGAN T
Greeh, N a Povranti I DUCTS RAT
c oo eo 1 fect ron D E
ured, No. 2 ---------- 3 Red ton —-~ Barrels +t SMAN
Caliskin, No. Ee n as oriole Gasoline 19.6 vig oy Ibs ripe
Calfski (eee ne re F ¥ achine a 9 i, 1 BR teers
Cc ‘altskin, green co! 18 BI — S ingksphtha St lbs. ee 60 Swedish Rapee 10c
a cared: No. i 16% ee "Rea I ent Hogs Casings =e Norkoping, i0e" 1 1b pee = Chili P. Seasoning 29
coe he No. 2 13 Iro ed Engine, eg gh al as Notkoping, i it 8 for 5 Cel owder, 1
Horse. toed oii, ow n Bbls. ngine eef, rou es Cc ping, 1 lb or —_ 64 selery Sal » 15e __- Ww
(aes ZA int oo ’ Be und se 65 openh . gla Sa Salt, 3 - 135 oo
G3 Gof ‘r Black, iron ‘6 ones ities wat. canes Sreenaeee, i il ye ee eee (0%. ---- 95 Bu PE WARS
50 P ce on ep, a sl 2 et... 36 agen, 1 1 or 64 Gs on Se Bushels skets
oid Ww elts olarine, Iron Bbi; Unc cin 1 75@2 00 b. glass 85 44... ee ee
Wool - ron Bbis.__ olored Ol @2 00 Garlic ~---7--------- 1 35 Bi ire handles band,
co 50@ siestt at. 8 Solid -D asaet i Jam SOAP Ponelty, 3% oz. —----- i. a ae
Shearlines ....... @1 00 F Co airy rine es Ss. Ki chen Bo "SSE Sea 2 pe Mcand J narrow ae S
rlings --- Bee 00 oe untry Rulls _____. 28@29 an oe Company Laurel co 36 Market ishing s “
cee @1 00 Barrel — le 30@3 p Rose ily, 100 me arjoram na. Market. —, ha 2 80
12 1 Kirk’ se, 50 ca 735 ‘Savory a, 1 08. —— 20 et, sing andle cy
prime valle suhag ac weg EA piee oe eee SG HEGE Stig Rin
7h cc ane cna on keg: ount 9 0 Bins R < eu cia Pumeri ee 290 6S Hat, eee... 1 60
No. 1 --------------- @7 6S ---- 0 Rous Se eae A Lautz B 24 oe. 90 splint, medi 9 5
ous @ 6 --- 400 Ses ee eae 12 50 eme, 100 ros. & Co i =6S Splint, me im... 3 30
oo G3 Barrels Small ROLLE Big Master, 100 t ee mall maaan 8 00
Unwashed, me! Half barrels —------- 20 00 Rolled & bois “ Siena ao 300 or emer oe
U shed, mei gallon kegs ___..._ oo Is. ----. 10 — 600. Bing orn
Es ait cn. OE oo 3 80 Mond Cut, 100 fae ii 00 oi mia a 25 oe at ft eck Eecanahe i das
apket dull ana a Gas G narch, 90 . sks. 6 Qu Leaf, “00 es 6 00 Powdered 1 lb. pkgs. 11% Manufactu
rket dull and neg! @25 a herkins ete 18 so sacks 4 7: ra. Anne, 100 cakes 6 7 Argo 7 ee gs. 9% Co ring
: neglected. Half barrels oa oo uaker, 20 on 8 70 : z Naphtha, — 8 75 : i lb. pkgs. _. J? Standard Wire End
gallon kegs _______ ro. cy 0 7 oa n
Adee. oo kegy 7 . ConA? in 6 85 pe Swift & Comp Silver aumenierd ao 8-50 cits oe
peeling No. eae 4 00 Gctumea 7 i. eee eae re #loss, 40 1 Ib. -. 11% a at ee Sot
irline, No. 25.------ 609 Barrels Sweet Small Durkee's lar pint =~ 4 00 Quick Naphti aoc e Gloss cs oe laces ania
ioeke aatien to La ee na noe ot a 6 te Wists Lanudry eee ae Ea “pkgs. ad a ol a
Per doz. E RADISH Talf alent oe 6 80 Durkee’s Pienio, 2 dz 6 75 Wo ges ry, 100 o ar 85 oo ee : a 7 a No. — jumbo a. 2 30
i Snitdan arge, | z.30 fool, 24 oe oe Lo SEEN G Pp - 100, Mamm carton 1 59
s 60 16 00 nider’s sr gee 1 do 0 Wool ars, 6 R75 = 6Stive toss, 1 2 46 imoth :
small z.24 . 100 bs af oz. 1 ilver Gloss. 6 3] ‘ a a oe
Pure JELLY i. PIP ; , 2 doz. I if bdo 100 been 6 oz. 8 = loss, 12 6 fe aa 2. Chu
, per pail, 30 Ib. 6 25 oh 0 te. te acs atERATUS eexiens bars, 10 ox. 13 00 “ © 1G: Rocce ts on .
