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“VOL. 1.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1884.

NO. 47.

 

 

FACTS ABOUT FOOTWEAR.

 

Interesting Interview with an Intelligent
Clerk.

“IT tell you what it is, Mr. Reporter,
women are responsible for all or nearly all
the ill-shaped feet extant. They don’t know
how to have a shoe fitted themselves, and
they won’t let a shoedealer fit it for them.
You see, I am hired here to sell shoes. It
doesn’t matter to me what kind or what size
shoe I send out, but I do know how to dress
a foot properly, and as I am loyal to my task
Imuch prefer to reason with a customer
rather than permit her to make reckless pur-
chases. Sometimes I succeed, but oftener I
fail, and it takes all my wits to keep from
losing a.sale. You see, we handle a fine
class of goods; they are the best in the mar-
ket, and being high-priced, seemingly exor-
bitant, only the wealthier families trade with
us. You know as wellasI do that money
has a tendency to make people the reverse of
humble, and when a.woman thinks she
knows it all dictation and suggestion are
equally useless. In short, a woman buying
shoes will not be reasoned with. Americans,
like the French, have always had a reputa-
tion for short feet—not small feet, mind you,
but short feet, with full ankle, broad toes,
and arching instep. Naturally enough they
have been desirous of maintaining this repu-
tation, and they still cling to the belief that
small shoes make small feet smaller.
Whether the shoes are for herself, her grown
daughter, any of their children, or even the
babe in arms, she insists that they must fit
in length and width. The result is, her own
feet are deformed with bunions, protruding
joints, and such swellings from distorted
toes and ingrowing nails, as make her exist-
ence—in a walking boot—a perfect penance.
Poor baby, who grows and crows by the day,
has a shoe the exact length of his little foot.
But the foot not only works down but grows
down also; there is no room for the lengthen-
ing toes, so the joints are pushed up and there
is a lateral expansion instead of a pushing
down. The consequence is the foot becomes
broad, the toes are cramped, the heel flatten-
ed, ankle thickened, and the natural beauty
of that organ lost. ‘This is all the fault of
the mother, who will not buy the child’s shoe
long enough.”

The clerk darted off to wait on the wife of
a prominent lawyer, and as he passed to get
a box of shoes called the reporter over to look
on.

She wasa tall woman, beautifully dressed,
and the delicate lace in her sleeves had a sug-
gestion of sweet clover that was both pleas-
ant and refreshing to the senses. The writer
inferred she was not altogether well, as she
carried a long bottle of hartshorn in her hand
and took frequent inhalations of the drug
without the least apparent influence.. This
was all the more remarkable as the fumes
were so pungent and so irritating that the
shoe clerk winced painfully and was at last
obliged to apologizejfor requesting her to
turn her head. She wore a pair of beautiful
black-silk stockings—a color to which all
women with large feet are inclined, and
when she asked for 4—C the brow of the
clerk involuntarily wrinkled.

“If you will allow me to suggest, I thinka
514—B will be much better for your style of
foot. You see your foot is quite full, and it
will take a long sole to counterbalance the
width.”

“That is your idea, but it will please me
very much if you will give me the size I men-
tioned.”

“T beg your pardon, Mrs. See; I intend no
offense, I assure you, and I have just the boot
you wish.”

The gentleman, for such he was in every
sense, took out a pair of 4—C’s, smoothed the
crease out of the silky hose, shook a lot of
fine powder in the kid-lined boot, and getting
down at her side on one knee prepared for a
tussel, for such it proved to be. The shoe
went on slowly, the clerk was red, the wom-
an stamped her foot well, to get it down and
before attempting to button it,he kneaded the
leather into the foot until it was as creaseless
as a snug jersey on a fat girl.

“Just let me stretch it a little,” he said, as
he pulled it off with much of the same diffi-
culty experienced in getting it on. The boot
was stretched, the buttons were moved, some
out and some in, and handing the clerk $7.50
she ordered the soles to be blackened and
sent home before supper.

“That is just the case I was citing,’ the
clerk said as sheleft thestore. ‘‘That wom-
an should have properly a6—A boot. Her
foot would look better and the boot last just

“twice as long. But she rides a great deal,
and as her feet are more or less exposed get-
ting in and out of the carriage she prefers to
make them appear as small of possible. But
she pays dearly for her vanity. Her feet are
one mass of contusions and bunions, and lam
told she hires a chiropodist to treat her by the

year.
“Money! loads of it. She never wears a
shoe out. As soon as her foot begins to

spread in the shoes she gives them to the
chambermaid and gets another pair. She
has been dealing here some nine years, and
is one the best customers we have.

“Here’s the point I want you to empha-
size. Tell the women to get a shoe never
less than two sizes larger than the foot.
They may be just as snug in width as the

foot will permit, but keep the vamp long

 

 

and the shoe will retain its shape. Have
them understand that the instep and ankle
must be firmly held; but the toes require ac-
tion, hence space.

“To secure this snug hold we are opposed
to the use of patent fasteners, since the wear,
as well as the wet weather, causes the
leather to expand, when there is no way to
tighten it. When the buttons are sewed on
we agree to move them back every week or
oftener if need be, so that the shoe retains its
snug hold of the upper foot while the sole
lasts. This neat fit is a condition not always
found. The majority of women are very
slipshod. Of course with men it is very dif-
ferent. They are too busy to attend much
to these details of toilet, and so long as a
boot fulfilis its promise of durability, that is
all that is required.

“About our male trade there is very little
to contend with. A man comes in, pays
anywhere from $4 to $25 for a pair of shoes,
and wants it distinctly understood that if the
goods are not what they are represented to
be that will be the last of his patronage. The
fit is left te our judgment, and when such is
the case we give him an easy width and a
length just three sizes larger than the meas-
ure of the stockinged foot. But all the men
are not wise, and the dude, fop and dandy
give usevery whit as much trouble as the
ladies.

“T have a family who have traded with me
for thirteen years, and I take great pride in
the beautiful feet I am shaping, or cultivat-
ing, if you will, in that house. The mother
and I came to an understanding about it, and
as the children have pedals totally unlike
those of either parents, they concur in giving
me the entire credit. The girls are the old-
est—one 11 and the other 18—and as I insist
on their wearing No. 5 shoes, which are
three inches longer than the foot, you may
imagine there is some disposition towara re-
bellion, Both, however take a treble A,
which is the narrowest last made; but I want
the foot to have plenty of room, and as soon
as the growth stops I will retrench on the
length. Were this plan more generally
adopted there would be a smaller number
of misshapen feet than there are.”

The same authority tells us that spring
heels are now being made in sizes as large as
No. 5 and girls are kept in them until they
are fifteen. The good sense of this seems to
be indorsed by physicians, who claim that in
all the running and romping done by child-
ren there is great danger of turning the
ankle or twisting the cords, because the
heels on the school shoes for misses and
youths are not broad enough to be safe or
sure.

All the garden shoes, and those for ten-
nis, archers, rifle shooting, and similar out-
door sports for women, are made without
heels. The soles are thick and finished with
a coating of leather done in horse-nail cut-
ting. The uppers are black morocco, or may
be had with green, brown, gray, yellow or
wine-colored foxing. The prices vary from
$4 to $9 a pair.

The slippers for house wear are made of
wine, scarlet, alligator, kangaroo, or dangola
skins, which are durable as well as easy,
but as the leather is of a superior quality
the prices are high, $3 being the cheapest.

White shoes are not in stock now, and
white slippers are no longer worn, save by
brides and their attendants. Satin and kid
slippers in strap, opera or tie cuts are deco-
rated but slightly with steel or jet beads.
Occasionally slippers are made of dress ma-
terial but not usually. The retail dealers
cannot afford to make them for less than $8
or $10 and few women care to put that
amount in a home slipper. Even when such
orders are left, dealers have neither the time
nor the talent to make them, aud the meas-
ure is taken with the greatest accuracy, sent
to New York or Rochester, and from there

the goods are sent to the customers.
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Fire-Proof Passenger Coaches.

The cremation of human beings on pas-
senger and sleeping cars, in case of accident,
as illustrated in the Ashtabula tragedy, and
others of more recent date, have been and
still are the greatest horrors to be found in
railway travel. The light draperies, inflam-
mable upholsterings, and heavy varnishes of
sleepers and palace coaches, while pleasing
to the eye, are food for the flames whenever
a car is overturned; and help, however
quickly it comes, is too late to save from
agony, if not from death. It has been left
for a Buffalo inventor, Mr. George Mann, to
discover a remedy for this great terrorizer of
the traveler. He has adopted asbestos as an
upholstering for seats, materials for curtains,
and lining for the entire interior of the car,
this to be covered, when used for upholster-
ing or ceilings, with a fine wire cloth on
which pleasing designs may be wrought.
Asbestos is known to be nun-combustible,
and a car so upholstered and so lined, in Mr.
Mann’s opinion, would be almost fire-proof.
Passengers would have ample time to escape,
or be rescued before a fire originating from
an overturned stove could become dangerous

in cars in which asbestos was used.
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Petroleum has been found in the province
of Palermo of such excellent quality that it
can be used in lamps without having been
previously refined. The sign of an abun-
dant supply has led to the. undertaking of
works on a large scale.

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FITTING GLOVES.

 

Some Observations ofa Clever Saleswoman.

“TI wish you could have been here awhile
ago,” said a saleswoman in a large glove
store to areporter. “You could have seen
what would interest you. You would have
died.”

“Glad I wasn’t then.”

“Oh, you would have been fully compeu-
sated. Did you ever see a woman with a
number eight hand try to put on a number
six kid?”

“T never saw awoman with a number
eight hand.”

“Oh, you didn’t? Then you never worked
in a kid glove store. The fact is very few
women know how to buy kids. They al-
ways get them too tight. Not more than
one-third of them can be made to button, and
if they happen to take hold of a door-knob
or the handle of a street car the glove is
split.”

“In buying gloves do people usually try
them on?”

“Always. We had rather fit them on our-
selves. If we sell them without doing that
we are apt to have them brought back with
arentin them. Notall people who wear
kids are used to them. More than half do
not know how to put them on. They put in
all the fingers at one time, give the kida
jerk, and tear ithalf in two. Then they are
ready to complain of the quality, when, you
know, the best gloves can be torn. Even
when we try to help, it is hard for some peo-
ple to put ona pair of gloves. They are
often so awkward that it is hard to keep
trom laughing outright. Of course, it will
never do to smile. To be successful with
our sales we must never notice the ignor-
ance of acustomer in such details. Many
of them would never wear kids if it were
not that the practice is regarded as one of
the requirements of culture.”

‘“How do you put on a glove?”

“T rest the elbow upon the counter, the
customer standing on the opposite side,
which puts the back of the hand toward me.
Then the three longest fingers are inserted,
and after they have been fitted the thumb
and little finger are put in place. After
that there is no difficulty, provided the glove
is gradually worked toward the wrist. If
there is much of a bulge in the opening be-
tween the buttons and the palm, the glove is
too small and should not be worn. Half
the gloves seen upon the hands of women
are too small, and so the hand is cramped
out of all shape. They can never be taught
that a larger one looks better. It is also
cheaper to choose those that fit properly,
because they last longer.”

“Do many people like to put on their own

gloves?”
“A few.”

“These understand, of course, how to do
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ee are the very ones who know least
about it. asa rule. People used to kids
know that it is the practice in all glove stores
for the salesman to try them on. If we are
to assume the risk of destroying the glove
we prefer to know that the goods are prop-
erly handled.’’

‘‘What is the most popular practice among
those who do not understand the art?’’

“To insert all the fingers at one time, and
pull at the palm.”

“And the effect?”

“Is to split the ‘bottom’ or palm of the
glove from the fingers.”

“What do you do with such gloves?”

“Send them up-stairs to be repaired, after
which they are sold at a discount.”

“Do you sell many kids to men?”

“About one-third of our sales, I presume,
are to men, but they give us no trouble.”

“Why?” :

“First, they donot care for such tight
gloves. They must use their hands more.

If they were to wear gloves as tight as those |-

of their wives and sisters they could not car-
ry a cane in their hands.”

“Do you ever fit men to kids?”

“Always, and itis a pleasure when we
contrast it with the trouble the women give

us.”’
“What is the reason?’’

“T don’t know exactly. Men who wear
kids seem to understand it better. Then
they are always more polite and _ liberal.
They nearly always except our suggestions,
and as a rule buy the best gloves. In trying
on gloves the quality has much to do with
our success. A good glove will fit well, and
it will not tear easily.”

“Does it take much talk to perform your
duties?”

“A few words with men, along argument
with women. It is not so much what we must
say, but the way we say it, that makes this
part of the work tiresome. We cannot
afford to give offense, even if their ideas are
absurd. The most we can say is, that it
does not agree with our own. The size
forms the principle point of contention. We
let them take any color they want, but if
they desire to match them witha dress we
offer our suggestions.”

“Often see the same customers?”

“Two or three times a month sometimes,
Some people with small hands have a pas-
sion for visiting glove stores.

“Are these men or women?”

“Both. Mostly men in Grand Rapids.
Your women are not blessed with small
hands as a rule.”

  

    

“Then you have lived elsewhere ?”’

“Yes, sold yloves in Boston and New
York.”

“How do the hands of the Grand Rapids
women compare with those of the Hub?’

“They are much smaller on the average,
though I notice no difference in the men’s
sizes. The Grand Rapids men have propor-
tionately smaller hands than the women.”

““You say some people havé a passion for
visiting glove stores. Do they buy more
gloves than they need?”

“They could best answer that themselves;
but what a person would want with a hun-
dred pairs of kids at one time I fail to see.
I know a woman who must haye that many
at least. She has a beautiful white hand
and wears the finest diamond I ever saw.’

“Takes it off, of course, when she tugs on
a glove?”

“No: she keeps it on, and the trouble is to
get a glove that will go on well and fit over
the diamond.”

“Young and pretty of course?”

“She! Nota bit of it. Her face is hor-
rid, but she has a good form, good taste, and
winning ways. With these she ought to
catch a husband, but she is still single. May
be she is wise and won’t have one.”’

“Rich?”

eh suppose so. She always pays her bills
and her check is good at the bank. Jam
told that when traveling she seldom stops in
atown or city without buying a pair of
gloves, and that she could be tracked nearly
all over the world through the glove stores.”

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The Tack Combination.

One of the most notable combinations
which have of late years brought their in-
fluence to bear upon the manufacture and
distribution of commodities is that of the
tack-makers, which was formed early in the
fall of 1882 for the purpose of avoiding the
evils growing out of over-production and
fierce competition. It is a close combina-
tion, determined in its object, broad in its
policy, and successful in its purpose. At
the start it included the chief tack concerns
of ine country, and such as remained out or
have since started have been induced by
bonus or otherwise to come in, and it now
includes all the makers in the United States,
some few small concerns, manufacturing
only a partial line, excepted. It is “‘iron-
bound” in its regulations, and no complaint
of violation of its rules by its members has
been reported. Its primary object is to sus-
tain values and remove its product from the
fluctuations and pressure of the market. To
this end it works intelligently by restricting
production. This is effected by a virtual
pooling of its business. The management
of the combination is placed in the hands of
a grand central committee or company, to
which all the machines of the various mem-
bers are in a manner leased and by which
the product of the same is controlled. A
proportionment is made by this central com-
pany, whereby each maker is allowed torun
his machines a fixed number of days in the
week and to make a certain quantity of tacks.
Should the orders of any manufacturer ex-
ceed his product he must draw the excess
above his allotment necessary to fill the orders
from some other mill or mills. By this cen-
tral committee is also fixed the price at
which the manufacturer may sell to jobbers
and dealers, together with the discounts and
rebates permitted, a strict adherance to
which is required. The combination is
equally strict with the dealers, fixing prices
at which they may sell, and requiring from
them a written statement to the effect that
they have bought no stock from outside
manufacturers before paying to them their
rebates. On the other hand it looks after
the interests of the dealers, and, by restrict-
ing production and maintaining prices, vir-
tually secures them against a decline in the
values of the stocks on hand, and thus re-
moves the inducement to buy from outside
parties whose encouragement would tend to
break the market. The effect has been to
put the tack trade, which has not been ac-
tive, upon a satisfactory basis. A disturbing
element in the tack trade, and one which
has eut quite sharply into it, has been
the increased and cheapened production of
small wire nails, in which there is an over-
production and no combination, and which
are largely used in place of tacks, especially
in the box and similar trades. The combina-
tion, which is to hold indefinitely, meets
every six months to confirm the existing con-
ditions or tomake new ones. The signs of the
times indicate no disposition to disintegra-
tion in this combination.

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Fashions in Silverwear.

The fashion in silverwear just now is not
only that in antique designs, but the real an-
tique, even though it be of unknown history,
and has seen the world from the shelves of
the bric-a-brac dealer, is used by those who
love beauty and antiquity under any small
amount of rust and the grime of time. Wed-
ding gifts in antique silver are considered
recherche, and are valued more if they. can
be truly endowed with an interesting and
Old-World history. This mode has rather
the air of buying one’s heirlooms and giving
them as presents; at the same time fashion
decrees that it is the thing to do, and it is
done, One may polish it up or not, as one
chooses, before presenting it, ee

 

TURK ’S ISLAND.

 

About that Salt-Produacing
Clime.

The population of Turk’s Island is about
5,000, 80 per cent. being negroes, who alone
constitute the laboring population. Al-
though represented in encyclopedias as be-
ing a part of the government of Jamaica,
Turk’s Island is a separate and distinct col-
ony, with its own ruler appointed by the
Crown anda legislature or council. The
only connection with Jamaica is that the
laws enacted by the legislature of Turk’s
Island are subject to the approval of the
governor-general of Jamaica. Of the eight
councilmen, four are official or ex-officio, and
the other four are unofficial, being appointed
by the commissioner, as the governor of
Turk’s Island is called. The island also
has a supreme court and lower courts.
Thus the little colony has all the machinery
of the state, but the people have no voice
whatever in the government. The cost of
the government used to be about $55,000 a
year, all raised within the islands, but now
it is about $35,000, having been retrenched
in deference to popular demand. There isa
strong feeling among the people in favor of
annexation to the United States. The Brit-
ish government does nothing for them ex-
cept to contribute $1,500 a year toward car-
rying the mails, and to appoint the officials
who receive the salaries raised by duties and
by taxation. There is nota lawyer on the
island, though it a few dozen lawyers
should emigrate there they would probably
be able to earn their (Turk’s Island) salt by
working at 75 cents a day, the ordinary pay
for labor in the salt pens. ‘There is not ev-
en a public prosecutor, the Queen’s advocate
having died some time ago, and nobody ap-
pointed in his stead. The supreme court is
almost a sinecure, and, there being no law-
yers to make trouble, the jails are usually
empty. The islands are healthy, although
the Royal Standard, the colonial paper, is
full of patent medicine advertisements, in-
cluding cathartic pills, liver invigorators and
worm tablets. The islands have a tariff on
imports, and duties are collected on goods,
whether from the United States, England,
or Jamaica, or any other part of the world.

Of course the most interesting feature
about Turk’s Island is the great salt manu-
facturing industry. At Grand Turk, where
it is chiefly followed, the water is led from
the ocean by means of a canal about 12 feet
wide and 21¢ feet deep, to the government
reservoir, which is from 600 to 800 feet long
and 20 feet wide. From this reservoir the
water is drawn by machinery into ponds or
“pens” as they are called, and which are
from 150 to 200 feet square and about two
feet deep, and separated from each other by
rough stone. In the cases of a few proprie-
tors of salt pens the water is drawn from the
government reservoir into private reservoirs,
before being transmitted into the pond for
evaporating. There is a salometer for meas-
uring the saline strength of the water, and
when the salometer shows 80 to 90 degrees
of strength, the result, after evaporation, is
11 to 2 inches of salt.

The time taken in evaporation varies ac-
cording to the amount of sunshine. During
the rains in the months of May, and in Octo-
ber and November, the salt is slow in form-
ing. Evaporation leaves the salt dried hard
and firm, like a field of ice and white as
snow, but acurious feature of the ponds
during eyaporation is the varying color of
the pickle—green, blue, red, pink, purple—
indeed every variety of color except yellow
or black. It is aspectacle well worth see-
ing. The salt is broken up in small pieces
with rakes and dumped in the vicinity of
the pound. There are some salt houses, but
the salt as a rule is piled in heaps varying
from 20 to 1,000 bushels. The salt is re-
moved in half bushel baskets to lighters,
which carry it out to vessels in quantities of
of 175 or 200 bushels, and from the lighters
it is dumped into the holds of the vessels.
Most of the salt isas it leaves the ponds,
but about 25 or 30 per cent. of it is crushed
for fish purposes. There is a royalty of 10
per cent. on the value of the salt. About
1,500,000 bushels are exported yearly, the
number of vessels which leave Turk’s Island
with salt each year being about 200. The
salt is sent to the United States and British
provinces, anda load was recently sent to
Brazil, and well approved, though the South
American market is at present supplied
from Liverpool. The island is not  sever-
ed from the world, for both the Clyde and
Cunard lines touch there. If is an interest-
ing incident in this connection that a good
number of years ago the islanders vainly
appealed, time after time, to the British
government for relief from an oppressive
duty, but no notice was taken of them. At
last a strong agitation was aroused in favor
of asking the British government to permit
the island to apply for annexation to the
United States. The existence of ‘the move-
ment was officially reported to England, and

very soon the obnoxious duty was removed.
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How to Sell Goods,

First-class salesmen are rare. We incline
to the opinion that genuine salesmen are
born so; that it is an art that cannot be ac-
quired. We often see merchants whose
capital is insufficient, whose stores may be

Some Facts

 

in poor locations, but who, by superior abil-

‘ity in selling goods and winning friends,

| succeeded where other men with advantages
, far superior contrel only a very

limited
trade. ‘To become a suecessful salesman,
you should in the first place have a thorough
knowledge of your goods; be thoroughly
conversant with their origin and the uses to
which they are put; also all other goods
which are used for the same purpose, so that
you may prove the superiority of the goods
you are selling, and their advantages over
other and similiar articles. An exhibition
of ignorance of the goods you offer at once
impairs the confidence of your customer,
and will often lose you asale. Remember
also that nothing so disgusts a customer as
an overbearing, important clerk. While it
isof the greatest importance that you be
thoroughly posted in the articles you have
for sale, do not make a presumptuous show
of your knowledge. It is quite possible that
your customer’s knowledge may be equal and
even superior to your own. Cultivate tact.
A successful salesman knows just what to
say to be polite, and just how and when to
say it. You must have a keen perception to
judge a customer—a knowledge of human
nature that will tell you just how every cus-
tomer should be treated to win his confi-
dence, and when you have won a customer’s
confidence, never under any circumstances,
betray it. Some salesmen may succeed in
selling large bills of goods by using all sorts
of small tricks and deceptions to do so, fool-
ishly supposing the customers will not detect
the fraud. Such salesmen are not usually
able to sell the same person a second Dbill—
not, perhaps, because any irregularities have
been discovered, but having bought too much
the first time, owing to the salesman’s per-
suasive smartness or plausible statements,
they naturally distrust him. Ht is far better
to hold a customer’s trade on moderate pur-
chases, and increase his confidence in you.

Deal candidly with your customer always.
Show even a greater variety than he asks to
see, and explain the difference in quality.
Manifest a disposition to satisfy, giving re-
spectful attention to his wishes as though it
was a pleasure, as indeed it really is to gen-
uine salesmen. If he wavers in deciding it
will then do to suggest, ina modest quiet
way, but never attempt to instruct a cus-
tomer what he wants or ought to buy, unless
he asks for your advice, for it is not flatter-
ing to most person’s vanity to have you in-
sinuate that they are ignorant of their own
wants. The old adage ‘‘goods well boughtfare
half sold,” is a good one, but there are many
articles commonly kept by all dealers which
you cannot expect to undersell. Such goods
the buyer will purchase wherever he is most
honorably dealt with. It is impolite to ap-
pear over anxious to make a sale, but it is
equally unwise to show a lack of animation,
for your customer is quite apt to be influenc-
ed by it, and remark, “It is of little conse-
qence; I will call again,” and, perhaps, fif-
teen or twenty minutes later, in another
store where the salesman makes a show of
life, he buys the article even at a higher
price. An earnest effort to please will not
be mistaken for over-zealousness. Do not be
snappish or ill-tempered when a customer
does not accept all your assertions or leaves
without purchasing. Above all things never
lose your temper. You can not only retain
the advantage by remaining composed, but
should you condeseend to dispute or get into
a heated argument, even though you may be
right, the customer never will be convinced,
and is quite likely to leave you altogether,
and perhaps do you injury in many ways.
Of course you have unreasonable people to
deal with, but never forget to bea gentle-
man; it is one of the requirements of a first-
class salesman.