. : ox . 1 86 Aun one 60 Ibs. i Pestlean i er, 48 11 uzz 3arrel, 10 g% -, each .. 2
- . and << 2 beniccs Bacd Ww . b. alee - Stone, 3 gal. eac 40
JELLY N PLAYING Wyandott Hammer box ress Ward Water, 4 10 16.3 Ib. packages ee oe 3 gal. “— 2 65
S oz GLASS No. 90'S CARD e, 100 J 8 65 ee ater 12 6 packages __.. 9% ct. °
yo, per doz. ES No. S08, teamboat - . Ye _ 3 06 Sanheitic eee eo 50 + aigkaaoe oe oo =
aan nnnnn 4g Pickett | ron ae SAL eanser, 728 3 25 lar "ponte c
ee 4 60 SODA Trad > Oe ee 7 Sisson toe ae
1 oz eee 3 50 Granul esman canaba Mant .
2 oz. bottles, per d POTAS : Gr beoitoen i d, bbls. Black Hawk Company SYRUPS No. 60-5 amen t
Lae oe per . 1 95 Babbitt’s, 2 H Grawatatod: 400 ihe ce 2 2 15 aie Hawk. one box 4 50 Barrels Corn No. 60-24, Wrat
8 o7. Paper ag per See. : 00 i dog. .___ 2 75 aeknee 36 2% oie 2 25 ack Hawk, yi bxs 4 25 ana a a No. ar Winpped a. & 40
Pints, p es, per doz. 1 50 Ee _ Box cont po bxs 4 00 ea ) 0, Wrapped __ 2 15
Quarts per te fees 18 ae Barrel piece te 2e ee —— 72 cakes. It Bh doz. a aaa 81 ped -. 5 40
i , ---- e a : mz : at ee | :
¥, Gallons, Cee aoe 33 ie Clear Bac Pork SALT out encore hander dirt Blue Karo, No. 2 2 349 No.1 nee Saees
G Dp 0 k it K 2
allons, per a doz. 5 25 Short Cut Cleans z 00@49 00 «5 eo injury to ee ant with- piel 72, 4 i . 0
oo Compound Lard 211% @22 rors Ss Washing ed ae No. 5D da. 5 25 ’
oon. Open Ca Pe Ib. tubs Lard 184@19 a Sace dy pad a No. 16, 4 10 ‘Trojan Mee Sttcke
Choice ae Zoitig «| 9g pe Ib. tubs ee % ve Snow 30y, 60 14 o7. 4 00 oa «8S Eclipse oe oo
cee = 30 lb. tubs lvance % RTONS Grau Boy, 24 pkgs. 420 P Wo. 1 es tent spring 3
a. ooan2aoaaannnnn- - 10 re pails aoe iy Boy, 20 oe. 6 00 roy : ure Cane No. 2 ae brush a & S 2 25
keane Ee osinn : 0 Ib. pails ----advance ae Ts as. 7.00 roe Ideal, N rush hold 3 25
rels bc extra 28 5 Ib. pails ave % bs Ss re ie 0. old 32
xt ‘ pails __ nce 47 oa ies Voz cotto ga
- ra 3 lb. pails ee i" tonen es -- eal ee 1202 cotto ni mop heads a2
Al UTS—Whole -advance 1 I ea s XXX 1“ 2 6 75 TAB : 1 mop heads + 0
Almonds, T 4aulzZ Naphthz 100 _. 5 it Le sau 85
Hipawiis. | Terr Nine O’C itha, 60 75 Lea & Perri CES
vance Maxed washed a eee Meats Ol k O'Clock hee 4 Se a = paren ies cn Pails
Filberts, ixed Hams, -16 1b. 38 Nd Dutch Cl pkgs. 95 Pepper _- : anal 3 a ae lvanizec
2 , Barcelona _- fc Ss «18 aly ¥ Clee potas 6 LOVE po : -— 4 & 14 qt. ¢ mea. R OF
ee ee o neg 4 50 + ota eed go 14 at. Gab nized ~.-. 6 00
Peanuts, Vireinia raw 16 Ham, dried. Ib. 36 O38 tub-No-More ) pkgs. 3 60 eas Ss =. «fibre alvanized -... 7 00
posmate sine Califo oe P . oe oe 3 00 oe
Walnuts Spanish __- 18 Pienie ‘Bo Hams 24 O28 ee LEANSER A-1, small hana
Wwatsten’ California —- Ee oe 4 @25 ive case lots ne 2 40 Ss. Caneee 9 90 Sieeiae oie te
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30
SETBACK TO ARROGANCE.
Raisin Trust Coming To a Show
Down.
The suggestion in these columns a
few weeks that the California
Raisin Trust was plainly racing for
a fall, as evidenced in its plain dis-
position to defy the Department of
Justice and Federal Commis-
sion, appears to be proving correct.
Advices Washington indicate
that the prosecution of the Raisin
Trust has passed the stage of con-
versation and literature and is now to
come actually before a Federal court;
in all of which the grocery trade re-
ago
Trade
from
joices.
Rarely if ever has the spirit of the
Anti-Trust more clearly
placed at issue before a court than in
this Raisin Trust case. In intent, in
method and in effect,.it would appear
as though monopoly were clearly out-
lined; monopoly of the supply at point
of production, monopoly of processing
plants and packing and absolute mo-
nopoly of sales and price, covering
about 90 per cent. of the available’ sup-
ply of American raisins. All along
the line there is unquestioned
dence of throttled competition and all
parties affected are in a complaining
frame of mind toward the Trust and
much their
laws been
evi-
its methods, however
cause of complaint has been mitigated
by special favors.
The facts in the case have long been
patent to anyone who would look at
them and it was not difficult for the
Federal Trade Commission to make a
sweeping accusation on which an or-
der to desist or modify practices is
But the
contented
has “played
ostrich” and itself
looking in one direction only; purely
asked. Trust
with
to its beneficent work for the farmer
and the improvement of raisin pack-
ing methods. It has utterly refused
to admit that
rights in the matter and it has dis-
anyone else has any
played a sharp spirit of Sovietism in
its reliance on the technical exemp-
tion of the farmer from prosecution
for concerted action which would
land anyone else in jail.
Anyone who watches the evolution
well that
disaster
of business, knows. very
nothing is surer to. bring
than defiance of public opinion. In
this case that public opinion has
meant also trade opinion. The gro-
cer is the
than is commonly supposed, of the
consumers pocketbook
inevitable that throttling the freedom
guardian, more generally
and it was
competition menaced the
It would
of trade
public itself. therefore ap-
pear as though the issue is clear in
this instance, how far the farmer and
his selfish interests can defy the pub-
lic and its servants, the grocers. The
grocery trade welcomes the test.
The action appears to exactly meet
all the points of criticism outlined by
the National Wholesale
sociation and the “independent” grow-
ers, to whom the wholesalers looked
for respite from dictatorship. In the
language of the petition filed with the
Federal District Court, the serfdom of
only onerous
instance, but “enforced
servitudes and condi-
contracts and
Grocers’ As-
the growers is not
first
by intolerable
tions
in the
inserted in the
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
imposed upon the growers and their
lands, including provisions for liens
purporting to bind subsequent pur-
chasers of the lands to deliver crops
produced therefrom to the defendant
corporation, for heavy liquidating
damages from failure to deliver such
crops and for entry upon the lands
and seizure of the crops from reluc-
tant growers.”
And, from the standpoint of the
jobber, the issue is met by the petition
to enjoin the Trust from enforcing
“any of the contracts heretofore made,
with jobbers or wholesale dealer re-
quiring them to purchase raisins from
the defendant corporation at prices
fixed by the defendant corporation;
and not to employ any of the other
above described means or methods
of monopolizing trade and commerce
in raisins and raisin grapes.”