 

 

<< -
The Comparative Security of Railroad
Travel.

Speaking of the safety of railroad travel,
the current number of the Railway Regis-
ter says:

In these modern days of the newspaper
and telegraph, when occurrences in all parts
of the world are chronicled for the informa-
tion of the people and when crimes and ac-
cidents are described with even too great a
minuteness, we often hear of railway acci-
dents—at least it seems to us that it is often...
But when we consider the matter further
the conclusion follows that the loss of life
or limb on the railways does not frequently
oceur,

Thousands of passenger trains are every
day speeding on their way carrying their
precious freight of human beings. Millions
of people are carried fora greater or less
distance each week and yet how seldom it is
that anyone is killed or injured. There is
actually as much danger in walking the
streets ofa crowded city as in traveling
from Boston to San Francisco. More people
lose their lives in the city of New York ina
singie year by being run over by horses or
vehicles than are killed in accidents on the
rail.

When the annals are prepared and a com-
parison made, it will be found that more are
destroyed by lightning than by railways.
The reason of this comparative safety is the
perfection to which railway administration
has attained. Track, locomotives, cars ané
appurtenances are of the most approved pat-
tern, employes are skillful and alert so that
the traveler rests as peacefully and safely in
a Pullman sleeper, running at a rapid rate,

 

as he does in his own bed at home.

    
    
 

 

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The Michigan Tradesmel.

 

 

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State,

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1884.

 

 

Post A.

 

Organized at Grand Ra pids, June 28, 1 884.

 

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie. :

Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.

Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.

Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.

Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal-
lace Franklin, Geo. F. Owen, Geo. H. Sey-
mour. :

Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room
Saturday, August 30, at 8p.m.

 

LS

A MISTAKEN POLICY.

The Evart Review, like the majority of
country newspapers, is always on the alert
to advocate investments which would redown
to the credit and prosperity of the place; but
the plea put forth in last week’s paper
for the organization of a stock company,
with a capital stock of $100,000, “in which
every man may be a stockholder,” will do
Evart infinitely more harm than good. The
Review is, of course, animated by the best
of intentions, and would not willingly en-
courage a movement which could not fail to
result in disaster, and it is the intention of
Tue TRADESMAN to show the Review
wherein its position in untenable. In a
somewhat lengthy article on the subject, the
Review says:

Grand Rapids owes her prosperity to such
enterprises. Her natural advantages were
no better than ours; in fact, no better than
other towns in the central part of the
State, but her people fostered all such enter-
prises. Located as we are in the midst of an
abundance of material it only remains for us
to make an unyielding effort in the same
way to secure to us all our ambition desires.
Shall we have it in Evart, or allow some
other town to carry off the palm? Shall we
manufacture our own material, or allow
Grand Rapids and other towns to have large
profits on what we might secure to our-
selves?

Since the, success of the Grand Rapids
manufactories are cited, it is no more than
fair to infer that the Review is ignorant of
the conditions under which the greatest suc-
cess was attained. THe TRADESMAN is
willing to place itself on record with the
statement that the greatest successes in the
manufacturing line in this city have been
made by unincorporated bodies—that is, the
most money has been made by firms, and
by corporations that were firms at the be-
ginning and remained so until the business
was well established. In a financial invest-
ment of any magnitude, where several per-
sons are interested, it almost invariably hap-
pens at the outset that there are one or more
men who are a drawback to the undertaking
and who are sooner or later retired by the
purchase of their interests. In a stock
company, it is extremely difficult to accom-
plish such an end, especially if the ohnox-
ious persons have taken a hand at the fasci-
nating occupation of directing or managing
the corporation’s affairs, and it too frequent-
ly happens that the attempt to oust them
results in an internecine warfare that serious-
ly cripples the future credit of the company.
In the organization suggested by the Review,
this condition of affairs would be most ad-
mirably exemplified. A half hundred stock-
holders, each having a pet theory as to how
the business should be conducted, would
soon result in a clashing of opinions which
would be the beginning of the end. No one
would be interested to such an extent as to
make him feel it his duty to abide by the
will of the majority to protect his invest-
ment, and the prevailing sentiment would
soon be, “Rule or ruin.” It may appear
that the picture is overdrawn, buta half
dozen bankrupt corporations in this city and
as many more in the towns surrounding, all
of which owe their downfall to the causes
described, fully attest the truth of the state-
ments set forth. Stock companies, to be
successful, should be practically owned by
one wan, or, at least, by two or three men
who are in perfect harmony on all questions
that affect the management of the corpora-
tion. This is impossible in the organization
proposed by the Review.

Another objection to the Evart project—
and when Evart is mentioned in this con-
nection a dozen other Michigan towns can
be included in the catagory, to which the
same remarks are applicable—is the difficul-
ty in securing competent management fora
large manufactory ‘at the outset. To be
sure, each stockholder stands in readiness
to try his hand at what he imagines to be an
easy task, but experienced men are seldom
employed, on account of the salary they
command. Perhaps no better illustration
of this point can be made than to refer to
the recent furniture factory failure at Sparta.
The company started in with the best pos-
sible prospects, and at the end of the first
half year, a dividend of 16 per cent. was de-
clared from the “earnings.” The seguel
ot the “dividend” will be inferred when it
is stated that before another six months had
rolled around the company was in bank-
ruptcy. Asa consequence, the people of
Sparta are now as fearful of stock compan-
ies as they would be of an earthquake—not
because of any radical defect in the system,
put for the simple reason that the affairs of
the company were placed in incompetent
hands, and ihe distrust thus engendered will
prove the most serious set-back thetown has
ever had.

Tie TRADESMAN does not wish to have

 

it inferred that it disapproves of the idea of
each town encouraging home manufactories,
for such is farthest from its real views.
The pointit wishes to emphasize is, let stock
companies severely alone, for the reason
that they are unwieldy and unfitted to the
majority of purely local investments. THE
TRADESMAN believes that every locality
should hold out inducements to manufac-
tures suited to the place and surroundings.
But instead of agreeing to “‘take stock,” it
is infinitely preferable to give really
desirable parties a suitable bonus, and then
help the enterprise by every encouragement
at hand. If the project fails, those who
contributed to the bonus are not directly out
of pocket, for the reason that the contribu-
tion was a gift. But when a stock company,
with a large number of share takers, goes
down, it involves something more than
financial disaster, and that is the destrust
of all who were interested, who will thence-
forth avoid all local investments for fear of
a similar termination.

ND

The election of TuE TRADESMAN to the
position of official organ of Post A is a dis-
tinction which is appreciated at its true worth
for the spirit in which the honor was con-
ferrred carries with it a practical indorse-
ment of the paper’s policy since its incep-
tion. The encouragement and support ac-
corded Tue: TRADESMAN by the commercial
fraternity has been hearty and exception-
al, and this public recognition at their hands
encourages it to further effort in the way of
a proper presentation of the rights and priv-
ileges of the traveler.

TT TT

It was bad enough to have a Washington
hotel fall and crush a half dozen people with-
out embellishing the affair with lies. Imag-
inative reporters are telling of a parrot
which after having been buried beneath the
ruins twenty-four hours was asked how it
felt. “Allright,” replied the remarkable
bird, “but thirsty.”

 

The Southern Miner and Manufacturer
is the title of a new trade journal lately
launched at Nashville. With an interesting
table of contents, and exceptionally clean
typography, the venture ought to meet with
success.

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

IN THE CITY.
Be sure and see the ball game at the park
Saturday.

 

W. B. Thompson, grocer, 29 Plainfield
avenue, has removed to Lowell.

M. S. Marshall, grocer at 252 South Divis-
ion street, is succeeded by Jas. A. Nelson.

J. F. Ferris has opened a branch of his
Monroe street tea store atthe corner of
South Division street and Fifth avenue.

 

A. ©. Adams, the Ashton general dealer,
is putting in a complete new stock. Hazel-
tine, Perkins & Co. furnished the drugs.

 

R. M. Wileox & Co., have engaged in the’

grocery and fruit business at Reed City.
Fox, Musselmam & Loveridge furnished the
grocery stock.

H. L. Fish has moved his grocery stock
from the corner of Madison avenue and Hall
street to the corner of South Division and
Adams streets.

Jacob Ritzema has sold his interest in the
grocery business of Ritzema & Van Halteren
to Martin Schram. The firm name will
hereafter be Van Halteren & Schram.

The present whereabouts of Phillip New-
man—otherwise known as Pauline and
“Paisa”—is unknown to even his late friends
but itis thought that he is masquerading
under another name in a distant part of the
country.

It is stated that J. H. DeLaney, of the late
firm of C. G. McCulloch & Co., is endeavor-
ing to effect a settlement with the creditors,
in which case he would undoubtedly resume
the business under his own management. Mr.
McCulloch is at present sojourning in Chi-
cago.

Assignee Immen states that the creditors
of Wm. H. Stowe, with two exceptions, have
agreed to accept a compromise of 25 per
cent., in full settlement of their claims. In
case the other two fail to wheel into line,
the stock will be closed out by the assignee,
and the creditors will probably not realize
to exceed 18 per cent.

 

H. H. Dunning, who has until recently
been identified with A. Bunnell in the gro-
cery business, at the corner of South Division
and McDowell streets, has put in a new
grocery stock in the new building on the op-
posite corner, and Wm. Page has put ina
drug stock in connection. Cody, Ball &
Co. and Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. furnished
the respective stocks.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

G. Dietrich, grocer at Owosso, has failed.

John Sheridan has started a restaurant at
Reed City.

R. C. McChesney, jewler at Big Rapids,
has assigned.

Dunn & Olesen have opened a meat mar-
ket at Pentwater.

Lumbard Bros., druggists at Jackson,
have been attached.

D. H. Doud has
market at Allegan.

O. W. Kibby is
building at Belaire.

A. Corwin has purchased the general store
of J. H. Anderson, at Tustin.

B. Newkirk will shortly engage in the res-
taurant business at Mancelona.

W. W. Warner has sold his meat market
at Mancelona to Wm. Lybarker.

started a second meat

erecting a new store

 

Perry Bennett succeeds Bennett Bros. in
the grocery business at Cadillac.

D. F. Newton succeeds Cook & Newton in
the harness business at Hastings.

Fred Bollacker will open a boot and shoe
store at Reed City about the 16th.

John W. Free succeeds Free & Martin in
the hardware business at Paw Paw.

McCarthy Bros. have consolidated their
two boot and shoe stocks at Allegan.

John La Due succeeds Rockafellow & La
Due in the clothing business at Carson City.

H. P. Miller is closing out his stock at Car-
son City, preparatory to retiring from busi-
ness.

Johnson & Hitchcock, general dealers at
Sutton’s Bay, are about to dissolve, Mr.
Hitchcock retiring.

Paul Ammerman has sold his grocery
stock at Chase to B. Burley, who has re-
moved the business to Nirvana.

C. H. Cooper has retired from trade at El-
mira, and contemplates re-engaging in busi-
ness in the southern part of the State.

Burroughs & Carter, butter and egg pack-
ers at Flint, recently sustained a loss of
$15,000 by fire. Insured for $12,000.

Carey & Lander, general commission
merchauts and produce dealers at Muskegon
have dissolved, Carey & Co. succeeding.

Morley Bros. are building a double brick
store at Cedar Springs and will putina
stock of groceries and boots and shoes about
October 1.

Walker & Laur, the Big Rapids furniture
dealers, have purchased Armory Hall, at
that place, and will open it upas a furniture
emporium.

The Reed City Clarion says that N. W.
Peck, who attained some little notoriety at
that place last fall through the disposal of a
confectionery stock, contemplates opening a
jewelry store at Hersey.

 

STRAY FACTS.

L. W. Davis has opened the Davis Hotel
at Lowell.

A fruit evaporating factory is to be estab-
lished at Hamilton.

The Muskegon river is lower than it has
been in many years.

F. M. Chase succeeds Hicks & Chase in
the blacksmith and wagon business at
Boyne

Ross Brothers, Seth and Myron, of Hop-
kins Station, are building a cider and sor-
ghum mill.

Kalkaska shipped from 300 to 400 bushels
of huckleberries per week during the hight
of the season.

Private parties have perfected arrange-
ments for sinking an experimental salt well
at Traverse City.

Thompson’s handle factory, employing
thirty or forty men, will be removed from
Ovid to Owosso.

A chair factory is about to be started at
Schooleraft by Myers Bros. It is to be situ-
ated in the Bauer block.

The report that Blodgett & Byrne were to
remove their interior office from Roscom-
mon to Grayling, is denied by them.

M. T. Kibbey, of Lansing, has purchased
the saw mill of C. W. Farrand, at Bellaire,
and intends putting in a bedstead factory.

Lead dimes and counterfeit bills are in cir-
culation in Cadillac, and it looks as if agang
of counterfeiters had a plant in that vicini-
ty.

Steel, Truck & Co., bankers at Ithaca,
have become incorporated under the title of
First National Bank of Ithaca, with a capi-
tal of $50,000.

Joseph Hope has leased the flouring mill
of W. I. Olmsted, at Sparta, and will com-
plete the repairs now in progress, so as to
begin operations by the middle of Septem-
ber.

The firm of Seaman & Webster, mill oper-
ators at Chase, afterward known as Seaman,
Dunham & Co., and later as Seaman &
Dunham, was last week changed to Dun-
ham, Peters & Co.

The contract for the new hotel building
at Hart has been let to E. M. Ruggles & Co.,
of Whitehall, who agree to complete it by
December 15, 1884. It will be a brick struc-
ture, two stories high, and will consist of a
hotel 3214x10814 feet, bank 20x50 feet, and
three stores 24x80 feet, with rooms and par-
lors for the hotel over them all.

Dr. F. D. Miller has sold his snide livery
outfit at Mancelona to a Mr. Watson, who
will undoubtedly receive a large patronage
from the traveling fraternity in case he
eschews the ill manners and dishonest prac-
tices of his predecessor. Unless he learns
to treat the commercial men decently, he
may have to submit to a pugilistic interview
with the “drummer knocker,” yclept Haugh.

—_—_—_—— +2
Echoes of the Base Ball Game.

The home league club received $167 from
the grocers’ game here, that amount being
two-thirds of the total receipts.

A letter to THE TRADESMAN from Jas.
Stewart concludes as follows: ‘We arriv-
ed home all right, happy and full—of spir-
its.’ The spirit part of the statement is
eminently suggestive.

Amos S. Musselman has received a _ letter
from J, S. Smart, Jr., of Symons, Smart &
Co., stating that the Saginaw boys expect to
down Grand Rapids at the next encounter.
Mr. Smart has evidently never heard of the
adage about counting chickens before they
are hatched.

Geo. R. Perry recently received a postal

Jeard from Jas. Stewart (limited), which he

was unable to decipher, but as he afterward
received a package of papers with the Stew-
art stamp on the outside, it is supposed the-
hieroglyphics on the card referred to that
subject. Mr. Stewart should enclose a
translated copy with every letter he indites.
Otherwise, he is accountable for an unend-
ing flood of profanity.

 

Fourth Meeting of Post No. 1.

At the adjourned meeting of Post No. 1,
held at the reading room at Sweet’s Hotel
last Saturday evening, the following repre-
sentatives of the traveling fraternity were
present: Wm. Logie, Geo. H. Seymour,
Wallace Franklin, L.M. Mills, Geo. F.
Owen, Stephen Sears, D.S. Haugh, W. G.
Hawkins, J. N. Bradford, P. H. Carroll and
John W. Hallett, of Detroit. President
Logie presided and Geo. H. Seymour offici-
ated as secretary pro tem.

Stephen Sears, W. G. Hawkins and Wm.
B. Edmunds, the committee appointed to as-
certain the location of desirable rooms for
a headquarters, reported that two suitable
rooms could be procured in the Ledyard
block at an annual rental of $180, and that
the plain furnishing of the same would in-
volve an expense of about $150. The re-
port was accepted and the committee were
instructed to pursue inquires relative to the
matter assigned them until the next meet-
ing.

Geo. F. Owen, of the committee on con
stitution, read for a second time the draft of
the constitution prepared by the committee,
which was altered ina number of minor
particulars and adopted asa whole. The
by-laws proposed were also read, discussed,
altered and adopted. By the constitution,
the name of the organization is changed to
“Post A,” in accordance with a custom ob-
served by the New York posts. Admission
to regular membership is limited to those
who are already members of the Michigan
Commercial Travelers’ Association, although
arrangement is made for the admission of
honorary members. Regular members must
pay an initiation fee of $5, and 50 cents
monthly dues. Honorary members are re-
quired to pay an initiation fee of $10, while
retired travelers and those too old to be ad-
mitted to membership in the M. C. T. A. are
allowed to come in on the payment of $5.
The management of the Post is placed in
the hands of an executive committee of five
members. Regular meetings are to be held
on the last Saturday evening of each month.

Geo. F. Owen moved that Tim: TRADES-
MAN be elected official organ of the Post.
The motion was supported by W. G. Haw-
kins and unanimously carried.

The election of an additional vice-presi-
dent and committees provided by the constitu-
tion was deferred until the next meeting, and
the time for such meeting was fixed at Sat-
urday evening, August 30, at the same place
as heretofore. The meeting then adjourn-
ed.

The following signatures have been added
to the membership roll since the last report:
S. A. Sears, W. H. Jennings, Wm. B. Ed-
munds, Chas. S. Robinson and P. H. Carroll.
The total membership is now twenty-nine.

“Brad’?? made a bad break pending the
adoption of the by-laws, which plainly indi-
cated that he had been asleep, whereupon
he was promptly fined $1, the proceeds to
be used in purchasing a cushion for the pres-

dent’s chair.
2. __\_
The Gripsack Brigade.

Cc. S. Yale is drumming the Detroit trade
this week.

It is currently reported that Mills has
struck a bonanza—at Bonanza.

A lady commercial traveler in the boot and
shoe line called upon the trade here last
week.

C. S. Robinson has returned from a week’s
vacation, which he spent with friends at Fay-
etteville and Aurora, N. Y.

Mrs. Geo. MeKay is spending the sum-
mer at Petoskey, and Geo. happens around
there as offten as convenient.

Geo. P. Cogswell has gone to Detroit with
a customer, to sell a new stock direct from
the house. Mrs. Cogswell has gone to Alli-
ance, Ohio, to visit friends.

The usual Pencil Portrait is omitted this
week, but ample amends will be made next
week by the presentation of a biographical
sketch of W. G. Hawkins—he of the giant
frame and Jumbo voice.

J. A. Henery, of the firm of Wm. L. Ellis
& Co., oyster packers at Baltimore, was in
town the past week, the guest of B. Frank
Emery. Mr. Emery will continue the sale of
the Ellis goods to the Michigan trade.

T. P.S. Hampson and Henry J. Hagy,
with Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., exhibited the
brush and sundry line of the firm at the
meeting of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical
Association at Madison last week. Mr.
Hampson is now on a tour of the Wisconsin
trade.

D. E. Stearns, the general western travel-
ing representative for the Broadhead Wors-
ted Mills, is now on an extended business
trip through Kansas. He writes THE TRADES-
MAN: ‘Papers duly received, and contents
as eagerly devoured as a late Kansas break-
fast. Crops immense out here. Two mil-
lion bushel of corn in this State. ‘Shuah
sar.’ ”?

The traveling salesmen have challenged
the office men at the various wholesale houses
to a friendly game of base ball at the park
next Saturday afternoon, and the challenge
has been accepted. The positions of the
commercial nine will be as follows: N.S.
McConnell p; Had. Beecher, c; Josh Speed,
1b; Fred Lyon, 2 b; Fred Shriver, 3 b;
Steve Sears, rf; Max Mills, 1 f; Algernon
RE. White, e f;E. P. Andrew,ss. The com-
position and positions of the other nine are
as follows: P. Graff, p; B. Porter, c; Fred
Ball, cf; W. F. Goodman, rf; Jim Wykes,
3b; Greg Luce, ss; Sandy McQuewan, 1 b;
C. E. Miller, 1 f: G. B. Dunton, 2b. <A cor-
dial invitation is extended to traveling men
and others to witness the game.

>a
J. M. Chaplain, formerly book-keeper for
the late firm of C. G. McCulloch & Co., now

represents the Levering coffee house, cover-
ing the entire Michigan trade.

THE THING IN SHOES.

 

Apparently a Return to More Sensible
Styles.

“What will be the styles in gentlemen’s
shoes this fall??? asked a TRADESMAN scrib-
bler asked of a leading shoe dealer.

“The main difference,” was the response,
will be in the shape of the toes. Pointed
toes are out of style, and instead a ‘medi-
um’ shape—‘opera,’ as the style is termed
when applied to ladies’ shoes—round on the
end, with plain tips, except for a little pink-
ing, are the toes that will be seen on the fall
shoes. For every-day wear these shoes will
be in heavy demand. They will be perfect-
ly straight, with a low broad heel and a
broad shank. They will be made in con-
gress, button and laced. styles.

“In dress shoes the extreme style will be
a somewhat unique shape, which has no dis-
tinctive name. It is a good deal like a con-
gress, with an imitation lace front extending
to the top of the shoe. It is a very hand-
some, ultra fashionable shoe, and will be
much worn.

‘Patent leather shoes are coming into favor

ten. A shoe made entirely of patent leath-
er, perfectly plain, with a black cloth top,
buttoned, will be the extreme of fashion.”

——_———_—_—_—_———>_o<———____

Not A Large Fish.

ing brook trout up around Petoskey.

“Yes,” he said, ‘in less than four hours I
captured two hundred, and some of them
weighed over two pounds each.”’

“Two pounds ? Why, that is a very small
trout.”

“T think it is a very big trout.”

“Ordinarily, yes. But it seems like a

very small trout for you to catch.”
oa

A.N. Avery, of the firm of Morgan &
Avery, has gone to Farmer Village, Seneca
county, N. Y., to visit his parents, and will
take in the Eastern markets before return-

ing.

 

 

 

—_—<>—9_<>__—

S. Rademaker, book-keeper for Fox, Mus-
selman & Loveridge, has gone to Macatawa
Park for a week’s vacation.

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
each and every insertion. One cent for each
additional word. Advance payment.

 

 

and will be very much worn by the upper :

He was telling about his success in catch-

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS,
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

  
  
 

Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 10
Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95
Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40
Akron Cement per bbl..............-. 1 40
Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 40
Car lots.... < Boe os ee es ..-1 1I6@I 2
Plastering hair, per bu... . 383@ 38
Stucco, per bbl................ 1 %5
Land plaster, per ton......... s 3 75
Land plaster, car lots...............+.- 3 00
Fire brick, per M.............-++.+++++ $27 @ $35
Wine clay. por DUE... cs. cscs oc. occ ce 3 00
: COAL.
Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 T5@7T 00
Capnel Coal 2 ....6. 082 cock 7 00
Obie €oal... 2 40@3 60
Biossburg or Cumberland ........... 00@5 25

 

 

M. M. HOUSEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

ROOMS 7 AND 8 HOUSEMAN BUILDING,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
COMMERCIAL LAW A SPECIALTY.

 

 

School Books

—AND—

School Stationery

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BATON, LYON & ALLEN,

29.

and 24 Canal Street,

The only general jobbing house in
Michigan in our ljine. Send for cata-
logues and terms.

 

We oo as drug and prescrip-
tion clerk by a young man of five years’

experience. Can speak French.

GGG, care “The Tradesman.”

Address

 

OR SALE—A general stock of goods at a
good location on the Toledo, Ann Arbor
& Northern Michigan Railway. Depot to be}
built immediately. Address S. M. Scott, North
Star, Gratiot County, Mich. 48

NOR SALE—At a bargain, a double door,
combination lock safe, and two 6 foot,
oval front, walnut show cases, nickel trimmed, |
allas good as new. Or will exchange for mer- \
chandise. B. Wright, 14 North Division |
street, Grand Rapids.

\ A TANTED to exchange dry goods, boots and

shoes and crockery for hardware or
vice versa, and take dry goods in exchange for
hardware—say from $500 to $1,500 worth at
equitable rates. Object, to avoid carrying 80
many kinds ofgoods. Address AAA, care “The
Tradesman,”

 

 

 

 

NOR SALE—The only bakery and a well-pat-

ronized grocery inathriving town. Will

sell store and stock or sell stock and rent store.

Best of reasons for selling. Address Mrs.
Rachel Miller, Lakeview, Mich.

FOR SALE—Store and fixtures of a drug

store, all new June 1, 1883. Invoices $900,

will take $575, if sold by Aug. 10. A rare bar-
gain. “The Tradesman” has the address.

 

 

To RENT—A desirable store, size 18x80 feet,

eorner of Monroe and Division streets,
Grand Rapids, Mich. Suitable for boots and
shoes, millinery, clothing, dry goods, gro-
eeries, ete. This store is connected by an arch-
way with the popular variety store, known as
the “Bee Hive,”’ and can be run in connection
or separately as desired. Rent $600. For fur-
ther particulars, address Gilbert B. Wright, 14
North Division street.

\ X 7 ANTED—A position as traveling salesman
or clerk ina wholesale or retail estab-
lishment by an experienced and thoroughly
competent man. Can furnish best of refer
ences. Address T. M. Stryker, Coral, Mich.

\ X 7 ANTED.— A position in a first-class drug

store by a young man of experience.
Address A., care THE TRADESMAN.

MASON'S ©
FRUITJARS

 

 

 

 

 

Large stock on hand at bottom prices for
immediate shipment. Also EXTRA RUB-
BERS for MASON Jars. We quote porce-
lain lined Mason jars as follows:

Pints, $14 per gross.
Quarts, $15 per gross.
1-2 Gallons, $18 per gross.

_ To meet the demand for cheap storage for
fruit, we offer:

Quart Barrell Jars, per gross.............. 9 50
¥% Gal. Barrell Jars, qer groOss......-....... 2 50
These are glass cans with glass covers toseal

with wax. Also
Per Dozen

% Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers..... 85
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers..... 1 40
% Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks....... 85
1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks....... 1 40
Sealing Wax, ID. .0.0..0 0... es oes de

H. Leonard & Sons,

16 Monroe Street,

 

 

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The Benefits of Parmaceutical Legislation.
Secretary Jesson contributes the following
admirable appeal in behalf of a pharmacy en-
actment:
The druggists of Michigan want a phar-
macy bill passed, First, because it will raise
the standard of pharmacy in this State to a
higher level; Second, because the public
2 safety demands skillful, intelligent and qual-
ified druggists to compound physicians’ pre-
scriptions, and dispense drugs and medicines,
—a matter that can be regulated by the Leg-
islature, by passing a popular pharmacy bill,
such as the Legislative Committee of the
State Pharmaceutical Association will report
at the meeting in Detroit, September 9,—a
bill that will infringe on no druggist’s rights
now in business, as its previsions are for the
future, not for the past,—nor prevent any
man from investing his capital in the drug
trade—nor prevent any clerk from continu-
ing in his chosen profession. Ohio has just
secured a similar law, Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin all have good pharmacy laws
working successfully, and Indiana is moving
in the same direction. ‘The consequence will
be that unless we secure the necessary legis-
lation, the incompetent overflow that cannot
settle in the surrounding states, will settle
in Michigan and crowd our already over-
crowded drug business. The only channel
s through which the druggists of the State can
obtain relief is through the instrumentality
of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation. Therefore every druggist in the
State, whether engaged in business for him-
self or employed by another, should join the
Association and thus add more strength to
the Association. The Secretary has received
seventy applications in the past two weeks,
and hopes to receive several hundred more
before the next annual meeting at Detroit,
‘ September 9, 10 and 11.

>< >——__—__
Petroleum as a Preventative.

Petroleum was first introduced to the pub-
lic as a medicine, and was used as such for
many years before it was considered of any
account for anything else, and even yetit is
largely used as a medicine. Greater still is
gas. Dr. Klaczko, of Vienna, declares that
the fumes of petroleum or the natural gas
are powerful preventatives of cholera. He
cites a number of instances where those
working around the oil wells in Galicia en-
joyed perfect immunity from the disease,
while in adjoining districts its ravages were
terrible, and no medicines could be found to
check it. It is a fact that petroleum is a
powerful germicide. Farmers use it exten-
sively asa destroyer of vermin, and it is

% known that it is fatal to certain forms of in-
sect life that do not yield to the deadly pois-
ons that have of late years been lauded as

i insecticides.
Sure Test for Borax,

The increased use of borax has led to im-
provements in its manufactnre, and the ar-
ticle now sold is often remarkably pure for
a& commercial article. To test it, dissolve
an ounce in hot water, and notice how much
insoluble matter remains. If it contains
much grit, it shouid be rejected. To a por-
tion of the solution add some carbonate of

soda solution, which will cause a precipitate

“» with iron, lime, etc., if present. Add to an-
; other portion of the borax solution nitric
) acid until the liquid is acid, and then some
a solution of silver nitrate. The presence of
chlorides will be indicated by the formation
of a white precipitate. In a good sample of
borax there should be almost no residue af-
ter dissolving in water and neither carbon-
ate of soda nor nitrate of silver should pro-
duce any appreciable precipitate.

The Way It Has Always Been.

The constant clash between capital and
labor is thus epitomized in the American
Miller :

To get much for a little is the real quint-
© esseace of happiness. Much for little has
been the cry of Jew and Gentile for thou-
sands of years, and to get much for little,
men sacrifice their fortunes, their lives, and
their sacred honor. On the one side, to get
much money for little work, and on the

. other side, to get much work for little

~ Money, makes most of the troubles between
employer and employed. Ithas been so in
the past, and it will be so in the future, until
the end of time, all legislation to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

   

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The Charms of Black Currant Wine.
{Very few Americans buy black cur-
rants,” said acommission merchant. “Our
best customers for them are English people,
who use them in making puddings, jam and
wine. Black currant jam isn’t to be sneezed
at, but the wine is a drink suited to the
Queen’s taste. It is very heavy bodied, and
contains but a small percentage of alcohol.
<i to flavor, it takes the distillery every
time. If you ever have a chance to test it
when made by a genuine John Bull, just
tickle your palate.”

>.>
Things Heard on the Street.

That Algernon E. White attends to his
horse while attired in a Mother Hubbard
wrapper.

Wat Lew Hawkins has invented an im-
proved car spring, a model of which is on

* exhibition at the store.

y, That the horse now driven by Barlow was

loaned him by the proprietors of the glue

factory, Heman agreeing to convey the car-

eass to the faetory whenever the breath of
rite finally leaves the poor animal’s body.

— 2 <>
The prospectus of an electric sweat band
for men’s hats declares that “it stimulates
the imagination, strengthens the memory,
nd greatly augments the working power of

   
 

A DULL DRUG CLERK.

 

He Was Not“Up” on the Chinese Tongue.
From the Boston Herald.

A few minutes after midnight on Sunday
morning a Celestial operative at tub and
wringer called at a drug store in South Bos-
ton. As he opened the door his Mongolian
face wore an appearance of deep meditation,
which soon gave way to the placating smile
which every son of China can assume when
occasion requires. ‘Me wantee—a—me for-
gottee name—a—you knowee—fifty-two.”
And, thinking the explanation perfectly
clear and satisfactory, his smile opened into
a broad grin.

-“You’vd got me dead!” cried the com-
pounder of prescriptions, dropping into a
chair. “I glo blind!” yelled the Chinaman,
thoroughly aroused. Then looking in the
direction of the cold sheet-iron stove, which
was taking a vacation preparatory to service
in a colder season, he rushed madly toward
it and seized a poker. Fearing that some-
thing dreadful was about to happen, the
drug clerk jumped to his feet, and, with
eyes starting from their sockets,cried loudly:

“Here! Drop that poker—quick!? “Ah!”
exclaimed the Chinaman, letting fall from
his hand the crooked iron rod, and smiling
the happiest of smiles, ‘Ah! Ploker! Me
forgettee the name. Ploker—fifty-two.”

“Oh, I know now,” said the clerk, scowl-
ingat himself for his dullness. “Why
couldn’t you have said playing cards in the
first place? Who’s going to know what
you mean by ‘ploker,’ and ‘glo you,’ and
‘slee you,’ and all that? You can’t expect
Americans to understand about Chinese
games, can you? These are playing cards.
Cards—see? Cards!’ “Clards?” repeated
the Chinaman, with another broad grin, as
he paid for the package and broke the seal.
“Clards—I glo you fifty-two better.

—_____»2 >
Sumac Prospects.

The high prices that have ruled for Sicily
sumac during the past year have turned the
attention of grinders and collectors of the
domestic to this article as one that will like-
ly prove more profitable in the future than
it has been in the past. Thelast two crops
of Sicily sumac have been short, and this
has given such a stimulus to production that
some of the millers who suspended opera-
tions a couple of years ago because there
was no profit in the business, have gone at
it again, and several new ones have started
in. The consequence is so lively a market
for the leaves that there is great danger that
higher prices will be piad for them than
prudence will warrant, that more will be
ground than there will be a demand for, and
that the millers, to whose enterprise this in-
dustry owes its existence, will not derive
from it the equitable profits to which they
ate entitled. The situation in Sicily is the
same as here, the high price has stimulated

 

being made to make the production as
large as possible, and the indications now
are that unless unfavorable weather pre-
vents the gathering of the leaves or their
proper drying there will bea larger crop
than for several years past. This. will mean
a large reduction in price, and it may prove
that the larger production will bring less
profit to the producers than have the last
two crops. Under these circumstances the
policy of purchasers in taking only such
quantities as are absolutely necessary is a
wise one. It is, of course, too early too pre-
dict what the crop will be, but the prospects
are favorable to a large production, and con-
sequently lower prices.

Test of Carbonate of Soda.

This salt, which is used in a great many
ways, is produced on an enormous scale, and
is usually easy to get in a sufficiently pure
state. The substance should have no color,
and the fracture of the crystals should
be clear and like water. Water should dis-
solve it without turbidity, and there should
be no appreciable amount of residue left af-
ter solution. For most of its uses very great
purity is not needed, but the purer it is at
the price, the better. Acidify some of the
water solution with nitric acid and boil to
expel the carbonic acid. Then test one por-
tion with barium chloride for sulphates.
The less precipitate obtained, the purer the
sample. The crystals of carbonate of soda
when exposed to the air lose water and fall
into a white powder. This in no way, how-
ever, injures them. The white powder, of
course, contains more carbonate of soda than
the crystals, and this should be taken into

account when using them.
> +8
An Enterprising Western City.

“Yes, sir,” said an enthusiastic citizen of
anew Western town, ‘we’ve got a right
smart town, stranger. Why,” he continued
impressively, ‘‘it’s only six months old yet
and it’s got two hotels, forty-eight beer sa-
loons, twenty-seven gamblin’ places, four
drug stores, to say nuthin’ of grocery and
clothin’ stores, and the best half-mile track
west of the Missouri.’

“Any churches?” asked the stranger.

“Any what?”

“Churches.”

“You mean them buildin’s with a long
pint sticking up in the air?”

“Ves,”

“No, we hain’t got any of them. Thar
was some talk about buildin’ one, but we
finally allowed that it would look too dud-
ish.”

i 0

Wm. E. Watson, of Mancelona, has form-
ed a co-partnership with E. D. Wright,
under the firm name of Watson & Wright.
The new firm has engaged inthe general
merchandise business at Elmira.

 

the production, and extraordinary efforts are |

  

Countermanding Orders,
From the American Artisan. f

The Artisan has, in previous issues, call-
ed attention to the reprehensible custom
among business men of countermanding or-
ders. Ifa dealer is satisfied that he has
all the assortment and stock his trade re-
quires, he should not hesitate to tell a tray-
eling manso and stick toit. But if he is
convinced that his trade would be benefited
by the purchase of new goods, either to add
some article outside of his present stock, and
gives his order accordingly, let him not go
back on his order.

It would seem unnecessary to call attention
to a matter of this kind, but the fact is that
countermanding orders has grown to bea
serious evil, and the average dealer has come
to look upon it as a matter of course that he
has a right to countermand and order at any
time after giving it.

A case in the United States court has just
been decided by Judge Blodgett, in this city,
denying the right to countermand an order.
The case of Lockhine vs. Enard was a suit
for a bill of goods sold by plaintiff to defen-
dent, July 1883. After giving the order to
plaintiff’s drummer, defendent countermand-
ed the order by letter and telegraph, and re-
fused to take delivery of goods. Juge Blod-
gett held that the order was a contract, and
could not be voided by merely countermand-
ing it. Judgment was therefore entered for
plaintiff. |

This is not anew thing, as the question
has been decided before, but dealers gener-
ally do not seem to know the fact. Of
course there may be in rare instances suffi-
cient and proper reasons for countermand-
ing anorder. But in such instances the
dealer will not fail to secure the desired fa-
vor by communicating with the house from
which the goods were ordered.

——__—__—.>_2 <> __—_
A Generous Dose.

“Susan,” said Old Bachelor Beans, as the
servant entered the room in response to his
bell, “where are those little black pills that
I had?”

“Phat pills, sor?’ asked the chambermaid,
with an expression. indicative of absolute in-
nocence and ignorance. ‘Sure, I haven’t
seen no pills, sor.”

“They were small and black,” said Beans,
in an impressively severe manner. ‘“There
was almost a handful of them. The box
broke in my pocket and I put them here on
the mantel-piece this very morning.”

“Was they in a saucer, sor?” Susan asked
quickly.

“They were,” said Beans; “Sin a saucer on
the mantel-piece by the clock.”

“Wowly mother o’ Moses!” she yelled;
“I’m a dead gurrel, sure, I found some crame
an’ sugar on the table, an’ I ate them out 0’
the saucer wid atayspoon. I thought they

was hookleberries.”’
NS a ee
Good Words Unsolicited.

Alva L. Thompson, druggist, Harbor
Springs: ‘I must have THE TRADESMAN.

Justin N. Mead, druggist, Escanaba: “I
am pleased with your paper and would feel
lost without it.”

G. P. Hoppough, general dealer, Smyrna:
THe TRADESMAN is all right, and Vl be
d—— if I can do without it.”

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Easily Recognizable.
From the Pentwater News.

THE TRADESMAN’s illiistrations of the
base ball games at Grand Rapids and Sagi-
naw are so true to life that many of the

characters are easily recognized at sight.
———————>_ 4- a _

It is reported on good authority that valu-
able deposits of manganese have been discov-
ered on a tract of 1,200 acres near Batesville,
Ark. The manganese belt is estimated to
be about 12 miles long. The ore occurs in
pockets, and is an oxide running from 40 to
65 per cent. of metallic manganese. In all
about 100 mining claims have been located,
but only two companies are shipping ore, of
which between 3,000 and 4,000 tons have
been removed. The government has sent a
special agent to examine the land and report
upon the deposits.

9

Labels can be glued on tin boxes etc.,
exposed to moisture, by the following pro-
cess, and they will not come off, even if dip-
ped or allowed to remain in water. The
white of an egg should be mixed with half
as much water, or the dissicated albumen of
commerce dissolved in two or three times its
weight in water. Apply with a brush to
the surfaces to be united, then iron witha
very hot flat-iron. Several layers of paper
and glue thus treated will render any box or
anything of the kind impermeable to the wa-
ter.

eran

If some plan could be devised by which
the corner grocery store could be prevented
from handling drugs, the health of the pub-
lic and the interests of the trade would be
greatly conserved.

en a Qe

Picric acid is now used as an adulterant
by European wine dealers. It is so intense-
ly bitter that a few grains will acidulate a
hogshead of sweet wine.

— i 9+ <<

It is not generally known that Tennyson,
in his early life, was a grain speculator. In
his “Locksley Hall” he tells us that he ‘“‘dip-
ped into the future.”

Seen a enna
If girls become drug clerks, it is expected
that theone in charge of the soda-water
fountain will not be insulted if a man winks
at her.
a
The Grand Trayerse Herald speaks of
THE TRADESMAN as “one of the best trade

journals in the west.”
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E. E. Bromlow, the South Water street

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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

 

Declined—Cinchonidia, oil cubebs.

 

ACIDS.
Acetic, No.8. 633. eb 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
CREDCHC oe 50
TEV oo a ee ce 55
Morrintie 18 deg... .35. 52 ee. 3 @ 5
Nitric 88 dem ool coe. s co ce ee li @ 2
ORANG. te oe 14%@ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3 @ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 48
Benzoiec, English... -- 8 0z 20
Benzolc, German................0+ 122 @ b
WeamnmnieG es) ies ee 1 @ Ili
AMMONIA.
Carponate. 1.6.5 000i. aie Bh 1 @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22¢)...........0000% 14
Aqualé6 deg or 3f.................. 6 @ 7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f..............2200 1 @ §
BALSAMS.
WORM yo ee @ 50
Wee cee ess a eee ne 6 40
POT: ol ee es ee a ee 2 50
PON ees Coo eee 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 12
Cinchona, yellow..............«.. 18
Mim select, sis eae. 15
Elm, ground, pure................. 13
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassafras, of root.................. 10
Wild Cherry, select................ 12
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WAROO i ieee ssa 30
Soap Svound. 2 oo. elo... sak 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime (Powd $ 85)........ @ 80
JUNIPER 622 5 i eee... : @ 7%
Prickly ASh ooo Sco a ec. Ue 1¢0 @1 10
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 24 fb boxes, 25c)... 27
Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9
Logwood, Is (25 ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, %s GO. ee 18
Logwood, 4s dO 6s. ce 15
Logwood,ass’d do .......... 14
Fluid, Extracts—25 # cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
ATTICA cc Siie ce cece cic sass 10 @ ll
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes...............66. 60@ 7
Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)............ 18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
AIM OBIAO 66 ee ae awe ose 2@ 30
Arabic. extra select............... 60
Arabic, powdered select.......... 60
Arabic, ist picked. ......25......5. 50
Arabie:za pieked. 2.20... ..6.....% 40
Arabic,ced pickod............ 06+.» 35
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 30
BONZOUN sa es elec cece ce coc: 55@60
CAMPO. eee sce 21@ 24
Catechu. 1s (% 14c, 48 16¢c) ...... . 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
GaMmbOre.. o.oo sc it soos ee ces $0@1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20
MRSC is cl ee eis de oe 10
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00).......... 4 50
Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30
Shellac, Engiish...0............5.. 26
Shellac: native.. ...6. 02.5.5. ......- 24
Shellac bleached.................-. 30
Tramracanth, 2.66.03 .. o.ct ees ee! 30 @1 10
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
HIGAPHROUNG 6 ooo ee eet cc cee. 25
HOPS Ae ee a ec ok cae 25
IREPpermiInt 2 2.0 este es oes 2d
UNION ca os ce es ck cee cae cea eee 40
BMCARIMING (soos oe 24
Sweet Masoram : 2.66.0 se. sos. cece ec. ees 33
MBSE ee ee ie go uisics w cles caters 25
MR WING ee ee bce ceil ccc ee 30
WVHOLHIWOOG 605.00 c soa ee 25
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 8 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ '
CITSte se rs 80
Phosphate). 22. sel. 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25¢)........... @ 13
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4s, 12¢)... 6
Senna, Alex, natural.............. 8 @ 2
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered.................- 22
Senna tinnivelli........... ........ 16
iva Urs oie eee cece l 10
Belledonna.. .. 25.22 5.. .5 coe. el. 33
ORPIOVO: 0.6 ck. os oe oie ass ole 30
HOWRAH 2.8. ole os eo en ss 35
MORO; TOO 6 ek cee cc ces ccs sass 2 3d
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50
Gio. Old Tom, 20062300002. ce 135 @1 75
Gin, Bolland... 652. 0. 52...2.026.2% 200 @3 50
BTA se cae 175 @6 50
Catawha Wines....:...5..250.:. .- 125 @2 00
(Port WINGS. 2562066. .ee 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z........ 23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 2%
@aleimeds 3). sa 70
OILS.
Almond, SWeet............eccceeee 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified................... 45
AVRO ee es ele a cece ee 1 80
WAV O20. ee eve ee cc eae 50
IBGRPAMONE. 2000 ce. eae 2 00
CRStOnN e666 ee. ees oe 18%@ 20
O@rofone oi eee c. 2 00
Cajeput oe 7
CRBRTA ee a 1 00.
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 40
Citronella... 6... ooh se ee 83
CIOVOS 0. 500 ee sce ce 1 2%
@ubebs..P. & Wisco. cc eee as T 25
MN POTOW oo... eco os se cece wee css 1 60
MITC WOOG. co) oc es slice. cee e ses 2 00
Gerantum # 0z..................-. 75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 40
Juniper WO0ds. 62.2... 6 2.6 eee oe se oe 50
JUBIPCY DELVICS |. 5... soe e sc os 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavender garden GO: (06.2... 1 00
Lavender spike GO) 23s, 90
Lemon, new Crop............2-.08% 1 70
Lemon, Sanderson’s..............- 1 75
TEOMONGVASS, 26. co eel. 30
Origanum, red flowers, French... 1 2
Origanum, No. t....:....:......s. 50
Penwywoyal 6. se ck 1 75
Peppermint, white................ 3 50
OSG 8 OZ... i. oo nee oa aaa ws 9 75
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
andal Wood, W.1.....6.05.0.5. 0. 7 00
SASKGITAR te ave csc wee 60
PRUNIB Ye ee osc lice eee cou todas 4 50
Tar (by wal 60C). 6.225. ccc occ cee cee 10 @ 12
WAINTCIRTCCN «26... oo. 5. oe 2 %
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50
PVA Po Se tee ein See 100
WOPMSGld 20.6. <2 os cece es 2 50
Cod Liver, filtered..... .....8 gal 1 90
Cod Liver, best......... ae 3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00
Olive, Malaga........... y @1 20
Olive, “Sublime Italian .. ..... 2 50
SGI eek. 6 @ 6%
Rose, Ihmsen’s............... 8 OZ 9 75
POTASSIUM.
BICrOMAte... 65. 5. con cee se B 14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 35
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulik..... 1 40
Prussiate yellow.................65 30
ROOTS.
PLIGG ee eee Sees tee ee 5 tas 15
AICHOR, CUE. oe. ee oe eck 27
Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and %s.... 35
Blood (Powd 18¢).............0000. ‘ 12
Calamus, peeled................... 18
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38
Elecampane, powdered............ 23
Gentian (Powd 14c)................

Ginger, African (Powd 16c)........
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............
Hellebore, white, powdered.......
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.............
alap, powdered...................
Licorice, select (Powd 12%).......
Licorice, extra select..............
PUR, WO. os os oe i ee ks
Rhei, from select to choice.......
Rhei, powdered E. I.............5

Rhei, choice cut cub a8. fistee

_Bhel, choice out fingers.

ji Berne n

Ara tt

 

( eT het 8

Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18
Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)..:. 20
SEEDS,
Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13
Bird, mixed in fh packages. ..... 5 @ 6
Canary, Smyrna... =... BSY@ 4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 11 @ 2
Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 v0
Cardamon, Malabar................ 2%
Oclery. 2
Coriander, pest English........... 12
MGERNCL ee 15
Wiax, Clean 6 3550). 38%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)............ 4 @ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered............ 8 @ Y
Hemp, Russian. 8g 5 @ :5%
Mustard, white( Black 10¢)........ 8
Quincee eo 1 00

ape English 9 0 ee
Worm, Eevant.... 3). ..22 2.
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau do do... 2 00

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Velvet Extra do dQ. 2. 1 10
Extra Yellow do OQ 6. 85
Grass do dG oS: 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, GQ 8a 1 40
MISCELLANEUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) @ gal.... 2 23
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50

Arsenic, Donovan’s solution......
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12

Annatto 1 t rolls.................. 30
Blue Soluble .0.. (8 | 50
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
AMM oe Bib 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢c).......... 3 @
Annatto, prime.................... 32
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7
Balm Gilead Buds................. 40
Beans: Tonka 6 a 2 25
Beans, Vamilig. .<..000.0 5k. 700 @9 7%
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60
Blue Pill (Powd 70e)............... 45
Biue Vitriol @ T%4@ 9
Borax, refined (Powd 18¢)......... 12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 1 85
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 20
Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18
Carmine, No. 40). 0. 400
Cassia Buds. 22: » 12
Calomel. American................ 70
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 12
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk, white lump................. 2
Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60
Colocynth apples.................. 60
Chloral hydrate, German ecrusts.. 1 60
Chloral do do eryst... 1 70
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do crusts.. 1 %5
Chloroform 00 ee 100 @1 10
Cinehonidia, P: & W............... 50 @ 55
Cinchonidia, other brands......... 50 @ 55
Cloves (Powd 28¢) Meese ce 20 @ &
Cochineal 30) fe 30
Cocoa Butter...... ee. 45
Copperas (by bbl Ie)............2.. 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 65
Corks, X and XX—35 off list......

Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ib box.. 15
@ressote. fo) 50
Cudbear, prime..¢...... 3. 24
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24
WEXtrine Fo 2
Dover's Powders.............2..-. 1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered................... 45
Mpher Squibo/s.. 552. .050.50..02 22: 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
IEPeOM Salts 24@ 3
Breot: fresit 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69
MAKE WIG. 8, 14

Grains Paradise. ...... 0... 0.2... 2d

 

 

Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 70
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue. cabinet... 12 @ li
Gime; white. -. 17 @ 28
Glycerine, pure... .....02...22.... 21 @ 2
Hops $48 and %48...... 6. 25@ 40
TOGOLOEME OZ) 6. 35
EN GUPOR Ge: oye 8 @l1 00
elnsect Powder, best Dalmatian... 23 @ 25
Jodine, resublimed................ 210
Isinglass, American............... 1 50
JAPONICA oe 9
London Purple 03.00.0216... 10 @
Head, acetate ko 15
Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10¢ & \%s 11c) 9
Tupulne ee 1 00
HVCOPOGIUM |. 2... 66.4.6. 50
MAC, 60
Madder, best Dutch.............. R4e@ 18
Manna So We, 135
MOCnGUBY ose 00
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... oz 3 25@38 50
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40
Moss, Feeland. i... c0k2 6... # Ib 10
MOSS, TRISN oe. eee ae 2
Mustard: Bnelish. 03. ..2....5.. 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib cans...... 18
Nutgalls...... Se ee eee Coe. 20
INutmers; NO: Ee. 3. oe. cll 70
Nux Vomica.. .... 0.6.0. 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 40
Paris Greem ee ec cc. 18K%@ 27
Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18
Jat) osha Ae a 3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7
Quessia tee 6 @ 7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ iboz 1 30@I 35
Quinine, German.................. 125 @1 30
Seidlitz Mixture.................6. 28
Strychnia, eryst...... 0.2... .....<.. 1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 82
Red Precipitate............... 8 Ib 80
Satfron, American................. 40
Sal Glauber... co. ccci ee, @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
Sal Rochelie.. oo... 6c. e. Bs]
Sal SOday 6 ieee 2@ 2%
SONCIN ooe eo oe es eo a: o, 2 00
SANCOMI ooo eee a el: 6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Ash [by keg 3e].............. 4
SMermucebl oo la 25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5
Soap, White Castile................ 14
Soap, Green dO 2.3... 2.565... 17
Soap, Mottled do ................ 9
Soap: do do. tt. ye, ll
Soap, Magzini...... 0.6205. es oc 14
Spirits Nitre, 3H... ce. el. 26 @ 28
Spirits Nitre; 4... cs... cc eect 28 @ 32
Sugar Milk powdered.............. ae
Sulphur, flour... 2... - 3.5.6... . 3c 384Y@ 4
Sulphur soll os a. 49 3%
Tartar Wmetic...... 0. sc. +. ene 3 60
Tar, N, C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70
Tar, do quarts in tin...... . 1 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 8 b 25
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60
Zine; Sulphate...) 2... i¥@ 8
OILS.
Capitel Cylinder... 75
Model Cylinder 5... oie 60
Shields Cylinder...) .....c 6 50
Eldorade Engine........ Bae ee a te i: 45
Peerless Machinery... .. 2.2.25... ce cece cece 35
Ghallengwe Machinery..............cccseccccces 25
Backus Fine Engine............... cece ec ce cess 30
Black Diamond Machinery............ ore 30
Castor Machine Ol... o.oo... ce cl 6C
Pavano, 20 d6e oo. o.oo acc ec 22
IPAYTOMNe. 25 GOR ot 21
Sperm, winter bleached..................... 1 40

: Bbl Gal
Whale, winter: ...... 62.65. oes. 80 85
VISVO: ORPL Ro oe oe asco cec cus 64 75
Dard NG. Foo. eee eo Ge, 55 65
Linseed, pure raw.............ceeeee 58 62
Linseed, boiled ........0......0...00. 61 65
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95
Spirits Turpentine................... 35 45

VARNISHES.
No. tTurp Geach... o.oo ci clk 1 10@1 20
PENT TUE i. a ee oes cc ce 1 60@1 70
Coaen Bedy. one. eee okay 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10
Extra Turp Damar... ... 0... cc. cc seks 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 0@ 5
PAINTS.

‘ ; Bbl Lb
Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9
Boralumine, ‘* 5bs]|........ 10
Boralumine, Tints bulk. +50 off.. 10
Boralumine ‘ GRA hoc ee: 11

Red Venetian.................
Ochre, yellow Marseilles......
Ochre, yellow Bermuda.......
Putty, commercial ............

‘Putty, strictly pure............ :

Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English............
Green, Peninsular.............
Lead, red Sai ure.....

 

tl A eeu
brictly pure.....
niting, white Spanish......-

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HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
& 60,

Wholesale

Tuggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and
95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

ries, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
and Droggist's
Glassware,

MANUFACTURERS OF
ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS,
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wo tr, Patron & Co., AND JoHN L. Wuit-
ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
PAINT AND VARNISH
BRUSHES.

—Also for the—

GRAND Rapips Brus Co., MANFGS. OF
HAtrk, SHOE AND HorsE Brusues.

Drugoists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and can offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the
approaching season will be more full and el-
egant than ever before, and we desire our
customers to delay their fall purchasers
of those articles until they have seen our el-
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre-
sentative who is now preparing for his an-
nual exhibition of those goods.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES
to the fact of our wnsurpassed facilities
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers
without delay and in the most approved and
acceptable manner known to the drug trade.
Our special efforts in this direction have re-
ceived from hundreds of our customers the
most satisfying recommendations.

Wine and Liquor Department

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for
thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the
high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily
supplying the wants of our customers with
Pure Goods in this department. We con-
trol and are the only authorized agents -
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co's.

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not
only offer these goods to be excelled by No»
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market,Cbuté
superior in all respects to most that are ex-
posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect
and complete satisfaction and where this
brand of goods has once been introducedfthe
future trade has been assured,

We are also owners of the

Nragelsis Favorite Rye

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time. Buy our

Gils, Brandies & Fine Wines,

; We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list such
as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor-
respondence,

     

Mail orders always receive our speci
4 | personal attention. Lepous

TT 3. HT mers =

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesial,

A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

 

 

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR.
tEntered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class Matter.|

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1884.

 

 

 

FLOUR MADE OF WOOD.

 

New Industry that Flourishes in the Cats-
kill Mountains.

Catskills Correspondence New York Sun.

The chief industry up here is producing
wood flour, a kind of cousin to wood pulp.
It was first manufactured in the Catskills
about nine years ago, and now over twenty
mills are in full blast. The process is ex-
ceedingly simple. Any soft-wood tree—
poplar is the favorite—is felled and drawn
to the mill. The bark and boughs are re-
moved, and the trunk put in a machine
which is nothing but a lead pencil sharpen-
er on alarge scale, with four or more knife
edges instead of one. On starting the ma-
chine the pencil sharpener revolves with
great swiftness, and ina few minutes con-
verts the log into a hundred miles of fine,
clean shavings. These are ground and bolt-
ed exactly as ina flour mill. The product
is a soft, fine, yellowish-white flour, similar
in appearance to a very well ground corm
meal. It possesses a slight woody smell,
and is almost tasteless. It is put upin large
bags and then is despatched, unmarked, to
the buyer.

I tried to find out who purchased the ar-
ticle, but with no success. The wood miller
was not very communicative. “It makes,”
he said, “well, I don’t know how much ex-
actly. One log may give five bags, and it
may give ten. It sells well—that is, pretty
tolerable. Ireckon I clear about eight or
nine dollars a day out of it—perhaps more.
Inever figgered it up. What’s it good for?
Good many things. It’s used to stiffen pa-
per, but if you put in too much the paper

gets brittle. Paper stock is dearer than |.

poplar flour, and that’s why they put it in.
1f you mix the flour with linseed gum and
‘piled’ oil you get a kind of oilcloth. Some
‘folks mix it with meal to give to pigs and
other animals. I guess it’s good, but I nev-
er give it to my hogs, and even those fellows
give it to some other fellow’s critters and
not their own. Yes I have heard that some
bad contractors mixed it with meal for army
and Indian supplies, but I don’t take much
stock in the story, because they could buy
sour meal as cheapas popular flour. It
wouldn’t pay to mill pine or cedar or hem-
lock; they are worth too much as timber.
But any wood that isn’t used that. way, can
be milled into flour. I use poplar almost al-
together, but whenIrun short of logs I
grind up buttonball, birch, elm, or wil-
low.”

The farmers dislike the new industry, as
it promises to play havoc with the forests
which are both an attraction to the boarder
and a protection to agriculture. The tan-
neries years ago used up nearly all the oak
and hemlock; the lumbermen have stripped
the country practically of pine, cedar, and
walnut; the chair factories are consuming
the hickory and maple: and now the wood-
flour mill promises to grind up what remain
ing trees there may be.

—___—~>_2____—_
Have Found Out His True Name.
From the Northwestern Grocer.

A very hypocritical looking can strutted
up to an honest one that had about it that
self-confidence that comes of a well-earned
reputation.

“Those are old clothes you have on,” said
the hypocrite.

‘Yes, Ineverdress flashy!” said Stan-
dard Brand.

“Your whole family wear the same pat-
tern!”

“Yes, we never change the style of our
dress.”

“VYou’r an old fogy!”’

“Yes, but honest.”

“My clothes are stylish !”’

“Yes, very flashy!”

“Your stomach is rounded out and ful
said the hypocrite.

“Yes, but you are all caved in!”

“Pm training for a running match!”

“Where are you going to run?”

“Run out of the market!”

“What market?”

“The canned goods market!”

“What is that for?’

“They have learned my name dd

“Who has?”

“The consumers!’

“What is it?”

“Soaked Good!”

—_—_—>> + _
The shipment of buffalo bones from the

plains to Eastern phosphate factories has
largely increased lately, because of the re-
duction in freightrates. Thousands of buf-
falo skeletons are gathered from the valley
of the Arkansas. A single Philadelphia
manufacturer has received during the sum-
mer more than 200 car loads, paying $25 a
ton, delivered. The horns are used for um-
prella tips, or to decorate fans. A portion
of the head is in demand by chemists for
glue, and the shoulder-blades and neck
bones are fashioned into handsome and ar-
tistic buttons.

—————»> >

The new process of making white lead
which has been successfully introduced does
away with the necessity of detaching by
hand the carbonate from metal which re-
mains uncorroded, and the product is said
to consist almost entirely of the opaque par-
_ ticles. =

1”

  

A Pair of Hard-Baked Sinners.

A man with a grip-sack in his hand halted
before a fruit stand and priced a choice va-
riety of peaches. When told they were
twenty cents a dozen he whistled to himself,
walked softly around, and finally asked the
dealer:

“Are you a Baptist?”

“Hardly.”

“Neither am I. I didn’t know but that if
we belonged to the same denomination
you’d throw off a little. Do you lean on
the Methodist?”

“Can’t say that I do.”

“That’s my ease. I never did take much
stock in the Methodist. Twenty cents a
dozen is an. awful price on those peaches,
considering how tight money is. I expect
you are an Universalist, eh?”

“NO.”

“Neither am I. Can’t you take fifteen
cents for a dozen of these?”

“Hardly.”

“Aren’t you an Episcopalian?”

“No, sir.”

“Neither am I; but I was afraid you were.
I’ve been a sort 0’ looking you over, and I
shouldn’t wonder if you trained with the
United Brethren. Come, now, own up.”

“T never attended that church,’ was the
steady reply.

“Nor do I, either. Say, what are you any-
how?”’

“I’m a hard-baked old sinner.”

“No. Whoop! That’s my case to a dot.
I’m called the wickedest man in the county.
I knew there was a bond of sympathy be
tween us, if we could only find it out. Now
do you say fifteen cents for a dozen?”

The fruit dealer counted them out without
any further objection.

—— i

How a Rogue Cheated a Clothing Dealer.

There is a cheap clothing dealer on a cer-
tain street whose confidence in mankind has
received a severe setback. The other day an
honest-looking countryman walked into his
store and said:

“You remember that second-hand over-

coat I bought here for $8 yesterday.”
“Never dakes pack anytings ven vonce
solt, my frent,” said the hand-me-downer.
“Oh! that’s all right. £ just wanted to
say that I found this five hundred dollar bill
sewed in the lining. Perhaps the owner
may call for it.”
“Of gorse he vill—he has called alreadty
my tear frendt,’” exclaimed the dealer, eag-
erly capturing the money. ‘You ish von
honish man. Here. I gif you feefty tollar
asharevard. Dot vill pe all right.”

When the honest customer got around the
corner he murmured softly: “I guess I’d
better take this fifty and skip the town be-
fore that Sheeney tumbles to that counter-
feit. It’s getting mighty hard to shove the
‘queer’ ’round these parts, and that’s a fact.”

—»>-a>___—_
P. Lorillard & Co. have donated $5,000 to
the Bartholdi fund.

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make
a profit, sell

LAVIN SE
WASHING POWDER,

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a
larger profit than any in the Market, and is
put up in handsome and attractive packages
with picture cards with each case. We guar-
antee it to be the best Washing Powder
made and solicit a trial order. See prices in
Price-List.

Hartford Chemical Cu
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

KEMINK, JONES & U0,

Manufacturers of

 

 

 

Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,

Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., Etc.

 

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF

EE EMIN Es

“Red Bark Bitters’

—AND—

The Oriole Mannfacturing: Co,

78 West Bridge Street,

Hamilton Carhartt & Co.,

VW ELOLESALE

Men’s Furnishing Goods

MANUFACTURERS OF

The “Carhartt”? Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, ete. Upon our
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the J obbers’ Profits. Samples sent

for Comparison.
118 Jefferson Ave. Detroit.

Nuts cans, Walnuts and Gocoanuts,
and compete with any market.

Gig
i it

Tul are headquarters for everything in
our line.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

 

We manufacture a full line, use
the best material obtainable, and
eueeene? our goods to be first-
class.

We carry an immense stock of
Virgidia and Tennessee Poanuts,
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea-

We are agents for Gorden’s
cerebrated Wrag Jaws, Olym-
pian, D. F., and many other well-
known brands and carry a full line
of his goods at factory prices.

We handle Oranges, Lemons,
Bananas, Figs, Dates, Etc., in
large quantities from first-hands and

REMOVAL! ‘

 

Coal, Wood, Lime, Cement, *

Sewer Pipe, Htc, (

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

A BENOWLSON ?

 

WM. SEARS & CO. |
Cracker Manufacturers,

%

Agents for

AMBOY CHEESE. a
37, 89 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. P

GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN.

F. J. LAMB & COMPANY,

——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN——

Cheese, Eges,

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET,

 

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

 

 

  

WHOLESALE GROCERS,

Ea 4d, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
—WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR——

Nimrod, Acorn, Chief, Crescent & Red deal Plug Tobacces,

Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete.
—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—
Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices :!!
OUR: MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN-AND MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

 

PEREINS & HESS

——DEALERS IN——

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SHEDS

 

EDMUND B, DIKEMAN, FIELD AND GARDEN,
AT
ee WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

GREAT WATCH MAKER |? errs ones mrmeana.
W. T. LAMOREAUX, Agent

JEweEeLeR, STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.
A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

MICHTGAN | WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at-

COLE & STONE,“*°

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

 

44 CANAL STREET,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, ~

 

 

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N.

GENTS F | N F SH | RTS g | Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for
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Thirty Years.

 

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LIST OF OFFICERS:
: Z / President—RANsoM W. Haw tey, of Detroit.
Samples and Prices will be Sent to Close | Vice-Presidents—CHAs. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit;
L. W. Arkins, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN-
pur, Lansing; U.S. Lorp, Kalamazoo; H. E.
Mercer, Bay City.
Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH,

Buyers in our Line.

Grand Rapids = -

PECK BROS, ”
Wholesale Druggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

We Employ No Travelers. Send for Prices.

129 and 131 Monroe Street,

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Address, Detroit.
Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PoNn-
Mich,| 22°5;,Chaizman, 8. 4. MUNGER, H. K. Warre

|} Fort 0 Years—D. MORRIS, A. W. CULVER.

 

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SPRING & COMPANY |

--WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—

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STAPLE DRY GOODS |

CARPETS, a”

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‘The Michigan Trades

 

BUSINESS LAW.

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts |
of Last Resort.

 

INSURANCE CONTRACTS.

In insurance contracts the time of pay-
ment is material, is of the essence of the
contract, and non payment at the day ap-
pointed involves absolute forfeiture of the
policy.

 

NEGLIGENCE.

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire
holds that a failure to adopta known and
uniform usage among travelers in the man-
agement of loaded teams upon a steep part
of the highway, is competent evidence of
negligence.

 

NOT A PROMISSORY NOTE.

In the opinion of the Supreme Court of
Minnesota an instrument in the shape of a
negotiable promissory note, but with the
word seal after and opposite the signature of
the maker is, though there be no reference
to asealin the body of the instrument, a
sealed instrument and not a negotiable prom-
issory note.

 

NOTE—STOLEN PROPERTY.

A promissory note given to secure the res-
toration of stolen property is void, if a part
of its consideration is an agreement not to
search the house of the thief for the proper-
ty before the next day, pending negotiation
for a settlement of the matter.—Supreme
Court of New Hampshire.

 

ASSOCIATION—ASSIGNMENT OF
STOCK.

The assignment of a certificate of stock in
a building association does not carry with it
a liability on the part of the assignor to pay
the certificate, and the only effect of the as-
signment is to vest the assignee with the
rights of a stockholder of the association—
Whipperman vs. Smith, Indiana Supreme
Court.

BUILDING

 

MORTGAGE OF STOCKS OF MERCHANDISE.
The conveyance by an insolvent mortgagor
of substantially all his unencumbered prop-
erty—consisting of an ordinary stock of mer-
chandise—with a stipulation for retention of
possession and with reservation of a power
of sale for the mortgagor’s own benefit, is
void on the ground of its inevitable tendency
to hinder and delay the creditors of the
grantor.—Supreme Court of Alabama.

 

LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE DEBTS.

In the opinion of the City Court, New
York: “If a manufacturing corporation
created under the laws of New Jersey has
no office or place of business in that State,
and opens an office and transacts business in
the City of New York, the incorporators are
personally liable for all debts contracted in
the corporate name. The charter in such a
case does not fit the company, and the in-
corporators by going outside of it can not
screen themselves from personal responsibil-
ity.”

 

LIFE INSURANCE—FALSE ANSWERS IN AP-
PLICATION.

The insured stated in his application that
none of his relatives had been afflicted with
consumption, whereas, in fact, he had near
relatives who were so afflicted. The answer
in the suit on this policy was held to be bad
for failure to state the names and degree of
relationship of such relatives. The nearness
of such a relation within the meaning of the
contract is a question of law. Where thean-
swers to questions in the application are by
contract warranted to be true, and if untrue
the contract is to be avoided, such questions
are to be strictly constructed against the in-
surer. If there is any ambiguity in a ques-
tion, and the answer itself be true though in-
complete, the insurer, if content with the
partial answer, can not claim a warranty ex-
tending beyond such partial answer.—
Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany vs. Wilder, Supreme Court of Indi-
ana.

———»> a _—_—_
Enforcing the Ruie.

Pat was a fresh arrival and had obtained
a situation in a hotel as a sort of man of all
work.

“Now, Pat,” said the landlord, “you see
that sign, ‘Gentlemen must use the spit-
toons.’ If you notice any of the guests vio-
lating that rule I want you to report the mat-
ter to me.”

“Oi wull, sor.”

Pat kept a sharp eye out, and, after watch-
ing agentleman for half an hour, he went to
him and said:

“D’ye moind the sign forninst the wall,
sor?”

“Ves.”

“Phy don’t ye obsarve it, thin?”

“T am not spitting on the carpet,” said the
gentleman, rather astonished.

“Qi knaw yer not, an’ yer not usin’ the
spettune nayther. Spet, ye thafe, or Oi’ll re-
port yez.”

—______~>-9s_

When a customer in a location where the
trade never changes, is doing a safe and fairly
profitable trade, and comes to you with a re-
quest for more credit on the plea that he is
going to enlarge and refit his store and carry
a bigger and finer stock, advise him to let
well enough alone. If he persists, refuse
his request and let him go. You can better
afford to loose his custom than give him un-
limited credit and afterward get five or ten
cents on the dollar.

>_<
A London undertaker states that he has
a large number of prospective customers
who have agreed to pay him $200 each for
embalming their bodies whenever his ser-

 

 

 yices may be required. ¢

Blankets Made of Cow Hair.

“Have you any cow hair to sell?” a wan-
dering buyer asked a tanner in the presence

of areporter of the New York Mail and Ex-
| press, a few days ago. The tanner had some

of the curious commodity asked for, and sub-
miited it to the would-be buyer’s scrutiny.
The latter critically examined the lot, and
oifered the owner 4 cents a pound for it.

Wondering what use cow hair could be
put to, the reporter sought to satisfy his
curiosity by questioning the buyer. “What
do I do with it?” replied the individual, “Pll
tell you. 1 first blow the hair by a peculiar
process, which separates the long hairs from
the short ones. The long hairs are then
woven into fabrics with other material,
which, upon completion, becomes the genu-
ine, all-wool-blankets which Uncle Sam pre-
sents to the Indians.

‘And the shorter hairs?”

“They are worked into felting.”

“Do you ever pay more than 4 cents a
pound for it?”

“Oh, yes. White cows’ hair is worth 11
cents a pound.”
—_——<> - <>

Good Enough for Boarders.

From the Detroit Journal.

A rather stout gentleman of Irish extrac-
tion was slowly walking through the mar-

 

ket one morning with a basket on his arm.-

On coming to a stall whereg large owl was
perched on a bar, he stopped, and after in-
specting it fora few minutes with a troubled
expression on his countenance, his face litup,
and, with a patronizing air, he inquired:

“How much do you want for yer broad-
faced goose?”

“With an audible grin, the proprietor
said:

“That’s no goose; it’s an owl.”

The would-be customer evidently under-
stood him to say that the bird was old, for,
in a positive tone, he said:

“Qj don’t care how ould it is; it’s good

enough fur the boardthers.”
—————qq@2 oe

Algeria bids fair to become a great wine-
producing country, for the area of its vine-
yards is increasing annually. In 1850 there
were but 1,980 acres of vinesin Algeria; in
1877 there were 33,520 acres. The area is
now about 50,000 acres, with a production of
350,000 hectolitres of wine per annum. M.
Leroy-Beaulieu, in his recent book on colo-
nization among the Arab tribes, says that
should the immunity from phylloxera which
Algeria has hitherto enjoyed continue, it
would not be surprising if in ten years’
time there were from 375,000 to 500,000
acres of vineyardsin the country, with an an-
nual production of 150 to 175 million gal-
lons.

 

 

—>_o<>—

“Yes, they are excellent boots,” said the
shoe-dealer to the young lady purchaser, “they
will wear like iron.” ‘Do you think the
buttons are sewed on securely?” she asked.
“They are: the boots are supplied with ‘the
old maid’s wedding’ button, a new inven-
tion.” “‘Why is it called the ‘old maid’s wed-
ding button?” ‘Because it never comes
off.”

 

 

 

iL... &. EAT OG Iict! CO.
WHOLESALE :

FISHING TACKLE

21 PEARL STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS

MICH.
AGENTS FOR

Du PONT’S Gunpowder.

: The lowest market prices for Sport-
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.

Grand Rapids Wire Works

 

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Manufacturers of All Kinds of

MATIRE SA7ORK !