The immediate effect of the Govern-
ment’s action has been what might be
logically expected, a complete upset-
ting of calculations. Having so long
been forced to “take ’em or leave ’em,”
the trade had expected ultimately to
bow submissively, but in keeping
with the recent trade policy of buy-
ing from hand to
‘Jeave ’em.” At the opening prices,
although the company is reputed to
have sold its first allotment of about
a third of its anticipated output and
withdrawn from the market. the bulk
of the trade has probably not bought
more than a fifth of their require-
ments.
only
This naturally allows the trade to
escape any very serious setbacks, but
there is nevertheless much interest in
the possibility that the court will stop
the enforcement of such arbitrary f.
o. Pp: as had been booked.
Such being the case, everyone is up
in the air as to raisin values this sea-
If it should turn out in the near
contracts
sen.
future that there is to be an open
market interesting things may be
looked for at once.
Many valuable food products can
be grown abroad more cheaply than
in this country, but the tariff has been
invoked by favored
groups of farmers to allow them to
advance prices unreasonably, safe be-
hind the tariff barrier of protection.
persistently
Long since, the Sicily lemon was
pushed into the sea and the Eu-
ropean raisin met by a closed door.
Cuban and other foreign sugars have
been loaded down with tariff handi-
caps while the beet sugars of Colo-
rado, Michigan and the Pacific Coast
enjoyed inflation and fat profits. Now
it is proposed to shut out the Japan-
ese and other foreign beans and the
peanut from abroad. Anyone with
half an eye can see where prices of
these products have soared.
Recently, with a presidential cam-
paign looming before us, the efforts
at “petting the farmer” have been re-
doubled and Candidate Harding, only
this week, was cajoled into making
promises to the farmer that he would
favor encouraging with tariff meas-
ures the supremacy of the American
farmer—of course at the consumers’
cost.
This trend is a cause of apprehen-
sion to thousands who, in a general
way, really favor the principle of pro-
tetion. In no other respect is the cry
RTE HENNE Sn Soni A ES
mouth to,
against the H. C. L. so insistent and
pitiful as in the matter of foodstuffs.
Either the American people want
cheap food or they want favoritism
for the farmer; which is it? There
are plenty of things the American
farmer can raise which the foreigner
September 15, 1920
producer cannot. There is ample
room for him to evolve profitable
agricultural lines without recourse to
the closed door. If the open field is
desirable in keeping with the spirit
of the Sherman law, why is it not in
other directions of influence?
THREE VARIETIES:
Sun-Maid Seeded
(seeds removed)
Sun-Maid Seedless
(grown without seeds)
Sun-Maid Clusters
(on the stem)
RAISIN CO.
Fresoo, California
advertising is reaching millions every year.
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATED
Membership 10,000 Growers
MILLIONS KNOW
Sun-Maid Raisins—
The Brand for Confidence
Show Sun-Maid Raisins in your window, on your shelf,
Let your customers know you sell Sun-Maid. Sun-Maid
Sun- Maid
enjoys the public confidence.
Order from your jobber at once
Supply is limited
Growers and shippers of
America’s only all-year
nationally advertised
brand of raisins.
We have
Franklin Granulated
Sugar Only
Best for every use
Table—Cooking
Grand Rapids
Judson Grocer Co.
Michigan
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BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT
Advertisements Inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion.
if set In capital fetters, double price.
display advertisements In this department, $3 per inch.
is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.
No charge less than 50 cents.
Small
Payment with order
If you want to sell or exchange your
business, no matter where located, write
Black, 130th St., Chippewa Falls, Wis-
consin. 980
For Sale or Exchange—New grocery
business, all new stock, located in Ben-
ton Harbor. Reason, ill health. Address
No. 59, care Michigan Tradesman. 59
FOR SALE—General merchandise stock
and fixtures, invoicing $6,000. A money
maker. Montana location. A real op-
portunity if taken at once. Best of reas-
ons for selling. Address S, care Paxton
‘Hotel, Missoula, Montana. 60
FOR SALE—Dry goods and furnishings
stock of about $12,000 or $13,000. On ac-
count of death of owner must be sold
quick. Business established thirty-five
Best location. Address W. A.
J 5, care W. B. Church Store, St.
Joseph, Michigan. 61
Wanted—Experienced window trimmer
and card writer for city of 25,000 one
hour ride from Chicago. Apply Mandel
Ascher & Sons, Chicago Heights, Ill. 62
For Sale—150 acre farm, or will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. Sixty-
five acres plow land, thirty acres pasture,
fifty-five acres good second growth oak
and hickory timber. Fair buildings and
fences. Located in Jackson county. J.