92 MONROE STREET.

City Bottling Works

BOTTLED LAGER, pints, per doz., 50 cts
BOTTLED ALE, pints, per doz., 75 cents.
BOTTLED PORTER, pints, per doz., 75c.
BOTTLED CIDER, quarts, per doz., $1.2.0

 

All Goods WARRANTED the BEST in the Market.

Telephone No. 272.

Wm. A. Clark

80 South Division Street.

 

A. A. CRIPPEN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54 MONROE STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

 

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices
as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

 

 
   

"BOOK-KEEPING MADE EASY |
FOR

RETAIL CROCERS.

# By using our Combined Ledgerand Day-Book, ff
CUSTOMERS’ ACCOUNTS are kept and
ITEMIZED STATEMENTS rendered in half

the time required by any other process.

Send for descriptive circular to HALL &
CO., Publishers, 154 Lake St., Chicago, Ill.

TACKS
NAILS

 

  
   

 

RVERY KIND AND SIZE,
—ALSO—

Trunk, Clout and Finishing
Steel Wire Nails and Brads.
American Tack Co.,
FAIRHAVEN MASS.

 

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C. $, YALE & BRO,,

—Manufacturers of—

FLAVORING EXTRACTS °

BAKING POWDERS,
BLUOINGS, E'TC.,

40 and 42 South Division St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, -

 

 

 

TIME TABLES.

Central—Grand

DEPART.
+Detroit Express................-
+Day fixpress................
*New York Fast Line............

 

Michigan Rapids Division.

  
  

+Atlantic Express.............. ae

ARRIVE.
*Pacifie EIXPress.......-..-..--.+s0+e- 6:4 am
t+Local Passenger..................-.6. 11:20 am
PMN ee a eta ele ie eres 3:20 p m
+Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p.
m. the next evening.

Direct and prompt connection made with
Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus
avoiding transfers.

The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has
Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit,
reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.

A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

 

GOING EAST.

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express....... 6:10 am 6:20 am
+Through Mail............. 10:15am 10:20am
+Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:55pm
*Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 am

GOING WEST.
*Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55pm
#Through Mail............ 5:00pm 5:30pm
+Steamboat Express....... 16:30 pm 10:35 pm
PMIRCO . os ss. isc es. T:lvam
*Night Express............. 5:10am 65:30am

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Passengers taking the 6:20 a. m. Express
make close connections at Owosso foy Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.

oo Cars on Mail Trains, both East and

Jest.

Train leaving at 10:35 p, m. will mak con-
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p. m. will
connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good-
rich steamers for Chicago.

Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has
a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express
has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. PorrTErR, City Pass. Agent.

THOMAS TANDY, Gen’] Pass. Agent, Detroit.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Le os : Arrives. Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:00pm 11:00 pm
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am 10:25am

 

Ft. Wayne & MackinacEx.. 3:55pm ,&:00pm
G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am
GOING SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:30pm 7:00am

Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:10pm 4:35pm
Mackinac & Ft. Wayne Ex..10:25am 11:42pm
Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train leaving at 10:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and
Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 10:25 a.m. has
a Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac

ity.

South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

 

Leaves. Arrives,
AO ae sa ose cy eee ne 15am 4:00pm
+*Day Express............-. 12:25pm 10:45pm
*Night Express............ 8:35pm 6:10am
MisCG.. 53.5 ee sss 6:10am 10:05pm

*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

 

Leaves. Arrives.
WARGO ie oar cees 5:00am 5:15pm
FOXPLCSS. osc ooo s tae ine see 4:10pm 8:30pm
FORDYCGS ooo oo ine os ae 8:30am 10:1lam

Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m
The Northern terminus of this Division 1s at
Baldwin, where close connection is made with

¥. & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and

Manistee.
J. H. PALMER, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

           
       
 
  
 

5A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
Lumberman’s Supalies

—AND—

NOTIONS!

’ PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

 

I am represented on the road by the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: JouN D. MAN-
a@uMm, A. M. SprRAGUE, JOHN H. EACKER,
L. R. Cesna, GEo. W. N. DE JONGE.
FRANK BERLES House Salesman.

24 Pearl Street — -

BEST ROASTED PACKAGE COFFEE ON
THE MARKET.

(irand Rapids, Mich.

ORTH,

—THE—

 

  

FOR

FOX, Musselman & Loveridee

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

ALBERT COYE & SONS

State Agents for
SUPP OR

WN HAMMOCK

SALE BY

 

     

Awnings, Tents, Horse Wagon and Stack
Covers, Oiled Clothing, Etc.
73 Canal Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

ta Send for Prices.

 

LH. BEALS & SON
at Ae (K Manufacturers of

 

 

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Wing & Lashes,

Westfield, Mass.

OFF CCE

—AND—

SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

G ROVS & CO, Geir! Agents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

BN GIN HS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outtiits.

wa. Cc Denison,
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SHRIVER,
WEATHERLY & GO,

Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail
IRON PIPE,

Brass Goops, IRON AND BRASS FITTINGS
MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES,

 

 

PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS,

—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized Iron Cornice.
MOSELEY BROS.,

Wholesale
Clover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds
Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, ete.
GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS.
122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

   

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NOTING ald Summer Hats and Caps

—I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY—

Spring Styles of Fine Hats,

Spring Styles of Wool Hats,
Spring Styles of Stiff Hats,

Spring Styles of Soft Hats,

Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen,
Fine Hats 13.50 to $36 per Dozen,
Straw Hats for Men,
Straw Hats for Boys,
Straw Hats for Ladies,
Straw Hats for Misses.

Hammocks Dold wy the Dosen at New York Prices ''

——LARGE LINE OF——
Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods,

Cottonade Pants and Hosiery.
DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities.
rc. LEV Ii.
36, 38, 40 and 42 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

maste

 

The Olid Reliable

Pioneer Cigar Factory,

H. SCHNEIDER & CO

PROPRIETORS.

21 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.

The following brands are our own make and Union labelled goods: Dick and George,
Peninsular Club, Los Dos, Sehr Fein, Louise, Mocking Bird, Evening Star and K. T.
We are jobbers of all kinds of Tobaccos ann Smokers’ Articles.

 

 

 

Castor Machine Oil.

The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re-

spects’superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The

OHIO OTL COMPANY

Is'the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg-

 

etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. Itis rapidly com-

ingCinto popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids,
RINDGEH, BERTSCH & CO.,,

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

BOOTS &.SHOEHS,

We are agents for the Boston Bubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat-
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State. Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready
for inspection.

Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michioan Trade

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK, JEHWEHLL & CO,

WEROLESALE

Groceries and Provisions,

83, Shand 87 PEARL STRHBT and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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Groceries.

Spread Out Your Goods.
From the American Storekeeper.

We remember, when a boy, seeing this no-
tice conspicuously hung up in all the village
stores: “If you don’t see what you want
ask for it!” It was doubtless thought to be
‘an excellent idea then, and may be still, by
some merchants, but when we reflect that
the average American does not hesitate to
make his wants known, a notice of that sort
seems superfluous. The memory of it calls
to mind the general appearance of those
country stores as comparediwith the ones of
enterprising merchants of to-day. Then the
goods were all kept in their places, the
whole room having as decorous an appear-
ance as our grandmother’s parlor, and a cus-
tomer was indeed obliged to ask for what
he wanted. Now our best retail stores
seem to be one bewildering mass of attract-
ive goods, arranged to catch the eye and in-
troduce themselves to customers in such a
manner as to chain their attention, so to
speak. Hosiery, handkerchiefs, towels, etc.,
fastened to a string and hung in graceful fes-
toons across the store. Samples of sugar,
coffee, etc., are conveniently accessible to
customers and invite comparisons, not only
’ of quality, but prices as well, for the habit
of marking goods in plain figures is becom-
ing more and more prevalent. It is aston-
ishing what an influence these silent argu-
ments of price tags have upon some custom-
ers, and also the power which one or two
words, such as “reduced to,” “last one,” ete.,
have in effecting a sale which the lengthy
praise of a silver-tongued salesman could
not accomplish.

The result of all this change in the man-
ner of arranging goods, is that customers are
induced to buy many articles they had not
intended. Often, after asking for what they
wanted and did not see, they buy what they
see and yet do not need, because it “‘strikes
their fancy,” or impresses them as being
“dirt cheap.” We Americans are famous
for buying things we do not want, simply
“hecause they are cheap.”

Spread them out, so that the assortment
of patterns can be seen and the “full size”
appreciated. Do not leave part of your can-
ned fruit in the cellar because the space al-
lotted to it on the shelf is insufficient; make
agrand pyramid of it on the counter or center
of the floor. People like to see a large quan-
tity of anything. It impresses them with
the magnitude of your trade and stimulates
their purchases. Mark special articles in
plain figures with insinuations that they
“can’t be beat.” If you cannot mark well
enough, there are ready-made tags and labels
to be had in endless variety and at small
cost. Try the scheme if you have not al-
ready done so, and note the attention it re-
ceives from the public.

 

Features of the Week.

The past week has been an improvement
over the preceeding one, so far as the vol-
ume of business is concerned, and there has
been a still further improvement in collec-
tions. In the farming communities, the
dealers talk very cheerfully and assure the
jobbers that they will be able to give the
latter a lift, financially, within the next four
weeks. There is a weaker feeling in sugars,
except A’s. Water white oil has advaneed
2c, coming rather earlier than usual and
catching many of the jobbers with smaller
stocks than they expected to have on hand
when the advance came. Michigan test is
down igc. Lobsters have gone so high in
consequence of scarcity, that none but mil-
lionaires can afford to purchase them, and
quotations are omitted until prices go down
again.

 

 

oe
Status of the Selkirk & Morrill Matter.

A. A. Bleasby, the assignee for Selkirk &
Morrill, the Kalkaska grocerymen, was in
town Monday on his way to Detroit and in-
terviewed most of the creditors interested in
the matter. Hestated that the inventory
revealed the fact that the book accounts of
the firm are in bad shape, the books not hay-
ing been posted for some time, and that the
entries are exceedingly irregular. In con-
sequence of this condition of affairs, it is
thought that only about $1,200 can be real-
ized from the $2,336 worth of accounts, and
that the $595 worth of notes will pan out
about 50 per cent. The stock, at cost value,
and the fixtures at inventory value, amount
to $1,375, making the total available assets
$2,817, out of which there are to come two
exemptions, bringing the assets down to
$2,317. The total liabilities are $2,634.
Several schemes have been set on foot to
effect a settlement with the creditors and
continue the business without serious inter-
ruption, but up to present writing no agree-
ment has been effected. Mr. Ramsey, a for-
mer partner in the firm, is said to be anxious
to return to the firm, and assume a por-
tion of the indebtedness, but a visit by Mr.
Ramsey to this city on Saturday is said to
have been fruitless of results of this direc-
tion. Selkirk announces his intention of
leaving Kalkaska within a day or two, but
- says he has left matters in his wife’s hands,
and that any arrangement she may make
will be agreeable to him. Altogether the mat-
ter isin decidedly complicated shape, and
it will require shrewd management to un

ravel the snarls.
oO

At a meeting of the Western Cracker
Bakers’ Association at Detroit last week,
the price of all baked goods, excepta few
_ kinds of sweet goods, was reduced one-half

eent a pound. This reduction promises to
hold good for some time to come.

The sales of Virginia tobacco have fallen

 

off considerably during the first seven |
months of the present year, as compared |

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

H. D. Harvey, Bangor.

O. B. Granger, of O. B. Granger & Co.,

Plainwell.
Emmet Hagadom, Fife Lake.

jE. P. Barnard, buyer New Era Lumber

Co., New Era.

Smedley Bros., Bauer.

R. North, Lake P. O.

W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.

M. Minderhout, Hanley.

Baron & Tenhour, Forest Grove.

G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.

J. Bartz, North Dorr.

Walter Shoemaker, Cannonsburg.

J. W. Mead, Berlin.

A. Engberts, Beaver Dam.

J. G. Lamoreaux, Fennville.

C. Bergin, Lowell.

C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.

Paine & Field, Englishville.

J. Barnes, Plainfield.

J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.

W. S. Root, Talmadge.

B. M. Dennison, East Paris.

Mr. Quick, of Quick & Morton, Howard
City.

Geo. M. Sharer, Cedar Springs.

A. & L. M. Wolfe, Hudsonville.

H. DeKline, Jamestown.

T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.

Andre Bros., Jennisonville,

D. E. MeVean, Kalkaska.

Albert E. Smith, Cadillac,

John Gunstra, Lamout,

C. H. Deming, Dutton.

R. Carlyle, Rockford.

Nevins Bro., Moline.

Eli Runnels, Corning,

J. & M. Friar, Berlin,

Mr. Colburn, of Colburn & Carpenter, Cal-
edonia. :

E. D. Wright, Watson & Wright, Elmira,

A. G. Chase, Ada.

F. E. Davis, Berlin.

Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.

J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.

D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.

E. Bradford, Sparta.

R. H. Wooden, Sparta.

D. R. Stocum, Rockford.

Jacob Somers, Chester.

A. E. Landon, Nunica.

Mr. Voorhorst of Voorhorst & Glerum,
LeRoy.

F. B. Hine, Lowell.

C. R. Hine, Lowell.

A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.

Carrol & Fisher, Dorr.

G. F. Gretzinger, East Saugatuck.

Mr. Kanters, of Kanters & Sons, Holland.

C. Deming, Dutton.

E. L. Wright, Woodville.

W. H. Willard, Manistee.

W. S. Goodyear, Hastings.

A. DeKruif, Zeeland.

A. C. Adams, Ashton.

M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.

Walling Bros., Lamont.

Wood Bros., Shaytown.

Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.

E. W. Pickett, Wayland.

Mr. Lilley, Watrous & Lilly, Coopersville.

Wolf & Truesdell, Otsego.

C. E. Coburn, Pierson.

A. W. Blain, Dutton.

R. V. MeArthur, Rockford.

Mr. Johnson, buyer for Stiles Brus., Fox-
ville.

G. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.

Merricle & Hopper, Fremont.

J. W. Braginton, Hopkins Station.

H. H. Moore, Lakeview.

F. E. Deming, Freeport.

Smith Bros., Orleans.

Spring & Lindley, Bailey.

John J. Ely, Rockford.

T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.

Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.

J. L. Graham, Hopkins.

McAdams & Brown, Cadillac.

Levenworth & Co., Forman.

Chas. Ostrander, Rustford.

W. 8S. Root, Talmadge.

J. H. Althouse, Coral.

F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.

Sisson & Lilley, Lilley Junction.

M. J. Howard, Englishville.

R. Knowles, Yates.

J. Omler, Wright.

—————»>-o<___—_
A Move in the Right Direction.

The Retail Grocers’ Association has adopt-
ed the following resolutions:

WHEREAS, The practice of giving gifts
and prizes with the sale of merchandise is
carried on to such an extent by certain man-
ufacturers and jobbers as to become a nuis-
ance. And,

WHEREAS, Goods sold in connection with
gifts and prizes, asa rule, are inferior in
ered to. those sold upon their own merits.
And,

WHEREAS, We believe that all trafficing
in gifts, prizes and lotteries, is injurious to
asia and exerts immoral influence.

ore.

Resolved, That we, the Des Moines Re-
tail Grocers’ Association, disapprove of said
method of selling goods, and that we will do
all in our power to discourage its continued
practice in our city.

If the retail grocers of every city, town
and hamlet would agree to take a similiar
stand, there would be less complaint of in-
ferior goods from the consumer and _legiti-
mate profits would be enhanced.

There-

So eee ee.
Jas. Stewart Must Take a Back Seat.

Phil. Graham, the genial South Division
street dealer, sends THE TRADESMAN the
following letter from a Kalamazoo celery
raiser, Which places the Saginaw scribbler
completely in the shade. Asa model of choice
grammar, it has never had an equal :

I take the privelege to ask you a question.
Did you ever sold any celery before or not
if you did not wel try it or you can sell it
and if you did well I will send some in to
you at the cheap price of 21¢ the doz within
boxes and for 20¢ without boxes But by this
you have the pay the Express charges on it
and Every week send out your post office
order and settle down every week. if you
like the take some answered me back
again, your servant, :

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The tea plant has lately been introduced

near Soukgoum Kaleh on the Black Sea, and
the Russians are confident that they will
soon be able to do without either Chinese or
Indian teas.
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; Needed by every retail grocer or confec-
tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ca-
pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their
great convenience can be learned by having
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen

 

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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. OATMEAL.
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Ole ID PWRN cae cs hl cae css sb en ses ene . @3 2
AXLE GREASE. Wiperial DOIG: boo cs ose. ke as @5 50
Wearer’s 85 Quaker DbIS. se. See ae @6 75
ne es ‘~ ea a a Star and Cresent, cartes ORS ae @5 5
odoc .... OU, Gevaiay oo se cece seas 5 .
Paragon .. @d0e... 6... os cc eta wees. ess 70 WMerasene Wi. Was. oo eee oe 18%
Paragon, 20 ib pails................. ees 90 a do. : Tegal test. -... 65. cee. ee kee 10%
BAKING POWDER. weet, 2 OZ. SQUALC. 2... 0.2... cee cee eens 5
Arétic % MCANS.... 2.2... 2000s. 0++0 ee doz. 45| Sweet, 2 oz. round................++.+5 1 00
Arctic CANS... .. 0.0.02 ca ee clee cee oe "5 | Castor, 2 0z. square................---- 15
Arctic ¥% MCAMS. ......0-2--- ee eeee neces eee 1 40| Castor, 2 02. round........... -++-++++5 1 00
Arctic 1 CamS...........eeeee eee ee ee ee eee 2 40 PICKLES.
ATCUIC D 10 CONS. ooo coe ccc k atc ccc cweceewies ts 12 00 Choicein barrels med......... . ccceceeeeeee 7 00
BLUING. Choice in % GQ ee eo es 4 00
MDIW NOLS. oat oct esse scons doz. 25 Dingee’s % do BMA eee 4 25
Dry, NO. 8.......... 02 cece eee e cece ees doz. 45 | Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................. 4 25
Liquid, 4 02Z,.........--. se eeee ee eeee doz. 35 Dingee’s pints: GO 8 eas oe. 2 25
Liquid, 8 02. .......--.2e eee ee eee + OZ. 65 | American gt. .in Glass... 0.66. aceecceses 2 00
ATCO £ OF) 6 6 ka. oes eee # gross 4 00} American pt.in Glass.................0 2 eee 125
Fela ‘ OF es as Ge es ote o a e oF poe oe Bee cae lite Sees spo ga 6 .
POMC AB OZ. 6.66 occ e eee ceases estes 2 200, NGS PINUS. oo. s cone Sook ss ae 3 6
Arctic ~ 4 pepper box............-.+-++- 4 . Clfow Chow, mixed and Gerkins, oo : s .
Arctic No. ¢ o Bes eas ieees a6 se pints....¢
Arctic NO.38 (= on ee oe ss oe 4 50| Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. siyle,qts.4 50
BROOMS . a se pts. .2 5
No.1 eet Rete oe Fs 50 PIPES.
No. 2 Carpet... .. 2.2.20. eee ce ese e ce eeees 2 “o T orted Clay 3 OSS 2 2@38 00
oe o Imported Clay, No. 2100.00.00... G2 25
Uh Be SSO Ie OOO eee | American VI) ce. estes. 90@1 00
BNO ag os ce ee oe 1 75
Fancy Whisk.............00- 0s ee ee ce eeee 1 25 : RICE.
Common Whisk............-.++2eeeeeee 5 Eheice a pee ee eee es ace eens ae
CANNED FISH. rime Carolina.........-....-.---- +--+ + nee 1%
Cove Oysters, 1 b standards.............. 115 Ji BVA veces ee eect ee eee ee eect ee eee e eee ee ete es 67
Cove Oysters, 2 tb standards Re eee 1 85 Patna aD aiis al cls ats aia sin ct slain dg stare a6 bi aieie ais oi e's) sists elmiecs em eo
Cove Oysters, 1 i slack filled............. He APP OON i ee oo ci, es cee 534
Cove Oysters, 2 ib a NGG ee 1 = SALERATUS.
Clams, 1 ib standards...............----+-- BD ’ : F
Clams, 2 standards............0ss-00c00+ Ce re ae
Lobsters, 1 i standards..............-+0- Pisa we @ bY
Lobsters, 2 tb standards.......-.---+++-+++ Gp chest ae
Lobsters, Picnics......... ...-sseeeeeeeees Dwight’s...... : @ 5%
Mackerel, 1 fresh standards... ie @ big
Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards.. a eee he @ bY
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 bb... : 2 . elon. Sec o co ceos es
Mackerel,3 ib in Mustard.................- 3 50 SALT.
Mackerel, 3 ib broiled..............-......- a OO 460 Pockehi... cc ee eee. 2 50
Salmon, 1 i Columbia river............... TEGO. iB RPOCKEt oo ee. ces) Sisco cess eas 2 35
Salmon, 2 i» Columbia river..........-.... 2 60_ | 1008 1D pockets... ......................- 2 65
Salmon, 1 i Sacramento.................- 1 50 Beginaw Hine... 2c. Seek. hss cece 1 00
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.............. Sp 4 Diamond ©... ol ec coe 175
Sardines, domestic 348...............eeeee 7% | Standard Coarse....................- 1 55
Sardines, GOMCSTIC Ve8..2.:..2-...--2525-- 12% Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80
Sendines. AN 4? Seer os se sek sae ie ee ee rae Coe ; bu. bags.... 3 20
ardines, impor BAB ey cee edo. see srican, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25
Sette uppers ys. gor nece eae! 20 + Rock, bushels..... : Decides cceras secu 30
ardines, imported 4s, boneiess.......... 32 5 s
Sardines, Russian kegs................05. 50 : eos : a
Trout, 3% br 3 Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. @5 00
UL, d 1D DOOR, ou scc cc. cc sss s soe se eee 00 . : ; .
ae a Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, % pts. @3 00
So a a FRUITS. ae Ercan % ee Re eee a 50
es, StanGargs....:5.-...........- 9¢ alford Sauce, large.................. M3 TS
aes, gallons, standards, Erie.......... 250 | Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @
Blackberries, standards................6.-1 20 Pepper Sauce, green..................: @ 90
Cherries, red............-.2---.----------= 110 Pesper Sauce, red large ring.......... @1 30
Cherries, white ............-s+.eeceeseeeee: 4 - a pee Broo large ring...... a 60
MDANIUROISS 26 oe eo ee ee ees e Jatsup, Tomato, pints................. @ 90
Ege Plums, standards .............+..+-- 1 35 Catsup, Tomato. quarts .............. @1 30
Egg Plums, Erie.... ......--.eeeee econ 145 | Horseradish, % pints.................. @1 00
Green Gages, standatds 2 th........-..... 1 40 Horseradish, PINUS. 2-2-3 @1 30
Green Gages, Erie.............---- eee eee 1 50 Capers, French SUTDMNES.. 6... 2... @2 2%
Peaches, 3 i) standards................++-- 175 | Capers, French surfines, large........ @3 50
Peaches, 3 tb Extra Yellow.............--- 2 00 Olives, Queen, 16 0z bottle............ @3 85
Peaches, SECONdS..........-. eee ee eee eee 165 | Olives, Queen, 27 0z bottle...... ..... @6 50
Pie Peaches 3 .................+-2-----+-- 114 Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia & Co.’s.... @7 00
Pears, Bartlett 2B. ........... 6. eee ee ee eee 1 30 Olive Oil, pints, Antonia & Co,’s...... @4 00
Pineapples, 2 ib stand..............---++-- 4 i Olive Oil, % pints, Antonia & Co.’s.... @2 50
QUINCES .. 6... ee ce eee cee teen e neces 4) SEEDS.
Raspberries, 2 ib stand..............---.+- 1 25 Hem .
Raspberries, 2  Hrie..............--+-+++ Lo oe a
Strawberries, 2 tb standards............... 110 Rae Bee ies cma ae ace soo 2
CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA. t See ccc aa cmas ena ca acc ‘
Agrignte TAS cee ee 2 ‘ MOCO BING eee esac: 54G6
IDE DUCA Saath oan ae songs adn senonemod: 2 8 SOAP.
oer ARCS. ..5..-.....-----..-.---->--- : e Lautz Bros. & Co.
nee ee 309 | Acme, 701% bars.....................5 @ 61%
Poa 399 | Acme, 25 OD MAES os U eas. @ 6%
ACDES 2... cc wc cee eee ce cece enc w er mene esecce Towel, 25 bars ee @5 25
CANNED VEGETABLES. Napkin, 25 bars............. @5 25
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................... 3 25 Best American, 60 1 tb blocks. 6
Pp g » y :
Beans, Wis 05.2225... eek. ee 8 | Palma 60-1 ib blocks, plain...... net @ 5%
Means. Strive... 4.2... 62k ses 90 Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped........ @3 "0
Beans, Boston Baked................-+++-- 165 | Master, 100-2 tb cakes ....... eee @5 00
Beans. SHOINCICSS......-.....-..22.-2 +... ne: 1 00 Stearine, 100 % Ih cakes............... @A 85
Moni Pres 6s is se. 115 | Marseilles, white, 100 % tb cakes...... @6 25
Corn: ROVClG... 0... ss. ike. oe oe, 1 20 Cotton Oil, white, 100 % Ib cakes...... @6 25
Worn. Wey pian... 2.6... ee eset 110 Lautz’s 60-1 Ib blocks, wrapped........ @it
Corm: Yarmouth -..::.....-.2.0.3....5.;.- 1 20 German Mottled, wrapped............ @ 6%
Morn MrOpny. 2.5.66 sss eee nc 115 Savon, Republica, 60 tb box............ @ 5%
Corn, 27) Onandago........-..........6... 1 50 Blue Danube, 60-1 Ib blocks........... @ 5%
Mushrooms, French.............--.--.-s0% a i eee oe ie ¥ es eee ae a 5
Peas, standard Marrofat.................. 14 London Family, 3-1b bars 80 tb......... @4 00
Peas, 2 td Early, small (new).............. 1 60 London Family, 4-Ib bars 80 th......... @A 00
Peas, 2%) Beaver......................-.-.. 75 | Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @3 85
Peas, Wrench 2b..........--...5--..--.::-+ 23@26 | Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped............ @4 00
Pumpkin, 3 t Golden..................206. 110 | Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped........... @3 2%
Succotash, 2 i standards.................. 85 | Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @2
Succotash, 2 Ih B.& M.............-02 00008 1 %5 | Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3dozin box @l 25
Squash, 3 ib standards..................-.. 20 fa : ; 3
Tomatoes, 31 Dilworth’s..............2.-- 105 | Kirk’s American Family ........ Bb 6%
Tomatoes, 3 ib Job Bacon................5+ 1 05 a Se tote te snes cece ec eceeeees be
G. D 35 ly’s Waterproof "5 do. Satinet 1 a 5a
Musket woe Way "5 Go: Hevenue ..............2....-.-. 5Y%
ee Ee do. White Russian................ 5 10
5 oe aie ce eae otc oY
OStON Premilimn:.....2..5..2.02.5..-. 5. ; 4 (Princess 6 a. y
Bakers premium. 6.56... ...- 25.22. eS ee ces ert ec 6 75
PQUTAMGCS eh ees @35 oO. apan Olive...... 5
German sweetss....050.000.505. 0.2 60. @25 do. Town Talk #8 box 3 60
Vienna Sweet............ foo ee ss @25 oO Goce Bare... ‘ 2
COFFEE. 0. PAD occ ccctio ks 3 40
: 9 do. AMDCR. 06.5. es 8 75
pee ee do. Mottled’German:? 4.20
Green Mocha 25 @27 | Procter & Gamble’s Velvet............ @3 40
ri. 2 @lT Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 20
Poach deve 24 @34 oo & Gamble’s Wash Well. ee @3 05
ihe ger es re ea ee OPO ccs see ess ccs ce ees 0 Ibs @ 6%
Bone aan Ae ee re oe aes VW poe MU eee eens @4 20
Boncid tes. 17%@19 on & Stover’s New Fooeese g Re a
pe ee WD BOD: eels os Sas ol sce sels ‘ ar 6
Ae a eel a rere Vee | Wards White Lily... 0c @6 5
Arbuckle’s...0000000000002200II  @agy | Handkerehiet........ eee GA 20
Rs et aren eee
igers .e e CTO eee a 5 50
MORO 5 i 15% | Binin gl Saree eters aa : ie
Meapnolias 620s 505 ek @15% ice 420
CORDAGE. New French Process...............0+- 4 50
72 foot Jute ..... 1 25 {60 foot Cotton....175 | Spoon ................ 5 00
60 foot Jute..... 105 {50 foot Cotton....1 50 oo oe Desa 5 .
. aterland.......... 3:
FLAV ee aoe Magi c ae 4 30
. ittsburgh .. ak 4 00
JONNINES' 2 OF... so sel % doz. 1 00} BGCUe Re. kes c 2 6 75
‘ OF he ee 1 50| White castile bars..................20. 12
Me BOG So ese ete ee 2 : By ed casi eee Opec rears oil ahr, 10
oe BOM. oe 35 PVCS ee @ 5%
“8 ae : PAPO. Asshole oe. ‘ = Old Coumtry.. 2.552 oes A. 5%
ef oO. fe eee oe a Soe ssa. 7 SPICES.
. % pint round......... pao 4 50) Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22
ee 9 00) Ground Allspice................0.ee00e 12@20
NO. Bove ee eee eevee ee ee cette ee ees SOO) CORTON. ca 16@30
No. 10 a a ttre e ese e eee eeee 4 2 pei Re eeu oe, a
anilla. ROU el ea 2
Jennings’ 202 gb 2g doz. 1 40 Mustard......... lg lal eo slo's aa's oa Gilg kt oie ola 15@35
“ Loe es ares 2 50 WBVENNG: 0866s coi cess ok eye: 25@35
Me CO) A Oe -
“ RK SpiCe 34 7
«“ ge eae . pene <> eae beets dena 2 00
“ No: 4 Taper... 420.0822. 3 00 IOMOR  TO oo acc. easel ceca ccs nee 7
“ss % pint TOUNG ee 7 50 Pe per, WHOIG. 2.2. 66 eee ccc. @18
fe tons wid Te 00 | DUBDICS .. 2.62 ns see eee ee nese ee oe @10
‘“ Nj Re 4 25 WORSRIA oe Se eee ein Sea aes @12
eae 8 6 00] COVES. ooo snes seceeeeeeeeeceeees 0 GE
FAUCETS. megs, OM cba cteicte ves cs caee es 7
4 9 STARCH.
re @2 & | Niagara Laundry, 40 b box, bulk..... @5
, *" SIsH ener eer eeeeoe eh: peer ee i ibs.... ; @4X%
: af x1OSs, packages.. @6%
Whole COG)... 6. neo ie- e. se 44%@6% * — Gloss, 363 2 packages....... @6 -
Boneless Cod pe ees esi s haee sean 5@T@S “Gloss, 6 ib box, 72 tb crate.... @T
Herring % bbls. 100 ................ 2 75@3_00 “* Corn, 401 packages........ Divs
Herring CHICO os. coer ects se os @z Muzzy Gloss 1 tb package.............. @6%
Herring Holland....... . @1 05 | Muzzy Gloss 3 tb package.............. @b6%
White, No. 1, % bbls ..... 6 50 | Muzzy Gloss 6 boxes................ @i%4
cb rg loge 4 es: “ 2 a Muzzy Gioes bulk ee ek @5%4
ite, No. 1, 1 1S eee ee ee ee eeee 2 MIZZV COLD LID. oo. ic Soros ces icc oan - @i
White, No.1, 12 bb MUGS ooo se hc ae 1 05 Special prices on 1,000 b orders.
Trout, No. 1, % bbis.................. 525 | Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8
Trout, No.1, 12 th kits................ 90 | Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 Ib box....... @8%4
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls............... 650 | Kingsford Corn...............cccee eens 8144@8%
Mackerel, No. 1, 12 ib kits............ 1 00 ib cape ree ee tee @6%
FRUITS. AyTOU GIONS... 3... cots. eee oe es ths @6%
London Layers, new............0.0e+6 2 5| Mirror Gloss, Corn............-.+-+..+. @6%
Loose Muscatels Raisins, new........ _ @2_70| Riel or SG SS aie onesie oa @A
New Valencias Raisins....«.......... MOA Gea. @by,
OBIS 2 a es ee ee EOS osc pees CPA ere ee Le a ee Rt Ses Se
GNIAR io es es isen as @10 Veer Pie ne ec ~
Turkey Prunes .. : @6 8 Gl ake at rresisbesencsessets
Currants..... .. -- 5 @ | maple ro COG IDORCR ss nese n en se ‘OD Gan,
j Oy | BAVIO COLL. cere cc cece cree eres ecene 2
ee ois era 8 or. HAO COMM o.oo eee ee koe tc cet sce 20 tb @i
oe ee # | PANOL SBIR coo eee desk acl cee ed ese e. @4
: STONEWARE.
Richardson’s No. 2 square.................- 2 70
Richardson’sNo.3 dO. ............-..+s 2 ines 8 Pe eS
Richardson’sNo.5 «dO... eee eee eee eee DO Mie treks 7
Richardson’sNo.6 dO. ..............002- BRD ee ea Boe
Richardson’sNo.8 dO. ............+- ..1 70 STOVE POLISH.
Richardson’sNo.9 do ........ 2 55| Rising Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross...... 5 50
Zeon ao: ; ae see eiave : y Palverse! sayedees 2 e Above # dozen..... 50
chardson’s No. De seks asia tices: 52D Ee Eo cea aes
une t Ne. 14 So De lag uses sabes ‘ - - SUGARS.
ectric Parlor No.17.............0..0.ce eens
Rote he el ee ee cce  Oe
Grand Haven, No. 9............0.e00eeeeeeus 2 50| Powdered........ a ie @ 7%
Grand Haven, No. 8..............ceee scenes 1 60 : oes ‘
20 gross lots special price.
» MOLASSES.
| Black Strap..:.........
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oo peerele Bi anos cece fi eevee 33 i NO. Goce
orn, % Ree ie neie cy cee eloes nave ace 36 | Cocoanut, Schepps’1&%% do. _
Corn; t0 gallon kegs.................0 0 @_ 35) Extract Coffee, c. ee ae ~~ :
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..................... @1 80 do Pie 1 0@
Corn, 4% gallon kegs.................-- @1 65 | Flour Sifters @ doz.................... 3 00@
Pure Sugar... ..--.<:.-...--...-... bbl 26@ 30} Fruit Augurseach..................... 1 5@
Pure Sugar Drips................ % bbl 30@ 36} Gum, Rubber 100lumps............... @25
Pure Sugar Drips........... 5galkegs @I1 85|Gum, Rubber 200lumps. | (1.117777 @40
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... %bbl @ 9%5|Gum,Spruce................. oo ew
Pure Loaf Sugar. .......... 5 gal kegs @1 90 ver cee We 1 00@
TEAS. Oly tu Palle..................... 00! 3
Japan ordinary. 24@30; Young Hyson....25@50| do Glass Tumblers # doz.. ee
Japan fair........ 32@35|Gun Powder..... 35@50 | Lye # 2 doz. cases......... ES @l 55
Japan fair to g’d.35@37|Oolong ....... 83@55@60 | Macaroni, Imported. ese @13
Japan fine........ 40@50/Congo ............ @30 | Domestic... o. i... cl i
Japan dust 15@20 French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ Loo
faeces stard, OZeN........ )
TOBACCO—FINE CUT. 0 Large io ee
s ge Gothic........ @1 35
fas Bude o on See nee 60 gallon.............. @10 00
Secs cede @45 eas, Green Bush... o.oo. cc, DL
Our Bird:....... @30 do Split prepared................... G'aie
Peaches ........... @38 Powder, Kee 7 62. 4 00@
Morrison’s Fruit................ @50 do Ken... 2 50@
Victor oo eevee cccerescccneeceiee 2 Gel teuee ee ”  5@6
1amon BOW 025k oo 5e sci ee dT Shopedtop. 2 (4.5 2 5@
Red Bird eee Gre af? ee ee
pera Queene. ee @, AGO ee Seis eS
pve ae Ee ee ae cues oa peneere Cutters each ................. 1 ao.
meen (Back. oes ee Qs Wile ee Gi:
I MEU ONE Re ee ee Ge Vinee. ee
G@ 6 Sues @31_ | Wicking No. 1# gross...........10 07 @40
oe ee ee aus, pees @65 da Ne. ge oe @65
imber [light and dark].............. @62 Qe Ae 50@
Maoh 6s @65 ee ea
ee aa CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
coo FS I Riuerk fos oe ngage es Re seat Sp Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
Me a ean : s Te
Royal Game: ole. acc eae @3g__| Straight, 25  boxes...............0... @10
SHicer WNEOAd ooo... oo. cece ci cccse se, @67_ | Twist, A ei ues ee cee @10%
Seal ooo eseeeseeeeeeeeseeesteteteteeess @eo jCutLoaf do ou... eee. @l2
ODtUGKY.. 5.3 a: *  @30 MIX
Mule Han oo. cleo ceo. @6u Royal, 25 b pails ag
GCIARBOO. soso osc ese cc cel @32 Roval. 200 Debs. ee @10%
Peek-a-Boo, % barrels................. @30 Or ee te eerste sees 10
OlpMer, BOX. he. casei ecee sees. 32 ys aeee i ea or %
Clipper, Fox’s, in hal§ barrels......... @30 | French Cream, 25D pails....1111 171717717777 a
poppin a Reames We cates calcu cea u Or Cutloat25 0 euses 1d
) ROSS ee ec. 6: Broken ca pais... “
Good Luck........ see esse eee eees essss , QB Broken, 200% bbis 1%
Good and Sweet............. eos. @45 Se 10%
Blaze Away as a: FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES,
air Lifter.......... @30 | Lemon Drops......... :
Old Gore, Nabi... tke Ge Worn bb
Charm of the West, dark.............. @60 Peppermint Drops........................., 16
Governor, in 2 0z tin foil...... 0.0.0... @eo | Chocolate Drops... i
PLUG. H MChocolate Drops....................... (
BOR: Ps Havorite:. 00... osteo @50 {Gum Drops..... acs a es
Old Kentucky.......-.-.......--.-..... @50 Hicorice Dropa 20
Big aa oe eos cee asec cece geen a ey . B Eicorice Drops...  _..... 14
PIO HOU. ORAS So os cos. occ nt woe ce eee @E ezenges plain 3
Darby and Joan, all sizes.............. @50 Romeniee voited oe <
Turkey, 16.02., 2x12. 2... 06.0... Gy (umes 16
Blackbird, 16 02.. 3£12........0........ Ge tMaitee 16
Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @48 Gream Haro 8 ee 15:
Glory OS oe ae en @50 Molasses Bar... 202.0200, oo, 14
Woe eh ao eR Ae ere en ee @ BraMiGlege s
Gilgen COM ieee cece. @50 } Hand Made Re
Buster (Dark). :. 0... 606s cect cece @36 Bigim @reams) 20
Black Prince (Dark)... ...........-..45% @36 Decorated Creams....... ... Se 23:
Black Racer [Dark]...........0..00... Gu [Gagetiee Ue
Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @50 | Burnt Simonds... -.. 24
Ce ae an Wintergreen Berries........... ........... 16
Old Pash ee es p48 ee
McAlpin’s Gold Shield. ..272222002201. @48 i ole.
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 tb cads....... @51 Lozenges, isin ime pails... 6. 8. es 14
Cock of the Walk 68............-00.00- @37 Lozenges, plain in LG ee 138
Blas Spun Roll... 2.2... 0.0. cece ec. @38 oie Pe PER AIS wn ne ees ene s sev 15
WOEOGe oe eee 48 Z » printed in Beane nee
ate (ee Sis Chocolate Drops, in pails.................... i
Rod Seal a @46 Gum Drops, in pails...... 0.0.0... 0000 cece een 8
@rescent @44 om props, in Dee settee cece eee ee se cenceees 7
Race See 2 MOSS Drops, Mm pails.......0...5.. 1.5. ee
woe Gao Moss Prone; LL ee ur
moe @ie | come Drops, im paila..... 1
Monby Spum Roll........ 0... sc. cs ce @30 ee in ae pledeceaes soe ic ce cack wa. le
Spree ee @0 MDPCLIAlS IN ODIS......... eee ee ee eee aces 1S
Grayling, all styles.................... @50 FRUITS.
eo cent e eee et ee eee ee eens Gan Oranges bow 05... 7 00@9 0G
GU GE Fonaneee ee eae
Bic Ohunic ord... 0... 8... @40 | Orances. V perine, @ bex......-..+--
; een on ges, Valencia 8% case.............
bene CCI ee ce ne ee O37 Lemons, choice = ng
D. and D., black..... Siete eee cece eee @37 Lenions, faney a 4 00@5
ees oe Shield............... - Bananas # bunch.................... -.2 00@4 00
ae igh, Bee Sree eae eee gc ass < ae Malaga Grapes, # keg..._... |
Ghampion A... .. 1. see eeee sees eee ees @4 Malaga Grapes, # bbl.......
Ballons! SOlace... 0.0...) 20... 6. @48 | Figs, layers #2 b 12@16
ee Sel ciara s o1c a tala aa elale oc 6 olsles 66 cise « an Figs, fancy do .. i oi ee 18@20
Di ok aoe es te eae s PAO t ate ase ges @ 18 Figs. baskets 40 tb ge We @l4
See eee. @: Dates. frails GG ee » 6
qe. a = ae le wele waitin wee cee ea es aguas @40 Dates, 44 do jo 2 i
ed ey ll ae Pe eee env oy
: SMOKING. : Dates, fara 10 ib hoe cee b Cee cn cc ccccecn = 172
Morning GW eee ee, o Dates, Fard 50 Ib box S A " an
Seal of Griind RadidS.0000000000000000 @3 Ct Tes b4@ 7
RING ee, @30 EANUTS.
fee We Uo Sa ee ee Eame Red, raw @ ..................
Uy ee eS Oe oice do do . 8
Ten Penny Durham, % and \4......... @24 Fancy do do. e : if
Amber, % and IB... 2... oo... ec cc eee: @15 | Choice White, Va.do 1.1.000.002022222) @9-
Bose ee ee eee. oS Maney FER. Va do... ...2.- 2000.22... @i¢
ed Fox Smoking............ @26 OTT
Lime Kiln Club........2.2.2.2! @4i Nene:
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut.. @90 Almonds, Terragona, # Ib............. IS@1%
Vanity Fair.........-s-eeceee @90 Swans Toaca, GO ox resesne 16@I1i.
me. 24@2! zils, So ae
we @25 Pecons, dO ........ 0.00 Wale
Standard 20 .. .  @2 | Filberts, Barcelona do .............
Ot @21_ | Filberts, Sicily dO ..........0.. @l4
Mom Jerry 6 @24 oes ae fT “ eee @i2ry.
Joker 0s eee D2! alnuts, Grenobles do ............. 14@1b
Mravelers 2 @3s Walnuts, California :
Maiden 32 @26 | Cocoa Nuts, # 100 @t 50
MOWRY ooo oo @27 sors pe large bu.............
Navy Clippings ....... 20.0 ....5.0025.. @24 ickory Nuts.small do ............. a,
Money Dew ooo. coe @25 .
Gold Blo@e so eo. @32
Camp Pine oo. @22 PROVISI
L ONS.
OrOnOKOe es oo. ces ete B19 : =
Nioger Head... 3... ..02....) G28 The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Ca
Ne, by Ms Sees cedelcece vcles ore curac e quote as follows:
Oo BD eo ee @57T PORK.
do yy TO po a ee a @d5 Heav Mess Pork 7 PD)
do ee @51 Back Po wlshortcuk 0 $17 S
His @2 c BE, SEOFU CUE. . oo: . concoct eee 17 50
oe 6 Wamily Clear Pork... . 200 200 cee ke 18 50
eared GlG | iieten Clear Pork .... 0:0. c. cc ccsecee 19 50
National Be eee cee ac alc @30 Clear Back Pork, new...... 2.0... 2.0. ccees 20 25
5 SS ose Cele ie ae @* | Boston Clear Pork...................2..... 20 00°
Be a Standard Clear Pork, the best... ...21.2..! 20 50:
Conqueror . ci) AU ens SNe @23 All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
Wore 8 ae DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
GEOVIIND ooo ose oes. 32
ee, G30 Long Clears, heavy, fear Cases....... 934
Dime Durham ..................--000-- 2: - fut CASES......... 10
OP ey Sa ee eee Gee Long Cese Reat: -" ? cc teteeee
MGle Sala Oe. @28 : all. Cases ....... 1
Bumberman 085.2 @26 | Long Clears light, 500 Ib Cases.......... 934
Railroad BOy.......00 16 : do. Half Cases.......... 10
Mountain Hose Se ce oe a Short  Olears, Keay sitet eee eee e cece eens 1014
oo MOURN oc eo @2:! oO. medium................... 10%
Home Comfort, 4s and \%s. @25 do. BPR 10%4
Old Rip, long cut........... @a5 Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases... 10144
Durham, long cut, No @55_~=«| Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ib cases.. 10%
Two Nickle, ae * @25 Leh eo eee. ~ bs cases.. 1034
Two Nickle, %s.. @26 xtra Shor ear Backs, ecases.. 1034
Star Durham........ oF Bellies, extra quality, 500 tb cases...... 10
G aiden Flake Cabineh 2 ar Bellids, extra quality, 300 Ib cases...... 1014
Seal of North Carolina, 20z........... @z2 Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 Ib cases...... 10%.
Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50 LARD.
Seal of North Carolina, 8 02Z........... @48 :
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes... @50 Tierces be ee fog 8
Big Dest as longeut. : a @2 30 and 501 Tubs .. co... 2 ccc ccc cect 8%
pple Jack, 4s granulated........... @24 LARD IN TIN PAILS
King Bee, longeut, 4s and 4s........ 322 ' j oy
Milgankes Deine etd ia @2d 20 fh Round Tins, 80 b racks............ 814
i Sat t =o 50 Ib Round Tins, 100 th racks.......... 8,
Good Enough, 5¢ and 10e Durham.... @24 |: 1a ON; oe
Ay ; =e & iD Pasis, 201m & Case. -.. <2... 0c: 6... ees 9
Durham, S., B. & L, 4s and \4s........ @24 : 93 : 2p
a 5 ib Pails, 12 in acase............. -. 8%.
Rattler, longeut Rie @eldiee oe aacisisotc eeu ee ss @28 10 b Pails, 6 in aca a
Windsor cut plug................ 00.00. @25 re rinse an scne ses 84
SHORTS. SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
ale ed Be aac vont iu aes e ust BS Haws one in sweet pick heavy.... 18%
Dy get Mula sciwcc cucemece oe ee ek ams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 14
OJMCONEEOSS. 6308s ble 23 é light 1444
INONIO oc ee es eas NS 23 Shoulders, boneless.......... note e
: SNUFF. Shoulder, cured in sweet ickl S. : : ; oe 834
Lorillard’s Macoboy Ree eae ee esse @55 | Extra Clear Bacon........ r a . es nu
American Gentleman pecs @i2 Dried Beef, Bxtra.... . 222-2... 0c. 154
ae A. ge = (O00 cal CR AE @35 BEEF IN BARRELS
rail & Ax’s Macoboy.................. @44 eet
Seotch, Railroad Mills................. @44 ‘| Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 ibs...... 11 00
as pies VINEGAR. 10@12 Plate Beef, extra quality................. 312 OC
S hie: ciave\e A aiemiei ae 401 w a ale hier e Sra kas & Ole ‘
White Wine... . 2.222) oe. 10@12 CANNED BEEF.
WASHING POWDERS. Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 Ib cans, % doz.
We ce @10% | “incase........-.--.. ee eg
Gillett's @ D ..-.......-.....2...0 6000s. @ 134 do. 2 tb cans, 1 doz. in case.... 2 90
Poe ies | a ee es pry serge & te. tb cans, 2 doz in case 18 25
Rae acai oil oe eee ok 2 8, 4 oo
Lavine, single boxes, 4811 papers... @45 ae 2b Compra ‘Yam 1 ices fer caine 4 00
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 pap’rs @4 25 :
ane pinele Lape 100 : Bros papers. @4 50 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
uavine, 5 or more boxes, 50Z pap @é4 2
Lavine, single boxes, 80 14 i papers... @4 15 aoe once Dlg coer uh wees Sco wear cee oe alae .
: ; ; Rod ee eb EGE PQUIBADO Oo. oo. o-oo ew ce os cs we ene aces Ge
Lavine, 5 or more — 4bpaprs @4 00 ponte SEAT CS eee ee ee ee ll
: EVGE OMUISUMO cok ok od eds esc cakec eck cede. 8
Gillet B Pe ; e ‘eho sete eeeees 1 %5 Frankfort Sausand..<..coloo 10
dllett's::..22 2.6. ational ......... 1% CHE, UBOO Fo. co ecnccc ec a tins shoe convecace 8
WOGMTIR, TIN ss os cae nk eke ce ck cee tel. 814
Blacking nance onecrey aes 30, 40, 50@60 Bologna, straight...........-.-.....c..ene, Big.
ewer meee ene e rc eseece beeen Wy ? Bolo na, POOR ces co ye
do waterproof .................. 1 50 H Ch “2
Bath Brick imported .................. 05 ea GCSE ak ect ccs Ponce bleeee cree cs 8
a as American.................. én PIGS’ FEET.
ALICY.. 6. sec cee eee cent ec ee seer eceese 441 In half barrels...............0.. ee cease é :
Buenety Ma cccte cin... 110 Thguarter barrels... 200.
| Bags, OrtOA Aa oes eeee tee 20 00 n ts. 2. ee ee rs
DOnASHeed MIRE Sete ccs li, Pek Pt MARE Hikrreled ans... secon eeaetan ds
iombs % d Pe ee saat sats
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Dry Goods.