L. Morgan, Coldwater, Michigan. 63
For Sale—Forty Round Oak, Favorite,
Jewel, Garland and other self feed hard
coal baseburners. Some used but one
season. All taken in exchange for fur-
nauces. Write for information. Manley
Hardware Co., Harvard, Ill 64
For Sale—Complete creamery equip-
ment, 300 gallon Wizard Vats, churn,
printer, porcelain lined Fort Atkinson
battle filler. N. Lenhort, Box 183, Grand
Rapids, Mich. 65
For Sale—New brick building in small
town. Good location for a hardware and
implement business. C. H. Gould, Clare,
Mich. : 52
For Sale—General store located in
Genesee County, one of the best in the
State. Cheap rent, electric lights, wa-
terworks, and fine fixtures. Will sell
cheap. H. B. Freeman & Co., Swartz
Creek, Mich. 53
For Sale—A variety store doing a fine
business, situated in the busiest town in
Michigan. Three large factories in the
town. Good reason for selling. Address
No. 54, care Michigan Tradesman. 54
~ Wanted—Good retail business in live
town. Give particulars and price. Ad-
dress No. 57, care Michigan Tradesman.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
September 15, 1920
A Case of Mind Your Own Business.
Grandville, Sept. 14—The case of
Lord Mayor MacSwiney is one that
seems to excite a great deal of sym-
pathy from all over the world. Hav-
ing been thrown into prison for overt
acts against the authority of the Brit-
ish government, he has taken upon
himself the role of martyr in the in-
terest of Irish rebels.
Why sympathy for such foolish-
ness should be manifested on this
side of the water is a mystery. Plain-
ly the Lord Mayor of Cork choosing
to put aside food and dedicate him-
self to death for the sake of Ireland
is not quite the heroic thing to do.
As to the rights and wrongs of the
Celtic Isle, the actions of this self-
condemned martyr can have little ef-
fect on public opinion. There can
result nothing for the good of the
Irish people from such tomfoolery.
Men with good sense and patriotic
hearts are not doing such stunts in
this day and age of the world.
In the times of ghosts and hob-
goblins such silliness might be count-
ed heroic, but not to-day. Why are
we wasting tears over a malfactor
at whose instigation nearly a score
of policemen were murdered? Why
not shed a few tears for the wives
and families of those murdered men,
who in performing their official duties
were made the target of Sin Fein
assassins?
Mayor Hylan, of New York, had
the gall to request the British to re-
lease this convicted mayor from pris-
on, a wholly local British affair, with
which the American mayor had noth-
ing to do, and his thrusting in his
“eae was an impertinence rightly
snubbed by Premier Lloyd George.
The premier, in his reply, stated
politely but firmly that he could not
interfere with the course of justice
and law.
The attitude of minding one’s own
business 1s very accurately exempli-
fied in the case of the Lord Mayor
ef Cork He is a British prisoner,
his liberty curtailed because of his
breaking English law. We of Amer-
ica have no more right to interfere
in his behalf than has Lloyd George
1o request of the Uniicd States the
opening of prison doors to Eugene
V. Debs, Bill Haywood or a dozen
other criminals confined under the
American law.
A little modesty on our part should
be in evidence at this time. Thrust-
ing our nose into what in no way
coucerns us is becoming a habit with
some of the self-constituted guar-
dians of Ireland’s governmental af-
fairs in the United States.
It would be just as pertinent for
Britain to demand a hand in political
conditions in this country as for us
to. meddle between the Irish people
nd the Iinglish. Let them settle
their own difficulties.
We certainly have troubles enough
of our own without crossing the
ocean to thrust our nose into the
governmental affairs of foreign na-
If we look after our own af-
fairs, and do exact justice to our
own citizens, we shall have enough
to keep us busy, so that there will
be no time nor inclination to meddle
in the affairs of others
Although England was at one time
our enemy, and although we have
met her at the cannon’s mouth in
several scraps, it has now. been more
than a century since we have crossed
swords with that ancient enemy.
One hundred years of unbroken
peace between the English speaking
peoples must mean something, and
the age of Ireland cannot be ad-
vanced | 7 Americans taking sides in
a purely domestic dispute. Hands ott
is the only proper way to deal with
these complications that arise within
the boundaries of another land than
tions.
ours.