Spring & Company quote as tus.uwo:

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.
Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 25
Androscoggin, 8-4..21 |Pepperell, 11-4...... 27%
Pepperell, 7-4...... 16% Pequot, 7-4.........- 18
Pepperell, 8-4...... Pequot, 8-4......... 21
Pepperell, 9-4...... oy Pequot, Y-4......... 24

CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, 0z..11
Caledonia, X,.0z...10

Park Mills, No. 90..14
Park Mills, No. 100. _

 

Economy, 02Z....... 10 |Prodigy, 02.........
Park Mills, No. 50..10 jOtis Apron......... 10%
Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... *
Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 oz..........
Park Mills, No. 80..13 |York, AA, extra 02. it
OSNABURG,
Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8
Jewell briwn....... 94%|Augusta plaid...... 8
Kentucky brown. ae Toledo plaid........ iM
Lewiston brown... 9%|/Manchester plaid.. 7
Lane brown........ - 94|New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana plaid.... 8 jUtility plaid........ 6%
BLEACHED COTTONS.

Avondale, 36....... 8144/Greene, G, 4-4...... 5%
‘Art cambrics, 36...114%4/Hill, 4-4............. 84
Androscoggin, 4-4.. $i, 188ill, YB... . 2s ees 144
Androscoggin, 5-4..1244|Hope, 4-4........... "4
Ballou, 4-4.......... 7% Kine Phillip cam-
Ballou, 5-4.......... 6 bric, 4-4........2.5 11%
Boott, 0. 4-4........ os Linwood, 4-4....... 9
Boott, a6: 5-5: 2... Lonsdale, 4-4....... 8%
Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9% Lonsdale cambric.11%
Boott, R. 3-4........ 5% Langdon, GB, 4-4... 2”
Blackstone, AA 4-4, 744|Langdon, 45........
Chapman, X, 4-4.. "6% Masonville, 4-4..... OM
Conway, 4-4... .... 7%|/Maxwell. 4-4........ 10%
Cabot, 4-4......... . 744|New York Mill, 4-4.10%
Cabot, BS eee 64%|New Jersey, 14... 8
Canoe, 3-4.........- 4 |Pocasset, P. M. C...7%
Domestic, 36....... 714|Pride of the West..12%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 9 |Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8%
Davol, 4-4.......... 9%4|Slaterville, 7-8...... 6%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 9 |Victoria, AA....... 9

* Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 81%4/Woodbury, 4-4...... 5%
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4... Mg

eambric, 4-4...... . Whitinsville, 1-8.... 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. Wamsutta, 4-4...... 16%
Gold Medal, 7-8..... 6% Williamsville, 36...10%
Gilded Age......... 8%
CORSET JEANS.
ATMOLry ...--------- U%|Kearsage........... 85
Androscoggin sat.. 8'44|/Naumkeag satteen. 84
Canoe River.......- e _|Pepperell bleached 8%
Clarendon.......... 4\Pepperell sat....... : %
Hallowell Imp..... Ba Rockport...........
Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrencesat....... 81%
Zaconia ....-..--::- 7% |Conegosat.......... 7
PRINTS.

Albion, solid........ 5% |Gloucester .......... 6
Albion, grey........ 6 \Gloucestermourn’g.6
Allen’s checks...... 5% Hamilton fancy....6
Ailen’s fancy....... 51,|Hartel fancy........ 6
Allen’s pink......... G%s Merrimac D......... 6
Allen’s purple.......6%|Manchester ......... 6
American, fancy... 5% Oriental fancy...... 6
Arnold fancy........ Oriental robes...... 6%
Berlinsolid......... 5 5% Pacific robes........ 6
Cocheco fancy......6 Richmond esse 6
Cocheco robes....... % Steel River.......... 5%
Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s........... 6
Eddystone ..... ....-6 |Washington fancy..
Eagle fancy........- 5 |Washington blues..8
Garner pink........- a

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4..
Boott M, a.
Boston F, AA oss
Continental C, 4-3..
Continental D, 40in 834
Conestoga W, ‘4.
Conestoga D, 7-8.. BY,
Conestoga G, 30-in. 644
Dwight X, 3-4 6
Dwight Y,7-8....... 6%
Dwight Z, 4-4
Dwight Star, 4-4.... 734
Ewight Star, 40- -in.. 9
Enterprise EE, 36.. 5Y
Great Falls E, 7
Farmers’ A, a... 6%
jndian Orchard, 4-4 1%

Be

eS

DOMESTIC
Amoskeag ........- 8
Amoskeag, Persian
BivieS...-.--..=-- 10%
Mages... seks. i%
Berkshire .......... ‘ee
Glasgow checks....

Glasgow checks, f’y 7 iM

Glasgow checks,
royal styles...... 8
Gloucester, new
standard ......... 7%
Plunket ..........-. 1%}
Lancaster .......... 83%
Langdale ........... 7%

WIDE BLEACI

Androscoggin, 7-4. 21
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23

Pepperell, 7-4...... 2
Pepperell, 8-4...... 22%
Pepperell, 9-4...... 25

Indian Orchard, 40. 8144

Indian Orchard, 36. 8
Laconia B, 7-4...... 16%
4 i Lyman B, 40-in..... 10%

Mass. BB, 44....... 534
Nashua K, 40-in.... 9
Nashua R, 4-4...... 7

 

Nashua O, 7-8.. 74
Newmarket N.. . 1%
|Pepperell E, 39- -in. . 1%
Pepperell R, 4-4.... 7
Pepperell O, 7-8.... 6%
Pepperell N, 3-4.... 64
Pocasset C, 4-4 ae a.
Saranac R.......... 7
Saranac E.......... 9
GINGHAMS.

Renfrew, dress styl 9%

Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold ......... 12Y%
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress styles...... 12%
Slaterville, dress
SiYICS. 2... +2. - 9
White Mfg Co, stap 73%
| White Mfg Co, fane 8
White oe Co,

 

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.

Atlantic A, 4-4..... 734)!
Atlantic H, 4-4..... 7

Atlantic D, 4-4..... 64)
Atlantic P, 4-4...... 5%
Atlantic LL, 4-4... Big
Adriatic, 36...... ss. le
Augusta, 4-4........ 634 |

Boott M, 4-4........ 734)

Boott FF, 4-4....... 7%
Graniteville, 4-4... 6%,

 

Earlston......:... 9%
Gordon. ......:-.... 8
iGreylock, dress

| BUVIES 22.06.52 12%
IED COTTONS.
\Pepperell. 10-4..... 27%
|Pepperell, 1i-4..... 324%
‘Pequot, 7-4......... 21
(Pequot, 8-4......... 24
Pequot, 9-4......... 27%
Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 84%
Lawrence ¥, 4
‘Lawrence Li. 14... . 5%
Newmarket N...... 74
Mystic River, 4-4... 6
|Pequot A, 4-4....... 8
Piedmont, BG... 7
Stark AA, 44....... 7

  

‘Tremont CO, 4 2
Whiea, +4... 9

Indian Head, 4-4... 7% WwW achusett, eA T%
indiana Head 45-in. "124 i\Wachusett, 30-in... 6%
TICKINGS. :
Amoskeag, ACA...13%)Falls, XX XX....... 18%
Amoskeag ‘ 4-4..19 /|Falls, XXX......... 15%
Amoskeag, A...... > iFalls, BB... ..-...2 ‘11%
Amoskeag, B...... 12 |Falls, BBC, 36......19%
Amoskeag, C...... 11 /Falls, awning...... 19
Amoskeag, D......10%/Hamilton, BT, 32..12
Amoskeag, E...... 0 (Hamilton, D....... 9%
Amoskeag, wae Seis a? Hamilton, H....... 9%
Premium A, Ee Hamilton fancy...10
Premium = ees 16 Methuen AA....... 13%
Extra44............ 16 |Methuen ASA...... 18
eextfai-5.....- .-..- 14% Omega A, 7-8....... 11
Gold Medal 4-4...... 15 j\Omega A, 4-4....... 13
ACG. ccs 124% Omega ACA, 7-8....14
ess 2... 14 \Omega ACA, 4-4....16
ey Ca 14 \Omega SE, 7-8...... 24
BGR 65s... 16 |Omega SE, 4-4...... 27
Aes oo sss sas 19 |\Omega M.7-8 ...... 22
Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 |\Omega M, 4-4....... 25
Cordis ACA, Beccens 15 Shetucket SS&SSW 11%
Cordis No. 1, 32..... 15 |Shetucket,S & SW.12
Cordis No. oo 14 Shetucket, SFS....12
Cordis No. 3.. ..13 |Stockbridge A..... 7
Cordis No. 4........ 11% Stockbridge frncy. 8
GLAZED CAMBRICS.
Garner............. b Wimplre.: .-.......
Hookset..........-- 5 |Washington........ 434
Red Cross......s... 5 iBdwards............ 5
Forest Grove....... iS. 8. & Sons........ 5

 

GRAIN BAGS.

 

 

American A....... 19 {Old TIronsides......15
mieave A... .234%! Wheatland ......... 21
DENIMS.
Boston ..:..-..-...- Ws iOtis CC... 3. 3. 104%
Everett blue....... ae Warren AXA -12%
Everett brown.....18% Warren BB........ 11%
Otis ABA. ...5...35 124 \Warren CC......... 1014
Otis BG ......:-.> 1 York fancy .......- 15
PAPER CAMBRICS.

MOAOVUC.........;-. 6 (8.58.6 S0n8.....;..2 6
Musonville.......-.. 6 |Garner :....-....-;- 6

. WIGANS.
Hea- Crous......:.-. "4% |Thistle Mills........
eer . 5.5. + ----- = Tig OBO ooo ess bess 8
ae es es - 7%)

SPOOL COTTON.
Brooks.............50 |Eagle and Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F..... 55 Mills ball sewing .30
J.&P. Coats.......55 |Greeh & Daniels...25
Willimantic 6 cord.55 |Merricks........... 40
Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 35
Charleston ball sew Hall & Manning... 30

ing thread........ 30 |Holyoke............ 25

SILESTAS.

RIOWIS so) ols 17 |Masonville TS...... 8
NG, IOs 55 fsa 124% |Masonville S....... 10%
MOONE oa ossse5 see 10 |Lonsdale...... -- 9%
ARONOYS : «nei ccs ss 15 {Lonsdale A.........16
Centennial.....,... Nictory 0..........
Blackburn ......... 8 |Victory J......:....
DAVOL, «26506 5 gevees 14 |Victory D..........
Dondon.............% 12% | Victory K.......... 21%
Paconia .........50. 2 |Phenixa.....:.... 9%
Red Cross.......... 10 |Phoenix B.........- 10%
Social Imperial....16 |Phoenix XX....... 15

 

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Choice eating, firm at $2. 50 per
bbl. for Southern Ohio and $1.50 for home
grown. Cooking apples‘*are worth $2. @

db]. for Ohio and $1. for home grown.

Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 @ bu.

3utter—Higher. Choice dairy packed is
held at 17e, and creamery at 20c.

Beans—Handpicked searce and not mucn
moving at $2.50@$2.60 Y bu. Unpicked,
$2@$2.25.

Beets—45c 4 doz. bunches.

Berries—Whortlebervies are in steady sup-
ply at $2.50 % bu. Blackberries are in good
aa and comparatively scarce at’ 8e@9c
P qt.

Cabbares—6s 4 100.

Celery—24c # bunch.

Cheese—Full cream is higher, with pros-
pect of still further advance. Choice goods
are now worth 9/¢c.

Clover Seed—Choice medium $6@ {6.50
bu. and mammoth at $6.75 G bu. Slow
sale at these prices.

Dried Apples—No call for them at pres-
ent.

Eggs—Still down to 14e, with no upward
tendency in immediate prospect.

Green Onions—25c ¥ dozen bunches.

Green Corn—10e ¥ doz. ears.

Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ¥ bu.

Honey—Choice new, 15c.

Hops—Brewers pay 35@40c for Eastern
andWestern and 18@20c for Michigan.

Hay—$10@$11 for new, and $12@$13 for
bailed.

Maple Sugar—Dull and plenty at 12/¢e,
for pure, and 8@10e for adulterated.

Melons—Musk, cheap at $1 4 crate of a
dozen. Watermelons, $25 2 100. :

Millet Seed—$1 4 bu.

Onions—New, 75ce @ bu.

Peaches—75c 4 peck basket.

Peas, for field seed—$1.50 @ bu.

Pears—California § $4.25 G case of about
225.

Plumbs—California $2.50 ® crate of about

Potatoes—Home grown 45¢ per bu. or
$1.50 per bbl.

Poultry—Fowls 15@16c. Spring chickens,
19¢c@20ce.

Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.

ted Peppers—$1.50 # bu.

Turnips—50c# bu.

Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 @
bu.

Tomatoes—Acme 50¢e per box of 3¢ bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—White, 82c;
new Fulse, 82e.

Corn—45@60c # bu.

Oats—White 40c # bu.

Rye—52@54e P bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 # 100

S.

Flour—Faney Patent, $6.20 @ bbl. in
sacks and $6.45 in wood. Straight, $5.20 #
bbl. in sacks and $5.45 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 4 ewt.

new Lancaster, 85c;

Mill Fee€a—Screenings, $15 # ton. Bran,
$14 per ton. Ships, $15 @ ton. Mid-
dlings, $18 # ton. Corn and Oats, $23 2

ton.
= oo
VISITING SALESMEN.
Representatives of the following houses
have been in town since our last issue:
Toledo Moulding Co. Toledo.

Jas. Martin, Thomas, Thompson, Sons &
Co., Philadelphia.
C. A. Banker,

Co., Chicago.

 

Anglo-American Packing

 

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.
: ae Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars as
ollow:

  
 

 

Uppers, linch.................6+6- -per M ayn e
Uppers, 14,1% and 2inch................
Selects, Linch..................... : 38 00
Selects, 144, 1% and 2 inch........ 38 00
Fine Common, linch.............. 2... 30 00
Shop, Linch............0-e-eeseeee eee 20 00
Fine, Common, 14, 1% and 2inch. ... 32 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet.. 15 00
No.1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fect luce ts sae oss 16 00
No.1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet................ 7 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, Ih oe 16 feet..... 15 oe
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet Bo ee ces os 16
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... 2... 7 00
No.1 Stocks, 8in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., pet 6 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8in., 20feet................. 17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 1 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., ip feet. is: 13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 1? in. 20 £606 .. 6.5.2... .5 ss 14 50
No. 2 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 dees 13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10i ee 20 HOOT oe eos es 14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 30
No. 2 Stocks, 8in., 18 Woeb .. 12 50
No. 2Steeks, 8in., 20 feet................ 13 50
Coarse Common or shipping culls, all
widths and lengths......... ....... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ............... 6 35 00
© Strips, 4or6inmch....,.....7..-...... 28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00
No. 2 2 Fencing, (Sie eS: 12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4 inch....................- 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch..................... 2 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6inch......... 20 00
+ Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Oe ee. 14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common.. 9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Cleat cre 20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12. 12 to 16 ft... 10 00@10 50
$1 additional for each 2 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in. C. Saat aces ele 29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1,common.. 17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common. 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. :
Dregsed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C......-......+--- 26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1 com’n $16 06
Dressed Flooring, 4 or5in., No.2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50
Rex 1S is PRIN soe t sects e ss = ei 3 40
XXX AGA ee see ee se 3 00
No. ? 2 or6in. C. B18in. Shingles......... 2 00
No: 2orb in, ©. B16 in... 22... 2... 1 75
Lath ee ee 2 00
OYSTERS AND FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.
New York Counts, per Can...............++5- 38
Histra SeleCts.. 2. 2.5i5.2.-.. 6... soc e soe. 35
FRESH FISH.
@OGUSH es ee eet ee ss 8
HIAGAOCK 565k se es a se es - i
SMeOWR eo a se na ee ce ene. 5
Mackinaw Trout... .... 0.20... ces ccseesecss 7
MIRTOK ORO oo ieee ees 15
MVINGTONS 3 oe ee ee es cn 7
Smoked Whitefish and Trout................ 10
Smoked Sturgeon.......-..... .beeceeeeeeees 1
HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hesc quote as fol.ows:
HIDES.

Green ee so. eee # Ib @ 7
Parh Cured. oso ic tesa neces 8 @ 8%
A Curved se ei os ae ee > 84@ 8%
Dry hides and kips................-+--- 8 @12

Calf skins, green or cured............. 10 @l2
Denon SINS 38.60). 8s ss #2 piece20 @50

SHEEP PELTS.
Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @2z0
Wall pelte.... 32005. 6-2 6s s-e--- > 30 @50
Wanter pelts...) 0.0.0... 6. se ese 100 @1 50
WOOL.

Fine washed @b..............-....---- 25@
MOarse WASNEG.... 6.52. ... 65. se oe aie 18 @20
awasneGe ee eee ee 2-3
MPAMOW:. oo. 6602. 5e: pee eae se ae eS. 54@ 5%

FRESH MEATS.

 

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Wresh Beek, sides. :..6.........2.-./. 6% 64@ 8
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 8 @9
Dressed Hogs Se Sass ss sce @8
Mutton, carcasses.............. .--. B4%@T
Wie a eee ec ene 34@ 9%
Wowis oo eo ois. 15@16
Pork SAUSAVO.. 66. cs es cece os 10 2s
WOlOGTIA . 6 oe eo ac oe ae

 

 

Office of JOHN CAULFIELD,

85, 8'7, 89 Canal Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Japan Teas are now arriving quite freely, and
prices are fairly settled. I desire to advise the trade

that, within a few days, I
following invoices:

125 orci by oy of Peking, No. 424, My own importation - - -

237 “ No. 75,
97 “ 6 “ No. 25,
125 “6 Suez Steamer

will be in receipt of the
30

“ “ ee = = 298

66 “ oe we & i, 95
6 6 36

Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson, Gun
Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo-
longs, and Moning Congos at lowest figures.

I wish to call special atttention to my new
brands of roast Coffees. I have taken special pains

in selection and blending,
guarantee better values

and roast fresh daily. I
than those furnished by

Eastern parties or no sale.

Imperial Roast, a blended coffee

O. G. Roast Java -
Mandehling Java -

* 270 Mocha ss - -

Mail orders solicited.
guananteed.

18
23
25
28
market prices

Lowest

I have secured the agency of Gilbert’s Starch
factories at Buffalo and Des Moines. Their goods
have always been regarded as equal to any of Kast-
ern Manufacturers, and have always held their own

in the Fastern States.

I am now able to compete

with Western manufacturers in price and guaran-

tee quality.

JOHN CAULFIELD.

 

barodware.

Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows:

 

 

   

  

   

AUGERS AND BITS.
Ives’, Ol@istyle: 0. ... 60 oe dis 50
NiOG. ee ee dis 55
DOUBIASS! 60 ae ee os dis 50
PACRCOR coco. oe eee dis 50
DNC Pe A rea eres dis 50
COOWS 225) ee: dis40S10
Jennings’, genuine..................... dis 25
Jennings’, imitation........... ........ dis40&10
BALANCES.
PpLInb Se ee dis 20
BARROWS.

MUAUINORG. - oot $ 15 00
Garden. 2 oe net 33 00
BELLS
Hand Rte Se Ue ee a iets dis $ 60&10
ROW) fe ee tee dis 60
Call pee ce ce aia Gan cee, dis 15
Gone 23. Be eee ee ae dis 20
Door; Sargent, . 2.5.5.0. 6006.. 0. dis 55
BOLTS.

UOVOL i ee dis $ Be

Carriage new list.............. ...dis
LOW Soe oat ee ee dis B0&1C
leigh SHOG@: 2) 3 oe dis 50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 50
Cast Square SPIING se dis 5d
Oast Chains. 6000) 0 eee ee dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass keep. o. | dis 55&10
Wrought Square < 2. 22...-2. 605.2: dis 55&10
Wr ought Sum Plush 02... es dis 30
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob

BIMSD ee ee 50&10&10
Aves! DOOD 2 ee ee dis 50&10

BRACES.
Barer 28.6 dis $ 40
BAGKUSe oo em ce dis 50
MDONOPG sof) 5. ieee dis 50
mam Balle ee a dis net
BUCKETS.

Well plain os $ 4 00
Well, Be ee a ee 4 50
BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, fous Bees ie dis 60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......dis 60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis 60
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Loose Pin................66 dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver

tipped ths oe eee ae dis 60& 5
Wrought Table............. oes dis 60
Wrought inside Bama. oe dis 60
Wrought Brass: ......0... 2. dis 65&10
Blind Clans 6.5.50. 6000 0 dis 70&10
Bhind Parker's, (006.6020. 2 00.80. dis %0&10
Blind, Shepand’s. 2... 2... e., dis 70

Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00

 

Spring for Screen Doors 8x38....pergross 18 00
CAPS.
Bly SiO per m $ 65
Hickis GOW ae 60
GoD eee es: 35
Musket Pee ees see c le Mem eu cal ce 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50
Centralhire: ... o.oo e dis 1
CHISELS.
pocket Pirmen 6. dis 65&10
Socket’ Praming. 2a dis 65&10
socket CORNET. 2... 6. ee: eS dis 65&10
Socket SlCKS) 0.0.0.0. /.0 0 dis 65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COM ee ea oe, net
COMBS.
Curry, LDaWrenece’s..:..5..562....6..6. dis 3314
THOCGHIGISS 9. oe dis 25
COCKS.
IBROSS. R&CKING 8.8) eS 40&10
BADDS be 49&:10
WCC a ee 40&10
HOM a s. 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........ 2.0... Bh 37
14x52, 14x56, 14 x60........... a es 39
DRILLS.
Morse’s Bit: Stock::....5.......2.4... dis 35
Taper and Straight Shank.... 2. dis 20
Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in... 2352.2. doz net $1 10
COrrupated 0.0 sei kek dis 20&10
Adjustable ee oel ee eet dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’, Lt $18 00; 2 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES. '
American File Association List...... dis 50 |
DISSEONIS Ga dis 50 |
Now Ame@rican. 0.0060 0285.61, dis 50)
Nicholson’s...... esis seal. os oes dis 50 |
ICM OR Se ee dis 30 |
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 331

GALVANIZED IRON,

Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and26, 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50
HAMMERS.
May dole WCOlR eee dis 15
IS eee dis 25
hes © Plumb 3.26. dis 30
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50

Champion, anti- friction Se eee ee les dis 60
Modder; wood tracks... 2... 2..0..020-. dis 40
: HINGES.
Gate: Clark’ sol? 302. 2 kes dis 60
State. oe eae per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 44 i
ANG TONPON ee a, 3%
Screw “Hock and Hye, 46 oak. net 10%
Serew Hook and Hye 9g.............. net 84
Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net 1%
Serew Hook and Eye, %............. net T%
Surap and We a ee dis 60&10
HOLLOW WARE.
Stamped Pin Ware.....:................. 60&10
gapannedo Tin Ware..........00... 00.4. 6. 20810
Granite Iron Ware...............0...... 25
HOES.
Grup Wore. ee ee $11 00, dis 40
GUI, Cites codes ss eae 11 50, dis 40
Grib 8.6. a oe ee ees 2 00, dis 40
KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... $2 00, dis 66

Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....
Door, porcelain, plated trim-

2 50, dis 60

MUINOS or cece, eke list, 7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 "95, dis 60
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 60
Picture, H. L. Judd & Cos... d 60
Mematie 2 a dis 50

LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis 60
60

 

Mallory, Wheelnr x COUS eee es, dis
PANT OUOUS ree ees dis 60
Norwalk’s.... ...... aaa oe ss ae oe ee dis 60
LEVELS. :
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.
Coffee, Parkers.Cos... 0.632. os..  e dis 45
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s zEaHeabies dis 45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45
Coffee, ENterprise. 0... 5.66... ce oe. dis 25
MATTOCKS.
PUTO VO. orca ay ae eae ec es $16 00 dis 40&10
Paint Dy@...5 2.2. coco ese eas $15 00 dis 40&10
PNINU Roce oe ee ee $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.
00 to 600 6220. oc. ee i ek #@ keg $2 45
Sl and 9.0 any. oo ee ee 25
GCAO TO BOG ood. ce oes an oo ee 50
RO ONG BG AOV oi ce eA ee vt)
Ha DOVONCE! bce sei oo becca spot 1 50
Gd fine 8dVance. oo... oie Geese lk. 3 00
ClINGH WAS, BAU or. sa oe cs 1 75
Finishing | 10d 8d 6d 4d
Size—inches { 3 Dio 1%
Adv. ® keg $125 150 1 15 2 00

Steel Nails—Advance 10c from abov e prices.
MOLLASSES GATES. ,

Stebbin’s Pattern ............... ee dis 70

Stebbin’s Genuine...... ..............66- dis 70

Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
_ MAULS.

Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50
OILERS.

Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............... dis 55

Zine, with brass bottom............. ..dis 50

Brass Or COPPer. 2 sito. 14) cee neces sees dis 40

HORDEGN. 2025 oles eke tues per gross, $12 net

Olmstead’s..........065 erbetnueeraGucraek 50

 

PLANES.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................0-. dis 1
SciotaBench......... . Pog ea coe we aces ais 2
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15
Bench, first quality...............00.0.... dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and
PANS.

Bry, Aeme. .. 202.0205. Bees ee oes dis 40&10
Common, polished...................... dis 60
Dripping. Set Bey eee ecce ewes we 8 Ib 8

: RIVETS.
Iron and Tinned... 2. ..2..0 6.005.500... dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

‘“A’’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos, 24 to: 27 10%
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 .
Broken packs %c @ tb extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

  

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 75

IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ 7 75

IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00

1x 0x28 choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90
ROPES.

Sisal, 34 In. and ‘larger... 8 9%
Mani Meese ee ee ee 16%
SQUARES.

Stecland Vrone 28). dis 50

ry and Bovels, 2.6. dis 50

MiGre oe dis 20
SHEET Iii:

; ( on Smooth. Com.
INOS: LOO 14 $4 20 $3 20
INOS. 15 tonlt 2) 4 20 8 20
INOS. ES CO. 2b oo 4 20 8 20
Nos. 22 RO Me 42 3 20
Nos. = GO 200.20 Sa 4 40 3 40
NOES ok es 4 60 3 60

All aoe No, 18 and lighter,

over 30 inches
wide not less than 2 -10 extra.

 

SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 tbs, #% Tb.... 2.0... oe. 6%
In smaller quansities, #® t.............. i
TINNER’S SOLDER.
INO, Refined 6920000 oe 13 00
Market Half-and-half............. 0... 15 00
Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16
TIN PLATES.
Cards for Chkarcoals, $6 75.

IC, bOxid, Charcoal: 0.066.005. 2ook, 6 50
IX, 10x14, Chereqal os 8 50
IC, 12x12, Charcoal 20. 6 50
Ix, exe, Chaveoal .. 56... 8 50
IC, Teed Charegal ..225 ol. 6 50
EX, d4ez0, Charcoal... 22... 8 50
IxXx, 14x20, Ohareoale oo ele 10 50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.... 2). ...-6.5 02 12 50
IXXXX, 14x20, Charceat.. 14 20
Ix, 20x28, Cisco * 00
DC, 100 Plate Char COME Goi ee, 6 50
DX, 100Plate Charcoal.................. 8 50
DXX, 10 Plate Charcoal.................. 10 50
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal... 6. 125 30

Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
rates.

TRAPS
Steck Game
Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... a6 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 60
Hotchiogs. 60
Soe, & W. Mie CoOvs..... 3.) 2a 60
Mouse, onker 20ce #% doz
Mouse, dqlusion..................... $1 26 2 doz
WIRE.
Bright Marke@ . 0... dis 60
Amnealed: Markeg. 25006200, dis 60
Coppered Market.......0.¢0.0) 62000... dis 55
Pura baling dis 55
Tinned Mar ket See ee ea kis 40
Minneds Broom... 2. is 8B ib 09
Minmed Mattress... 00.0 tb 8%
Coppered Spring Steel.................. dis 37%
Mimned Spring Steel.....-.............. 0. dis 37%
Plain Fence........ Cee ®@ b 314
Barbed! Hence. i a :
Copper new list net
BSEASS es new list net
WIRE GOODS.
Bulsht ese dis 60&10&10
Senew Byes... 005. oe dis 60&10&10
PIOOKISs soc. 00 ee a dis 60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............. dis 60&10&10
WYrENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Giese Gouume dis 50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65
Coe’s Pat., malleable. gogo dec een dis 70
MISCELLANEOUS.
iinps, CIStemm. 26.) 56 dis ae
SCROWS (o00000 0
Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50
Dampers, Amerieans.:.. 0.0.00. 3334

 

 

FOSTER,
STEVEN
CO,

—WHOLESALE—

HARD WARE

10 and 12 MONROE STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

 

Detroit and Chicago prices duplicated al-
ways, andfreights in our favor and shipments
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest
market.

WE SOLICIT THE

DEALER’S TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

 

We are Manufacturers’ Agents for the

Crown Jewel Vapor stove,
New Era Roller skates,
Jewett bird Cages,

ALL-OF WHICH WE QUOTE AT BOTTOM

PRICES.
AGENTS FOR THE

RIVERSIDE STEEL NAIL

A Stock of which we now have in store—and
solicit Sample Orders.

 

We are carrying to-day as large a stock,
and filling orders as complete, as any house
in Michigan.

 

Foster, Stevens : Co,

 

THE FRENCH WAY.

 

Dissertation Upon the Ins and Outs of Cor-
poration Possibilities.
From the Detroit Times.

“The confidence of the business public
would be increased a hundred fold and the
prosperity of the country greatly enhanced,”
said T. P. Hall, the other day, “if this eoun-
try had, for governing corporations a law
similiar to that in vogue in France. In that
country there is a department of the govern-
ment whose agents are engaged in a some-
what similiar capacity to that of our nation-
al bank examiners. To this department ev-
ery corporation in France is obliged to make
a sworn statement of its affairs. Not state-
ments that you can drive a cart and horse
through, like those filed with our county
clerks, but detailed and accurate reports of
their condition and trade. The corporations
there never dare to misrepresent to this de-
partment, as its agents are liable to drop
down upon them any day, like our bank in-
spectors, and make a personal examination
of their books and goods. It, upon investi-
gation, a corporation is found to have im-
paired its capital, its creditors are warned
and a short time after a second examination
ismade. If it is then found there has been
afurther depreciation, a liquidator is ap-
pointed, who assumes entire charge of the
affairs of the concern. He is an expert and
is paid according to the amount he secures
for the creditors, that is if the latter secure
but 25 per cent. of their claims, his returns
are very small, whereas, if he so conducts
the business as to pay 100 cents on the dol-
lar, his remuneration is considerable. Not
infrequently these men so exceed the orig-
inal conductors in ability that the business
is made a profitable one, and after the cred-
itors have been paid in full it is returned
to the charge of the original owners. No
corporation is allowed to effect a comprom-
ise with its creditors. No settlement of any
claim can be made for less than the original
face value, except by a liquidation.

“A friend of Mr. Gillett, my partner, who
is in business in France, but who is now vis-
iting here, gave us a very forcible illustra-
tion of this law. He said that shortly after
he started in business in that country an
officer of acompany at Lyons, with whom
he had done considerable business, waited
upon him with a statement which purported
to show the condition of the company. ‘The
figures showed their assets to be about 50
per cent. of their liabilities and on that rep-
resentation he expressed a willingness, and
accepted a check for one-half of his claim as
full payment. A month or two later he was
waited upon by a very polite gentleman who
inquired if he had not at one time done bus-
iness with a certain company of Lyons. He
replied that he had, and in answer to furth-
er questions acknowledged that he had ae-
cepted a check for a certain sum in full pay-
ment for a claim of a larger amount, where-
upon his vistor startled him by demanding a
check foralike amount. He indignantly
refused and was directed to consult his law-
yer. He did as directed and learned for the
first time of the French law governing cor-
porations. Later in the day he handed the
government agent, who informed him a liq-
uidator had charge of the Lyons company’s
affairs, a check for the amount claimed.
Several months later he was surprised to re-

| ceive a check, not only for the full amount

of his claim, but for the interest that was
due on the account, as well. He at once be-
came a firm beliver in the value of the law.

“This law” continued Mr. Hall, “not only
establishes the confidence of one corporation
in another, but it also assures those whose
eapital forms the corporations that their in-
vestments will be subject only to legitmate
risks. It also establishes a firm basis for bus-
iness, which this country is now much in need
of. Why, capitalists, not only of Europe but
of this country, are getting afraid to invest
their funds in corporations here for fear
they will be swindled out of their money,
and people generally are becoming so dis-
trustful of such organizations that it is hav-
ing a very disastrous effect upon our rail-
road enterprises and business generally. The
laws of this State and country governing
corporations are so loosely drawn that they
are no protection to any one. Men without
any capital whatever can form organizations
with (so-called) paid up capital running into
the hundred thousands. All they need do
is to borrow a check from a friend, three or
more—just a sufficient number to fill the
offices proscribed by law—assemble, pay in
the checks. Thenatonce draw them out
again and, presto, we have a corporation
witha paid up capital of $100,000, on the
strength of which it goes before the public
and secures a certain amount of credit from
business men and the banks. The organiz-
ers may trade upon the proceeds of this
credit for a time, then divide it among them-
selves and coolly inform their creditors they
are unable to meet their obligations. This
is no fancy sketch,” concluded the speaker.
“T have heard of such cases here in Detroit.
Had wea law like that of France, such
frauds could not be perpetrated, and until
there is some improvement made in this di-
rection the full measure of prosperity right-
fully due this country and its capital will
not be entirely realized.”

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Treading the Downward Path.

“You are not taking as good care of your-
self as formerly, old man. What’s the
trouble? A streak of hard luck ?”

“Yes, rather.”

“What are you doing ?

“J am landlord of a large summer resort
hotel up north.”

“J shouldn’t think you would have very
much reason to complain if that’s the case.
Last season you were only a waiter.”

“T know it,” he answered regretfully.

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MUSKEGON MATTERS.

 

 

 

Facts and Fancies Picked Up at that Busy
Place.

F. L. Gausden sueceeds C. L. Nichols in
the cigar business.

Sam Peasley, a small grocery dealer on
street, recently sold his stock to Henry Sis-
sing, leaving several creditors in small
amounts.

Muskegon has more grocery stores, in pro
portion to the population, than any other
city in the State. And the business is not
overdone to any alarming extent, either.

Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Kline’s patent candler and egg carrier, to
be found this week in the directory of Mus-
kegon’s business interests. This invention
is now on the market, and is bound to meet
with unqualified success. G. C. Sayles, who
has been appointed sole agent for the Unit-
ed States, will answer any questions regard
ing the patent or sell any territory desired.

Postmaster Fowler, of Lakeside— Ryerson
postoffice—states that the time is not far dis-
tant when Lakeside, the former postoffice
name, can be resumed. At present, the
name is in the possession of a small hamlet
in Berrien’ county, but as there is no particu-
lar appropriateness in the designation, the
people of the place have agreed to waive
their claim to the cognomen in favor of Ry-
erson. Then the confusion that necessarily
exists through having two names for a place
will be avoided, as Lakeside will be Lake-
side postoffice as well as Lakeside village.

Louis Schimmel, assignee of the late firm
of L. W. Schimmel & Co., is out with an
offer to the creditors, agreeing to advance 40
per cent. of the amount of each claim, in
consideration of a discharge from the in-
debtedness. So far as heard from, the offer
has been refused, and there is no probability
that a settlement can be effected short of 100
cents on the dollar. Considerable feeling
exists over certain irregularities surrounding
the assignment, such as the giving of a chat-
tel mortgage to the assignee the day the
assignment was made, the consideration be-
ing asum of money alleged to be due the
senior Schimmel by his son, for which the
firm was not obligated. Keating & Dicker-
man, who represent six of the principal
creditors, whose claims aggregate over half
the total liabilities, have secured an injunc-
tion restraining the foreclosure of the mort-
gage, and hope in this manner to compel the
firm to treat their creditors fairly and honor-
ably.

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Not a Remnant Left.
“This remnant business is about played

’ out,” said a leading merchant the other day.

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 

_ tisement in the columns of this paper.

“Tt was all uery well at first, but it was over-
done. You see some clever merchants be-
gan advertising remnants as a specialty.
They bought goods and cut ’em up in rem-
nant style. Then they charged regular
prices and people thinking they were getting
good bargains kept the business booming,
all but it is played out now.”
————__.2<.___

N. S. Reed has opened the Forrest Avenue
House at Frankfort.

The Pottery Manufacturing Co., at Ionia,
has a capital of $50,000.

The American Chemical Works, Bay City,
will resume work again.

Kison & Miller’s new brick block is a fine
improvement for Montague.

S. L. Parsons has engaged in the grocery
and notion business at Luther.

T. H. Clayton succeeds C. S. Kidder in
the furniture business at Cedar Springs.

Ed. Bradford, the Fremont groceryman,
carries a badly banged thumb. Too much
hase ball.

Dingman & Mitchell is the name of a new
dry goods firm that succeeds E. R. Saxton in
business at Lakeview.

Greenville has a new enterprise in a man-
ufactory of the Asbenton artificial stone for
steps, pedestals, etc. 1. R. Waldo is the
manufacturer.

The stock of boots and shoes formerly
owned by Pier & Schoepplin, Ovid, will be
sold by C. C. DeCamp, the assignee, on Tues-
day, August 19.

A. J. Provin & Co., hardware dealers at
Cedar Springs, have dissolved, N. A. Barker
retiring. A. J. Provin will continue the bus-
ness in his own name.

R. G. Beckwith, the Hopkins’ Station
druggist, states that the report that he con-
templates removing his stock and business
to Allegan is unfounded.

H. Oppenheim & Son will close out their
clothing business at Stanton by the middle
of September and remove to Buchanan,

where they will go into business,
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Good Words Unsolicited.

E. F. Allen, druggist, Boyne City: “Could
not do without it.”

H. L. Page, hardware, East Jordan: “Good
paper, and don’t you forget it.”

M. T. Arbour, druggist, Orangeville Mills:
“Have seen a few copies of the paper and
think I can’t keep store without it.”

D. W. Root, baker, Cross Village: “Have
just opened a bakery here. I thought I
could not do better than subscribe for your
paper, being much pleased with the sample
copy sent me.”

M. Freehling and W. H. Baker, dry goods
dealer and druggist, respectively, Whitehall:
“We like your paper very much and have
wondered how we did without it so long
heretofore. A paper that is of such value to
business men cannot help but meet with suc-
cess.”

—_—— 7

{2 Subscribers and others, when writing
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub-
lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver-

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Trifling With a Man in Trouble.

An Irish gentleman visited the municipal
court and walking up to the judge on the
bench said:

“Joodge, the wather pipe at the hydrant
beyant me house is ‘bursht, and it has flood-
ed me celler and is drowning mehins. Me
name is McCarthy joodge.,

The judge sympathized with him, and
was sorry for the damp life his hens were
leading, but told him he would have to go to
the Board of Public Works and complain.
McCarthy went away, but the next morning
he came back tothe judge, and told the
same story about the “wather” and the
‘“‘hins,’? when the judge said:

“TI told you to go to the Board of Public
Works and tell your story.

“And I did,” said McCarthy. -

“And what did they say?” asked the
judge. McCarthy looked indignant, and
said:

“The man axed me, ‘McCarthy,’ says he,
‘why in thunder don’t you keep ducks?’ ”

Whom He Is Going For.

They had been talking politics.
lull in the conversation Brown says:
know whom I’m going for.”

“Then you’ve made up your mind at last,
eh?” queried Smith.

“T have.”

“Blaine?”

“No.”

“Cleveland?”

“No.”

“St. John?”

‘No.2

“Butler?”

“No.”

“Then you ain’t going for anybody.’’

“Yes I am.”

“Who is he?”

“The feller that roped me into stock
gambling and plastered a mortgage all over
my house and lot. He’s the cuss I’m going
for.”

 

After a
aor:

a
Stove in Summer,

“Is it hot enough for you?” remarked a
man to another, on the sunny side of the
street.

“Hot? You ain’t complaining about warm
weather, I hope.”

“Well, it isn’t so darn freezing cold as it
might be, is it?”

“No, nor is it so boiling hot. .Why, man,
I’ve got'a stove, a great big anthracite base
burner in my room,”

“Phunder and Sahara! How do you stand

te”

se

“Oh, easy enough.”

“Well, I’d like to know how.”

“By not putting any fire in it. You see
we haven’t any other place to store it, so we

just leave it there all the time.”
—————>_ 0 <a
His Condition.

“So, Charley, you’ve got a sweetheart, I
hear,” said a well-known traveling man to a
companion.

“T’ve heard something of the sort, too,”
answered Charlie.

‘Is she pretty?”

“Rather.”

“Father living?”

“T should smile.
saw.”

“Well healed?”

“T don’t know whether he is heeled at all
or not, but I have cause to believe he is very
heavily toed,” and he limped away witha

hurt look and a crumpled coat tail.
er

Livest man you ever

Things in Good Shape.

First Farmer—How’s your corn crop look-
ing?

Second Farmer—Beautiful, never ‘better.

First Farmer—Hay promising well?

Second Farmer—Biggest crop I have had
for years.

First Farmer—Stock flourishing?

Second Farmer—I should say so; I’ve got
half a dozen yearlings that’ll lay over any-
thing in this part of the country.

First Farmer—How’s your wife?

Second Farmer—Who?

First Farmer—Your wife.

Second Farmer—Oh, she’s well enough.
2 <———__—-

A factory in Cuba produces 2,500,000 cig-
arettes per day.

It is said that the United States manufac-
tures no wax matches.

Although very little railway building is be-
ing done, railway projects are as numerous
as ever.

The are 69 shoe manufactories in New
Hampshire, which employ 5,000 operatives,
and have a product of $10,000,000.

Orange peel is now said to be collected,
dried in ovens, and sold for kindling fires.
It burns readily and with great fierceness,
and is safer than kerosene.

A St. Louis man wrote to Postmaster-
General Gresham recently offering to rent
the basement of the new postoffice in that
city tor a barroom. A courteous declination
was sent by return mail.

“Tt’s all very well,” remarked a red-nosed
man, “it’s all very well to say, ‘Let business
revive; but what we want sir, is confidence,
public confidence, sir. Each one of us must
be willing to bring out our hoarded dollars
and put them once more in circulation.
Then the skies will brighten; then—by the
way, I changed my vest this morning—lend
me fifty cents, will you?’

New York is the center of the cigar mak-
ing trade. She has nearly 4,000 factories
and turns out 1,000,000,000 cigars a year.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois rank after
New York. There were made in this coun-
try last year 3,177,869,952 about 40 for every
pound of tobacco used. About 35,0000,000
were imported, thus making a total of about
3,200,000,000, or 60 for every man, woman

and child in the United States, and 250 for |

 

| every man over 21 years of age.

    

MUSEBEGON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Kline’s Patent Candler and Ege Carrier.

‘The Best on the Market.
Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with ary Capacity. State Territory
for Sale by G. C. SAYLES, Sole Agent for the United States, P. O. Box 145,
Muskegon, Mich.

ANDREW WIBRENGO,

WJ Iholiesale

GROCER,

WIERENGO NEW BLOCK

 

 

Pine Street ~ - Muskegon, Mich.

TO FRUIT CROYWERS

MUSKEGON
BASKET FACTORY!

Is now in full operation manufacturing all

kinds of
Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed. FRUIT PACKAGES, BIG.

ORCUTT & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

Bulier, Hows, Cheese, Frat, Grad, Hay, Beel, Pork, Produce

MUSKEGON, MICH.
PA CHEERS

RO,

Jobbers of Provisions,
CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS.

Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty.

 

 

 

 

Consignments Solicited.

S. 5, MORRIS &

 

 

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Street.

 

MUSKEGON NOVELTY IRON WORKS

Manufacturers of the

Williams’ Patent Novelty Pipe Wrench

Best, Strongest and Most Durable Made.

 

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers and conduct a General Machine
Shop, Blacksmith, Foundry and Boiler Shop Business. 361 Western Avenue.

 

 

we > eset

BARBOUR’S CAMPAIGN TORCH

yy The only Torch that can be taken apart and shipped in a
Small space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles) can be packed in one
barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A Child can Put them together in one Minute.
As good as any Torch Made. The Cheapest in Price.
WILL BURN FOR FIVE HOURS.

Ask for price or send for sample order.

FOSTER, STEVENS & CoO,

10zand 12 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Choice Butter a Specialty !

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS,
EGGS, CHEESE, VEGETABLES, APPLES.

Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M,C, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.

LOVERS OF A GOOD SMOKE

ALL USE

Raton & Christenson s

 

 

 

 

MIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON

 

 

 

 

IMPORTERS

~~ 4. INI JD

Wholesale Grocers,

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

 

New Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices of the new crop
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all grades of Pan Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured,fand
embracing about 1,000 chests in all, a large portion of which we are now receiving per
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro. These Teas are positively our own im-
portation, and we believe we are safe in saying that they are the first Teas ever im-
ported to this market direct from Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will do
well to send for samples and quotations before buying new Teas.

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market for the well-
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ BROS. & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. Below we¥mention
a few of their best-known brands:

Acme, Towel, Napkin, Best American,
Palma, Shamrock, Nickel, White Marseilles.
White Cotton Oil, Gem, Stearine, Boss,

Blue Danube, Mottled German, Lautz Soap, Savon Republique,
Master, etc.

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them}in 16
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight prepaid. Please send for;price-

lists and samples. See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA STARCH WORKS’ Starch, of
Butfalo, N. Y., which we sell at the manufacturers’ prices, freights prepaid on all
shipments of 10 box lots and upwards to all railroad points in Michigan. Send for
price lists. See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Tobaccos.

We carry the largest and most complete line of Cigars in Michigan. We not only
carry a full line of staple and popular brands of plug, fine cut and smoking tobaccos,.
put are factory agents for the following, with which we are able to offer the trade special
inducements:

B. F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco. | Our Bird Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco.

 

Big Four c oc Morrison’s Fruit ee ¢
Black Bird * oe Victor ‘“ “
Zoo Zoo ue ae Peaches « “
Pirate ie < Big Deal Smoking Tobaccos.
Old Kentucky “ és King Bee “6 «

Turkey Me : | Apple Jack “ ae

See quotations on grocery page.

Hancy Groceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every-
thing in the Fancy Grocery department, and are now considered headquarters in this line.
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department. Parties desiring new
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.

Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles. Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Lea & Perrins’ English Sauce. Durkee & Co.’s “ «

Holford’s Yo A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.
Piccadilly ‘ . « “ Green Gages.
Colman’s Mustand. ce “ Apricots.
James Epps’ : Breakfast Cocoa. “ ‘ Egg Plums.
Choice Brands of French Peas. “ 4 Pears.

iL ‘¢  Mushroons. . “ Quinces.

" Italian Macarroni, 1 tb pkg. = “* Grapes.

“  Vermicella. Me : Cherries.

Queen Olives, 16 0z* and 27 oz. bottles. China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,
French Capers, genuine imported in bottle. Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.
Choieest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn.

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked:
Oat Meal, Homirfy, Wheat, Beans and Peas. Send us a trial order for these goods. All
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

 

 

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