However much we may sympathise
with Trish aspirations for independ-
ence, it is not only foolish but crim-
inal for us to attempt interference
as between the factions now dom-
inant in British politics. As well
might English demand a hearing as
between the two great parties in the
United States now marshaling their
hosts for the battle of ballots next
November
Hands a noses out, gentlemen.
Let the government of Britain settle
its own political differences. And
while we are about it why not show
a little modesty in our actions where
settling with malcontents is concern-
ed? England has a right ‘to resent
interference on our part with her in-
ternal affairs.
Have we so soon forgotten the in-
dignation that rang through this
country when England threatened
war because of the Mason and Slidell
affair of the sixtees? That was where
the British lion roared his loudest
while thrusting his nose into Amer-
ican politics. Nor was that so badly
out of place as is our present inter-
ference with Irish affairs. There was
a question of international rights in-
volved in the Mason and Slidell af-
fair which in no way applies to the
Mayor of Cork incident.
Premier Lioyd George acted within
his rights in snubbing the imperti-
nence or a perfidious and pestiferous
\merican mayor. A few more such
suubs may have its effect in curtailing
American conceit.
That the United States must have
a finger in every brawl that is hatched
in the world is an idea fraught with
grave danger and should be frowned
down by every patriotic citizen in the
land.
America for Americans: Let other
peoples look after their own political
fences. Since the close of the world
war there have been a thousand and
one theories advanced in connection
with interferences with European ai-
fairs. Our very recent and ever pres-
ent troubles with Mexico ought to
admonish us that we need not look
across the Atlantic for opportunity
to engage in settling affairs of foreign
peoples.
Report has it that a British subject
has been murdered in that country
below the Rio Grande.
Now what has the United States
to say about that? Our Monroe Doc-
trine refuses permission for foreign
interference with American peoples,
while at the same time we are plainly
pledged to see to it that European
citizens shall not be molested, either
in person or property, without re-
dress.
Even though we have refused pro-
tection to our own citizens who have
sought the shores of Mexico, we can-
not well blink the demands upon jus-
tice of a Briton foully murdered by
Mexican banditti. The more we dwell
on these things the more convinced
do we become that it will be not only
the part of wisdom, but the part of
strict justice to refrain from all in-
terference in the political affairs of
our cousines across the sea.
Old Timer.
—_——_—_> +
Merry Musings From Muskegon..
Muskegon, Sept. 14—A. W. Steven-
son and wife arrived home Saturday
from an extended visit through Eng-
land, France, Belgium and Switzer-
land. They report having had a won-
derful trip.
The Honest Groceryman was in
Grand Rapids Saturday and confirms
the statement that the woodchuck
crop is far above normal.
With the coming of cooler weather
some of the hotel proprietors near Al-
bion and Charlotte may have time
away from the lakes to pay some at-
tention to the hotel business.
E.P. Monroe.
te
The Michigan Violin Co. has-been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $25,000, of which amount
$15,000 has been subscribed and $2,-
500 paid in in cash.
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.
Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 14—The
Chippewa County fair, which closed
last week, was a huge success, there
being a record breaking attendance.
It was the finest in many years where
there was no disappointment in the
line of attractions. The agricultural
display was said to be one of the fin-
est in the State by those who have
taken in the various fairs. The new
exhibition building not being finished
was the only disappointment, but it.
will be in readiness for the next fair,
and will afford the merchants an op-
portunity for an elaborate display of
their goods, which they have been
awaiting.
George Dupuis, for the past seven-
teen years in the grocery business on
East Portage avenue, is closing out
and expects to help swell the popu-
lation of Detsoit about Oct, 1. Mr.
Dupuis has made many friends and
enjoyed a successful business during
his stay in the Soo.
Joseph Fletcher, of McCarron, ex-
pects to re-open in Mr. Dupuis’ stand
with a full stock of groceries. Mr.
Fletcher is well known in this loca-
tion and will give the business per-
sonal attention.
Jack Pickford finally reached
France, we see, but the casualties are
not on his side of the house.
Ground has been broken for the
new hotel at Markuette. The engin-
eers declare it will be hard to beat
when completed. The fact that it is
located directly next to a church
should be inducement enough for the
individual who craves peace and quiet-
ness, but how about Sunday morn-
ings davenport?e. That is just the
time a fellow wants to sleep.
Manistique suffered a severe loss in
the death of Moses Blumrosen, one
of its leading citizens. Mr. Blum-
rosen was a self-made man. Coming
to this country when only eight years
of age, he worked up to the position
he held at the time of his death. He
came to Manistique about forty years
ago with a pack on his back. A few
vears later he opened up one of the
largest stores in Manistique. He be-
longed to a number of fraternal or-
ders. He is survived by his widow,
two sons and four daughters.
M.. j. Schrock, -manager . of | the
Woolworth 5 & 10c store for the past
few years, has been transferred to
Duluth. Mr. Schrock has made many
friends during his stay at the Soo
who regret to see him leave the city,
but wish him every success in the new
location.. He is succeeded by H. W.
Hagberry, of Fargo, N. D
S. Braude, our well i::..wn
and hide dealer, has sol:
to Phil. Jacobs who. 14-
mediate possession. It
known what Mr. Braud
the future, but it is to bk .soped that
he will remain in the So. where he
is well and favorably kacwn. The
new proprietor, Phil Jacobs, needs no
introduction, being a well-known
baseball fan as well as politician and
an all round good sport.
It is reported that H. W. Dubiske &
Co., brokers of Chicago, will open an
office here at an early date. The
company maintains seventy-one branch
offices in oy of the principal cities
of the U. S. The Soo is considered
as a favorable prospect.
The aeroplane was a principal at-
traction at the Pickford fair last week,
but came to grief on the last day of
the fair while carrying passengers. It
is reported that Charles Haase, the
heavy-weight biscuit man, inay be the
cause for the mishap. Charles said
there was no accident when he made
the trip, but his friends are wonder-
ing why he did not tell his wife about
the flight on his return to the city.
The steamer Chippewa closed last
week for the tourist season. It has
metal
‘is business
taken im-
i0t as yet
will do in
* been making trips from the Soo to
Mackinac Island and on its last trip
carried the Knights Templar excur-
sion. From all accounts the Arnold
Transit Co. has had a good season.
F. A. DuBridge, for the past few
years local secretary of the Y. M. C.
A., has left for Des Moines Iowa, to
accept a position as physical trainer
in the high school. He was one of
our most valuable citizens and his loss
is deeply regretted, not only in the
city but in the county as well.
William G. Tapert.
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General Conditions in Wheat and
Flour.
Wheat had been selling up strong
until yesterday at the close of mar-
ket, when the report was circulated
the French Government had issued in-
structions to its buyers not to pur-
chase any more wheat for the time
being. This caused an immediate re-
action and the price of December
dropped about 8c, closing around $2.-
39.
Foreign buying has been one fac-
tor in maintaining the price of wheat;
although, the producer has been re-
Iuctant to sell at less than $2.35 to
$2.40; many have been holding, and
are holding, for $3.00.
The domestic demand for flour has
shown some improvement, but buying
is not being done in heavy volume or
in normal quantities for this season
of the year.
Should both domestic and foreign
buying be in very limited quantities
it is likely, with the somewhat im-
proved railroad facilities, lower prices
would materialize. However, with
an active domestic demand and nor-
mal export trade, values will remain
firm.
If any of us could see far enough
ahead to tell just what is going to
happen to the flour trade, it certain-
ly would be an easy task to tell what
the future action of wheat will be.
We still believe it is good business
to have three or four weeks’ supply
on hand or in transit. It is probable
there will not be great fluctuations
either up or down. A man in busi-
ness must have something to sell; be-
ing out of stock is not conducive to
increasing trade. Lloyd E. Smith.
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Greenville—The Michigan Motor
Garment Co. opened another branch
factory at Howard City Monday,
starting with fifty-two employes. It
already has a branch at Carson City,
employing thirty-five hands;
ond branch at Lakeview, employing
twenty hands and a third branch at
Lowell, employing twenty-five hands.
The company has a capacity 100 per
cent. greater than a year ago, but is
several weeks behind in filling its or-
ders, owing to the rapid increase in
sales. Four new travelers are now
being fitted out to occupy different
territories, as follows: L. M. Rader,
of Grand Rapids, to cover Central
New York, with headquarters at Sy-
racuse; George R. Morse, of Grand
Rapids, to cover Missouri, with head-
quarters at St. Louis: H. Mahler
to cover Kansas, with headquarters
at Kansas City, Mo.; A. T. Benson,
to cover Nebraska, with headquarters
at Omaha.
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The Huban & Frazer Sales Co., Inc.,
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and retail automobile tires, accessor-
ies, etc., with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, $10,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.
a sec-.
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